The Nuclear Age in Popular Media

Chapter 1 Introduction: A Transnational History of Popular Images and Narratives of Nuclear Technologies in the First Two Postwar Decades

Chapter 3 “To See … Things Dangerous to Come to”: Life Magazine and the Atomic Age in the United States, 1945–1965

Chapter 4 Learning from War: Media Coverage of the Nuclear Age in the Two Germanies

Chapter 5 “Dawn—Or Dusk?” Britain’s Picture Post Confronts Nuclear Energy

Chapter 6 Nuclear Power, World Politics, and a Small Nation: Narratives and Counternarratives in the Netherlands

Chapter 7 Nuclear Power Plants in “The Only A-bombed Country”: Images of Nuclear Power and the Nation’s Changing Self-portrait in Postwar Japan

Chapter 8 Promises of Indian Modernity: Representations of Nuclear Technology in the Illustrated Weekly of India

Chapter 9 Conclusion: One World, Two Worlds, Many Worlds?