'Terminator: Salvation'

The forth in the series, ‘Terminator: Salvation’, was incredibly action packed and rather exciting, i.e. exactly what a summer movie should be and hopefully there’s more coming this season. I’d give it my two thumbs up to all of my readers around the world, it’s worth the $8 to go to the theater and see it and be entertained. However, I do have some quibbles with the whole series though, major and minor, but I’ll just explain the major one which kind of makes any others moot.

Okay, if a Skynet-like entity launches an attack like seen in the third movie, obliterating much of the world in a nuclear holocaust, that would have specific consequences that would be hard to avoid. First off, whatever technology and resources humans had available to fight Skynet would be just what survived the nukes. No new technologies could be developed due to the whole R&D infrastructure gone, and hardly any new weapons would be produced with factories shut down. And modern war requires a tremendous amount of resources to back it up from supply lines, to ammo, logistical support, etc. This would make fighting any enemy that was able to do all of the above pretty much impossible for any extended period of time, unlike the movies’ long running war. Humans would be quickly annihilated.