Much of the world marked the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s construction. But, while that Cold War abomination has truly been consigned to history’s dustbin, this week marks another 50th anniversary, one that resonates far more directly today.
As of 1961, some 200 nuclear bombs had been exploded, most of them in the atmosphere, but two on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Three years earlier, in October 1958, nuclear testing had ground to a halt
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