"After the Big One: Nuclear War on the Prairies" (1983) Cold War Film

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A Canadian made-for-television movie - This film deals straightforwardly with the consequences of a nuclear attack for the Canadian Prairies. The Prairies are singled out because of their proximity to huge stockpiles of intercontinental ballistic missiles located in North Dakota. Scenes include a visit to a missile base and to an emergency government bunker in Manitoba. A doctor, a farmer and a civil defence coordinator provide different perspectives on nuclear war. Although the film focuses on one region, it provides a model for people everywhere who would like to know more about their own situation but don't know what questions to ask.
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@stephencannon3140 Жыл бұрын

Sad as it is to say…….the ones that get vaporized in the initial blasts…..will probably be the lucky ones.

@TheDoctor1225 Жыл бұрын

Not sad to say at all, really. Having grown up in the late 70's and 80's I well remember the "What would you do if nuclear war came?" talks so many had that usually ended with "Grab the family and head for the mountains/iive off the land" decisions. Me? I wanted to be under the first one that hit, myself. I had no desire to live in a world that was devastated and in which all of my friends and family were dead or would likely die slow, horrible deaths. (Part of that, I will also say, comes from my faith and the confidence I have of a life after this one) There's an interesting interview done of Rod Serling in which he expressed much the same thoughts when asked about his TZ episode "The Shelter."

@joncumberbatch852 Жыл бұрын

I sometimes wonder if the words of God have been purposely misrepresented to esure the people never undermine the cowardly tyrants. I believe this world is just too good a gift to be just the throwaway experiment.. Anyway Good luck friend

@sartainja Жыл бұрын

@@TheDoctor1225 I agree; was born in the middle 1960’s. The last two generations have forgotten about the nightmare of nuclear war. They never watched any of those movies from the 1980’s that scared the hell of of you.

@ejp9773 Жыл бұрын

That is what they when the bombs were dropped on Japan

@waynegoodman3345 Жыл бұрын

Your right the post nuclear world would be followed be a global famine,disease and complete breakdown of society and infrastructure for many years.

@blueduck9409 Жыл бұрын

I think i remember watching this. Its nice to see people in public walking around with out cell phones. I miss those days.

@besticudcumupwith202 Жыл бұрын

...that and the big cars I miss them too. *except the music. I hate synth. And that's all 80's music was.

@bestbutter Жыл бұрын

@@besticudcumupwith202 Nice to see you and Mr Duck have covered all the important issues raised by the film.

@besticudcumupwith202 Жыл бұрын

@@bestbutter ...I forgot to mention most 80's girls still had bush. This was before the whole "Brazilian" rage took over. So there's that too.

@Grisha_Goryachev Жыл бұрын

@@besticudcumupwith202 I am glad you mentioned that one! A matter of utmost importance that is often overlooked in these anti nuclear war films.

@besticudcumupwith202 Жыл бұрын

@@Grisha_Goryachev...I know right! The Brazilian changed everything!

@gabrielwatson7721 6 ай бұрын

As a child of the 70's and 80's, this was a very real scenario, almost an EXPECTATION, of how our lives would end at the least, or how we would survive at the WORST. Not only did we practice bomb drills at school, but also at home. Bug-out bags were an everyday part of many of peoples lives. Family plans drawn up, each person knowing their precise instructions for the expected bug-out. Now, here we are. Staring at the possibility of not only World War III, but also terror attacks taking place simultaneously across the World... *Sigh* Here we go, again.😔

@CaseyBerard-qv6bi 5 ай бұрын

Yes rather be prepared and have a fighting chance never give up it’s not over till you let it be over

@SuckasNeverPlayMe 5 ай бұрын

Did you watch THREADS.... Aired on TV in the UK in 1984...now full movie available on KZfaq...

@gabrielwatson7721 5 ай бұрын

@@SuckasNeverPlayMe I sure did. That one was even MORE scary in my opinion. I watched it just a few months ago, and the trauma came flooding back like it did in the 80s.

@SuckasNeverPlayMe 5 ай бұрын

@@gabrielwatson7721 I watched it again two days ago.... I have a nasty feeling about this year. The UK is now and US now talking about bombing Yemen.... And Yemen is allied with Iran.... Great.... It was the middle east that was in Threads as the cause of it too. All my life Threads has been in my mind. I don't know how many times I've seen it, but it's a lot. I have it on dvd. What's really striking in that, and at the time it was aired it's what shocked most people more than the bomb itself, is the way the government would treat us.... You would be shot just for trying to find food to survive... Also how they arrest known "subversives" before it happens.... I think it's the bleakest film ever made. It certainly leaves an impact on anyone who watches it.... THREADS was based around facts too. Look at the credits at the end, the list of people who were involved in the making of it.... YOU CANNOT WIN A NUCLEAR WAR!!

@gabrielwatson7721 5 ай бұрын

@@SuckasNeverPlayMe You are right 💯! There are no winners in a Nuke War. What's left to conquer? Earth would be a literal cesspool of radiation. I wouldn't want to live in an underground bunker, waiting on death by thousands of different cancers. Also, things are getting more ramped up with the Koreans, China, Israel and pretty much anyone on her borders, and as you mentioned, Yemen. I don't know about you, my friend, but 2024 is looking kinda creepy. What do you think?

@jasonabbott4210 Жыл бұрын

I want to thank this KZfaq channel for making this documentary publicly available. I've personally been studying global nuclear warfare and civil defense for over 20 year's and I've not seen this film until now. The film is dated but still relevant.

@Rich-mx7vg 10 ай бұрын

Me too.

@igorschmidlapp6987 10 ай бұрын

My computer just posted on-screen, "Shall we play a game?" ;-P

@MrSpudz2 10 ай бұрын

And it comes down to a simple question. How do you want to die? A: quick, fast, and painless or B: slowly, painfully from ARP?

@sid2112 10 ай бұрын

@@MrSpudz2 C: Rename myself Hummugus and finally begin my career as a post apocalyptic warlord of the wastes.

@sonicmojo 10 ай бұрын

@@MrSpudz2quick fast and painless that's why I live in a Major Nuclear Target! Millisecond bright light and I'm vaporized. I've suffered enough.

@bringthepain7341 3 ай бұрын

Ahhh....these were the good Ole days...if we only could have known how the world would be today.

@JesusChrist-xk9ee Жыл бұрын

The only way to win..... is to not play the game......

@paintnamer6403 Жыл бұрын

The BBC movie Threads is slow to get going but is a grizzly and depressing account of nuclear combat in England.

@gigi4life423 Жыл бұрын

I watched it...and you are correct

@pamelagileno5483 Жыл бұрын

Scariest, darkest film I've ever seen to this day. Makes 'The Day After' look like Romper Room.

@EricCox4848 2 ай бұрын

Scarier than a horror movie. Sheffield in ruins after several nuclear weapons destroy Sheffield and surrounding areas and many of the population die as a result of radiation poisoning or shot for stealing. In the initial blast, people caught in the open are killed. And it seems like the ones that really suffer are the survivors because they're stuck in a nuclear winter, they're left to deal with food shortages, crops that fail, higher risk of cancer and cataracts because of damage to the ozone layer, and a total breakdown in society. But the postwar generation suffer a fate far worse because they had a greater risk of mental retardation after being exposed to radiation while still in the womb, especially for Jane. And she gave birth to a baby who was mutated and stillborn. A terrible scenario to even think about living in.

@needtoknow5529 9 ай бұрын

The "adults" in the 1980's took nuclear war seriously. Today's generation of leaders think that sending Ukraine war weapons is a joke without real world consequences. Well, and these are the consequences. Have fun with the rest of your time spent on this earth and make sure to spend time with your family.

@critterfestsanctuary2446 Жыл бұрын

A 15 mhinute warning ? Cool that will give me plenty of time to roll a joint.

@dragonspirit1639 Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget the Brandy, you’ll need it!

@joeyboedeker2047 2 ай бұрын

Why?? When you could just pack a bowl.

@derryjones1029 21 күн бұрын

Over here in Britain we only get 4 minutes so I make sure I'm high constantly 😂

@derryjones1029 21 күн бұрын

Over here in Britain we only get 4 minutes so I make sure I'm constantly high😂

@georgeian3243 Жыл бұрын

In case of nuclear attack, get close to ground zero if possible…better to get vaporized straight away than face the aftermath.

@Helmuesi911 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely not.. people owe me money. I’m collecting

@cesarcueto1995 Жыл бұрын

@@Helmuesi911 lol

@toddlavigne6441 Жыл бұрын

I agree, life will hell on earth for any who survive

@altha2008 Жыл бұрын

I do prepping as much as I can one thing to me not worth living though is a nuclear war

@colinyandon6137 6 ай бұрын

Wanna be vaporization buddies?

@MedardKrzisnik Жыл бұрын

I remember very well this time of a big tension between the U. S. A. and the Soviet Union, in 1983, when this documentary was made. It really looked like that the nuclear war can happen at any moment. I was still in the primary school. We watched another films: Threads and The Day After. It was a horrible feeling. I can't believe that we are again very close to this terrible crisis situation of fear because of the possibile nuclear destruction.

@timsimmons9995 Жыл бұрын

We're probably a similar age, and I fully agree with you. It is depressingly terrifying that we face this today.

@shopsshire9282 Жыл бұрын

I think the threats even bigger now cuz we have China in the mix now North Korea India Pakistan maybe even Japan Iran

@lukeharrop4620 Жыл бұрын

Threads is absolutely terrifying

@pizzamovies23 Жыл бұрын

We are definitely not in the same level of fear and anxiety. Schools don’t have nuclear attack drills. Civil patrol doesn’t conduct tests. Bomb shelters arnt advertised in the newspapers, and people arnt buying stocks of canned foods to store away.

@jonnyjackson6050 Жыл бұрын

@@pizzamovies23 maybe they should. Things are not great right now. Also, most of don't live in the USA. I'm in Great Britain and we never had any of those things. Civil Defence was tried here a little till the fifties when the H Bomb made it redundant. Our government realised there was no protection possible for the public so didn't waste any money on it. The UK is a small country and in the 80s had many target areas (over 200). I doubt that's changed too much. In fact Britain is worse prepared now than we were then. All the infrastructure that was in place for continuation of government and fallout detection/warning has been dismantled. We haven't even had a siren system here since 1990s.

@klardfarkus3891 Жыл бұрын

A big problem in avoiding nuclear war is that the decision makers believe they will be safe under ground. They would decide different if they thought they would face the same consequences as the rest of us.

@user-zn5xd4cr2e Жыл бұрын

What the "decision makers" fail to take into account, is that the survivors will be waiting for them as they crawl out..The survivors will not be happy!!

@nicoladouglas3270 Жыл бұрын

The Nukes we have now...I doubt there will be any survivors...

@LordZontar 11 ай бұрын

They will face those same consequences. They're safe only until the groceries run out, and there won't be anyone coming to their rescue either. They have a function in the post-war world only because a sheaf of papers says they do, but the commander on the surface and his troops are the ones with all the guns. It won't take long for them to figure out they don't need the big shots underground for anything. The phone lines or radio aerials get snipped and those fools will be left to die in their bunkers.

@gorillaau 9 ай бұрын

They also didn't recognise that then people that they depend on are gone. They will need to find food and water. Nothing will come out of a tap. Supermarkets and convenience stores are gone or filled with how rotting food. Nope, if it comes to MAD, then I hope I am vaporized, rather than living in a nuclear wasteland. With constant reminders of better and healthier times.

@paris466 8 ай бұрын

They would be utterly impotent and wouldn't even realize it. They would just keep going about as if their "duties" mattered.

@justinhaase8825 Жыл бұрын

2nd time watching this as a Civil Defense kid. The fear in the day was genuine.

@orion5992 Жыл бұрын

... but, more-so TODAY!

@rdm5190 Жыл бұрын

"THE DAY" has returned my friend and it looms in the hands of a new breed of political madness and controlled for the most part by madmen with no regard for humanity... Just profits&power where we are nothing more expendable livestock milked for our taxes&labor It's time to fear again

@terrybardy2848 Жыл бұрын

This is the third time as a Civil Defense kind. One of my earliest memories is being in a fall out shelter because someone decided to park his missiles 90 miles south of Florida.

@contingency9 Жыл бұрын

The fear is back today

@johnnydoe1984 Жыл бұрын

They won again then !

@charlesphillips1468 Жыл бұрын

This was made in the era of The Day After, Threads, WWIII mini-series, Damnation Alley, Special Bulletin. I am glad it is still here for the next generation who have forgotten, but it's unlikely they will actually watch it. 99 luftballoons...

@tommcavoy4960 Жыл бұрын

Nuen undt neunzig luft ballun..

@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 Жыл бұрын

Wasn't special bulletin about aliens? ITYM Countdown to Looking Glass.

@charlesphillips1468 Жыл бұрын

@@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 Nope, Special Bulletin was something different, special. It was a fake TV news broadcast about a group of anti-nuclear terrorist who had a tugboat in Charleston harbor with a nuclear bomb. Yes, that is paradoxical and they recognized it in the film: Anti-nuclear activists threatening people with a home-made nuke.

@charlesphillips1468 Жыл бұрын

@@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 Over this last weekend, I watched on KZfaq World War Three (1998) a made-for-TV faux documentary about an alternate timeline in which Gorbachev was overthrown by hardliners. I didn't have a television at the time it originally aired, but I was in college when the Berlin Wall came down.

@woodchucknation Жыл бұрын

Worry worry super scurry Call the troops out in a hurry….

@GRasputin91 Жыл бұрын

Look at the exquisite facilities set up to shelter government people during this catastrophe. They won't do that for the populace, because it costs too much. Even though we're the ones that pay for their damn shelters

@FastUgly Жыл бұрын

Those that manned those facilities would suffer the longest! In the end everyone gets it....nobody gets out alive.

@LordZontar Жыл бұрын

It will make no difference in the end whether the government have the best shelters or not. Their power runs out when the last of the fuel for the generators is gone. Their chances of survival run out when the groceries are gone -- especially drinking water. And likely their control over anything outside ceases within three weeks of the attack because those people only have a function simply because a sheaf of papers says they do, but the troops and police up top with the guns are the ones who are really in charge and it won't take them long to figure that out. Basically, those bureaucrats within their shelters are dead within two months after War Day. The rest of the surviving population will die from famine, freezing cold, and every disease let loose by the complete collapse of the medical and sanitation systems. Shelters won't do a goddamn bit of good.

@robinwells8879 Жыл бұрын

I think that I would prefer a civilian death to their’s any day. Vaporised as opposed to a lingering countdown to death with plenty of time to dwell on the coming nature of it.

@tiborpurzsas2136 Жыл бұрын

Mr. Rasputin ! Firstly, its absolutely unrealistic to build and maintain nuclear shelters for the entire population of any country! Secondly there is a very famous made for tv film , the British" Threads " Its from the same year as this documentary. In the film they show the inner workings of a government shelter, very similar to the Canadian one ! To make a long story short, after the nuclear attack the shelter gets buried with rubble. First they run out of electricity, than food, water, etc. By the time they got uncovered, every one of them were dead . That film showed, that the luckiest ones were the ones who got turned into steam immediately

@jayroser9876 Жыл бұрын

They will soon find out they don't have anyone to rule over and no one to take care of their pampered ass.

@jacam6586 5 ай бұрын

This is the evils we face so sad we all live on one planet 😢

@Nitecrow314 Жыл бұрын

I bet that Dr is a right laugh at parties 😂

@robertkerr4199 10 ай бұрын

I remember watching this on the CBC. It aired following The Day After, a made for TV movie set in Kansas during nuclear holocaust. I TOTALLY recommend The Day After, if anyone wants a glimpse into the genuine fear we all lived with during the cold war...

@romanmazur3793 9 ай бұрын

"The Day After" is very optimistic movie.

@Mantechnic 9 ай бұрын

Watch 'Threads'' if you want a more realistic depiction of what a likely nuclear scenario would be like. And even that is an optimistic take, the aftermath would probably be a magnitude of many times worse.

@shellydunn4566 7 ай бұрын

Threads messed me up.

@justintime41776 7 ай бұрын

Thanks to our weak fake president we're closer than ever to midnight. Remember when the fake news said Trump would get us into ww3 and did the opposite? I remember.

@rejectedjeepers7317 7 ай бұрын

They are so messed up but after listening to science Friday about thermal nuclear winter. No one on earth will survive the cold from snow blocking the sun for years..

@kai-uweoch1159 Жыл бұрын

In November 1983 the NATO exercise Able Archer and a malfunction in the Russian early warning system nearly triggered World War III. Never ever have the scenarios in this film been closer to reality.

@christianzilla Жыл бұрын

During the Cuban missile crisis, a Russian nuclear submarine 2nd in command refused to launch their nuclear payload and wait for more information as he wanted verification for the recently received launch order. He risked his life and disobeyed his commander and saved the world as the order had been a mistake.

@firstsgt279 Жыл бұрын

@@christianzilla Was a Diesel Soviet Sub, didnt have Nuke Missiles just one single small Nuke tipped Torpedo. Even if this had been used against one US Ship. USA/USSR were already pretty much in agreement to stand down by then. Would been a BIG mess but doubt would turned into WW3 by then. Problem was they had no Comm's to Moscow or anyone else and the Capt thought War had started. Even US was trying trying communicate with the Sub that they were not trying to sink it. As you said fortunately takes all 3 Officers to agree to launch/Sink that US Ship, the top 2 of Equal Rank and the Political Officer. Fortunately the Subs Batteries were exhausted so they had to surface and able to reestablished Comm's with Moscow.

@christianzilla Жыл бұрын

@@firstsgt279 thanks for the details.

@ljubomirculibrk4097 Жыл бұрын

@@firstsgt279 They where trying to sink it whit depth charges, strange "comunication"...

@randallrichardson-se7ql 2 ай бұрын

I was in Germany, courtesy of Uncle Sam,at that time and remember well the apprehension of my fellow soldiers participating in "Able Archer". We had received our M1A1's earlier that year. We just knew we were about to be tested.scary times for soldiers. Thank God it didn't.

@hendrytjj 10 ай бұрын

I'm surprised we have made it this far. I sometimes wonder if the planet will still be in one piece when my kids are my age.

@michaelkremling5359 10 ай бұрын

The planet will be fine once we are gone.

@hendrytjj 10 ай бұрын

@@michaelkremling5359 ......yes, a nuclear wasteland devoid of most life because of the idiots that we keep putting in charge!

@rd264 9 ай бұрын

Im surprised millions of people feel so tyrannized and powerless that they accept NATO and doom and nuclear blackmail and are apathetic resigned to doom.

@joeespo177 Жыл бұрын

I was 11 in October 1962. That was every bit as terrifying as 1983. Made worse when they told us school kids to hide under our desks. By 1983 I felt more resigned to it all.

@jpotter2086 10 ай бұрын

Agreed, born under the bomb, it was just a permanent background to everything, feeding cynicism and nihilism.

@JDam6014 Жыл бұрын

Threads is the most depressing, factual and poignant film about nuclear war and its aftermath that I’ve ever seen. Search it out if you’re interested

@kevinowens6010 Жыл бұрын

Excellent film for its time. Imagine about 1000 times worse would be most real Today. Russia has improved their payloads beyond nuclear. Fission 500 megaton with Hydrogen is a Nation crowd pleaser. Only need maybe 5 to 10 for cobalt and Hydrogen to turn the earth into a small Sun. We shure are pushing that option by reset. Those for the New Order really are arrogant thinking living in a luxury bunker with their Hoes makes them untouchable while the agenda of a zero carbon blueprint is achieved for maximum profits. However the surface slaves die about five and half seconds faster than the Elite armored in snug as a bug Two miles down.

@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 Жыл бұрын

But it doesn't have any car chases!

@whitedove7945 Жыл бұрын

Ed Rose THREADS was so well done, I thought it was a documentary! The acting was superb! I had to wait til the end to view the credits, just to be sure those were truly actors. Totally realistic. Frightening! Everyone, ask Jesus Christ into your heart NOW! We never know when our last breath will be! Amen GOD BLESS,,,,,

@markko0313 Жыл бұрын

It's available on Britbox

@snotgurgletroll1812 Жыл бұрын

Threads us a very good movie....just to let people know, it's NOT fast moving.

@jackpinesavage1628 Жыл бұрын

Odd, how during the 1980s, in an arms race between the soviets and Ronald Reagan, America built fallout shelters for government workers while the soviets built fallout shelters for everyone.

@kjetilkjellevold8054 4 ай бұрын

No they didnt. They realized long before the americans, that was an impossible task to do.

@lpg12338 Жыл бұрын

Two interesting movies to watch, "The Day After" & "Threads".

@BluegrassFilmsKY Жыл бұрын

Both Reagan and Gorbachev watched The Day After and softened their stances on the others nations as a result possibly averting a real nuclear war. In 1987 the film was shown on Soviet television.

@jessicapabon2105 10 ай бұрын

Also watch ladybug, ladybug... another nuclear war movie but seen Through The Eyes of young children. It was a very good movie

@lpg12338 10 ай бұрын

@@jessicapabon2105 Never heard of it, thanks, I will check it out. 👍

@speedbirdone 7 ай бұрын

@@jessicapabon2105anotherone is letters of a dead man i suppose it's called in english. In german it's Briefe eines Toten

@Gary-zq3pz 11 ай бұрын

I recall some speculators selling fallout condos dug into the side of a ridge. Across the road from the 'survival condos' was a Minuteman 2 base, about five miles away. A perfect place to ride out THE END, just inside the fireball.

@jd4200mhz 3 ай бұрын

you still dont even get close to understand the consequence of a nuclear war

@leroy.jackson.4804 Ай бұрын

Got that right 👍.

@leroy.jackson.4804 Ай бұрын

Got that right 👍.

@user-so8ei2td1d 19 күн бұрын

Not that hard to figure it out..

@jd4200mhz 18 күн бұрын

@@user-so8ei2td1d i agree, but most still still thinks the human race will survive

@PsychotoasterProd 7 ай бұрын

13:30 - how quaint. They think that government will still function, when in reality it'll look more like the bunker scenes from Threads.

@thindigital 10 ай бұрын

Those guys in the silos, "so how was work today honey?", "We practiced ending civilization...."

@lucasglowacki4683 Жыл бұрын

Good ol’ Winnipeg…looks just like the day I moved there in 1984😂

@jukeboxjimi435 Жыл бұрын

And the clock keeps ticking ever so closely to this horrific scenario.

@howardroth3700 9 ай бұрын

".... would eliminate Canada as a threat" 🤣🤣🤣 A threat of what, getting sticky from maple syrup?

@michaelmcglynn5863 8 ай бұрын

I love maple syrup.

@mikemore 27 күн бұрын

Yea LGBT sticky syrup, Trudeau will make it a promise.

@tommcavoy4960 Жыл бұрын

Cue Ren and Stimpy singing Happy Happy, Joy Joy! Very uplifting video!

@jmanner2562 Жыл бұрын

I think the expert sitting on his porch would be a good fit in the war room in Dr. Strangelove

@SS08947 3 ай бұрын

He is telling the truth...

@zerohour5747 11 ай бұрын

15 minute warning ? Try no warning .

@AntoniOrszykowski 7 ай бұрын

It would be more human to tell people to stay outside and don't suffer to long from fall-out.

@fandoria09 Жыл бұрын

Some footage taken from the 1980s movie "The Day After." Nuclear power plants would be first targeted then other important places would follow.

@lukestrawwalker Жыл бұрын

Yes... it'd be a constant Chernobyl every day of the year for decades on end... totally uncontrollable and unstoppable... drifting radiation from the ensuing meltdown after the plant was obliterated by the nuclear weapon blast would render entire regions too radioactive to even enter let along live in...

@carltondexter1651 Жыл бұрын

Watch the British movie THREADS here on KZfaq. It is a much better film and goes twenty years after the Worldwide nuclear conflict and it is very grim. And with Zelenzski and Biden today we will probably have a nuclear war within a months time. Hopefully I am in ground zero.

@selfdo Жыл бұрын

How little you understand the strategic concepts involved in any nuclear exchange. The last thing any hostile power, intent on takeover, would destroy would be the power plants, especially the nukes. Nuclear plants can continue to operate, months or even years, even if no fuel arrives. Let alone deliberately destroy railyards, bridges, harbors, and major highway interchanges, though some of that might be unavoidable in targeting their enemy military installations. It's a "counter-force" versus "counter-value" priority. Also why all those movies and novels that show cities being wiped out in an initial strike, though gripping, are completely wrong, as the most bellicose of Soviet generals, back in the day, never would have proposed such a thing.

@lukestrawwalker Жыл бұрын

@@selfdo lol nobody is taking over anything after a nuclear war and everybody who's honest about it knows it. All this rubbish about a "limited nuclear war" or "tactical nuclear war" is just that, rubbish. If it comes to nukes it'll be about obliterating the enemy and destroying their ability to ever recover enough to threaten the other side again...

@selfdo Жыл бұрын

@@lukestrawwalker While the "all or nothing" approach, aka "MAD" (Mutually Assured Destruction) has thankfully served to deter the use of nuclear weapons since 1945; there's no assurance that will continue. As well put in the 2002 film, "The Sum Of All Fears", just after halting a drill on responding to warning of a massive nuclear attack from Russia, which then had some estimated 27K nuclear weapons, the real nuclear "power" the US had to worry about was the crazy SOB with ONE. Or some rogue state with an apparent death wish, like Iran or North Korea, which, although obviously way overmatched against the USA, can still do significant harm with one or a few nukes. But, as with any weapon, one still drills and has a fighting plan. Limited? Well, that's precisely my point...even when nukes are being used in the "tactical" sense, MAD still applies. Same reason as, in the waning days of WWII in Europe, Hitler could have ordered the deployment of several thousand artillery shells and bombs with nerve gas, which would have been devastating against American, British, but especially SOVIET armies closing in on Berlin. Why didn't he? Because he'd suffered gassing as a common soldier in WWI, and feared it, and that while a temporary victory, or at least reprieve, might be attained, there would be retaliation in kind. I hope the applicable civilian and military leadership that exercises control over their respective WMDs has at least that much sense.

@u.s.militia7682 9 ай бұрын

I saw 2 of those B52 bombers on Biggs Army Airfield in 1989. I served 18 years in the army and those bombers are the scariest things I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

@justintime41776 7 ай бұрын

You know what scares me? Anti American democrats.

@Joel-yi8gb 5 ай бұрын

1 of those 5-52s is just one of those things that can really mess up your day. But you won't be alone 🤔 It'll mess up your pets day too.

@jacksimper5725 Жыл бұрын

I wonder how this got passed the You Tube AI .

@cockneycharm3970 Жыл бұрын

Can't see this being sensored. Seen worse on KZfaq.

@martha-anastasia Жыл бұрын

Past, not passed

@devildawgpryde4764 Жыл бұрын

I guarded Tridents for the US Navy as a Marine and fixed their submarines as a later career in my life. Proud YardBird.. Grew up with this film as a kid. Thanks for sharing

@remus80 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all you did for our nation. It's very much appreciated.

@devildawgpryde4764 Жыл бұрын

@Extreme Fart They know my name in DC and I've done many things for this country which shall remain unseen. Served in many ways and some are worthy of a Tom Clancy story. Helped shape Washington policy back in the day and hopefully I changed the world in a better way.

@_ok__ Жыл бұрын

@Extreme Fart the amount of disrespect here is absurd

@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 Жыл бұрын

@@devildawgpryde4764 ignore that idiot. You cant fix stupid. You can, however, pepper spray it….

@tonywilson8577 11 ай бұрын

@@extremefart8932I think he's full of shit...

@annmarie1569 Жыл бұрын

This was just a scenario in 1983. Hard to believe, today it could be a reality.

@Helmuesi911 Жыл бұрын

We’re nowhere near a nuclear showdown. Every little thing stirs up fake internet hysteria.

@christopherforster7293 Жыл бұрын

You haven’t been paying attention to what’s happening in Ukraine?

@nuntana2 2 ай бұрын

@@Helmuesi911 We are closer to it than in the '80s, when I grew up through that rubbish. Problem is there are more players than at any time, and at least three places where one mishap can lead to all-out nuclear conflict.

@darrenfromaustraliaupside-9079 Жыл бұрын

Once a full scale global thermonuclear war has been fought, the survivors will envy the dead.

@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 Жыл бұрын

The only way to win is to not play.

@endtimeslastdays7777 11 ай бұрын

I wish we were still in the 1980's

@adventureseeker9800 Жыл бұрын

GeeZzz, talk about vintage. Kinda cool. I have a sudden desire to watch Damnatuon Alley now.

@BugRib Жыл бұрын

I start every day by watching this film. Very motivational.

@dprkassassin1876 Жыл бұрын

Even in a nuclear war, Canadian doctors still provide shorter waiting lists than the NHS here in Scotland

@sabrekai8706 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, 40 years ago they may have but our medical system is in deep doodoo. No money, shortage of doctors and nurses. I need an angioplasty. Maybe in February.

@mrlodwick Жыл бұрын

lol

@oneilluminatus Жыл бұрын

Here in the usa they'll take you right away but it will cost you your whole life savings.

@opencarry3860 Жыл бұрын

If you dont mind assisted suicide as healthcare.

@andrepaquin2099 Жыл бұрын

It's an even shorter waiting list if you can be cajoled into medically assisted suicide instead of treatment by the Liberal/NDP government. They put a guy to death this year over hearing aids, and Veterans Affairs Canada recommended it as an option for an Afghan War veteran requesting a mobility device.

@marksamuelsen2750 7 ай бұрын

To survive the initial blasts would truly be horrible. To slowly die from radiation poisoning and starvation would be the nightmare.

@JamesPilkenton-se5cx 8 ай бұрын

Sideshow Bob said it best'The living will envy the dead." Live from Norfolk, VA. The other ground zero.

@greggd2027 Жыл бұрын

After 3 decades of no longer playing this dangerous game, here we are again. The threat of nuclear war looms, and no one seems interested in a negotiated peace. All we are hearing is war drums. We are all our own worst enemy

@cockneycharm3970 Жыл бұрын

Even worse when the people of different countries say, bring it on. I don't think these brain dead people realise what a nuclear war consists of.

@peteparker7396 Жыл бұрын

You can’t negotiate with bullies and despots. It will never end.

@ScrawneyRonnie Жыл бұрын

@@peteparker7396 it will end... and very suddenly. and it's our fault

@peteparker7396 Жыл бұрын

@@ScrawneyRonnie our fault? Do elaborate on that for me please sir?

@tonybigalow3236 Жыл бұрын

Say thank you to Putin

@phoebus 11 ай бұрын

So who's brilliant idea was it to put silos and air force bases next to the food supply of the nation?

@robertafierro5592 Жыл бұрын

The THIRST from the Radiation is supposed to be the WORST!!

@dasmin1135 8 ай бұрын

The people in the first scene of this film did not hold any smartphone in their hands.😢

@larry1824 Жыл бұрын

Who'd want to survive? See Threads please

@jamesgornall5731 Жыл бұрын

After this, watch "Threads"

@josephtaylor3857 Жыл бұрын

"Greetings Professor Falken. Would you like to play a game of chess?"

@deetles98 Жыл бұрын

The only way to win is not to play……

@sharkwhisperer7326 Жыл бұрын

I loved the 80s but this video was tough to watch, didn't even make it all the way, still appreciate the upload.

@buzaldrin8086 Жыл бұрын

90 seconds to midnight. Closest ever.

@markedid5818 Жыл бұрын

Having grown up living in Montana under the endless threat of nuclear war I use think about it alot, fantasizing about the bunker I would build if I ever had the money. Now I really don't care.

@raymondstrehl3679 Жыл бұрын

@MarkedID I don't care either we both must be married 😋

@sphinxrising1129 Жыл бұрын

Leds than 15 minutes, as this film did not take into account of the Soviet subs just off the coasts.

@martytrueblood5902 Жыл бұрын

that is propaganda.

@jefftheriault5522 Жыл бұрын

The problem with the Russian missile submarines is that they spend most of their time at sea in well defended home waters. Their doctrine is to survive for a final city busting retaliation. To make an initial decapitation strike from relatively close launches, they have to approach the U.S. coastlines. Those movements are very likely to be picked up, and those submarines trailed by USN hunter killer subs. And the technical means to detect and localize those Russian boomers (SURTASS) will also be defended. The bombs for a decapitation strike are likely already stored close to their targets in the U.S.

@SlinkiestTortoise23 Жыл бұрын

@@martytrueblood5902 The Russians put one in the Hudson River! It is well documented. Russian submarines regularly patrol the eastern seaboard. It’s a cat and mouse game that has gone on for decades! Right now there is a Russian submarine less than 25m off the coast of the U.S, 100%! And there is the U.S equivalent patrolling Russian shores. That’s how the deterrent works.

@martytrueblood5902 Жыл бұрын

@@SlinkiestTortoise23 it is nonsense propaganda as both countries fail from basic corruption..

@ray.shoesmith Жыл бұрын

1983, "and although these B-52's are old...." 🤣

@orion5992 Жыл бұрын

It's IRONIC that in the year 2022, we are (again) watching these videos made in the 1980s... and it ain't (just) Russia anymore ... I'll say, I felt a LOT more comfortable then!

@whereswaldo5740 Жыл бұрын

The white metal die cast factory I used to work in was a Cold War prefabricated concrete building. Reinforced concrete slabs placed upright between similarly made square pillars. The idea being machinery would be protected. Windows would be covered or replaced. And manufacturing would be restarted as quickly as possible. Much like the cities in Japan. We were the tool and die capital of the world in our area. And number four on the the Soviet Union list of cities to be destroyed.

@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmyname Жыл бұрын

Would the fabrication of the building act as a Faraday cage and protect all the ICs in the machinery? And even the most advanced factory needs some human input, if the surrounding area has been pounded hard to try and get your machines, who do they think will go in to do a spot of overtime until everything settles down? Sometimes you wonder why would you even bother? They might as well just say, if it kicks off, it's every man for himself (which it will be), good luck

@jackieow Жыл бұрын

@@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmyname Twilight Zone TV series: "The Shelter"

@stephendoherty8291 Жыл бұрын

Would the EMP blast not render all electrics dead and the radiation fallout would kill most of the workers or make them so weak as to be unable to work in the factory. Would the roof not have been blasted off or was that a slab of concrete? Where would the store of safe food have been held for the workers (assuming the families of the workers were left to die of radiation/famine).

@jackieow Жыл бұрын

EMP and radioactive fallout are like the rain or snow or wind. You can have different amounts at different places. Different people and different buildings have different levels of resistance. As a generalization, 5psi = 165 mph will knock down most buildings. 300 Roentgens in a short period of time will kill half the people. 500 Roentgens will kill about 99% of those exposed. But some buildings could survive 5psi or more if built propertly. Some few people can survive even 600 Roentgens in a short period of time. How wet you get depends on how much rain falls on your location and how long you stand out in the rain. Ditto for nuclear blast or fallout or EMP.

@thesaints-7-andrew. Жыл бұрын

Where's Waldo?

@geoffreywilliams9324 Ай бұрын

This kind of movie is no exaggeration. No one can win . .

@shawng7902 11 ай бұрын

After watching so long, and working at a top 10 site for 20yrs. I think I want to be right under it. That saying about not seeing rats create rat traps really hits worse and worse.

@WhatWouldRudyEat 9 ай бұрын

Those bombers were old when the documentary aired, and the same boomers are still in service today lol.

@mlissgay5054 Жыл бұрын

There are no public shelters anymore..

@stivo2663 9 ай бұрын

Now this is a cheery bunch!

@wtf_usa5597 Жыл бұрын

This is a great film. It would be nice to see some updated documentaries on this subject since weap0n technology has advanced substantially.

@hueg.rectem6795 Жыл бұрын

War has changed, its not about weapons or soldiers but propaganda and (dis)information. Asymmetrical warfare ensures accurate documentaries like this one likely won't be made for mass public consumption ever again.

@ryanflecke2627 Жыл бұрын

Our nuclear weapons technology has not advanced one single bit AT ALL. I believe it has retrograded. That of our adversaries has advanced.

@ray.shoesmith Жыл бұрын

@@ryanflecke2627 That would be a neat trick, considering when SALT inspectors checked Russian nuclear silos in the early 90's after the fall of the USSR half of them were full of water

@ryanflecke2627 Жыл бұрын

@Phil Leotardo you mean like our titan 2 silos? Where do we get our tritium from? When did we develop our latest ICBM (that is in service, peacekeeper doesn't count)? Who has super EMPs(200kV per M³)?Our adversaries are developing new delivery systems TODAY. I'm not cheerleading for our enemies, I want us to have a clear and decisive advantage, like fucking yesterday.

@ryanflecke2627 Жыл бұрын

@@ray.shoesmith I kinda skipped over the obvious, but 30 years is a long time to retrofit or replace a flooded silo.

@jedjones9047 Жыл бұрын

Very nice cheered me up no end.

@alldayn2it332 Жыл бұрын

if you need me I'll be at at the bar

@vtgamehendge Жыл бұрын

And I know this video is 40 years old, but just wanted to add that the Minuteman-III is no longer equipped with a MIRV and now carries a single warhead. Under international treaties only the SLBM are equipped with MIRV warheads - the Trident II (D5). I agree with Daniel Ellsberg's views on disarmament or at the very least taking land based missiles off hair trigger alert status and eventually abolishing them altogether. I think complete global disarmament is probably unrealistic, but getting each country's total number of warheads down to maybe a couple dozen would be a great step forward.

@blenderocean Жыл бұрын

True on the last sentence for sure.

@grantmorrey5138 Жыл бұрын

Great film. I was a sophomore then, good times.

@my67falcon Жыл бұрын

Was Security Police in the missile fields of both Ellsworth SD and Whiteman MO. They trained us to go into the shaft leading to the launch control facility after we launched ours. We all agreed to sit outside and just watch the show. The quicker death would me much better.

@richardgentry6996 Жыл бұрын

Your Dead Anyway You Look at It.

@Senor0Droolcup Жыл бұрын

Thank you! This was a chilling, sobering and no doubt very accurate documentary. That said, it would be great to have a version narrated by Bob and Doug McKenzie. “Do you know what a thousand 1Mt bombs detonated at ground level in a very small area over the Grand Forks missile fields really means? NO MORE BEER!!!” That would definitely drive the message home in a way that all the professors could not.

@martytrueblood5902 Жыл бұрын

USSR was the biggest joke war in history.. Japan wins all wars.. read your operating manual on any electronic device one virus has shut us down... not a nuke

@LydiaStarz Жыл бұрын

Ey, beauty way to go!

@christianzilla Жыл бұрын

A nuclear winter from the dust projected into the upper atmosphere would last about ten years. No or reduced sunlight for ten years and freezing, radioactive conditions. Plants cannot grow in those conditions and that is the basis of the food chain. So yeah, no beer is a massive worry.

@123milw Жыл бұрын

So, all you got to do is put a mouse in the bottom of an empty and take it to the government run fallout shelter. If you threaten to sue them, they'll give you a 2-4 for free! Maybe even throw in a pack of smokes. Beauty, eh?

@Senor0Droolcup Жыл бұрын

@@123milw Would be great to have narrator say in his serious voice: "Like thousands of other shelters across Canada, the door to this shelter features a stern warning: "No Hosers!"

@ronneyrendon5045 6 ай бұрын

This topic warms my heart.

@MichaelOBrien71 5 ай бұрын

Same 🤣🤣

@briced.hornback1062 6 ай бұрын

"Threads" is a GREAT movie. Look it up.

@ignaciomenendez8672 Жыл бұрын

If you have a chance, please watch the movie/video ‘The Day After!… quite sobering 😢😱

@Mckscooter Жыл бұрын

Threads moreso

@cockneycharm3970 Жыл бұрын

The Day After doesn't show the real horror of a nuclear war. Watch the Docudrama called Threads. Now that shows what a war actually does, and it stays in your mind for a very long time.

@eldritchwulfe Жыл бұрын

The day after is Hollywood trash, if you want to watch a far superior film on this topic, Treads

@unpaintedleadsyndrome Жыл бұрын

Compared to Threads, the Day After looks like a romcom.

@vincetelles3767 Жыл бұрын

Both films are horrific. Nothing in the Day After seemed like a walk in the park. Threads was horrific as well. It was so dark and doom and gloom. Nuclear War is gonna be the end.

@leeholmes9962 Жыл бұрын

Let us all hope this will never happen let us hope government's in control of these horrific weapons have decency and common sense ✌️🇬🇧👍

@billyb4790 10 ай бұрын

The words Biden and Control don’t fit together.

@icarus313 3 ай бұрын

I love the forlorn music used in this film. Fits the ideas being discussed pretty well. 😮

Ай бұрын

The way things are going on in the world this is sadly becoming closer to reallity.

@danielhudson5186 Жыл бұрын

The early 80s was the golden age of speculative Nuclear War fiction.

@marksark1119 Жыл бұрын

It was nice seeing the old cars and equipment. As far as surviving any sort of nuclear attack, whether limited or massive, is a farce on a grand scale. ✌

@stephenturner6075 Жыл бұрын

That was a brilliant watch.

@erictaylor5462 11 ай бұрын

In 8th grade (1983) I asked my teacher why we didn't do "duck and cover" drills. She said that we lived withing 100 miles of dozens and dozens of primary targets (SF Bay Area). As if that isn't bad enough, we lived within 10 miles of the center of operations for MAC on the West Coast (Travis AFB) If there was going to be a nuclear war, ducking and covering will make no difference.

@todd3285 10 ай бұрын

Duck and cover was the standard back in the 50's and early 60' when nuclear weapons would mostly have been delivered by bombers . There was some survivability to citizens . Obviously it's totally different today .

@erictaylor5462 10 ай бұрын

@@todd3285 No, not really. Even in the 50's nuclear war would have been a mass extinction event. It would only have taken longer. In the 1950's they had advised pilots forced to land or bail out in the blast zone from a nuclear bomb was to dig a hole at least 2 feet deep piling up the dirt around the edges, then to lay in the hole for 2 weeks. Even at this time, those creating these survival methods knew that aircrews following this advice would never get out of that hole. Long term survival just isn't possible in such cases. Better to die quick.

@todd3285 10 ай бұрын

@@erictaylor5462 Crawl back under your rock now Eric .

@nialloneill5097 9 ай бұрын

Then duck and weave, you'll have to be lightning fast though to dodge those nukes. Maybe hitch a ride with Superman, if he's around that day.

@gloriamontgomery6900 6 ай бұрын

Right. I did only one duck and cover drill and it was in kindergarten in Alameda, the San Francisco Bay Area. I now know that it was probably to avoid panic

@egaroadkill8701 Жыл бұрын

I've never seen this one until today. It's well done. It's funny that in 1983 when this show was made, I watched Able Archer unfold around the naval station. So many B-52's flew over that afternoon that pictures fell off the walls and china spilled out of the cabinets. Those bomber were 30K+ feet up! That evening the KGB started up distraction efforts and the base was locked down. I found out that later that week many Soviet FBM's attempted to sneak past our defenses. 1983 was close!

@MM22966 Жыл бұрын

FBM?

@robertafierro5592 Жыл бұрын

What is an FBM. I'm not military or I would probabl_kow. Thank You.

@remus80 Жыл бұрын

@@MM22966 fleet ballistic missile aka submarines with nuclear tipped missiles.

@MM22966 Жыл бұрын

@@remus80 Ahhhhh. Boomers/SSBN. There was no context to figure it out.

@user-mv8lq4yd4d 7 ай бұрын

I had a friend in the Navy at that time and he said a Soviet bomber flew so low over the ship it knocked off the antenna mast

@BellaCroyda 6 ай бұрын

This is FORTY YEARS OLD!!! The dynamics have CHANGED!!!

@rapierduell Ай бұрын

It does say 1983 in the title

@mindyourbusiness4369 Жыл бұрын

This movie helped my bowel movements flowed easier.

@eyegorehertz761 Жыл бұрын

99 red balloons, up in the sky over saskatoon.

@dionysus2006 Жыл бұрын

Time for a permanent vacation to Fiji. They would probably be spared major fallout.

@bringthepain7341 Жыл бұрын

Best movie about this i have seen is the day after...

@rodharris4730 6 ай бұрын

I agree that the movie the day after is much better than the movie threads.

@davidbrown4823 Жыл бұрын

A part of my past when I was developing parts of SDI. I was aware of much but over the years I asked questions and found I was not aware as I thought in the idea of destroying nuclear warheads in orbit and the results of doing so.

@kennyronald1886 Ай бұрын

Bars would experience the busiest 15 minutes ever

@antonrehling1966 11 ай бұрын

There is no way you can protect yourself in the event of a nuclear exchange. No amount of food, no amount of shelter can protect you. Our only hope is to get active to stop those who control this life ending event.

@todd3285 10 ай бұрын

Well you can sleep better tonight knowing Psycho Little Joey Biden's finger is on the trigger . How does that make you feel ??

@sid2112 10 ай бұрын

I live deep in the mountains, far from any military base. I can hunt, I can fish, I can (and do) grow crops. It'll be tight, the work will be harder for the lack of machine parts, but the plows can be pulled and the soil can be turned. Some of us will survive, and one day we will come down from these hills and rebuild, hopefully with some regained common sense from the culling.

@darthwizzywizard 8 ай бұрын

@@sid2112100% ❤

@mapesdhs597 6 ай бұрын

@@sid2112 There's a good documentary clip on YT from the old James Burke "Connections" series, called, "The Technology Trap" (the video ID is lKELMR6wACw). In it, Burke conveys the absurdity of urban dwellers trying to survive by escaping the city to wherever, people who have no relevant knowledge (and he wasn't even discussing the idea in the context of war, instead just a major power outage or other systemic collapse). By contrast, prepared as you are, there's a good chance you'd do just fine, though whether it'd be a good idea to return from the hills, well who knows, it's not as if the inevitable urban populations learned much from the last bout of widespread conflict. :} Be radical, eh? And get outside, and get happy! To quote my two favourite channels. :) I miss the mountains. I'm in a city now, and it sucks. You're definitely way better off where you are, well done on securing such a setup.

@robertafierro5592 Жыл бұрын

Same questions today!

@kletrain7079 Жыл бұрын

We look forward to it....

@Noteven0 Жыл бұрын

Why would the governments of the world want to build fallout shelters for their citizens when they didn’t care enough to ask their citizens how they felt about the proliferation of nuclear weapons to begin with?

@robinj.9329 Жыл бұрын

A very scary possibility. BUT..... Recall these weapons have not been used since August 1945. That's 77 years of self control. Surprising, yes! But how much longer might this continue? We do not know.

@kenstevens5065 Жыл бұрын

Not long when within a few years the religion of peace gets their hands on them let alone Rocket Man.