The Theater of Operations Quotes

“continue to structure contemporary American perceptions of postnuclear ruins, constituting a kind of ur-text for the nuclear age.”
― Joseph Masco, The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror

“The civil defense program thus shifted responsibility for nuclear war from the state to its citizens by making the enemy public panic, not nuclear war itself.”
― Joseph Masco, The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror

“The formal goal of this state program was to transform “nuclear terror,” which was interpreted by U.S. officials as a paralyzing emotion, into “nuclear fear,” an affective state that would allow citizens to function in a time of crisis”
― Joseph Masco, The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror