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I'm Russian, it's very difficult for me to watch films like this. I grew up in the USSR, with everyone saying that nuclear fallout would happen at any moment. If you can find it on the internet, there is a Russian film on this same topic. It was produced in the Soviet era, and is called "Dead Man's Letters". It is a record of nuclear destruction from the Soviet perspective. It tells about an old professor of natural history, who survives the nuclear war by taking refuge in the bunker beneath the Moscow library. He survives the devastation along with a group of children and some other employees. He lives there, sick and weakened. And in addition, he tries to keep children's hopes alive so that they can build a better world, if it continues.
Everyone should know of people like “al ison mc dowell” listen to one of her streams to get an idea of what bs this propaganda was but more importantly what they’re attempting to do today, it’s way more cerebral but same end, control
One of my neighbors was a crew chief for SAC from the late 60s to the early 90s. He told me there were more than few times that the aircrews were scrambled and while it was panic, it was rehearsed so it was automatic. Of course the surrounding communities would figure something was up when every B52 on the base suddenly took off in as fast a succession as they could. He told me the only thing that motivated him was that their only chance was to get the aircraft away as fast as possible since ICBMs could already be on the way in which case they had less than 30 minutes to get the entire squadron away. But he and the aircrew also knew that it was a 1 way flight as they wouldn't have enough fuel to make it back if given the "GO" order. Anyone under age 55 doesn't really know what it's like to live in fear of nuclear armageddon.....and because we've lost that fear it makes it more likely than not to actually have it happen
What about the war in Ukraine sunshine. It is more dangerous than it has ever been. Besides, anyone born before the wall came down generally knows. Hence this film in 1983
@@mattbaxendale5550yeah fear is the mind virus, hence fear porn like this movie. In reality they never planned on mutual destruction , it was one huge op, they’re all in cahoots & always have been, they’ve admitted it in their writings
I was a high school freshman and we had classroom discussions about this after it aired in 1983. The entire school was quiet that day. This is a almost a documentary for Gen-X.
As a teenager in the 1980s I worried about The Bomb a lot. It was a common fear, if you listen to the song "Forever Young", one of the lines is: " are you going to drop The Bomb or not"?
I was a Minuteman II ICBM Crew Member during the height of the Cold War. Some aspects of this movie are pretty close to how it was in Strategic Air Command. We constantly trained, exercised and were evaluated on being prepared to retaliate if America suffered a First Strike nuclear attack from the Soviet Union.
Thank you for your service, I'm a Gulf War vet but can't imagine what you guys went through back then. How crazy that we're now right back in that scenario.
It’s fascinating to see, even if it’s a fictional story. What happens to the plane carrying the general? I mean he has to know what’s going on well before he boarded that aircraft. Is it on its final mission, like the B52’s? Or is it Greenland? 😉
@sandydiller4828 The bombers that make it to their target and are able egress from enemy airspace have a classified post strike recovery location to land. The base they departed from in all liklihood has been destroyed. You could set watch by the times the Looking Glass aircraft took off from Offutt AFB NE. There was Looking Glass aircraft continuously on alert and aloft 24/7 - 365 for almost 30 years. Same with the SAC Airborne Command Post - aka "Looking Glass". The follow-on to SAC -USSTRATCOM - does not keep an aircraft continuously airborne but they operate an aircraft that also has a full Battle Staff on board. It is a 747 known as the National Emergency Operations Center - "Nightwatch".
@sandydiller4828 If the bombers made it to their targets and returned from enemy airspace, they would proceed to a Classified post-strike recovery location as chances are the base they departed from has been destroyed. Same with the SAC Airborne Command Post - aka "Looking Glass". There was a Looking Glass aircraft in the air continuously for almost 30 years. In addition to the Battlestaff which was commanded by a Flag Officer, the SAC Airborne Command Post also had a Missile Combat Crew aboard as the Minuteman ICBM force could be launched by this platform. The follow-on to SAC - USSTRATCOM - does not keep a Command Post continuously Airborne but they operate an aircraft (a 747 code named "Nightwatch" that has a full Battlestaff aboard) that performs essentially the same function and can be launched in times of national emergency.
@@tomp8094 it’s beyond cool and so well thought out. Oh I know it’s for real and it’s final, but I’m glad the bombers have a place to go just in case they make it out.
The Premier was right. In the book “Brothers,” when word of JFKs assassination got to Moscow, it came from Bobby directly, through a trusted friend of both the USA and Soviet Union. Khrushchev openly wept and paced alone in his office for three days. While the uber hard core guys immediately blamed the CIA, the majority of the USSR were terribly upset because they loved Kennedy.
I remember when this movie was aired on prime TV. I was in high school and a senior. It was the conversation of the day. I was scared but not terrified. Now much different. Its amazing how things change when you are older and the chance of such an event can be a reality.
I was 8 years old and the film made a tremendous impact on me. The Cold War, Communism, nuclear war etc were constant topics of discussion around the dinner table as a kid, too. I didn't fully grasp all of the issues at the time but I did understand it was all serious business.
I have searched all day for this movie due to recent events. Couldn't even find it on Amazon Prime. I was in my 20's with 3 children when this came out.
I've been searching for this movie also ... I've been 23 when it aired first. ... I've been so relieved after the end of the cold war + the end of GRD = I'm German ( west) ... And today .... the world is crazy again !!!
I was a military policeman and on an EOD team when this came out. Stationed on a Dutch missile base in Western Germany. Everyone hoped this would not come true. We had plans and evacuation routines for our families in place.
I remember watching this in the 4th grade. I was terrified and so were many children. They stopped talking about nuclear war in our school because of that.
I'm 64. There were a lot of nuclear war movies and post-holocaust movies put out all through my life. My generation lived through the constant fear of living through a nuclear conflict. And movies like this didn't help. I was in the Air Force at the time of this movie. Now 40 years later, I see this movie and many like as propaganda designed to frighten the public.
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, what is happening now is nothing. Back in the day the US kept B41s loaded on B-52's in the air, 24/7, flying right along the Soviet border. They were kept fueled in flight by squadrons of KC-135 tankers. The operations flew night and day, rain and shine, year after year...
@@rtqiiYes, what you are refering to is Operation Chromedome that went on between 1961 and 1968. Chromedome is also portrayed in the famous movie Dr. Strangelove.
Yes, and to make the remake "realistic", to somehow add: >Russia vs Ukraine >Iran vs Israel >China vs India. and >China vs Taiwan I know, that's a lot of "realism". And then have someone quote Mathew 24:22
One of the most realistic nuclear war movies besides Threads ever made. I am I guess what would be considered a millennial (born in 87) Saw it when I was 13 and it left an impact on me that has never left. Rented it from my local library at the time on VHS.
If you want to watch the most realistic launch sequence and then the most unrealistic movie that follows with a bit of laugh on how ridiculously stupid it gets watch the 1977 movie damnation alley. It's starts off well and then becomes WTF ?
I love how people are buying meat, milk, and other things that need refrigerated. Be smart, buy the cereal, oatmeal, canned goods, and other non-perishable items.
Watched this movie with my dad in the 2000s as a kid and it gave me a genuine fear of nuclear war. Literally had recurring nightmares of dying from inescapable nuclear bombs.
The scene in the barbershop is actually one of the most brilliant and unforgettable sequences I've seen, even in a movie like this. Lithgow is always excellent.
We lived outside of a strategic Air command base, B1 and B52 and Minuteman crews in scattered silos, I can still remember the roar the constant roar coming from the flight line when the Jets would be taking off in succession if you were on the phone when one of them was flying over the land they actually cut it on your phone call and people would always ask us what was that and we'd always reply that's a b-1 crew coming in. When they would have alerts we would get on our bikes and we would go to Pizza Hut because all the airmen had to leave their food and Pizza Hut would give us all of their pizzas.
I was in the Air Force in 1983 and the B-52D models seen in the movie were retired that year. I launched out the last D model to the bone yard. Today the only model left is the B-52H model.
The D's had a certain something that the later ones lacked. I guess it was the tall tail and cleaner looking nose. They were pretty rugged. More D's hit over Hanoi got home compared to the G's. And the D's starred in Dr. Strangelove, which was pretty cool considering they were supposedly still Top Secret.
Threads was never banned, I think you're confusing it with ' The War Game ' a 1966 British pseudo-documentary produced for the BBC which was withdrawn before screening.
I was in USAF Security Specialist tech school when this movie aired. One of the guys rented a TV and a few of us watched it in his room. The wear of the uniform and personal appearance regulations (AFR 35-10) had been hammered into us at the time. And we were learning about securing vital Air Force resources including the use of deadly force. Needless to say, after learning what we'd learned, we found ourselves chuckling at the way Air Force Security was depicted in this movie.
I served in the Army in the 1980s and in this year 2024, we are no where near close to the 80s atmosphere of fear and imminent doom we felt was omnipresent back in the 1980s.
@@keithad6485 I also lived through the 80s, and yes it was sort of a background type thing back then - it could happen but you felt that mostly level heads were in charge. I don't feel that way now, things have changed.
@@tachikomakusanagi3744 You and I will have to agree to disagree. These days, we are not even close to what is was like in the cold war. Memory of those days is distance, but I clearly remember those days and the discussions in Army of the threat that existed. In the 1980s, the threat was not used by politicians and the media to push an agenda like it is now. The threat back then was omnipresent. The threat now is that put about by the claims in media and by politicians to serve their own agenda. That's my two cents worth.
I watched this film like 3x last yr on youtube here (there's the whole film, just search it). 1966 & still here! Hallelujah. the rapture will hit before a global atom bomb battle. yet..many calamities surely will occur prior to getting caught up..& already are. pray indeed.
Salut, I’m 70, Irish, living with my beautiful English wife of 49 years en France. My health means that realistically I won’t be here much longer. However we have had an excellent life together, still enjoy an excellent life together in a beautiful part of the world with fantastic wine, cognac and food. Frankly we are very content with our lot and the nuclear threat is no longer “on our radar”. Yes the threat is real …… I simply do not have the energy to worry about it now, and I gave up religion just under 60 years ago. Bon Courage!
@@romeobravo2023Good for you, Brother!! ENJOY 'till the VERY END. NO ONE can take those GLORIOUS Years away from you!! Cheers to You & your Beautiful wife!! 😊❤❤
It's NOVEMBER 2nd AD 2024!!!! This could OUR LAST ELECTION before that the day if KING HITLER TRUMP tries to HOOK & CROOK this election and uses NUCLEAR WEAPONS????!!!!!!! Just because WE DIDN"T & HOPEFULLY we will NEVER VOTE for HIM as Dictator ???!!!!!!
07:30 This perfectly illustrates why virtually every city is a target for nuclear war. Are you near a military base? Target. Is your community a major hub for telecommunications? Target. Steel production? Well not much of that these days, but still, target.
I am about 40 mi from Little Rock Arkansas and there is a military base in Jacksonville Arkansas that's even closer Isaac both of them would be a Target.. I am in the Red Zone anyways
My recomendation, stay away from media, enjoy yourselves, families & friends & animals and live life like you normally would. No deal of worriness will prevent what could happen. I promise you'll feel better.
There's a British film on the same topic called "Threads". Same idea, but even darker than this. This is an American product, and American stories need hope at the end. At the end of 'Threads', we realise there is no hope after nuclear war. There isn't. We need to learn that lesson again before someone starts using these weapons. The weapons are still there.
There was little hope depicted in The Day After that I recall just chaos and uncertainty. The farmer patriarch Dalhburg gets killed on his own property by strangers and the killer starts warming up a knife, Dr Oakes goes back to the ash pile of his now gone home to die, the bride to be Dalhburg daughter is dying of radioative poisoning, and John Lithgow's character Huxley radios out for a response if "anyone is out there? Anyone at all?" and all you hear is static. There's more hope at the end of Dawn's Early Light imho when the two crewmembers of B-52 Polar Bear one survive joke about going to Bora Bora agree no one is going to die now (because hostilities are ceased) and Powers Booth says "Welcome to tomorrow."
@drunkrumjack Watch Threads, and see how that ends. It takes us 15 years further, after the nuclear exchange. It gets a lot worse than Jason Robarts going home to die, and John Lithgow not getting an answer. There's still some humanity left in these people. Really, it can get much, much worse.
Our country would do well to have this or a remake shown on prime time as Generation X and Generation Y grew up in the decades without a nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. Moms and Dads should see this type of horror and have that nuclear war imprinted in their minds as we did. This film scared the he’ll out of nation that needed to awakened to the potential and devastating effects of an all out nuclear war. This film was partly responsible for the anti nuclear weapon movement of the eighties. We sure need it now.
You actually think the fear control government used on you should be used today. Seriously watch the war in Ukraine shows Russia is a joke just like all other false flag wars. Start w cold war then war on drugs, poverty etc. Fear mongering govt is what you want. Smfh typical Christians cry Armageddon without knowing wtf that actually means. Magedo was a city the 1st recorded war happened at. It's a flat hill today.
@@susandaniels9733 Speak for myself , I speak for a generation that lived through the terror of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was among the children who regularly practiced duck and cover drills in our schools. I lived through the Air Raid Siren drills every Monday at 1pm. My Mom and Dad stacked wooden crates full of supplies in our basement as the threat of nuclear attack was very real. Russia’s leader threatened “ to bury us.” It was a very scary time that left an emotional mark on many including myself who had the recurring trauma of nightmares. I was born in 1953 and was among those who protested the bomb and war so future generations might not have to go through the fear that we faced.. We succeeded for a time and now that threat is staring us in our faces… So I should speak for myself ? Present generations are silent with the nuclear sword of Damocles that hangs precariously over your heads. We protested and fought for peace everyday… It was major news everyday.. Public opinion started to turn after the Kent State massacre when students protesting the war were MURDERED by national guard troops… Yes much has changed and for the worst. I guess I will be” speaking for myself “ like a voice crying out in the wilderness to those who have no ears to hear with and no eyes to see the signs of the times. Peace be with you.☮️💟
I grew up on the Central Coast of CA. To our South was Vandenberg AFB. To our North is the Diabalo Cayon Nuclear Power Plant. Right in our hometown was a cable connection between the US and Hawaii, Gaum, and Japan. To this day all are key targets military and infrastructure. After watching this movie when it aired, I asked my dad about it. He said I don't need to worry if it ever happened we would likely be the first to die. He was Air Force. Hell of a thing for a 13-year-old kid to hear. My dad never lied to us, even when it hurt or scared us. Today I live in Sacramento. Still a key target. I keep a bottle of Jameson in my trunk. I hear the alert I am not running. I am getting good and drunk and waiting for the flash.
Not such a bad plan, aha. Jameson? Im not a fan..more partial to Four Roses small batch, ahaha. & Idk..ill duke it out awhile..I'm 30 mins north of Madison Wi, no primary targets nearby, plus being a Christian, there's this: the rapture will hit before a global atom bomb battle. yet..many calamities surely will occur prior to getting caught up..& already are.
"Albert, when I came to you with those calculations, we were afraid we might start a chain reaction that could destroy the entire world." "I remember it well, what of it?" "I believe we did..."
I watched this when it was first aired. Scary stuff. Equally terrifying was the TV movie 'Special Bulletin', about terrorists with a nuclear device in Charleston, SC.
I was stationed at Loring Air Force Base, Maine. That base was known for being the location that would have gotten hit first if the USSR ever launched a nuclear attack on the United States. That fact was referenced in the movie WarGames (1983).
@develynseether4426 The base closed 30 years ago. Considering the fact that it is located in a massive remote wilderness area, I'm guessing that nature is probably reclaiming the base - or at least parts of it.
I to remember the duck and cover bs even as a third grader I thought it was a joke I remember when sputnik went into orbit and seeing convoys of Army trucks going south on highway 41 in '62 Now I'm 67 retired and all this nuke garbage is starting again. Turn the keys and push the buttons and just do it, I'm sick of hearing about it I just want to enjoy my last few years in retirement
I remember watching this in school the 1st time it got broadcast. I was in Father Flanagan's Boys Town in Omaha Neb. Offutt AFB is on the other side of town and I grew up in Kansas, so it hit pretty close to home for me. Later in life I was involved with Nuclear weapons proliferations as a Marine.
When i was growing up in Northern Wisconsin in the late 70's and early 80's, there were occasional news casts when the press picked up suddenly intense activity at K.I. Sawyer Air Force base in Upper Michigan. A SAC bomber wing was based there and a prime target in case of nuclear first strike by the Russians. People then stocked up groceries and ammo for "just in case". People "just knew".
I’m 46 years old. When I was in the second grade my family got transferred from NY to Frankfurt. It was mid to late 80’s, USSR was still in full effect, East and West Germany same thing. I lived in the Taunus Mountains about 45 min north of Frankfurt in a very small town called “Wustems”. We were the ONLY Americans in that town, only non German speaking people. My subdivision / neighborhood north of Atlanta today, dwarfs that town by a factor of 7-10. Anyway, US Army convoys constantly rolled through my town, I was a little kid, on the curb waving at them as they drove by. I lived on the north side of town, my street name was “Auf Der Lai”. It doesn’t matter at this point so I actually lived at Auf Der Lai 5, Wustems Germany. Behind my folks house was fields and wilderness for a pretty good ways. Anyway, A-10 Warthogs visited overhead of my town almost every other day. They did freaky f’n drills over my town or area, tree top level flying 💩 that they wouldn’t get away with over the USA. My older brother and I would run into the field behind our house with a legit 3x5 US flag and wave that 💩 like crazy, hoping the pilots saw it. My current gig has me detailed right now to Tucson AZ, not for from Davis-Monthan AFB, an A-10 base. Hats off to A-10 drivers. I’ve admired ya’ll since I was a little kid. Thank you for the up close and personal air shows. I know those A-10 pilots in Germany were training for the Soviet Union to roll into Europe. Thank you A-10 pilots.
Neat note! Wow, quite the story. Yeah, I was in the Wisc Air Nat'l Guard, 86-02. 80's we supported the A-10 Warthog. I was Munitions Systems Specialist, i saw the A-10 up close & personal, such a beast! One of the bases we would fly to in the event the Ruskies went crazy and invaded Europe was Leipheim, Germany. The A-10 would've popped many a tank, but the Russians had a LOT of them. It would've been a major & messy conventional war. Nuclear war? Well..nothing need be said about that as far as devastation.
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis very well. I also remember my parents chose one night, during the middle of the crisis, to go to the drive in movie to see the movie "Hatari." I thought they were crazy making ourselves targets being parked out in the open like that.😂
Rule of thumb. When the government and/or the media is telling us that everything is fine then the crap is about to hit the fan. If they are panicking it's probably nothing.
The Day After Blu-Ray: amzn.to/3jGzX3H American superfortresses started using Lake Biwa northeast of Hiroshima as a coastal rendezvous point towards the end of the War. The city's air raid sirens had been sounding false alarms almost every night for weeks. Hiroshima and Kyoto were the only important Japanese cities that hadn't been visited in strength by "Mr B" (America's B-29 bombers). Hiroshima was reserved for a special demonstration and the people waited anxiously. B-29s had started making regular reconnaissance flights and the "yellow-alert" siren had become a morning routine. On the night of 5 August 1945, Hiroshima’s sirens wailed as two hundred B-29s approached the city from the south. People evacuated to their “safe areas” and waited for the napalm firestorm. The terror bombers roared overhead and then passed on heading north. People returned home but another warning wailed soon after midnight. The yellow alert sounded around 7:00 and the all-clear followed as an American reconnaissance plane approached from the south. People headed to work and thousands of school children gathered for morning work details helping to clear fire breaks in the lanes and streets. A lone B-29 passed high overhead at 8:15 and detonated a uranium bomb 1900 feet above the city. Two hundred thousand people were burned, blinded, disembowelled, irradiated and buried in rubble as the city crumbled beneath the nuclear flash, blast and shock waves. A turbulent column of heat, dust and ash rose miles into the sky shrouding the city in darkness. Neighbourhoods and streets were transformed into an unrecognisable wasteland of total destruction. Dazed survivors scrambled over mounds of wreckage and muffled voices screamed from the rubble. Tens of thousands descended on the city’s hospitals and the few remaining medical staff were overwhelmed. ‘More than 80 per cent of the city's doctors and nurses were killed in the explosion, their hospitals levelled or severely damaged. There were few medicines or painkillers. The shockwave tore through the Red Cross Hospital: ceilings and partitions collapsed; windows blew in, showering everyone with glass ... patients ran about screaming.’ Paul Ham, Hiroshima Nagasaki, 371 Ragged, gruesomely injured people filled hospital corridors and crowded the streets where many were vomiting from radiation sickness. Scattered fires grew into a conflagration and the hot air swirled with burning showers of cinders. Panic gripped the city and people herded into the corpse-filled estuarial rivers. Others fled to the blackened parks and huddled alongside the dying as they moaned, "Mizu! Mizu! - Water! Water!” Black radioactive rain fell from the mushroom cloud. Three days later, Mr B detonated a plutonium bomb above the Urakami Christian district of Nagasaki. America was now a nuclear power that ruled the sky and the world was shocked and awed. Britain handed leadership of the global capitalist system to America at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 and British imperial sterling was superseded by a truly international world reserve dollar regulated by the IMF and World Bank. Bankrupt Allies, West Germany and Japan fixed the exchange rates of their currencies relative to the US dollar which, in turn, was backed by a mountain of gold. US dollars were then shipped overseas as part of the Marshal Plan funding postwar reconstruction in the shadow of the Cold War. The Soviet Union became a nuclear power in 1949 and, by 1955, both the US and USSR had detonated a hydrogen bomb. Atomic bombs release energy through nuclear fission but thermonuclear weapons are driven by fusion reactions: the process that powers the sun. Hydrogen bombs can produce large multimegaton yields thousands of times more powerful than the "Little Boy" Hiroshima bomb and now represent the prevalent type... America built the first nuclear weapons during World War II and used them against Japan. Today, several nations are nuclear-armed including North Korea, Pakistan, Israel and soon perhaps Iran. The distinctive mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion lifts fine particles of dust and ash high into the stratosphere blocking light and reddening the rising and setting of the sun. As well as radioactive darkness, a thermonuclear war would also produce huge volumes of ozone-destroying nitric oxide further lowering global temperatures and plunging the planet into an extended nuclear winter. Please click like, subscribe, and turn on notifications. It really helps with channel growth. Thank you! This channel is not monetized. All ads are run by the copyright owner. Last Messages: amzn.to/42kbEdV
@@WaleedHiggins the nuclear winter would not be significant enough to where you can't grow food. one should still prepare for several years of food + seeds. The ozone layer would also be find after a few years - ultraviolet shielding isn't too hard
In the UK during WW2 the government built air raid shelters or you could have a Anderson shelter made of metal in your garden,to protect fro nuclear weapons the government said hide under your furniture lent against a wall while they went underground in proper bunkers.
My mom was from Germany…FRG…and as a kid growing up I always worried about my family being killed by a Soviet invasion into Germany…I lost family because of Hitler, then under the shadow of the DDR and the Soviet Union…Kruschev,, Brezhnev, Suslov, Filtov…I think…I may have my Premiers out of order and even confused with a KGB/GRU commander or two…but those of us scared for loved ones in Europe finally we got a breath of fresh air in Gorbachev…this scenario was plausible but we knew the Soviet people weren’t our enemy…it was the bureaucrats that were the problem…hoping their leaders didn’t want to die in a nuclear holocaust anymore than we did. I never understood the European anti nuke protests…they didn’t have the balls to protest Russian nukes because they’d have gotten shot…or they were planted by the Soviets in the countries they were protesting in…damn stupid…U.S., British, and French nukes kept the Soviet Union out…
The one thing that stuck out was the lady hanging laundry at 4:15. I grew up on a farm and there is no way an outside close line was that far from the house. Wouldn't make sense. Has to be close so it's easy to bring in the load if it starts to rain.
I was 9 when this movie was on. I don't remember watching it which I probably didn't. After hearing about it and all the issues people had with it, I did have a dream that night that we had to go directly to the nearest Fallout Shelter and that Soviet Tuplev bombers were flying over and to expect a Soviet invasion.
I watched this movie when I was 8 years old. Honestly don’t know why my parents let me. It scared the hell out of me. I remember being afraid of nuclear war with the Russians. God forbid that ever happens.
I was little when this came out but somehow my parents let me see it and I had nightmares about nuclear war, maybe like kids today are given nightmares about climate change. Looking back, I can't believe this movie was shown on regular T.V. (I guess cable hadn't happened yet.)
Cable was introduced in the 50's, grew quickly when HBO became available to cable companies via Satcom I in the mid 70's and grew from there so yes, cable was around then.
It was shown on network TV on purpose. The producers felt the shock value was necessary to wake people up to the horror of nuclear way. I remember my parents wouldn't let me watch it, but I stayed over at a friend's house and saw it anyway. It scared the crap out of me and I had nightmares. I read that Reagan saw it, and it helped push him to work on the START treaties.
@@jpq6257Yeah, I think nuclear war with a strong USSR was a more immediate threat at the time. Climate change wasn't on the global radar ( so to speak) then.
I remember when I was just a kid, maybe four or so. This was 1962. We lived on McCord AFB. It was Christmas time and the radio had the usual Christmas stuff. Then there was an announcement on the radio saying there was a bright red light coming over the North Pole. I started crying thinking it was atom bombs on the way. Of course it was supposed to be Santa on the way. But growing up on base, I was petrified of being bombed. Strange times.
I stand corrected. Some of the earliest airborne alerts were performed by D models. However, during the time depicted in this movie, the last B-52D was being retired after not serving alert for a number of years.
@@dannycampbell1397 : I'm not sure when the last B-52D served alert, but there were none when I was commissioned in 1981. The last B-52D was retired in 1983, about the time this show came out.
@@YdalirUllrsson Truth there. In fact, a couple months ago I went an purchased about six months worth of Potassium Iodide pills for just in case I survive the initial exchange. No joke.
Check out an old 1984 movie called "Countdown to Looking Glass" for nuclear war movie. It was kind of like the War of the Worlds radio show that scared the begebbers out of people.
The supermarket scene crack me up, if this generation were to face something like this today nobody would be buying groceries. They would be hauling grub by the cart full to the stolen cars. Screw the retailers.
ikr? ppl in full panic mode, but still semi civilized! ringing food up instead of just running ou with a car load..good catch! & accurate, especially for a place like Kansas City 40 yrs ago.
@gestaposantaclaus maybe true, but with recent geopolitical changes, we are orders of magnitude closer to nuclear war than back then. And we still have the capability to destroy each other. Diminished or not.
We all lived with this threat from as far back as I can remember. This is the reality of war. Not that this one scenario is a likely way to start it. A rogue dictator who thinks he has a lot to gain, in spite of losses to his or her own people might try it.
I remember this time, and watched this. Funny thing was, contrary to what some contemporaries are saying in the comments, I don't remember really spending much time being afraid of nuclear war, nor any other kids I knew. Curious thing.
The actual nuclear attack scene reused footage from a 1979 film called "First Strike" which ironically was produced to encourage a US nuclear buildup by playing out a scenario where the US is hit by a Soviet first strike and forced to surrender. It's ironic that "The Day After" reused the footage to make an anti-nuclear buildup film which many have said influenced Ronald Reagan into getting serious with nuclear arms reduction talks with the USSR during his second term.
I live about 60 from Whiteman AFB. There are dozens of missile silos dotting the countryside. They are all empty and destroyed now but the remnants are still there. The farmers use the old fence enclosures to store their big round hay bales in as they are reasonably secure over an open field. I grew up around here. I remember at age 6, us coming home from a night out in the "city" (Kansas City) and seeing soldiers and military trucks at a normally quiet silo lowering a very large, what appeared to me to be a, crate. My dad said it was a missile. The had the whole site lit up with huge flood lights. It was exciting but a little scary. This was probably 1973 or 4. Today this isn't a valuable military target anymore, but 45 years ago it was ground zero had we ever gone to full scale nuclear war.
9:08 Most horrifying part was CHUCK ROAST was on SALE for $1.28/lb in 1983 .. today at the local grocery store, the CHUCK ROAST special in the advertising sheet its $6.49/lb 😱
Shows the stupidity of mankinds final hours of absolute suicide. Nobody wins but everybody suffers. I am a Nuclear Test veteran from the 1950's. I have seen the destructive power of these weapons.
I was born in 1961 and lived between RAF SCAMPTON AND RAF WADDINGTON... The UK'S BIGGEST NUCLEAR BOMBER AIRFIELDS who carried a belly full of NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON which incidentally was made in LINCOLNSHIRE, we heard the air attack siren frequently sending out a terrifying wail of unimaginable noise.... we never knew if it was the real alert signalling incoming Russian Nuclear ICBM'S.... the only saving grace was..... we would never ever have known because those 2 airfields were quite possibly the first targets for the Russian ICBM'S and then the capital city London. To be perfectly honest i could write a book about the cold war and what experiences we went through however i think you would think it was a Sci-fi movie script but we knew and lived thank god because of the Deterrent that the ICBM'S WERE DESIGNED FOR.
A horrible noise when those sirens went off. When my grandmother would explain the sirens going off during the blitz... the way she explained it... horrifying!
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Why is it split into three parts when that's unnecessary??
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I'm Russian, it's very difficult for me to watch films like this. I grew up in the USSR, with everyone saying that nuclear fallout would happen at any moment. If you can find it on the internet, there is a Russian film on this same topic. It was produced in the Soviet era, and is called "Dead Man's Letters".
It is a record of nuclear destruction from the Soviet perspective. It tells about an old professor of natural history, who survives the nuclear war by taking refuge in the bunker beneath the Moscow library. He survives the devastation along with a group of children and some other employees. He lives there, sick and weakened. And in addition, he tries to keep children's hopes alive so that they can build a better world, if it continues.
Everyone should know of people like “al ison mc dowell” listen to one of her streams to get an idea of what bs this propaganda was but more importantly what they’re attempting to do today, it’s way more cerebral but same end, control
Thank you!
Then you Russians would do well to finally get rid of this madman.
I'm Ukrainian. I grew up in the USSR. Most of my family lives in Kharkiv. Maybe you'd feel better if you moved there. D'ya think?
I'm sorry about your family, but better yours than mine!@@garyK.45ACP
One of my neighbors was a crew chief for SAC from the late 60s to the early 90s. He told me there were more than few times that the aircrews were scrambled and while it was panic, it was rehearsed so it was automatic. Of course the surrounding communities would figure something was up when every B52 on the base suddenly took off in as fast a succession as they could. He told me the only thing that motivated him was that their only chance was to get the aircraft away as fast as possible since ICBMs could already be on the way in which case they had less than 30 minutes to get the entire squadron away. But he and the aircrew also knew that it was a 1 way flight as they wouldn't have enough fuel to make it back if given the "GO" order. Anyone under age 55 doesn't really know what it's like to live in fear of nuclear armageddon.....and because we've lost that fear it makes it more likely than not to actually have it happen
What about the war in Ukraine sunshine. It is more dangerous than it has ever been. Besides, anyone born before the wall came down generally knows. Hence this film in 1983
Now the warin Israel middle East...a third world war is inevitable due to our nature.. the question is when???
I’m 50 mate, born in 1973 and remember all to well the fear during the early to mind 1980’s of nuclear war.
@@mattbaxendale5550yeah fear is the mind virus, hence fear porn like this movie. In reality they never planned on mutual destruction , it was one huge op, they’re all in cahoots & always have been, they’ve admitted it in their writings
I'm off baby BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
I was a high school freshman and we had classroom discussions about this after it aired in 1983. The entire school was quiet that day. This is a almost a documentary for Gen-X.
putin building up to this he psychotic
‘87 rules!
'83. First to the Persian Gulf in 1990... saved since '85. Romans 10:9-13. Today is the day of salvation, no one is guaranteed tomorrow.😮
Enlisted in my USAF in 84 and retired in 2012. I don't remember ever being in PEACE, nothing but war.
The fear mongering worked then.
As a teenager in the 1980s I worried about The Bomb a lot. It was a common fear, if you listen to the song "Forever Young", one of the lines is: " are you going to drop The Bomb or not"?
J'adore cette chanson ❤
So did I I’d wake up in the morning and have the thought on my mind,
Queen’s song Hammer to Fall describes it well; ‘We who grew up tall and proud, in the shadow of a mushroom cloud’.
Alphaville??
Same here. I even built myself a rudimentary fallout shelter according to government instructions. The first time it rained, tit flooded.
I was a Minuteman II ICBM Crew Member during the height of the Cold War. Some aspects of this movie are pretty close to how it was in Strategic Air Command. We constantly trained, exercised and were evaluated on being prepared to retaliate if America suffered a First Strike nuclear attack from the Soviet Union.
Thank you for your service, I'm a Gulf War vet but can't imagine what you guys went through back then. How crazy that we're now right back in that scenario.
It’s fascinating to see, even if it’s a fictional story. What happens to the plane carrying the general? I mean he has to know what’s going on well before he boarded that aircraft. Is it on its final mission, like the B52’s? Or is it Greenland? 😉
@sandydiller4828 The bombers that make it to their target and are able egress from enemy airspace have a classified post strike recovery location to land. The base they departed from in all liklihood has been destroyed. You could set watch by the times the Looking Glass aircraft took off from Offutt AFB NE. There was Looking Glass aircraft continuously on alert and aloft 24/7 - 365 for almost 30 years. Same with the SAC Airborne Command Post - aka "Looking Glass". The follow-on to SAC -USSTRATCOM - does not keep an aircraft continuously airborne but they operate an aircraft that also has a full Battle Staff on board. It is a 747 known as the National Emergency Operations Center - "Nightwatch".
@sandydiller4828 If the bombers made it to their targets and returned from enemy airspace, they would proceed to a Classified post-strike recovery location as chances are the base they departed from has been destroyed. Same with the SAC Airborne Command Post - aka "Looking Glass". There was a Looking Glass aircraft in the air continuously for almost 30 years. In addition to the Battlestaff which was commanded by a Flag Officer, the SAC Airborne Command Post also had a Missile Combat Crew aboard as the Minuteman ICBM force could be launched by this platform. The follow-on to SAC - USSTRATCOM - does not keep a Command Post continuously Airborne but they operate an aircraft (a 747 code named "Nightwatch" that has a full Battlestaff aboard) that performs essentially the same function and can be launched in times of national emergency.
@@tomp8094 it’s beyond cool and so well thought out. Oh I know it’s for real and it’s final, but I’m glad the bombers have a place to go just in case they make it out.
I am not seeing near enough toilet paper being purchased at the store.
So true!
Or cigarettes and booze.
When rioting breaks out it’ll be open season on flatscreen televisions and training shoes. 🤷🏾♀️
Remember that one scene in Threads, probably need some to clean up once the sirens go off.
@@misdangered4326 With days, hours or maybe minutes until the big bang? Trainers maybe, but flatscreen TVs? Not much point. Toilet paper, oh yeah!
the survivors of a nuclear holocaust would envy the dead
Premier Nikita Khruschev
I think I’d rather
The survivors of another tRump presidency wouls envy the dead...
"The living will envy the dead" - fixed
@@gary7vn Nikita Khrushchev said "The survivors of a nuclear Holocaust will envy the dead"
The Premier was right. In the book “Brothers,” when word of JFKs assassination got to Moscow, it came from Bobby directly, through a trusted friend of both the USA and Soviet Union. Khrushchev openly wept and paced alone in his office for three days. While the uber hard core guys immediately blamed the CIA, the majority of the USSR were terribly upset because they loved Kennedy.
10:06 I remember my sister's TV had that swing-out door,
looked like that when it wouldn't lock anymore... Boy I am old.
I remember when this movie was aired on prime TV. I was in high school and a senior. It was the conversation of the day. I was scared but not terrified. Now much different. Its amazing how things change when you are older and the chance of such an event can be a reality.
I was 8 years old and the film made a tremendous impact on me. The Cold War, Communism, nuclear war etc were constant topics of discussion around the dinner table as a kid, too. I didn't fully grasp all of the issues at the time but I did understand it was all serious business.
Me too.
"around the dinner table....." Now there's a memory.@@remus80
Lived through the 60’s and under forever threat. It relaxed by the 90’s; but now Drac’s back.
@@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc Right? I was a freshman, never thought I'd be living under the same threats as our parents did. Madness.
I have searched all day for this movie due to recent events. Couldn't even find it on Amazon Prime. I was in my 20's with 3 children when this came out.
I watched it about 5-6yrs back using a torrent downloader. So it is, or was out there. I've not touched that stuff for years.
I've been searching for this movie also ... I've been 23 when it aired first. ... I've been so relieved after the end of the cold war + the end of GRD = I'm German ( west) ... And today .... the world is crazy again !!!
I got a copy on DVD. I also "ripped" an ISO image of the DVD so I could take it with me on computer.
It's on blu-ray, on ebay
I was a military policeman and on an EOD team when this came out. Stationed on a Dutch missile base in Western Germany. Everyone hoped this would not come true. We had plans and evacuation routines for our families in place.
of course you all knew your hopium and plans were a joke right?
Thank God it did not come true! Current events are not even close to the atmosphere in the Cold War.
This was such an "in your face" movie when it came out that it actually was a wake up call for everyone on the planet.
we are still sleeping. it didnt work!
We are closer than ever before
Except to those who knew. To them it was WAY underdone.
The audio quality for the time period this was made is surprisingly good. Even big budget movies then seemed to have much grainier sound.
The most scariest film ever conceived. Sure beats slasher, aliens,monsters and zombie movies.
Have you seen Threads? Another level if terror.
@@JodiDunne-ij6mf I think I saw E.T burning
Try the old "On The Beach" 😮😢
Threads and both versions of on the beach! Excellent and scary movies!!
Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Waltzing Matilda. Let’s also not forget a frightening 1961 film from Britain The Day The Earth Caught Fire.
I remember watching this in the 4th grade. I was terrified and so were many children. They stopped talking about nuclear war in our school because of that.
I'm 64. There were a lot of nuclear war movies and post-holocaust movies put out all through my life. My generation lived through the constant fear of living through a nuclear conflict. And movies like this didn't help. I was in the Air Force at the time of this movie. Now 40 years later, I see this movie and many like as propaganda designed to frighten the public.
Not only children, adults too!
Anyone from 2024? It is getting a little scary here..
Yup in 2026 we will be gone
God has spoken l. We will be fine. America will be safe because of him. Lord God Almighty
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, what is happening now is nothing. Back in the day the US kept B41s loaded on B-52's in the air, 24/7, flying right along the Soviet border. They were kept fueled in flight by squadrons of KC-135 tankers. The operations flew night and day, rain and shine, year after year...
If Trump doesn't win in November then it will happen for real eventually!!!!!
@@rtqiiYes, what you are refering to is Operation Chromedome that went on between 1961 and 1968. Chromedome is also portrayed in the famous movie Dr. Strangelove.
Jettisoning the whole marriage storyline actually improves the film here. And the storyline with Jason Robards' daughter.
So what's left?
They need to make a modern remake of this flick...
The B52s would still be in the remake!
I think the Satanic PTB are trying really, really hard to do this in real time!
Yes, and to make the remake "realistic", to somehow add:
>Russia vs Ukraine
>Iran vs Israel
>China vs India. and
>China vs Taiwan
I know, that's a lot of "realism".
And then have someone quote Mathew 24:22
Before it’s too late!
I think the Satanic PTB are trying really, really hard to do this in real time!
One of the most realistic nuclear war movies besides Threads ever made. I am I guess what would be considered a millennial (born in 87) Saw it when I was 13 and it left an impact on me that has never left. Rented it from my local library at the time on VHS.
If you want to watch the most realistic launch sequence and then the most unrealistic movie that follows with a bit of laugh on how ridiculously stupid it gets watch the 1977 movie damnation alley. It's starts off well and then becomes WTF ?
@@darrenfromaustraliaupside-9079 I’ve heard of Damnation Alley but ended watched it! I’ll have to watch it! Thanks for sharing!
Was 13 also. Scared the bejesus out of me. I still think about it.
@@corym8358 me too! Sometimes wish I never saw it and remained in ignorance but honestly it’s something that everyone should probably see.
Threads is something else.
I love how people are buying meat, milk, and other things that need refrigerated. Be smart, buy the cereal, oatmeal, canned goods, and other non-perishable items.
+ pain killers (Tylenol, weed), bottle water, protein bars,
Why bother? Survival post nuclear exchange would be nothing but a horror freak show.
@@plaistowbill yes
They missed toilet paper
Thats because your average person has NO idea how they could survive past tomorrows lunch.
The air attack warning sounds like, this is the sound!!! A classic 80s hit very apt at the time
Thanks for uploading this.
I’m glad this came across my feed as I was thinking about this today. I watched this in 1983. Our class was required to watch it.
Watched this movie with my dad in the 2000s as a kid and it gave me a genuine fear of nuclear war. Literally had recurring nightmares of dying from inescapable nuclear bombs.
Terminator series had a little of that. But it was more seeing Alien 1 for me lol.
I was born in 50' s I school we had Air Raid drills. In shopping areas there were Air Raid shelters with signage. I never obsessed over it.
Don't worry about it. Just hide under a desk.
The scene in the barbershop is actually one of the most brilliant and unforgettable sequences I've seen, even in a movie like this. Lithgow is always excellent.
We lived outside of a strategic Air command base, B1 and B52 and Minuteman crews in scattered silos, I can still remember the roar the constant roar coming from the flight line when the Jets would be taking off in succession if you were on the phone when one of them was flying over the land they actually cut it on your phone call and people would always ask us what was that and we'd always reply that's a b-1 crew coming in. When they would have alerts we would get on our bikes and we would go to Pizza Hut because all the airmen had to leave their food and Pizza Hut would give us all of their pizzas.
Welcome to 2023, with the Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight.
I was in the Air Force in 1983 and the B-52D models seen in the movie were retired that year. I launched out the last D model to the bone yard. Today the only model left is the B-52H model.
Thank you for your service.
@@rdelrosso1973 Thank you for mentioning it.
The D's had a certain something that the later ones lacked. I guess it was the tall tail and cleaner looking nose. They were pretty rugged. More D's hit over Hanoi got home compared to the G's. And the D's starred in Dr. Strangelove, which was pretty cool considering they were supposedly still Top Secret.
Long live the BUFF! The B-52H airframes will be flying for quite a while as updated B-52J models.
@@rdelrosso1973 service to Armageddon.
Anyone seen Threads? A UK television film. Was banned when it first came out.
Its on YT
Threads was never banned, I think you're confusing it with ' The War Game ' a 1966 British pseudo-documentary produced for the BBC which was withdrawn before screening.
Threads is grim.
They, whoever ‘they’ are, need to make a modern remake of this.
Like all modern remakes it would be awful. This is just fine
@@doobydootoo It'd be dripping in woke, that's for sure.
@@larryroyovitz7829Yawn.
@@jerrypartington3650 Correct, it would be a major yawn fest, glad you agree.
Stanislav Petrov, September 26,1983
God bless that man, RIP
The man that save the world from nuclear annihilation. And the vast majority of people have never heard of him.
The man that single handedly saved the world from nuclear annihilation and the vast majority of people have never heard of him.
💯
MOTHER RUSSIA!!!! 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
I was in USAF Security Specialist tech school when this movie aired. One of the guys rented a TV and a few of us watched it in his room. The wear of the uniform and personal appearance regulations (AFR 35-10) had been hammered into us at the time. And we were learning about securing vital Air Force resources including the use of deadly force. Needless to say, after learning what we'd learned, we found ourselves chuckling at the way Air Force Security was depicted in this movie.
40 years later and here we go again.
I served in the Army in the 1980s and in this year 2024, we are no where near close to the 80s atmosphere of fear and imminent doom we felt was omnipresent back in the 1980s.
False. Not by a small margin either.
@@keithad6485 I also lived through the 80s, and yes it was sort of a background type thing back then - it could happen but you felt that mostly level heads were in charge.
I don't feel that way now, things have changed.
@@DonB.-Mulefivefive Would you care to explain?
@@tachikomakusanagi3744 You and I will have to agree to disagree. These days, we are not even close to what is was like in the cold war. Memory of those days is distance, but I clearly remember those days and the discussions in Army of the threat that existed. In the 1980s, the threat was not used by politicians and the media to push an agenda like it is now. The threat back then was omnipresent. The threat now is that put about by the claims in media and by politicians to serve their own agenda. That's my two cents worth.
May 2024!...I be under the threat since 1953....still here...Pray
I watched this film like 3x last yr on youtube here (there's the whole film, just search it).
1966 & still here! Hallelujah. the rapture will hit before a global atom bomb battle. yet..many calamities surely will occur prior to getting caught up..& already are.
pray indeed.
Salut, I’m 70, Irish, living with my beautiful English wife of 49 years en France. My health means that realistically I won’t be here much longer. However we have had an excellent life together, still enjoy an excellent life together in a beautiful part of the world with fantastic wine, cognac and food. Frankly we are very content with our lot and the nuclear threat is no longer “on our radar”. Yes the threat is real …… I simply do not have the energy to worry about it now, and I gave up religion just under 60 years ago. Bon Courage!
@@romeobravo2023Good for you, Brother!! ENJOY 'till the VERY END. NO ONE can take those GLORIOUS Years away from you!! Cheers to You & your Beautiful wife!! 😊❤❤
Prayers
It's NOVEMBER 2nd AD 2024!!!! This could OUR LAST ELECTION before that the day if KING HITLER TRUMP tries to HOOK & CROOK this election and uses NUCLEAR WEAPONS????!!!!!!! Just because WE DIDN"T & HOPEFULLY we will NEVER VOTE for HIM as Dictator ???!!!!!!
07:30 This perfectly illustrates why virtually every city is a target for nuclear war. Are you near a military base? Target. Is your community a major hub for telecommunications? Target. Steel production? Well not much of that these days, but still, target.
You left off, long 10,000 ft+ runways, large train classification sorting yards and strategic logistic locations
I am about 40 mi from Little Rock Arkansas and there is a military base in Jacksonville Arkansas that's even closer Isaac both of them would be a Target.. I am in the Red Zone anyways
My recomendation, stay away from media, enjoy yourselves, families & friends & animals and live life like you normally would. No deal of worriness will prevent what could happen. I promise you'll feel better.
I agree! news is full of doom and gloom!.
There's a British film on the same topic called "Threads".
Same idea, but even darker than this.
This is an American product, and American stories need hope at the end.
At the end of 'Threads', we realise there is no hope after nuclear war.
There isn't. We need to learn that lesson again before someone starts using these weapons.
The weapons are still there.
There was little hope depicted in The Day After that I recall just chaos and uncertainty. The farmer patriarch Dalhburg gets killed on his own property by strangers and the killer starts warming up a knife, Dr Oakes goes back to the ash pile of his now gone home to die, the bride to be Dalhburg daughter is dying of radioative poisoning, and John Lithgow's character Huxley radios out for a response if "anyone is out there? Anyone at all?" and all you hear is static. There's more hope at the end of Dawn's Early Light imho when the two crewmembers of B-52 Polar Bear one survive joke about going to Bora Bora agree no one is going to die now (because hostilities are ceased) and Powers Booth says "Welcome to tomorrow."
@drunkrumjack Watch Threads, and see how that ends. It takes us 15 years further, after the nuclear exchange. It gets a lot worse than Jason Robarts going home to die, and John Lithgow not getting an answer. There's still some humanity left in these people.
Really, it can get much, much worse.
"The only winning move, is not to play." ~ Joshua from the film WarGames.
Our country would do well to have this or a remake shown on prime time as Generation X and Generation Y grew up in the decades without a nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. Moms and Dads should see this type of horror and have that nuclear war imprinted in their minds as we did. This film scared the he’ll out of nation that needed to awakened to the potential and devastating effects of an all out nuclear war. This film was partly responsible for the anti nuclear weapon movement of the eighties. We sure need it now.
You actually think the fear control government used on you should be used today. Seriously watch the war in Ukraine shows Russia is a joke just like all other false flag wars. Start w cold war then war on drugs, poverty etc. Fear mongering govt is what you want. Smfh typical Christians cry Armageddon without knowing wtf that actually means. Magedo was a city the 1st recorded war happened at. It's a flat hill today.
Speak for yourself,I'm generation X and knew all too well the fear of nuclear annliation.
@@susandaniels9733 Speak for myself , I speak for a generation that lived through the terror of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was among the children who regularly practiced duck and cover drills in our schools. I lived through the Air Raid Siren drills every Monday at 1pm. My Mom and Dad stacked wooden crates full of supplies in our basement as the threat of nuclear attack was very real. Russia’s leader threatened “ to bury us.” It was a very scary time that left an emotional mark on many including myself who had the recurring trauma of nightmares. I was born in 1953 and was among those who protested the bomb and war so future generations might not have to go through the fear that we faced.. We succeeded for a time and now that threat is staring us in our faces… So I should speak for myself ? Present generations are silent with the nuclear sword of Damocles that hangs precariously over your heads. We protested and fought for peace everyday… It was major news everyday.. Public opinion started to turn after the Kent State massacre when students protesting the war were MURDERED by national guard troops… Yes much has changed and for the worst. I guess I will be” speaking for myself “ like a voice crying out in the wilderness to those who have no ears to hear with and no eyes to see the signs of the times. Peace be with you.☮️💟
Any "movement" based on a fictional film is bound to be misguided.
They couldnt make it, would be to woke
I grew up on the Central Coast of CA. To our South was Vandenberg AFB. To our North is the Diabalo Cayon Nuclear Power Plant. Right in our hometown was a cable connection between the US and Hawaii, Gaum, and Japan. To this day all are key targets military and infrastructure. After watching this movie when it aired, I asked my dad about it. He said I don't need to worry if it ever happened we would likely be the first to die. He was Air Force. Hell of a thing for a 13-year-old kid to hear. My dad never lied to us, even when it hurt or scared us. Today I live in Sacramento. Still a key target. I keep a bottle of Jameson in my trunk. I hear the alert I am not running. I am getting good and drunk and waiting for the flash.
Not such a bad plan, aha. Jameson? Im not a fan..more partial to Four Roses
small batch, ahaha. & Idk..ill duke it out awhile..I'm 30 mins north of Madison Wi,
no primary targets nearby, plus being a Christian, there's this: the rapture will hit
before a global atom bomb battle. yet..many calamities surely will occur prior to
getting caught up..& already are.
Jameson! 🥃 Hey Bud, i got 'my' bottles of Jameson ready too, as i live smack dab in the middle of Houston.
World War 3 breaks out:
Cashiers: I will not leave my post.
This is where I make my staaand!
Good point. But if they stay, they get first dibs on the canned goods..
As a little kid I had a nightmare about this in the late 80s
I was in the US Army stationed in Bamberg,Germany when this came out,we always knew we were just a 'speed bump'.
"Albert, when I came to you with those calculations, we were afraid we might start a chain reaction that could destroy the entire world."
"I remember it well, what of it?"
"I believe we did..."
I watched this when it was first aired. Scary stuff. Equally terrifying was the TV movie 'Special Bulletin', about terrorists with a nuclear device in Charleston, SC.
I was stationed at Charleston AFB at that time, and never saw the detonation. False news.
@@ussling Of course it was false news, it was only a TV movie.
At 9:52 you can see the tail gunner's position in an older, D-model B-52.
I was stationed at Loring Air Force Base, Maine. That base was known for being the location that would have gotten hit first if the USSR ever launched a nuclear attack on the United States. That fact was referenced in the movie WarGames (1983).
Now parts if it look like a bomb went off anyway 😅
@develynseether4426 The base closed 30 years ago. Considering the fact that it is located in a massive remote wilderness area, I'm guessing that nature is probably reclaiming the base - or at least parts of it.
Las guerras mundiales iniciaron por cuestiones políticas e ideológicas.
Las guerras mundiales iniciaron por cuestiones políticas e ideológicas.
Duck and cover, as a kid in the 50s and 60s. It was the biggest nuclear joke going! Duck and cover and kiss your ass goodbye!
I to remember the duck and cover bs even as a third grader I thought it was a joke
I remember when sputnik went into orbit and seeing convoys of Army trucks going south on highway 41 in '62
Now I'm 67 retired and all this nuke garbage is starting again. Turn the keys and push the buttons and just do it, I'm sick of hearing about it
I just want to enjoy my last few years in retirement
"Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin 1988
Protect and Survive. Anyone from the UK in early 80s understand this!
The best thing the government printed strong and fairly absorbent,the info inside we decided was has useful has a chocolate fire guard.
My parents hadn't even met when this movie was made
Fascinating comment.
@skate103 no real reason why i made it. Just a observation 🤷♂️ parents used to tell me about the cold war
I remember watching this in school the 1st time it got broadcast. I was in Father Flanagan's Boys Town in Omaha Neb. Offutt AFB is on the other side of town and I grew up in Kansas, so it hit pretty close to home for me. Later in life I was involved with Nuclear weapons proliferations as a Marine.
When i was growing up in Northern Wisconsin in the late 70's and early 80's, there were occasional news casts when the press picked up suddenly intense activity at K.I. Sawyer Air Force base in Upper Michigan. A SAC bomber wing was based there and a prime target in case of nuclear first strike by the Russians. People then stocked up groceries and ammo for "just in case". People "just knew".
I’m 46 years old.
When I was in the second grade my family got transferred from NY to Frankfurt. It was mid to late 80’s, USSR was still in full effect, East and West Germany same thing.
I lived in the Taunus Mountains about 45 min north of Frankfurt in a very small town called “Wustems”.
We were the ONLY Americans in that town, only non German speaking people.
My subdivision / neighborhood north of Atlanta today, dwarfs that town by a factor of 7-10.
Anyway, US Army convoys constantly rolled through my town, I was a little kid, on the curb waving at them as they drove by.
I lived on the north side of town, my street name was “Auf Der Lai”. It doesn’t matter at this point so I actually lived at Auf Der Lai 5, Wustems Germany.
Behind my folks house was fields and wilderness for a pretty good ways.
Anyway, A-10 Warthogs visited overhead of my town almost every other day. They did freaky f’n drills over my town or area, tree top level flying 💩 that they wouldn’t get away with over the USA.
My older brother and I would run into the field behind our house with a legit 3x5 US flag and wave that 💩 like crazy, hoping the pilots saw it.
My current gig has me detailed right now to Tucson AZ, not for from Davis-Monthan AFB, an A-10 base.
Hats off to A-10 drivers. I’ve admired ya’ll since I was a little kid. Thank you for the up close and personal air shows.
I know those A-10 pilots in Germany were training for the Soviet Union to roll into Europe. Thank you A-10 pilots.
Neat note! Wow, quite the story. Yeah, I was in the Wisc Air Nat'l Guard, 86-02. 80's
we supported the A-10 Warthog. I was Munitions Systems Specialist, i saw the A-10
up close & personal, such a beast! One of the bases we would fly to in the event the Ruskies went crazy and invaded Europe was Leipheim, Germany. The A-10 would've popped many a tank, but the Russians had a LOT of them. It would've been a major
& messy conventional war. Nuclear war? Well..nothing need be said about that as far
as devastation.
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis very well. I also remember my parents chose one night, during the middle of the crisis, to go to the drive in movie to see the movie "Hatari." I thought they were crazy making ourselves targets being parked out in the open like that.😂
Rule of thumb. When the government and/or the media is telling us that everything is fine then the crap is about to hit the fan. If they are panicking it's probably nothing.
And what’s the rule of thumb when some nobody on social media asks another nobody why they’re any more reliable than the government or the media
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American superfortresses started using Lake Biwa northeast of Hiroshima as a coastal rendezvous point towards the end of the War. The city's air raid sirens had been sounding false alarms almost every night for weeks. Hiroshima and Kyoto were the only important Japanese cities that hadn't been visited in strength by "Mr B" (America's B-29 bombers). Hiroshima was reserved for a special demonstration and the people waited anxiously. B-29s had started making regular reconnaissance flights and the "yellow-alert" siren had become a morning routine. On the night of 5 August 1945, Hiroshima’s sirens wailed as two hundred B-29s approached the city from the south. People evacuated to their “safe areas” and waited for the napalm firestorm. The terror bombers roared overhead and then passed on heading north. People returned home but another warning wailed soon after midnight. The yellow alert sounded around 7:00 and the all-clear followed as an American reconnaissance plane approached from the south. People headed to work and thousands of school children gathered for morning work details helping to clear fire breaks in the lanes and streets. A lone B-29 passed high overhead at 8:15 and detonated a uranium bomb 1900 feet above the city. Two hundred thousand people were burned, blinded, disembowelled, irradiated and buried in rubble as the city crumbled beneath the nuclear flash, blast and shock waves. A turbulent column of heat, dust and ash rose miles into the sky shrouding the city in darkness. Neighbourhoods and streets were transformed into an unrecognisable wasteland of total destruction. Dazed survivors scrambled over mounds of wreckage and muffled voices screamed from the rubble. Tens of thousands descended on the city’s hospitals and the few remaining medical staff were overwhelmed.
‘More than 80 per cent of the city's doctors and nurses were killed in the explosion, their hospitals levelled or severely damaged. There were few medicines or painkillers. The shockwave tore through the Red Cross Hospital: ceilings and partitions collapsed; windows blew in, showering everyone with glass ... patients ran about screaming.’ Paul Ham, Hiroshima Nagasaki, 371
Ragged, gruesomely injured people filled hospital corridors and crowded the streets where many were vomiting from radiation sickness. Scattered fires grew into a conflagration and the hot air swirled with burning showers of cinders. Panic gripped the city and people herded into the corpse-filled estuarial rivers. Others fled to the blackened parks and huddled alongside the dying as they moaned, "Mizu! Mizu! - Water! Water!” Black radioactive rain fell from the mushroom cloud. Three days later, Mr B detonated a plutonium bomb above the Urakami Christian district of Nagasaki.
America was now a nuclear power that ruled the sky and the world was shocked and awed. Britain handed leadership of the global capitalist system to America at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 and British imperial sterling was superseded by a truly international world reserve dollar regulated by the IMF and World Bank. Bankrupt Allies, West Germany and Japan fixed the exchange rates of their currencies relative to the US dollar which, in turn, was backed by a mountain of gold. US dollars were then shipped overseas as part of the Marshal Plan funding postwar reconstruction in the shadow of the Cold War.
The Soviet Union became a nuclear power in 1949 and, by 1955, both the US and USSR had detonated a hydrogen bomb. Atomic bombs release energy through nuclear fission but thermonuclear weapons are driven by fusion reactions: the process that powers the sun. Hydrogen bombs can produce large multimegaton yields thousands of times more powerful than the "Little Boy" Hiroshima bomb and now represent the prevalent type...
America built the first nuclear weapons during World War II and used them against Japan. Today, several nations are nuclear-armed including North Korea, Pakistan, Israel and soon perhaps Iran. The distinctive mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion lifts fine particles of dust and ash high into the stratosphere blocking light and reddening the rising and setting of the sun. As well as radioactive darkness, a thermonuclear war would also produce huge volumes of ozone-destroying nitric oxide further lowering global temperatures and plunging the planet into an extended nuclear winter.
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@@elessartelcontar9415 Thanks for the extra details, however, I think you missed the point.
@@WaleedHiggins the nuclear winter would not be significant enough to where you can't grow food. one should still prepare for several years of food + seeds. The ozone layer would also be find after a few years - ultraviolet shielding isn't too hard
LooKS LIKE WALEED got that word for word from google- great copy job NOT a single typo
Bro get out and live your life- this copying job borders on mild autistism
I loved jason robards in "something wicked this way cometh"
Was stationed at Wiesbaden Air Base & we faced the warsaw pact at Fulda Gap several times
I was on a frigate in the mid and North Atlantic at the height of the Cold war.
As a kid growing up in the 1960's, we were taught to hide under our desks for Emergencies like Nuclear War...😳😳😳
In the UK during WW2 the government built air raid shelters or you could have a Anderson shelter made of metal in your garden,to protect fro nuclear weapons the government said hide under your furniture lent against a wall while they went underground in proper bunkers.
Missurahhhh. Now I know where cartmen got his confederacy voice
My wife's family is from Missouri. The pronounce it as Missery. No idea where that came from but a lot of people there say it the same way.
8:46 Nuclear War breaks out and these two horn dogs are totally oblivious. 😂
Remenber Norm Mcdonald's joke about the people working at the supermarket.
"Good chance to pick up some overtime"
Whomever it is that cut and spliced this together did an amazing job
My mom was from Germany…FRG…and as a kid growing up I always worried about my family being killed by a Soviet invasion into Germany…I lost family because of Hitler, then under the shadow of the DDR and the Soviet Union…Kruschev,, Brezhnev, Suslov, Filtov…I think…I may have my Premiers out of order and even confused with a KGB/GRU commander or two…but those of us scared for loved ones in Europe finally we got a breath of fresh air in Gorbachev…this scenario was plausible but we knew the Soviet people weren’t our enemy…it was the bureaucrats that were the problem…hoping their leaders didn’t want to die in a nuclear holocaust anymore than we did. I never understood the European anti nuke protests…they didn’t have the balls to protest Russian nukes because they’d have gotten shot…or they were planted by the Soviets in the countries they were protesting in…damn stupid…U.S., British, and French nukes kept the Soviet Union out…
you are wrong about the protestors. they were trying to save the World from this EVIL.
Dont forget Andropov.
@@danyleon4870 that’s right…forgot Andropov…good recall…they changed their party leadership so often…
Why the clothes line is so far away?
That's why she's so skinny - all that walking lol.
The one thing that stuck out was the lady hanging laundry at 4:15. I grew up on a farm and there is no way an outside close line was that far from the house. Wouldn't make sense. Has to be close so it's easy to bring in the load if it starts to rain.
It's a plot device so she could close and wink at the airman.
I was 9 when this movie was on. I don't remember watching it which I probably didn't. After hearing about it and all the issues people had with it, I did have a dream that night that we had to go directly to the nearest Fallout Shelter and that Soviet Tuplev bombers were flying over and to expect a Soviet invasion.
I watched this movie when I was 8 years old. Honestly don’t know why my parents let me. It scared the hell out of me. I remember being afraid of nuclear war with the Russians. God forbid that ever happens.
I was little when this came out but somehow my parents let me see it and I had nightmares about nuclear war, maybe like kids today are given nightmares about climate change. Looking back, I can't believe this movie was shown on regular T.V. (I guess cable hadn't happened yet.)
Cable was introduced in the 50's, grew quickly when HBO became available to cable companies via Satcom I in the mid 70's and grew from there so yes, cable was around then.
It was shown on network TV on purpose. The producers felt the shock value was necessary to wake people up to the horror of nuclear way. I remember my parents wouldn't let me watch it, but I stayed over at a friend's house and saw it anyway. It scared the crap out of me and I had nightmares. I read that Reagan saw it, and it helped push him to work on the START treaties.
Well maybe if people had not focused so much on nuclear war scenarios they would have acted sooner on climate change !!
@@jpq6257Yeah, I think nuclear war with a strong USSR was a more immediate threat at the time. Climate change wasn't on the global radar ( so to speak) then.
First thing I noticed is nobody’s buying any toilet paper. I guess they didn’t get the memo. 😂
No shit.
3:51 That clothes line was an incredible distance from the house...
It was and that didnt make sense.!.A tad strange.
I remember when I was just a kid, maybe four or so. This was 1962. We lived on McCord AFB. It was Christmas time and the radio had the usual Christmas stuff. Then there was an announcement on the radio saying there was a bright red light coming over the North Pole. I started crying thinking it was atom bombs on the way. Of course it was supposed to be Santa on the way. But growing up on base, I was petrified of being bombed. Strange times.
B-52Ds are depicted in the video. The last D model was retired in 1983. And, as far as I know, they never served nuclear alert duty.
good job it's only a movie, then
I stand corrected. Some of the earliest airborne alerts were performed by D models. However, during the time depicted in this movie, the last B-52D was being retired after not serving alert for a number of years.
@jstrahan2 yes they did I know because I served alert duty at CAFB in Texas with the Ds before the Hs came in
@@dannycampbell1397 : I'm not sure when the last B-52D served alert, but there were none when I was commissioned in 1981. The last B-52D was retired in 1983, about the time this show came out.
It is not just the Air Force that has missiles. The Army has them also. Air Defense Artillery.
The movie that made Ronald rethink the nuclear build up
Awesome quality & a version i never see. The movie is badly cut here in germany.
They should remake this movie and make it more scary then the first one will full cooperation with the Dept of Defense
This movie scared the crap out of me back then.
Still does, look at the current situation that's at hand. Greetings from Germany
@@YdalirUllrsson Truth there. In fact, a couple months ago I went an purchased about six months worth of Potassium Iodide pills for just in case I survive the initial exchange. No joke.
This and threads need remade in a modern setting, they'd be a huge hit, you can do way more witg a good budget and modern effects
Check out an old 1984 movie called "Countdown to Looking Glass" for nuclear war movie. It was kind of like the War of the Worlds radio show that scared the begebbers out of people.
The supermarket scene crack me up, if this generation were to face something like this today nobody would be buying groceries. They would be hauling grub by the cart full to the stolen cars. Screw the retailers.
ikr? ppl in full panic mode, but still semi civilized! ringing food up instead of just
running ou with a car load..good catch! & accurate, especially for a place like
Kansas City 40 yrs ago.
@7:48 "Remember - It's buy one, get one free, folks !"
When you hear “defying economic sanctions” you know you’re in danger
🙁😦😮😧😨😱
The funny thing is, the situation we find ourselves in now is worse than the one in this movie.
American missiles with cluster munitions guided by american satellites went down at Sevastopol today. Not even at worst of Cold War we were so close.
No, it’s not. Defend your statement, because I think it was a stupid thing to post.
I disagree would rather live in this era than during nuclear fallout
How?? The Soviet Union invaded west Germany in this movie. Both modern Russia and Germany are a shadow of their former selves militarily speaking.
@gestaposantaclaus maybe true, but with recent geopolitical changes, we are orders of magnitude closer to nuclear war than back then. And we still have the capability to destroy each other. Diminished or not.
The guys are flying to the missile silo in a Huey, but the shadow on the ground looks like a JetRanger
We all lived with this threat from as far back as I can remember. This is the reality of war. Not that this one scenario is a likely way to start it. A rogue dictator who thinks he has a lot to gain, in spite of losses to his or her own people might try it.
I remember this time, and watched this. Funny thing was, contrary to what some contemporaries are saying in the comments, I don't remember really spending much time being afraid of nuclear war, nor any other kids I knew. Curious thing.
They def. delved into the US Military stock footage for this film, still freaked me out as a kid..
The actual nuclear attack scene reused footage from a 1979 film called "First Strike" which ironically was produced to encourage a US nuclear
buildup by playing out a scenario where the US is hit by a Soviet first strike and forced to surrender. It's ironic that "The Day After" reused the footage
to make an anti-nuclear buildup film which many have said influenced Ronald Reagan into getting serious with nuclear arms reduction talks with
the USSR during his second term.
Watching from Ocala Florida. It's going to be interesting for a few days.
In the 1980s, and 1962 when I was a kid - same thing different year.
I love this movie! It ends so peacefully and quietly. The bright flash always has stuck in my retinas.
Arliss Howard went on to work with Stanley Kubrick on _Full Metal Jacket._
When it finally happens I want to be as close to the blast as possible, because I damn sure don’t want to be around for the fallout.
I live about 60 from Whiteman AFB. There are dozens of missile silos dotting the countryside. They are all empty and destroyed now but the remnants are still there. The farmers use the old fence enclosures to store their big round hay bales in as they are reasonably secure over an open field. I grew up around here. I remember at age 6, us coming home from a night out in the "city" (Kansas City) and seeing soldiers and military trucks at a normally quiet silo lowering a very large, what appeared to me to be a, crate. My dad said it was a missile. The had the whole site lit up with huge flood lights. It was exciting but a little scary. This was probably 1973 or 4. Today this isn't a valuable military target anymore, but 45 years ago it was ground zero had we ever gone to full scale nuclear war.
9:08 Most horrifying part was CHUCK ROAST was on SALE for $1.28/lb in 1983 .. today at the local grocery store, the CHUCK ROAST special in the advertising sheet its $6.49/lb 😱
The horror!! THE HORROR!!
Adjusting for inflation that roast would be $3.83 cents today.
Shows the stupidity of mankinds final hours of absolute suicide. Nobody wins but everybody suffers. I am a Nuclear Test veteran from the 1950's. I have seen the destructive power of these weapons.
Я считаю, монтаж получился даже лучше, чем в оригинале
I was born in 1961 and lived between RAF SCAMPTON AND RAF WADDINGTON... The UK'S BIGGEST NUCLEAR BOMBER AIRFIELDS who carried a belly full of NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON which incidentally was made in LINCOLNSHIRE, we heard the air attack siren frequently sending out a terrifying wail of unimaginable noise.... we never knew if it was the real alert signalling incoming Russian Nuclear ICBM'S.... the only saving grace was..... we would never ever have known because those 2 airfields were quite possibly the first targets for the Russian ICBM'S and then the capital city London. To be perfectly honest i could write a book about the cold war and what experiences we went through however i think you would think it was a Sci-fi movie script but we knew and lived thank god because of the Deterrent that the ICBM'S WERE DESIGNED FOR.
A horrible noise when those sirens went off. When my grandmother would explain the sirens going off during the blitz... the way she explained it...
horrifying!
The scene in the gorcery store was stressful. A bank these days would not lend enough money to people to buy that much stuff.
I remember watching this as a kid and laughing
all the way through this film and deeply disturbing my parents.