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The film covers the beginnings of the era of nuclear warfare, created from a broad range of archival film from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s-including newsreel clips, television news footage, U. S. government-produced films ( including military training films ), advertisements, television and radio programs.

News footage reflected the prevailing understandings of the media and public.

A quote which illustrates how the producers used archival footage to illustrate the absurdity of the government's public nuclear propaganda of the time: