Cold War | NATO | Nuclear Weapons debate | West Germany | This Week | 1987

This is a shortened version of the original programme.
As THIS WEEK joins the British Army of the Rhine on patrol along the frontier, Jonathan Dimbleby reports on the explosive issue of NATO’s strategy for the defence of Europe.
First shown: 22/01/1987
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[@danielmarshall4587]

Oh boy these vids are addictive, thank you for uploading.

[@jansix4287]

Cold War with actual snow! ❄️

[@russrh]

Love that the translator just gets to run off on foot into the distance

[@johnmajor9564]

Nuclear weapons provide peace and stability.

[@starguy321]

Nuclear logic does make a perverse sense. If you are confident your opponent would use overwhelming nuclear force, then attack them brings no possibility of victory and so to do so is completely pointless. As a result, you trust your opponent thinks in the same way about you. The problem is a lack of trust. When, in 1962 and 1983, each side doesn’t trust the other to act rationally, then you get dangerous misunderstandings and the perverse logic falls apart. The reason why a large war was not fought in Central Europe after 1945 between the blocs was because of diplomacy, but this was aided by the presence of nuclear weapons people promised to use in getting people to the table

[@stupidben999]

LOL not because the US has a comparable nuclear arsenal and an armed forces to the USSR and had the whole Western Europe in the NATO under its nuclear umbrella to deter the Russians from attempting anything?

[@civlyzed]

Cool footage from the year I graduated high school.

[@briansparks8528]

When I was stationed there 68/69 when we met East German soldiers on the border being young blokes our comication

[@briansparks8528]

Sorry I didn’t finish. all our talk was about how good were the local women

[@user-gb9vc1xx1s]

@@briansparks8528 Отвали.Надоел.Чучело безликое,с именем дурацким.

[@briansparks8528]

Оксана Gooden darken meinfrauline ...sprecken Deucsh?? Langsan/snell?

[@user-gb9vc1xx1s]

@@briansparks8528 Du bist ein Schwein.

[@briansparks8528]

@@user-gb9vc1xx1s Well it takes one to know one Achtung swein hunt!

[@sabretess]

I was stationed in Wolfenbuttel which was close to the East German border. When the wall came down I was the first British soldier to cross Abenrodde into what was enemy territory in East Germany. A German friend made my crossing possible as non Germans at the time were not allowed to visit at the time. I still have the DDR visum stamp in my passport. A court martial offence at the time? Probably.

[@rapman5363]

Traitor

[@bbt305]

Very biased towards labor party. Why not see it from all sides.

[@starguy321]

The Labour Party had struggled for quite a long time with nuclear weapons policy by 1987. Unilateralism had split the Bevanites in the late-1950s, Labour had carried unilateralism in the manifesto of 1983 and it was seen as one of the more absurd parts of the manifesto. The Tory policy saw not nuclear weapons as the issue, but the degree to which Britain’s deterrent is independent. It makes sense to focus on Labour because they are the ones proposing to change policy at this time. They therefore have the much more interesting angle

[@AshleyPomeroy]

Even the stereo balance is left-wing!

[@angelrogo]

Thames TV = ITN = Labour Party

[@tomdave42]

What is eighteen thousand million.

[@evolvedmindset4163]

Watching this whilst talking a huge steamy turd it’s really help me relax and was most enjoyable! Highly recommend 💩

[@volvos60bloke]

Did it flush okay? Any brush use required?

[@evolvedmindset4163]

@@volvos60bloke surprising not dear boy lol

[@rawblow4512]

What do the germans call constipation? Farfrompoopin.

[@rodrigofonseca6241]

«Britain is crucial to NATO»... Of course it is...

[@SedriqMiers]

👇Parasite👇

[@sparkle4223]

1st

[@user-es3hq5zk4e]

Labour = USSR friends

[@szymoncio_spoko]

SPD was always weak and scared