Nuclear Scare

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"The 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick) came after the major nuclear scare of the 1950s and immeidately after the confrontation between the United States and Russia over missiles in Cuba

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"The 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick) came after the major nuclear scare of the 1950s and immeidately after the confrontation between the United States and Russia over missiles in Cuba. It was produced at the height of the Cold War and the tensions of that period. The vision of nuclear power in the movies turned away from the power and ascendance nuclear power gave to the United States to a greater concern for the threat it posed to the United Stats and the world at large. The vision now was of the Apocalypse, to be brought on by a chain reaction as in the film On the Beach (1959) so that all life on earth would be wiped away in a nuclear war. In that film, the image was less of the devastation of direct bombing and more of the lingering death that would ensue from radiation and fallout after the war. The ..."

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