By pulling raw data from the news and plotting it onto a graph, Sean Gourley and his team have come up with a stunning conclusion about the nature of modern war -- and perhaps a model for resolving conflicts.

posted by RedSky 1 decade 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 3,131 views

A training video for a flight crew who has to drop the bomb.

posted by bleedingsnowman 1 decade 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,921 views

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world has come to the Third World War. Neither the US nor the USSR wanted war, but for days in October 1962, neither side was quite sure how to back away from... continue reading

posted by calvados 1 decade 5 years 12 months ago • 1,849 views

(ca. 73 mins) "1983: The Brink Of Apocalypse". The Able Archer 83 war scare is considered by experts to have been the closest the world came to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The USSR was... continue reading

posted by calvados 1 decade 6 years 3 weeks ago • 6,669 views

Fall, 1950. A fierce international war rips through a small country ... called Korea. Russia has successfully detonated the atomic bomb. ... Now more than ever before, ... we need to produce a greater... continue reading

posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,457 views

(85 min) The Atomic Café is an acclaimed documentary film about the beginnings of the era of nuclear warfare, created from a broad range of archival of film from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s - including... continue reading

posted by calvados 1 decade 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 5,699 views

summary redacted

posted by calvados 1 decade 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 21,702 views

The Avro Vulcan heavy bomber returns to the air at Waddington International Airshow on the 5th July 2008 after 15 years of restoration.

posted by Crake 1 decade 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 2,336 views

In 1961 the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever detonated was tested above Novaja Zemlja in the north of Russia. It was originally designed to have be equivalent to 100 Megatons of TNT, but was cut to 58... continue reading

posted by Ornthoron 1 decade 6 years 1 week ago • 2,821 views

An excellent documentary on the effects of a nuclear attack on Britain, produced in 1982. Many of the scenes were re-used for Threads, a drama on the same subject (1984).

ca. 53 mins.

posted by calvados 1 decade 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 2,496 views

In 1941, two years into the Second World War, Werner Heisenberg went to Copenhagen to meet his old friend and mentor, Neils Bohr. At the time, Heisenberg was the head of the German nuclear program. Bohr... continue reading

posted by notarobot 1 decade 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 3,421 views

The Oscar winning documentary that the Discovery Channel declined to show. Taxi to the Dark Side examines US torture policy while investigating the death of a taxi driver, Dilawar, at Bagram Air Force Base

posted by theaceofclubz 1 decade 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 2,151 views • 1:46:06

After assessing today's dwindling oil reserves and skyrocketing use of oil for fuels, plastics and chemicals, this documentary questions the motives for the U.S. wars in the Middle-East and Central Asia... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 9 months ago • 3,360 views

On October 4, 1957, the Space Age dawned with the red hue of the Communist flag when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite. Sputnik I stunned the world and spurred a surge in science... continue reading

posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 6 years 1 month ago • 2,199 views

There have been so many of those meme Hitler posts floating around. I thought it might be nice to get some more info on this amazing movie. Ganz's Hitler is an amazing performance and should have... continue reading

posted by Brian Houston (dag) 1 decade 5 years 9 months ago • 2,275 views

Against a stimulating, relaxing music take a first-view tour of Kabul's streets and neighborhoods after 30 years of war.

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 5 years 9 months ago • 1,803 views

The full movie.

posted by rasch187 1 decade 5 years 9 months ago • 2,785 views

For the full video: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/

posted by NetRunner 1 decade 6 years 8 months ago • 2,224 views

First Aired March 7th CBC - Canada "Since the US-led invasion four years ago, the fifth estate has covered Iraq and the war on terror from virtually every angle--the military, media, intelligence, politics--revealing... continue reading

posted by Fedquip 1 decade 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 2,248 views