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Nuclear weapons are also one of the main targets of peace organizations. The CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) was one of the main organisations campaigning against the "Bomb". Its symbol, a combination of the semaphore symbols for "N" (nuclear) and "D" (disarmament), entered modern popular culture as an icon of peace.
In one scene, when discussing whether or not an attack on the aliens' space craft was warranted, politicians claimed it was necessary because the aliens had "massive weapons of destruction" which could be deployed "within forty-five seconds" – a reference to Prime Minister Tony Blair's claim in the lead-up to the Iraq War that Saddam Hussein ...
The song "Enola Gay" by British pop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is about the B-29 Superfortress bomber that delivered the payload of the first atomic bomb, Little Boy, over Hiroshima, and later flew weather reconnaissance for the second mission days later when Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. The song is anti-war, and questions the ...
No one wanted to touch it. The Trump campaign made legal threats against the film, centering on a scene of sexual assault (an accusation that was denied in 2015 by Ivana Trump). And this created a ...
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"Thank Christ for The Bomb" By Groundhogs (1970) "Thank God for The Bomb" By Ozzy Osbourne (1986) "The Sun Is Burning" By Simon & Garfunkel (1964) "This World Over" by XTC (1984) "Time After Time" By Electric Light Orchestra (1983) "Time Will Crawl" By David Bowie (1987) "Total Eclipse" By Klaus Nomi (1981) "Town to Town" by Microdisney (1987)
Popular culture (also called pop culture or mass culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art [cf. pop art] or mass art, sometimes contrasted with fine art) [1] [2] and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.