Desiring the bomb : communication, psychoanalysis, and the atomic age /

Matheson, Calum L., 1981-

Desiring the bomb : communication, psychoanalysis, and the atomic age / Calum L. Matheson. - Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - Rhetoric, culture, and social critique .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Enduring half-lives of the bomb -- Fort : Trinity and the real -- Da : war games -- Fort : desired ground zeroes -- Da : survival -- Dragons on the map.

"A timely interdisciplinary study that applies psychoanalysis and the rhetorical tradition of the sublime to examine the cultural aftermath of the Atomic Age"--



9780817392048


Nuclear weapons--Psychological aspects.--United States
Nuclear warfare--Psychological aspects.--United States
English language--Rhetoric.--United States
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.


Electronic Books.

U264 / .D475 2019