Readings for today:
- Ferenc M. Szasz and Issei Takechi, "Atomic Heroes and Atomic Monsters: American and Japanese Cartoonists Confront the Onset of the Nuclear Age, 1945–80," The Historian, Volume 69, Issue 4 (2007): 728–752.
- Abby J. Kinchy, "African Americans in the Atomic Age: Postwar Perspectives on Race and the Bomb, 1945–1967," Technology and Culture, Volume 50, Number 2, April 2009, pp. 291-315.
- Nuke Pop
- In-class screening: Atomic Cafe
- Raymond Williams, "The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament."
- Harvey Wasserman interviewed on Democracy Now!, February 18, 2010.
- Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation (1982).
- Nick Turse, "6 Terrifying New Weapons Being Created by the Pentagon," Tomdispatch.com, January 31, 2011.
- Robotic surveillance 'bats' developed with U.S. Army funding.
- William K. Storey, "Guns, Race, and Skill in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa," Technology and Culture, Vol. 45, October 2004, pp. 687-711.
- Johan Höglund, "Electronic Empire: Orientalism Revisited in the Military Shooter," Game Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1, September 2008.
- AK-47 documentary (from Al-Jazeera)
- The Bomb Project.
