The politics of the nuclear text: Reading Robert Oppenheimer'sletters and recollections

Must we all be rhetorical theorists?: An anti‐democratic inquiry

“…44 Perhaps it is unfair to look only at materials published half a decade after Hart's alarm; perhaps he was heeded, and we have reformed ourselves. However, an again partial and cursory survey of essays published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech in the period immediately antecedent to Hart's editorial casts doubt on this hypothesis.…”

Nuclear weapons and communication studies: A review essay

“…Alternately, another group of studies has drawn on post-structuralist theories of deconstruction and intertextuality as well as Bakhtinian theories of dialogism to emphasize the constitutive and relational properties of linguistic and iconic "utterances" (Benson & Anderson, 1990;Mehan, Nathanson, & Skelly, 1990;Mechling & Mechling, 1995;Taylor, 1992Taylor, , 1996Taylor, , 1997bTaylor, , 1997dWertsch, 1987;Williams, 1988) In this model, culture is a "noisy" site, "aswarm" with the multiple and conflicting voices of nuclear interests. A partial list of these interests includes pacifists, environmentalists, scientists, arms-control negotiators, federal regulators, military officials and veterans, industrialcontractors, legislators, artists and entertainers, historians, feminists, and the community residents surrounding production and testing facilities.…”

Reassessing Truman, the bomb, and revisionism: The burlesque frame and entelechy in the decision to use atomic weapons against Japan

“…11 The works of Bjork (1988Bjork ( , 1992, Schiappa (1989), Mechling and Mechling (1991, Williams (1988), and Taylor (1990Taylor ( , 1992Taylor ( , 1993aTaylor ( , 1993bTaylor ( , 1995Taylor ( , 1996 offer several options for critics seeking to engage politically-cogent nuclear issues. Bjork's work, like that of other scholars interested in Reagan's rhetoric (Goodnight, 1986;Ivie, 1984;Rushing, 1986;Zagacki & King, 1989), focuses on specific rhetorical appeals used to obfuscate and manipulate a national symbolic reality to further a nuclear agenda.…”