Imagining the Worst: Science Fiction and Nuclear War

David SEED

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Imagining the Worst: Science Fiction and Nuclear War

Yazarlar:

David SEED

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2000 Issue 11, pp.39-49

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2000

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735178

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İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

No sooner had the Second World War ended before articles started appearing in  American periodicals graphically describing how the USA might fare in a nuclear attack[1]  .  Paradoxically since America emerged from the war with its mainland unscathed, its economy  buoyant, and as the sole possessor of the new super-weapon, these narratives inverted the  privilege of monopoly and expressed a fear of how the Bomb might be turned against the very  country which devised it. These imagined attacks were all the more fearsome because they  had no historical precedent other than the single bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The  coinage of the phrase “Cold War” fed such fears in suggesting a state of war paradoxically  present but somehow not happening, a permanent imminence.

Makale detayları

Imagining the Worst: Science Fiction and Nuclear War

Yazarlar: David SEED

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2000 Issue 11, pp.39-49

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2000

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735178

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

David SEED

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2000 Issue 11, pp.39-49

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2000

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735178

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606