How Nuclear Weapons Changed How We Think

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/20150702-how-the-bomb-changed-everything

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

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