| Author: | Weart, Spencer R. | Place: | Cambridge, Mass. |
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| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Year: | 1988 |
Weart, Spencer R.. Nuclear fear: a history of images . Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1988.
Weart, a historian of science, describes the history of nuclear imagery which has influenced American people’s way of thinking from the turn of the century to the 1980s. In Chapter 6, The News from Hiroshima, the author discusses how Americans have drawn images of atomic bombs and nuclear energy in mind after the actual use of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.