Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds

Ranging across fiction and poetry, critical theory and film, comics and speeches, Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear Warexplores how writers, thinkers, and filmmakers have tackled the question: Are nuclear weapons white? Paul Williams addresses myriad representations of nuclear weapons: the Manhattan Project, the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear tests across the globe, and the anxiety surrounding the superpowers' devastating arsenals. Ultimately, Williams concludes that many texts act as a reminder that the power enjoyed by the white Western world imperils the whole planet.

Daniel Cordle, author of States of Suspense: The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and, United States Fiction and Prose (Manchester University Press, 2008) Paul Williams is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, and the author, of Paul Gilroy (Routledge, forthcoming 2013) and co-editor (with J. T. Lyons) of The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts (University Press of Mississippi, 2010)