A film about the need to immediately stop the arms race. Reflections on the results of research conducted at the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the mathematical model "Gea".




Streets of Harare.
Flags of foreign powers in front of a high-rise building.
Fragments of the 8th Conference of Heads of State and Government of Non-Aligned Countries.
Drawing lesson, children draw and answer questions.
View of the Earth from space.
Desert terrain, a man walking along the horizon.
Ancient stone stairs, ascent to the temple.
Documentary chronicle: A military plane flies.
The pilot is at the controls.
The hatch opens in the plane.
Bombs explode on the ground.
People bend down and cover their faces.
Nuclear explosions.
Victims of nuclear bombings.
Cartoon: a man sits on the steps, the shadow left by the man. A. Einstein.
Launches of nuclear missiles.
Fireball of the explosion.
Formation of a nuclear mushroom cloud.
Academician N.N.Moiseyev at his desk.
Mathematical model of the consequences of "Gaia".
The face of a girl. N.N.Moiseyev narrates.
Drawing of a nuclear explosion.
Elderly Muslims at prayer.
Drawings.
The display case contains folk costumes and a chemical protection suit.
Fragments of a drawing.
Stills from the film by N. Meyer "The Day After": People watch the launch of missiles.
The blast wave covers the cars parked on the highway.
The driver falls into the car seat.
View from the road of a nuclear mushroom.
The cinema hall.
A young man wipes away tears.
Interview with viewers after the film screening.
Foreign poster for the film by K. Lopushansky "Letters of a Dead Man".
View of the cinema hall, stills from the film on the screen.
Interview with foreign students.
Moiseev N.N. - scientist in the field of general mechanics and applied mathematics
1980s
Zimbabwe USA USSR




Interview with foreign students. V. M. Tatarnikov narrates.
World map. N. N. Moiseyev narrates.
Fragments of a painting.
Forest on the mountain slopes, stratocumulus clouds above the mountains. N. N. Moiseyev.
The sun breaks through the clouds. N. N. Moiseyev talks about the system of biosphere models.
The operator makes calculations on the computer.
Results on the monitor screen: complete restructuring of atmospheric circulation and its consequences for the planet.
Alternation: research results, color photographs with negatives.
A river flows over stones.
The image loses focus, the camera goes under water.
Results of calculations on the monitor screen.
Sunlight in the forest.
Documentary chronicle: Anti-war demonstrations.
Alternation: pages of Soviet newspapers, nuclear tests in Nevada.
Launch of a spacecraft of the "Space Shuttle" system.
The pilot in the cockpit.
A radar aircraft equipped with an airborne early warning and control system (AWACS).
A view of an aircraft carrier in the ocean.
A Trident-class submarine.
US military bases.
Submarine command personnel with binoculars.
Missile launch.
A semi-submerged submarine.
A TV reporter's opinion.
A cruise missile being dropped.
Missile launchers.
A traffic controller signals as a missile carrier maneuvers on a field.
Starving children and adults in Third World countries.
A military jet in the sky.
Vultures circle over the hills.
A woman covers the body of a dead child.
A man covers his face with his hand.
A minute of silence at the UN.
Moiseev N.N. - scientist in the field of general mechanics and applied mathematics
1980s
USSR USA




Continuation of the documentary chronicle: Photograph of an African girl.
Photographs in the book: members of the group USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa), who took part in the recording of the single "We Are the World".
Starving African children.
Photograph of American soldiers.
Landing of the plane. V.M.Tatarnikov narrates.
Documentary chronicle: Specialists at the center of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program.
Collage-caricature of US President R.W.Reagan.
Cartoon: space satellites around the planet shoot down nuclear missiles.
Photograph of R.W.Reagan in the newspaper.
Scientist turns the lever on the remote control.
Rocket launch.
Cartoon: planet Earth, an iron hand appears from space and destroys the globe.
Teleconference "Moscow - Washington" with the participation of the greatest scientists of the USSR and the USA. K.E.Sagan speaks.
Participants of the teleconference. N.N.Moiseyev speaks.
Faces of scientists. E.P. Velikhov.
View of the Earth from space.
Solar batteries on the wings of a space satellite.
Nuclear mushroom.
Adults and children are taught to use gas masks.
The ceremonial launch of the nuclear submarine "Ohio".
Panorama of Delhi.
Pages of Soviet newspapers, M.S. Gorbachev and R. Gandhi at the signing of the Delhi Declaration.
Faces of Indian residents.
View of the central streets of Delhi, in the distance the Triumphal Arch "India Gate".
Drawing: a human figure and planet Earth form a question mark.
Moiseev N.N. - scientist in the field of general mechanics and applied mathematics
1980s
USA USSR India