On the larger side... Howard Duff with the Bomb in PANIC IN THE CITY (1968).pic.twitter.com/We1bFyyNNZ
Hello, I'm a nuclear weapon in a movie. I'm either ridiculously small or ridiculously huge. I can be defused and disarmed with your bare hands. I rarely go off, but the tension is very exciting. Sometimes, I glow.
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Your presence is also clearly marked by red and green wires, and for some reason they always fail to label which should be cut.
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So do I cut the red wire or the green one?
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*consults EE 101 textbook* Either.
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And whose explosion ALWAYS results in a pyrocumulus mushroom cloud regardless of the size of the blast. Because nuclear detonations invariably create them.
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To be fair, the sum of all fears actually seemed to get it right. Although perhaps on the ridiculously small side.
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If you mean the film, it was a fizzle. From the Hospital the flash wasn't even a second long and the shock front arrived perhaps a second later, showing how close it was. Yeah it wasn't half bad to me.
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That scene was edited from it's original version to reduce how graphic the detonation was, in the wake of 9/11, as I recall.
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Makes sense, but the duration of the flash tells the tale.
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That’s a pretty consistent rough indicator of yield, right?
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Yes. There is a book called “Nuclear War Survival Skills” by Cresson Kearny that came out in the late 70s early 80s that goes into it. I think less than 3 second flash is a yield of 20kt or less, 3-8 seconds is 20-120kt, and so on. Its been a while since reading any of it
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And you defuse it with 0:03 seconds to spare.
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“Sometimes, I glow.”
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Not in the Forbin Project!
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this needed to be in the "ladies, he's not your man" meme format
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Hello, McGuffin
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Nice one, Alex. ;-)
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That's what she said
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Whenever I think of you, I think of the barrel sized hydrogen bomb from Superman II.
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