Planet of the Apes

[Typhonis]

This is about the first two Planet of the Apes movies 1968 and Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970.

Did a nuclear war actually destroy the world? Because the visual evidence shows it may have been something different.

Given these are images from the movie. It looks less like a nuclear war happened and more some natural disaster hit that tore things apart. I mean Liberty island is not part of New York proper and those cliffs look to be ancient. The Library is buried underground and not underwater, like a good chunk of New York City should be.

So what happened? Seismic upheaval? Something else? Because the terrain does not resemble the New York State area as far as I know.

 

[ATP]

This is about the first two Planet of the Apes movies 1968 and Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970.

Did a nuclear war actually destroy the world? Because the visual evidence shows it may have been something different.

Given these are images from the movie. It looks less like a nuclear war happened and more some natural disaster hit that tore things apart. I mean Liberty island is not part of New York proper and those cliffs look to be ancient. The Library is buried underground and not underwater, like a good chunk of New York City should be.

So what happened? Seismic upheaval? Something else? Because the terrain does not resemble the New York State area as far as I know.

True.War certainly happened,but disasters were no-human made.Althought main character,when he break after seeing Liberty Statue,blamed humans.
Last movies,in which apes take over with child of apes who travelled in time,mention human/human wars.
Interesting - new version ignored it and turned it into human/ape war.

 

[Robovski]

It is more like the intro for Thundarr the Barbarian, in that the devastation is does not seem to be from a nuclear war but by massive outside influence.

 

[ATP]

It is more like the intro for Thundarr the Barbarian, in that the devastation is does not seem to be from a nuclear war but by massive outside influence.

Or by using H bombs to awaken Yellowstone ,or made super tsunami.Russian K.Siwkow advocated that in article "nuclear Specnaz" in 2015.

 

[BlackDragon98]

Maybe seismic weapons like the tungsten rod from space weapon were deployed?