The Cold War - The Nature of Risk | 4
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The Cold War and the Fear of Atoms
In the early years of the Cold War Americans desperately wanted to find ways to live with the bomb. They dreamed of electricity too cheap to meter and hoped to harness the power of atoms for peace. By the late 1950s a grassroots movement had grown up in opposition to radioactive fallout. The nuclear arsenal continued to grow throughout the 1960s, but Americans had soured on atomic salvation.
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