I was doing that guy from that movie you know slim pickens where he rides it all the way in the nuclear warhead.

No welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 nuclear bomb scenes in movies until I'm certain my team can't hold it.

I will not order a nuke strike against a civilian population.

If we don't hold them here we lose everything for this list will be looking at the scariest, most intense and maybe even the funniest movie scenes involving nuclear bombs.

The bomb doesn't have to go off so long as it's an integral part of the scene which of these is your favorite.

Let us know in the comments below Number 20 The Avengers, can anybody copy I can shut the portal down, do it.

No way Stark these things are still coming.

I got a new coming in.

It's gonna blow in less than a minute.

This team really has their hands full.

If they're not saving new york from an invasion of territory, they're attempting to defuse a potential nuclear attack, fearing the territory invasion.

The World Security Council launches a nuke at Manhattan.

Director Fury Council has made a decision.

I recognize the council has made a decision but given that it's a stupid as decision, I've elected to ignore it.

What results is pure action cinema Ironman intercepts the nuke and uses it to destroy the territory mothership.

The spectacle is fantastic.

But what works best here is the emotion Tony is fully aware of the danger and calls pepper to say goodbye but to no avail, robert Downey JR is superb, conveying fear, anxiety and eventual heartbreak with nothing but his facial expressions.

Number 19 American assassin.

We've seen a ton of nuclear detonations on screen, but few that have occurred underwater.

American assassin try doing something a little different and it worked out wonderfully detonate if it goes off above the waterline.

After killing ghost, rap drops the new clear bomb into the water and it goes off in a spectacular display.

The new creates a massive hole in the ocean, causing nearby ships to break apart and even generates an enormous tidal wave that engulfs everything in its path.

This is great entertainment and the idea of doing it in the water was fresh and ingenious.

If we don't engage, that guarantees I understand there's a risk, but this is the best chance.

Number 18 the divide, most movies work their way up to a devastating nuclear attack.

The divide opens with one as the film begins, New york city is slammed by numerous nuclear explosions.

The images a startling one.

A large mushroom cloud rises from the impact zone.

Dust billows through the streets and the apocalyptic yellow sky sparkles with lightning as this is a low budget movie, we don't see much of the attack itself.

Rather, the movie switches focus to the immediate aftermath and panic.

However, this is a welcome shift as it horrifyingly depicts the fright and hysteria that accompanies a disaster.

It's a haunting opening to a haunting movie.

After a blast, everything gets vaporized, It sucked up into the atmosphere and rains back down to earth Number 17 when the wind blows heartbreaking piece of animation.

When the wind blows follows a loving elderly couple who attempt to survive in a nuclear ravaged England.

The story takes place during the Soviet Afghan war and presents an alternate reality in which England was hit by a nuclear bomb.

An enemy missile attack has been launched against this country.

It is estimated that the missiles will arrive in approximately three minutes.

Jim and Hilda hide in their makeshift shelter.

While the world ending destruction occurs outside said destruction is both gorgeously animated and tragically evocative depicting images straight out of a Cold War nightmare.

The movie portrays a real life fear through the magic of animation and it does so in strikingly vivid fashion.

Number 16 Testament.

Nuclear movies were very popular back in the eighties as Cold War fears plagued the collective mind of America.

Testament is one of those movies depicting a small suburb in the midst of a nuclear event.

The bombing scene is ingeniously filmed, favoring realism over cinematics.

This is san Francisco.

We have lost our new york signal radar sources confirm the explosion of nuclear devices there in new york and up and down the east Coast.

The Weatherly family experiences the bombing through the likes of distressed news anchors, the emergency broadcast system cut electricity and air raid sirens.

This is a petrifying scene that scares the viewers through authenticity.

This is how a good number of americans would experience a nuclear strike, not through a massive mushroom cloud, but through sheer panic and a frightening disruption of everyday routine.

Hello number 15 Terminator three rise of the machines.

We thought that Terminator two gave the story a happy ending.

We were wrong.

One of the most surprising aspects of Terminator three is the incredibly gutsy and dour ending.

Jon and kate are sent to Crystal Peak which is believed to be connected to Skynet.

However, they quickly realized that it's a military fallout shelter and that they were sent there for protection.

Why did it lead us down here?

Okay to live as they make this realization, The world is bombarded with Skynet's nuclear strikes and judgment day officially begins.

It's a stellar twist that contains some shocking visuals and nicely places john on his predetermined path as a military leader.

What the hell is happening?

Who's in charge there I am number 14 by Dawn's Early Light.

This movie was released in May of 1990 as such, is one of the last of the aforementioned Cold war movies.

It's based on William Prognosis novel trinity's Child, which accurately depicts the consequences of a nuclear war between the United States and the soviet union.

We have a preliminary missile trajectory moving north northeast from Turkey to the soviet border.

Sir.

The movie features a number of nuclear blasts, including one that hits the white house and blows out its windows.

Another forces down the president's helicopter which causes many to presume that he's dead.

The limited tv budget does what it can with the visuals but our imaginations are more than capable of filling in the nauseating details.

They're dead.

Everybody you've got that they're dead.

Number 13, Independence Day.

This over the top classic is fondly remembered for the alien attack sequence in which the UFO beams decimate numerous american landmarks.

But it also contains some killer nuclear bomb sequences.

In the first a nuke is dropped on an alien spaceship above Houston.

We are on station and awaiting instruction roger break formation head to target.

The explosion is magnificent but it fails to destroy the ship.

In the second a nuke is deployed in the aliens mothership and the entire thing erupts in a brilliant flash of blue lights.

This is pure summer blockbuster escapism featuring a nuclear bomb.

Some hilarious banter and a masterfully filmed escape sequence that leaves viewers white knuckled and smiling.

It's a legendary ending to a legendary movie.

Do you think I'm going number 12 Armageddon.

This is perhaps the Michael based of all the Michael Bay movies.

A humongous asteroid is headed straight to Earth.

So Nasa trains a group of oil drillers to become astronauts, sends them into space and has them drill a nuclear weapon into the core of the asteroid.

It's ridiculous and it's tons of fun.

One more thing um none of them want to pay taxes again.

Ever Harry stays behind to activate the nuke, saving the world just in the nick of time.

The resulting explosion is awe inspiring and it elicits loud cheers from both the audience and the characters in the movie, but we are also wiping away tears as Harry's goodbye to his daughter.

Grace is enough to make even the toughest among us.

We it all combines to create a majestic and unforgettable climax.

Colonel Willie Sharp, United States air Force man requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I've ever met number 11.

The sum of all fears for this Jack Ryan reboot.

Ben Affleck took over the role from Harrison Ford in his tasked with stopping a fascist from starting a nuclear war.

He has a bomb built in secrecy and drops it on Baltimore in an attempt to frame the Russians Sir.

The entire sequence is filled with great tension and the resulting destruction is nothing short of harrowing thanks to the movies.

High budget, we are given various spine chilling sites, hospital blows up and sends all the employees flying cars are violently knocked off roads and Jack's helicopters thrown out of the air.

It's a very impressive sequence and it's arguably one of the best moments in the Jack Ryan franchise, Number 10.

Broken arrow, john wu certainly knows how to direct an action sequence, christian slater plays Riley hale, an Air Force pilot who must contend with john Travolta's Vic Deakins.

Deakins is extorting the american government with two nuclear weapons hail recovers one of the bombs and stows it down an abandoned copper mine where it proceeds to detonate.

The plan mostly works as the explosion causes the ground to shake and ripple and a vast sinkhole is created near the mine shaft.

An approaching helicopter is also disabled and it explodes in a gigantic fireball.

The scene contains some accomplished filmmaking and stunt work and Travolta chews the scenery as the bad guy.

What's not to love SCMP electromagnetic pulse, nuclear bass sends it out from miles.

Everything electronic shuts down including choppers and radios Number nine Indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull.

Whatever your thoughts on the scene are, this could very well be one of the defining moments of 2000 cinema Indiana jones is kidnapped by KGB agents but eventually escapes and makes his way to a model town.

This town is being used for atomic testing and India's right on time personnel.

It is now one minute 20 time fearing the imminent blast.

Indie hides inside a lead lined fridge and is sent hurtling through the air as the nuclear bomb strikes.

The scene is filled with some terrific visual effects as the shockwave obliterates houses and sets nearby mannequins on fire.

It looks suitably apocalyptic especially when Indy climbs out of the fridge and gazes upon the towering mushroom cloud, steven Spielberg knows how to bring the spectacle.

Number eight the Dark Knight rises.

There's nothing like a good heroic sacrifice to make us tear up realizing that there's no stopping baines Bomb Batman decides to sacrifice himself for the good of Gotham.

He attaches the bomb to the bat plane, touchingly reveals his identity to Gordon and flies over the water to his presumed doom hero can be anyone.

Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know the world and of course the bat isn't really gone, but that doesn't quell the power of the scene like all of Christopher Nolan's best work.

This sequence combines breathtaking filmmaking with an undercurrent of rich emotion and it makes for an amazing conclusion to his historic Dark Knight trilogy.

That's detonation, It's out over the bay, it's clear of the city number seven the wolverine.

This movie begins with a bang.

Quite literally, it opens in august of 1945 shortly before Nagasaki is decimated by the atom bomb Logan is being held as a prisoner of war when Fat Man is dropped on the city.

The event is shown in explicit detail, we see Fat Man quickly falling towards the ground and we see the colossal explosion and mushroom cloud that results from it.

The scene also contains some pulse pounding tension as the dust cloud quickly travels toward Logan and Ichiro and forces Logan to take some drastic measures that leave him literally scarred.

The visuals are sensational, as is the cacophonous sound design.

Now, this is how you open a movie number six barefoot again.

While we're on the subject of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, let's discuss barefoot again.

This is an anime from 1983 that follows again, Nagaoka during the bombing of Hiroshima, the city is destroyed while jen is at school and what result is one of the most imaginative sequences ever seen in an anime, animation can do wondrous and lushly imaginative things and this sequence gets incredibly stylish.

The visuals are boundless in their creativity and they also pack a devastating emotional punch.

The scene is unbelievably graphic and disturbing, conveying a sense of nightmarish surrealism, that live action simply can't capture.

You're gonna need some eye bleach after seeing this one, number five, Godzilla King of the Monsters, Godzilla has a long history with nuclear weapons and radiation, but we've never seen anything quite like this.

Godzilla King of the monsters ramps up the action to Enjoyably absurd heights and features a highly memorable sequence involving a nuclear warhead to bring Godzilla back to full HP.

Sara Zawa sacrifices himself and quite literally detonates a nuke right next to the resting behemoth Sarah.

The scene features some amazing sights and a suitably epic in scale with Godzilla city and the underwater explosion being genuinely stunning.

It looks cool, It sounds cool and it's a definite high point of the Godzilla franchise Number four, the day after this, apocalyptic television film from Nicholas Meyer is historic capturing a 62% share in over 100 million viewers.

Its subject matter was topical and it touched on collective fears that hundreds of millions were experiencing.

A man on the radio said there might be a war radio and TV and stuff.

The attack segment is especially brutal, depicting a realistic sense of pandemonium and destruction that would occur with a nuclear strike.

It is impeccably acted and shot featuring high production values and plenty of unforgettable imagery.

The visceral impact of the sequence lingers long after the credits have rolled and it serves as a perfect representation of that distinctive Cold War paranoia.

Number three threads this movie aired on the BBC in September of 1984 and earned instant acclaim for its production values.

In harrowing realism threads accurately examines nuclear war and the resulting fallout and the initial bombing scene is particularly distressing.

Watching this can make viewers feel genuinely stressed.

So perturbing arts, visuals, chaotic editing and sound design.

Movies like this aren't designed for entertainment.

This was a warning and a superbly effective warning at that luckily the horrors of this scene never came to fruition during the Cold War, but it was a very real and very unnerving possibility.

Number two Terminator two judgment day James.

Cameron is a masterful filmmaker and this is arguably one of his greatest sequences and that's saying a lot.

Sarah suffers a nightmare in which she envisions judgment day.

She's watching an innocent day at the park when a nuke strikes Los Angeles.

The visual effects and cinematography throughout the scene are astonishing.

The events are lit with an eerie and apocalyptic orange glow and we watch in horror as buildings and vehicles are ripped apart like paper.

And that's nothing compared to the unimaginable horrors back at the park.

We can't imagine the terror of nuclear devastation and hopefully this is the closest that we'll get.

It's plenty close for us.

Thank you very much saving a life.

You're already dead, everybody, him, you you're dead already.

This whole place.

Everything you see is gone.

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