The Atomic Cafe (1982) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1982 · 86 mins · English

Directed by

Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader

Starring

Nikita Khrushchev, Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry S. Truman, Lewis Strauss, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg

A hot spot in the Cold War, this unsettling compilation strings together United States government‑issued propaganda shorts from the 1940s and 1950s. The films were created to calm the public, insisting that the atomic bomb posed no real threat to ordinary Americans’ safety.