Waves and Radiation: Television Sets and the Fear of Biological Harm in the Cold War.
This article explores how anxiety about the possible radioactivity of media devices became a part of American life in the atomic age. The initial impetus came in the late 1960s, when a panic erupted over the possibility that as many as five percent of American color television sets were emitting haz...
| Published in: | Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 535 - 556 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2025
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