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This show was part of a post-WW2 public service campaign to convince the public to ask the United States government to place the then-nascent sciences of nuclear technology under control of the then-nascent United Nations. This particular period of history was a very fearful time, especially in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and when society began to associate nuclear warfare with the Biblical Apocalypse, hence the show's title, "The Fifth Horseman", with this "fifth" horseman being the threat of nuclear annihilation, which, according to popular belief, would be "the end of the world". The Cold War may be over, but the Fifth Horseman, along with his other four brethren (War, Conquest, Pestilence, and Death), still threatens to gallop over all the Earth, doubtlessly wreaking total existential cataclysm, so this fascinating gem of an OTR program, though quite dated, is, IMHO, STILL every bit as relevant today as it was nearly three quarters of a century ago.

- January 24, 2020Fascinating OTR gem of a show!