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I recently watched Last Resort (streaming on Plex), which gives an entertaining account of life on a nuclear submarine. I recommend it.

It also scratches my itch for tv shows and movies where nukes are actually fired/detonated. If there is a comprehensive list somewhere, I’d love to see it.

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Have you seen the movie "Failsafe"? It's an old black-and-white "non-action" movie about nukes during the cold war. Fascinating movie.

I haven't, it's going on the list. The plot sounds remarkably similar to By Dawn's Early Light (also good, from a psychological point of view).

https://www.crackle.com/watch/8196/2483291 (via google, but have fun with it... popcorn and turn down the lights ;-)

Failsafe is based on the same novel that Dr. Strangelove was based on - but while the (imho vastly superior) Kubrick movie was a comedy, Failsafe is more a warning.

They weren't based on the same novel -- but the novels "Fail Safe" and "Red Alert" were similar enough, and the release dates of "Fail Safe" and "Dr. Strangelove" were so close that Peter George and Stanley Kubrick sued the author and production of Fail Safe over copyright. In the eventual settlement, Columbia Pictures bought and distributed Fail Safe.

[I'm basing this on a reading of Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_(1964_film)#Lawsuit ]

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