@dawidj.vanhuffel8217 Back during the mid 50s through the 70s, maybe later, we would practice duck and cover drills. The desk was supposed to protect from falling debris caused by the damage to structure from nuclear blast. Check out references to Civil Defense protocols. Those were interesting times. Take care.
A very true picture of a Nuclear detonation. I am a nuclear veteran from the late1950's and your description of a nuclear burst brings back memories of the intensity of the light, I had my hands covering my eyes and could see the bones in my hands for a few seconds and then feel heat on my back from the initial burst, we were told it was safe to stand up and look at the detonation which by then was a giant cauldron of water and earth creating a column stretching skywards. A visible black line rushed towards us and lifted us of our feet, that was the sound of the detonation. Something that I will remember forever.
A poster sold in novelty shops back in the 1960s: "What to do in case of Atomic Attack: 1. Stand still. 2. Bend Over. 3. Kiss Your Ass Goodbye." Still the best advice if the worst happens, 60 years later...
@@justlookin4450 No, politicians are just MINIONS doing the dirty work of the Western Globalist Elite Psychopathic Banksters that truly run the Planet .... Apparently, Russia and China want none of it.....
Amen. I live 10 mi from an airport, a primary target. Too close to the edge for me. If there's a warning, I'm getting in my car and heading to the airport.
@@cryptdk2400 In the beginning of the book by William Brinkley called, "The Last Ship" is a chilling line, after he describes the extent of the US Nuclear arsenal, where he states, "What man invents, man eventually uses."
After Mathew Broderick hacked into WOPR, it asked him if he wanted to play a game. After looking through all the games Mathew Broderick settled on 'Thermonuclear war.'
A crap children's movie whose concept is a wholesale ripoff of the 70s movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project." Which was an excellent, thought-provoking, thoroughly frightening movie not just in the area of nuclear war but also artificial intelligence. And unlike "War Games," "Colossus" is a movie for adults that avoids cheesy feel-good endings. Note that "War Games" is not the only movie that ripped off "Colossus." The "Terminator" movies, or at least the backstory and setting for them, also flagrantly plagiarized "Colossus." In that both movies are about a precocious and far more advanced than thought A.I. that humans foolishly trust with the defense framework of the USA, including all nuclear weapons. And once it goes live and gets a chance to have a look around, it decides to take control, very much to the detriment of the human race. I can recommend "Colossus" to anyone with nightmares about nuclear war, or rogue A.I., or just fear about the future of scientific progress in general. The only thing bad about the movie is that it is a 70s movie with the era's less-than-spectacular special effects, and a rather primitive way of portraying computers and their function. E.g. much in the way of teletype chattering and 'beep boop' computer sounds. But that is how computers were then so it's sort of authentic. It just looks archaic to the modern eye.
@@vladcraioveanu233 oh ok so then we won’t have anyone to take care of us or prevent nuclear meltdown that is imminent due to nuclear power plants. Also they have to advantage of their science will be unimaginably advanced and they can solve a lot
I remember asking my father back in the 1980's if there was a nuclear war, where would he run. I was shocked when he said, I would run towards the flash as fast as I can. I was looking confused by his answer then he said if there were to be a nuclear war, the hardest days are the days after the food and gasoline run out and that's when people will start stealing anything they can to trade for food and if you don't have anything worth trading, they will take your food even if they need to kill you to get it. Life would be a living Hell, he said! I never forgot those words to this day.
I joined the British Army during the cold war and was stationed in Germany as a combat engineer. We trained relentlessly to possibly fight a war in an NBC ( Nuclear,Biological and chemical ) environment, doing extended exercises and living and sleeping in NBC suits and respirators. The drills you have to go through to decontaminate yourself for urinating/defecating and the procedures just to drink water and eat and is a very taxing, even in training. Main points we learnt. The war would basically be survival and to continue fighting is unrealistic for most If you are a casualty in such an environment, you are pretty much dead....the treatment and evacuation of a casualty is hard to basically impossible If it was not for the fact that we would be fighting to protect our families, the consensus was that the best place to be would be directly under the mushroom cloud and get it over with Survival for the vast majority of people, military and civilian would not be possible. Once every infrastructure collapsed, people would die from lack of clean water/food/sanitation/medications/minor and major wounds/elderly without care/bandrity, let alone long term medical issues.....its not a good outcome it puts things into perspective when you have the personal dosimeters explained.....every soldier is issued a unique wristwatch type dosimeter, returned after every exposure to be read for radiation accumulation back at central medical HQ. The result is kept secret from the soldier.....but if the soldier has received fatal doses of radiation, they will be sent out repeatably until they die instead of another soldier who has received possibly a lighter dose and will be returned to the rear to hopefully live.
And then here we have folks thinking it's all a hoax. Well, sorry to say, to all of those non believers, when someone actually says, " put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye", that will be the reality of it. The one main thing is if it ever came to 60% of the population within let's say 1 year, 50% of any remaining would be wishing they had perished. So long as there is one idiot in this world with a finger on that button, the world will never be a place to feel safe. We are way too primitive, take away all nuclear capabilities and we still have conventional. We won't be happy at any time so long as someone wants what someone else has or visa versa. Our primitive state may never evolve, get used to it. Plain and simply, we may never become intelligent in the next thousand years to escape our demise as a species. Not that many won't try to out think it but remember, there are too many weak links in this civilization and we all know that theory.
Good interview. I remember The Day After was shown in movie theatres here in NZ at the time. I went with my Mum and Dad and sister. It was profoundly disturbing to a 12yo and I still remember the feeling of shock and fear as we left the theatre. On the subject of Nuclear winter, I had to have a chuckle when Annie suggested people in the northern hemisphere would be living underground to avoid the sun's radiation due to ozone layer destruction, and that NZ and Australia would be the places to go! NZ and Australia currently have the highest rates of skin cancer in the world due to ozone depletion...
Don't forget the 460 nuclear power plants going into meltdown and keep producing radiation, cause no one to control them, I'm from Gisborne NZ that will still be death for all animal life, and best then to wake up in a ,100 million years, .
My father witnessed 13 atomic explosions during operation Dominic on Christmas Island. His advice to me regarding nuclear war was to go out in the first flash as you didn’t want to try and survive these horrific weapons. His descriptions of the power of these weapons was chilling to say the least. Praying always for peace but expecting insanity.
To this day the movie "Threads " is by far the most terrifying depiction of the aftermath because of the fact that it is so matter of fact with the teletypes throughout...it brings home the reality of what it would be to live through that nightmare...it traumatized viewers so badly it was only aired ONCE
I thought I was the only one who had ever seen this movie. It so impressed me 35 years ago that I re-rented it and made my children watch it. Scared the crap out of all of us. I truly think if it was required watching in high schools, more people would move towards nuclear disarmament.
I remember watching a movie a long time ago where a comment was made, “once the first bomb is launched the war is already over.” I’ve forgotten now what movie but I’ve never forgotten that comment.
Denis Villeneuve is working on making a film like that as we speak. The world needs a movie to shake everyone to their core and wake them the fk up. We are in major big big trouble, and our politicians and leaders couldn’t give a flying fk. Babies, children, mothers, fathers, all at risk. We need to stop this madness of a direction we are going in and get our leaders to stop!
Lawrence, Kansas...the location of the filming of The Day After. I was there. The staging of the downtown to replicate a nuclear disaster was as horrifying as you could imagine it would be. Unforgettable.
I was in 5th grade when I watched The Day After. Had horrific nightmares long after. Found it on YT last year. Still terribly scared me 40 years later!!!
@@shannonking3201 you got any better examples of what a 💯 megaton bomb would do to a city? The only thing it missed was the fact that the last thing you saw before the flash burned your eyes out is you would be able to see everyone’s skeleton through their body.
If you were very close it would literally do that with a 9Mt thermonuclear device. The only difference is that if that close, when the kinetic shockwave hit everything would be molten slag and dust. The fence, bodies, buildings. All of it.💀
Some (nuclear armed) presidents would even laugh at her.... that´s the place where we, as civilization, have secluded ourselves... of utter indifference and madness. That would be unthinkable even for Reagan... or Nixon, or Kruschev, Andropov etc. But it seems its not unthinkable anymore.
Yeah I think they know. Unfortunately, TH-cam doesn't allow me to talk about possibly more realistic approaches to prevent that scenario from happening. What a surprise...
@@yusuphabah4759 ..... or Hamas and Hezbollah attacking Israeli civilian targets indiscriminately. Or do you believe there is only one side to that story?
I watched The Day After on TV the night it aired. It was the week of Thanksgiving, 1983. I was 10 years old and watching people get incinerated. The threat of nuclear war hung over all of us in the 1980s. In school, we had discussions in social studies class about what we would do if the Soviet Union launched their missiles at us. At night it was the last thing I thought about before falling asleep.
But at the end it doesn't really matter wether you're killed by a bullet or a nuclear blast. Surely, the latter is more devastating to many people at the same time but the result on your part is the same unless of course you are one of the people further away from the blast radius.
As a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, we were trained for N.B.C.W. Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Warfare. The scenarios we were shown still upset me to this very day.
Watching "The Day After" in 1983 had a profound effect on me as well. I was 9. I recall my brother who was 25 saying he would run outside and pray that he would die immediately if a nuclear war was underway. Those words always stuck with me. We lived (and still live) just outside of Washington, D.C.
Annie Jacobsen mentioned the 1984 movie The Day After. There was also a British made movie called Threads released the same year which is far grittier and more realistic and involves a nuclear attack on the UK - specifically from the perspective of bombs falling on the city of Sheffield. The movie was done as a kind of part drama and part documentary and is enough to put anyone off the idea that nuclear war can be won or have any benefits to those who "push the button". Not a nice movie to watch but a "must watch".
Threads shown in the UK was a terrifying film aired in the 80's, this Lady speaks words of wisdom, that should be heard by our elites. Thank you so much for posting
The old bbc drama Threads is worth a watch if you’re brave enough. It demonstrates how bad it would be to survive the initial blast. The survivors would truly envy the dead.
It was set in my home town here in the North of England ,some of my friends got parts as extras, what made it more real was that i know the locations very well.
Absolutely, aye. Being presented in that semi-documentary 'BBC' style really makes it hit hard. It is credited with having an impact on changing policy because it showed so well that *no one* wins a nuclear exchange.
Yeah , I've always wondered why the US banned it and not The Day After . I've often thought perhaps there's something in it they ( government) doesn't want us to know or see. Both movies are horrible. Governments are moronically inferior to most of its constituents . And with that said , all militaries should be dismantled and all nukes should be turned into sources of power instead of weapons. Just my opinion, and I'm entitled to them .
That's exactly what came into my mind. That seen from T2, when Sarah was standing at the fence. And all of a sudden the nuclear explosion sweep her off her feet! Scary!
This issue is virtually ignored today. I'm the same age as the author in this piece, and when we were in high school it was the height of the Cold War. It was terrifying. We lived knowing at any moment we could be incinerated. The U.S. and Soviet Union were mortal enemies and had been for 40 years. Then in 1991 it was suddenly over. The U.S.S.R. was dissolved and Russia was not our enemy. The chances of a nuclear holocaust were reduced to practically nil. It was glorious. However, all those too young at the time and all those born later lived in a world where no one talked about nuclear weapons. Two generations lived without the threat, without any knowledge of what these weapons arsenals could do. Now we are suddenly thrust back into a time of nuclear peril, but 1/2 the world's population is massively under informed or knows nothing of this renewed threat to humanity and the bulk of life on our little world. A great and necessary video. Thanks for making it and helping to inform the masses.
You know nothing. The most genocidal ideology in history is islam & they are taking over the west - nuclear nations - by the tactic of hijra (migration). Soon they will have the nukes & nothing will be off limits. If we had politicians & a public that's worth a damn, we would have peace, but they'd rather enrich themselves instead & entertain the failed ideology of socialism.
It's like she said though that she gives you the more boasted story. A lot of it was just that. Making it out that nuclear war would destroy everything when it wouldn't. Also, the loss numbers are stupidly over exaggerated.
Taking out ten biggest cities in US an Europe and you'll get 100 mil casualties pretty fast. While war itself wouldn't kill 5bill people, lack of water, food and unstable environment definitely will.
Hello from NZ, stumbled on this video by accident. I remember the the movie The Day After & to be honest as a 16 yo boy at the time thinking, wow a war movie. Naive, carefree thoughts, thinking which side would win, carried on being a teenager, riding my new mountain bike with my mates. I hope this never happens ever. I have just ordered Annie’s book it’s available here in New Zealand.
It's going to happened before December. Prophecy is being fulfilled EXACTLY like the Bible Prophecy. The only escape to this horrible death, is by excepting Jesus christ as your Lord and Savior. This is the plan of salvation if you all change your mind. If you belive Lord Jesus died (shed his blood),was buried and on the 3rd day God the father rose him from the dead, you will be saved. Time is running out⏳️🕙...
President Reagan also watched the BBC drama called Threads which depicted the scenario of a nuclear bomb dropped on the city of Sheffield and the aftermath.
That was the one we watched at school Making kids feel there is no point to life some maniacs can end it any moment Just like the war on terror Wovid etc We’re doomed. Then a culture that promotes decadence and living for today sitting on the existential threats shoulders. If you don’t realise what they are doing wise up.
The Day After… I was in 6th grade. Scared the ever living crap out me. And just think, that movie still didn’t capture the full reality of the horrors a nuclear war would bring.
I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s and remember how close the world was to nuclear war in the early 1980s. The world is even closer now to a nuclear war. These politicians today dont seem to realize how destrucve nuclear war would be, some of them believe they could even win.
I can’t believe in this day and age we are talking about the potential of a nuclear exchange or nuclear war. For all our intelligence, our technological advances , we haven’t learnt a thing. I can’t remember a time since WW2, where the future of our world seems like it is teetering on the edge of collapse.
@clytle374 how? Diesel use compression of like 20 to 1 while petrol gasoline use 11 to 1 so how does a diesel generator run gasoline petrol without premature detonation pinking ?
She doesn't know the difference. It leads me to question the other "scientific" points she is trying to make. I don't think it is a typo. She thinks she is educated and has convinced others she is, but I think she is bluffing.
@@mrquattro180 I don't completely understand, but I read it in manual. They are diesels rated for multi fuel, gas will run in all diesels, it just usually blows them up. Diesel can't have preignition, fuels not in the cylinder pre
I was in The Royal Observer Corps. Training was aimed at the events of WW3. Everything I learnt left me with the decision to head to an area which was a target.
@@scottdavidson526 first time I saw that movie was I believe maybe 2 years ago I had never heard of it and let me tell you they're right it's very realistic. And it really amazed me how much time people really had to prepare but they didn't realize it because nothing was actually being said. I mean in reality you would hope and pray that your government and your new stations would actually warn you way in advance like I don't know maybe a few months but in this world you know they won't. All we can do is pray, prep, prepare, repeat. Just keep your eyes and ears open and if you feel deep in your gut that something's going to go down then it's time to move or take action or do what you're going to do plan a b or c before it does come. I mean you just watch the news and it's not a if it's going to happen it's more of a when it's going to happen. But yeah the movie threads was really very good. I don't know if you've ever seen the movie ladybug ladybug? It's an old black and white nuclear war movie but it was Through The Eyes of children and their teachers who had to deliver these kids to their homes before the bombs dropped. I remember seeing this so many years ago when I was a child and I just found it on TH-cam again for free to watch
When Russia fell from Superpower status and realized they were vulnerable to NATO's conventional forces, they changed their doctrine to first use of tactical nukes. I think that was the first step down the path to nuclear war.
People worry today about aliens - they shouldn’t, because as a race we haven’t even achieved being able to live together peacefully. Aliens wouldn’t want us (maybe just what’s left of minerals, that’s all). People of Earth need to learn how to live together peacefully soon. Our planet cannot continue to provide for 8 billion people ecologically. Even 5 billion would be very difficult. We don’t have eons left if we don’t make a significant change.
@@ggaggagga4 No they didn't. Where the f**k did you get that from? Russian nuclear doctrine hasn't changed. They will only fire if they sense an imminent credible threat to Russia's existence as a nation. The problem is NATO countries really like doing things that could be seen as a credible threat to Russia's existence as a nation.
I doesn't matter how and when it started. It matters that this MADness be stopped. Ultimately Reagan wasn't a psychopath. It turned out he just didn't know what nukes really involve. What about the leaders of these places now? North Korea, US, Russia? Petty imperialism over the destruction of our species, Ali g with most other life right now.
NewZeland and Australia might escape the worst of it but if the ozone layer is so damaged that people can't venture out in the daytime, agriculture will get fried as well. Yes Even in the South of the Equator destinations.
No one will escape. Even if not directly targeted there would be a worldwide nuclear winter, most people would slowly starve to death or die of radiation carried in the atmosphere around the world.
@@martinj2843 yep. cause if Russia or the CCP launch at the USA then they will also launch at the military allies of the USA as well. So Australia will be a target
English speakers always over look S America. Shh, don't tell! Just move there quietly yourself. The South end end of Africa is a possibility, but they will have racial warfare on their hands.
I think NZ and Australia are good candidates because of their isolation. Imagine the migration of sick and injured people from the USA and Central America all headed south - it could overrun the southern countries and the infrastructure could collapse. Nobody could get to New Zealand in big numbers after a war - it's too remote for 99% boats and the agriculture could easily feed the people still there. New Zealand has no neighbours and is in the middle of nowhere...
YES - my bet is on Uruguay, which is basically a neutral nation. It is mainly agricultural and ranching, so food is abundant. It borders the large Rio de La Plata river, supplying fresh water and fish. Prevailing winds and jet streams will keep most of the heavy radiation in the Northern Hemisphere, which will be a "dead zone" for 100 years.
Just like Dawn of the Dead shows us we will all be eaten by zombies. It’s a story, written by an aeronautical engineer who didn’t have any apparent expertise in the actual science involved in a nuclear war or what would happen afterward. The most profound affect a US/Russian exchange would have might be the Russians hitting Australia because they are allied with the USA. A cloud of nuclear fallout or radiation isn’t likely to drift past the equator from the Northern Hemisphere.
Radiation levels aren't as severe as they were in the 1960s due to the current methods of bomb detonations. Australia should be relatively safe. Our major exports (food and natural resources) combined with our small population, should make us self-sufficient.
I grew up living on the central coast of CA. Next to Vandenberg AFB and Diablo Canyon power plant and the main cable trunk connecting the continental US to Hawaii, Gaum, and Japan. The whole thing was built underground on shock absorbers to try to survive a nuke strike. People thought we were so safe. Hundreds of miles from the big cities. Miles from primary targets military, strategic, and key points of communication. When we watched The Day After on TV, I asked my dad how safe are we here? My dad said, "Don't worry, we will be dead in the first 30 min."
I grew up in the Cold War and a common belief of everyone of around my age (the much maligned Boomers) is that NONE of us expected still to be here. I took comfort at the time from the fact that, on the leaked targeting lists of the Soviets, I had a ground-burst that was going to hit a listening station 400yds from my house - I wouldn't have known a thing about it. And, as noted in the comments elsewhere, our young, wealthy, host needs to watch Threads to get an idea of how bleak a fate such a war is.
Remember; for however many survivors there are; there will be no electricity because of EMP, and everything is contaminated, radioactive poisoning of land/water/living beings. For the few who are left; no hospitals, or the few there are; will truly have little, non-contaminated, working instruments at all. The only chance of anything even close to ‘normal’ survival, will fully depend on gas combustion engines, that electric starters will have to be rebuilt for, and fuel for; if you’re not sick and dying already.
"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare." 2 Peter 3:10
Revelation chapters 17 & 18 describes the destruction of "Mystery Babylon" (USA) by FIRE in a SINGLE HOUR. Her allies and trading partners bewail her fate, but NONE come to her aid. Jesus warns us: "COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE..." (Rev.18:4-5). This warning is akin to that given to Lot and his family, when they fled from Sodom & Gomorrah. Your choice - stay & burn, or LEAVE & LIVE.
New Zealand, southern Australia sounds like a blast, but having read the novel On The Beach by Neville Shute perhaps not. Waiting to die could be worse than instantly.
Australia! That would be like the movie Mad Max. I was so terrified when I saw that movie as kid especially how vicious and evil people were in that movie.
No matter how horrific this woman describes a post nuclear war world …it would be 10 times worse. It would be the end of the human race. The world would survive and would take thousands of years to recover.
My father was involved in operation redwing out in the marshall islands testing nuclear weapons from kilotons to megatons and he said he hoped and prayed that we never got into a war with those bombs because it would be a terrible thing if you survived.
The world is now so interconnected that all countries would be eventually and quickly devastated by the thermonuclear war. No fuel, no food, no fresh water, no medicines. The list goes on. All of civilisation would collapse eventually. It would be worse than going back to even pre-stoneage times. I think the lucky ones would perish literally in a flash.
"What uh, would you rather drown in 10 feet of water, or uh 10,000 feet of water?" - one of the scientists in Oppenheimer Easily, the best quote I've heard regarding absurd scale of nuclear weapons.
This veteran reporter took years to research and write a minute-by-minute portrayal of what happens in an all-out nuclear war. It has that page-turning readability of a thriller. At the same time it educates the reader about the myths we’ve been fed to normalize the the end of our civilization. This is the scariest book I have read in my long life.
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this is such a beautiful ASMR video, thank you
I suggest everyone read the Book of Revelation, chapter 18.
When men only had stones and sticks, they killed each other. Thé problem is not thé arm. It is sin in man.
The down falls of higher learning! Education? Can be used to eliminate humanity!😢
Someone won't allow Nuclear War. And their are off WORLD.
I'm not worried. I bought five desks from the high school I went to in the 70's. My family is prepared.
😂🤣😂🤣😂 I remember that drill.
Ours was the hallway with our heads ducked against the wall arse up! 😂😂😂
KOOL!
Explain the role the desks?
@dawidj.vanhuffel8217 Back during the mid 50s through the 70s, maybe later, we would practice duck and cover drills. The desk was supposed to protect from falling debris caused by the damage to structure from nuclear blast. Check out references to Civil Defense protocols. Those were interesting times. Take care.
A very true picture of a Nuclear detonation. I am a nuclear veteran from the late1950's and your description of a nuclear burst brings back memories of the intensity of the light, I had my hands covering my eyes and could see the bones in my hands for a few seconds and then feel heat on my back from the initial burst, we were told it was safe to stand up and look at the detonation which by then was a giant cauldron of water and earth creating a column stretching skywards. A visible black line rushed towards us and lifted us of our feet, that was the sound of the detonation. Something that I will remember forever.
Wow🤦🏾♂️
Thank you for your service, but YIKES... That sounds terrifying 😳
@@Deejack27 We were told what to expect, but in actuality it was still an unexpected experience.
@@ronholfly Thanks for your service . You’re one of our heroes 🦸.
I'd love to learn from your own documentary of your past with this subject. Education for our young generation is key. Thank you for your comment.
Never thought I could be put to sleep listening to someone explain nuclear war. What a voice she has! So nice.
Her voice reminds me a lot of Barbara Feldon.
It’s impossible to take this psychopath seriously, how do you describe NUCLEAR WAR with a smile on your face
She narrates her book. Amazing. She put me through quite a range of emotions. Not the good ones.
Seriously rite
@@hedgedrisk
Not a psychopath. She's right with God and not afraid of death.
A poster sold in novelty shops back in the 1960s: "What to do in case of Atomic Attack: 1. Stand still. 2. Bend Over. 3. Kiss Your Ass Goodbye." Still the best advice if the worst happens, 60 years later...
I remember that as a bumper sticker…had in my room in the 70s as a young teenager
We have lived with this reality our entire lives. It just shows how mad humanity is.
It’s not humanity that’s mad. It’s ego driven politicians that’s the problem.
@@justlookin4450You are so right! Always the so-called leaders, and the sheep follow. 😢
Its the religious freaks that will start ww3
@@justlookin4450 No, politicians are just MINIONS doing the dirty work of the Western Globalist Elite Psychopathic Banksters that truly run the Planet ....
Apparently, Russia and China want none of it.....
Exactly, a blind two year old can see she's no physicist
My boss would be like, you coming in?
If not, you'll need a note from your shelter master.
I would still get points against me for not showing up
Lmao! 😂 Or, okay can you come in a little late? I really need you today!
I'm sorry Tomas things just aren't working out. we are going to have to let you go. LOL
Nuclear attack or not I'm still getting written up 😂
It is very true that the ones that go first will be the luckiest.
Amen. I live 10 mi from an airport, a primary target. Too close to the edge for me. If there's a warning, I'm getting in my car and heading to the airport.
Sounds like a Pirate's adage:
"Arrrrggghhhhh! Shiver me timbers! Them who die be the lucky Ones!!!!"
@@captintinsmith3774R. L. Stevenson 😊
Dats woot duh rap-sure iz.
@@ottohesslein3230 chill, airport is not a target for nuclear warheads...I would say dangerous is military areas, or productions of military...
The final statement from the WOPR computer in the 1983 movie War Games says it all, "The only winning move is not to play."
Problem is, somebody will eventually play.
@@cryptdk2400 In the beginning of the book by William Brinkley called, "The Last Ship" is a chilling line, after he describes the extent of the US Nuclear arsenal, where he states, "What man invents, man eventually uses."
After Mathew Broderick hacked into WOPR, it asked him if he wanted to play a game. After looking through all the games Mathew Broderick settled on 'Thermonuclear war.'
yes evil takes over if good men do nothing.
A crap children's movie whose concept is a wholesale ripoff of the 70s movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project." Which was an excellent, thought-provoking, thoroughly frightening movie not just in the area of nuclear war but also artificial intelligence. And unlike "War Games," "Colossus" is a movie for adults that avoids cheesy feel-good endings. Note that "War Games" is not the only movie that ripped off "Colossus." The "Terminator" movies, or at least the backstory and setting for them, also flagrantly plagiarized "Colossus." In that both movies are about a precocious and far more advanced than thought A.I. that humans foolishly trust with the defense framework of the USA, including all nuclear weapons. And once it goes live and gets a chance to have a look around, it decides to take control, very much to the detriment of the human race.
I can recommend "Colossus" to anyone with nightmares about nuclear war, or rogue A.I., or just fear about the future of scientific progress in general. The only thing bad about the movie is that it is a 70s movie with the era's less-than-spectacular special effects, and a rather primitive way of portraying computers and their function. E.g. much in the way of teletype chattering and 'beep boop' computer sounds. But that is how computers were then so it's sort of authentic. It just looks archaic to the modern eye.
Although I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil... Live your life as things are outside your control
what life?
JUST DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN.
Until bombs start falling of the sky, right? Them you Will shit your pants.
@@vladcraioveanu233 oh ok so then we won’t have anyone to take care of us or prevent nuclear meltdown that is imminent due to nuclear power plants. Also they have to advantage of their science will be unimaginably advanced and they can solve a lot
If you know Jesus, what are you worried about?
I remember asking my father back in the 1980's if there was a nuclear war, where would he run. I was shocked when he said, I would run towards the flash as fast as I can. I was looking confused by his answer then he said if there were to be a nuclear war, the hardest days are the days after the food and gasoline run out and that's when people will start stealing anything they can to trade for food and if you don't have anything worth trading, they will take your food even if they need to kill you to get it. Life would be a living Hell, he said! I never forgot those words to this day.
I tell my kids we will be in the Southern Hemisphere.....at least that's the plan.
I would not want to survive a nuclear blast 😢
Australian here we have a false sense of security though! The tyranny of distance is good maybe we’ll see…
Three words. "On the Beach."
He was speaking facts. Sad world we live in right now.
I joined the British Army during the cold war and was stationed in Germany as a combat engineer. We trained relentlessly to possibly fight a war in an NBC ( Nuclear,Biological and chemical ) environment, doing extended exercises and living and sleeping in NBC suits and respirators. The drills you have to go through to decontaminate yourself for urinating/defecating and the procedures just to drink water and eat and is a very taxing, even in training.
Main points we learnt.
The war would basically be survival and to continue fighting is unrealistic for most
If you are a casualty in such an environment, you are pretty much dead....the treatment and evacuation of a casualty is hard to basically impossible
If it was not for the fact that we would be fighting to protect our families, the consensus was that the best place to be would be directly under the mushroom cloud and get it over with
Survival for the vast majority of people, military and civilian would not be possible. Once every infrastructure collapsed, people would die from lack of clean water/food/sanitation/medications/minor and major wounds/elderly without care/bandrity, let alone long term medical issues.....its not a good outcome
it puts things into perspective when you have the personal dosimeters explained.....every soldier is issued a unique wristwatch type dosimeter, returned after every exposure to be read for radiation accumulation back at central medical HQ. The result is kept secret from the soldier.....but if the soldier has received fatal doses of radiation, they will be sent out repeatably until they die instead of another soldier who has received possibly a lighter dose and will be returned to the rear to hopefully live.
Thank you for your serve. From a NATO friend.
And we assume the fellow has had fatal doses, knows he has a death sentence because he keeps getting sent out...? Chilling.
Intense. Thanks for that info
And then here we have folks thinking it's all a hoax. Well, sorry to say, to all of those non believers, when someone actually says, " put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye", that will be the reality of it. The one main thing is if it ever came to 60% of the population within let's say 1 year, 50% of any remaining would be wishing they had perished. So long as there is one idiot in this world with a finger on that button, the world will never be a place to feel safe. We are way too primitive, take away all nuclear capabilities and we still have conventional. We won't be happy at any time so long as someone wants what someone else has or visa versa. Our primitive state may never evolve, get used to it. Plain and simply, we may never become intelligent in the next thousand years to escape our demise as a species. Not that many won't try to out think it but remember, there are too many weak links in this civilization and we all know that theory.
If you did fight in a war, you wouldn't be fighting for your families, you'd be fighting for the rich, to keep them rich.
Good interview. I remember The Day After was shown in movie theatres here in NZ at the time. I went with my Mum and Dad and sister. It was profoundly disturbing to a 12yo and I still remember the feeling of shock and fear as we left the theatre. On the subject of Nuclear winter, I had to have a chuckle when Annie suggested people in the northern hemisphere would be living underground to avoid the sun's radiation due to ozone layer destruction, and that NZ and Australia would be the places to go! NZ and Australia currently have the highest rates of skin cancer in the world due to ozone depletion...
Don't forget the 460 nuclear power plants going into meltdown and keep producing radiation, cause no one to control them, I'm from Gisborne NZ that will still be death for all animal life, and best then to wake up in a ,100 million years, .
The only Winning move is Not to Play
How about a nice game of chess?
@@__Patrick It is so true, lol
Tell the 81 million.
id piss on a spark plug if i thought it would do any good
This is it even if you don't play if it goes nuclear the earth passes
Leaders of the world now seem hellbent on giving nuclear war a shot.
Apparently Thanos was right!
Putin seems all in on that as he and Kim jong un threatening nuclear war
YA, LIKE USA
@@CarolineThomas-j8j yep
One administration wants it more than any other.
the reason???
They’re scared of loosing power.
But it will achieve their dream of depopulation
My father witnessed 13 atomic explosions during operation Dominic on Christmas Island. His advice to me regarding nuclear war was to go out in the first flash as you didn’t want to try and survive these horrific weapons. His descriptions of the power of these weapons was chilling to say the least. Praying always for peace but expecting insanity.
Wheres all the radiation? nowhere to be found which means it didnt happen
@@steven-u1q its in your anus.
agreed
They said that people in L.A. could see the flash from the nukes they were setting off in Nevada when they were doing above ground tests.
Fk that, I'm doing my best to try to survive. Fk that quitting shit
To this day the movie "Threads " is by far the most terrifying depiction of the aftermath because of the fact that it is so matter of fact with the teletypes throughout...it brings home the reality of what it would be to live through that nightmare...it traumatized viewers so badly it was only aired ONCE
The BBC restored and remastered it and released it as a 2 DVD set in 2018.
I remember seeing parts of that movie.
Came here to say this!
I thought I was the only one who had ever seen this movie. It so impressed me 35 years ago that I re-rented it and made my children watch it. Scared the crap out of all of us. I truly think if it was required watching in high schools, more people would move towards nuclear disarmament.
Watch “Threads” and “Testament” for a true feel-good weekend!
I remember watching a movie a long time ago where a comment was made, “once the first bomb is launched the war is already over.” I’ve forgotten now what movie but I’ve never forgotten that comment.
I thought it was from The Day After
We are so advanced now that we can inialate the entire world. Smart.
That quote was from the day after.
If Hollywood wants to keep remaking movies, let's consider 'The Day After'.
It needs to absolutely scare the complete living $#!+ outta EVERYONE.
Yes, it's good. But it shows a hospital functioning in Kansas for a week after the nearby blast, which is totally unrealistic. Reagan watched it.
@@genes.3285 I watched it on TV at age 10. So it definitely left a lasting impression and since then I've taken an interest in the science of it all.
Denis Villeneuve is working on making a film like that as we speak. The world needs a movie to shake everyone to their core and wake them the fk up. We are in major big big trouble, and our politicians and leaders couldn’t give a flying fk. Babies, children, mothers, fathers, all at risk. We need to stop this madness of a direction we are going in and get our leaders to stop!
I was 13 when I watched it, very depressing! A remake is overdue
1984 British film "Threads" is even scarier and realistic of the events after a blast.
Lawrence, Kansas...the location of the filming of The Day After. I was there. The staging of the downtown to replicate a nuclear disaster was as horrifying as you could imagine it would be. Unforgettable.
Same here I have friends that were extras in that movie
@@WildnUnruly the movie never implied that Lawerence was a target. It was turned into a movie set that could have been anywhere, nothing more.
@@WildnUnruly I have them - William Forshen, right ? - very well done! He’s tried to speak to Congress too. He wasn’t hopeful. New book out now.
I was in 5th grade when I watched The Day After.
Had horrific nightmares long after.
Found it on YT last year.
Still terribly scared me 40 years later!!!
Try Threads. It's much, much worse.
@@WarmasterMoloch I already have.
Threads makes TDA look like a walk in the park!!!!!
the survivors will envy the dead its so true
But we wouln't have any more mean tweets,thanks DEMS!
Krushchev. Tried to.pound point home with a shoe.
Everyone in L.A lucky
It is in the Bible, the living will envy the dead.
Most accurate portrayal of a nuclear bomb going off in slow motion is probably Sara Connor’s nightmare in T2..
That's Hollywood bullshit
@@shannonking3201 you got any better examples of what a 💯 megaton bomb would do to a city? The only thing it missed was the fact that the last thing you saw before the flash burned your eyes out is you would be able to see everyone’s skeleton through their body.
If you were very close it would literally do that with a 9Mt thermonuclear device. The only difference is that if that close, when the kinetic shockwave hit everything would be molten slag and dust. The fence, bodies, buildings. All of it.💀
@@christopherleubner6633
Da mo you know
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@MrBLUMSON: I have. There's a BBC film called "Threads". THAT will literally change your life. It's the MOST POWERFUL film I have ever seen!
Can this woman have a personal meeting with every single president of the world? That would be game changing.
Some (nuclear armed) presidents would even laugh at her.... that´s the place where we, as civilization, have secluded ourselves... of utter indifference and madness. That would be unthinkable even for Reagan... or Nixon, or Kruschev, Andropov etc. But it seems its not unthinkable anymore.
Yeah I think they know.
Unfortunately, TH-cam doesn't allow me to talk about possibly more realistic approaches to prevent that scenario from happening. What a surprise...
Psychopaths don't care about what happens
Leaders in power are devil and devil doesn't change as long as human lives
There are some regimes who would not respect anything a woman says.
Her voice is so soothing.
My dad drives trains and the hum of the engine is soothing, his train is the best train though... by far I might add
Her calm and assuring voice is the perfect contrast to what she's talking about
She’s got a big bunker
Scary to think normal people getting on with their lives are living under this threat held by such few men in the world
It angers me too..we have no control over this madness.😡🤬
You have people skipping around thinking they won't be affected
@@icemike1 Agree.
We live in a very sad world. I can't even imagine people supporting genocide in Gaza
@@yusuphabah4759 ..... or Hamas and Hezbollah attacking Israeli civilian targets indiscriminately. Or do you believe there is only one side to that story?
I watched The Day After on TV the night it aired. It was the week of Thanksgiving, 1983. I was 10 years old and watching people get incinerated. The threat of nuclear war hung over all of us in the 1980s. In school, we had discussions in social studies class about what we would do if the Soviet Union launched their missiles at us. At night it was the last thing I thought about before falling asleep.
But at the end it doesn't really matter wether you're killed by a bullet or a nuclear blast. Surely, the latter is more devastating to many people at the same time but the result on your part is the same unless of course you are one of the people further away from the blast radius.
Sounds eerily similar to what i experienced as a kid during that time. That movie gave me many sleepless nights up until my mid teens.
Happy 50th BD btw.
I remember that movie well. I was 12.
I watched it when you did. I was nine. It gave me nightmares for years.
I don’t know who’s voice is more soothing
I listened to her audio book about nuclear war. The description of the nuclear bomb explosion was the most horrific thing I've ever heard
Her book is very intense. World leaders should be reading it.
See the movie THREADS
What’s the name of her book?
@@syhillahmed3824 her book is called Nuclear War a scenario. By Annie Jacobsen. She also narrates it if you get the audio book
Her book!!! That’s why she is on every TH-cam channel lol. Pushing her book!! Great job Annie!! She is a genius!!
As the Premier of the ex-Soviet Union Nikita Khruschev once said, "In the event of a nuclear war, the living will envy the dead."
Kruschev and JFK were working on peaceful joint operations....then jfk got murdered by his own government.
NIKITA IS IN HEAVEN. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT NIKITA SAID ? ✝✝✝🙏🙏🙏
@@nancyihrig3663
Did you go to school to get stupid???
Wow how do you know Nikita is anywhere? Or what was said...
Crazy Uncle Fester!! Dude looked like a psycho! At least his own fear of death deterred him from such a stupid act.
As a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, we were trained for N.B.C.W. Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Warfare. The scenarios we were shown still upset me to this very day.
Back in the early 70's I worked around nukes. I remember the movies we had to watch...I have never forgotten them, to this day.
Why did you join the military? Are you a war monger⁉️
Why? Just stop moving the nato close to Russia
Did they tell you that Canada will not exist no more? What scenarios would exclude telling you that.
Please elaborate
Auntie Annie has such a soothing voice. I could listen to her talk all day long 😌
So glad to know that Team Shower Daddy has us on a fast train to this destination.
Watching "The Day After" in 1983 had a profound effect on me as well. I was 9. I recall my brother who was 25 saying he would run outside and pray that he would die immediately if a nuclear war was underway. Those words always stuck with me. We lived (and still live) just outside of Washington, D.C.
What are you waiting for ? Get the hell outta there ASAP.
Yay. Fallout 3 is a lot of fun......
Annie Jacobsen mentioned the 1984 movie The Day After. There was also a British made movie called Threads released the same year which is far grittier and more realistic and involves a nuclear attack on the UK - specifically from the perspective of bombs falling on the city of Sheffield. The movie was done as a kind of part drama and part documentary and is enough to put anyone off the idea that nuclear war can be won or have any benefits to those who "push the button". Not a nice movie to watch but a "must watch".
That ending scene... When she had the baby that was hard, man...
What a brillant and very interresting Interview!!!! Thank you
Annie is a highly intelligent woman with a voice to die for. 🇦🇺 😊
Not if she uses gasoline to run diesel generators!!
@@rsmit2797 You beat me to it lol
I wonder How would IsRawHell protect itself then? These "Peace" loving people!
@rexpayne7836
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I love her books! OMG she is such a breath of fresh air for intelligent readers.
Good video to watch before bed
This video is pathetic. Scaremongering at it's best.
Remember NATO along with USA went to Russian Borders to start this war ... God bless you all Goodnight
@@MrTony.S
It's ok to feel scared.
Buy a teddy bear, it may help.
@@useryggfdcc 🤣🤣 I'm not scared, I've got a sexy woman to cuddle up to anyway. 🤣
@@MrTony.S No, it's fact and nearly became reality many times in the past.
Threads shown in the UK was a terrifying film aired in the 80's, this Lady speaks words of wisdom, that should be heard by our elites. Thank you so much for posting
The old bbc drama Threads is worth a watch if you’re brave enough. It demonstrates how bad it would be to survive the initial blast. The survivors would truly envy the dead.
The British movie from 1984 - Threads is even more horrifying than The Day After and probably closer to reality.
Yeah threads pisses over the day after
It was set in my home town here in the North of England ,some of my friends got parts as extras, what made it more real was that i know the locations very well.
Absolutely, aye. Being presented in that semi-documentary 'BBC' style really makes it hit hard. It is credited with having an impact on changing policy because it showed so well that *no one* wins a nuclear exchange.
Threads was absolutely horrific
Yeah , I've always wondered why the US banned it and not The Day After . I've often thought perhaps there's something in it they ( government) doesn't want us to know or see. Both movies are horrible. Governments are moronically inferior to most of its constituents . And with that said , all militaries should be dismantled and all nukes should be turned into sources of power instead of weapons. Just my opinion, and I'm entitled to them .
WELL, that's my uplifting video for the day.
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Ya no kidding , I ain’t cutting my lawn , I better have a beer
I know I’m ready to lose some pounds jog or sumthin
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Sarah Connor is back from the future to warn us 😮
OMG that’s exactly who she sounds like!
That's exactly what came into my mind. That seen from T2, when Sarah was standing at the fence. And all of a sudden the nuclear explosion sweep her off her feet! Scary!
@@melissak9640Right!?😂
@@cezz1105”anyone not wearing a 2 million sunblock will have a real bad day, get it?”
Geez this clip gave me chills... i dont think i could sleep tonight
This issue is virtually ignored today. I'm the same age as the author in this piece, and when we were in high school it was the height of the Cold War. It was terrifying. We lived knowing at any moment we could be incinerated. The U.S. and Soviet Union were mortal enemies and had been for 40 years.
Then in 1991 it was suddenly over. The U.S.S.R. was dissolved and Russia was not our enemy. The chances of a nuclear holocaust were reduced to practically nil. It was glorious.
However, all those too young at the time and all those born later lived in a world where no one talked about nuclear weapons. Two generations lived without the threat, without any knowledge of what these weapons arsenals could do.
Now we are suddenly thrust back into a time of nuclear peril, but 1/2 the world's population is massively under informed or knows nothing of this renewed threat to humanity and the bulk of life on our little world.
A great and necessary video. Thanks for making it and helping to inform the masses.
This is why its extremely important to make peace. Rather than feed the military industrial complex with war.
I agree...if the other side also does it. Otherwise you are just ripe for invasion.
You know nothing.
The most genocidal ideology in history is islam & they are taking over the west - nuclear nations - by the tactic of hijra (migration).
Soon they will have the nukes & nothing will be off limits.
If we had politicians & a public that's worth a damn, we would have peace, but they'd rather enrich themselves instead & entertain the failed ideology of socialism.
The industrial complex feeds itself on conventional war.
Too late.
We are humans, we will never be at peace for long periods of time
I have read her book. It is clearly painstakingly put together with reliable sources. It was an utterly terrifying read. Everyone needs to read it.
It's like she said though that she gives you the more boasted story. A lot of it was just that. Making it out that nuclear war would destroy everything when it wouldn't.
Also, the loss numbers are stupidly over exaggerated.
Taking out ten biggest cities in US an Europe and you'll get 100 mil casualties pretty fast. While war itself wouldn't kill 5bill people, lack of water, food and unstable environment definitely will.
We don't need to read it. The guys pressing the button need to read it.
Hello from NZ, stumbled on this video by accident. I remember the the movie The Day After & to be honest as a 16 yo boy at the time thinking, wow a war movie. Naive, carefree thoughts, thinking which side would win, carried on being a teenager, riding my new mountain bike with my mates. I hope this never happens ever. I have just ordered Annie’s book it’s available here in New Zealand.
Watch the British movie “Threads” - it makes the other US made-for-TV movie, “the day after,” look like a Disney flick
Remember watching it years ago the build up to the nukes was scary
Not one of my favourite films, but it’s one of the most powerful films I’ve ever seen.
It's going to happened before December. Prophecy is being fulfilled EXACTLY like the Bible Prophecy. The only escape to this horrible death, is by excepting Jesus christ as your Lord and Savior. This is the plan of salvation if you all change your mind. If you belive Lord Jesus died (shed his blood),was buried and on the 3rd day God the father rose him from the dead, you will be saved. Time is running out⏳️🕙...
@@Peter007-e5wAmen
@@Peter007-e5woh shut up
President Reagan also watched the BBC drama called Threads which depicted the scenario of a nuclear bomb dropped on the city of Sheffield and the aftermath.
He was an actor, so he would have looked at the film’s artistic merits as well as the geopolitical issues.
That was the one we watched at school
Making kids feel there is no point to life some maniacs can end it any moment
Just like the war on terror
Wovid etc
We’re doomed.
Then a culture that promotes decadence and living for today sitting on the existential threats shoulders.
If you don’t realise what they are doing wise up.
Was he sentient then?
@@Support_Ad_BlockerYes. Far more than Biden..
@@paddyhawaiian Are you sure?
The Day After… I was in 6th grade. Scared the ever living crap out me. And just think, that movie still didn’t capture the full reality of the horrors a nuclear war would bring.
I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s and remember how close the world was to nuclear war in the early 1980s. The world is even closer now to a nuclear war. These politicians today dont seem to realize how destrucve nuclear war would be, some of them believe they could even win.
There will never be a nuclear war relax
I can’t believe in this day and age we are talking about the potential of a nuclear exchange or nuclear war. For all our intelligence, our technological advances , we haven’t learnt a thing. I can’t remember a time since WW2, where the future of our world seems like it is teetering on the edge of collapse.
Gasoline to run the diesel generators?
Good luck with that.
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Good point, but many military diesels are rated for gasoline. Most recommend adding motor oil to the gas for lubrication.
@clytle374 how? Diesel use compression of like 20 to 1 while petrol gasoline use 11 to 1 so how does a diesel generator run gasoline petrol without premature detonation pinking ?
She doesn't know the difference. It leads me to question the other "scientific" points she is trying to make. I don't think it is a typo. She thinks she is educated and has convinced others she is, but I think she is bluffing.
@@mrquattro180 I don't completely understand, but I read it in manual. They are diesels rated for multi fuel, gas will run in all diesels, it just usually blows them up. Diesel can't have preignition, fuels not in the cylinder pre
Well this was uplifting on a Wednesday afternoon.
I was in The Royal Observer Corps. Training was aimed at the events of WW3. Everything I learnt left me with the decision to head to an area which was a target.
My god i could listen to her talk forever. What a unique and soothing voice
Cute though, built good
Oh yes! Yes! Arghhhhhhh aaahhhhhh!
The day after was an intense nuclear war movie, but the movie threads, truly was horrifying concerning nuclear war. Recommend these to watch....
I just watched a short that talked about the movie Threads. Some commented about what a scary movie it turned out to be.
@@scottdavidson526 first time I saw that movie was I believe maybe 2 years ago I had never heard of it and let me tell you they're right it's very realistic. And it really amazed me how much time people really had to prepare but they didn't realize it because nothing was actually being said. I mean in reality you would hope and pray that your government and your new stations would actually warn you way in advance like I don't know maybe a few months but in this world you know they won't. All we can do is pray, prep, prepare, repeat. Just keep your eyes and ears open and if you feel deep in your gut that something's going to go down then it's time to move or take action or do what you're going to do plan a b or c before it does come. I mean you just watch the news and it's not a if it's going to happen it's more of a when it's going to happen. But yeah the movie threads was really very good. I don't know if you've ever seen the movie ladybug ladybug? It's an old black and white nuclear war movie but it was Through The Eyes of children and their teachers who had to deliver these kids to their homes before the bombs dropped. I remember seeing this so many years ago when I was a child and I just found it on TH-cam again for free to watch
I watched Threads in the 80s and it was terrifying
Watch On the Beach. It's an older movie but very good.
Threads had a profound effect on me. I can't unsee what that movie showed me.
That was Gorbachev and Reagan. But now look where we our, and what our lunatic species is doing.
When Russia fell from Superpower status and realized they were vulnerable to NATO's conventional forces, they changed their doctrine to first use of tactical nukes. I think that was the first step down the path to nuclear war.
People worry today about aliens - they shouldn’t, because as a race we haven’t even achieved being able to live together peacefully. Aliens wouldn’t want us (maybe just what’s left of minerals, that’s all). People of Earth need to learn how to live together peacefully soon. Our planet cannot continue to provide for 8 billion people ecologically. Even 5 billion would be very difficult. We don’t have eons left if we don’t make a significant change.
@@ggaggagga4 No they didn't. Where the f**k did you get that from? Russian nuclear doctrine hasn't changed. They will only fire if they sense an imminent credible threat to Russia's existence as a nation. The problem is NATO countries really like doing things that could be seen as a credible threat to Russia's existence as a nation.
@@ggaggagga4 No, it was when the U.S. needlessly dropped two bombs on Japan.
I doesn't matter how and when it started. It matters that this MADness be stopped. Ultimately Reagan wasn't a psychopath. It turned out he just didn't know what nukes really involve. What about the leaders of these places now? North Korea, US, Russia? Petty imperialism over the destruction of our species, Ali g with most other life right now.
Thank you Annie for your sharing your knowledge and for your honesty.
Nevermind The Day After - watch the UK equivalent Threads, - 10 times bleaker and worse if your in Britain, there isn't anywhere to escape
NewZeland and Australia might escape the worst of it but if the ozone layer is so damaged that people can't venture out in the daytime, agriculture will get fried as well. Yes Even in the South of the Equator destinations.
There nuclear targets in Western Australia, south Australia, Northern Territory and Melbourne so we are not as lucky as she thinks
No one will escape. Even if not directly targeted there would be a worldwide nuclear winter, most people would slowly starve to death or die of radiation carried in the atmosphere around the world.
"On The Beach"
@@martinj2843 yep. cause if Russia or the CCP launch at the USA then they will also launch at the military allies of the USA as well. So Australia will be a target
@@martinj2843Pine Gap.
She forgot South-America. Not just Australia and New Zealand.
and Africa.
Would it not be the whole Southern sphere rather than singling out a particular country?
English speakers always over look S America. Shh, don't tell! Just move there quietly yourself.
The South end end of Africa is a possibility, but they will have racial warfare on their hands.
I think NZ and Australia are good candidates because of their isolation. Imagine the migration of sick and injured people from the USA and Central America all headed south - it could overrun the southern countries and the infrastructure could collapse. Nobody could get to New Zealand in big numbers after a war - it's too remote for 99% boats and the agriculture could easily feed the people still there. New Zealand has no neighbours and is in the middle of nowhere...
YES - my bet is on Uruguay, which is basically a neutral nation. It is mainly agricultural and ranching, so food is abundant. It borders the large Rio de La Plata river, supplying fresh water and fish. Prevailing winds and jet streams will keep most of the heavy radiation in the Northern Hemisphere, which will be a "dead zone" for 100 years.
I like the occasional raw honesty of the interviewer. He says a few of the quiet parts out loud. This adds color and context to the discussion.
That’s DEEP BUT ITS THE TRUTH nobody would win 🤦🏽♂️
The amination film the way the wind blows is one of the best to describe the horror of such a war
That animated film broke my heart😢
"On the Beach" showed us that while New Zealand and Australia might be good for a bit, they too fall.
Im in Tasmania I was hoping we would survive what a bummer
Just like Dawn of the Dead shows us we will all be eaten by zombies.
It’s a story, written by an aeronautical engineer who didn’t have any apparent expertise in the actual science involved in a nuclear war or what would happen afterward.
The most profound affect a US/Russian exchange would have might be the Russians hitting Australia because they are allied with the USA.
A cloud of nuclear fallout or radiation isn’t likely to drift past the equator from the Northern Hemisphere.
It's likely because of the US alliance, and US military basses, Australia will be targeted.
Doctrine of all nuclear powers are to hit ALL spots on Earth, theres no safe place. Why shoud they let you live if they are dying?
Radiation levels aren't as severe as they were in the 1960s due to the current methods of bomb detonations. Australia should be relatively safe. Our major exports (food and natural resources) combined with our small population, should make us self-sufficient.
I grew up living on the central coast of CA. Next to Vandenberg AFB and Diablo Canyon power plant and the main cable trunk connecting the continental US to Hawaii, Gaum, and Japan. The whole thing was built underground on shock absorbers to try to survive a nuke strike. People thought we were so safe. Hundreds of miles from the big cities. Miles from primary targets military, strategic, and key points of communication. When we watched The Day After on TV, I asked my dad how safe are we here? My dad said, "Don't worry, we will be dead in the first 30 min."
"On the Beach" by Nevil Shute. This book describes everything they are discussing from an Australian point of view.
So you're telling me i wouldn't have to go to work anymore 😎
LOL
No. Keep going to work until it actually happen. We hope and prat I does not. God is with us 😂😂😂
no you have the day off.
This man needs a new job
You'd get unlimited unpaid leave
Why would you want to survive it? Imagine what's left of your life would be like.. Nah fuck that!
Her voice is so hypnotic, I have to rewind to parse what she says.
Well that escalated quickly
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Have a great day everyone
I grew up in the Cold War and a common belief of everyone of around my age (the much maligned Boomers) is that NONE of us expected still to be here. I took comfort at the time from the fact that, on the leaked targeting lists of the Soviets, I had a ground-burst that was going to hit a listening station 400yds from my house - I wouldn't have known a thing about it.
And, as noted in the comments elsewhere, our young, wealthy, host needs to watch Threads to get an idea of how bleak a fate such a war is.
"maligned"
@@notmyname3883 Good Autocorrect Fumble spot :)
That was incredible!
Yes she is absolutely right. Sureal
the movie 'the day after' was tame compared to the british movie, Threads.
Never heard of that movie but I’m gonna look for it now
I own and read that book called "The Path Where No Man Thought" By Carl Sagan and Richard Turko.
If the nukes dont get you, starvation, cold, Disease. radiation, will... All for what.. Thank government you served us well.....
This has set me up for a great day
My dad drives trains
Bought a tent that's fire proof and wind proof so I'm fully protected.
Remember; for however many survivors there are; there will be no electricity because of EMP, and everything is contaminated, radioactive poisoning of land/water/living beings. For the few who are left; no hospitals, or the few there are; will truly have little, non-contaminated, working instruments at all.
The only chance of anything even close to ‘normal’ survival, will fully depend on gas combustion engines, that electric starters will have to be rebuilt for, and fuel for; if you’re not sick and dying already.
Reading between the lines, nuclear explosions should be avoided.
LOL...!
War, war never changes
"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare." 2 Peter 3:10
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Revelation chapters 17 & 18 describes the destruction of "Mystery Babylon" (USA) by FIRE in a SINGLE HOUR. Her allies and trading partners bewail her fate, but NONE come to her aid. Jesus warns us: "COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE..." (Rev.18:4-5). This warning is akin to that given to Lot and his family, when they fled from Sodom & Gomorrah. Your choice - stay & burn, or LEAVE & LIVE.
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We’re already in hell.. and you haven’t been summoned… Why? …Because you are a Siner !
God won’t save you just because you speak his teachings, he will only save you if you truly are worthy . You are likely fucked like me . 👌😂
I love “The Day After”! It was so disturbing and really put things into perspective!
You should also see 'Threads' if you haven't already.
What a beautiful voice she has 🫣😍
More people need to listen to her
New Zealand, southern Australia sounds like a blast, but having read the novel On The Beach by Neville Shute perhaps not. Waiting to die could be worse than instantly.
Did yourself a hole. Arrogant folks could dig themselves under a rock.
Australia! That would be like the movie Mad Max. I was so terrified when I saw that movie as kid especially how vicious and evil people were in that movie.
“ two hundred million guns are loaded , satan cries take aim “
No he doesn't...he's washing my socks this month
"better run through the jungle, woah don't look back to see"
3:05 when we run out of gasoline for the diesel generators, It's back to the fk'n stone age for us!
Who is "us"?
@@Cukito4you know!...Barney rubble and Fred Flintstone?? Them ninjas
"Gasoline" for the "diesel" generators. SMH.
No matter how horrific this woman describes a post nuclear war world …it would be 10 times worse. It would be the end of the human race. The world would survive and would take thousands of years to recover.
My father was involved in operation redwing out in the marshall islands testing nuclear weapons from kilotons to megatons and he said he hoped and prayed that we never got into a war with those bombs because it would be a terrible thing if you survived.
If she thinks no and Australia won't be fighting for food she's got rock in her head
Every survivor flocks to Australia , with weapons , end of
I don't think she said that
We have American bases in Australia all over the place and now south Australia because of the submarines.
You said "if she thinks no" that does not even make sense, what are you talking about??
The world is now so interconnected that all countries would be eventually and quickly devastated by the thermonuclear war. No fuel, no food, no fresh water, no medicines. The list goes on. All of civilisation would collapse eventually. It would be worse than going back to even pre-stoneage times. I think the lucky ones would perish literally in a flash.
Seen a lot of this recently. Little disconcerting.
"What uh, would you rather drown in 10 feet of water, or uh 10,000 feet of water?" - one of the scientists in Oppenheimer
Easily, the best quote I've heard regarding absurd scale of nuclear weapons.
This veteran reporter took years to research and write a minute-by-minute portrayal of what happens in an all-out nuclear war. It has that page-turning readability of a thriller. At the same time it educates the reader about the myths we’ve been fed to normalize the the end of our civilization. This is the scariest book I have read in my long life.