The Jekyll and Hyde Manhattan Projects : Yellowcake or Yellow Magic ? (Pax Americana 1945)

Many US cities are much better than New York at symbolizing various facets of America but none is capable of symbolizing, all by itself , what the rest of the world sees as both the best and the worst aspects of America.

It truly is Janus Manhattan ; truly is Jekyll and Hyde Manhattan.

Equally part Gordon Gekko and part Emma Lazarus.

"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.