# U.S. AIR FORCE NUCLEAR ATTACK PREPAREDNESS PROCEDURES ATOMIC WARFARE 27204z

“Nuclear Attack Preparedness Procedures: Survive to Fight” is a 1968 US Air Force training film dramatizes activities at an Air Force Base following a nuclear attack. As a siren blares, pilots are shown being taken to their aircraft (mark 00:40) while command post operations unfold. An eerie silence follows until a “nuclear flash” fills the screen at mark 02:24 and a fiery mushroom cloud races upward. The narrator explains the sheltered command post personnel review the status of their base and its operational capability, including assessing and reporting damage (mark 03:55), dispatching vehicles, clearing runways, and abandoning some buildings. A flashback series starting at mark 05:18 details some of the work involved in preparing a base for just such a nuclear attack before returning to some of the organized chaos of the exercise near mark 07:00. Medical personnel assist in exposure control and treat patients (mark 10:05) and upon an assessment of radiation, begin radioactive fallout procedures (mark 12:18). Emergency base operations unfold including an order for ramp wash down at mark 15:45 and aircraft return to base before again heading to the skies at mark 21:43. The aircraft featured appear to be F-101B interceptors. The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo was a supersonic jet fighter which served the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). We haven't been able to determine where these particular aircraft were based -- one tail number appears to…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/27204zusafnuclearattackpreparednessproceduresvwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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