Stay Safe, Stay Strong: The Facts About Nuclear Weapons (1960)

Instructional film on nuclear weapons for U.S. Air Force personnel. This part-animated film includes an explanation of nuclear physics; footage of atmospheric and underground testing; and a bomber making a crash landing.

[@Ronbo710]

Ah I used to LOVE the days of walking into the classroom after lunch hour and seeing the projector set up with these films. The USSR may have been intact but looking back from today the world seemed a HELL of a lot safer THEN !!!

[@maxx8011]

y, and no sjws and stupidly naive migration lovers

[@ChildovGhad]

@@TheUrbanGaze Whatever else you want to say about them, the Soviets kept the militant religious fundamentalists under their thumb. Well, at least, until the CIA funded and trained those fundamentalists...

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

Certainly true in 2022. See ya next year...i hope!😆

[@borntoclimb7116]

@@TheUrbanGaze thats right and the main factor

[@Geckobane]

*THESE* are the *FACTS*

[@TheAnkMan]

And there was no nuclear explosion, no radioactive fallout. Can't be repeated often enough😁.

[@TheWpelt]

facts are stupid and facts are straight facts are lazy and facts are late facts always come with a point of view... facts do not always do what I want them to do

[@TheWpelt]

@@TheAnkMan Correction: not yet.

[@Arghira]

I'm not afraid of nuclear accidents, I'm afraid of humans decision !!!

[@marmaladekamikaze]

Thanks for uploading

[@gsh0566]

dig those "lightening fast" computers @ 4:11.

[@mr.pavone9719]

Considering that it may have taken longer to program the problem in to the computer than it took for the computer to solve it, I'd say it was fast.

[@oswaldullman2145]

"And we call ourselves the human race?" JFK, October, 1962

[@borntoclimb7116]

Those old documentarys are interesting

[@wickedmuffin76]

Uh oh, can I watch this? Am I Authorized Personnel? Hope so, because I'm going to.

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

The End! Love it.....

[@thetreblerebel]

I'm pretty sure these are lies being told here, there was that incident in Spain and Greenland. There's been plenty of contaminated areas from "mishaps"

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

How much is plenty? I think we might know by now.

[@jurisprudens]

In Goldsboro crash of B-52, the switch at one of the bombs somehow turned out to be "armed".

[@AlChemicalLife]

yup , the only thing that stopped it was a safety pin that wasn't pulled. if that would have been pulled i wouldn't be living where i am right now , it would be a waste land..

[@hoganrichard9627]

😱

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

Weren't 3 out of 4 'safety' features overidden & only dumb luck stopped a 25mt yield?

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

Free thermonuclear weapon for every N.C farmer...

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

Imagine the conversation; " Err....boss....." 😆

[@idonttrustbarry2629]

5:52 T & A?

[@WMJCPA]

This is actually a very interesting video, considering when this was made, it is very informative. As far as the safety they've maintained all I can say is we've lived with nuclear weapons for almost 70 years and so far they have never been used again in a war situation. Still, we need to continually be vigilant considering how many rogue players my have developed nuclear weapons.

[@RicheBright]

We've had some heart-stoppingly close calls. Do a google search on "1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash"

[@ChildovGhad]

What exactly constitutes a "rogue" nuclear nation? One that has actually used them on cities, perhaps?

[@WMJCPA]

@@ChildovGhad I was referring to a country that is not part of.the "nuclear.club" if you will most of.the countries.that have had nukes for much of the past.50 or.60 years or so have been signatories to test ban treaties etc. Many of these nations have realized.and accepted.the awesome responsibilities that are Parr of keeping these weapons and knowing that, they know the tremendous cataclysm they could suffer if unleashed. That is likely the reason we have lived.with them for 75 years yet nobody has ever used them. All the participants in WWII saw the tremendous losses realized room conventional weapons, they didn't need to dance with.the nukes to encounter that devastation in a.single blow. Now however we see.countries who's rhetoric suggests that they wouldn't hesitate to use them if they had them. They would not use them for defensive purposes, but to anihilate an adversary just because they could. I don't need to spell out those countries in question. I'm not necessarily afraid of a country with a stockpile of warheads, but I would be very afraid of the country that just has 1. Those are the countries I was referring to as rogue nations.

[@ChildovGhad]

​@@WMJCPA There are problems with that reply. 1) "yet nobody has ever used them" Oops. The United Stated used them, twice. 2) "rhetoric suggests that they wouldn't hesitate to use"... Like Harry Truman threatening the Soviets to "drop it on ya" if they didn't accept total U.S. dictatorship of the post-WW2 world, just because he could? Or maybe like Donald Trump threatening to wipe North Korea off the face of the earth if they keep saying they'll defend themselves? 3) "very afraid of the country that just has 1" Every country that has any started with just one. Like, the United States. We had one, then we had two, then we had three, then we dropped two on cities in a country that, according to most top generals including the general in charge of the air campaign in Japan, was already beaten and ready to surrender, just to see what they'd do to people.

[@WMJCPA]

@@ChildovGhad I don't accept your theory. First of all, after seeing the devastation wrought on those cities put the whole world on pause since then. We used nuclear weapons as weapons of war in a war that was still raging. The idea that Japan was finished is a theory that has only surfaced in the last 25 years. In 1945 things were viewed slightly differently. The Japanese had been given several opportunities to capitulate and they chose not to do so. The invasion of Japan was on the way, and by all accounts would be slaughter for both sides. It was a difficult decision for Truman to make but it had to be done. We can rewrite history through the lens of 20/20 hindsight, but one must walk a mile in the shoes of the people making decisions at that time, based on what knowledge was available then. We may never agree on this premise but I guess that is our prerogative. Everyone has an opinion on matters and everyone thinks they're correct. We have the ability to agree to disagree.

[@Trojden100]

10:18 - jabłko składa się z nadjabłcza, krainy grzybów i z papieru.

[@FourDog101]

The narrator keeps mentioning that there have been several accidents before, but everything was safe. What I'm more worried about is why are these people being so carefree with our nuclear devices in the first place?

[@hoganrichard9627]

Like a baby with a loaded gun the scientists and military men of the day either didn't know or refused to accept the deadly games being played with weapons that if used could have completely destroyed all life on earth. They were also sadly misinformed concerning the long term effects of exposure to these materials. The political climate of the day (cold war) and ending of WW2 by victory over Japan using a nuclear bomb drove development and testing of these weapons before cooler heads could see or act against the catastrophic consequences.

[@TheWpelt]

Weapons are not meant to be safe for the enemy.

[@mgsvulcan01]

lighting fast computers!!!!! XD

[@DJPHANTHALASY]

Ultra modern

[@SeanLynchXY]

I preferred "My Buddy the Bomb."

[@ChildovGhad]

The narrator basically describes a dirty bomb, and says it's no problem. Gotta love propaganda.

[@TheAnkMan]

Our friend the atom(ic bomb).

[@randy95023]

After watching this Video I will sleep better tonight...

[@CrasPersonal]

actually im here from Dead Hand

[@MR101722]

i was

[@manhoot]

Very "explosive"

[@idonttrustbarry2629]

I thought one of these crashed in the Artic and spread crap all over the place...

[@Nellinator23]

Spain as well. However, by "no radioactive fallout", they mean no spread across large distances. It's also possible the Greenland and Spain crashes hadn't happened at this point; I can't remember off the top of my head.

[@sl4983]

Now you know why you didn't trust Barry!

[@idonttrustbarry2629]

they say old news papers and books around you can protect you, that means my s1ob neighbor, and his crappy dirty house would survive.

[@steves1015]

I Dont Trust Barry lol until they catch on fire.

[@ClydeRowing]

funnily enough there is a film on this exact subject: the house in the middle

[@GroovyVideo2]

mmm facks

[@rikisuave]

The title should be: Stay dumb! A-H-don't exist!