Remembering my own atomic angst with The Day After The Day After

[cwmackowski]

I feel like I lived Steven Church’s The Day After the Day After: My Atomic Angst, even if I didn’t grow up in Kansas. Church manages to capture the nuclear angst that overshadowed my own Cold War-childhood. I was too old for “duck and cover,” but Reagan had the arms race in full swing, so the threat of Armageddon loomed over all. “I was afraid of the future,” Church wrote, “more comfortable with the fantastical….”

Yep.

(A piece adapted for Scholars & Rogues based on notes I posted earlier this week.)