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The fear of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War was so palpable that a common joke at the time was: “What do you want to be if you grow up?”
In the late 1950s, 60% of American children suffered nightmares about it. Hollywood didn’t help. During the 1950s, science fiction crossed to the dark side. What had been tame Flash Gordon-style serials now proliferated as terrifying tales of radioactive fallout, mind control and alien or robot invasion.
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