Preface: Dr. Strangelove's America: or How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Live with the Bomb -- Pt. 1. Knowing Sin: The Vertiginous End to American Innocence. Ch. 1. Top of the World: The Corrupting Contours of the Cold War. Ch. 2. Vertigo: The Unhinged Moral Universe of Cold War America -- Pt. 2. Psycho: The Emergence of a Schizoid America in the Age of Anxiety. Ch. 3. Duck and Cover: Civil Defense and Existential Anxiety in America. Ch. 4. The Snake Pit: America as an Asylum. Ch. 5. Wild Ones: Youths in Revolt against Adult America -- Pt. 3. Is God Dead? An American Awakening on the Eve of Destruction. Ch. 6. Time Enough at Last? The Bomb Shelter Craze and the Dawn of America's Moral Awakening. Ch. 7. Laughter and a New Myth of Life: Attacking the Menace of the American System. Ch. 8. Judgment Day: Dr. Strangelove's Cultural Revolution. Ch. 9. Godless Violence and Transcendent Hope: The American Nightmare Exposed and Contained
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