Project
Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and Hiroshima
Division of Research Programs
Photo caption
The mushroom cloud of Fat Man (Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945).
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Photo caption
The mushroom cloud of Fat Man (Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945).
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Historian Ran Zwigenberg's book Nuclear Minds is about how psychologists understood the atomic bomb's effects on the human psyche before the recognition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).