 American fears of an impending apocalyptic World War III with the communist bloc were strengthened by the quick succession of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb test, the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949, and the beginning of the Korean War in 1950.Pundits named the era "the age of anxiety", after W. H. Auden.In 1951, an entire issue of "Collier's" magazine was devoted to a fictional account of World War III.