Ludicrous or just optimistic?
There’s a fine line between optimistic and ludicrous, but I think this movie stays on the optimistic side: the advice given would have helped people survive in areas away from the nuclear explosions and the worst of the fallout… in such areas the greatest threat would be long-term cancer from ingesting or breathing in fallout particles, or short-term by direct contact with your skin; even an overcoat would stop most alpha and beta radiation, though having almost no effect on gamma. But this is the real problem: as with the other civil defence movies I’ve watched on the site, it’s only useful to a small number of people who aren’t close to an explosion site… the majority would have died regardless of whether they’d watched the movie and followed the advice. As to lies, there are some obvious omissions and half-truths, but probably the biggest lie in the movie is right at the beginning: that there is no certainty of which targets might be hit. Pedantically true, as no-one can tell wh
