Missed things about mil-gov-sci

Rating: 7/10 (1 July 2005)

I saw the first version of this story when i was a child. And I remember the news (cinema style) about the invasion. There was initial strike with conventional weapons and another with a nuke from a flying wing (YB-49 i think). I think there was little detail about military, government/presidential effort.
And the scientist? Really wasn't a better argument to defeat the ETs with something less unbelievable that just microorganisms? (in the XIX century -H.G. Welles century- it was OK for the knowledge of that time, but now in the XXI the script could have based the solution upon nanomachines or other top invention or knowledge)