Tag Archive for: Nuclear War

The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Or did they?

From the Titanic to 9/11 the public have been fed one pantomime after another, can we not be forgiven for questioning nuclear weapons, perhaps their tallest of tales?

BBC science documentary series, Q.E.D., demonstrates the effects of a one megaton nuclear bomb being exploded over London.

An underground community designed in case of nuclear war that will never return to the surface.

Miracle Mile is a 1988 American apocalyptic thriller where a man meets the girl of his dreams and then finds out the world is about to end.

RAF Fylingdales in North Yorkshire provides a continuous ballistic missile early warning service to the UK and US Governments, ensuring a surprise missile attack cannot succeed.

"Viewed from a safe distance, the atomic bomb is one of the most beautiful sights ever seen by man.."

What would be the chances of surviving a nuclear war... the clues in the title.

The Minuteman missile was America's first line of defence and is praised for being one of the reasons nuclear war never happened.

A Guide to Armageddon' Another little bit of fascinating Cold War history.

This film details the activation of the city's civil defence protocols and leads up to the moment before a nuclear attack.

A haunting film about Britain and the nuclear age, from the first bomb tests to our potentially futile preparations for attack during the Cold War

This one-hour documentary explores the possible ecological and atmospheric consequences of nuclear war.

Some classic British Broadcasting Corporation fear porn... or is it?

The horror of nuclear war as portrayed by British TV.

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II.

The British gov't tried to make sure they'd survive a nuclear attack.

1970's UK Public infommercials On Nuclear War Preparations and survival techniques...

United States Department of Defence and the United States armed forces strategy for dealing with nuclear warfare.

This film is one of television's most notorious banned programmes. The harrowing portrayal of nuclear holocaust was considered so shocking this docu-drama was not transmitted for twenty years.

Military tensions rise between the two Cold War powers led by the Soviet Union and the United States...

Among the ruins of a London devastated by nuclear war, the survivors ineffectually cling to increasingly meaningless social structures.

John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing a Russian agent detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK.

Reared to survive a nuclear war, kids for the future meet a couple on the run from a gang of thugs.

U.S. government film depicting the Cold War nightmare of a U.S.-Soviet nuclear conflict.

In a New York City bar, the brooding, mysterious forecaster Mr. Ohman is sitting and drinking from a very large brandy glass. He gets into discussions with a cross-section of affluent Americans at the bar, including local television newscaster Vince Potter, beautiful young New York society woman Carla…

American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction.

A group of dissident officials in the Soviet Union have grown afraid of losing power as relations with the United States improve.

Dr. Strangelove is an ex-Nazi scientist, suggesting Operation Paperclip, the US effort to recruit top German scientists at the end of World War II

A group of men escape from a military prison, then take over a missile installation, and threaten nuclear war unless their demands for the truth are released to the public.

A warren of rabbits as they seek to establish a new colony free of tyranny and human intervention.

Great radio play in the style of War of the Worlds, but this time the danger is closer to home.

The US government built a secret base in Greenland called Camp Century.

Camp Century was a top secret nuclear base hidden in Greenland.

Quality British government propaganda

The BBC doing scare propaganda

A nuclear strike - cold war propaganda

Nuclear Propaganda film produced by The British government.

A Real-Time Nuclear Attack Simulation

At the beginning of World War II it was feared that the Nazis were developing an atomic bomb

Run for your lives

The US air force conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962, with multiple cameras capturing each event at around 2,400 frames per second. They love blowing shit up !!

Not long now... hopefully.

Terrorists threaten to detonate a nuclear bomb unless the US disarms all its nuclear weapons.

A nuclear attack through the lens of the news media

While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realise that Los Angeles has been levelled by a nuclear attack.