Nuclear War: A Guide To Armageddon

Пожалуй, мне этот фильм нравится больше всего из "ядерной документалистики". Британская серия QED была рассчитана на людей, не интересующихся наукой, и охватывала всё на свете от ядерных войн и пожаров на нефтебазах до детонации облака горчичного порошка (взрывается как напалм) и судьбы ребёнка, заблудившешгося в супермаркете. Режиссёр ЭТОГО фильма потом снял "Нити", о которых я уже писал.

( This 1982 documentary looks at the effects of a one-megaton nuke detonating a mile above London's St Paul's Cathedral. Written and produced by Mick Jackson, director of 'Threads'. Narrated by Ludovic Kennedy. )

Sound An Alarm

Работа служб гражданской обороны в условиях ядерной войны -- не сахар. А как насчёт времён, когда ГО ещё не имели в своём распоряжении компьютеров (для прогнозирования радиоактивного заражения), Интернета (для сбора информации), сотовых телефонов и пр.? В своё время меня поразило, как много были готовы сделать эти ребята с технологиями, извиняюсь, каменого века...

( Made in 1971, this is a dramatic account of the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, whose responsibilities included monitoring the spread of fallout )

Sound An Alarm 2

( This 1962 dramatised film, made in colour, looks at the service provided by the UK Warning & Monitoring Organisation in the build up to, during and in the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Britain )

The Atomic Cafe

Очень хороший фильм. Передаёт дух, суть Атомного Века. "То, без чего насамериканцев сложно представить, ещё сложней -- понять"

( Acclaimed documentary film about the beginnings of the era of nuclear warfare, created from a broad range of archival of film from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s - including newsreel clips, television news footage, U.S. government-produced films, advertisements, television and radio programs. Produced by Jayne Loader and Kevin and Pierce Rafferty )

A Day Called 'X'

( A dramatized CBS documentary showing a civil defense exercise in Portland, Oregon in which the entire city is evacuated in anticipation of a nuclear air raid, after Soviet bombers had been detected by radar stations to the north. It was filmed in September 1957 and aired December 8 of that year. It was presented by Glenn Ford )

Red Nightmare

( Hosted by Jack Webb, of Dragnet. This is a Dept. of Defense film about a fake American town in the Soviet Union. This town was set up to train young Soviets to fit into American society in order to spread communism )

First Strike

( The US bomber force is destroyed on the ground and the Minuteman missiles in their silos in this highly realistic dramatization filmed with the unprecedented cooperation of the US Air Force. The people shown are the actual men and women of the US Air Force and Navy who would have been targeted. This is a short version of the scenaio used in the 1979 documentary film, FIRST STRIKE, which examined how the Soviet SS-18 missile force together with submarine launched missiles might be used to destroy our strategic forces in a surprise, preemptive attack )

SAGE - Semi Automatic Ground Environment

НОРАДовский компьютер. Я же говорю: каменный век, а что умели...

( SAGE, the Semi Automatic Ground Environment, was an automated control system used by NORAD for collecting, tracking and intercepting enemy bomber aircraft from the late 1950s into the 1980s... IBM's role in SAGE (the design and manufacture of the AN/FSQ-7 computer, a vacuum tube computer with ferrite core memory based on the never-built Whirlwind II) was an important factor leading to IBM's domination of the computer industry )

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