'If I Forget Thee, O Earth . . . ' Summary
Arthur C. Clarke

'If I Forget Thee, O Earth . . . ' Summary

"'If I Forget Thee, O Earth . . . ,"' by Arthur C. Clarke, was first published in Future magazine in 1951. However, it received its greatest exposure when it was collected in Clarke's Expedition to Earth, which was published in 1953. The story tapped into one of the great fears of the 1950s, the threat of atomic war. The U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II...

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