WW3 Media ranked Worst to Best (Option of terrifying realism)

[King Green]

Just was watching random videos on Youtube with the randomizer turned on and came across a couple independent short films on the "Before the Nukes hit" theme and was genuinely terrified and surprised of the few that got the characters to react at the sky.

Which reminds me of why I am posting this page and throwing these examples of the WW3 theme.

* Fallout 4 intro nuke scene 4/5, just a perfect example on first-person witness of the end.

*When the Wind Blows 3/5, characters are flexible and caring but not that levy towards immediate change but THAT post-war scenery though!

*Dr Stranglove 4/5, just even the IDEA of WW3 is dangerous alone, from abuse of madness and rage to the dissecting of the companionship of committing the action of a bomber. Pure terror on how you START the war.

*fanfic on the Krogan Nuclear War-"Don't Let my Bones be Dirty" 4/5, lovable side characters and expansion on the Krogan biology plus first contact with the Salarians. Main love from me is the disgusting but admiral society after a war and the discussion on Krogan Pride vs. Harmony. (I don't think the fic is up and was probably purged from the Admins, which is a bit of a bitch but agreeable since the author is on long hiatus.)

Any of you want to discuss on what WW3 books, movies, games, tv shows, educational works etc.?

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

You know it isn't technically random right?

[McAvoy]

Does the Terminator movies count as WW3? Kinda always like the scenes showing the nukes going off.

The ending of T3 is one of the few things I liked about the movie.

[Riedquat]

"Threads" scared the hell out of a lot of people in the 80s (not actually seen it personally and don't really want to either).

[Kinky Vorlon]

Threads is seriously scarring. It takes a place in my list of brilliant movies I'll never watch again alongside Come and See, Shoah and Grave of the Fireflies. Threads had Carl Sagan onboard as a consultant.

There's a movie called Fail Safe released around the same time as Strangelove which takes a far more serious tone and it's very good.

I'm an aviation buff and scour for any aviation related movies no matter how bad (Iron Eagle baby!). One of these is an HBO movie called By Dawn's Early Light starring James Earl Jones, Martin Landau, Powers Boothe and Rebecca DeMornay. It's based on a novel called Trinity's Child (which I also have). It follows the crew of a B-52 bomber as they're scrambled into the air to bomb Russia as well as the presidential successor who's in way over his head. It's pretty grim but it does have something a hopeful end.

Fallout 4's opening was dramatic but it bothers me because no one would survive a blast like that, let alone keep their eyesight. But I guess someone has to keep looking for Shawn right.

[MerelyAFan]

There's an interesting novel War Day written in the form of a research article by two journalists traveling across the devastated United States. Its fascinating because only three cities are technically hit (along with some EMP detonators), so its not quite a full blown post-apocalyptic hellscape, but a land very much struggling to to hold things together in various regions.