Nuclear Nightmares: The Wars That Must Never Happen

Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fragile system that deters either side from initiating the first nuclear strike. Although the world's political climate has mellowed since the Cold War era, Nuclear Nightmares takes the viewer back in time to gain a perspective of what it was like to live under a very real nuclear threat.

[@iamtomkills]

I miss these old, proper documentaries. Informative, great narration and no ridiculous music blaring constantly. Top class. Modern documentaries are mostly unwatchable.

[@MoreMisterMr]

So very true, most documentaries now are either dumbed right down or jazzed right up.

[@cancel1913]

Correct, I also miss them.

[@ja4571]

Check out Ken Burns stuff if you never have. His Vietnam war doc is great

[@iamtomkills]

@@ja4571 yeah it’s outstanding. In fact now you’ve mentioned it I’m going to watch it again !

[@supersasquatch]

a relic of a more civilized age, the 80s

[@analogueman123456787]

A quality documentary from 1980 that seems as relevant today as it did forty-four years ago.

[@terenceokane]

Hearing him tell the story about a fictional Soviet Sub Captain around the 54min mark... Can't help but be thankful for the story of Vasily Arkhipov who kind of stopped this exact scenario from happening during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[@kevinsmith9502]

I love these old documentaries.Peter Ustinovs voice brings back those old memories.

[@adamromanak7605]

he does a good job as Hercule Poirot as well

[@jmulnick]

If you’re lookin for some more Peter U. then watch Wings of the Red Star, which was originally on Discovery. It’s out there and it is fantastic. Cheers!

[@kevinsmith9502]

I used have Wings of the Red Star on VHS.They we’re awesome

[@monumentlandscapeservicesl6464]

I was there. 3rd AD, mech infantry, 81-83. 20 miles from the Fulda Gap. Scary times. Almost went hot in 83. Thought we would have learned by now: Nobody wins a nuclear war.

[@blackhorse11thACR]

3/11th ACR Iron Curtain duty. 75~77 Fulda Gap. Still no campaign recognition. It's hard to believe when you stand toe to toe with the world's largest military forces.

[@williamcarr459]

Well written well said. Nuclear war shots are NOT military weapons-they have damn little military uses EXCEPT for deterrence. They’re only used as doomsday devises. Madness and insanity purposes. Death ☠️ generators. The HORROR!!

[@garywemmer9342]

Fulda Gap.. Can we ever learn..,

[@fh511]

@@blackhorse11thACRDo you think the Soviets would have reached the rhine in 7 days as they planned? Without nuclear armageddon of course, I’m sure you guys in W.Germany were vastly outnumbered and outequipped by the soviets

[@colinstewart1432]

Was that during Able Archer 83?

[@charleswheeler3689]

US Army 1983-1986. A lot of emphasis was placed on "Fighting, surviving, and winning on the chemical, radiological, and nuclear battlefield." we knew what that would have meant.

[@CaseyBerard-qv6bi]

Winning 🏅

[@tombombadil3185]

@@CaseyBerard-qv6bi There can be no winners in nuclear war. M.A.D. is a fool's game.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

@@CaseyBerard-qv6bi No-one wins a nuclear exchange.

[@thomaskeown6897]

I rode with the 3/11 Armored Cavalry regiment from 75-77. Was with the 155mm self propelled artillery battery. Spent many days at border posts like Alpha. We were told we'd suffer 98% casualties within the first 24 hours of conflict. Our howitzers were indeed nuclear capable. Fun times.

[@jayl8034]

Yes, It was 2nd ACAV at the border. Opposite was the 76th Guards army of USSR and the E. Germans of course. 3.5 to 1 ratio, and a less than 20% chance of survival. German civilian population protesting and "Hating" on Americans at the hands of Russian propaganda. Raegan brings in US Pershing 2 missiles to counter, 15 minutes to Moscow. The Year: 1983,.....Nothing at all fun about it.

[@ShikataGaNai100]

"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here. This is the War Room." - Peter Sellers

[@dennissvitak5475]

Dr. Strangelove, one of the greatest movies of all time.

[@davidtilley6016]

​@@dennissvitak5475it's a very weird movie.

[@MrElapid]

​@@davidtilley6016Kubrick wanted to punk the whole mindset of the military-industrial complex. He even wanted it filmed in B&W so it would look like the Civil defense films of the time. Awesome movie.

[@MrElapid]

​@@dennissvitak5475Kubrick!

[@willo7734]

Awesome movie.

[@PibrochPonder]

Just when I thought my sleepless nights were because of my neighbor’s cat, ‘Nuclear Nightmares: The Wars That Must Never Happen’ proved me wrong! 😅 Peter Ustinov’s voice took me on a haunting trip down Cold War memory lane, making me grateful for today’s peace. This doc is an eye-opener and a must-watch. Hit like 👍 if you also prefer your nightmares in history books, not in the future!

[@buggyapp]

This is total Cold War Greenpeace propaganda. I was at the tip of the nuclear spear in a Nuclear and Chemical weapons unit during the Cold War and was intimately familiar with the release process. It was so complex and involved so many layers amongst NATO nations it would have been almost impossible. If it was as simple as they make it out to be, we all would have had something to worry about. So far, it has said nothing about the PAL (Permissive Action Link) safeguard. So convenient.

[@buggyapp]

There is no way I could stand any more of it.

[@jaymesnin]

​@@buggyappwell the video is 30 years old

[@PibrochPonder]

@@jaymesnin it was probably TOP SECRET back then.

[@Gary-zq3pz]

That's nice, but everything is even more unstable than the cold war. At least we had two sides then...now there's about five or six, and some of them have the Big Boy's toys. Pleasant dreams...

[@danielmarshall4587]

How splendid, to see the American Armour prior to the Abrams M1 coming into service. Many thanks for posting this wonderful film.

[@skyhager5953]

Absolutely, those old M60s deserve a lot more recognition for being the backbone of US armor in Europe for almost the entirety of the Cold War itself.

[@fh511]

@@skyhager5953M1s were still considered untested until the gulf war so I’d say the M48/M60 did the heavy lifting of the cold war

[@Phalanx11]

biggest waste of mankind. Not nuclear war, but preventing nuclear war that has cost quadtrillions of national treasure over the years while half of humanity starves to death.

[@billotto602]

Well, since Peter died in 2004, this is obviously an old video. And thank God for that. I grew up in the heights of the cold war & I am eternally grateful for that ending peacefully.

[@Akwa47]

Ending ? Are you sure about that ?

[@allandavis8201]

Personally I don’t think the Cold War has ended, just looking 👀 at all the world tensions that are currently happening I don’t see how it could be considered over, admittedly the Cold War was an extremely difficult period with the leadership of more than just the USSR & United States with their fingers poised over the M.A.D button, but today those same countries have been joined by extremism that is just, if not more, likely to tip the world into another world war.

[@gregmercil3968]

I looked it up, this came out in 1979.

[@Historybuff_769]

​@@gregmercil3968no it was released a year later in 1980

[@jonathanstrong4812]

SO DID MYSELF

[@nenblom]

The host is doing a great job. Anyone seen Countdown to Looking Glass? It’s quite good!

[@ExPatinUK]

Scary AF. Great movie seen if several times.

[@robertknight5429]

Presenter is Peter Ustinov. His dad came to Britain as a defector and MI6 agent!

[@hrdknox2000]

Having spent the majority of my 46 years on this planet studying nuclear war, this is my first time seeing this! It's very good!

[@kambhamra2324]

What's the best docs you recommend on this topic ?

[@Erik-Vadee-Veechee]

Anything about M.A.D is good to watch. The way it would translate into Global destruction is highly likely and devastating. I watched a video on how the US/NATO would respond to a Russian first strike. I can't remember the exact video but it explains how the Sun would darken and how millions would starve from the after effects even if they weren't hit by a bomb. It's just an ugly scenario that nobody would like on Planet Earth.

[@dongately2817]

@@kambhamra2324Read Command and Control by Eric Schlosser. If you want an extremely grim, worst case scenario, of nuclear war and it’s aftermath then read Fate of The Earth by Jonathan Schnell. The latter book was written in the early 80s after Carl Sagan did his research on nuclear winter. It is an absolute worst case, and the scenario was envisioned with the amount of weapons deployed at the height of the Cold War - tens of thousands on each side compared to about 1500-2000 deployed for the US and Russia today. They’re both sobering reads. If you want a true classic you can read On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn. There’s also numerous, declassified, and publicly available, studies done by the DoD, DoE, and groups like the RAND Corporation. These studies are a dry, but amazingly detailed, read into the way a nuclear war would be fought, and the world that would remain in the aftermath of this war.

[@crocodile1313]

@@kambhamra2324 The book titled "The Bomb" (by Stephen Younger) is outstanding. The author is a former nuclear engineer that worked with the US arsenal. The book is written in easy to understand language and is a fairly quick read.

[@Dickusification]

Peter Ustinov just fantastic

[@TejasNaik01]

A good documentary and well presented in the voice and style of Peter Ustinov.

[@sarahlouise7163]

it was actually the genuine Ustinov 😁

[@griffhenshaw5631]

Very Is relevant today. And Peter you snuff what a great narrator.

[@heinrichmuller7974]

thing to remember about those ICBM silos is that unlike the pizza delivery places these days, they can still deliver "in 30 mins or less" _guaranteed_

[@AB-nj4ex]

Iv heard 12min now….

[@pyroarchy]

look up the ufo effects to one of those silos in the 70 or 80s I believe, all their missiles were shutdown and unable to respond or anything whilst the ufo was above the site.

[@user-yi6nb9sj9i]

​@AB-nj4ex Well the quicker the better .

[@stevengill1736]

The submarines can deliver a lot faster, and with these supersonic whoozits, who knows? But a fraction of any countries' nuclear ordnance would be more than enough to send most of the world back to if not the stone age, back a couple hundred years at least....

[@richgilmour5924]

​@@stevengill1736 Trident is out of date and obsolete

[@aaronroberts4264]

the best i ever see.thank you

[@nateweter4012]

I recognize this commentator from the old Discovery Channels ‘Wings’ program. Excellent show. He did the ‘Wings of the Red Star’ episodes.

[@timsimmons9995]

More relevant today than ever. Spot on video analysis.

[@matthaxx7137]

A very interesting documentary from the (late?) 1970's with unprecedented access to the mechanisms of war. It would be so interesting to see a 2020's parallel with similar access. Who would have sufficient current international recognition/gravitas to carry off Ustinov's task? Patrick Stewart? Snoop Dogg?

[@bd3199]

1979

[@Hobbes4ever]

Kanye West? 😅🤣

[@longshotny]

1:13:54 YES We abandoned our living POWs in Russia 1918 WWI. Surreal That wasn't the only time the Soviet stole our men, happened in all four wars of my USA in the 1900s. Abandoning our military men is disloyal, enraging & and deeply depressing! Shocking We/USA knowingly abandoned POWS but true: Books: "Enormous Crime"-by Bill Hendon -2-"Abandon in-Place" by-Lynn O'shea.

[@Historybuff_769]

​@@bd31991980 actually

[@captaincat1743]

I think only Keith Lemon could pull it off.

[@ttrestle]

This was great! The Norwegians are really great at tracking Russian subs. A lot of their capabilities are highly classified today.

[@chris1806]

?

[@bremnesen]

Very nice gesture from the Norwegian people to offer themselves as a tripwire for WW3 nuclear exchange, without any chance of survival themselves. It is great of a people to sacrifice themselves for the politicians of other countries.

[@ttrestle]

@@bremnesen ugh. Shut up. This is an opinion by someone who has no concept of history and doesn’t read or listen/watch anything having to do with current events regarding geopolitics. Do you even understand what’s happening in Ukraine right now? Do you understand that a sovereign democratic Ukraine has been illegally invaded by a fascist authoritarian Russian dictatorship? Do you even realize that Russia could do the same to Norway in the future? Do you even understand WHY Russia may choose to do this to Norway? Of course you don’t or you wouldn’t make such an idiotic reply in the first place. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@josebaez3971]

ANTES TODO CAMBIO

[@juliustheillustrious7727]

@@bremnesen Ah yes. "just be docile and inoffensive and everything will be fine!"

[@derryjones1029]

The leaders should watch this

[@williammontroy9024]

Lol you think they haven’t seen things much more detailed than this ?

[@alm_frazao]

Documentary is a good, souvenir and top. Congratulations!

[@willo7734]

This is a great documentary. I continue to be surprised every day that we haven’t blown ourselves up given that we’ve had nukes for almost 80 years.

[@elessartelcontar9415]

Just wait

[@InsaneActual]

very eerie watching in 2023

[@CouchCoop128]

2:09 holy crap! Paris was unrecognisable, no weapons required ! !

[@EdwardDavies-qk2rx]

Not long started this documentary but seems interesting and informative 🚀🧨

[@rickm9244]

I knew a few people that were in the army around this time. If the Russians attacked the armies in Europe were planned to throw themselves at the Russians. Until the full force of the Americans came over. Air forces like the RAF had to train for suicide attacks against Russian airfields. It was just the delay the Russian as NATO knew the armies in Europe have zero chance holding the mass ranks of the Russians. Of course different today as the Russia army is so weak compared to USSR around this time.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

All along the Soviets were weaker than the warmongering Western media claimed.

[@gooner72]

A lot of people think along the lines of "why is it that only a certain handful of Countries are permitted to own nuclear weapons?" It's quite a common allegation thrown at the big 4 or 5 Countries and, they think that we're massive hypocrites for this. You have a lot of governments that don't like the idea of only the "chosen few" Nation's owning these insane weapons but I think it's a good idea to be honest.

[@janreznak881]

Why?

[@amkrause2004]

Well they say it would destabilize regions. I say, any country chooses to, should have nuclear weapons. For defensive purposes, they should have them.

[@mike464477]

Love this!

[@MrMickthemonster]

I just love this presenter... Dry wit is my favourite...his voice too it's like honey butter for the ears

[@stmartinregis8957]

Excelente documental!!!!!

[@GaryEllington-dy8li]

There Are no Winners in a War!

[@loschwahn723]

naPOLEon is a looser over centuries and of course a criminal insane just like HitLair it was against germans

[@markbrisec3972]

I'm surprised that the documentary doesn't mention that the biggest hurdle for countries to get nuclear weapons isn't technical knowledge of how to build them. This is common knowledge to any 2nd year physics student. The problem is in getting the fisile material, high grade enriched plutonium. For this you have to have efficient centrifuges and a lot of money and effort. This is the thing that is thankfully stopping the nuclear proliferation and not that little kid whining how the US government made the schematics of nuclear weapons available to the general public.

[@HE-pu3nt]

WTH is enriched plutonium?

[@steliotaspalioprosi974]

Prophetic documentary. The way they've done it.😢

[@robertlindholm8073]

The new documentaries use crappy AI voices and the music is so loud you can’t hear what is being said.

[@PdirceuPedro]

I can't wait !!

[@goblin2bis707]

Very interesting !

[@HeneraLJum0ng]

Peter Ustinov, Legend.

[@skooma1855]

I think the world in much more unstable here in 2023 than it ever was in 1980.

[@justsimplejustsimple3015]

Agree

[@dagmastr12]

Ditto

[@mitch3384]

Amen to that. I think 2024 is only going to get worse.

[@MrElapid]

Agreed. Mob mentality is not disciplined and hasn't these checks and balances.

[@rmipickens]

I like Peter Ustinov. So there was a good possibility in 1983 that a build up of the Warsaw Pact and Russian Forces in Eastern Europe to NATO forces could have escalated to nuclear war. But it didn’t happen so we got this philosophical documentary of nuclear war instead.

[@lijad.8491]

Why don't they make documentaries and informative films like this anymore? It's always biased, dramatised to a degree it is no longer informative, interviews are cut up and only bits that will be twisted are used, it is always filled with Hollywood type special effects and bullshit music and it is disgusting to watch those.

[@joeblack1052]

I remember seeing this back in the day. Reality is really diluted now.

[@Gary-zq3pz]

Like the cockroach said to his pal, 'You see one thermonuclear war, you've seen 'em all.'

[@sulfo4229]

P. Ustinov, 1980: "Even if the somewhat elderly B-52s get airborne in time..." Grandpa Buff, 2023: "Look at me kids, I got some new wheels and can now launch hypersonics!" Edit: 2024! For f sake... It always takes me a month to realize there was a new year's party...

[@hoffenwurdig1356]

''Today it is Gorbachev, but tomorrow it could be somebody else. There are no guarantees that some Stalinist will not succeed him.'' -- Soviet physicist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov speaking to the Washington Post in November 1988

[@danrooc]

"Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia" -- V. Putin 😯

[@sulfo4229]

It is happening now and we have the front seats...

[@Darth_Barnaby]

@@sulfo4229 "Today it is Biden, but tomorrow it could be somebody else. There are no guarantees that some imperialist will not succeed him"

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

As if it's just Russia to blame for nuclear proliferation.

[@fh511]

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxIt’s America’s fault. They could have kept nukes hush hush and stockpiled thousands of them with maybe only the USSR building rudimentary analogs

[@utbdoug]

Narrated by none other than Hercule Poirot!

[@dagmastr12]

Honesty I am surprised someone screaming Allah Akbar hasn't got their hands on one yet?

[@davehales2249]

Seriously this needs to be aired on BBC 4,or the Sky artists/,or one of thier history channel's it's brilliant and relivent, I was scared of that situation, when I was growing up and this project was made, nothing has changed, except maybe a couple of flag's, this brought it home to me, that I'm just as scared now,as I was then, with the present situation in Europe,and the middle east 👍👍👍

[@waffen843]

Excelente documental,muchas gracias.

[@Rogerla62]

This movie is decades old. They need to do an updated one. There was still and East and West Germany when this movie was made. Even the host died back in 2004.

[@ttrestle]

Sandia labs made an updated series on KZbin

[@jaymesnin]

Damn

[@wademichaels8207]

Also you'll notice no Abrams tanks. BUT....the story is still relevant in 2023.

[@hungdaddy5004]

Your mum died in 2004

[@joeottsoulbikes415]

My Radioactive Romance. It' 1992. I'm 12 years old and it's a hot summer. Mother can see that I'm still sick from the plane flight, the time difference, elevation difference and everything else that happens when you are dragged from your home and forced to move 7,000 miles away to a place that does speak ĥĥyour language. I didn't want to be in Germany. I wanted my friends, my home. But here I was. I feel like I still want to puke any second. My parents tell me to get dressed and meet them in the living room. Out of my haze , but I realize our living room is as big as our living room from back on Ft. Campbell, KY. My bedroom is 2x the size of my old one. 2 bathrooms, a great bedroom, a TV room, dinning room, kitchen, balcony on bedrooms and living room, 3rd floor location, view of the hillside and midevil castle on one side, the river on the other. Cool! More room. Mom and dad tell me I'm not a little kid anymore, but I'm not a teenager either. I have to grow up just a bit faster now. They signed me up for a summer camp. So no "baby sitter" but not home alone. At 4pm I will leave the summer camp following a map to my moms new office. Then tomorrow I walk to my dad's. Day camp socks! This is the time of VCR tapes before DVD and blu-ray. If your really wealthy you may have a Lazer Disc player with 12 inch disc that get flipped over at 30 min and the average movie requires 4 disc and two turns...OMG it's the stone age. Walk to my moms office. She hands me 6 rolls of quarters. There on base is an American style bowling alley. Cool. Meet up at 7pm at the base family dinning hall. Spaghetti night aka family night, 7pm on Wednesdays for the next five years. Time for home. I go with mom to see her brand new Audi 5000 Sport Sedan. Thursday I arrive to my dad's office just in time with my mom to see the reason for our five year mission, to seak out new countries, to make out with hot new girls, to boldly go where no other American teen has gone before. It's his promotion to Command Sargeant Major of the 3rd Infantry Division Under Major Beckett who will be One Star General Beckett in 6 months. Just 6 people between my dad and the president as far as chain of command in this new world order. Yup my dad knew secrets, my dad had no button for missiles but he did have about 5,000 Tanks, self propelled howitzers, Armored Personnel Carriers, Cobra gun ships, Huey Helicopters, radio trucks, Dragon Wagons what ever those were. I dont really understand this. The next day some how I met my new friend Edward's dad. Warrenton Officer Michael's. Ed makes a snide comment about how my dad has stripes and his dad has a gold bar with black dots so his dad tells mine what to do. His dad tells him not to be proud full and rude. WO2 Michael's as me who my dad is. Command Stargent Major Ott sir. He looks at Ed and says. You got it wrong sun. His dad is my boss. ED looks as confused as me. He goes on to say. I'm and officer of sorts. His dad does salute me if we are out and about. But make no mistake Ed. His dad tells me where to fly what to shoot at, makes sure I have fuel and ammo, ensures you and mom have a place to live, food to eat and are safe while I do that mission. His dad does that not just for me but for about 56,000 Soldiers, Airmen and some Navy personnel in Southern Germany. His dad talks to the General in charge of all the Army and I'm sure a couple times a year to the Presidant of the United States as well. So Ed show some respect to your superior fellow teen. Took the wind out of that kids sails real quick. My friends were of the elite click. Military kids have a cast system. The poor low ranking mom and dads in the enlisted class. Those kids are usually in k to 5th grade. NCO kids, better but still sub human and not able to afford much. They live on base in the 5 to 8 story high rises with graffiti, wash lines, drugs often, gangs and fear. Warrenton Officers that for some reason are their own sub culture that everyone thinks is cool. They are Helicopter pilots, firemen, engineers, demolition guys....the cool jobs plus that all live in a Tron future looking group of high rises out by the air field. Officers 2nd Lt to Captain get to live in the townhome style two story bungalows along the brick lined street with the old 105mm cannons sitting on each side of the dead end street pointed out over town. Then there are the small habd full of Command Sargeants, Birds, Star Boys aka Major, a hand full of other branch Command Master Guns, Admirals, Army General, Air Force Generals kid, me and a few politician and CIA kids. We had an elite sort of click no one messed with for fear of their parents getting transfered some place shitty. In truth, we all felt more isolated and extremely lonely more than anyone. We all lived scattered around town in nice pent houses, apartments and homes with actual yards. Sounds nice but we also had military police follow us constantly to make sure no one hurt us We rode a fancy double decker coach buss with card tables and waitress, snacks and reclining seats to school. That was due to the further of us my friend Rahiqe living and hour and a half from school even at 70mph because his dad commanded the small Ranger detachment we had. Donny was the next furthest out at and hour with his dad in charge of 2nd Signal/Radio Battalion, Ed's dad got promoted with a full commission and ran the small Army side of the Air base of Cobras, Huey and lift choppers. Duane got off at the same spot outside the air field housing since his dad was in charge of the F15, F16, left over F5 and 104 Starfighters. Then at 45 min out the CIA kids got off. They were all either goth or metal for some reason and their dad's were never ever around. Most of us would invite them places with our family so they got like 30 surrogate dads.Then me at 30 min out from school with Sarah and Jimmy. Jimmy's dad ran Tanks and artillery. Sarah's dad ran the Post Exchange, Movie Theater, Bookstore, Caffiteria, Snack Bar, Coffee Shop, Dry Cleanner, Barber Shop, Shoe Shine, Vieo Rental, Sports Equipment Sales, Stand, Taxi Round About and Vacation/Travel Office on Lehighton Cassern. It was a tiny tiny out post but had all this stuff since it was closer to the Air Feild, Artillery Range, Infantry Training ground and wierd CIA black hole letting those guys not have to goo to main base for such things. Mikey lives the closest to school out of us upper echelon kids just 20 min off base outside of the MP base/Military Jail. He actually lived in a house connected to the jail.his dad worked like 24 hour shifts 3 days on 3 days off or some crazy thing running the jail. The head MP had no kids. Five years of traveling Eroupe with my dad questioned a lot at most boarders, him gone on allerts all the time, him getting to fly to WA DC once a year for a brief to Congress the Senate and Vice President. General Beckett did all the talking mostly. My dad was the numbers guy. Spread sheets about tanks, chopperand such, numbers about food fuel and so on.I saw my dad once a day for 20 to 49 minutes over those five years.

[@nenblom]

I just watched the awesome movie Crimson Tide with Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington. ❤❤

[@chrisk1208]

In the decade after this documentary strategies and doctrines changed to prevent the first use of nuclear weapons by NATO. Concepts like Follow on Forces Attack and Airland Battle were developed to counter the Soviet strength; echelons of attacking forces. This was accompanied by increasing the focus on conventional forces and increasing spending on them amd improving their quility and quantity. And also technological innovation which resulted in the Big 5 program of the US army (M1 Abrahams, M2 Bradley, AH-64 Apache, UH-60 Blackhawk and Patriot system), navstar global positioning system, precision guided munitions, airborne ground looking radar systems etc. The execution dessert Storm in 1991 by the US 7th corps was a textbook example of the apllication of the US army doctrine developed in the '80s.

[@wahyupangestu2707]

Tapi ada yg selalu memulainya, membuat dan menggunakannya, sangat marusak...

[@robertsteinbach7325]

I believe this documentary was made before "Able Archer" NATO military exercise in November of 1983. 1983 was a pivotal year for the cold war. In 1983 the Soviet Air Force had taken down the Korean Air flight 007 in the Northwestern Pacific when the aircraft accidentally misconfigured their internal navigator and the Soviet Air Force has misidentified the plane as a American Spy Plane when it accidently entered air space near the Soviet Union that the Soviet military claim to be theirs, due to confirmation bias. It was even a bigger problem as on the aircraft shot down was carrying a fiercely anti-communist and fiercely anti-Soviet Congressman Larry McDonald and the downing of the aircraft was, as first, considered to be a purposeful attack to kill this Congressman until evidence shown that this was not the case. This incident caused a hardening of the cold war for months and with the NATO military exercise "Able Archer" started in November 1983 it caused the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet military to go on full alert on a possible NATO invasion of East Germany and Czechoslovakia. These military units were looking for any hint of "invasion" into their territory and the NATO forces could have easily given this hint of the invasion by accident and with the past confirmation bias that infects the Soviet military could have launched a first strike into West Germany to take out the "invasion force", setting off World War 3 and the Nuclear exchange that would eventually come, since NATO doesn't have nearly the military strength to halt such a Soviet first strike. This Soviet strike would've continue well into West Germany and continue to march towards the low countries and France. If the Germans, by some miracle, refused to launch their nukes, in the light of a certain NATO defeat, the French would certainly launch theirs towards the strike and the Soviet Union in an attempt to save France and, unintentionally, end civilization as we know it.

[@GEMINDIGO]

An interesting historical document presented in a realistic fashion.

[@Yomamagay854]

Look what’s going on now 😐

[@elessartelcontar9415]

After the fall of the USSR, Russia revealed that they had targeted Cheyenne Mountain with 200 large nukes. They would have turned it into Cheyenne Lake.

[@bernardtruchet]

Peter Ustinov montre Paris, la Tour Eiffel, Notre Dame de Paris, ils aurait dû aussi montrer Londres, Moscou, Washington, New York, San Françisco etc...

[@KidDynamite6]

Here we are 2023 n this is right around the corner

[@friendofcoal]

Mankind has learned nothing from this era....... Today, we are in Cold War II (version 20.5)....... but no one has called it that yet.

[@trespire]

@12:20 Looks like USAF 48th "Liberty" Fighter Squadron based at RAF Lakenheath.

[@Markh73bers]

Great video. You, Americans, who watch this video, be happy and feel blessed that you have your own piece of land which is not a future battleground. We, Europeans, are your future. Never forget that. Never forget where your anchasters came from.

[@T.2.S.A.]

Africa.

[@akosisada4450]

Shvatite će amerikanac to kad jednom njegov kontinent bude gorio .Do tad će oni glumiti gazde u cijelom svijetu. Gdje amerikanac čuva mir i širi demokraciju ,tu on vidi svoju korist. Danas u Europi , Ukrajinu je gurnuo u rat koji nikad neće dobiti . Samo iz razloga što je htjeo srušiti europsku valutu koja je ugrožavala dolar. S druge strane podržava Izrael i ratne zločine koji se tamo dešavaju . Zašto? Zato što nisu htjeli da im Izrael pravi državu u SAD-u. Jugoslaviju su ugasili da bi mogli kontrolirati balkanski poluotok. Zanima me. Hoće li ikada probati svoju demokraciju proširiti u Indiji, Kini, Japanu,Turskoj😂😂😂😂😂 Američki ratovi su svedeni na ratove iz koristi daleko od svog kućnog praga

[@alzeNL]

anchasters ? :D

[@jamespeters2859]

@@T.2.S.A.😂

[@Joker-no1uh]

Or maybe Europeans need to start appreciating all the US has done for them. 2 European wars that had nothing to do with us, but we still fought. Yet, all Europeans do is talk shit about the US and are ungrateful. These days, besides Poland and the UK, Europe is lost without the US military. Falling further and further behind militarily.

[@uncleenore]

I miss those days...

[@brianroche7716]

Look at how nice Paris used to be. Turns out the Commies had it destroyed in a different way.

[@tiborpurzsas2136]

Not the Soviet commies. They were not responsible for this! It's an entirely different group of people who are responsible for the demise of western Europe. This rot is spreading from the inside

[@chriss9187]

U mean the muslims

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

Which commies would those be? France has never been run by communist governments but capitalist ones. Go blame them.

[@fightingfalcon1986]

And with the noteworthy Peter Ustinov as main host and narrator. Years later, he was featured again in the Wings of the Red Star series.

[@sauldavi6982]

Muito bom.

[@timmcclain2519]

Here we are again.

[@thinbluelinefr8884]

When i see this documentary and i imagine the consequence of a possible nuclear war😳. I said THANK YOU to President Kennedy to not listened his anticommunist advicers , Kroutchev, Commander Arkipov of Russian Submarine in 1962 Colonel Petrov in his radar station, THANK YOU to save my 90's generation and 2000's generation

[@user-em1sj5ph6h]

No one wants war less than a soldier.

[@musicilike69]

The reality now is not that. Check the situation of combatant mortality to civilian mortality in war by years. A t one time it was literally the armies on the field. Now? Civilian deaths versus combatant deaths went to light speed. 2 million in North Vietnam is a standout, 100,000 in Iraq? What's WW3 going to be. X soldiers dead and many BILLIONS of people who die in the nuclear spasm and starve after it.

[@wts7759]

The day comes closer.

[@BatGS]

Greetings: FYI: 4 the naive, uneducated, improper educated, millennial, careless, curious, 4getful, Etc... this presentation is about 30yrs aged. The illustrations, technology, views, policies R further aged, outdated, updated, dissolved or sold 2 the highest bid. That said, such is now historical entertainment, illustration and document with underlying lessons. Thx 4 the share.

[@Sufa6-3]

This is greatly concerning considering that we are living in the days when the World is on the edge. Unfortunately we, the people who will be sacrificed on the altar of incredulity and stupidity, have no idea.

[@iitzfizz]

Man's casually walking down the street talking about nuclear Armageddon, i wonder what the people walking past thought.

[@mrme2878]

No wars should ever happen. Frfr

[@cristianm7097]

Ironically, Ustinov played Nero.

[@Nitrogen-Philips]

If a nucler war hapens, a big chunk of that area will not be livable for hundreds uf not thousands of years. So no it should not happen

[@CanILaughInYourFace]

But it could happen....

[@ChanchoBlanco]

People live in Japan where we bombed atomic

[@TheTrueNorth11]

Utter nonsense.

[@JCredTV]

​@@TheTrueNorth11it's possible to render large areas uninhabitable for over a century with cobalt-salted nukes. Which happens to be something Russia claims to have.

[@frobro2250]

Telling the future 😮 our present!

[@elessartelcontar9415]

Having those tanks parked side by side makes them easy targets. Unbelievable

[@crocodile1313]

Although the nuclear powers of the world, and especially their leaders, have gone through times of trouble, corruption, apathy and stupidity, at least we were all smart enough to avoid starting a global nuclear war. When one thinks of some of the terrible events of the past 60 years, that feat is very astonishing. Although there is not much for humanity to be happy about these days, keeping an extinction-level nuclear war from occurring is an accomplishment that we all should be proud of....no matter how ugly that peace has sometimes become.

[@janreznak881]

It’s bad for business. But as soon as the crime gang of rootless cosmopolitans feel their grip on world financial power is slipping all bets are off.

[@TheVidkid67]

What year?

[@BatGS]

Greetings: Switzerland's policy of non-military serving as Civil Defense should B adopted in the US. Perhaps a US Armed Forces BT session mandatory of misdemeanor criminal punishment, less than 80/cent tested HS students, college drops, refused applicants Etc; should B included also.

[@dazingamaine4318]

history repeats

[@fastsheep3964]

O.23 the old design of the tu22 blinder 😅

[@VoltageLP]

Somewhat elderly B-52's he said...

[@peterphilstacey4698]

All of us in society are surplus, especially now.

[@user-fs7sk1iu4y]

What year was this made?

[@clintking7377]

1980

[@robertknight5429]

Blinder bomber, the coolest Soviet aircraft

[@Feralzen]

At 29:13 love the guy's suspenders 😀

[@ryanjankauskas9319]

I wish there was an update to this documentary that is newer than 40 years old.

[@dongately2817]

Honestly, it’s just as pertinent today as it was then. The names may have changed and the weapons may be more advanced but the concept remains the same.

[@nelson-haha89]

The most striking thing to me about this film is how seemingly powerful the USSR was in comparison to how pathetically weak the russian federation is. Imagine russia of today trying to bulldoze all of europe, when they couldnt even make it to Kiev.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

Yet oddly, the warmongering corporate media keeps lying that Putin intends to invade Europe.

[@josephhudson8829]

I was there 83-85 2/78 FA Bamberg West Germany. Alert after alert after alert, graf graf graf and more graf. Then comes NATO 23 GUARD DUTY OF THE BATTLEFIELD NUCLEAR WEAPONS. M109 TYPE. I remember those days well.

[@monumentlandscapeservicesl6464]

Yeah, man. Constant alerts and mud, mud, and more mud! 81-83, mechanized grunt 2/48th, 3rd A.D. Gelnhausen.

[@noelht1]

1:16:29 if Peter Ustinov is spitting facts you know shit is real

[@marcdetemple3069]

""...I hope the russians love their children too..."🎵 Peter Ustinov kann man stundenlang zuhören.

[@GaryEllington-dy8li]

If necular war should come my way. My Prayer is Take Me Quickly Lord Jesus 🙏.

[@rolandnyc4938]

Hopefully someday, we'll say "What were we thinking"!?

[@TerryCheever]

We don't talk like that anymore, you ask yourself why, because we've accepted the inevitability of it.

[@nigellawson8610]

It is interesting how the situation is reversed today. Like NATO in the early 1980's, the Russians are now outgunned by the forces of the NATO alliance. In any future war between the Russian Federation and NATO, the Russians would be forced to use nuclear weapons to avoid catastrophic defeat. In effect, like NATO at the hight of the Cold War, the Russian would be tempted to use nuclear weapons to deescalate the conflict. Like NATO during the Cold War, they would be gambling on the other side backing down rather than risking the total destruction of their homeland.

[@frankrenda2519]

thats bs nato hasnt got a chance with russia.and the west would always use nucs first just like japan