What can you do? Hollywood likes to sugarcoat things; especially in the 70s, when movie goers weren't used to seemingly depressing films such as now (it seems like happy-endings are a no-no now, although the Godfather didn't exactly have a happy ending... But that is mostly due to the novel).
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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