HeyJaredNuclear Theater
Examining the films of the Cold War and the U.S.-U.S.S.R. arms race, with a side dish of history and politics.
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The Quiet American: Original sin (opens the original)
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As this site has probably made clear, I spend a lot of time thinking about the past, both my own and my country’s. I’m reaching the age where all my potential roads seem to be merging into one—and we all know what the final destination is. Where maybe I used to spend more time wondering how X decision led to Y result, time starts to make such second-guessing irrelevant. My life is pretty much on the path it’s going to stay on, and all I have to do is talk to my (now grown) daughter to feel reass
Panic in Year Zero: Father knows best (opens the original)
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The year Zero comes pretty fast in Panic in Year Zero! One minute, it’s good ol’ 1962 in Southern California and the next, our nuclear family (sorry) of four is fighting for their lives in a post-apocalyptic battleground.But this was an American International Picture – which means it was made on a shoestring. So there’s no time to waste on a setup. Here it is: Ray Milland and his wife and two kids are heading for a camping trip in the high Sierras. There’s a large boom and flashes of light. Smok
Top Gun: America the rebooted (opens the original)
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I began writing this entry on Top Gun and America’s 250th birthday while on a Greek island. But in a way, that’s fitting. Greece measures time differently. Off the coast of the island, Kythira, where we stayed, Odysseus legendarily sailed, oh, only about 3,400 years ago.Civilization there thrived during the Bronze Age. The island sat on the sea route be… Read more
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