The MP's were there to shoot any smart people who knew what they were being forced into and tried to run away. This film had me squirming and grinding my teeth. The interview with the 1SG was bone chilling and should tell you that the leaders were telling their soldiers: "Nothing to worry about." All those guys out there just completely in the dark. Anybody in the military (past or present) would know how little these guys would have actually known. [deep sigh of sadness for these poor guys]
It was the tail end of a war that had killed maybe 50 million people. The target was one of the enemies who started it, and an enemy that was notorious for its brutality and mistreatment of both prisoners and civilians (eg "massacre of Nanking"). The Japanese were ***hated***. Very few were going to shed any tears over any number of Japanese corpses.
@clone273 Wow 50 million people,you wouldn't mind sharing your sources,these documents I have got to see, and I wonder if there has ever been an army that was not brutal to the people it was at war with,I dunno maybe the Canadians.
I do not understand why they had to continue to do these human experiments when they had reports on the ill effects of uranium from the late 1800's. Not to mention the proof of horrific damages to unarmed Japanese citizens at Hiroshima and Nagasawki when Japan was starving, had a skeleton military force and was talking about surrendering and was being blatantly ignored and demonized for their ethnicity. Ugly how history has a way of repeating itself and atrocities are forgotten.
The fallout from Chernobyl was about 1/1000th of the fallout from the nuclear testing in the 50s and the 60s..... that should give you an idea about why cancer has skyrocketed the last 50 years.
Ridiculous USMIL ignorance, and a reminder of both the dangers of high-risk experiments on things known little about and of man's, however hackneyed, inhumanity to man.
With the hindsight time provides, one wonders, how could this insanity had been done? The way these young men, who could not know any better, be duped into frittering away their health like this...makes me angry how the officers basically speak for them in the interviews; one particularly sad one was the one with the Hispanic soldier...he thought he was really doing something for the Greater Good...only consolation I have is that the Russians were doing the same thing to their own, Insane times!
@1stPNPPRODUCTIONS That's right, but it was Madness, all the same...Id undertand it from the Soviets, to them Life was so cheap, they never even give a decent burial to their Heroes of the Patriotic War, for them, if you did'nt come back, that meant you were dead; but for the Americans, to do like the Soviets did with these tests, it is just so sad, so tragic they'd had to step down to this...
My wife's grandfather was in a few of these blasts. He said one was a misfire. After the misfire, a jeep went out there and one or two men climbed a tower to fix the problem, then left. I always imagined what was going on in those or the guy's mind as he's approaching a atomic misfire.
Radon particles stay "alive" or hot for DECADES, and do pose as a healh hazzard. Read the book about the Bikini Atoll, "For The Good of Mankind," or watch "Radio Bikini."
SHEEP!!
suprhero1 6 months ago
The MP's were there to shoot any smart people who knew what they were being forced into and tried to run away. This film had me squirming and grinding my teeth. The interview with the 1SG was bone chilling and should tell you that the leaders were telling their soldiers: "Nothing to worry about." All those guys out there just completely in the dark. Anybody in the military (past or present) would know how little these guys would have actually known. [deep sigh of sadness for these poor guys]
CalvinSilverbow 6 months ago
Having been in III Corps, I know this must have been one sucky base camp!
CalvinSilverbow 6 months ago
a phrase comes to mind , it starts with the letter f and ends with the words king and watch me
jamestripney 6 months ago
the narrator got a David Lynch kind of sound
malikismyname 7 months ago
thats just messed up
MrTurkeybutt 7 months ago
The context is often forgotten.
It was the tail end of a war that had killed maybe 50 million people. The target was one of the enemies who started it, and an enemy that was notorious for its brutality and mistreatment of both prisoners and civilians (eg "massacre of Nanking"). The Japanese were ***hated***. Very few were going to shed any tears over any number of Japanese corpses.
clone273 7 months ago
@clone273 Wow 50 million people,you wouldn't mind sharing your sources,these documents I have got to see, and I wonder if there has ever been an army that was not brutal to the people it was at war with,I dunno maybe the Canadians.
BassRX 6 months ago
I do not understand why they had to continue to do these human experiments when they had reports on the ill effects of uranium from the late 1800's. Not to mention the proof of horrific damages to unarmed Japanese citizens at Hiroshima and Nagasawki when Japan was starving, had a skeleton military force and was talking about surrendering and was being blatantly ignored and demonized for their ethnicity. Ugly how history has a way of repeating itself and atrocities are forgotten.
LaGioiella 8 months ago
The fallout from Chernobyl was about 1/1000th of the fallout from the nuclear testing in the 50s and the 60s..... that should give you an idea about why cancer has skyrocketed the last 50 years.
lmlove80 10 months ago
Ridiculous USMIL ignorance, and a reminder of both the dangers of high-risk experiments on things known little about and of man's, however hackneyed, inhumanity to man.
0quaereverum 11 months ago
I feel sorry for the sheeps
Parthian21 11 months ago
@Parthian21 i feel sorry for the men
jacrocks2 8 months ago
With the hindsight time provides, one wonders, how could this insanity had been done? The way these young men, who could not know any better, be duped into frittering away their health like this...makes me angry how the officers basically speak for them in the interviews; one particularly sad one was the one with the Hispanic soldier...he thought he was really doing something for the Greater Good...only consolation I have is that the Russians were doing the same thing to their own, Insane times!
sbchelldiver 1 year ago
@sbchelldiver every one that has the bomb tested on troops
1stPNPPRODUCTIONS 1 year ago
@1stPNPPRODUCTIONS That's right, but it was Madness, all the same...Id undertand it from the Soviets, to them Life was so cheap, they never even give a decent burial to their Heroes of the Patriotic War, for them, if you did'nt come back, that meant you were dead; but for the Americans, to do like the Soviets did with these tests, it is just so sad, so tragic they'd had to step down to this...
sbchelldiver 1 year ago
@sbchelldiver What in the USA's history gives you the idea that we were any different?
Tlincalin 11 months ago
lol. can you see the "dead" pixels as the camera films the mushroom cloud? nooo of course not due to the radiation^^
nsawilla 1 year ago
My wife's grandfather was in a few of these blasts. He said one was a misfire. After the misfire, a jeep went out there and one or two men climbed a tower to fix the problem, then left. I always imagined what was going on in those or the guy's mind as he's approaching a atomic misfire.
wwonka27 1 year ago
My dad was never thanked, or given extra pay or even a medal.
LaGioiella 1 year ago
Radon particles stay "alive" or hot for DECADES, and do pose as a healh hazzard. Read the book about the Bikini Atoll, "For The Good of Mankind," or watch "Radio Bikini."
LaGioiella 1 year ago
My dad was ordered to "volunteer" for this when he was a young man and has had health problems since.
LaGioiella 1 year ago
@LaGioiella how old is your dad, just curious
jacrocks2 8 months ago
@jacrocks2
HI! He is 82.
LaGioiella 3 months ago
nice^^
minibin01 2 years ago
Just wanted to agree with geonerd...
AWESOME my friend... AWESOME TO THE MAX....
also cruise control ;)
VanJansen 2 years ago
Awesome of you to post this old material. Many thanks!!
geonerd 2 years ago
@geonerd
k8165 1 year ago