Posted on Aug 2, 2019
Agatha Christie, Christian Dior, and How I Learned to Love the Bomb
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"I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but shortly after I began teaching American history, I learned to love the bomb. More accurately, I learned to love teaching about the nuclear bomb. Maybe it was the day I suddenly realized that none of my students knew what USSR stood for (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!)—because they were all born after the Cold War. Maybe it was the day I realized I had shown the “Duck and Cover” film enough times that I could now sing its jingle by memory".
Agatha Christie, Christian Dior, and How I Learned to Love the Bomb
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Nuclear
Cold War
World History
WWII World War Two
Japan
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I served in Japan and visited Nagasaki while there. I have no criticism of Pres. Truman for his decision. I believe it saved American lives. It cost lots of Japanese lives. Amazingly, I knew a lady from Hiroshima who happened to be out of town when the bomb was dropped there. She lost everything, family home, friends. She never expressed one word of criticism about Truman's decision but did express criticism of the Japanese military. She was an amazing lady.
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