“Anyone who wants to understand why millions of Americans yearn not only for the illusory security of nostalgia but for the transformation of the whole country into a virtual bunker against difference should read David Pike's captivating account.” Life under Threat of Nuclear DestructionĪlthough the Cold War ended more than 30 years ago, its legacy still looms large in American anxieties around security, borders, and all manners of imminent apocalypse, says Pike. “This is not just a beautifully written book about Cold War culture, but an intensely relevant meditation on the gendered and racialized anxieties about health and the state that continue to ease the migration of the extreme right into mainstream politics and fuel the survivalist 'prepper' movement today,” says Max Paul Friedman, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. ![]() Pike in his latest book, Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades, which will be published on March 3rd by Oxford University Press, and is already available online to members of the AU community through the AU library website. These decades are explored by award-winning author Professor David L. The Cold War during the 1960s and 1980s affected the nation in every way, from politics and policy to art and culture. For much of the decade (and later, during the 1980s), the nation became obsessed with the threat of the nuclear arms race - and with surviving a nuclear attack. In schools, teachers conducted emergency drills and taught children to “duck and cover.” Citizens were advised to stockpile food, water, and medical supplies. ![]() Kennedy told the American people, "A fallout shelter for everybody, as rapidly as possible."įamilies started building shelters in their basements and backyards. In 1961, after the Russian government ended a three-year moratorium on nuclear testing with a blast over central Russia, President John F.
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