The Atomic Age (Winter 2020)

Assigned reading:

"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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