First Strike (Part 1)

The US bomber force is destroyed on the ground and the Minuteman missiles in their silos in this highly realistic dramatization filmed with the unprecedented cooperation of the US Air Force. The people shown are the actual men and women of the US Air Force and Navy who would have been targeted.

This is a short version of the scenaio used in the 1979 documentary film, FIRST STRIKE, which examined how the Soviet SS-18 missile force together with submarine launched missiles might be used to destroy our strategic forces in a surprise, preemptive attack.

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[dagda825]

No, you are not.

[FylthyBeest]

What?

[ice bear]

Maybe I'm being selfish but I really have a problem with this. If the U.S. was attacked with nuclear weapons.They would retaliate with enough destructive force to insure the end of mankind.Well what about the rest of the planet guys.Just because the States and Russia mutually destroy each other.The rest of us have to go ?.My kids would have had to die because they couldn't get along.Am I the only one having a problem with this kind of thinking ?.

[FylthyBeest]

You are quite welcome, Sid.

[Sid Wittman]

Thanks for taking the time to reply :-))

[FylthyBeest]

For that time period, yes. For many years a large portion of SAC's bombers and tankers "stood" hard ground alert. Crews generally rotated on week-long tours and resided in hardened/semi-hardened alert facilities adjacent to the alert force parking area. Facilities within an adequate response radius were equipped with Klaxons so the crews could respond in alert force vehicles, driving directly to the alert aircraft. Ground alert was terminated in 1991, after the collapse of the USSR.

[ChristopherSaindon]

You are most welcome Sir.

[Sid Wittman]

Would the B-52 force be at that kind of level of readiness as a matter of course, or is the film assuming that a higher alert status than normal was in force due to international tensions ?

[Stevie SRV I WISH]

I'd launch at all urban populations at the aggressor! And aske our allies to do the same! It only takes 3 nuclear subs with Sherwood Forrest payloads to kill everyone on the planet, he said 17 were left.