Theme: The Nuclear Threat

The Nuclear Threat concerns depictions of nuclear weaponry and the threat of uses they might be put to. This is a separate topic from Nuclear War, which concerns what happens what nuclear weapons are detonated, and After the Holocaust, which consists of works set following the collapse of civilisation.

The most common depictions of nuclear weaponry on screen is in thrillers about the hijacking and theft of nuclear arms and/or the threat of their detonation usually by terrorist groups or Super-Villains. There have also been some comedies about weapons that are lost or misappropriated.

There are some other works that show nuclear weapons in a more useful light such as being employed to fight off an Alien Invasion, a Zombie Apocalypse, giant monsters or in some Disaster Movie scenario such as firing them against oncoming stellar bodies like meteors and asteroids.

The topic also includes several genre works on the subject of Nuclear Power and its misuses.