Why didn't the USA government use nuclear weapon's on the zombie's?

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justinkrall — 9 years ago(May 16, 2016 05:45 AM)

After all they were living underground anyway's so what the beep?

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Dirty-Barry — 9 years ago(June 17, 2016 09:24 AM)

It would be the equivalent of cutting off your own cock.

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user-769 — 9 years ago(June 26, 2016 07:11 PM)

I don't really see the benefit to nuking targets. Failing a counter-virus that deactivates the undead and doesn't affect the living, the only real option is mass armament and training of survivors, probably with 22lr rifles, to go around popping heads.
But in Romero's universe, and probably the most likely outcome, the government is too slow to act and civilians are too molly-coddled to do what they need to do.

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MrGKB — 9 years ago(June 29, 2016 06:09 PM)

There's nothing in the film to prove one way or the other that the government
didn't
try using nukes.

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hannahrose313 — 9 years ago(November 04, 2016 05:58 PM)

True that, the eye-patch scientist in Dawn suggested that the government do just thatat least to major cities, as that's where most of the zombies congregated.

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leightoncollins — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 06:57 AM)

Maybe they did When the team climb out of the facility at the end of the movie, it looks like a missile silo minus the missile.

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Will21st — 9 years ago(November 14, 2016 12:27 PM)

true, I never thought of it that way on the other hand they talk about people in Washington maybe being alive with Nukes that would be ruled out I suppose.