Why Do People Use An Atomic Bomb In Pop Culture

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Coca-Cola's famous slogan "A pause that refreshes" truly fits with their soda, drinks. Especially Coca Cola's "Everybody's happy… Have a Coke" 1946's advertisement. This advertisement caters to the general audience, populist and elitist, because many people join the military, whether it was because of patriotic duty, being drafted into the war, or looking to seek some fame. Although American soldiers seem happy that the war is over, they're badass soldiers, and getting ready to go home, but reflect how other countries feel, namely Japan, nor does America. Considering the that they use an atom bomb, nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, rising tensions against Russia, and suspecting their own government workers, and Psychiatrists analyzing the …show more content…
America citizens are afraid of learning the atom bombs, but even fear didn't suppress our guesses about the bomb. Taylor Bryan, the author of The Bomb in Pop Culture, notes that "But even if we have not deliberately sought information on the bomb, we have not stopped thinking about it, and popular culture reflects that." In other words, commercial products, or cultural activities, have repeatedly focused on nuclear weapons and causes society to refer to the possibility of nuclear destruction. Television, Fiction, and Hollywood made several stories about nuclear weapons since the nuclear war hasn't happened yet and stories of the bomb are the only thing citizens have to learn about it. Although the ad may be selling happiness in order to cover up American's anxiety of nuclear destruction, with some writers wrote the nuclear power as being a cheap, limitless, energy generated as a positive side, but H.G, Wells "The World Set Free" provided an apocalyptic vision and the potential possibility that nuclear energy could be the end of everything. Overall, this advertisement tries to cover American's unrest, and worries, about the atom bomb, with enthusiasm that they won the war, and are going back home to enjoy their average, American, …show more content…
The magnitude of the atom bomb, and how many Japanese it killed during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but ultimately produce an era where there's likely no more World Wars. Not to mention the American citizens fear of the atom bomb because of its sheer, potential, destruction and prefer not to learn about it, but popular culture offers stories, theories, about the bomb and what it could do, so citizens couldn't forgo their anxiety of it. The ad may reflect that the soldiers may look uninjured and are returning home victorious, yet they're only hiding their PTSD, possibly other disorders, they've gotten from World War II and are suffering in silence because they were conditioned to not talk about it. Rather than expressing a happy time, it was a period of tensions between America and Russia and the government, and it's citizens, were paranoid enough to create a program to ensure there's no communist party within the government. Overall, The ad is conveying happiness in an attempt to hide the scars, damage, and the potential of nuclear war between America and Russia, so it incorrectly reflects the era of happiness, the war is over, and they're turning to their average, America,

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