The SOFT POWER War : 1945-1992

In 1945-1946, the USSR was too weakened by the recent war to want to fight another big war right away - and all of America should have known it.

At least some of America's top leadership did understand.

Meanwhile the USSR understood that , despite Hiroshima, nothing had really changed in terms of fighting and winning big wars against opponents with large territories.

"Seven Days To Noon" and "The Third Man" : atomic diplomacy vs penicillin diplomacy

"The Third Man" and "Seven Days To Noon" were filmed so long ago they are old enough to be old age pensioners,  but these two gripping films remain classics of postwar british cinema and fine time capsules into the mindset of western civilization post-1945.

Seven Days is an allegory about American 'go-it-alone' atomic diplomacy while the Third Man , Harry Lime , acts as a stand-in for Josef Mengele in a film allegory that sees the ultimate expression of evil being the murdering of innocent children by the doctors they trust - in this case , a corruption of penicillin diplomacy.

Janus Manhattan 1945 : Atomic ISOLATIONISM & Penicillin's NEW DEAL

Janus Manhattan Island had something for everyone in 1945.

The spirit of ISOLATIONISM , last seen going under in the wake of Pearl Harbour, was back stronger than ever , albeit in a new Easter bonnet.

For God's America had decided its role was no longer to stand above and away from a wicked, wicked European-dominated world.

Rather it was to become God's avenging angel , benevolently ruling over a badly fallen world , with a velvet fist in a nuclear glove.