A narrator (Paul Vaughn) takes us through the breakout of nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States of America over Iranian oil fields and its effect on Sheffield, an industrial city in Great Britain. Spoiler alert: it doesn't go well for Sheffield.
Now that we seem to be speed-running the 20th century over again, maybe it is a good time to dust this off. It's not going to help, mind you. In fact, it will probably make you feel worse about the increasing tension and threats from autocratic strongmen with their fingers on the Launch button but at least you'll know what to expect when you see that mushroom cloud.
This is a miserable, fact-based slog (Carl Sagan was one of the technical advisers) filled with dire warnings about the future should thermonuclear war occur. Everyone knows that would be bad, but this movie goes to great lengths to show you exactly how bad. It's like the Sarah McLachlan animal shelter song but for nuclear disarmament. Proceed with caution. It's on Shudder.
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