Still scary after all these years
 

Everyone hates the military, but if this shit ever happens... The only people left will be a few navy men in submarines.

One of them will be dressed like a woman eventually.

acting at it's best

Looks like a good movie

Sen. Frank Church's warning in 1975
 

This speech was made in 1975

Influential Senator Warned in 1975: ?Th[e National Security Agency's] Capability At Any Time Could Be Turned Around On The American People, And No American Would Have Any Privacy Left"

Google it and plan.

See Threads if you've not already seen it. Scared the crap out of me as a kid and still gave me a shiver when I watched it a couple of years back for the first time since it was originally broadcast. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/?ref_=sr_1

Morph

That is scary. :(

saw 3 of my old cars in that!

I saw that TV movie as a teenager - it was chilling to watch what a nuclear attack and its aftermath would actually be like for a typical American town. I think the setting was Lawrence, Kansas. yep, just wikpedia'ed to make sure.

Ronald Reagan watched the movie and in his biography said it left him thoroughly depressed and changed his attitude on the nuclear arms race - led to the signing of a non-proliferation pact with the Soviet Union.

Lots of the footage in that trailer of the nuclear explosion is real footage from some of the biggest American nuclear tests. Those killed immediately would be lucky in a nuclear attack of that size, surviving would be a fate worse than death.

Eventually?

Most people would be lucky to die such an exciting death.
Old age homes scare me.

I wasn't allowed to watch it as a kid and still have not seen it. I remember students were sent home with a note from school cautioning parents about the content. Since I was already kind of sensitive about all the shit going on in the world, my parents probably made the right decision.