Race, war and apocalypse before 1945 -- Inverted frontiers -- Soft places and Mad Max beyond Thunderdome -- Fear of a black planet -- White rain and the black Atlantic -- Race and the Manhattan Project -- 'The Hindu bomb' : nuclear nationalism in The last jet-engine laugh -- Third world wars and third-world wars.
Summary
Ranging across novels and poetry, critical theory and film comics and speeches, this title explores how writers, thinkers and filmmakers have unanswered the question: are nuclear weapons 'white'?