Side A
Artist	Song
Elvis Costello Waiting for the End of the World (final refrain 8 bars)	Dr. Strangelove: "I'm coming fine too, ayy? Good. Well, then, we're both coming through fine. Well, it's good that you're fine and I'm fine. I agree with you, it's great to be fine. Heh-heh, Heh-heh. Now then, Dimitri, you know how
we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The bomb,Dimitri. The Hydrogen bomb. Well, now what happened is, one of our Base Commanders, he had a sort of, well, he went a little funny in the head. You know,	just a little, funny. And he went and did a silly thing. Well, I'll tell you what he did, he ordered his planes to attack your country. Well, let me finish Dimitri. Let me finish Dimitri. Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you
imagine how I feel about it Dimitri? Why do you think I'm calling you, just to say, 'Hello?' Of course I like to speak to you. Of course I like to say, 'Hello,' I'm just calling you to tell you something terrible has happened. It's a friendly	call, of course it's a friendly call. Listen, if it wasn't friendly, you probably wouldn't have even got it.. They will not reach their targets for at least another hour. I am I-I'm positive Dimitri. Listen, I've been all over this with your
Ambassador, it is not a trick."	Failsafe: "The point is still who wins and who loses, the survival of a culture." "A culture? With most of its people dead, the rest dying, the food poisoned, the air unfit to breathe? You call that a 'culture?'" "Yes, I do, Mr. Foster.
I am not a poet. I am a political scientist, who'd rather see an American	Wargames: "Oh, it's all right. I've planned ahead. We're just three miles from a primary target. A mili-second of brilliant light, and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than the millions who'll wander
.We'll be spared the horror of survival."	Wargames: "We have a Launch Detection, we have a Soviet Launch detection." "B-Mus's confirm a massive attack." "Missile warnings - No malfunction." "Confidence is high - I repeat, confidence is high." "Corporate air-net not an exercise."
"Negative, this is not an exercise" "General, VBS is currently tracking 300 inbound Soviet ICBMs."	We are at DefCon One." "Confirmed"
Elvis Costello `Waiting for end of the World' ("Shut down the power all along the line/And we got, stuck in the tunnel with no light shine/Got to touchin' all the girls who were too scared to call out/Nobody was saying anything at all") (Refrain)	Miracle Mile: (Phone ringing multiple times) "Dad! It's me, Chip. How come the phone was busy just now? I-I didn't wake you, did I? I-It's happening! I can't believe it but we're locked into it. Fifty minutes and counting
Christ I can't take it. I just can't fucking take it. I'm sorry, dad, I shouldn't swear, I'm sorry, but this is it, this is really it! This is the Big One, Thor Arthur 66 AZD. You know like I told you if what would happen if it ever came down?	Well it is! We don't know why, I mean, why would we, huh? It's for real, Dad, it's no drill! We shoot our wad in fifty minutes. They're going to come pick us up in five or ten, and you're going to be getting it back in an hour and ten that's
seventy-five minutes!" "What exactly are you talking about?" "I'm talking about Nuclear Fucking War, Dad." "Who is this?" "Oh, m- W-where's my Dad? Go get my Dad!" "Your Dad? There's nobody here. W-where's he supposed to be?" "How the hell	would I know? You're in Orange County: I'm in North Dakota!" "Hey, is this some kind of prank or something?" "'A prank! A prank?' Oh, God, is 254-9411?" "Y-yeah, yeah it is, but listen, it's just a phone booth. It's a phone booth at a coffee
shop. I heard it ringing and.." "Oh, God, is this 714, did I dial 213? Shit! Oh, I think they heard me, shit!, aw, man, they see me on the monitor. Fuck! I patched through the Red-Line Ex-Comm to do this. Listen, they're gonna nail my ass.	Tell dad, just tell him that I am sorry about that summer, okay? He'll know what I mean. (crying) Just tell anyone!" "Look, that's enough, this is a joke, right?" ".. Yes sir! N-no sir, I-I was just checking the circuit, sir. Wait, Wait!!"
(shots fired) "Secured, should I trace?" "Listen, it's probably a felony to be joking around on the phone like this." "Who are you?" "W-who am I? Listen, I'm just a guy who picked up a phone, I don't know if this was a wrong phone number or a-a	joke or what.. W-what happened to Chip? He was just joking, right? " ". Forget everything you've just heard and go back to sleep." "H-hey! Hey!"
Failsafe: "Today the subject is limited war. It is not theoretical. On it depends on the kind of weapons we use, where we locate them how we use them. In short, our entire military posture. So: Is limited war possible? Can we confine the	exchange of nuclear weapons to military targets alone or must war lead inevitably to the destruction of cities?" "It must." "Why?" "The object of war is to inflict maximum damage on the enemy, destroy his ability to resist." "In the last war,
both sides could have used biological weapons: They didn't." "It wouldn't have been decisive." "Can you be sure?" "Well maybe people couldn't get used to the idea of killing civilians." "I suggest you take that up with the civilians of London,	Hamburg, Dresden or Tokyo, killed by the thousands in bombing raids. I omit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, since those actions belong more properly to World War Three."
Wargames: "C'mere a minute, David. See that, that sign up there, `DefCon?' That indicates our current defense condition. It should read `DefCon 5,' which means `Peace.' It's still on `Four' because of that little stunt you pulled.	Actually if we hadn't caught it in time it would have gone to DefCon 1. You know what that means, David?" "No, what does that mean?" "World War Three."
Dr. Strangelove: "We are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, the truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two	admittedly regrettable but nevertheless distinguishable post-war environments: One where you got twenty million killed and the other where you have a hundred and sixty million killed." "You're talking about mass-murder, General, not war."
"Oh, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops! Uh-depending on the break." "I will not go down in History as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!"	Wargames: (ICBMs humming) "..Eight, Nine, Ten, all missiles enabled." "Minus thirty." "Get me wing command post on the direct line." "That's not the correct procedure, captain.." "SAC? Try SAC Headquarters on the HF.."
"That's not the correct procedure!" "Screw the procedure, I want somebody on the goddamned phone before I kill twenty million people."	Failsafe: "Several hours ago you said a hundred million dead: Now you say sixty million." "I said sixty million dead is the highest price we should be prepared to pay in a war." "Well what's the difference between sixty million dead and a hundred
million?" "Forty million." "Some difference." ".. Are you prepared to say the saving of forty million lives is of no importance?" "You miss the point, professor: The saving of those sixty million lives is what's important!"	Terminator 2 "Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war, `Judgement Day.'"
Elvis Costello Waiting for the End of the World (beginning + refrain)	Failsafe: "But what would it be like, I mean, really like? Who would survive?" "Who would survive?.. Interesting question. I would predict.. convicts and file clerks." (Chuckles) "The worst convicts - those deep-down in solitary confinement
- and the most ordinary file clerks, probably for large insurance companies - because they would be in fireproof rooms, protected by tons of the best insulator in the world: Paper. And imagine what will happen - the small group of vicious	would fight the army of file clerks for the remaining means of life. The convicts would know violence, but the file clerks would know organization. Who do you think would win?"
Miracle Mile: "People are going to help each other, won't they? I mean..Rebuilding things? I mean the survivors, that is." ". I think it's the insects' turn.."	Wargames: "You haven't been listening, have you?" "Yes, I have. I loved it when you nuked Las Vegas. Seems to be a biblical ending to the place, don't you think?" "So, you're going to call them up, tell them what Joshua is doing?"
"Now, children, come on over here: I'm going to tell you a bedtime story. Are you sitting comfortably? Then, I'll begin. Once upon a time there lived a magnificent race of animals, who dominated the world through age after age.	They ran and they swam and they fought and they flew. Until, suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes, then.
We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, Nature will start again. With the bees, probably."	Wargames: "We have a launch detection. We have a Soviet launch detection."
Miracle Mile: "Come On!" "I'm coming with you, Freddie!" "That Thor Arthur stuff, that meant something to you..I know it did! I-Is code, is that the code for it?" "It's possible." "How the hell would you know, Lady?"	"Because I used to date a guy who worked at The Rand Corporation. I've just been trying to reach a few of our friends who could tell me if the unthinkable were being thought about in D.C.:
At this very moment, four out of five are in transit to the extreme southern hemisphere. I find that more than just very curious."	R.E.M. "End of the World" (I feel fine)
Wargames: "It's a bluff, John, call it off.." "No, it's not a bluff: It's real." "Hello, General Berringer? Stephen Falken.." "Mr. Falken, you picked a hell of a day for a visit!" "General, what you see on these screens up here is a fantasy,	a computer-enhanced hallucination. Those blips are not real missiles - they're phantoms." "Jack, there's nothing to indicate a simulation at all. Everything's working perfectly." "But does it make any sense?" "Does what make any sense?"
"That." "Look, I don't have time for a conversation, right now!" "General, are you prepared to destroy the enemy?" "You betcha!" "Do you think they know that?" "I believe we've made that clear enough.." "Then, don't!	Tell the President to ride out the attack." "Sir, they need a decision.."
"General, do you really believe that the enemy would attack without provocation, using so many missiles bombers and subs so that we would have no choice but to totally annihilate them?" "One minute and thirty seconds to impact.."	Vera Lynn We'll Meet Again
Wargames: "Red-bird, this is Dropkick with a red-dash-alpha message. Break, Break, red-dash-alpa, red-dash-alpha." "Stand by to authenticate." "Charlie, Tango, Lima, Alpha, November. Authentication:Two, Two, Lima, Alpha."	"I have a valid message, stand by to authenticate." "I agree with authentication, also, sir." "Enter launch code." "Entering launch code.."
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
"Launch order confirmed.." "Holy shit..Target selection complete: Time on target sequence complete: Yield selection sequence." "Begin countdown: T-Minus 60." "All right, let's do it, insert launch key." "Stand by.." "Launch key inserted."	"Roger." "On my mark, rotate key to `Set.' Three, Two, One: Mark!" "T-Minus 50." "Roger, that's set! .... Sir?" "Uh, e-enable missiles." "Number one, enabled, two enabled, three, enabled.." "Why can't we get someone on the goddamn phone."
"Seven, eight, nine, ten. All missiles enabled.."	Elvis Costello Waiting for the End of the World (Full)
Failsafe "(translation) .. flying of armed aircraft." "This is a mistake.." "(translation) .. over Soviet airspace.." ".. a serious mistake. I say it's a mistake!" "(translation) Very well, tell me. Tell me the mistake.."	"A group of our bombers each loaded with two twenty megaton bombs is flying towards your country." "(translation) W-we shall watch, with great interest, while you recall them.." "So far we have been unable to recall them.."
Failsafe "(translation) .. Soviet airspace has still not been violated, Mr. President. But if it is we will be forced to shoot down your bombers. And then we will come to full alert with all of our missiles and planes." "I understand that, I	hope you're able to shoot down our bombers. But I urge you not to take any steps that cannot be recalled." "(translation) ..Y-you know we must protect ourselves." "You also know that if you launch missiles we must do the same:
If that happens there will be very little left of the world."	Failsafe "Turkey One, can you hear me? Turkey One can you hear me, Turkey One, can you hear me, this is Ultimate One, can you hear me?" "Let's start jamming this.." "This is Turkey One, Turkey One I am not authorized to receive messages.."
"Colonel Grady, this is the President of the United States. The mission you are flying has been triggered by a mechanical failure. It is a mistake. I order you and the other planes to return to your base at once. Do you hear? At once.	Colonel Grady, I repeat, this is the President." "I can no longer receive tactical alterations by voice." "I know that but-" "What you're telling me I have been specifically ordered not to do!" "Damn it, Grady, this is the President!"
Pomerium: Musica Vaticana -- Music from the Vatican Manuscripts (1503-1534)	Failsafe "This is what will happen if even one of the bombers gets through: It will drop two twenty megaton bombs on Moscow. Jay?" "Yes, Mr. President.." "You might hear the sound of the engines just before the bombs drop, maybe not, in any
case you'll hear the defensive missiles going off. Right after that, the bombs will explode. I'm told that what we will hear at this end will be a high, shrill sound. That will be the sound of the Ambassador's phone melting from the heat of	the fireball. When we hear that sound, the Ambassador will be dead. You understand, Mr. Ambassador, you are to stay exactly where you are." "Yes, Mr. President.." "(translation) .. I-Is this your proposal? To sacrifice one American for five
million Russians?!" "No, no, no, listen to me. Listen! I've ordered a Vindicator bomber to the air from Washington. In a few minutes it will be flying over New York City. It is carrying two twenty megaton bombs. The moment I know that Moscow	has been hit, I will order that plane to drop its bombs. It will use the Empire State Building for Ground Zero. When we hear the shriek of Mr. Lentov's phone melting, we will know that he is gone. And with him New York."
Failsafe "Turkey One, Turkey One, can you hear me?" "Grady, this is General Bogen, keep receiving, no matter what you hear, do you understand? Keep receiving!" "Jack, Jack this is Helen. Jack, it's Helen! Do you recognize my voice?	It's not a trick. It's me! Jack, you must turn back, you mustn't drop those bombs. Do you hear me?" "Is it really your wife?" "They've started their rockets." "Fire one.." "Jack? You've got to-- Jack!" "Fire two.." "Keep them at least
twenty five hundred feet above the rockets!" "Yes, sir!" "Jack.. t-there's no war! We're fine, you must turn back!" "They're at eighteen thousand.." "Go, go!" "Nineteen.." ".. It's not a trick.." "Twenty thousand feet.." "And the rockets	are following them!" "Give them as much boost as you can the higher the better.." "I have never lied to you, have I? I wouldn't, I couldn't, no matter what anybody did to me I wouldn't.." "Sixty thousand.." " Please, you've got to believe me!"
"Seventy thousand.." Eighty thousand feet.. Ninety!" "There is no war!" " A hundred, a hundred and forty.." "They're going down.." "We're all fine!" "Fifty.." "Jack, please answer me, please answer me!" "Sixty.. One hundred and seventy	thousand.." "Jack will you .. answer me, please!" "You can't trust them, sir, we got to get out of here!" "No!!"
Pomerium: Musica Vaticana -- Music from the Vatican Manuscripts (1503-1534)	Miracle Mile "Yes, Mr. Sagan, I understand, I do apologize, but what I'm about to tell you is something quite horrific.."
Dr. Strangelove "Well boys, I reckon this is it: Nuc-lar combat toe to toe with the Russkies.."	Wargames "General you are listening to a machine. Do the world a favor and don't act like one." "One minute and twenty seconds to impact.."
Terminator "Why me?" "There was a nuclear war, a few years from now. All this, this whole place, everything, it's gone, just, gone. The survivors, here, there, nobody even knew what started it. It was the machines, Sarah." "I don't	understand." "Defense network computers, new, powerful, hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side.
Decided our fate in a micro-second: Extermination."	Failsafe "(translation) .. We do not think we have much of a chance." "I know.." "(translation) And yet, this is nobody's fault." "I don't agree." "(translation) . No human being did wrong. No one is to be blamed." "We're to blame,
both of us. We let our machines get out of hand." "(translation) ..Still, it was an accident." "Two great cities may be destroyed, millions of innocent people killed, what do we say, Mr. Chairman, `Accidents will happen?' I won't accept that."	"(translation) . A-All I know is that, as long as we have weapons, we-" "All I know is that men are responsible. We are responsible for what happens to us. Today we had a taste of the future: Do we learn from it or do go the way we have
What do we do, Mr. Chairman? What do we say to the dead?" "(translation) .. I think, if we are men, we must say this will never happen again. But, do you think it possible? With all that stands between us.." "We put it there, Mr. Chairman,	and we're not helpless. What put between us we can remove."
Testament "It's me, again, honey, scratch that last stuff. Gonna get out of here by three-thirty and with a little luck I'll be home by five." "Your dad will be home for dinner." "Carol, it's Cynthia, hi. This costume for the play is driving	me crazy. Call me.." "Better try again." "It's not the antenna, mom.." "This is San Francisco. We have lost our New York signal. Radar sources confirm the explosion of nuclear devices, there, in New York, and up and down the East Coast.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is real.." "We interrupt this program at the request of the White House. This is a national emergency. This is an emergency action notification. I repeat, we interrupt this program at the request of the White House.	Do not use your telephone. Telephone lines should be kept open for official use. Important instructions will follow.." "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.." (Air-Raid Sirens) "Mom!" "Get away from that window!
Down on the floor. Get your head down." "I'm so scared." "Cover your eyes. Oh my God, Oh my God!"	Testament "Well folks, so far I can't raise Seattle, Portland, Sacramento or Southern California. San Francisco is silent. The entire Bay Area. Liseria, and a chunk of Montana, West Texas, north of us, now they're okay." "What about Chicago?"
"So far I can't reach anything west of Kiokukk Iowa. A fella in Twainheardt thinks they hit Yosemite. The sky is black with splinters and trees and rocks coming down like rain. It must have been a mistake. There's nothing strategic there."	Miracle Mile "Mrs. Peters, in a half an hour there's going to be a full-on nuclear attack. The missiles are on the way now. LA is going to be a desert again very soon."
Failsafe: "..Countdown from ten, give me the signal: Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One: Mark."	Kiri te Kanewa -- Richard Strauss - Im Abendrot
Dan Rather 60 Minutes Special Report "Launching enough destructive power to bring home Armageddon. For them, the cold war never ended." "Hi-Test, one, two, three, four five." "It's One AM, pitch-black with a dense fog settling in on this remote	California hilltop. Hard to figure out what could possibly draw anyone to these bleachers on such a gloomy night." "AC-Nine AOR Auto-destruct system.." "But this is a gathering of nuclear soldiers, Missiliers, here at Vandenberg Air Force Base
to take part in a full-blown test of American military might. A missile is about to be launched, and these Missiliers, from bases all around the country, are here to take part in what the event they call `The Glory Trip.' " "Final execute launch	command has been initiated and terminal countdown has begun.." . "Charlie, Zero, Two." "Unlock code, Romeo, Echo." "The reason it's called, `A Glory Trip,' for them, is because this time, it's no drill." "Three. Two. One. Mark." "Get it up
get it up, go, go, Go!" . "Can destroy three cities in just half an hour.." .. "And none of the expected reductions were realized."	Loudon Wainwright III 'Hard Day on the Planet'
"Nothing has changed from a Missilier standpoint.." "What we do, we could possibly end civilization as we know it, and that's not something we all want to do.." . "Just one thermonuclear warhead, the kind America uses to arm its ICBMs carries more	destructive power than twenty of the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima." . "Do you ever find yourself saying, `This is crazy'?" "Well, it, no. No, not that it's crazy. It's just that we need to move on to lower levels in such a way that we
feel comfortable with, and that does not compromise our national security." . "Russia may be bankrupt, but this is a brand new intercontinental missile, the Topol M, and it's moving here in the woods of Russia on full combat alert, ready to stop,	tilt it's rocket to the sky, and launch within minutes of receiving an order." "Oh, it's real, and it's formidable." "The only thing that remains out there that can destroy the United States as we know it today are those nuclear weapons in
Russia." "And so these frightening rituals play on with eerie similarity in both countries. Two Russian missiliers here, practicing the rapid launch of ten ICBMs with 100 warheads, just like their American counterparts."	"Five, Four, Three, Two, One.." "Even down to the final simultaneous turn of the launch key."
Missile launch signal	Teenage Jesus and the Jerks: Red Alert (Live)

Comment:

Hello!

Third in the series, dealing with Nuclear War, drawing heavily on 'Failsafe,' 'Dr. Strangelove,' 'Miracle Mile,' 'Wargames' and 'Testament.' Very dense to read, maybe a little bit more fun to hear. I try to draw similar topics across the selections - projected number of dead, causation, panic, blame, etc.

I hadn't seen the BBC series 'Threads' at the time this was made.
It's an hour format. If I were to extend it to two hours I think I'd sample 'World Destruction,' 'Masters of War,' 'Geography' by Randy Newman as well as sequences from 'Threads.'

FYI - I have all 7 tapes on CD now. The sound is a little grainy - as all old tapes are - but at least they're in a more durable format.

Cheers,

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