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In the new Netflix series Terminator Zero, there is a scene where it looks like the entire world is nuked except Japan, thanks to the second AI built by our lead scientist. However, it was unclear if this was actually happening, or just a simulation shown to Malcolm by Kokoro.

She did explicitly say that "she had stopped the nuclear attack, for now."

The problem with the scenario in which the rest of the world is destroyed by nukes, is that if this did happen, no one in Japan seemed to notice.

Sure, now we have Skynet and Kokoro fighting for control, so total radio silence does make sense, but with the power of modern nukes, and with as many as we saw being dropped on the rest of the world, and with as few as it looked like Kokoro stopped, Japan would not have been spared, certainly not long enough to finish the season. Radiation poisoning would've started setting in almost immediately, and you'd probably have enough to cause some severe burns, and there's a good chance that the flashes from some of the explosions on the Asian mainland would have been visible in Japan, not to mention the debris that would've been kicked up into the air: they call it a "nuclear winter" for a reason.

So I think I'm going to adopt the first scenario as what happened, the scene of the rest of the world being nuked but Japan being spared was just a metaphorical simulation Kokoro showed to Malcolm, and she was in fact able to stop all, (or at least most of) the nukes, likely by hijacking them from Skynet.

Thus, Kokoro saved humanity, but now seeks to enslave it, pitting her against Skynet, who wishes to destroy humanity.

And even if the destruction of the rest of the earth in that moment is canon, Im going to ignore it, because I simply cannot suspend disbelief quite that much: not because of the tragedy, but because it's a truly impossible scenario, and the rest of the show is awesome, and Im not going to let this one thing ruin it.

Also how was it as well

I try to be spoiler free!

So I watched the first episode of Terminator:Zero.I was expecting really good stuff but unfortunately it's not this.The animation is pretty weak in places,the characters are flat,but the Terminators' apparance and the music is good.Unfortunately it has some typical anime gimmicks(unfortunately I don't really like anime) also, due to the short episode, the plot is fast, which is not necessarily good.In any case, this was only the first episode and I hope that the story will improve in the future.