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A 10 page research paper that offers an overview of the classic Cold War film, as well as analysis. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates.?? On the Beach (1959) Research Compiled
By - properly! During the Cold War, particularly during the years when the
US and the Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted the imagination. In 1959, President Eisenhower
said to Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, "we really should come to some sort of agreement in order to stop this fruitless, really wasteful rivalry" (Norton, et al
823). Nevertheless, there was no halt in sight in 1959 and World War III was considered to be inevitable. Why this film was chosen On the Beach (1959, directed
by Stanley Kramer) is one of the few Hollywood films during the Cold War that portrays the prospect of nuclear war realistically. The antagonists and their side The films
premise is that a nuclear war has occurred and wiped out the Northern Hemisphere and deadly, massive clouds of radiation are spreading southward. Therefore, from a traditional perspective, one might
argue that the antagonist is the Soviet Union. However, the film does not focus on laying blame on one side or the other. In a scene aboard the USS Starfish,
one of the naval officers asks Julian Osborne (Fred Astaire), who is a nuclear physicist, "Who do you think started the war?" to which Osborne replies, "Albert Einstein," adding: Everyone
had an atomic bomb and counter bombs and counter counter bombs. I know, I helped build them...[Somebody] probably looked at a radar screen and thought he saw something...he pushed the
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