Article: The atomic age: facts and films from 1945-1965.

Compiled for the fiftieth anniversary of the atomic bomb by Bryan Fruth, Alicia Germer, Keiko Kikuchi, Anamaria Mihalega, Melanie Olmstead, Hikaru Sasaki, and Jack Nachbar

In compiling the following chronology/filmography, we did not intend to be comprehensive; other compilers might choose different events and movies. By correlating important historic nuclear events with popular movies during the first generation of US nuclear consciousness, one can see some of the effects of the atomic age on the collective imagination of that era. With the beginning of the Cold War in the late 1940s for example, the movies' villainous atomic spies became Communists rather than ...

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