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* FalseReassurance: One expert assures people that if you are within a certain distance of a nuclear blast you don't have to worry about radiation sickness, because it's likely the initial blast will kill you anyway.
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* FalseReassurance: One expert assures people a group of soldiers that if you are within a certain distance of they're close enough to a nuclear blast you to get a lethal dose of radiation, they don't have to worry about radiation sickness, getting sick because it's likely the initial blast will kill you them anyway.
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* FalseReassurance: One expert assures people that if you are within a certain distance of a nuclear blast you don't have to worry about radiation sickness, because it's likely the initial blast will kill you anyway.
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** The film then follows up a commercial for a fallout shelter with another clip of Prof. Melman pointing out that similar shelters during World War II, which were hit with much weaker bombs than nuclear or atomic ones, tended to kill people in them through asphyxiation or incineration.
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** The film then follows up a commercial for a fallout shelter with another clip of Prof. Melman Melman, this time pointing out that similar shelters during World War II, which were hit with much weaker bombs than nuclear or atomic ones, tended to kill people in them through asphyxiation or incineration.
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** The film first follows a clip of a man at a seminar claiming to an audience member that it would be possible to survive a 20 megaton surface burst explosion if you were at least 12 miles away, with a clip of another professor from Columbia, Seymour Melman, explaining that such an explosion would also cause an intense, deadly firestorm roughly spanning ''2000'' square miles around the point of detonation and that a fallout shelter would be futile within this range.
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** The film first follows a clip of a man at a seminar claiming to an audience member that it would be possible to survive a 20 megaton surface burst explosion if you were at least 12 miles away, with a clip of another professor from Columbia, Seymour Melman, explaining that such an explosion would also cause an intense, deadly firestorm roughly spanning roughly ''2000'' square miles around the point of detonation and that a fallout shelter would be futile within this range.
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** The film first follows a clip of a man at a seminar claiming to an audience major that it would be possible to survive a 20 megaton surface burst explosion if you were at least 12 miles away, with a clip of another professor from Columbia, Seymour Melman, explaining that such an explosion would also cause an intense, deadly firestorm roughly spanning ''2000'' square miles around the point of detonation and that a fallout shelter would be futile within this range.
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** The film first follows a clip of a man at a seminar claiming to an audience major member that it would be possible to survive a 20 megaton surface burst explosion if you were at least 12 miles away, with a clip of another professor from Columbia, Seymour Melman, explaining that such an explosion would also cause an intense, deadly firestorm roughly spanning ''2000'' square miles around the point of detonation and that a fallout shelter would be futile within this range.
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** This survivalist attitude is also deconstructed by cutting to a professor from Columbia University pointing out that from a psychological standpoint, this culture of shelter-building would probably make both Americans and Russians ''more'' inclined towards a nuclear war instead of less.
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** This survivalist attitude is also deconstructed by cutting to a professor from Columbia University University, Mario Salvadori, pointing out that from a psychological standpoint, this culture of shelter-building would probably make both Americans and Russians ''more'' inclined towards a nuclear war instead of less.less.
* FalloutShelterFail: The film at one point gives two major reasons for why fallout shelters wouldn't really be enough protection in the event of a nuclear attack:
** The film first follows a clip of a man at a seminar claiming to an audience major that it would be possible to survive a 20 megaton surface burst explosion if you were at least 12 miles away, with a clip of another professor from Columbia, Seymour Melman, explaining that such an explosion would also cause an intense, deadly firestorm roughly spanning ''2000'' square miles around the point of detonation and that a fallout shelter would be futile within this range.
** The film then follows up a commercial for a fallout shelter with another clip of Prof. Melman pointing out that similar shelters during World War II, which were hit with much weaker bombs than nuclear or atomic ones, tended to kill people in them through asphyxiation or incineration.
* FalloutShelterFail: The film at one point gives two major reasons for why fallout shelters wouldn't really be enough protection in the event of a nuclear attack:
** The film first follows a clip of a man at a seminar claiming to an audience major that it would be possible to survive a 20 megaton surface burst explosion if you were at least 12 miles away, with a clip of another professor from Columbia, Seymour Melman, explaining that such an explosion would also cause an intense, deadly firestorm roughly spanning ''2000'' square miles around the point of detonation and that a fallout shelter would be futile within this range.
** The film then follows up a commercial for a fallout shelter with another clip of Prof. Melman pointing out that similar shelters during World War II, which were hit with much weaker bombs than nuclear or atomic ones, tended to kill people in them through asphyxiation or incineration.
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** This survivalist attitude is also deconstructed by cutting to a professor from Columbia University pointing out that from a psychological standpoint, this culture of shelter-building would probably make both Americans and Russians ''more'' inclined towards a nuclear war instead of less.
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* SoapBoxSadie: The clip of the passionate young StrawFeminist / StrawPacifist ranting about how the U.S. should disarm and make friends with Stalin. She's even standing on a box.
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* SoapBoxSadie: The clip of the passionate young StrawFeminist / StrawPacifist Straw Pacifist ranting about how the U.S. should disarm and make friends with Stalin. She's even standing on a box.
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* StrawCharacter: One Army training film shows a stereotypical StrawFeminist in huge glasses on a soapbox claiming that Communist countries want peace and are all-around great countries. She is also a classic StrawPacifist.
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* StrawCharacter: One Army training film shows a stereotypical StrawFeminist in huge glasses on a soapbox claiming that Communist countries want peace and are all-around great countries. She is also a classic StrawPacifist.Straw Pacifist.
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* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: One clip shows a good-looking, fashionably dressed woman, making come-hither poses, right in front of a missile.
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* StrawmanPolitical: One Army training film shows an obnoxious, bespectacled woman standing on a box, giving an impassioned speech about how the U.S. must stop making nuclear weapons and the Soviets only want peace. She's a StrawmanFeminist as well.
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* StrawmanPolitical: StrawCharacter: One Army training film shows an obnoxious, bespectacled woman standing a stereotypical StrawFeminist in huge glasses on a box, giving an impassioned speech about how the U.S. must stop making nuclear weapons and the Soviets only soapbox claiming that Communist countries want peace. She's peace and are all-around great countries. She is also a StrawmanFeminist as well.classic StrawPacifist.
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->"When not close enough to be killed, the atomic bomb is one of the most beautiful sights in the world."
* AfterTheEnd: DiscussedTrope. One fellow with a bomb shelter quite calmly observes that after nuclear holocaust, some 80%-90% of the population will be dead, so there will be more food left for the rest.
* ArtShift: There are several animated clips, most famously the bizarre Bert the Turtle animation from ''Film/DuckAndCover''. The end titles show an animation of missile silos disguised as houses, with the fake houses flopping open when the [=ICBMs=] are fired off.
* BlackComedy: Some of the film is not funny at all, like the scenes from the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the clearly upset man who struggles to describe the hard death of Ethel Rosenberg in the electric chair. But other segments, like the boy in the radiation suit riding a bike, or the film clip that tells people not to worry about losing their hair to radiation because it will grow right back, play as absurd black comedy.
* CallBack: The closing montage has a series of nuclear bomb detonations, interposed with clips already seen earlier in the film, like the shot of picnickers ducking-and-covering with their picnic blankets, or the boy in a full-body radiation suit riding a bicycle.
* CrazySurvivalist: A long portion of the film deals with the popularity of fallout shelters in the 1950s and the idea that you could save yourself from nuclear holocaust by building a reinforced concrete basement. A child in class makes a poster of stuff you should take with you in the shelter. An even weirder clip has a man recommend storing tranquilizers in your bomb shelter, so you don't freak out with CabinFever. An advertising clip proudly demonstrates new construction suburban homes with bomb shelters built in.
* ArtShift: There are several animated clips, most famously the bizarre Bert the Turtle animation from ''Film/DuckAndCover''. The end titles show an animation of missile silos disguised as houses, with the fake houses flopping open when the [=ICBMs=] are fired off.
* BlackComedy: Some of the film is not funny at all, like the scenes from the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the clearly upset man who struggles to describe the hard death of Ethel Rosenberg in the electric chair. But other segments, like the boy in the radiation suit riding a bike, or the film clip that tells people not to worry about losing their hair to radiation because it will grow right back, play as absurd black comedy.
* CallBack: The closing montage has a series of nuclear bomb detonations, interposed with clips already seen earlier in the film, like the shot of picnickers ducking-and-covering with their picnic blankets, or the boy in a full-body radiation suit riding a bicycle.
* CrazySurvivalist: A long portion of the film deals with the popularity of fallout shelters in the 1950s and the idea that you could save yourself from nuclear holocaust by building a reinforced concrete basement. A child in class makes a poster of stuff you should take with you in the shelter. An even weirder clip has a man recommend storing tranquilizers in your bomb shelter, so you don't freak out with CabinFever. An advertising clip proudly demonstrates new construction suburban homes with bomb shelters built in.
* ProductPlacement: One of the more surreal clips has a creepily earnest announcer guy warning about the dangers of communism, then extolling the capitalist virtues of two specific California shopping malls that apparently funded the newsreel.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Disturbing footage of nuclear bomb blasts and people in radiation suits is coupled with weird 1950s pop songs like "I Guess It's My Atomic Love For You".
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* StockFootage: The whole movie. Government propaganda, newsreels, commercials, military training films.films.
* StrawmanPolitical: One Army training film shows an obnoxious, bespectacled woman standing on a box, giving an impassioned speech about how the U.S. must stop making nuclear weapons and the Soviets only want peace. She's a StrawmanFeminist as well.
* TemptingFate: A film clip has someone looking at a newspaper and saying "Well I guess there's nothing to worry about; we're the ones that have the bomb." This is immediately followed by contemporary news coverage of the successful Soviet nuclear bomb test in 1949.
* TestedOnHumans: One segment shows footage of pigs being exposed to atomic blasts so their injuries can be studied. That's followed by a different clip in which U.S. Army soldiers are stationed out in the desert, with no protection, so they can be measured for radiation exposure after a nuclear detonation.
* VisualTitleDrop: A diner called "Atomic Cafe" is briefly shown.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: A instructional film about taking shelter before a nuclear strike opens with two actors performing a hammy radio drama. After the director in the control booth gets the bulletin about nuclear war, he intrudes into the studio and says "We interrupt our normal program", then makes the announcement.
* StrawmanPolitical: One Army training film shows an obnoxious, bespectacled woman standing on a box, giving an impassioned speech about how the U.S. must stop making nuclear weapons and the Soviets only want peace. She's a StrawmanFeminist as well.
* TemptingFate: A film clip has someone looking at a newspaper and saying "Well I guess there's nothing to worry about; we're the ones that have the bomb." This is immediately followed by contemporary news coverage of the successful Soviet nuclear bomb test in 1949.
* TestedOnHumans: One segment shows footage of pigs being exposed to atomic blasts so their injuries can be studied. That's followed by a different clip in which U.S. Army soldiers are stationed out in the desert, with no protection, so they can be measured for radiation exposure after a nuclear detonation.
* VisualTitleDrop: A diner called "Atomic Cafe" is briefly shown.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: A instructional film about taking shelter before a nuclear strike opens with two actors performing a hammy radio drama. After the director in the control booth gets the bulletin about nuclear war, he intrudes into the studio and says "We interrupt our normal program", then makes the announcement.
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''The Atomic Cafe'' is a 1982 film directed by Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, and Pierce Rafferty.
It is a documentary about nuclear war and the nuclear arms race, consisting entirely of stock film clips. The film starts with footage of the 1945 Trinity test and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, intercut with an old interview with Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the plane that dropped the Hiroshima bomb. From there the film shows newsreels, commercials, public service films, and military training films, dealing with the paranoia and propaganda of the early atomic age. Topics include the nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll, the Red Scare, the development of the hydrogen bomb, continued Army nuclear testing, and the popularity of fallout shelters in the 1950s. The notorious short film ''Film/DuckAndCover'', which purported to teach schoolchildren about how to "duck and cover" to protect themselves in case of nuclear attack, is prominently featured.
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* {{Gorn}}: Film clips of horribly injured victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
* TheKenBurnsEffect: Mostly averted as the film consists of live-action footage rather than still photos, but there is a zoom in on a picture of charred corpses in Hiroshima.
* NukeEm: Starts with the actual nuking of two cities in Japan. Another section of the film is a clip of a U.S. Congressman who forcefully advocates for the use of nuclear weapons in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar against both the North Koreans and the Chinese.
* RedScare: Many stock footage clips demonstrate the paranoia about and fear of the Soviet Union that built public support for the nuclear arms race. One completely crazy newsreel documents a small Midwestern town that decided to simulate a communist takeover, complete with the mayor getting arrested and a pro-Stalin parade down the main street. (This same clip was also used in the anti-Vietnam War documentary ''Film/HeartsAndMinds''.)
* SpinningPaper: Several transitions announce big historical moments by having a newspaper zoom into frame. The one announcing the Soviet detonation of their first atomic bomb in 1949 actually spins.
* StockFootage: The whole movie. Government propaganda, newsreels, commercials, military training films.
It is a documentary about nuclear war and the nuclear arms race, consisting entirely of stock film clips. The film starts with footage of the 1945 Trinity test and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, intercut with an old interview with Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the plane that dropped the Hiroshima bomb. From there the film shows newsreels, commercials, public service films, and military training films, dealing with the paranoia and propaganda of the early atomic age. Topics include the nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll, the Red Scare, the development of the hydrogen bomb, continued Army nuclear testing, and the popularity of fallout shelters in the 1950s. The notorious short film ''Film/DuckAndCover'', which purported to teach schoolchildren about how to "duck and cover" to protect themselves in case of nuclear attack, is prominently featured.
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* {{Gorn}}: Film clips of horribly injured victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
* TheKenBurnsEffect: Mostly averted as the film consists of live-action footage rather than still photos, but there is a zoom in on a picture of charred corpses in Hiroshima.
* NukeEm: Starts with the actual nuking of two cities in Japan. Another section of the film is a clip of a U.S. Congressman who forcefully advocates for the use of nuclear weapons in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar against both the North Koreans and the Chinese.
* RedScare: Many stock footage clips demonstrate the paranoia about and fear of the Soviet Union that built public support for the nuclear arms race. One completely crazy newsreel documents a small Midwestern town that decided to simulate a communist takeover, complete with the mayor getting arrested and a pro-Stalin parade down the main street. (This same clip was also used in the anti-Vietnam War documentary ''Film/HeartsAndMinds''.)
* SpinningPaper: Several transitions announce big historical moments by having a newspaper zoom into frame. The one announcing the Soviet detonation of their first atomic bomb in 1949 actually spins.
* StockFootage: The whole movie. Government propaganda, newsreels, commercials, military training films.
