Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Chapter 1. Secularizing the Apocalypse 1
5. Chapter 2. Race, Technology, and the Apocalypse 19
6. Chapter 3. Postnuclear Fantasies 55
7. Chapter 4. Spaceship Earth 88
8. Chapter 5. The Politics of Science and Religion 114
9. Chapter 6. Postapocalyptic American Identity 142
10. Chapter 7. Post-9/ 11 Despair 167
11. Notes 195
12. Selected Bibliography 237
13. Index 257
14. Acknowledgments 265