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The Best Nuclear War Films

It would probably take a minimum of a century to fully recover from a nuclear war at best.
 
WW3 does not, by and of its self, necessarily involve nuclear weapons. Therefore I believe WW4 will be the same: largely fought by young men who would rather be anywhere else.
 
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teekay99 said:
But what absolutely scares the frack out of me is a breakdown in social order, lawlessness, a splintering of society, and the lack of information. The destruction of communication infrastructure along with the possible effects from EMP will disrupt nearly every form of communication we are used to today. To me, this is the real nightmare.
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Should watch the show Jerhico. Shows kinda what it'd be like after a nuclear attack in America.
Highly recommend if you'd like to see how a small town would weather after such a event.

Not spoil anything but it's everything you'd think would happen. Breakdown in society, several government officials declare themselves president or claim independence, civil war, barter systems, ect.

WARNING once you start watching that show you will not or cannot stop. Super good, like a real peak into what it'd be like. Very rare gem of a show for nuclear war buffs. ;)
 
Totality said:
Should watch the show Jerhico. Shows kinda what it'd be like after a nuclear attack in America.
Highly recommend if you'd like to see how a small town would weather after such a event.

Not spoil anything but it's everything you'd think would happen. Breakdown in society, several government officials declare themselves president or claim independence, civil war, barter systems, ect.

WARNING once you start watching that show you will not or cannot stop. Super good, like a real peak into what it'd be like. Very rare gem of a show for nuclear war buffs. ;)
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I knew this was out there, and it was on my mind as I typed this message. However, I have never watched the show and had been avoiding it. I've been able to watch The Day After, Threads, The War Game, ZDF's World War III, and I have read Forstchen's One Second After. I guess if I could stomach those (including the especially dismal Threads), I guess I can stomach Jericho.
 
Totality said:
Should watch the show Jerhico. Shows kinda what it'd be like after a nuclear attack in America.
Highly recommend if you'd like to see how a small town would weather after such a event.

Not spoil anything but it's everything you'd think would happen. Breakdown in society, several government officials declare themselves president or claim independence, civil war, barter systems, ect.

WARNING once you start watching that show you will not or cannot stop. Super good, like a real peak into what it'd be like. Very rare gem of a show for nuclear war buffs. ;)
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Great show, and glad they came back to finish it up and give it a proper ending.
 
DescendedDeath said:
Great show, and glad they came back to finish it up and give it a proper ending.
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I did not like Jericho. I made it about five episodes into it. Aside from boredom, it was too black and white. The Mayor was always right and the Deputy Mayor always wrong. I hate shows that do that.
 
If you like to read and are into some sci fi realism the Metro series is an incredible collection of nuclear war literature. Also sadly the Russian author who wrote them, Dmitry Glukhovsky, was arrested for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. The developers for the game adaptations are also part of a Ukrainian studio.
 
Peter Griffin said:
If you like to read and are into some sci fi realism the Metro series is an incredible collection of nuclear war literature. Also sadly the Russian author who wrote them, Dmitry Glukhovsky, was arrested for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. The developers for the game adaptations are also part of a Ukrainian studio.
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"The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct and the half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind, but the last remains of civilization have already become a distant memory.



Man has handed over stewardship of the Earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on Earth, living in the Moscow Metro—the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters, or the need to repulse enemy incursion."
 
Peter Griffin said:
If you like to read and are into some sci fi realism the Metro series is an incredible collection of nuclear war literature. Also sadly the Russian author who wrote them, Dmitry Glukhovsky, was arrested for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. The developers for the game adaptations are also part of a Ukrainian studio.
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Played the first game. Was phenomenal.
 
Totality said:
Though there are certain emergency situations where NATO can take control without such discussions or approval.

Like if say London was nuked resulting in the annihilation of all their leadership and there was no more British civilian government. Then NATO can takeover British military if no one is left to run things in a decapitation strike. Though it's never happened so it's all theoretical... thankfully.
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There’s an oldish but goodish book called “On the Beach” where this happens. The book follows an America submarine captain that transfers his vessel to Australia after the entire Northern hemisphere is annihilated.
 
Six said:
they made a film on that one didn't they? or miniseries or something
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Yes filmed in Melbourne Australia. I remember a story of the female lead saying making a film about the end of the world at the end of the world. She hated being in Melbourne as too backward according to her. Neville Shute was an Australian author who wrote several novels about WW2 from a different point of view. My favourite was "A Town called Alice" though he also wrote some environmental novels such as "The Tall Timbers" and a short story "In the shadow of superbus." This was about the European destruction of native Australian environments. Was apparently banned at the time.
 
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