Operation Cue - 1955 Operation Teapot, Nuclear Tests, Apple-2, Nevada Test Site 40960

Operation Teapot was a series of fourteen nuclear test explosions conducted at the Nevada Test Site in the first half of 1955. The aims of the operation were to establish military tactics for ground forces on a nuclear battlefield, and to improve the nuclear weapons used for strategic delivery. The Civil Defense "Apple-2" shot on 5 May 1955 was intended to test various building construction types in a nuclear blast. An assortment of buildings, including residential houses and electrical substations, were constructed at the site nicknamed "Survival Town". The buildings were populated with mannequins, and stocked with different types of canned and packaged foods. Not all of the buildings were destroyed in the blast, and some of them still stand at Area 1, Nevada Test Site. This short film about the blast, referred to as "Operation Cue", was distributed by the Federal Civil Defense Administration. A 1964 Department of Defense repackaging of the 1955 short, this film revisits the original footage with relation to modern weapons, as well as reviewing the buildings in more depth.
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFi...

[@iitzfizz]

09:21 Cool to see all the paint being vaporised

[@grahamallen1970]

Chilling footage....but if they only made the buildings out of what ever the exterior camera mounts made of everything would of been OK....bomb proof😮🤔🤔🤔

[@Arch3an]

They wanted to see what a typical house back then would fare against a blast. To see what the damage would be if America was hit by a bomb. Unfortunately, not very well 😮

[@Sceneyour]

I wonder how the volunteers fared. I'm sure that food they all ate wasn't radioactive at all. 😊

[@skiddlyd.244]

The food they ate wasn’t exposed to the blast.

[@edwardrichardson8254]

Free coffee? Hell yeah I'll volunteer.

[@davidfisher12865]

And that why people moved from the cities to the suburbs. Miles from ground zero.

[@iitzfizz]

Have you seen Threads? I'd much sooner be vaporised than slowly die from radiation sickness and the like

[@chipwalker231]

What about the radiation?

[@rtqii]

Happy people don't suffer effects from radiation exposure. Don't worry, be happy 🎶 /snark off

[@aircraftenthusiast2207]

They Ate on the place where Atomic Bomb was deployed HOW ABOUT THE RADIATION ??!!

[@ieatlemons288]

This is way after Nuclear weapon radiation does not last long

[@MartinLichtblau]

Even better. They made a bonfire to cock their food.

[@prandomable]

@@ieatlemons288 lol how long DO radiation last???

[@johnharrison1573]

@@prandomable radiation has half life. So like.... a few weeks to a few months and stuff is way safer. A sharp blade vs a dull blade. Caution still advised

[@prandomable]

@@johnharrison1573 there had been 900+ nuke test in Nevada alone, only 60 miles from Las Vegas. As well as in New Mexico and Arizona as well I believe. There had been more than 2,000+ nuclear detonations in this world. Nobody died on the other hand :)

[@fmascia]

Only i cringe seeing people going around the explosion site like nothing?

[@prandomable]

They most had wait til the radiation risk was over...

[@monkeydkong3399]

That's what I'm worried about

[@monkeydkong3399]

@@prandomable it's not gonna be over for years

[@prandomable]

@@monkeydkong3399 but people still go there to visit those nuclear test sites. Visitors still go there. As for Nagasaki and Hiroshima those two cities were rebuilt and it's STILL big cities as of today with many many people living there today. It didn't became uninhabitable...

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

After 24 hours, the radiation from a bomb is greatly reduced. In a bomb, the fuel is all used up at once. You're thinking of a disaster like chernobyl where unused nuclear fuel was scattered over a large area.

[@sylintninja9344]

This is were they found out about the color blue that millionaires are painting thier houses I'm Hawaii

[@guavamax420]

Nuketown IRL