Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for June 15, 2022

sure it ain’t the L-Bomb?

Well the right person for the sound effects anyway!

Oh, she’s a bomb all right…!

Duck and cover!

Which is louder?

From the US government sponsored pamphlet, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Charlie Brown”.

It had to happen. Lucy just went nuclear!

What is that box with the handle supposed to be? I’ve seen them represented before, but I don’t know what they’re called or what they do.

Would it scare the Russians?

This comic strip probably appeared in papers when it was still legal to detonate nuclear weapons above ground.

My spouse’s grandmother used to live by one of the test sites in the southwest, and she told us about looking out her kitchen window doing the dishes and seeing the flashes. A few years back they finally released a study that revealed how all the radioactive clouds likely spread up and over the plains and upper Midwest where folks in places like Minnesota and Wisconsin, and thus, the Mississippi River, were subjected to the fallout. The study then went on to extrapolate how many cases of cancers and other conditions can be tracked back to that exposure. We did not necessarily escape nuclear war, instead it’s been a very slow, very relentless, very expensive siege.

White it not be an F-bomb

That’s quite the clever contraption they’ve built for the detonator.

Close – very close…

Charlotte Braun might have worked even better than Miss Van Pelt. But she was long gone.

Hope CB can deal with the fallout!

If you’re that close it would be very futile to worry.

LOL!!

This is funny!

Lucy does have an explosive personality.

Wow! This comic expresses the fatalism of children in the midst of the Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation. In the ’50s!

I thought that kind of acceptance was unique to my generation, Gen X.