# Which movie has the most REALISTIC nuclear explosion?

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**Created:** [June 6, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-has-the-most-realistic-nuclear-explosion/180201 "2003-06-06T23:55:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-has-the-most-realistic-nuclear-explosion/180201/21 "2003-06-07T15:27:31Z")

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Threads is a good choice, too. I think it was supposed to be scarier than The Day After was, but I can’t remember it as clearly.

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**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-has-the-most-realistic-nuclear-explosion/180201/22 "2003-06-07T15:29:58Z")

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Definitely T2. That one is downright chilling.

Not only because it’s well done, but because of what you’re looking at right before the nuke goes off.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-has-the-most-realistic-nuclear-explosion/180201/23 "2003-06-07T15:30:09Z")

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[Threads](http://www.ibp-intl.demon.co.uk/nuke/threads.html).

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-has-the-most-realistic-nuclear-explosion/180201/24 "2003-06-07T20:30:10Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Declan \*  
> \*\*yeah , but the problem in my mind was that the reactor should have done a china syndrome , not detonate.
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> Had they actually dropped the nuke , i would have had no probles with it , but what they actually did was use artisitic license.
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> Declan \*\*

Eh. It’s two or three hundred years in the future. Who knows how nuclear reactor technology had changed?

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