20 Stupid X-Men Movie Mistakes You Probably Missed

3. The Least Explosive Nukes In Hollywood - X-Men: First Class

During the First Class climax, it looks like the world might be torn about by nuclear conflict, only for Professor X to cleverly hijack the mind of an officer on the Russian warship and shoot the cargo ship carrying Russian nukes to Cuba, destroying it.

Cue rampant celebrations as the world is saved, but how exactly does exploding nukes stop nuclear fallout? Wouldn't the destruction of the ship just explode its incredibly dangerous cargo? Shouldn't the resulting explosion have been catastrophically huge?

Does nobody pay attention to science?