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Author:

Zeman, Scott C.

Title:

Atomic culture : how we learned to stop worrying and love the bomb / edited by Scott C. Zeman and Michael A. Amundson.

Publisher:

University Press of Colorado,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

x, 187 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
Popular culture--United States--History--21st century.
Nuclear weapons--Social aspects--United States.
Nuclear warfare--Social aspects--United States.
War and society--United States.
Nuclear energy--Social aspects--United States.
United States--Civilization--1945-

Other Authors:

Zeman, Scott C.
Amundson, Michael A., 1965-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Atomic comics: the comic book industry confronts the nuclear age / Ferenc M. Szasz -- Reinventing Los Alamos: code switching and suburbia at America's atomic city / Jon Hunner -- "Uranium on the cranium": uranium mining and popular culture / Michael A. Amundson -- Confronting the "capitalist bomb": the neutron bomb and American culture / Scott C. Zeman -- The nuclear past in the landscape present / Peter Goin -- The mushroom cloud as kitsch / A. Costandina Titus -- Is this the sum of our fears? Nuclear imagery in post-Cold War cinema / Mick Broderick -- American monument: the waste isolation pilot plant / Peter C. Van Wyck.

Series:

Atomic history and culture

ISBN:

9780870817649 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0870817647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780870817632 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0870817639 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54096549

LCCN:

2004001010

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)