Movies and TV shows about nuclear war are nothing new, and from Dr. Strangelove to The 100, both fiction and non-fiction movies have us rightly worried about someone dropping bombs on us and ending the world in the blink of an eye.
While the fanciful world of Amazon's Fallout predicts a future where the remnants of the human race can continue to survive in a series of high-tech underground bunkers, the reality is that a real nuclear apocalypse could mark the end of days for us all.
It seems President Donald Trump has been watching one too many disaster movies, with the POTUS warning about nuclear weapons as the 'greatest threat to humanity'.
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There are plenty of simulations out there showing what would happen if giant nuclear bombs were dropped on us, while an AI recreation of Nostradamus thinks the tech wars are only just starting.
Speaking to Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures", Trump warned about the potential of Russia and China stockpiling nukes: "The greatest [threat] is sitting on shelves in various countries called ‘nuclear weapons’ that are big monsters that can blow your heads off for miles and miles and miles."
Continuing to foreshadow these 'monster' nukes, he went on to talk about the USA's own stockpile: "We spend a lot of money of nuclear weapons — the level of destruction is beyond anything you can imagine.
"It’s just bad that you have to spend all this money on something that if it’s used, it’s probably the end of the world."
The US currently sits behind Russia in terms of nuclear arsenals, and according to the Commander-in-Chief, the dangers that come with it need to be taken seriously. Saying that former President Joe Biden is wrong to claim climate change will end the world, Trump added: "I watched [former President Joe] Biden for years say the existential threat is from the climate. I said, ‘No.'
"They talk about the climate, and they talk about the dangers of the climate but they don’t talk about the dangers of a nuclear weapon, which could happen tomorrow."
It comes after Trump previously predicted China's increasing stockpiles could see it overtake the USA within the next decade. Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office in February 2025, Trump mused: "There’s no reason for us to be building brand-new nuclear weapons. We already have so many.
"You could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over. And here we are building new nuclear weapons, and they’re building nuclear weapons.”
While Trump is expected to spend big on defense and wants to erect his own Iron Dome of antimissile systems in the skies above America, he clearly thinks nukes are a danger flying under the radar. We're told to head to Australia and New Zealand in the event of all-out nuclear war, although we don't imagine there will be much left if these so-called monster nukes start falling from the sky.