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In 1965, Tom Lehrer performed "Who's Next," about nuclear proliferation, with the climax being "We'll try to stay serene and calm, when Alabama gets the bomb," together with a song about Wernher von Braun - would his audience have known von Braun's lab was in Alabama?

by /u/edwardtaughtme in /r/AskHistorians

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