![]() The threat of nuclear war is a constant presence throughout Fahrenheit 451. ![]() Bradbury’s story centers around a technologically advanced home that continues to function through its daily routine even though the family that lived there, and everything else outside of the home, had been destroyed by a nuclear bomb. He published one of his most well-known short stories, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” in 1950 after the United States announced that it was beginning its development of a hydrogen bomb. This fear, known as the Red Scare, grew into a heightened paranoia of communism spreading across the United States.īradbury feared the threat of nuclear war and the consequences it would have for humanity. Many feared the similarities between communism and Adolf Hitler’s fascist rule over Germany, most notably, the use of censorship and the burning of books that featured life in non-communist western countries. Communism was spreading across Europe and had already taken hold of much of Asia. Much of the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union centered around the conflicting ideologies of Capitalism and Communism. The United State’s use of atomic weapons in WWII started an arms race, most notably between America and the Soviet Union. This was not a direct physical conflict but rather a time of heightened tensions between the two most powerful nations in the world. The Changing Look of the American FamilyĪfter World War II, America was in a Cold War with the Soviet Union.Economic & Technological Boom of the 40s and 50s.
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