Nuclear War • Power of Decision (1958)

[@allanrodzinski5850]

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

[@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."

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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!!

[@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?

[@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"

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@jmanner2562]

Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines

[@hoganrichard9627]

At my house there was only four answers Dad would accept: "yes sir, no sir, can do sir and no excuse sir". As a child I didn't fully understand but after spending 22 years in the Army myself I got the message loud and clear. The colonel narrating this film is a prime example of the mindset concerning "offensive deterrent" (odd combination) battle plans. We didn't want to start the fight but if the enemy "got stupid" well, we thought we could fix stupid. Looking back now all I see is pride and arrogance on both sides. Thank God we didn't kill each other just to prove who's king of the schoolyard.

[@florinivan6907]

I don't think God had anything to do with it. More like the fact that the people in charge were all vets of WW2. None were ready to start a war just to keep busy. Today its different. Few vets and even the ones that exist have never fought in a trully massive war. More like the colonial wars of the late XIX century. The guys in charge now even if they deny it they have an innate curiosity of what a major war would look like. The guys in charge in 1960 did not they had been through one the very oldest actually two.

[@anti-communist103]

Acting as if you can reduce wars to schoolyard brawls is Western privilege to the nth degree. Would you rather be a citizen of the United States of America or a subject of the Soviet Union?

[@coyotehinderstein37]

@@anti-communist103 id rather be alive

[@456swagger]

No the struggle was a bit more than just pride and ego. It was a struggle of will. Stalin would have taken West Germany and a great deal of Europe if not for the efforts of folks like your dad. The Soviets finally got the message and went out of business.

[@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.

[@martinevans9757]

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

[@billfrug]

"WE CALL THIS THE BIG BOARD!"

[@MrMavstar]

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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@MINITMANRADIONETWORK]

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

[@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.

[@VideographerExperience]

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

[@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⚠️👨‍💻🤣

[@dwightchaos9449]

It defintly isnt.. ICBMs were introduced shortly after.

[@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.

[@zhechen7691]

I recommend two movies here: Strategic Air Command and By Dawn's Early Light. The setting of the first one is the SAC in 1950s, and the setting of the second one is late 1980s.

[@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...

[@Visitor2Earth]

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

[@CosmosNut]

What a great video, thank you.

[@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!

[@craigcowan2971]

Great mix of aircraft.

[@Indrid__Cold]

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

[@chwilliams5]

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

[@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.

[@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..."

[@fuffoon]

We owe the purity of our essence to these people.

[@MrElapid]

This is great content. Thank you!

[@nagantm441]

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

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

It genuinely is insanely hilarious how they thought you could win a nuclear war, even back in those days of slower delivery.

[@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

[@AnniesHere-rn5bc]

Thank You - shared

[@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.

[@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.

[@goobah01]

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

[@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.

[@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?)

[@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

[@sledgehammer9739]

The Colonel sounds just like Gene Okurland.

[@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.

[@cool555breeze]

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

[@sledgehammer9739]

It's amazing how video tape is turned into 16 millimeter before it is seen.

[@oceanhome2023]

MAD was reality at this early date !

[@cosmolfjr7400]

top !!! ... thank´s from brasil !!!

[@citizeneveryman6798]

good stuff to work too.

[@jlykken]

13:15: “service evacuation of dependents is automatic” - never heard before that we had this - very smart

[@AllanSakowski]

Yeah but where are they going? How are they getting there? And oh yeah, how long is it going to take? Answer - it's all BS.

[@Mr_x_19922]

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

[@dwightchaos9449]

All that money put in that room.. the highest tech, a turning “big board”, fun little lights!! All the best!! and his only Pointer stick they have is an old pool cue?

[@martinross6416]

Calling Curtis LeMay. Please come back Curtis LeMay!

[@jonathanstrong4812]

HE'S KAPUT HE DIED IN 1986

[@johngustafson9566]

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

[@AllanSakowski]

"Sir, we have failed in our primary mission - dererrance". I envision General Larson sitting there saying "no shit, got any other stupid observations, Red?"

[@antoniomsalazar2738]

Muy bueno

[@andrescrux]

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

[@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.

[@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"...

[@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.

[@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 !

[@franktinoco2575]

I love America. 🇺🇸

[@shanew.williams]

This present generation should watch the movie "Fail Safe" (1964) about the potential of miscalculation, a "first strike" against the Soviet Union & the consequences.

[@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.

[@shelbythomas]

That is a serious, serious man.

[@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 :)

[@TheObersalzburg]

Interesting thought: The time today from first notice of an attack to first hit is only about one half the length of time of this video. Not much time for any decisions.

[@DougPaulley]

here in the UK it is more like 3-4 minutes

[@planecrazy242]

is this a documentary ? Did this really happen?

[@TheChipmunk2008]

'closed circuit televison'...shows blank monitor. Yep, it's dark.

[@TheChipmunk2008]

Also we all know about autovon

[@bobbyhamblen2338]

9:50 shit's about to get real.

[@punman5392]

This film is incredibly optimistic. Gary Powers was shot down 2 years after this was made. There’s a decent chance many of those B-52s would be lost

[@floridaseminole8643]

NO fighting in the war room

[@mudso]

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

[@lesliemacmillan9932]

Those tall-tail B-52Ds had a certain something....

[@Indrid__Cold]

"Dependant evacuation is automatic with this order!" I can just imagine military officers dragging kids out of school and wives out of supermarkets because "your husband has gone off to fight WWIII!"

[@swainscheps]

28:14 looks like I picked the wrong day to quit smoking… 34:30 - um…General…why are we bombing South Carolina? 47:43 the last known use of the word ‘spasmodic’ on film? Nope…not two minutes later at 49:07… 51:07 nice buffering, General…’positive…um what’s the word…positive…ah yes, positive recall. Sorry, Bill, I’d just used it in a sentence about 20 seconds ago…you understand the tremendous stress I’m under trying to maintain this facial expression. That’s right. Good…um…let’s see good….ah yes! Goodbye! That’s it” 54:33 voiceover: “hmmm…accept his surrender eh? I’ll bet that’s JUST what he WANTS me to do. Well…I’m not some sucker, Ivan….” (Out loud) “Jerry? Call the bases, give them the green light for Operation Slaughterhouse”

[@jjohnson796]

😂😂 very good!

[@jonnyjackson6050]

And they all lived happily ever after.

[@Laroo69]

Isn't it scary how ICBMs changed everything

[@Indrid__Cold]

Took the luck factor out of nuclear war.

[@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

[@Legend813a]

Anyone know the name of the main actor in this film? He was in numerous civil defense / training films

[@lionvillelion]

Troy McCLure

[@Legend813a]

@@lionvillelion ha ha

[@robertmandell526]

The main narrator in most official military docudrama and nuclear test events was REED HADLEY, a well known actor in 1950s Westerns.

[@jjohnson796]

@@robertmandell526 thanks!

[@denisiwaszczuk1176]

2013 . Times have changed.

[@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.

[@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

[@choossuck7653]

Thats the notch

[@tigertiger1699]

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

[@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

[@lolshark99b49]

You know Dimitri, how we’ve always talked about The Bomb. The Bomb, Dimitri. The HYDROGEN bomb

[@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

[@1roadrage1]

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

[@b3j8]

All those returning bombers would have had nowhere to land, all AF bases, incl their alternates, would have likely been destroyed by the enemy. But the whole scenario, planes, missiles, whatever, is absolute insanity!

[@AdrianInflorida]

For many of the fail safe planes, it was going to be a one way trip, anyway.

[@jjohnson796]

I dont know, most of Nevada would have been available as an optional landing site, at least ya know the desert part.

[@b3j8]

@@jjohnson796 True, didn't think of that option.

[@sledgehammer9739]

Poor Will. They launched all their missiles at him.

[@Hebdomad7]

Bill Stickers is innocent!

[@LordZontar]

Yeah, poor Will can NEVER catch a break.

[@jjohnson796]

@JimAllen-Persona yes all over the place.

[@jjohnson796]

@@LordZontar he never picked up the tab at the bar after work so…..

[@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

[@williammorris584]

I was disoriented by the lack of a light classical soundtrack.

[@barak363363]

7:00- interesting