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Autor/in | Blackmore, Tim |
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Titel | Life of War, Death of the Rest: The Shining Path of Cormac McCarthy's Thermonuclear America |
Quelle | In: Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 29 (2009) 1, S.18-36 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0270-4676 |
DOI | 10.1177/0270467608328709 |
Schlagwörter | Novels; Literary Genres; Futures (of Society); Death; War; Weapons; Nuclear Energy; Foreign Policy; Technological Advancement; Influence of Technology; International Relations; Science and Society; Literary Criticism; United States |
Abstract | The Bush Administration's quiet resumption of, or initiation of new, nuclear weapons programs aimed militarizing space, and erecting a missile defense shield that would have the effect of rolling back 19 years of solid detente, has gone largely unnoticed over the last eight years. Weapons makers, government officials and politicians have expressed excitement at these new developments, despite the immediate stress loaded onto relations between the United States and Europe, particularly ex-Soviet satellite countries. This paper revisits arguments about nuclear weaponry and the possibility for defense against and survival of a nuclear war. The paper considers the way new nuclear technologies are inherently determinist, and reflects on the threat of the apocalyptic world as seen in American author Cormac McCarthy's unflinching 2006 novel, The Road. (Contains 7 notes.) (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |