Understanding the Imaginary War: Culture, Thought and Nuclear Conflict, 1945-90

Book Overview

Understanding the imaginary war offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526131900
• ISBN13: 9781526131904
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"