... race through the use of the hydrogen bomb, was imminent. The intense atmosphere of trepidation was overwhelming to the individual and omnipresent amongst society. As astute social artist, writer Don DeLillo and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick were both highly sentient of this fear and reflected upon it in their works, Pafko at the Wall and Dr. Strangelove, respectively. Despite their commonality ... that Nuclear War, although unfortunate was the acceptable outcome of competing nations. "The faces around him," at the deciding game of the 1951 World Series were, "open and hopeful"(DeLillo 11). ...

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