Clouded Memory: Books are the bomb
11 August 2015 - 02:02
This week marked 70 years since the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bomb and the subsequent nuclear arms race between the US and the Soviet Union provided the single greatest influence on cultural production in the second half of the 20th century.As eccentric jazz legend Sun Ra said in 1982: "Nuclear War.
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