@@StalkTheHype To be fair, back then, Poland was on the side of the Soviets. Still, I'm more likely to believe in something like Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, where WW3 ends in a status quo ante bellum after a non-nuclear conventional war sees NATO decisively defeat all of the Warsaw Pact military forces.
How do you win a European war after the Japan Nuclear bombings? You let your allies build up a nuclear arsenal and a doctrine of "Mutually Assured Destruction", while they reduce their conventional forces - as no one would be MAD enough for war and conventional forces cost money. You maintain your own conventional forces and watch as your advantage in those assets becomes overwhelming. You then start a conventional war, calling the MAD bluff. Your opponent can't go nuclear without being villified throughout the world, and can't defeat you conventionally. All you need do is keep the conventional war below the MAD threshold.
If you go nuclear and then obviously the other guy does the same thing the 'winners' most likely Brazil and Argentina will villify everyone that went nuclear but privately they'll say ' thank you for commiting civilisational suicide and letting us have a go at it'. Honestly some politicians might not be that bothered with being villified they might even rationalise it 'everybody knows Alexander the Great and he was a mass murderer. The moustached austrian is more alive now than back then. This might just secure my immortality.'
much cheaper to press a button! indeed, invading - iraq, syria, libya, afghanistan & others has been an expensive endeavour. nuclear weapons work from the point of view that all in is going to be a bad day for anyone.
If only..,,todays humour is pathetic lame & definitely not funny…doesn’t say much about the writers & the people who believe the rubbish is funny. !!!!
Something has happened to people’s Brains - they don’t understand, witty, fast, intelligent humour…..they are very basic with their grasp of humour ..more the pie in the face humour & foul language is the Norm & people think it is hilarious ….audiences are not smart & easy to entertain with lots of swearing & a silly comedian laughing at his own childish jokes.
in 1986 the Jim Hacker character symbolized exactly the guy that nobody expected would ever be leader of a country, esp. a nuclear power. 30 years later, fantasy caught up with reality; Donald and Boris appeared on the world stage. Nowadays, Jim Hacker would appear as the MOST sensible choice to replace them.
Comedy yes, but scarily close to the truth I think. I've recently read "1983, The World At The Brink" by Taylor Downing. It describes how the Cold War so very nearly went hot when Reagan's anti-communist rhetoric, combined with the Kremlin's paranoia came to a head when Abel Archer, (a NATO excercise) was interpreted in the Kremlin as preliminaries to a preemptive attack on Russia. If you thought that the Cuban Missile Crisis was close (& it was), this will *really* make you shudder. So, so close to nuclear Armageddon.
This series were broadcasted in the Netherlands as well. I really loved it. This typical British humor, wonderful. And I think the way they showed it, isn't much different from reality
Wow, is this filmed at the 'Secret' Nuclear Bunker at Kelvedon Hatch, Essex? I've been there many times. You can almost smell the residue of fear and boredom...
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The guy giving the "tour" gets the best lines of the scene. On American shows, guest characters exist to get beaten up, dumped on or otherwise used by the main characters.
0:55 He got it slightly wrong. It's not HMS Northwood. It's HMS Warrior _in_ Northwood, Middlesex. I know cos I used to work there 😉 He hesitates slightly before saying HMS Northwood, so I've always wondered if the script got it right, and the director just let his mistake slide as it's not that important unless you know 😂
"What if I have to get drunk?" "Well, it would be safer if you didn't." I tell you Sir Humphrey is in the wrong profession. His delivery of his lines are just comedic gold! 😂😂😂
