kill whomever is left.

Just because everyone is dead is no good reason to stop having war, is it?

A pretty damned good flick, albeit one of 1970, when the Cold War still smoldered.

Apparently Ron Howard wants to remake this film -- why, oh why does Hollywood have such little imagination? And the star? Yup! Wil Smith. Maybe he will yet again give support staff for the movie coupons for free Scientology screenings, as if it were a gift.

This is a movie, like The Day the Earth Stood Still, like The Invasion of the Body Snatchers that is begging for a remake. NOT!

That it is being championed by none other than Ron Howard is shameful. Such a plot has no cultural relevance today. The only way this will be produced is to utterly throw out the story, apply the Forbin label to it, and add Wil Smith to promote the inevitable gloss and mayhem, undoubtedly with grandiose music accompaniment. Maybe they can get that hack composer Johnny Williams, if he is still alive.

Oy!

Thanks for that.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, since 1947, has published their iconic doomsday clock. The closest it has come to midnight is 11:58, two minutes to go, in 1953 with the development of the fusion bomb, the H-bomb.

Here is the timeline of the clock.
http://thebulletin.org/timeline

I think with recent scandals in the nuclear weapon administration in the USA the minute hand might be soon moving toward midnight again.

It remains at 11:55 as of now.

Sleep well, my friends.

You see, in order for our missile mounted, nuclear weapons to fire, they have to be armed. There is a specially configured wrench which is needed to arm those weapons. Only one of these wrenches exists. When used for practice, it is flown from base to base using Fed. Ex.

Don't worry. I remember seeing the Fed Ex commercial by Steve Irwin when Steve was bitten by a deadly snake. Steve depended on Fed Ex to deliver anti-venom on time in case of emergencies.

Is for bolting the warheads onto the "Bus" that holds them on top of the missile. There is only one set for the entire missile force, to deter the possibility that those warheads could be removed by operators trying to steal them.
It's easier to get into Fort Knox.

US weapons are currently targeting the middle of the oceans. So an accidental launch would vaporize a bunch of water.

Russian weapons, OTOH, can not be easily retargeted. The targets are apparently hardwired. No idea about the other nuclear powers's weapons.