War. Of course, nuclear dread and Nuclear Anxiety sort of hovered over the conflict in the 1950s and 1960s and even up through the 1980s to the end of the conflict. So its a fitting image to begin our class today. And today, we are thinking a lot about photography during the cold war. And specifically american photography during the cold war. And this is a massive topic one could imagine a week or two, even an entire course of this subject. General themes as well as case studies, and also in the meantime, along the way, talk about some advances in Media Technology and how newspapers were printing photographs during these years. Before we kind of get into photography, we should make sure we understand what the cold war is. As we get further and further removed from it, it becomes a little more fuzzy in the collective unconscious. But of course, the cold war was the idealogical battle between the United States and the soviet union. Which began after world war ii around 1945 and goes all