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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The Apocalypse This Is How Close We All Came to Dying. Horribly.

Posted by Denis C. Theriault on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:44 AM

Nobody wins a nuclear war... unless you're the United States and you take a whole mess o' them dirty red Ivans with you! That's the cheery premise of a 1956-1957 military training film recently unearthed by the National Archives.

George Washington University says this once-lost film is perhaps the only government production that ever explicitly depicted the nightmare scenario that haunted generations of Americans: all-out, global nuclear combat with the Soviet Union. It's just like you might imagine, except for one thing.

Notice how calm the actors are, despite having to pretend to issue orders that will kill hundreds of millions. Me? I get apoplectic when the office coffee maker seems to take too long. Watch the preview (of the nuclear holocaust, not me getting angry) below:


 

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Had they known the password was "joshua" and the launch code was CPE1704TKS none of this would have happened.
Posted by humanclock on February 22, 2011 at 11:42 AM · Report
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HE'S STILL PLAYING THE GAME
Posted by kiala on February 22, 2011 at 12:29 PM · Report
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"And now, let`s switch to the Dharma Initiative Swan Station to see what position they hold on this."
Posted by Leaky on February 22, 2011 at 1:27 PM · Report

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