{"product_id":"understanding-the-imaginary-war-culture-thought-and-nuclear-conflict-1945-90-9781526131904","title":"Understanding the Imaginary War: Culture, Thought","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding the imaginary war\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable and unimaginable - nuclear apocalypse - imaginable. The book will be required reading for everyone who wants to understand the cultural dynamics of the Cold War through the angle of its core ingredient, nuclear weapons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Understanding the Imaginary War\u003c\/i\u003e is useful both as a historical tool, but also as a reminder that nuclear weapons still exist, and that nuclear war is still a very real possibility. If anything, the current political situation between Russia and the United States, and especially the inclusion of Article 27 in Russia’s 2014 Military Doctrine relating to the possibility of using nuclear weapons to respond to a conventional attack, shows that emotions felt during the Cold War still affect contemporary relations.’\u003cbr\u003eApril Curtis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The book’s fresh approach to the topic and wide range of perspectives will be welcomed by all with an interest in history, political science and cultural studies, and in particular by those of us interested in the Cold War and the history of nuclear weapons.’\u003cbr\u003eDr Mattias Eken, University of St Andrews, \u003ci\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The volume succeeds in providing a deeper understanding of the cultural responses to nuclear weapons and is an important entry in Cold War historiography, bridging the gap between political, cultural, psychological, and emotional interpretations of nuclear weapons.’\u003cbr\u003eEmily Gibbs, University of Liverpool, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Contemporary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The cold war as an imaginary war - Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann\u003cbr\u003e1. The      apocalyptic fiction: shaping the future in the cold war - Eva Horn \u003cbr\u003e2. Building peace,      fearing the apocalypse: Nuclear danger in Soviet cold war culture, 1945-91      - Miriam Dobson \u003cbr\u003e3. Nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the      present - Paul Boyer  \u003cbr\u003e4. The imaginative landscape of nuclear war in      Britain, 1945-65 - Matthew Grant  \u003cbr\u003e5. German angst? Debating cold war anxieties in West      Germany, 1945-90 - Benjamin Ziemann \u003cbr\u003e6. After      Hiroshima. Günther Anders and the history of anti-nuclear critique - Jason      Dawsey \u003cbr\u003e7. Hiroshima\/Nagasaki,      civil rights and anti-war protest in Japan's      cold war - Ann Sheriff \u003cbr\u003e8.       Catholic anti-communism, the bomb and perceptions of apocalypse in West Germany and the USA, 1945-90 - Daniel Gerster\u003cbr\u003e9. 'The nuclear arms race is psychological at its      roots.' Physicians and their therapies for the Cold War - Claudia Kemper \u003cbr\u003e10. Imagining      the apocalypse: nuclear winter in science and the world - Paul Rubinson \u003cbr\u003e11. Images      of nuclear war in U.S. government films from the early cold war - Lars      Nowak \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040995737943,"sku":"9781526131904","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526131904.jpg?v=1750948532","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-the-imaginary-war-culture-thought-and-nuclear-conflict-1945-90-9781526131904","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}