The 1986 British animated film When the Wind Blows offers a bleak warning about mutually assured destruction, but no one heeded the advice. When the Wind Blows shows an elderly couple, Jim and Hilda, survive a nuclear attack and make their best efforts to get through the aftermath, but slowly die from radiation sickness. Almost five years ago I reviewed the British nuclear war movie Threads, which I criticized for not offering any useful call to action. I consider When the Wind Blows the better of the two movies, which is more biting in its criticism of the regime. Jim …