This event is part of the Rethinking the Cold War Lecture Series, a collaboration between the Cold War Studies Project at LSE IDEAS and the Cold War Cultures network at the University of Sheffield, two leading centres in the UK for the study of the Cold War.
Collective imaginations of nuclear warfare were a central battleground of the Cold War, fought through war-games and fictitious scenarios.
This panel debate explored the 'imaginary war' and how culture and individuals struggled to comprehend nuclear war, from imagining the destruction to ways in which activist localised the conflict to an understandable scale.
Speakers:
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Ann Sherif, Professor of Japanese, Oberlin College
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Matthew Grant, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Essex - @mgrnt
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Benjamin Ziemann, Professor of Modern German History, University of Sheffield
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Chair: Piers Ludlow, Project Head of the Cold War Studies Project and an Associate Professor in the LSE Department of International History.