While "atomic fiction" depicted possible fearful scenarios using atomic bombs
and radiation, documentary sources illustrated the reality. Newspapers,
magazines, books, and pamphlets described in vivid detail the effects of nuclear
bombs on the Bikini Atoll, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, kept Americans abreast of
the latest atomic developments and their destructive forces, and explained the
devastating results if a bomb were to be dropped on the United States. All
combined to reinforce the fear Americans had about anything atomic