Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead is one of many films to depict a nuclear explosion. But how does it rank against the other famous movie nuke scenes in terms of realism?

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In a special episode of Big Question, Erik Voss and MT look at the most famous uses of nuclear blasts in film history -- Dr. Strangelove, The Day After, Terminator 2 Judgement Day, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- to evaluate the role they play in their respective stories and determine whether they truly earn the shock value. Does nuking Las Vegas in Army of the Dead play out realistically in the film, or is it, like many elements of this zombie heist story, just intended to be over-the-top, bonkers fiction?

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