{"product_id":"9781474475730","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Nuclear Fictions : Violence and the Narration of the Anglosphere by Michael Gardiner","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 31\/07\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 opportunity to fully naturalise deterrence, but also brought a tacit acceptance of nuclear violence while forms of violence against the individual were rigorously sought out. If the world-unifying role of deterrence has always been undermined by the rise of rival empires, it has also been questioned by critical communities including the consensus-sceptics of the 1950s-60s, 1980s-90s Nuclear Criticism and readers of `nuclearism', millennial campaigns for Scottish independence, and twenty-first century descriptions of nuclear colonialism. Recently it has become more obvious that an Anglosphere concept of `worldly' deterrence was bound to a singular and ultimately nihilistic idea of progress.[bio]Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420584915317,"sku":"9781474475730","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781474475730.jpg?v=1764611226","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781474475730","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}