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Atomic postcards : radioactive messages from the Cold War
\"Atomic postcards played an important role in creating and disseminating a public image of nuclear power. Presenting small-scale images of test explosions, power plants, fallout shelters, and long-range missiles, the cards were produced for mass audiences in China, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan and link the multilayered geographies of Atomic Age nationalism and tourism. From the unfailingly cheery slogans - 'Greetings from Los Alamos' - to blithe, handwritten notes and no-irony-intended 'Pray for Peace' postmarks. [...] 150 reproductions of cards and handwritten messages dating from the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the end of the Cold War\"--Back cover.
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The End of Victory
The End of Victory recounts
the costs of failure in nuclear war through the work of the most
secret deliberative body of the National Security Council, the Net
Evaluation Subcommittee (NESC). From 1953 onward, US
leaders wanted to know as precisely as possible what would happen
if they failed in a nuclear war-how many Americans would die and
how much of the country would remain. The NESC told Presidents
Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy what would be the result of
the worst failure of American strategy-a maximum-effort surprise
Soviet nuclear assault on the United States.
Edward Kaplan details how NESC studies provided key information
for presidential decisions on the objectives of a war with the USSR
and on the size and shape of the US military. The subcommittee
delivered its annual reports in a decade marked by crises in
Berlin, Quemoy and Matsu, Laos, and Cuba, among others. During
these critical moments and day-to-day containment of the USSR, the
NESC's reports offered the best estimates of the butcher's bill of
conflict and of how to reduce the cost in American lives.
Taken with the intelligence community's assessment of the
probability of a surprise attack, the NESC's work framed the risks
of US strategy in the chilliest years of the Cold War. The End
of Victory reveals how all policy decisions run risks-and ones
involving military force run grave ones-though they can rarely be
known with precision.
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Bombing the Marshall Islands : a Cold War tragedy
\"During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over nineteen years. These tests, particularly Castle Bravo, the largest one, had tragic consequences, including the irradiation of innocent people and the permanent displacement of many native Marshallese. Keith M. Parsons and Robert Zaballa tell the story of the development and testing of thermonuclear weapons and the effects of these tests on their victims and on the popular and intellectual culture. These events are also situated in their Cold War context and explained in terms of the prevailing hopes, fears, and beliefs of that age. In particular, the narrative highlights the obsessions and priorities of top American officials, such as Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.\"--Page i.
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The Development of the Nuclear Winter Theory in Works of G.S. Golitsyn and His Colleagues in the 1980s
This paper presents the author’s version of the history of research on the hypothesis of nuclear winter—a catastrophic change in the Earth’s climate in the case of large-scale use of nuclear weapons—and the key role of Academician G.S. Golitsyn in those studies. Special attention is paid to the prehistory of the nuclear winter hypothesis and the scientific breakthrough of the 1980s, when scientists from the Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries tried to comprehend the theoretical possibility of a sharp cooling in most of the Earth’s land as a result of massive fires of nuclear war and to find natural analogues of such a “man-made” climate disaster at many scientific meetings and in many scientific and popular publications.
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Nuclear fear and anxiety: Exercises in future thinking
Anxiety about nuclear war emerged after the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan and has risen and fallen over the following decades. It is grounded in future thinking shaped by narrative form and function in policy discussions and especially in film and television. These media have repeatedly drawn on three basic narrative templates organised around three different endings: destruction, judgement, and renewal; human extinction; and permanent and irreversible societal collapse. Several film and television productions are used to illustrate the internal organisation of these narrative templates and to examine how both nuclear fear and nuclear anxiety are involved.
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BUFFER ZONE IN INDONESIAN TERRITORY TO ANTICIPATE IMPACTS OF NUCLEAR WAR ON KOREAN PENINSULA
The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula in recent decades is considered to have become one of the serious threats to security and stability in East Asia in particular and the world in general. Being an endless topic of conversation is based on the politics applied by North Korea which makes the international world always alert. Indonesia is directly or indirectly one of the countries that will be affected by the Korean peninsula nuclear war. The impact of radiation from the Korean Peninsula nuclear war affects health impacts, environmental impacts and socio-economic impacts. Buffer zones as one of the alternative steps to mitigate the impact of nuclear war. The method used in this research is a literature review that refers to the development of political issues between the North Korean and South Korean blocks, the theory of buffer zones that have been applied in warfare and studies of the impact due to nuclear radiation that has occurred. The purpose of this research is to mitigate and minimize the impact of the Korean peninsula nuclear war that will be received by the Indonesian region. From the results of the discussion, it can be concluded that the buffer zone is effective as an anticipation of the threat of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula because it can create a security and preparedness zone for the population and planning for strengthening infrastructure that supports the anticipation of the impact of nuclear war. The results of this study contribute to be used as a basic material for strategies to deal with nuclear war on the Korean peninsula.
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