Seen all those, too. Also, in the vane of "War of the Worlds" was a made-for-TV movie called "Looking Glass". It didn't show the war itself, but tells the story mostly through news reports and the background of the news station itself. It doesn't actually show the nuclear war itself,though there are two tactical nudets in the film. In that scene, presented as a satellite news report from the deck of a US aircraft carrier, a nuclear torpedo (probably an ASROC) is used against a submarine that is stalking the CV battle group. Less then a minute later, the satellite link disappears in mid-sentence as the reporter and his camera man on the CV are being rushed by crewmen into the CV's island to take cover. The impression is that the sub's return shot, also nuclear, destroys the CV battle group. The final scene shows the US emergency air born command post aircraft (code-name: Looking Glass") scrambling, and the picture and sound from the newscast being replaced by the audible tone of the emergency broadcast system (the old tone, not the new one used today). Very spooky.
