Nuclear War Influence American Culture

Charles Maland, a University of Tennessee professor of American film studies, has written a great deal of books that evolve around the history of film. Books like Time and The Nation, which talked about James Agee life as a movie critic during the 1940’s. His article, Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus discussed how he examined the Ideology of Liberal Consensus. It also discussed how the culture of America responded to the Liberal Consensus’ radical reassessment of America’s nuclear policy around the early 1960’s. In the article Maland discussed how WWII had caused the Americans to feed off of the rewards of war, for they had defeated Hitler and the Nazis from taking over the world. Furthermore, the Americans had reaped the benefits of winning the war because the war brought them prosperity. The Americans were economically able to erase conflict, and it was done with the …show more content…
This action caused scientists and writers like Henry Kissinger to write books like Nuclear War and Foreign Policy (1957), which discussed how nuclear weapons should be measured before using them. These actions resulted in the media worrying the public and at the same time persuading them that nuclear war was the best way to fight against their enemies without having any side effects from the radiation. Magazines like U.S. News and World Report had an article that talked about how the Japanese were surviving after the nuclear attack on them (Maland, 192). Yet in a crazy way the talk about nuclear war helped the citizens release their anxiety about the Cold War (Maland, 193). This increasingly made the Liberal Consensus defenseless against America’s society, and helped Stanley Kubrick create the film Dr. Strangelove (Maland,