do you guys realize how lucky we are? there were several occasions where the US and USSR were seconds away from obliterating millions of people. governments, dont trust em.
@ Lamainspitefire: Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Colorado and Washington State would all have been targeted by the Soviets, if you read the cold war sources. Why? cause most of the US's ICBM fields were,and still are located in those states. look up "minuteman II" on wikipedia. So yeah, Kansas City/Lawrence, and probably St. Louis would likely have been turned to dust in the event of a nuclear exchange. The soviets wanted to try to take out our nukes, just as we would've tried to take out theirs.
@Lamainaspitefire Besides targeting the US missiles, KC represents a major target because it is the northern transportation hub for railways, interstate highways, the (then) ATT civillan and military telephone lines, it is a manufacturing center for military equipment and weapons, etc, etc. Besides, the Russkies wanted to knock out our best barbeque!
@timbum1000 When A Nuclear Weapon is Activated they emit Electromagnetic Pulses that Stop all electric activity in its path. Like when the US Government tried out Nuclear Weapons in Nevada during the 60s i think. People all the way in Hawaii lost their Electricity.
@timbum1000 The emp shock wave effect. Most likely the by product of a blast in the upper atmosphere. Either caused by a missle defense kill vehicle or a purposeful blast in the upper atmosphere.
@poodtang1 Well, Threads, the UK's version of The Day After, showed the post-nuclear world 20 years into the future and its effect on two British families. I highly recommend this film, but it will scare the crap out of you.
I've seen that show several times. And upon reflection found it to be overly negative. In the sense that 20 years after i think the human race would have gotten over the shell shock and started to rebuild.
Especially the part where the kids are in the school watching some stupid show on animals.
I'm sure teachers or someone would have gone back to basics scrounged up enpugh material and set up some sort of education program.
@DJBell1986 Not exactly. I mean you would have mass panic in the streets. Plus after the emp attack people would go crazy. its been proven without light we tend to go insane and turn against each other. Read lord of the flies and youll see how it could happen.
@nojyt at the most the missle shield might save norad,washinton d.c. and new york. Is is meant to save some key areas of civillian population.the missile defense shield would be overwhelmed and at least 10 u.s. cities would be gone.
@seb2455 It is no where near good enough. It wont stop armagedon. Bt our missle shield might save new york,norad, washinton d.c. maybe even the entire eastern seaboard if lucky.
Physics anyone? How does one explain to a layperson the X-ray effect that comes out of the blast that converts everything you are into photons? It's like explaining warp drive to my cat...
Poltergeist, Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, Cujo, Hellraiser, Pet Semetary, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Evil Dead, The Shinning;
yet this film scared me more than anything else released in the 1980's
@DowellForPASenate Yeah, right? Considering the fact that the theater was packed in the middle of the day, they must have been watching a matinee of The Phantom Menace during its opening weekend. Man, their day was ruined twice!
My honest opinion, "Threads" made by the BBC in 1984 has a better nuke scene, it's more shocking, and certainly more realistic for the special effects of the time. And don't forget "Threads" was made on a shoe string budget compared to a Hollywood movie.
man, after seem those special effects on screen at the movies i would ask to speak to the manager and them procede to punching his or her lights out. how the fuck could you play such a shitty movie with the worst fucking special effects i have ever fucking seem in my life. i could do a better mushroom cloud out of my ass after eating chili and drinking a fucking diet pepsi. did they outsource the special effects to india for this movie during the 80's.
@Inviciblehorse Not really. Threads (UK) is more realistic. The US version (aka the day after) is a bit more candy canes and disneyfied in comparison.
I'm italian. I think we need a remake of this wonderful and terrible movie using the modern 3D's technologies. So, all the young people of the world think about it and then they'll cry "peace, peace, peace..... into the ears of our governments before it's too late. Bye.
the BBC version was so much more disturbing,its the one that got Ronald Reagan to re-look at his nuclear policies and changed a lot of thigs.Much better than this version,basically the americans did there usual re-hash.
If there ever is a nuclear war, I hope I'm at ground zero and get incinerated into dust immediately and not die of radiation poisoning over a period of weeks or months.
every thing about a nuclear war would be pointless. What would ever make countries literally destroy the planet? seems so pointless and sad to thing it could seriously happen.
many of the cars back then and especially the motorcycle would continue to run since they didn't have any solid state electronics. Scary as crap no matter what, but they need to think about remaking this, modernizing it to include a North Korean conflict or Al Qaeda contingency.
@Nowhereman10 I see what your getting at but even the amount is slightly unrealistic, such as it seems 3-4 nuclear missiles where used at attack Kansas, while just 1 would level the city, and any nearby nuclear missile silos. I just think that the movie company who made this wanted to emphasis the dangers of nukes by including so many of them for just 1 place, and thats what took away the realism
The first thing is that the EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) would blow out anything electronic. What that means is: A, you can turn the key and pump the pedals 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 (HA! -- Fat chance!). No, the only thing that would still work in this case would be those old vacuum-tube radio devices (when was the last time you ever saw one of those?).
@HelmsCeeko You obviously didn't watch the whole movie, or pay attention to the Minutemen missiles leaving their silos. That's why during the Cold War Kansas City would have been nukes, and much more than what is shown in this movie, which had to make some artistic license by reducing the attack so that there would be a story.
@HelmsCeeko Most of the Missile Silos in the US are located in the midwest near Kansas City, Lawrence and St. Louis. If nuclear war were to happen, then the missile silos would be the actual targets, not the city itself.
@titanicfinatic for US strategists, in 60's and 70's cities where targets for nukes.. a result of destroying a city was to create ruble on the path of potential soviet force movment from east to west, all the cities on the river lines in poland, east germany, and czechoslovakia where tergeted, only 25 nukes where targeted for Vistula river line cities (and there are only 3 major cities on this line, so the rest was targeted even for small towns)...
@titanicfinatic these where only tactical small nukes, like i said before to block the pathways for the soviet troops
and in return the soviets planed a counter-nuke strike for west europe cities, to lock nato reinforcements. ofc then instead of tactical nukes, the next wave would consist of strategical devices targeted to destroy the whole populations...
@HelmsCeeko Kansass City is a major transportation hub for both air and rail. Several major interstate highways meet in KC. And a leading maker of ammunition has their only production facility there.....just to name a few reasons. The types of cities you would nuke if you were killing your enemy nation would not always be the same cities filled with the freshest cutting edge in culture and parties.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but they don’t know that you probably wouldn’t.
Hacker: They probably do.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, they probably know that you probably wouldn’t. But they can’t certainly know.
Hacker: They probably certainly know that I probably wouldn’t.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but even though they probably certainly know that you probably wouldn’t, they don’t certainly know that, although you probably wouldn’t, there is no probability that you certainly would!
It always amazes me when you see the real footage of the train cars flipping, the house exploding that they used to tell us to just get under our desks. Yup. That would've worked....I grew up thinking this was going to be a "when" not an "if"
I don't know if you were joking, but the United States has just over 5,100 nuclear warheads. The highest it ever got was in 1967, when we had 32,225 warheads.
Not to be crude or anything, but I think that 3:46 would be the perfect spot to put the WTF-Bomb sound effect! Don't be mad because I try to find the funny in videos!
@SilverGalford High altitude nuclear explosions cause an EMP. That's also the explanation for the first explosion that happened high above the city, before the real bombing.
@whatsagoodusername23 no silly,listen to the qoute again in the movie. Over 300 inbound soviet ICBM missiles all directed at US cities,not 300 aimed at KC.
@BoredomCorner It really isn't. I find it hard to feel emotionally engaged when giggling at the stupidity and cheesiness. 4.26 particularly. Silly silly.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki's atomic bomb droppings were just a minscule of what the American and Russian ICBM's had delivery power wise! The Soviet ICBM from what I recall there were about 100 much larger atom bomb sizes than what the US dropped in World War 2. The American ICBM's were maybe three atom bomb sized ICBM's. I remember seeing a picture in Time Magazine many years ago showing the tiny miniscule atom bomb explosion compared to a very much larger ten time more powerful explosion!
Thats a really intense scene. The only thing is, if a real nuclear war happened Kansas City would not be the first to go. It would be like the 50th lol.
But seriously, if anyone wants a nuclear war, they should watch this first.
@WolfytheWolf5667 the ICBM's the Soviets had would have put hiroshima and Nagasaki's atom bombs to shame. I remember seeing Time magazine years ago showing a little blip explosion for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then they showed the Soviets and American ICBM"s. No comparison as to back the,10 very much larger explosive blips in a Soviet ICBM and three very large blips in a US ICBM. The whole planet would have probably been destroyed had there ever been a Nuclear war! End of mankind guaranteed!
Hollywood Propaganda..
Cocoshani 4 days ago
Its interesting seeing the USA being so scared of nukes, yet still the only country that actually USED IT in combat.
Tubepoacher 6 days ago
I rather go in the blast. The months after a nuclear attack would be hell. A horrible slow death.
theundercoveratheist 1 week ago
I live too close to Atlanta, I do think my husband and I wont feel a thing if the bombs dropped.
dixiewife47 2 weeks ago
pause at 5:42 the condition of enviroment is Good WTF?
kickneas 2 weeks ago
WEW i think i just watched a movie!!
kickneas 2 weeks ago
@OnyxRainBeautyIsPain GOOD
kickneas 2 weeks ago
Holy shit.....................................
Kylemccormick1 3 weeks ago
This one doesn't affect me as much as the scene from Threads.
Tzelemel 1 month ago
do you guys realize how lucky we are? there were several occasions where the US and USSR were seconds away from obliterating millions of people. governments, dont trust em.
Anarki23x 1 month ago
A terrifying movie. Better to be obliterated by the initial strike, than live through the horrors of the aftermath.
Sealy57 1 month ago
No little girl, its probably better to stand outside, so that way you can get vaporized instantly.
bariguy87 1 month ago
@bariguy87 well hell, being in that shelter would not mean a rat's ass in a real attack.
randomhajile11 3 weeks ago
Via con Dios
MrDustybreeze 1 month ago
@ Lamainspitefire: Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Colorado and Washington State would all have been targeted by the Soviets, if you read the cold war sources. Why? cause most of the US's ICBM fields were,and still are located in those states. look up "minuteman II" on wikipedia. So yeah, Kansas City/Lawrence, and probably St. Louis would likely have been turned to dust in the event of a nuclear exchange. The soviets wanted to try to take out our nukes, just as we would've tried to take out theirs.
fabsadami 1 month ago
"Mister Gorbachev, the Nuclear missiles are ready, Where do you want us to fire them at?"
"KANSAS CITY!"
"Sir, aren't there bigger targets, like, i don't know, new york or washington D.C?"
"NO, KANSAS CITY. AND SHOOT OFF EIGHT OR TEN OF EM' TOO!"
"Sir, there's only about 2 or 3 million people there, i think it would be better to bomb the millions in new york or washin-"
"I SAID KANSAS CITY, DAMNIT, AND YOUR GOING TO NUKE IT OR I'LL EXECUTE YOU!"
Lamainaspitefire 1 month ago
@Lamainaspitefire Besides targeting the US missiles, KC represents a major target because it is the northern transportation hub for railways, interstate highways, the (then) ATT civillan and military telephone lines, it is a manufacturing center for military equipment and weapons, etc, etc. Besides, the Russkies wanted to knock out our best barbeque!
KB4QAA 1 month ago
why would a nuclear attack stop cars and motorbikes. I dont get it
timbum1000 1 month ago
@timbum1000 When A Nuclear Weapon is Activated they emit Electromagnetic Pulses that Stop all electric activity in its path. Like when the US Government tried out Nuclear Weapons in Nevada during the 60s i think. People all the way in Hawaii lost their Electricity.
2010Atomix 1 month ago
@timbum1000 emp pulse will kill it
ephor 1 month ago
@timbum1000 An EMP blast that comes with nuke explosion wipes out all electrical devices...
perksy35 1 month ago
@timbum1000 The emp shock wave effect. Most likely the by product of a blast in the upper atmosphere. Either caused by a missle defense kill vehicle or a purposeful blast in the upper atmosphere.
TheNekoman123 4 days ago
it is russia or iran... god damnit, and life was getting good for me.
TehFlyGuy 2 months ago
Someone should make an alternate history movie of what the world would look like today 30 years after the nuclear war happened.
poodtang1 2 months ago
@poodtang1 Well, Threads, the UK's version of The Day After, showed the post-nuclear world 20 years into the future and its effect on two British families. I highly recommend this film, but it will scare the crap out of you.
lonelyheroine 1 month ago
@lonelyheroine
I've seen that show several times. And upon reflection found it to be overly negative. In the sense that 20 years after i think the human race would have gotten over the shell shock and started to rebuild.
Especially the part where the kids are in the school watching some stupid show on animals.
I'm sure teachers or someone would have gone back to basics scrounged up enpugh material and set up some sort of education program.
poodtang1 1 month ago
Studies have shown that people don't panic like that in emergencies. That's Hollywood fiction.
DJBell1986 2 months ago
@DJBell1986 Not exactly. I mean you would have mass panic in the streets. Plus after the emp attack people would go crazy. its been proven without light we tend to go insane and turn against each other. Read lord of the flies and youll see how it could happen.
TheNekoman123 4 days ago
nooo eric berry and frank gore!!! o wait this old... soooo lets show the bomb
tazman98ify 2 months ago
why were there no cars in the street??
cirosuperiore 2 months ago
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If 2012 will be the end, so be it! This world is majorly fucked up! and I have my faith in the almighty, so bring it on! Happy New Year folks:}
RFKFANTS67 2 months ago
This shows the inside of my stomach after I eat a lot of Sichuan food and drink beer
buttercremehonda 2 months ago
Jonah Hills brother @ 0:09
pissedoffdude87 2 months ago
MASS HYSTERIA, DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER!!!
prg1972a 2 months ago
Well, at least we don't need to see the Chiefs stink it up year after year any longer.
GallowsPole805 2 months ago
3:05-6:33 BOOM!
nikerocks101 2 months ago
Ok now im thinking the anti missile shield the Usa are building is actually a good thing hey
seb2455 2 months ago
@seb2455 The missile shield is meant to shoot down 1 or 2 missiles. It would have no impact on an all-out nuclear war. Sleep well.
nojyt 2 months ago 5
@nojyt at the most the missle shield might save norad,washinton d.c. and new york. Is is meant to save some key areas of civillian population.the missile defense shield would be overwhelmed and at least 10 u.s. cities would be gone.
TheNekoman123 4 days ago
@seb2455 It is no where near good enough. It wont stop armagedon. Bt our missle shield might save new york,norad, washinton d.c. maybe even the entire eastern seaboard if lucky.
TheNekoman123 4 days ago
Physics anyone? How does one explain to a layperson the X-ray effect that comes out of the blast that converts everything you are into photons? It's like explaining warp drive to my cat...
bluehazer 2 months ago
Poltergeist, Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, Cujo, Hellraiser, Pet Semetary, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Evil Dead, The Shinning;
yet this film scared me more than anything else released in the 1980's
autokid15 2 months ago 2
"Holy crap! Did anybody else feel that?"
- Peter Griffin
TimothoNuva 2 months ago
Wow Jason Robards, The Reading Rainbow guy... special guest star appearance by Satan. Wow, truly an all star cast.
MEATYOKERRable 3 months ago
@MEATYOKERRable Reading rainbow guy, that's not Levar Burton.
MasterJediKyleKatarn 2 months ago
You know in the event of a nuclear attack. I guarantee you you'd see people stopping in the middle of gridlock and just jumping off the freeway...
Just my two cents.
MEATYOKERRable 3 months ago
@DowellForPASenate Yeah, right? Considering the fact that the theater was packed in the middle of the day, they must have been watching a matinee of The Phantom Menace during its opening weekend. Man, their day was ruined twice!
thufirguy 3 months ago 5
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Homer Simpson at 4:07!
BiloLCFC 3 months ago
Homer Simpson at 4.07!
BiloLCFC 3 months ago
@BiloLCFC
LOL
DowellForPASenate 3 months ago
@BiloLCFC hahaha!!!!
Django5198 3 months ago
common baby dont die on me now!
cleansingfire100 3 months ago
EMP
usmarine360 3 months ago
My favorite part was the disappointed "aww" sound from the movie theater at 2:35-2:36.
thufirguy 3 months ago 3
@thufirguy
yeah what a bunch of suckers
DowellForPASenate 3 months ago
is this a movie or real??
yesimriaz17 3 months ago
@yesimriaz17 just a movie
mikeshearer1250 3 months ago
@mikeshearer1250 ok thanks.
yesimriaz17 3 months ago
My honest opinion, "Threads" made by the BBC in 1984 has a better nuke scene, it's more shocking, and certainly more realistic for the special effects of the time. And don't forget "Threads" was made on a shoe string budget compared to a Hollywood movie.
djzee1000 3 months ago
2:35 i just hear cpl. dunn saying EMP!!!!
BUFFALFRO 3 months ago
Love how they just used declassified test videos
bassmanUSSR 4 months ago
man, after seem those special effects on screen at the movies i would ask to speak to the manager and them procede to punching his or her lights out. how the fuck could you play such a shitty movie with the worst fucking special effects i have ever fucking seem in my life. i could do a better mushroom cloud out of my ass after eating chili and drinking a fucking diet pepsi. did they outsource the special effects to india for this movie during the 80's.
churupaca1 4 months ago
I'm getting the fattest joint possible and smoking it before I go out...
Highway123456789 4 months ago
Jesus....
Highway123456789 4 months ago
The only thing that different between Thread and the Day After is that Thread is more realistic than the Day After.
Mrbrianjohnson951 4 months ago
I love how they use every scrap of atomic bomb testing film evar.
XxxSakura101 4 months ago
@XxxSakura101 Not only that, but footage of crowds running at 2:03 and after is from the end of "Two Minute Warning" from 1976
nyfachris81 4 months ago
The future is horrifying. What the world will look like after such events is beyond imagination. Perhaps this is the greatest time to be alive?
philosophical666 4 months ago
I lived about 20 miles from Oak Ridge, TN as a kid. When I saw this movie on the original TV broadcast it freaked me out for months.
IrishLincoln 4 months ago
I remember watching this on TV when it first aired (1983?) was a actually a homework assignment we had in junior high. Scary shit.
doorswhofan 4 months ago
is that a nuke? or did chuck norris just sneeze again
allthatOTHERshiiet 4 months ago 21
@allthatOTHERshiiet most likely Chuck norris Sneezing
XxBrokenGearxX 2 months ago
@allthatOTHERshiiet This Chuck Norris shit is getting old.......
Taco1011 1 month ago
@Taco1011 i do it for the likes
allthatOTHERshiiet 1 month ago
2:27 WE"VE BEEN EMPED ELECTRONICS ARE DOWN
rawjoe9991 5 months ago
@rawjoe9991 Nononononononno not a cod reference NOOOO oh and in cod it wasnt an emp it was a nuke
wolffromsteam 4 months ago
@wolffromsteam it was an EMP ;)
AtomicFreerun 4 months ago
Best Realistic Movie Ever lol!!!
Inviciblehorse 5 months ago
@Inviciblehorse Not really. Threads (UK) is more realistic. The US version (aka the day after) is a bit more candy canes and disneyfied in comparison.
Thebustermann 4 months ago
I'm italian. I think we need a remake of this wonderful and terrible movie using the modern 3D's technologies. So, all the young people of the world think about it and then they'll cry "peace, peace, peace..... into the ears of our governments before it's too late. Bye.
mi140552 5 months ago 3
the BBC version was so much more disturbing,its the one that got Ronald Reagan to re-look at his nuclear policies and changed a lot of thigs.Much better than this version,basically the americans did there usual re-hash.
ADZ23774 5 months ago
@ADZ23774 just wanted to add the title of the origional-Threads-check it out,you can watch it on youtube.
ADZ23774 5 months ago
@ADZ23774 Actually it was this movie that got to Reagan.
Inspadave 1 month ago
lol 80's effects
SpiroHrvoje1989 5 months ago
If you think that cities won't be hit then you have a rude awakening coming your way.
puffnstuff12 5 months ago
If there ever is a nuclear war, I hope I'm at ground zero and get incinerated into dust immediately and not die of radiation poisoning over a period of weeks or months.
bluecatky 5 months ago
@bluecatky so you would stand right in front of the missile when it hits the ground?
QRXenomorphs 5 months ago
@QRXenomorphs Damn right! No post apocalyptic misery for me! I want to be standing right under the point of impact. Instant vaporization!
bluecatky 5 months ago
every thing about a nuclear war would be pointless. What would ever make countries literally destroy the planet? seems so pointless and sad to thing it could seriously happen.
bedtime420 5 months ago
Did someone say there was free doughnuts
meanshop 5 months ago
I haven't seen this one, but I saw Threads, a 1984 British film on the same topic. Horrific! See it if you have the chance.
MowgliX 5 months ago
chuck norris farted
yummycocacola 6 months ago
my uncle was an extra
LeoFan93 6 months ago
Thank god for vaults
billyjackphillips132 6 months ago
Hello Newman
aaronbfischer 6 months ago
ITS HURRICANE IRENE!!!!!RUN !!!!!!! @ 1:25
AnalogSpaceCadet 6 months ago
many of the cars back then and especially the motorcycle would continue to run since they didn't have any solid state electronics. Scary as crap no matter what, but they need to think about remaking this, modernizing it to include a North Korean conflict or Al Qaeda contingency.
bassman619 6 months ago
2:19 EMP the electronics are offline!
BattlefieldTVe 6 months ago
OMG! at 3:46 a wedding was "dead" during the blast!
mrgameshow01 6 months ago
@Nowhereman10 I see what your getting at but even the amount is slightly unrealistic, such as it seems 3-4 nuclear missiles where used at attack Kansas, while just 1 would level the city, and any nearby nuclear missile silos. I just think that the movie company who made this wanted to emphasis the dangers of nukes by including so many of them for just 1 place, and thats what took away the realism
HelmsCeeko 7 months ago
2:51 Any other COD players think that that guy looks a ton like a zombie lol
whatdouthink96 7 months ago
jajajajajajjajajjajaja the special effects are pathetic.
que efectos especiales tan pateticos.
juanpa927 7 months ago
Is it wrong that this gave me an erection?
LukeClayton 7 months ago
The first thing is that the EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) would blow out anything electronic. What that means is: A, you can turn the key and pump the pedals 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 (HA! -- Fat chance!). No, the only thing that would still work in this case would be those old vacuum-tube radio devices (when was the last time you ever saw one of those?).
rayandreina 7 months ago
Devastation at its finest, welcome to hell
EastsideSILENCER777 7 months ago
The special effects are shite.
IFIISIHI 7 months ago
@IFIISIHI 84
NunexxShadowZ 7 months ago
@IFIISIHI Yes some are, but the nuclear explosions are from actual explosions
ITILII 7 months ago
It wouldn't bather Muslim terrorists in the slightest. This is what they dream of.
DoctorJK3 8 months ago
Who the hell would nuke Kansas city? What is there that's worth nuking?! Waste of a nuke I say
HelmsCeeko 8 months ago 26
@HelmsCeeko You obviously didn't watch the whole movie, or pay attention to the Minutemen missiles leaving their silos. That's why during the Cold War Kansas City would have been nukes, and much more than what is shown in this movie, which had to make some artistic license by reducing the attack so that there would be a story.
Nowhereman10 7 months ago
@HelmsCeeko Missile command and controls, as well as missile silos.
thesmart358 5 months ago
@HelmsCeeko Most of the Missile Silos in the US are located in the midwest near Kansas City, Lawrence and St. Louis. If nuclear war were to happen, then the missile silos would be the actual targets, not the city itself.
titanicfinatic 5 months ago
@titanicfinatic for US strategists, in 60's and 70's cities where targets for nukes.. a result of destroying a city was to create ruble on the path of potential soviet force movment from east to west, all the cities on the river lines in poland, east germany, and czechoslovakia where tergeted, only 25 nukes where targeted for Vistula river line cities (and there are only 3 major cities on this line, so the rest was targeted even for small towns)...
KlifeRR 5 months ago
@titanicfinatic these where only tactical small nukes, like i said before to block the pathways for the soviet troops
and in return the soviets planed a counter-nuke strike for west europe cities, to lock nato reinforcements. ofc then instead of tactical nukes, the next wave would consist of strategical devices targeted to destroy the whole populations...
KlifeRR 5 months ago
@HelmsCeeko there were several missile bases around the city and it serves as a communications hub for the central US
zombiefan011 5 months ago
@HelmsCeeko probably they figured "We have an extra, fuck it, let's take out Kansas, make it more interesting."
tikletik 4 months ago
@HelmsCeeko It's a communications hub, that's why it's being nuked.
MasterJediKyleKatarn 4 months ago
@HelmsCeeko Kansass City is a major transportation hub for both air and rail. Several major interstate highways meet in KC. And a leading maker of ammunition has their only production facility there.....just to name a few reasons. The types of cities you would nuke if you were killing your enemy nation would not always be the same cities filled with the freshest cutting edge in culture and parties.
dodgyhingst 4 months ago
@HelmsCeeko all usa and russian cities were targets
johnmrrs 4 months ago
@HelmsCeeko It's a population center. No other reason. Once you go nuclear, it seems there's no point in letting there be any human survivors.
Bek359 4 months ago
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MrEnderdragon 3 months ago
@HelmsCeeko Only 13 (Now Retired) Nuclear Silos you Idiot!
WeAreAmuNe 3 months ago
@HelmsCeeko I think it's all about striking the heart of America. Kansas and Missouri are more or less in the centre of America
Django5198 3 months ago
@Django5198 Or striking at where the missile silos were located
Ansela 3 months ago
@Ansela actually yeah you're aboslutely right
Django5198 3 months ago
Somebody needs to slow down on the chalupas!
A094H2 8 months ago
at 3:45 you may the kiss the bride,then they die while kissing.
Thehumornetwork 8 months ago
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the sad thing is that this actually happened somewhere on this earth at one point to hundreds of thousands of people
Zergling924 8 months ago
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Zergling924 8 months ago
Oh hey, what up, John Lithgow?
ButThatBelt 8 months ago
This is what happened when i ate mexican food for the first time
AjaxpuffNstuff 8 months ago
Hacker: I probably woudn't use it.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but they don’t know that you probably wouldn’t.
Hacker: They probably do.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, they probably know that you probably wouldn’t. But they can’t certainly know.
Hacker: They probably certainly know that I probably wouldn’t.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but even though they probably certainly know that you probably wouldn’t, they don’t certainly know that, although you probably wouldn’t, there is no probability that you certainly would!
SCE2AUX 8 months ago
lol
KILLUSALL92 8 months ago
In the 50s there were air raid wardens who directed everyone to a shelter. Of course there were drills so everything was orderly. No looting1
bohemoth1 8 months ago
It always amazes me when you see the real footage of the train cars flipping, the house exploding that they used to tell us to just get under our desks. Yup. That would've worked....I grew up thinking this was going to be a "when" not an "if"
bwktlcn 8 months ago
We all know the world will end in nukes but the us has over 1,000,000 nukes i think we will win
MyLegoman111 9 months ago
@MyLegoman111 You'll be dead....
marckaptijn1 8 months ago
@MyLegoman111 Nobody wins a nuclear war. "Strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
CerberusGX 8 months ago
@MyLegoman111
I don't know if you were joking, but the United States has just over 5,100 nuclear warheads. The highest it ever got was in 1967, when we had 32,225 warheads.
Beandude202 8 months ago
2:40
AVGN?
VagrantNoName 9 months ago
Not to be crude or anything, but I think that 3:46 would be the perfect spot to put the WTF-Bomb sound effect! Don't be mad because I try to find the funny in videos!
jnk1296 9 months ago
@SilverGalford High altitude nuclear explosions cause an EMP. That's also the explanation for the first explosion that happened high above the city, before the real bombing.
xxxprometheusxxxx 9 months ago
wow very good. a pretty horrifying scene,even though its from a 30 year movie id say. never seen it so its just a guesstimation
vymrdejsi 9 months ago
Osama bin Laden's favourite movie I believe
jontibloom 9 months ago
Then the survivors (if any) get turned into ghouls.
Alexplus20 9 months ago 30
@Alexplus20 Fallout 3! nice one :)
EastsideSILENCER777 7 months ago
@Alexplus20
Or supermutants :)
Marcineksio123 5 months ago
@Marcineksio123 you'll actually need some F.E.V for that lol.
Alexplus20 5 months ago
@Alexplus20
Right, sry...
Marcineksio123 4 months ago
wait wait.... 300 nuke missiles at one city? i dont think thers any chance of seeing anything after that attack...
whatsagoodusername23 9 months ago
@whatsagoodusername23 no silly,listen to the qoute again in the movie. Over 300 inbound soviet ICBM missiles all directed at US cities,not 300 aimed at KC.
TheGeorgecostanza 8 months ago
Someone's having a real bad day.
Caracajou 9 months ago
This movie scared the crap out of me.
talltom1973 9 months ago 2
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BoredomCorner 9 months ago
4:32 fail
The flag is flying against the wind.
LordXehenniar 10 months ago
2:48 wtf did he think he was going to achieve by running off into a field :| random
KGzII 10 months ago
That traffic scene @ 2:00 was taken in the sixties.
dingecibbs 10 months ago
That traffic scene @ 2:00 was taken from the sixtees.
dingecibbs 10 months ago
Very poor special effects. Slightly less than "terrifying".
MrRik2 10 months ago
@MrRik2 They were probably a bit more impressive in 1983, but the emotional impact is still fairly strong.
BoredomCorner 9 months ago
@BoredomCorner It really isn't. I find it hard to feel emotionally engaged when giggling at the stupidity and cheesiness. 4.26 particularly. Silly silly.
MrRik2 9 months ago
wow im lucky im not in them times with the nuke ._. soo wrong and what i thing of it- f***** scary
kaiyan246 10 months ago
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WillFielder78 10 months ago
Hiroshima and Nagasaki's atomic bomb droppings were just a minscule of what the American and Russian ICBM's had delivery power wise! The Soviet ICBM from what I recall there were about 100 much larger atom bomb sizes than what the US dropped in World War 2. The American ICBM's were maybe three atom bomb sized ICBM's. I remember seeing a picture in Time Magazine many years ago showing the tiny miniscule atom bomb explosion compared to a very much larger ten time more powerful explosion!
TheGeorgecostanza 10 months ago
I would not want to be the guy who sounds a false nuke alarm.
AspiringPotato 10 months ago
The BBC movie called Therads is much more real very very depressing to watch.
cf19d 11 months ago
Thats a really intense scene. The only thing is, if a real nuclear war happened Kansas City would not be the first to go. It would be like the 50th lol.
But seriously, if anyone wants a nuclear war, they should watch this first.
TheRedfire555 11 months ago
a black family in russia o.0 wierd
RobloxCreater 11 months ago
The people of hiroshima and nagasaki endured a very real nuclear attack.
DanteLacey21 11 months ago
@DanteLacey21
yeah but this is what COULD have happened. And was SO close to happening.
And if you thought Nagasaki was bad, well imagine the entire Soviet Union's nukes.
It'd be a hellhole of a world.
WolfytheWolf5667 11 months ago
@WolfytheWolf5667 the ICBM's the Soviets had would have put hiroshima and Nagasaki's atom bombs to shame. I remember seeing Time magazine years ago showing a little blip explosion for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then they showed the Soviets and American ICBM"s. No comparison as to back the,10 very much larger explosive blips in a Soviet ICBM and three very large blips in a US ICBM. The whole planet would have probably been destroyed had there ever been a Nuclear war! End of mankind guaranteed!
TheGeorgecostanza 10 months ago