Nuclear Fear: A History of Images (repost)
Nuclear Fear: A History of Images By Spencer R. Weart
Publisher: Harvard University Press 1989-03 | 552 Pages | ISBN: 0674628365 | PDF | 23 MB
Publisher: Harvard University Press 1989-03 | 552 Pages | ISBN: 0674628365 | PDF | 23 MB
Our thinking is inhabited by images-images of sometimes curious and overwhelming power. The mushroom cloud, weird rays that can transform the flesh, the twilight world following a nuclear war, the white city of the future, the brilliant but mad scientist who plots to destroy the world-all these images and more relate to nuclear energy, but that is not their only common bond. Decades before the first atom bomb exploded, a web of symbols with surprising linkages was fully formed in the public mind. The strange kinship of these symbols can be traced back, not only to medieval symbolism, but still deeper into experiences common to all of us.