 In the 1977 Robert Aldrich film "Twilight's Last Gleaming", a nuclear missile silo is seized by renegade US Air Force officers, who threaten to start World War III if the American government does not reveal secret documents that show that the military needlessly prolonged the Vietnam War.In the early 1980s, there was a feeling of alarm in Europe and North America that a nuclear World War III was imminent.In 1982, 250,000 people protested against nuclear weapons in Bonn, then the capital of West Germany.