[17] March 17 - Atomic millenialism: Learning to love the Bomb
"Savants in Clash on Atomic Perils," New York Times (26 August 1945).
Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 2d. ed. (1994), chapters 18 and 19.
Further reading:
Bob Mielke, "Rhetoric and Ideology in the Nuclear Test Documentary," Film Quarterly 58 (2005): 28-37.
Andrei Shcherbenok, “Asymmetric Warfare: The Vision of the Enemy in American and Soviet Cold War Cinemas,” KinoKultura 23 (2010).
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