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    Operation Cue (1955) by U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration
    Digitizing sponsor U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration

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  • @mikeg4972
    @mikeg4972 2 роки тому +165

    After their use, mannequins that were still intact were dusted off and returned to Montgomery Wards.

    • @billtomson5791
      @billtomson5791 2 роки тому +9

      Hilarious, I used to work there. And they didn't need a receipt, either!

    • @lelandthomosoniii4743
      @lelandthomosoniii4743 2 роки тому +3

      Luv that!

    • @lelandthomosoniii4743
      @lelandthomosoniii4743 2 роки тому +3

      That! Make me
      Feel like
      A crast test
      Dummy?

    • @inactiveuser1981
      @inactiveuser1981 2 роки тому +6

      I wouldn't be surprised if this was a fact.

    • @mikeg4972
      @mikeg4972 2 роки тому +7

      @@inactiveuser1981 I read it in a book called "The making of the atomic bomb"

  • @rdm5190
    @rdm5190 2 роки тому +85

    At my older age i now realize that "ducking&covering" under that old wood desk in the classroom was just providing more kindling

    • @Quackerilla
      @Quackerilla 2 роки тому +9

      "Please sort yourself for atomization, thank you."

    • @rdm5190
      @rdm5190 2 роки тому

      @@Quackerilla lol.....exactly
      It makes For easier statistical data calculations on body counts gathered by how many people were counted in the census minus how many their covid numbers say were pre-exterminated before incineration
      =
      How many the government scripted, hypathetical and theoretical news fabracated&social deception outlets can report were evaporated in any givin population center...

    • @Richard-mz7qu
      @Richard-mz7qu 2 роки тому +5

      Duck & cover was part of a 50s cook book. "Cover the duck" and incinerate it.

    • @3rdworldgarage450
      @3rdworldgarage450 Рік тому +3

      If you actually watch the film, it never says you will be completely safe, just safer than if you stand there and stare at it until the blast wave shreds you with shrapnel or the initial release of intense UV burns your skin. The idea is that if you are far enough away to otherwise survive, duck and cover will minimize your injuries so you can find your way to a fully stocked government fallout shelter and survive for 2 weeks while the radiation dissipates. Unfortunately, we no longer have those in the US outside of Huntsville, Alabama. However, if you are in Russia you may be in luck as Putin started a shelter building program in 2010 that should provide shelter for all the inhabitants of the major cities.

    • @blackkitty420
      @blackkitty420 2 місяці тому

      Security theater, their way of releasing what an atomic bomb is without releasing how strong an atomic bomb really is.

  • @notatheory4488
    @notatheory4488 2 роки тому +117

    Little did the observers know they were the actual test subjects.

    • @kathyr.8135
      @kathyr.8135 2 роки тому +3

      Duh .

    • @ariesred777
      @ariesred777 Рік тому +4

      Exactly!

    • @kenmtb
      @kenmtb Рік тому +2

      @@kathyr.8135 classy

    • @ocelotcake9359
      @ocelotcake9359 Рік тому

      poppycock your hair will grow back the same frolic same color in fact smoke a nice clean lucky good for your baby pregnant lady good for your health

    • @plasmascout9708
      @plasmascout9708 11 місяців тому +2

      wait what?

  • @jasonm949
    @jasonm949 2 роки тому +57

    As a mother and a housewife, I was curious as to how long it would take for electricity to be restored, so I wouldn't miss I Love Lucy. It was also refreshing to know that the enemy inadvertently cooked a BBQ for us!

  • @shermann.peabody7429
    @shermann.peabody7429 2 роки тому +47

    Given the size of modern thermonuclear bombs, the conclusion of all this research could have been shortened to "kiss your ass goodbye".

    • @bradenglettkd8zm69
      @bradenglettkd8zm69 Рік тому +2

      Operation KYAG 😀

    • @mandrakesumners9866
      @mandrakesumners9866 Місяць тому

      I think Crow T Robot said it best, "Put your head between your legs and kiss your sorry ass goodbye!" ua-cam.com/video/wNNWz4pal8E/v-deo.html

  • @zambufly1
    @zambufly1 2 роки тому +137

    If you use 2 hydrogen bombs and one oxygen bomb, then you just created a water bomb.

  • @joerusso4219
    @joerusso4219 2 роки тому +22

    The roast beef was cooked by the blast and was glowing.

    • @nicholas8428
      @nicholas8428 2 роки тому +1

      😆 Thats exactly what I was thinking 🤣

    • @ariesred777
      @ariesred777 Рік тому +2

      All toxic!

    • @AlphaFlight
      @AlphaFlight Рік тому

      She sounded like they used the meat that was there in the test

  • @Dark_Harmony
    @Dark_Harmony 2 роки тому +47

    And the creepiest part of this entire reel is....the quaint, pretty, & ironic victorious music played while everything lays in ruin, & all those people became lab rats covered in radiation & then victims of cancer.

  • @andrewhillis9544
    @andrewhillis9544 2 роки тому +31

    THIS IS A BLAST FROM THE PAST ! ! ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @gortbot7748
    @gortbot7748 2 роки тому +21

    All those people got a real good shot of gamma rays and died before their time from exposure to radiation.

    • @Talia.777
      @Talia.777 2 роки тому +2

      That's for sure 😞

    • @swisschalet1658
      @swisschalet1658 2 роки тому +2

      No they didn’t. Watch the Galen Windsor YT video.

    • @buckhorncortez
      @buckhorncortez Рік тому +3

      Nope. Gamma rays and X-rays are absorbed by the air. That is detailed in Chapter 1 and Chapter 3 of the book "Blast Wave" by Hans Bethe, et al. If the radiation wasn't absorbed by air we'd all be dead from gamma and X-rays from the Sun. Depending upon the size of the bomb, the safe zone can be as close as 7,000 feet.

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans Рік тому

      All of them, and thousands more USA Veterans - Army, Marines, Air Force, Navy - but the Military men were ordered to sit and wait on ships near nuclear explosions, or duck down in a trench line cut near nuclear explosions. After the fire died down, the Army men had to march through the radiation, the smoke and dust on their skin and breathing it all in... as the RADs shot through their bodies. Until recently they were all denied health care or death benefits from the Military.

    • @ariesred777
      @ariesred777 Рік тому +1

      @@buckhorncortez the concentration of radiation fallout from that bomb will kill anything dead or alive

  • @timothywilliams1359
    @timothywilliams1359 2 роки тому +81

    I love the positive, upbeat music. And the mannequin families seem so much happier than mine. I miss the 50s!

    • @pixelrabbit261
      @pixelrabbit261 Рік тому +10

      you have a mannequin family?

    • @inconnu4961
      @inconnu4961 Рік тому +4

      @@pixelrabbit261 OF COURSE!!! Why, dont you? I'm sorry man!

    • @telesniper2
      @telesniper2 Рік тому +1

      That's because of all the weird things you do to your mannequin family.

    • @PalmettoNDN
      @PalmettoNDN 9 місяців тому

      Any time before the late 60s was great - if you were white.

  • @wolfgangamadeus1246
    @wolfgangamadeus1246 2 роки тому +123

    I wonder what percentage of the people who visited the test site, after waiting the required 24 hours after the blast, later in life died from some form of cancer? And then how does that percentage compare with the percentage of cancer deaths in the general population back then?

    • @mikecummings6593
      @mikecummings6593 2 роки тому

      It's amazing today 33% of people die from cancer the other 33 from heart issues the last 33 lucky people die from good old-fashioned age

    • @alendubri
      @alendubri 2 роки тому +33

      I was thinking exactly the same, even they eat from the pots that where recovered after the explosion! Of course, during that times they were completely ignorant of the radiation effects...

    • @catey62
      @catey62 2 роки тому

      I think it would be similar to cancer and cancer related illnesses caused by those work at the British atomic test sites here in outback Australia back in the 50's. and from a book I read, I found that they had personnel walking around ground zero mere hours after the blasts. and one of their tests involved a pilot flying a Canberra jet bomber directly through the mushroom cloud to collect samples in wing tip canisters. there were so many early deaths, as well as children of the servicemen involved developing cancers, being born with birth defects, or they themselves having children with various illnesses, birth defects etc. it is a terrible legacy for all those involved.

    • @rixille
      @rixille 2 роки тому +6

      I want to know too..

    • @richmerowitz5610
      @richmerowitz5610 2 роки тому +9

      @@alendubri - Not so! Godzilla was a radiation effect. We were warned.

  • @browngreen933
    @browngreen933 2 роки тому +29

    The mannequin family previously starred in a Twilight Zone episode -- which this public service film greatly has the feel of.

    • @lukehauser1182
      @lukehauser1182 2 роки тому +3

      I knew some of those mannequins when I was young!

    • @thomasdykstra100
      @thomasdykstra100 2 роки тому

      "Twilight Zone" ran from 1959-1964...

    • @browngreen933
      @browngreen933 2 роки тому +1

      @@thomasdykstra100
      If I have to explain you wouldn't understand (hint, it's Twilight Zone).

    • @browngreen933
      @browngreen933 2 роки тому +3

      @@lukehauser1182
      When I was a kid I fell in love with one of these mannequins at Sears. Unfortunately, she was cut off at the legs.

    • @thomasdykstra100
      @thomasdykstra100 2 роки тому +1

      @@browngreen933 , guess I'm just out of your league.

  • @Mujangga
    @Mujangga 2 роки тому +119

    Only the 50's could make nuclear holocaust so look and sound so quaint. I hope the post-apocalypse will have such glamorous housewives left over.

    • @Zoomer30_
      @Zoomer30_ 2 роки тому +11

      It's the Fallout 3 version of nuclear war. Just go into your vault and smile smile smile.

    • @tamahagane1700
      @tamahagane1700 2 роки тому

      Nuclear family emerges alive and well in all propaganda videos. Must be the will to preserve the ways of life of the Free World.

    • @Dobie_ByTor
      @Dobie_ByTor 2 роки тому +13

      “The brunette reporter was stacked rather nicely.” - The Perv

    • @megamond
      @megamond 2 роки тому +4

      @@Dobie_ByTor How as she revisiting the site only 24 hours later, radiation exposure wise?

    • @Mujangga
      @Mujangga 2 роки тому +4

      @@Dobie_ByTor Indeed, who knew Betty Page was into nuclear testing?

  • @RW-ob4en
    @RW-ob4en 2 роки тому +19

    Gotta love the dulcet tones of that score.

  • @mattsmith1137
    @mattsmith1137 2 роки тому +51

    24 hours later they’re all walking around ground zero like no big deal. I wonder what things we’re doing now that are similarly stupid health endangering activities.

    • @Thebald1
      @Thebald1 2 роки тому +8

      Damn it man.. I was thinking the same thing and I read through several comments and seen yours.. Crazy mess for sure.. 1 year later and they all had cancer..

    • @Thebald1
      @Thebald1 2 роки тому +11

      One more thing..1956 Movie The Conqueror was the movie with John Wayne that was filmed in the desert at a nuclear test site.. Most of the people in that movie including John Wayne died from cancer.. it was directed by Dick Powell and he came down with cancer.. They were told that the site was safe..

    • @kathyr.8135
      @kathyr.8135 2 роки тому

      WE ARE THE STUPIDEST PLANET EVER. We installed Biden and he is destroying America and people are happy

    • @buckhorncortez
      @buckhorncortez Рік тому +2

      @@Thebald1 No. The movie was filmed in and around St. George, Utah. The theory is that fallout from the Nevada tests was concentrated in Snow Canyon from rain washing soil from the surrounding mesa into the canyon and concentrating the fallout. Also, soil was taken from the film sites back to the studio in Hollywood so that the studio scenes would match the outdoor scenes filmed in Utah. None of that has ever been proven. It is a viable theory, however.

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans Рік тому +4

      The Government says it's safe now to line up all the little children for their 5th injections !

  • @rumpstatefiasco
    @rumpstatefiasco 2 роки тому +56

    Gee, this Motion Picture was Swell!

  • @caryanderson7212
    @caryanderson7212 2 роки тому +120

    Our family lived in Phoenix next to Nevada. Every one of us has dealt with cancer over the years not including many more who got cancer in Phoenix from the fallout from the bombs they tested in Nevada. According to weather maps the military tracked the fallout up to Colville Idaho where there are many more people who also have died from cancer and many more who have and are living with cancer today. All because of the radiation fallout from those bombs.
    I read awhile ago that there is a lawsuit against the government by the citizens who live in Phoenix because many of their family members have died from cancer. I've lost my mother and a sister to cancer and have another sister dying from cancer and a brother who has had several operations to have cancer removed both internally and on his skin. I've just won a battle with colon cancer myself. As kids I remember being at grade school and we'd have atomic bomb drills and would have to do the "Duck & Cover" drill by hiding under our desks which really didn't offer any real protection. We also had to bring a 1 gallon jug of water to school with a cap full of bleach added to the water to preserve it in case there actually was a war and atomic bombs were dropped on us.
    If I didn't know better I'd think the governments were working for the devil. Who in their right minds would conceive of such a horrific way to kill mass amounts of people and think it's OK to do so?

    • @oopsadaze
      @oopsadaze 2 роки тому

      Shouldn't the Government admit to their mistakes, all of them. WARS, WARTS and ALL.

    • @Talia.777
      @Talia.777 2 роки тому +8

      😔😔😟

    • @georgewash2626
      @georgewash2626 2 роки тому +14

      AND IT STILL IS GOING ON TODAY make no mistake about it !

    • @strawpiglet
      @strawpiglet 2 роки тому

      They are working for the Devil. He’s called the dollar.

    • @kathyr.8135
      @kathyr.8135 2 роки тому +13

      This World is Evil . So sorry for your loved ones . We will one day be in a better place . I thought about moving to Arizona but , now I am having second thoughts . All evil will be held accountable one day .

  • @ScotMorrisonKA3DRR
    @ScotMorrisonKA3DRR 2 роки тому +51

    Admittedly, feels like I'm now a vault groupie, because I'm listening and watching with keen interest never experienced before on this platform. Thanks for releasing this reel with its socio-economic insight, a glimpse into the dawn of the Cold War, and an explanation into 'why' science fiction films of that era focused on fallout and genetic contamination.

    • @isilder
      @isilder 2 роки тому

      The fact is that the fall out causes more danger far away, so its not easily linked. The radioactive iodine is the worst .. it travels a long way and easily gets into cows milk and then human thyroid glands.

  • @TheGreatWent1
    @TheGreatWent1 2 роки тому +9

    why didn't she ask if vacuum cleaners would work?
    as a woman and housewife her 1st priority is to clean the house after a nuke

    • @texaswunderkind
      @texaswunderkind 2 роки тому +4

      After she touches up her makeup and hair, of course.

  • @Ltulrich
    @Ltulrich 2 роки тому +20

    So basically my new suit might get faded, got it.

    • @kingkoolkata
      @kingkoolkata 2 роки тому +3

      Just buy a white one, and you’ll be fine🤣

    • @kevinw9073
      @kevinw9073 2 роки тому

      The tie should be ok, good news!

    • @search4truth104
      @search4truth104 2 роки тому +2

      You will get a nice healthy tan, no need to whiten ones teeth.

  • @2wolfsfightinsideyou
    @2wolfsfightinsideyou 2 роки тому +3

    Everyone including the "dame reporter", were later glowing green.

  • @SlapthePissouttayew
    @SlapthePissouttayew 2 роки тому +7

    I was waiting for the narrator to say "...and please...do NOT try this at home."

  • @ButchNackley
    @ButchNackley 2 роки тому +35

    I've concluded.
    Should all out nuclear war happen? My best option would to be at ground zero when the first one hits.

    • @timengineman2nd714
      @timengineman2nd714 2 роки тому +4

      Remember to put out hot dogs a few miles away so that survivors can get some precooked hotdogs!! Just have a sign saying that the reason they're glowing in the dark is to help survivors can find them easier!!!

    • @MsBee
      @MsBee 2 роки тому +2

      No, I want to be far enough away to be safe so I can emerge to a post-apocalypse and build a sick car from scraps. Fallout and Mad Max is exactly what a post-apocalypse would look like. Right?

    • @TheDoctor1225
      @TheDoctor1225 2 роки тому +3

      I've long said the same thing. I have no desire to live in a world where everyone I know is dead, everything is destroyed and will never be the same again. I'll take that instant of realization, if there is one, then gladly go Home and see the people I know are waiting for me.

    • @dsm3759703
      @dsm3759703 2 роки тому +3

      In the post Apocalypse, I plan on surviving, putting on some serious mass, gathering a cult and becoming Lord of the Wastelands. The Ayatolla of Rock n Rolla.

    • @Per409
      @Per409 2 роки тому

      I'd rather be far away and unload on the zombies coming toward me later on, they might get me but golly what a going away party it would be.

  • @Johnnycdrums
    @Johnnycdrums 2 роки тому +30

    Gotta' love the "Cube Root Scaling Law."
    It shows up a lot.

    • @zippymax1
      @zippymax1 2 роки тому +4

      You're a cube root! Bleahhhh!!!

    • @iamnotpaulavery
      @iamnotpaulavery 2 роки тому +2

      LOL, alright calm down Tex!
      (I'm from Texas too!)

    • @joeshulman675
      @joeshulman675 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah I laughed at that one too 🤣 lol

    • @MichaelKingsfordGray
      @MichaelKingsfordGray 2 роки тому

      Unlike adult names.

    • @buckhorncortez
      @buckhorncortez Рік тому

      Defined in the book, "Blast Wave" by Hans Bethe, et al. Mostly by John von Neumann in Chapter 2.

  • @Johnnycdrums
    @Johnnycdrums 2 роки тому +24

    How about that roast beef, cooked to perfection, which could have been salvaged from demolished buildings?
    What a party, I'm in there, and if the wine is still good, I'll drink that too.

    • @97VobraOwner
      @97VobraOwner 2 роки тому +6

      Totally- Nothing like a good old fashion radioactive barbecue

    • @timengineman2nd714
      @timengineman2nd714 2 роки тому +1

      @@97VobraOwner Its even precooked by the Flash Wave of Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Neutrons! (And if in a glass container you can add UV light cooking as well. (IR is stopped by glass))

    • @charletonzimmerman4205
      @charletonzimmerman4205 2 роки тому +2

      "MICROWAVED", to "PROFECTION" YUM !

    • @timengineman2nd714
      @timengineman2nd714 2 роки тому +2

      @@charletonzimmerman4205 Tell them we made it so it will glow in the dark to help survivors find the food!!!

    • @joerusso4219
      @joerusso4219 2 роки тому +3

      The roast beef was cooked tp perfection by the blast and was glowing. Coffee was very hot.

  • @michaelhunter2136
    @michaelhunter2136 2 роки тому +78

    The true horror is that this film suggests that measures are being made to make a nuclear war a reasonable choice. Everything said was placed in the context of protecting ourselves. Make the right buildings and we'll all be alright. Of course, these tests also showed what harm we could inflict on others. People who watched this video and others like it are still with us and their opinions have been shaped by it. It is assumed that we must accept that this is the "nuclear age", rather than ask why are we making these things.

    • @ticklemeandillhurtyou5800
      @ticklemeandillhurtyou5800 2 роки тому +1

      We have to have nuclear weapons because our enemies have them it's as simple as that

    • @hckyplyr9285
      @hckyplyr9285 2 роки тому +27

      We made them because we faced an aggressive expansionist power that instead of demobilizing after WWII kept a standing army of 12 million in the field and made plain their intent to use it.
      The only Affordable choice to deter this power without destroying our economy was exceptional firepower in the form of nuclear weapons. Preparing to deal with return fire was a vital part of deterrence.

    • @ericatkinson1412
      @ericatkinson1412 2 роки тому +5

      Silly assed comment.

    • @malachiwhite356
      @malachiwhite356 2 роки тому +1

      Your comment makes no sense. It's like saying let's not vaccinate against COVID because it will cause some to mingle more freely in public.

    • @dsm3759703
      @dsm3759703 2 роки тому +11

      Must be nice to live in such a secure society that one can believe no harm can befall them and weapons of war are unnecessary. Must be bliss. Ask a Ukrainian how they feel about having a strong military.

  • @HughesEnterprises
    @HughesEnterprises 2 роки тому +48

    I’ve got this on original 16mm. Always fun breaking this out every once and while. Let’s have a potluck in a fallout crater!

    • @AnaphoraNigh
      @AnaphoraNigh 2 роки тому +4

      A summer smoker underground!

    • @St.Linguini_of_Pesto
      @St.Linguini_of_Pesto 2 роки тому +2

      Your definition of "fun" is unusual, to say the least. I bet you're a real hoot at family get-togethers.

    • @jasonsabourin2275
      @jasonsabourin2275 2 роки тому +1

      OH MY......THEY'LL BE SWINGING FROM THE CHANDELIERS!!! 🤗

    • @HughesEnterprises
      @HughesEnterprises 2 роки тому +8

      @@St.Linguini_of_Pesto You know it’s a big production pulling out the projector and screen. And threading the film, and fixing loss of loop. Maybe the film breaks and you have to splice it, And then you get to watch this bizarre time capsule of a film with the booming sound from the narrator, the clacking and whirring of the projector, the smell of burning dust on the lamp and musty heat from the fans. Where people are comically optimistic nuclear war is just a normal part of life and we should figure out how to best live with it. And it’s over almost as soon as it started with the tail of the film spinning around the pickup reel. Yeah, it’s fun.
      BTW, All hail His noodliness

    • @St.Linguini_of_Pesto
      @St.Linguini_of_Pesto 2 роки тому +1

      @@HughesEnterprises hail! hail! 🍝

  • @KinaIchi
    @KinaIchi 2 місяці тому

    This looks like something strait out of a movie. When the shockwave literally pushed strait through those brick houses, chills ran up my entire body

  • @lynnwood7205
    @lynnwood7205 2 роки тому +16

    OMG! Shades of parochial school in the late 1950's early 1960's.
    My poor Dad, coming home after two weeks out of town on his railroad job to five kids distraught because he had not built a fall out shelter.
    Of course us boys were all analytical, my sisters scared about the movie.

    • @Jeremiah7-ox2nj
      @Jeremiah7-ox2nj 2 роки тому +2

      Not sure which is worse, the worship of The Bomb or Catholicism.

    • @kathyr.8135
      @kathyr.8135 2 роки тому +4

      @@Jeremiah7-ox2nj are you an ATHEIST? Just remember the Common theme in Hell is REGRET REGRET AND REGRET . Why didn’t I listen or believe . Jesus is real and we are in the days of Noah . Your World is collapsing. Be ready

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh Рік тому +4

    "There was a turtle by the name of Burt / And Burt the turtle was very alert / When danger threatened him, he never got hurt / He knew just what to do! / He'd duck - and cover / Duck - and cover...He did what we all must learn to do / You and you and you and you... / Duck - and cover!"

  • @peacefulscrimp5183
    @peacefulscrimp5183 2 роки тому +10

    Look at the physical condition of the people that have never seen high fructose corn syrup.🤔

    • @LonesomeTroubadour
      @LonesomeTroubadour 2 роки тому

      Which is no different than regular sugar.

    • @peacefulscrimp5183
      @peacefulscrimp5183 2 роки тому

      @@LonesomeTroubadour said someone who has never read a word about dr Weston Price.😂🤣
      Or who knows what plants use phytic acid for 🤣😂
      Someone who doesn't care what is happening to the monarch butterfly 🤔😞

    • @LonesomeTroubadour
      @LonesomeTroubadour 2 роки тому

      @@peacefulscrimp5183 ua-cam.com/video/CMuqtLYskaA/v-deo.html

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh Рік тому

      No high-fructose corn syrup, but they DID get dosed with radioactivity. So there's that.

    • @MissLibertarian
      @MissLibertarian Місяць тому

      @@LonesomeTroubadour Nope. When you eat too much cane sugar, you get satiated at some point. Corn syrup (I read) doesn't trigger you to stop. It's addictive, and corn has long been used to make cattle, pigs, and horses gain fat.

  • @vincentleeadams
    @vincentleeadams 2 роки тому +4

    If you looked really close you can see the dolphins leaving in the right upper hand corner.

  • @enak4137
    @enak4137 2 роки тому +4

    14:00 They ate beef roasted to perfection by the blast ?

  • @pepperdog3761
    @pepperdog3761 Рік тому +2

    when the world gets stupid I come to these videos to reminisce when it was a less stupid world

  • @andrewhillis9544
    @andrewhillis9544 2 роки тому +6

    NOTHING CLEANSES LIKE F-I-R-E ! ! !🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @andrewhillis9544
    @andrewhillis9544 2 роки тому +5

    LITERALLY PLAYING WITH FIRE ! ! ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @jimciancio9005
    @jimciancio9005 2 роки тому +8

    Finally some back story to the pictures that have always been shown as the destructive power of a A Bomb. Didn't know that it was actually a educational documentary type propaganda machine thing?

  • @timengineman2nd714
    @timengineman2nd714 2 роки тому +41

    The 3 things we saw during the explosion were: Flash Damage (where things started to burn), Shock Wave (near to the bomb it will be going at supersonic speeds), Vacuum Wave (this is where the smoke started to go back.)
    About the last 2: this is common even on artillery shells (of any size, however it is only noticeable to the human eye on "the big stuff"). The shock wave is due to the rapid expansion where the solid mass of the bomb (or shell) is converted (partially in "Conventional Explosives", fully in Nuclear Bombs) into gas. This will either destroy structures or put stress on them, then there is a vacuum effect since the blast shoved the air around it away, and since the after blast air pressure at the detonation point is lower than the surrounding area, air rushes back in. This is made worse during Nuclear Blasts since what is near the blast is now getting sucked into the superheated air of the mushroom cloud!
    I've seen pictures (various training manuals) of where a building/structure actually fell towards the bomb site due to the Vacuum Wave!

    • @tamahagane1700
      @tamahagane1700 2 роки тому +5

      Right along the visible flash goes the IR radiation (burning effect) plus initial gamma and neutron radiation which do affect all exposed living tissues. Fallout and residual (induced) radiation come as the aftermath...

    • @timengineman2nd714
      @timengineman2nd714 2 роки тому +6

      @@tamahagane1700 The Flash Wave includes UV, Visible, and IR light! Not something to take lightly (no pun intended). It also has the Gamma radiation, and for a short while, the Alpha and Beta particles which are faster than the Shock Wave but slower than the speed of light. (I'm referring to perhaps a thousandths of a second difference between the atomic particles and the Flash Wave/Flash Damage, if you're close to the bomb. And perhaps a hundredth of a second at 1 mile range! (It's been about 40 years since I've had these lectures!!!)

    • @Dobie_ByTor
      @Dobie_ByTor 2 роки тому +8

      Alpha particles are insignificant compare to heat radiation. The Alpha particles are very short duration and very low penetration ionization energy. Gammas are the most ionizing and penetrating. For example, A particles can’t penetrate skin but gamma particles will easily penetrate through an exposed organic system like humans while ionizing the tissues in the process. If your close enough to be exposed to lethal radiation energy, you will shortly thereafter be subject to flash heat radiation that will almost certainly kill you almost immediately. If you’re far enough from the detonation, the radiation energy will not reach you within a mile for a 100kt yield. But the heat radiation is known to flash burn exposed flesh and materials for miles if in line of site. The shockwave blast quickly puts out “local” fires near blast but PSI is high enough, as was seen, to level most dwellings many miles from the same blast. Further out, firestorms from heat/blast combusting debris materials will be seen 10’s of miles from zero. Irradiated materials caught up into the cloud will “fall out” of that cloud usually in a “long leaf” pattern depending on the wind patterns at high, mid, low levels. That radioactive material is what causes the longest term damage at greatest distances from zero point lasting years, decades, millennia depending on the materials used in the bomb and amount of radioactive material dispersed from blast. But remember there is short term radiation energy and also long term radioactive ionizing material and are distinct from ea. other.
      It’s crazy to realize the temperatures and pressures from the multi-MT class weapons can flash burn green foliage over 20km+ distance from blast point. Hot enough to melt steel and asphalt on Pacific proving ground islands over 15km-20km from Castle Bravo flash point. That’s literally over the horizon. Of course the heat radiation and blast shockwaves interact and can cause some very interesting dynamic pressure and wave phenomena. Most of this happens before you’ve discovered the mushroom cloud rising on the horizon. If your looking at it, you’ll be instantly blinded. Most of what we see in atomic test are captured by sensors/specialized cameras and film…not people. (As far as the multi-MT devices are concerned)
      Interesting stuff!

    • @timengineman2nd714
      @timengineman2nd714 2 роки тому +5

      @@Dobie_ByTor If I remember correctly, both Alpha and Beta had issues penetrating human skin. However, they were extremely dangerous if inhaled, or ingested, or entered by a cut or a scrape....
      On H-Bombs (once again if I remember this part correctly) after the initial blast the Radiation declined as follows:
      7 hours it has declined by 10%, however considering we're talking Megatons, that's still enough to kill you!
      49 hours declined to 1%. Limited trips out and about, quick washing off of objects you want to use later.
      343 hours (14 days & 7 hours) it is about 0.1%. You can go out for longer period of times, but -- -- -- you're still getting hit with Radiation.
      Of course this is a general guideline!!! Most of the fallout is whatever was on the ground that got sucked up into the Fireball/Mushroom Cloud and has fallen back to earth!
      Bombs like Castle Bravo and the Tsar Bomb are "dirty" where they produce excess Neutrons. I was never briefed on how these would effect the guidelines I've listed above. (Note: Castle Bravo was the first realistically air drop H-Bomb the US had and was meant to be in the 5 MT range and produced 15MT due to the presence of Le7 which they thought would be stable during the reaction. They were extremely wrong about that!!!!!!!!!)

    • @tashuntka
      @tashuntka 2 роки тому +1

      Ummmmm
      Fun fact...

  • @dougholliday467
    @dougholliday467 2 роки тому +1

    I was 13 y. o., at the time, and a junior in Junior High School.

  • @drgonzo305
    @drgonzo305 2 роки тому +4

    she seemed especially interested in every single test they did, I don't think she really understands what "especially interested" really means. this is a a 1950's lady reporter so that is not too surprising.

  • @chuckselvage3157
    @chuckselvage3157 2 роки тому +7

    Safest place is stand at ground Zero U won't feel a thing.

    • @timmotel5804
      @timmotel5804 2 роки тому

      I wanna see the first two or three, then i want to be vaporized on the next one.

  • @SuV33358
    @SuV33358 Рік тому +1

    Same narrator who did every other film like this way back when. He did em all 😊

  • @BasementPepperoni
    @BasementPepperoni Рік тому +2

    I wonder if June or any of the people who were on the test site the next day, eating from cans recovered from the nuclear blast and poking around the irradiated rubble still had their hair by the time the 60's rolled around?

  • @Johnnycdrums
    @Johnnycdrums 2 роки тому +13

    Thunderbird convertible at 11:15.

    • @danielcruz8347
      @danielcruz8347 2 роки тому +3

      Rear Skirted Too...Thunderbirds are a Go.....peace

    • @mikebyerly2344
      @mikebyerly2344 2 роки тому +3

      Corvette would have melted.........

    • @kathyr.8135
      @kathyr.8135 2 роки тому +2

      My Honda outlasted that ugly junk . 330,000 miles and still going

    • @Johnnycdrums
      @Johnnycdrums 2 роки тому +1

      @@kathyr.8135 ; Is it a 1955 model?

    • @danielcruz8347
      @danielcruz8347 2 роки тому

      @@kathyr.8135know your car is true dependable, But she never had body like this skirted convertible classic T bird..No disrespect intended to you...peace

  • @JackF99
    @JackF99 Рік тому

    The background music is just lovely.

  • @mrkrinkle72
    @mrkrinkle72 2 роки тому +4

    This felas lapel is singed, he'll be just fine! Don't forget to pick up your hair!

  • @thomasreith9487
    @thomasreith9487 2 роки тому +6

    Es wäre ohne Zwifel das Beste, wenn die Kernspaltung nie entdeckt worden wäre!

  • @IanMcFerran
    @IanMcFerran 2 роки тому +10

    Why not construct homes, cars and communication equipment out of the same materials that the cameras were constructed from along with the towers they were situated on during the blast? If only one tower was 'slightly bent' due to a pole falling on a wire connected to the tower, I'd say 1950's cameras and observation towers are our best bet.

    • @nottherealpaulsmith
      @nottherealpaulsmith Рік тому +1

      the cameras were in concrete pillboxes, and iirc they were anchored to steel girders sunk into the ground
      while it was definitely sturdy, i don't know how easy it would be to turn one into a family home

  • @scooter2kool173
    @scooter2kool173 2 роки тому +4

    Mmmm salvaged can roast beef. Poor folks where part of the experiment

  • @joiedevivre7376
    @joiedevivre7376 10 місяців тому +2

    I remember, the air raid drills we had in first grade - crouched down beneath our desks, hands clasped behind our heads….man! am i ancient! 😂

  • @garethjohnstone8662
    @garethjohnstone8662 10 місяців тому +4

    Can you imagine if governments were still testing nukes, and they sold tickets to see them being done. It would be awesome to see them having been filmed with UHD cameras.

    • @doodledangernoodle2517
      @doodledangernoodle2517 Місяць тому

      Imagine having nuke-offs where different governments came together to do friendly competitions to create the most visually stunning nuke lol

  • @braised44
    @braised44 2 роки тому +3

    The living will envy the dead!

  • @St.Linguini_of_Pesto
    @St.Linguini_of_Pesto 2 роки тому +4

    Wtf?!? Nobody is telling little Billy to _not_ stand by the window?

  • @bobss3704
    @bobss3704 2 роки тому +9

    as 7 or 8yo a kid growing up in the 50s in London I was not convinced that a corrugated steel ww2 Anderson shelter would actually work when the big bomb was dropped!😂

  • @christopherwelch136
    @christopherwelch136 2 роки тому +2

    This is beyond dystopian.

  • @jaydouglas5847
    @jaydouglas5847 2 роки тому +9

    There's a good made for tv movie based on these tests starring Martin Sheen and his son Emilio Estevez and Lea Thompson. It's title is " Nightbreaker". Made in 1989. Watched on its original broadcast date and then less than 2 years ago here on YT. It's a pretty good watch especially for a tv movie.

    • @iamnotpaulavery
      @iamnotpaulavery 2 роки тому +1

      There's also a great film/documentary by Peter Kuran called "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie". It is amazing in HD!When Peter Kuran first came out with the film on DVD, he and his wife were running a small website where they sold the DVD. I wrote and asked if I could get an autographed copy and I received a copy autographed by Mr. Kuran *and* his wife!! That was really nice of them!

    • @jaydouglas5847
      @jaydouglas5847 2 роки тому

      @@iamnotpaulavery !! The Trinity movie is just about my favorite documentary ever. Everyone needs to watch it. I've seen it well over 20 times and counting. Everything about it is amazing. Even the original score by Stromberg sends chills down the spine. It's a truly must watch especially for younger folks who never lived during the cold war hysteria. I should also mention another must watch documentary for those wishing to learn about the times. " The Fog of War" Am award winning documentary by Errol Morris on the life of Robert S McNamara. Total engrossing and so well done it sets the standard for excellence. Thanks Paul( of course you picked a cool character from a cool movie) for mentioning Trinity !

    • @misterjoe3
      @misterjoe3 2 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/c99N2SrvLqc/v-deo.html

  • @realtimecartravel
    @realtimecartravel 2 роки тому +5

    The house in the middle is what we need!

  • @jbmbryant
    @jbmbryant 2 роки тому +2

    This makes me remember many a 'drop drill'.

  • @dinkul903
    @dinkul903 2 роки тому +5

    @7:58 was that Max Headroom?

  • @patriot9455
    @patriot9455 2 роки тому +1

    even in 1955, there was a recognition of some frailty of the power grid, but the idea was we had "enough" time to make it better. Where did all those people go

  • @jquill6
    @jquill6 10 місяців тому +2

    I wonder how many of those folks suffered from premature deaths due to cancers etc.

  • @Cheezwizzz
    @Cheezwizzz 2 роки тому +2

    While the top brass stayed dafuq away from the blast site!

  • @williamkious5349
    @williamkious5349 Рік тому +1

    The need to convince the public that an exchange was survivable... lol

  • @pixelrabbit261
    @pixelrabbit261 2 роки тому +2

    and they all lived happily ever after…

  • @LillyB_RN
    @LillyB_RN 2 роки тому +3

    Did they mention the results of the food they tested afterwards? 🤔

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh Рік тому

      This stuff was dug up and sent to laboratories to be tested, etc. So no, they didn't say what the results were.

  • @Name-ps9fx
    @Name-ps9fx 2 роки тому +9

    Indiana Jones movie where he stumbles through a Housing development and sees mannequins everywhere.... A genuine "Uh-oh!" moment!!

    • @timengineman2nd714
      @timengineman2nd714 2 роки тому +1

      This film, plus an earlier film (thank you Nuclear Vault!) where a housewife is throwing out food (post blast) made me wonder how many companies marketed "Lead Lined Refrigerators"!

    • @dsm3759703
      @dsm3759703 2 роки тому +1

      @@Stevie-J I like it.

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 2 роки тому

      That's too soon
      Nuclear waste causes cancer

    • @21stcenturyfossil7
      @21stcenturyfossil7 2 роки тому

      Much like the cliffhanger episode of the "Crime Story" TV series a couple of years before.

  • @Lewis_Hamer
    @Lewis_Hamer 5 місяців тому

    What ive always wondered was how they were able to capture footage of the blast without losing the cameras in the process. During the blast the camera stays almost motionless while a house is completely obliterated.

  • @colinsdad1
    @colinsdad1 2 роки тому +2

    And, as if on Cue.... Gee, there's a big fireball in the sky.
    Gotta love the Olde Timey gadgets they use for Testing- looks like something from Lost In Space.

    • @almostfm
      @almostfm 2 роки тому +4

      It only looks "olde timey" to you because it's a 70 year old film. That equipment was pretty much current tech in the day.

  • @isag5932
    @isag5932 10 місяців тому +1

    This video makes me feel I’m in a vault in fallout

  • @TreyVaswal
    @TreyVaswal 2 місяці тому

    I love at the beginning where they cooly scale to 20MT.

  • @notatheory4488
    @notatheory4488 2 роки тому +1

    The fact we still use electrical lines even.

  • @Travis141123
    @Travis141123 2 роки тому +8

    9:25 the first documented image of a white man wearing a cap backwards...

    • @timmotel5804
      @timmotel5804 2 роки тому

      and he wasn't even a "Baseball Catcher..." so sad.

  • @ecleveland1
    @ecleveland1 2 роки тому +15

    Growing up during the cold war we always had the threat of nuclear war. The actual threat from Russian ICBMs lasted around 35 years and basically ended in 1991. It's been 31 years and now we are once again having to live we the real threat of Russia using nuclear weapons. It would have been great if in the 1990s all of these weapons would have been dismantled and destroyed on all sides.

    • @vangogo6819
      @vangogo6819 2 роки тому +4

      I worked for too many years on parts for ICBM's and other horrible cold war materials, my conscience finally won out over the pay.

    • @johnmc3862
      @johnmc3862 2 роки тому +2

      It would but Russia doesn’t play ball.

    • @tomdumb6937
      @tomdumb6937 2 роки тому +2

      Most peaceful period in europes history. 1945-now

    • @kathyr.8135
      @kathyr.8135 2 роки тому +2

      The Message of Fatima. We can overt this but we choose to ignore Mary’s warnings

  • @irishrebellion483
    @irishrebellion483 2 роки тому +6

    "I asked about the possible loss of utilities and what that would mean to survivors. No electricity to run a home or industrial plant may be one of our biggest problems."
    Right, never mind all the fallout; you'll be safe in your "basement shelter" constructed of pine 2x4's.
    😏😎🙄

    • @isilder
      @isilder 2 роки тому +1

      No they said shelters are better than nothing but not great. This is due to the great distruction .. the heavy parts of the building above will fall into the shelter if its not super-strong. But the issue with fallout is that its not at the test site. The fallouts worst problem was in populations in states far away from the test states - the dairy cattle states the north get it worse due the fall out going with winds to the north and east, and they get radioactive iodine in the cows milk ...

  • @M335h1
    @M335h1 3 місяці тому

    😅 watching this in my kitchen next to our Frigidaire fridge... Iconic...its new but our hotpointe downstairs is from the 50s but wasn't on site that I know of.

  • @bobhoward6676
    @bobhoward6676 2 роки тому +2

    And they all died a week later of radiation poisoning.

  • @anthonymagda9059
    @anthonymagda9059 Місяць тому +1

    3:30 Adam Corrola was in the Civil Defense??? I did not know he was THAT old......

  • @F15CEAGLE
    @F15CEAGLE 10 місяців тому

    All our schools in Buffalo had underground civil defense shelters. Also multiple Nike sites.

  • @MakeitStop-er5kx
    @MakeitStop-er5kx Рік тому +1

    They need to use these old DOD movies to recreate what not to do when transporting nuclear weapons. There was an incident where a plane dropped an ordinance over one of the Carolinas I believe.
    "That was a dumb move, Jim. You don't want to vaporize the neighborhood, do you?"

  • @robertliskey420
    @robertliskey420 2 роки тому +2

    Wow this brings back memories. In grammer school we had duck and cover drills. They rang the bells for a long burst we ran for cover We had to know where the shelters were. And living in the bay area the difference between air or water burst.

    • @dsm3759703
      @dsm3759703 2 роки тому +1

      The bay area? Which bay? There are about a million in this world. But I guess your home city is the center of the universe and we all should know of where you speak.

    • @PassifloraCerulea
      @PassifloraCerulea 2 роки тому +2

      @@dsm3759703 In the US, "the bay area" is around San Francisco, California

    • @robertliskey420
      @robertliskey420 2 роки тому

      @@PassifloraCerulea OOPS Sorry I meant to put that. We knew we were toast a Nikie site covering the bay was a mile or less from my house. I can't tell you how freaked we got when they had a drill in the middle of the night. Raised the missles and everything!

  • @wes11bravo
    @wes11bravo 2 роки тому +4

    4:30 - 2 point climbing, just like walking down the street.

  • @ericdanielski4802
    @ericdanielski4802 2 роки тому +2

    Nice video.

  • @andrewhillis9544
    @andrewhillis9544 2 роки тому +7

    I AM SURE THIS NUCLEAR DETONATION TEST WAS DONE WITH THE BEST OF INTENTIONS ! ! ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @dpchait7793
    @dpchait7793 Рік тому +3

    I Wonder how many of those people later died of cancer ??

  • @PavewayJDAM
    @PavewayJDAM 2 роки тому +1

    Damn they put some effort into scoring this!

  • @legbreaker2762
    @legbreaker2762 2 роки тому +8

    So many people wandering about without a care for radiation....

    • @mikebyerly2344
      @mikebyerly2344 2 роки тому +4

      No Kidding !!!
      Wonder how many died from witnessing this?

    • @geonerd
      @geonerd 2 роки тому +1

      What radiation? A tower shot doesn't produce much fallout to begin with, and the houses were located upwind from ground zero.

    • @Dobie_ByTor
      @Dobie_ByTor 2 роки тому

      @@geonerd lol… what?? Nice try and effort but….no.
      Most of CD was to appease the public. In reality with hindsight, we know most of the CD info/“plans” for Gen public was worthless…esp in metro areas. Where you gonna dig a 48 hour dirt fallout shelter in rubbled Brooklyn? If CD was worthwhile, why was it dismantled before fall of USSR?
      I think we’ve all seen enough of modern society to know people won’t be sitting outside at picnic tables eating roast beef, drinking coffee after a thermonuclear exchange. Be lucky to have uncontaminated water for a couple days if someone else doesn’t kill you for it.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 2 роки тому +1

      @@geonerd A "tower shot." You describe a groundburst--the most poisonous type of nuclear detonation. Cancer rates spiked downwind of these tests.

  • @tashuntka
    @tashuntka 2 роки тому +20

    24 hours later we were all at ground zero planning our leukaemia...🤷‍♂️😱😱🤷‍♂️

    • @isilder
      @isilder 2 роки тому +1

      It doesn't work that way. the basic heat and light from the blast didnt burn them , the shockwave didnt break their ear drums, so they didnt get injured by the blast. Its then the fall out that will go on to kill in places far far away.

    • @isilder
      @isilder 2 роки тому +4

      If you go to an area that has been collecting sediments, eg a lake bed that doesnt drain , then you can dig into the ground and use a geiger counter to find the 1950's layer, by finding the radiation of the fallout. This radioactive layer is found in sediment all over the world.

    • @isilder
      @isilder 2 роки тому +1

      What this means is that time it takes for ground zero to become "safe enough" is not an indication that atomic bombs do not make radioactive fall out. Its insidious, a silent increment build up with each above ground test, that kills such a tiny % of people but all over the world and it keeps on killing..There used to be an idea that below a certain level , there was no increased risk of cancer. But the realisation is that some people are more at risk from radioactive iodine than others, so while for many there is a safe level, its not generally true for all humans.thyroid cancer rates increases relative to the increase in fallout. There's no safe level of fall out... There was another view that a small level of increased radiation might immunise you ... but thats makes no sense, there is already background radiation, and no hope you can get immunity to radioactive isotopes of iodine or caesium.. immunity is about proteins "antigens". anyway.

  • @lilmike2710
    @lilmike2710 2 роки тому +19

    These need to be revisited since a potato in charge of foreign relations, has the nuclear codes, and is allowed to ramble Infront of a microphone and a global media.

    • @tjtinsurvivaltin3797
      @tjtinsurvivaltin3797 2 роки тому +1

      President Potato will kill us all with his ineptitude.

    • @lilmike2710
      @lilmike2710 2 роки тому +3

      @@tjtinsurvivaltin3797 My sentiments exactly. Fortunately, it appears that everyone's starting to realize it, even the fakenews

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 2 роки тому +9

      No, the potato was voted out in 2020. You must mean the potato in the Kremlin who's threatening to destroy you.

    • @lilmike2710
      @lilmike2710 2 роки тому

      @@RideAcrossTheRiver I'm so sorry about your learning disability.
      I wish there was something that could be done to help people like yourself, with special needs.
      But the good news is there are people who do not have an IQ commiserate with room temperature, who do understand simple economics, foreign relations, diplomacy and how to relate to the majority of Americans who have to work for a living. So all you have to do is listen to and trust them (the grown ups) and you'll get along just fine.
      And again, I am genuinely sympathetic for your intellectual handicap. But I'm %100 certain that your one of the very best at fingerpainting.

    • @Miniver765
      @Miniver765 2 роки тому +6

      Triggered, and in chronic denial. 👆

  • @andrewhillis9544
    @andrewhillis9544 2 роки тому +2

    WHAT A BLAST ! ! ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @Frohicky1
    @Frohicky1 10 місяців тому +1

    Ah, flaming mannequins and light orchestral music. A simpler time.

  • @MichaelSHartman
    @MichaelSHartman 2 роки тому +1

    Upload 3 to 4 days old. This type of video is becoming popular.
    I ponder how many viewers are preppers, Boomers, and others.

    • @Diesel436
      @Diesel436 2 роки тому +1

      Who cares watch the damn video

  • @gregorydahl
    @gregorydahl 2 роки тому

    It was a test of things in our daily lives . Like houses , peoples bodies , telephone poles . etc.

  • @AlexKarasev
    @AlexKarasev 2 роки тому +2

    Wait, they ate up all the irradiated food at the on-site picnic?

    • @MrTruckerf
      @MrTruckerf 2 роки тому +2

      Why not? It had been flash-cooked to perfection! Waste not-want not.

  • @JovenAlbarida
    @JovenAlbarida Рік тому +1

    Does are powerful camera too

  • @blueridgepics
    @blueridgepics 2 роки тому +2

    Did they allow enough time for the masonry of the brick house to cure? If not it's no wonder that it didn't survive.

  • @stealthshot28
    @stealthshot28 11 місяців тому +2

    I want to know the results of the food test. It must not have been good or the narrator would have said they where perfectly fine. I wonder if the government kept track of the people they fed at ground zero with the food recovered from the test. They were all definitely part of the test, all unwitting participants.

  • @1okanaganguy
    @1okanaganguy 2 роки тому +5

    Mom: Jimmy. What's that flash?
    Jimmy: I'll go loo...

  • @MariusMooore
    @MariusMooore 2 роки тому +2

    They made it seem so "Mulberry"

  • @shirleyontiveros612
    @shirleyontiveros612 2 роки тому +2

    They are walking and eating in fallout radiation!