Book ID: CBB178026218

Culture atomiche. Gli Stati Uniti, la Francia e l'Italia di fronte alla questione nucleare (1962-68) (2020)

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Ciglioni, Laura (Author)


Carocci Editore


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 404 pp.
Language: Italian

Nel secondo dopoguerra, in un’epoca ribattezzata “età atomica” già all’indomani del lancio della bomba A su Hiroshima e Nagasaki, l’atomo (sia civile che militare) divenne una presenza costante, familiare e insieme minacciosa, per l’opinione pubblica internazionale nel contesto della Guerra Fredda. Il libro ricostruisce le mentalità sedimentate, le rappresentazioni diffuse e i mutevoli atteggiamenti della popolazione di fronte alla questione nucleare nel corso degli anni Sessanta. I tre contesti indagati – gli Stati Uniti, la Francia e l’Italia – consentono di mettere in luce, all’interno della comunità atlantica, differenze e, al tempo stesso, profonde consonanze nelle “culture atomiche” nazionali. Attraverso l’analisi della stampa a larga tiratura e di programmi televisivi, di documenti di archivio e sondaggi di opinione, di opere d’arte e prodotti della cultura di massa, il volume offre un quadro dei profondi mutamenti allora in atto, sulle due sponde dell’Atlantico, non solo in merito alla questione nucleare, ma a una molteplicità di temi che la rivoluzione dell’atomo evocava: le ambivalenze della modernità; la trasformazione della natura e la fine della società rurale in una fase di tumultuosa modernizzazione; il rapporto con la scienza e la tecnologia; infine, i problemi della pace e della guerra. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… After the Second World War, in an era renamed the "atomic age" already after the launch of the A bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atom (both civil and military) became a constant presence, familiar and at the same time threatening, for the public opinion in the context of the Cold War. The book reconstructs the settled mentalities, the widespread representations and the changing attitudes of the population in the face of the nuclear question during the 1960s. The three contexts investigated - the United States, France and Italy - make it possible to highlight, within the Atlantic community, differences and, at the same time, deep consonances in national "atomic cultures". Through the analysis of large-scale press and television programs, archival documents and opinion polls, works of art and mass culture products, the volume offers a picture of the profound changes then taking place on both shores of the Atlantic, not only on the nuclear question, but on a multiplicity of themes that the revolution of the atom evoked: the ambivalences of modernity; the transformation of nature and the end of rural society in a phase of tumultuous modernization; the relationship with science and technology; finally, the problems of peace and war.]

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Authors & Contributors
Pierre Journoud
Anne-Laure Anizan
Vittoria, Albertina
Bini, Elisabetta
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Anne-Sandrine Paumier
Journals
Traverse
Technology and Culture
Journal of Popular Culture
Journal of Contemporary History
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Publishers
Luigi Pellegrini Editore
Viella
University of Massachusetts Press
University of Chicago Press
The MIT Press
Stanford University Press
Concepts
Cold War
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and society
Science and culture
People
Fermi, Enrico
Teller, Edward
Supek, Ivan
Rabinowitch, Eugene
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Italy
Soviet Union
Europe
Switzerland
Russia
Institutions
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
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