The Nuclear Age in Popular Media

DICK VAN LENTE is an Associate Professor of History at Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Introduction: a Transnational History of Popular Images and Narratives of Nuclear Technologies in the First Two Post-war Decades; D.van Lente Shaping the Soviet Experience of the Atomic Age: Nuclear Topics in Ogonyok, 1945-1965; S.D.Schmid 'To See . . . Things Dangerous to Come to': Life Magazine and the Atomic Age in the United States, 1945-1965; S.C.Zeman Learning from War: Media Coverage of the Nuclear Age in the Two Germanies; D.L.Augustine 'Dawn - Or Dusk?': Britain's Picture Post Confronts Nuclear Energy; C.Laucht Nuclear Power, World Politics, and a Small Nation: Narratives and Counter-narratives in the Netherlands; D.van Lente Nuclear Power Plants in 'the Only A-bombed Country': Images of Nuclear Power and Nation's Changing Self-portrait in Post-war Japan; H.Utsumi Promises of Indian Modernity: Representations of Nuclear Technology in the Illustrated Weekly of India; H-J.Bieber Conclusion: One World, Two Worlds, Many Worlds?; D.Augustine  & D.van Lente