Nuclear War and The Divide
Yes...this was a nuclear war. That has been established. These were not conventional weapons. I say this because some people on here claim that these were conventional bombs...and biological weapons that gave the impression of radiation sickness. WTF? The makers of this film just didn't know how to accurately portray nuclear boom sticks going off over the Big Apple. Research, people!!
I did like this movie, besides that bizarre white suit team and children with hoses up their noses scene. But let me set the film straight about nuclear weapons effects.
Eva should have been blinded, ripped apart by glass, and burnt beyond recognition by the thermal pulse. From the upper tip of Manhattan to the lower tip is just over 13 miles. A typical nuclear explosion with a modern warhead (500 kilotons to one megaton) will blind someone looking at the fireball up to eighty kilometers away, depending on day or night, weather conditions, etc. A lot of people blinded in a nuclear war would be temporarily blinded if they were far enough away, but there would be many permanent cases of blindness as well. Eva would not have stood a chance of ever seeing again. And she most likely would have been killed, for her sake, very fast. The nuclear blasts were either Russian or possibly but less likely Chinese, not North Korea or al Qaeda/ISIS, as most dumb Liberals would assume. These blasts would most likely have been air bursts to maximize blast damage. A ground burst on New York would be totally unnecessary as there are no hardened targets there of strategic value. An air burst creates intense local fallout for a little while but it dissipates eventually. A ground burst, usually reserved for hardened command-and-control centers and missile silos, will generate a crap ton of lethal fallout over a wide area downwind due to all the debris sucked up into the fireball. A terrorist nuclear attack would most likely be a ground burst. This was an all out attack. And in an all out nuclear war with the Russians, one could expect several to several dozen warheads exterminating just about anything with a pulse in the New York City metropolitan area.
So I went on a rant. I guess my point is, while I can forgive this scene, the nuclear bombing scene in this movie was complete crap.