Power Of Decision (1958)

[@jbg43]

It's been 50 years since I flew B52s but this is the way I recall it was going to be done. I always felt the chances of returning from an EWO strike were less than 50%. I'm pleased to be able to say that world leaders were smart (scared??) enough to avoid executing the war orders.

[@thetreblerebel]

Your have to be a moron to first strike with nuclear arms...or insane... I'm glad that the world wasn't smoked before I came along in 1982. But even tho this Cold War has faded, there are still thousands of high yield weapons ponited at us, and us at them!!

[@jonathanstrong4812]

Mr Gordon i'm using the 1970s version of B-52s for a sci-fi novel using in several different areas of 1973 cold-war The Soviet-Union which who had given the Egyptians the means to removing Israel from the board by giving al-la Cuban-Missile-Crisis But it wasn't just land-based ICBMs the IRBMs and the SRBMs which who weren't blunderbuss es back in 1962 These things which who weren't the SS-4-N Skeans But this time the blankety-blank Soviets which who was giving those blankety-blanking Egyptians nuclear-weapons of serious BANG-BANGs The Soviet-Navy which who the silly idiots which who gave the Egyptian-Navy a Project-629 NATO designation Golf-III SSBs which who was armed with the then newest SLBMs which who was the SS-5-N Serb SLBM The story locations differ from this story I'm using the Western-Pacific and this was whe re the 7TH Fleet was stationed in Japan I remember that the United-States-Navy and the United-States-Air-Force which who was based on the island of Guam This was during the aftermath of the Vietnam-War and the beginnings of the investigation involving the Watergate incidents

[@pacer547]

I remember "hiding" under my desk in the 1960s to "save myself". In New York City. Yeah right. Even this 6 year old knew that was pointless, LOL.

[@kbanghart]

Reminds me.of the novel "War Day" I read ages ago. In a nuclear exchange, bombs had just barely missed manhattan, causing waves which flooded the subways. New Jersey had been hit which was a complete mess with all the chemicals.

[@oracleofottawa]

Remember! No fighting in the War Room, But smoking is perfectly all right....

[@Tang0Fox1]

Well yeah. If you're about to be vaporised in a nuclear blast then a little smoke isn't that much of a worry.

[@whirledpeas3477]

Plus, "Allright" is one word

[@oracleofottawa]

@@whirledpeas3477 Not where I live....

[@grochomarx2002]

An excellent movie for its type. Very enjoyable.

[@sleepisoptional]

4:10 the big board

[@jimmartin1803]

I spent 12 years growing up on sac bases. I remember the middle of the night noise of the b 52s on the flight line and taking off and landing during an ORI. I joined right after high school and spent 4 years on a MAC base.

[@westlock]

This is a dramatization, not a documentary or a training film. The people with speaking roles are actors, not military personnel. A few of the faces look familiar from movies and TV shows of that time. The procedure for calling an alert was much more elaborate than depicted here. I suspect that this was made to show to congressmen.

[@iirohavana4837]

Smoking while starting WW3. So 1950’s 😂

[@kbanghart]

"this force is a good force. Actually, it is a great force. This Force has a lot of force, causing it to have excessive force upon the force on which it does its force."

[@danielcruz8347]

Ultra wide Screen excellent effects and sound...Feature seems like it was produced for possible public theater viewing by weekly chapters? In fact besides this feature seriousness and use of color..it seems could of been used as future working template for Stanley Kubrick black comedy Dr strangelove!!

[@jimmartin1803]

This guy doesn’t mess around.

[@florinivan6907]

A couple of weeks later all those SAC guys got reassigned as newly created auxiliary police. Due to widespread devastation law enforcement has collapsed. The National Guard is overwhelmed and unrest has broken out across the country. The surviving military has been deployed to maintain security. Procedures are so forgiving summary executions of suspected troublemakers are the norm. Hundreds of thousands are shot by cops or soldiers.

[@complexblackness]

They hit us hard in this vid.

[@Tang0Fox1]

An interesting movie but where is the authentication/ verification procedure or am I being too literal?

[@kbanghart]

We don't need no stinkin procedures

[@Tang0Fox1]

@@kbanghart lol. Ok I stand corrected.

[@blip1]

If you watch another video titled "Always Never", it becomes clear that there may not have been such procedures in 1958 🤣 ICBMs weren't even really a thing, when this film was made.

[@jimmyboudreau4207]

Insane. .. All the years i spent in the Army..cant ger over all the Looses. They act like they won. Nobody wins.

[@djpalindrome]

You’re here now having the luxury of opining on KZbin and not speaking Russian because people like us were willing to stand up and defend Americans

[@migcaes11]

first

[@artjohnLagas-gk6mg]

What a joke ,,,,,,,they thought they were going to trade punches with nuclear weapons and they still do

[@dahawk8574]

Cue Charleton Heston at the Statue of Liberty...