Understanding the imaginary war : culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945-90 / edited by Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

xi, 303 pages : black and white illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Introduction: the Cold War as an imaginary war / Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann -- The apocalyptic fiction: shaping the future in the Cold War / Eva Horn -- Building peace, fearing the apocalypse? Nuclear danger in Soviet Cold War culture / Miriam Dobson -- Sixty years and counting: nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the present / Paul Boyer -- The imaginative landscape of nuclear war in Britain, 1945-65 / Matthew Grant -- German angst? Debating Cold War anxieties in West Germany, 1945-90 / Benjamin Ziemann -- After Hiroshima: Günther Anders and the history of anti-nuclear critique / Jason Dawsey -- Hiroshima/Nagasaki, civil rights and anti-war protest in Japan's Cold War / Ann Sherif -- Catholic anti-communism, the bomb and perceptions of apocalypse in West Germany and the USA, 1945-90 / Daniel Gerster -- "The nuclear arms race is psychological at its roots": physicians and their therapies for the Cold War / Claudia Kemper -- Imagining the apocalypse: nuclear winter in science and the world / Paul Rubinson -- Images of nuclear war in US government films from the early Cold War / Lars Nowak.

Includes bibliographical references and index.