There Will Come Soft Rains | Social Sensitivity
Bradbury wrote "There Will Come Soft Rains" in the early 1950s. The memory of World War II was fresh in people's minds, particularly the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August, 1945, which brought the war to an end. Though the Allies had won, an increasing tension arose between the United States and the Soviet Union, and soon a nuclear buildup known as the Cold War began. President Dwight Eisenhower, a war hero, warned of the rising military-industrial complex it took to support the Cold War. In the United States' quest to eradicate communism from the globe, beginning...
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