AMST 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Propaganda Due, Atomic Age, Thermonuclear Weapon
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The thing that came from outer space ending told everyone to keep watching the skies which resembles american fears of nuclear bombs falling from the skies coming from the soviet union. World war ii ends (8/10/45) when japan surrenders in response to atomic bombings of hiroshima & Reactions in the us are mixed of horror and glee. This is an awful responsibility which has come to us. We thank god that is ahs come to us instead of to our enemies: and we pray that he may guide us to use it in his ways for his purposes (president harry s. truman 8/10/45) Seldom if ever has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured. (journalist. Whatever elation there is in the world today is severely tempered by a primitive fear of the unknown.
