By Eric
Yosomono, Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon
From the 1950s up
through the early 1990s, the specter of nuclear war cast a shadow over the
world like a giant, gloomy mushroom tattoo. Hollywood and our own morbid imaginations
came up with any number of scenarios that would wipe out humanity in a series
of blinding flashes: robots, Russian and American policies of mutually assured
destruction. But Kubrick was probably closest when he imagined the nuclear era
as a game of poker between cocky, absent-minded lunatics. Only he probably
didn't go far enough. After all, he could have never imagined ...