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During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the theater folk of London organized an evening to raise consciousness or funds. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Hot Line Agreement of 1963 pushed it back to seven minutes. Following the end of the Cold War, we had a luxurious seventeen minutes to amble t...

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Published in:The New Criterion 2024-12, Vol.43 (4), p.1-10
Main Author: Green, Dominic
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Existentialism
Icke, Robert
Motion pictures
Sophocles (496?-406 BC)
Theater
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Summary:During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the theater folk of London organized an evening to raise consciousness or funds. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Hot Line Agreement of 1963 pushed it back to seven minutes. Following the end of the Cold War, we had a luxurious seventeen minutes to amble to the fallout shelters. The panic peaked between the anti-nuclear movement's formal inception in 1957, when the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (cnd) was founded in Britain, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The Cold War was heating up again, the Americans and the Russians were installing new nuclear missiles in Europe, and cnd's membership was growing once more.
ISSN:0734-0222
2163-6265