... film was informed throughout the period of its creation by the differences in political and cultural attitudes toward the nuclear threat that existed between the US and the UK during the Cold War. This allowed the film to act as a reflection of the shift in the general understanding of the nuclear...

...John Beck; Mark Dorrian Space colonization and subterranean dwelling have been staples of speculative fiction since at least the nineteenth century, but the invention of nuclear weapons and the prospect of global environmental collapse have, certainly since the Cold War, made proposals offering...

...John Beck Abstract The phrase “on the beach” originates as naval slang for being between assignments or unemployed and was used as the title for Nevil Shute's bestselling novel of 1957 about the last remaining survivors of a global nuclear conflict as they await their inevitable demise. The novel...

... Humbert is read through the lens of Cold War anxieties about radiation, missile attack through the DEW Line and a “mapping” of America by subversive aliens. Lolita herself is the Uranium Girl, radiant child of nuclear America under threat from the death ray of the bomb’s fallout. © BERG 2008 PRINTED...

... of the early Cold War. The suburban home emerges not as a place of retreat from the uncertainties of a newly nuclear and threatening world, but as a crucible in which contemporary anxieties can only be imperfectly contained. Merril nuclear Cold War America domestic Judith Merril’s Shadow...

... in the presentation of film, installation and interactive work at festivals, in galleries and online. In this case the fieldwork, into the inevitably political realm of nuclear submarines, led to a series of uneasy situations. References Anon . 1849 . An Essay on the Credibility of the Existence of the Kraken...

..., sense, touch, the world, and religion. In After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes , Nancy takes into account a contemporary phenomenon with a global social, economic, political, and ecological impact: the 2011 nuclear fallout in Fukushima, Japan. The incident was one of the catastrophic...

... . “ The Nod Pole: Inside Facebook’s Swedish Hub near the Arctic Circle .” Guardian , September 25 . Jonter Thomas . 2016 . The Key to Nuclear Restraint: The Swedish Plan to Acquire Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War . London : Palgrave Macmillan . Olterman Philip . 2017 . “ Sweden...

...Plate 7: Bikini Atoll , Operation Crossroads, 1946; Operation Castle, 1954; Operation Redwing, 1956; Operation Hardtack I, 1958 – each operation included multiple nuclear tests. ...

...being seen a windmill can neither hide nor lie windmill turbines are frowned upon because they can be seen and heard there is no energy more withheld from sight than the atom of nuclear power with wind energy fuel returns from its stint in the fiery underworld ...

... are based on then recently declassified United States (US) government photographs and film stills of Cold War era nuclear tests carried out in the Southwest of the US and the Pacific. Between 1995 and 1999, under President Clinton, the Freedom of Information Act was amended to allow the release...

... from the point of view of his exterminability” (p. 28). Atmoterrorism, allied with the “nuclear step of explication” (p. 59), definitively destroyed the traditional relation to the air milieu as an “unquestionably given and anxiety-free, unproblematic being” (p. 47) and plunged the average human being...

... era, only the atomized fluidity of disjointed molecules caught up in the one spate. The nuclear family falls apart: why stay with a partner who doesn’t give me what I want? The nuclear family, invented for consumerism and consolidated in the era of suburbanization, collapsed under the strain...

... ( 2013 : 37–56) discusses the links between the Cold War, computational economies, and the erasure of futural horizons in a chapter entitled “Pharmacology of Nuclear Fire, General Automation, and Total Proletarianization.” The emergence of the “real-time” technologies necessary for the conduct of global...

... pursuit of what Steven Morrison here calls “comedy’s anarchic and centrifugal urges all the way to the end of everything” seems to suggest nothing but the ability of nuclear fantasy to enter every part of culture, even those which might seem an antidote. If the desire to aggregate and define sites...

...-Jangle,” named after a joint nuclear weapons test operation held in the Nevada desert in 1951. The paintings reworked photographs and film stills of mushroom clouds as near-abstract landscapes. “Joint” operation refers to the fact that both the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Defense...

... : DuMont Buchverlag . Berger Jenna 2006 . “ Nuclear Tourism and the Manhattan Project .” The Columbia Journal of American Studies . Available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cjas/print/nuclear_tourism.pdf (accessed May 27, 2010 ). Boros Foundation (ed.) 2009 . Boros Collection/Bunker...

... this is inscribed in the built environment. Guy considers the “shadow architectures” of specific sites and spaces such as the Reichstag and the Berlin Wall. In a rather different way, Matthew Farish analyzes how the Cold War nuclear threat shaped urban planning practices and understandings. The initial shadow cast...