Event Title
The Search for Humanity in the Birth of the Nuclear Age
Location
Davis 307
Start Date
30-4-2015 2:30 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 3:55 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
With the growing development of nuclear power and nuclear arms in the early days of the Cold War, people around the world struggled to unravel the complexities of the nuclear question. As with previously developed technologies, humanity sought to discover the full potential of nuclear fission. Many perceived nuclear energy as the guarantor of World War III and Mutually Assured Destruction. Others saw its potential value to transform the world of energy and its subsequent uses in the domestic sphere. Still others understood nuclear power as the only path towards world supremacy. In the manga and anime of Astro Boy, the audience is able to conceptualize the influence the nuclear question in early 1950s society as well as understand the creator's, Osamu Tezuka, vision for humanity's relationship with nuclear energy.
Faculty Sponsor
Tamae Prindle
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. East Asian Studies Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Humanities
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
948
The Search for Humanity in the Birth of the Nuclear Age
Davis 307
With the growing development of nuclear power and nuclear arms in the early days of the Cold War, people around the world struggled to unravel the complexities of the nuclear question. As with previously developed technologies, humanity sought to discover the full potential of nuclear fission. Many perceived nuclear energy as the guarantor of World War III and Mutually Assured Destruction. Others saw its potential value to transform the world of energy and its subsequent uses in the domestic sphere. Still others understood nuclear power as the only path towards world supremacy. In the manga and anime of Astro Boy, the audience is able to conceptualize the influence the nuclear question in early 1950s society as well as understand the creator's, Osamu Tezuka, vision for humanity's relationship with nuclear energy.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/241