Nuclear Fictions: Violence and the Narration of the Anglosphere

by Michael Gardiner

In this book, Michael Gardiner suggests that the conception of the 'war-ending' weapon was tied up with a longer commitment to unified space and singular progress. The mission for total weapons can be seen rising with the highly-technical defensive war of the later nineteenth century, and passing through twentieth century atomic research, then the targeting of the outsides of commercial empire, and the post-war consensus with deterrence as its foundation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474475728
• ISBN13: 9781474475723
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"