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How to Live With Atom. The following is a cartoon which was printed on August 3, 1947—three days before the second anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima—in a special section of The Washington Post devoted to the questions posed by nuclear weapons. Though the United States would maintain a nuclear monopoly for two more years, the concerns about nuclear strategy, proliferation, secrecy, and international regulation were present in pretty much the same forms that they would remain throughout the length of the Cold War. As a cultural artifact, I find this to be a wonderful expression of the hopes and fears of many U.S. intellectuals in the period between the end of World War II and the Soviet Union's detonation of their first atomic bomb in August 1949. |
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