my father's last Posideon launch working for the USN was in August 1968 at Canaveral AFB (eastern test range), just before he got transferred to the NASA Apollo program at KSC
Wow. It's likely that your father was part of the launch shown in the first segment (Cape Canaveral was known as Cape Kennedy at the time) as it's from August 1968
I wish people were still this engaged in current affairs. Very few people get involved (in a productive way) anymore on issues. i.e. showing up somewhere with an articulate and well thought argument. Guess that's an old school thing nowadays.
Yeah go read the tale of Hisachi Ouchi, the man whose body absorbed nearly 10 sieverts (not microsieverts or even millisieverts) and was able - forced, really - to stay alive for about 12 weeks despite the genetic blueprints for every rapidly-dividing cell in his body being obliterated. I'd rather be burned or steamed alive and die within seconds or minutes than go through what that man endured, but that's exactly what the "survivors" of a nuclear war would face. Even the winners lose and the survivors pay the highest price. The development of nuclear weapons surely made Satan smile; figuring out how to split atoms to murder people was truly the forbidden knowledge, that apple that wasn't supposed to be eaten. We enjoy an almost impossibly unlikely combination of factors that made not just life but a comfortable, beautiful life possible where humans have thrived and done beautiful things - created art and science, even religion. Earth was our Garden of Eden, but there was just this ONE THING that we weren't supposed to do, but we did it anyway and He never forgot it. Hell, the first implosion type nuclear bomb even looked like an apple! I don't purport to know whether or not there is actually a God or what His will might be, but when we first took a bite of that forbidden fruit and threw that very first mushroom cloud into the New Mexico sky in 1945, I feel that that event surely put tears into His eyes while Satan laughed.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union a Russian general was asked, "What is the worst thing the Soviet Union ever did to the US." He said, " We lost the cold war."
We need an updated version of The Day After to rattle the Russian oligarchs into thinking twice about Putin and Medvedev's rhetoric. I was five when the original came out and it shaped my life.
At the 1:41:00 mark, we hear on "The News" that: "It is now the Official Policy of the United States that a Nuclear War is not only fightable, but winnable", or at least it was "Official Policy" --- - in March 1984, according to the Time Stamp on the video. It is hard to believe that was "Official Policy". I wonder if it is in 2023. That 1984 (appropriate Year) "Official Policy", 100% Contradicts what President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov said in 1982: "A nuclear war must never be fought and cannot be won." I also think of these words: "Nation shall rise against Nation. . .If those days had not been cut short no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened." ----- Jesus Christ in Matthew Chapter 24: Verses 7 & 22 said in Circa 33 AD/ CE, when the world's most powerful weapon was probably the Roman Catapult, which could hurl a "Big Rock" or a "Ball of Fire" some 600 feet.
How sobering. Now, compare the reactions of the populace, and various politicians speaking out against nuclear proliferation in this video with the lack of such discourse today. We largely have a population and government who pretend there is no way that our current conflict with Russia could result in a nuclear exchange as we peer over the precipice of mutually assured destruction. The war machine will be the death of us all. I hope I'm wrong.
I was only 8 years old in 1982. But these hippies have a point i guess. Id like America to return to the way it was; here presented. On the other hand. How would they think.of the world today. 😂
In context where are all the people lining up to apologize for getting so much wrong in their foreign policy beliefes . There should be a continuous line of people leaving flowers at Reagans grave.
Just sit back and think, REALLY think, about how the world we live in today would be different if nuclear weapons had never even been invented. True, we'd presumably also lack nuclear power and all of its attendant benefits and drawbacks, but think of all of things we might have if all of that money, time and intellectual horsepower had been spent on other equally challenging but prosocial causes like, for instance, cancer research, other renewable energy sources, solving world hunger and economic woes like unemployment. Changing the course of history is obviously a gamble, but a world where nukes never even existed in the first place is a bet I'd be willing to make. What say you, O UA-cam commentariat? Meow!!
You would have had WW3 and probably WW4 by now if nukes weren’t held by so-called world powers. You honestly believe Russia and the U..S. wouldn’t had went to war if each didn’t have the threat of ending earth. Russia would lose 2 million soldiers in another WW and the U.S. likely the same. Difference is Russia would lose 2 million and not lose a nights sleep over meanwhile the citizens of the USA could not stomach that resulting in Russia taking over all of Europe
This was an outstanding vid... brought back so many memories of watching evening news with my folks as a kid ... thank you for putting this together!
I love the old commercials in the mix!
This was a great watch! Thank you. Keep the history alive!
Thank you for the tremendous effort in compiling this footage. Amazing viewing
This was awesome, thanks a lot.
In 1960 the family next door built a fallout shelter. The kid was a jerk and told me he wasn't going to let me in.
My buddy purchased a house that had a bunker under its cement patio with this heavy door into it.
Absolutely fascinating, thanks for uploading.
my father's last Posideon launch working for the USN was in August 1968 at Canaveral AFB (eastern test range), just before he got transferred to the NASA Apollo program at KSC
Wow. It's likely that your father was part of the launch shown in the first segment (Cape Canaveral was known as Cape Kennedy at the time) as it's from August 1968
When NBC NEWS had a SOUL.
Money wasn’t to be had back then
I wish people were still this engaged in current affairs. Very few people get involved (in a productive way) anymore on issues.
i.e. showing up somewhere with an articulate and well thought argument. Guess that's an old school thing nowadays.
Yep. They prefer shaming and canceling when you have an intelligent opinion.
@@turtle19dad
Sad.
"In a post-nuclear way scenario, the living will envy the dead."
Yeah go read the tale of Hisachi Ouchi, the man whose body absorbed nearly 10 sieverts (not microsieverts or even millisieverts) and was able - forced, really - to stay alive for about 12 weeks despite the genetic blueprints for every rapidly-dividing cell in his body being obliterated. I'd rather be burned or steamed alive and die within seconds or minutes than go through what that man endured, but that's exactly what the "survivors" of a nuclear war would face. Even the winners lose and the survivors pay the highest price. The development of nuclear weapons surely made Satan smile; figuring out how to split atoms to murder people was truly the forbidden knowledge, that apple that wasn't supposed to be eaten. We enjoy an almost impossibly unlikely combination of factors that made not just life but a comfortable, beautiful life possible where humans have thrived and done beautiful things - created art and science, even religion. Earth was our Garden of Eden, but there was just this ONE THING that we weren't supposed to do, but we did it anyway and He never forgot it. Hell, the first implosion type nuclear bomb even looked like an apple! I don't purport to know whether or not there is actually a God or what His will might be, but when we first took a bite of that forbidden fruit and threw that very first mushroom cloud into the New Mexico sky in 1945, I feel that that event surely put tears into His eyes while Satan laughed.
hey man can i use this in a heavy metal song im making
Eagle rock Iowa got a mercury
missile plant
Wasn't this stuff originally filmed in color? We're talking 1969!
1983.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union a Russian general was asked, "What is the worst thing the Soviet Union ever did to the US." He said, " We lost the cold war."
9minutes to midnight, hold my beer......90 seconds
Well said… well maybe skip the beer, grab the booze 🥃 bottle!
We need an updated version of The Day After to rattle the Russian oligarchs into thinking twice about Putin and Medvedev's rhetoric. I was five when the original came out and it shaped my life.
Crazy how everything attempts to make US defense appear to be the culprit!
Only through God's grace we didn't blow ourselves up with the numerous accidents known and unknown during this period;
Nothing to do with imaginary beings.
mega subbed
I remember this, and we were deathly afraid of the Russians.
Boy , how times change.
Libertyville was adlai Stevenson hometown. Zorin would have complained about it.
We can't allow a mineshaft gap!!!😂 lol
There will be 5 women to every man for breeding
Live by the gun,die by the gun.
I loved playing duck and Cover
Russia still has the TSAR. The MOAB.
At the 1:41:00 mark, we hear on "The News" that:
"It is now the Official Policy of the United States that a Nuclear War is not only fightable, but winnable",
or at least it was "Official Policy" --- - in March 1984, according to the Time Stamp on the video.
It is hard to believe that was "Official Policy".
I wonder if it is in 2023.
That 1984 (appropriate Year) "Official Policy", 100% Contradicts what President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov said in 1982:
"A nuclear war must never be fought and cannot be won."
I also think of these words:
"Nation shall rise against Nation. . .If those days had not been cut
short no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect, those days
will be shortened."
----- Jesus Christ in Matthew Chapter 24: Verses 7 & 22
said in Circa 33 AD/ CE, when the world's most powerful weapon
was probably the Roman Catapult, which could hurl a "Big Rock"
or a "Ball of Fire" some 600 feet.
Some in the DOD wisely foresaw the future Chinese threat. And here we are today, unprepared for it.
What if we cut out the military budget? Seems like a useless program now.
comimg soon, power makes you do everything you can to have the control over the world!!! 😢
How sobering. Now, compare the reactions of the populace, and various politicians speaking out against nuclear proliferation in this video with the lack of such discourse today. We largely have a population and government who pretend there is no way that our current conflict with Russia could result in a nuclear exchange as we peer over the precipice of mutually assured destruction. The war machine will be the death of us all. I hope I'm wrong.
I was only 8 years old in 1982. But these hippies have a point i guess. Id like America to return to the way it was; here presented. On the other hand. How would they think.of the world today. 😂
Up until the 80s all the codes for the nuclear bombs were 000000😂😮😂
You must have a lot of time on your hands driving that tractor
I would’ve guessed “sex”
@zerogravity8465
It's true..
Were they right. 2023?china shorley got nuks big time
Chet Huntley here, Lying with a Straight Face.
In context where are all the people lining up to apologize for getting so much wrong in their foreign policy beliefes . There should be a continuous line of people leaving flowers at Reagans grave.
Preach!!!
Just sit back and think, REALLY think, about how the world we live in today would be different if nuclear weapons had never even been invented. True, we'd presumably also lack nuclear power and all of its attendant benefits and drawbacks, but think of all of things we might have if all of that money, time and intellectual horsepower had been spent on other equally challenging but prosocial causes like, for instance, cancer research, other renewable energy sources, solving world hunger and economic woes like unemployment. Changing the course of history is obviously a gamble, but a world where nukes never even existed in the first place is a bet I'd be willing to make. What say you, O UA-cam commentariat? Meow!!
You would have had WW3 and probably WW4 by now if nukes weren’t held by so-called world powers. You honestly believe Russia and the U..S. wouldn’t had went to war if each didn’t have the threat of ending earth. Russia would lose 2 million soldiers in another WW and the U.S. likely the same. Difference is Russia would lose 2 million and not lose a nights sleep over meanwhile the citizens of the USA could not stomach that resulting in Russia taking over all of Europe
America's done
LIES