What dates this more than anything is the presence of these anti nuclear weapons activists, a huge deal back then.
That makes the plot more convincing than it may seem now.
It seems several reviewers rank this against Threads... To me that's like which movie was better, Wrath of Khan or ET? Apples and oranges.
Anyway, there's so much about how this unfolds that is frighteningly plausible. Go look how many warheads were being produced back then. These terrorists/activists weren't exactly wrong. It's not that hard to believe a group of scientists would band together and do something like this back then.
Could they have actually gotten enough plutonium to make a functional bomb? I think that's the most unlikely element here, but I'm not sure that fundamentally changes the story. After all, they could quite credibly have just made a dirty bomb.
The government would be in quite a pickle to deal with this, and I think the government's actions here are entirely plausible.
Anyway, though the video quality dates this, the way the media presents the story is still pretty accurate.
As an aside, I agree with the other reviewer that it feels like we are sleep walking into nuclear war. I know people who are convinced we can beat Russia because our technology is better. Well, ok, maybe of Russia's thousands of warheads, only a few dozen get through. We have plenty of cities, we don't really need NY, LA, Dallas, etc.
I honestly think there should be a public hydrogen bomb demonstration explosion every 20 years so politicians and indeed everyone will remember what these things are like.
That makes the plot more convincing than it may seem now.
It seems several reviewers rank this against Threads... To me that's like which movie was better, Wrath of Khan or ET? Apples and oranges.
Anyway, there's so much about how this unfolds that is frighteningly plausible. Go look how many warheads were being produced back then. These terrorists/activists weren't exactly wrong. It's not that hard to believe a group of scientists would band together and do something like this back then.
Could they have actually gotten enough plutonium to make a functional bomb? I think that's the most unlikely element here, but I'm not sure that fundamentally changes the story. After all, they could quite credibly have just made a dirty bomb.
The government would be in quite a pickle to deal with this, and I think the government's actions here are entirely plausible.
Anyway, though the video quality dates this, the way the media presents the story is still pretty accurate.
As an aside, I agree with the other reviewer that it feels like we are sleep walking into nuclear war. I know people who are convinced we can beat Russia because our technology is better. Well, ok, maybe of Russia's thousands of warheads, only a few dozen get through. We have plenty of cities, we don't really need NY, LA, Dallas, etc.
I honestly think there should be a public hydrogen bomb demonstration explosion every 20 years so politicians and indeed everyone will remember what these things are like.