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January 26th, 2026 | 25 min read

By Jake Meador

I. To Live in Interesting Times

In one sense, the years immediately following the close of World War II were amongst the most harrowing of the century–the Nazi threat was ended, but an open question remained of what new horrors would be visited on the world by the new weapon unveiled by America in the shocking and devastating horrors visited on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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