Quote Originally Posted by Tyndmyr View Post
That's a hard no. Both graphic novel and movie make it clear that Manhattan cannot stop all the nukes. Presumably he *can* stop some, but if he begin disabling them, that'd be an attack, the rest launch, and that's that.
The way I remember the movie, which I admittedly haven't seen in well over a decade, was that this was in the context of trying to stop an attack in progress. Sabotage didn't seem to have been considered.