" THE H BOMB " 1956 UNITED KINGDOM CIVIL DEFENSE TRAINING FILM HYDROGEN NUCLEAR BOMB 41304

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This black and white training film, made for the United Kingdom’s Civil Defense and Fire Service in 1956, provides a straight forward and unflinching look at the possible effects a hydrogen bomb would have on a major city in that country. Using World War II era footage of rescue work in the aftermath of German air attacks, animations, scale models, and somber narration, the film attempts to convey the devastation such an attack would inflict, what rescuers should expect to encounter in their efforts, and the sobering differences between a “nominal” atomic bomb and a ten megaton hydrogen bomb. Produced for the Home Office by RHR Productions, Ltd. Produced by Ronald H. Riley. Written and directed by David Villiers. This film directly references the 1952 Civil Defense training film “The Atomic Bomb: It’s Effects & How to Meet Them,” which is available in the Periscope Film archive.
00:08 TITLE AND PRODUCTION CARD 00:30 Nuclear explosion 01:18 Air Raid Precautions (ARP)/Civil Defense Service personnel climb over rubble, carry a stretcher 01:28 Wounded woman in hospital, doctor bedside 01:30 Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat launching out to sea 01:33 ARP Rescue Service member finds man trapped under rubble 01:38 Rescue Service personnel carry ladders, equipment; use hoist jack to move large beam in rubble, free the trapped man 01:58 Untrained volunteers attempt identical rescue, cause trapped man to be crushed by beam 02:13 Rescue Service personnel watch a demonstration, take notes 02:32 ARP personnel dig through rubble 02:46 Incendiary bombs explode; building collapses 02:56 National Fire Service (NFS) members fight fires in burning buildings 03:08 ARP Controller’s Office; Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) members answer phones, take messages 03:26 Fire alarm bell rings, NFS lorries depart; WVS members direct movements over telephone 4:00 Victory parade; Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery rides in convertible, marching columns pass through Admiralty Arch 04:07 London News Chronicle newspaper headline about atomic bombing of Japan 04:17 Animation depicting stages of atomic blast; heat, radiation, blast; mushroom cloud over large city 04:48 Animation depicting power of a “Nominal Bomb” (equivalent to the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan) 05:14 Scale model of English urban area before and after atomic explosion 05:31 Woman calls over Rescue Services member to destroyed building; injured man carried out 05:53 V-1 flying bomb explodes midair 05:54 London News Chronicle newspaper headline; “Britain Decides - We Make the H-Bomb” 06:07 Animation: Power of atom bomb vs. hydrogen bomb 08:33 Damaged and destroyed buildings 08:40 Woman whitewashes window pane, man hangs shutter 09:19 Animation: Types of radiation, range increases with hydrogen bomb vs. atomic bomb 11:02 Animation: range of A-Bomb vs. H-Bomb explosion and fallout superimposed over map of London 11:40 Nuclear explosion, mushroom cloud 12:16 Animation: Fallout cloud moves across British Isles 12:35 ARP Wardens shoo people off the street and into shelter 12:53 Animation: Civil Defense shelter blueprints; people in house with emergency supplies 13:43 Weather balloon launched 14:00 Animation: Effects of A-Bomb vs. H-Bomb damage broken down by distance from Ground Zero 15:20 Animation: Likely effects observed upon approaching Ground Zero 18:23 Animation: Recap of three effects of H-Bomb on major city, based on distance from Ground Zero 19:30 Women, children, Rescue Service personnel walk through city ruins 19:50 Severed hand in debris 20:10 Rescuer Service member carries injured man out of burning building 20:13 Crying child trapped in rubble 21:05 CREDITS
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[@jimeditorial]

Wildly optimistic to think that there would be enough rescue resources to enter bombed cities. Personnel would be overwhelmed just by the survivors from the outlying areas

[@iitzfizz]

I mean they gotta talk like that, for morale more than anything

[@jimdieseldawg3435]

It continues to amaze me that these films were circulated, and yet not. I assume that they brought comfort for some in their enhanced picture of survivability and hence maintained public belief that the grown-ups had a workable post-apocalyptic plan for resumption of normal service; we can only imagine the public uproar should the facts have been revealed. No point in piling earth against external walls and/or retreating into the most protected room here; I live within five miles of a strategically important railway junction so I’m likely to be fried pretty quickly - and I’ll be standing outside for it because the predicted aftermath is intolerable; your Deuce-And-A-Half, gun collection and well-stocked remote bolthole might keep you going for a week or two but do you really want to survive into a desolate, frigid, barren wasteland devoid of resources and with everything in your surroundings trying to kill you? Sleep well, all, and hope that the nuclear powers finally grow up and learn to play nicely.

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah, especially lately with people taking a lot of things for granted, we are all extremely comfortable to think we can pump our own water, make our own food, and so on from the comfort of our houses and grocery stores and faucets. The most paranoid people collect things like weapons and food as if their own survival is paramount but if they're the ones with most of the tools and they're just one person... that place becomes the primary target for scavengers. It's like when I think of guys bragging about having 20 assault rifles, you can only fire one gun at a time and it's NOT going to be like those zombie defense games where everyone's gonna run towards you from a single direction. Most likely IRL we'll just air drop a grenade on the building using an unmanned device to snuff the person out and then snipe from afar then collect the weapons and distribute them as necessary. But yeah, I think for the most part people have accepted their fate that if a bomb nukes the city, we can only hope the death is quick and painless, and until then, just gotta make the most of our lives. The good thing about this video is it DID encourage people to be more productive despite the inevitability. After all, the biggest deterrant to war is avoiding a reason for it. If everyone agrees to be civilized and prove we can make a better future, then we're less likely to want to nuke each other as it wouldn't be worth all the excess clean up that follows. But lately you have a mad increase in insanity trying to make people lose hope so they can become "King of the castle" in thier heads....once again forgetting that High politician or homeless bum, a bullet or a grenade discriminates against no one. both will end up a sack of charred guts and we don't want a reason to make such happen...

[@ronaldwhite1730]

Thank - you .

[@lotharhamburg5343]

These films are hysterically insane 🤪

[@budb.8560]

True but so is war, nuclear or otherwise. 🤪

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Delighted we have Hubris. Bout time am I right sir?

[@hazzard77]

Don't worry, just pop some Rad-X and RadAway for good measure.

[@thetreblerebel]

The danger was very real that a nuclear weapon could be used upon city centers for a few decades. Now we know that there's not much that could be done in the face of an attack, but then the weapons effects were still being developed and studied. A plan had to be enacted because it could of happened...

[@anubisswift]

Informative and well expressed. easy to grasp Hydrogen bombs are 500x nominal

[@Cancun771]

Not really, no. nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525]

It's very interesting to see what people were taught back in the day. Even though some of it was not correct. Thanks for showing this. I have a unique reason for my interest

[@lastfirst6626]

If you are near enough you're dead before the neutrons can get to you.

[@MrTommyboy68]

You mean if you DIE FRST before the radiation or illness or starvation gets you. You should be HAPPY to not survive. It won't be pretty.

[@Modeltnick]

That poor guy trapped in the rubble. They dropped a beam on him!

[@GigsVT]

Most h bombs wound up much smaller than this. The largest modern one is 1.2MT and the average is around 280 kilotons. We figured out pretty quickly that smaller bombs are much more efficient, just use more of them.

[@Crashed131963]

Little boy was 15 kilotons and took out a city and 70,000 people. A trident II carries 4 warhead at 100 Kiloton each. A Ohio sub has 22 Trident II , so just one Submarine has the power of 586 Hiroshima attacks. And the US has 14 Ohio subs, then you move to land launch Minuteman IIIs with 3 (w78) warheads at 350 Kiloton each. That is 70 Hiroshima in one ICBM. Of which there is 100 ready stand by Minuteman IIIs. Thats 700 Hiroshima attacks. Then you have the mobile 134A Midgetman ICBMs with (w61) 300 Kiloton warheads. It will be awhile Yet before M.A.D becomes obsolete.

[@GigsVT]

@@Crashed131963 they demirved all those for treaties.

[@Crashed131963]

@@GigsVT I think small 147 million people Russia held some big boys back incase 1.4 Billion resourced starved China next door gets really hungry one day.

[@GigsVT]

@@Crashed131963 yeah don't get me wrong, a big swath of the population could still be wiped out. It's just the typical warhead is a fairly medium sized these days, and the mirvs have been demirved to one or two each. If things got bad they could reinstall some of the mirv warheads, they can be loaded back up, they just aren't kept that way in active status.

[@Klaus293]

@@GigsVTThe nuclear missiles are very well MIRV equipped.

[@rumpstatefiasco]

Cheerio!

[@KbB-kz9qp]

Oh yeah - don’t forget a battery powered radio and extra batteries.

[@erastusturnipseed8318]

It's quite amazing how much mind control was accomplished by using simple film animations.

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

Simpler times. Now we're controlled by much more sophisticated methods. In the US, religion has always been a very powerful tool for control. Now Trumpism is brainwashing the majority of Republicans, despite his many tragic failures.

[@noecarrier5035]

Mind control might be an excessively intense definition for what films like these accomplish, what little they actually do.

[@johnsiders7819]

The media is doing quite well at it they have convinced the weaker minds that criminals are the victims!

[@quantumleap359]

@@johnsiders7819 And the criminals are made out to be heroes. Sick sick sick.

[@noecarrier5035]

@@johnsiders7819 Criminals are victims, though. They also victimise others. They're often a symptom of broader malaise. I think you might have unnecessarily conflated "victim" and "deserves much sympathy" -- it's an explanation intended to allow for repairs to broader society, to understand why people do criminality and stop it at source. Otherwise, you're just running around putting out fires. The objective is to prevent the criminal from being created at all. No punishment can ever unvictimise somebody. No justice can bring back the dead or fix serious injuries. I see it in the same terms as a fire. It's a phenomenon that occurs when the conditions are right -- fuel, oxygen, ignition -- and ceases when they aren't. If it burns down my house, I don't hate the fire. I hate the thing or person that started it. You could call that sympathy.

[@lastfirst6626]

Done in in a gamma ray oven.

[@whatsyurprob158]

. . . so where's, Dan Henderson? 😊

[@lard_lad_AU]

Thank god the Libyans didn’t get a bomb after Doc Brown sabotaged it with used pinball machine parts.

[@AMC2283]

Well super rich biff proliferated nukes but it was undone by burning the almanac

[@simonf8902]

Nuclear weapons still exist. But everyone has forgotten.

[@MarioMastar]

More so we just pessimistically accept that if a bomb goes off near our homes, we're not going to bother trying to survive it. Our time is simply up and in God's hands now. Sometimes it's better to just eat lead than to survive without skin...

[@michaelmaxfield3744]

Does H stand for Heroin? Do you work with people who are considered functioning heroin addicts?

[@tjlovesrachel]

What?😂😂😂

[@whereswaldo5740]

Aaah the year I was born. Born and raised in the shadow of the mushroom cloud. No longer scary. Still possible. NWO.

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

Launch everything. Let’s get it over with already.

[@Cjnw]

Amen! HOLY NUCLEAR INRI!!!!!!

[@baileyreport.]

Read Revelation 18! It describes New York City being destroyed in an hour during the Great Tribulation. Those who have not accepted Christ Jesus will be there.

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

@@baileyreport. Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me

[@kiwitrainguy]

@@baileyreport. St. John The Devine of Patmos wrote his work several hundred years before New York City was founded.

[@kiwitrainguy]

Unassisted Suicide - Just keep it North of the Equator.

[@rh5971]

Sure would be great if you could get the counter off the screen or put it down lower so it does not block the film. I subscribed to watch old films, not timestamp numbers.

[@rokuthedog]

cry less plz. you should be happy you are seeing it at all.

[@rh5971]

@@rokuthedog You are under the misconception that I was speaking to you. I understand that little people need to feel powerful and therefore hide behind computer screens and talk tough to people they don't know in a way they never would in public. Kindly mind your own business and work on moving out of your parents basement. Cheers!

[@nem447]

@@rh5971 you're the one whining about hard to find free stuff

[@rh5971]

@@nem447 wow! I guess you own the channel or something because you seem really upset. I pay for KZbin premium membership so this stuff is not free for me. Interesting how you chime in to a conversation that has nothing to do with you. I hope you feel powerful and important now. Have a good day!

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[@qzh00k]

This is what we knew in 1956, and we have to imagine how much better we understand this nuclear waste problem because our education system has been crippled by faith. All commercial nuclear power reactors are ticking bombs and boil water, we have to do better.

[@sswcustomsewing4276]

Fukushima stopped ticking and has turned into a horrible disaster. I live on the west coast and has been getting radiation from that mess sadly. I have no idea why anyone would want nuclear power or a reactor they always end horribly. Common sense tells me they are extremely dangerous. No matter how much lead and cement they cover them with they never stop being deadly always a problem for future generations. Want an interesting read look up what Owsley Stanley aka The Bear wrote about nuclear testing, smog, and global warming it is quite interesting. Anyways stay safe and thanks for your comment.

[@qzh00k]

@@sswcustomsewing4276 the clock on the radio active isotopes that escaped containment and keep the ice wall from full freeziing, what the apls system is capturing and the still radioactive water TEPCO plans on releasing imply you may be wrong. I am sure you are wrong, and that is a long story with footnotes. Thanks for being aware.

[@brigandboy1425]

The absolute irony of saying our education system has been crippled by faith, and then saying "All commercial nuclear power reactors are ticking bombs and boil water." You are both trusting the science and also not being scientific. Pretty normal shit for one of the hypocritical faithful.

[@qzh00k]

@@brigandboy1425 your reply supports what I said, and there are no gods in the real world. So there

[@sswcustomsewing4276]

@@brigandboy1425 Hello, I hope you are well and enjoying your day. I live on the west coast in Oregon and the radiation and other dangers from Fukushima have caused problems. I am against nuclear power plants and would like to see a future without nuclear power plants so the world is safe for everyone. I also do not discriminate or show any disrespect against any person for any reason I choose to respect everyone no matter who they are. I might not agree with another person yet I will always listen to their side because I will probably learn something from them. I very much appreciate your kind response and thank you for your reply to the topic. Please stay safe, healthy, and have a great day.

[@pkramerable]

Anyone else watching this film, picking up on the absurdity of the nuclear arms race, and the idea of "every citizen a soldier"? Considering the brutalistic mentality that this film's narrator is pushing, it looks like the nazis may have actually won.

[@MarioMastar]

A lot of World War II videos were like that, it wasn't until recently that people started to seriously question the integrity of the war. As most of the war films were protrayed as if the Nazis were attacking the US on US soil when it was mostly the other way around. Though they also assumed the Nazis had a personal vendetta against the US....they didn't, they actually mostly looked up to the US because of thier example of totalitarianism (and being the last country to outlaw Slavery but still withholing that idea) and the only reason for the huge anti-nazi push was to encourage people to give their lives to fight. Many of the strategies they employed like D-Day and such were actually suicide missions and the only reason Germany ultimately lost is because of a bad gambit against Russia, but the US's strategy was always "Throw men at it until we break, we have the numbers and the resources". Then Korea and Vietnam happened and we both know how THAT worked out...

[@richgilmour5924]

Hilariously deluded.

[@flyonthewall7026]

This is hilarious and the h bomb is OBVIOUSLY fake

[@DirtySamsqwaNch]

Propaganda fear spread. ZERO real time test footage. All miniature models. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were fire bombed. ZERO radiation, and only ONE U.S. reporter allowed to report the damage findings there.

[@davidhudson5452]

@@DirtySamsqwaNch Fire Bombed Other Cities Not Those They Got Nuked

[@bendobbs6044]

@@davidhudson5452 don't waste your time, he is a moron

[@SerBallister]

Go on I'll bite, What makes this H-Bomb a fake ? Is nuclear fusion a myth ? Please explain.

[@flyonthewall7026]

@@SerBallister I'm telling you the truth... You'll have to look into yourself... Everything they tell us mainstream is a lie... Just like the current C19 lie.. Just like two towers don't collapse at demolition speed ect ect... Nobody can "wake you up"...you have to do it yourself 👍