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The Cold War and the Conservative Movement
The first half of the cold war was an optimistic time when scientists engineers and doctors embraced the idea that science and technology could get us out of any crisis. Anything seemed possible yet by the early 1960s this technological optimism was increasingly out of step with the american public. The emergence of the conservative movement and how left and right found surprising areas of agreement when it came to the cold war is episode four of american history tellers on the next episode the united states didn't quite destroy itself in 1968 but it came awfully close.