Ordinarily, I'd be down with everyone making fun of the original poster, but really, I just watched this on Netflix and it really is is a very, very Freudian movie.
Just as one isolated example, check out the scene where Dana Andrew's character uses a hot poker to burn a hole through a glass pane to demonstrate what his missile will do to the earth, while his wife smiles suggestively in the audience....
The science is outdated and occasionally not just outdated but genuinely stupid. But the personal dynamics still give one pause. After all:
The gadget was tested at Trinity Site, New Mexico, near Alamogordo. For the test, the gadget was lifted to the top of a 100-foot (30 m) bomb tower. It was feared by some that the Trinity test might "ignite" the earth's atmosphere, eliminating all life on the planet, although a classified report produced several years earlier had demonstrated that this was not possible.[16] Less wild estimates thought that New Mexico would be incinerated. Calculations showed that the yield of the device would be between 0 (if it did not work) and 20 kilotons (metric, equivalence of TNT). In the aftermath of the test, it appeared to have been a blast equivalent to 18 kt of TNT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)It seems pretty clear that in real life, governments and scientists were perfectly willing to roll the dice on life on planet Earth.
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