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| Chilling Cold War-Era Doc, NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES arrives on DVD and Digital Sept. 21 from Corinth Films | ||||||
 From the late science writer Nigel Calder comes the 1980 documentary NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES, a visually frightening examination of the world’s Cold War era nuclear weapon infrastructure. Host Peter Ustinov utilizes his wit and charm to narrate for the viewer how the US command and control system functions in both training and in the event of an actual retaliatory nuclear strike, and the chilling means by which airpower, nuclear submarines and underground ICBM launch pads are employed to ensure absolute vengeance on the aggressor.Interviewed in this film are members of an Army unit stationed at the demarcation line, Air Force officers manning nuclear missile launch controls, Oxford war historian Professor Michael Howard, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute director Frank Barnaby, Institute for Strategic Studies director Christopher Bertram, former science advisor to President Eisenhower George Kistiakowsky, former Los Alamos Weapons Laboratory director Harold Agnew, John Steinbruner of the Brookings Institution, Kostas Tsipis of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other leading war experts and political figures. Throughout the film, Ustinov colorfully illustrates several scenarios of what might happen if the missiles are unleashed and so commences “the war that must never happen.” Although the world's political climate has mellowed since the Cold War era, NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES takes home viewers back in time to gain a perspective of what it was like to live under a very real nuclear threat. For more information, visit: * Amazon: https://amzn.to/37OgRPS * Trailer: youtube.com * Website: corinthfilms.com |
