As frightening as some of this imagery is, it still doesn't quite match the impact of the film that I remember being shown in high school...film footage of the damage that was inflicted on some of the people who survived the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even a quarter of a century later, I can still remember how chilling those images were...and the weapons we've developed since then are far more powerful.
““I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.” Kurt Vonnegut 'Slaughterhouse 5' pow survivor of Dresden.
In fact, as you may or may not have known, in 2008 the earth's human population became more than 50% urban for the first time in history. Look it up, it's actually quite interesting to think about.
The reason why these 'smaller' thermonukes were developed is because multiple ones can be carried on one missile. Once you get over a certain yield (say 5Mt) you actually get less damage for your bang. MIRVs can be used in a carpet nuclear bombardment of any megacity. Your average 400Kt warhead, together with a few others in the same payload, with a third gen. targeting system, will cause 10 times as much damage as one 10Mt monster. Big bombs kill cities; MIRVS kill countries.
@ludocrat You checked out the USA/UK's joint successor project mate? They intend to start it next year. It'll replace the US/UK's SSBN's and Trident system along with new warheads.
h t t p ://w w w . navalshipbuilding . co . uk/navalship_warships.asp?ID=WAR7&catID=5
@woofer0doofer We still use miles instead of kilometres in the UK, I think we are probably the only European country to do so, but I could be wrong...
ONLY 600 Million rich people can temporarily settle on the moon before Nuclear War begins. Then after 60 years of Nuclear Holocaust when no more Radioactive clouds, they will return to EARTH to plant trees and grasses and multiply again, and then Repeat the CYCLE (Birth – Death) 6 times.
Old documentaries are much more terrifying... i think it's because most modern ones have a cinematic feel, which to makes it seem far more ficticious. This is very stylised but in a different way...
@Lindelamare I saw this in 1982 when I was 14 and it scared the pants off me, particularly the ending. It was the beginning of my nuclear war neurosis which persists to some extent today.
Thermonuclear war, of course, is likely to become reality as peak oil results in larger conflict over the dwindling oil reserves of earth. It should be noted with alarm, that no two nations that possessed thermonuclear weapons have ever entered the battlefield in direct conflict. The Soviets and Americans, never officially fired shots, they did it through puppet nations.
@kingbleah In fact, the opposite is true; as missiles have gotten much more accurate over the last 50 yrs, the yields has been reduced. Those old blockbusters 10, 20 megaton have been replaced by warheads from about 100 kt to 400 kt. ICBMS have mutlitple warheads now, not like the single warhead of years ago. That said,being in the immediate area of a nuclear detonation would really make for a bad day
They would never show somehting this hard-hitting on TV anymore, there would be complaints from people that there wasn't a phone vote to see which couple got to stay in the bunker and which didn't before Simon Cowell gets to roundly insult them. This doc demonstrates the power of television brilliantly. Power it largely seems to have lost over the past decade or so.
At 2:11 they showed three random pictures of people in a row and all three of them were White. I think the program-makers would be sent to a multiculturalist death-camp if they did that in Britain today?
You doubt the effects of radiation? look at the workers from chernobyl, those that lived in the town near it. The service men from many countries that witnessed nuclear tests in the 50's and 60's are suffering from the effects now.
I've always readily agreed that thermonuclear weapons are the most heinous use of technology in the history of our species and are instruments of the devil. I have no doubt that the effects of heat and blast as described in this video are accurate. However, as events unfold at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, I am coming to question the validity of the effects of radiation that we all have come to believe from Cold War information. What is the truth regarding radiation???
@geoffck6969 Wars always result in the most heinous uses of technology. The firebombings of Dresden and Tokyo were no more humane than thermonuclear weapons.
Getting to the truth about anything in this vast information wastepile called the Internet takes time. You'll find many lumps of coal but eventually you'll find the diamonds. Radiation is deadly, quite simply put. They aren't exaggerating about that. However many exaggerate or minimize depending on their agenda.
@geoffck6969 You're right. Look at the "exclusion zone" around Chernobyl-how it's lush and vibrant with plants and animals. Look at the thriving cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The worst of the fallout decays within two months, and then what's left can be avoided with a little common sense.
After an attack, things would be safe within two years, although life would be similar to the first half of the 19th century for quite a while.
i really thought that, after watching "Threads", nothing could really scare me, how wrong i was...this picture happened to as frightening as Threads, at least for me
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@InAGaddaDaVida29 There would not likely be just one target. In an all-out nuclear attack, as this documentary points out, there would almost certainly be multiple points targetted, to ensure maximum destruction of the target.
These things are the scariest warnings you could ever see.. puts the shuts up me. I know it's a stupid question but was this actually on its way to happening or was it just a threat? Why did it not actually happen? (thank god!)
What really sticks out to me in this film is the voice of the narrator - staunch and authoritative, but yet engaging. He sounds halfway between a stern father and a tenured professor, not preaching or condescending, but you can still tell how serious the subject matter is. Chilling, to say the least.
We had Civil Defense lessons at school on regular basis. For most of our instructors it was just a boring jobm but and I remember quite well how scary it was. I imagined it all: how the sirens sound all of a sudden, how we rush to the nearest underground station, how the fireball emerges over the Cathedral dome, and the paintings burn on museum walls.
I mean St Isaacs of St Petersburg, and the Hermitage.
I lived in Leningrad, and it was equally scary to know that US missiles are aimed at us.
an image of hell that nobody ever wants to happen...my gawd, i love eighties culture but i didn't realize until watching this and various documentary and docu-dramas, that this was indeed, a fucking scary decade!!
@JestAnoutherPistol There are quite a number of US airbases in the UK, that's why it's a big target. The USAF have been there with nuclear capability since 1949, ready to attack the Eastern Block. Don't you know anything about history in the last 60 years?
@JestAnoutherPistol - Well in 1982 the UK was pretty much the 51st State (not to mention Airstrip One) and was chock full of USAF personnel and bases with cruise missiles so we would have been bombed out of existence. In fact it was estimated that there would have been a higher weapons yield per person than anywhere else on the planet, something like 300 Mt for a population of 50 million, or a whopping 6 tons of explosive power per person!
Imagine how it was for those of us who grew up fearing an enemy our governments brainwashed us into thinking wanted to destroy us and who along with us had the capability of destroying the entire planet.
Er...uh. Did you watch the same "The Day After" I did? The character was driving on the Interstate between Lawrence, KS and Kansas City, which are 40 mi. apart.
There should be more shows like this on TV to educate the population now. Nuclear war is still a possible it only needs 1 small mistake and...... BOOM!
What's funny is that today such a documentary would have looked even worse, all the fire and cool make-up would have been done with high-school level CGI
The bomb is SHOWN burning CHURCHES, WORKS OF ART in MUSEUMS, PARKS and TREES, and then at 4:43, they show a photo of a CHILD and say "anything combustible"
HOW F@#&ING INSENSITIVE!
HOW WOLD THE GOVERNMENT LIKE IT IF I BURNT THEIR PARLIAMENT UP!
This is a documentary, not a government information film, idiot. The whole point was to show that existing government advice on how to survive a nuclear war was totally inadequate. The point of showing (or at least implying) children, churches, art galeries, etc, burning, was to emphasise the fact everything that was most important to us would probably be gone.
Quite. I think it was meant to drive home the fact that most everyone you knew (family, friends, acquiantances, etc.) would likely be dead, or dying. Most every place you knew would either be destroyed by the initial blast, or burned and left in ruins. No one would simply carry on with their life as it had been before.
exactly. what the fuck ara any survivors going to drink? radioactive water. that is a point that has not been addressed by anything iv seen. all the water in all the world is connected therefore we are all connectivaly fucked lol
ten how come we arent all dead due to nagasaki or hiroshima?
irradiated water only happens when the bomb kicks up massive amounts of dirt and crap, and irradiates it, then lets it fall. Have you heard the term atomic winter? its basically describing the aftereffects of a bomb where ash will fall like snow, that is highly irradiated and then fall into water and irradiate that
best advice is if u are warned before a strike go fill up your bath and all the sinks and bottles you have cos
how come we are not all dead due to nagasaki and hiroshima? because they were only two small bombs. modern nukes are up to 25 times more powerful and an OCBM carries up to 12 of them. so one missile is like 300 or so hiroshimas and there are over 20 000 missiles in the world, thats around six hundred thousand hiroshima bombs. thats my point.
Actually the much-feared "nuclear winter" theory has been disproved nowadays. With modern weapons the best place to be is right under the bomb when it goes off:) The survivors of such a holocause would indeed envy the dead:(
A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2006 found that even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more."
Fucking hell, to think that just a one 1MT bomb can wipe out half of London, there are now nukes with the power of 40MTs and several can be fired with one missile using a MIRV. Is it just me thats wants to experience life after the initial fallout though like in fallout 3?
err probably youll die like that. inital fallout is severe, but after a week, little fallout remains in the air, lasting up to a month. put on that helemt and youll be fine lol
fallout 3 is nothing compared to what real washington DC would be like 200 years after nuclear war. think about it, a direct nuclear strike on the white house would do more than make a crater and scuff up the rest of the surrounding buildings... even without nuclear war, 200 years of exposure to the elements and no upkeep would ruin modern buildings.
I want disagreeing with that... i was saying that the surrounding buildings wouldn't stay in such good conditions after a nuclear device was blown up on the white house... y'know... why the hell are we arguing about this!?!?!
Well you must be the only one who wants to experience dying of radiation sickness or long term cancers caused by nuclear fallout. Me personally I 'd embrace the fire ball and get it over with. A couple of secon
ds of pain would be whole lot more preferable than your short life time of pain and suffering after being contaminated by fallout.
Wow, very powerful video. Most of the time when I hear about a Cold War public information film on nuclear war I instantly think of the charming, naive "Duck and Cover" from the 1950's...but this here really does bring home the full scale of the horrors of a nuclear war. I remember watching a program on the development of the nuclear bomb from the 1940's to the early 60's and no matter how many times I saw a nuclear blast, I was still taken aback by the sheer scale of its terrifying power.
One thing I can say about the Brits, when it came to harsh reality of things, they did not shy away. Here in the US, it was long decided that the subject of nuclear war could be discussed or televised as long as it was "watered" down in order to maintain control of panic- hence, the TV movie, The Day After. The UK, on the other hand, showed a real face on the subject with TV movies like The War Game and Threads.
@AirForceBrat73 How did "the day after" maintain control of panic?
"Special Bulletin" I could agree with, it was just stupid propaganda that nuclear disarmament meant terrorists killing everyone. but "The day after" didn't really end on a high note O.o
Yeah, "The Day After" hit pretty hard and is even credited with getting Reagan to agree to some disarmament. I saw it when I was 9 (original airing) and have the DVD,
@AirForceBrat73 or the film the Atomic Cafe totally sums up what you just said pure insanity...(yes folks stay in your wooden shelters for two weeks and you'll be fine!) ummm really more like about 1000years and then some
The US wanted to give off the idea that nuclear warfare is something we could easily recover from. We wanted people to think nuclear war isn't that bad.
i disagree. What was the korean war? Vietnam war? First Afgan war? and so many other wars been about? It was to fight the communist. To fight capitalist etc
It was a war between superpowers by proxy... sometimes only proxy in name.
I disagree. Biological weapons are the most evil of all.
And on that pile perhaps weaponised smallpox is the most vile. It is the only disease humanity has managed to completely beat. And both the military of the US and former USSR are insane enough to have made weapon version of this killer.
Even the official samples of Small pox, both the US and Russia has prevented from being destroyed.
Well that's hard one but I think nuclear weapons are pretty evil because it makes survival it impossible. But I do get what you mean about Bio weapons. What the Russians did in weaponising Smallpox and come too that, other terrible diseases in the 70s and 80s was a dam pretty evil thing to do.
How can you possibly suggest that a biological war would be more evil than a nuclear war? If you were lucky (or unlucky) enough to escape being toasted and blown apart, then the world you would be in would be analogous to living in a microwave oven! Think about Chernobyl and the locations where nuclear weapons were tested - totally uninhabitable for many, many years to come. Lethal concentrations of radiation.
and the radiation will decay. It would take years, decades maybe even centuries. But it will decay and the area made safe once again. A bioweapon will do none of that. It will even adapt to continue infecting people if drugs or natural immunity should develop. It will move with people rather than stay put, infecting all living humans given enough time.
As frightening as some of this imagery is, it still doesn't quite match the impact of the film that I remember being shown in high school...film footage of the damage that was inflicted on some of the people who survived the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even a quarter of a century later, I can still remember how chilling those images were...and the weapons we've developed since then are far more powerful.
OreadNYC 1 week ago
““I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.” Kurt Vonnegut 'Slaughterhouse 5' pow survivor of Dresden.
dutchgoing 1 week ago
Dont you love the takey 1980s intro?
Roflcopter11ty7 1 month ago
Way to drum up fear.
cassius969 3 months ago
@Garfield2011Odie
In fact, as you may or may not have known, in 2008 the earth's human population became more than 50% urban for the first time in history. Look it up, it's actually quite interesting to think about.
plusplusplusplusp 3 months ago in playlist Nuclear War: A Guide To Armageddon
I live in the country.
jonathanbondhus 4 months ago
@Garfield2011Odie But a lot of people don't. That is why he said it.
eldospinks 4 months ago
35 miles an hour? No way debris would travel that slow in a nuclear blast. More like thousands of feet per second.
Politcalamity 4 months ago
@Politcalamity It is only a one megaton bomb though... if it was a war situation there would be numerous bombs much bigger than one megaton.
JoLovesSpam 2 months ago
@JoLovesSpam most nuke's are small 200kt to 750kt but yes there a few bigger 1s left
rsturbo240bhp 2 months ago
@rsturbo240bhp
The reason why these 'smaller' thermonukes were developed is because multiple ones can be carried on one missile. Once you get over a certain yield (say 5Mt) you actually get less damage for your bang. MIRVs can be used in a carpet nuclear bombardment of any megacity. Your average 400Kt warhead, together with a few others in the same payload, with a third gen. targeting system, will cause 10 times as much damage as one 10Mt monster. Big bombs kill cities; MIRVS kill countries.
ludocrat 2 months ago
@ludocrat You checked out the USA/UK's joint successor project mate? They intend to start it next year. It'll replace the US/UK's SSBN's and Trident system along with new warheads.
h t t p ://w w w . navalshipbuilding . co . uk/navalship_warships.asp?ID=WAR7&catID=5
TheARMAProductions 2 months ago
@rsturbo240bhp yeah i know i'm too lazy to explain all that ,so thank's for doing it for me ;)
rsturbo240bhp 2 months ago
fallout 3?
conman2317 4 months ago
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you are an idiot if you think this will not happen
BigRIJoe 4 months ago
"most of us live in cities" lol
sunshine0daydream 5 months ago
Hmmm. interesting camel toe =P
dagda825 5 months ago
No wonder there were so many scored books in the DC hellhole.
Anarchist86ed 5 months ago
This is messed up but educational... wow
nullnvoid 5 months ago
this is scary... but now I want to play Fallout 3
Wedwickboy 6 months ago
This used footage they didn't use in Threads, just to scare that last remaining drop of shit out of us.
hotelmario510 6 months ago 4
1 megaton on london lol i dont think so the russians had an 8 megaton pointed at liverpool, wtf they had ready for london would have been way worse
mcpartridgeboy 6 months ago
Holy shit, was the screechy doom music REALLY needed during the fire shots?
electrogeek77 7 months ago
wow they see the fire burnin well GHOUL TIME
legocomputerbuilder 7 months ago
im 14 and watchin eet :3
legocomputerbuilder 7 months ago
Why are they using miles as a metric, this was made in the UK, right?
woofer0doofer 7 months ago
@woofer0doofer We still use miles instead of kilometres in the UK, I think we are probably the only European country to do so, but I could be wrong...
Smazaleenon 7 months ago
oh goody,irans got them now and they're bloody nutters!
jackssheduk 8 months ago
@jackssheduk They have nothing. Only talk and lies.
SmilingGiantess 7 months ago
@jackssheduk Iran hasn't got them, don't fall for that WMD nonsense a second time.
dutchgoing 7 months ago
@jackssheduk Yup, and not forgetting North Korea
bl0xta 6 months ago
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Arnold will help to us stop SKYNET : )
mc68hc000 8 months ago
'...melt parts of statues, and set fire to anything combustible...' Shows young boy.
kattatafish 8 months ago
Nuclear War (World War 3)…
ONLY 600 Million rich people can temporarily settle on the moon before Nuclear War begins. Then after 60 years of Nuclear Holocaust when no more Radioactive clouds, they will return to EARTH to plant trees and grasses and multiply again, and then Repeat the CYCLE (Birth – Death) 6 times.
MrVrsilvestrejr2008 8 months ago
@MrVrsilvestrejr2008 YaY I survived
Enclave2077 8 months ago
@MrVrsilvestrejr2008 Moon ?? it's nearly impossible, maybe they reserved in underground bunker.
declaration963 7 months ago
Old documentaries are much more terrifying... i think it's because most modern ones have a cinematic feel, which to makes it seem far more ficticious. This is very stylised but in a different way...
Lindelamare 8 months ago in playlist Nuclear War: A Guide To Armageddon
@Lindelamare I saw this in 1982 when I was 14 and it scared the pants off me, particularly the ending. It was the beginning of my nuclear war neurosis which persists to some extent today.
dutchgoing 2 months ago 3
@dutchgoing Ha! Same thing happened to me!
bd515065 1 week ago
Thermonuclear war, of course, is likely to become reality as peak oil results in larger conflict over the dwindling oil reserves of earth. It should be noted with alarm, that no two nations that possessed thermonuclear weapons have ever entered the battlefield in direct conflict. The Soviets and Americans, never officially fired shots, they did it through puppet nations.
1981busch 8 months ago
1 megaton more like a 10 would be used!!!.
i meg is old school
kingbleah 9 months ago
@kingbleah In fact, the opposite is true; as missiles have gotten much more accurate over the last 50 yrs, the yields has been reduced. Those old blockbusters 10, 20 megaton have been replaced by warheads from about 100 kt to 400 kt. ICBMS have mutlitple warheads now, not like the single warhead of years ago. That said,being in the immediate area of a nuclear detonation would really make for a bad day
ITILII 9 months ago
They would never show somehting this hard-hitting on TV anymore, there would be complaints from people that there wasn't a phone vote to see which couple got to stay in the bunker and which didn't before Simon Cowell gets to roundly insult them. This doc demonstrates the power of television brilliantly. Power it largely seems to have lost over the past decade or so.
richievegas01 9 months ago
lol 5thcentury ... but how true :(
crazyfox564 9 months ago
"Written by "Threads" director Mick Jackson" Incase Threads didn't get the message of how unlikely to survive through
racer927 9 months ago
@ 4:39 "...and set fire to everything combustible"
*photo of small boy*
eltonator 9 months ago
At 2:11 they showed three random pictures of people in a row and all three of them were White. I think the program-makers would be sent to a multiculturalist death-camp if they did that in Britain today?
5thcenturyad 9 months ago
2:17
Eastenders. :P
CynicalVision 9 months ago
Not to mention other threats like Super Mutants, Ghouls, Enclave Soldiers, Raiders, etc.
ozerataoglu 10 months ago
@ozerataoglu Reality is a different creature thou.
AnnabellsSmiles 9 months ago
@AnnabellsSmiles :)
ozerataoglu 9 months ago
You doubt the effects of radiation? look at the workers from chernobyl, those that lived in the town near it. The service men from many countries that witnessed nuclear tests in the 50's and 60's are suffering from the effects now.
ntfclad1985 10 months ago
I've always readily agreed that thermonuclear weapons are the most heinous use of technology in the history of our species and are instruments of the devil. I have no doubt that the effects of heat and blast as described in this video are accurate. However, as events unfold at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, I am coming to question the validity of the effects of radiation that we all have come to believe from Cold War information. What is the truth regarding radiation???
geoffck6969 10 months ago
@geoffck6969 Wars always result in the most heinous uses of technology. The firebombings of Dresden and Tokyo were no more humane than thermonuclear weapons.
Getting to the truth about anything in this vast information wastepile called the Internet takes time. You'll find many lumps of coal but eventually you'll find the diamonds. Radiation is deadly, quite simply put. They aren't exaggerating about that. However many exaggerate or minimize depending on their agenda.
mongoose704 10 months ago
@geoffck6969 You're right. Look at the "exclusion zone" around Chernobyl-how it's lush and vibrant with plants and animals. Look at the thriving cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The worst of the fallout decays within two months, and then what's left can be avoided with a little common sense.
After an attack, things would be safe within two years, although life would be similar to the first half of the 19th century for quite a while.
Binky40SW 6 months ago
GET SOME
fookfocketyfookfook 11 months ago
that was the most scary scenario imaginable!
clergame 11 months ago
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User85871 11 months ago
@User85871 So since you dont like war you want to shoot people that does? Wow.
Ferravaag 10 months ago
Repent, Pray! God Bless you.
2000yrCatholic 11 months ago
@2000yrCatholic lol fuck off catholic
MrHayz87 11 months ago
@MrHayz87 fuck off athiest
Wedwickboy 10 months ago
hahah dat blast burned off dat old bitches pussy hair
martinblank83 1 year ago
@martinblank83 That Fag had a nice view didnt he?
walleyrt69 11 months ago
This is some scary stuff!
gumdokim 1 year ago
i really thought that, after watching "Threads", nothing could really scare me, how wrong i was...this picture happened to as frightening as Threads, at least for me
parkhurst2006 1 year ago
@parkhurst2006 sorry i meant "happened to be as frightening..."
parkhurst2006 1 year ago
Warning. Nuclear bombs damage camel toe ballerinas.
MateiAlexandruBogdan 1 year ago
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MopDMTBARTL 1 year ago
good job we've all got fridges thanks to indiana we can just climb in ours when attacked and maybe even live off any food in it for 2 or 3 weeks
tel030 1 year ago
This is terrifying. We US citizens need to lobby our senators, sign the START treaty now!
joshuaoha 1 year ago
Can someone answer me this. Say a nuclear bomb went off in Kansas City, Missouri, where would it most likely be targeted at?
InAGaddaDaVida29 1 year ago
@InAGaddaDaVida29 There would not likely be just one target. In an all-out nuclear attack, as this documentary points out, there would almost certainly be multiple points targetted, to ensure maximum destruction of the target.
snidelywhiplash 1 year ago
This is a very chilling program for me. I too have stayed in some awful accomodation in London.
ma049 1 year ago
Is there any nuclear war survival movie for those who don't live in cities?
catie998 1 year ago
@catie998 centrelized goverments don't put us country foke on the list for this sort of thing most of the time sadly
alonmerlin 1 year ago
@catie998 centrelized goverments don't put us country foke on the list for this sort of thing most of the time sadly
alonmerlin 1 year ago
We are bad bad humans
gigakiller14 1 year ago
I remember an Awesome Brit nuke movie called Threads . Very good movie I remember . Better then that sorry crap movie The Day After .
Rebelx1969 1 year ago
These things are the scariest warnings you could ever see.. puts the shuts up me. I know it's a stupid question but was this actually on its way to happening or was it just a threat? Why did it not actually happen? (thank god!)
deaconredwhiteandblu 1 year ago
this really makes we want to play fallout new vegas
123Fergables 1 year ago
What really sticks out to me in this film is the voice of the narrator - staunch and authoritative, but yet engaging. He sounds halfway between a stern father and a tenured professor, not preaching or condescending, but you can still tell how serious the subject matter is. Chilling, to say the least.
Lotmeister 1 year ago
We had Civil Defense lessons at school on regular basis. For most of our instructors it was just a boring jobm but and I remember quite well how scary it was. I imagined it all: how the sirens sound all of a sudden, how we rush to the nearest underground station, how the fireball emerges over the Cathedral dome, and the paintings burn on museum walls.
I mean St Isaacs of St Petersburg, and the Hermitage.
I lived in Leningrad, and it was equally scary to know that US missiles are aimed at us.
Louqueetsch 1 year ago
Video quality is terrible.
155qwerty155 1 year ago
@155qwerty155 Maybe that's because its old you 14 year old fuck.
ConnorIsTheName 1 year ago
Probably one of the most terrifying things I've ever watched...
JonnyMonk3782001 1 year ago
an image of hell that nobody ever wants to happen...my gawd, i love eighties culture but i didn't realize until watching this and various documentary and docu-dramas, that this was indeed, a fucking scary decade!!
rawrvintageisclassic 1 year ago
Quite Ironic How The Fire Exit Is On Fire Itself...
AJGaming 1 year ago
@AJGaming Gotta love the British sense of humor!
SCE2AUX 1 year ago
Mick Jackson used many of the same shots from this (particularly in the "blast" sequence) when he directed "Threads" a year later.
StewieGriffin2009 1 year ago
well at least there wouldn't be any more east enders....yeeeeeeey...(not that I watch TV )
LeonPhythian69 1 year ago
I wonder what happened to the Q.E.D tv show?
kerbal666 1 year ago
Very chilling. This good as it says what one will do, and as you can imagine any attack would be FAR worse
fiddleandcatz 1 year ago
that is really disturbing about how people in the centre would char alive
hitlersinmyhouse 1 year ago
Jolly Good! ;)
USAsoldier1955 1 year ago
Why would the brits make a video about this. No one would drop a nuclear bomb on them. No one Gives a shit!
JestAnoutherPistol 1 year ago
@JestAnoutherPistol There are quite a number of US airbases in the UK, that's why it's a big target. The USAF have been there with nuclear capability since 1949, ready to attack the Eastern Block. Don't you know anything about history in the last 60 years?
3replybiz 1 year ago
@JestAnoutherPistol Extremely untrue!
irishmanb1974 1 year ago
@JestAnoutherPistol - Well in 1982 the UK was pretty much the 51st State (not to mention Airstrip One) and was chock full of USAF personnel and bases with cruise missiles so we would have been bombed out of existence. In fact it was estimated that there would have been a higher weapons yield per person than anywhere else on the planet, something like 300 Mt for a population of 50 million, or a whopping 6 tons of explosive power per person!
meritpoint 1 year ago
This is the scariest f**king documentary I have ever seen.
Thanks for adding it. I am now about try and sleep.
QfromAirdrie 1 year ago
I agree in the US we viewed nukes as a might happen but the limeys viewed nuclear war as a reality lookin at the USA and USSR back then it was
hamster700 1 year ago
scary vid,think i'd rather be at the epicentre,get it instantly.
MrAmilo123 1 year ago
omg this was made 2 years before threads was realeased
williamtheconqueror3 1 year ago
I think this is a good representation of a nuclear attack. It doesn't sugarcoat anything like the american "Duck and cover" films do.
Gbaker1r 1 year ago
Wow. The water boils in the lake. Fricking hell that must be hot.
mubd1234 1 year ago 4
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tuckerTAT10 1 year ago
When I was 15, I watched this in 11th grade history and it scared the piss out of me.
I'm watching it now seven years later and it STILL scares the piss out of me.
chr1570ph3r4d4m 1 year ago 28
@chr1570ph3r4d4m
Imagine how it was for those of us who grew up fearing an enemy our governments brainwashed us into thinking wanted to destroy us and who along with us had the capability of destroying the entire planet.
MattShizzle 1 year ago
yeah and?
SpermCannon 2 years ago
In The Day After Jason Roberts survived two nukes going off within 200 yrds of his car and simply survived by ducking under the seat of his car.
SpermCannon 2 years ago
Er...uh. Did you watch the same "The Day After" I did? The character was driving on the Interstate between Lawrence, KS and Kansas City, which are 40 mi. apart.
snidelywhiplash 2 years ago 2
Yeah, I have the DVD. I saw the original broadcast when I was 9. It was obviously miles away.
MattShizzle 1 year ago
And to think that some Terrorist CUNT would be willing to unleash that amount of destruction for 72 virgins. Tut tut tut.
neil73 2 years ago
I think they will found out that it is 72 Virginians. lol. It was a quote from Robin Williams. Funny stuff.
TheDrummerRon 1 year ago
Lol! I was watching that earlier today!
Seeing as I got thumbs down for my last comment, I'll comment again with my conclusion in regards to this documentary.
My conclusion is thus: Don't be a Ballerina.
neil73 1 year ago 14
with a one megaton as the narrator said.... that's exagerative. even though he said one megaton i think he switched subj.s to modern nukes.
RepublicofSocialismZ 2 years ago
There should be more shows like this on TV to educate the population now. Nuclear war is still a possible it only needs 1 small mistake and...... BOOM!
greenswift 2 years ago 3
so very glad i didnt watch this high the first time
niallos123 2 years ago
Whats the piano music?
loobus 2 years ago
Having an 1mt bomb dropped on you is such a tease. If you gonna blow me up I want the 20mt offering.
SpermCannon 2 years ago 4
I WANT TO GO OUT WITH A BOOOOOOM !
Glassybubbles1231234 2 years ago
Ya really! Why do things halfway!
jjobie 2 years ago
human beings are bugs.we are 100, 000 years old.that is the average length of time for a species on earth
tommyneumann 2 years ago
AHHHHH! I AM ON FIRE!!!!
leebeanhai 2 years ago
DON'T try to survive.
Dying instantly > Dying drinking Radioactive Water.
Just telling how it is.
HPATDH1 2 years ago 2
This doc is done exceeptionally well for 1980's standards.
boobtuber06 2 years ago 19
@boobtuber06
What's funny is that today such a documentary would have looked even worse, all the fire and cool make-up would have been done with high-school level CGI
SonarWavePulse 1 year ago
Mick Jackon really had a bone for Nuclear Armageddon.
Benjomatic 2 years ago
How were they able to get the footage of things bursting into flames?
TroySundt 2 years ago
Freeze at 0:41. OOOOO SEXY!
DaAvi8a 2 years ago
The bomb is SHOWN burning CHURCHES, WORKS OF ART in MUSEUMS, PARKS and TREES, and then at 4:43, they show a photo of a CHILD and say "anything combustible"
HOW F@#&ING INSENSITIVE!
HOW WOLD THE GOVERNMENT LIKE IT IF I BURNT THEIR PARLIAMENT UP!
ZenCopain 2 years ago
Personally, If I was a politician I wouldn't give a shit. Means a day off work.
DaAvi8a 2 years ago
Maby more then one day off work
hyderpotter 2 years ago
This is a documentary, not a government information film, idiot. The whole point was to show that existing government advice on how to survive a nuclear war was totally inadequate. The point of showing (or at least implying) children, churches, art galeries, etc, burning, was to emphasise the fact everything that was most important to us would probably be gone.
TheRealmuzik 2 years ago 2
Quite. I think it was meant to drive home the fact that most everyone you knew (family, friends, acquiantances, etc.) would likely be dead, or dying. Most every place you knew would either be destroyed by the initial blast, or burned and left in ruins. No one would simply carry on with their life as it had been before.
Miniver765 2 years ago
What's the title of the song which is played on the piano in the beginning?
Biochips1 2 years ago
at 2:20 we see where Eastenders nicked the title idea!
christschinwon 2 years ago
This video tells it how it is...unlike that pussy video the Americans came out with.
lanxatdadisco 2 years ago
It was so the little kids don't have nightmares, but granted...it sucks
NaiNosnibor 2 years ago
Leave the atom alone, people...
zeppelinesque 2 years ago 4
If this happens just embrace the fireball because trying to survive this is just pointless. You want feel a thing I promise.
SpermCannon 2 years ago
exactly. what the fuck ara any survivors going to drink? radioactive water. that is a point that has not been addressed by anything iv seen. all the water in all the world is connected therefore we are all connectivaly fucked lol
gluepot66 2 years ago 2
ten how come we arent all dead due to nagasaki or hiroshima?
irradiated water only happens when the bomb kicks up massive amounts of dirt and crap, and irradiates it, then lets it fall. Have you heard the term atomic winter? its basically describing the aftereffects of a bomb where ash will fall like snow, that is highly irradiated and then fall into water and irradiate that
best advice is if u are warned before a strike go fill up your bath and all the sinks and bottles you have cos
xrsd 2 years ago
how come we are not all dead due to nagasaki and hiroshima? because they were only two small bombs. modern nukes are up to 25 times more powerful and an OCBM carries up to 12 of them. so one missile is like 300 or so hiroshimas and there are over 20 000 missiles in the world, thats around six hundred thousand hiroshima bombs. thats my point.
gluepot66 2 years ago
ICBM sorry my dislexia again please make allowances
gluepot66 2 years ago
Actually the much-feared "nuclear winter" theory has been disproved nowadays. With modern weapons the best place to be is right under the bomb when it goes off:) The survivors of such a holocause would indeed envy the dead:(
ralucagymnast 2 years ago
Disproved by who?
"Climatic effects
A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2006 found that even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more."
vmonsterous 1 year ago
This videos are strong media against war, because too many people want war hoping to survive...
anisocoro 2 years ago
Fucking hell, to think that just a one 1MT bomb can wipe out half of London, there are now nukes with the power of 40MTs and several can be fired with one missile using a MIRV. Is it just me thats wants to experience life after the initial fallout though like in fallout 3?
TheLeardMan 2 years ago
err probably youll die like that. inital fallout is severe, but after a week, little fallout remains in the air, lasting up to a month. put on that helemt and youll be fine lol
WiiForever302 2 years ago
fallout 3 is nothing compared to what real washington DC would be like 200 years after nuclear war. think about it, a direct nuclear strike on the white house would do more than make a crater and scuff up the rest of the surrounding buildings... even without nuclear war, 200 years of exposure to the elements and no upkeep would ruin modern buildings.
Perogi360 2 years ago
But the White House would still be near in some shape or another in 200 years, while after a nuclear strike it would have gone forever in 5 seconds.
turner681 2 years ago
I want disagreeing with that... i was saying that the surrounding buildings wouldn't stay in such good conditions after a nuclear device was blown up on the white house... y'know... why the hell are we arguing about this!?!?!
Perogi360 2 years ago
Well you must be the only one who wants to experience dying of radiation sickness or long term cancers caused by nuclear fallout. Me personally I 'd embrace the fire ball and get it over with. A couple of secon
ds of pain would be whole lot more preferable than your short life time of pain and suffering after being contaminated by fallout.
turner681 2 years ago
The sound effects they use for the burning scenes are creepy-awesome.
mupty 2 years ago 3
Wow, very powerful video. Most of the time when I hear about a Cold War public information film on nuclear war I instantly think of the charming, naive "Duck and Cover" from the 1950's...but this here really does bring home the full scale of the horrors of a nuclear war. I remember watching a program on the development of the nuclear bomb from the 1940's to the early 60's and no matter how many times I saw a nuclear blast, I was still taken aback by the sheer scale of its terrifying power.
Mikey10368 2 years ago
Full on amazing intro at the beginning!!
Georgiahulse 2 years ago 3
One thing I can say about the Brits, when it came to harsh reality of things, they did not shy away. Here in the US, it was long decided that the subject of nuclear war could be discussed or televised as long as it was "watered" down in order to maintain control of panic- hence, the TV movie, The Day After. The UK, on the other hand, showed a real face on the subject with TV movies like The War Game and Threads.
AirForceBrat73 2 years ago 19
@AirForceBrat73 How did "the day after" maintain control of panic?
"Special Bulletin" I could agree with, it was just stupid propaganda that nuclear disarmament meant terrorists killing everyone. but "The day after" didn't really end on a high note O.o
Delta4845 1 year ago
@Delta4845
Yeah, "The Day After" hit pretty hard and is even credited with getting Reagan to agree to some disarmament. I saw it when I was 9 (original airing) and have the DVD,
MattShizzle 1 year ago
@AirForceBrat73 Brit productions in every subject matter have a history of not pulling any punches.
boobtuber06 1 year ago
@AirForceBrat73 check out a superb animation film about nuclear war called "when the wind blows".
revol148 1 year ago
@AirForceBrat73 or the film the Atomic Cafe totally sums up what you just said pure insanity...(yes folks stay in your wooden shelters for two weeks and you'll be fine!) ummm really more like about 1000years and then some
LeonPhythian69 1 year ago
@AirForceBrat73
The US wanted to give off the idea that nuclear warfare is something we could easily recover from. We wanted people to think nuclear war isn't that bad.
How infuriatingly ignorant we were.
AnarchistGoth 1 year ago
Note to self: Don't leave my car parked near Battersea Dogs' Home.
GammyGoose 2 years ago 3
2:17 Eastenders
cuntsmasherHD 2 years ago
nuclear weapon is the most evil creation ever
sylar335 2 years ago 6
So far they've prevented world war from breaing out.
brwhizz 2 years ago
i disagree. What was the korean war? Vietnam war? First Afgan war? and so many other wars been about? It was to fight the communist. To fight capitalist etc
It was a war between superpowers by proxy... sometimes only proxy in name.
JayCKat 2 years ago
Hasn't prevented North Korea from getting them or India or Pakistan come to that.
turner681 2 years ago
I disagree. Biological weapons are the most evil of all.
And on that pile perhaps weaponised smallpox is the most vile. It is the only disease humanity has managed to completely beat. And both the military of the US and former USSR are insane enough to have made weapon version of this killer.
Even the official samples of Small pox, both the US and Russia has prevented from being destroyed.
JayCKat 2 years ago 2
you are both wrong the most evil creation is the human race
thejoker4367 2 years ago
Well that's hard one but I think nuclear weapons are pretty evil because it makes survival it impossible. But I do get what you mean about Bio weapons. What the Russians did in weaponising Smallpox and come too that, other terrible diseases in the 70s and 80s was a dam pretty evil thing to do.
turner681 2 years ago
How can you possibly suggest that a biological war would be more evil than a nuclear war? If you were lucky (or unlucky) enough to escape being toasted and blown apart, then the world you would be in would be analogous to living in a microwave oven! Think about Chernobyl and the locations where nuclear weapons were tested - totally uninhabitable for many, many years to come. Lethal concentrations of radiation.
TheRealmuzik 2 years ago
and the radiation will decay. It would take years, decades maybe even centuries. But it will decay and the area made safe once again. A bioweapon will do none of that. It will even adapt to continue infecting people if drugs or natural immunity should develop. It will move with people rather than stay put, infecting all living humans given enough time.
Unlike radiation, bioweapons continue without end.
JayCKat 2 years ago
when i watched this as a 13 year old,it frightened the shit out of me, and was so close to happening
nelsonfwebster 3 years ago 4
fallout 3 gameplay in real life?
umahuma4 3 years ago
phew im glad i live on the outskirts of the city, near a valley, i could totally just go live in there :D
kujo665 3 years ago