“Not atomic weapons in the political situation, but political actions in the atomic situation: Although it sounds absolutely plausible, it is misleading to say that atomic weapons exist in our situation. This statement has to be turned upside-down in order to become true. As the situation today is determined and defined exclusively by the existence of “atomic weapons,” we have to state: political actions and developments are taking place within the atomic situation.” Günther Anders inTheses for the Atomic Age, Massachusetts Review, Spring 1962, Vol. III, No. 3, p. 494.
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A Symposium on Guy Oakes'The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture, N.Y. Oxford University Press 1994.
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Vidich, A.J. Atomic bombs and American democracy. Int J Polit Cult Soc 8, 499–506 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02142898
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