![]() ![]() With it grew an arms race and a fear of sudden annihilation. Many more tests, elevating to the vastly more powerful hydrogen bomb, followed. In 1949, they successfully detonated their first atomic bomb. The Soviets - who had been considering developing A-bombs for years - resolved that they, too, would harness nuclear power as a weapon. America possessed a superweapon of previously unimaginable devastation. dropped atomic bombs - first on Hiroshima, then Nagasaki in Japan. ![]() The Soviets won that race.īut then in August 1945, the U.S. Principal Reusch, a history buff with a particular interest in WWII, noted that the Soviet and Allied armies raced across war-torn Europe to be the first to enter Berlin during the fading days of the war. Even during World War II - when the Soviets were allied with the United States, Great Britain and others against Nazi Germany - the relationship was fraught. Many Americans - and certainly their elected leaders - had been deeply suspicious of Communism and the Soviet Union (now, Russia) since the years after World War I. ![]() (Google “fallout shelter” today and you’ll be directed to a website for a video game.) Wish I had more information.”Īctually, by her time at City High, America’s gripping fear of impending thermonuclear war - and the urgency of having access to fallout shelters - had largely faded. “However, I do not remember anything about the shelter other than seeing the sign posted in the basement. “I did go to the high school from 1973-1976,” South Middle language arts teacher Marie Stier Cavanah said via email. Not much seemed to have been known to students a decade later. ![]()
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