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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
Yeah I have to agree. Actually when I first watched it I sat there in stunned disbelief as more detonations took place and the audio tones for each nation's detonations started to resemble a tune. You almost feel like screaming at the film, "What were you idiots trying to do to my planet?!"
Considering the sheer number of detonations in the 1970s AND the 1980s, I don't believe that the USA or the USSR were conducting nothing but "scientific tests" with most of them. Not when you see one, two or three detonations in a single month and something like 20 to 30 for an entire year and that continuing on for nearly half the decade.
Seems like in the 30 years from 1945 to 1975 they should have had plenty of data on yield, radioactivity, fallout and so on. So why the need to continue exploding nuclear devices for the next two decades?
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I think a lot of it has to go with the constant game of one upmanship that the super powers engaged in. After all both sides were busy using every means possible to find out about the nuke arsenal that the other had. Still doesn't explain why popping 2000+ nukes would be considered a good idea, does it?
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