The ATOMIC AGE

The ATOMIC AGE
   End-of-the-world theories have always been a popular theme for SF writers. Comets smashed into earth, the sun grew cold in the heavens, and space invaders zapped everything in their path. But when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, it became apparent that humans had the potential to destroy their planet. Nuclear power and radiation became the annihilators of choice in the SF world. And writers changed the way they imagined the future.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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