
Later he returns to Metropolis, where the Daily Planet has been purchased by a Rupert Murdoch-esque tycoon, who wants to turn it into an exploitative rag, and finally Superman decides to rid the planet of nuclear weapons, a unilateral tactic that is met with no opposition from the armed forces of the United States or the Soviet Union, in the movie's most glaring omission.
The other striking thing about the movie is how it's pretty cheap and clumsy. Here's a shot of Superman on the surface of the moon, and I'm pretty sure those dark lines in the background are the contours of curtains trying to simulate the blackness of space.

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