Nuclear War • Power of Decision (1958)

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Air Force Special Film Project 416, "Power of Decision" by U.S. Air Force. Air Photographic and Charting Service
Coverage of simulated war plan action, in the event of an attack, which was executed at the Operation Control Room, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, and at the underground control room (location SECRET), by Strategic Air Command. Footage includes pilots and ground crewmen scrambling; pilots boarding aircraft; B-47's, B-52's, and B-58's taxiing, taking off, maneuvering, and landing; and a KC-135 refueling a B-52. Also included are scenes of the launching of the Bull Goose, Rascal, Snark, and Thor missiles.

[@liden77]

-You can´t fight in here, this is the War Room!

[@garyhilson7220]

LOL on the Strangelove reference!!!!!!!!!

[@MINITMANRADIONETWORK]

But they will see the big board!

[@BlueAgaveStudios]

@@MINITMANRADIONETWORK Premier Kissov likes the ratio of babes to dudes in the bunker.

[@VideographerExperience]

"Mr. President, we cannot allow a *Mineshaft Gap!"*

[@garyhilson7220]

@@VideographerExperience Good one, another Dr. Strangelove reference.

[@LordZontar]

As far as anyone has been able to determine, Power Of Decision is the only movie which dramatised how the United States planned to fight a nuclear war: the procedures, organisation, command and control, and the strike missions themselves. All these strategic procedures would soon be obsoleted by the appearance of the ICBM (the first of which were already being developed and deployed even as this movie was being made) and SLBM and their eventual rise as the primary nuclear strike weapons, relegating the manned bomber to the follow-up strike role. This was nuclear war fought through a timeframe of hours/days, which allowed more time for full evaluation of the coming threat, deployment of forces, and a more discriminatory selection of targets as well as the opportunity at any point in the war to abort strike missions and recall forces back to home bases in the event of a sudden breakthrough in negotiations to end the war or prevent it from proceeding through. After the ICBM appeared on the scene, nuclear war became an all-or-nothing proposition regardless of whatever plans there may be for "limited" war, irrevocable, and one to be launched immediately and fought in the timeframe of two hours at most.

[@rachaelfleming7132]

Thankyou for sharing your knowledge

[@Hunter_Nebid]

Apparently you've never seen "War Games" with Matthew Broderick or "Spies Like Us". 😎😁🇺🇲👍

[@LordZontar]

@@Hunter_Nebid Those are pure fiction. Nothing more.

[@jrdougan]

If you search for the USAF film "Nuclear Effects During SAC Delivery Missions" on youtube, you see that it matches the warplans in "Power of Decision" but from the aircrew side.

[@billdubya9626]

@@Hunter_Nebid GUIDANCE!! Source programmable guidance!!

[@jmanner2562]

Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines

[@allanrodzinski5850]

The pool cue used as the pointer, gotta love it, "if the button is ever pressed, we're all set to go."

[@TheDaveRout]

Love the bit, “ we call this - the big board” erm well done chaps

[@malcolmt7883]

Right here's the big paper clip, and that's the extremely large thumb tack.

[@jamesroets800]

Well, that was just a ray of sunshine.

[@LordZontar]

That's SAC. Looking for a better way to brighten everybody's day.

[@davedixon2068]

YES it was, because if you think about it the reason for the room was deterrence, and there hasn't been a nuclear war yet, so it worked as advertised!!

[@eldritchwulfe]

If you think this film is depressing, look up Threads I do love how optimistic they are about planes having bases to return to

[@soupafi]

Remember Gents, when the war starts, make sure when you're fighting the Reds, you have a Winston Cigarette. Because Winston tastes good, like a Cigarette should.

[@jonathanstrong4812]

oh brother!

[@asmodeus0454]

Damn right they tasted good! I used to smoke a pack of Winstons a day and I was a light smoker. My brother smoked 3 or 4 packs a day--every day.

[@Goodboy0953]

😂😂😂😂

[@LordZontar]

I think Chesterfield was the official cigarette sponsor for nuclear war back then.

[@andrescrux]

🤣🤣 "Anyone got any smokes"

[@martinevans9757]

"How I learned to start worrying and hate the bomb!"

[@billfrug]

"WE CALL THIS THE BIG BOARD!"

[@tigertiger1699]

Man those 58s are just the most beautiful to ever fly….

[@trentdawg2832]

Yes I would agree……it was the dawn of the space age…..and the aircraft definitely looked the part!!!!

[@tigertiger1699]

@@trentdawg2832 Standing still they make a F15 n co look like they’re standing still. Who ever invented red on high polished Ali😍

[@booklover6753]

@@trentdawg2832 There was a SAC base near my home when I was a child. We used to see them all the time, and hear the sonic booms. I remember seeing them do barrel rolls at low altitudes near my house. They are beautiful aircraft and they handled like fighters. It's a shame that some of the most beautiful aircraft were built to destroy things.

[@LordZontar]

Yep, and all retired from service in just ten years. The ICBM made them obsolete. They also lacked both bomb bay capacity which made them useless for any conventional mission and lacked intercontinental range for anything other than a one-way flight. Curtis LeMay hated the B-58, calling it the ideal bomber if you were going to war with Canada. By contrast, the B-52 entered USAF service three years before this movie was made and there are 60 still on active duty in the present day.

[@matteocassino3172]

“Now why don't you just take it easy, Group Captain, and please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater, and help yourself to whatever you'd like.” STERLING HAYDEN - Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper

[@58fins]

"we have to protect our precious bodily fluids"

[@F15CEAGLE]

"Our studies show that even the worst fallout is down to a safe level after two weeks."

[@blankchck]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@LordZontar]

@@F15CEAGLE "You've obviously never heard of Cobalt Thorium-G."

[@jonathanstrong4812]

THE BLOODY MAN OUGHTA BEEN SHOT DAMN FLAMING IDIOT!

[@Zoomer30_]

I don't often fight WWIII But when I do You'll get a report. Stay radioactive my friends...

[@goobah01]

I was born in ‘58. The breathtaking organisational scale of this is remarkable. Downside was MBAs taking over the world.

[@Indrid__Cold]

What most people fail to recognise is that from 1960-1965 the global nuclear megatonage was at the highest level it would ever attain. Many nuclear weapons were in the 10 to 20 megaton range or higher, and many of those were exceptionally "dirty." This was due to the prevalence of high megaton weapons with large U238 fast fissioning tampers. The total expended force in a war such as the one depicted in this film would have been ten to fifteen GIGATONS (billions of tons) of explosive yield. Because so many of the weapons were 50% fission yield, the amount of radioactive fallout disbursed would have been fatal for many of the initial survivors. Of course that was all AOK as long as we "have the air and the power and he knows it."

[@yankeedoodle1963]

They’re prepping for third and fourth wave attacks. I took note that they never mentioned anything about going after population targets

[@florinivan6907]

@@yankeedoodle1963 They don't need to. If you take a map of all military industrial and transportation targets in any country you would just about cover every city.

[@DoctorWasabi]

I’d see this as rather potent timing 😬 ( I’m joking ) great find as always!

[@craighealy4766]

Kind of suspicious for it to pop up on my timeline of all times

[@justin.trading]

@E Van I wonder if they will say the same when NCB weapons are used

[@booklover6753]

@GGALLIN1776 In this case, the fear is justified. You would have to understand Russian thinking to appreciate the gravity of the situation.

[@booklover6753]

@E Van They are justifiably afraid of having NATO or U.S. forces come into direct conflict with Russian forces. It could rapidly escalate into a doomsday scenario. A tough decision by any stretch of the imagination.

[@chwilliams5]

I can't believe they showed "the big board"

[@williamyoung9401]

"Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman, and child, lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment, by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished, before they abolish us." -President John F. Kennedy

[@456swagger]

Gee when you say all that in one sentence you make doom and gloom sound really bad. You really should lay off of those old Star Trek reruns.

[@Indrid__Cold]

9:50 Note the lack of a "on hold" option on telecommunications systems of the era.

[@oceanhome2023]

MAD was reality at this early date !

[@cool555breeze]

"That is all" is pretty much the truth...

[@craigcowan2971]

Great mix of aircraft.

[@lesliemacmillan9932]

10:00 I like how "Gen. Larson" has to turn on his TV set....and then wait like 5 minutes for the tubes to heat up before he'll see anything. (Remember TV in the 1950s anyone?)

[@johnbergstrom2931]

"Gentlemen, we have won. We have destroyed all Soviet military assets. Unfortunately, there is enough radioactive fallout in the atmosphere, in the oceans that the human race will be extinguished. Extinct. But we won..."

[@J0stAn0therJ0hn]

I hope these facilities have been kept up to date. Might need it soon. Everything in this video is outdated, including the procedures, I'm sure.

[@scarakus]

Most these days are submarine launched...

[@TheDoctor1225]

From anything I've read or seen, even the Cheyenne Mountain complex wouldn't survive a direct hit from the nuclear weapons of today. The idea at the time was the Soviet tech was poor enough that they couldn't be that accurate. That's all changed. They'd go up right along with us, most likely.

[@booklover6753]

@@TheDoctor1225 Airborn command posts would carry the responsibility today.

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@TheDoctor1225 Yep... modern missiles are so accurate they can put a warhead on a football field from 5,000 miles away. Good thing is, most of the bombs nowadays are in the 100-500 kiloton range, MUCH smaller than the old 5-10 megaton bombs from the 50's when the accuracy was so bad. Later! OL J R :)

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@scarakus Only part. Still a bunch in silos and on bombers, though mostly on cruise missiles the bombers carry now. OL J R :)

[@floridaseminole8643]

NO fighting in the war room

[@joenew6237]

No just MAD just plan MAD look Mom it's a bomb it's a plane it's thermal nuclear fallout and we're all screwed

[@asmodeus0454]

So there really _was_ a Big Board! "Dr. Strangelove" was right!

[@AdrianInflorida]

And you didn't see a single fight break out in the war room in this video.

[@antoniomsalazar2738]

Muy bueno

[@jonnyjackson6050]

And they all lived happily ever after.

[@tigertiger1699]

A military solution, I guess when you need a military solution… you’re already into a corner…🌹

[@andrescrux]

11:37 3 Indian chiefs rolling joints (Scene2) 👨‍💻🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jaredaubin6577]

1:03 If you tear the paper violently from the printer, it’ll keep jamming up for the next person using it.

[@AdrianInflorida]

But it looks much more dramatic !

[@jimsworthow531]

Anyone wating for the WOPR to come across the loudspeaker and state, "shall we play a game?"

[@lukestrawwalker]

About 20 years too soon for that! OL J R :)

[@jimsworthow531]

@@lukestrawwalker OL J R :) cool you got the point

[@Mr_x_19922]

10:40 Video calls during the late 50's ... wow

[@fritzthedog007]

Very interesting. The only way to defeat these men of steel would be to transport them to the modern era. They would surely die of apoplexy upon seeing the current state of their nation.

[@amilDlakic]

They were perfect men of steel - goal devoted - trained - worked together - no arguments- did their job - imagine what they would think if they saw America now

[@denisiwaszczuk1176]

2013 . Times have changed.

[@mudso]

Is there any effective measures against hypersonic missiles for this very year of 2023?

[@netflixnchill882]

Jim is such a Chad 23:46

[@karencarter8292]

Hegelian Dialectic

[@brucekugler5164]

Interesting to see a time of such devastating nuclear power, but all communications and electronics operating on an analogue system, and the transistor had only been invented ten years before. Old looking vehicles, rotary phones, etc., and yet we had already entered into the deadly nuclear age, whose weapons were toys compared to what we have today. What's so striking is the delusional thinking, at least based on future advancements, that superiority over the Soviet's was possible, and a nuclear war could be won, with the illusion promoted by clips of nuclear destruction of supposed Soviet infrastructure, (old test films) and nothing of the US or Allied Powers, except told to the viewer audience that "deterrence failed." There were those, however, even at the birth of nuclear weapons, who questioned this, like Oppenheimer, Einstein, etc. At the end of the film, superiority of the air, is claimed by one of the generals. Why isn't this reassuring ?

[@lukestrawwalker]

Oh the bombs then were worse... the bombers carried big boys... usually in the 1-10 megaton range. Missiles then were few in number and slow to respond, having to be fueled before launch (oxygen and kerosene propellants) but were not very accurate, so they carried high-yield hydrogen bombs too in the 5-10 megaton range, so they could be assured of taking out the target even if they missed by a few miles.... well, except hardened underground targets. Nowadays the missiles are so accurate they can put a warhead between the goalposts of an average high school football field from 5,000+ miles away. There's a vid of a modern missile test on YT of a Minuteman III putting a dummy reentry vehicle through a sheet of plywood on Kwajalein after launching from a silo at Vandenberg. SO they don't carry the big multi-megaton warheads anymore... most carry multiple warheads (MIRV's) in the 70-600 kiloton range. The last "heavy" ICBM we had was the Titan II with a 5 megaton bunker buster, but those are all phased out now and have been for decades. Even most of the high-yield bombs in the inventory designed to be carried by bombers have been phased out and disassembled. Later! OL J R : )

[@jonathanstrong4812]

@@lukestrawwalker ON SEPTEMBER 8TH 1923 AND THIS YEAR WHICH WAS THE 100 ANNIVERSERY OF WHERE VANDERBERG AFB WAS NOW WHICH A ENTIRE USN DESTROYER SQUADRON RAN ITSELF AGROUND 23 OFFICERS AND MEN WHICH WHO WAS KILLED IN THE INCIDENT IT WAS FORMERLY HONDA POINT AND THE SPANISH CALLED THE PLACE THE DEVIL'S JAW THERE WAS FOG ON THE NIGHT IN QUESTION THEY WERE USING RADIO BEARING BUT THEY WERE NOT FOLLOWED THE BRAND NEW DEVICE IF YOU HAD AMAZON THE BOOK WAS TRAGEDY AT HONDA BY VICE ADMIRAL CHARLES A LOCKWOOD MADE IN 1967

[@dziban303]

What's the "target M" map show at 46:38? I can't read the name of the city. Looks like seven letters with the first one being L?

[@Indrid__Cold]

Ah...that'd be MOSCOW!

[@dziban303]

@@Indrid__Cold No it isn't

[@mrrolandlawrence]

interesting that even though the russians had put sputnik into space before this documentary was made, their focus was on a russian attack with jet bombers of which they had none of inter-continental range. for comparison they built 744 b52 bombers. had they put some of that money into ICBM's earlier & without the interservice rivalry, america would have easily been the 1st into space, manned space etc. to know more about how nukes work, this has got to be the gold standard explainer video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqasgYR4hKh9bJY

[@kaanuluturk4335]

THIS IS UNBELIVABLE 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@davidrobinson1230]

So this Film had to have been for the Soviets. Right?

[@HC-cb4yp]

Thank God we've got cigarettes to keep us healthy and strong!

[@lukestrawwalker]

It won't be the nicotine that kills you LOL:) OL J R:)

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

Lung snack

[@brianarbenz1329]

This film could also be titled, "Why the U.S. still doesn't have national health insurance."

[@buckhorncortez]

This comment could be titled, "Non-Sequitur of the Comment Section"...

[@andrescrux]

7:46 We assure you citizens it will be mutual destruction⚠️ But I'll be down here drinking Tang ™️ Official drink of the end times🤣🤣 Now we go to Bob in the boom boom rm

[@barak363363]

7:00- interesting

[@darinattard3244]

The others - Duck & Cover.

[@jonathanstrong4812]

IF YOUR NUMBER IS UP YOUR NUMBER IS UP

[@72polara]

Back when the USA had reliable, effective, well tested and well maintained nuclear weapons.

[@garyhilson7220]

Thank Goodness 45 isn't in office and should be in prison for treason!!!!!!

[@Rambo-ir4gh]

@@garyhilson7220 MSNBC parrot

[@garyhilson7220]

@@Rambo-ir4gh Ya know 45 was a draft dodger and supported Putin. And you probably never served either.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

@@Rambo-ir4gh LOSER trolls cry what?

[@glennpearson3056]

@@garyhilson7220 So, if Trump is a tool of the Russians... Why didn't Putin attack when Trump was still in office, rather than risking WWIII with the steely-eye razor-sharp master of geo-politics President Brandon?

[@charlesstauffer9831]

Ah, this takes me back to the "good old days" of nuclear Armageddon. You kids of today will have your planetary destruction so much easier then we ever could have hoped for.

[@jonathanstrong4812]

GOOD OLD DAYS? JESUS H CHRIST ABOVE!

[@jjohnson796]

Yes no waiting three whole days to see who wins! 30 minutes tops today and who says the good old days were better?!

[@mahmoudzohrabnia4311]

Ladies and Gentlemen do not forget that United states never start nuclear attack...... General McArthur McDonald

[@theoldar]

They had hours. We will have minutes.

[@braddywarbucks]

"More reports be coming in all the time.". What exactly was that General smoking? 😂

[@lukestrawwalker]

Communications security and reliability and resiliency were top concerns from the end of WW2 in the face of the nuclear threat. YOU might not be able to make a phone call, but that doesn't mean the military couldn't! OL J R :)

[@LordZontar]

Chesterfields, likely. By the carton. Better pace himself, though. Supplies might be... interrupted.

[@asmodeus0454]

"This is it! Toe-to-toe nooclear combat with the Ruskies!" Yee-haw!

[@LordZontar]

"Sir, our primary mission has failed: deterrence. But as far as our secondary mission goes, we're really making them Commies glow, sir. Hell, just give us another forty-eight hours and when we're finished with 'em, every city they have will be nothing but big, burned-out vacant lots."

[@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster]

Bad acting. Especially for something that is supposed to be happening during a nuke strike.

[@LordZontar]

Well it's not as if you can train in all the ways to blow up the world and go to acting school at the same time.

[@Slim885]

Hope it’s not bullshit!!

[@venomdust1]

24:02 dramatic cigarette puff. 24:43 second dramatic puff. Looking back years later you can say I was there when we and the Soviets Teamed up to kick Mother Nature right in the kootch 😂

[@AdrianInflorida]

24:30 "When I do a 12 hour shift down here, nothing keeps me going like the smooth taste of Kool. It soothes my throat, and ensures I can bark out the order to level the Commies. Kool, when you have to stay cool."

[@jasonthewatchmansson8873]

Nuclear alerts? Russia as an enemy? B-52s in the sky? This is so dated!

[@booklover6753]

@@MikeDrop136 If he doesn't think that Russia is an enemy then he should move there and let us know how that worked out for him.

[@AdrianInflorida]

TBF, the B-52 is still flying strong

[@journeystarr]

How? The B-52 is still flying and russia is still our enemy

[@jimsworthow531]

War hungry officers couped up in a bunker chain smoking cigarettes and shotgunning coffee; thank god these groups didn't go hot.

[@booklover6753]

War hungry officers? Those men have families too. "No one hates war more than a soldier".

[@jimsworthow531]

@@booklover6753 True; I was enlisted at one time. Most brass up high are tucked away in a safe bunker though. Back in the cold war, Generals like Lemay abd others in SAC always urged a first strike.

[@AdrianInflorida]

I was a Missile Tech in the Navy on a Trident Sub. None of us wanted to do that one final, job we were trained for. If we launched, it was because someone in the chain of command failed. SAC and Trident had one mission, to be a deterrent.

[@amilDlakic]

These men of steel who held the fort like gentlemen at the helm of a nuclear war room with the special “big board” was remarkable- now imagine transporting them to 2024 and letting them see the undisciplined, broken country and the rabble they gave their lives for - the realization all their candour and intelligence and holding the nation together in the end was a waste of time.

[@yankeedoodle1963]

Meaning what exactly? That our country now would be unworthy of all the “men of steel” - almost exclusively white? Oh wait that’s right, you must not like the black, the Jew, the gay, the Hispanic, the Muslim, the liberal, the immigrant - all completely outside the homogenized, frame-outlook way of life you have so much reverence for

[@rosejane8077]

So primitive compared to now bombs are way more destructive now.!!! Wonder if those bunkers would up under the bombs of today.?🤔

[@tomdecuca3627]

The nuclear weapons of that era were much more powerful. They had multi megaton weapons then. Now they are much smaller- usually 500 kiloton or less. They are much more accurate, so they don't require those old city busters.

[@rosejane8077]

@@tomdecuca3627 all of them can kill and destroy everything.!!!

[@tomdecuca3627]

@@rosejane8077 unfortunately yes. They are much more accurate and they use more per target. Once those MRVS free fall to their target, nothing is going to stop them.

[@florinivan6907]

@@tomdecuca3627 As far as is known only China still has multimegaton nukes. Maybe Russia has a few in storage. The US maxes out at 1.3 megatons. No one else goes above 500 kt. As far as we know.

[@BlueAgaveStudios]

@@tomdecuca3627 They also have multiple reentry warheads.

[@malachiseerisrael8618]

Though I make a full end to all the other nations i will not make a full end to thee but i will punish you in measure and will not leave you all together unpunished Jeremiah 30:11 kjb Deuteronomy 28:68 kjb

[@brannonwood]

Did anyone see Biden stick out his head in the Joint Chiefs shot..?

[@booklover6753]

At least he had family that served, which is more than what Trump could say. Bone spurs my rearend!

[@jonathanstrong4812]

@@booklover6753 YOU SAID IT BUB! TRUMP IS A DEAD LOSS A SCREWBALLING KNOTHEAD

[@AdrianInflorida]

​@@booklover6753but he went to military school, it was the same thing, he said

[@jacobsparry8525]

It’s interesting how they thought about things back then, after all WHATS 600 to 800 nuclear detonations over 4 or 5 days….right?

[@LordZontar]

A day at the office...

[@iLumberjack]

While I don't want to die in a nuclear war, I now know that this is preferable to dying in a meeting about a nuclear war.

[@williamyoung9401]

Sunlight is overrated.

[@brannonwood]

I used to be a B-52 mechanic at depot level and that's a hell of an airplane - analog all the way so it can survive nuclear war.

[@jeffimber7152]

I recently heard that the EMP effect is not as great as once thought -- does anybody have any information on that?

[@michaelalucy1971]

The Starfish Prime test in Operation Fishbowl proved EMP to be real and devastating. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fishbowl

[@jeffimber7152]

@@michaelalucy1971 Thanks for the link. So I guess it depends on altitude of detonation

[@michaelalucy1971]

@@jeffimber7152 yes, exactly. What altitude and how it works is a little beyond me! There are lots of good documentaries that discuss the physics of EMP.

[@lundsweden]

Wouldn't analog electronics get fried too?

[@bramptongora2008]

Kid: What did you do during World War III, grandpa? Grandpa: I was the uhhh camera operator in the SAC command post

[@lukestrawwalker]

First place to get hit... Grandpa was dust in the stratosphere within 30 minutes of the war breaking out... OL J R : )

[@JasonMW45]

​@@lukestrawwalkeractually probably buried deep underground, hopefully NOT still alive.

[@MountainRaven1960]

Glad they had an ‘exit plan’ the year I was born. Loved the way the brass was smoking as much as possible before oblivion. Guess dying of lung cancer was not going to be much of a concern compared to one flash and they’re ash. ‘Excuse me? Do you smoke?’ ‘Only after the first megaton.’ Then pass the ash tray please.

[@journeystarr]

They were smoking because they knew russia was about to be annihilated

[@gregoryjclark81]

38:44 Awesome footage of a B-47 employing the toss bombing delivery method. My great-uncle flew the B-47 Stratojet in the mid- to late-1950s. He just passed away this last week--the passing of a generation. I like how the video shows the bombers landing at home/friendly bases after delivering a nuclear strike "over the breadth of the enemy's territory."

[@Nellinator23]

I've often listened to this old film in the background, either just to relax or to fall asleep to. Glad to see it on another channel too.

[@reekyflapperbaade4071]

I thought I was the only one that listened to programs like this,to sleep....

[@alphadog6970]

@@reekyflapperbaade4071 same

[@rumpstatefiasco]

The host’s voice is like the best Mac-N-Cheese to me: auditory comfort chow.

[@shelbythomas]

you people are not normal.

[@malachiseerisrael8618]

if this is what the nonmelonated white man uses to fall 😴 No wonder your the END OF THE WORLD

[@MasterSergeantofMarines]

Stanley Kubrick had to have seen this before he filmed Dr strangelove which was scheduled to release in 1963 but was postponed due to the Kennedy assassination until it's release date in 1964. there are too many parallels between characters in his film and some of the characters in this film. George c Scott's character complains the Communists will see the big board this film references the big board within the first 10 minutes. that cannot be a coincidence.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

"All the world is indeed a stage." - Yoko Ono

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

He did see this movie. The CRM-114 was also real. That and the B52 cockpit layout was too real and the USAF delayed release of the movie to 'protect secrets'.

[@Road38910]

The BIG BOARD made me smile. Very similar to the film.

[@456swagger]

Kubrick was of full of shit. He made the dedicated professional members of the military look like bumbling idiots. Even the realistic props that he used in Dr. Strangelove couldn't make up for the stupidity of the movie.

[@LordZontar]

@@Road38910 Well actually, it's kind of a letdown compared to the War Room in Dr. Strangelove. The USAF should have hired Ken Adam to design their nuclear command and control centre.

[@OddlyBoBo7]

Just found this gem. Born in '58. Have lived my life in a Targeted City. Weird timing for youtube to recommend this to me. Sucks they nuke me in pretty much every movie or scenario. Duck and Cover, and kiss my @$$ goodbye. Which is better than surviving this scenario.

[@richardsolberg4047]

Live in a target state , 2 SAC bases and 2 Minutemen Man wings , now only 1 of each .

[@mrrolandlawrence]

indeed the "duck & cover" films were more to hype the possible attack than actually protect citizens. it did work well though to manufacture consent for the large military budgets. i lived near nato headquarters in the UK. my father assured us that we would be like the famous chap in japan in WW2 who vaporised in the nuclear strike & would not feel a thing.

[@VideographerExperience]

"Mr. President, we cannot allow a *Mineshaft Gap!"*

[@PavewayJDAM]

Who would have thought in 2022, we all wished SAC was back and as bad assed as ever! Edit: this government film brought to you by marlbrough!

[@chrisb.1214]

And every 8 out of 10 doctors agree, Marlboro's are the finest quality cigarettes to smoke.

[@lukestrawwalker]

It won't be the nicotine that kills you, Mr. Bond... OL J R :)

[@anti-communist103]

As someone born after SAC's disestablishment, I can confidently say we need SAC and LeMay back.

[@456swagger]

Yes Sir, We've lost a great deal of our knowledge and expertise in the field of war fighting. Our military has become effeminate as the leftist Democrats have appointed Trans gender officers and have ground our Warriors to dust

[@jonathanstrong4812]

HEH HEH HEH NOT!

[@MINITMANRADIONETWORK]

Keep them coming.The videos I mean,not the bombs.

[@sledgehammer9739]

The Colonel sounds just like Gene Okurland.

[@lundsweden]

Gotta love this guy's narration. He puts on a good voice for it!

[@billdubya9626]

The narrator (Col. Dodd) is an actor that also made a cameo appearance in the movie, The Morning After. This was an ABC movie on nuclear war.

[@journeystarr]

The Day After

[@JDAbelRN]

Thank God he has this movie for legacy to to be remembered for instead of the dreadful movie The Day after.​@@billdubya9626

[@ocsrc]

When the sac base was closed in New York, about ten years after that there was a property that the government sold, and a local real estate company had me go out and look at it because I had some experience with what I was about to see and they wanted my opinion. We drove about 2 hours the into Farm country and about an hour from the base. Along this country road there was a very large parcel that could fit a super Walmart and it had grass that was well manicured and there was a road that we turned onto and drove about a quarter of a mile and I could see what looks like a small garage as we approached It was a concrete poured structure a little smaller than a garage with a large metal Door and cameras had been removed from the outside. I noted where the brackets had been as I noted the posts that clearly had a fence around the property that had been cut off at the basis which were in concrete I had a very good idea of what type of facility we were about to see but I had no idea what its purpose had been We went in and down 4 flights of stairs about 60 feet below ground. There was no power inside and we had bright flashlights, but it was still pretty dark and we went through a series of blasts doors and the decontamination area I saw that they had stripped out almost everything, including the electrical panels which was odd Usually they were left in these places. But they had removed the generators and the wiring and the only thing that was still there was the bathroom but they had taken apart the wall for some reason I still don't understand and you could see the piping and the flexible hoses attached to the urinals and toilets In doing research I learned that this was the backup radar control station Which meant that there was an even larger primary radar control station probably in the main bunker. I don't know where the main bunker was It never came on the market which means most likely it's still being used by the government for some purpose But normally they have the bunkers at least an hour away from the bases knowing that the base will be a primary target And the pavement up-top had a parking area that seemed small for the size of the facility and I would have estimated maybe 8 to 10 people at a time were Manning this facility but probably less than that. It's amazing that this was built in the 40s or 50s in secret and as with other facilities like this I'm sure they went to the local farmers and talk with them about not talking about anything going on with the construction or about the facility once it was completed But driving past this each day and seeing a huge barbed-wire fence with cameras mounted and a security gate, you would have known that it was a military facility. But the SAC base was a big part of the economy and it was common to see military and government vehicles driving around on the back roads and in the towns. I don't remember what they sold that site for but it was pretty wrecked in comparison to other sites that had not been left to decay This one was deliberately stripped and left and the ground water had filled most of it. Why they decided to sell it I do not know. I would have thought the government would have filled in the entrance and bulldozed the entry buildings. But for whatever reason they didn't and they sold it as it was to the real estate company I don't ever remember seeing any of these sites have the lawn mowed but they always had immaculately mowed lawns. And I never saw a lawn mower or tractor or any other type of vehicle so they had to have brought the equipment to mow and taken it back to wherever it came from every week. Very interesting It almost makes me wonder if they mowed it at night in the dark

[@Visitor2Earth]

The world was a much safer place when SAC was around. I myself slept much better knowing that LOOKING GLASS was always overhead.

[@Springbok295]

Basically, this period from 1957-1960 was the only one where the US had total dominance over the Soviets vis-a-vis nuclear weapons. The Soviets had virtually no ICBMs, no ship-launched nuclear cruise missiles, no IRBMs, and only a handful of long-range bombers like the Bear capable of dropping a nuke.

[@rawslice]

Compare these videos to the dumbed-down propaganda they make now.

[@Laroo69]

Isn't it scary how ICBMs changed everything

[@Indrid__Cold]

Took the luck factor out of nuclear war.

[@johndyson4109]

You can't simultaneously prepare for war and avoid it at the same time... Deterrence will not work forever...

[@_marlene]

we've been lucky to face nuclear-armed adversaries who are sane about their own survival. So far.

[@scarakus]

Tuesday's at 10 o'clock would be the best time for the enemy to attack. That's when everyone ignores the sirens filling the air. lol

[@trentdawg2832]

3rd Thursdays for us

[@scarakus]

@@trentdawg2832 US, or other country?

[@LordZontar]

No plane would proceed beyond Apple Jack control line without orders. But when they proceed beyond Frosted Flakes control line, THEN it's time to worry.

[@AdrianInflorida]

First Saturday of the month at noon, here, lol

[@58fins]

Interesting how the ICBM made a lot of this obsolete.

[@leechowning2712]

It is still there. I remember 20 years ago, on 9/11, Air Force One transported the President to this same base. It is still the HQ for US air defenses, although in 1995 the Presidental Order placing these in final control of the US air traffic expired.

[@journeystarr]

​@@leechowning2712Offutt AFB

[@mp5kfisher241]

Fire at will? Who is Will??

[@TheDoctor1225]

Whoever he is, he's in for a hell of a bad day!

[@badcompany-w6s]

Will Robinson? However he is lost in space.

[@BlueAgaveStudios]

Does he know Roger?

[@BlueAgaveStudios]

Not sure, but where there's a will there's a way so don't ask why.

[@mp5kfisher241]

Alan Hohman yes he does and after the nuclear explosion he will be changing his name to Willie Fistergash.

[@johngustafson9566]

I was waiting to see Slim Pickens in his cowboy hat riding a bomb.

[@Ltulrich]

Why do I have this unsettling feeling that this is still the way things work

[@lennymota4973]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[@trentdawg2832]

@@lennymota4973 damn right

[@lukestrawwalker]

The basic premise of command and control is the same, but a lot of new technology has been incoporated into the process... computers, satellite communications, etc. Orders going to the submarines, etc. This was SAC's plans. In 1960 everything was incorporated into a Single Integrated Operations Plan (SIOP) which details the exact plan for all branches of service and the delegation of authority, plans, and procedures for conducting a nuclear war should it be necessary. That way all the services worked TOGETHER instead of each having their own plans and roles, some of which were overlapping and needlessly duplicative. Revised SIOP's are still done to this day! Later! OL J R :)

[@andrescrux]

Least you know it works⚠️👨‍💻🤣

[@karlschulte9231]

I was 14. In 1964 i was in USAF Communications Command. Yhen in 1966 in SAC getting bomber crews ready to bomb on the target and avoid missles. Retired as an officer in Army in 2004. Much changed but b52 still flying!

[@_marlene]

an incredible plane. work of art.

[@planecrazy242]

is this a documentary ? Did this really happen?

[@thesullivanmusic]

A truly regretable and shameful part of human history. Lots of people too addled by machismo, machine fetishism, and manifest destiny to understand that toys in their hands could end the world.

[@operatorjeffdeathstar7759]

Yay!! We won...

[@jonathanstrong4812]

NOBODY WINS AS A SPECIES WE WILL CEASE TO EXIST AS A PART OF THIS PLANET

[@badcompany-w6s]

Dial? The war will be over by the time you get the number dialed. Like granny told Jed don't forget to spin that little wheel like the banker goober did. :)

[@oceanhome2023]

The beginning looks like the beginning of “Get Smart “

[@trentdawg2832]

Lol the shoe phone and inspector gadget, I have a feeling a lot of these kids don’t have a clue

[@lukehanley5392]

Good thinking 99.

[@franktinoco2575]

I love America. 🇺🇸

[@migmadmarine]

The intelligence officer was the police chief in "the blob"

[@Indrid__Cold]

Holy shit! You're right! Several of the actors came from horror/Sci Fi I believe.

[@nagantm441]

Who's the actor playing the Colonel? He also played that lieutenant colonel in an army film.

[@martinross6416]

Calling Curtis LeMay. Please come back Curtis LeMay!

[@jonathanstrong4812]

HE'S KAPUT HE DIED IN 1986

[@1roadrage1]

This dudes tie is to tight to work well with a respitory system