Alas, Babylon. Nov 25th, Unlimited all-in-one ebooks in one place. Free trial account for registered user. Recent Comments of Alas, Babylon. Brittney I dislike writing reviews on books I had a hard time putting it down. Very well written, great characters and I loved the setting! Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.
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This is a disturbing book: it shows that much of what we believe about nuclear energy is not based on facts, but on a complex tangle of imagery suffused with emotions and rooted in the distant past. Nuclear Fear is the first work to explore all the symbolism attached to nuclear bombs, and to civilian nuclear energy as well, employing the powerful tools of history as well as findings from psychology, sociology, and even anthropology.
The story runs from the turn of the century to the present day, following the scientists and journalists, the filmmakers and novelists, the officials and politicians of many nations who shaped the way people think about nuclear devices. The author, a historian who also holds a Ph. In revealing the history of nuclear imagery, Weart conveys the hopeful message that once we understand how this imagery has secretly influenced history and our own thinking, we can move on to a clearer view of the choices that confront our civilization.
Radium: Elixir or Poison? Security through Control over Scientists? Environmentalists Step In Civilization or Liberation? Objects in the Skies Mushroom and Mandala It is a deeply serious book but written in an accessible style that reveals the culture in which this fear emerges only to be suppressed and emerge again. Weart shows in meticulous and fascinating detail how [the] ancient images of alchemy-fire, sexuality, Armageddon, gold, eternity and all the rest-immediately clustered around the new science of atomic physics There is no question that the image of nuclear power reflects a complex and deeply disturbing portrait of what it means to be human.
Weart has a poet's acumen for sensing human feelings Nuclear Fear remains captivating as history An] admirable call for synthesis of art and science in a true transmutation that takes us beyond nuclear fear. Bruce Franklin, Science. For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation.
Triggered in by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy—"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the time—forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being.
Given the much-touted nuclear threat throughout the s and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over living under communism, what's perhaps most striking is how few American actually built backyard shelters. Tracing the ways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of popular culture, Kenneth D.
Rose also investigates the troubling issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth living in? Would shelter construction send the Soviets a message of national resolve, or rather encourage political and military leaders to think in terms of a "winnable" war?
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