Before Putin invaded Ukraine and threatened the use of nuclear weapons, 1980s movies like Wargames and Terminator 2 terrorized us with scenes of nuclear war.
Decades have elapsed since Americans trembled at the prospect of nuclear war, which once hung over our heads like a sword of Damocles. But with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion and attempted conquest of Ukraine, and the attendant nuclear saber-rattling, we’ve all been reminded that, oh yeah, the world could still blow itself up many times over! Though the possibility never disappeared, we forgot about it, or more accurately, preferred not to think about it in the post-Cold War world.
Hollywood still occasionally made films about the threat of nuclear war and nuclear holocaust in the mid-late 1960s and 1970s, such as Glen and Randa , A Boy and his Dog , and Damnation Alley , but it was a fallow period for the genre.
While generals and eggheads squabble over the best course of action, David pushes aside the experts and tames Joshua like a wild mustang. He is the one person who not only understands how to communicate with and use the technology, but how to get the computer system to “learn” that global thermonuclear war is a game that can’t be won. If it seems unlikely that the U.S.
George Miller’s Mad Max movies, made in Australia, were also among the most popular sci-fi visions of the apocalypse. The first Mad Max suggested an ambiguous dystopian future, but with their bigger budgets, the sequels The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome elaborated and specified a post-nuclear holocaust.
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