Super Critical Podcast - Overthinking Nuclear Weapon Pop Culture

Episode #72: Five

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In this episode, we count our blessings we survived a nuclear war long enough to watch the movie Five (1951) about a small group of people trying to rebuild civilization after radioactive fallout kills everyone else. This is the first movie showing a post-nuclear war story, so how did it do? Did it accurately portray radiation sickness or nuclear war dynamics? What did the five fingers say to the Red Button (spoiler: it is “slap!”)? Tim Westmyer (@Westmyer) and James Sheehan (@JSheehanDC) answer these questions and more. Before we harested our atomic cornfields, we recommend: -The Last Man on Earth (TV series) -There Will Be Blood (2007 Movie) -Six String Samurai (1998 Movie) -Mad Max: Fury Road (2015 Movie) -12 Angry Men (1957 Movie) -How To Blow Up a Pipeline (2022 Movie) -On the Beach (1959 Movie) Enjoy!