Matthew Grant & Benjamin Ziemann 
Understanding the imaginary war 
Culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945–90

Introduction. The cold war as an imaginary war – Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann
1. The apocalyptic fiction: shaping the future in the cold war – Eva Horn
2. Building peace, fearing the apocalypse: Nuclear danger in Soviet cold war culture, 1945-91 – Miriam Dobson
3. Nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the present – Paul Boyer
4. The imaginative landscape of nuclear war in Britain, 1945-65 – Matthew Grant
5. German angst? Debating cold war anxieties in West Germany, 1945-90 – Benjamin Ziemann
6. After Hiroshima. Günther Anders and the history of anti-nuclear critique – Jason Dawsey
7. Hiroshima/Nagasaki, civil rights and anti-war protest in Japan’s cold war – Ann Sheriff
8. Catholic anti-communism, the bomb and perceptions of apocalypse in West Germany and the USA, 1945-90 – Daniel Gerster
9. ‘The nuclear arms race is psychological at its roots.’ Physicians and their therapies for the Cold War – Claudia Kemper
10. Imagining the apocalypse: nuclear winter in science and the world – Paul Rubinson
11. Images of nuclear war in U.S. government films from the early cold war – Lars Nowak
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