Download or read book National Insecurity in the Nuclear Age written by Melissa A Steinmetz and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of atomic weapons against Japan in August 1945 ushered in a new age - not only in the context of international relations, but within U.S. popular culture as well. While Americans rejoiced that World War II had at last come to an end, the technological innovations that secured Allied victory also laid the groundwork for unprecedented anxiety. Suddenly, the destruction of the world through nuclear annihilation became a practical possibility rather than simply fodder for science fiction novels. Negotiating this unfamiliar terrain, American policymakers, military leaders, and ordinary citizens debated strategies surrounding civil defense and national security, often utilizing gendered language and reproductive metaphors that reflected concerns about American masculinity. Popular films and novels of the era also imagined a variety of post-apocalyptic American societies if a worst-case scenario should ever be realized. In both political discourse and popular culture, Americans asked similar questions: Would it be possible to survive a nuclear war? What should men and women do to protect themselves - if anything? Would federal attempts to prepare the nation for nuclear attack serve as a public acknowledgment of U.S. vulnerability? And in the event of nuclear annihilation, who might be left to repopulate America? This dissertation examines how the discourse of American survival reflected gendered constructions of Cold War national identity. Examining civil defense discourse in the context of Cold War anxieties surrounding masculinity and male fertility illuminates areas in which political and science fiction narratives overlap, challenge, and reinforce each other. For example, civil defense planners recognized the importance of image in the 1950s and in many ways attempted to construct civil defense in the nuclear age as a reflection of strong, white, middle-class masculinity that was just as significant as military programs for the nation's defense. In the context of popular anxieties over American masculinity, however, and gendered nuclear narratives in print, television, and film, civil defense planners tried to use language and imagery to mobilize white, middle-class men into "service" for the nation during the 1950s - and ultimately failed. This dissertation analyzes newspaper and magazine articles, self-help books, federal civil defense documents from the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, and finally, post-apocalyptic films and novels to highlight how gender functions, explicitly and implicitly, within national narratives of survival.
Download or read book National Security in the Nuclear Age written by Gordon Brinkerhoff Turner and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Security in the Nuclear Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Apocalypse Management written by Ira Chernus and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalypse Management explains Dwight Eisenhower's eight years of self-defeating cold war policies by analyzing the pattern of Eisenhower's private and public discourse, a pattern that still dominates U.S. foreign policy, keeping us in the same state of national insecurity that marked the Eisenhower era.
Download or read book National Security in the Nuclear Age written by Gordon Brinkerhoff Turner and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Security in a Nuclear Age written by Kenneth W. Thompson and published by . This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Security in the Nuclear Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Security in the Nuclear Age written by University of Minnesota. Center for International Relations and Area Studies and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Political Economy of National Security in the Nuclear Age written by Christopher A. Preble and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Apocalypse Management written by Ira Chernus and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eight years President Dwight Eisenhower claimed to pursue peace and national security. Yet his policies entrenched the United States in a seemingly permanent cold war, a spiralling nuclear arms race, and a deepening state of national insecurity. This book uncovers the key to this paradox in Eisenhower's unwavering commitment to a consistent way of talking, in private as well as in public, about the cold war rivalry.
Download or read book Verification in an Age of Insecurity written by Philip D. O'Neill (Jr.) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verification in an Age of Insecurity takes the reader into some of the most urgent arms control issues facing the world community, including the nuclear activities of rogue states and threats from sophisticated non-state actors. In the book, national security expert Philip D. O'Neill, Jr. identifies and addresses issues from the resuscitated disarmament agenda, from the comprehensive test ban to fissile material and biological weapons. O'Neill examines the need for shifts in verification standards and policy suitable for our volatile era and beyond it. He surveys recent history to show how established verification procedures fail to produce the certainty necessary to meet today's threats. Verification in an Age of Insecurity goes beyond a discussion of rogue states like North Korea to offer suggestions on how best to bring compliance policy up to date with modern threats.
Download or read book National Security in the Nuclear Age Basic Facts and Theories Edited by G B Turner and R D Challener By Various Authors written by Gordon Brinkerhoff TURNER (and CHALLENER (Richard Delo)) and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Second Nuclear Age written by Paul Bracken and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable." The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons as a vital element of statecraft and power politics. In short, we have entered the second nuclear age. In this provocative and agenda-setting book, Paul Bracken of Yale University argues that we need to pay renewed attention to nuclear weapons and how their presence will transform the way crises develop and escalate. He draws on his years of experience analyzing defense strategy to make the case that the United States needs to start thinking seriously about these issues once again, especially as new countries acquire nuclear capabilities. He walks us through war-game scenarios that are all too realistic, to show how nuclear weapons are changing the calculus of power politics, and he offers an incisive tour of the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia to underscore how the United States must not allow itself to be unprepared for managing such crises. Frank in its tone and farsighted in its analysis, The Second Nuclear Age is the essential guide to the new rules of international politics.
Download or read book Seeking Security in an Insecure World written by Dan Caldwell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of Seeking Security in an Insecure World provides a thorough, accessible introduction to contemporary security studies. All chapters are updated and a wide range of new topics are discussed, including the Syrian civil war, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its intervention in East Ukraine, the global refugee crisis, China’s military buildup, the impact of fracking on oil and gas markets, and rapidly evolving cyberwar capabilities. Each chapter also addresses what has been and can be done to enhance security. Overall, Seeking Security in an Insecure World offers a clear and compelling framework for understanding what security means today and how it can best be achieved.
Download or read book War and Peace in the Nuclear Age written by John Newhouse and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1989 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the fragile peace that has been maintained since the first atomic bomb exploded and of the issues this has raised.
