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Mary explains that they were waiting until the last minute to board the plane in hopes that he would join them, and so they heard the announcement of the asteroid disaster and headed back to Cape Shark. Scientist Dr. Randowsky becomes convinced that the chaos caused by the cluster is divine punishment for humanity's use of nuclear missiles.
Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and released by Touchstone Pictures.The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to destroy a gigantic asteroid, which is the size of Texas, on a collision course with Earth.
It involves a Soviet naval captain who wants to defect to the United States with his crew and with the Soviet's most advanced nuclear missile submarine. I Am Cuba (1964) – a Cuban-Soviet film that encompasses the lives of everyday Cubans during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Iranium – a movie about the nuclear weapons program of Iran
The prime example of a "major nuclear accident" is one in which a reactor core is damaged and significant amounts of radioactive isotopes are released, such as in the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
The Navy had been led to believe that the movie's storyline was about a Trident ballistic missile submarine crew attempting to stop the ship's fictional computer from launching nuclear missiles and starting World War III. In movie parlance, the Navy was told the story would be "The Hunt for Red October meets 2001: A Space Odyssey."
Black flies to Washington, D.C., to attend a conference led by Dr. Groeteschele, a political scientist renowned for his expertise on the politics of nuclear weapons, a character based on Herman Kahn. Groeteschele is a fervent anti-communist. At a dinner party the previous evening, he dismisses the fears that such a war would destroy the human race.
The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. The film postulates a fictional war between the NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact over Germany that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Although interceptor missiles destroy around 40% of the incoming Soviet missiles, the United States is hit hard, particularly major cities. Two years later, the Earth has been tilted off its axis by the nuclear detonations of World War III ; radiation has mutated giant scorpions , the planet is wracked by massive storms, and the sky is in a ...