It's really interesting to look at the trends of the covers. If you start looking in the 1930's, you have occasional military themed covers, but primarily civi

It's really interesting to look at the trends of the covers. If you start looking in the 1930's, you have occasional military themed covers, but primarily civilian themes: http://books.google.com/books/serial/wzsEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1&lr=&sa=N&start=810 http://books.google.com/books/serial/wzsEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1&#3... Then, starting in December of 1940, you only get military themed covers. Between December of 1940 and December 1945, you get exactly two non-military images on the covers (Jun 1944 and Mar 1945), but both have prominent war themed text on them. January 1946 is the first fully civilian cover in over 5 years. It really makes me realize how distant war seems to us now, even though the US has been involved in international wars for most of the last 60 years. Imagine if PopSci had images of Iraq and Afghanistan on the cover of every issue today.