By 1949, the USSR tests first atomic weapon and a full-fledged arms race is underway. The growing obsession with the Soviet threat and people's fear of it is reflected in the dark movies of this era. Fear of a nuclear holocaust generates a successio...
The United States detonates the first hydrogen bomb in 1952 based on the research of Edward Teller, Manhattan Project physicist. The development of hydrogen weapons sparks yet another race between the U. S. and Russia, the race to develop unmanned r...