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I watched it so you don't have to: Nuclear Effects During SAC Delivery Missions (1960)

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMfpFcMY96Q Opening. You may laugh at the crest of the air force, the title over a flying white-and-shiny aluminum B-52 , and the music intro choice. So this film is assuring SAC crews that their combat mission folders are strictly the best, and you should always follow them to the letter. 1:38 - IBM COMPUTERS, being used by somebody who's possibly the only non-white person in the film. Thinking about it, they don't really describe what these computers are doing aside from "assess variables." These computers are fed by punch cards and has an output of blinking lights, toggle switches everywhere 2:14 - the first of what we will call really lovely colour footage of period aircraft 2:38 - the first canned sunshine 2:48 - mushroom cloud as photographed from a Canberra 3:15 - YOUR combat mission planners! 3:52 - A officer uses a slide-rule 4:20 - Animated interlude starts I should say the use of music here is amazing. A t...