"They are like other explosions... except these are more badass and cool!"

I'm 99% sure that at least part of these were transmitted and there was a leaflet campaign in the early 1980s. I was in the a Royal Navy at the time and remember seeing them when I was home on leave. I

There's one thing i learnt from this video........ Earth or Sand!!!! I need more Earth or Sand!!!!

THIS... IS TUGS. holy shit this is the guy who narrated TUGS.

Partially true. They were not aired for their intended purpose, but segments of them were used in "Threads," when it aired on the BBC.

I saw this on Threads and then I found out what this was called on Oddity Archive.

No , I remember one coming through the door, late 70s very early 80s, pale blue and green cover.

These guidance videos from the cold war era about what to do in a nuclear attack is nothing short of creepy and depressing. The music is creepy too! The video might as well say "you're fucked my friend!" :(

10 yrs later and humanity hasn’t learned a thing

Fallout is regular dust picked up and infected by the nuclear radiation which can be very, very DEADLY

how do you know if the teletubbies are not radioactive mutants?

I'm just going to paint my windows white to deflect a 20 megaton bomb

It was thinking the population might want to know what to do in the advent of a nuclear war. These were never shown on TV.

I've already forgot which noise is which in the aftermath. If it happened it looks like it would have been radiation sickness for me

I bet this would have been more suited to a conventional attack, as these are a continuation of WW2 directives. Most likely, you'd have a conventional phase first, or that it would be a conventional war.

ref the inner shelter part..if you followed the instructions to the letter,you would survive! i kid you not..you would survive... for all of 1 and a 1/2 mins..because the blast wave would flatten your place

i think id just wanna be morbidly drunk and have the bomb land on my head.... also note, having watched this i wont sleep for days now.

it had been shown in the 80's here in the UK 1983-84 if memory serves. it was at the same time that threads was broadcast as the Thatcher government really believed it was all about to go tits up

Do you remember in the 80's, we lived in everyday fear of nuclear war, it was all CND on the TV, and films like threads, and when the wind blows. It was a constant worry, I was only in my teens, but it was very scarey.

I'm so thankful about being 18 and not having to live with that constant fear everyday of my life. Especially knowing the absolutely useless tips., especially in the UK (I'm American) since the travel time is WAY shorter. But yeah, pretend that being in your house or laying in a ditch will stop a nuke.

Two Tribes go to war...

well old son like most of us lot out there at the time,we where unaware of the existence of these films,they only came to light as you say in the early 1980's when they were shown on BBC PANORAMA ! scarey stuff eh?

so scary!

It's so grim, you think about it for quite a while afterwords, easily worse than any modern goreporn horror film.

Ah, my mistake I had always thought that these were made 'just in case'.

It has since been admitted that the tips in these videos were of no real value, but they hoped it would give the public something to occupy their minds and and time with, to ward off civil disobedience. This and the film Threads were scary shit for we children of the 70's and 80's.

How scarce! Truth to tell, I am glad I do not live in the 1980s.The warnings themselves are to die for.

Pray to God that you will never see or hear this advert for real

Did a 2012-er post this?