I forget where I read it; perhaps the miscellaneous facts section of its wikipedia page? I don't recall. Or perhaps it was IMDB trivia. I know, neither sound that fruitful a source.
But I've thought it over many times. Both would add a nice emotional spike to the climax. The alternative suggesting that you can never really correct a warped mind... I like it. I think I prefer it, actually, on the basis that I'm just a dark mother fucker.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
