I love how the movie starts out showing 50 locations that "Russia has probably allocated a certain number of her intermediate range nuclear missiles."
Did Russia even have more than 50 nuke missiles capable of hitting Europe? I am thinking only 2-3 nukes in Britian and 5-10 nukes in the US would significantly wound both countries.
at any one time there were several submarines capable of hitting the mainland with nuclear warheads, that along with Icmbs. had there been a war every major city would have been wiped out by the russians. in addition they also had bombers capable of hitting whatever was left, if there was anything left.
we would have hit them hard too along with the eastern european countries and china. it would have been the end. not even Australia was safe as we had nuclear weapons there.
I guess you had to have lived prior to the mid 80's where there was always the possibility of a nuclear strike. google MAD and that is always an interesting point.
this is a movie that hints of what may have happened had there been a mistake somewhere along all the protocols that we/them had in place.
fail safe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djqlAT-7be4 just notice it's a remake but it's the same point.
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