By Dick van Lente
Among the numerous technical strategies that have been brought after international warfare II, none left as robust an influence at the public because the atom bombs that destroyed eastern towns in August 1945. humans observed the 'atomic age' that had now began, as though this technological innovation may, all on its own, form a brand new global. The atomic age used to be defined as one who may well quickly lead to the destruction of human civilization, yet from the start, utopian photographs have been connected to it in addition. Nuclear expertise provided the promise of purposes in medication, agriculture, and engineering, and nuclear strength may well theoretically offer an enormous offer of power. This publication demonstrates and makes an attempt to give an explanation for how the preferred media represented nuclear energy, in its army and non-military kinds. It specializes in the 1st twenty years of the 'atomic age,' whilst nationwide governments, army strategists, scientists, and the general public tried to return to phrases with a expertise that so greatly appeared to switch the customers for the longer term. well known magazines, comics, newspapers, public exhibitions from internationally are tested to match representations of nuclear energy in several international locations and to track divergences, convergences, and exchanges.
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Recently translated into Russian, the book outlines future peaceful nuclear applications, such as reversing the direction of rivers and irrigating deserts, but then goes on to condemn American “atomic blackmail,” while portraying the Soviet Union as 28 SONJA D. 39 In the following four years, coverage of nuclear topics in Ogonyok drops to near zero again. 42 In 1953, there is no coverage of nuclear topics at all, and only one piece appears in 1954: “The Energy of Atomic Nuclei” is a general popular-scientific article written by a professor on the history of nuclear physics, and the discovery of nuclear fission, but it uses phrases such as “an ordinary uranium bomb” and “a nuclear boiler,” suggesting that atomic bombs are old news, and that nuclear power plants are basically a mastered technology.
42 In 1953, there is no coverage of nuclear topics at all, and only one piece appears in 1954: “The Energy of Atomic Nuclei” is a general popular-scientific article written by a professor on the history of nuclear physics, and the discovery of nuclear fission, but it uses phrases such as “an ordinary uranium bomb” and “a nuclear boiler,” suggesting that atomic bombs are old news, and that nuclear power plants are basically a mastered technology. ” The entire world now knows—but Ogonyok had not mentioned it before!
The central SH A PING T HE SOVIE T E XPERIENC E 23 news item was the construction of a future Communist society, and only events that could be related to this general theme were considered meaningful and worth reporting on. ” Also, setbacks along the way were either built into an “ongoing construction” narrative, or mentioned only once they had been successfully overcome. ” Soviet media were hierarchically structured, and followed a rigid system of plans. 21 My in-depth analysis of reporting on nuclear themes in Ogonyok between 1945 and 1965 suggests that during the initial period (immediately after the war, and until Stalin’s death), Ogonyok restricted itself to general interest articles that were broadly educational, occasionally polemical, and often humorous.