Join us & @CulturesColdWar tomorrow (19th) for An Imaginary War? Culture, Thought & Nuclear Conflict during Cold War http://bit.ly/2bJNhie pic.twitter.com/JzM6fb3U0F
Full house for our Rethinking the Cold War #ImaginaryWar event on culture & the nuclear bomb with Ann Sherif, Benjamin Ziemann & @mgrnt pic.twitter.com/0IOiK0MURL- Ziemann: Term 'Cold War' coined by Orwell in reaction to nuclear bomb. Imagining nuclear destruction key battleground of it. #ImaginaryWar
- In the wider framework of nuclear confrontation, imaging nuclear devastation was one of the main battlegrounds of the Cold War #ImaginaryWar
- Ziemann quotes Anders: nuclear bomb created discrepancy between total power of destruction & total powerlessness of man. #ImaginaryWar
Ziemann: Bomb opponents labelled it a genocidal weapon, Anders called it 'ominocidal weapon' that would destroy many cultures #ImaginaryWar pic.twitter.com/fYNcybewXu- Ziemann: The bomb opened up a gap between what humans could produce and the nuclear desvestation they could imagine. #ImaginaryWar
.@mgrnt: In 60s Britain saw shift in culture from warnings of countrywide threat to trying to imagine life after nuclear war #ImaginaryWar pic.twitter.com/iOuzx8k2Wp- How did British people speak, think, imagine nuclear bomb in cold war? @mgrnt difficulties of scale @lseideas @CulturesColdWar #ImaginaryWar
- Grant: Anti nuclear protests in early Cold War exaggerated effects of the bomb - did this underpin support for the deterrent? #ImaginaryWar
- .@mgrnt Did CND, by exaggerating bomb's power as total world destruction, inadvertently underpin public support for deterrent? #ImaginaryWar
- Ann Sherif discusses case of Hiroshima survivors: some because anti-nuclear activists others faced discrimination & resentment #ImaginaryWar
- Comes down to belief/faiths nuclear survival: were you blessed or cursed if you lived past bomb? @lseideas @mgrnt @drjacarnold #ImaginaryWar
- Sherif: Pay attention to the local when studying the Cold War. Hiroshima and Nagasaki central to Japanese cultural identity. #ImaginaryWar
- @immaterial_me Q&A coming up...
Ann Sherif explains US civil rights activists' involvement in anti-Vietnam War protests in Tokyo & emergence of human rights #ImaginaryWar pic.twitter.com/Q1KivO7Yb4- Grant: Hiroshima powerful but complex event in British imagination. Radiation played down by gov, used as symbol by protestors #ImaginaryWar
- Grant: Civil defence highlighted mendacity underpinning deterrent but many CD workers believed in Dad's Army narrative. #ImaginaryWar
Following panel presentations, the #ImaginaryWar Q&A has begun, discussing "ridiculous" nature of civil defence schemes & propaganda. pic.twitter.com/Bf2EcYeWSj- While inadequate, based on empirical scientific advisors' advice. Perception and reception influenced by public imagination? #ImaginaryWar https://twitter.com/lseideas/status/788812782502371328 …
- Ziemann: 'nuclear free zones' an example of #ImaginaryWar : attempt to scale the Cold War to a comprehensibly local level
- That concludes our #ImaginaryWar event, part of Rethinking the Cold War series with @CulturesColdWar. Find out more: http://www.lse.ac.uk/ColdWarStudies
- Interesting ideas on risk perceptions at #ImaginaryWar talk - communication of big dangers (e.g. nuclear war) much harder than little ones! https://twitter.com/lseideas/status/788812782502371328 …
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An Imaginary War? Culture, Thought and Nuclear Conflict during the Cold War
Part of our Rethinking the Cold War lecture series with the University of Sheffield Cultures of the Cold War research centre.
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