[The Electrician]

Yes, it does have that nuke-on-the-ship-in-the-harbor-caught-on-live-tv-news-broadcast aspect to it... I've seen lots of footage of the 50's A-bomb and H-bomb tests, which are awesome, and even beautiful, but not gut-wrenching, whereas the nuke scenes here are truly visceral...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

FYI, that movie was titled "Special Bulletin".
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/

They should have just blown up the nuke on the tugboat.

[tortoise]

I've seen lots of footage of the 50's A-bomb and H-bomb tests, which are awesome, and even beautiful, but not gut-wrenching, whereas the nuke scenes here are truly visceral...

I'll second that. Very eerie how plausible it looked.

Technical notes that pleasantly surprised me for a space opera:
1.) Maneuvering in space is done by blatant and realistic thrust vectoring. No Star Wars spaceship syndrome here.
2.) Guided missiles hardly ever miss and missile intercept is the best defense. Like with modern AIM missiles, the probability of kill is in the 80+% range. It annoys me when I watch shows that use 1950s era Soviet missile guidance systems a hundred years in the future. Puh-lease.

Heh.