Video first released in 2012. Unlike the rest, audio and video are from the original version. This part looks at some background information about nuclear war.
I remember sending this original review to my friends. They've dismissed it because the topic of nuclear war was no longer relevant. Guess I was right in the end.
(12:29) I like how the beginning of The Day After shows many of the things that help maintain a standard of living that many take for granted. We see trains delivering goods, machines packaging food, giant stockades that hold cattle, suburbs... I think it hits harder on second viewing. Again, the ability we have now days, what with our streaming services and whatnot, to watch and rewatch things "on demand"... It's yet another thing we take for granted. ALL would be gone after a nuclear exchange.
Hope the main review can be back up soon. It was one of my favorites. I don't know why. Maybe a combination of pathos and the ability to make fart jokes at the nuclear war message flick.
The opening is brilliant. The way you end your narration as the bomb on Hiroshima is dropped and just let the documentary foorage and the Johnny music play is pretty darn effective.
I finally saw Threads a few months back. Yes it is more real but it will leave you with NO HOPE for a future if a nuclear war occurred. Do not watch Threads if The Day After or any current events are already giving you anxiety
John Von Neumann also built a computer to calculate whether the implosion method could be used to detonate a hydrogen bomb and gave it a name that contracts to 'MANIAC'.
As horrific as these scenes are and other similar films, it'd be worse by far. We don't need this kind of drama to ever occur. So cliché to say I wanna die at ground zero, but you really may want to. It'd be hell on earth.
There are worse things than war, as the saying goes. As the DPRK has shown with nuclear capability, having the ability to counter strike a potential aggressor with a massive capability, ensures that one will not be struck in the first place. Ukraine was given promises/words of ensured sovereignty when it had agreed to give away its nuclear deterrence; now without a nuclear deterrence, they have been invaded, and all the words promising a garuntee of their sovereignty have proven hallow. So what lessons of any nation concerned about their sovereignty, and the powerful who are atop those nation's structure of power, left to think about nuclear capability? Now even Japan, the only nation to have been atomic bombs dropped in anger upon it, have openly stated that they are considering gaining a nuclear deterrence capability independent of their ally the United States. This is the world we live in. "May you live in interesting times".
"The Day After" is a propaganda film. For effects of nuclear weapons it combines ground and air burst effects to create the terror weapon of the popular imagination seen in most popular depictions of nuclear weapons. Ground bursts create hundreds of tons of fallout, but most of the flash and explosive force is wasted absorbed into the ground or deflected into the air. Air bursts produce around one hundred pounds of fallout and maximize destructive force by allowing flash and pressure wave to propagate to the ground unhindered for maximum destruction over the maximum area of effect. Neither nation had any plans to use ground bursts as fallout does reach the stratosphere, pushed there by thermal updraft from the nuke itself, and spreads around the world rather than stay in the area where it is generated. So what would a real nuclear war have looked like? Cities would be destroyed in the US, Europe and Russia. Given what we now know about the reliability of Soviet weapons and delivery vehicles the US would be able to emerge intact with the loss of twenty random major cities. Military bases in the US would also be targeted but were protected by anti-ICBM measures with a 60% effectiveness at the time The Day After was produced so much of the US military would remain intact. Europe would have to eat Soviet tactical nukes which are much more reliable and a Red steamroller of Warsaw Pact forces would likely push deep into the continent. The Soviet Union would lose every major city and military base bringing the conflict to a close. In the aftermath North America, Europe and the Russia would balkanize into small nations states and warlord territories. The center of world events would shift as it had after World War II, where it moved from Europe to North America, and now it would move from North America to South America. Then you're in alternate history land. Mutually assured destruction is a myth to sell the public. The real reason nukes have not been deployed is because they are a threat to the power of those in power.
I remember sending this original review to my friends. They've dismissed it because the topic of nuclear war was no longer relevant. Guess I was right in the end.
Even for a guy who's put together some great musical montages, the use of Johnny Cash for this one might be the most effective.
...thanks for the timing, Chuck, as if my anxiety wasn't bad enough...
RIGHT? Cause we should all scream how we are at the whim of like a few people who have the authority to just end life.
(12:29) I like how the beginning of The Day After shows many of the things that help maintain a standard of living that many take for granted. We see trains delivering goods, machines packaging food, giant stockades that hold cattle, suburbs... I think it hits harder on second viewing. Again, the ability we have now days, what with our streaming services and whatnot, to watch and rewatch things "on demand"... It's yet another thing we take for granted. ALL would be gone after a nuclear exchange.
I really love your work on this film review. It's excellent in every sense.
Hope the main review can be back up soon. It was one of my favorites. I don't know why. Maybe a combination of pathos and the ability to make fart jokes at the nuclear war message flick.
same
The opening is brilliant. The way you end your narration as the bomb on Hiroshima is dropped and just let the documentary foorage and the Johnny music play is pretty darn effective.
I'm so excited to see the re-upload of the next part, I never got to see it before it was removed.
this introduction video always left a big impression on me.
Ah. Thanks for the reupload. Now I can nag on Madoka Magika. ;)
I literally wanted to rewatch this today.
How timely, the reposting that is.
Another good Nuclear War movie is HBO's By Dawn's Early Light which starred James Earl Jones.
This is still the most frightening movie I’ve ever seen.
Personally, I've always preferred the movie "Threads" to this one. This one is so tame in comparison.
I finally saw Threads a few months back. Yes it is more real but it will leave you with NO HOPE for a future if a nuclear war occurred.
Do not watch Threads if The Day After or any current events are already giving you anxiety
Chuck's intro leaves out dates of military exercises using nuclear weapons on both sides.
John Von Neumann also built a computer to calculate whether the implosion method could be used to detonate a hydrogen bomb and gave it a name that contracts to 'MANIAC'.
The best tank cannot run without fuel - watching this 3/9/2022
Can someone tell me the name of the cartoon that is shown at 7:32
It came from a special in 1988 called The Cold War Game: The USA. ruclips.net/video/6u4lsfwmv_s/видео.html
@@sfdebrisred6555 Thanks :)
Oh, I 'fondly' remember this, and being really scared that it could really happen 0_0
Is the timing of this auspicious or what? ;)
Well... this is topical.
good timing here...
Well this seems apt with current events ughhhhh.
As horrific as these scenes are and other similar films, it'd be worse by far. We don't need this kind of drama to ever occur. So cliché to say I wanna die at ground zero, but you really may want to. It'd be hell on earth.
Time for my daily panic attack
There are worse things than war, as the saying goes.
As the DPRK has shown with nuclear capability, having the ability to counter strike a potential aggressor with a massive capability, ensures that one will not be struck in the first place. Ukraine was given promises/words of ensured sovereignty when it had agreed to give away its nuclear deterrence; now without a nuclear deterrence, they have been invaded, and all the words promising a garuntee of their sovereignty have proven hallow. So what lessons of any nation concerned about their sovereignty, and the powerful who are atop those nation's structure of power, left to think about nuclear capability? Now even Japan, the only nation to have been atomic bombs dropped in anger upon it, have openly stated that they are considering gaining a nuclear deterrence capability independent of their ally the United States.
This is the world we live in. "May you live in interesting times".
Grete timing
"The Day After" is a propaganda film. For effects of nuclear weapons it combines ground and air burst effects to create the terror weapon of the popular imagination seen in most popular depictions of nuclear weapons. Ground bursts create hundreds of tons of fallout, but most of the flash and explosive force is wasted absorbed into the ground or deflected into the air. Air bursts produce around one hundred pounds of fallout and maximize destructive force by allowing flash and pressure wave to propagate to the ground unhindered for maximum destruction over the maximum area of effect. Neither nation had any plans to use ground bursts as fallout does reach the stratosphere, pushed there by thermal updraft from the nuke itself, and spreads around the world rather than stay in the area where it is generated.
So what would a real nuclear war have looked like? Cities would be destroyed in the US, Europe and Russia. Given what we now know about the reliability of Soviet weapons and delivery vehicles the US would be able to emerge intact with the loss of twenty random major cities. Military bases in the US would also be targeted but were protected by anti-ICBM measures with a 60% effectiveness at the time The Day After was produced so much of the US military would remain intact. Europe would have to eat Soviet tactical nukes which are much more reliable and a Red steamroller of Warsaw Pact forces would likely push deep into the continent. The Soviet Union would lose every major city and military base bringing the conflict to a close.
In the aftermath North America, Europe and the Russia would balkanize into small nations states and warlord territories. The center of world events would shift as it had after World War II, where it moved from Europe to North America, and now it would move from North America to South America. Then you're in alternate history land.
Mutually assured destruction is a myth to sell the public. The real reason nukes have not been deployed is because they are a threat to the power of those in power.
Sure champ
Soon it will be reality! Thanks Biden.
Hold your bottle caps Vault dweller, nobody is dumb enough to start a nuclear holocaust.
@@Mate397 Here's hoping you aren't underestimating people's stupidity and desperation.
Its more Putin's fault than anything he is the one threatening nukes.
@@Corgifan2 That's what I was going to say. Biden isn't the one invading neighboring countries.
More like "Thanks Trump".