{"id":10959,"date":"2011-02-22T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10959"},"modified":"2011-02-22T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T15:37:15","slug":"the-power-of-decision-cold-war-nuclear-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/02\/22\/the-power-of-decision-cold-war-nuclear-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10960\" title=\"The Power of Decision\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Power-of-Decision.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A recently released film from the late 1950s demonstrates the possible outcome of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cold_War\">Cold War<\/a> nuclear strike.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Air_Force\">U.S. Air Force<\/a> produced it during 1956-1957 at the request of S.A.C. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strategic_Air_Command\">Strategic Air Command<\/a>) and it was presuambly intended as a training film to prepare troops for a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_warfare#1950s\">Doomsday scenario<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unseen for years, it was only recently made public by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/index.html\">National Security Archive<\/a> and is from a DVD supplied by the U.S. National Archives&#8217; motion picture unit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hfhqZgg_bqQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A grim but fascinating document of the Cold War, it feels like the kind of film <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Kubrick\">Stanley Kubrick<\/a> would have wanted to see in his research for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dr._Strangelove\">Dr Strangelove<\/a> (1964).<\/p>\n<p>It says a lot about the era when the death of 60,000,000 citizens is described as a &#8216;success&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the complete film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/nukevault\/ebb336\/index.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; More about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cold_War\">Cold War<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/AirForceSpecialFilmProject416powerOfDecision\">Download or watch the film at the Internet Archive<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/index.html\">The National Security Archive<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; Read the <a href=\"http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gwu.edu%2F~nsarchiv%2Fnukevault%2Febb336%2FSFP_416_index.pdf\">Air Force Descriptive Index Card<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently released film from the late 1950s demonstrates the possible outcome of a Cold War nuclear strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[1867,1868,1866],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}