# ID this apocalyptic movie comedy (WTF?)

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**Created:** [August 26, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-apocalyptic-movie-comedy-wtf/318801 "2005-08-26T21:54:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-apocalyptic-movie-comedy-wtf/318801/1 "2005-08-26T21:54:44Z")

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I’m referring to a movie, probably made in the 1950s or early 1960s where there was an imminent threat of nuclear war. I know this sounds like _Dr. Strangelove_, but it isn’t. I saw it on TV, probably sometime during the 1970s. All I remember is that at the end the bomb hits while the principal characters are huddled in the back of a big-rig truck, while the world–and the movie–end.

I realize this concept doesn’t make sense–a funny movie about nuclear war–but it really did work, and was funny, and enjoyable.

Does anyone remember this movie?

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-apocalyptic-movie-comedy-wtf/318801/2 "2005-08-27T02:38:56Z")

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[This Is Not A Test](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183884/)