I think the home office tailored its casualty figures to be more in line with their ability to provide care, emergency services, and basic necessities to the survivors. If they admitted their model for number of deaths and wounded was wrong, their abilities to cope would come into serious question.
Only for a short time. Cockroaches have a slow cell division, so are less susceptible to radiation poisoning initially. Eventually they would die like everyone/thing else.
media and government never talk about this subject anymore. i assume they have their nice fallout shelters in mines sorted. the rest of us can just go and croak
To me, its quite simple to understand: IF there was a brief nuclear war, the sheer destruction from just One Single Bomb....would bring what we call civilization, to an end. A sane person, would not want to survive. 'Threads'....was pretty accurate. The survivors would envy the dead.
Me too. Rocky 4 came out a year or two after this documentary, then in 1986 there was Chernobyl. We assume the Soviets were stronger than ever and ready to destroy us but they were on their knees and we were clueless feeding ourselves paranoia.
Nuclear war was whilst not on the cards, something that feared with good reason. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the end of detente did push things to the brink, it was a result of seeing the Day After that Reagan became shit scared of nuclear war and when Gorbachev became Russian premier worked on scaling things back.
And they would be fed the same as us. The hate had to continue. In order to justify spending obscene amounts of money on these weapons. Weapons, which we are told to this day. Keep us safe. Its a lie.
@@JCT-u7k Saw a review of that on RU-vid that called it the scariest horror film ever made. Pretty accurate really. If you managed to survive, existing afterwards would be pure misery. Let's hope the conflict in Ukraine doesn't get out of control...
@@jamesmitchell8922 It seems like Poland is trying to take advantage of the situation and possibly take back parts of Ukraine that were part of Poland, pre second world war. There has already been talk, among some of Poland's less than sensible political class, of going into Western Ukraine as a peace keeping force, as a unilateral force seperate to NATO . This is of course a ruse, which would most likely develop into some sort of confederation between the two countries with West Ukraine in an inferior position to Poland. Belarus is probably perturbed by this idea, since there are unresolved territorial disputes between these two countries as well. If Poland did this. all bets would be off, with Hungary and Romania all making claims to parts of Ukraine. After it was all over Ukraine would be a tiny rump state, with no access to the sea, a far smaller population, and little to no resources. The whole thing could of escalate of course, with Russia seeing these individual claims as a NATO intervention via the backdoor, with the consequences of this being exactly as bad as one could imagine. George Friedman, one of the heads of Stratfor, a private security consultancy, composed of ex CIA staff, talked about the possibility of this several years ago, I think maybe even even before the Maidan uprising. With all that in mind, following the Minsk 2 accords, which is what the majority of the Ukrainian population wanted, (when they voted for Zelensky, originally a peace candidate), seems like a good option in retrospect.
the music made me think a few things, (i was born 79), a) that a really boring TV show was just starting, and, b) that mum would soon be telling me that its time for bed. However, now as an adult, i think WIA was a brilliant programme, good journalism, and i like to watch episodes thesedays as some form of nostalgia, coupled with an interest to learn about things in the past from the perspective of good investigative journo, and i think thats died a bit.
17:40 I couldn't imagine any modern day politician in the UK talking this much sense. They would be more worried about saving the LGBTQUI Queer community
@@AndrewDaley-lr9qg something just isnt right anymore, the weather, vortex will hit us harder each year winter seasons, its happening now, the jet stream has totally slowed causing it to be hot one day then freezing the next, yet people are still walking around not noticing anything. we have prepared now for 2 years, l got thrown of RU-vid in 2016 for speaking out. Hay Highlighted, this is going to hit us big like the last big ice age. people are just not ready as our power grids will go down. so sad that technology has over taken our lives. the media spike about this years ago then it was all hushed up. take care we are not on our own. many of us like you and l know the REAL TRUTH 👍👍👍
