1. Dr. Seuss, The Butter Battle Book (New York: Random House, 1984), 34. Matthew Evangelista uses another section of the Butter Battle in Innovation and the Arms Race: How the United States and the Soviet Union Develop New Military Technologies (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988), 86, 155.
2. Vincent Canby, “Screen: Andy Warhol’s ‘Blue Movie,’” New York Times, July 22, 1969.
3. Benjamin Andrews Snyder, “Vitality in Crisis: Rethinking the Atomic Legacy in Postwar US Art” (PhD diss., University of California San Diego, 2016), 135. On the Cold War politics of Blue Movie, including its discussion of tactical nuclear weapons, see pages 135–41.
4. Canby, “Screen” (ref. 2).
5. John P. Rose, The Evolution of US Army Nuclear Doctrine, 1945–1980 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1980), 57.