In Popular Culture
Doomsday devices or the threat of a doomsday event has been a central theme in many feature films, television shows, novels and video games. The rise in popularity has been linked with the real-life development of the atomic bomb in 1945 and subsequent nuclear testing in the 1950s; the fear of annihilation paralleling its depiction in popular media.
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