“Go Fuck Yourself with Your Atom Bomb”: Nuclear Critique and Nuclear Intimacy in Allen Ginsberg’s<i>Howl and Other Poems</i>

In the original draft facsimile edition of Howl , Allen Ginsberg describes his famous poem as “an emotional time bomb that would continue exploding in US consciousness” to eventually undermine “[the] military-industrial-nationalist complex” (xii). In the context of the nuclear arms race,