A revealing survey of the nuclear arms race since World War II and the parallel growth of the western military industrial complex, along with its Soviet counterpart, the Metal Eater’s Alliance. The program ends with a sober warning about the medical consequences of a nuclear war.The series WAR: an unprecedented series of seven one-hour films examining the nature, evolution and consequences of modern warfare. For three years, a team of researchers, directors, cameramen and editors has worked at the NFDB in Montreal to create this unique seven part of one civilization’s oldest institutions: war.