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1. 0:03is introduced by John
2. 0:07tuser good evening in the 40 Years of
3. 0:10the nuclear age we've grown accustomed
4. 0:12to its vocabulary and even somewhat
5. 0:14hardened to its ideas Fallout radiation
6. 0:17sickness zones of Destruction megga tons
7. 0:20even Mega deaths the phrases have become
8. 0:22part of everyday speech recently a new
9. 0:25one has been added that has introduced a
10. 0:27fresh sense of urgency into the nuclear
11. 0:29debate the nuclear winter that's to say
12. 0:32the belief of some scientists on both
13. 0:34sides of the East West divide that a
14. 0:36large-scale nuclear exchange would not
15. 0:38only wkak the vast destruction and death
16. 0:41that we all think we know about but
17. 0:43would throw so much dust and smoke into
18. 0:46the atmosphere that the planet's climate
19. 0:48would be drastically altered the subzero
20. 0:51temperatures of a nuclear winter would
21. 0:53threaten the survival of the survivors
22. 0:57this thesis is the subject of several
23. 0:59high level inqu IR is even one backed by
24. 1:01President Reagan himself the onus as one
25. 1:04Authority put it is for those who doubt
26. 1:06the nuclear winter now to disprove it
27. 1:10tomorrow night in a documentary called
28. 1:12on the eighth day you can see the
29. 1:14scientific evidence that lies behind the
30. 1:16nuclear winter hypothesis that will be
31. 1:19followed by a special news night debate
32. 1:21which I'll be chairing on the Strategic
33. 1:23and defense implications of the New
34. 1:25Evidence but we start tonight with the
35. 1:28Advent of a nuclear war itself itself
36. 1:30what would happen if Britain came under
37. 1:33a nuclear attack how would ordinary
38. 1:35people survive the impact of the blast
39. 1:37and the conditions that scientists say
40. 1:39would result from a nuclear exchange
41. 1:42threads is a drama the characters and
42. 1:45events are fictional and it deals with
43. 1:47something that has never happened but it
44. 1:49draws on a vast amount of scientific
45. 1:51information amassed over the last 40
46. 1:53years on the likely effect and
47. 1:55destructive power of nuclear war some of
48. 1:59the scenes which follow
49. 2:00May distress you threads was made in and
50. 2:03with the cooperation of the people of
51. 2:08[Music]
52. 2:12Sheffield in an urban Society everything
53. 2:17connects each person's needs are fed by
54. 2:20the skills of many
55. 2:22others our lives are woven together in a
56. 2:27fabric but the connections that make
57. 2:29Society is strong also make it fun
58. 2:48[Music]