The movie’s reviews and ratings have been hurt by its rather frustrating ending, but I think that’s unfair to its overall dramatic excellence.
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Spoilers: the fatality estimate is ~1 order of magnitude too high. It’s true that if there are lots of nukes headed towards your missile silos, there is great urgency to launch before being destroyed. However, there is not that urgency to launch if a city is targeted, so it seemed contrived. I was not aware that ground based interceptors have to physically hit the ICBM, instead of having an explosion that could relax the targeting accuracy.
The link didn’t work.
Spoilers: the fatality estimate is ~1 order of magnitude too high. It’s true that if there are lots of nukes headed towards your missile silos, there is great urgency to launch before being destroyed. However, there is not that urgency to launch if a city is targeted, so it seemed contrived. I was not aware that ground based interceptors have to physically hit the ICBM, instead of having an explosion that could relax the targeting accuracy.