Operation Cue (1955)

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Operation Cue (1955) by U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration
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[@mikeg4972]

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

[@billtomson5791]

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

[@lelandthomosoniii4743]

Luv that!

[@lelandthomosoniii4743]

That! Make me Feel like A crast test Dummy?

[@inactiveuser1981]

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

[@mikeg4972]

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

[@jasonm949]

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

[@rdm5190]

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

[@Quackerilla]

"Please sort yourself for atomization, thank you."

[@rdm5190]

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

[@Richard-mz7qu]

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

[@3rdworldgarage450]

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

[@blackkitty420]

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

[@shermann.peabody7429]

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

[@bradenglettkd8zm69]

Operation KYAG 😀

[@mandrakesumners9866]

I think Crow T Robot said it best, "Put your head between your legs and kiss your sorry ass goodbye!" kzbin.info/www/bejne/rX-xiK1qpcafbqc

[@daviddunkelheit9952]

I believe that after the data was evaluated there was a silent acceptance that it was not feasible to maintain civilization.

[@zambufly1]

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

[@dashriprock9014]

Face palm.🙄

[@barrysmith4588]

😄

[@dogbirdgun]

Good shot!

[@illumencouk]

@@Stevie-J Or the moon Lo perhaps? Make a Virtual Earth for sharing.

[@TimPerfetto]

Dihydrogeboxide hair

[@notatheory4488]

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

[@kathyr.8135]

Duh .

[@ariesred777]

Exactly!

[@kenmtb]

@@kathyr.8135 classy

[@ocelotcake9359]

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

[@plasmascout9708]

wait what?

[@joerusso4219]

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

[@nicholas8428]

😆 Thats exactly what I was thinking 🤣

[@ariesred777]

All toxic!

[@AlphaFlight]

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

[@caryanderson7212]

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

[@oopsadaze]

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

[@Talia.777]

😔😔😟

[@georgewash2626]

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

[@strawpiglet]

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

[@kathyr.8135]

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

[@andrewhillis9544]

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

[@gortbot7748]

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

[@Talia.777]

That's for sure 😞

[@swisschalet1658]

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

[@buckhorncortez]

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

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

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

[@ariesred777]

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

[@Mujangga]

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

[@Zoomer30_]

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

[@tamahagane1700]

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

[@Dobie_ByTor]

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

[@megamond]

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

[@Mujangga]

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

[@Dark_Harmony]

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

[@ariesred777]

true

[@malachiwhite356]

@@ariesred777 Utterly false is more like it.

[@timothywilliams1359]

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

[@pixelrabbit261]

you have a mannequin family?

[@inconnu4961]

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

[@telesniper2]

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

[@PalmettoNDN]

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

[@mattsmith1137]

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

[@Thebald1]

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

[@Thebald1]

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

[@kathyr.8135]

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

[@buckhorncortez]

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

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

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

[@wolfgangamadeus1246]

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

[@mikecummings6593]

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

[@alendubri]

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

[@catey62]

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

[@rixille]

I want to know too..

[@richmerowitz5610]

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

[@rumpstatefiasco]

Gee, this Motion Picture was Swell!

[@Richard-mz7qu]

Sure was!

[@K.J.734]

Now now, there's no need for that kind of language. 🤟😂

[@rumpstatefiasco]

@@K.J.734 😆

[@hamaljay]

And how!

[@Mrcool-gm7bx]

Yeah what he said see?

[@browngreen933]

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

[@lukehauser1182]

I knew some of those mannequins when I was young!

[@thomasdykstra100]

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

[@browngreen933]

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

[@browngreen933]

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

[@thomasdykstra100]

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

[@RW-ob4en]

Gotta love the dulcet tones of that score.

[@TheGreatWent1]

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

[@texaswunderkind]

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

[@peacefulscrimp5183]

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

[@ThatCanadianGuy-e1p]

Which is no different than regular sugar.

[@peacefulscrimp5183]

@@ThatCanadianGuy-e1p said someone who has never read a word about dr Weston Price.😂🤣 Or who knows what plants use phytic acid for 🤣😂 Someone who doesn't care what is happening to the monarch butterfly 🤔😞

[@ThatCanadianGuy-e1p]

@@peacefulscrimp5183 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX7YoqeCjtiel6M

[@hebneh]

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

[@MissLibertarian]

@@ThatCanadianGuy-e1p Nope. When you eat too much cane sugar, you get satiated at some point. Corn syrup (I read) doesn't trigger you to stop. It's addictive, and corn has long been used to make cattle, pigs, and horses gain fat.

[@ButchNackley]

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

[@timengineman2nd714]

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

[@MsBee]

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

[@TheDoctor1225]

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

[@dsm3759703]

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

[@Per409]

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

[@ScotMorrisonKA3DRR]

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

[@isilder]

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

[@Johnnycdrums]

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

[@97VobraOwner]

Totally- Nothing like a good old fashion radioactive barbecue

[@timengineman2nd714]

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

[@charletonzimmerman4205]

"MICROWAVED", to "PROFECTION" YUM !

[@timengineman2nd714]

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

[@joerusso4219]

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

[@hebneh]

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

[@Ltulrich]

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

[@kingkoolkata]

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

[@kevinw9073]

The tie should be ok, good news!

[@search4truth104]

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

[@SlapthePissouttayew]

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

[@michaelhunter2136]

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

[@ticklemeandillhurtyou5800]

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

[@hckyplyr9285]

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

[@ericatkinson1412]

Silly assed comment.

[@malachiwhite356]

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

[@dsm3759703]

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

[@HughesEnterprises]

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

[@AnaphoraNigh]

A summer smoker underground!

[@St.Linguini_of_Pesto]

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

[@jasonsabourin2275]

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

[@HughesEnterprises]

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

[@St.Linguini_of_Pesto]

@@HughesEnterprises hail! hail! 🍝

[@lynnwood7205]

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

[@Jeremiah7-ox2nj]

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

[@kathyr.8135]

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

[@2wolfsfightinsideyou]

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

[@mrkrinkle72]

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

[@charliepearce8767]

Hahah !

[@KinaIchi]

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

[@Johnnycdrums]

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

[@zippymax1]

You're a cube root! Bleahhhh!!!

[@iamnotpaulavery]

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

[@joeshulman675]

Yeah I laughed at that one too 🤣 lol

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Unlike adult names.

[@buckhorncortez]

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

[@bobss3704]

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

[@scooter2kool173]

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

[@jacknedry3925]

I believe they tested the food and found it non-contaminated

[@andrewhillis9544]

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

[@jimciancio9005]

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

[@vincentleeadams]

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

[@joiedevivre7376]

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

[@marstuv5068]

❤❤❤❤

[@thomasreith9487]

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

[@IanMcFerran]

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

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

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

[@andrewhillis9544]

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

[@pepperdog3761]

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

[@garethjohnstone8662]

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

[@doodledangernoodle2517]

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

[@enak413]

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

[@Johnnycdrums]

Thunderbird convertible at 11:15.

[@danielcruz8347]

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

[@mikebyerly2344]

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

[@kathyr.8135]

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

[@Johnnycdrums]

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

[@danielcruz8347]

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

[@SuV33358]

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

[@BasementPepperoni]

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

[@ecleveland1]

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

[@vangogo6819]

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

[@johnmc3862]

It would but Russia doesn’t play ball.

[@tomdumb6937]

Most peaceful period in europes history. 1945-now

[@kathyr.8135]

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

[@drgonzo305]

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

[@Name-ps9fx]

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

[@timengineman2nd714]

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

[@dsm3759703]

@@Stevie-J I like it.

[@kathleenking47]

That's too soon Nuclear waste causes cancer

[@21stcenturyfossil7]

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

[@chuckselvage3157]

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

[@timmotel5804]

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

[@timengineman2nd714]

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

[@tamahagane1700]

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

[@timengineman2nd714]

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

[@Dobie_ByTor]

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

[@timengineman2nd714]

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

[@tashuntka]

Ummmmm Fun fact...

[@Travis141123]

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

[@timmotel5804]

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

[@467-k1m]

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

[@1okanaganguy]

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

[@irishrebellion483]

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

[@isilder]

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

[@tashuntka]

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

[@isilder]

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

[@isilder]

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

[@isilder]

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

[@lilmike2710]

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

[@tjtinsurvivaltin3797]

President Potato will kill us all with his ineptitude.

[@lilmike2710]

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

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

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

[@lilmike2710]

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

[@Miniver765]

Triggered, and in chronic denial. 👆

[@jaydouglas5847]

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

[@iamnotpaulavery]

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

[@jaydouglas5847]

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

[@misterjoe3]

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[@M335h1]

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

[@braised44]

The living will envy the dead!

[@williamkious5349]

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

[@St.Linguini_of_Pesto]

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

[@LillyB_RN]

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

[@hebneh]

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

[@andrewhillis9544]

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

[@KlausBahnhof]

Thumb.

[@AlphaFlight]

It sure was

[@patriot9455]

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

[@Cheezwizzz]

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

[@legbreaker2762]

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

[@mikebyerly2344]

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

[@geonerd]

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

[@Dobie_ByTor]

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

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

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

[@realtimecartravel]

The house in the middle is what we need!

[@flyingdutchmanindustries5877]

I noticed that the most significant question went unanswered: "Why do we need such bombs anyway? Can't we simply have an extended 'No bombs' test?"

[@richardmcnair4045]

I love these films for the education I receive from them and the terrifying reality of it all. I love how at this start of the film, when the reporter approaches the two men, the one guy is motioning to the other guy like "Hell No, pick this GUY!".

[@bobhoward6676]

And they all died a week later of radiation poisoning.

[@JackF99]

The background music is just lovely.

[@MichaelSHartman]

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

[@Diesel436]

Who cares watch the damn video

[@Lewis_Hamer]

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

[@shirleyontiveros612]

They are walking and eating in fallout radiation!

[@jquill6]

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

[@robertliskey420]

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

[@dsm3759703]

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

[@PassifloraCerulea]

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

[@robertliskey420]

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

[@dinkul903]

@7:58 was that Max Headroom?

[@JeffinTD]

One gets the impression if they had social media back then, and someone posted ‘duck and cover is a crock’ an independent fact checker would label the post misinformation…

[@buckhorncortez]

While hiding under a desk...

[@isag5932]

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

[@F15CEAGLE]

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

[@anthonymagda9059]

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

[@colinsdad1]

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

[@almostfm]

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

[@dpchait7793]

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

[@pixelrabbit261]

and they all lived happily ever after…

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

... just not for very long ... ":-/

[@Frohicky1]

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

[@SgtMjr]

'Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks'. Gen "Buck" Turgidson

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Sounds like one of Putin's advisors

[@Miniver765]

Brandon would just mumble "wutt?"

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@Miniver765 Why do you worship Putin?

[@Miniver765]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver Why do you worship the Spud???

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@Miniver765 I don't worship anything--not even your 'god'. Why do you want to turn your country over to Putin?

[@jbmbryant]

This makes me remember many a 'drop drill'.

[@christopherwelch136]

This is beyond dystopian.

[@MariusMooore]

They made it seem so "Mulberry"

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

The takehome message is be at least 9 miles from Ground Zero. You should be okay.

[@Zoomer30_]

I have high hopes for the mobile home.

[@Name-ps9fx]

Mobile homes are only at risk from tornadoes.

[@ChrisHyde537]

@@Name-ps9fx Somewhere, sometime a papyrus scroll in a clay jar will reveal lost scripture where God says “If you build thine home upon a movable foundation, I will smite thee with a terrible wind”

[@MakeitStop-er5kx]

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

[@markpfeifer1402]

Don't worry everyone. Eat the irradiated food. Its fine.😬

[@dianamcdavis1335]

I love coffee so much that I'd also risk cancer for coffee at a nuclear test site

[@buckhorncortez]

You wouldn't have to worry about radiation at this point for any air-dropped or tower-shot fission bomb test sites. Even at the Trinity Site, a one-hour visit will result in a whole body exposure of one-half to one milliroentgen (mrem). The average exposure is 300-400 mrem whole body radiation exposure per year for most people depending upon where you live. Radiation workers are allowed 5,000 mrem per year, and you can figure your lifetime exposure by taking your age and multiplying by 1,000.

[@TreyVaswal]

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

[@kevinw9073]

What a total "joke." What we were taught as kids was simply absurd. You got to love what "The Industrial Complex" has given us since 1955. "Duck and cover," that proved really worthwhile as well.👎

[@donlove3741]

Dumb.... Bitching on a product of the industrial complex .

[@axemanchris]

Unfortunately the modern day nukes are many many times more powerful. It's scary to think that the used of such weapons is back on the table.

[@hckyplyr9285]

Actually modern day nukes are generally far less powerful than many of those tested in the 50s. The US has no weapons in the megaton range with the retirement of the B83s. The latest version of the only bomb in US inventory, the B61, is max 50 kilotons, a very moderate level of destruction for a nuke. Because the geniuses in charge have concluded that GPS satellites will somehow continue to function in a nuclear environment.