Jacquelyn Arnold
Tweeting a bit from @lseideas event An Imaginary War? Culture, Thought and Nuclear Conflict during The Cold War.
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In the wider framework of nuclear confrontation, imaging nuclear devastation was one of the main battlegrounds of the Cold War
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Ziemann: The bomb opened up a gap between what humans could produce and the nuclear desvestation they could imagine. #ImaginaryWar
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Grant: Anti nuclear protests in early Cold War exaggerated effects of the bomb - did this underpin support for the deterrent?
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Grant: Protesters articulate motivations but CD volunteers struggle to compose narratives. Influenced by how culture views these stories?
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Sherif: Pay attention to the local when studying the Cold War. Hiroshima and Nagasaki central to Japanese cultural identity.
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Grant: Hiroshima powerful but complex event in British imagination. Radiation played down by gov, used as symbol by protestors
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Grant: Civil defence highlighted mendacity underpinning deterrent but many CD workers believed in Dad's Army narrative.
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@immaterial_me: Does attachment to peace drive a willingness to rely on deterrent and unwillingness to imagine nuclear war?#ImaginaryWar - Show more
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