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...doesn't "uninvent" nuclear weaponry--Schell concedes that is impossible but rather seeks to use the everlasting knowledge of how to construct nukes as deterrent against another power attempting nuclear blackmail. The difference is that, instead of the current seven minute time lapse between the commencement of hostilities and Armageddon, the lag would be anywhere from a week to a few months...
...film maker. Case in point: Henry V. With its sprawling dramatic structure, a dozen "locations," some 40 speaking parts and a huge, climactic battle scene, Henry V just about qualifies as Shakespeare's epic moviescript. SEE the lords of two great nations exchange nasty taunts and arm for Armageddon...
...Armageddon is not, at first glance, the most promising subject for farce: too big, too scary. Visions of expensively expansive comedies like 1941 and The Blues Brothers, where the jokes got buried under the weight of excessive hardware and special effects, dance in one's head. And Ghostbusters, which deals with nothing less than a mass rising of the unseen world, murderously disgusted with civilization as we know it, especially around New York City. Clearly the movie intends to go after most of the marbles rolling around in the addled modern mind...
...Bashkow '84, $1500 for his senior thesis entitled "Bandaids for Armageddon Public Information in the Early Atomic Civil Defense Program" Margaret W. Rossiter, Visiting Lecturer...
...Normandy and Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe" came Hiroshima, and then the cold war and the pervasive, sinister presence of the Bomb that has made crusades more problematic. If a confrontation like Normandy were to transpire now between superpowers, a struggle to the death, it might be called Armageddon...