| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1 | The History Cooperative

*Atomic Culture: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb*. Edited by Scott C. Zeman and Michael A. Amundson. (Boulder, University Press of Colorado, 2005. x + 187 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $55.00, cloth; $22.95, paper.)
Atomic Culture, a collection of essays edited by Scott Zeman and Michael Amundson, presents innovative studies on the influences of the atom upon American culture and covers four distinctive periods of atomic culture as defined by the editors. They label their periods as Early Atomic Culture (1945–49), High Atomic Culture (1949–63), Late Atomic Culture (1964–91) and Post Atomic Culture (1992–present). While an artificial construction, the periodization created by Zeman and Amundson serves a useful purpose in permitting interesting comparisons and contrasts.	1
Ferenc Szasz's essay on atomic comics traced the proliferation of nuclear themed comic books over the course of five decades. He demonstrates the abilities of the comic industry to shape the understanding of the atom. Jon Hunner's essay examines the means by which Los Alamos contributed to the transfer between Early and High Atomic Culture through "code-switching" and holds that Los Alamos served as the test bed for trends that dominated social life in Cold War America.	. . .

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