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* JustFollowingOrders: Discussed and angrily thrown back at the submarine's captain. Mostly, Australians don't really care if the USSR (China in the 2000 film) or the US fired first. At least in the 2000 adaptation, when Osborne calls Towers out on taking part in wiping life on Earth, [[spoiler: the XO points out that Towers ''didn't'' follow orders and they still have their entire nuclear payload on-board]].
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* JustFollowingOrders: Discussed and angrily thrown back at the submarine's captain. Mostly, Australians don't really care if the USSR (China in the 2000 film) or the US fired first. At least in the 2000 adaptation, when Osborne calls Towers out on taking part in wiping out life on Earth, [[spoiler: the XO points out that Towers ''didn't'' follow orders and they still have their entire nuclear payload on-board]].
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* JustFollowingOrders: Discussed and angrily thrown back at the submarine's captain. Mostly, Australians don't really care if the USSR (China in the 2000 film) or the US fired first. At least in the 2000 adaptation When Osborne calls Towers on taking part in wiping life on Earth, [[spoiler: the XO points out that Towers ''didn't'' follow order and they still have their entire payload on-board]].
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* JustFollowingOrders: Discussed and angrily thrown back at the submarine's captain. Mostly, Australians don't really care if the USSR (China in the 2000 film) or the US fired first. At least in the 2000 adaptation When adaptation, when Osborne calls Towers out on taking part in wiping life on Earth, [[spoiler: the XO points out that Towers ''didn't'' follow order orders and they still have their entire nuclear payload on-board]].
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Both the novel and its adaptations are set just a few years after each of them was created (the biggest leap being in the 2000 adaptation, set in 2014). The technology in them is so slightly ahead of their own time that it actually became a successful prediction of future technology in all three cases.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Both the novel and its adaptations are set just a few years after each of them was created (the biggest leap being in the 2000 adaptation, set in 2014). The technology in them is so slightly ahead of their own time that it actually became a successful prediction of future technology in all three cases.
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* WorldWarIII: It began with an Albanian nuke being dropped on Naples, then another bomb on Tel Aviv, followed by Russian-made bombers piloted by Egyptians flying over and attacking Washington and London. Afterward, a full exchange between Russia, [=NATO=] and China was inevitable.
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* WorldWarIII: WorldWarIII:
** It began with an Albanian nuke being dropped on Naples, then another bomb on Tel Aviv, followed by Russian-made bombers piloted by Egyptians flying over and attacking Washington and London. Afterward, a full exchange between Russia, [=NATO=] and China wasinevitable.inevitable.
** In the 2000 adaptation, US-China conflict over Taiwan turns into a full-scale war, which turns into a limited nuclear exchange, which triggers a full-scale nuclear holocaust.
** It began with an Albanian nuke being dropped on Naples, then another bomb on Tel Aviv, followed by Russian-made bombers piloted by Egyptians flying over and attacking Washington and London. Afterward, a full exchange between Russia, [=NATO=] and China was
** In the 2000 adaptation, US-China conflict over Taiwan turns into a full-scale war, which turns into a limited nuclear exchange, which triggers a full-scale nuclear holocaust.
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* ApocalypseHow: Class 3a at the least, presumably a Class 4. Possibly a Class 5.
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* ApocalypseHow: Class 3a at At the very least, presumably the world is facing humanity's extinction in the wake of the nuclear war - that's a Class 4. Possibly a Class 5.given. Characters in-universe argue if all life on Earth is about to perish, or if there could be some species to survive.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: In the best Australian way.
* FalseFlagOperation: The United States and Great Britain are drawn into the war when Egypt attacks them with Russian bombers.
* FalseFlagOperation: The United States and Great Britain are drawn into the war when Egypt attacks them with Russian bombers.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: In Numerous characters stoically face the best Australian way.
situation and the incoming end. Even the 2000 adaptation, which was the closest to display ApocalypseAnarchy, has the two looters calmly share a meal of stolen baked beans cans with Towers, rather than fight each other, knowing they are all going to die soon.
* FalseFlagOperation:The In the novel and the first adaptation, the United States and Great Britain are drawn into the war when Egypt attacks them with Russian bombers.
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* JustFollowingOrders: Discussed and angrily thrown back at the submarine's captain. Mostly, Australians don't really care if the USSR (China in the 2000 film) or the US fired first.
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* JustFollowingOrders: Discussed and angrily thrown back at the submarine's captain. Mostly, Australians don't really care if the USSR (China in the 2000 film) or the US fired first. At least in the 2000 adaptation When Osborne calls Towers on taking part in wiping life on Earth, [[spoiler: the XO points out that Towers ''didn't'' follow order and they still have their entire payload on-board]].
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* NuclearOption: Obviously.
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* NuclearOption: Obviously.The story opens ''after'' the nuclear war already happened a few months ago, wiping out the norther hemisphere, while the unharmed Australia is bracing for the unavoidable fallout to eventually reach them.
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* SaltTheEarth: The nuclear version.
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* SaltTheEarth: The nuclear version. When the story opens, northern hemisphere is essentially ''gone'', devoid of any life that can't handle the radiation. And the clouds of fallout particles are inevitably heading down south each day...
* SettingUpdate: The 2000 adaptation is set in 2014. As a result, the nuclear war is between the US and China over Taiwan, while the radio signal is provided by [[spoiler: a solar-powered laptop]].
* SettingUpdate: The 2000 adaptation is set in 2014. As a result, the nuclear war is between the US and China over Taiwan, while the radio signal is provided by [[spoiler: a solar-powered laptop]].
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The 1959 film is set in 1964.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The 1959 film is Both the novel and its adaptations are set just a few years after each of them was created (the biggest leap being in the 2000 adaptation, set in 1964.2014). The technology in them is so slightly ahead of their own time that it actually became a successful prediction of future technology in all three cases.
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* EverybodyDiesEnding: And in this case, that really does mean ''everybody''.
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* SuicideByPills: The Australian Government starts issuing cyanide pills for everyone in order to avoid a slow death from the deadly radiation.
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* AfterTheEnd: The Northern Hemisphere is already dead. [[JustBeforeTheEnd And soon, the Southern Hemisphere will be dead too]].
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* AdaptationalNameChange: USS ''Scorpion'' SSN-589 in the book becomes USS ''Sawfish'' SSN-623[[note]] The real ''Sawfish'' was actually a Gato-class diesel submarine with a postwar GUPPY upgrade, and was scrapped in 1960. The production crew used HMS ''Andrew'', [[WeaponsUnderstudies which loosely resembled a GUPPY boat,]] and gave her a fictional hull number. ''Sawfish'' was SS-276. There was no SS- or SSN-623; the real SSBN-623 was the ballistic missile submarine USS ''Nathan Hale''[[/note]] in the 1959 film
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* AdaptationalNameChange: USS ''Scorpion'' SSN-589 in the book becomes USS ''Sawfish'' SSN-623[[note]] The real ''Sawfish'' was actually a Gato-class diesel submarine with a postwar GUPPY upgrade, and was scrapped in 1960. The production crew used HMS ''Andrew'', [[WeaponsUnderstudies which loosely resembled a GUPPY boat,]] and gave her a fictional hull number. ''Sawfish'' was SS-276. There was no SS- or SSN-623; the real SSBN-623 was the ballistic missile submarine USS ''Nathan Hale''[[/note]] in the 1959 filmfilm. The change from ''Scorpion'' was perhaps fortuitous, as that ship was lost at sea in 1968 under unsolved circumstances.
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* DyingRace: ''The human race, along with all remaining life on Earth''. As a result of nuclear war, the last humans are confined to Australia, but eventually the radiation ''will'' reach Australia and kill them all as well, and the Australians know that they have only a few months left before the last human dies.
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* DrivenToSuicide: ''Everyone''. First, mankind, of course, committed (unintentional) suicide via nuclear war, and the last survivors in Australia eventually decide to kill themselves, usually by taking cyanide pills, as they start to finally succumb to radiation sickness.
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* GaiasLament: The planet’s biosphere is irreparably damaged by nuclear war, the northern hemisphere is already dead, and all life in the southern hemisphere will die as well from radiation poisoning in a few months.
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* HumanitysWake: The inevitable end of humanity occurs, with those who survived WorldWarIII all eventually dying from violence, suicide, or radiation sickness.
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* DeathOfAChild: Graphically so in the 2000 adaptation, where several children are seen dead of suicide poisoning.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted. Graphically so in the 2000 adaptation, where several children are seen dead of suicide poisoning.
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* TitleDrop:
--> '''Peter:''' Do you remember how we met? \\
'''Mary:''' It was on the beach.
--> '''Peter:''' Do you remember how we met? \\
'''Mary:''' It was on the beach.
