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== Live Action TV ==
* There's a very odd [[Retcon]] example in the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' story "Genesis of the Daleks". In the previous Dalek stories, it had been repeatedly stated that the mutations that led to the Daleks were the result of a nuclear war on the planet Skaro. In the definitive origin story "Genesis", however, the word "nuclear" was never used and all the usual effects depicted in the story that one would associate with nuclear weapons (mutation, explosives that kill the slaves forced to handle them within a few days, massive destruction) were ascribed to mysterious "chemicals". It almost looks as if there was censorious [[Executive Meddling]]. The vast majority of fans, and subsequent canon writers, keep "Genesis" as the definitive origin but tacitly replace all references to "chemicals" with "nuclear" or "radioactivity" again.
* It's never stated outright, but it's pretty damn obvious that the [[Killer Robot|Killer Robots]] used nukes to [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|wipe out most of humanity]] before ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' started proper.
** Ziggy does mention to Dillon how the radiation interferes with both his compass and radio frequencies in their first meeting ("The Road to Corinth").
* Strongly averted in ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]''. So much so that Captain Sheridan's community nickname is John "Nuke 'Em" Sheridan. On no less than 3 occasions, Sheridan deploys tactical nukes during the series. Londo Mollari uses them as well, and then is blackmailed by a nuclear threat later in the series.
** San Diego is referred to as having been destroyed by a nuke deployed by a terrorist group a century earlier in one episode. [[Word of God]] has it that producer J. Michael Straczynski [[Take That|wrote it as revenge]] for having been mugged there early in his career.
* Justified averted in the [[Stargate Verse]]. Nuclear weapons, particularly [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells|naquadah-enhanced nukes]], are one of the SGC's main weapons (the justification being that despite all the [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]], it's still early 21st century Earth, and nukes are perfectly effective weapons).
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