Tom Lehrer, a social and political satirist who amassed a devoted following in the 1950s and 1960s for routines featuring blithely subversive musical numbers such as “So Long Mom (A Song for World War ...

His songs included “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “The Old Dope Peddler” (set to a tune reminiscent of “The Old Lamplighter”), “Be Prepared” (in which he mocked the Boy Scouts) and “The Vatican Rag, ...

Tom Lehrer gained a popular following in the 1950s and ’60s lampooning marriage, politics, racism ,and the Cold War, and then ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics and the Cold War, dies at 97, friend says. "This came as a complete surprise," the woman said of not being invited to ...

Alert: Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics and the Cold War, dies at 97, friend says LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics and the ...

When people talk about a new Cold War, they tend to assume they know exactly what the original Cold War was and when it ended ...

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What would happen if a nuclear war triggered a climate-altering catastrophe? Researchers have modeled how such a scenario ...

I N THE DEPTHS of the cold war, American spooks and generals came to suspect that the nuclear-weapons club was about to gain ...