Contents: Introduction, Catherine Jolivette; ‘A kind of cold war feeling’ in British art, 1945-1952, Carol Jacobi; Geometries of hope and fear: the iconography of atomic science and nuclear anxiety in the modern sculpture of World War and Cold War Britain, Robert Burstow; ‘An imagined cataclysm becomes fact’: British photojournalism and real and imagined nuclear war in Picture Post, Christoph Laucht; Representations of atomic power at the Festival of Britain, Catherine Jolivette; The genius loci of Cold War Britain: the metamorphic landscapes of Graham Sutherland, Peter Lanyon and Alan Reynolds, Fiona Gaskin; Cold War at home: John Bratby, the self and the nuclear threat, Gregory Salter; Covert resistance: Prunella Clough’s Cold War ‘urbscapes’, Catherine Spencer; The aesthetics of scientific authority in a nuclear age: Jacob Bronowski and Feliks Topolski, Kate Aspinall; Painting the end: British artists and the nuclear apocalypse, 1945-1970, Simon Martin; Select bibliography; Index.