Q.E.D - A Guide To Armageddon Pt 1

A GUIDE TO ARMAGEDDON is a speculative documentary of what would happen if Britain suffered a nuclear attack . We`re shown via specially shot scenes and still pictures of the damage and terminal consequences wrought upon the people of Britain with the narration ending that " Would the survivors envy the dead ? "

Has it rung any bells yet ? Let me remind you of a few scenes featured: Meat cooking in a butchers window due to the heat generated from the initial nuclear flash , milk bottles melting on door steps along with childrens toys. That`s right , much of the footage shot and stills used were expanded , edited or re-used by director/producer Mick Jackson in his nuclear holocaust docudrama THREADS a year later . A couple of points

1 ) Some of the footage seen here is absent from THREADS ( Like the meat cooking in the butcher shop ) down to the fact that it interferes with the context of the docudrama . People have been panic buying for days before the bomb drops in THREADS hence meat cooking in shop windows contradicts this scenario

2 ) It`s clearly stated that the smoke and dust from a thermo-nuclear war would lead to a " nuclear winter " . Considering both A GUIDE TO ARMAGEDDON and THE DAY AFTER were produced at exactly the same time it`s clear that THE DAY AFTER has ignored the concept of a nuclear winter on purpose since it would have been known to the scientific community . One can`t help thinking TDA has ignored the nuclear winter on purpose rather than through ignorance. Indeed on its broadcast critics of TDA like Lord Denis Healey pointed out that the American TVM didn`t go far enough pointing out the consequences of global nuclear war and I couldn`t help thinking that was a straight referrance to this documentary

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[k9thru12]

. . . so eat your fucking vegetables.

[christianheart100]

why do i keep watching this ??!?!!!?!!??!

[NPA1001]

I remember this scaring the shit out of me when I was a kid. Didn't sleep for a week without nightmares.

[pcaminador1]

uplifting

[chairmanmeow1973]

Awesome cameltoe



[Knaeckebrotsaege]

@midgum i remember watching a higher quality version of this here on youtube. Saw your commment and went to Danni4815162342's channel... crap!

"This account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement."

fuckin copyright nazis

[mrpfct]

@silver4883 unstable! ... m8 if they even thought for one minute about pushing it, we'd just pre-empt and all out war with middle east.

[Professor6871]

@bitrex Well perhaps smaller warheads would do the job than just a large one would do. I imagine the Iranians must of learnt about this tactic and have put it into their nuke plans. But there's still large nukes out there and for that reason only, they would be used by the Russian or the US if a war was to brake out.

[bitrex]

@Professor6871 Interestingly, the destructive power of a nuclear weapon does not scale in direct proportion to the megatonnage of the weapon. In the early days of the nuclear age a weapon of that size might have been targeted at London, when the delivery systems were poor, but warhead sizes got smaller as delivery systems became more accurate. Using many smaller warheads, detonated in a grid-like pattern over a "soft" target, actually achieves much greater damage than a single large bomb.

[MrGoneTroppo]

@Professor6871 The Russians have still got all the same weapons...