Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (194 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781841505275
Inhalt:
Atomic postcards played an important role in creating and disseminating a public image of nuclear power. Presenting small-scale images of test explosions, power plants, fallout shelters, and long-range missiles, the cards were produced for mass audiences in China, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan and link the multilayered geographies of Atomic Age nationalism and tourism. From the unfailingly cheery slogans - 'Greetings from Los Alamos' - to blithe, handwritten notes and no-irony-intended 'Pray for Peace' postmarks, these postcards mailed from the edge of danger nonetheless maintain the upbeat language of their medium. With 150 reproductions of cards and handwritten messages dating from the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the end of the Cold War, Atomic Postcards offers a fascinating glimpse of a time when the end of the world seemed close at hand
Inhalt:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- RECTO | VERSO -- THE POSTCARDS -- CATALOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Back Cover
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781841504315
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version O'Brian, John Atomic Postcards : Radioactive Messages from the Cold War Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd,c2011 ISBN 9781841504315
Sprache:
Englisch
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