A Brief History of Nuclear Fear
- The first fictional depiction of an atomic war with atomic bombs destroying a city came from H.G. Wells in 1914
- Similar sci-fi touchstones - the apocalypse, radioactive monsters, lone survivors in destroyed cities - originally had nothing to do with atomic weapons when they became embedded in popular culture
- It wasn't until 1945 that fears of atomic warfare became firmly cemented in the American psyche
- Fear of nuclear war increased when both the U.S. and Russia began developing hydrogen bombs in the 1950s
- In the 60s and 70s, public opinion polls put nuclear war at the top of the list of great
est problems, but by 1968 it had been replaced by environmental concerns and world hunger.
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