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    <em>Star Trek</em>’s Cold War

    While America was fighting on the ground, the Federation was fighting in space.
    by Tom Nichols Dec 26, 2024 5 minutes
    Source: Allstar Picture Library Limited / Alamy

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    I retired from a long teaching career a few years ago, but during my later years in the classroom, I offered a course on the Cold War and American pop culture, to try to help younger students understand the fears that dominated so much of American life in the 20th century. When my students saw how many times images of nuclear devastation (and references to Ronald Reagan) back in the day, they started to get it. We also discussed , a series full of barely disguised allegories about the Cold War; the series’ head writer and creator, Rod Serling, a World War II veteran, explored from his past and his worries about the future in many

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