Instead she found herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of an underground banned book club。 And as Hyun Sook soon discovered, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear and violence as the walls close ...
The Cuban missile crisis showed that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were ready to use nuclear weapons for fear of the other’s retaliation (and thus of mutual atomic annihilation). The two superpowers soon signed theNuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned aboveground nucle...