From Newspeak to Cyberspeak by Slava Gerovitch

14 Robert Bud and Philip Gummett, “Introduction : Don’t You Know, There’s a War on ?,” in Idem, eds., (.)ģ This state of “organized peacelessness” 8 increasingly came to shape research and development.13 Hugh Gusterson, Nuclear Rites : A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War (Berkeley : Univers (.).12 Boris E. Tschertok, Raketen und Menschen, vol. 1 (Klitzschen : Elbe‑Dnjepr‑Verlag, 1998), 15 and 34 (.).10 Matthew W. Dunne, A Cold War State of Mind : Brainwashing and Postwar American Society (Amherst : U (.).9 Aaron Dennis : “Our First Line of Defense : Two University Laboratories in the Postwar American Sta (.).8 Dieter Senghaas, Abschreckung und Frieden : Studien zur Kritik organisierter Friedlosigkeit (Frankf (.).4 The philosopher Günter Anders, who wrote about the immorality of atomic weapons, believed that a time was coming “in which at any given moment we have the power to transform any given place on our planet, and even our planet itself, into a Hiroshima.” 5 The speculative anticipation of an atomic inferno created an atmosphere in which neither disarmament nor demobilization was possible and the “self‑sustained conflict” 6 of the Cold War became a “radical age.” 7 3 The advent of the Atomic Age is commonly dated to 1938, when Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner succeeded in splitting the uranium atom, or to 1945, when the first atomic bomb was detonated and nuclear physics’ age of innocence came to a sudden end. 7 Bernd Stöver, Der Kalte Krieg, 1947–1991 : Geschichte eines radikalen Zeitalters (München : C.H. Be (.)Ģ The Atomic Age is a popular concept in the periodization of the 20 th century.6 Jost Dülffer, “Self‑sustained Conflict – Systemerhaltung und Friedensmöglichkeiten im Ost‑West‑Konf (.).5 Günther Anders, “Commandments in the Atomic Age,” in Idem, Burning Conscience (New York : Mo (.).4 Roger H. Stuewer, The Age of Innocence : Nuclear Physics Between the First and Second World Wars (O (.).

3 See, for instance, Michael Salewski, ed., Das nukleare Jahrhundert : Eine Zwischenbilanz (Stuttgart (.).

From Newspeak to Cyberspeak by Slava Gerovitch