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Cold War playground equipment was intended to foster children's curiosity and excitement about the Space Race. It was installed in both Communist and non-Communist countries. ==United States== In 1959, ''Popular Mechanics'' wrote that a Kiwanis Club in Ontario, California was "in tune with the times" when it erected a three-story rocketship in a local playground.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Popular Mechanics )〕 The "space-age shift" in playground design was described in a 1963 issue of ''Life'' magazine, which featured Fidel Castro on the cover. A row of tree trunks installed in a Kansas City, Missouri park could elicit "any game an imaginative child might think up", wrote ''Life'', including "an array of ICBMs on a launch pad".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Life )〕 By 1963, Philadelphia had installed 160 space-aged playgrounds, which featured satellites, rockets, and submarines.〔 Richardson, Texas installed an "atomic playground" in 1965, with a radar tower, Saturn climber, submarine, radar dish, planet climber, and three-story high rocket ship. When the city tried to remove the items in 2008, it was met with local opposition. A task force established to investigate the removal wrote that "as children grow and develop, their playgrounds must evolve to meet ever-changing play needs and interests". The rocket ship had "very little play value", and had "hazardous conditions that present a great danger to young children".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Heights Park Playground Task Force )〕 Author Fraser MacDonald wrote "nuclear weapons were made intelligible in, and transposable to, a domestic context" through children's toys and playground equipment featuring Cold War symbols.〔MacDonald, Fraser. "Space and the Atom: On the Popular Geopolitics of Cold War Rocketry." ''Geopolitics'' 13 (2008), 611–634.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cold War playground equipment」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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