Thursday, June 19, 2003
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Cover story sidebar: Nuclear culture

Some books about the bomb:

Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing by Richard L. Miller (new, April 2003)

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Downwinders : An Atomic Tale by Curtis Oberhansly and Dianne Nelson Oberhansly

Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic Testing and American Politics by A. Costandina Titus

American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War by Carole Gallagher

Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America by Tom Vanderbilt

One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture by Kenneth D. Rose

Day of Two Suns: U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders by Jane Dibblin

The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome

Videos, documentaries and feature films (not including the government's atomic-propaganda films):

Them! (1954)

The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)

Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1964)

Fail-Safe (1964)

The Day After Trinity (1981)

Atomic Café (1982)

The Day After (1983)

Silkwood (1983)

War Games (1983)

Testament (1984)

The Manhattan Project (1986)

Desert Bloom (1986)

Fat Man & Little Boy (1989)

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995)

Crimson Tide (1995)

The Atomic Filmmakers: Behind the Scenes (1998)

K-19 the Widowmaker (2002)

The Sum of All Fears (2002)

The Hulk (2003)