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Late Cold War Literature and Culture, DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51308-3 204 APPENDIX: TIMELINE APPENDIX:TIMELINE This timeline does not include every nuclear text of the long 1980s, but it might help in situating those that particularly informed this study. As novels and short stories are the main focus of this book, they feature most frequently, but a little drama, poetry and non-fiction prose is also included as the reader may appreciate being able to locate this. How these texts are nuclear varies tremendously. Some are explicitly and directly so, but in others there are just passing nuclear moments or a broadly apocalyptic dimension resonating with the nuclear consciousness of the period. A final qualification is that the distinction between British and US writers is not always straightforward. For instance, Russell Hoban, who spent marginally less of his life in Britain than in the United States, has been classified as British because Riddley Walker was written in Britain and is deeply imbued with the landscape and cultural topography of Kent, but Pamela Service, whose Winter of Magic’s Return is similarly infused with British geography and mythology (of Wales, the West Country and King Arthur), is classified as American because her time in Britain (three years studying archaeology) was more limited. It will be noticed that there are many more US than British texts listed (seventy-three to twenty-four), but this reflects the relative sizes of the countries’ populations (approximately 226 million to 56 million in 1980). © The Author(s) 2017 203 D. Cordle, Late Cold War Literature and Culture, DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51308-3 204 APPENDIX: TIMELINE BEFORE 1980 British Literature David Graham, Down to a Sunless Sea (1979); John Hackett et al, The Third World War: August 1985 (1978; rev. ed. published in 1982 as The Third World War: The Untold Story) US Literature Stephen King, The Stand (1978; rev. ed. published 1990); Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake (1978); Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) Cold War and Other Contexts Clamshell Alliance begins protests against Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, New Hampshire (1976); Abalone Alliance begins protests against Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, California (1977); NATO decision to deploy cruise and Pershing II missiles in Europe (1979); Three Mile Island acci- dent (1979); Conservative Party victory in British General Election— Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister (1979); Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) II signed (but withdrawn from Senate approval after Soviet invasion of Afghanistan); Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979) 1980 British Literature Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker US Literature Michael Swanwick, “The Feast of Saint Janis” Cold War and Other Contexts Ronald Reagan elected US President; European Nuclear Disarmament (END) Appeal; Solidarity (trade union) formed in Poland, initiating a series of crises throughout the 1980s; US-led boycott of Moscow Olympics; Existence of Chevaline programme to update Polaris revealed APPENDIX: TIMELINE 205 to Parliament; British government signs agreement with US to update Polaris to Trident 1981 British Literature Bernard Benson, The Peace Book; Yorick Blumenfeld, Jenny: My Diary US Literature Carol Amen, “The Last Testament”;ArnoldMadison,It Can’t Happen to Me Cold War and Other Contexts Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp established; Livermore Action Group begins protests against Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Reagan orders production of neutron warheads for US missiles. 1982 British Literature Raymond Briggs, When the Wind Blows; Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ US Literature Judy Blume, Tiger Eyes; Dudley Bromley, Final Warning; Gerald Jampolskyet al (eds), Children as Teachers of Peace; Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace; Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth; Peace Pilgrim, Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words; Alice Walker, “Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do” Cold War and Other Contexts “Embrace the Base” action, Greenham Common; TTAPS paper propos- ing “nuclear winter” theory; Falklands War; Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, dies—replaced by Yuri Andropov 206 APPENDIX: TIMELINE 1983 British Literature Maggie Gee, The Burning Book; Barbara Goodwin, The K/V Papers US Literature Octavia Butler, “Speech Sounds”; William Prochnau, Trinity’s Child Cold War and Other Contexts Cruise missiles arrive at Greenham Common; Seneca Women’s Peace Camp established; Ronald Reagan announces Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)— aka Star Wars; United States invasion of Grenada; South Korean airliner, KAL 007 shot down when it enters Soviet airspace; Conservative Party victory in British General Election—Margaret Thatcher remains Prime Minister; Able Archer exercise suspected to be cover for NATO attack by Soviet Union 1984 British Literature J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun; Brian Bethell, The Defence Diaries of W. Morgan Petty; Robert Swindells, Brother in the Land; Sue Townsend, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole US Literature Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October; Don DeLillo, White Noise; James D. Forman, Doomsday Plus Twelve; Annabel and Edgar Johnson, The Danger Quotient; Arthur Kopit, End of the World; Jane Langton, The Fragile Flag; Clint McCown, “Survivalists”; David R. Palmer, Emergence; Jayne Anne Phillips, Machine Dreams; Kim Stanley Robinson, The Wild Shore; Jonathan Schell, “The Abolition”; Lucius Shepard, “Salvador”; Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, Warday and the Journey Onward; James Thackara, America’s Children; John Witte (ed.), Warnings: An Anthology on the Nuclear Peril APPENDIX: TIMELINE 207 Cold War and Other Contexts Miners’ strike starts in UK; Ronald Reagan wins second term in office; Yuri Andropov, Soviet leader, dies—replaced by Konstantin Chernenko; Soviet-led boycott of Los Angeles Olympics 1985 British Literature Martin Booth, Hiroshima Joe; Louise Lawrence, Children of the Dust US Literature Greg Bear, Blood Music; David Brin, The Postman;PaulCook,Duende Meadow; Orson Scott Card, Ender’sGame; William Gaddis, Carpenter’sGothic; John Hersey, Hiroshima (update of 1946 edition, with extra chapter); Denis Johnson, Fiskadoro; Ursula Le Guin, Always Coming Home;CormacMcCarthy,Blood Meridian; Gloria Miklowitz, After the Bomb;WalterM.Miller,Jr.andMartinGreenberg(eds), Beyond Armageddon; Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Dark of the Tunnel; Tim O’Brien, The Nuclear Age;GracePaley,Later the Same Day; Whitley Strieber, Wolf of Shadows; Pamela F. Service, Winter of Magic’sReturn; Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos; Susan B. Weston, Children of the Light Cold War and Other Contexts “Ribbon Around the Pentagon” action, Washington DC (Aug); Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader, dies—replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev; Geneva Summit between Reagan and Gorbachev 1986 British Literature Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, Watchmen (continues into 1987); Jonathan Raban, Coasting 208 APPENDIX: TIMELINE US Literature Orson Scott Card, “Salvage”; Tom Clancy, Red Storm Rising; Lynn Hall, If Winter Comes; Stephen King, “The End of the Whole Mess”; Gary Paulson, Sentries; Martin Cruz Smith, Stallion Gate; Julian F. Thompson, A Band of Angels; Stephanie S. Tolan, Pride of the Peacock; Judith Vigna, Nobody Wants a Nuclear War Cold War and Other Contexts Chernobyl nuclear power station accident, Ukraine; first MX (aka Peacekeeper) missiles deployed at Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming; Reykjavik Summit between Reagan and Gorbachev 1987 British Literature Martin Amis, Einstein’s Monsters; Ian McEwan, The Child in Time US Literature Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things; Octavia E. Butler, Dawn; Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song; Frederik Pohl, Chernobyl: A Novel; Barbara and Scott Siegal, The Burning Land Cold War and Other Contexts Thatcher visits Moscow; Gorbachev visits London and Washington; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed by Reagan and Gorbachev 1988 British Literature J.G. Ballard, “The Secret History of World War 3”; Maggie Gee, Grace APPENDIX: TIMELINE 209 US Literature Neal Barratt, Jr., “Ginny Sweethips’ Flying Circus”; William Brinkley, The Last Ship; Richard Powers, Prisoner’s Dilemma; Sherri S. Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country Cold War and Other Contexts Reagan visits Moscow; George Bush elected US President 1989 British Literature Martin Amis, London Fields; Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters; Taggart Deike et al, Plays for the Nuclear Age; Sue Townsend, The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lillian Townsend US Literature John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany Cold War and Other Contexts Revolts in Eastern Europe and fall of the Berlin Wall; Gorbachev and Bush meet in Malta; FBI raid on Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, exposing safety concerns; Tiananmen Square Massacre 1990 AND AFTERWARDS British Literature P.D. James, The Children of Men (1992); Jonathan Coe, What a Carve Up! (1994) US Literature John Bradley (ed.), Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age (1995); Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears (1991); Nancy Kress, 210 APPENDIX: TIMELINE “Inertia” (1990); Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing (1994); Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (1990); Rebecca Solnit, Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West (1994); Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (1991); M.K. Wren, A Gift Upon the Shore (1990) Cold War and Other Contexts Reunification of Germany (1990); Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) signed by Soviet Union and US (1991); First Gulf War (1990–91) BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, John Joseph, ed. 2008. Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. San Francisco: Night Shade. Adams,
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