Trivia

This film was so low budgeted that, instead of hiring a voice specialist to do the narration, it was done by the director, Fred F. Sears.

In 1996, 39 years after this movie was made, a real Element 112 was identified by scientists. After several years of controversy surrounding the discovery, Element 112 was finally admitted to the periodic table in 2009 and named copernicium, after Nikolaus Copernicus, the astronomer who first established that the earth orbited the sun instead of the other way around. But the real copernicium is a highly unstable radioactive element (one isotope has a half-life of just four seconds, another has a half-life of 30 seconds) that doesn't behave at all like the fictional "Element 112" in this film.

The Night the World Exploded went into production with shooting locations at the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico; the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California; and the Databton Corporation Building in Pasadena, California. Principal photography took place from November 8 - 12, 1956.

The volcano behind the miltary officer is the same one as on Gilligan's Island.

In 1957, Columbia Pictures theatrically distributed this film on a double bill with The Giant Claw (1957).