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100 1 $aHenriksen, Margot A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96105191
245 10 $aDr. Strangelove's America :$bsociety and culture in the atomic age /$cMargot A. Henriksen.
246 3 $aDoctor Strangelove's America
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axxv, 451 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 389-435) and index.
505 00 $tPreface: Dr. Strangelove's America: or How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Live with the Bomb --$gPt. 1.$tKnowing Sin: The Vertiginous End to American Innocence.$gCh. 1.$tTop of the World: The Corrupting Contours of the Cold War.$gCh. 2.$tVertigo: The Unhinged Moral Universe of Cold War America --$gPt. 2.$tPsycho: The Emergence of a Schizoid America in the Age of Anxiety.$gCh. 3.$tDuck and Cover: Civil Defense and Existential Anxiety in America.$gCh. 4.$tThe Snake Pit: America as an Asylum.$gCh. 5.$tWild Ones: Youths in Revolt against Adult America --$gPt. 3.$tIs God Dead? An American Awakening on the Eve of Destruction.$gCh. 6.$tTime Enough at Last? The Bomb Shelter Craze and the Dawn of America's Moral Awakening.$gCh. 7.$tLaughter and a New Myth of Life: Attacking the Menace of the American System.$gCh. 8.$tJudgment Day: Dr. Strangelove's Cultural Revolution.$gCh. 9.$tGodless Violence and Transcendent Hope: The American Nightmare Exposed and Contained.
520 $aDid Dr. Strangelove's America really learn to "stop worrying and love the bomb," as the title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film would have us believe? What has that darkly satirical comedy in common with the impassioned rhetoric of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech or with the beat of Elvis Presley's throbbing "I'm All Shook Up"? They all, in Margot Henriksen's vivid depiction of the decades after World War II, are expressions of a cultural revolution directly related to the atomic bomb.
520 8 $aBecause there was little organized, extensive protest against nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation until the 1980s, America's overall reaction to the bomb has been seen as acceptance or indifference. Henriksen argues instead that, in spite of the ease with which Cold War exigencies overrode all protests by scientists or others after the end of World War II, America's psyche was split as surely as the atom was split.
520 8 $aIn opposition to the "culture of consensus," which never questioned the pursuit of nuclear superiority, a "culture of dissent" was born. Its current of rebellion can be followed through all the forms of popular culture, and Henriksen evokes dozens of illuminating examples from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s.
651 0 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139945
650 0 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009120578
650 0 $aAtomic bomb$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAtomic bomb$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States.
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