ABSTRACT
In examining how the nexus between globality, technology and protoenvironmentalism emerged as a distinctive feature in nuclear realist thinking, this chapter draws on, and contributes to, recent research into the rise of the global, the current interest in post-war technology critique, as well as studies on the sources of modern environmentalism. By exploring the connection between the minute and apparently trivial, from the role of sliced bread and the daily deceptions of mass media, to the global condition created by the thermonuclear revolution, the chapter offers a deeper understanding of the kind of holistic thinking propagated by nuclear realists. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that the nuclear age was central in the development of modern environmentalism. Resource depletion, population growth and food provision were particularly salient themes, but Russell was also preoccupied with the dangers of fallout, and Herz eventually proposed the development of a specific field of survival research in which 'deep ecology' was prominent.
