{"id":99864,"date":"2026-05-01T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99864"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:12:51","slug":"second-dawn-childhoods-end-and-the-nuclear-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/05\/01\/second-dawn-childhoods-end-and-the-nuclear-age\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Second Dawn&#8221;, <em>Childhood\u2019s End<\/em>, and the Nuclear Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mBfzvrx8TKo?si=EMhMbDCBwGuYT_6Z\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 5 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>A quick look at two Arthur C. Clarke stories from the early 1950s that pair well as allegories for the still-new Cold War fears of the time. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n03:03 Psychics and Nukes<br \/>\n03:37 &#8220;Second Dawn&#8221;<br \/>\n09:13 The Phileni<br \/>\n11:50 New World, New Dangers<\/p>\n<p>Audio note: On the previous vid (Riddick) I used some new tools for post-processing the audio. It was much cleaner, removed almost all the noise &#8230; and the response has been entirely negative. It seems people don&#8217;t miss the wind and the birds until they&#8217;re gone. So I&#8217;m back to the old approach of using essentially raw sound. <\/p>\n<p>EDIT: If you&#8217;re not seeing a link to the old <em>Childhood&#8217;s End<\/em> video on the pop-up card or the end screen, here&#8217;s the link.    \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bnoE5IXdo6U\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Childhood&#8217;s End<\/em> (Youtube Copyright Edit)<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<br \/>\nStill plugging <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 5 Dec 2025 A quick look at two Arthur C. Clarke stories from the early 1950s that pair well as allegories for the still-new Cold War fears of the time. 00:00 Intro 03:03 Psychics and Nukes 03:37 &#8220;Second Dawn&#8221; 09:13 The Phileni 11:50 New World, New Dangers Audio note: On the previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28],"tags":[108,1593,107,85],"class_list":["post-99864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","tag-coldwar","tag-feralhistorian","tag-nukes","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pYI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99865,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99864\/revisions\/99865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}