Q.E.D - A Guide To Armageddon Pt 3

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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• armageddon
• strike
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• london
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• conflict
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• ICBM
• soviet
• union
• USA
• QED
• BBC

[level242]

I would NOT want to live thru that I think I would just commit suicide.

[hotelmario510]

I love when they're all settled in the tube shelter.

'Oh, dear, Joy, the Joneses are being burned alive.'

'Such a pity. Few billion games of Scrabble?'

'Hell yes!'

[SultanChase]

On the plus side, Simon Cowell, Kim Kardashian, Tony Blair, and Fox News would all have ceased to exist. When you look at it that way, nuclear armageddon doesn't seem as bad.

[k9thru12]

there is a flat screen

in your webcam

war on terror against Opportunity

cold war against the warm countries

[MateiAlexandruBogdan]

@dutchtrucker First bit of real humor after reading 50 replies.

[MateiAlexandruBogdan]

@Lci346 Surely a precursor to supermutants.

[ukprepare]

After watching that, the wife can forget about growing her own organic veg in the back garden, ime building a fucking shelter!

[PortVienna80]

@shinemaster50

Indeed it was, right at its height, when global thermonuclear war was an ever-present threat. Paradoxically though, it was the very threat of Mutally Assured Destruction (MAD) that kept the peace between the US and the former USSR for some 40 years.

[Lci346]

2:25 zombie ruuuuuuun !!

[lagerdean1978]

So you survive a nuclear war, no electric, no gas, no clean water, no internet, no phone networks, no food, money is worthless!!! 

[JasonC1782]

I hope the four Visual Effects guys listed at 9:16 know what a magnificent job they did in depicting the destruction featured in this programme.