Join the Nuclear Movie Club for On the Beach, Stanley Kramer’s 1959 apocalyptic drama starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins. In this episode, Rebecka Green and Scott Strgacich discuss On the Beach‘s depiction of the end times, the creep of nuclear fallout, and whether or not On the Beach may have too much…beach. Love,…

Sit back, relax, and choose your second-in-command wisely for Crimson Tide, Tony Scott’s 1995 military thriller starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. In this episode of the Nuclear Movie Club, NukeTalk producer Rebecka Green and Ploughshares Roger L. Hale Fellow Scott Strgacich discuss Crimson Tide‘s submarine technicalities, the nuclear attitude of the mid-90s, and if…

Join the Nuclear Movie Club for WarGames, John Badham’s 1983 technothriller starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy—and perhaps better known in the security field as the movie that caused President Ronald Reagan *major anxiety* about U.S. cybersecurity. In this episode, we discuss WarGames‘s many themes, technical intricacies, and 80s parenting styles. AI, video games, NORAD, dinosaurs—this movie has it…

For the first episode of NukeTalk’s new season, the Nuclear Movie Club, we are joined by Noah Oppenheim, former president of NBC News and screenwriter of A House of Dynamite, a new Netflix film by Kathryn Bigelow.