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From: jmccombi@bbncca.ARPA (Jon McCombie)
Newsgroups: net.tv.da
Subject: TDA unrealistic (?)
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Date: Wed, 23-Nov-83 21:19:54 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 23 21:19:54 1983
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Of course the scenes showing the aftermath were understated/unrealistic.
The war depicted what MIGHT have happened if 10-megaton warheads were
dropped.  It is my understanding that no major power maintains missles with
< 20-megaton warheads; usual firepower is more like 100-megatons.

As the producer (or was it the director?) said in an interview (quoting
from memory...): "Sure, if we'd been completely realistic, the film would
have been real short: introduce the characters, show the flash, pan the
crater, roll the credits".  Nothing more.  Bi-i-i-i-lions and bi-i-ilions
of square meters of fused silica parking lot.