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Doomsday Movie Series - The Day After

Steve Guttenburg escaping a nuclear blast

Steve Guttenburg escaping a nuclear blast

For some reason, over the past few months and through various “sources”, I rewatched four feature-length doomsday movies.  These movies aren’t like typical disaster flicks - think ”Armageddon”, “I am Legend”, and “The Day After Tomorrow.”   After watching one of those movies I don’t feel that same sense of dread.  Nothing in them inspires me to fight for the cause of world peace. 

The next few articles will review four movies that affected my ideas on war, nuclear weapons, and human nature.  They’re not strict documentaries.  A couple even do lean towards the disaster genre I described above.  But they all have one thing in common - Nuclear War.  And so…
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Let’s Play Global Thermonuclear War

I’ll start my “Nuclear Apocalypse Movie Week” tomorrow in recognition of September 20th 26th.  You three readers out there, stay tuned till then to find out what’s so special about that day.

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