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This essay will explore the figure of the double agent as it tests notions of citizenship mid-century, specifically the clash or fusion of internationalist/nationalist definitions of citizen loyalty in the construction of the traitor 'revolutionary' citizen. It will be look at Kaminsky in Rebecca West's 1966 historical novel The Birds Fall Down as a late rewriting of the double agent, which West had theorized through her analyses of William Joyce ('Lord Haw-Haw')'s wartime propaganda and Stephen Ward in the Profumo Affair of the early 1960s. West's thinking draws on Hannah Arendt's writings on the double agent in Origins of Totalitarianism. The essay will explore both the political Cold War contexts that motivated West's return to Tsarist Russia and the double agent, and the feminist light cast on treacherous intelligence operations as forms of patriarchal control over women's bodies and minds. West is shown to be revising the double agent trope of spy fiction, reimagining the mole traitor as totalitarian fanatic revealing the extremes of hostile patriarchy and of male political desire.

This article considers Nabokov's Lolita as an allegory of the Cold War's obsession with uranium, correlating the uranium rush of the 1950s with the choice of some of the key locations in the book. The incursion into United States space by the foreign agent and corrupter of youth Humbert Humbert is read through the lens of Cold War anxieties about radiation, missile attack through the DEW Line and a "mapping" of America by subversive aliens. Lolita herself is the Uranium Girl, radiant child of nuclear America under threat from the death ray of the bomb's fallout.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Long Cold War -- I Pattern Recognition -- 1 The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know -- 2 Simulate, Optimise, Partition: Algorithmic Diagrams of Pattern Recognition from 1953 Onwards -- 3 Impulsive Synchronisation: A Conversation on Military Technologies and Audiovisual Arts -- II The Persistence of the Nuclear -- 4 The Meaning of Monte Bello -- 5 Deep Geological Disposal and Radioactive Time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo -- 6 Shifting the Nuclear Imaginary: Art and the Flight from Nuclear Modernity -- 7 Alchemical Transformations? Fictions of the Nuclear State after 1989 -- III Ubiquitous Surveillance -- 8 'The Very Form of Perverse Artificial Societies': The Unstable Emergence of the Network Family from its Cold War Nuclear Bunker -- 9 The Signal-Haunted Cold War: Persistence of the SIGINT Ontology -- 10 'Bulk Surveillance', or The Elegant Technicities of Metadata -- IV Pervasive Mediations -- 11 Notes from the Underground: Microwaves, Backbones, Party Lines and the Post Office Tower -- 12 Insect Technics: War Vision Machines -- 13 Overt Research -- 14 Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems -- Index