"The War Game" - directed by Peter Watkins - Excerpt 1 of 2

I saw four strange prophecies in this movie: A reference to the 80's, when nukes were at their highest danger levels, and also three names: John, Edward, and Jonas. Do with those what you will. (John and Edward are two X-Factor contestants, Jonas, or The Jonas Brothers, is a rubbish band.)

"did you know this?", "No, I did not". As terrifying as nuclear war is, the cheesiness of old movies like this always cracks me up.

Seriously though, there's no point in doting on whether a nuclear war will come, much less prepare for one. If you prepare and it happens, and you somehow survive, the world would be a horrible place to live. If you prepare and it never happens, then you've wasted your life worrying about it.

All we can do is support nuclear disarmament and hope.

Of course it would be horrible but I'm not ready to give up without trying.
Now it should be the state ( and active reservists ) that prepare for nuclear war or war overall in the time of peace. Conventional CBRN-protected shelters work also against nuclear weapons.

...is it really possible to prepare for a nuclear war though?

Well, of course you could prepare, but it wouldn´t have a lot effect. And in addition: Who wants to live in a nuclear devastated world?

Conspiracy this conspiracy that.  Yawn.

I don't think that was quite their perspective... Not to justify any policy that involved the use of nuclear weapons of any application or yield, but Europe was in a far more 'desperate' situation in the event of conventional attack than the USSR.

--- "The War Game was banned in Britain until recently" ---

No it wasn't. What happened was that the BBC comissioned the film and then got cold feet and refused to show it (or more likely pretty much forgot it existed in their archive) until 1985.

However they did allow it a cinematic release in 1966 and it stayed available in that form ever since.

Ontop of that there was a 1990's VHS release and the 2003 DVD edition release by the British Film Institute.

True blue.

a VERY interesting movie, & 1 i have in my " END OF EVERY DAMN THING FROM THERMONUCLEAR WAR" collection