Operation Cue (1964 Revision)

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Operation Cue (1964 revision) by U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense
Study of a nuclear test in 1955 at Nevada Test Site. Points out the contrast between the Nevada test in 1955 and present nuclear devices.

[@dunebuggy1286]

My uncle was a photographer in the military in the 50s/60s. He filmed a lot at these test sites. Im not sure where or when or the subject matter. We lost him in 1968 due to cancer. He was 38 years old.

[@svenjansen2134]

Way too young. RIP Your Uncle.

[@Travis1.980]

wasn´t your/his family compensated for that?

[@dunebuggy1286]

Hell no. At least not that I know of.

[@ci3008]

I was hoping to see that refrigerator flying by that Indiana Jones was hiding in.

[@josemoreno3334]

Same thought came to mind. LOL.

[@Coinbro]

7:02 fridge

[@jasonsphinx8461]

"Good fridge!!! Strong fridge!!!"

[@cor2250]

True Lol 🎥🎬💯

[@Will-dn9dq]

They had those things filled w asbestos 😂😂

[@e28forever30]

Remember seeing this when I was a kid. Really freaked me out. It still chills me, actually.

[@YouT00ber]

Seriously. Nukes are still a thing, we seem to forget

[@AnthonyJones-vk6xq]

That was the whole point !

[@happydawg2663]

12:50 What a great Idea having a picnic after the detonation under radioactive fallout

[@HighCalip]

yea, only one day later. lmao

[@rtqii]

Never mind the metallic taste.

[@thalastkg]

I swear i can watch Everything from the 40s, 50s and 60s. TV, Movies, Documentations, commercials... Just everything

[@Hogscraper]

One of my uncles was a soldier who was too young to go into WW2 but joined a couple years after and he showed me photographs of that explosion where they had him and others a distance away with welding goggles and told them to just hang out, take pictures and see what happened. He lived until around the year 2000 and said he started getting worried in the 80's that he might get cancer but none of the guys there seemed to have higher incident rates than anyone else so they must have been quite a ways out. Crazy how often our government just uses soldiers for experiments over the years.

[@Aerwasilien]

Not crazy at all. They’re fodder.

[@Sol-Cutta]

They weren't allowed to take private photos.

[@Sol-Cutta]

They weren't welding goggles,tho they appeared this way on videos etc they were UV reflective

[@Hogscraper]

You mean he stole them? Holy shit, all this time I assumed the US government just allowed them to keep the evidence of the most top-secret experiment ever done up to that point in history. Thanks for the heads up! @@Sol-Cutta

[@alphabeets]

Like Dad always said, “if they drop the bomb, I hope it goes down my chimney”. Nice and quick death.

[@lotharhamburg5343]

Holy shit laughing so hard almost shit myself 🤪 reminds me of my father always correct

[@dj6769]

I’ll give ‘em my address and send up a signal flare paint a bullseye on my roof. I don’t want to experience a slow agonizing death by radiation poisoning and all the mass panic. Let’s face it the radiation on those levels will outlast the best of doomsday preppers. Be ready to meet our creator my friends!

[@zebatov]

Keep saying I want to move to Japan, and dad freaks-out because it’s right next to China. So I just tell him “Well, if anything kicks off, at least it’ll be quick.”

[@FirstLast-vr7es]

Survive the bombs just to be murdered by your neighbor for your last can of spinach. I don't think that's a world I want to live in.

[@ricksantana1016]

Our surviving government in mount weather would of course declare martial law, although random anarchy would be widespread throughout our society, the survivors would experience a “mad max scenario” a second civil war, our culture would slowly implode it would be survival of the armed and fittest, believe me I want no part of it…

[@rubenalayon3259]

“ No mannequins we’re injured during the making of this film “

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Why is she wearing a hijab?

[@georgekn3mp]

It's just a 3rd degree flesh wound! Don't worry about your melted eyeballs....

[@lindaeasley5606]

They were put back in department stores to contaminate shoppers

[@rexlex1736]

4:56 😢

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

Nor were any "nuclear bombs" set off.

[@HelloKitty-jz5gm]

The way the blast blew out, then sucked back was eerie.

[@MaNuLaToROfficial]

thats what she said

[@Rick_Cleland]

@@MaNuLaToROfficial 👀

[@UseByDate-Expired]

the way a camera on a pole doesn't shake during an atomic blast is amazing..

[@thomasbell7033]

I was a newspaper reporter for many years. The best thing I ever saw in the desert was a Space Shuttle landing. I feel cheated.

[@wojnaKROPKAinfo]

Are you a good looking woman? If not then is yours fault ;P

[@williamyoung9401]

Yeah...as long as one isn't down wind...I love seeing that mushroom cloud with the fancy orchestra music playing at the end... "War...war never changes..."

[@johnnyssik]

​@@williamyoung9401watch out for what you wish for you're liable to get it 😅 🔥🔥🔥🏃🤸🧎🏃🔥🔥🔥🚀🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jerrysgotapewpew]

Why? You got the 90s psyop instead of the 50s one.

[@75blackviking]

Hell, I'm stuck with the image of a burned out Winnebago meth lab as the most memorable desert scene in my memory.

[@Constantine50]

The only winning move is NOT to play.

[@ksavage681]

How about a nice game of chess?

[@yippee8570]

@@ksavage681 If only we could persuade all the warmongers of the world to sit down and play chess instead of killing one another

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@yippee8570 Warmongers don't kill each other. They kill each other's.

[@areyoutheregoditsmedave]

so this is where those iconic house-exploding shot come from

[@williamyoung9401]

I never noticed the dust getting sucked into the nuclear vortex, then exploded outward. Like a mini-Big Bang on Earth. Over and over and over again...☢ (9:00)

[@areyoutheregoditsmedave]

@@williamyoung9401 i never noticed the car that appears and disappears behind the two story house in one of these shots. they faked that shot-possibly others.

[@rtqii]

This was a later effects test. They did effects testing back in the 50's as well. Operation Upshot Knothole is where the rest of the exploding buildings film come from.

[@Cetok01]

I wonder how many of the field personnel were exposed to fallout after the blast. At 24 hours, the radiation would still be pretty high near the site.

[@danielmorse4213]

Yea. What were the cancer rates and deaths?

[@Cetok01]

@@danielmorse4213 Well, we know that John Wayne and many cast and crew members were exposed to contamination while filming ''The Conquerer' in the Nevada desert during that period of nuclear testing, and later developed cancer.

[@danielmorse4213]

@@Cetok01 the fallout covered many areas of the nation as far as the East coast. Within years unknown cancers were being found in young people.

[@danielmorse4213]

@@Cetok01 a strange sidenote. In the Midwest, in underground aquifers is an isotope of plutonium. This is is natural. Been there before there was a nation. It is a real fact. Just most do not know. Traces. Not enough to worry about. Here is the interesting thing. It can only be formed in a fission or fusion process like a bomb or reactor. It is not a natural isotope. The Rama legends talk about such a war. There is atomic glass in the deserts in the Arab lands, Pakistan and India. This is a known thing.

[@buckhorncortez]

@@Cetok01 John Wayne was a chain smoker. He had lung cancer and had one lung removed. His stomach cancer was most probably, related to smoking. The Conqueror was NOT filmed in Nevada. The Conquerer was filmed near St. George, Utah.

[@kevinc8387]

Then after inspection they had lunch at ground zero. I wonder what their lives was like a few years later. I had a good friend in Idaho who has passed. He was what they called an atomic veteran. He had to stand guard at Hiroshima just days after the war was ended. He suffered with many different types of unusual cancers. He could never get help from the VA. The VA didn't think radiation on a huge level had anything to do with his many different out breaks of cancer.

[@vadim.donetsk02]

So you think it's normal that the USA destroyed innocent people?

[@GLC2013]

I marveled at that. By 1955, the government was well aware of the hazards of radioactivity from fallout and lingering radiation. Alpha and Beta particles can be minimized with wood, glass and even clothing and dissipate within days. But gamma radiation--particularly Strontium 90, which is created in atomic blasts--has a half life of 29 years. So not until 1984 would the radiation level of the site be 50% of what it was the day after the bomb went off. Not until 2013 would the radiation level be 1/4 of what it was the day went off.

[@Tekknorg]

Contract WHA 12-40 between WHO and IAEA.

[@n1vca]

I wonder how many who joined this test are still alive or how many died earlier with cancer?

[@tracygeorge9800]

I would like to know that also.

[@gregorypeck876]

Most died of cancer not because of a nuclear bomb but everything else they used in day to day life that was highly cancerous, from cigarette filters made from asbestos to smoking sixty a day, the bomb was the least of their problems

[@markfurman4386]

They're all dead long ago. Severe cancers.

[@cathrinewhite7629]

A Fact- but not a fun fact: The Nevada test sites were not considered to have substantial radioactivity, neither lingering or dangerous to humans who were only visiting on a temporary basis. John Wayne and filmcrew made the movie _The Conquerer,_ based on the Mongolian leader Genghis Khan. Much of the cast and crew (including Wayne, his leading lady Susan Hayward & producer Dick Powell) died of multiple types of metastic cancer in the following decade.

[@artytomparis]

And all those public witnesses & construction workers were part of the experiment even though they thought they were just there to participate in a media sense. Isn't science great. Government is your friend.

[@BritishEngineer]

There is a lot of paranoia concerning radiation. Of course I’d be at Darwin Award territory if I said that we areinvincible, but it would compliment the human race just a little bit if we all had a moderate knowledge concerning the electromagnetic spectrum and ionising radiation. The average generic person would probably run a mile if they heard that a vacuum tube next to them “was going to emit a moderate quantity of ionising radiation, mostly alpha rays”, without knowing that alpha rays are actually one of the weaker particles compared to beta.

[@pyrotechc3h8]

Yeah, according to the US Government, which as we all know is always forthcoming and up front about their activities and without exception takes full responsibility whenever they've done wrong...

[@Hogger280]

Down winders in Utah and other places were plagued with cancers for following decades.

[@n1vca]

Thanks for sharing this not so fun fact

[@PureNRG2]

I like how the painter is putting the finishing touches on a house that’s going to be blown to smithereens😂

[@HawkGTboy]

Hey, gotta take pride in your work!

[@n1vca]

that made me wonder too

[@johnmitchell8925]

Your taxpayers money at work

[@daveswinfield]

Perhaps it was lead paint...you know, for protection.

[@Mrshoujo]

It all burned off in the flash.

[@chadportenga7858]

I love the cheery music played at the beginning - like we're going to watch a documentary about flowers. LOL

[@ranchdressing1037]

The isotopes hitting the film tells me they all died much younger than they normally would have. All of them.

[@thetooginator153]

It’s hard to tell if that was just the degradation of the film, or neutrons hitting the film. I would think neutrons would leave black dots on the processed film (and there were plenty of those), but not black streaks, because neutrons travel too fast. Who knows? Good observation though!

[@ranchdressing1037]

@@thetooginator153 I'm guessing that entire area is absolutely saturated from previous insane tests too.. a sure bet though is I wouldn't want to tour that area at any point in time lol.

[@nrdesign1991]

"Rows of mannequins are set up in the open, facing the blast." Probably my favourite quote from this, like dry humor

[@paulschneider4480]

the picnic at the end was pretty wholesome all considered

[@ksavage681]

Have some radroach stew!

[@sonydesrosiers]

@@ksavage681Incredible!!!!

[@besperus4475]

Eating radioactive food that survived?

[@HighCalip]

"Here's a spoonful of Strontium-90 and a sprinkle of Cesium-137 sir."

[@Ganiscol]

Hey, I saw that one before! Indiana Jones was there and survived in the lead lined refrigerator! 😮

[@besperus4475]

Yah, but he needed to have his junk scrubbed!

[@alphabeets]

Perhaps the most amazing thing here is at 3:15 with the guy climbing down the entire pole without any safety harness! Geez!

[@andrewwood6285]

People’s attitudes were different back then. Not a lot seatbelts back then and the dashboards were solid metal. Damn that hurt when your dad would slam on the brakes!

[@brucelytle1144]

When men were men!

[@stevemccann4166]

No health and safety inspector to supervise.

[@ltheiss]

Where was OSHA on that? 😂

[@williamyoung9401]

"Well, what if I built my house in..." "It doesn't matter." "But, what if I used..." "It doesn't matter..."

[@ksavage681]

The blast will suck all the oxygen out of the air for a few hours.

[@75blackviking]

Good one! True story.

[@paulwilson4369]

I love how they bring the civilians and reporters to the "small yield" gadgets. Opinions change when you see the crater a 10 megaton gadget leaves.

[@williamyoung9401]

I think this is how John Wayne died... =/ ☢

[@josephbingham1255]

@@williamyoung9401 See "The Day We Bombed Utah" book. I was driving near Cedar City, Utah 2000-2010 and the car radio warned of the wind and dust raising "radiation levels" and suggested staying indoors. Left overs from nuclear above ground testing and prevailing wind currents.

[@HighlanderNorth1]

​@@josephbingham1255 Nope.... I can't actually see radiation(or microscopic viruses, bacteria, carbon monoxide, etc), therefore it doesn't exist and can't hurt me! Always remember the old saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words(and microscopic toxic stuff) can never hurt me"..... ☢️{Just kidding, radiation, toxic gasses and viruses are bad for you}☣️

[@shane99ca]

Ever since the atmospheric test ban treaty in the 1960s, properly conducted nuclear tests don't leave craters because they're conducted deep underground. And an air burst doesn't leave a crater at all. If you even allow the fireball to touch the ground, you've got yourself massive fallout. That's why the Soviets air-dropped Tsar Bomba.

[@josephbingham1255]

@@shane99ca The two bombs dropped on Japan were exploded above the land surface so no crater.

[@guineapiglady2841]

It blows everything away but not the camera. 🤔

[@FrenchmansFlats51]

ive been watching these nuclear vault vids for 40 years. suddenly they are massively popular on youtube

[@marksommers6764]

You're a TRENDSETTER !

[@FrenchmansFlats51]

@@marksommers6764 lol. its the barbenheimer effect: hollywood uses neutron lensing to increase their monetary yield. Drained of cash, many theatre victims resort to youtube to expatiate their panic, confusion and fantastic conspiracy theories; albeit interesting and fascinating at times.

[@RobotoSan]

"The power substation was mostly unharmed..." -He obviously meant the one placed "a great distance away". Let's see the one next to the shot tower.- Nope, downloaded the written report from DTIC and that was the close one. 4700 feet from ground zero. Other one was around 2 miles away.

[@TaxPayingContributor]

To hide the facts from our enemies, we lie to ourselves. Half the purpose of these films were to make Joe Stalin tremble and chase ghosts.

[@terencem8795]

So glad some of the mannequins survived.

[@paulrichards2365]

Yeah, I was worried about them too.

[@wizzwamf]

jc penneys supplied them , then some went on tour ladies and gentlemen the amazing flying decters watch as there wigs fly off at 90 miles an hour

[@sonydesrosiers]

On the test ground after…. 24 hours??? 😮

[@Dolores5000]

Seems like people accepted the nightmare easily back then almost eagerly

[@tonray9395]

That guy in the charred suit looked sharper than half of my colleagues on a Thursday afternoon

[@TheIndependentLens]

I can't believe after only 24 hours the just allowed people to go to the site with no protective gear and even ate while they were there.

[@williamyoung9401]

Touching the irradiated clothes with their bare hands, breathing in all the radioactive dust... ☢

[@Brokenrocktail]

You guys are aware there were radiation physicists and “RAD Safe” teams at the time, and they had Geiger counters even alpha detectors same as today, I’m sure they checked the area

[@TheIndependentLens]

@@Brokenrocktail if so, why would they allow it? To me that would be extremely unsafe. What happened later with these people?

[@Brokenrocktail]

@@TheIndependentLens it’s probably not as unsafe as you think, they didn’t travel all the way too ground zero and most of the lingering fallout unfortunately would be hundreds of miles away falling from the stratosphere at this point

[@TheIndependentLens]

@@Brokenrocktail and they were all okay?

[@myriaddsystems]

The sinister way that houses take fire from the intense radiation before being annihilated

[@zrxdoug]

Didn't happen...did you not watch the video? Fire damage was minimal, damage from the shock wave was heavy.

[@timmer01]

But the camera film wasn't damaged? Hmmmm....

[@AlainHubert]

All of the people you see examining the aftermath of the explosion probably died from radiation exposure some time after this film was made.

[@SlapthePissouttayew]

"As a wife and mother, my interest was peaked at GROCERIES."

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"Coffee, tea, or me?"

[@thecoldglassofwatershow]

The Tide survived

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@thecoldglassofwatershow It was re-purposed into pods for the TikTok generation

[@ZackaryShindle1-933]

​@RideAcrossTheRiver TikTok is Tidepods cancerous for your brain.

[@ocsrc]

I remember the CD I remember when the hidden facilities and checking the supplies and rotating out the medications from the VIP bunkers. But most of the bunkers were stocked and never touched after that. The water and food boxes and radiation medicine sat for decades. In some of the bunkers were in active buildings and the people in charge over the years were made aware of the supplies and bunkers but they sat unused and unvisited It was really amazing seeing the doors that had no names. No clue as to what was behind them. Opening these doors and seeing a set of stairs and long hallways and it looked like a scene from the Matrix. And then seeing the bunkers and the supplies and one of the things that I noticed was how little dust there was. This is a testimony of how well they built these facilities. And to have these hidden and kept secret for 50 years is incredible

[@athensboy123]

What year was that? I would like to know?

[@Matt_from_Florida]

Civilian fallout shelters were once well marked with those yellow signs. Now, if they still exist at all, their original purpose is long forgotten. Commoners like us are left to our own devices now.

[@RT-qd8yl]

@@Matt_from_Florida They don't WANT us to survive.

[@svenjansen2134]

I remember the mixtape.

[@buckhorncortez]

Funner Fact: The movie The Conqueror was filmed in Utah mostly at the Snow Canyon state park. John Wayne was a chain smoker for his entire life. He had a lung removed from lung cancer. Trying to imply that radiation caused Wayne's cancer is specious at best.

[@sabtahi13]

The other deaths were merely incidental, then? You are obviously aware of them. Many instances of cancer within a small population spells cause and effect.

[@timarnold7239]

So was that "feed" from those irradiated groceries they laid in the trenches? Those people had no idea how being there 24 hours after an atomic blast, how much damn radiation they were exposed to. That's nuts.

[@EndingSimple]

Getting a big Fallout 3 vibe from that introduction. Scary.

[@josephbingham1255]

Thank you for saving this piece of film history. "The Day We Bombed Utah" book. The prevailing wind currents took radiation from those above ground tests over Utah. The government knew Mormons were famously patriotic and likely not to complain during the 1950's "heated" cold war testing to protect the nation. 2000-2010 driving near Cedar City, Utah the car radio warned of a blowing wind storm increasing the dust radiation level and recommending persons to stay indoors.

[@besperus4475]

A friend of mine who grew up in Utah when I attended college in Logan, Utah told me he could have sex with a lot of the Native American girls and not worry about getting them pregnant. They were sterile due to the a bomb tests.

[@shawnio]

they had no idea the entire area is absolutely swimming with radiation, they are picking things up and smelling it lol wow

[@paulrichards2365]

Did they say they cooked those meals in cans recovered from the site?

[@andrewwood6285]

@@paulrichards2365yeah I think they did. I was thinking they were cooked by the blast! The benefit is you can eat the meals at night with the aid of lights. They kinda provide their own illumination after the blast!

[@woulfe42]

It past 24 hours, I think it’s good to go in. Few years later all died of some type of cancer or other. Great job guys

[@75blackviking]

If I ever do anything so stupid it ends up on national news, I'd really appreciate it if the narrator of this film was the person explaining to the general public how I was simultaneously electrocuted and drowned while being shot out of a cannon on a bicycle while dressed as a banana.

[@TayWoode]

They all had good narrator voices back then, now especially KZbin creators all seem to speak really fast and like children always saying “super excited”

[@OrangeDurito]

Haha I feel you. These narrators were so great that they could make anything interesting to hear. Where did those voice go?

[@75blackviking]

@@OrangeDurito Good point. They could make literally anything sound legitimate.

[@lotharhamburg5343]

You are a sick man 🤪in a good way

[@oscarjetson128]

Let's do it!!!

[@northerniltree]

Duck and cover is now fuck it's over.

[@glennb6224]

8:20 Fact: Never volunteer for anything for the government or military

[@chrisperyagh]

9:46 Pegasus makes a very brief appearance before being obliterated by the blast wave.

[@chasesutley7277]

The mannequins added that creepy touch that is so crucial for nuclear bomb testing.

[@tombuilder1475]

these tests proved the futility of surviving a blast in a surface building!

[@SMGJohn]

Soviet apartment houses were designed to survive 5 megaton bombs, its not impossible, it just requires, immense structural integrity, watch war footage from Ukraine to see Soviet era apartment blocks being pounded for months on end by artillery and still standing.

[@thomasfx3190]

They could have learned all of this for the price of a ticket to Hiroshima. I graduated from high school in 1985 and we all knew we were completely screwed. No digging, no stocking cans, if you’re within 3 miles you’re dead.

[@casebarreoltt5990]

Unless you're at the Jesuit compound, for some reason...🧐

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

from the nuclear age to the police-state digital age in 30 short years. from the police-state age to the A. I. age in another 30 short years. technology keeps forcing us to move backwards at ever increasing speeds. and thanks to 60 years of relentless, unchallenged corporate propaganda idiots believe their slavery to technology is a BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL thing. in another 20 years from now, 2023, human life will be unrecognizable as we continue to surrender our withering freedom to corporate gangsters.

[@shable1436]

Grew up next to a military arsenal so we all knew we were the first ones getting the hit

[@wbwilhite]

The researchers should have included animal "volunteers" to test the aftereffects of radiation. Animals could have been placed wherever the human mannequins were in order to study the immediate effects, such as burns, blindness or immediate death. That would have provided much more compelling testimony about the nature of nuclear war.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Hiroshima pre-1945 was not a modern US suburb.

[@martytrueblood5902]

you only had to duck and cover back then or hide under a school desk... or even hide in a lead lined fridge... amazing technology

[@davidknight8015]

Wonder how the cameras survived to show the blast as it happened. The house and electrical tower had awesome footage. That must have been a powerful long range lens 😂

[@besperus4475]

Incased in lead. That way the film survived.

[@scottd8775]

Indeed almost looks like model houses and cars hmmmm!!

[@pattykuvshin]

Cameras didn't even flinch. Pure fakery to scare the Soviets

[@povertyspec9651]

I toured this site a couple years ago. It was a blast!

[@wooderdsaunders7429]

I am sure you were blown away.

[@MaNuLaToROfficial]

@@wooderdsaunders7429 thats what she said

[@killingmasheen]

I love how they say a 'small 30 kiloton device'😂

[@SMGJohn]

30 kilotons is pretty small compared to 1000 kiloton which is 1 megaton.

[@RoadWarrior-lo9vt]

@@SMGJohn Where does a firecracker fall in this measurement scale? 😀

[@75blackviking]

Me too. Has a decidedly oxymoronic ring to it. Or at least an understated one.

[@josephastier7421]

Never mind that 1 pound of TNT will totally wreck a house. The 1 kiloton Beirut Blast destroyed or damaged half the city - as far as 20 km from ground zero.

[@ricksantana1016]

The narration dialogue was meant to minimize this test…

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

This time period reminds me of the original Twilight Zone in style. 😂

[@casebarreoltt5990]

Golly gee, those cameras sure stayed steady.

[@dstar8487]

How did the cameras and more importantly film survive!?

[@antilusion6960]

this with Dave clark's "any way you want it" at background shockwaves scenes its fun

[@aramboodakian9554]

We have seen parts of this footage on many TV shows from the 60s when they show a nuclear bomb go off like “The Outer Limits” episode: “Destruction and Decay of Radioactive Particles”

[@cherylcooper1885]

Re: Small group of civil defense volunteers that were close to ground zero - what happened to them after blast?

[@williamyoung9401]

"I have to laugh...because I've outwitted myself!"

[@lesaber251]

They were found 40 miles away exclaiming "Hoo Boy, that was a doozie!"

[@ksavage681]

What volunteers? -US Government

[@cherylcooper1885]

@@lesaber251 Lol!! That seems right to me! Thank you for your reply..

[@cherylcooper1885]

@@ksavage681 you got that right!!

[@matter9141]

Keep up the videos man👍🏽

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Operation Cue was also know as Teapot Apple 2, as a apart of Operation Teapot

[@FrenchmansFlats51]

good job

[@Japan123]

I can't believe they would go into the area 24 hours later without radiation protection and eat there.

[@hypercomms2001]

12:25 ... .Max Headroom!

[@certaindeed]

"This is a relatively small bomb at 30 kilotons, whereas bombs today are in excess of 20 megatons". Ummm..I eagerly await your test on house construction for that one! And they won't because they could not pop one off that big on the mainland and are attempting to scale it up. My Dad said that they used to have drills at school in the 50's, then after the HBOMB in 1957 people caught on and knew it was a waste of time and ridiculous and stopped doing it. We were so ignorant back then. Hindsight is 20/20. We are ignorant about other stuff today and don't see it and will look like fools in a few decades.

[@Cetok01]

I remember doing shelter drills up until high school in the late '60s. People misunderstood the purpose of 'duck and cover.' Yes, if you were in the blast zone you were literal toast, but for those farther outside ground zero, the drills were to protect kids and staff from flying projectiles such as window glass, giving them the opportunity to seek better shelter. It would be even better if you happened to be upwind of the blast. When you have nothing going for you, getting anything is a plus. That was a chance to live and to rebuild. That - starting over - is the history of civilization.

[@Helmuesi911]

@@Cetok01 We did drills in the early 80s as well.

[@Cetok01]

@@Helmuesi911 Perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea to resume such drills. It could help us to actually plan a civilian defense program that might work by rediscovering the errors.

[@alancranford3398]

Those drills were supposed to fool you into thinking that you were in good hands with Uncle Sam--if you really were worried about the Bomb, there was lots of real estate that wasn't Ground Zero--of course, some of that "empty land" was used for nuclear weapon testing.

[@ruperterskin2117]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@HellOnWheel]

5:50 This guy's doing a detailed job for something that's going to be ash soon. Must take pride in his work.

[@ananominity]

The opening narration states that the nuclear tests starting in 1955 used relatively small yield nuclear weapons of 30 kilotons. As of 1990 the U.S. Army training referred to the most likely size nuclear weapon a soldier might expect to encounter on the battlefield would have a yield of 20 kilotons with a ground zero blast radius of 5 miles. It is unlikely that the early tests would have used larger payloads than the more modern weapons of 35 yrs later.

[@zebatov]

Thirty is probably small compared to what could be. Twenty may be a better size for efficiency or tactical reasons. After thirty-five years of testing, maybe they know something we don’t.

[@Automated14]

It’s a called a tactical nuke, silly!

[@FrenchmansFlats51]

this film was made in early 1960s for the CD, using declassified DOE clips of operation Teapot- Apple 2 test in may 1955. During the period of 1955 to 1960, the US developed and tested the Ulam-Teller design fusion bomb (aka hydrogen bomb). with yields 1000x than the plutonium implosion devices (aka A bomb) used during Teapot or Trinity or Hiroshima. Hence the morbid film disclaimer, you should “prepare yourself for an attack far more lethal than pictured here”

[@ananominity]

As an afterthought I figured there probably was a big difference between the early atomic weapons they were dealing with here and what we now have in our arsenal, and others have mentioned that as well so thanks for pointing that out.

[@nickthurlow4456]

Can't believe they were examing stuff twenty four hours later !

[@SeekerGoOn2013]

Geiger counters? Not a single mention!

[@besperus4475]

Days later their hair started to fall out!

[@nawrotor]

cool video i havent seen this full video before thank u

[@thebadtemperedbrit]

I'm wondering if a halved oblate spheroid, low to the ground, would be the the best shape to withstand such blasts?

[@skankhunt3624]

Wouldn't a halved perfect sphere be better?

[@thebadtemperedbrit]

@@skankhunt3624 Possibly, I just felt oblate, or flattened would mean there would be less of a side surface to absorb impact. Here's an AI search I did, seems about 50/50. A halved sphere would have a smaller surface area than a halved oblate spheroid of the same volume, which could reduce the exposure to the blast wave. A halved oblate spheroid would have a lower height than a halved sphere of the same volume, which could reduce the drag force and the bending moment caused by the blast wind. A halved sphere would have a more uniform curvature than a halved oblate spheroid, which could reduce the stress concentration and the possibility of buckling or cracking. A halved oblate spheroid would have a larger cross-sectional area than a halved sphere of the same volume, which could increase the reflection and absorption of the shock wave.

[@skankhunt3624]

@@thebadtemperedbrit fair enough.

[@pungarehu]

@@thebadtemperedbritperfectly said old chap

[@honeymartin292]

I remember that from my childhood. There's a lot to question now. Tuck, duck and roll was the big thing and their all just standing there fully exposed. I bet they all got cancer.

[@FIREBRAND38]

Well, you can always hope.

[@mariekatherine5238]

Yes, most of them did. It’s not a joke.

[@honeymartin292]

@@mariekatherine5238 I should know, I have 2, 2 stage & could care less, ACS could care less too after a year of chemo then the kkkovid breakout, I haven't heard from fox chase since.

[@davidgates1122]

I don't think any of the information gained from this test has been used in construction of any of the infrastructure that has been constructed after the test. My parents and grandparents paid a lot of taxes for nothing.

[@iowanation1034]

I couldn't tell the real people from the mannequins.

[@heyrod59]

Somehow I don't think they realized just how toxic radiation really was at that time, nor the real half life of radiation decay on these sites over the decades......

[@CBourn48223]

Nor did they care, much like today, the men with the biggest guns rule the world. If they can't have it, no one will and they'll take us all with them.

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

This was all fake so it didn't matter.

[@leechowning2712]

You are aware a bunch of us have enjoyed taking tours of these sites with active detectors, right? Nuclear powerplants are the higher risk, because the longest halflife materials are reaction byproducts. Hiroshima was reinhabited safely within 15 years, while segments of Ukraine near the damaged 1st gen powerplant are still unusable. Yes, at this time they were not aware of the danger of gamma and xray, but fallout from the weapn itself is only a danger for a few weeks. I support nuclear power, because it is fairly obvious we will not cut back our power usage, and we need these alternate options, and my own solar setup has pretty obviously demonstrated its weakspots, but I do not like them being in the hands of business, who has shown for decades how reliable they are.

[@Sokol10]

@@Christoph-sd3zi Yes, nuclear explosions footage are all made in studios, under Stanley Kubrick direction. 🙄

[@keithlamie1994]

I grew up outside Detroit in the 50s an 60s. In retrospect, this is horrifying.

[@Helmuesi911]

Detroit 🤟🏻

[@tomryan914]

Detroit??? Japan's revenge!!!

[@Legend813a]

It would have been merciful.

[@foxxster3565]

I think Detroit today would be more horrifying

[@futuristica1710]

“One of the biggest problems after a blast will be the loss of power” ….😂

[@ianallen2]

Russia should be nuked to see if putin loses power. To be honest, nuking russia wouldnt harm the world at all.

[@besperus4475]

Ha, ha, ha! So funny!

[@buzaldrin8086]

This was actually test called "Apple-2", next to last of the Operation Teapot series. A short film about the blast, referred to as "Operation Cue", was distributed by the Federal Civil Defense Administration.

[@FrenchmansFlats51]

yes. good job.

[@jeffkurtock6726]

I liked how the truck with the painted logo used quotes: "Operation Cue". Seems legit!

[@75blackviking]

Other side of the vehicle reads, "Free candy".

[@ocsrc]

Fun Fact: There were over 100 radiation sites in the Southwest Area 51 was just one of these. The underground base was built after a huge nuclear weapon was tested there, creating a huge crater I don't remember the years that were the concrete pouring of the base at area 51 but I remember the two sons of the concrete company owners from Las Vegas The one son was a kid in his pre-teens He said that the government men came one evening and they asked how much concrete his dad could make if they were running full 24 hours a day with unlimited amounts of materials for making it His dad did some math and he gave them a number and said he had a specific number of trucks and they said from this point on, you are not pouring any concrete anywhere for anyone except us You will hire whoever you need and we will bring you materials if you can't get them from your suppliers but you will not stop product from rolling out every hour of every day. The 2 companies would l9ad and drive north out if Vegas to Grooms Lake Road and down to the base and through the gate and down the ramp and pour. The son said he would ride with his dad on weekends and on holiday breaks and during the summer. He said he saw this incredible hole in the earth and he saw the 2 earth ramps going down into the holes and the structure being built over the months and years. The two companies were extremely profitable and the quality of life was very good and the son remembers how they had all these new things that they wanted and they would go out to dinner and he enjoyed riding in the truck with his dad. After the first year they were about halfway done. He continued each month a few times a month riding up to the base and he watched this massive building deep in the hole rise floor by floor over the year. The end of the second year he said he went with his dad and they had increased the buildings above ground and the number of people who were not working on building but were in suits and uniforms and not nice like the workers were. One if these men came over and told his dad that he could not bring his son to the site anymore. He said that last time at the beasts that the one side had been finished where the ramp was a concrete tunnel and they had stairs and elevator shafts poured out and they were backfilling that end with trucks and bulldozers He also said that he remembered they're being too concrete plants that were at each end of the site It sounded to me like the military was building it and they realized that they didn't have enough capacity to make it as fast as they wanted, so they recruited the 2 companies, the only 2 companies. The only proof I have of this story is during that 30 month period of time, there were no buildings of concrete made in Vegas, and people who bought land that were supposed to have houses built, they remember having to get the raw materials for the concrete and to pour their own slab over a series of weeks. Doing a small section at a time. And if you talked the people back in the 80s that had houses that they remember this. And they remember having to do their own concrete pads. I don't know how deep or how many stories were what the measurements were but the kid said it looked like a casino in the hole. Like a hotel. And I don't think he made this up. I think this site was made to be a VIP bunker and command and control center in the event of a nuclear war. There are sites on the east coast and in the middle of the country from ND to Texas, but when it came to the southwest there wasn't anything like this. And when you look at the old nuclear silo facilities, they are huge on a scale that I still cannot believe how big they are and that they built these things in secret. They take up a 1/2 mile by 1/2 mile. And I have seen 3 of them and there are more. They were mostly filled in and covered over, but some were sold. I saw a video of one that was recently found and the people dug through about 40 feet of dirt and the surface had trees that I estimated to be 20 to 30 years old. So the late 90s thru must have shut down and covered it over. They went down the stairs 10 stories and there were four levels that they could walk around and below that was flooded and they could see at least three levels below that water level. It is crazy to think these places were built in secret and still to this day the information is so guarded that you only hear about it from a relative. When you have people that worked at one of these places and they retire and you're a grandson and you're talkin with your grandfather and nobody else is paying attention to him and probably nobody is going to visit him at the nursing home and you go and you talked to him and he tells you this incredible story of this place he worked and you go and check it out with some Urban explorers and you find the landmark see tells you about and over the course of a month you dig up this entrance. It is the type of thing that unless you actually saw it you would never believe it

[@FrenchmansFlats51]

No. there were zero nuclear tests at area 51. All of the tests were at Frenchman and Yucca Flats, Pahute and Aqueduct Mesas, comprising mostly Areas 1 through 19

[@thecoldglassofwatershow]

I believe it. Btw, Jeffrey Epstein’s place in New Mexico was most likely built over one of those silos.

[@MaNuLaToROfficial]

i remember someone telling me there are underground tunnels etc in the white city sams valley area of Oregon. Do you know anything about that?

[@Rick_Cleland]

@@FrenchmansFlats51 Octopuses are aliens.

[@1982joe1982]

There are hundreds of reasons to conclude the story you have been told is BS but a few stand out - 1) You cannot find a period of 30 days let alone 30 months that things weren't being built in Las Vegas after 1955 which is the only time Groom Lake even matters🙄Check property records for proof of this - I guess they weren't fixing roads either huh? 2) nobody would EVER use an irregular crater as opposed to an accurately excavated hole to build anything🙄 3) The tensile strength of military project concrete is NOT the same as household or commercial concrete🙄🙄ESPECIALLY in a 'bunker" It is HIGH PSI UHPC concrete that has to be mixed properly with the correct ratio of water to binders and tested repeatedly while it is poured 4)The closest atomic tests were 14 miles away at Yucca and the place was evacuated during those You don't need to be some secret agent to know this stuff - most of it is declassified and even Lockheed employees can talk about it now - and there were more of them there than any secret "military" anything

[@timmer01]

Did you ever wonder why the camera wasn't destroyed by the blast? Or why the film wasn't damaged by the radiation?

[@hermanbinngavionohermanbin8371]

eating a radioactive contaminated food and lingering around on ground zero.those were the tough days

[@vintagepipesnightmares]

It looks just like a movie Camera never shakes. No dust or smoke near the camera.

[@Diskoboy1974]

I love how the utility poles go flying back in unison at 9:47

[@kailaniandi]

Like in the movies

[@josephastier7421]

That's smoke - in the exact shape of the pole on the side hit by the flash.

[@Diskoboy1974]

​@@josephastier7421I see it now. That's crazy.

[@catman351]

"Cue" in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls.

[@thewaryears]

Thank you

[@woneil111]

When I was in elementary school, all we needed was a school desk..............................

[@peptidegirl]

It's refreshing to hear someone correctly pronounce "nuclear"

[@georget8008]

These people are wandering around in shorts and t-shorts at nuclear explosion site. I wonder how many of them developed cancer in the following years.

[@Helmuesi911]

None.. it was super safe in the 50s. Times were different back then.

[@razile96]

What’s more impressive is the camera 🎥 that can take the blast of a nuclear explosion. I’m curious how this was filmed

[@andyo5220]

I love the upbeat Hollywood movie music at the opening.

[@michaelewens1431]

Directed by Wes Anderson

[@deadly-lk4pu]

Респект оператору Сане что он заснял весь сам процес!

[@ocsugar]

Crazy that a film documenting atomic destruction would make me want to go back to the 1950s.

[@user-zb7nt6no1b]

I believe that the development of science all begins with the kind of interest that children have. The knowledge we gain from actions that start out of curiosity has brought us many benefits. However, the knowledge and benefits gained must be treated with care and caution. This documentary video makes us think about whether the knowledge and benefits we have gained can lead us to happiness and peace. Thank you very much for showing me this video.

[@trainnerd3029]

The way the telephone poles get blown away in unison at 9:48 is amazing!

[@princesymenouh2949]

These are not the telephone poles, this is the surface paint on the poles that got blown away at superspeed. The telephone stayed fixed.

[@UseByDate-Expired]

the pole that the camera was mounted on didn't even jiggle...

[@stevecallagher9973]

I wonder if any of those homes were rebuilt and sold on? You wouldn't need to use much electricity for lighting as I am pretty sure they would glow in the dark!

[@johnrudy9404]

Sold ON?

[@mindbulletz2803]

How did the cameras and film survive?

[@phild8095]

look at that prepper's pantry at 7:13, pretty well stocked

[@Pablo668]

Those manikins are frigging terrifying.

[@TheAmazingSnarf]

just to check: the content is about atomic bomb effect testing- blast effects, radiation, et cetera ...and you're afraid of the mannequins?

[@ianallen2]

@@TheAmazingSnarf Your IQ must be a fraction above a blade of grass if you did not get what he was on about regarding the manikins. I understood perfectly what he was on about.

[@Pablo668]

@@TheAmazingSnarf Touche'. There is no arguing that response.

[@56cadd]

The twilight zone where the mannequins had a vacation.

[@75blackviking]

Come on now, my in-laws make them look perfectly normal.