The history of the world was forever changed by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... had already witnessed a similar destruction. Godzilla was a symbol of thermonuclear weapons ...

When "Godzilla" premiered in 1954, Japan was not even a full decade removed from the devastating atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There was also an incident earlier in 1954 in which the ...

but Godzilla remains eternal. By 1954, Japan had survived almost a decade of nuclear exposure. In addition to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese people were affected by a series ...

They would not have known that Godzilla's scaly skin was a reference to the keloid scars left on the bodies of Hiroshima survivors. They would not have experienced the scenes of Godzilla's ...

Godzilla is a prehistoric monster, but most fans would agree that it was born in August 1945, when US atomic bombs detonated over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than ...

“Am I to play Godzilla?” Takarada was told he would play an employee of a salvage company. The producer told the staff the movie was about not only the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...