Would anybody happen to know the name of a particular cold war movie I'm looking for?
As I roughly remember it, nuclear war goes on but the problem is not the nukes, its a cloud of radiation thats starting to blanket the planet. A submarine commander and his men go to the north pole or something to escape the balnket of readtion.
Any ideas? I remember having stopped watching the movie halfway due to length
The submarine/northpole part sounds like Icestation Zebra, but the escaping-the-radiation bit doesn't.
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