History
The magazine was originally published bi-weekly ("every other Wednesday") under the name The Golden Age on October 1, 1919, by the International Bible Students Association. (In 1930 it was published in Danish under the name New World.) On October 6, 1937, it was renamed Consolation and continued to be published bi-weekly until July 31, 1946. On August 22, 1946, the magazine was renamed Awake! and until 2005 was published semi-monthly in major languages (on the 8th and 22nd; The Watchtower was published on the 1st and 15th), monthly in many languages, and quarterly in a few languages. Since January 2006, Awake! has been published monthly.
The magazine has frequently suggested the nearness of apocalyptic events. World War III has been a perennial theme, with issues printed during the Cold War years of the 1950s and 1960s reporting heavily on conferences of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and other notable events in the USSR, particularly as they pertained to the possibility of Nuclear War. This topic continued to fill pages well into the 1980s, with the release of the TV movie The Day After being responded to with special attention.
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