@William Wright - I've often wondered why they needed 400 people on that starship if they only had 7 that did everything except when they needed a redshirt to kill off. The movies spelled that out when it only took 6 of them to steal a starship and take off across the galaxy.

To be at least somewhat fair given the circumstances we might rationalise it as he's already well into his 40s while most of the crew are 20s early 30s. In pure utilitarian terms having him risk it makes more sense. At this point the main and only goal left is to preserve as many reproductive age persons as possible. Though I doubt the scriptwriter thought of this.

@@tommissouri4871 Yeah, but EVERYTHING was full atomated, I mean, chimpanzee , and two traniies could run her......

I liked it better, too, except the ending was changed from the book.

This ending was better

Morse code was still in use in the 1950s even in telegrams Some northwest Australian Towns were still using it Into the 1960s!

And "Testament", 1983, Jane Alexander and William Devane- Really tough in a low key way.

I've seen threads and is much more realistic. Whereas this is a modern take on a classic novel from the 50s I think. On the beach. Great novel too. Read it and seen the 1964 Gregory peck 'On The Beach.

@@petealtomare3913 I made the mistake of watching this movie after I had children…heartbreaking 😩

Putin..Prigodgyn.. too late now ..

Lol

It's sealed with lead contain rubber. It's give some time but not much.

They are not even radiation suits or hazardous material suits. It's some variant of fire fighters suit.

I think what happened was the war broke out but Anchorage itself wasn’t hit . The radiation likely took a few days to a week to impact them after the attack so the residents had some time to prepare for the end (be it limited). The Australian reporter jenny had probably made numerous trips back and forth to the studio to send a last message home in those final days before the fall out hit which is why they mentioned she had nowhere else to go. What is a bit of a mystery is if she had a solar battery with a Sat transmitter why others messages wouldn’t have got back home (or be transmitting and picked up by the sub)? Anyway - the US government or what was left of it by all accounts had these pills stockpiled in the event they were ever needed and broke them out for the residents of Anchorage to take to spare them the painful death that would soon come with the fall out. The family in the bed appears to have had some time to prepare. Others in the cities that were attacked appear to have had no time and died of radiation sickness if they weren’t killed by the blast. But then again Bobby mentioned his parents in San Francisco“ died peaceful” so who knows.

Fentatyl or other heavy synthetic opioids maybe vet med from elefant zoo. Even beyond nano-gramm enough for overdose. From this condition dosage dosent matter anymore.

A little more hope in that book with some islands supporting life in the southern oceans. They also find a Russian sub who finds them fuel (for food) and they find the nuclear winter moving south where there is no radiation fallout. They also launch their missiles at the start of the war under war orders. No other ship of its class or in the southern oceans seems to survive.

LutzDerLurch yeah, I noticed that too...

It's the radiation.

@@spodge1233 xD

I think because just enough heads of state, kings, presidents, etc have had just enough sense to not ‘do it’.

Not really.

She came there over and over again afterwards trying to get her last message for her family in Australia. And on her last time in there she finally took the pill.

Possibly the radiation took a week or more to reach Alaska from China and the pills were made underground facilities. I can guess they made it fast to have an ingredient to rat poison.

Likely officials saw the writing on the wall and offered them as the last solution. It beats completely abandoning your residents.

@@v19d RAT POISON!? YOUR DUDE DON'T KNOW WHAT CHOOSE TO MAKE LAST TRIP!! METH OPIOID MIX "KINGS LAST".

Ronald Reagan saw the film 'The Day After' back in the 80s and he recorded in his diary that it left him feeling thoroughly depressed. Hard to imagine that it didn't have an effect on policy going forward from there.

You're full of shit!

+William Dean i did 2 of them

Looked like orcas to me

I agree!

That's wasn't from goverment stockpiles. It's maybe improvised mix.

Maybe warriors should all be eunichs.

@@davidbrumbaugh7809 In theory having asexuals man the armed forces might be the best thing. Cut down on costs no more homesickness but there aren't enough asexuals around. Just the fact that everytime a servicemen dies his family receives benefits adds to the overall cost. But asexuals arere generally placed at about 1% and even fewer are able to serve and of these even fewer want to.