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The Best Nuclear War Films

Friendly Engineer said:
Interesting premise, but I guarantee when I look up the ratings it's terrible. You can tell from the trailer that they didn't know how to flesh out the idea and execute it properly and it probably turns into a wishy washy love story or something because the writers are clueless.
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IMDb gives it 5.6/10, what a shocker
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They should have taken a tip from 12 Angry men for this idea, 1 set, no visuals, just some people in a room debating the merits of a person surviving a war.
 
Friendly Engineer said:
They should have taken a tip from 12 Angry men for this idea, 1 set, no visuals, just some people in a room debating the merits of a person surviving a war.
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Gee, I liked it. In fact, I think I'm going to watch it again. I watched it a while ago and came across it scrolling through vids looking for something to watch. As I recall it is based on a college experiment. That's why they are all young. Besides wouldn't you want young people with specific expertise in a doomsday bunker to restart humanity? I have also found that I don't give allot of standing to reviews. In fact, if the critics give it a bad review that usually means it's good. At least IMO. (y)
 
william said:
Gee, I liked it. In fact, I think I'm going to watch it again. I watched it a while ago and came across it scrolling through vids looking for something to watch. As I recall it is based on a college experiment. That's why they are all young. Besides wouldn't you want young people with specific expertise in a doomsday bunker to restart humanity? I have also found that I don't give allot of standing to reviews. In fact, if the critics give it a bad review that usually means it's good. At least IMO. (y)
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Watching it now on Prime, not Netflix. It's also on Apple and Ruku. My bad about being on Netflix.
 
Friendly Engineer said:
Interesting premise, but I guarantee when I look up the ratings it's terrible. You can tell from the trailer that they didn't know how to flesh out the idea and execute it properly and it probably turns into a wishy washy love story (why are they all young people??) or something because the writers are clueless.
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This is an favorite liberal professors class role play scenario to force students to select what type of person gets tossed out of the life raft so that at least some can survive.
It’s a forced simulation of what type of person should be euthanatized to save humanity.
 
OReid said:
This is an favorite liberal professors class role play scenario to force students to select what type of person gets tossed out of the life raft so that at least some can survive.
It’s a forced simulation of what type of person should be euthanatized to save humanity.
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I thought it was entertaining. The different iterations and such make you think. (y)
 
I was scrolling around Netflix the other day and came across this 10-part series. It's kind of a cross between Mad Max and The Waking Dead. I was bored and I ended up watching it and actually learned something from it. Did you know that sunflowers can clean up contaminated soil including radiation and heavy metals. Handy thing to know when you want to plant a garden. (y)

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Scientists Are Using Sunflowers To Clean Up Nuclear Radiation

After the Hiroshima, Fukushima, and Chernobyl nuclear disasters, fields of sunflowers were planted across the affected landscapes to help absorb toxic
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william said:
I was scrolling around Netflix the other day and came across this 10-part series. It's kind of a cross between Mad Max and The Waking Dead. I was bored and I ended up watching it and actually learned something from it. Did you know that sunflowers can clean up contaminated soil including radiation and heavy metals. Handy thing to know when you want to plant a garden. (y)

gardencollage.com

Scientists Are Using Sunflowers To Clean Up Nuclear Radiation

After the Hiroshima, Fukushima, and Chernobyl nuclear disasters, fields of sunflowers were planted across the affected landscapes to help absorb toxic
gardencollage.com gardencollage.com

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Interesting information about the use of sunflowers. Thank you for sharing!

Let's have a rewrite of the movie The Day After. The characters who survive in Kansas (The Sunflower State) have hope for a future. The characters who may survive in Missouri are screwed though as Missouri is "the Show Me state" and not "the Sunflower state". Aww shucks.
Of course, it it is rewritten in a modern context, the people who live near the former Whiteman AFB missile field are not at as great of a risk as they may have been in 1983.
 
Well this one won’t be a popular choice but given that its mine, well I like it because we recognize it as cavalier and indifferent bullshit masquerading as an intelligent informative film.

Remember, no internet and no TV yet. Your world was only what you saw or happened to read in the newspaper or a shallow topic magazine like the excellent Life magazine.

It was a truly awful thing to do to end a truly Evil Empire.


Even better (sarcasm) If Japan did not surrender, we planned to drop something like 12 more in 1946 and DOZENS per year there on as needed (1)


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Tale of Two Cities, A : U.S. War Department : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

How the atomic bomb destroyed the people and cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
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(1) Operation Downfall and the invasion of Japan, 1945–1947 / D.M. Giangreco. p. ISBN 978-1-68247-166-1
 
william said:
Did you think the explosion was fairly accurate?
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If memory serves it's a pure fission weapon, and a bit crude, so it would have a low yield.
Here we have a 8kt device exploding at about 150ft. This was what the explosion should be like
You might be thinking "Hey, is that a nuclear bomb or a firework?" and the reason it's so small is because the water absorbs the vast majority of the energy given off by the bomb, and water can store a LOT of energy.

Let's say it's a higher yield, similar to Hiroshima. Let's also say that it detonates closer to the surface, at 90ft.
It would look like this:

Let's break down what happens in American assassin:
- There is a big void that forms over a few seconds that destroys the boat, that shouldn't happen.
- WHERE'S THE WILSON CLOUD!?!?! Condensation cloud - Wikipedia

So, for realism, I give it a 5/10
 

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Watching this series now. So far it is very good. IMO
 
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