Nuclear Fictions: Violence and the Narration of the Anglosphere

In this book, Michael Gardiner suggests that the conception of the ‘war—ending’ weapon was tied up with a longer commitment to unified space and singular progress. The mission for total weapons can be seen rising with the highly—technical defensive war of the later nineteenth century, and passing through twentieth century atomic research, then the targeting of the outsides of commercial empire, and the post—war consensus with deterrence as its foundation. The end of the Cold War brought an ...