Letter Nuclear war threat still looms large after WWII
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This month we mark 80 years since the horrific atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The shocking old photos are a reminder of what could have happened in October 1962, in those nerve-wracking hours when Soviet ships were approaching Fidel Castro’s Cuba. On the verge of World War III, some Americans fled the cities and others hunkered down and waited for the “fireworks.” At the age of 18, I thought my young life was over.