Under the shadow : : the atomic bomb and Cold War narratives / / David Seed.

• Author: Seed, David.
• Place / Publishing House: Kent, Ohio : : Kent State University Press,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 pages) :; illustrations

Table of Contents

• The atom
• from H. G. Wells to Leo Szilard
• The dawn of the atomic age
• the bomb and Hiroshima
• The debate over nuclear refuge
• Do-it-yourself survival
• Philip Wylie on the state of the nation
• Cultural cycles in Walter M. Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz
• The pathology of warfare in Bernard Wolfe's Limbo
• Push-button holocaust in Mordecai Roshwald's Level 7
• Whales, submarines, and the Bedford incident
• Nuclear safety procedures in Fail-safe
• Uncovering the death wish in Dr. Strangelove
• Mapping the postnuclear landscape
• Future reportage on World War III
• Beyond the Cold War.