Why didn't the USA government use nuclear weapon's on the zombie's?
After all they were living underground anyway's so what the *beep*?
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I don't really see the benefit to nuking targets. Failing a counter-virus that deactivates the undead and doesn't affect the living, the only real option is mass armament and training of survivors, probably with 22lr rifles, to go around popping heads.
But in Romero's universe, and probably the most likely outcome, the government is too slow to act and civilians are too molly-coddled to do what they need to do.
There's nothing in the film to prove one way or the other that the government didn't try using nukes.
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True that, the eye-patch scientist in Dawn suggested that the government do just that...at least to major cities, as that's where most of the zombies congregated.
shareMaybe they did ... When the team climb out of the facility at the end of the movie, it looks like a missile silo minus the missile.
sharetrue, I never thought of it that way... on the other hand they talk about people in Washington maybe being alive... with Nukes that would be ruled out I suppose.
shareNot all missiles would be nuclear though. And we never see any nukes city in dawn day or land..
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