We’ve entered a world in which, for all we know, such scenarios are in the president’s nuclear football. Meanwhile the president and his military advisers are on the brink of unleashing a massive nuclear attack code-named “Dream Angel” on the entire Islamic world as retaliation, envisioning the indiscriminate slaughter of hundreds of millions in what may be a scary wish-fulfillment fantasy.
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There are so many things wrong with it-just for a start, it’s not likely that of two people vaporized in the same instant, one will get to somehow maintain cognitive functioning long enough to observe the other one “spattering.”Ī bit of literary license perhaps, or some kind of license, but does it need to be spelled out? Streiber goes on to deal with the all-too-real question of nuclear blackmail: He has the perpetrators of the Vegas nuking threaten to blow up more cities with repositioned nukes unless the president of the United States goes on TV, prays to Allah, and institutes sharia law. Remember the playground scene where the nuke turns the frolicking moms and kids into scary X-rays? * It’s a key transition between the old nuke porn and the new.)įrankly, I wished I’d never read it at all. (The most notable exception being, of course, the few seconds of- did it happen or was it averted?-nuking footage in Terminator 2. Yes, Strangelove ended with a suite of stock footage of mushroom clouds exploding (to the strains of “ We’ll Meet Again“), but while we saw the explosions there, we never confronted face to face-in the way film and fiction can-the actual experience of being inside a nuclear blast. There was always an erotic component to apocalyptic literature-those end-of-the-world sects were notorious for their doom-fueled orgiastic behavior-but I always wondered why most nuke porn was about looking forward to the approaching act or looking back on its consummation but rarely about looking directly at it. Instead of the anticipatory excitement ( Fail-Safe, Strangelove) or the post-coital tristesse ( On the Beach) of First Era nuke porn, we get real-time blast-burns and melting flesh. The new nuke porn is hard-core, more graphic and full-frontal than the Cold War version of the genre.
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