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Birth of the Atomic Desert
(2003)Although often associated with blankness and vacancy, the desert West has been among the most heavily represented of postwar American landscapes. Along the way, it has accumulated a thick and complex layering of associations. While previously pictured as a pristine wilderness or rugged national frontier, in the 1940s and 1950s, mass media images of atomic tests coded the American desert West as a technological and apocalyptic space. In ...Master Thesis