Laudatory Quotes    "This is an important and courageous work — a polemic that rails against the orthodoxies of the small but growing scholarship concerning nuclearism and popular culture. Shapiro has thrown down an intellectual gauntlet, with impressive interdisciplinary credentials, challenging readers to rethink ubiquitous assumptions about the Atomic Age."   Mick Broderick, author of Nuclear Movies       "This valuable cross-cultural study explores an array of well-known and, in some cases, undeservedly forgotten 'atomic bomb' films. Shapiro's perceptive, personal, and highly readable analyses of American and Japanese movies illuminate not only themes of nuclear menace but also many facets of the postwar cultural terrain.   This definitive study makes clear how deeply nuclear preoccupations penetrated the mass culture of the nation that developed and first used the bomb and the nation whose citizens first experienced the bomb in all its devestating power."   Paul Boyer, author of By the Bomb's Early Light       A controversially apolitical view of a loaded subject, this book meticulously places atomic bomb cinema firmly within our ancient apocalyptic tradition." Donald Richie, author of One Hundred Years of Japanese Film   © 2001 Atomic Bomb Cinema, Ltd