Nuclear Weapons and Popular Culture: Contemporary Representations of The Bomb

核武器往往被视为冷战时期的历史产物。英国公众很少考虑英国不断扩大的核武库。流行文化是英国公民必须接触到这些大规模杀伤性武器意味着什么的唯一空间：在这里，核战争的规范变得有意义，核战争的可能性可以在日常空间中正常形成。该项目批判性地接触到当代流行的文化艺术品--电影、电视、视频游戏--以了解这对全球安全意味着什么。多模态批评话语分析揭示了当今核武器的主要流行文化表现。通过在线评论情绪分析，可以深入了解英国公民如何通过接触这些文物来理解核武器。综上所述，这使得能够对公众对核武器的理解与其对政治地理和国际关系的影响之间的差距进行深思熟虑和系统的探索。关键是，这超越了过时的冷战知识，着眼于理解此时此地--因为核武器从未构成过更大的威胁。重要的是，该项目引导(一)生产和(二)接受流行文化中的核武器。通过这样做，它将揭露在对核武器和战争的描绘和理解方面存在多重和有争议的叙述，询问如何更好地应对核武器的威胁。

Nuclear weapons are too often seen as a bygone artefact of the Cold War. Britain's expanding nuclear arsenal is rarely considered by British public. Popular culture is theonly space that British citizens have to engage with what these weapons of mass destruction mean: it is the site where norms of nuclear warfare become meaningful and the possibility of nuclear war can form itself as normal in everyday spaces. This project engages critically with contemporary popular cultural artefacts - film, TV, videogames - to understand what this means for global security. Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis reveals the dominant popular cultural representations of nuclear weapons today. Online Comment Sentiment Based Analysis allows insight into how British citizens understand nuclear weapons through engagement with these artefacts. Together, this allows for thoughtful andsystematic exploration of the gap between public understanding of nuclear weapons and their implications for political geography and international relations. Critically, this moves beyond outdated Cold War knowledges and looks to understand the here and now - since nuclear weapons have never posed more of a threat. Importantly, this project navigates the (i) production and (ii) reception of nuclear weapons in popular culture. In doing so, it will expose narratives that are multiple and contested in the portrayal and understanding of nuclear weaponry and warfare, asking how to better engage with the threat of nuclear weapons.