Philip K. Dick: The Effects Of Nuclear Bombing

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In this quote, it talks about what happened when the nuclear bomb was dropped as most the Earth was destroyed and many animals including owls got extinct. This tells us how devastating this nuclear bomb was as it destroyed most of the Earth, resulting a rebuild of society somewhere else like Mars. Here, Dick uses a stylistic device of a metaphor as he is comparing two things without using the words like or as. He is comparing the dust to the nuclear radiation from the nuclear bomb that was dropped on the Earth and destroyed most of the planet. This is a good comparison as nuclear radiation looks like dust and uses this term to describe all of the planet’s surface got filled with dust. This connects back to the thesis of Philip K. Dick presenting …show more content…

As these ongoing fears were going on during Dick’s time, he was able to predict a nuclear bomb would be dropped and would destroy most of the Earth. When the first atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, everyone was excited as this meant the end of WWII and to the end of all wars. In 1949, the Cold War began between two ideological sides – the United States of America (USA) which led capitalism and the Soviets leading communism. Most of society predicted a turn of events causing ongoing fear of another nuclear bomb to be dropped by either the Americans or the Russians. Those fears grew more when Cuba decided to join the soviets in 1964 which allowed the Russians to set up nuclear rockets and fire to different cities in the USA. This ongoing fear during the Cold War is related back to World War Terminus as Dick presents the effects that would take place if another nuclear bomb would drop. During Dick’s time in the 1960s, he wanted to predict what if another nuclear bomb was dropped during the Cold War and what would have been the consequence of this to happen and he does so in his novel, saying this nuclear bomb will destroy most of our

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