Why Is There Still So Much Nostalgia for Nuclear Apocalypse?
The popularity of nuclear apocalypse is nostalgia for a time when our worries were wrapped in a single nuclear package, and all we needed was a bunker and a dream.
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1980s Pop Music and the Atomic Pleasure Dome
Saturated in apocalyptic fears of the atomic bomb, 1980s music was also danceable and transporting. How can something that was so horrible also be so much fun?
Exploring the Sci-fi Worlds of Ishirō Honda in Three Films
The devastating power of the atomic bomb casts a long shadow over Ishiro Honda’s The H-Man, Battle in Outer Space, and Mothra.
Sidney Lumet’s Atomic Bomb Thriller ‘Fail Safe’ and the (De)Evolution of Cold War Ethics
Directed by the master of claustrophobic tension Sidney Lumet, Fail Safe is one of the most gripping Atomic Bomb Era thrillers ever made and its message resonates to this day.
Nakazawa and Aoki’s Atom Bomb Manga Could Educate World Leaders
While Keiji Nakazawa never hesitated to loose his wrath on fascist or right-leaning tendencies through the fury of his irrepressible cartoon hero in Barefoot Gen, Takeo Aoki’s Hiroshima’s Revival weaves a more cautious path through the political jungle of wartime memory.