Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_War_III_in_popular_culture> ?p ?o }
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture abstract "World War III is a common theme in popular culture. Since the 1940s, countless books, films, and television programmes have used the theme of nuclear weapons and a third global war. The presence of the Soviet Union as an international rival armed with nuclear weapons created a persistent fear in the United States. There was a pervasive dread of a nuclear World War III, and popular culture reveals the fears of the public at the time. This theme in the arts was also a way of exploring a range of issues far beyond nuclear war. The historian Spencer R. Weart called nuclear weapons a "symbol for the worst of modernity."During the Cold War, concepts such as mutual assured destruction (MAD) led lawmakers and government officials in both the United States and the Soviet Union to avoid entering a nuclear World War III that could have had catastrophic consequences on the entire world. Various scientists and authors, such as Carl Sagan, predicted massive, possibly life-ending destruction of the Earth as the result of such a conflict. Strategic analysts assert that nuclear weapons prevented the United States and the Soviet Union from fighting World War III with conventional weapons. Nevertheless, the possibility of such a war became the basis for speculative fiction, and its simulation in books, films and video games became a way to explore the issues of a war that has thus far not occurred in reality. The only places a global nuclear war have ever been fought are in expert scenarios, theoretical models, war games, and the art, film, and literature of the nuclear age. The concept of mutually assured destruction was also the focus of numerous movies and films.Prescient stories about nuclear war were written before the invention of the atomic bomb. The most notable of these is The World Set Free, written by H. G. Wells in 1914. During World War II, several nuclear war stories were published in science fiction magazines such as Astounding. In Robert A. Heinlein's story "Solution Unsatisfactory" the US develops radioactive dust as the ultimate weapon of war and uses it to destroy Berlin in 1945 and end the war with Germany. The Soviet Union then develops the same weapon independently, and war between it and the US follows. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 made stories of a future global nuclear war look less like fiction and more like prophecy. When William Faulkner received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, he spoke about Cold War themes in art. He worried that younger writers were too preoccupied with the question of "When will I be blown up?"".
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture thumbnail AtomicWar0101.jpg?width=300.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageExternalLink eng.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageExternalLink index.htm.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageID "6513114".
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageLength "37521".
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageOutDegree "291".
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageRevisionID "677532074".
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink 1964_in_film.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink 1965_in_film.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink 1973_oil_crisis.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink 1982_in_television.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink 1999_in_film.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink 99_Luftballons.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink AKB0048.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink APOX.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink A_Gathering_of_Eagles.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink A_Hard_Rains_a-Gonna_Fall.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Able_Archer_83.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Academy_Awards.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Ace_Combat.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Ace_Combat:_Assault_Horizon.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Acute_radiation_syndrome.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Adrian_Veidt.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Air_wing.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Akira_(manga).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Alas,_Babylon.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Alaska.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Alien_invasion.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Alternate_history.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink American_Broadcasting_Company.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Anti-nuclear.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Anti-nuclear_movement.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Armageddon_(1998_film).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Arms_race.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Artificial_intelligence.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Ava_Gardner.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink B-52.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink BBC.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Batman:_The_Dark_Knight_Returns.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Battle:_Los_Angeles.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Battlefield:_Bad_Company.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Battlefield_3.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Battleship_(film).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Berlin.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Berlin_Wall.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Black_comedy.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Blade_Runner.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Blast_from_the_Past_(film).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Blast_from_the_Past_(movie).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Bob_Dylan.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Bonn.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Bread_and_Circuses_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink CIA.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Call_of_Duty:_Modern_Warfare_2.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Call_of_Duty:_Modern_Warfare_3.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Campaign_for_Nuclear_Disarmament.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Carl_Sagan.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fictional_wars.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Category:War_in_popular_culture.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Category:World_War_III_speculative_fiction.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Central_Intelligence_Agency.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Central_Park.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink China.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Chinese_Civil_War.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Chinese_Communist_Party.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Cold_War.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Colliers.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Commanding_officer.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Communist_Party_of_China.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Conventional_weapon.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Corporation.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Croatia.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Crossover_thrash.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink DEFCON_(video_game).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink David_Greene_(director).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Day_of_the_Daleks.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Deep_Impact_(film).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Detroit.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Discharge_(band).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Doctor_Who.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Dr._Manhattan.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Dr._Strangelove.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink East_Berlin.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Bloc.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Emma_Frost.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Energy_crisis.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Eugene_Burdick.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Evil_Empire.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Evil_empire.
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Fail-Safe_(1964_film).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Fail-Safe_(novel).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Fail_Safe_(1964_film).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Fail_Safe_(2000_TV).
- World_War_III_in_popular_culture wikiPageWikiLink Fail_Safe_(2000_film).