![]() A few might mention anxieties about dirty-bomb and “loose-nuke” scenarios such as depicted in the show 24 (2001-2010), but visions of global destruction via intercontinental ballistic missiles are no longer on their psychosocial radar screens. Strangelove (1963) for the first time? Their answer is inevitably no, the possibility of imminent nuclear holocaust is not something that troubles their sleep. Have any of them ever woken up shaking in terror from nightmares of mushroom clouds, as I did as a teenager after watching Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Whenever I teach an sf novel about nuclear war, I ask students whether the scenario depicted in the text frightens them at all. Grave New World: The Decline of The West in the Fiction of J.G. The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema: Critical Essays. Strangelove: The Anatomy and Influence of the Kubrick Masterpiece. ![]() Death Rays and the Popular Media, 1876-1939. Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry and the Cultural Imagination. ![]()
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