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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conceived as an embodiment of the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the original Godzilla was an angry, powerful, vengeful creature that devastated Japan. Awakened by an atomic bomb ...