https://pjmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2009/05/23/just-walked-out-of-terminator-salvation/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 00:02:05 -0400<![CDATA[I was a major admirer of the way the first two Terminator movies kept alive the memory of the horror of the nuclear Balance of Terror and the omnipresence of nuclear war for the half century of the Cold War. And I consider myself a student of the genre I once called &#8220;nuke-porn&#8221; a term I coined in a Harper&#8217;s article at the height of the Cold War, and a subject I&#8217;ve revisited recently to see how the new nuclear age has affected it. It&#8217;s not necessarily a disparaging term, nuke porn&#8211;books and films that focus on the depiction of the trembling world on the brink of a devastating nuclear climax&#8211;may have actually played a role in the creation of what the scholar Nina Tannenwald calls the &#8220;nuclear taboo&#8221; which may have had a hand in inhibiting any further use of nuclear weapons after Japan.]]>Sat, 23 May 2009 15:59:03 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Rosenbaum]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-rosenbaum/2009/05/23/just-walked-out-of-terminator-salvation-n115958