Pop in the age of the atomic bomb

The cold war took the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. How did pop react? Like there was no tomorrow.On 11 October 1962, the Beatles' first single for EMI, Love Me Do, entered the UK charts. Four days later, the Cuban missile crisis began, when a US reconnaissance plane spotted Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In the days that followed, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. As a Soviet general later said, Earth was "minutes" away from "catastrophe".The Beatles' extraordinary br...

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