Intense Footage of Fake Towns Used for 1950s Nuclear Tests

[@cybramir]

the mannequins must’ve been pissed when they found out they weren’t going to Macy’s

[@alexjulia4870]

Carlos Del Angel LMAOOO💀

[@sandraayala4728]

CYBR ANGEL Macy’s did not even exist back then but still that fricking made me die of laughter

[@iterationfackshet1990]

AJ da king 162 the first Macy’s was made in 1851, the one here in New York is older than these tests

[@iheartlreoy8134]

CYBR ANGEL what a stupid comment why are you actually saying mannequins which are inanimate objects are capable of human feelings hmm so dumb

[@sandraayala4728]

The Lone Ranger oh

[@SaiyaMan2011]

Just get in the fridge!

[@GamingBros36]

It’s gotta be lead lined tho

[@justaguy6232]

SaiyaMan2011 indiana jones?

[@johntucker3004]

The Crystal Skull

[@druzy5106]

SaiyaMan2011 lego indiana jones

[@Justaintcopyrighted]

SaiyaMan2011 Billy the kid?

[@astralguardoriginal]

*_"There were others before you Barbie. Just like them, you are made to be destroyed"_* -Oppenheimer

[@juanangeles8211]

I hope Barbie movie gets what it deserves, destroyed too

[@Glitchy4102]

@@juanangeles8211what why does the barbie movie deserve to get destroyed

[@Blimbus-Blombo]

*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.

[@WitteArtistry]

Not fair! I wanna see what the manaquins look like after the blast!

[@ameliakay9646]

Witte Artistry same!?!

[@riche5272]

There are no left

[@dazzledazz123]

Ash, they all look like ash.

[@samuelr.6046]

Too bad

[@-_Nuke_-]

they became ones and zeros

[@luketanker6074]

0:06 that car literally got deleted

[@iscifion7122]

Looks fake

[@iscifion7122]

@Arktii 難 🤦 Objects evaporate leaving behind traces due to explosion not just dissappear.

[@iscifion7122]

@Arktii 難 okay...my bad

[@iscifion7122]

@Arktii 難Thanks..... But I don't like this flavor

[@Silly88]

That was when they were building it, it was 2 different shots lol

[@bonrr]

Less nuke town call of duty comments than I thought

[@jihndihe6462]

bryan really cuz theres alot?

[@giornogiovanna9883]

Tbh same

[@dalorisstamos7687]

Exactly

[@jesseramos4399]

Indiana Jones and the crystal skull

[@fleetwoodmak777]

I was expecting COD + Fallout in the comments, but honestly I'm quite grateful that people are taking history seriously.

[@erepsekahs]

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.

[@ZombieBacon13]

Whats terrifying is the modern nukes are thousands of times more powerful than this.

[@Webrexxx]

That is because its 100% fake

[@tom_demarco]

@@Webrexxx source?

[@DenNorskeFyren]

@@WebrexxxKid whatever your parents are smoking. Please stay out of that room

[@Webrexxx]

@@DenNorskeFyren Google it. It's common knowledge

[@yvngeric2382]

Someone Got A 25 Killstreak

[@2900faraway]

lmao

[@mudden17]

yvng eric 30 now

[@earthsteward70]

1 kill for each killotonne, most players could make an ivy mike.

[@vincentfloyd8444]

wrong game

[@queenbulova5682]

So this was the first mannequin challenge?

[@ameliakay9646]

CHERISE SCANTLEBURY 😂😂😂👏

[@samuelr.6046]

Sure...

[@TheMargoCHANNING]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@michelleuruski1545]

Yep it was so intense back then you even held your pose though a nuclear blast

[@CharlieF-rh5wb]

Normie

[@Olemarskan]

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.

[@Joke9972]

Frustrating to see all that effort having been done, and then see today's young people going 'Nukes are fake', etc...

[@aardvark2520]

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

[@Joke9972]

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?

[@aardvark2520]

John Callaghan was that reply to me? Haha I said the footage was fake

[@Joke9972]

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.

[@marshallmabley9621]

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 ...

[@theanxious]

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...

[@assa-tq5yy]

Very interesting

[@nancychandler768]

It was supposed to. Nuclear weapons do not exist

[@Dian-kb2hg]

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

[@bennyskim]

Church: Same but scarier and for longer

[@jake.cee12]

Imagine one of the mannequins suddenly grab you as you placed it on the chair and yell "Nooo! Please!"

[@maninahole]

Ooh, House of Wax kind of stuff.

[@mwloos1]

😂. As if this era wasn’t creepy enough.

[@ViceCityExtra]

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.

[@aksalaheddine78]

Give me 30 million dollars, a scriptwriter 30 actors and a VFX team and we might be able too.

[@jaimepantoja2980]

🤣🤣🤣

[@rickm6076]

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.

[@deeanonymous7407]

Ur grandpa was in several shots, as in on this video?

[@spaceindian2378]

Well they did they told us to go under our desks in school They were wrong again just like everything else I learned there!

[@spaceindian2378]

@@deeanonymous7407 his grandpa had a death wish

[@casey4602]

50-60 years later is it safe for journalist to return to city of radiation?

[@android_dreaming_of_sheep]

@@casey4602 yes

[@philosoraptor8558]

Damn not nature you scary

[@automaticBRO]

Crashing Tomorrow read it again

[@mikehawk3578]

Jirom _J hahaha

[@sprsae9003]

nature is still scarier.. just think about asteroids!

[@makisthicc]

Sprsae don’t forget about the volcano living under Yellowstone that could erupt and destroy the entire world with just one blow.

[@fredkickingbird6781]

Philosoraptor family guy....

[@Jaganedits7931]

No matter what happens, the camera always survives

[@fn326]

It's because it went inside the refrigerator during the explosion.

[@andreadekauwe1219]

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 😀 😄 👏📽🎬

[@RikaRoleplay]

​@@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

[@RikaRoleplay]

I mean Captain Disillusion

[@JoshWallace-i3l]

​@@andreadekauwe1219you think nukes are fake? 😂

[@squiddi1393]

Still better than North Korea's towns

[@Crankiebox99]

Squiddi LOL

[@Prediumed]

Squiddi LOL

[@soniakhan4063]

Squiddi LOL

[@AdolfHitler-ib2qy]

LOL

[@shibaplays]

LOL

[@exizt_tibbs9776]

Those aren’t “doomtowns” those are nuketowns😏

[@youreverydayhellknight4257]

CoD reference.

[@Dew2Much]

@@youreverydayhellknight4257 yessir

[@B4gelll]

Immediate thought when they were about to say the name lol

[@B4gelll]

Immediate thought when they were about to say the name lol

[@jasonparker3925]

No, they're boomtowns.

[@isaacmalsch635]

I guess you can call them... nuclear families

[@isaacmalsch635]

Ramen Noodles Gaming thanks you for noticing :)

[@mohammadsharawi2900]

Brian Malsch ha you're a science one

[@IASEAGLE5]

YEAAAAHHHHHH....

[@Darkwing4L]

Ppl didnt like bc they dont know what a nuclear family is good joke though

[@martielupin1981]

😂😂underrated comment

[@wildman510]

Props to the camera guy for sacrificing his life to get these shots

[@clock____93]

They set up a camera

[@madiha_tanveer273]

@@clock____93 🍪

[@bzibubabbzibubab420]

Cameramen are immortal

[@frostycalls5680]

@@clock____93 thanks😐

[@JetGuyAlt]

@@clock____93 wow thanks for making the joke 10 times better! 😁

[@stibombo]

The hills have eyes

[@M17-s7b]

You made us what we've become. Boom! Boom! Boom!

[@grace1679]

I really love that movie

[@gajajajajaj7864]

stibombo omggg that movie scares me

[@Wade_Fucking_Wilson]

plumuy what movie??

[@jeonjungkook5064]

stibombo that reminds me

[@maxh6979]

Imagine falling asleep in one of the houses after a long day of work constructing the town

[@DrDeuteron]

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.

[@AnonYmous-ry2jn]

you'd find yourself surrounded by like-minded neighbors.

[@rejuvenatingsoul3498]

@@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.

[@mhk2167]

and imagine waking up soon enough to understand the situation but not soon enough to do anything

[@artisteric]

@@mhk2167 that one hit me in the feelers

[@automaticBRO]

Nuketown

[@uruberhere5161]

Jirom _J get out

[@Crankiebox99]

Indiana jones

[@thelonewanderer420]

TitanCrusher15 not cod Indiana Jones

[@josetorres7293]

XD

[@trevorambrose4821]

without people running around shooting, knifing, or jumping

[@mrhoffame]

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.

[@erepsekahs]

What conflict was that. The second World War ended in 1945.

[@kpb5757]

@@erepsekahs search unit 731. Dr. ishii.

[@erepsekahs]

@@kpb5757 Thank you for that. It is terrifying. Dr. Fauci, Wuhan. China. Theresa Tam. It makes you wonder.

[@akumakorgar]

I think you're confusing WW2 for the 1950s nuclear tests

[@kittymeowmeow3676]

Wendigoon told me about it

[@lalabaddie7452]

Call Of Duty's map Nuketown did it best.

[@WatersOfNazareth]

Get out of here with Black ops

[@dankziq5435]

I can't see this footage, maybe its DLC user only

[@DubbedDan_Is_a_fat_donkey]

Lala Baddie Fuck off, the name “nuke town” came from the movie Indiana Jones

[@iwasanMBTInerd]

That map sucks. Everybody always picked it and it lost it's touch.

[@trevorambrose4821]

+Isaac Bridges I liked but the movie shoot or Hollywood map was my favorite

[@antivaxxnugs7859]

This is genuinely terrifying

[@savannahmendez3964]

People are laughing about it. Scary

[@bratbaby7211]

How are we today? Still alive I hope

[@mrhoa1237]

I love how when they get nuked the Smithsonian’s “It’s brighter here” cahchfrase comes up.

[@-danR]

It's OK; I've got 80,000 sunblock lotion.

[@damienoloughlin6068]

sorry, but *catchphrase

[@connorhaley9177]

Literally same haha

[@kittycasino29]

It's just really scary that humans created something that could just destroy everything in a seconds.

[@ps4logic87]

Man as a dog im scared of my owner. YOU DONT KNOW HOW I FEEL

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

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.

[@johnathon5799]

Everything except a camera.

[@nigel900]

Or.. Or… defend us from a Depraved Soviet Threat that had one goal in mind… PREVENTING 🫵🏻

[@MathieusTheWalkingWitness]

​@@johnathon5799lol these people will believe anything if it's on the TV (tell a vision)...

[@nerdytom6881]

2:10 The nuclear family.

[@N0Xa880iUL]

💀

[@andromedagalaxynebula5751]

I see what you did there

[@StationaryRocketFlipChampion]

The family nuclear

[@nkuniverse7856]

💀

[@bananachild1936]

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

[@doctordrommos6432]

*lead lined fridge

[@franciscosansalone]

A modern day fridge would do nothing for you

[@franciscosansalone]

@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

[@DANGJOS]

@@franciscosansalone Well iron actually. The magnets have to stick to something

[@franciscosansalone]

@@DANGJOS they have some iron for the magnets but they are mostly plastic

[@808hubb]

Warning: cod and indiana Jones references in the comments

[@duckyboi2910]

Yes. Literally every. Single. Comment.

[@Myhouseiscurrentlyburningdown]

And fallout

[@nezumischneider7552]

@@Myhouseiscurrentlyburningdown not nearly enough fallout though, tbh.

[@pratyushjoshi1766]

Can we appreciate the strength of the camera which survived these explosions👏

[@SoulForty5Music]

Amazing the cameras didnt even shake when the shockwave hit

[@Snide01]

@@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..

[@quesadi]

@@Snide01ive never heard of anyone thinking the atomic bombs themselves were fake 😭💀

[@Snide01]

@@quesadi Well they are censoring my comments or I would respond & send you in the direction of the truth

[@quesadi]

@@Snide01 💀

[@Vladi306]

I wish I had the disposable income to satisfy my morbid curiosity like that...

[@samuelr.6046]

We all wish that too

[@noonecares7397]

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

[@gracelockhart6040]

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.

[@ulisesr614]

@@gracelockhart6040 But instead Americans mock the North Korean dictator capable of nuking their country.

[@granddukeofmecklenburg]

But with real people?

[@clintonwalsh2264]

Alot of technology came out of nuclear testing. House design amoung many other things

[@dr.snowman4883]

do they emit radiation?

[@minecrafterselite1]

Dr. Snowman yea

[@dr.snowman4883]

TheAmazingFirehawk then doesn't that mean I'm a goul now?

[@jamesbarnett2611]

No they just blew up hella shit for fun

[@minecrafterselite1]

Dr. Snowman no it means you have a micro penis nowm

[@MrUranium238]

If there was some way to travel back in time and warn thoes mannequins on the impending doom ....

[@critical2350]

MrUranium238 they wouldve all moved if we shot their heads off

[@goosegg4653]

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.

[@EzDyt]

Oh hi mr *URANIUM*

[@Dylan-le9zi]

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.

[@victorious8513]

How old were you?

[@Livemusic1800]

Crazy stuff. 😮

[@NeutralFairy]

Dude I had the same dream when I was in my late teens

[@seansandeepa329]

Man I had a similar dream recently very vivid one i’m in my teenage years as well

[@RougeLady]

Sound like a past life experience, you might have died during one of the wars before? 😳🤔

[@kastro4460]

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

[@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703]

Kastro44 Yes but the fridge being ejected from the house should have seriously injured him.

[@LtLongslong]

He’d be a sack of broken bones and mush probably.

[@LtLongslong]

& it’s a movie. Don’t take it so literal.

[@williampotratz6247]

Kastro44 hmmm......I never heard of that movie

[@ericalow5352]

Yes

[@CaliforniaRuderalis]

Those mannequins are rad!

[@goosegg4653]

hA! nIcE OnE!

[@giornogiovanna9883]

Rad iated

[@SquidkidMega]

they are rad.....over 1000 rads

[@winternation6872]

How did the cameras stay when getting exploded by a nuke

[@qulipz5967]

I think they are extremely zoomed in what I’m actually concerned about how those poor mannequins are doing

[@spookypunky]

I had the same question. It mentions it was detonated 15ft above ground

[@ozandenuzuysal9157]

@@spookypunky less height less damage my guy. Thats why they explode theese things in extreme heights (but it wont work for all of theese)

[@dnh3005]

@@qulipz5967 dude some where inside

[@alphasheep7116]

@@dnh3005 use your brain.

[@bubblezovlove7213]

The delay between heat and blast is spooky! 😨

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

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.

[@bennyskim]

@@bjornragnarsson8692 Great explanation - now explain why a house got wiped off the earth while a camera stayed perfectly still and worked the whole time

[@RobertKing-oq4fq]

@@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.

[@dumlittlebunnycontact1274]

@@RobertKing-oq4fqwhat about the ones inside the homes?

[@hitmanharvey]

I love the way they talk in the 50s

[@hannahmitten4077]

Fallout players *Heavy breathing*

[@karolinacinkova5431]

*proceeds to vault* Yeah

[@loveisuseless2921]

There is like a 50 percent I might enter a vualt

[@swagnation3459]

Wtf are those cameras made of

[@puncheex2]

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.

[@skaty1527]

zoomed in

[@stephnes2505]

Nokia phones

[@Snide01]

@@puncheex2 There were cameras right there in the blast & no, film could not survive the radiation & glass would melt

[@puncheex2]

@@Snide01 Fine. Have it yu way.

[@deathdrivesapontiac]

Shoutout to the brave 1950's cameraman who volunteered to capture this amazing footage

[@hebneh]

No human was operating the cameras that shot these films. The cameras were controlled automatically.

[@Reinaa-i]

@@hebneh r/wooosh

[@hebneh]

@@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.

[@Reinaa-i]

@@hebneh oh, sorry.. I didn’t understand what you meant then, sorry for Being a bit rude. Hope you have a nice day!

[@Snide01]

@@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..

[@AdhamOhm]

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.

[@aaronking2000]

The way it turns day into night like that is terrifying.

[@Daniel_Plainview_1911]

I wondered why it got so dark

[@diggs1989]

@@Daniel_Plainview_1911 the smoke blocked out the light from the sun

[@Daniel_Plainview_1911]

@@diggs1989 ohhhh thanks 😊

[@dwarf2155]

It was shot in 2 parts

[@mrmolotok5934]

*spots incoming nuke* Welp, ima hide in my state of the art nuclear bunker! *enters a 1997 fridge*

[@xxboonisbadfortnitexx1549]

Yelp

[@xxboonisbadfortnitexx1549]

Lol

[@ZealotChemist]

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!

[@stevealkire7626]

*Hmm why would anyone want to bomb the Cougs?*

[@emilytallent9677]

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!

[@forestrot666]

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.

[@Snide01]

@@emilytallent9677 Yeah they did a really good job at brainwashing students back then

[@Bday-df2bw]

So this must of been the inspiration for nuketown

[@arkady753]

nono nuketown was the inspiration for this Kappa

[@iamahater3078]

Nuketown was inspired by Indiana Jones. That scene in Indiana Jones was inspired by this.

[@andoniarmentia1024]

I inspired nuketown

[@diegomaldonado4402]

Andoni Armentia i believe you. How did you came with the idea?

[@andoniarmentia1024]

Diego Maldonado *mushrooms*

[@XvlerLorenzo]

Something I learned from this. To survive a nuclear explosion, just be camera man

[@kriswoolson2809]

Exactly, that’s how you no it’s all faked.

[@flipperclips1058]

Or just get inside the fridge

[@knowledgeispower9724]

@@kriswoolson2809 ?

[@omrr2096]

@@knowledgeispower9724 indiana Jones reference

[@kriswoolson2809]

@@knowledgeispower9724 ?

[@_rmaze_quiambao5215]

how was the footage from inside the homes not destroyed after the blast? tough cameras...

[@hyenaedits3460]

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.

[@_rmaze_quiambao5215]

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. .

[@hyenaedits3460]

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.

[@Olemarskan]

2.5 inches of lead shielding, with the mounts being bolted into the cement foundation.

[@tokyo3128]

How did the camera footage survive but not the houses/manaquinns?

[@jonnyappleseed9992]

People also believe the moon landing footage 😂

[@nopenope7510]

they had the cameras in airtight steel boxes with impact glass

[@tokyo3128]

@@jonnyappleseed9992 what does that have to do with the nuclear explosion?

[@Snide01]

@@nopenope7510 lol that shouldn't matter if you believe what they say about the power of so called nuclear weapons.. smh

[@nopenope7510]

@@Snide01 possibly they are fear mongering weapons but with how many countries say they have it I don’t think they are fake

[@robbiereyes3422]

"Wake up Jimmy.. time to evacuate the area" "..5 minutes"

[@clintonwalsh2264]

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.

[@buzaldrin8086]

+Clinton Walsh > 500 million degrees Celsius Too high by a factor of 33. The interior of the Sun is only 15 million degrees Celsius.

[@ExReDeTM]

500 million degrees lmfao just stfu

[@lillyie]

and the hottest thing in the UNIVERSE is just 300 million degrees C

[@buzaldrin8086]

+Schooking Skel-CentrixPVP And what is that?

[@buzaldrin8086]

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.

[@CameronThatcher]

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.

[@pizzadougheater1397]

They probably be burning some weight with that blast

[@firstclasscitizen1978]

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.

[@rickmin3566]

How many people are thinking of nuke town when they watch this??

[@markchristiansantiago8620]

Daniel Rickard virtually nobody I suppose

[@MrN1ckNack]

Daniel Rickard go vikes

[@Barbozo89]

I was thinking of Indiana Jones

[@bluenerve8105]

Daniel Rickard me

[@6XARTHY9]

Daniel Rickard definitely me

[@xaviersmorag8025]

The music during footage: oooohh spooky Outro: yay happy

[@aliounediop3613]

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 .

[@hisayaren8324]

Cameras are basically planted into the ground, shielded with lead iirc to protect from radiation

[@ibrown3KC]

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.

[@Spaceman0025]

HEAVILY armored cameras designed for nukes

[@darrellcook8253]

Mounted on iron poles. Maybe solid iron poles. Anybody know?

[@LCRLive687]

​@@Spaceman0025they don't even move a tad

[@azdrifter3968]

Fun fact: You've seen most of these blast clips at some point in your life without meaning too.

[@WolfyVibes]

And that’s how the Call Of Duty map Nuketown was born.

[@ozaramadhan714]

Time to hiding in the refrigerator

[@User-yb4hu]

Oza Ramadhan time to "HIDE" in the refrigerator

[@kantoorhandook6595]

It's time to ignore those grammar nazi's and islamophobic chicks

[@TehDenizenz]

Is it made of lead though?

[@badrluai]

oooooooo close but ya missed it

[@wook7465]

2:53 When you feel confident about that test you took and see your grade the next day

[@SSJIndy]

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.

[@josiahtrelawny7080]

3 words: hills have eyes

[@btr4yd]

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.

[@patricj951]

I understand a human would get fatal burns over the body.

[@MichaelSHartman]

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.

[@RMMaryport]

How is it unfathomable

[@btr4yd]

@@RMMaryport because with that powerful of a blast, we'd have little to no idea the damage it'd do to a body.

[@RMMaryport]

@@btr4yd it would vaporise, its not hard to figure out

[@alexbrennan3080]

“Intense footage” *shows 5 seconds of actual blast*

[@CAeuJohno123]

Some cameras they had back then, didn't even budge

[@thebasedspectre3048]

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

[@Snide01]

@@thebasedspectre3048 😂 😂

[@Snide01]

Yeah the propaganda was laid on thick back then, still is today but a lot can see thru it, thank god..

[@thebasedspectre3048]

@@Snide01 No arguments except "Muh CGI" "Muh miniatures" "Muh propaganda"

[@squeek-]

I have a question - how were the cameras kept secured as they recorded so close to or within the blast radius?

[@1958Citation]

Ever hear of a telescopic lens?

[@squeek-]

@@1958Citation If true (and I'm inclined to believe you), absolutely impressive.

[@squeek-]

@@jellyfishi_ Interesting.

[@johncollier1405]

By steel guy wires on poles

[@hyac4367]

This is all hoax. Nuclear weapon is a hoax. As simple as that.

[@opus4729]

Indiana Jones anyone?

[@captainblackjack7446]

“After all this time in the desert I’ve finally come across civilization!” “Wait what are these mannequins doing here?”

[@BagelNosed3DSuser]

💀

[@user-ki6id4vt8u]

Stolen from h&m

[@PhillyPhilly763]

Don’t let this be you! Reserve a spot in your local vault today!

[@paulanderson79]

Very clever 50's film which is immune to radiation.

[@zeeafraud7898]

paulanderson79 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@paulanderson79]

+Duchy - That's materially impossible. If it's shielded the how does light enter through the lens?

[@puncheex2]

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.

[@paulanderson79]

+Incerthose A. IntoBee - Yes. What is your point?

[@puncheex2]

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.

[@divine308]

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.

[@zeeafraud7898]

Plasma Skull This is actually useful to know unlike all of the cod comments

[@gabrielgriffon9334]

Thats why the Fallout guy has his thumbs up and a closed eye

[@taylorbenge4491]

Gabriel Griffon you just blew my fucking mind I never thought about that

[@puncheex2]

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.

[@prewartomatoes]

Gabriel Griffon no the designer just drew him that way

[@ZukoHalliwell]

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…”

[@mangobing2717]

nice camera, even stronger than the house

[@88omair]

Those mannequins were ecstatic to finally leave the store front, only to get obliterated

[@rustyshakleford9222]

I'm a carpenter. All I can say is. DO MORE OF THESE TESTS!!!

[@bigxrecords7375]

Lol

[@mq_idk5019]

This is literally just harming the earth repeatedly

[@mcruff3]

@@mq_idk5019 Cuz the video footage looks cool

[@manchesterexplorer8519]

@@mq_idk5019 To make money as a carpenter builds homes...get it ?

[@mq_idk5019]

@@manchesterexplorer8519 if I’m not mistaken they said keep testing the nukes

[@ultrascreens5206]

Mad how they build homes to see how well their bombs can destroy them but couldnt build some affordable ones for the poor and homeless..

[@REDARROW_A_Personal]

Because these homes would have been really basic with no running Water, if they had electricity then that could be debatable, but at best they built these substanded to that it was to only see if they could be structally sound. Its like going to a Home Depot or "B&Q/Home Base in the UK" and you see the example rooms they look functonal, but when try to turn on a Tap then you would have no flowing water.

[@dashaalisabiancaforesthill6899]

It effects me

[@vitopannucci2001]

You don't have to be so blatant with your hatred and disdain for the pursuit of science.

[@StrIntDexGaming]

Camera never dies.

[@mohdamirulshazwan5885]

did the family survived? 😢

[@StoopVital]

alif ashraf no

[@usdusinsusia7769]

alif ashraf its manaqueins not real people and obvisouly no

[@bg8580]

alif ashraf No, but one man managed to survive by hiding in the fridge.

[@forrestgumball]

alif ashraf No. They all dieded

[@mrmaniac3]

Unfortunately no... it’s very sad, but it’s the truth...

[@clownypants2718]

the entire town gets destroyed "smithsonian; it's brighter here" man, they have no sense of timing

[@GooogleGoglee]

Cameramans from that time had huge balls to cover and follow these events! Respect!

[@chrisgreene8152]

The stability feature on those cameras is the real technical achievement

[@Wombats-1]

I think it's much more terrifying for the underground tests they did. The entire ground lifts up and moves violently. Fucking terrifying

[@jefflyon2020]

Macy’s took them back just in time for the summers “neon” swimsuit fashion display!

[@elcanaldetumamaentanga]

Doja Cat really said “I want this on my music video”

[@andregant9980]

Imagine being a member of a species that invests this amount of resources and effort into destruction instead of feeding its hungry and healing its sick. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Snide01]

Well actually that effort you are talking about is actually put into brainwashing & controlling the masses of the World & funneling the Wealth to the top..

[@massapin9293]

The fact that people actually got tricked into thinking this was footage of actual nukes for so many years is crazy🤣🤣

[@thebasedspectre3048]

The fact that people like you exist is crazy😂

[@Aqwino]

nuketown from call of duty😂😂

[@jusky_]

Called that for a reason after all.

[@barack._.obaconator8946]

That and Indiana jones look up indiana ones nuketown

[@diegoespin7495]

Can people stop using that emoji 😂😂😂

[@mehdielaissaoui8469]

wendy's is the best

[@Jordan-rb28]

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.

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

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.

[@Snide01]

@@bjornragnarsson8692 lol 👌 👌

[@DarkKnight-fd1kf]

The scary thing is… assuming these types of tests no longer exist

[@noahdonnell7138]

For those who don’t know, this was the basis for the nuke town map in call of duty

[@lauri.lyijymaali]

TreQuota you dont say.

[@airwick4u]

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?

[@strangeman5698]

I think that they were coated with thick layers of lead. And they were probably fixed very Strongly into the house

[@bennyskim]

@@strangeman5698 Orrrr it was staged

[@RikaRoleplay]

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

[@RonaldPickering]

Wow... imagine mannequins sitting silent?!

[@Shotzno]

That house is the definition of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object.

[@Frizzy94]

I love the old commentary voice!

[@Draco-X2000]

Where did the truck go at 0:15

[@blazedev_]

frr like whatt

[@tomk427]

It's a cut my friend.

[@FirstNameLastName-sb8ch]

Nyc nuke commercial said to get inside... please explain

[@Rakshasa1986]

"it's brighter here" Can't tell if they are trying to be cheeky after showing this following a nuclear blast. At 10 million degrees I bet it would be.

[@heavymetaldude31]

Nuketown is that you??