Consider the amount of damage done to the space-time continuum in the Sharknado franchise, including George Washington... And somehow they are more advanced in regards to technology...
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Goldfinger: The Chinese government financed and supplied an attempt to detonate a nuclear weapon in American territory. One can only imagine the fallout from that.
The British and Japanese sharing their findings about it all being some great criminal conspiracy probably helped cool things down. That said, the Soviets are probably pretty pissed that such a powerful conspiracy was allowed to operate out of Japan in the first placeAnd let's consider another Bond film - You Only Live Twice. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. manages to provoke a near war between the United States and the Soviet Union. At the last moment Bond self-destructs the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. spacecraft before it can capture the American spacecraft. But, it is seen to have Russian markings. I think we are even closer by the end of the film to World War III then we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Which could in turn provoke such demands from the Soviets as overflights by Soviet reconnaissance planes over Japan to ensure no more such incidents occur. Demanding an apology from the U.S. for its "baseless accusations". Of course such an apology will never come. And there will be hardliners in the Soviet government who will insist this was all an attempt by the U.S. (aborted by the British) to create an excuse to launch a nuclear first strike on the U.S.S.R.The British and Japanese sharing their findings about it all being some great criminal conspiracy probably helped cool things down. That said, the Soviets are probably pretty pissed that such a powerful conspiracy was allowed to operate out of Japan in the first place
Goldfinger: The Chinese government financed and supplied an attempt to detonate a nuclear weapon in American territory. One can only imagine the fallout from that.
Whichever will give you a more positive opinion of me.Was this on purpose, or just a happy little accident?
Apparently foreign sponsored supervillain schemes/attacks are a regular feature of life for all major powers, to the point that it's not even worth more than a point of order at the next UN General Assembly meeting.And because the whole town was in on the act, there's no way it could be kept secret.
There's not much to be gained by unleashing Armageddon, though, is there?In an ideal world this might be the proper response, but realistically? In the paranoid world of the Cold War the response by the U.S. government would be - shall we say severe?
There isn't but remember this is the Cold War period. There will be hawks demanding retaliation of some type. And heaven help the new president if this becomes public! He will be seen as weak. Further this will be a spur to the Soviets as well as the Chinese in a number of ways. So, what can the U.S, do short of unleashing the apocalypse realistically?There's not much to be gained by unleashing Armageddon, though, is there?
Here is one that, I'm surprised no one has brought up:
The idea that there was a secret moon mission, and that life exists on the lunar surface.
Apparently the novelisation gave some interesting implications about the state of the world, from a Battle of Leningrad in World War III, the West Coast is a No-Mans Land, and the lingering effects of nerve gas slowly driving the population crazy. If you include Escape From LA, then Shining Path went from revolutionary group in Peru to conjuring all of South and Central America all the way up to the border with TexasThe Escape from New York movies definitely have some implied societal collapse going on. Would love to see some expansion on that story and the world at large.