| Title | : | Nuclear Fear: A History of Images |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674628365 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 552 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1989-01-01 |
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Our thinking is inhabited by images-images of sometimes curious and overwhelming power. The mushroom cloud, weird rays that can transform the flesh, the twilight world following a nuclear war, the white city of the future, the brilliant but mad scientist who plots to destroy the world-all these images and more relate to nuclear energy, but that is not their only common bond. Decades before the first atom bomb exploded, a web of symbols with surprising linkages was fully formed in the public mind. The strange kinship of these symbols can be traced back, not only to medieval symbolism, but still deeper into experiences common to all of us. 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 powerf
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly Of Americans' fears of a nuclear missile attack, Weart writes: "The potential threat brought an actual attack of imagery, a renewed eruption of hallucinatory visions across the landscapes of the mind." In this discursive analysis, the author of Scientists in Power dabbles in psychology as he discusses multiple symbols and associations that supposedly pervade the public's thinking about nuclear weaponry. Weart examines the U.S. Air Force's mock bomber raids and PR kits designed to promote the "fantasy" that apocalypse can be controlled. His chronicle implicitly holds antinuclear activists and environmentalists to be as guilty as the nuclear industry in manipulating facts and images to play on our fears. Moving from the Manhattan Project to Doris Lessing's futuristic novels, he reduces "atomic bomb anxiety" to a complex of imagery centered on the polarity between authority figures and victims. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Weart is the first historian I know of who
directs his attention to the pervasiveness of nuclear
imagery in our lives. I'm so excited!. Moreover, there are several reasons that make this book particularly valuable to a wide range of readers from new engineers/students to industry veterans.
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