Published On May 10, 2022
Nuclear Weapons changed us. One author said we have a ‘nuclear consciousness’ If so, how specifically did it develop? What shapes did it take? I’ll look at some surprising consequences of the discovery of Nuclear power, how it changed our ideas about fear and irrationalism, about world government and philosophy, how it changed literature and cinema and comics, religion, science, and our idea of progress.
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Sources:
Paul Boyer, By the Bomb’s Early Light
Samira Ahmed, How The Bomb Changed Everything, https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/2...
Keith Booker, Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War
Edward Demenchonok, Philosophy After Hiroshima
John Dorsey, Atomic Bomb Literature in Japan and the West
Susanna Lindberg, Technologies of the End of the World, Contemporary Philosophy and Art