You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without color-TV broadcasting.
In June 2015, Benjamin Gross wrote about the impact of using live models to calibrate color TVs in the 1950s.
You were born in November of 1952. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 2 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Arthur E. Sutherland wrote about the obligation of the press to tell the "whole truth," despite growing challenges.
Around the time you were born, the United States successfully detonated the first hydrogen bomb.
In January 2016, Uri Friedman wrote about President Truman's justification for thermonuclear weapons.
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This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.
Beach Blanket Bingo was released in 1965.
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At 16 years old, you were alive to behold people walking on the moon.
Over the years, the moon landing has come to be lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement, although it was often derided at the time. In 1963, NASA astronauts took to The Atlantic to plead the case for landing on the moon.
Around your 18th birthday, former French President General Charles de Gaulle died.
In November 1960, Curtis Cate wrote about the life and leadership of Charles de Gaulle.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after Macintosh computers.
In June 2012, Megan Garber wrote about how Apple computers, once thought to be virus-immune, can now get PC viruses.
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When you turned 54, you watched humankind reach the outer solar system.
With NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005, humans landed a probe in the outer reaches of the solar system for the first time, a moment Ross Andersen called the most glorious mission in the history of planetary science.
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In 2012, Vladimir Putin, who was born the same year as you, was reelected to his third term as president of Russia, amid protests and allegations of electoral fraud.
In December 2016, Larry Diamond wrote about how Vladimir Putin is making the world safe for autocracy.
By the time you turn 68, scientists estimate it will no longer be possible to keep global temperatures from rising at least 1.5 degrees Celsius.
In December 2015, Robinson Meyer wrote about why scientists had accepted this fact.
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