![]() By enacting what Rob Wilson and Chris Connery call “worlding” to make sense of divergent re-presentations of the tragic Lucky Dragon/Bikini incident that decidedly informed the creation of the original Japanese Gojira (1954), this paper analyzes geopolitical figurations of the Pacific and its peoples in both the specific context of this tragic incident and the broader formation of transpacific nuclear modernity. Specifically, this paper foregrounds how these two recent cultural texts, produced at different Pacific shores, bring the complexity of the often-absented Pacific back into focus. militarism and transpacific technological modernity. This paper frames these two distinctive post-Fukushima cultural texts as memory work that mediates post-WWII genealogies of nuclear weaponry and nuclear power as constitutive elements of U.S. This paper examines two recent Godzilla-themed cultural artifacts that highlight the entanglement between nuclear weaponry and nuclear energy: first, the 60th anniversary Godzilla exhibit at the Tokyo Metropolitan Daigo Fukuryū Maru Exhibition Hall second, the 2014 American Godzilla directed by Gareth Edwards.
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