In 1962, Sylvia Plath stopped going to church in England when the local rector gave "a ghastly H-Bomb sermon" about how the parishioners would ascend to heaven in the event of a nuclear explosion unlike the "pacifists and humanists and educated pagans who would fear being incinerated. She said, "I felt it was a sin to support such insanity even by my presence"
From Red Comet, biography of Plath
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Why would drop such a bomb be dropped?
waitingforgodo
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Mar 29, 2021
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It was the height of the cold war we all lived with the fear that in three minutes we could be dead.
@LenHazell53 We had bomb drills in elementary school in New York where we would crouch under a school bench and cover our head with our hands.
What a great scene to open a bizarre satire movie. This site could be found gold for screen writers.
think-beyond
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Mar 29, 2021
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It has been and is 
Ascend to heaven my ass. They would be blown to heaven or just disintegrated.
DenoPenno
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Mar 29, 2021
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Going on the greasy outlines left at Hiroshima am thinking probably the latter.
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