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Writing in the late 1940s, Roald Dahl was shocked at how quickly the Cold War had followed on from the Second World War and appalled at the dire prospects of the atomic age. ‘What then is one to think about war?’ he demanded, ‘What is one to think about man? What is one to think about the future?’ As the Cold War gathered pace in the 1950s, Dahl’s dystopian anxieties became a mainstay of British popular culture.
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Hammond, A. (2017). Introduction. In: Cold War Stories. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61548-6_1
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