The Rise of Nuclear Fear / Spencer R. Weart.
Weart, Spencer R., author.
2012
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Title The Rise of Nuclear Fear / Spencer R. Weart.
Author Weart, Spencer R., author.
ISBN 9780674065062
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065062
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (384 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674065062 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 621.48
Summary After a tsunami destroyed the cooling system at Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, triggering a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged the use of nuclear power. Germany announced it would close its plants by 2022. Although the ills of fossil fuels are better understood than ever, the threat of climate change has never aroused the same visceral dread or swift action. Spencer Weart dissects this paradox, demonstrating that a powerful web of images surrounding nuclear energy holds us captive, allowing fear, rather than facts, to drive our thinking and public policy.Building on his classic, Nuclear Fear, Weart follows nuclear imagery from its origins in the symbolism of medieval alchemy to its appearance in film and fiction. Long before nuclear fission was discovered, fantasies of the destroyed planet, the transforming ray, and the white city of the future took root in the popular imagination. At the turn of the twentieth century when limited facts about radioactivity became known, they produced a blurred picture upon which scientists and the public projected their hopes and fears. These fears were magnified during the Cold War, when mushroom clouds no longer needed to be imagined; they appeared on the evening news. Weart examines nuclear anxiety in sources as diverse as Alain Resnais's film Hiroshima Mon Amour, Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, and the television show The Simpsons.Recognizing how much we remain in thrall to these setpieces of the imagination, Weart hopes, will help us resist manipulation from both sides of the nuclear debate.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
PREFACE
1. RADIOACTIVE HOPES
2. RADIOACTIVE FEARS
3. RADIUM: ELIXIR OR POISON?
4. THE SECRET, THE MASTER, AND THE MONSTER
5. THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS
6. THE NEWS FROM HIROSHIMA
7. NATIONAL DEFENSES
8. ATOMS FOR PEACE
9. GOOD AND BAD ATOMS
10. THE NEW BLASPHEMY
11. DEATH DUST
12. THE IMAGINATION OF SURVIVAL
13. THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL
14. SEEKING SHELTER
15. FAIL/SAFE
16. REACTOR PROMISES AND POISONS
17. THE DEBATE EXPLODES
18. ENERGY CHOICES
19. CIVILIZATION OR LIBERATION?
20. WATERSHEDS
21. THE SECOND NUCLEAR AGE
22. DECONSTRUCTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
23. TYRANTS AND TERRORISTS
24. THE MODERN ARCANUM
25. ARTISTIC TRANSMUTATIONS
A PERSONAL NOTE
NUCLEAR HISTORY TIMELINE
NOTES
FURTHER READING
INDEX

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