Chinese Nuclear Testing Film (1966)

National Archives and Records Administration
Chinese film
Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations, 1900 - 2003
Chinese Film 1966
ARC Identifier 72247 / Local Identifier 342-USAF-50534.

[@numberstation]

“These chickens even laid eggs after the nuclear explosion.” Yes, and quite a few humans did too, I imagine.

[@logoseven3365]

numberstation Including the roosters!

[@spankthemonkey3437]

numberstation I want six toes and seven fingers

[@datadavis]

I got twelve fingers but my brain is even worse off

[@zayedbiniqbal2797]

It's Ur imagination

[@PocketMarmo04]

I'll bet those chickens were [as the Colonel says] EXTRA crispy.

[@TheIndogamer]

19:35 until 19:48, probably the most metal thing I've seen. It's as if Tusken Raiders were in Mad Max

[@rebuskecebong]

lmao truee

[@kevlarburrito6693]

Yes lets all go charge off to a cancerous death before ever reaching our objective, so metal

[@GTFO_0]

What were they doin😂😂

[@KonaLife]

😂

[@Gaetano.94]

@@GTFO_0 I think it's called horseback riding.

[@MrShobar]

Test 596 (1964) was a uranium 235 fission device having a yield of about 22 kilotons. It was tested at Lop Nur in northwestern China. The first Chinese hydrogen bomb was also tested there in 1967.

[@africanelectron751]

Three years to go from uranium fission weapons to fusion enhanced......jeez that's impressive.

[@logoseven3365]

African Electron Not when you’re looking at everyone else’s homework

[@anthonyszarek6905]

@@logoseven3365 EXACTLY!!

[@tttcp5546]

@@logoseven3365 If your country can copy a hydrogen bomb,I'll believe u.

[@logoseven3365]

φ Ö McDonald’s, MTV, Iron City Lite, Nuclear Fusion, and the Spork were all invented here.

[@jameswells554]

Having worked the CBRN mission just watching them handle the irradiated materials so casually made me shudder. You know damned good and well every single person involved in that exercise died horribly from Leukemia, and other cancers.

[@polackwizerd]

They're communist so its okay ..

[@jameswells554]

@@polackwizerd there is that.

[@benhudman9204]

James Wells yes but all for the greater glory of Chairman Mao

[@emilie6466]

Ladies and Gentlemen, that is why COVID-19 exists today because stupidity and a lack of safety in Chinese Labs

[@jameswells554]

@@theonlydupy duuuh. Seems like you were the only one not up to date. Not exactly new and breaking news.

[@TheMudbrooker]

The narrator sounds like Sterling Hayden, I kept expecting him to tell Mandrake that we must protect our precious bodily fluids.

[@nathanbean555]

Made my Night

[@josephhebert8760]

Copy that

[@martynm.449]

Fluoridation of water... That's where its all gone wrong.

[@logoseven3365]

TheMudbrooker All of you are jealous of his essence but are drawn to it.

[@tombryant5029]

I can see that one. However the narrator sounds more like Martin Landau to me. He can also play an unhinged general well too!

[@brainburrito]

Braving the radioactive effects of the bomb, the chickens used the power of maozidong's thoughts to lay eggs. (cue inspiring music)

[@anthonyszarek6905]

This is where the real recipe of general tsos chicken came from

[@Zoomer30]

I don't often apply effort, but when I do I apply maximum effort. Stay efforted my friends.

[@Wanup_Vodka]

we're facing a great leap forward situation

[@datadavis]

How did it go?

[@yvc9]

Good one

[@thegreatnessoftheraiders4948]

Mystery science theater 3000 would have a field day with this video.

[@tooltechrecords]

True!

[@dudleyvasausage7879]

yeah and it would almost make someone laugh once.

[@michaelsummerell8618]

"There is laughter everywhere, because of the bumper crops"... Hold on, Chairman Mao's just had another of his amazing thoughts....

[@Dartheomus]

"Our first nuclear test surpasses the levels of the first nuclear tests of the US, Brittan, and France." Yeah... 22 years later.

[@madelief47]

And stolen, by the Ruskie's, and learned or given by them,

[@aluisious]

@@madelief47 You muppets taunting the communist party in the comments of some video are hilarious. No one cares about your hot takes.

[@timnord4091]

Wow… you can calculate. Good boy.

[@siroyiryuu]

@@Dartheomus One of the common nonsense that uneducated bad children often say to children who learn well.

[@siroyiryuu]

The pain in your hearts, you people, is that you have never been considered like Western Europe or Americans. But you also hate the distant China, because China has walked very well and far on the path you gave up. The character of the despicable nation colonized by the spirit is evident in you.

[@markmalasics8413]

Presented in China Cine-Color and Mao Mono Sound Systems, with only 22% wow and flutter.

[@BlvlWmpower]

lol

[@JETJOOBOY]

All that precision equipment and they STILL can't synchronise the AUDIO to the VIDEO!!!

[@videolabguy]

Mao, to his adoring public who all want a hug, "Please don't squeeze the chairman!"

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Charmin(g)

[@ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw]

😂

[@MrShobar]

"Another victory song for Chairman Mao's thought…".

[@nunyabizness199]

Fiddlesticks

[@mikeg4972]

A lot of excitement over stolen plans.

[@tbhUSuckOo]

@@mikeg4972 You mean the stolen German/Polish scientists by operation Paperclip?

[@fchanMSI]

I wonder how many people in this movie survived the war games more than 10 years. All of fallout being churned up by the tanks, trucks & horses into their bodies.

[@allonisaacr2929]

None, With the amount of radiation they absorbed I'd be surprised if someone there left alive.

[@Interdiction]

The west did so much worse eh

[@fuffoon]

Amazing the accolades given to Mao after he wound back the clock 300 years.

[@deafmusician2]

You know what happens if you don't agree. Sounds like the modern left, doesn't it?

[@joesalgado]

DeafMusician go back to your cave sir.

[@deafmusician2]

@@joesalgado can't stand the truth, I see.

[@joesalgado]

DeafMusician Oh I do, we were talking about history. But no you come up with some stupid sh1t from your friends at Fox News. Remember your Orange leader wants to be just like one of those Dear Leaders.

[@deafmusician2]

@@joesalgado I have never heard more skin color comments than those that CLAIM to not care about skin color. Democraps are the biggest hypocrites in the world. They are the NAZI"s that they claim everybody else is. You can't dispute my statement regarding the SJW left (which is ALL of the left)

[@followerofjulian1652]

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

[@ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw]

Mass brainwashing !

[@BigTinyFFL]

How do you figure? I'm 100% positive that during the Manhattan Project when soldiers went to the area near Los Alamos to pull back the sensors and other items that recorded the detonation, they wore radiation suits just like the Chinese did. I agree they did not while they viewed the explosion from 20 miles away, but neither did the Chinese.

[@aeroAdvocate]

Humans under Mao and Stalin were worth nothing.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Yes, but they didn’t play in the fallout-covered sand with tanks and shit

[@stevehicks8944]

Definitely. Everyone who went into Ground Zero of the Trinity test wore covers over their shoes as not to pick up any of the irradiated sand.

[@jadimerahmu]

​@@West_Coast_MainlineThe U.S. military once asked soldiers to rush into a nuclear weapons test site that had just exploded without any protection. It was that experiment that taught the entire world not to do this. Seeing you, I think I understand the reason why the US government is unwilling to improve the education system. Idiots are more likely to be deceived.

[@miller8097]

@@stevehicks8944 theres a video on youtube of american soldiers marching to ground zero from their trenches, radiation from a nuclear bomb isnt nearly as deadly as people think

[@WolfmanDude]

Everyone was harmed in the making of this video

[@_MaxHeadroom_]

Did those soldiers just literally pour swear out of their boots? That's insanity

[@togsikmale5625]

I remember using similar ABC protection suits up to the 80s. They would fill up with sweat up to your thighs.

[@trueKENTUCKY]

Wow that's hardcore

[@sk84lifedb]

@@togsikmale5625thats nasty

[@spankthemonkey3437]

You could not literally sweat that much your body would turn into a dehydrated piece of meat. Early propaganda on how tough their soldiers were🤷🤦🤣

[@togsikmale5625]

@@spankthemonkey3437 Unless you drink through straw integrated in your gas mask (which is possible with most modern gas masks).

[@JETJOOBOY]

"Comrades are Glad to JOiN" translates to "Comrades were given Nitrous Oxide Balloon before the camera panned past them"

[@rippleandgrendel]

"Comrades all agree is much better choice than B. "You and entire family get killed"

[@philgiglio7922]

"Gather the red flowers which are growing everywhere,"...ironic that: Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy is a red flower.

[@lilouis6983]

I kinda feel a strong rush of nostalgia as I watch this old documentary film...

[@MillerVanDotTV]

One bat has been deposited in your soup Cheng. 🦇 🍜 🦠

[@Gr33kChief]

still hits 13 years later

[@colonelgraff9198]

Still hits 57 years later

[@SebastianDingleswitch]

The radiation is still gonna hit for thousands of years

[@sid2112]

When this bomb detonated the hit was California Dreamin' by The Mamas and Papas. It still hits today too. Perspective!

[@kaizee808]

Robert McNamara when speaking on the issue of nuclear deterrence brought up an excellent point in that China has effectively achieved deterrence all these years with a very small (compared to US/Russia) nuclear arsenal. Why do we need thousands of warheads and risk potentially wiping out a large portion of life on earth when we can achieve the same goal of nuclear deterrence with perhaps 20 or 30 warheads?

[@michaelbruns449]

By demons be driven.

[@uberkloden]

Great money building warheads, great money mining uranium, great money on infrastructure. A win win situation.

[@yuluoxianjun]

Since USA love peace...by killing all the 7000000000 people

[@kingofaesthetics9407]

McNamara's comments aren't that relevant in the present day since China has increased warhead production in the hopes of eventually matching the US and Russian stockpiles. Accepted estimates currently put the Chinese stockpile between 250 to 350 warheads. The reason why most nuclear armed states have high numbers is for redundancy, if you have too few you run the risk of having the bulk of your nuclear deterrence being knocked out in a first strike.

[@eucliduschaumeau8813]

Oppenheimer said something similar, but Edward Teller had crazy ambitions to make thermonuclear fusion bombs, which are exponentially larger. Teller had Oppenheimer blacklisted over this and he was eventually stripped of his security clearance. Oppenheimer lived out the rest of his days in the Virgin Islands, dying just ten years later.

[@PhthaloType]

You can make a drinking game out of every time they say "success", "successful", or "successfully"

[@johnhoon7069]

I wonder if they bothered to hatch out those eggs and see what would grow from them chickens

[@jnichols3]

Where do you all those radioactive monsters came from that have the insatiable desire to stomp on everything Japanese.

[@user-mp3eq6ir5b]

John Hoon ☆ Might Explain the Sightings of Pterodactyls soaring around the Tien Shan...

[@starstarFiretheEarth]

chicken can lay eggs without sperm, these eggs won't become chicken. I think it's that kind of eggs

[@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster]

Russian technology most likely advanced this greatly if not directly....

[@Sevensixtytwo]

1400 russian nuclear engineers worked for China before Chrutsev said no more this shit.

[@timmoles9259]

You mean Stanford?

[@Mikke-G]

Soviets helped them immensely but they probably regretted it afterwards seeing how China reacted after Stalin's death

[@Eargesplitten-Loudenboomer]

Yea did you not notice the type 56 AK's and SKS's?

[@HughBond-kx7ly]

I agree there is no way that China could have traitor nuclear physicists inserted in other countries nuclear programmes like the Russians had in the US and UK.

[@xXxWARvetxXx]

I wonder if the animals they sacrificed were enthused with chairman Maos inspirational wisdom before they died

[@nicholasmaude6906]

Restored footage from this film was used the "Trinity and Beyond" documentary.

[@PoppaBlue59]

Prutonium Brast.

[@firefightergoggie]

That's "blast" you plick.

[@JasonLambek]

PoppaBlue59 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣

[@FishbedMyBeloved]

@I will die on my feet , before i live on my knees no, he got it. That's why he said plick and not prick

[@youngsamuel1]

@I will die on my feet , before i live on my knees you didn't get him.

[@skindianu]

Dis, awww road of clap!

[@gossimer3]

Is there a follow up on what the long-term effects to all the people, animals, and plants were, that would prove interesting? I mean, we know, ourselves - because of our own experiments and stupidity, but what did they, themselves, think, feel, and learn after the fact? No more than we did, I guess, or anyone else, as we're all still racing headlong towards worldwide Armageddon. Absolutely insane, that's what we humans are. 🙁

[@trueKENTUCKY]

Yes. Ded

[@grindelston5968]

Human is a species not a 'race'

[@TomatoPastə]

They died by natural causes due to ageing. -CCP

[@Primordial...]

@@grindelston5968 what is the "human race?"

[@Gaetano.94]

@@grindelston5968 they are interchangeable. The word race comes from the Italian word "Razza" which translates to "species"

[@jorgenguyen7641]

When I saw the lab workers sitting on wooden benches in a tent, it hit me like a diamond bullet right between my eyes: this is the most beautiful thing i've ever seen. A bunch of poor people getting together and using their wits and gumption and combining their meagre resources to to the massive task of building a nuclear bomb.

[@danielescobar7618]

You sob I'm in. Let's do it.

[@Melody_Raventress]

Absolutely beautiful. I'm convinced.

[@nealkelly9757]

Lol, soviets gave them the instructions

[@jorgenguyen7641]

@@nealkelly9757 I'll give you the instructions to build a car. I'd like to see you manage it, bitch

[@keko9180]

​@@nealkelly9757not complete ones

[@dobiem1]

And he was like.... "Dude! Let's microwave this dog!" Tasty?

[@jfloresmac]

Um-um, tastes like chicken.

[@anthonyszarek6905]

Hell yeah Nathan's Rottweiler dude my favorite. Bar S Beagle is my second favorite! ❤️

[@kennethwallace4338]

Bassett hound Frank's

[@dietrichgroenemeyertv]

you are just human crap like Mao and his followers

[@skindianu]

Yes! Rabbit on menu! Yours fresh; come to back door of restaurant and say, "Ruff ruff"! You eat, now, roundeye

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

i believe this was the film that Peter Kuran restored and used for the ending of Trinity and Beyond, parts of this match that sequence, shot for shot

[@rtqii]

Yep

[@rrhone]

What amazes me is that there have been no accidental nuclear detonations by any of the nuclear players in the world, which are many. Sooner or later, Boom. Its gonna happen. God help us when it does. That could be the end of us all if someone over reacts .

[@spankthemonkey3437]

rrhone Iran will do this

[@zayedbiniqbal2797]

@@spankthemonkey3437 How can u confirm? If u have the right to defend urselves then so do we.

[@spankthemonkey3437]

@@zayedbiniqbal2797 Iran has said it wants to nuke Israel many times now why would anyone not believe them idioso🤷🤦🏼🤦🏼😂

[@Sevensixtytwo]

Nuclear devices needs specific ignition sequence. There is no way it happens accidentaly. All nuclear bombs USA have there is even so called "one point" emergency detonation system that ruins whole bomb if needed.

[@usewhatyouhave6975]

It’s because nuclear weapons are fake.

[@faheemfaisal4406]

I like how that guy at 12:54 slipped from the cliff 😂

[@XrisSmiles]

🤣

[@MrKingdavis13]

I thought the part about how fast they developed the bomb ( over 20 years after America ) was supposed to impress the people. Imagine a press release today praising someone for reinventing the smart phone and wanting people to be in awe and marvel at the accomplishment. Lol

[@spankthemonkey3437]

Davis King Pablo Escobar son made a folding cell phone

[@traviskitteh]

@@spankthemonkey3437 "Made" meaning that he he simply bought about 100 of them, then applied a custom outer skin. Those phones were never meant to be more than a scam, and the vast majority of phones paid for never actually made it to their intended customers, Sans the few sent to KZbin tech reviewers.

[@gwjl-qsws]

美国会把原子弹技术分享其它国家吗？你拿发明手机然后重新发明手机比喻，你是真的搞笑。

[@PacificEdibleSeaweed]

@TheKolbeg I stand corrected. Upon further research I find the many of the top minds; Szilard, Fermi, and Teller, were all political refugees who came to work here in the United States. It was their collective hope that their knowledge would not be used for warfare. A bitter irony, but Teller seemed to have no problem uncorking the nuclear genie and promoting the Hydrogen bomb in 1950.

[@eucliduschaumeau8813]

Edward Teller was not a very pleasant person, from what I have read. He was determined to design and produce thermonuclear bombs, but J. Robert Oppenheimer was insistent that we continue with the smaller fission bombs. He was also against the development of the exponentially larger fusion bombs. Teller so desperately wanted to make the thermonuclear fusion bombs, that he went after Oppenheimer, publicly claiming that Oppenheimer was a Communist sympathizer. This was only based on Teller's "opinion", but this animosity resulted in Oppenheimer's security clearance being revoked.

[@MohammadFaisalZahid]

99

[@_CAT-lg4sr]

It's amazing that we humans have not annihilated each other and life on this planet over the course of these last 50+ odd years since this film was made. All it takes is some deranged zealot leaders to destroy us all. GOD HELP US.

[@a3103-j7g]

don't blame god. pray that joe bidler doesn't get anywhere near the red button.

[@NohjAnec]

@@a3103-j7g Actually I pray that Putin doesn't get anywhere near that red button.

[@a3103-j7g]

@@NohjAnec ok now get back to research of your gender identity.

[@NohjAnec]

@@a3103-j7g What does that have to do with what we’re talking about?

[@analienfromouterspace]

This day will come but not now, or later but soon enough. Look at the state of greed today, there is no brightness in the coming days.

[@marianacosta2250]

In the film innocent animals, wild and domestic, are seen as dogs put to be burned alive many times after long agonies. Terrible selfishness and cruelty. "MAN HAS MADE THE WORLD A HELL FOR ANIMALS" Arthur Schopenhauer

[@YusTus-h9s]

the WHITE MAN started it LOL

[@PrettyFLY4aWiFi.]

Bet they ate the dogs the next day.

[@YusTus-h9s]

@@PrettyFLY4aWiFi. that would be an experiment LOL

[@synwei1558]

The weapon was designed and tested to take human lives, and you think the military care about animals

[@shadowtrooper262]

It is said that the chinese prototype tank, WZ-121, is used and was destroyed during the nuclear test. I highly doubt that it is still around today.

[@Primordial...]

well, you DID say it was destroyed so,..............

[@ku1]

Wz121 is a designation for the 69式 tank

[@Road38910]

Chinese steel production was below the West at the time of this film. Chm Mao said "we must produce more steel, we must set up a furnace in every village". Every village had a steel production target. But the steel they made was very low quality. Before long, each village was throwing good steel and useful tools into the furnaces to make poor steel that was good for nothing so that they could claim they met the target. The consequences of this action were that thousands of tons of useless steel was made in order that China out produced the West but huge quantities of good quality agricultural tools were sacrificed to the home made blast furnaces as an unintended result.

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

Wich lead to at least 30 millions death, and possibly the deadliest man made event in human history

[@alexandercarder2281]

@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420 exactly. Chairman Maos thoughts with fervent emotions

[@jerrywatt6813]

Yes the results were mass starvation !

[@goodluckogbenna8267]

When the communists give you a target, you better meet your target.

[@rinzler9775]

Mao and then Xi to this day repeat this insanity all the time. At the moment they are spray painting hills and planting rocks - I'm not kidding. Therexl are also fields of unused ekectric cars, built purely to show higher production numbers than the west.

[@danielgoddard8476]

The wonderful enthusiam the people emote over nuclear armaments: Iran had similar films/enthusiasm. Happy happy revolutions...hard to beat.

[@soulalchemist387]

"We're not so different,you and I.."- Austin Powers

[@JETJOOBOY]

Damn those kids can SWEAT! how much and HOW did they DRINK to not die?

[@Jaecht88]

They're in full radiation zone. They died anyway

[@PacificEdibleSeaweed]

@TheKolbeg @TheKolbeg In Rocketry, yes. While the Germans were also working hard making the first atom bomb, they were still years away in 1945. German scientist were captured and repatriated in the U.S., and the Soviet Union. I think we got the smartest ones and they contributed greatly to American Knowledge.

[@jonathanchen5902]

10 years ago daum

[@aspetuckantiques5464]

"One of Chairman Mao's sentences are greater than a thousand other sentences!" That's the funniest thing I've heard this year. The "thermonuclear bomb" looked like a fake, tritium-enriched A-bomb that was air-burst for best effect.

[@jfloresmac]

And the added sound effects were completely unrealistic.

[@612southside]

@@tripplefives1402 "Easy" relativity speaking.

[@TZAG]

War...war never changes...

[@sbreheny]

What the heck is the point of charging into the area that you just neutralized with the bomb?!

[@irregular2329]

To practice possible tactics in tactical nuclear warfare. US did the same thing, by marching into the mushroom cloud without any protection.

[@coiledsteel8344]

Sean Breheny - To take out any resistance. Any survivors may be a little pissed off at who did this.

[@spankthemonkey3437]

Coiled Steel that's a burning question

[@user-mp3eq6ir5b]

Sean Breheny ☆ BECAUSE WE CAN!!!

[@user-mp3eq6ir5b]

Coiled Steel ☆ Hey Look! A hole with some chickens in it! Think I'll just jump down & ☆BOOOOOOMMM!!!☆ Wha hoppen? Look! Fried Chicken!

[@SantiagoRevecoLepeReborn]

A very rare example of an English dub on a Chinese film.

[@hayerubihayerubi5720]

Split the atom in the 1960s but can’t build a camcorder or get my f...king order correct on a Saturday night 🤯

[@TheJeffNasty]

Holy crap they still used Peshkas and TU2's during this time.

[@fantom5894]

TheJeffNasty And the first air drop of a Chinese nuke was done by a Tu-4, a direct copy of the elderly B-29 Stratofortress!

[@heinkel174]

fantom58 Wrong, it was dropped by a TU-16

[@heinkel174]

TheJeffNasty How is that surprising? It was 1964, less than 20 years after the war. Great many third world countries still used a significant amount of WW2 relics. Even in the US, piston-engine aircraft like A-26 survived into the 60s.

[@TheJeffNasty]

Hui Jiang Not surprising at all, I just didn't suspect it. I was under the false impression that the PLA was practically jet powered by this point. :p

[@luisfranca6386]

POOR DOG in front that house... 26:34

[@TheBooban]

omg I think theres two.

[@Ronbo710]

TheBooban were.

[@9digitNo]

They probably ate him aftherwards.

[@chuckcampbell1080]

9digitNo i was going to say the same thing..now they all have radioactive shit

[@kawythowy867]

Erich Noll Mankind are freakin idiots. NO respect to other species. I am ashamed to be a human. Bonehead idiots.

[@RoboCorpse3000]

"Hey everybody, they're gonna set off our country's first atomic bomb! Set up the volleyball courts!"

[@user-mp3eq6ir5b]

RoboCorpse3000 ☆ Future Premier Xi @12:34

[@ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw]

😂

[@EndingSummerwithRalph]

Thanks for sharing, cool stuff!

[@drjthornley]

I had to hold down my lunch to watch this. And that bloody happy happy music.

[@JETJOOBOY]

second bomb shot was a beauty... This film did make the Chinese look HARD AS FOOK! Although, it wouldn't be a big stretch to say this is tantamount to a mass SNUFF MOVIE.... I doubt very much that the end credits state that "NO ANIMALS OR PEOPLE WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS MOVIE" ?!

[@tonyf.8858]

Anybody that can do something like this to a dog, with a clear conscience, can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

[@ANTHONYWMITCHELL]

They talk about America like we didn’t stop the Japanese from conquering their country

[@NickZhukov]

You stop japnese?? 😂😂😂 No any american were at Mainland of China.

[@latinassassingaming708]

​@@NickZhukovyou sound stupid read your texts before you send them out....

[@rockets4kids]

19:46 Something about swords and nukes being used in the same battle...

[@roberttrotter1502]

Interesting how the guy translating starts speaking long before the original transcription and called the performance/celebration "propaganda..." Kinda makes you wonder. ... And then Bruce addressed the claim of "sick man of Asia." :)... -b

[@jjojo2004]

Setting off bombs is one thing-mastering how to deliver on a strategic level is a whole other process!!! 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@jameswisecarver]

We should just make everything out of what the cameras were made of the film too, no radiation damage, astonishing, yea just build cameras just like these just big enough we can live in.

[@lordlee6473]

My respect to these predecessors who were born at a tougher time and had to work super hard to build the foundation of modern China. They would be proud to know that China has achieved unimaginable success if they were still alive today.

[@jonh537]

China killed a lot of them

[@obiwankenobi687]

Oh yeh because genocide (literally happening now) is really unimaginable success

[@allonisaacr2929]

OK you clearly not a scientist I get it but they just storm into a zone that a nuclear bomb was Detonate So most chances all of them have absorbed a massive amount of radiation, I'll be surprised if any of them is alive just Because of the percentage of how many of them are gonna get cancer I mean they were exposed to huge amount of radiation most of them probably died within 2, maybe 3 years after that happened

[@yuluoxianjun]

@@allonisaacr2929 USA:yes,i do those things a lot.thank you for your love.I love invade and kill,i have 800 military bases ,i invaded over 35 countries,i killed 3000000 people and make 30000000 people homeless.I throw over 80 Nuclear bombs in Hawaii,makes over 300000 people in Hawaii died

[@ProfessionalPregumin]

Lol

[@Graviton64]

They probably make those too, with mystery industrial chemicals added.

[@JETJOOBOY]

All that precision equipment and they STILL can't synchronise the AUDIO to the VIDEO!!!

[@microchook]

chickens are really resilient to radiation. Up to 100 rads. So keep chickens in case of nuclear war.

[@douggief1367]

Your not just saying that because your last name is chook?

[@josephastier7421]

26:38 They left a dog tied up outside that building.

[@chem525]

Secret ingredient to General Taos Chicken!

[@JETJOOBOY]

I believe the lessons learned by charging into Ground Zero could have been easier learned in a classroom. I mean, there won't be much enemy hardware to seize and I doubt the resistance shown by the BOMBEES? would be much that a trained squirrel couldn't overcome. The Close Quarter Combat result in the bombed City will be MOOT before the first pillaged bottle of fine wine had been drunk...

[@jimhowland8965]

Chairman Mao knows all. He must have been a friggin genius.

[@danielrodriguez248]

Just like any filthy commie, they starve there own work them to death ,take everything they got while they live a life of luxury, you know Damm well all those people that were in the desert setting up what is a weapon of mass destruction they all died horribly from radiation poisoning ,cancer or the experimental drugs and other experiments they did on them

[@Clearwater420]

@@danielrodriguez248 do you relize capitalism created communism , just a thought . By the way how many civilians died BECAUSE of the west , I'm no communists BUT we all have blood on are hands , West and East ... 👍 Peace 👽

[@bakedkoala9827]

@@Clearwater420zero

[@Snagabott]

I'm pretty sure Games Workshop would sue them for copyright infringement today.

[@estatesales9818]

8:35 oddly enough it turns out that their A-bomb was made of the same materials.

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

What materials ?

[@estatesales9818]

@@peekaboopeekaboo1165 lol "discarded lumber and grass strings."

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

@@estatesales9818 Funny fake news.

[@estatesales9818]

@@peekaboopeekaboo1165 Prove it.

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

@@estatesales9818 "discarded lumber and grass strings" do not explode. 😉

[@hospod163]

This makes me want a fallout set in china

[@Interfect727]

dancers with guns provide stimulating activities...

[@warmbreeze7996]

early only fans

[@KimDelong-f7y]

I sincerely doubt that the mindset of Chairman Chi is far removed from what we see in this straaaange film!

[@יעקובאינורס]

These are all Wall Mart factories now...

[@MitzvosGolem1]

Boycott communist China!

[@gregr2784]

that's a good one !😂

[@TheSteveSteele]

“The atomic bomb, designed and built by our own nation, I promise..” So you’re saying that the Soviets had nothing to do with this at all.

[@elvenkind6072]

"This is a gigantic success of Mao Tse Tung thought!" - It was really a gigantic success of diplomacy of begging the Soviet Union to get the tech that they in turn had stolen from USA when they were allied during WW2.

[@MrRJS27]

I'm surprised that as early as 1966 Lin was mentioned before Zhou.

[@cat637d]

The Dog survived and then Mao ate it!

[@artatme]

The Chinese have not brought high technology since the last 10 years. no 3D mobilcom, no TV with 3D, no power transmission without cable, no computer with professors with light speed and never ending memory for us all.

[@manchvegas7772]

The things that I watch when I'm stoned. The next day 🤔

[@Bayreuth1943]

Snippets of this film were used for the experimental film "Anti-Clock" by Jane Arden.

[@christiankeefe7448]

They are all excited about creating their own atomic weapons, but really they had just joined the group of countries that have made atom bombs

[@HappyFlapps]

Japan on hearing about Chicom Bomb - "Ruh Roh Raggy!"

[@rayj9]

The Mao worship gets really old after a couple minutes.

[@lil__boi3027]

*seconds

[@peterfirside295]

I was 1 year old in 1966, and I remember thinking "hmmm, but this is only going to contribute to Chinese unbalanced economic situation". Then I pooped myself

[@lindsayfog5246]

i like how they manage intricate scientific measurements next to a tent in a field in a sandstorm .

[@spectradatum7451]

How about running to the nuclear blast site with firehoses?

[@crashcrain]

What's so funny is that almont all their instruments were made in the US or Europe.

[@MrShobar]

At 26:43, a stray dog can be seen in front of a test structure. It's a safe bet it met its destruction there.

[@MrBlackart69]

poor dog

[@sconeofark]

the peoples testing dog perished bravely and earnestly for the vision of chairman mao the party and the peoples liberation army in order to show that our dogs are superior to the inferior dogs of the imperialist west.

[@josephastier7421]

Yeah that poor thing was chained up outside, directly exposed to the bomb to test the effects.

[@alejandrocastillo1325]

I was watching this videos and I just felt so bad to see that dog... I came to the comments just to find someone mention it u_u

[@HughBond-kx7ly]

Those fire balls are really weird.

[@Road38910]

Fact or myth: in the cultural revolution, China was below the rest of the world in steel production. To remedy this, every town and village had to build a furnace and produce steel. The government set targets which were essentially impossible to meet. Plus, the home made steel was of very poor quality. Pretty soon, villagers were throwing good agricultural implements into the furnace to produce useless steel. The implements were impossible to remake from home made steel. The law of unintended consequences strikes again. Fact of myth, discuss.

[@rushdo6230]

well,actually my data was different from yours.China steel production was growing in CR.In 1974,China firstly surpassed UK.Achieve their first goal(surpass UK and USA).China lowest production was happened in the Giant Leap1959 period not CR (1966-1976)

[@antoindearg5614]

Partial myth. The backyard steel furnaces did exist, but were not anywhere near widespread, and were abandoned quickly when it became clear they were ridiculously ineffective. China was buying entire steel production plants from countries all over the world between the 60's and the 90's. They bought most of the steel plant from the town I grew up in (Ravenscraig steel plant, Motherwell, Scotland) around 1994.

[@juliemunoz2762]

They also killed off the sparrows nationwide because chairman Mao said they’ll eat all the seed from your crops. The next year locust swarms and other insects ate all the crops because the chicoms killed all the birds that ate the insects. After a couple years of famine They had to import thousands of sparrows from other countries to repopulate the ones that They had killed into extinction.

[@catbert007]

I am wondering, where there local people croowded and picnic on the test site after detonation as happened in Los Alamos ?

[@starstarFiretheEarth]

no, it's no man land luobupo

[@thorn1174us]

The next time you go shopping and pick up an item that says MADE IN CHINA remember this film.

[@YangShuLin]

你可能会连内裤都没得穿😂

[@jumolangma8557]

Throw away your Iphone and ditch your Tesla?

[@OverlordShamala]

At time stamp 26:40, I can make out a silhouette of something just below the middle window of the structure. By 26:42, it can be seen it's a dog. Meeting it's demise at 26:43. Poor mutt, must've wondered into the structure.

[@flashlight1497]

26:35 Poor dog, he didn't have a chance.

[@67EHC]

20:10 Me pregunto cuántos de esos soldados fallecieron en poco tiempo por la radiación. I wonder how many of those soldiers died in a short time from radiation.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Many

[@yuluoxianjun]

it is Nuclear war,what do you expect

[@67EHC]

@@yuluoxianjun Nuclear war ?????

[@tahustvedt]

Even their film stock was only red.

[@superblip9372]

I especially like the approved Red Guards entertainment at 8:07. No chance of any decadent imperialist western immorality seeping into these ranks. Chairman Mao shows how happy you can be with a bowl of rice and cold carp, while staring down the barrel of an AK47.