Abstract
This essay seeks to synthesize personal memoir and history by focusing on the author's life experiences during his first thirteen years. Interrogating security suggests the ways in which big issues—war, peace, the threatof nuclear annihilation, security and secrecy, and youthful masculinity—hit home close to home as well as in the larger political arena. The essay also indicates important continuities between hot and cold war and—in microcosm—some of the costs of developments during the late 1940s and early 1950s. In sum, it proposes some reasons why a young boynurtured in a patriotic ambience became a ‘subversive’ adult.
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