The history part of things

History Behind the book
This book was written right after the second World war. Their was alot of stress and tention between the us using nuclear weponds, and russia having non. This is the time period of the cold war, it was mainly between the us and russia/USSR at the time. Everone thought their was going to be a huge nuclear war and stuff. But all the us and USSR were doing is making the other one look bad to the rest of the world, so it was like a huge prank war.