No CGI — Just Real Fire! The Insane Explosion from Terminator 2

[0:00]That nuclear explosion scene in Terminator 2, it wasn't CGI. It was real. James Cameron's team built a miniature city of Los Angeles and actually blew it up using gasoline and dozens of pyrotechnic charges. They filmed it with high-speed cameras so the shock wave would look massive like the end of the world. The fire storm consuming the city was made with real explosions shot from multiple angles. And when Sarah Connor turns into a skeleton, that's a full-size puppet, created by Stan Winston's team with latex skin that literally melted on camera. Almost no computer graphics, just real models, real fire and pure practical magic. That's why it's still one of the most realistic nuclear blasts ever filmed.