When I watched this film in grade school in the 50s, I believed I'd soon be dead, crispy-fried. I just watched again here and laughed so hard I couldn't finish. :-)
This should be understandable for children from a young age on. No "if it so happens it might could have been useful to know..." bullshit. They use "might" and other words sometimes so the film as a whole doesn't say there will be a bomb. But this should go directly into muscle and association memory. Thats why they have a cartoon character, a waky song at the end and repeat the statement all the time. You can't be alert all the time, so the more you heard it and played through it, the more likely you will remember quick enough to try to act on it.
I mean maybe they’re showing it like this cuz it’s like a bomb drill? Like how when lockdown drills happen students treat it as a minor inconvenience and that’s what the school wants them to do so they don’t panic as bad if a real one happens (but honestly that’s not gonna happen, when I was still in school, I graduated this year, I already had hiding places for it a shooting was to happen) idk maybe they’re showing it like this so kids aren’t as freaked out. Imagine showing a clip where all the kids are screaming and crying and running inside when the siren went off, it would scare the kids they’re showing the video too.
People make fun of these old civil defense films, but you have to remember, a lot of these, especially this one would be shown in schools. They were made for children. They had to make sure that they didn't scare the children. If you walked up to a 7 year old and just told them, "Alright kid, the bomb's gonna' drop, there's nothing you can do, you're as good as dead" then you're going to scare them. You instead give them a blunt but optimistic approach, saying "Alright kid, the bomb's gonna' drop there's nothing you can do to stop that, but here's tips for getting less injured" then the child won't be as worried. And that's the other things. Of course hiding under a desk won't keep you safe, but it's better than standing up. If you are outside the immediate blast radius, then the duck and cover could be at least stop falling debris from hitting your head. Sorry this is a long comment, but I felt like this had to be said.
Duck and cover would also significantly decrease the number of people with severe sunburn-like injuries or head trauma in the event of an atomic explosion. Especially early on in the cold war, nuclear attacks were not seen as game over, just a terrible act of war. About two thirds of the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survived the bombings.
My teacher played this today and she has maybe 100 students, there were 100 kids flinging themselves against lockers today. It was amazing. And yes I was one of them.
Swagger Studios My teacher showed me this video too. It shows us what they thought you should do. My teacher actually did explain to us tho that by the time the flash hits, you would be dead.
@@itz_not_kayla8203 It also IS the maximum you can still do, if you see the lightning in the sky. It might not be helping much, but there is nothing better to do and in the end many people who are far away from ground zero can be safed by following this guideline. Consider the glass flying around and people looking out of their windows out of curiosity when they see such a bright light. From the Beirut explosion some days ago you find videos of people standing next to smashed windows trying to look at the burning harbour. If they had known about the risk of an explosion they might have had better chances not to be injured.
@Swagger Studios The risk of nuclear war didn't magically disappear along with the soviet union. We like to think it did, but it didn't. There are still thousands of nuclear warheads ready to launch at a moment's notice.
by all logic and reason a nuclear explosion should be more scary than being hunted by some unholy abomination from the depths of your worst nightmares if you're being hunted, you can run, fight, hide... if a nuclear bomb goes off, you have no options. You can't fight, you can't escape, and even if you survive, the fallout is likely to kill you slowly afterwards. Though, if you think about it, that might be why the monster is more frightening. Fear is an emotion meant to keep us safe from danger. There's no point being scared of a nuclear explosion.
I take the strong concussion from a piece of concrete falling onto the coffee table and then -much slower- my head, over my head being smashed in straight away.
My first thought is 'what if he tells us to play good touch/bad touch?' isn't saying you must obey the civil defense worker and leaving it at that a gray area you could drive a mac truck through?
I actually watched this when I was in High School, but first learned of the technique in Elementary School. The fact that this was a normal thing during the Cold War, is disturbing in retrospect.
I also watched this in high school, in my history class in 11th grade! We were laughing and making fun of how corny it was, and talking about how “Oh I’m so glad we don’t have to worry about that kind of stuff anymore!” This was back in 2011-2012, so we had no idea what the future would hold hahaha
"retrospect" It will be interesting to see what people say in 30 years' time when the background to the plandemic has been uncovered and the middlemen have been convicted.
you can almost tell that the narrator is trying to give the kids hope even though he knows once you here the sirens or see a flash its already too late
@@saraha767 my History teacher told us that they only did this through the 60s because they realized there was no point since it bomb was so powerful and she didn't know that until her dad told her and she said that her dad was born in 1956
@@bengalsbengals4224 Maybe some school districts woke up but not Ohio's! I was born in 1975 and I remember participating in such drills complete with similar films throughout most of my elementary school years. In fact they were quite similar to our tornado drills.
+Craig Thomas A million dollar LOAN (not a paycheck) is very, very small for a business. Trump had to make a million dollars by himself in order to pay back that loan...
I want a space in Vault 76! I'd have to drive or fly, or probably walk, halfway across the country to West Virginia, because I live in Texas, but still!
My parents grew up during this era and remember this film. Every time we talked about it my dad would laugh and call it "duck and kiss your ass goodbye." We'd all laugh until my mom got upset and said "we weren't stupid back then! what the hell else were we supposed to do?" That would make us stop laughing until the next time the topic came up, and my dad would say, "I remember this one film, we used to call it "duck and kiss your ass goodbye..."
They're are speaking if you are out of ground zero seriously so many uneducated people .... and if you aren't directly in the fireball the dangers are 1st 2nd and 3rd degree burns as well as the blast and later radiation there's more damage than just the fireball......
People survived in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki who didn't die of radiation poisoning, cancer or any other atomic/ radiation malady. if you are not in zone one or two you do indeed have a good chance at survival if you protect yourself from the initial explosion/ fireball/ radiation.
John Curry true, but i don't think it helps if you hide in something that will crush you(IE doorway that will be obliterated by the blast). Though getting down does help (in theory).and with bombs that we're getting bigger and bigger, I suspect by the 50s and 60s, pretty much seeing a bomb flash meant you were toast regardless
I'm always gonna carry a news paper with me from now on because this will help protect me from severe burns in the event of a nuclear blast Thank you Bert 🐢📰👍
It will also protect you from any large chunks of metal, concrete, and shards of glass swirling around in the blast wave. Edit: I forgot that it will also protect your hearing since nuclear explosions are kind of loud, lol.
I am old enough to have done duck and cover drills. I once thought them preposterous, given the power of nuclear weapons. But then i realized; duck and cover drills were never meant to save people a mile from ground zero; they were intended to save people 20 miles+ from ground zero.
Of course, having the bomb dropped on you would instantly vaporize you in a matter of milliseconds. This PSA was definitely meant to give those were at least not too close or far enough away to at least give them the best chance of survival or save them
Yes... Also being behind cover protect you from the radiated heat, but if you see the flash and feel the heat it might be to late to seek cover.... But for the hydrogen bombs the flash and heat can last up to a half a minute or even longer.
There's a great movie called "The Atomic Cafe" which is a collection of films like this. These films were government propaganda that tried to convince people that nuclear wars were easily winnable and that the effects would only be a minor inconvenience. Given what we know about nuclear weapons today, these films are both funny and horrifying to watch.
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We almost didn't. There have been at least two points in human history when extinction was a real possibility. Once in our prehistoric/genetic history, and again in the atomic age.
There's a lot of radius, obviously it does nothing or maybe even worse if one's in some certain-death-zone, but for less unlucky people sufficiently farther it may indeed help reducing potential injuries.
@@mrwolf84 Aren't you aware that after duck and cover, you go to a shelter. Duck and cover is for when you didn't get much warning before detonation. It is for surviving the immediate thermal pulse and the blast wave. You aren't going to get a lethal dose of prompt radiation from a large nuke (as its fireball is about as large as its lethal prompt radiation distance). Meanwhile fallout takes a while to fall; it is only something you worry about after you survive the immediate affects of the detonation. If you watch the video; you'll see they recommend going to a shelter when you have a warning. (4:33)
Alternative suggestion: you put your feet up on the table, take your favorite whisky and listen to a nice song. Of course, you can also write a haiku. Or take the trash outside. You shouldn't die untidy.
@@Macrotodon pop some Ink Spots on since you forgot to Prepare for the Future and didn't secure space in your local Vault Tec facility. Who knows maybe you'll just ghoulify and get semi-immortality? Eh maybe not, but at least the radio you turned on will be playing the Ink Spots 200 years later when some enterprising wanderer starts making moves in the wastes.
It doesn't matter how old this is it still manages to give me chills, I don't know why but it must be because this was actually a serious issue back then and even though it would have done minimal help in protecting you it still gave you a sense of Hope and protection but there still are like a 90% possibility that you would die
Actually, this would have given you MAXIMUM help, since it is the only reasonable thing to do, unless you are in the middle of ground zero anyway. Distance is key. A few miles away from ground zero you might survive by not being hit by glass windows or other flying objects.
Another thing to remember is that a nuclear blast doesn’t sweep underground (that’s if you aren’t at ground zero of course), it’s like a huge wind that only blasts the surface. Staying in a ditch or the obvious ducking and cover helps already avoid the blast and debris altogether
The Japanese experience of actually being attacked with nuclear weapons, is that many people at the outside perimeter could have and did benefit from ducking and covering as best as possible.
Remember too that atomic bombs were a lot less powerful in 1951 basically being of the same type used on Hiroshima. The big hydrogen bombs that can obliterate an entire metro area came after this was published. Also they were not delivered by missile but by airplane and there was a legitimate chance of shooting down a plane before it could drop its nuclear payload on target In fact theres a theory that the suburbs started as a response to the less powerful atom bombs of the 50s. By having people live outside of city centers youd reduce casualties in event of an attack.
@@P7777-u7r Heinlein wrote some short story where he talked abotu the development of nuclear weapons and how one option is to either cede them to the UN or do some hardcore decentralization of U.S. cities (as in mass resettlement & building underground cities). The American government did somewhat follow this logic, they put a lot of their bases and military industry in smaller cities to make it harder for the USSR to get them all in a single strike. It wouldn't surprise me if some congresspeople subsidizing the suburban transportation networks were doing this somewhat for that reason (the highways were intended as a nuke resistant transportation system and a place to land bombers who had their bases eat Soviet nukes)
This not only inspired me to duck and cover when danger strikes it also inspired me to make a movie called the many adventures of Bert the turtle starring Bert the turtle and all his friends
tachikoma747 I guess nobody ever taught you about the inverse square relation over distance. At ground zero, you and everything else will be vaporized into radioactive fallout. Even a few miles away, the temperature and winds will be greatly reduced by the square of the distance. That is where most of the casualties will be from broken glass and objects flying through the air. Since the Iranians will have nuclear weapons soon, this is no longer a theoretical consideration.
Jens-Christian Jensen Eh, the number of people lucky enough to live to old age would be drastically reduced. By 1952, fission bombs were around 330kt (based on the fact that Ivy Mike is roughly 330kt * 30 and RDS-6s is roughly 330kt * 1.2). The ones used in 1945 were around 20kt.
manictiger wrong! The strongest fission bomb ever was 500 kt and that was 3 years later and just a test. The actual Soviet weapons in 1951 werent any stronger than 25 ky
I don’t know why, I find these old PSAs and safety and how to videos so cute. They were so innocent and pure. Especially the ones on grooming, child raising, and dating/family life from this era. It’s nice they thought to do something cartoony for kids to help them remember and not to scare them.
My history teacher showed this in class a few months ago, just before the lockdown. He sang to the song in the beginning. The class laughed when they tossed the picnic blanket
its so funny to see the comment section descend from war recollections to "who's to blame for the dead children in the invisible desk" and finally "getting chased by twisted versions of friends because you decided to play a game from 1997"
Theat's what Steven Spielberg did during the Cuban Missile crisis. He went full "Doomsday Prepper mode" by filling all the tubs with water saying that it will be our water supply.
What a lovely song! Come, children, and sing along with the happy turtle... "Duck and cover, then hang your head and cry - duck and cover, death comes from the sky!" . Is it any wonder the children of the 1950s grew up to become hippies in the sixties? What a nightmare it must have been living under insanity.
The 1960's was far worse than the 1950's due to the fact that the 1960's was a decade of turmoil in the United States; with protests for Civil Rights and against the Vietnam War dominating the headlines.
In all seriousness if there was a great flash of light you would have no idea what was happening. You would probably try to look at it and after a couple of seconds when the second light pulse hits you would be blinded, burned, and irradiated because you did not lie down on the ground. Now that you are in pain and blind you stand little chance of getting out of the rubble. However if you knew what to do you would greatly increase your chance of survival.
They shouldn't be laughing. The effects of a nuclear explosion are no joke. The video was designed to help the people who live outside of the main blast zone, where thermal burns, fallout, and overpressure are still serious threats that can injure or kill someone. In the 70 plus years since this video came out, there has not been one video that describes to school children just what to do in the event of the unthinkable (Though still possible even today) that can exceed this video.
When I watched this film in grade school in the 50s, I believed I'd soon be dead, crispy-fried. I just watched again here and laughed so hard I couldn't finish. :-)
Lee Gordon Seebach I’m now concerned whether to laughing at this at not.
Fred Garvin Man, get out of here
boomer
Showing something like this to kids today would be tantamount to child abuse .
@@jzadams5818 He seems really nice tho
Too bad the people of Pompeii didn't have this info.
Instead of flash cooked, they would have been slow baked.
Duck and cover under your toga.
Interested in hearing the facts or want me to laugh?
chewie frey they're still hiding safely under those tables today!
chewie frey smh 😤
Who would win:
The most destructive weapon known to man kind vs. one ducking boi
Eddie Yi
hmmmmmm
The bomb
@@frempley1 The newspaper.
Lucas Mechling bomb due to being close to the blast
@@frempley1 No the newspaper wins.
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"what are you supposed to do when you see the flash?"
*when* you see the flash.
not if.
*_when._*
I love this detail.
This should be understandable for children from a young age on. No "if it so happens it might could have been useful to know..." bullshit. They use "might" and other words sometimes so the film as a whole doesn't say there will be a bomb. But this should go directly into muscle and association memory. Thats why they have a cartoon character, a waky song at the end and repeat the statement all the time. You can't be alert all the time, so the more you heard it and played through it, the more likely you will remember quick enough to try to act on it.
didn't you know that everyone in the 50's had precognitive abilities?
Ah yes, the 1950's. Blunt, but optimistic.
I thought you were quoting john mulaney for a second
I like how when the sirens go off the kids walk in like it’s a minor inconvenience
I mean maybe they’re showing it like this cuz it’s like a bomb drill? Like how when lockdown drills happen students treat it as a minor inconvenience and that’s what the school wants them to do so they don’t panic as bad if a real one happens (but honestly that’s not gonna happen, when I was still in school, I graduated this year, I already had hiding places for it a shooting was to happen) idk maybe they’re showing it like this so kids aren’t as freaked out. Imagine showing a clip where all the kids are screaming and crying and running inside when the siren went off, it would scare the kids they’re showing the video too.
Because with warning, you have couple of minutes to get inside
@@snowgroomer600 I would still expect them to be scared as hell.
They are too busy looking at the flash from an AR-15 shooting off rounds from an overly large magazine in 2022.....
@@emmaexist8502 In my school, everyone is literally running to the closet during a lockdown
People make fun of these old civil defense films, but you have to remember, a lot of these, especially this one would be shown in schools. They were made for children. They had to make sure that they didn't scare the children. If you walked up to a 7 year old and just told them, "Alright kid, the bomb's gonna' drop, there's nothing you can do, you're as good as dead" then you're going to scare them. You instead give them a blunt but optimistic approach, saying "Alright kid, the bomb's gonna' drop there's nothing you can do to stop that, but here's tips for getting less injured" then the child won't be as worried. And that's the other things. Of course hiding under a desk won't keep you safe, but it's better than standing up. If you are outside the immediate blast radius, then the duck and cover could be at least stop falling debris from hitting your head. Sorry this is a long comment, but I felt like this had to be said.
👍
@@kingtimmy23 seconded
Thanks, Captain Obvious
Duck and cover would also significantly decrease the number of people with severe sunburn-like injuries or head trauma in the event of an atomic explosion. Especially early on in the cold war, nuclear attacks were not seen as game over, just a terrible act of war. About two thirds of the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survived the bombings.
Thanks Ian, nice explanation
WHAT YOU SEE HERE
WHAT YOU DO HERE
WHAT YOU HEAR HERE
WHEN YOU LEAVE HERE
*LET IT STAY HERE*
"Cover the back of your neck with your face." Can we see a demonstration of this?
Face AND back of the neck
I saw something like this on the Exorcist.
@@angorahm4640 Truthfully none of this would help. If you were at Ground Zero....
i think it meant "with" like "i went with him" rather than "with this do that"
Look right at it
My teacher played this today and she has maybe 100 students, there were 100 kids flinging themselves against lockers today. It was amazing. And yes I was one of them.
Violet Slytherin That sounds evil 😂
Swagger Studios My teacher showed me this video too. It shows us what they thought you should do. My teacher actually did explain to us tho that by the time the flash hits, you would be dead.
@@itz_not_kayla8203 It also IS the maximum you can still do, if you see the lightning in the sky. It might not be helping much, but there is nothing better to do and in the end many people who are far away from ground zero can be safed by following this guideline. Consider the glass flying around and people looking out of their windows out of curiosity when they see such a bright light.
From the Beirut explosion some days ago you find videos of people standing next to smashed windows trying to look at the burning harbour. If they had known about the risk of an explosion they might have had better chances not to be injured.
@Swagger Studios The risk of nuclear war didn't magically disappear along with the soviet union. We like to think it did, but it didn't. There are still thousands of nuclear warheads ready to launch at a moment's notice.
You're lying.
4:14
*hears horrifying siren signalling atomic bomb*
*walks inside casually*
+Jet the Squeaker
He looked so disappointed as he just dropped his football. X'DD
Lmao
+Saleen Kipps I was about score a FUCKING GOAL! XD
Craig Thomas
X"DD
MY POINT EXACTLY.
+Saleen Kipps overhead goal to being splattered on a wall by an atomic blast... HE FUCKING DIVED! XD
My teacher is playing this next week. The PTSD from Shipwrecked is not ready for hearing that song in school.
My condolences, im here bc of shipwrecked
No way, same here.
@@L0rdOfThePieswhat’s shipwrecked? Is that a movie?
@@tnaoroan ARG that uses this song. Should play it. Also watch The Monument Mythos, it also uses this song in the Trinity Desk Project.
by all logic and reason a nuclear explosion should be more scary than being hunted by some unholy abomination from the depths of your worst nightmares
if you're being hunted, you can run, fight, hide... if a nuclear bomb goes off, you have no options. You can't fight, you can't escape, and even if you survive, the fallout is likely to kill you slowly afterwards.
Though, if you think about it, that might be why the monster is more frightening. Fear is an emotion meant to keep us safe from danger.
There's no point being scared of a nuclear explosion.
Would love to see the version of this the USSR put out for their children.
Dцск аиd соvег, сука блять
Opa bratan. Cheeki breeki i v damke
They were just told to go to the underground shelter. Such shelters are all around the city.
ua-cam.com/video/DLcCOKvdmmw/v-deo.html
I'm not so sure if that meets your demands, but hope it helps
In Soviet Russia, bomb ducks from YOU!
Why are people building bomb shelters out of stone and metal? Just surround yourself with school desks and your survival is pratically guranteed. 👍
Don't forget to fill in the spaces with newspaper and you're good to go!
Don't forget stay away to the Windows. You don't want to newspaper cut !
I take the strong concussion from a piece of concrete falling onto the coffee table and then -much slower- my head, over my head being smashed in straight away.
linkmaster484 hahaha what a waste of money, idiots!
Desks could reduce injury, depending on where ground zero was and if there wasn't enough advance warning
Due to recent events I’ve decided to give myself a bit of a refresher.
Are you alright?
most likely a good idea for us all now a days
Considering we are closer to doomsday than ever before?
IVE COME TO MY SENSES. NOW I NEED THE REFRESHER
Lol the refresher is still good 😆
I love how the civil defense worker, completely unscathed, Helps the little kid get on the bike and send him on his way as if nothing happened
That is one responsible civil defense worker lol
Imagine still believing in nukes in 2022
@@mightymax9948 excuse me what
He has a helmet. It’s +10 radiation protection
Just another day on the job
Lightning storms must’ve been entertaining in the 50s
Lightning: *flashes*
Everybody: *everybody do the flop*
Lol
Kermit Da Frog Oof nope
Oh my god I could totally see this
@Alec Luna we both are lmao
Even funnier in the 80s and 90s with all the 'nam vets still around.
I don’t know why but it felt really ominous when the guy said “we must OBEY the civil defense worker”
My first thought is 'what if he tells us to play good touch/bad touch?' isn't saying you must obey the civil defense worker and leaving it at that a gray area you could drive a mac truck through?
@@proud2bpagan It was the 50s, times were diferent and it could be confusing to say otherwise to young children
Ash Flowers Consume and Obey
Ash Flowers FAX
“Wear the mask, it will save your life. OBEY.” vs. “Duck and cover in an atomic blast, it will save your life. OBEY.”
Some things never change.
I actually watched this when I was in High School, but first learned of the technique in Elementary School. The fact that this was a normal thing during the Cold War, is disturbing in retrospect.
I also watched this in high school, in my history class in 11th grade! We were laughing and making fun of how corny it was, and talking about how “Oh I’m so glad we don’t have to worry about that kind of stuff anymore!” This was back in 2011-2012, so we had no idea what the future would hold hahaha
We watched it in my 9th grade Physics class while learning about Beta Decay O_o
Hell, I watched this in 5th grade
"retrospect"
It will be interesting to see what people say in 30 years' time when the background to the plandemic has been uncovered and the middlemen have been convicted.
Try again! NATO is still a thing
Duck, and cover‼️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
you can almost tell that the narrator is trying to give the kids hope even though he knows once you here the sirens or see a flash its already too late
*hear
Yep. That was the point.
+Robert Matthews
Thanks to the narrator, we're all alive and well.
Different if you're out of the blast zone
Though useless in a direct hit, ducking and covering could help in the more likely scenario of getting clipped or near-missed.
Somehow, the singing at the end makes this infinitely more terrifying
Joshua I love your pic
Made me tear up it was so creepy
Yeah… kind of like something you’d see in Bioshock
I was born in 1954, and we did "duck and cover" drills in grade school.
LiLSuzQ32 u went to grade school at age 1?
KoolAid the Cold War lasted till 1989 so they were still showing this film throughout those years
@@saraha767 my History teacher told us that they only did this through the 60s because they realized there was no point since it bomb was so powerful and she didn't know that until her dad told her and she said that her dad was born in 1956
@@bengalsbengals4224 Maybe some school districts woke up but not Ohio's! I was born in 1975 and I remember participating in such drills complete with similar films throughout most of my elementary school years. In fact they were quite similar to our tornado drills.
honestly i don't think duck and cover will work?
WE MAKIN IT TO LAYER 4 WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥
Shipwrecked 64 moment
We be hiding in a bin with this one 🗑️🔥🔥
we aint makin it out 💥💥💥💥
WE HIDING FROM A OTTER WITH THIS ONE ‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
DUCK, AND COVER
Whats worse than a sunburn?
A bad sunburn.
Whats worse than a bad sunburn?
The atom bomb.
Whats worse than the atom bomb?
A worse sunburn.
what's better... a small loan of a million dollars! XD
+Craig Thomas A million dollar LOAN (not a paycheck) is very, very small for a business. Trump had to make a million dollars by himself in order to pay back that loan...
What Lance Smith is saying is.... when Donald Trump is elected.... refer to this video... duck and cover.
+ulluubloo Whats worse than a worse sunburn? Radiation burns.
Jones NotReal Sunburn is a radiation burn.
Newspaper: I’m about to end this bombs whole career
Newspaper older than TV
The pen is mightier than the sword but the newspaper is........... To be continued........ We all pray for Jim.
This message is brought to u in part by Vault Tec, prepare for the future!
"They were never meant to save us..."
I want a space in Vault 76! I'd have to drive or fly, or probably walk, halfway across the country to West Virginia, because I live in Texas, but still!
Lol just don’t put me in vault 111
Shiiiiit
My parents grew up during this era and remember this film. Every time we talked about it my dad would laugh and call it "duck and kiss your ass goodbye." We'd all laugh until my mom got upset and said "we weren't stupid back then! what the hell else were we supposed to do?" That would make us stop laughing until the next time the topic came up, and my dad would say, "I remember this one film, we used to call it "duck and kiss your ass goodbye..."
Atomic bomb : explodes
Bert : Aight imma head out
Bert: Aight imma head in
*Bert
@@silviamills5218 thanks!
2:14 So THAT is where ManSlayer got his audio sample
I know I was just thinking that. "it looks something like this"
Thx saber
Saberspark i like your ass
YOUR LYING MORGAN
EXACtLY!!!
Oh my god, I never thought I would see you here.
I like how they say sunburn instead of incineration
They're are speaking if you are out of ground zero seriously so many uneducated people .... and if you aren't directly in the fireball the dangers are 1st 2nd and 3rd degree burns as well as the blast and later radiation there's more damage than just the fireball......
Seriously. Radiant light is what causes the flashburns, similar to the way our sun can burn us. The physics are exactly the same.
Still, I think if you're in the vicinity of the mushroom cloud, the best advice is to look at it. You'll only see something like that once...
People survived in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki who didn't die of radiation poisoning, cancer or any other atomic/ radiation malady. if you are not in zone one or two you do indeed have a good chance at survival if you protect yourself from the initial explosion/ fireball/ radiation.
John Curry true, but i don't think it helps if you hide in something that will crush you(IE doorway that will be obliterated by the blast). Though getting down does help (in theory).and with bombs that we're getting bigger and bigger, I suspect by the 50s and 60s, pretty much seeing a bomb flash meant you were toast regardless
a certified cogware games moment
I'm always gonna carry a news paper with me from now on because this will help protect me from severe burns in the event of a nuclear blast Thank you Bert 🐢📰👍
It will also protect you from any large chunks of metal, concrete, and shards of glass swirling around in the blast wave.
Edit: I forgot that it will also protect your hearing since nuclear explosions are kind of loud, lol.
@@acidbubblebath77 Awesome Thanks 📰 😆
I am old enough to have done duck and cover drills. I once thought them preposterous, given the power of nuclear weapons. But then i realized; duck and cover drills were never meant to save people a mile from ground zero; they were intended to save people 20 miles+ from ground zero.
Of course, having the bomb dropped on you would instantly vaporize you in a matter of milliseconds. This PSA was definitely meant to give those were at least not too close or far enough away to at least give them the best chance of survival or save them
Yes... Also being behind cover protect you from the radiated heat, but if you see the flash and feel the heat it might be to late to seek cover.... But for the hydrogen bombs the flash and heat can last up to a half a minute or even longer.
Very true Shelter distance time if far enough away
There's a great movie called "The Atomic Cafe" which is a collection of films like this. These films were government propaganda that tried to convince people that nuclear wars were easily winnable and that the effects would only be a minor inconvenience. Given what we know about nuclear weapons today, these films are both funny and horrifying to watch.
If theres a nuclear war i hope i get to be a ghoul like in fallout then live for hundreds of years like the ghouls in goodneighbor
Biological warfare is super unpredictable and quite finicky.
I'd be more concerned about other types of warfare.
Yes, I am a microbiologist.
I hear the Atomic Cafe serves up some great gut bombs.
Catzilla nice film
Thanks I'm going to look for that
perfect song to listen to while hiding inside an invisible yellow desk
i see your here cuz of Alex too 🤝
Gigachads
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first monuments second superheros now fucking furniture
Bro, perfect clubhouse for boys only, lmao...It kinda stinks in here though
It's amazing the human race has survived this long .
r/im14andthisisdeep
@@puttputtbj3260 based
We almost didn't. There have been at least two points in human history when extinction was a real possibility. Once in our prehistoric/genetic history, and again in the atomic age.
We r saved to this day by the grace of God.
Ye
4:31 "...Or, ask an older person to help you..."
"Why why hello there! I was just smoking this pipe here and enjoying the nuclear blast!"
That What I Said, i was like bullshit
Might as well enjoy one last smoke lol
While your chances of surviving a nuclear weapon are slim, duck and cover is still by far your best shot at survival. (When it shows up unexpectedly.)
There's a lot of radius, obviously it does nothing or maybe even worse if one's in some certain-death-zone, but for less unlucky people sufficiently farther it may indeed help reducing potential injuries.
so you can die horribly from radiation within a week!
better play all-in and run in a basement, subway or shelter as said the USSR videos
@@mrwolf84 Aren't you aware that after duck and cover, you go to a shelter. Duck and cover is for when you didn't get much warning before detonation. It is for surviving the immediate thermal pulse and the blast wave. You aren't going to get a lethal dose of prompt radiation from a large nuke (as its fireball is about as large as its lethal prompt radiation distance). Meanwhile fallout takes a while to fall; it is only something you worry about after you survive the immediate affects of the detonation.
If you watch the video; you'll see they recommend going to a shelter when you have a warning. (4:33)
Alternative suggestion:
you put your feet up on the table, take your favorite whisky and listen to a nice song.
Of course, you can also write a haiku.
Or take the trash outside.
You shouldn't die untidy.
@@Macrotodon pop some Ink Spots on since you forgot to Prepare for the Future and didn't secure space in your local Vault Tec facility. Who knows maybe you'll just ghoulify and get semi-immortality? Eh maybe not, but at least the radio you turned on will be playing the Ink Spots 200 years later when some enterprising wanderer starts making moves in the wastes.
WHAT YOU SEE HERE WHAT YOU WITNESS HERE WHAT YOU SHARE HERE IF YOU EVER WATCH ANOTHER VIDEO LEAVE THIS MEMORY HERE
This ant blocked me going forward with its head
Memory!
It doesn't matter how old this is it still manages to give me chills, I don't know why but it must be because this was actually a serious issue back then and even though it would have done minimal help in protecting you it still gave you a sense of Hope and protection but there still are like a 90% possibility that you would die
Actually, this would have given you MAXIMUM help, since it is the only reasonable thing to do, unless you are in the middle of ground zero anyway. Distance is key. A few miles away from ground zero you might survive by not being hit by glass windows or other flying objects.
Another thing to remember is that a nuclear blast doesn’t sweep underground (that’s if you aren’t at ground zero of course), it’s like a huge wind that only blasts the surface. Staying in a ditch or the obvious ducking and cover helps already avoid the blast and debris altogether
@@diekritischestimme or would would have been the maximum help, would have been us not creating something as horrifying as nuclear weapons
1951
Unfortunately, I was enough of a reader to know this better than most of my classmates. Sometimes ignorance really IS bliss...
Directed by Anthony Rizzo? Maybe it should be called "Crowd the Plate" instead of "Duck and Cover".
I’d die in a funny position so when the survivors find me at least they’ll have a good laugh
@@FulllNameUnknown XD
Sad thing is, only thing they would see is your atomic shadow
@@hannorasmusholtiegel6044 'Tragic, this man not only vaporized in the blast but he had a bunny for a hand'
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE DEAD CHILDREN IN THE TRINITY DESK?
The Reds?
Jajajaja te pasaste
THEY HID IN THE DESK AND THE DESK HID *THEM*
HIDE AND SEEK GONE WRONG?
PARENTS SUE, CLAIMING FOUL PLAY.
instructions not clear, ended up on the roof
That's the best joke so far, either that or the huge blanket of newspaper for Japan joke. Not mine, unfortunately.
Darkness Serpent Doesn't matter, DUCK AND COVER.
“If you don’t know, ask your teacher.”-D&C
*atomic bomb explodes*
Tony: Gets back on his bike and rides away
Yes
Can you see the Trinity Desk?
WE’RE HIDING FROM THE STARLINGS WITH THIS ONE
2:37 I like how the house on the left is destroyed but the church 100 yards away is just fine
The power of God is strong 😎
Remember to Splash Holy Water on you for Gods protection, and Vodka for Russians Bomb Immunity!
I. DIDN'T NOTICE THAT THE NUMBER OF TIMES IVE WATCHED IT MUST BE A STRONGLY BUILT WHEN THE BOMB DROPS SHELTER IN THE CHURCH IT WILL SURVIVE THE ATTACK
The Japanese experience of actually being attacked with nuclear weapons, is that many people at the outside perimeter could have and did benefit from ducking and covering as best as possible.
True. The tactic of "Duck and Cover" managed to save the lives of police officers in Nagasaki, Japan.
Remember too that atomic bombs were a lot less powerful in 1951 basically being of the same type used on Hiroshima. The big hydrogen bombs that can obliterate an entire metro area came after this was published. Also they were not delivered by missile but by airplane and there was a legitimate chance of shooting down a plane before it could drop its nuclear payload on target
In fact theres a theory that the suburbs started as a response to the less powerful atom bombs of the 50s. By having people live outside of city centers youd reduce casualties in event of an attack.
@@P7777-u7r no it was basically just population expansion, and after the war everybody wanted a house with property, etc
One woman survived because she was too lazy to take off her pajama pants, and just pulled different ones on top. The 2 layers saved her
@@P7777-u7r Heinlein wrote some short story where he talked abotu the development of nuclear weapons and how one option is to either cede them to the UN or do some hardcore decentralization of U.S. cities (as in mass resettlement & building underground cities). The American government did somewhat follow this logic, they put a lot of their bases and military industry in smaller cities to make it harder for the USSR to get them all in a single strike.
It wouldn't surprise me if some congresspeople subsidizing the suburban transportation networks were doing this somewhat for that reason (the highways were intended as a nuke resistant transportation system and a place to land bombers who had their bases eat Soviet nukes)
I never thought I'd ever have a reason to share this video till now. What a time we're living in man
I agree 😂
We might have to duck and cover soon. This is horrible.
@Samuel Bass true
Take a look at Japan. Duck n Cover my ass
agreed
do NOT play hide and seek in that desk. WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE!
I will play hide and seek under the desk and you can't stop me
Ah shit we lost another one
My history teacher showed this to us and now he randomly tells us to duck and cover
Any chance this history teacher has a guillotine in the classroom?
The Vice Principal still has it, likes giving Detentions a personal touch !
He also has a time machine.
he must know the future
lmao mine took a picture with the flash on and made us duck
This actually made me really sad that people had to live in such fear.
The doomsday clock is much closer to midnight than when this video was made.
This comment made me nostalgic. Feels bad tho.
This not only inspired me to duck and cover when danger strikes it also inspired me to make a movie called the many adventures of Bert the turtle starring Bert the turtle and all his friends
Considering what's going on today, I think nuclear is and should be a popular discussion once again.
And now we're back with nuclear scares in headlines. Thanks Putin!
Don't worry. Your cafeteria table will protect you from 7,000 degree heat, 760 mph winds and ionized radiation.
tachikoma747 Don't forget, even a thin cloth helps
tachikoma747 I guess nobody ever taught you about the inverse square relation over distance. At ground zero, you and everything else will be vaporized into radioactive fallout. Even a few miles away, the temperature and winds will be greatly reduced by the square of the distance. That is where most of the casualties will be from broken glass and objects flying through the air. Since the Iranians will have nuclear weapons soon, this is no longer a theoretical consideration.
Mark Kelly Sarcasm my friend.
Then you can go outside to the playground and MELT
tachikoma747 best comment ever!!!!
WE RUNNING FROM THE STARLINGS WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🦫
Honestly
Covering your head with a newspaper is the difference between life and death.
If you're six miles away, yes. Check out the burn patterns from people in Hiroshima which was the same as the pattern on their clothes - go figure.
And don't you forget it.
Jens-Christian Jensen
Eh, the number of people lucky enough to live to old age would be drastically reduced.
By 1952, fission bombs were around 330kt (based on the fact that Ivy Mike is roughly 330kt * 30 and RDS-6s is roughly 330kt * 1.2).
The ones used in 1945 were around 20kt.
manictiger wrong! The strongest fission bomb ever was 500 kt and that was 3 years later and just a test. The actual Soviet weapons in 1951 werent any stronger than 25 ky
NERD. Did you look that up, make it up, or do you know it. Because that's a waste of brain cells.
I don’t know why, I find these old PSAs and safety and how to videos so cute. They were so innocent and pure. Especially the ones on grooming, child raising, and dating/family life from this era. It’s nice they thought to do something cartoony for kids to help them remember and not to scare them.
Dang, shipwrecked 64 has this stuck in my head. It's chilling, but also really interesting
the manticore sends his regards
Is that where everyone is coming from?
My history teacher showed this in class a few months ago, just before the lockdown. He sang to the song in the beginning. The class laughed when they tossed the picnic blanket
Only Communists would ruin such a perfect picnic
@@dillon5155 what do you think we are? Ants?
Parents sue, claim foul play
I love that Shipwreck 64 took the duck and cover of this song and implemented it with the gameplay. You had to duck.. and cover.
4:02 "Girls to the left, boys to the right! No mixing!"
And if you're non-binary?
Now there are nuclear weapons that got a 100 mile blast radius. Thank goodness my desk will save me.
But then we have the Yellowstone super volcano. It’s been theorized that it has a 500 mile blast radius.
If you live 101 miles out, it just might.
There is no nuclear bomb was a blast radius even near that. The Tsar Bomba (only one was ever made) didn't even have near that.
chewchewtrain well in the modern day we have much bigger bombs and a lot more so the radius will be larger too
@@r.i.peperoniiiiroh9625 Yeah, but nowhere near 100 miles.
me when I am trapped in a suit that is meant to be a character that I voice acted for in an old n64 video game and can’t die:
Me when I’m a beaver in a game, forced to hear the mamade horrors made by an establishment:
its so funny to see the comment section descend from war recollections to "who's to blame for the dead children in the invisible desk" and finally "getting chased by twisted versions of friends because you decided to play a game from 1997"
What game is everyone referencing??
@@henrywilson9559 idk if this is late but it's Shipwrecked 64
"if there isn't any adult around, you're on your own" very helpful to know lol
Who is to blame for the dead children in the desk?
if I was a kid in the 1950s I would be so scared, I would stay in my room all day!
That is what Burt does.
nah, we grew up to become hippies & to not trust anyone over 30.
Theat's what Steven Spielberg did during the Cuban Missile crisis.
He went full "Doomsday Prepper mode" by filling all the tubs with water saying that it will be our water supply.
50s shit that's now that's at any time😶
WE MAKIN IT OUT OF THE TRINITY DESK WITH THIS ONE!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔊🔊🗣🗣🗣
IF A TREE FALLS IN A FOREST
unlike the kids
_THIS:_
was a _NATURAL_ nuclear reactor.
I love how all of these people don't rush to the shelter but they just sigh like: "Oh goddamn it not again."
What a lovely song! Come, children, and sing along with the happy turtle... "Duck and cover, then hang your head and cry - duck and cover, death comes from the sky!" . Is it any wonder the children of the 1950s grew up to become hippies in the sixties? What a nightmare it must have been living under insanity.
The 1960's was far worse than the 1950's due to the fact that the 1960's was a decade of turmoil in the United States; with protests for Civil Rights and against the Vietnam War dominating the headlines.
@@michaellovely6601 Yeah, the Democrats did a great job in 1960-1968: Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, inflation, race riots...
This is absolutely chilling...
Ray Liu Warloc sirens
WE SURVING OLIVIA, NATHAN, AND GARY WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥
This kind of videos make me sad. To think that children were seeing this in times of war.
we are always seeing this kind of thing. At least they educated there generations kids about this stuff
+Samuel Rocha García Hence, the 1960's drug culture!
Go away Jeff sessions
Samuel Rocha García just like how its sad that we have to have lock down drills because people are shooting up schools
WE HIDING FROM ZOMBIE ANIMALS WITH THIS ONE!!! 🔥🔥🦫🦦🪿🦭🐇🔥🔥
Thank you for sharing this classic. It represents a very different way of looking at these things, a much more proactive and thoughtful one.
Finally a good comment in this ignorant section
Love reading through the comments and seeing people from 8 years ago, and people who only know about this from shipwrecked 64
"How Can We Tell When The Atomic Bomb May Explode"hehe *You'll* *Know*
Yeah, not soon enough though.
Will you, though? I imagine if you were in the fireball area of an atomic bomb you'd have no idea before dying.
@@charonsferryold I think if you're that close you might not even notice that you just died.
In all seriousness if there was a great flash of light you would have no idea what was happening. You would probably try to look at it and after a couple of seconds when the second light pulse hits you would be blinded, burned, and irradiated because you did not lie down on the ground. Now that you are in pain and blind you stand little chance of getting out of the rubble. However if you knew what to do you would greatly increase your chance of survival.
This is the chase theme from shipwrecked 64 ost
OML hearing the actual thing is so scary
WE DIGGING UP BROADSIDE ENTERTAINMENTS FOUNDER AND ENFUSING HIS SOUL INTO A MASCOT SUIT MADE OF FLESH WITH THIS ONE! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🐐🐐
YEAHHHHH 💥💥💥
Shipwrecked 64, for context.
I sure do love playing hide and seek! I hope nothing wrong will happen if I hide in this invisible yellow desk!
6:08, the level of commitment! bravo! face first into a brick wall.
10/10 would recommend. Prevented someone from taking a picture of me using this same technique.
underrated comment
WE'RE MAKING IT OUT OF LAYER 3 WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
pfp checks out
Anyone trapped in a barrel right now?
Anyone trapped in the Trinity Desk rn
Anybody beating a bin turning into a rabbit rn?
3:07 You cover the back of your neck with your face.
+GranVlog You cover the back of your neck, (and) your face.
epic1744 aah
+GranVlog To be honest, if a nuke went off, that would probably occur.
Not as easy to do as it sounds
And kiss your butt good bye
Now we have to learn this again
How long did it take you to learn how to impersonate a turtle? Have you ever attended a communist party meeting?
J. Robert Oppenheimer are you okay?
I'm doing alright. Thank you kindly for asking, Oxidation.
Nah it’s more lockdown drills
Back it 2016 my high school class made us watch this, they actually think this is a foolproof way to protect yourself from certain death.
Remember kids, when u hear the alarm, lightly jog to a near by house or school that could easily be destroyed if a bomb went off.
Also, at 8:16 that guy could have gotten his head run over by his tractor....
Your a big meany
The flash happens and nothing happens. He is not at blast 0
“10/10 advice” 😂
Most tractors and riding mowers automatically stop when you get off the seat.
WE HIDING FROM DISTORTED VERSIONS OF OUR FRIENDS IN A BARREL WITH THIS ONE‼️‼️‼️‼️
i don't get the reference and that makes it funnier
@@alexk9642😂
@@alexk9642Have you heard a game called Shipwrecked 64?
@@alexk9642Shipwrecked 64’s Layer 3
Sometimes the bomb might explode, without any warning.
*WOW*
"We must get ready for any other dangers around us" *focuses on black kid*
***** Dude you have the same profile picture as me and I thought i said that for a second lol
***** wow, subtle
Dauge Yo 1:33 for those who didn't hear it
Dauge Yo YEEEE
damn thats dank
"What are you supposed to do when you see the flash?"
get into the desk : D
A yellow desk
*Timothy was never seen again
Go blind.
UA-cam is really really sneaky with recommendations huh… Manticore gang
I watch this in my US history class.
hey nice to meet you, i'm doing that as well
Did as well a week ago
Same
I remember the southpark episode where they did Duck and Cover and the volcano safely passed over their heads.
+Admiral Ackbar LOL It was perfect!
+Admiral Ackbar Please don´t try this in real live. The rebellion needs you.^^
Season 1, Episode 3 “Volcano”
Bert is a national treasure.
I'm pretty it's Gert
"Duck and Cover" World Tour 2022.
We watched this in history class and everyone was dying laughing...
Even the teacher
And the principal
+CABprods we just watched it today
Why
They shouldn't be laughing. The effects of a nuclear explosion are no joke. The video was designed to help the people who live outside of the main blast zone, where thermal burns, fallout, and overpressure are still serious threats that can injure or kill someone.
In the 70 plus years since this video came out, there has not been one video that describes to school children just what to do in the event of the unthinkable (Though still possible even today) that can exceed this video.
That would have been creepy af to see as an outside viewer.
Did someone say Fallout