Webinar: The Threat of Nuclear War: Four Decades After “The Day After”

By chance yesterday I saw a post on Facebook about a webinar being held later that day about the 1983 movie “The Day After“. Thanks to it being held late afternoon in the US, I was able to attend (in the UK) before going to bed… although the topic isn’t really “bedtime reading/viewing”. The full…

Book Review: “British Nuclear Culture” by Jonathan Hogg

I have been reading this book carefully for a few weeks now, but it’s appropriate that I reached the end this week. I first came across the book when I heard the author, Jonathan Hogg, speak at Troubling Anniversaries Conference in 2021. Now, like coming full circle, I’ve just finished the book having given a…

Splitting Atomic Symbolism: Words, Images, and Sounds of a Nuclear World

Last week, I attended the “Hiroshima – Nagasaki – Fukushima – Articulations of the Nuclear. The Case of Japan” Conference at the University of Cologne. It was a fabulous conference and I will do a further post about it. In this post I will say a bit about my presentation. It is planned that a…

“The Dead Zone” – Mixed Memories, Premonitions, and Horror

As noted in my post Splitting Atomic Symbolism: Differing Words, Images, and Sounds of a Nuclear World, I am due to give a paper related to symbolism of nuclear weapons (primarily) at a conference in May 2022. This paper fits with my on-going research on symbolism and Visual Packaging Culture, and also builds on the…

“Protect and Survive” and Nuclear Imagery

As noted in my post Splitting Atomic Symbolism: Differing Words, Images, and Sounds of a Nuclear World, I am due to give a paper related to symbolism of nuclear weapons (primarily) at a conference in May 2022. This paper fits with my on-going research on symbolism and Visual Packaging Culture, and also builds on the…

Nuclear Imagery and Looking for Movies and TV Programmes

As part of my research on Visual Packaging Culture and also for a conference paper (see Splitting Atomic Symbolism: Differing Words, Images, and Sounds of a Nuclear World), and building on my previous work on disaster movies (see, for example, Disaster Narratives by Design: Is Japan Different?) I am watching a number of movies and…

Reflections on Ukraine – My Visit in 1998 (4)

With everything that is going on with the dreadful, reprehensible war on Ukraine at the moment, I have spent much time over the past couple of weeks reflecting upon a visit that I made to Ukraine in 1998. I thought that I would now put this into a series of blog posts. Click here for…

Splitting Atomic Symbolism: Differing Words, Images, and Sounds of a Nuclear World

All being well, in May (2022), I will be giving a paper on “Splitting Atomic Symbolism: Differing Words, Images, and Sounds of a Nuclear World” at the “Hiroshima – Nagasaki – Fukushima – Articulations of the Nuclear. The Case of Japan” Conference at the University of Cologne. While the concern back in 2021, when I…

“Special Bulletin” – A Special TV Movie that Needs a Remake

As well as re-watching Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (as I discussed in “Anyway we delivered the bomb” – Telling the Story of the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis), I have also re-watched another TV movie, “Special Bulletin” recently. I have already done one post about “Special Bulletin“, so won’t…

Hiroshima: 75 Years Later

Originally posted on Lauren Constance:
(Image from https://www.discoveryplus.co.uk/show/hiroshima-75-years-later) I find I write best in the mornings, but by about 3 or 4 o’clock in the afternoon, I hit a wall and I know that I’ve reached my limit of computer-work. Instead of finishing up for the day, I decided to watch a documentary that I’ve…

Book Review: “The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections” edited by David Lowe, Cassandra Atherton, and Alyson Miller

As I have written about before (see for example, In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud: 75 years since the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Book Review: “The World Set Free” by HG Wells, Mushroom Cloud Art, and Book Review: Hiroshima-75 edited by Aya Fujiwara and David R. Marples), I have had an interest…

Troubling Anniversaries – An Excellent Online Conference

On 21 and 22 October I attended an online conference on the theme of ‘Troubling Anniversaries’. The conference was organised through a partnership between the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) within the School of Advanced Study in the University of London and Centre for Public History,(Opens in new window) The online conference explored the uses of…