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...society now denounce it as merely another imperialist ideology propagated by dead white guys. It seems like Sovietism has been permanently relegated to being a invaluable subject of academic research and a provider of military medals, fur hats and other stylishly hip cold war memorabilia. Gone are the missiles, air-raid drills, and fallout shelters. And Tom Clancy's early books can be safely relocated to the "historical novel" shelves of libraries nationwide. So why are we still so scared...
...remember spending huge portions of my life in air-raid shelters singing A Hundred Green Bottles Hanging on the Wall," Albright recalls. "I remember when we moved to Walton-on-Thames, where they had just invented some kind of a steel table. They said if your house was bombed and you were under the table, you would survive. We had this table, and we ate on the table and we slept under the table and we played around the table...
...sound can't be captured on tape. No scientific instrument, regardless how sensitive, can detect it. But for millions of chocolate lovers, the nagging call of a Godiva bar or a Hershey's Kiss is as loud and impossible to ignore as an air-raid siren. It can't simply be that the stuff tastes good. So do popcorn and pizza, but the words popaholic and pizzaholic haven't forced their way into the lexicon the way chocoholic has. Chocolate doesn't just tingle the tongue: it makes people feel good in some fundamental, undefinable...
...air-raid alert sounded at 7:09--radar had picked up the approach of the 509th Group's weather plane--and an all clear followed at 7:31, after the B-29 departed. Perhaps this apparently harmless sortie lulled the city's civil-defense monitors. In any case, just before 8:15 three more B-29s--the Enola Gay and two escorts--could be seen and then heard flying some 30,000 ft. over Hiroshima. No alarms sounded in time. The radio announcer on duty had received word that three enemy planes had been sighted, but he had momentarily paused...
...room in the imperial air-raid shelter was virtually unventilated and sweltering when the Emperor arrived as the meeting began and took his seat on a small dais. The assembled leaders, headed by the Supreme Council's Big Six, as they were called, listened again to a reading of the Potsdam Declaration and then began debating three possible responses to the terms it imposed. One plan, favored by Suzuki and Togo, called for an acceptance of the Potsdam demands, with the sole condition that Hirohito and the imperial dynasty be retained in Japan...