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Frigid Winter Warming Spectacular: Best Nuclear Explosion! (Pt. 3)

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With Part Two in the books and the Polar Vortex quickly retreating (not to mention my readers’ patience), let’s wrap this explosive competition. Reviewed in previous posts: Asteroid City, The Dark Knight Rises, The Day After, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Failsafe, Fat Man and Little Boy, Godzilla, Indiana Jones/Crystal Skull, Matinee, Oppenheimer and The Peacemaker. Which leaves five until we pick a winner. Buckle up.

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Frigid Winter Warming Spectacular: Best Nuclear Explosion! (Pt. 2)

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There’s little doubt my six or so loyal readers gobbled up Part One at a single sitting and, barely satiated, started pounding silverware on the table demanding more destruction porn. Let me oblige posthaste. As you’ll recall, we critiqued Hollywood’s take on nuclear explosions in six films: Asteroid City, The Dark Knight Rises, The Day After, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Failsafe and Fat Man and Little Boy. Let’s now light the fuse on our next five!

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