Gary M. - I was born in 1951 and living with my parents in Glendale, CA. My earliest recollection of watching TV wasn't cartoons, but seeing the footage of the fake towns and manaquins used for the nuclear tests. During my elementary school years, we regularly practices bomb drills. It made quite an impression on me ...
Its surprising to say, but I was born in 1987 and lived in Southern Illinois, and we did nuclear drills all the way through 6th grade(1998 or so). I feel like we were behind the times as the cold war was over etc. I guess better safe than sorry. Even as a kid, we all knew if the big one ever came... crawling under a desk was NOT going to save us 😆. It was very life changing to go through though. Made you consider possibilities you otherwise wouldn't have. Ive grown up with the same cold war mind set as my parents and other elders. I wonder if other folks my age were still doing the drills in school that late? It was such a different world, even just 30 years ago...
Wow....my small lasting memory is feeling the shaking and being real people in one of those eleged mock people towns....I wrote a diaper message sure it was get us the fk out of here
Think of the huge amounts of effort the photographers had to undergo to make this footage available, even today. The cameras had to be mounted on 16' steel poles, and pinned to the ground with guy wires. All the mounts had to be covered in lead shielding to prevent the footage from becoming 'foggy' from the radiation. The camera housings inside the homes weighted at least 500 lbs IIRC. THEN, all of the cameras had to be set to timers, to start recording moments before the bomb went off. Not to mention the lighting for the interiors (see 2:45, you can see the reflection of the lights). As well as the data retrieval, processing, storage, and restoration. The cameras shot on 16mm film, and if one of the cameras were destroyed, that was that. No 'redo'. Also, the mannequins were produced by JCPenney. After their microwave adventures, they went on to be showcased in the JCPenney windows in Las Vegas. Creepy as fuck, but I think the AEC just wanted to see how fucked up they'd get by the bomb. Huge props to Peter Kuran, BTW, who restored all the footage seen here. The quality used to be garbage before he treated them. Well done Smithsonian. Operation Teapot Apple II, May 5, 1955, 29kt.
John Callaghan that footage is clearly fake. How could the camera be close enough to see the blast but not even get destroyed. Only ignorant people would believe that is real footage from the 50s
Of all 'conspiracy theories' 'a bombs are not real', it can be seen as the 'more plausible' ones. Let's imagine these haven't been real. It's a very interesting exercise.'Motive', action, reaction, details means to fake' , etc... need tons upon tons of research. We live in the prolongation of the Roman empire, and nukes come in handy to manipulate the world,, so it is very plausible to start with. I am not a believer (currently), I want to be swayed to reality. Do you know an Englishman ran to Einstein in 1935... without using any form of communication, in order to inform him they should bombard neutrons, instead of protons?! Investigate the whole story , like crime scene, and add all material evidence to back it up. Would you like to do that for me? Also : look up 'Union Meunière', and see what they have been delivering to New York (US), back in the late forties... ok?
*There are far worse than you out there, Robert. It took all of our science for you to play God, while the gods look at you like a child in a sandbox, Robert. Don’t forget that.* -Barbie to Oppenheimer.
My father told me he saw this footage in the late 1950's. To the best of my knowledge it has never been shown to the public since then. It is absolutely terrifying. This has been vastly shortened.
My grandpa was part of several shots. He likes how ppl are interested in the footage today, but he impressed on me how seriously they took it at the time. You had to figure out what might save lives.
Omg would be a good movie like, somebody working in a site like this to setup towns, but there’s like an eerie feeling something is wrong, it’s not ”human-like” mannequins they use, it’s humans drugged to act like mannequins inorder to get proper research to the government.
Thank God 😊 it's just like the moon landing 🙏 praise be to those cameramen and the technology involved in creating the cameras and telephones that withstanded nuclear blast and allowed ys to call the astronauts in real time without satellite technology and have those first photos of the landing beamed over in time to get them on the front page of newspapers here in Australia mear hours after this historic event 😀 😄 👏📽🎬
@@andreadekauwe1219do you know how much more difficult it would be to stage or fake such footage? It would be unfathomably difficult, to the point where actually landing on the moon is easier to film the set than to try to do it in a studio. Similarly, faking a nuclear test isn't easier. Many cameras failed to record within the buildings, and there is no redo button. There is no 3d modeling or such that could be substituted either, no vfx or other effect editing. Seek Dr Disillusion
I remember a handful of dreams I’ve had, some much more vivid than others. Something I will never forget and think about often was a dream I had in my early teens. I’m inside my childhood home, glass windows porch, loud noises, looking in the sky, plane flying over head, noticing something falling, immediately think bomb,(most vivid moments still gives me chills)- I curl up on the ground and close my eyes, one second, two seconds, almost three seconds. Simultaneously feel freezing and completely blinded by white light. Wake up and hyper ventilating for minutes on end.
I've worked in radiation areas, and everyone going in is given a key. For the radiation producing device to work, everyone of those keys needs to be placed in an interlock keyhole and turned to 'on'. The last ppl out had the sole responsibility of searching for people, and they were thorough.
@@DrDeuteron "radiation producing device", mate its a bomb. I doubt there was a key, they probably went with good 'ol head count considering it was back in 1950s.
If you are interested in more information, go to Las Vegas and tour the museum of Atomic Energy. I took the tour several years ago and found it very interesting. I was told by one tour guide that the scientists placed and male and female mannequin a bedroom of one house in a “compromising” position. I did not ask how they looked after the explosion. But you got to love a couple of scientists who have a sense of humor.
Indiana Jones survived this test by staying inside a fridge. And that will always be the first thing that comes to my mind in case a nuclear blast reaches my home
@TheFruitMan a modern day fridge would just store your cooked body, the old fridges were lead lines meaning they sort of protected you against radiation, modern day fridges are mostly plastic and they wouldn't help at all
step one: get beat up in highschool step two: be a supernerd that starts paypal step three: start tesla and a boring company step four: become irl ironman to send a car into space, step five: make them all pay, with live action nuke tests
One of the stories seldom told during this time was how the Japanese use Chinese civilians to actually test their weapons in the same manor. So much surrounding this conflict was just horrible.
Light travels faster than sound. The heat is from the blackbody spectrum caused by the fission reactions (or fission and fusion reactions in thermonuclear tests). 80% of the energy is in the form of soft and hard X-rays, which ionize a volume of air surrounding the bomb, heating it to 10’s of millions of degrees Celsius. The rate at which this unimaginable rise in temperature occurs over ~525 cubic meters of air is so incredible that it causes a hydrodynamic shockwave to form, racing against the faster expanding superheated air until the fireball cools enough for the hydrodynamic shock front to overtake the thermal radiative Marshak wave.
@@bjornragnarsson8692 Great explanation - now explain why a house got wiped off the earth while a camera stayed perfectly still and worked the whole time
@@bennyskim Peter Kuran wrote a book called "How to photograph an atomic bomb." The cameras had lead-lined steel cases with armored glass over the lens. They were placed 2,750 to 10,500 feet away from the blast. Outside cameras were mounted on steel poles, eight inches in diameter, with a concrete base.
Something leads me to believe they wouldn't heed the warning and assure you that the house in the middle of the desert is actually a JC Penny's. Poor, misguided mannequins.
@@SoulForty5Music Yeah, amazing, just like Hiroshima & Nagasaki being bustling metropolises after they were fire bombed, oh I mean "nuked".. We live in an empire of lies..
Even scarier is that the entire fission reaction (as seen here because these are fission tests) takes place in a couple hundred billionths of a second. The fusion burn in the secondary or tertiary stage of a thermonuclear weapon is complete in just 20-30 billionths of a second. The rest is what you see here - all of that energy has to go somewhere and is being used to provide work (F*distance, dKE/dt) on the surroundings.
The usual. Ask any mechanical engineer if it is difficult to manufacture a camera enclosure to withstan an atomic blast at half a mile if the yield is known ahead of time and there are no fiscal limits.
The university I went to (Washington State University) had a lecture auditorium that once doubled as a fallout shelter. So basically it was underground and the walls were incredibly thick. Unsurprisingly, the Wi-Fi reception was bad. Kind of interesting to see the remnants of this age in modern times!
reminds me of how my high school had a theater/stage auditorium in which underneath the stage was a nuclear shelter. both my mother, and her mother, attended and remember it too. there would always be rumors of how that was the spot couples would go to canoodle during school hours. never went down there and that theater room was really not utilized much except for drama classes so most students didn’t ever really go in that room. there was a newer, massive modern theater auditorium built in the new section of the school which was what we used. anyways, I never got to see the bunker under the stage in person but I did hear that they had found super old crackers down there as part of a survival pantry!
I grew up with a small hillside bomb shelter as a playhouse. The house was from 1954 so it makes total sense. Many other homes in the small, dismantled 1950s country club had bomb shelters of different types in their yard. The side of the hill, at my parents, is very overgrown now. It is so overgrown that it looks like a ivy choked hobbit hole. That structure would have never survived a nuclear blast.
Yeah, I've developed my own film before and it's super sensitive! Get a drop of the wrong chemical in the bin and your whole roll is ruined. I can't imagine what radiation would do to it! Maybe the cameras are completely made of lead.
Spotted Hyena haha I can imagine how difficult that was. dark rooms right? any bit of light could ruin everything. I miss film cameras. everythings digital now. .
Yep, I had to use a darkroom. Actually, I prefer digital because it's more forgiving and there are more options for editing and distributing it. Although, one advantage that film has over digital is that it's super high resolution because the emulsion is a bunch of microscopic silver particles, rather than pixels. The film in a camera is about the same size as the film in a drive-in theater projector. This makes cropping easier.
First millions of a second when the bomb goes off. The core of the fire ball gets hotter then 500 million degrees Celsius. When a hydrogen bomb aka( thermal nuclear) weapons go off the explosions heats the air at ground zero well over 500 million degrees Celsius. Vapourized everything including sky scrappers. Well damn EVERYTHING.
300 million degrees Celsius? 500 million degrees Celsius? Nah. Even if that were true (which it is not), I say "meh". The hottest thing in the universe is a quark-gluon plasma with temperature of 5.5 TRILLION degrees Celsius. Science fiction, you say? Nope. It was created at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle collider in Europe.
0:07 The initial blast was enough to INSTANTLY burn the paint from the walls before the shockwave then sends everything to splinters. It's almost unfathomable what could happen to a human being if one were standing there.
Exactly. The videos are total frauds. They were made using miniatures of the buildings and everything and was done on little sets. Or else not only would the cameras have been shaking at the very least, and destroyed at most. But the film would have been totally destroyed by the radiation alone. But somehow the video is perfect and the film is A-Okay. And that's because these videos are fraudulent renditions made as propaganda to scare the public as well as the soviets who were behind us at the time in A-Bomb technology.
During a nuclear test, unmanned cameras closer to the explosion, at 800 yards (731 meters), used lead to shield the cameras and film. Cameras were placed inside lead-lined boxes on sleds, where they captured images of the blast on mirrors that were directly exposed to the light and blast
@@Reinaa-i Not entirely. There were cameramen among the many observers of nuclear tests. It's just that the film of the interiors and exteriors of these particular structures didn't involve humans.
@@hebneh Yeah just like the remote controlled camera watching the lunar lander rocket back up from the moon, yet there was no technology to get the film back or to pan the camera up when it launched, not to mention no blast marks or burn marks. Also the lunar module was supposedly "falling" around the Moon at over 3500 mph and that piece of junk lander made of foil & duct tape and looking like a homeless tweeker shelter somehow caught it at 3500 mph & hooked right up with no GPS or even a computer as powerful as a calculator from today.. You know, sometimes you need to use common sense & be rational rather than believing what Science Priests & Government Propaganda agents are telling you to BELIEVE. Belief is the enemy of knowing..
0:07 hmm i guess the truck got vaporized as well because it just disappeared ..funny how t4h film did not get eradiated and still mange to have a perfect picture and also the Camera did not move a millimeter
Honestly curious here, how did the cameras survive? Also it seemed that they didn't even vibrate when a house was being incinerated in front of it, how?
They had a lot of protection, though the exact details have been muddled over time. The problem for the naysayers is that a fake test is even more difficult to "fake" back then than you might assume. No visual vfx, or 3d model editing, etc. It would be impossible to do such edits, yet somehow people think these tests and the moon landing and JFKs assassination (etc) are fake or staged or such Modern footage will always be possible to be faked, but older footage cannot be doctored even with modern tools (unless you mean a digital copy of old footage being edited, but that isn't the original silver crystal film footage now is it?) Funnily enough, the higher quality silver film crystal footage of some movie films are as high quality as modern 4k when recognized, just our digital recording and transmitting abilities were dogwater quality back then
If you see the nuke blast and you stick out your thumb a arm length distance and the fireball is smaller than your thumb you are usually safe from the shock wave but you should retreat another 100 or more miles away to escape the radiation that can travel about 50 miles from the nuclear detonation sight with in 24 hours.
No. Neutrons and gamma rays lose half their strength passing through about 600' (200 meters) of air. At 6 miles about 50 600' lengths) the prompt radiation is thus reduced about 2^50 times. Add to that the effect of the inverse squared law. No measurable radiation left. Gamma rays move at the speed of light; neutroms perhaps 1% of that. In any case, they're over before the blast vaporizes the bomb case.
The paint on the outside of the house was instantly burnt off.... I bet the heat inside the house was at least 10,000 degrees to instantly vaporize but not burn the wood. At 6000+ feet away. Just awful, it would be even more horrific to survive that.
Yeah it’s crazy. The interior of fission explosions reaches 90-180 million Fahrenheit and for thermonuclear fusion explosions it can get upwards of 630 million depending on weapon design. As a comparison, the internal heat of the hottest high explosives top off at 3,500 Fahrenheit with the fireball resulting from the expanding superheated gas products. For nukes, the fireball is almost entirely just the surrounding atmosphere being superheated by the blackbody X-ray spectrum.
There's an episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Hal and the boys are lost in the desert. They get onto a military restricted area and eventually find a house. Thinking they are saved, they go to the house only to find no life, just mannequins. They relax, having found respite from the sun, and ponder the strange house. Suddenly they put it all together and panic ensures.
Much of the scenes were from 1953 Operation Upshot-Knothole’s Civil Defense (CD) portion, called Operation Doorstep, noted by the 3 cloned two-story homes. The remainder was from 1955 Operation Teapot’s CD component: Operation Cue. A greater variety of common home designs and materials, communications systems, and community power supply were tested.
The sort of radiation you get from a nuclear blast (the "prompt" radiation) is gamma rays and neutrons. Neither records in film very well; they tend to pass right through it. The alpha and beta which tend to mark film are in the fireball, and rise upwards in the air with the mushroom cloud, later to become fallout. Then there's leaded glass. Material impossibility is only moderately hard for rocket scientists.
Sure, but shielding is just shielding. And because of that and the inverse square law, radiation at more than a mile from a sub 100 kT blast is fairly negligible.
I learned about these fake towns in US history class in high school. I was taking the class around the time _Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ came out. After class on the day we learned about the fake towns, I told my teacher that Indy stumbles upon one of these towns in the movie. My teacher asked how he survived, I told him, “By stuffing himself into a lead lined refrigerator.” He laughed, shook his head, and said, “Only Indiana Jones…”
Hasn't this been proven to be entirely fake? Nobody ever questioned how absolutely everything was completely destroyed yet the camera was able to be untouched?
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the mannequins must’ve been pissed when they found out they weren’t going to Macy’s
Carlos Del Angel LMAOOO💀
CYBR ANGEL Macy’s did not even exist back then but still that fricking made me die of laughter
AJ da king 162 the first Macy’s was made in 1851, the one here in New York is older than these tests
CYBR ANGEL what a stupid comment why are you actually saying mannequins which are inanimate objects are capable of human feelings hmm so dumb
The Lone Ranger oh
0:06 that car literally got deleted
Looks fake
@Arktii 難 🤦
Objects evaporate leaving behind traces due to explosion not just dissappear.
@Arktii 難 okay...my bad
@Arktii 難Thanks.....
But I don't like this flavor
That was when they were building it, it was 2 different shots lol
Not fair! I wanna see what the manaquins look like after the blast!
Witte Artistry same!?!
There are no left
Ash, they all look like ash.
Too bad
they became ones and zeros
Gary M. - I was born in 1951 and living with my parents in Glendale, CA. My earliest recollection of watching TV wasn't cartoons, but seeing the footage of the fake towns and manaquins used for the nuclear tests. During my elementary school years, we regularly practices bomb drills. It made quite an impression on me ...
Its surprising to say, but I was born in 1987 and lived in Southern Illinois, and we did nuclear drills all the way through 6th grade(1998 or so). I feel like we were behind the times as the cold war was over etc. I guess better safe than sorry. Even as a kid, we all knew if the big one ever came... crawling under a desk was NOT going to save us 😆. It was very life changing to go through though. Made you consider possibilities you otherwise wouldn't have. Ive grown up with the same cold war mind set as my parents and other elders. I wonder if other folks my age were still doing the drills in school that late? It was such a different world, even just 30 years ago...
Very interesting
It was supposed to. Nuclear weapons do not exist
Wow....my small lasting memory is feeling the shaking and being real people in one of those eleged mock people towns....I wrote a diaper message sure it was get us the fk out of here
Church: Same but scarier and for longer
Just get in the fridge!
It’s gotta be lead lined tho
SaiyaMan2011 indiana jones?
The Crystal Skull
SaiyaMan2011 lego indiana jones
SaiyaMan2011 Billy the kid?
Think of the huge amounts of effort the photographers had to undergo to make this footage available, even today. The cameras had to be mounted on 16' steel poles, and pinned to the ground with guy wires. All the mounts had to be covered in lead shielding to prevent the footage from becoming 'foggy' from the radiation. The camera housings inside the homes weighted at least 500 lbs IIRC. THEN, all of the cameras had to be set to timers, to start recording moments before the bomb went off.
Not to mention the lighting for the interiors (see 2:45, you can see the reflection of the lights). As well as the data retrieval, processing, storage, and restoration. The cameras shot on 16mm film, and if one of the cameras were destroyed, that was that. No 'redo'. Also, the mannequins were produced by JCPenney. After their microwave adventures, they went on to be showcased in the JCPenney windows in Las Vegas. Creepy as fuck, but I think the AEC just wanted to see how fucked up they'd get by the bomb.
Huge props to Peter Kuran, BTW, who restored all the footage seen here. The quality used to be garbage before he treated them. Well done Smithsonian. Operation Teapot Apple II, May 5, 1955, 29kt.
Frustrating to see all that effort having been done, and then see today's young people going 'Nukes are fake', etc...
John Callaghan that footage is clearly fake. How could the camera be close enough to see the blast but not even get destroyed. Only ignorant people would believe that is real footage from the 50s
Of all 'conspiracy theories' 'a bombs are not real', it can be seen as the 'more plausible' ones. Let's imagine these haven't been real. It's a very interesting exercise.'Motive', action, reaction, details means to fake' , etc... need tons upon tons of research. We live in the prolongation of the Roman empire, and nukes come in handy to manipulate the world,, so it is very plausible to start with. I am not a believer (currently), I want to be swayed to reality. Do you know an Englishman ran to Einstein in 1935... without using any form of communication, in order to inform him they should bombard neutrons, instead of protons?! Investigate the whole story , like crime scene, and add all material evidence to back it up. Would you like to do that for me? Also : look up 'Union Meunière', and see what they have been delivering to New York (US), back in the late forties... ok?
John Callaghan was that reply to me? Haha I said the footage was fake
I thought you were one of those A bomb deniers. Could be the footage is false, could be it isn't, the ones filming can tell you.
*_"There were others before you Barbie. Just like them, you are made to be destroyed"_*
-Oppenheimer
I hope Barbie movie gets what it deserves, destroyed too
@@juanangeles8211what why does the barbie movie deserve to get destroyed
*There are far worse than you out there, Robert. It took all of our science for you to play God, while the gods look at you like a child in a sandbox, Robert. Don’t forget that.*
-Barbie to Oppenheimer.
Less nuke town call of duty comments than I thought
bryan really cuz theres alot?
Tbh same
Exactly
Indiana Jones and the crystal skull
I was expecting COD + Fallout in the comments, but honestly I'm quite grateful that people are taking history seriously.
So this was the first mannequin challenge?
CHERISE SCANTLEBURY 😂😂😂👏
Sure...
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Yep it was so intense back then you even held your pose though a nuclear blast
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My father told me he saw this footage in the late 1950's. To the best of my knowledge it has never been shown to the public since then. It is absolutely terrifying. This has been vastly shortened.
Whats terrifying is the modern nukes are thousands of times more powerful than this.
That is because its 100% fake
@@Webrexxx source?
@@WebrexxxKid whatever your parents are smoking. Please stay out of that room
@@DenNorskeFyren Google it. It's common knowledge
My grandpa was part of several shots. He likes how ppl are interested in the footage today, but he impressed on me how seriously they took it at the time. You had to figure out what might save lives.
Ur grandpa was in several shots, as in on this video?
Well they did they told us to go under our desks in school
They were wrong again just like everything else I learned there!
@@deeanonymous7407 his grandpa had a death wish
50-60 years later is it safe for journalist to return to city of radiation?
@@casey4602 yes
Imagine one of the mannequins suddenly grab you as you placed it on the chair and yell "Nooo! Please!"
Ooh, House of Wax kind of stuff.
😂. As if this era wasn’t creepy enough.
Omg would be a good movie like, somebody working in a site like this to setup towns, but there’s like an eerie feeling something is wrong, it’s not ”human-like” mannequins they use, it’s humans drugged to act like mannequins inorder to get proper research to the government.
Give me 30 million dollars, a scriptwriter 30 actors and a VFX team and we might be able too.
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2:10 The nuclear family.
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I see what you did there
The family nuclear
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No matter what happens, the camera always survives
It's because it went inside the refrigerator during the explosion.
Thank God 😊 it's just like the moon landing 🙏 praise be to those cameramen and the technology involved in creating the cameras and telephones that withstanded nuclear blast and allowed ys to call the astronauts in real time without satellite technology and have those first photos of the landing beamed over in time to get them on the front page of newspapers here in Australia mear hours after this historic event 😀 😄 👏📽🎬
@@andreadekauwe1219do you know how much more difficult it would be to stage or fake such footage? It would be unfathomably difficult, to the point where actually landing on the moon is easier to film the set than to try to do it in a studio. Similarly, faking a nuclear test isn't easier. Many cameras failed to record within the buildings, and there is no redo button. There is no 3d modeling or such that could be substituted either, no vfx or other effect editing. Seek Dr Disillusion
I mean Captain Disillusion
@@andreadekauwe1219you think nukes are fake? 😂
Those aren’t “doomtowns” those are nuketowns😏
CoD reference.
@@youreverydayhellknight4257 yessir
Immediate thought when they were about to say the name lol
Immediate thought when they were about to say the name lol
No, they're boomtowns.
I love how when they get nuked the Smithsonian’s “It’s brighter here” cahchfrase comes up.
It's OK; I've got 80,000 sunblock lotion.
sorry, but *catchphrase
Literally same haha
This is genuinely terrifying
People are laughing about it. Scary
How are we today? Still alive I hope
Props to the camera guy for sacrificing his life to get these shots
They set up a camera
@@clock____93 🍪
Cameramen are immortal
@@clock____93 thanks😐
@@clock____93 wow thanks for making the joke 10 times better! 😁
Damn not nature you scary
Crashing Tomorrow read it again
Jirom _J hahaha
nature is still scarier.. just think about asteroids!
Sprsae don’t forget about the volcano living under Yellowstone that could erupt and destroy the entire world with just one blow.
Philosoraptor family guy....
The hills have eyes
You made us what we've become. Boom! Boom! Boom!
I really love that movie
stibombo omggg that movie scares me
plumuy what movie??
stibombo that reminds me
Still better than North Korea's towns
Squiddi LOL
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I remember a handful of dreams I’ve had, some much more vivid than others. Something I will never forget and think about often was a dream I had in my early teens. I’m inside my childhood home, glass windows porch, loud noises, looking in the sky, plane flying over head, noticing something falling, immediately think bomb,(most vivid moments still gives me chills)- I curl up on the ground and close my eyes, one second, two seconds, almost three seconds. Simultaneously feel freezing and completely blinded by white light. Wake up and hyper ventilating for minutes on end.
How old were you?
Crazy stuff. 😮
Dude I had the same dream when I was in my late teens
Man I had a similar dream recently very vivid one i’m in my teenage years as well
Sound like a past life experience, you might have died during one of the wars before? 😳🤔
Imagine falling asleep in one of the houses after a long day of work constructing the town
I've worked in radiation areas, and everyone going in is given a key. For the radiation producing device to work, everyone of those keys needs to be placed in an interlock keyhole and turned to 'on'. The last ppl out had the sole responsibility of searching for people, and they were thorough.
you'd find yourself surrounded by like-minded neighbors.
@@DrDeuteron "radiation producing device", mate its a bomb. I doubt there was a key, they probably went with good 'ol head count considering it was back in 1950s.
and imagine waking up soon enough to understand the situation but not soon enough to do anything
@@mhk2167 that one hit me in the feelers
I guess you can call them...
nuclear families
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Brian Malsch ha you're a science one
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Ppl didnt like bc they dont know what a nuclear family is good joke though
😂😂underrated comment
Alot of technology came out of nuclear testing. House design amoung many other things
do they emit radiation?
Dr. Snowman yea
TheAmazingFirehawk then doesn't that mean I'm a goul now?
No they just blew up hella shit for fun
Dr. Snowman no it means you have a micro penis nowm
If you are interested in more information, go to Las Vegas and tour the museum of Atomic Energy. I took the tour several years ago and found it very interesting. I was told by one tour guide that the scientists placed and male and female mannequin a bedroom of one house in a “compromising” position. I did not ask how they looked after the explosion. But you got to love a couple of scientists who have a sense of humor.
Anyone remembers that scene form Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull? the one where he survived by getting into a lead covered fridge
Kastro44 Yes but the fridge being ejected from the house should have seriously injured him.
He’d be a sack of broken bones and mush probably.
& it’s a movie. Don’t take it so literal.
Kastro44 hmmm......I never heard of that movie
Yes
Indiana Jones survived this test by staying inside a fridge. And that will always be the first thing that comes to my mind in case a nuclear blast reaches my home
*lead lined fridge
A modern day fridge would do nothing for you
@TheFruitMan a modern day fridge would just store your cooked body, the old fridges were lead lines meaning they sort of protected you against radiation, modern day fridges are mostly plastic and they wouldn't help at all
@@franciscosansalone Well iron actually. The magnets have to stick to something
@@DANGJOS they have some iron for the magnets but they are mostly plastic
I wish I had the disposable income to satisfy my morbid curiosity like that...
We all wish that too
step one: get beat up in highschool
step two: be a supernerd that starts paypal
step three: start tesla and a boring company
step four: become irl ironman to send a car into space,
step five: make them all pay, with live action nuke tests
I think that this shows people the intensity and danger of nuclear blasts, so they take shelter instead of shrugging it off if there is a warning.
@@gracelockhart6040 But instead Americans mock the North Korean dictator capable of nuking their country.
But with real people?
One of the stories seldom told during this time was how the Japanese use Chinese civilians to actually test their weapons in the same manor. So much surrounding this conflict was just horrible.
What conflict was that. The second World War ended in 1945.
@@erepsekahs search unit 731. Dr. ishii.
@@kpb5757 Thank you for that. It is terrifying. Dr. Fauci, Wuhan. China. Theresa Tam. It makes you wonder.
I think you're confusing WW2 for the 1950s nuclear tests
Wendigoon told me about it
Those mannequins are rad!
hA! nIcE OnE!
Rad iated
they are rad.....over 1000 rads
Call Of Duty's map Nuketown did it best.
Get out of here with Black ops
I can't see this footage, maybe its DLC user only
Lala Baddie Fuck off, the name “nuke town” came from the movie Indiana Jones
That map sucks. Everybody always picked it and it lost it's touch.
+Isaac Bridges I liked but the movie shoot or Hollywood map was my favorite
2:51 the way the nuclear fireball and mushroom cloud are seen outside the home for a split second just as the walls are ripped away gave me a chill.
The delay between heat and blast is spooky! 😨
Light travels faster than sound. The heat is from the blackbody spectrum caused by the fission reactions (or fission and fusion reactions in thermonuclear tests). 80% of the energy is in the form of soft and hard X-rays, which ionize a volume of air surrounding the bomb, heating it to 10’s of millions of degrees Celsius. The rate at which this unimaginable rise in temperature occurs over ~525 cubic meters of air is so incredible that it causes a hydrodynamic shockwave to form, racing against the faster expanding superheated air until the fireball cools enough for the hydrodynamic shock front to overtake the thermal radiative Marshak wave.
@@bjornragnarsson8692 Great explanation - now explain why a house got wiped off the earth while a camera stayed perfectly still and worked the whole time
@@bennyskim Peter Kuran wrote a book called "How to photograph an atomic bomb."
The cameras had lead-lined steel cases with armored glass over the lens. They were placed 2,750 to 10,500 feet away from the blast. Outside cameras were mounted on steel poles, eight inches in diameter, with a concrete base.
@@RobertKing-oq4fqwhat about the ones inside the homes?
If there was some way to travel back in time and warn thoes mannequins on the impending doom ....
MrUranium238 they wouldve all moved if we shot their heads off
Something leads me to believe they wouldn't heed the warning and assure you that the house in the middle of the desert is actually a JC Penny's. Poor, misguided mannequins.
Oh hi mr *URANIUM*
How did the cameras stay when getting exploded by a nuke
I think they are extremely zoomed in what I’m actually concerned about how those poor mannequins are doing
I had the same question. It mentions it was detonated 15ft above ground
@@spookypunky less height less damage my guy. Thats why they explode theese things in extreme heights (but it wont work for all of theese)
@@qulipz5967 dude some where inside
@@dnh3005 use your brain.
I love the way they talk in the 50s
Can we appreciate the strength of the camera which survived these explosions👏
Amazing the cameras didnt even shake when the shockwave hit
@@SoulForty5Music Yeah, amazing, just like Hiroshima & Nagasaki being bustling metropolises after they were fire bombed, oh I mean "nuked"..
We live in an empire of lies..
@@Snide01ive never heard of anyone thinking the atomic bombs themselves were fake 😭💀
@@quesadi Well they are censoring my comments or I would respond & send you in the direction of the truth
@@Snide01 💀
Warning: cod and indiana Jones references in the comments
Yes. Literally every. Single. Comment.
And fallout
@@Myhouseiscurrentlyburningdown not nearly enough fallout though, tbh.
Nuketown
Jirom _J get out
Indiana jones
TitanCrusher15 not cod Indiana Jones
XD
without people running around shooting, knifing, or jumping
The way it turns day into night like that is terrifying.
I wondered why it got so dark
@@Daniel_Plainview_1911 the smoke blocked out the light from the sun
@@diggs1989 ohhhh thanks 😊
It was shot in 2 parts
It's just really scary that humans created something that could just destroy everything in a seconds.
Man as a dog im scared of my owner. YOU DONT KNOW HOW I FEEL
Even scarier is that the entire fission reaction (as seen here because these are fission tests) takes place in a couple hundred billionths of a second. The fusion burn in the secondary or tertiary stage of a thermonuclear weapon is complete in just 20-30 billionths of a second. The rest is what you see here - all of that energy has to go somewhere and is being used to provide work (F*distance, dKE/dt) on the surroundings.
Everything except a camera.
Or.. Or… defend us from a Depraved Soviet Threat that had one goal in mind…
PREVENTING 🫵🏻
@@johnathon5799lol these people will believe anything if it's on the TV (tell a vision)...
Wtf are those cameras made of
The usual. Ask any mechanical engineer if it is difficult to manufacture a camera enclosure to withstan an atomic blast at half a mile if the yield is known ahead of time and there are no fiscal limits.
zoomed in
Nokia phones
@@puncheex2 There were cameras right there in the blast & no, film could not survive the radiation & glass would melt
@@Snide01 Fine. Have it yu way.
"Wake up Jimmy.. time to evacuate the area"
"..5 minutes"
Fallout players
*Heavy breathing*
*proceeds to vault*
Yeah
There is like a 50 percent I might enter a vualt
The university I went to (Washington State University) had a lecture auditorium that once doubled as a fallout shelter. So basically it was underground and the walls were incredibly thick. Unsurprisingly, the Wi-Fi reception was bad. Kind of interesting to see the remnants of this age in modern times!
*Hmm why would anyone want to bomb the Cougs?*
reminds me of how my high school had a theater/stage auditorium in which underneath the stage was a nuclear shelter. both my mother, and her mother, attended and remember it too. there would always be rumors of how that was the spot couples would go to canoodle during school hours. never went down there and that theater room was really not utilized much except for drama classes so most students didn’t ever really go in that room. there was a newer, massive modern theater auditorium built in the new section of the school which was what we used. anyways, I never got to see the bunker under the stage in person but I did hear that they had found super old crackers down there as part of a survival pantry!
I grew up with a small hillside bomb shelter as a playhouse. The house was from 1954 so it makes total sense. Many other homes in the small, dismantled 1950s country club had bomb shelters of different types in their yard. The side of the hill, at my parents, is very overgrown now. It is so overgrown that it looks like a ivy choked hobbit hole.
That structure would have never survived a nuclear blast.
@@emilytallent9677 Yeah they did a really good job at brainwashing students back then
how was the footage from inside the homes not destroyed after the blast? tough cameras...
Yeah, I've developed my own film before and it's super sensitive! Get a drop of the wrong chemical in the bin and your whole roll is ruined. I can't imagine what radiation would do to it! Maybe the cameras are completely made of lead.
Spotted Hyena haha I can imagine how difficult that was. dark rooms right? any bit of light could ruin everything. I miss film cameras. everythings digital now. .
Yep, I had to use a darkroom. Actually, I prefer digital because it's more forgiving and there are more options for editing and distributing it. Although, one advantage that film has over digital is that it's super high resolution because the emulsion is a bunch of microscopic silver particles, rather than pixels. The film in a camera is about the same size as the film in a drive-in theater projector. This makes cropping easier.
2.5 inches of lead shielding, with the mounts being bolted into the cement foundation.
So this must of been the inspiration for nuketown
nono nuketown was the inspiration for this Kappa
Nuketown was inspired by Indiana Jones. That scene in Indiana Jones was inspired by this.
I inspired nuketown
Andoni Armentia i believe you. How did you came with the idea?
Diego Maldonado *mushrooms*
Something I learned from this. To survive a nuclear explosion, just be camera man
Exactly, that’s how you no it’s all faked.
Or just get inside the fridge
@@kriswoolson2809 ?
@@knowledgeispower9724 indiana Jones reference
@@knowledgeispower9724 ?
Don’t let this be you! Reserve a spot in your local vault today!
*spots incoming nuke*
Welp, ima hide in my state of the art nuclear bunker!
*enters a 1997 fridge*
Yelp
Lol
Me: Mom what are we having for Dinner tonight?
Mom: About 500 IBS of good old Radiation poisoning as well as a side of sonic blast.
They probably be burning some weight with that blast
The music during footage: oooohh spooky
Outro: yay happy
0:08 the truck is there, then it isn't, the house didn't fully disintegrate but the truck did in less than a second, "coincidence?"
2 different times. Its not a consecutive take like it appears
First millions of a second when the bomb goes off. The core of the fire ball gets hotter then 500 million degrees Celsius. When a hydrogen bomb aka( thermal nuclear) weapons go off the explosions heats the air at ground zero well over 500 million degrees Celsius. Vapourized everything including sky scrappers. Well damn EVERYTHING.
+Clinton Walsh
> 500 million degrees Celsius
Too high by a factor of 33. The interior of the Sun is only 15 million degrees Celsius.
500 million degrees lmfao just stfu
and the hottest thing in the UNIVERSE is just 300 million degrees C
+Schooking Skel-CentrixPVP And what is that?
300 million degrees Celsius? 500 million degrees Celsius?
Nah. Even if that were true (which it is not), I say "meh".
The hottest thing in the universe is a quark-gluon plasma with temperature of 5.5 TRILLION degrees Celsius.
Science fiction, you say? Nope. It was created at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle collider in Europe.
0:07 The initial blast was enough to INSTANTLY burn the paint from the walls before the shockwave then sends everything to splinters. It's almost unfathomable what could happen to a human being if one were standing there.
I understand a human would get fatal burns over the body.
Wind at the upper end of a F5 tornado is 300 mph. Using a one megaton blast, 50 seconds after ignition the wind would be 784 mph.
How is it unfathomable
@@RMMaryport because with that powerful of a blast, we'd have little to no idea the damage it'd do to a body.
@@btr4yd it would vaporise, its not hard to figure out
One thing I wanna know how did they manage to keep the camera rolling, without them falling off , from a nuclear blast that took out an entire house .
Cameras are basically planted into the ground, shielded with lead iirc to protect from radiation
Exactly. The videos are total frauds. They were made using miniatures of the buildings and everything and was done on little sets. Or else not only would the cameras have been shaking at the very least, and destroyed at most. But the film would have been totally destroyed by the radiation alone. But somehow the video is perfect and the film is A-Okay. And that's because these videos are fraudulent renditions made as propaganda to scare the public as well as the soviets who were behind us at the time in A-Bomb technology.
HEAVILY armored cameras designed for nukes
Mounted on iron poles. Maybe solid iron poles. Anybody know?
@@Spaceman0025they don't even move a tad
How did the camera footage survive but not the houses/manaquinns?
People also believe the moon landing footage 😂
they had the cameras in airtight steel boxes with impact glass
@@jonnyappleseed9992 what does that have to do with the nuclear explosion?
@@nopenope7510 lol that shouldn't matter if you believe what they say about the power of so called nuclear weapons.. smh
@@Snide01 possibly they are fear mongering weapons but with how many countries say they have it I don’t think they are fake
2:53 When you feel confident about that test you took and see your grade the next day
How many people are thinking of nuke town when they watch this??
Daniel Rickard virtually nobody I suppose
Daniel Rickard go vikes
I was thinking of Indiana Jones
Daniel Rickard me
Daniel Rickard definitely me
“After all this time in the desert I’ve finally come across civilization!”
“Wait what are these mannequins doing here?”
💀
Stolen from h&m
Some cameras they had back then, didn't even budge
During a nuclear test, unmanned cameras closer to the explosion, at 800 yards (731 meters), used lead to shield the cameras and film. Cameras were placed inside lead-lined boxes on sleds, where they captured images of the blast on mirrors that were directly exposed to the light and blast
@@thebasedspectre3048 😂 😂
Yeah the propaganda was laid on thick back then, still is today but a lot can see thru it, thank god..
@@Snide01 No arguments except
"Muh CGI" "Muh miniatures" "Muh propaganda"
And that’s how the Call Of Duty map Nuketown was born.
Shoutout to the brave 1950's cameraman who volunteered to capture this amazing footage
No human was operating the cameras that shot these films. The cameras were controlled automatically.
@@hebneh r/wooosh
@@Reinaa-i Not entirely. There were cameramen among the many observers of nuclear tests. It's just that the film of the interiors and exteriors of these particular structures didn't involve humans.
@@hebneh oh, sorry.. I didn’t understand what you meant then, sorry for Being a bit rude. Hope you have a nice day!
@@hebneh
Yeah just like the remote controlled camera watching the lunar lander rocket back up from the moon, yet there was no technology to get the film back or to pan the camera up when it launched, not to mention no blast marks or burn marks. Also the lunar module was supposedly "falling" around the Moon at over 3500 mph and that piece of junk lander made of foil & duct tape and looking like a homeless tweeker shelter somehow caught it at 3500 mph & hooked right up with no GPS or even a computer as powerful as a calculator from today..
You know, sometimes you need to use common sense & be rational rather than believing what Science Priests & Government Propaganda agents are telling you to BELIEVE.
Belief is the enemy of knowing..
Camera never dies.
0:07 hmm i guess the truck got vaporized as well because it just disappeared ..funny how t4h film did not get eradiated and still mange to have a perfect picture and also the Camera did not move a millimeter
Time to hiding in the refrigerator
Oza Ramadhan time to "HIDE" in the refrigerator
It's time to ignore those grammar nazi's and islamophobic chicks
Is it made of lead though?
oooooooo close but ya missed it
nice camera, even stronger than the house
3 words: hills have eyes
Remember, this is 75 year old bomb technology.
Honestly curious here, how did the cameras survive? Also it seemed that they didn't even vibrate when a house was being incinerated in front of it, how?
I think that they were coated with thick layers of lead. And they were probably fixed very Strongly into the house
@@strangeman5698 Orrrr it was staged
They had a lot of protection, though the exact details have been muddled over time. The problem for the naysayers is that a fake test is even more difficult to "fake" back then than you might assume. No visual vfx, or 3d model editing, etc. It would be impossible to do such edits, yet somehow people think these tests and the moon landing and JFKs assassination (etc) are fake or staged or such
Modern footage will always be possible to be faked, but older footage cannot be doctored even with modern tools (unless you mean a digital copy of old footage being edited, but that isn't the original silver crystal film footage now is it?)
Funnily enough, the higher quality silver film crystal footage of some movie films are as high quality as modern 4k when recognized, just our digital recording and transmitting abilities were dogwater quality back then
“Intense footage” *shows 5 seconds of actual blast*
If you see the nuke blast and you stick out your thumb a arm length distance and the fireball is smaller than your thumb you are usually safe from the shock wave but you should retreat another 100 or more miles away to escape the radiation that can travel about 50 miles from the nuclear detonation sight with in 24 hours.
Plasma Skull This is actually useful to know unlike all of the cod comments
Thats why the Fallout guy has his thumbs up and a closed eye
Gabriel Griffon you just blew my fucking mind I never thought about that
No. Neutrons and gamma rays lose half their strength passing through about 600' (200 meters) of air. At 6 miles about 50 600' lengths) the prompt radiation is thus reduced about 2^50 times. Add to that the effect of the inverse squared law. No measurable radiation left. Gamma rays move at the speed of light; neutroms perhaps 1% of that. In any case, they're over before the blast vaporizes the bomb case.
Gabriel Griffon no the designer just drew him that way
Toughest cameras ever
I think it's much more terrifying for the underground tests they did. The entire ground lifts up and moves violently. Fucking terrifying
The paint on the outside of the house was instantly burnt off.... I bet the heat inside the house was at least 10,000 degrees to instantly vaporize but not burn the wood. At 6000+ feet away. Just awful, it would be even more horrific to survive that.
Yeah it’s crazy. The interior of fission explosions reaches 90-180 million Fahrenheit and for thermonuclear fusion explosions it can get upwards of 630 million depending on weapon design. As a comparison, the internal heat of the hottest high explosives top off at 3,500 Fahrenheit with the fireball resulting from the expanding superheated gas products. For nukes, the fireball is almost entirely just the surrounding atmosphere being superheated by the blackbody X-ray spectrum.
@@bjornragnarsson8692 lol 👌 👌
There's an episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Hal and the boys are lost in the desert. They get onto a military restricted area and eventually find a house. Thinking they are saved, they go to the house only to find no life, just mannequins. They relax, having found respite from the sun, and ponder the strange house. Suddenly they put it all together and panic ensures.
The radiation blast melted the minds of most of the mannequins and turn them all into "Show room dummies!"🎶
I have a question - how were the cameras kept secured as they recorded so close to or within the blast radius?
Ever hear of a telescopic lens?
@@1958Citation If true (and I'm inclined to believe you), absolutely impressive.
@@jellyfishi_ Interesting.
By steel guy wires on poles
This is all hoax. Nuclear weapon is a hoax. As simple as that.
How does the camera stay there and not get blown away?
I love the old commentary voice!
Much of the scenes were from 1953 Operation Upshot-Knothole’s Civil Defense (CD) portion, called Operation Doorstep, noted by the 3 cloned two-story homes.
The remainder was from 1955 Operation Teapot’s CD component: Operation Cue. A greater variety of common home designs and materials, communications systems, and community power supply were tested.
Macy’s took them back just in time for the summers “neon” swimsuit fashion display!
Very clever 50's film which is immune to radiation.
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+Duchy - That's materially impossible. If it's shielded the how does light enter through the lens?
The sort of radiation you get from a nuclear blast (the "prompt" radiation) is gamma rays and neutrons. Neither records in film very well; they tend to pass right through it. The alpha and beta which tend to mark film are in the fireball, and rise upwards in the air with the mushroom cloud, later to become fallout. Then there's leaded glass. Material impossibility is only moderately hard for rocket scientists.
+Incerthose A. IntoBee - Yes. What is your point?
Sure, but shielding is just shielding. And because of that and the inverse square law, radiation at more than a mile from a sub 100 kT blast is fairly negligible.
I'm a carpenter. All I can say is. DO MORE OF THESE TESTS!!!
Lol
This is literally just harming the earth repeatedly
@@mq_idk5019 Cuz the video footage looks cool
@@mq_idk5019 To make money as a carpenter builds homes...get it ?
@@manchesterexplorer8519 if I’m not mistaken they said keep testing the nukes
The stability feature on those cameras is the real technical achievement
Fun fact: You've seen most of these blast clips at some point in your life without meaning too.
Wow... imagine mannequins sitting silent?!
nuketown from call of duty😂😂
Called that for a reason after all.
That and Indiana jones look up indiana ones nuketown
Can people stop using that emoji 😂😂😂
wendy's is the best
Anyone notice in the second blast at the beginning the truck was there and then just disappeared...
The first frame was USA loading up the mannequins. The random cut was supposed to be climactic.
Cameramans from that time had huge balls to cover and follow these events! Respect!
I learned about these fake towns in US history class in high school. I was taking the class around the time _Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ came out. After class on the day we learned about the fake towns, I told my teacher that Indy stumbles upon one of these towns in the movie. My teacher asked how he survived, I told him, “By stuffing himself into a lead lined refrigerator.” He laughed, shook his head, and said, “Only Indiana Jones…”
Those mannequins were ecstatic to finally leave the store front, only to get obliterated
Hasn't this been proven to be entirely fake? Nobody ever questioned how absolutely everything was completely destroyed yet the camera was able to be untouched?
No. You just hate science.
@@tubecated_development No. we just hate fake science.
the entire town gets destroyed
"smithsonian; it's brighter here"
man, they have no sense of timing
How did they protect the cameras that filmed these blasts?
Their response will be "leaded film" 😂
I’m literally watching this as Putin threatens to drop nuclear bombs lol
Amazing how the camera stayed so still for a nuclear bomb
It's really strong
Yes little timmy! This is like the town in that famous shooting game!
He said the thing 😳