First Strike - Overview of 1980s Nuclear Retaliatory Response Scenario (Full Version)

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First Strike - Overview of 1980s Nuclear Retaliatory Response Scenario (Full Version)

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Video includes Minuteman ICBM operations, Airborne Launch Control System (Looking Glass) and other Strategic Air Command and U.S. Navy resources that would have been brought to the fight if America was attacked. This is the full version of the video .. Presented from the archives of the Association of Air Force Missileers (AAFM) www.afmissileers.org

tonight you will be the victim of a nuclear attack by the russians. we might pay particular notes to the nuclear submarines off the east and west coast. these are not actors.

. we have twelve cenotristic missiles in bound on u.s now

. half an hour after this sneak attack america will be on its knees eight million civilians will be dead this will be the only time you can watch a first strike and survive since the second world war

. the ultimate security of the united states has depended on the awesome destructive power of its strategic nuclear forces to deter thermonuclear war the strength of this deterrence was based on the calculation that we would inflict terrible destruction in retaliation for a nuclear attack

. this doctrine of assured destruction is dependent on the certainty in the mind of an aggressor that we have the will and ability to retaliate to always maintain this ability

. a sufficient portion of our strategic forces must be able to survive any nuclear exchange, even a surprise first strike

. whether america's strategic forces will continue to be able to survive such a disarming preemptive attack is today a matter of increasing uncertainty .[video 23:27 minutes].

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@baraxor 3 years ago (edited)

When First Strike was broadcast in the spring of 1981, there were questions whether this was presented by the new Reagan Administration to bolster its case for a more robust defense posture against the USSR, or by DoD elements worried about "Cowboy Ronald" and allegations that he didn't fully understand the consequences of nuclear war.

As this was only a few months into the Reagan Administration, and RR himself was still recovering Hinckley's assassination attempt, it was probably the first case...especially since First Strike was almost certainly commissioned during the Carter Administration, which had belatedly also called for increases in defense spending.

Parts of this program would be used for The Day After and other dramatic re-creations of nuclear attack on the U.S.

[daniel1212]

FRthread today: We ignore Russia at our peril ...

We ignore God at our peril is more fitting.

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