nuclear studies

Issue 5.4 - Special Issue "Nuclear Narratives" Previous Issues

Alluvium Editorial 5.4: Nuclear Narratives

Written from within the last “hot” period of the Cold War’s near half century span, Martin Amis’s 1987 essay “Thinkability” articulates how nuclear weapons embedded themselves within our personal and cultural imagination: "Everyone is interested in nuclear weapons, even those people who affirm and actually believe that they never give the question a moment’s thought. We are all interested parties…

Issue 5.4 - Special Issue "Nuclear Narratives" Previous Issues

The Futures of Nuclear Criticism

Daniel Cordle July 29, 2016 2 Comments Anthropocene apocalypse Bobbi Ann Mason civil defence planning Cold War end of the world John Hersey Maggie Gee Michael Madsen nuclear criticism nuclear narratives nuclear studies nuclear subjectivities nuclear sublime nuclear temporalities nuclear uncanny nuclearity politics of vulnerability toxic discourse Ursula Le Guin War Day

The unthinkable happened at 4.20pm on 28 October, 1988. Though lasting only thirty-six minutes – betrayal by European NATO allies prevented escalation into the global holocaust many had feared – nuclear attack transformed the United States. As Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka record in an extraordinary travel narrative about a perilous journey around the country five years…