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The ad juxtaposed a little girl counting the petals on a flower with a nuclear countdown/detonation and asked if Americans wouldn't feel safer with LBJ as their president.
Or it may be a symptom of our present obsession with childhood and children--the simultaneous detonation of the postwar baby boom and the fin de siècle baby boom.
And while Archie comics are still using the old standbys of crunch and swish , the heavier impacts of action comics have gone beyond boom and kablooie to ktoom, bdoom , and even skrakataboom for the detonation of an entire building.
But it also attacked the United States "for excluding certain tests that do not involve the detonation of nuclear devices" from the provisions of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
The massive figure’s right hand points skyward — toward the actual point of detonation — as a warning of the constant threat of nuclear weapons, while his left hand stretches out in a gesture of universal peace.