1. National Security and National Morale. The Berlin Crisis: The Soviet Threat and Nuclear Strategy. The Soviet Atomic Bomb: Nuclear Strategy and National Will. National Security and the Problem of National Will. Civil Defense and National Will -- 2. Managing Nuclear Terror. National Will and Nuclear Terror. The Problem of Panic. The Cold War System of Emotion Management. The Social Psychology of Emotion Management: American Society in World War III -- 3. The Cold War Conception of Nuclear Reality. The Construction of Nuclear Reality. Crisis Mastery. Operation Alert. Operation Alert: The Movie -- 4. The Nuclear Family. The American Family Under Nuclear Attack. Civil Defense and the Regimentation of Family Life. Radioactive Fallout and Nuclear Housekeeping. The Cold War Ethic -- 5. The Antinomies of Cold War Culture. The Dilemma of Emotion Management. The Paradoxes of Nuclear Crisis Management -- Epilogue: Liberal Propaganda and the Exigencies of National Security
Analysis
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-187) and index
