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fromThe Atlantic
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How Hollywood Taught a Generation to Fear the Bomb

During the Cold War, popular culture provided Americans with images of nuclear war. Mushroom clouds, DEFCON alerts, exploding buildings, fallout-shelter signs—the possibility of a nuclear holocaust was always lurking in the background, like the figure of Death hiding among revelers in a Bosch triptych.
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