1 {scene: Ishmael is driving a truck across the southwest USA}
1 Soldier Ishmael: So you Martians, being from Mars and all, probably don't know about the war, right?
1 Young Adam: War?
2 Soldier Ishmael: Yeah. World War II. It just ended.
2 Young Adam: Oh, that war! We er... know a little.
3 Soldier Ishmael: Shame about Nazi science developing the atom bomb first.
3 Young Adam: Yeah... wait, what?!
4 Soldier Ishmael: But now we have it too, it's a standoff. Sort of a "cold war".
4 Young Jamie: Oh, this is so not good.

"Atom bomb" is such a cute name. It's a shame this 1940s and 50s term fell out of favour for the more boring "nuclear bomb".

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2025-02-15 Rerun commentary: The obvious trend is to move to smaller components. Give it ten years or so and "nuclear" will be out of fashion and we'll all be talking about "protonic bombs" and "protonic energy".

Followed 50 years later by "quarky".