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00:08Britain's present nuclear deterrent policy threatens a would-be aggressor with devastation
00:14from thermonuclear bombs to be delivered by Victor and Vulcan Mark II aircraft of the British
00:20V-bomber force. In a time of international crisis, it is at present planned to disperse
00:27a part of this V-bomber force to certain RAF and civilian airfields spread throughout
00:32Britain. These are their approximate locations. To each of them, Russia has probably allocated
00:40a certain number of her intermediate-range nuclear missiles, which are at this moment
00:45pointing at military objectives in Western Europe. And to each of these locations, being
00:52those 25 key cities in which reside almost one-third of the entire population of Britain,
00:58Russia has probably allocated a further unknown quantity of thermonuclear missiles. Each of
01:06these cities and each of these airfields combine to crowd into Britain more potential nuclear
01:12targets per acre of land mass than in any other country in the world.
01:20London, Friday the 16th of September. It's just been confirmed that late last night, in order
01:27to show collective communist support for the Chinese invasion of South Vietnam, the Russian
01:31and East German authorities have sealed off all access to the city of Berlin, and have stated
01:37their intention of occupying the western half of the city within 48 hours, unless the Americans
01:42in Vietnam withdraw yesterday's decision to use tactical nuclear weapons against invading
01:48Chinese forces. Here in Britain, Her Majesty's Government has declared a state of national emergency
01:54to last the duration of the present crisis. As from 12 noon today, the central government will
02:01cease to function, and the administration of the country will be handled by 15 regional commissioners.
02:06further, a network of emergency committees consisting of local councillors is now being
02:12set up in every major town and county borough in the country. In view of the seriousness of
02:18the international situation, Her Majesty's Government has decided that the first task of these emergency
02:23committees will be to implement the evacuation of a certain proportion of civilians to safer areas
02:29in Wales, the Lake District, parts of Northumberland, the Midlands, Southwest England, Dorset,
02:36East Sussex and Kent. In accordance with the 1962 government plan for evacuation,
02:42this dispersal is to apply only to certain specified classes of civilians.
02:46As from 0900 tomorrow, we are to receive a total quota of 60,000 evacuees in five priority classes. Class
02:56one, children under 15 travelling with mothers. Class two, school children under the age of 18. Class three, adolescents under
03:05the age of 18. Class four, expectant mothers. Class five, people who are blind, crippled, aged or infirm.
03:12Class five, percent fifth- male students under the age of 18.
03:39It is therefore, even at this early point, that an attempt at mass evacuation might fail.
03:47Because it's not known how many women would refuse to leave their husband and their home,
03:53to journey with restricted possessions to an unknown town,
03:57there to be compulsorily billeted with an unknown family.
04:05The players over tomorrow receive five rooms, ten evacuees, arrive from the London area sometime tomorrow morning.
04:11What am I going to feed them on?
04:12Up to you, ma'am.
04:13Are they coloured?
04:17Within a country where there is still a degree of racial and social prejudice,
04:21where there is still a shortage of housing and living space,
04:25a number of measures would almost certainly be necessary
04:28in attempting the evacuation of an estimated 10 million people.
04:34For this woman, the compulsory sheltering and feeding of an extra eight people.
04:44For the family who have fled this house, the immediate requisition of their home.
04:51For this man, perhaps imprisonment if he refuses to bill it.
04:58I'm not having eight.
04:59Sorry, sir, you've got to take eight.
05:00I don't want to.
05:01I'm not having eight.
05:02I've got enough food in there for eight.
05:03Don't argue.
05:04Don't argue.
05:05Under the emergency regulations with four rooms in the kitchen,
05:08you could be forced to take eight people.
05:12Should Britain ever thus attempt the evacuation of nearly 20% of her entire population,
05:18such scenes as these would be almost inevitable.
05:24All citizens resident within this area are requested to proceed immediately to the municipal offices
05:31for the collection of emergency identification papers and ration cards.
05:36Name?
05:37Steve Wilkinson, 159 Thornton Avenue.
05:40Widow?
05:41Children aged 19 and 21.
05:43Non-supplementary Russian card.
05:45This entitles you to a basic ration per week.
05:47Two ounces of butter, a half a pound of margarine,
05:50two ounces of tea, a quarter pound of sugar, two eggs,
05:53a half pound of milk when available, a quarter pound of meat,
05:55two loaves of bread, a pound of potatoes when available, and two ounces of bacon.
06:00It has been estimated that even if there were no war,
06:03Britain would need between one and a half to four years
06:06to recover economically from the effects of full-scale civilian evacuation.
06:13And if there were a war,
06:16at least 20% of even the areas into which people had been evacuated
06:20would themselves be rendered totally uninhabitable by the resulting radioactive fallout.
06:31Carbon-14 is one of the most dangerous elements of radioactive fallout.
06:36Do you know what it does to the human body?
06:40Oh, no, I'm sorry, I haven't heard of it.
06:42I'm afraid I don't know much about it, Tommy,
06:44about radiation at all.
06:46No, I don't.
06:47Oh, I'm sorry, I don't know.
06:49In 1959, a Home Office manual wrote,
06:52Public education in the matters of radioactivity
06:56will be progressive during the next few years.
06:59Do you know what Strontium 90 is and what it does?
07:06Um...
07:08No, no, I feel I don't.
07:10No, I don't.
07:11I've no idea, really.
07:13I know it's some sort of gunpowder or something that blows up.
07:21In Berlin, with rioting West German civilians and armed East German police,
07:29there would probably be found the necessary flashpoint.
07:33You car' ha had no idea.
07:39There you go.
07:43There, you go.
07:46I've no idea.
07:46April 26th,
07:47March 29th!
07:48December 29th,
07:49Caroline 29th,
07:49March 25th,
07:55Remember 49th,
07:57No, they've always been poor. I think you'll die down.
08:07I don't think there's anything to worry about.
08:12No, there won't be a war. I'm quite convinced of that.
08:16September the 17th. British Civil Defence deliver to the public, for the first time, details of the hazards to be
08:24expected
08:25from Radioactive Fallout.
08:27Good morning, madam. Would you please read this booklet and carry out the instructions carefully?
08:30But what is it?
08:31It's a civil defence booklet, your protection against nuclear attack.
08:34But I...
08:34Good morning, madam.
08:37Excuse me. What are you doing here, exactly?
08:40Well, we're issuing to as many householders as possible a copy of this booklet,
08:43which tells them how to prepare their houses against blast and fallout.
08:47Have people not seen this booklet before?
08:48Well, the copy was prepared some years ago, but it didn't sell very well.
08:52It wasn't... it wasn't free?
08:54Oh, no, no. Because nine months.
08:57The siren system is now being tested. The test will cease in a quarter of an hour.
09:04It's been estimated that by the time an incoming missile attack could be confirmed to the British national siren system,
09:11there would remain before impact a warning time of approximately two and a half to three minutes.
09:18And should the attacking missiles be launched from submarines lying off the shores of Britain,
09:25the warning time could be less than 30 seconds.
09:31The civil defence book said that we've got to get stuff to shore up our windows and barricade ourselves in
09:39with.
09:40They didn't tell us where to get it. I mean, around three places already, and all the stuff's gone.
09:45And the prices?
09:47My prices at the moment run as follows.
09:49Hessian sacks for sandbags, ten for one pound.
09:52Sand put in them, twenty-four shillings per cubic yard.
09:56Soil, seven pounds ten per five cubic yards.
09:59Deal planks, aprons to a shilling per foot.
10:02How much money have you to spend on building your refuge?
10:07Well...
10:09Well, I can't afford more than seventeen and six to a pound at the very most.
10:14For this amount of money, she may purchase eight sandbags and six planks.
10:19A friend of mine's a contractor, a building contractor, and he's fixed me up with some stuff.
10:24I've got this out here, which should help a bit.
10:28And inside, I've...
10:30I've built a refuge, like they say.
10:33I really should be pretty strong.
10:35Hold up quite well.
10:37And I had a few sandbags left over, so...
10:40I've got another one out in the garden.
10:42It is likely that many thousands of families in Britain
10:45would be unable to meet the cost of even one substantial shelter,
10:49and a government shelter program for every person in the country
10:53would cost an estimated two thousand million pounds.
10:58And I keep this...
11:00here.
11:02And I certainly intend to use it
11:05if anyone attempts to break into the shelter with me.
11:07A recent American religious journal told its Christian readers
11:12to think twice before they rashly gave their family shelter space
11:16to neighbours or the passing stranger.
11:21September the 18th, one hour ago,
11:24following an armed entry into West Berlin
11:25by Russian and East German troops,
11:28two NATO armoured divisions
11:29attempted to force an entry through to the besieged city
11:32and were themselves overrun by outnumbering communist forces.
11:36Faced with this situation,
11:38it is possible that the American president would have no choice
11:41but to threaten to release tactical nuclear warheads to the forces of NATO
11:45in order to show collective determination
11:48in the event of a possible Russian attack.
11:51Faced with this situation,
11:53the Soviet premier would possibly be left with no alternative
11:56but to call this bluff and attack.
12:00Local area commander has authorised the release of tactical nuclear weapons
12:06to the British, French and Bundeswehr.
12:0915 crew up for a fast sequence of firing.
12:14This is a tactical nuclear missile.
12:17It has a warhead equivalent to one Hiroshima bomb.
12:21It is called an Honest John.
12:23The Honest John, the mace, the corporal, the person, the sergeant
12:27and if things don't get better soon,
12:29all these weapons are going to be slamming away a nuclear warhead
12:32and then God help us all!
12:34It is now planned to increase NATO reliability on nuclear missiles
12:39even should the Russians attack using ordinary weapons.
12:43Thus it is possible for the Allies to be the first to press the button
12:47in a nuclear war.
12:54Did you know this?
12:56No, I did not.
12:57I was vaguely aware of it, yes.
12:59Yes, I did know it and I think it's disgraceful.
13:01No, I didn't know this at all.
13:03No, I was thinking it would be a good thing.
13:05In a recent mock NATO battle in Europe,
13:07using only tactical nuclear weapons
13:09and described as a limited engagement,
13:12it was estimated that over 2 million non-combatants
13:15would have been fatally or seriously injured.
13:21David Edward Thornley, age 37,
13:26general practitioner in medicine.
13:28Now on the staff of one of a series of emergency medical aid units
13:32being established in preparation for a nuclear strike.
13:36Time, 9.11am, September the 18th.
13:41Dr Thornley stops to make an emergency call.
13:44Berwick Street, Canterbury.
13:4612 miles from the airfield at Manston on the Kent coast.
14:01Of the 750 intermediate-range ballistic missiles at present held by the Russians
14:09and targeted on the European countries of the NATO alliance.
14:13It is believed that a considerable number are liquid-fuelled
14:17and are stored above ground.
14:19Such missiles are therefore themselves extremely vulnerable.
14:24and rather than risk the possibility of losing them in a counter-bombardment,
14:28it is likely that the Russians would have no alternative
14:31but to fire all of them at a very early stage in such a crisis.
14:38Time, 9.13am.
14:58This family couldn't afford to build themselves a refuge.
15:02This could be the way the last two minutes of peace in Britain would look.
15:07Get all the children!
15:11Peter! Tony! Tony! Tony!
15:14Tony!
15:16Where are they?
15:17No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
15:229.16am. A single megaton nuclear missile overshoots Manston airfield in Kent
15:28and airbursts six miles from this position.
15:37At this distance, the heat wave is sufficient to cause melting of the upturned eyeball,
15:43third-degree burning of the skin and ignition of furniture.
15:5212 seconds later, the shock front arrives.
16:02During a recent meeting of the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican,
16:05an English and an American bishop expressed the view that
16:09the Church must tell the faithful that they should learn to live with,
16:13though need not love, the nuclear bomb,
16:15provided that it is clean and of a good family.
16:21At seven-tenths of a millisecond after the explosion
16:25and at a distance of 60 miles,
16:28the light from the fireball of a single megaton thermonuclear device
16:32is 30 times brighter than the midday sun.
16:35This little boy has received severe retinal burns
16:39from an explosion 27 miles away.
16:48This house lies 29 miles from Manston airfield and 41 miles from Gatwick airport in Sussex.
17:08The blast wave from a thermonuclear explosion has been likened to an enormous door slamming in the depths of hell.
17:18Oh, no, no.
17:22.
17:24.
17:25.
17:26.
17:27.
17:27.
17:28.
17:28.
17:54This is the combined shock front
17:56from one dispersal airfield 40 miles away.
18:06There are in Britain at least 60 such targets.
18:16Rochester in Kent.
18:18Now two square miles of fire resulting from the heat of a thermonuclear missile
18:23which has exploded off course on its path to London Airport.
18:29This is the phenomenon which could perhaps happen in Britain
18:33following a nuclear strike against certain of our cities.
18:37This happened after the bombing of Hamburg at Dresden, at Tokyo and at Hiroshima.
18:43This is what is technically known as a firestorm.
18:59Within its centre the rising heat from multiple fires caused by both the heat flash
19:04and the blast wave upsetting stoves and open furnaces
19:07is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding 100 miles an hour.
19:15This is the wind of a firestorm.
19:17of a hurtful Kontaktner.
19:32Look Dogonline!
19:36Level 9!
19:37Get caught!
19:40My brain doesn't wind.
19:43Pull the Moon.
19:59during a recent meeting of the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican a
20:04bishop told the press that he was sure our nuclear weapons will be used with
20:13wisdom I believe that we live in a system of necessary law and order and I still
20:21believe in the war of the just within this car a family is burning alive
20:39Charles Brooks chief fire officer of Chatham already in three of his appliances
20:44have been smashed gutted or overturned already 17 of his 60 firemen have been
20:50crushed burnt or killed by flying debris
20:58this is a firestorm within its center the oxygen is being consumed in every cellar
21:05and every ground floor room to be replaced by the gases of carbon monoxide
21:10carbon dioxide and methane within its center the temperature is rising to 800
21:16degrees centigrade these men are dying both of heat stroke and of gas
21:29in the next world war I believe that both sides could stop before the ultimate
21:34destruction of cities so that both sides could retire for a period of 10 years
21:39or so of post-attack recuperation in which world wars four to eight could be prepared
21:49when the carbon dioxide content of inhaled air is greater than 30 percent it will cause
21:56''bomor smoot the only 1 thousand five to three .''
21:57remain stammered from lemon when
21:57ie s Quit obvious
22:04there
22:05occur a
22:07couple of item
22:08the carbon monoxide content of inhaled air exceeds 1.28 percent it will be followed by
22:19death within
22:20three minutes between
22:23it
22:35nuclear war in the present version of the civil defense pamphlet listing the
22:39various items to be taken into a refuge room for life in a post-nuclear attack
22:43Britain are the following words and a box containing birth and marriage
22:49certificates savings bank books and national health medical cards 1047 aircraft of the
22:59British V bomber force near the Russian border their purpose retaliation their target people
23:07like this if the Russians or anyone else attacked Britain with nuclear weapons would you want us to
23:16retaliate by destroying an equal number of Russian cities yes yes I would yes it's just a vicious
23:24circle but I suppose we should have to retaliate people think British people are always sort of
23:28forgiving and forgetting and I think we'd have to retaliate
23:49I wouldn't want want us to stand back and do nothing about it but
23:58yes I think perhaps perhaps I would oh yes I think so definitely yes I suppose I would
24:15technically and intellectually we are living in an atomic age emotionally we are still living in the
24:24stone age the Aztecs on their feast days would sacrifice 20,000 men to their gods in the belief
24:32that this would keep the universe on its proper course we feel superior to them
24:41these are the inhabitants of what was once a housing estate near Rochester in Kent following
24:50the explosion of three single megaton missiles within this one county boundary it's been estimated
24:57that each surviving doctor would be faced by at least 350 casualties many suffering from severe
25:05second and third degree burns I had a little boy with me he had his legs burned off
25:25some some of the some of these people are just falling apart as far as is known it is at
25:35present
25:35planned by the civil defense that each doctor working in a forward medical aid unit place every casualty
25:42into one of three carefully defined categories to determine whether or not that casualty is worth
25:49hospital treatment it's the third category the worst these it's just hopeless so they put them into what we call
26:00the holding
26:01section these are people with 50% or more body burns this doctor knows that each patient he places in
26:09the
26:09holding section will be left to die in pain without drugs I know what will be happening in a few
26:18days
26:21I'll be I'll be asking me to kill them what you are seeing now is another possible part of nuclear
26:31war an armed police squad helping the overburdened doctors to relieve the misery of those in category 3
26:56if I decide to hit and perhaps kill another man myself then I must be prepared to accept the moral
27:05responsibility
27:07if I give the government the right or the means on my behalf to kill people of another country
27:16then the situation is no different I must again myself accept the moral responsibility
27:24it's been estimated that a nuclear attack on Britain using approximately 160 single megaton missiles
27:31would immediately kill or seriously wound between one third and one half of her entire population
27:38it would destroy from 50 to 80 percent of all her main food production and storage facilities and from 50
27:45to 80 percent of the power plants needed to run them
27:49such an attack using weapons of one megaton could be described as minimal
27:54because it's now more than possible that missile warheads or free falling bombs of between five to ten times that
28:02power would be used instead
28:08I think extra numbers would have made no difference at all to all this
28:15fifteen or twenty times the number of civil defense
28:19wouldn't have stopped the initial attack from killing or maiming exactly the same number of people
28:25there was a title there all wrong call this defense
28:31these will be the other casualties of a nuclear war
28:36physically unmarked
28:37there will almost inevitably be thousands of people suffering from many complex states of fear and shock
28:44due to the things they've seen
28:47and the things that have happened to them
28:51many of these people will probably lapse into a state of permanent neurosis
28:57because they will totally outnumber the psychiatric services needed to cure them
29:04this too
29:05will be the legacy
29:07of thermonuclear war
29:14I've already had a dozen or so of my men
29:18and go under
29:19just
29:20with a strain
29:23overworked
29:25people tend to forget that
29:28a policeman
29:29a civil defense worker
29:32anybody
29:33like this
29:35is just a normal human being
29:38with
29:40normal human reactions
29:41and emotions
29:43is it
29:45this policeman
29:46has spent the entire rescue period
29:49searching for his missing family
30:00come on
30:01go on
30:02wear off
30:05even in the lightly hit county of kent
30:07there would be immediately
30:09an estimated
30:1050,000
30:11corpses to dispose of
30:14will you tell us what
30:15i just
30:16will you tell us what's going on in there
30:17not like any photographers in there
30:19yes yes i know but
30:20just a minute
30:22will you tell us what they're doing in there please
30:26they're simply burning the bodies
30:28the buildings are full of them
30:30there's just too many to bury
30:37the buildings are full so all we can do is
30:39put them onto raised steel girders
30:42and put a fire underneath
30:45it's just like making a grill
30:50two days after the attack
30:52the military authorities
30:53to stop the possible spreading of disease
30:56seal off two square miles of the damaged area
30:59that had been rochester
31:01and arm the surviving police
31:03determined to prevent by force if necessary
31:05relatives of the dead removing bodies
31:08before the process of burning
31:12we were doing the
31:14job
31:15burning the
31:16bodies
31:17when two of the soldiers said they weren't going to do it anymore
31:22one of the officers came up and told them to get on with it
31:25and they said no again
31:27so they shot them both
31:29on the spot
31:31everything that you are now seeing
31:33happened in germany
31:35after the heavy bombing in the last war
31:38it would almost certainly
31:39have to happen in britain
31:41after a nuclear war
31:44another thing the germans did
31:46after the bombing on dresden
31:49was they
31:50took the wedding rings
31:52from the bodies
31:55they were trying to
31:57identify them
31:58from the inscription
31:59inside the ring
32:01we
32:02also
32:03are
32:03doing this
32:05we are keeping the rings
32:07in this bucket
32:09here
32:12this
32:13is a possible part
32:15of nuclear war
32:20for the
32:21for the following 48 hours
32:22an estimated
32:23one third of the entire land service of britain
32:26would be covered by a total dose of radiation
32:29exceeding ten times the amount needed to kill a man in the open
32:35for many of those within this area who had remained even inside the shelter of their homes
32:40there would be death within five weeks
32:45i i know a thing or two about
32:47leukemia and such like
32:51i deliberately haven't spoken to my wife about this in the last couple of days
32:56you know
32:56i'm
32:58i'm
32:59i'm so scared
33:01i
33:02i just want my kids to grow up that's all
33:07i don't know what's going to be left of anything
33:10i can't change that now
33:15i
33:16i
33:16i
33:16i suppose i'm just being
33:18selfish
33:19i
33:20i just want my kids to be straight
33:22and
33:23not
33:23not to have this poison working in their bones
33:40the main effect of exposure to severe radiation
33:44is to stop the renewal of the cellular lining of your intestine
33:51with the result that your body fluids flow straight out
33:56from the raw inside of your intestine
33:59and
34:00you literally dry out
34:21and
34:32the
34:33and
34:33and
34:36and
34:36and
34:37and
34:37and
34:37and
34:53This is the menu of a meal prepared by the welfare section of the Civil Defence Corps
34:58during an exercise supposed to take place after a thermonuclear attack.
35:04Braised steak, carrots, sprouts, roast and mashed potatoes,
35:08steamed pudding, apple pie and custard.
35:17After a nuclear attack on the United States, would Americans live as they're accustomed to?
35:22With automobiles, ranch houses, television, freezers and so on?
35:27No one can say.
35:28We've got a bath full of water that hasn't been changed now for five days.
35:33It's all the water we've got.
35:36But we have to drink from it and have to cook with it and wash with it.
35:44At Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the population three months later was found to be apathetic and profoundly lethargic.
35:54People living often in their own filth, in total dejection and inertia.
36:11This baby boy has been bitten on the arm by a rat.
36:15There are now no medicines or drugs available to prevent the disease, which may well follow.
36:22I was carrying a loaf of bread home today from my mother, who'd given it to me.
36:30When a guy comes up and offers me a pound for it.
36:44In the face of growing hunger riots, it is very possible that dwindling supplies of food would finally be kept
36:52as a form of bonus
36:53for only those who still perform the precarious maintenance of law and order.
36:58The result of such partial feeding would in itself be almost inevitable.
37:11On this day, the first food rioter is killed by the police in Kemp.
37:30Two days later, as a direct result of this incident, a police ammunition truck and its contents are seized and
37:38its volunteer drivers murdered.
38:03In Germany, during the last war, it was noticed that with people who'd suffered personal loss or deprivation,
38:09even amongst the so-called decent middle class,
38:12there was a tendency to develop an attitude of indifference towards the law
38:17and to indulge in looting, black market and petty theft.
38:22This is a government food control centre, seized and pilfered by armed anti-authority elements.
38:30This is Mrs. Joyce Fisher from Gravesend.
38:33She was a housewife.
38:35Three yards from her, the bodies of the military guard.
38:43When morale falls, ideals fall and may go.
38:47And behaviour becomes more primitive, more a thing of instinct.
38:52Three days later, the first policemen in Kent are killed.
39:05Within the next fifteen years, possibly another twelve countries will have acquired thermonuclear weapons.
39:13For this reason, if not through accident or the impulses of man himself,
39:19Hold it.
39:20It is now more than possible that what you have seen happen in this film
39:24will have taken place before the year 1980.
39:30On the authority of the regional commissioner under article 17 of the new national emergency code
39:34dealing with civil disturbances and the prevention of crown appointed officers
39:37from carrying out their lawful duty,
39:39John Edward Jarrett and William Michael Eaves
39:42are hereby sentenced to death by firing squad.
39:46May God have mercy on their souls.
39:48The Lord's Prayer, kneel, we'll say the Lord's Prayer together.
39:58Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
40:03Thy kingdom come and will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
40:09Give us this day our daily bread
40:12and forgive us our trespasses
40:14as we forgive them that trespass against us
40:19and lead us not into temptation
40:21but deliver us from evil.
40:24Amen.
40:31Father, have mercy upon their souls
40:35for they know not what they do.
40:39Again.
40:42Fire.
40:49For those who haven't had access to orange juice,
40:53fresh vegetables, vitamin C in general,
40:57and that'll be most people,
40:59hemorrhages around the gums will set in
41:02at about the four-month stage
41:04and then you're into the initial stages of scurvy
41:07with swelling of the ankles
41:09and bleeding into the joints of your body.
41:22December 25th,
41:23a refugee compound in Dover, Kent,
41:27four months after the attack.
41:41Due to radiation,
41:43this little boy has only half the requisite number of red blood corpuscles.
41:48He will be bedridden for seven years.
41:51Then he will die.
41:52This happened at Hiroshima.
41:56This girl is pregnant.
41:58Because of her constant exposure to radiation,
42:01she has no idea whether or not
42:03her baby will be born alive.
42:16The thing that terrifies me most
42:18is the little ones.
42:22If they've suffered badly from the effects
42:26of the sight of this horror and destruction,
42:32it is probable that as a consequence,
42:36some of them may suffer terrible character disorders.
42:46One just doesn't know.
42:49I saw one of the little boys in the compound here yesterday.
42:55He was bouncing around,
42:58playing hopscotch, I think,
43:01and suddenly he sat down
43:04as though he were very tired.
43:09His face went listless
43:14like that of an old man.
43:18These children are orphans of the attack.
43:22They were each asked
43:23what they now wanted to grow up to be.
43:27I don't want to be nothing.
43:29Neither do I.
43:31I don't want to be nothing.
43:33Neither do I want to be nothing.
43:43On almost the entire subject
43:46of thermonuclear weapons,
43:48on the problems of their possession,
43:50on the effects of their use,
43:53there is now practically
43:55a total silence in the press,
43:57in official publications
43:59and on television.
44:04There is hope
44:05in any unresolved
44:08and unpredictable situation.
44:11but is there a real hope
44:13to be found in this silence?
44:18The world's stockpile
44:20of thermonuclear weapons
44:22has doubled within the last five years
44:26and now is the equivalent
44:28of almost 20 tons of high explosive
44:31to every man, woman and child
44:35on the planet.
44:37This stockpile
44:40is still steadily growing.
44:44and has been
44:44and
44:48This song
44:53was new.
44:56This song
45:07reached the beginning
45:08to all
45:13the
45:19The apocalyptic theme continues with the aftermath of a nuclear attack
45:23in a powerful 1984 drama.
45:26Mick Jackson introduces Threads next on BBC4.