Art and nuclear culture
By Kerry Brougher | November 8, 2013
The author traces the rise of twentieth-century "nuclear culture," citing examples from Japan’s Godzilla movies to jazz songs. He notes that artists reacted in both positive and negative fashion to the promise of new technology, and that the public’s fear of radiation and death has paralleled its fascination with disaster.
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Issue: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 69 Issue 6
Keywords: Edward R. Murrow, Godzilla, Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, Norman Cousins, Soviet Union, hydrogen bomb, nuclear tests
Topics: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons
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Kerry Brougher
Brougher is interim director and chief curator of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. He was director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford,... Read More
