I love that 1954 plays a part, and gives the new film a connection to the original, in canon or not, which we knew from the director for a while now. It's great, and somethign early American Godzilla films either lacked even though Japan was still there, or none at all.
In the mythos; Godzilla was awakened/born from the atomic tests. The '54 original, while had images based on the Nagasaki/Hiroshima bombings with what was left with Tokyo, and in fact the firebombing of Tokyo influenced the fires of Tokyo in that film, was a message against those tests because they could still harm humanity, even if they weren't near land. Chief example was the Lucky Dragon incident, and if you don't know what that was: the Lucky Dragon was a fishing boat that didn't know it got its fish from the area where those bombs were used, and some of those fish went on the market. It was dubbed by the media as the second bombing of Japan.
So no, Nagasaki/Hiroshima didn't create Godzilla, the '50s tests did. Though, the images of those bombings from WWII influenced the original movie.
What do you mean? What do you know that we don't?!
