British Nuclear Culture

Author : Jonathan Hogg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441109242
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Nuclear Culture written by Jonathan Hogg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the atomic bomb, the social and cultural impact of nuclear science, and the history of the British nuclear state after 1945 is a complex and contested story. British Nuclear Culture is an important survey that offers a new interpretation of the nuclear century by tracing the tensions between 'official' and 'unofficial' nuclear narratives in British culture. In this book, Jonathan Hogg argues that nuclear culture was a pervasive and persistent aspect of British life, particularly in the years following 1945. This idea is illustrated through detailed analysis of various primary source materials, such as newspaper articles, government files, fictional texts, film, music and oral testimonies. The book introduces unfamiliar sources to students of nuclear and cold war history, and offers in-depth and critical reflections on the expanding historiography in this area of research. Chronologically arranged, British Nuclear Culture reflects upon, and returns to, a number of key themes throughout, including nuclear anxiety, government policy, civil defence, 'nukespeak' and nuclear subjectivity, individual experience, protest and resistance, and the influence of the British nuclear state on everyday life. The book contains illustrations, individual case studies, a select bibliography, a timeline, and a list of helpful online resources for students of nuclear history.

Author : John Baylis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198702027
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Nuclear Experience written by John Baylis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a detailed analysis of archives and high level interviews this book looks at the role of beliefs, culture and identity in the making of British nuclear policy from 1945 through to the present day. This book also examines Britain's nuclear experience by moving away from tradtional interpretations of why states develop and maintain nuclear weapons by adopting a more contemporary approach to political theory. Traditional mainstream explanations tend to stress the importance of factors such as the 'maximization of power', the persuit of 'national security interests' and the role of 'structure' in a largely anarchic international system. This book does not dismiss these approaches, but argues that British experience suggests that focusing on 'beliefs', 'culture' and 'identity', provides a more useful insight and distinctive intepretation into the process of British nuclear decision making than the more traditional approaches.

Author : Jonathan Hogg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000395162
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Nuclear Mobilisation Since 1945 written by Jonathan Hogg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores aspects of the social and cultural history of nuclear Britain in the Cold War era (1945–1991) and contributes to a more multivalent exploration of the consequences of nuclear choices which are too often left unacknowledged by historians of post-war Britain. In the years after 1945, the British government mobilised money, scientific knowledge, people and military–industrial capacity to create both an independent nuclear deterrent and the generation of electricity through nuclear reactors. This expensive and vast ‘technopolitical’ project, mostly top-secret and run by small sub-committees within government, was central to broader Cold War strategy and policy. Recent attempts to map the resulting social and cultural history of these military–industrial policy decisions suggest that nuclear mobilisation had far-reaching consequences for British life. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

Author : Christoph Laucht
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137028335
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elemental Germans written by Christoph Laucht and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christoph Laucht offers the first investigation into the roles played by two German-born emigre atomic scientists, Klaus Fuchs and Rudolf Peierls, in the development of British nuclear culture, especially the practice of nuclear science and the political implications of the atomic scientists' work, from the start of the Second World War until 1959.

Author : Ele Carpenter
Publisher : Black Dog Press
ISBN 13 : 9781911164050
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nuclear Culture Source Book written by Ele Carpenter and published by Black Dog Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nuclear Culture Source Book serves as an excellent resource and introduction to nuclear culture as one of the most prominent themes within contemporary art and society, exploring the diverse ways in which post-Fukushima society has influenced artistic and cultural production. The book brings together a wide-ranging collection of material from artists and writers working within the scope of nuclear culture internationally, including works by renowned practitioners such as Lise Autogena, Thomson & Craighead, Crowe & Rawlinson, David Mabb, Katsuhiro Miyamoto, Kota Takeuchi and Chim-Pom. Building on four years of research into nuclear culture by the book's editor, Ele Carpenter, The Nuclear Culture Source Book features contributions by over 60 artists including spectacular imagery of nuclear sites taken on artist field trips, from underground research laboratories in Japan to the Faslane Trident base. Contextualising this is a series of essays by international arts and humanities scholars and writers including: Timothy Morton writing on radiation as a hyperobject; Peter C van Wyck on the nuclear anthropocene; Kodwo Eshun and Noi Sawaragi on Fukushima; and Susan Schuppli on nuclear materiality. Published in partnership with Bildmuseet, Sweden and Arts Catalyst, London.

Author : John Baylis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191771682
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Nuclear Experience written by John Baylis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a detailed analysis of archives and high level interviews this book looks at the role of beliefs, culture and identity in the making of British nuclear policy from 1945 through to the present day.

Author : Catherine Jolivette
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351573152
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Art in the Nuclear Age written by Catherine Jolivette and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the study of objects, British Art in the Nuclear Age addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear science and technology, atomic power, and nuclear warfare in Cold War Britain. Examining both the fears and hopes for the future that attended the advances of the nuclear age, nine original essays explore the contributions of British-born and ?gr?rtists in the areas of sculpture, textile and applied design, painting, drawing, photo-journalism, and exhibition display. Artists discussed include: Francis Bacon, John Bratby, Lynn Chadwick, Prunella Clough, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Peter Lanyon, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, Peter Laszlo Peri, Isabel Rawsthorne, Alan Reynolds, Colin Self, Graham Sutherland, Feliks Topolski and John Tunnard. Also under discussion is new archival material from Picture Post magazine, and the Festival of Britain. Far from insular in its concerns, this volume draws upon cross-cultural dialogues between British and European artists and the relationship between Britain and America to engage with an interdisciplinary art history that will also prove useful to students and researchers in a variety of fields including modern European history, political science, the history of design, anthropology, and media studies.

Author : Richard Maguire
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781409464556
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Nuclear Weaponry Culture written by Richard Maguire and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Grant
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526101335
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the imaginary war written by Matthew Grant and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable and unimaginable - nuclear apocalypse - imaginable. The book will be required reading for everyone who wants to understand the cultural dynamics of the Cold War through the angle of its core ingredient, nuclear weapons.

Author : TARAS. YOUNG
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909829169
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NUCLEAR WAR IN THE UK. written by TARAS. YOUNG and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost five decades, the United Kingdom made plans for a nuclear attack that never came. To help their citizens, civil servants, and armed forces prepare, those in power designed and published a variety of booklets, posters, and how-to guides. Most infamous among these was the Protect and Survive campaign, but just as fascinating are lesser-known materials prepared for the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation and the Royal Observer Corps, many of which are reproduced here for the first time. From terrifying images issued by central government, to local councils' sometimes amateurish survival guides, 'Nuclear War in the UK' is a look at the way Britain's authorities reacted to the Soviet nuclear threat.