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Posted: 2016-06-24T17:08:44+10:00 In:

When a malfunctioning nuke triggers a landslide and traps a plane crash survivor underground, he must lead panicky rocket scientists back to the nuke before it detonates.

When a malfunctioning nuke triggers a landslide and traps a plane crash survivor underground, he must lead panicky rocket scientists back to the nuke before it detonates.
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    1. Singularity

      I can’t make sense of what happens. ?If the nuke has malfunctioned and triggered a landslide — exploded– doesn’t that mean it has already detonated?

      Also, what is needed is not a?rocket scientist but a nuclear scientist,

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    2. Singularity

      I am right there with you dpg. This is a bit confusing.

      Also how does a landslide cause a plane to crash.

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    3. Singularity

      Agreed with the above comments, but I like a good nuke movie and I believe with a few modifications the concept can be made to work.

      What if the plane was carrying the nuclear scientist to a nuclear silo base and crashed on approach, the sole survivors are the main character and the scientist. As a result of the crash one of the missiles was accidentally armed and the countdown is on, now the MC and the scientist literally have a ticking time bomb to take care of or else.

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    4. Singularity

      I appreciate Nir Shelter’s effort to propose to a constructive alternative. ?But, alas, as I reside in the nation where most of the nuclear silos on the planet are embedded, I do not find any version of the concept to be credible.

      Nuclear silos were built to have a fighting chance of surviving direct nuclear attacks. ?That’s why they were dug so deep into ground — and hardened. ?Even if a ?Lockheed C-5 transport or a Boeing 747 were to crash on top of a site, it would be no more than a scratch, a bump in terms of the structural integrity and functionality of the site.

      Also the countdown, once commenced, would be too short — far shorter than the length of a feature film –for them to gain entrance and figure out how to stop it or disarm the missile.

      The Achilles heels of nuclear silos is the antiquated technology. ?By antiquated, I mean that too many of them still rely vacuum tubes, tape drives and 8″ and 5 1/4″ floppy disks ?– the “state of the art” technology that existed when the systems were first — or last — computerized.

      Now there’s a story waiting to be dramatized — a site that goes rogue because of obsolescent systems.

      fwiw

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    5. Singularity

      Good points DPG. To that matter I recall the production designer that designed the bomber in Doctor Strangelove, saying that years after the film’s release he met a real life veteran of the air force who specifically told him that he got the interior of the bombers right almost to the finer detail of the analogue code machine. Point is, that despite the interior design of these aircraft being top-secret, through rigorous research, the art department was able to imbue a tremendous amount of realism in the scene which clearly helped make the film as suspenseful and funny as it is.

      Perhaps the logic flaw here is a problem, and best to re locate the MC and scientist inside a nuke silo to get around it.

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