Here are four movies and one book that exemplify the facets of what we might call “nuke noir.”Īlfred Hitchcock began work on “Notorious” in 1944, more than a year before the first nuclear explosion at New Mexico’s Trinity Site officially kicked off the nuclear age. The Cold War had barely started when noir began using nuclear paranoia as a theme and a plot point-sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes as overtly as a shockwave destroying a town.
Noir, both fiction and film, is built on a foundation of fear, and no fear grips us quite like the specter of our world ending at any second in a white-hot blast of nuclear fire.
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