Atomic+War


 * We've started and won two atomic wars since 1960.**

There are 2 main things about this statement. The first is that since the book was first published in 1953, Bradbury was predicting what would happen in the future. The second is that it is almost obvious that Bradbury is haunted with the fact of an atomic war. When he wrote this book, only a couple years back, Americans had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Bradbury was almost optimistic that man-kind could survive such a thing.

We believe Bradbury used this because he wanted to have some truth in his novel. He was also inrtigued with the idea of atomic wars. And in the end of the book when the city is completely destroyed of humanity, Bradbury saw it as a chance for rebirth instead of destruction.



ABOVE: Nagasaki 'Mushroom'

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