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Erica X Eisen has published in n+1, the Baffler, the Threepenny Review, AGNI, and the Washington Post. She is an editor at Hypocrite Reader.
Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it is long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts during the Cold War.
Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism.
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