Atomic Age

Atomic Anxieties: The Cold War and the Apocalypse

by Miriam Dobson on December 20, 2012

A package of sprats, vodka, buckwheat, matches, candles, a string and a piece of soap – perhaps not the perfect present for Christmas, but in the Siberian city of Tomsk the $29 parcels are proving

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