The authors have apparently cheated on the continuity between Mad Max II and Beyond Thunderdome. In Mad Max 1 and 2 there was no mention of a nuclear holocaust. It's something that was added in so that Beyond Thunderdome would make sense to viewers unfamiliar with the first two movies. Surely the narrator at the begining of Mad Max II didn't ... More @Wikipedia
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