The Atomic Age - USA '50s

[@bman6065]

My grandad volunteered to parachute into a mushroom cloud. He was in Korea so this would've likely been around that time. They offered him and the volunteers several perks including leave on the town. Said they wouldn't get anymore radiation than an x-ray. When they hit the ground as the dust was settling and they were packing their shoots. Men in full radiation suits drove up with radiation meters to test them. That's the Army for you.

[@SC-vj4wv]

Damn, are you serious?

[@bman6065]

@@SC-vj4wv yup, he's 92 today. Sharp as a razor. Maybe it helps describe my atomic autism

[@RAAM855]

3.6 Roentgen not great. Not Terrible.

[@Sercer25]

@@SC-vj4wv shows how much the US 'cares' about it's forces. as long as you achieve the end, who cares about the means to do so.

[@yoshibutkagekira7899]

The sacrifices of these men will not go unnoticed, They are the sole reason why we understand so much about radiation nowdays.

[@jockobeans]

My grandfather was part of Operation Castle Bravo. He was part of the Marine detachment on the USS Curtis that transported the bomb to Bikini Atoll. He was last man in his detachment that died and the only one to not die of cancer. He told me couple stories of Shrimp's detonation. Decades later he was still awed and horrified by the power he saw.

[@atompunk5575]

Castle bravo looks beautiful on film

[@deletdis6173]

RIP

[@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378]

@@atompunk5575 there's a beauty of destruction

[@calthepeacelovingclover5935]

Did he serve in combat? Did he ever think it was worse?

[@jockobeans]

@@calthepeacelovingclover5935 He may have been on Korea in 52. In believe he was there, but he never talked about it.

[@TexasSurplusPro]

“Yeah so we can’t seem to confirm your issues are service connected.” “I was literally part of the Nuclear Army concept in the 50’s.”

[@TheJoey1s]

what's fucked up is that they couldn't even admit they were there until the 90's because it was a classified project.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@TheJoey1s I think it was more to do with how stupid it was not that it was top secret.

[@tommythetemplar]

@@johnnotrealname8168 it was because it was a secret. We don’t want that public or other nations hearing of this testing.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@tommythetemplar I was making a joke mate about how stupid the idea was.

[@enclavesoldier8893]

@@johnnotrealname8168Agreed, the relevance of keeping it secret had long passed, they were embarrassed to admit they had done something so stupid that had cost many people their lives.

[@ODESSARAMBO]

Ah, yes, my favourite military exercise - a march through the radioactive mushroom without a chemsuit. Definitely, all the radioactive dust will help you to bulk up because of the amount of calories Another amazing edit. Keep up the good work!

[@Mac-ih1zf]

what the hell were they even thinking

[@bluedog843]

@@Mac-ih1zf well, I don’t think they had much to think about. Of course radiation was known, but it wasn’t understood as well as it is now. Hell, think about the Chernobyl disaster and how many people responding to the disaster didn’t even have any radiation gear. This stuff took place in the 50s and radiation wasn’t as widely known as it is today. Obviously now militaries wouldn’t think (at least most of the time) to send forces into radioactive areas without proper protection. Crazy how far we’ve come

[@xxxxxx5868]

@@Mac-ih1zf When this happened the atom bomb was invented only 6 years ago. I don't think they knew about the effects of radiation on people.

[@bjohnson8467]

I wouldnt even walk though that in mopp-4.

[@operator5352]

​@@Mac-ih1zf It was part of Operation Buster-Jangle, where they were testing out the practicality of fighting in a post-nuke environment as part of the Pentomic Army formation. In the footage, their directions were to march into ground zero but they never got close much to it due to radiation

[@mohammadakramali1466]

Majorsamm's video will one day be shown to the next generation as a cool montage of the past.

[@jakobnuernberger94]

Isn't that allready the case? Are we not the next generation(s) to the events in those videos? I think we are, and we are watching these montages of the past. So your dream of the future is already here and I intend to stay a bit longer here and now and enjoy the past.

[@Alext0250]

I'm already working on an educative project to do it

[@xpvestige6444]

It's weird to think that one day we'll be the people in these videos

[@cracboumhu1567]

Les next générations ne sont pas disposer a comprendre le passé trop absorbé dans leur réalité 2.0 . D après nos livres d Histoire l humanité a commencer en 1945 avant ...rien. que des sauvages.

[@AnAxetoGrind]

That’s what is already happening?

[@tincan3080]

“Your cancer is not service related.”

[@plasticaustralia]

same with hearing loss

[@DJTheMetalheadMercenary]

My Grandfather was at these tests/ exercises, passed away from Brain Cancer in 2006. Awesome work Maj.!!!

[@DJTheMetalheadMercenary]

@Lock42o Thanks

[@Kingedwardiii2003]

At least he lived a long life, I didn’t expect anyone from this footage to live past 5 months

[@DJTheMetalheadMercenary]

@@Kingedwardiii2003 Surprisingly, many of them lived long lives. Same with the Atoll tests and mishaps along the way there too. Many from the Chernobyl incident are still alive, cancer slowly developing in everyone though too, no escaping it.

[@jockobeans]

Rest in Peace... my grandpa was at the H-Bomb tests in Bikini Atoll. Died in 2007.

[@hellomoto1426]

Rest in peace dear comrade grandfather .

[@misdangered4326]

Met an old guy at work around 1984, who had been at the British A-Bomb tests in the Pacific. Amazing to have actually met someone who’d been in an atomic bomb blast. He told me there had been 24 guys on our department who had been at the tests, and 22 had died since. He was still working and so was under 65, maybe even in his 50’s. He told me the other survivor on our department was ‘riddled with cancer and didn’t have long left’. The U.K. Government denied that the atomic testing had anything to do with the 22 out of 24 premature deaths and that they were ‘normal mortality rates and normal cancer rates’. And slowly I grew to hate them…

[@קעז-מענטש]

Þat's þe British for you.

[@MrFarmer110]

"Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter." ~ Random NCR soldier.

[@deletdis6173]

Ave, true to Caesar.

[@mortbarg8869]

Ave, true to Caesar.

[@timothytimothy4854]

@@mortbarg8869 Mmm Caesar's finest furies

[@pvt.potato1943]

@@deletdis6173 Ave, true to taxes

[@wanderley6332]

perfect

[@engineergaming8695]

it's really crazy to compare how simple the kit for your average grunt looked from the 40s up until the 90s against the super bulky kit most soldiers carry today. so much technological advancement in such a short timespan.

[@florinivan6907]

You gotta account for two things. Most of the kit from today was not really available until the 80s in limited fashion. The US military from 1975 to 2001 was only involved in short operations that didn't strech its resources. The biggest operation the Gulf War only lasted 6 months if you include the buildup and there was very little ground fighting. Not enough to impose significant changes. So too much wasn't reallu needed. Once the War on terror started things changed quickly. All the stuff that was mostly in limited numbers became standardised to everyone.

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

Doctrine changed

[@prinz4279]

The ideas have always existed, (relatively) cheap and reliable mass production techniques just finally caught up.

[@smukysmucr324]

Majorsamm isn´t editor of history footage. He´s an artist.

[@cyraxthehedgehog]

I want to hear this song in FALLOUT 5

[@CheeseBurgerARMY]

AGREED

[@nicolasvargas808]

FCK YEAH

[@jonahc2807]

Imagine being in those soldier's shoes, seeing such a weapon. I wouldn't know what to think.

[@MrRoyalOss]

The British did a bunch of tests like this aswell, Vice made a mini documentary about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mn22knmbp8mKh6c&ab_channel=VICE

[@ukinee8812]

Guess we will see something more powerful than this really soon, sad.

[@phoenix_radio]

I don't even know what to think when seeing footage of it. Just apocalyptic.

[@SkFrvr]

@@ukinee8812 We already have weapons vastly more powerful than these in the modern day

[@commanderboreal1343]

„ah damn they made my job redundant”

[@SC-vj4wv]

"Standing tough under stars and stripes, we can tell This dream's in sight, you've got to admit it At this point in time that it's clear The future looks bright" - Donald Fagen, The Nightfly. An '80s album that captured the feeling of the '50s. America was undergoing a post-war boom, West Europe and Japan were growing thanks to aid, and relations with the Soviet Bloc were improving after the death of Stalin. Truly a time of prosperity and hope for the average American.

[@kennethschlegel870]

Love that song

[@agarcia8312]

Yeah, but much of that is nostalgia, people in the 50s knew that they were having a good time but were also frightfull of the future, and this video shows it, the thread of nuclear war

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@agarcia8312 Not as much as the '60s though.

[@73_fin89]

bro said he wanna be gay what the hell😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sprite4800]

@@73_fin89 Gay used to mean being "Carefree/Cheerful" or smth like that before it's meaning was changed in the late 19th century.

[@unitedstatesofamerica2417]

Imagine your job is too walk straight towards a world ending device not run away from it. The balls on those men.

[@sandeepk4093]

The guy at 0:56 was instinctively about to get back down. Definitely took guts to step forward

[@poshdoggo9879]

The 1950s sure was a time of atomic testing

[@Crackshotsteph]

Yup a year earlier the Soviets tested their first Atomic Bomb.

[@ganii1804]

the 20th century sure was a time of testing

[@sooryan_1018]

It was the time when Soviets made the world's largest nuke ever to exist.... as we know yet...

[@therandommailman]

​@@ganii1804 the 20th century truly was a time

[@StickTheGlue]

I've always thought that the clips of the guys getting out of the trench and heading towards the mushroom cloud would make a really cool final scene to a sci-fi film. Maybe they had to nuke some irradiated and over-sized bugs or something and the troops have to go in to find out if they got them all, knowing they might get radiation poisoning but save humanity

[@509Gman]

It’s peak Fallout vibe. I think the intro cinematic to 4 had an homage to that “marching to the cloud” shot.

[@Gruvy]

Starship troopers book is what you wanna read. Its alot more different than the film but it was ahead of its time. At the start of the book one of the troopers (who all wear ‘power’ armour) are fighting in a war and they throw nuclear grenades into a building.

[@Imperatrix216]

@@509Gman What A Coincidence, I'm Actually Planning To Do Pre-War Soldiers Marching Into The Mushroom Scene On My Cinematic Intro For My Fallout New Vegas Mod Project!

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@Imperatrix216 i got a stupid idea to bounce off a mod maker

[@kimjongun2081]

Literally warhamer 40k

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

The Atomic Age was my favorite kind of crazy. If I could time travel, I'd go back to 50's Vegas to watch a Nuclear Test on the roof deck of one of the casinos who offered hosting what they called "Nuke observation parties".

[@SaulGoodman-ou1lv]

Fallout new vegas reference?

[@mickyday2008]

Me too

[@Sir.Panther]

​@@SaulGoodman-ou1lv not really. They really did that in Vegas during the 50's

[@moddedkaine1427]

Majorsamm creating another masterpiece

[@aidanpysher2764]

This and the Madness video are just straight-up art. Major Samm always delivers.

[@expiredwater9019]

RIP my grandpa, we thought he was just regular field artillery till a few years ago but he told us that he worked with American tactical nuke versions of the V-2. Stood at ground zero of the first nuke test.

[@Tomi.762]

Absolute masterpiece, sad how the music is still oddly fitting some 70 years later.

[@yoshbiginz]

The conclusions drawn on Exercises 6 and 7 to the psychological affects of nuclear detonation, were that of worry of combat dangers it posed rather than radiation dangers.

[@caffeinatedbuffalosauce883]

Nothing more bad ass than smoking a cigarette and walking towards a nuclear detonation

[@pisshead1471]

you missed the point so hard

[@vito7428]

Cancer and radiation poisoning is so badass

[@anti-communist103]

@@pisshead1471 >makes it look like the coolest thing ever >"Guys, what I'm showing you is bad! You're not supposed to like this!" 🤓🤓🤓

[@deletdis6173]

The scariest part of this video? These are all considered low-yield tests today. Thermonuclear weapons are like 50-100 times larger.

[@vito7428]

I mean it's kind of a good thing if you try to look on the'bright side'. With nukes being too destructive and too easy to launch at each other to be involved in a conventional war as normal ordinances,concepts like the US Atomic Army are no longer viable which hopefully means no more men have to jump up from a trench and advance towards a mushroom cloud with no protective gear on just to test some general's ideas

[@deletdis6173]

@@vito7428 True, good point.

[@yanariel2017]

1000 times.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

These were like 100t tac nukes

[@NorbertKasko]

​@@giovannicervantes2053I recognise the test footage from 0:54 it was actually a 19 (according to another source 20) kiloton explosion. The soldiers were 6.4 kilometres away. There is a part of the footage not shown here when the blast vawe hits them with a lot of dust.

[@davidanspach1624]

If Majorsamm didnt invent this genre of KZbin video then he perfected it. Fucking inspirations. Every one of them is out of the ballpark and into the stratosphere.

[@gargamel679]

always a good day when samm uploads

[@Alex-uf7mz]

MajorSamm dropping banger videos as always

[@originalganjaman606]

MayorSamm droppin literal nuclear bombs, he so fire🔥

[@chaddusmaximus4938]

That's another song for my playlist. You always knock it out of the park in every vid, the footage, the music, amazing all of it.

[@janedover4447]

Great work, as always!

[@dubaiedge]

A relative was a senior physicist on the Manhattan Project. Decades later, he'd drop by our house & go on & on about how he tried to warn about the radiation threat to the Bikini Islands. No one in the government listened. He died a sad, incredibly haunted man. I was just a kid, & whenever he'd come over, I had to go to my room so I wouldn't hear. But I hid & listened. Wish I could remember more besides disjoined words like bad, terrible, never the same. He scared me.

[@53gaDr34mc4st]

The grunt at 0:51 reading a comic book while waiting for a nuclear bomb to detonate really does feel like the perfect encapsulation of what America was like in the 1950s.

[@Fickets]

My dad was part of Strategic Air Command during the later half of Vietnam. Used to work directly on the nuclear warhead housings as a Nuclear Weapons Tech. Always talked about all the bombs they built and was glad we never actually used any of them. Outside of testing obviously.

[@promaster2327]

Man see a video of a militay platoon walking to a Mushroom cloud made you feel like the cold war turn hot war and u seeing history footage of the war

[@pq3254]

Man I keep rewatching this, is just so awesome one of your best majorsamm

[@oraffault]

Just finished watching oppenheimer and came back here

[@deletdis6173]

I was expecting a comment just like this lol

[@larkenkuznetsov3413]

It doesn't matter if a MajorSamm video is a little shorter, it's always impactful just the same, great video once again!

[@broodbassoon105]

I want to be happy I want to be gay I want to be normal in every way But a mushroom cloud hangs over my dreams It haunts my future and threatens my schemes Peace, peace, peace where did you go? I've got me a sweetheart and I love her, too We want to make big plans but what can we do? When a mushroom cloud has changed every rule It's deepened our thinking at home and at school Peace, peace, peace where did you go? We prayed, we partied, we laughed and we pray again And we prayed, too and tried not to think of the mess we're in I cling to my baby and she clings to me We talk of the future, but what do we see? There's a mushroom cloud that hangs in the way Tomorrow looks black so we live for today Peace, peace, peace where did you go? Peace, peace, peace where did you go?

[@crispy4207]

Great footage, as always

[@katyushabm-1357]

I've watched this video maybe 100 times since it was posted. It still gives me the same emotions as when I first watched it.

[@РыжийСтарпом]

Как всегда, прекрасный выбор музыки.

[@prakharmishra5583]

Russian

[@mosesgoldbergshekelstien1520]

@@prakharmishra5583 Ugandan

[@yossarian2195]

Ну конечно, он простой великий художник

[@Karl_I]

It's a good day when majorsamm uploads

[@TRtraybloxeey]

seeing the men in uniform walking towards those enormous mushroom clouds is a surreal image

[@kameradkrieg8480]

" Peace, Peace, Peace, Where Did You Go? " - Some 2023 Fella

[@OrdnanceOperations]

The Atomic Age has started once more.... 2023 - Present

[@TauOrionis]

another absolute banger from majorsamm, its insane that videos can invoke such a feeling using just footage and music

[@KingOfInsanity777]

Watching this video reminds me of the Iron Giant, and the whole '50s Cold War aesthetic that takes place throughout the movie. Even though we don't see that much PSAs about a nuclear holocaust anymore compared to the '50s and '80s, the current war in Ukraine is starting to make me wonder if the fears of the Cold War really truly died in the '90s, or just merely transformed into a new Cold War era...

[@deletdis6173]

It reminds me of Iron Giant and Fallout

[@smoldoggy1005]

ukraine will detonate a dirty bomb and blame Russia unless they’re stopped

[@deletdis6173]

@@smoldoggy1005 lol I hope so.

[@arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890]

The cold war never changed, players and interests merely did.

[@pilotnicholas1422]

“Because war, war never changes.”

[@Maulana_Kaiser]

Fallout

[@redel1955]

As always, absolutely nailed it !

[@ebinecksdee9872]

I'm planning on being a World History teacher/US history teacher and I seriously want to use your videos as extra credit research assignments

[@deletdis6173]

Bethesda needs to put this song on Fallout 6 now because Majorsamm.

[@chili_420_2]

I guess you could say the song started off with a “ bang “ lol

[@lukegarrigan6950]

This man’s comments sections has the best stories on KZbin, I love it

[@sodapop9mm562]

You did it!!! I’ve been waiting for this topic for a long time!!

[@diewildemathilde4432]

One of your best works, Samm!

[@code6bravo481]

I don’t know what’s more terrifying the explosion, or the fact that the marines in the video were just like well I’m a devil dog and that looks like Hell time to go home and just,started walking towards the mushroom cloud. The earth must have been quaking from the massive balls of tungsten these guys were lugging around.

[@waltersobchak3903]

More like uranium

[@infowarfare1]

great work man

[@coenris1485]

This is the best intro for a music video ever. Very well done!

[@Danno04_9]

*"Like the cockroaches scorched by the fallout I shall be king on the cinder."*

[@deletdis6173]

Didn't Ulysses say that? ❤️

[@donkeldoothedapperdog]

I like how the title for this one was off centre to giveaway for the explosion. Pretty dapper

[@jakobnuernberger94]

What happened to those guys? I mean, walking through an area that was just blasted by a nuke (and you know, since you were watching from a trench), that can't be safe. Did they get cancer, rad sickness or other ailments?

[@CanOfSodah]

So, we don't actually have all that much info on most of these people. From what we know, they weren't actually exposed for long enough to have side effects too much, but, at the same time the US military has been incredibly squirrely about releasing the info about them, so who knows. A group we DO have solid info of from this era of tests are the guys who did the "Ground Zero: Population 5" photo, of which of the six of them, only the cameraman ended up getting cancer later in life, and they were standing right under a nuke going off.

[@Tek_777]

Definitely doesn’t seem like a healthy idea. I feel like they would’ve been told “ it’s fine, not that much exposure.” I too would like to know what happened to those guys.

[@labelfilms6838]

Most eventually developed some serious health issues, usually cancer. As always the government tried to cover it up and full compensation wasn’t given until the 90s

[@PGTRegard]

Cancer I'm sure. Hell the Downwinders all died from it and they were much further away. There's a good documentary on it.

[@Mrcookieonyt]

The idea at the time was to use tactical nuclear weapons in order to decimate large soviet/chinese formations before rapidly rushing troops through the resulting gap in the line. Of course the idea of long term health side effects to its own soldiers didnt seem to matter to the US Government as much as a tactical combat advantage

[@isaowater]

The Soviets had the same idea it seems...

[@happyjohn354]

Its a brutal efficiency would likely result in fewer deaths overall due to removing stalemates that would act as a meatgrinder. Heck with modern CBRN equipment if the US had to perform such tactics the surviving soldiers would probably live a relatively long time.

[@kameradkrieg8480]

" Peace, Peace, Peace, Where Did You Go? " - Some 2022 Fella

[@averagedemographic8933]

What a smooth song, excellent choice.

[@Sonoran_Douchebag]

0:59 buddie is the human grandpa of trollface💀

[@kadenhays2331]

X_X

[@GOD_O_WAR]

He uploads and hes alive

[@jamesmmcgill]

War, war never changes...

[@TheGrenadier97]

The "funny" thing is that from the point of view of nuclear warfare, peace actually stayed. It's bizarre that such destructive arsenals ensured that themselves wouldn't be used. Of course, conventional conflicts were a different, even worse matter...

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

The soviet union and America were never enemies

[@unclesam5230]

@@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheeseabsolute fallacy

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

@@unclesam5230 Anthony C Sutton proved this Usa-ussr secret space program

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

@@unclesam5230 Anthony C Sutton

[@arnavforreal]

If they play this song in Oppenheimer it would be so fucking epic

[@rem7262]

Literally had a Uni Lecture yesterday on this exact topic and time period

[@deletdis6173]

I was playing Fallout all day today, when this was uploaded I thought he read my mind or somethjng

[@LordBackuro]

Man is it Just me, who thinks old film makes everything look so much better? This wouldn’t look anywhere near, as aesthetic with a modern cam.

[@panther6275]

Yes Same here

[@Stocking_Knight]

You, sir, have a hell of a taste in music. And again, another fine video!

[@ARYA1]

majorsamm is the only youtube channel that i press the like button before watching the video cuz i know its great for sure

[@ruskiwaffle1991]

As much as i adore the B-52 the stratojet is elegant in its own way

[@kanishenanigans]

hi majorsamm, good stuff as always

[@Arbeiterunfallversicherungsges]

0:57 bro said 🗿

[@Rndm6969]

Great job as always major

[@one-eyedghoul7542]

Babe wake up new majorsamm just dropped

[@piwnigrajkowie]

Damn man I mean I got a little emotional while watching this I could only think about my gf and if we'll even have a chance to live together normally. Future doesn't look too bright here in Eastern part of Europe

[@valeriyaaslanov3254]

this video is the thing that got me back into my interest in nuclear weapons

[@wotcher2385]

easily one of your best vids mate been around since 50K

[@planes124]

Such a great video, RIP to those brave men... ❤

[@MatheusHenrique-sv6mz]

Salutes bro, you should do something about Ruanda.

[@diewildemathilde4432]

The footage from Operation Dominic is among the best, in my opinion. Even though it wasn't shown here, and was done in the Pacific

[@Completelyregular]

This has heavily inspired me to write something, I'll say if I finish it. Holy this video is beautiful; I must have watched it 100 times!

[@alejandrorivera1812A]

You are a genius. Thanks for all the videos teaching about our mistakes

[@alejandrorivera1812A]

And Tha ones about outstanding cars!!!

[@J18Flyer]

High quality stuff as always. Thank you!

[@Rylie-gi7wm]

Im addicted to this like its morphine

[@charlemagne3080]

This is masterpiece!

[@lerbronk]

the thumbnail cloud 💀💀💀

[@froginthewaves8450]

HONEY WAKE UP NEW MAJORSAMM VID DROPPED. FUCK YEAH!

[@GameTime-kx3xr]

Gay in the song mean happy not LGBT

[@45eugenia52]

You need to do one with the Chinese nuclear test at this point, that video is some terrifying mad max level shit

[@Grunkreuz]

super neat footage! : )

[@Germanboy835]

I know the content is very good and of high quality, dont stop making your videos, like

[@pacifistidentitarian549]

Amazing every time ,please consider a video on The 1989 attack on La Tablada barrack or The Carapintadas between 1987 and 1990

[@kameradkrieg8480]

Where was that?

[@pacifistidentitarian549]

@@kameradkrieg8480 Argentina

[@nickthill3804]

Another excellent video. Thanks for posting

[@gmodrules123456789]

We need more 50s and early 60s aesthetic.

[@pvt.potato1943]

Not so Fun Fact: The Euphrates river is drying up, which is the biblical sigh of doomsday. Russia's nuclear capable submarine is reported missing from its harbor and it is currently DEFCON 3...

[@fallaciousfirm2524]

Asking after 7 months What happened?

[@pvt.potato1943]

@@fallaciousfirm2524 Well Euphrates is still drying up, global warming is a bitch, no nukes. She likely left harbor for training or threat leverage.

[@fallaciousfirm2524]

​@@pvt.potato1943 damn

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

Eastern Orthodoxy is the only Christianity. The end will happen according to what the saints have stated.

[@DoesLuckWin]

That mushroom cloud keeps the peace for now.