In this series we'll break down the greatest films of the Cold War and see each phase of a conflict through the lens of the movies. The first episode is "escalation." What do films have to say about the period leading up to the war? What lessons can be learned about the fears of the public and the intentions of the filmmakers? This is episode 1 of a four part series.

Friends. I’m not going to arrange this bibliography for you correctly. It’s a mishmash of Chicago formatting. But I hope it helps. —DJ

Dee Garrison, Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). 

Duncan Campbell, War Plan UK, (London: Paladin Books, Granada Publishing, 1982)

Edmund Morris, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, (New York: Modern Library, 1999)

Paul Boyer, By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (New York: Pantheon, 1985)

Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)

Allan M. Winkler, Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety About the Atom (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999

Paul Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984 (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1987)

Toni A. Perrine, Film and the Nuclear Age: Representing Cultural Anxiety, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998)

Tracy C. Davis, Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense, (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007)

Will Bunch, Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future, (New York: Free Press, a Division of Simon and Schuster, Inc., 2009)

William J Palmer. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History. Southern Illinois University Press: Carbondale, Illinois. 1995.

William Prochnau. Trinity’s Child. Putnam Publishing Group. 1983