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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Atom Bomb"”.
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Chain reaction: The tragedy of atomic governance
… and profane, achievement in modern history--the atom bomb--but the strategies that empowered its development caused inestimable suffering in peacetime America. Discrete practices of secrecy, media manipulation, and the devaluation of scientific opinion evolved and coalesced during the cold war, …
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Born to Shop: Teenage Women and the United States Marketplace in the 1950s
… and illustrates how, in the shadow of the atom bomb, middle-class culture emerged as indebted prosperity. The false affluence that appeared in the beginnings of the cold war contributed to a sense of anxiety that, within popular psychological discourses, was projected onto adolescence. …
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The Dilemma of Existence in the Nuclear Age: Four Views
The problem. The United States' use of the atom bomb in 1945 marks the beginning of a definite trend in American literature. Since that time, many writers have dealt with the questions of man's purpose and position in the universe and the existence and nature of God. Procedure. The introduction of …
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Bombs, Bikinis, and Godzilla: America's Fear and Fascination of the Atomic Bomb as Evidenced Through Popular Media, 1946-1962.
… middle class Americans experienced towards the atomic bomb during the nineteen forties to early nineteen sixties by examining the popular culture that they produced and consumed. These Americans described the bomb as being an object of beauty, a powerful savior, an object of prosperity, and a …