Nuclear weapons: their mythology, their beauty

[Vishniac]

When I listen to EBM, I dream of nuclear weapons! 

I pretty much listen to it, going often to partys or concerts (2 EBM concerts this week-end only. Very fine!
An exemple of yesterday:

A7ie : The Blaze

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This kind of music gives birth to all kind of military thought; I once calculated the energy equation of the kinetic bombardment in G.I Joe 2 while dancing ( ) but most of the time, I have images of military drones, B-29s above Tokyo at night, George W Bush with jaffa guards ( ) or all sorts of tactical strikes.

My favorites visions involve nuclear weapons, I have a kind of fetish with them. Weapons, their explosions, their vectors. I became ecstatic last night when one of the bands used images from the Tsar Bomba footage:

Documentary : tsar bomba

(God, I love the TU-95s too!  )
So today, I thought I would ask you about your relation to nuclear weapons in popular culture.

I re-watched today the Stargate Atlantis episode with the MIRV attack sequence. Pure beauty!

Horizon Attack from Stargate Atlantis

There is also the end of T3: Rise of the Machines. It let me in my chair at the end: the weight of fate, ineluctability, and finally the nuclear war that nothing could ever stop. Not even the alternate ending of T2:

Terminator 2 Judgement Day - Alternate End

Naturally for us gamers there are reminiscence of the famous sentence "Our words are backed with nuclear weapons" in Civ. Apolyton even sold mugs with it, I should have bought one!    In SMAC, we just have the warning "Do not pretend to threaten me with your planet-busting weapons..."

Two years ago, on a beautiful day, I went to the lakeside where was an exposition of nuclear tests pictures. (strange, isn't it?), about 40 of them. 1meter-pictures with only the codename of the test and its power in megatons. I think Castle Bravo was the most beautiful.


Strange too how the terms "nuclear weapon" seems much more...evocative than the 50s-dated "atomic bomb".

And you, folks?

[JarlWolf]

I like the Tsarina bombs of the one singer in first video 

But in terms of ordinance, it's been a form of constipation relief for me at times in my life.

Meaning its scared me... well you know;- thing is about nuclear explosions is that while they may look beautiful, they leave a lot of ugly behind. The testing sites at suhkoy nos were obliterated and rendered hellish wastelands after the testings.

And im not even touching Hiroshima and Nagasaki; your nuclear fetish scares me a little
But to sate that...?
DO NOT CLICK IF FAINT OF HEART! Not safe for workplace!

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We love Generals - Episode 5

as for myself though, on the note of love for ordinance and such I always had an affinity for the T-80 tank, and one of my country's more recent ordinance, the recent, newer versions of the MSTA artillery system, like the 2S35 is something to marvel at. And on note of artillery; self propelled guns and howitzers always fascinated me, and artillery in general. The Big Bertha and other grand artillery guns of the first world war were some of the largest weapons ever constructed.

But in truth, the true love of ordinance was the portable stuff for me. Semtex comes to mind immediately......

[Geo]

Whenever I think of nuclear weapons, the first thing to come up in my mind is this scene from the SMAC intro:
a young girl looking through the window/balcony iron bars, and suddenly that hellish bright light washing over the scene. Still gives me the chills when I see it, even though I know the scene is coming.