In C.P. Snow’s 1954 novel, The New Men Paul Goble , about the beginnings of the Cold War, one character, who writes literacy criticism for the BBC, reflects on how difficult it is for a Western intellectual to respond to America’s use of a nuclear weapon against Nagasaki only a few days after it had dropped the first on Hiroshima.


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