Peter H. Brothers “Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare: How the Bomb Became a Beast Called Godzilla” focuses on how the titular character of “Godzilla” was created out of Japans fear and experience of atomic warfare.
“Atomic bomb tests, which brought home to the Japanese the recurring and haunting images of the death, destruction and demoralization befalling them at the end of WWII.”
Godzilla is a direct personification of Japan’s fear regarding atomic power, a fact that Brothers does not shy away from examining in his article. the above quote is important to the article in that it expresses the psychological fallout that followed the nuclear fallout in Japan by the hands of America. Godzilla not only represents atomic warfare but also america as a monstrous villain in the eyes of Japan.
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