General Discussion

I watched the movie this weekend. I was only 5 when it came out, and I'd never heard of it before. It was very well done and terrifying, and did a great job of portraying the real human toll of a nuclear war. Especially framing in the first half how we are all just going about our normal lives with our normal problems.... the farmer who's daughter is staying out all night having sex with her soon to be husband, the woman about to have her baby, the doctor traveling to give a lecture.....

And then all of it is gone...... government, law and order, and literally safe air to breathe. All gone in less than an hour. And it really brings to life the truth of nuclear war, that the survivors will envy the dead. If I could be any person in this movie, it would be one of the persons vaporized on impact, who never even knew what happened. For the survivors, living in an irradiated world, there is no food, no water, hospitals helpless to provide care.

I think "fear of nuclear war" is something people don't think a whole lot about anymore. But it really should be. We should be thinking about who's finger we trust to be "on the button". Look at the stuff we are arguing about.... oil in Iran, money in politics, college affordability...... nothing compares in importance to making sure a nuclear war never happens. Even utter madmen like Putin and drumpf have not launched........ how much do we trust them to not do so in the future?

While I'd never seen this movie I remember being a teenager and watching the movie Crimson Tide, and they are talking about nuclear war and Denzel Washington's character says something along the lines of "there's no such thing as a nuclear war, only nuclear holocaust". That line always stuck with me about how horrible it would be. No winners, only losers, and the end of our way of life, forever.

I wish these weapons simply did not exist. No one person should have the ability to end the world with the press of a button. it is too great of responsibility and temptation. And too dangerous to risk that one day some crazy person will gain enough power launch.