Whats the boom about?

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Charlotte Siobhan It refers to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the very real possibility of nuclear war at the time this takes place.

Jillian I believe it refers to the "Nuclear Scare" of 1962, when we were very very close to launching a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

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