Many films have been made depicting the possibility of nuclear war. The two I'll talk about are Doctor Strangelove and Threads. Dr. Strangelove is about a paranoid Air Force base commander who orders a squadron of B-52 bombers in the Soviet Union to drop hydrogen bombs on military targets. He is the only one who knows the recall code that could be transmitted to abort the mission. At the Pentagon, the President of the United States speaks with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the war room to address the problem. General Turgidson sees this as an opportunity to completely destroy the “Communists” and prevent their inevitable retaliation. The president is a pacifist and invites the Russian ambassador to the war room. Together they call the Russian premiere to warn of the attack and explain that it was unintentional. Over the phone, Premiere reveals the existence of their "doomsday device", a large quantity of atomic bombs that would be automatically detonated in the event of a nuclear attack, destroying all plant and animal life on earth. This definitive form of deterrence, although already active and impossible to deactivate, had not yet been announced to the world. At the Air Force base, an Army unit infiltrates with heavy fighting to obtain the recall code from Ripper, but he kills himself to avoid torture. His superior officers are able to extrapolate the code "OPE" from Ripper's scribbles on a pad of paper. The bombers respond to the code and return to base, except for one whose radio receiver was damaged. In the war room, Dr. Strangelove, a disfigured ex-Nazi scientist, suggests a plan to save a few thousand Americans by hiding them in a mine for a hundred years until the radiation returns to a safe location. Finally, the lone bomber... middle of paper... when a code is needed for a false alarm it could take days. Some things that were shown in these movies were not discussed in class we were in Threads where the government takes control and tries to shut everything down. He also showed surviving people years later where they were able to grow crops. The spoken language begins to decline and health problems affect not only that generation but also their children. In Doctor Strangelove when the end was coming and Doctor Strangelove wanted to take everyone into a bunker; it was already thinking about how to reproduce to keep the population going; ten females for every male. These films contain elements that can be considered accurate based on the data we have from the 1950s, while others fall far short from an entertainment standpoint. I enjoyed both films and can see how each could instill panic in people during that time and even to this day.