what I hate about this movie is the obliviousness of the people. They see bombers flying out, news casters reporting that nukes had already been set off against either side, and the girl asks "theres not going to be a war is there?" Thats just being stupid
Wake up White America! Here we have White people killing each other for culture destroying jeeew banker subhumans... Come and git me traitors, cowards and tax slaves... SCUMBAGS ALL!
movie doesn't scare me. Whose to say that there would be that many people left in the blast radius. Let alone any discernible rubble. Terminator even though it was sci-fi captured a much more life like horror of a war torn city. If you don't have the budget to make it look good enough don't make it....Its do for a remake anyhow they are all out of ideas.
The makers of this film were trying to make a social statement, not win an Oscar and since (this is only a guess, if I am wrong feel free to correct me) it appears that you are too young to understand the social climate in which this film was made then no, it won't scare you. The 1980s were a very different time. I'm guessing you are in your twenties, and are of the generation jaded by CGI.
@EntomologyPurdue too many video games??? im sorry but the information i presented is factual and confirmed, if you don't believe me look it up for yourself.
At 4:48 you hear the announcement "Klaxon, Klaxon, Klaxon"... This is a mistake where the script said "Klaxon, Klaxon, Klaxon" and the message was to follow but a Klaxon is a sort of horn so it should of been a horn sounding 3 times to alert them and then the message should have started....I think the announcer simply read what was written.......
@KarenSuzanneKing Good find. Yes, could be, but it could also be a way of verbally marking the beginning of an important message that follows. Lke saying "Over" at the end of a radio/cb message (but at the beginning). A few seconds later, they do have a three beep sound, so they DO know how to have appropriate sound effects.
I heard that on one press report that all the missile officers were to stay until all missiles were fired then have to dig themselves out of the silo and proceed to the nearest meeting place. Is this true?
@Rockyfan10060 Those are Navy carrier personnel at 3:00, they have color coded shirts for flight operations. Missiles would only be launched at DEFCON 1, but the bombers would be going to their fail safe points at DEFCON 2...at 1, they procede to their targets.
It's very likely that if we were attacked, it would be at night when most of us were asleep. I doubt it would ever be a daytime attack unless it was an accident.
Yes, hundreds of people sit in their flying gear ready to fly in minutes all over the world. Airplanes on the ground are the easiest targest there are, flimsy aluminum things in groups out in the open. In the event of ominous events, they'd be sent aloft.
Using famous actors hurts the film for me. It lessens the impact. Having a star-studded cast reduces the catastrophic events to an obvious Hollywood production. Also I highly doubt that lady's hysterical reaction would be the norm. Most would just cover their mouths & pee like the woman in Threads. I heard that we would have 30 minutes before USSR's nuclear arsenal was launched, as it would take that long for them to reach us. That's the worst part for me.
In 1983, when this aired, it was hardly "star studded"; the only "star" was Jason Robards. Steve Guttenberg and John Lithgow were relative unknowns as were Amy Madigan and JoBeth Williams (who's only major credit at the time was "Poltergeist"), and John Cullum was more well known as a stage actor. The film's director, Nick Meyer, made it clear that he wanted as few "stars" as possible for the reason that you mentioned; it would make it look like a disaster flick and lessen the film's impact.
@lonelyheroine executive order PDD60 signed by Bush states that unless and UNTIL the United States absorbs an nuclear attack they wouldn't launch back. So basically our government made it so they would have time to get underground while the citizens would be left with the fallout from it. nice hey.
@itstime4change13 PDD60 was signed by Clinton, not Bush. NSPD 14, which was signed by Bush, allows for first strike against "[a]n adversary using or intending to use WMD against US, multinational,
or alliance forces or civilian populations" or "Imminent attack from adversary biological weapons that only effects from nuclear weapons can safely destroy…"
There are documented cased of people acting just like the hysterical wife when faced with terrible news (such as finding out a loved one has been killed). Everyone acts a bit differently.
@lonelyheroine so than stop watching it, troll. and dont worry it doesnt take 30 minutes anymore, russians have missles that can reach us in just under 20 minutes now, so plenty of time for you to cover your mouth and piss your pants still. also russian warheads now are pretty much impervious to our missle defence system, while our outdated minuteman III missles still take about 25-30min to reach there targets. also SLBM's can hit contental Midwest soil in just under 6 minutes.
@kittkatt1975 Any man who's ever seen two women fight over something as mundane as the last pair of boots or their child's admission into a select school *knows* that this is a bunch of bull. *Humans* are confrontational; *both* genders.
I've seen stupid (all educated and all) sluts fighting with each other over my dick - women are just plain stupid sluts (ohh and you'd do the same you know)
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Well done America your first strike tactic has fucked us all hope your happy... but no you didnt want the Soviets to have West Germany so you fired them -.-
The "American people" are not doing jack shit to you, therefore we owe you the same: jack shit. For you to believe that the people who lead your country are not just as hypocritical and corrupt as the ones who lead mine, then you are every bit as shortsighted and stupid as your profile makes you appear to be. Therefore, I hereby cordially invite you to kiss my American ass.
last time I checked muslim imigrants and blacks were fucking your women while their husband were in IRAQ... so stop talking you're just a bunch of fags to everyone in this world
@kerimil Nope, gonna keep right on talking. Ya got that, Kermit (do you mind if I call you "Kermit"?) You really should be honest with yourself about your sexuality; you will be able to sleep better at night. Oh yeah, I almost forgot; go fuck yourself.
This movie scarred me for life. NOT appropriate for a 13 year old (at the time). Makes it almost cartoonish that they wouldn't let us watch Freddy and such but this was on broadcast tv.
Would the Defcon level theoretically be at 1 at this time since the B-52s were put in the air and the missiles were getting prepped and all the alarms sounding? This doesn't seem like Defcon 2 stuff but full blown "this is happening right now, get ready."
I couldnt help but be moved by that lady's reaction after he tkes his wife out of the room... like wow... i don't want to die.... its messed up... you think about the Holucost, and the million man army in China... n stuff... it makes you wonder - are we really well defended against an attack like that... Obama needs to stop being everyones friend n realize that there are those folks who just want to kill us - no matter how nice we try to be toward them...
@makav3lirise He did get into a gray truck back on the KU campus. You can hear the driver say he could give him a ride to Missouri. So, it assumed when he arrives at this location he had hitched another ride. The filming of Steve Guttenburg being dropped off was at Missouri Hwy 7 and County Rd EE.......which is just northeast of Harrisonville, MO.
@liveecarbme Sigh...yes, actors do play other roles in their lives. Steve's first few roles were actually in very dramatic movies. The first one (I think) was a disaster movie called Rollercoaster.
@RedbeardNC That was his first feature film role (though it was uncredited). He was brilliant in "Diner", which was a much more straightforward comedy. He was also good in "The Bedroom Window", which was a decidedly dramatic role. Unfortunately by the time it came out (1987), it was impossible to see him without thinking: "Quick; Mahoney's in trouble!!"
It's called "denial"; the overwhelming fear and crushing realization that the world as you know it and everything in it are about to come to a catastrophic end. This is a concept that today's generation, with its arrogant sense of self-importance and entitlement, just does not grasp.
At 3:00 why are they all wearing Red sweat shirts and Blue Jeans? Does anybody know? Was that like a plain division Air Force costume for those guys or what? Please help?
Let me get this straight: NATO are fighting Russia on European soil, heavy casualties on both sides and the little girl says "Is there going to be a war?" WTF!!!
@mjh012363 At the end of part XV, the filmmakers acknowledge this, noting that the events depicted were likely "less severe than the destruction that would actually occur in the event of a full nuclear strike against the United States".
@lothartheterrible I know I saw it when it premiered on TV. An excellent movie to see about the effacts of a full scale nuke war was the 1959 b/w "By the Beach". Back then the Soviets were only able to destroy a few of our citites as they didn't have many missiles or bombers to reach US but we were able to annihilate them. However the radioactive cloud produced over the Soviet Union eventually spread over the entire earth killing all life. By 1983 the Soviets were able to annihilate US as well.
@mjh012363 Wait...you say "The Day After" is overly simplistic, but you deem "On The Beach" an example of verisimilitude? While it was a good book and movie, the scenario of lethal radiation clouds spreading worldwide and killing everything is...well, horseshit. The truly nasty stuff loses its lethality too quickly for that to happen.
A full-on nuclear war would be utterly catastrophic for humanity, no doubt, but "On The Beach" is scientifically nonsense.
This just shows that you have no idea what nuclear weapons are capable of. An SS-18 missle carrys 10 1 megaton weapons. Each. The USSR had 300 of them. We had about 300 B-52;s each with over 100 megatons of weapons. Each. This was just a fraction to boot. Do the math!
@riceboy1701e desrved to die? They didnt wake up that day knowing that the missiles were going to be launched. Just like the people in the twin towers on 9/11---did they know when they woke up that day that two planes were to be hijacked and flown into their office building?
@riceboy1701e At this point I can't help but hope the Gods of Karma will read this comment and ensure that your end is painful, degrading, and embarrassing. Like, say, being tarred and feathered on the town square and then having a hot poker jammed up your ass by a midget. "Deserved to die..."; seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?
@MrBennetzen It aired immediately after the film, not before. It was a heated debate between scientist Carl Sagan, Henry Kissinger, Elie Wiesel, Robert McNamara, General Brent Scowcroft and William F. Buckley, Jr. mediated by Ted Koppel. There was, however, an 800 hotline set up before the movie that was intended to calm peoples' nerves.
@oideroid Well, people who are assholes on the internet are generally assholes in real life. Principle is principle whether it is against fictional characters or not.
With all the panic that the citizens had before the missiles even launched they didn't hardly do anything when the actual missiles went off. You'd think that's when they'd really freak out. Anybody agree, disagree?
@lothartheterrible ABSOLUTELY im sure no one is thinking "Yup this is it alright." No Sir they were thinking "this cant possibly be happening" Well its going to, Obama is in the peace negotiations right now. He will be THE ONE (as Oprah Winfrey says) to bring a middle east peace deal. When they come out holding hands saying "peace, peace" then all hell will break loose.
@Rockyfan10060 I want to agree with you but the anticipation of death is worse than death itself and at THAT moment im thinking most people were where they could be. They either got to thier place of last moment or not and knew the shit was over. If they were freaking out it was more of a personal moment at that point. I mean what could possibly be left? You gonna rob someone, rape someone, steal something? No its aaaallllll over at that moment. You aint gonna do nothing but wimper
"I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hell was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
The Soviet Premier and the US President should have told the soldiers and the armies to just stop dead in their tracks. Just both sides stop. Then the leaders could have their peace talk without the bombs exploding. That's what they should have done or tried if it was at all possible. Anyone agree or disagree?
@gaguy1967 You know, if the balloon ever DID go up, a well w/ hand pump would be the best thing you could have for drinking water, as underground supplies would be unlikely to be contaminated like surface water would, and a hand pump wouldn't require electricity.
The kid was probably filling the milk cans from the pump because it's faster than the faucet. Besides, how do you get a great big milk can in a sink?
About 10 years ago, I was at the airport in my city and there were some Canadian and Swedish fighters parked there. Out of nowhere I here a bell go off and guys running towards the planes, and then in the distance I hear that very real, and very scary nuclear siren, or air raid siren, not sure which, they both are scary when you hear them. Anyways all the fighters get airboure and fly off. That was a moment in life that I truly said to my parents "Oh shit, what is going on? and I love you guys"
I find it interesting to a sense with what the newscasters on TV say---one minute they tell of nuclear bombs being airbursted, then saying they're working together on a cease fire.
Here's one thing i dont get. Why didnt the Henley family decide to get the hell out of dodge when they heard about all of this conflict going on i.e russians invading West Germany and the nuclear bombs being airbursted instead of deciding on staying put and getting it on in bed and having the kids listen to nuclear bombs being detonated? I mean, they're sitting within 50-100 yards of a nuclear missile silo for christ's sake
@DASCO2136 One of several things I learned in NYC on 9/11 is that folks freeze up during emergencies and wait for an all clear, often coming too late. On 9/11 misinformation about transportation kept folks in skyscrapers afraid to literally move. I chose to walk to my nearest and dearest for sanity and comfort.
@DASCO2136 One of several things I learned in NYC on 9/11 is that folks freeze up during emergencies and wait for an all clear, often coming too late. On 9/11 misinformation about transportation kept folks in skyscrapers afraid to literally move. I chose to walk to my nearest and dearest for sanity and comfort rather than stay put.
@geoffck6969 I seen this movie as a 10 year old kid.I thought this film portrayed the horror of nuclear war not anti-Reagan.But what I do find assuming is that no other president is given any credit for standing their ground against the USSR.Remember in 62 we were on the brink of Nuclear War and president Kennedy wasn't backing down from the USSR.The collapse of the USSR is a little more complex in IMHO than Reagan the arms race & cold war started long before he stepped foot in the oval office.
@sinusbradycardia Much, MUCH more complex. It had more to do with internal strife within the Soviet Union than it did the intervention of either Reagan or Bush.
@lothartheterrible Yeah but (as much as i didnt like Reagan) his introduction of starwars/SDI was the straw that broke the camel's back re: the USSR. Thier response to SDI was to simply overwhelm the system with numbers so they spent themselves dry in the process. Which bankrupt the Soviet Union into submission. It was a clever game of brinkmanship.
@antidiz Trust me i do cause a whole lot of people are going to die if the shooting starts. When i say alot i am talking about death on a global scale. Either outright from the nukes or the aftermath of nuclear winter and no drinkable water, no medical help, no food, nothing. We're talking about possibly 2/3rds of the entire global population.
4:04 and 4:44 Is exactly the eeriest proverbial calm before the storms ever since I saw this when it first cam out. I'm glad you put that in Annotation in the clip. that scene gives me the chills and makes me sad, because I know what's gonna happen. Makes me appreciate life.
@geoffck6969 It wasn't derogatory, it was just an expression. Besides, I can "meh" you all I want and there's very little you can do about it. I was going to make a comment about you assuming I was a conservative simply because I live in Texas and about your laughable stance on the Reagan administration's handling of the Cold War, but then I looked at your profile and saw that you're Canadian, which makes your opinion null and void. By the way; it is "Sandinista", not "Sandista". Hoser.
@lothartheterrible Again with the American superiority complex. Dismiss others because they are not you, or do not share your geopolitcal borders (which are invisible from space, by the way). How typical - and immature. You were raised better than that. Now go buy some healthcare.
There were two distinct periods in the Reagan Administration's Cold War policy; the one *before* Reagan saw this film, and the one *after*. Having the horrors of nuclear war dumped in his lap helped push Reagan from being a hardliner referring to the USSR as an "evil empire" to being much more open and receptive to Gorbachev's new policies. As far as the "Canadian" remark, I was being a facetious ass; my real problem was that the fellow was only 25 years old and didn't live through the cold war.
@geoffck6969 to run roughshod over Central and South America, the apocalypse described in this film would have, in reality, been about 100 times worse. When communist guerrila armies are preparing to cross the Rio Grande, all the New York and Hollywood Meyers propaganda in the world won't save your sorry ass! And that's where American democracy would have been if President Reagan didn't stand up to these FUCKERS in Nicaragua! Look around you, kiss your wife and kid, and thank Reagan!
And btw, fuck the Soviets as victims mantra that is currently so fashionable! Those fucks had all of Eastern Europe hostage behind a fucking wall, were working their ideological way North and South from Central America. WTF do you people think would have happened if the Sovs using the Sandistas as a proxy army had of gained control of the Panama Canal? JESUS!! The Reagan administration was the most effective foreign policy team in the history of the Cold War! Forget this sci fi garbage!
@lothartheterrible4:11 I don't think this scene was intended to represent "the calm before the storm". I think the scene is meant to convey that there is nowhere to hide from hydrogen bombs. He is basically strolling in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by farms and livestock, yet is still within range of the destructive power of a NUDET. THAT'S the TRULY eerie aspect of the scene, imo, and it seems to be a message the director of the movie wanted to convey from the opening scene.
I think if there was an all out nuclear war the guys on the subs, if they weren't hit through some kind of conventional means, would be the luckiest. They would be away from the radiation and have food and water enough to last for months.
@fixdeluxe1 Evidently something not as bad as what's wrong with you. Denial and shock are much more forgivable than unfounded pedantry. An ICBM is essentially a warhead mounted to a rocket; if your "facts" were true, then nobody would have ever seen any rocket; from the V2 to the Space Shuttle. But in your world, evidently rockets travel at the speed of light.
Piss off and come back when you've moved out of your parents' house.
The bit with the white horse, really strange, its as if the horse symbolizes peace and purity of mankind, it tries to run but in the end it is destroyed by mankinds technological advancement.
@moleman9000 What it brought to mind to me was this quote from Revelations: "And i beheld a pale horse, and the rider that sat upon it was death, and hell followed behind him."
@Sharoney I was never one to read the bible (only in times of crisis) but that quote does seem the most fitting. Correct me if I'm wrong but it does have something to do with the Four Horsemen doesn't it?
@moleman9000 That's right. Death is one of the Four Horseman, the only one so explicitly named. The others are thought to be War, Famine and Pestilence.
i own this movie on dvd. watch it from time to time. it scared the shit out of me in '83. folks this could still happen. each side has about 5000 nukes as of now and other countries that have nukes i dont now how many they have but this could happen at anytime.
@bobafettfan32 Actually we're close to it happening with the Zionists pushing at the Iranians to stop thier nuclear enrichment program or they will attack. The US is walking a thin line on this. We are Israels ally but we simply cannot afford to be involved in a three front war. Not manpower, not materiel and certainly not moneywise.
@wanshei No, we are not close to this happening with Iran. So many people do not understand the sheer amount of resources it requires to possess a nuclear arsenal. Just having fissile material is just where it starts; without missiles, guidance systems, enough material to arm hundreds of warheads, it would be akin to trying to win a drag race with little more than a teaspoon of gasoline. Besides, Iran would not launch an attack against the US; such a move would be suicide.
@seth817 When a nuclear missle detonates('specially high in the sky), it creates EMP(electromagnetic Pulse). EMP creates a power surge, which means that if your appliances are plugged into the outlet(even if they're off), they'll pretty much get fried. So if you disconnect it, there is a greater chance that they won't be. Also, if it does happen to get fried, at least parts of it will still be usuable, and not completely incinerated.
@seth817 A combination of EMP (high altitude burst) will overload all electrical circuits and giving people something to do to make them think they are protecting themselves. When the reality, while dramatized here, is pretty accurate. Nowadays we have city killers like in the Terminator movie so nothing short of being way underground (concussion wave) will save our sorry asses.
@gaguy1967 man i hope somebody wakes the hell up before its too late. This middle east thing could get pretty serious if the shooting starts. The Russians have promised to back the Iranians against the State of Israel (which is odd) because they made a deal with the Arabs Oslo Accord I & II to give them weapons if they keep the crazies out of Russia. There is no love lost between the Saudis and the Iranians.
ive been watching allot of interveiws of ex millitary, CIA and gov contractors that were fired for not going along with the new global order and they all said that this planet had several times had come close to nuclear war only for a UFO to appear and deactivate the silo doors from opening
white man thinks hes king for all the toys he posses but he is a little tyrant in the bigger scheme of things
06:57 I remember seeing those two missiles launched from point Magoo during a 'test' run. I dont personally know the details other than it was a test but i do remember seeing those suckers arcing across the sky and my heart fell out my asshole.
@wanshei Wow. I can imagine. Well, no; I cannot. Must've been terrifyingly cathartic. To be able to think to oneself, "So, that's what it's gonna look like...."
@earthforce2 that was at the height of the cold war and having sat through the cuban missle crisis watching everyone (the adults) on major pucker factor was enough for me. If we make it through the next ten years without a major nuclear 'limited' exchange it will be a miracle. We might just yet get to see MIRVs arcing across the sky.
@El135o Actually Russia had one, it was called Tsar Bomba and it was a 50 mT yield device. During the Reagan years. Now move forward to today and just a few years ago before the Georgia Chechnya Ossetia conflict Russia made a statement that they had a new super weapon, a super bomb. Tony Snow was Whitehouse press conference chief and when the reporters asked him if the US knew about it he quietly, sheepishly said "yes we know about it."
the most gut wrenching scene to me in te whole movie, is the farmer draggging his screaming wife from the making of the bed, forcing her into the reality of what is going on
what I hate about this movie is the obliviousness of the people. They see bombers flying out, news casters reporting that nukes had already been set off against either side, and the girl asks "theres not going to be a war is there?" Thats just being stupid
LoneSeraph2100 4 days ago
you cant get woman to do any thing when you need them to do some why do woman have be like that for
alienhddna 1 week ago
@alienhddna Can't tell if trolling, stupid, or not an English speaker...
lothartheterrible 1 week ago
The footage of the military actions in this sequence are from a documentary called "First Strike", also available on YouTube
ionia23 2 weeks ago
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olivialover75 2 weeks ago
@CeLticFire1251 Why don't you turn it off then? In part one, I gave instructions on how to do that.
lothartheterrible 3 weeks ago
@lothartheterrible My apologies I didn't see that. Thanks for telling me
CeLticFire1251 3 weeks ago
i'm going to watch the rest of this somewhere else because the commentary is just way too annoying and it ruins the movie
CeLticFire1251 3 weeks ago
Wake up White America! Here we have White people killing each other for culture destroying jeeew banker subhumans... Come and git me traitors, cowards and tax slaves... SCUMBAGS ALL!
mollymaemorrissey 3 weeks ago
@mollymaemorrissey Fail troll is fail.
lothartheterrible 3 weeks ago
movie doesn't scare me. Whose to say that there would be that many people left in the blast radius. Let alone any discernible rubble. Terminator even though it was sci-fi captured a much more life like horror of a war torn city. If you don't have the budget to make it look good enough don't make it....Its do for a remake anyhow they are all out of ideas.
VortexatGOZIE 3 weeks ago
The makers of this film were trying to make a social statement, not win an Oscar and since (this is only a guess, if I am wrong feel free to correct me) it appears that you are too young to understand the social climate in which this film was made then no, it won't scare you. The 1980s were a very different time. I'm guessing you are in your twenties, and are of the generation jaded by CGI.
lothartheterrible 3 weeks ago
Oh God
TheHerbSaint 3 weeks ago
There's not going to be a war is there?... 2:50 ...Nah...
kaptkarl 1 month ago
While the sky rockets were in flight, they were getting afternoon delight @ 0:36.
sinusbradycardia 2 months ago in playlist day after
Ok, I am getting sick of all the complaining. Everyone shut up and sit down and watch the fucking movie.
cpufightclub 2 months ago
no war!
DDayafter1983 2 months ago in playlist Autres vidéos de lothartheterrible
@EntomologyPurdue too many video games??? im sorry but the information i presented is factual and confirmed, if you don't believe me look it up for yourself.
Shibidibo 2 months ago
1. Three nuclear weapons detonated over Soviet troops.
2. Both sides, the US President and the Soviet Premier, negotiating a cease-fire.
3. Nuclear weapon detonated over NATO headquarters.
Shows just how impossible it would be for our leaders to stop a nuclear war once it has started.
Felamine 3 months ago
Still scares me to this day.
TheWCWite 4 months ago
THE SHTF.
songofthedamedtx 4 months ago
Talk about your 'oh shit' moments......
ramv36 5 months ago in playlist Nuclear Holocaust Theatre
At 4:48 you hear the announcement "Klaxon, Klaxon, Klaxon"... This is a mistake where the script said "Klaxon, Klaxon, Klaxon" and the message was to follow but a Klaxon is a sort of horn so it should of been a horn sounding 3 times to alert them and then the message should have started....I think the announcer simply read what was written.......
KarenSuzanneKing 5 months ago
@KarenSuzanneKing Good find. Yes, could be, but it could also be a way of verbally marking the beginning of an important message that follows. Lke saying "Over" at the end of a radio/cb message (but at the beginning). A few seconds later, they do have a three beep sound, so they DO know how to have appropriate sound effects.
PhillyPhoton 4 months ago
@KarenSuzanneKing Nope. That's actually what the alert procedure was (is?) The actual words "KLAXON KLAXON KLAXON".
snidelywhiplash 4 months ago
I heard that on one press report that all the missile officers were to stay until all missiles were fired then have to dig themselves out of the silo and proceed to the nearest meeting place. Is this true?
MrBennetzen 5 months ago
@Rockyfan10060 Those are Navy carrier personnel at 3:00, they have color coded shirts for flight operations. Missiles would only be launched at DEFCON 1, but the bombers would be going to their fail safe points at DEFCON 2...at 1, they procede to their targets.
SCE2AUX 5 months ago
It's very likely that if we were attacked, it would be at night when most of us were asleep. I doubt it would ever be a daytime attack unless it was an accident.
MasterJediDude 6 months ago
I pray to god to not see that many missles in the sky one day
SuperMe4lyfe 6 months ago
2:04 that should be running
urantiruslan 7 months ago
How would you like to be on the other end of the phone with the LT in the silo when the alarm goes off?
cbs3153 7 months ago
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ExtremePeppers 9 months ago
Do they still have bomber crews on standby like in this segment?
wvd1979 10 months ago
Yes, hundreds of people sit in their flying gear ready to fly in minutes all over the world. Airplanes on the ground are the easiest targest there are, flimsy aluminum things in groups out in the open. In the event of ominous events, they'd be sent aloft.
trustbutverify100 9 months ago
Using famous actors hurts the film for me. It lessens the impact. Having a star-studded cast reduces the catastrophic events to an obvious Hollywood production. Also I highly doubt that lady's hysterical reaction would be the norm. Most would just cover their mouths & pee like the woman in Threads. I heard that we would have 30 minutes before USSR's nuclear arsenal was launched, as it would take that long for them to reach us. That's the worst part for me.
lonelyheroine 10 months ago
In 1983, when this aired, it was hardly "star studded"; the only "star" was Jason Robards. Steve Guttenberg and John Lithgow were relative unknowns as were Amy Madigan and JoBeth Williams (who's only major credit at the time was "Poltergeist"), and John Cullum was more well known as a stage actor. The film's director, Nick Meyer, made it clear that he wanted as few "stars" as possible for the reason that you mentioned; it would make it look like a disaster flick and lessen the film's impact.
lothartheterrible 10 months ago 4
@lonelyheroine executive order PDD60 signed by Bush states that unless and UNTIL the United States absorbs an nuclear attack they wouldn't launch back. So basically our government made it so they would have time to get underground while the citizens would be left with the fallout from it. nice hey.
itstime4change13 10 months ago
@itstime4change13 PDD60 was signed by Clinton, not Bush. NSPD 14, which was signed by Bush, allows for first strike against "[a]n adversary using or intending to use WMD against US, multinational,
or alliance forces or civilian populations" or "Imminent attack from adversary biological weapons that only effects from nuclear weapons can safely destroy…"
DefconWarningSystem 7 months ago
@lonelyheroine
There are documented cased of people acting just like the hysterical wife when faced with terrible news (such as finding out a loved one has been killed). Everyone acts a bit differently.
fallout1111 9 months ago
@lonelyheroine so than stop watching it, troll. and dont worry it doesnt take 30 minutes anymore, russians have missles that can reach us in just under 20 minutes now, so plenty of time for you to cover your mouth and piss your pants still. also russian warheads now are pretty much impervious to our missle defence system, while our outdated minuteman III missles still take about 25-30min to reach there targets. also SLBM's can hit contental Midwest soil in just under 6 minutes.
Shibidibo 3 months ago
Men are so confrontational...
Huh, maybe that's why confrontation "by any means neccessary" is inevitable.
Gee...I'm just a dumb woman...guess I wouldn't know...
I just wish women could have a bunker to hide out in while the douchebags fight it out...
lol
kittkatt1975 10 months ago
@kittkatt1975 Any man who's ever seen two women fight over something as mundane as the last pair of boots or their child's admission into a select school *knows* that this is a bunch of bull. *Humans* are confrontational; *both* genders.
lothartheterrible 10 months ago 24
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ExtremePeppers 9 months ago
@kittkatt1975 Sounds like you got some repressed anger issues with men.
Cheer up. this film is depressing enough as it is.
MikeofWyoming 9 months ago
@kittkatt1975
I've seen stupid (all educated and all) sluts fighting with each other over my dick - women are just plain stupid sluts (ohh and you'd do the same you know)
kerimil 7 months ago
@kittkatt1975 Thanks for giving us a bad name. Sincerely, Women.
electrogeek77 5 months ago
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Well done America your first strike tactic has fucked us all hope your happy... but no you didnt want the Soviets to have West Germany so you fired them -.-
killerofdoom2435 11 months ago
The "American people" are not doing jack shit to you, therefore we owe you the same: jack shit. For you to believe that the people who lead your country are not just as hypocritical and corrupt as the ones who lead mine, then you are every bit as shortsighted and stupid as your profile makes you appear to be. Therefore, I hereby cordially invite you to kiss my American ass.
lothartheterrible 11 months ago 20
@lothartheterrible
last time I checked muslim imigrants and blacks were fucking your women while their husband were in IRAQ... so stop talking you're just a bunch of fags to everyone in this world
kerimil 7 months ago
@kerimil Nope, gonna keep right on talking. Ya got that, Kermit (do you mind if I call you "Kermit"?) You really should be honest with yourself about your sexuality; you will be able to sleep better at night. Oh yeah, I almost forgot; go fuck yourself.
lothartheterrible 7 months ago
This movie scarred me for life. NOT appropriate for a 13 year old (at the time). Makes it almost cartoonish that they wouldn't let us watch Freddy and such but this was on broadcast tv.
silikon2 11 months ago
Would the Defcon level theoretically be at 1 at this time since the B-52s were put in the air and the missiles were getting prepped and all the alarms sounding? This doesn't seem like Defcon 2 stuff but full blown "this is happening right now, get ready."
Rockyfan10060 11 months ago
@Rockyfan10060 Yes, it would be at Defcon 1. The reason is that the country would be under nuclear attack.
MrBennetzen 11 months ago
I couldnt help but be moved by that lady's reaction after he tkes his wife out of the room... like wow... i don't want to die.... its messed up... you think about the Holucost, and the million man army in China... n stuff... it makes you wonder - are we really well defended against an attack like that... Obama needs to stop being everyones friend n realize that there are those folks who just want to kill us - no matter how nice we try to be toward them...
rnmultimedia 11 months ago
i could have sworn that the dude got into a gray truck, and now hees gettin out of a red one?
makav3lirise 1 year ago
@makav3lirise You know, it is possible to hitch a ride with more than one driver...
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@makav3lirise He did get into a gray truck back on the KU campus. You can hear the driver say he could give him a ride to Missouri. So, it assumed when he arrives at this location he had hitched another ride. The filming of Steve Guttenburg being dropped off was at Missouri Hwy 7 and County Rd EE.......which is just northeast of Harrisonville, MO.
MissileD11 10 months ago
And behold a pale horse, and upon him rode death...
That scene of the horse spooked by the launch.
...but Steve Guttenberg?
liveecarbme 1 year ago
@liveecarbme Sigh...yes, actors do play other roles in their lives. Steve's first few roles were actually in very dramatic movies. The first one (I think) was a disaster movie called Rollercoaster.
RedbeardNC 11 months ago
@RedbeardNC That was his first feature film role (though it was uncredited). He was brilliant in "Diner", which was a much more straightforward comedy. He was also good in "The Bedroom Window", which was a decidedly dramatic role. Unfortunately by the time it came out (1987), it was impossible to see him without thinking: "Quick; Mahoney's in trouble!!"
lothartheterrible 11 months ago
here they are firing missiles and that one lady at the end of this part is worry about making the bed all neat?! O,-,o XD
DragonDrazil 1 year ago
It's called "denial"; the overwhelming fear and crushing realization that the world as you know it and everything in it are about to come to a catastrophic end. This is a concept that today's generation, with its arrogant sense of self-importance and entitlement, just does not grasp.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago 7
@DragonDrazil It was the end of their world. She could not face reality.
axel4196 11 months ago
At 3:00 why are they all wearing Red sweat shirts and Blue Jeans? Does anybody know? Was that like a plain division Air Force costume for those guys or what? Please help?
Rockyfan10060 1 year ago
Note to self if someone in your shelter is acting odd. Tie them to a chair for their own safety and yours.
poodtang1 1 year ago
Let me get this straight: NATO are fighting Russia on European soil, heavy casualties on both sides and the little girl says "Is there going to be a war?" WTF!!!
shahideurope 1 year ago
A nation refuses a national healthcare system, but spends billions burying nuclear missiles all over its territory.
leftatalbuquerque 1 year ago
Those Soviet troopers were the lucky ones. Vaporized instantly, and never having to witness the aftermath.
Bluehawk2008 1 year ago
This movie was overly optimistic.
mjh012363 1 year ago
@mjh012363 At the end of part XV, the filmmakers acknowledge this, noting that the events depicted were likely "less severe than the destruction that would actually occur in the event of a full nuclear strike against the United States".
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible I know I saw it when it premiered on TV. An excellent movie to see about the effacts of a full scale nuke war was the 1959 b/w "By the Beach". Back then the Soviets were only able to destroy a few of our citites as they didn't have many missiles or bombers to reach US but we were able to annihilate them. However the radioactive cloud produced over the Soviet Union eventually spread over the entire earth killing all life. By 1983 the Soviets were able to annihilate US as well.
mjh012363 1 year ago
@mjh012363 Actually it was "On the Beach". My bad.
mjh012363 1 year ago
@mjh012363 Wait...you say "The Day After" is overly simplistic, but you deem "On The Beach" an example of verisimilitude? While it was a good book and movie, the scenario of lethal radiation clouds spreading worldwide and killing everything is...well, horseshit. The truly nasty stuff loses its lethality too quickly for that to happen.
A full-on nuclear war would be utterly catastrophic for humanity, no doubt, but "On The Beach" is scientifically nonsense.
snidelywhiplash 10 months ago
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@snidelywhiplash "...you say "The Day After" is overly simplistic,"
Um..no. I said the "Day After" was overly OPTIMISTIC.
"... lethal radiation clouds spreading worldwide and killing everything is...well, horseshit."
This just shows that you have no idea what nuclear weapons are capable of. An SS-18 missle carrys 10 1 megaton weapons. Each. The USSR had 300 of them. We had about 300 B-52;s each with over 100 megatons of weapons. Each. This was just a fraction to boot. Do the math!
mjh012363 10 months ago
Wow, North Korea was nothing ompared with this. The emrgency alert system didn't even go off once for that shit...
Rockyfan10060 1 year ago
I can't watch 7:15 to 8:15 without crying for some reason.
TheJomogogo 1 year ago
OMGOSH!!! That was scary as heck.
native4life4eva 1 year ago
aint gotta worry bout this sorta thing no more, not unless the yanks piss off the russians again or visa versa
Guitarist36 1 year ago
@riceboy1701e desrved to die? They didnt wake up that day knowing that the missiles were going to be launched. Just like the people in the twin towers on 9/11---did they know when they woke up that day that two planes were to be hijacked and flown into their office building?
DASCO2136 1 year ago
1:35----that is one news report i pray to god i never hear in my lifetime
DASCO2136 1 year ago
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@riceboy1701e Thats terrible! Why would you even post anything like that.
coasterdad1971 1 year ago
@riceboy1701e At this point I can't help but hope the Gods of Karma will read this comment and ensure that your end is painful, degrading, and embarrassing. Like, say, being tarred and feathered on the town square and then having a hot poker jammed up your ass by a midget. "Deserved to die..."; seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?
lothartheterrible 1 year ago 5
@lothartheterrible ABC after the film first aired did a special to calm the fears of the people IS This True?
MrBennetzen 1 year ago
@MrBennetzen It aired immediately after the film, not before. It was a heated debate between scientist Carl Sagan, Henry Kissinger, Elie Wiesel, Robert McNamara, General Brent Scowcroft and William F. Buckley, Jr. mediated by Ted Koppel. There was, however, an 800 hotline set up before the movie that was intended to calm peoples' nerves.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible Wow!
native4life4eva 1 year ago
@MrBennetzen I don't recall, but I saw it with a bunch of friends in New York City, and we were disturbed.
gab21113 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible Yes, thank you.
native4life4eva 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible A painful death for saying that some fictional characters "deserved to die"? A bit harsh, no?
oideroid 1 year ago
@oideroid And saying children "deserved to die" simply because their parents were oblivious to the seriousness of this situation was *not* harsh?
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible Fictional children.
No it's not really all that harsh, because fictional people aren't real.
If this were a documentary about a family that actually died in Hiroshima, or some other disaster, then it might be different.
oideroid 1 year ago
@oideroid Well, people who are assholes on the internet are generally assholes in real life. Principle is principle whether it is against fictional characters or not.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
With all the panic that the citizens had before the missiles even launched they didn't hardly do anything when the actual missiles went off. You'd think that's when they'd really freak out. Anybody agree, disagree?
Rockyfan10060 1 year ago
@Rockyfan10060 You'd have to think there would be a certain level of disbelief.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible ABSOLUTELY im sure no one is thinking "Yup this is it alright." No Sir they were thinking "this cant possibly be happening" Well its going to, Obama is in the peace negotiations right now. He will be THE ONE (as Oprah Winfrey says) to bring a middle east peace deal. When they come out holding hands saying "peace, peace" then all hell will break loose.
I'll be holding my breath for the next year
wanshei 1 year ago
@Rockyfan10060 I want to agree with you but the anticipation of death is worse than death itself and at THAT moment im thinking most people were where they could be. They either got to thier place of last moment or not and knew the shit was over. If they were freaking out it was more of a personal moment at that point. I mean what could possibly be left? You gonna rob someone, rape someone, steal something? No its aaaallllll over at that moment. You aint gonna do nothing but wimper
wanshei 1 year ago
@Rockyfan10060 to be honest id think they would be in a state of shock, that sorta thing dont happen everyday ya know
Guitarist36 1 year ago
@Guitarist36 That is so true!
holmsatlarge 1 year ago
note the pale horse at 4:53
"I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hell was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
— revelation 6:7-8˄ NIV
hpmc9 1 year ago
@hpmc9 Good quote my friend for we are at that very hour this day and time.
wanshei 1 year ago
The Soviet Premier and the US President should have told the soldiers and the armies to just stop dead in their tracks. Just both sides stop. Then the leaders could have their peace talk without the bombs exploding. That's what they should have done or tried if it was at all possible. Anyone agree or disagree?
Rockyfan10060 1 year ago
@Rockyfan10060 Would be a viable option. Not sure if that is possible in real life
DASCO2136 1 year ago
@DASCO2136 Not viable. Both would want the other to stop first. Both would refuse. The end result would be the same.
loystloystloyst 1 year ago
Guttenberg!!!
randy25rhoads 1 year ago
Why is the little kid pumping water from a hand held pump???? Dont they have a sink in their house???
gaguy1967 1 year ago
@gaguy1967 How is the kid supposed to get a 50-gallon milk jug into the sink?
CommentorX 1 year ago
@gaguy1967 You know, if the balloon ever DID go up, a well w/ hand pump would be the best thing you could have for drinking water, as underground supplies would be unlikely to be contaminated like surface water would, and a hand pump wouldn't require electricity.
The kid was probably filling the milk cans from the pump because it's faster than the faucet. Besides, how do you get a great big milk can in a sink?
snidelywhiplash 10 months ago
About 10 years ago, I was at the airport in my city and there were some Canadian and Swedish fighters parked there. Out of nowhere I here a bell go off and guys running towards the planes, and then in the distance I hear that very real, and very scary nuclear siren, or air raid siren, not sure which, they both are scary when you hear them. Anyways all the fighters get airboure and fly off. That was a moment in life that I truly said to my parents "Oh shit, what is going on? and I love you guys"
mirlin235 1 year ago
I find it interesting to a sense with what the newscasters on TV say---one minute they tell of nuclear bombs being airbursted, then saying they're working together on a cease fire.
DASCO2136 1 year ago
when the nukes go flyin, everybody has that "oh s**t" look on their faces
konman001 1 year ago
Here's one thing i dont get. Why didnt the Henley family decide to get the hell out of dodge when they heard about all of this conflict going on i.e russians invading West Germany and the nuclear bombs being airbursted instead of deciding on staying put and getting it on in bed and having the kids listen to nuclear bombs being detonated? I mean, they're sitting within 50-100 yards of a nuclear missile silo for christ's sake
DASCO2136 1 year ago
@DASCO2136 One of several things I learned in NYC on 9/11 is that folks freeze up during emergencies and wait for an all clear, often coming too late. On 9/11 misinformation about transportation kept folks in skyscrapers afraid to literally move. I chose to walk to my nearest and dearest for sanity and comfort.
PoliticalPars 1 year ago
@DASCO2136 One of several things I learned in NYC on 9/11 is that folks freeze up during emergencies and wait for an all clear, often coming too late. On 9/11 misinformation about transportation kept folks in skyscrapers afraid to literally move. I chose to walk to my nearest and dearest for sanity and comfort rather than stay put.
PoliticalPars 1 year ago
everything is airborn when nukes start to explode
260830107 1 year ago
Poor woman at 7:55 scared shiteless
aubergine2c 1 year ago
@geoffck6969 I seen this movie as a 10 year old kid.I thought this film portrayed the horror of nuclear war not anti-Reagan.But what I do find assuming is that no other president is given any credit for standing their ground against the USSR.Remember in 62 we were on the brink of Nuclear War and president Kennedy wasn't backing down from the USSR.The collapse of the USSR is a little more complex in IMHO than Reagan the arms race & cold war started long before he stepped foot in the oval office.
sinusbradycardia 1 year ago
@sinusbradycardia Much, MUCH more complex. It had more to do with internal strife within the Soviet Union than it did the intervention of either Reagan or Bush.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible Yeah but (as much as i didnt like Reagan) his introduction of starwars/SDI was the straw that broke the camel's back re: the USSR. Thier response to SDI was to simply overwhelm the system with numbers so they spent themselves dry in the process. Which bankrupt the Soviet Union into submission. It was a clever game of brinkmanship.
wanshei 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible ...do some more research i advise you youre answer is wrong
MAGICSINGEMITS 1 year ago
@MAGICSINGEMITS And I would advise you that "you're" grammar sucks.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
Better pray to God it never really happens...
antidiz 1 year ago
@antidiz Trust me i do cause a whole lot of people are going to die if the shooting starts. When i say alot i am talking about death on a global scale. Either outright from the nukes or the aftermath of nuclear winter and no drinkable water, no medical help, no food, nothing. We're talking about possibly 2/3rds of the entire global population.
wanshei 1 year ago
4:04 and 4:44 Is exactly the eeriest proverbial calm before the storms ever since I saw this when it first cam out. I'm glad you put that in Annotation in the clip. that scene gives me the chills and makes me sad, because I know what's gonna happen. Makes me appreciate life.
4SCARECROWS 1 year ago
@geoffck6969 It wasn't derogatory, it was just an expression. Besides, I can "meh" you all I want and there's very little you can do about it. I was going to make a comment about you assuming I was a conservative simply because I live in Texas and about your laughable stance on the Reagan administration's handling of the Cold War, but then I looked at your profile and saw that you're Canadian, which makes your opinion null and void. By the way; it is "Sandinista", not "Sandista". Hoser.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago 5
@lothartheterrible Again with the American superiority complex. Dismiss others because they are not you, or do not share your geopolitcal borders (which are invisible from space, by the way). How typical - and immature. You were raised better than that. Now go buy some healthcare.
leftatalbuquerque 1 year ago
@leftatalbuquerque It's not "American superiority". I'm just smarter than you.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible
I'm Canadian and i liked Reagan and how he handled the cold war. Also agreed with how Bush sr. handled the end of the cold war.
poodtang1 1 year ago
There were two distinct periods in the Reagan Administration's Cold War policy; the one *before* Reagan saw this film, and the one *after*. Having the horrors of nuclear war dumped in his lap helped push Reagan from being a hardliner referring to the USSR as an "evil empire" to being much more open and receptive to Gorbachev's new policies. As far as the "Canadian" remark, I was being a facetious ass; my real problem was that the fellow was only 25 years old and didn't live through the cold war.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible no wonder americans are hated because of asshole like you
jonbobbie 1 year ago
@jonbobbie "Assholes", it should be "assholes"; plural. Idiot.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@geoffck6969 to run roughshod over Central and South America, the apocalypse described in this film would have, in reality, been about 100 times worse. When communist guerrila armies are preparing to cross the Rio Grande, all the New York and Hollywood Meyers propaganda in the world won't save your sorry ass! And that's where American democracy would have been if President Reagan didn't stand up to these FUCKERS in Nicaragua! Look around you, kiss your wife and kid, and thank Reagan!
geoffck6969 1 year ago
And btw, fuck the Soviets as victims mantra that is currently so fashionable! Those fucks had all of Eastern Europe hostage behind a fucking wall, were working their ideological way North and South from Central America. WTF do you people think would have happened if the Sovs using the Sandistas as a proxy army had of gained control of the Panama Canal? JESUS!! The Reagan administration was the most effective foreign policy team in the history of the Cold War! Forget this sci fi garbage!
geoffck6969 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible 4:11 I don't think this scene was intended to represent "the calm before the storm". I think the scene is meant to convey that there is nowhere to hide from hydrogen bombs. He is basically strolling in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by farms and livestock, yet is still within range of the destructive power of a NUDET. THAT'S the TRULY eerie aspect of the scene, imo, and it seems to be a message the director of the movie wanted to convey from the opening scene.
geoffck6969 1 year ago
@geoffck6969 Meh, all a matter of interpretation. Any way you look at it, it's creepy as hell.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
I love the end of this. She's literally being dragged out of her world and into the nightmare they're all about to face.
olivemike81 1 year ago
I think if there was an all out nuclear war the guys on the subs, if they weren't hit through some kind of conventional means, would be the luckiest. They would be away from the radiation and have food and water enough to last for months.
olivemike81 1 year ago
how sad it is to watch a young child watching his life end...
cmoursler3 1 year ago
Too bad these people weren't living over in Jericho...THAT town made out pretty well through a nuclear apocalypse!
baraxor 1 year ago
@riceboy1701e but what about the biscuits?
USAsoldier1955 1 year ago
I know I'm ignorant but is that how they really throttle up a B-52? I figured they'd push them all up at once...
bwd81977 1 year ago
@bwd81977 Considering those are actual trained USAF B-52 pilots participating in a dramatization, I'm sure that is the way they actually do it.
TideatMileHigh 1 year ago
@TideatMileHigh Yeah, since I've never been in a B-52 when they take off, I'd have no idea.
bwd81977 1 year ago
What the fuck is wrong with that Woman screaming at common sense to get down below?
And people wouldn't be able to see ICBM's like that,just clouds of concentrated vapor and bright lights.
fixdeluxe1 1 year ago
@fixdeluxe1 Evidently something not as bad as what's wrong with you. Denial and shock are much more forgivable than unfounded pedantry. An ICBM is essentially a warhead mounted to a rocket; if your "facts" were true, then nobody would have ever seen any rocket; from the V2 to the Space Shuttle. But in your world, evidently rockets travel at the speed of light.
Piss off and come back when you've moved out of your parents' house.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago 4
4:41 -- talking to his chick!
El135o 1 year ago
@riceboy1701e
You're HILARIOUS! Really, I got a good chuckle from your comment. Hoo hoo hoo!
El135o 1 year ago
The bit with the white horse, really strange, its as if the horse symbolizes peace and purity of mankind, it tries to run but in the end it is destroyed by mankinds technological advancement.
moleman9000 1 year ago
@moleman9000 What it brought to mind to me was this quote from Revelations: "And i beheld a pale horse, and the rider that sat upon it was death, and hell followed behind him."
Sharoney 1 year ago
@Sharoney I was never one to read the bible (only in times of crisis) but that quote does seem the most fitting. Correct me if I'm wrong but it does have something to do with the Four Horsemen doesn't it?
moleman9000 1 year ago
@moleman9000 That's right. Death is one of the Four Horseman, the only one so explicitly named. The others are thought to be War, Famine and Pestilence.
Sharoney 1 year ago
i own this movie on dvd. watch it from time to time. it scared the shit out of me in '83. folks this could still happen. each side has about 5000 nukes as of now and other countries that have nukes i dont now how many they have but this could happen at anytime.
bobafettfan32 1 year ago
@bobafettfan32 Actually we're close to it happening with the Zionists pushing at the Iranians to stop thier nuclear enrichment program or they will attack. The US is walking a thin line on this. We are Israels ally but we simply cannot afford to be involved in a three front war. Not manpower, not materiel and certainly not moneywise.
wanshei 1 year ago
@wanshei No, we are not close to this happening with Iran. So many people do not understand the sheer amount of resources it requires to possess a nuclear arsenal. Just having fissile material is just where it starts; without missiles, guidance systems, enough material to arm hundreds of warheads, it would be akin to trying to win a drag race with little more than a teaspoon of gasoline. Besides, Iran would not launch an attack against the US; such a move would be suicide.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
Why were they supposed to unplug their radios and T.V's, like the girl said?
seth817 1 year ago
@seth817 When a nuclear missle detonates('specially high in the sky), it creates EMP(electromagnetic Pulse). EMP creates a power surge, which means that if your appliances are plugged into the outlet(even if they're off), they'll pretty much get fried. So if you disconnect it, there is a greater chance that they won't be. Also, if it does happen to get fried, at least parts of it will still be usuable, and not completely incinerated.
Hope that helps.
clarko95 1 year ago
@clarko95 Yes that makes sense thanks.
seth817 1 year ago
@seth817 A combination of EMP (high altitude burst) will overload all electrical circuits and giving people something to do to make them think they are protecting themselves. When the reality, while dramatized here, is pretty accurate. Nowadays we have city killers like in the Terminator movie so nothing short of being way underground (concussion wave) will save our sorry asses.
wanshei 1 year ago
@wanshei This actually happened in 1962 in Hawaii and NZ when the US exploded a nuclear bomb 300 miles out in space. It fried electrical circuits
gaguy1967 1 year ago
@gaguy1967 man i hope somebody wakes the hell up before its too late. This middle east thing could get pretty serious if the shooting starts. The Russians have promised to back the Iranians against the State of Israel (which is odd) because they made a deal with the Arabs Oslo Accord I & II to give them weapons if they keep the crazies out of Russia. There is no love lost between the Saudis and the Iranians.
wanshei 1 year ago
@gaguy1967 Go to the Wikipedia "Starfish Prime" article. There are three photos on the page, the second and third of which gave me goosebumps.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
Small continuity error IMO: in late September, the crops in the fields Ithat Steve Guttenberg is walking past) would most likely be brown and dry.
Also, if the EBS warning tone is going off, do you really keep on going upstairs for a piece of ass?
snidelywhiplash 1 year ago
and to think his came real close to happening more than once...
ZosoMetalWizard 1 year ago
Tactical nukes just escalate the conflict. They shouldn't be used.
shayaan2354 1 year ago
ive been watching allot of interveiws of ex millitary, CIA and gov contractors that were fired for not going along with the new global order and they all said that this planet had several times had come close to nuclear war only for a UFO to appear and deactivate the silo doors from opening
white man thinks hes king for all the toys he posses but he is a little tyrant in the bigger scheme of things
godscuttingyoudown 1 year ago
06:57 I remember seeing those two missiles launched from point Magoo during a 'test' run. I dont personally know the details other than it was a test but i do remember seeing those suckers arcing across the sky and my heart fell out my asshole.
wanshei 1 year ago 4
@wanshei Wow. I can imagine. Well, no; I cannot. Must've been terrifyingly cathartic. To be able to think to oneself, "So, that's what it's gonna look like...."
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@wanshei
That would be incredibly cool yet terriftying in its own way - something to tell your grandkids. I wish I could have seen it.
earthforce2 1 year ago
@earthforce2 that was at the height of the cold war and having sat through the cuban missle crisis watching everyone (the adults) on major pucker factor was enough for me. If we make it through the next ten years without a major nuclear 'limited' exchange it will be a miracle. We might just yet get to see MIRVs arcing across the sky.
wanshei 1 year ago
our B-52s will carry one 50 megaton nuke bomb each plane flying out of USAF SAC bases. just how many B-52s do we have? quite several!
BatNuklier 1 year ago
@BatNuklier
Jeez, folks, there are NO 50 mT nukes in existence. They're huge and unwieldy. The US had a 9 mT weapon at one time; now retired.
El135o 1 year ago
@El135o Actually Russia had one, it was called Tsar Bomba and it was a 50 mT yield device. During the Reagan years. Now move forward to today and just a few years ago before the Georgia Chechnya Ossetia conflict Russia made a statement that they had a new super weapon, a super bomb. Tony Snow was Whitehouse press conference chief and when the reporters asked him if the US knew about it he quietly, sheepishly said "yes we know about it."
wanshei 1 year ago
@wanshei Tsar Bomba was in 1961.
gaguy1967 1 year ago
the most gut wrenching scene to me in te whole movie, is the farmer draggging his screaming wife from the making of the bed, forcing her into the reality of what is going on
hpmc9 1 year ago
Notice the white horse at 4:35 or so. Nice symbolism.
sandstonio 1 year ago
@sandstonio Care to elaborate on the symbolism? Only symbol I know a white horse to be is for heroin, which I can't imagine you were thinking of. : )
snidelywhiplash 1 year ago