@jerico641 "confidence is high" is a military term used to indicate that the incoming tracts on their radar consoles were in fact incoming Russian ICBM's.
@TheBojanovski in the movie Russia attacks into West Germany, there's a break through and to stop them from pouring into France we (NATO I guess) detonates 3 tactical nukes over their Army Groups, they retaliate with a full nuclear attack seen here, that's why the farmer saw it coming, it's good movie you should watch it
0:15 - What the hell does that line "confidence is high" mean anyway? They're confident that their bombs will hit their targets, or that the other guys' bombs will reach them? Maybe they're just confident that 3/4 of civilization will be destroyed...
any1 know what film im describing - guy in a city picks up a random phone call at a telephone booth. Someone called the wrong number and warns to hide from the coming nuclear strike *shots fired*. Guy understands that it was not a prank call tries to leave the city, while trying to get out, meets some gay bodybuilder who tells him that he's a helipilot, after finding a chopper nuke explodes, they all die.
It wasn't a good film :D, but i'm just curious, saw it as a child, maybe u ppl know?! Ty
@tigamlove Durign WW2 USA ended the long war by dropping the prototype Atomic Bomb, twice. On Japan, after that, the war ended and was the last time a nuke was used in battle
@tigamlove The only nuclear war ever in history has been between the United States and Japan. It was one sided, with America dropping two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing well over 600,000 Japanese civilians. This was with small, 15-20 kiloton bombs. Today's multi-megaton fusion bombs could instantly kill millions of people upon impact. If every major city in America was hit, we'd be looking at approximately 200 million people dead, total. That's before the fallout.
when it comes to nuclear war there are no winners..even the countries not involved will be because of the radiation. I always wondered why the Russians were so upset about us having missles in europe bit makes sense now...shorter flight time for missles.
@DarPower1 and let the radiation scatter to the stratosphere to contaminate the entire planet for a few hundred years? Nice job. There are still cancers and lymphomas coming from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that was over 60 years ago with weapons that are dwarfed by the payloads that the monster missiles from today see.
Wales had radioactive contamination coming from Chernobyl and are probably still getting it.
@2011packattack and then there were missiles in Cuba. Reaction time is important. That´s why the nukes on the subs were important. They would ensure that noone would try a firststrike-scenario
I remember as a kid watching this movie and being scared to death because the us and russia were still involved in the cold war and pretty hostile to each other. The thing i always wondered is you know not all the icbms are going to work properly and some will malfunction ...if that were to happen could it be possible to have your own missle detonate on your own soil? you seen in the gulf war not all tomahawks worked properly.
@2011packattack - That's a reasonable question but just to reassure you, the arming mechanisms in modern nuclear warheads are much more sophisticated than those for conventional weapons. Also, the U.S. deploys over half of its strategic nukes on board SSBN submarines. Unless we're talking "total war" than any strike launched by the U.S. would likely come from one of its subs.
These scenes WERE shown to world leaders at the time. This movie literally saved the world from Nuclear War about 30 years ago when it was shown to Ronald Reagan, who got severly depressed when watching this, leading to a treaty he signed with Gorbachev. So stop crapping your pants in terror. The fact that you're even alive right now has a lot to do with this movie.
Every once in a while I have the same vivid dream of me and my family in our kitchen huddled as a nuke goes off and staring out the windows at the impending wave coming at us. I have had it at least 3 times makes me wonder if it will ever happen.
I remember seeing this when it first came out. It was brilliant. Years later, I tried to explain to my two daughters the mentality of fear that existed then. I found the movie on video and showed it to them. They cried through most of it. Without even mentioning the nut-bars like Iran who may have one or two of these weapons, the USA and Russia still have thousands of them. No wonder I drink every day.
@silviasboy: Agreed, but the problem is, those people (the world leaders) have bunkers reserved for them. They'd live. We wouldn't. We have a conscience. They? Well, President Reagan apparently did, because he signed treaties to start limiting nuclear arms after watching this. Others -- who knows? I'm guessing probably not.
Everybody have a conscience, including the world leaders. Sure the world leader have the bunker to survive the nuclear war, but unless they have them in the mountain that is far away from ground zero, they are screw like the rest of us. If they have the bunker that underneath the fourth story building and the explosion cause the building to collapsed on top of the bunker, they better have someone to dig them out before they run out of air to breathe.
I know you all are saying that you'd want to be vaporized and everything in an instant, but...
What if you were shipwrecked on some deserted island in the Pacific Ocean? What would you do then? 'Cause your wishes that if it ever happened, you'd want to be vaporized so you wouldn't live through the aftermath would pretty much be wiped out.
If you were stranded on some little island in the middle of the sea when nuclear war broke out, what would you do?
I recall when this movie came out in the 80's the Russians were all hot and bothered over it accusing the U.S. of portraying the Ruskies as "War-Mongers".
@Blain1971 Yes, true...but on a more worrisome note, in the early 80s the leadership in the Soviet Union actually believed the US under Pres. Reagan was planning a surprise attack on them. There warning systems malfunctioned in 1982 and sent out a false alarm which very nearly caused them to launch nuclear armed missiles at the US. Scary, no? Thank God it didn't happen.
Just imagine if Hollywood remade such a scene with CGI and shit. Like a 30 minute short film, that takes place between when word that the missiles launched and when they go boom, traces a couple characters through what they do during those thirty minutes. :P
An EMP device would be a nuclear device....just "TUNED".....for the job required...Yield would be tailored for maximum electromagnetic disruption rather than sheer blast potential. It could be a rather small blast yield but a huge electromagnetic pulse, It could even have little fallout compared to a typical thermonuclear device. The neutron bomb was a small thermonuclear device that packed a wallop in the form of x-ray and gamma ray emission but had little fallout and small blast radius.
The EMP would most likely disrupt at least some airplanes in flight. It would depend on how much the aircraft relied on electronics to fly. Also, electronics can be manufactured to resist the effects of EMP, as the electronics in a war head would be. The problem with hardening electronics against the effects of EMP is that it is very expensive. Think paying $10,000 for a $400 computer.
Thats what happend in Ancient Sumeria , so we had allready a Nuclear holocaust about 4000 years ago. But the PTB have ereased it from our history books
Humans are fucking stupid for inventing this weapon, what kind of premature, ape-evolved creatures try to wipe out their own kind with atom bombs? One must use European history and logic combined with mathematics to answer this question. One must be able to critically think and contemplate reasons. This species needs refinement, starting with the "elite" who control everything. That is how we use logic at Harvard.
@UncutTuts you need to study history on why they developed it. it's easy for you to retroactively say that..you seem to think that 7 billion people all see the world the same way..we don't so it's beyond naive to think that "logic with mathematics" would stop all the war,crime,hate etc..if only it were that easy..after you graduate Harvard you will get a real education in the real world
EMP - ( electro Magnetic pulse) would knock us back to the stone age. No, Nuclear weapon required. It is a divice that is airburst over mid-america, and knocks out all electronices..THAT ARE OPERATING AT THE TIME OF DETONATION ONLY!! THAT'S WHAT I UNDSTND... THAT*S WHAT HAPPENED WHEN EVERYTHING WENT DEAD.
I was a freshman in high school when this movie came out and I had nightmares for YEARS afterwards. Definitely opened my eyes to the reality of nuclear war.
while the threat of nuclear war is a lot less than it was a few decades ago, its still entirely possible. Lets hope humanity never has to resort to this. Ever.
it was almost happend in september 25-26 1983 when a nucklear attack under a compleat surprise coude of take place if stanislav petrov woudnt be in place ib serphukov 15 radar station in south of moscow - it would of be much warse then the movie scenario
I was eight years old when this first aired. My parents would not let me watch it because they thought it would give me nightmares. I didn't see it until years later when I was an adult.
The people of today...are more weary of natural disasters than this from 28 years ago. What I am saying doesn't minimize the effect of what a new version of this show would bring about. It would 'wake' people up again and make themselves think that there is just no positive whatsoever in obtaining nuclear weapons of any sort. The FOOLISH countries or govts. that have or want to have this kind of 'power'...well they are totally out of touch with reality!!!
If anyone thinks it "can't" happen is a fool. It can, and if certain people are in power, it will. What really had an impact in the 1980's was the day after. In my humble opinion, the movie was too optimistic. Perhaps in the near future, a remake based on realism, NOT science fiction, can be made and have a similar if not more serious impact as the 1983 movie, jmho
The fact remains is as a society we have slipped away from the state we were in when I was growing up. When I was a kid in the 1970's and 80s I remembered presidents and others on tv reminding us what we should do in the event of a nuclear attack. I even remember people still building bomb shelters. Since the Cold War "ended" and the dissolution of the USSR, the thoughts of Nuclear attacks have fizzled out. But, with over 27,000 nuclear weapons, that we know of, it CAN happen
@Hellfighter762 you are correct. This made for tv movie was very effective in 1983, and may have even played a role in ending the cold war. But truth be known, it is a 1983 movie and many of the kids these days would not even watch it. A movie with todays standards and realism, with a well known enemy of today, and even on the same premise as the 1983 movie: small area no one really knows much about or a place that would not seem likely that a nuclear attack would occur.
@rholster2 This movie needs to be updated, at leaat the nuclear aspesct of it. The world does not need a nuclear war. New generations are becoming more and more desensitzed to the images of war via video games, film and the media etc. I'd say a rough estimate of about 75% of North American's don't pay attention to Nuclear war, either for the reasons that they are too caught up with their own lives to not care, or that it just can't happend.....well it can.
Soviet strategic warheads were bigger than ours, because the missiles carrying them were nowhere near as accurate. The US could detonate a warhead within 300 meters or better of the target center. Soviet ICBMs were lucky to get within a couple of miles of their target. Nasty.
@rattinox Lolwhat? Are you taking information from Napoleon era?
Federation of American Scientists in 1983 already knew that you are wrong.
In their "Soviet Military Power 1983" they wrote:
"Qualitative Improvements: The dramatic growth in nuclear warheads observed after 1975 could not have been possible without major qualitative improvements. The first two generations of Soviet ICBMs were inaccurate, carried relatively small payloads and required lengthy launch procedures.
@rattinox FAS "Soviet Military Power 83": "However, it was not until the fourth generation that the technology became available to the Soviets allowing greater throwweight and greatly improved accuracy so that high-yield MIRVs could be carried by operational missiles. The most accurate versions of the SS-18 and SS-19are capable of destroying hard targets. Together, these systems have the capability to destroy most of the 1,000 US MINUTEMAN ICBMs, using only a portion of the warheads available"
Anyone not in a protective shelter within 30 miles of the impact will be incinerated by the heat blast, 10 miles further out will be hit by the shockwave, the survivors will suffer radiation poisoning or freeze to death from a nuclear winter simply put we're all going to die
@zombiefan011 If only it were that simple. Some of us would survive and have to deal with a utterly 4ucked up world. The point of the "day after" was what life would be like if you lived to see it. North American and European civilization would be gone.
And with the "advancement" of technology, we have effectively sealed our own fate and labeled it "Voluntary Extinction of Mankind"...with the creation of these weapons. And to think the "best and brightest" citizens...the mathematicians, the scientists... the ROLE MODELS that we are all expected to strive to become, are the same ones that will annihilate humanity.
@Zer0Funk they may create these weapons but it is the governments of the world who actually put them to use they will cause something like this not intellectuals
It's not really the disintegration that's the worst part, it's the radiation and fallout that scares me the most. The climate would change rapidly and almost nothing would be able to live in those conditions. Don't forget to mention the effects such as cancer and etc. This is if we do survive the initial blasts. Nuclear weapons should have never been created. It's like having a button to wipe out the Earth and blow it up. Who wins there?
the great thing about this is that is gave the world a HUGE reality check on how a nuclear war would really play out and it scared the shit out of the russians and probably made them think twice about the consquences of such a conflict.
I remember hearing that before the movie was on TV, it was played at a theater in Lawrence,KS where it was shot on location. I remember hearing that after the movie the people of Lawrence wept leaving the theater.
@connberkshire the movie doesn't say the Russians attacked us they intentionally leave it unclear whether the US or the USSR launches the main nuclear assault first but earlier in the film they say that the US air burst several warheads above advancing Soviet troops in East Germany
Sucks to be in the city. All those poor fools running about pointlessly trying to survive. My only goal once the siren sounded would be to find a couple beers and a big cigar. I would see how much of the cigar and how many beers I could finish before it didn't matter anymore.
@KrazyKommieKiller hey they may have been scared, but at least most of them died quick, I'd rather be vaporized then slowly die of radiation sickness, that's the real hell...
I guess, in my opinion, the most disturbing part to me was when the father jumped on his son to protect him. You hope that the father was able to save his son, but... :'/
I was in the Navy when this movie was broadcast, and spent weeks afterward in deep depression, because I knew the Soviets could and possibly would be able to attack us like in the movie. The main reason this movie was so horrifying, and so unlike schlocky movies like Red Dawn, was because the premise was so real and very plausible. Even though the threat still exists now, the movie seems very nostalgic- wouldn't it be nice if the Soviets were still the big bad boogeymen, and not our own gov't?!
I was a sophmore in high school when this was broadcast and I remember all the societal agonizing that was going on-everybody freaking out about the showing of such a thing on t.v.-and the debate about 'it's too intense and depressing to let young people see' vs 'thats exactly why young people need to see it'. The most visually shocking part of the whole film is that rapid series of shots showing people being vaporized in their tracks in the middle of doing everyday things.
It be cool if they made a present day version of this movie. Last one i saw of this type was sum of all fears a okay movie. Would be awesome the day after (2012) michael bay film. Lol
@XStormfalconX no, the scariest part is that it WILL happen someday. Its enevitable when you have so much destructive power that is becoming easier to acquire by people that will use them. Nothing can prevent it.
@koolkat89101One of the effects of a nuclear blast is Electromagnetic Pulse or EMP. It basically destroys anything electronic, radios, TV.s, the alternator in your car. Unless something is hardened against EMP it is not going to work after a nuclear blast.
@Villesanti Once you go EMP you can never go back to the present day. It just fails on you, and the world goes primitive.
Solar flares are somehow similar to EMPs but doesn't cut off electricity permanently- it took 9 hours to fix the electricity grid in Quebec in 1989 when a solar storm happened.
Faraday cages will not protect against a NNEMP or EMP caused by a nuke. The electromagnetic concussion waves will EASILY pass through your Faraday cage if that's all you have. The amplitude of the pulse generated by a weaponized EMP is smaller than the holes in a cage.
Directed by Nicholas Meyer, fresh off of directing "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" the preceding year. President Reagan is said by Meyer to have credited a White House screening of this film with convincing him of the need for nuclear disarmament treaties with the Soviets.
The first thing that you'd notice is the EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) blowing out anything electronic. What this means is: A, you can turn the key and pump the gas pedal till the cows came home! -- to no avail; and B, your computer, TV, stereo, and so on will be rendered inoperable; even if the power ever were to come back on (HAH! -- Fat chance!). No, only vacuum-tube transmitter-receiver devices would work in this case (when was the last time you ever saw one of those?).
@doarner: I can´t begin to tell you just how right y´are. Maybe even the fact that none of the world´s most powerful nations were engaged in battle with each other for a long, long time now has something to do with it, too? People just forget how devastating conflicts can be.
I do recall the scene of the guy jumping out of his truck at 2:29, but, next time we see him is climbing out of a overturned semi trailer while wrapping up in a blanket, after the bombs fell. My thought here is, how did he get from point A (truck) to point B (semi) without the audience seeing it?
I remember seeing this as a teenager when it was first shown in the UK (man, how young is John Lithgow in this?!) and I still find it compelling viewing. Over here we had a programme called Threads - made about the same time - which showed the effect of a nuclear bomb on England, but that focussed much more on the nuclear winter scenario. Both of these are horrific but almost hypnotising to watch. Thanks for the clip.
EMP is a serious inconvenience. Think of all the kids that won't be able to play video games. It will be chaos....and of course scorched earth and fall-out.
Mutualy assured destruction was tried as a deterrent once, just prior to World War One. The fact that we're trying it again, but with nukes, is completely, utterly, one hundred percent stupid. I hope we don't get what we deserve for letting this happen a second time.
@sine250 Their immediate effects only go for a certain amount of miles, so if you're outside of that radius you'll probably only get knocked back a bit from the shockwave and maybe get knocked on your butt, but that's about it. Still, even if that's the case you will have to worry about the fallout, which is probably what will do you in.
@tall32guy true but you have to wonder who is truly lucky the survivors or the dead those killed in the blast are gone but those who live must spend the rest of their lives in a blackened, radioactive wasteland of their own creation
@sine250 in history class, i watched a video about Hiroshima&Nagasaki, and there was a girl who was 2 blocks from ground zero, and was saved after suffering severe poisoning, but i agree with you. you're very likely to get extremely sick or die immediately depending upon the circumstances if you have visual contact.
Thumbs up if you believe that Thermonuclear War's threat is not over because of the end of the Cold War...
PsychotronicWar 20 hours ago
@jerico641 "confidence is high" is a military term used to indicate that the incoming tracts on their radar consoles were in fact incoming Russian ICBM's.
rwhitenight 1 day ago
Google Stanislav Petrov, because you have him to thank for this not happening.
Asarelah 3 days ago
whos attacking, probably russians
TheBojanovski 4 days ago
@TheBojanovski in the movie Russia attacks into West Germany, there's a break through and to stop them from pouring into France we (NATO I guess) detonates 3 tactical nukes over their Army Groups, they retaliate with a full nuclear attack seen here, that's why the farmer saw it coming, it's good movie you should watch it
AlexSaysHi2013 22 hours ago
0:15 - What the hell does that line "confidence is high" mean anyway? They're confident that their bombs will hit their targets, or that the other guys' bombs will reach them? Maybe they're just confident that 3/4 of civilization will be destroyed...
jerico641 4 days ago
Thumbs up if this movie gives you nightmare when you were a kid.
Kaynos 1 week ago 4
@Kaynos Its not that simple am afraid. The cage has to be continuous.
compucrusade 1 week ago
any1 know what film im describing - guy in a city picks up a random phone call at a telephone booth. Someone called the wrong number and warns to hide from the coming nuclear strike *shots fired*. Guy understands that it was not a prank call tries to leave the city, while trying to get out, meets some gay bodybuilder who tells him that he's a helipilot, after finding a chopper nuke explodes, they all die.
It wasn't a good film :D, but i'm just curious, saw it as a child, maybe u ppl know?! Ty
jantsik112 1 week ago
@jantsik112
The Movie Is "Miricale Mile" and was released in 1988.
x4073 1 week ago
Their cars should be working because they act as a Faraday cage...unless they left their windows open...
mubd1234 1 week ago
@mubd1234 Its not that simple am afraid. The cage has to be continuous.
compucrusade 1 week ago
@mubd1234 Faraday?
AlexSaysHi2013 22 hours ago
I'd rather get vaporized than to die slowly
Darkwolf787 2 weeks ago
during history, did any country ever had a nuclear war.
tigamlove 1 month ago
@tigamlove I dont think so...
ReNoEnVy957 4 weeks ago
@tigamlove Durign WW2 USA ended the long war by dropping the prototype Atomic Bomb, twice. On Japan, after that, the war ended and was the last time a nuke was used in battle
DarPower1 4 weeks ago
@tigamlove The only nuclear war ever in history has been between the United States and Japan. It was one sided, with America dropping two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing well over 600,000 Japanese civilians. This was with small, 15-20 kiloton bombs. Today's multi-megaton fusion bombs could instantly kill millions of people upon impact. If every major city in America was hit, we'd be looking at approximately 200 million people dead, total. That's before the fallout.
UninsaneRocker 4 weeks ago
when it comes to nuclear war there are no winners..even the countries not involved will be because of the radiation. I always wondered why the Russians were so upset about us having missles in europe bit makes sense now...shorter flight time for missles.
2011packattack 1 month ago
@2011packattack That is why we have anti nuke missiles
DarPower1 4 weeks ago
@DarPower1 and let the radiation scatter to the stratosphere to contaminate the entire planet for a few hundred years? Nice job. There are still cancers and lymphomas coming from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that was over 60 years ago with weapons that are dwarfed by the payloads that the monster missiles from today see.
Wales had radioactive contamination coming from Chernobyl and are probably still getting it.
AuntyAlexG 1 week ago
@2011packattack and then there were missiles in Cuba. Reaction time is important. That´s why the nukes on the subs were important. They would ensure that noone would try a firststrike-scenario
arveduilastking 3 weeks ago
I remember as a kid watching this movie and being scared to death because the us and russia were still involved in the cold war and pretty hostile to each other. The thing i always wondered is you know not all the icbms are going to work properly and some will malfunction ...if that were to happen could it be possible to have your own missle detonate on your own soil? you seen in the gulf war not all tomahawks worked properly.
2011packattack 1 month ago 2
@2011packattack - That's a reasonable question but just to reassure you, the arming mechanisms in modern nuclear warheads are much more sophisticated than those for conventional weapons. Also, the U.S. deploys over half of its strategic nukes on board SSBN submarines. Unless we're talking "total war" than any strike launched by the U.S. would likely come from one of its subs.
youdoitillwatch 3 weeks ago
anyone found a link to the full movie?
PrimeTargetSecurity 1 month ago
@PrimeTargetSecurity you can still get the movie, its out on dvd
animal16365 4 weeks ago
@PrimeTargetSecurity it's in parts on youtube, shouldn't be too hard to find, I watched on youtube one time, good luck to you it's a good movie
AlexSaysHi2013 22 hours ago
These scenes WERE shown to world leaders at the time. This movie literally saved the world from Nuclear War about 30 years ago when it was shown to Ronald Reagan, who got severly depressed when watching this, leading to a treaty he signed with Gorbachev. So stop crapping your pants in terror. The fact that you're even alive right now has a lot to do with this movie.
JediBillman 1 month ago
Every once in a while I have the same vivid dream of me and my family in our kitchen huddled as a nuke goes off and staring out the windows at the impending wave coming at us. I have had it at least 3 times makes me wonder if it will ever happen.
numba1netsfan 1 month ago 2
the lucky people are in the epicenter. i would'nt wanna live through this, dying slow from rad poisoning or starvation.
SchecterMongoose 1 month ago 2
would i be ok if i hid under the stairs!
funkytripper 1 month ago
I remember seeing this when it first came out. It was brilliant. Years later, I tried to explain to my two daughters the mentality of fear that existed then. I found the movie on video and showed it to them. They cried through most of it. Without even mentioning the nut-bars like Iran who may have one or two of these weapons, the USA and Russia still have thousands of them. No wonder I drink every day.
SMMHonda1 2 months ago 4
Send this video to our world leaders dammit !!
silviasboy 2 months ago 3
@silviasboy: Agreed, but the problem is, those people (the world leaders) have bunkers reserved for them. They'd live. We wouldn't. We have a conscience. They? Well, President Reagan apparently did, because he signed treaties to start limiting nuclear arms after watching this. Others -- who knows? I'm guessing probably not.
brchristensenco 1 month ago
@brchristensenco
Everybody have a conscience, including the world leaders. Sure the world leader have the bunker to survive the nuclear war, but unless they have them in the mountain that is far away from ground zero, they are screw like the rest of us. If they have the bunker that underneath the fourth story building and the explosion cause the building to collapsed on top of the bunker, they better have someone to dig them out before they run out of air to breathe.
Mrbrianjohnson951 1 month ago
@brchristensenco Just because an important person has a place to go if his safety is threatened does not mean he doesn't "have a conscience".
ReaperDrone1 1 month ago
America was less-fat then, better panic scenes.
guysmileytoo 2 months ago 2
@guysmileytoo ugh
HunterLunter 1 month ago
I know you all are saying that you'd want to be vaporized and everything in an instant, but...
What if you were shipwrecked on some deserted island in the Pacific Ocean? What would you do then? 'Cause your wishes that if it ever happened, you'd want to be vaporized so you wouldn't live through the aftermath would pretty much be wiped out.
If you were stranded on some little island in the middle of the sea when nuclear war broke out, what would you do?
Godzillaman 2 months ago
@Godzillaman what the hell are you talking about?
kristenssn 1 month ago
I recall when this movie came out in the 80's the Russians were all hot and bothered over it accusing the U.S. of portraying the Ruskies as "War-Mongers".
Blain1971 2 months ago
@Blain1971 Yes, true...but on a more worrisome note, in the early 80s the leadership in the Soviet Union actually believed the US under Pres. Reagan was planning a surprise attack on them. There warning systems malfunctioned in 1982 and sent out a false alarm which very nearly caused them to launch nuclear armed missiles at the US. Scary, no? Thank God it didn't happen.
LegalEagleX 2 months ago
You have been warned!
videosensei 2 months ago
One pip boy and a jumpsuit from vault 101 its all you need to survive a nuclear holocaust.
johnrafale2 2 months ago
segment 308 was a film called " hell fighters " with john wayne it was the initial clip of the movie of a man running after an oil well blow up
bassclef41 2 months ago
I rather don't know when that crap is coming.
santoroyerdeantorcha 2 months ago
Just imagine if Hollywood remade such a scene with CGI and shit. Like a 30 minute short film, that takes place between when word that the missiles launched and when they go boom, traces a couple characters through what they do during those thirty minutes. :P
NotSoSiniSter 2 months ago
@NotSoSiniSter They did it's called "Miracle Mile"
PicklesMcGiggles 2 months ago
That would be my luck......being on the operating table midway through and ***BAM*** the EMP would hit! lol.....
ideniseb 2 months ago
now this what happens with no drills or preparation or even bomb shelters for us all!
world09a 2 months ago
peace and love
DDayafter1983 2 months ago
Them that get vaporized be the lucky ones.
StAraqiel 2 months ago 14
@StAraqiel you sound like a pirate XD Aye that be true.
thegiantpigeon 3 weeks ago
Funny...all the diesel cars would be ok.....no ignition.
andgate2000 2 months ago
An EMP device would be a nuclear device....just "TUNED".....for the job required...Yield would be tailored for maximum electromagnetic disruption rather than sheer blast potential. It could be a rather small blast yield but a huge electromagnetic pulse, It could even have little fallout compared to a typical thermonuclear device. The neutron bomb was a small thermonuclear device that packed a wallop in the form of x-ray and gamma ray emission but had little fallout and small blast radius.
Dorsolateral1 2 months ago
Something about this - Wouldn't a detonated bomb for the EMP potentially disrupt flight paths and electronics of other inbound warheads?
MaxxTheMerciless 2 months ago
@MaxxTheMerciless
The EMP would most likely disrupt at least some airplanes in flight. It would depend on how much the aircraft relied on electronics to fly. Also, electronics can be manufactured to resist the effects of EMP, as the electronics in a war head would be. The problem with hardening electronics against the effects of EMP is that it is very expensive. Think paying $10,000 for a $400 computer.
mike203920 2 weeks ago
there goes the neighbourhood...
Tatoon 2 months ago
Thats what happend in Ancient Sumeria , so we had allready a Nuclear holocaust about 4000 years ago. But the PTB have ereased it from our history books
Mu2143k 2 months ago
Humans are fucking stupid for inventing this weapon, what kind of premature, ape-evolved creatures try to wipe out their own kind with atom bombs? One must use European history and logic combined with mathematics to answer this question. One must be able to critically think and contemplate reasons. This species needs refinement, starting with the "elite" who control everything. That is how we use logic at Harvard.
UncutTuts 2 months ago
@UncutTuts you need to study history on why they developed it. it's easy for you to retroactively say that..you seem to think that 7 billion people all see the world the same way..we don't so it's beyond naive to think that "logic with mathematics" would stop all the war,crime,hate etc..if only it were that easy..after you graduate Harvard you will get a real education in the real world
ubermisogynist 2 months ago
If this happened? I would smoke all my weed Nd watch the beauty of mankind destroying themselves
767deltaairlines 2 months ago
@767deltaairlines And then blow up.
SnowCanary 2 months ago
@djgloverv that's the backstory to the ABC miniseries Amerika, a story about a bloodless takeover of the US by the USSR.
zombiefan011 2 months ago
EMP - ( electro Magnetic pulse) would knock us back to the stone age. No, Nuclear weapon required. It is a divice that is airburst over mid-america, and knocks out all electronices..THAT ARE OPERATING AT THE TIME OF DETONATION ONLY!! THAT'S WHAT I UNDSTND... THAT*S WHAT HAPPENED WHEN EVERYTHING WENT DEAD.
djgloverv 2 months ago
30 minutes? Thats a lifetime compared to what we'd get in the UK, 4 minutes at best!
RedJoe10 2 months ago
The air raid sirens now should just play a recorded message WE ARE COMPLETELY FUCKED. DO NOT PANIC WE ARE COMPLETELY FUCKED ! repeat
WildBuck007 2 months ago 49
@WildBuck007 Funny but so so true!
RedJoe10 2 months ago
@WildBuck007 it should say, STAND WHERE YOU ARE.. HIDING IS FUTILE. YOU ARE ALL DEAD
HeathenSaxon 2 months ago
Politics is the only thing that can stop hydrogen bombs.
roylopear 2 months ago
I was a freshman in high school when this movie came out and I had nightmares for YEARS afterwards. Definitely opened my eyes to the reality of nuclear war.
GotKilt 2 months ago
no war!!!!!!!
DDayafter1983 2 months ago
Man, if I saw a Hydrogen Bomb like this explode close to me, I'd just stand there, no point trying to outrun this thing.
adzyb69 2 months ago
Scariest thing is, that's the best case scenario. They even say so at the end of the program.
IHateRidge 3 months ago
Humans = Dumbasses, why did we even try to invent this thing anyway?
SandmanCOD 3 months ago
@SandmanCOD that's what happens when people are unconscious
livelited 2 months ago
Absolutly. You have 15 minutes of warning before the impact (in 2000 year, united state time warning). So...
I´ll get a beer and choose a nice and ultimate view before hell.
Or, if I have only a seconds left, I would hug the prettiest lady around and kiss her.
pennywise374 3 months ago
while the threat of nuclear war is a lot less than it was a few decades ago, its still entirely possible. Lets hope humanity never has to resort to this. Ever.
carlsm95 3 months ago
@ewillie169 i wasn't the only one who thought this...read the reports around that time... true story.
ewillie169 3 months ago
And that's why we don't mess with the Russians. Ok, maybe we mess with them just a little bit.
dushenko 3 months ago
While a nuclear war probably isn't as big a threat as it was in the past, it could still happen.
zombiefan011 3 months ago
Well, go get your vault jumpsuit and 10mm pistol.
That's all you can really do now.
Sovereign1023 3 months ago 47
@Sovereign1023: War. War never changes...
GauzeGuy 3 weeks ago
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fuckyousaysi 3 months ago
I think the closest we've come to a nuclear war is the Cuban Missile Crisis, which they compare to the missile crisis shown in this film.
zombiefan011 3 months ago
it was almost happend in september 25-26 1983 when a nucklear attack under a compleat surprise coude of take place if stanislav petrov woudnt be in place ib serphukov 15 radar station in south of moscow - it would of be much warse then the movie scenario
TheMrmbrx33 3 months ago
@TheMrmbrx33 Thank God it didn't happen. We should destroy all ballistic missiles.
Icarusdecending82 3 months ago
@TheMrmbrx33
Don't worry about making sense or anything, we don't mind
bshaun21 3 months ago
@TheMrmbrx33 I read about that in a Spectrum magazine special issue (it belong to the Institute of Electric and Electronic Ingeneering).
pennywise374 3 months ago
this scared the shit outta me in 83......
angryscowl 3 months ago
@angryscowl
I was eight years old when this first aired. My parents would not let me watch it because they thought it would give me nightmares. I didn't see it until years later when I was an adult.
patluvsvettes 3 months ago
the good thing is it will all be to rapid and you would not even have enough time to think before you know it you have sunk in death
nicoeste8765 3 months ago
pretty grim shit.
wanshei 3 months ago in playlist Watch Later Playlist
The people of today...are more weary of natural disasters than this from 28 years ago. What I am saying doesn't minimize the effect of what a new version of this show would bring about. It would 'wake' people up again and make themselves think that there is just no positive whatsoever in obtaining nuclear weapons of any sort. The FOOLISH countries or govts. that have or want to have this kind of 'power'...well they are totally out of touch with reality!!!
cookma72 3 months ago
If anyone thinks it "can't" happen is a fool. It can, and if certain people are in power, it will. What really had an impact in the 1980's was the day after. In my humble opinion, the movie was too optimistic. Perhaps in the near future, a remake based on realism, NOT science fiction, can be made and have a similar if not more serious impact as the 1983 movie, jmho
rholster2 3 months ago
The fact remains is as a society we have slipped away from the state we were in when I was growing up. When I was a kid in the 1970's and 80s I remembered presidents and others on tv reminding us what we should do in the event of a nuclear attack. I even remember people still building bomb shelters. Since the Cold War "ended" and the dissolution of the USSR, the thoughts of Nuclear attacks have fizzled out. But, with over 27,000 nuclear weapons, that we know of, it CAN happen
rholster2 3 months ago
@Hellfighter762 you are correct. This made for tv movie was very effective in 1983, and may have even played a role in ending the cold war. But truth be known, it is a 1983 movie and many of the kids these days would not even watch it. A movie with todays standards and realism, with a well known enemy of today, and even on the same premise as the 1983 movie: small area no one really knows much about or a place that would not seem likely that a nuclear attack would occur.
rholster2 3 months ago
@rholster2 This movie needs to be updated, at leaat the nuclear aspesct of it. The world does not need a nuclear war. New generations are becoming more and more desensitzed to the images of war via video games, film and the media etc. I'd say a rough estimate of about 75% of North American's don't pay attention to Nuclear war, either for the reasons that they are too caught up with their own lives to not care, or that it just can't happend.....well it can.
Deltarogers 2 months ago
Soviet strategic warheads were bigger than ours, because the missiles carrying them were nowhere near as accurate. The US could detonate a warhead within 300 meters or better of the target center. Soviet ICBMs were lucky to get within a couple of miles of their target. Nasty.
rattinox 3 months ago
@rattinox Lolwhat? Are you taking information from Napoleon era?
Federation of American Scientists in 1983 already knew that you are wrong.
In their "Soviet Military Power 1983" they wrote:
"Qualitative Improvements: The dramatic growth in nuclear warheads observed after 1975 could not have been possible without major qualitative improvements. The first two generations of Soviet ICBMs were inaccurate, carried relatively small payloads and required lengthy launch procedures.
EugenetReal 2 months ago
@rattinox FAS "Soviet Military Power 83": "However, it was not until the fourth generation that the technology became available to the Soviets allowing greater throwweight and greatly improved accuracy so that high-yield MIRVs could be carried by operational missiles. The most accurate versions of the SS-18 and SS-19are capable of destroying hard targets. Together, these systems have the capability to destroy most of the 1,000 US MINUTEMAN ICBMs, using only a portion of the warheads available"
EugenetReal 2 months ago 2
BEFORE I WATCH THIS: IS IT GRAPHIC?
CL137626 4 months ago
Anyone not in a protective shelter within 30 miles of the impact will be incinerated by the heat blast, 10 miles further out will be hit by the shockwave, the survivors will suffer radiation poisoning or freeze to death from a nuclear winter simply put we're all going to die
zombiefan011 4 months ago
@zombiefan011 If only it were that simple. Some of us would survive and have to deal with a utterly 4ucked up world. The point of the "day after" was what life would be like if you lived to see it. North American and European civilization would be gone.
Quantumgeometer 2 months ago
To tell you the thruth, I'm more afraid of an earthquake than this.
ThunderGod64 4 months ago
EMP? just like this? than they had a couple of seconds? is this how its really happens?
AradSP 4 months ago
And with the "advancement" of technology, we have effectively sealed our own fate and labeled it "Voluntary Extinction of Mankind"...with the creation of these weapons. And to think the "best and brightest" citizens...the mathematicians, the scientists... the ROLE MODELS that we are all expected to strive to become, are the same ones that will annihilate humanity.
Zer0Funk 4 months ago
@Zer0Funk they may create these weapons but it is the governments of the world who actually put them to use they will cause something like this not intellectuals
zombiefan011 3 months ago
You would never think this was a TV movie it should've been released in theatres
zombiefan011 4 months ago
we were on the verge of this for 5 times in history.
cicoriy 4 months ago
What are the sequence of disabled electricity/vehicles starting with the Dr. Oakes' car and ending with his son's motorcycle?
Deanmo23 4 months ago
first time i saw this film i was very scared.
pamisterios 4 months ago
the only nuclear war scene that is more frightening is the nightmare from Terminator 2
zombiefan011 4 months ago
you're better off running toward the mushroom cloud rather than live in the aftermath, really...
SloreTactician 4 months ago
I still remember watching this when it first aired on network TV back in the early 80s. It scared the heck out of me. It still does.
beckacj 4 months ago
It's not really the disintegration that's the worst part, it's the radiation and fallout that scares me the most. The climate would change rapidly and almost nothing would be able to live in those conditions. Don't forget to mention the effects such as cancer and etc. This is if we do survive the initial blasts. Nuclear weapons should have never been created. It's like having a button to wipe out the Earth and blow it up. Who wins there?
blitzwaffe 4 months ago
I remember seeing this as a kid...scared the living crap outta me.
VirtuaCory 4 months ago
Ashes and Diamonds .Foe and Friend .We were all equal in the end. -Waters.
MrJacMac1986 4 months ago
Nuclear War: a method of warfare that doesn't leave any winners.
Raynor9X9 4 months ago
They should sell this movie in a double-pack with Threads. Brilliant Cold War-era dramas.
RedJoe10 4 months ago
the great thing about this is that is gave the world a HUGE reality check on how a nuclear war would really play out and it scared the shit out of the russians and probably made them think twice about the consquences of such a conflict.
CA1CWilliams 4 months ago
Okay, so much for a good night's sleep... I'm honestly crying right now. That's disgusting. I'll never forget the scenes of children being vaporized.
UniversalProjectCo 4 months ago
I don't think we've even got air raid sirens any more. There's probably an app for that.
RedJoe10 4 months ago
I remember hearing that before the movie was on TV, it was played at a theater in Lawrence,KS where it was shot on location. I remember hearing that after the movie the people of Lawrence wept leaving the theater.
quietjedi1010101 4 months ago
@connberkshire the movie doesn't say the Russians attacked us they intentionally leave it unclear whether the US or the USSR launches the main nuclear assault first but earlier in the film they say that the US air burst several warheads above advancing Soviet troops in East Germany
zombiefan011 4 months ago
Sucks to be in the city. All those poor fools running about pointlessly trying to survive. My only goal once the siren sounded would be to find a couple beers and a big cigar. I would see how much of the cigar and how many beers I could finish before it didn't matter anymore.
KrazyKommieKiller 4 months ago 18
@KrazyKommieKiller at least they were vaporized...wouldn't feel a thing...
AlexSaysHi2013 4 months ago in playlist AlexSaysHi2013's Favorited Videos
@KrazyKommieKiller Roads would obviously be useless. Make peace.
YaesuFT736R 4 months ago
@KrazyKommieKiller hey they may have been scared, but at least most of them died quick, I'd rather be vaporized then slowly die of radiation sickness, that's the real hell...
AlexSaysHi2013 4 months ago in playlist AlexSaysHi2013's Favorited Videos
Can anyone tell me if Soviet thermonuclear weapons used a Teller-Ulam device, or something different?
boobtuber06 4 months ago
@boobtuber06 I don't know what missiles they used but it doesn't really matter does it
zombiefan011 4 months ago
i have had dreams like this but in my dreams it felt so real :(
andy19832009 5 months ago
@andy19832009 Me too.
qwertasdcfghjklmo24z 4 months ago
I guess, in my opinion, the most disturbing part to me was when the father jumped on his son to protect him. You hope that the father was able to save his son, but... :'/
VCAcommunity 5 months ago 2
@VCAcommunity that made me shed a tear
whitemanstand72 5 months ago
I was in the Navy when this movie was broadcast, and spent weeks afterward in deep depression, because I knew the Soviets could and possibly would be able to attack us like in the movie. The main reason this movie was so horrifying, and so unlike schlocky movies like Red Dawn, was because the premise was so real and very plausible. Even though the threat still exists now, the movie seems very nostalgic- wouldn't it be nice if the Soviets were still the big bad boogeymen, and not our own gov't?!
connberkshire 5 months ago
they blow stuff up on dbz like this all the time lol on a serious note i think every country shud get rid of these death sentences
MKT7the 5 months ago
I was a sophmore in high school when this was broadcast and I remember all the societal agonizing that was going on-everybody freaking out about the showing of such a thing on t.v.-and the debate about 'it's too intense and depressing to let young people see' vs 'thats exactly why young people need to see it'. The most visually shocking part of the whole film is that rapid series of shots showing people being vaporized in their tracks in the middle of doing everyday things.
darrenholcomb42 5 months ago 2
back to caveman era in split second
mprinosil 5 months ago
It be cool if they made a present day version of this movie. Last one i saw of this type was sum of all fears a okay movie. Would be awesome the day after (2012) michael bay film. Lol
B17loves13 5 months ago
Not bad effects for a tv movie from 1983.
whitetower67 5 months ago
@lucatoscani1973
The scariest part is that, in the real world, the danger of a nuclear attack still exists.
XStormfalconX 5 months ago 26
@XStormfalconX
Yeah, it could happen any second, of any minute, of any hour, of any day, of any week, of any month, of any year.
In about 20 minutes, humans could set the world on fire.
CoDfan2011mw2 3 months ago
@XStormfalconX no, the scariest part is that it WILL happen someday. Its enevitable when you have so much destructive power that is becoming easier to acquire by people that will use them. Nothing can prevent it.
sadalite 3 months ago
Let's hope China and the United States never strike anyone with these. I am truly scared of nuclear warfare.
elr456 5 months ago
@elr456 they probably wont
DarPower1 4 months ago
What Made The Power Went Out in The Sky?
koolkat89101 5 months ago
@koolkat89101One of the effects of a nuclear blast is Electromagnetic Pulse or EMP. It basically destroys anything electronic, radios, TV.s, the alternator in your car. Unless something is hardened against EMP it is not going to work after a nuclear blast.
MNRick041 5 months ago
@koolkat89101
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP). Discovered after Hiroshima, it was designed to knock out the enemy's communications before they could retaliate.
KOHF34 5 months ago
@koolkat89101 Electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
Villesanti 5 months ago
@Villesanti Once you go EMP you can never go back to the present day. It just fails on you, and the world goes primitive.
Solar flares are somehow similar to EMPs but doesn't cut off electricity permanently- it took 9 hours to fix the electricity grid in Quebec in 1989 when a solar storm happened.
joe9320 4 months ago
good movie considering how old it is be nice if they did a remake just with better cg and a bit more realistic but great plot
panthersfan345 5 months ago
Faraday cages will not protect against a NNEMP or EMP caused by a nuke. The electromagnetic concussion waves will EASILY pass through your Faraday cage if that's all you have. The amplitude of the pulse generated by a weaponized EMP is smaller than the holes in a cage.
SamTheSammich 5 months ago
Directed by Nicholas Meyer, fresh off of directing "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" the preceding year. President Reagan is said by Meyer to have credited a White House screening of this film with convincing him of the need for nuclear disarmament treaties with the Soviets.
AlanCanon2222 5 months ago
The first thing that you'd notice is the EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) blowing out anything electronic. What this means is: A, you can turn the key and pump the gas pedal till the cows came home! -- to no avail; and B, your computer, TV, stereo, and so on will be rendered inoperable; even if the power ever were to come back on (HAH! -- Fat chance!). No, only vacuum-tube transmitter-receiver devices would work in this case (when was the last time you ever saw one of those?).
rayandreina 5 months ago
And how those weapons of mass destruction gets the support of people:
- Games showing the end of a zombie apocalypse with a nuclear strike.
- Movies where an infestation ends with a nuclear explosion.
- Politician using the "freedom through superior firepower" to keep them and threat others to use them.
- Religions letting their people turns their faith to a big gun instead of a signed paper that put them to talk with other cultures.
doarner 6 months ago
@doarner: I can´t begin to tell you just how right y´are. Maybe even the fact that none of the world´s most powerful nations were engaged in battle with each other for a long, long time now has something to do with it, too? People just forget how devastating conflicts can be.
BigPuschlerX 5 months ago
Pity that the only way to ensure nuclear weapons are never used is to keep them armed and ready to fly.
JohnnyC133 6 months ago
I do recall the scene of the guy jumping out of his truck at 2:29, but, next time we see him is climbing out of a overturned semi trailer while wrapping up in a blanket, after the bombs fell. My thought here is, how did he get from point A (truck) to point B (semi) without the audience seeing it?
nathanielcaesar 6 months ago
1% of america's nuclear arsenal could wipe out 99.99% of life on earth
00die00991 6 months ago
I remember seeing this as a teenager when it was first shown in the UK (man, how young is John Lithgow in this?!) and I still find it compelling viewing. Over here we had a programme called Threads - made about the same time - which showed the effect of a nuclear bomb on England, but that focussed much more on the nuclear winter scenario. Both of these are horrific but almost hypnotising to watch. Thanks for the clip.
Artiki 6 months ago
EMP is a serious inconvenience. Think of all the kids that won't be able to play video games. It will be chaos....and of course scorched earth and fall-out.
slick00009 6 months ago
Mutualy assured destruction was tried as a deterrent once, just prior to World War One. The fact that we're trying it again, but with nukes, is completely, utterly, one hundred percent stupid. I hope we don't get what we deserve for letting this happen a second time.
singularwave 6 months ago
We'll meet again....
Don't know where
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.
NefariousBanana 6 months ago
Why would you even TRY to run? If you can see the mushroom cloud, face it, its game over.
sine250 6 months ago 19
@sine250
If there is no direct impact near you, you can survive, but the balst may still cause immediate demage.
True, you survive to suffer from radiation, nuclear fallout and nuclear pollution.
So it makes sense to try to hide, but live will not be fun if ypu survive.
That is what this movie shows.
schusterlehrling 6 months ago
@sine250
If there is no direct impact near you, you can survive, but the balst may still cause immediate demage.
True, you survive to suffer from radiation, nuclear fallout and nuclear pollution.
So it makes sense to try to hide, but live will not be fun if you survive.
That is what this movie shows.
schusterlehrling 6 months ago
@sine250 Their immediate effects only go for a certain amount of miles, so if you're outside of that radius you'll probably only get knocked back a bit from the shockwave and maybe get knocked on your butt, but that's about it. Still, even if that's the case you will have to worry about the fallout, which is probably what will do you in.
tall32guy 4 months ago
@tall32guy true but you have to wonder who is truly lucky the survivors or the dead those killed in the blast are gone but those who live must spend the rest of their lives in a blackened, radioactive wasteland of their own creation
zombiefan011 4 months ago
@sine250 you may be able to if it's REAL far away, but you're just barely able to make out the cloud, most of this though is for dramatic effect
AlexSaysHi2013 4 months ago in playlist AlexSaysHi2013's Favorited Videos
@sine250 in history class, i watched a video about Hiroshima&Nagasaki, and there was a girl who was 2 blocks from ground zero, and was saved after suffering severe poisoning, but i agree with you. you're very likely to get extremely sick or die immediately depending upon the circumstances if you have visual contact.
AlexiLaiho227 4 months ago
@sine250 I had the same exact thought.
astropeachexperience 4 months ago
@sine250
Because its a natural human instinct?
lareman 3 months ago
@sine250 Because human nature is not to just give up on life.
phocjame 3 months ago
Let's hope Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) holds up to it's reputation.
Sebatman18 6 months ago
if nukes were headed my way i think i would like to be directly under the blast it would all be over in a nanosecond
yort002 6 months ago