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What caused the sudden popularity of science fiction media in the 1950s, and why did so many of these films seem to feature "technology/science gone wrong" scenarios, such as alien invasions? Did it have anything to do with the atomic bomb being invented years before?

by /u/fireballs619 in /r/AskHistorians

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