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Good nuclear war movies

Independance day.
 
Not a movie, but I highly recommend the book Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143125788

The incompetence with which the world's most deadly weapons are handled is an absolute nightmare - an accidental nuclear disaster is at least as likely, if not far moreso, than a deliberate attack.
 
I need to get busy watching some of these.I have only seen one of these lol. Sad to say. Spies like Us.
But has anyone seen Soylent Green? :D

It's set in the future, 2022 and the world is over populated and all natural resources are exhausted.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/plotsummary
 
Drumboy44 said:
I need to get busy watching some of these.I have only seen one of these lol. Sad to say. Spies like Us.
But has anyone seen Soylent Green? :D

It's set in the future, 2022 and the world is over populated and all natural resources are exhausted.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/plotsummary
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Someone sent me this the other day, and I'm still not sure if it's parody: https://www.soylent.com/

No mention of "secret ingredients" though :D
 
hrng said:
Drumboy44 said:
I need to get busy watching some of these.I have only seen one of these lol. Sad to say. Spies like Us.
But has anyone seen Soylent Green? :D

It's set in the future, 2022 and the world is over populated and all natural resources are exhausted.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/plotsummary
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Someone sent me this the other day, and I'm still not sure if it's parody: https://www.soylent.com/

No mention of "secret ingredients" though :D
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Omg. Hahaha. I wonder if that company even knows about the movie. :lol: :lol:
 
Ripperbravotwo said:
I'm surprised no one mentioned "By Dawns Early Light". It's not the best movie every made, but not too bad. I might show my age here but anyone remember Damnation Alley? It's not good, but worth a watch if nothing else is on.
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I enjoyed a lot By Dawns Early Light.
 
NuclearID said:
Yes. Just saw it yesterday. Wish they had a better ending.... But movie is fantastic.
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In an interview with the the director and screenwriter, they stated the ending was deliberate on their part. The writer says he knows in his head what really happens after they cut to black, but the point is it's irrelevant to the story. It's all about the insanity of giving one man the power to make a potentially extinction level event decision for the entire human race with extremely limited information and only minutes to decide. It used to be 30 minutes. But with SLBM and hypersonic technology, that time could now theoretically be 5 minutes or less from launch point to Washington DC. If POTUS is in the White House at launch time, there is no method of getting him out of blast range before detonation in that time frame. He would barely have time to get from the Oval Office to an underground bunker.

If we were to use current geopolitics and world leaders, I would theorize that China either hacked the DSP satellites or blinded them with a laser weapon, allowing Russia to launch a single nuclear weapon undetected and with plausible deniability. My only problem with the movie's story line is I refuse to believe that a President would even consider a retaliatory strike without 100% positive knowledge of whom to retaliate against. In the case of a single incoming ICBM, you wait to see if the missile actually even has a warhead on it and detonates, and while keeping the military at DEFCON 1, you investigate who launched it.

There is also some blatant disinformation included in the movie, which I found irritating, although I know why they did it. The statement is made that the missile could have originated from any of the nine countries that have nuclear weapon. That is patently false. Israel, Pakistan, and India do not have ICBMs that can reach the United States as depicted in the movie, reducing the number to six. Of those six, three are NATO, further reducing the number to three possibles. They also did not discuss the possibility of a terrorist attack. The odds of a terrorist organization obtaining an ICBM are astronomically low, but it should still have been discussed as a possibility.

Still, one of the best nuclear war movies I've seen in a long time. I would put it right up there with The Day After and Threads for realistic portrayal of a nuclear war.
 
What I found interesting about "A House of Dynamite" was there was no civil defense warning for the public.
 
RiffRaff said:
I just finished watching "A House of Dynamite" on Netflix. It is an *absolute* must-see nuclear war movie.
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Here is the interview on ABC (just dropped today) with the director of "A House of Dynamite" and a retired general after director is interviewed. Both break it down on the reality or factuality of the movie.

MUST WATCH, NEW, INTERVIEW:
 
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