First appearance of a weapon with the power of a nuclear bomb?
Atomic Bomb Predicted Before It's Time
Written literature that predated the atomic bomb made references to man creating a weapon that could set the sky on fire.
H.G. Wells book The Time Machine written in 1895 talked about the surface of the Earth being burned by man made fire. He later wrote The World Set Free in 1914 and it clearly describes the atomic bomb.
When Did A Nuclear Bomb First Appear?
The Trinity nuclear test of the first atomic bomb was conducted on July 16, 1945. What is the date of the film that first featured a destructive weapon of on this kind of scale, and did that film predate the Trinity test?
I'm looking for the answer with the earliest film showing or discussing a bomb that can destroy a city.
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After some research, the earliest movie I could find, which features a nuclear holocaust (and the survivors) is a 1951 movie, Five, which means that it did not predate Trinity nuclear tests
I find it very difficult to cross-validate this, though I referred to List of Nuclear Holocaust Fiction on Wiki, to start with.
The movie entry for articles on this movie, on TCM, speaks about this movie, as being the first to depict nuclear holocaust...
It is remembered today as the first film to portray life after a nuclear holocaust; later this theme was approached by major studios in big-budget films such as The World, the Flesh and the Devil and On the Beach (both 1959).
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When was the first nuclear weapon used as a weapon?
The world's first nuclear weapons explosion on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico, when the United States tested its first nuclear bomb. Not three weeks later, the world changed. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It killed or wounded nearly 130,000 people.Who first had nuclear weapons?
The United States conducted its first nuclear test explosion in July 1945 and dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945. Just four years later, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test explosion.What was the first nuclear weapon to be detonated in the world?
On 16 July 1945, the 'Trinity' nuclear test plunged humanity into the so-called Atomic Age. The first-ever nuclear bomb was detonated in New Mexico, at the Alamogordo Test Range. Nicknamed the \u201cgadget\u201d, the plutonium-based implosion-type device yielded 19 kilotons, creating a crater over 300 metres wide.Animation shows the deadly evolution of nuclear weapons
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Answer 2
The episode Going Home from the Private Snafu series, completed by mid 1944, features a weapon which obliterated a Japanese island.
The movie was not released. The actual rationale is not known for sure, but the similarity between the fictional weapon and nuclear weapons is listed as a possible reason that the movie wasn't released, and a postscript added to the movie gives that as the reason.
Although made in May, this never saw release. It was shelved because of the portrayal of a super-bomb in it. It was thought to be too close a hint at the top secret atom bomb we were developing at the time.
Answer 3
The movie The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951) discusses atomic bombs.
In the movie, the alien Klaatu comes to earth on a goodwill mission. He has concerns that Earth might be destroyed by other alien civilizations, concerned for their own safety, in the wake of mankind inventing Nuclear Power.
Answer 4
Destination Moon (1950) was the second serious film about a scientifically plausible trip to the moon and helped start the 1950s science fiction movie trend. A low budget film Rocketship X-M was rushed into production and depicted a moon flight that missed and ended up on Mars (oops!).
On Mars they find ruins of an advanced society that are highly radioactive, suggesting that a long ago atomic war destroyed Martian civilization.
Rocketship X-M was released on 26 May 1950.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketship_X-M[1]
This precedes both Five and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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