Talk:The Stage of Apocalypse/@comment-30816816-20170102132511/@comment-2094030-20170103105557

One would expect that after a nuke went off, a crater would form. If the nuke was completely airburst and detonated quite far from the ground, people would expect the trees to be blown away or burnt black instantly. Imagine that you can see the detonation, including the cloud, but the landscape remains lush green just like how it was before any nuclear detonation. Ace Combat Zero would go down in history as one of the lamest and laziest depiction of a nuclear detonation. It's a whole lot better that they never show any detonation in-game but they do it instead during a cutscene.