Citation

Brede K. Ind. Crisis Q. 1990; 4(3): 233-241.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Industrial Crisis Institute - Bucknell University)

DOI

10.1177/108602669000400306

PMID

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Abstract

Brede, K., 1990. After Chernobyl: the relation of anxiety to technology in West Germany. Indus trial Crisis Quarterly, 4: 233-241. For many Germans the accident at the Chernobyl power station posed the psychological problem of dealing with anxiety. The author argues that anxiety is a rational response to the invisible dangers of atomic technology. Its ration ality can be specified by Sigmund Freud's explanation of the uncanny and Gunther Anders' call for a measure of anxiety that adequately meets the nuclear threat.