Voices
L. C. McHugh, S.J., taught ethics at Georgetown University before becoming an associate editor at America and writing a regular column on science.
Politics & SocietyVantage Point
James B. Donovan closely followed the spy trial of Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in May 1960, and was interviewed by America.
![A home fallout shelter near Akron, Mich., captured by an unknown photographer in 1960. (National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency/(397-MA-2s-160)/[VENDOR # 125])](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/main_image/postwar_080_v125.jpg?itok=L12eVGi4 "A home fallout shelter near Akron, Mich., captured by an unknown photographer in 1960. (National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency/(397-MA-2s-160)/[VENDOR # 125])")
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Does Catholic social teaching permit you to mount a machine gun at the door of your family’s fallout shelter? In 1961, this was not an idle question.