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The sad thing is, were there ever any movies since World War II that dealt with the atom bomb? Nothing comes to mind

 

Fat Man and Little Boy

 

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Every spy thriller/action movie where someone/group wants to acquire/has acquired a nuke/nukes to sell to the highest bidder/terrorists/use in a terrorist attack/as part of a real estate scheme to trigger the San Andreas fault and drop the westernmost part of California into the ocean.

 

As someone who grew up at the end of the Cold War having vivid nightmares of nuclear war, I can confidently say the only forms of media where the atom bomb was prevalent were television, books, comics, video games, board games, card games, documentaries, plays, commercials. Oh, and also film.

 

Also Fail Safe, which is about an accidental nuclear attack.

And, of course, Sherman's March. Which was supposed to be a documentary about Sherman's March, but the director kept getting distracted by women and panicking about the possibility of nuclear annihilation.

 

The irony being that they were sued over the similarities between the source novel and Red Alert, the novel that Dr. Strangelove was based on. They settled out of court and Dr. Strangelove got to hit the theaters first, whereas Fail Safe...
... bombed.

 

Guess I'll watch the movie about everyone's famous communist pariah and his love of the Bhagavad Gita.

Yes, that's exactly what this movie must be about.

 

Does anybody remember The Day After? It gave me nightmares just from the trailer.

Also When The Wind Blows.

 

I remember a hairless irradiated dying Jason Robards stumbling through a bombed hellscape.

 

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Let’s see what games deal with nuclear weapons

off the top of my head
All of Fallout
All of Metro
One of the far cry games can end with the world being nuked
Wasteland 1,2,3
Call of duty several times


That’s all of them I can think of off the top of my head.

 

Don't forget it has "prolonged full nudity" according to reviews.

I'm seeing it on the 25th in 70mm.

 

Battlefield 3 nuked Paris

 

Excuse me don't forget Worms: Armageddon

 

Canon ending of Far Cry 5 is nuclear armageddon, because the sequel Far Cry:New Dawn is set in the post-nuclear world.
The interactive fiction game Trinity, which I mentioned over in my top 20 video game list, is literally the history of the atom bomb right back to the first atomic test.
Wolfenstein:The New Order mentions the Nazis forced the US to surrender by dropping a nuke on NYC, and you get to visit the ruins in The New Colossus.
Black Mesa is ultimately destroyed in a nuclear blast in the Opposing Force DLC for Half-Life.
The DLC for the original State of Decay has a SpecOps member trying to set off a nuke in the center of the city (optimal ending is to disarm it)

 

If you play Terran you can nuke people in StarCraft. Can being the operative word because generally speaking you’re trolling if you are building ghosts against a human player.

Ghosts are better in SC2 but nukes are still pretty bad. Just extremely unlikely to be cost effective.

Fun in the campaigns though.