Nuclear Fear (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Spencer R. Weart
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Cultural history
- Time of Work: 1902-1986
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: William L. Laurence, David Lilienthal, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frederick Soddy, Edward Teller
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Arts
- Subjects: Popular culture, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Signs or symbols
- Locales: United States
If the outpouring of words on a topic bears some proportionality to the depth of emotion of the writers, then nuclear energy has certainly touched many people deeply. The massive numbers of articles and books on nuclear matters bear eloquent witness to the concern that nuclear issues have raised. Seeing these mountains of material, a person might reasonably ask: Can anything new be said? Spencer Weart thinks so. Despite other works that have explored the cultural history of nuclear weapons, Weart believes that he can set this history into a new framework of universal psychological...
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