Duck and Cover

[aeroxwolfx]

Your either gonna get vaporized or burn to death by the heat ohhh.... But cover your neck and head and you'll be alright

[ResistThEnonsencE]

We have safety rules that car drivers and people who are walking must obey.

Now we must be ready for a new danger: The ATOMIC BOMB

You know how bad sunburn can be? The ATOMIC BOMB can ...

Seriously, they´re so naive it´s ridiculous. So Kids, if there is War:

Don´t forget your Umbrella!

[snakeeyes941]

the best part is if you did this when a a bomb went off your ass would have been fried

[SunriseFestival]

1080p please

[kietramd]

My school is watching this. im 13.

[AnotherJulia]

That monkey was a terrorist.

[gamerguy2100]

I only know of this video from "Free Culture."

[jaxona]

This gave my friend Nucleomituphobia

[LeClassics]

God Bless America, deceiving its people since the 1950s

[PottyMouthDubstep]

2:05

[TheProdigy32111]

I'm an atom bomb and i find this offensive.

[Influx27]

5:22 - Remember that when you do this you have to spread your butt cheeks apart so that people can more easily kick you in the ass for being such a dope.

[Influx27]

Good lord, I've looked through a few of these, and the people back then were fucking crazy.

[Hypergalactica]

1:36 - black boy in a grade school classroom. In 1951.

....Ruby Bridges much?? Wonder what state this was filmed in...

[delirio1987]

hitler at 1:48

[76phantasm]

@delirio1987 ha ha, eagle eye

[Dimy761]

This is the real horror film

[GunnyRyan]

This was shown to ppl so tht they wouldn't panic if it ever happened not as an actual defense system. Merely make ppl safer. We all know now tht nine of this would work.

1: the flash- critically blinding and has the capability to melt humans

2: the heat- so hot u start dying immediately

3: the blast wave- will vaporize most anything in it's path ( won't just "blow u against a tree" )

4: the radiation- if u survive all the above and ur within the blast radius (somehow) well then ur fucked anyw

[AlanComek]

@GunnyRyan This is mostly to protect people around the edge of the killzone.

[tannis85]

someone should tell the people that lived in Chernobyl and Pripyat.. all they needed to do was duck and cover!!:P.. what crap!

[CallOfDoughnuts]

0:50

That's a lot of '-tion's

[talmdge1]

7:57 Ha. Nothing can protect you from an atomic bomb. Look at Japan after the two atomic bombs. You can't survive THAT.

[TheCthulhuMessiah]

@talmdge1 Tsutomu Yamaguchi did that twice. He was in Hiroshima and the bomb detonated 2 miles away from him, and he survived. He went to Nagasaki for shelter because his family was there. It was nuked and he survived. The guy died last year.

[Stealth496]

Oh well if you say it breaks windows then we better be really worried........

[PMSNyx]

Who else thought of this video after the California earthquake drill today (10-20-2011) which was ironically followed by a real earthquake a few hours later...

[slc18380]

8:30 kid picking his nose

[slc18380]

8:30

[StamZO]

I'm so happy there was no nuclear war... thank GOD!!

[kietramd]

@StamZO If there was, it would be the Fallout games much earlier.

[bmill0711]

Apply this to every aspect of ur life. It cold save you. If ur in a burning building, just duck n cover fast. U wont be burned

[Slash837]

Good shit! Damn i wish this really worked though.

[zone88mph]

it'll kill you, unless you duck and cover, remember even if you are on a street just by duck and covering you want be hut, really wow how dumb are you americans.

[AtomicBlizzard12]

@zone88mph you do realize this was made in the 1960s right? I mean come on you really want to bring in that country vs country bullshit here? To be honest adults knew they were going to die in these case but the kids didn't and you don't want to tell a bunch of kids, "hey you could die any second," and not give them a way of security. This was made because they wanted to give the children some hope of survival instead of just letting them freak by telling them you're going to die.

[StillApony]

@AtomicBlizzard12

Never thought of it that way!

[markutsk279]

RAMIREZ, DUCK AND COVER, AND THEN GIGGLE AT THE GHOSTLY!

[Sonicfan0329]

86 people didn't duck and cover.

[neilrtucker11]

what if you kept seeing the "flash" during a thunderstorm, or what if those war sirens were really warning you of a tornado in the area?

[Ryagful]

if you cover yourself in several hundred thousand ducks, would that work? :3

[kblargh]

man, this would've been a great time for flash photography

[Malkaking]

lol an atomic bomb will kill anyone in a 30 km radius unles you have 2 million SPFsunblock

[cdlnim]

@Malkaking unless you duck and cover, of course...

[xxxxBunnyraptorxxxx]

Spetsnaz

[2secondbest]

essentially the accumulation of possible threats to our safety are shown; fire representing the natural threat, than car accidents the man made threat and essentially the atomic bomb once again a man made threat. Evidently, rather than depicting ways of saving ourselves it controversially shows mans timeline towards our own destruction and the end of all humanity due to our advancement in technology. The philosophical paradigm in which we finally question our actions.

[Rucka4life1]

Just be honest, narrator ; everything will be incinerated

[joe59788]

Remember to keep your mouth open when the blast initially hits as to balance the pressure and avoid blowing your eardrums and then after keep it closed to avoid radiation poisoning.

[Mluggd]

Ahhhh love it. "It COULD hurt you"

[VeteranOfHell]

3:25 "damn she has a nice ass..."

[Veto2090]

The monkey is a terrorist! 

[piclemaniscool]

Yes. b sure to hide under "a thin cloth" or dive under a fucking active tractor.

[CirnoHime]

the monkey blows up o.o and its adorable

[AnonymousScientoLOL]

...and from the beginning of the video, Archer Productions Incorporated loses all credibility...

[nonononoey]

I like how we feared an atomic bomb so much yet we dropped them.

[HighlordSarnex]

@nonononoey This was made after we dropped the two atom bombs the only two to ever have been used in war and no one knew exactly how dangerous they would be. We also fear guns and knives but we still use them.

[squamish4244]

@HighlordSarnex Well, we know guns and knives won't destroy civilization in about four hours.

[copersonfilms]

The images burn onto your skin permanently, if the man with the newspaper over his face survived, he would have one weird tatoo.

[mrsuns10]

Did they not know back then what we know now?

If your within the bombs radius you will be vaporized and even if your not you will likely die from radiation exposure plus if your trying to flee using a car or something you can't because the bomb would of caused a EMP

But this is useless propaganda

[brent658]

dum dum...deedle dum dum

Remember boys and girls

all you have to do is (sing it with me)

Duck...

and cover

and kiss your ass goodbye...

[AntoMarkunovic]

The video is good, it was made up for children, but its like SHIT - Atomic Bomb, Survive the blast yeah right - It could hurt you hahaha, the information from this video is completely wrong. The Kiloton Atomic Bomb is strong enough to erase whole cities, The MEGATON bombs are thousand times stronger, there is no way to survive this, this video was not supposed to save anybody, it was only made up as a routine to increase our chances of survival, but unfortunately the chances are very low.

[AlexMitan]

Starting from 1:30 to around minute 2...Khuskan...created a masterpiece....

[xzAydee]

"Suck, and swallow..."

[persevere67]

In the 70's as a child, i remember they still showed this film to us in order to educate us. I remember thinking this is stupid, if a fu*$in' bomb drops on us my stupid desk isn't going to do anything to protect me. I grew up in fear as a child of this happening to me. You kids today, don't know this fear and should be glad you don't. But then again wait untl the Anti-Christ raises up his crazy ass head, Hitler will be a Sunday schooler in comparison, have a nice day.

[Griesmayer]

@persevere67 oh yeah, cuz religion is totally real, uh-huh. I thought we kids were the stupid ones, but I guesss its the other way round, really.

[cdude100]

The only one to survive is the first one to attack

[TheOyrm]

@cdude100 Nope. the other side always had enough time to strike back. If one side attacked, they get wiped out minutes later. That's what actually prevented the Cold War from escalating, there was no way to win for each side.

oh and LOL at the video. A table totally protects you from an atomic bomb. Haven't laughed that hard since that fridge in the last Indiana Jones xDDD

[disturbedbass49]

It can break houses and the flash could burn you. But if you hide under a FUCKING DESK, you'll be safe

[crazy4corbinbleux]

HAHAHA oh man. I wish I could go back in time just to see what it'd feel like..

[MolotovCTail]

Because crouching and placing your hands over your head will protect you from deadly radiation.

[Griesmayer]

@MolotovCTail radiation comes in AFTER the explosion. But if you're in the blast radius, the fire will kill you before the radiation anyway.

[pilotcooldued]

"you will know when it comes" (you will die) "we will hope it will never comes" (so we dont die) " but we must get ready." why your going to die if it come anyways.

i only looked this up becawse i was watching "iron giant" earlyer :) love that movie

[KINGKENNYTHEHOLY]

"the atomic bomb will smash in buildings,walls and blow in windows all over town..but if you only duck and cover you will be safe"...

Would be funny if this wasnt so eerily serious..its a miracle humanity survived the cold war..we made it barely out by the skin off our ass..

[Stonehawk]

A classic. Isn't it creepy, though, how most of the people in these videos are already dead of old age by now?

[chocchipcookiegirl]

"If the explosion causes anything in the room to fall down"- LOL.

[jubjub974]

no. this was for American children during the cold war.

[lucasfonzaghi]

did they show this video to people in hiroshima and nagasaki?

[PixleViewer]

I loved the part when he said "Duck and cover".

[TheAndrewj96]

Anyone else remember that episode of South Park with the PSA that says "If a volcano erupts, duck and cover," and then when a volcano erupts, these three guys try it, and they get charred to a crisp by the lava? LOLOL

[TheWarnerSister]

How to Survive: Never come out of your shell and meet all the nice people. Ever.

[TheChegis]

1:37 racism

[lesleyhenriquez]

Well to be fair, if you seek shelter under the table the atomic bomb can not hurt you.

They taught me in elementary, so it must be true.

A few comments mocking this valuable educational video will not change my mind.

[benjistrong]

Lol... Just as useful as those "preservation chambers" in Fallout 3!

[Maphysto]

FEAR THE BOMB FEAR THE BOMB FEAR THE BOMB

HATE THE COMMIE HATE THE COMMIE HATE THE COMMIE

OBEY AUTHORITY OBEY AUTHORITY OBEY AUTHORITY

It's really no surprise why conservatives are so fucked up. They're the product of constant paranoia, indoctrination and control.

[FightingJEDI]

@Maphysto To be fair, it was a pretty big deal back then

[m6aey]

Look mummy I didn't get cut by all the flying glass, mummy? Mummy? What isnt mummy talking to me?

[m6aey]

If the alarm goes off don't just assume the position, assume the worst!

[LtEggSalad86]

Duck, cover, and die.

[farcastk0]

god damn communist monkeys

[Standuble]

If you've ever wanted to be a skeleton in a cool pose rather than the old fashioned boring skeleton pose of laying stretched out on your back don't forget to DUCK and COVER when you see the FLASH!

[weswii]

i would run toward the bomb so i get vaporized and not die of radiation

[Muad420]

@weswii Run.. toward the bomb? How would you know where the bomb detonates?

[TheSbear19]

"Notice how tony keeps from moving or getting up and running"

Maybe cause he'd be dead.

[AtomicBlizzard12]

@TheSbear19 back then this was believed to help increase survival.

[NickB1967]

Believe it or not, civil defense in the 1950's was less irrational than it seems now. The only way to deliver atom bombs back then was the bomber, and the Soviets had prop-driven "Bear" bombers, which would take many hours to get to the USA and most were quite likely to be shot down beforehand. So it was possible that few enough bombs would hit the USA to make Civil Defense realistic. The era of hundreds of < 1 hour ICBMs, which made civil defense pointless, did not begin until the mid 1960s.

[theproducerspart2]

Its amazing how organized and perfectly formulated everyone is by not panicking or freaking out. I guarantee you those children, both men and women would be screaming and terrified out of their minds. Nobody survives direct exposure to the blast of an atomic bomb. That wind would rip your skin clean off your bones or insinerate it over 500 degrees. Then there's fall out radiation. So in the end your dead either way.

[Notveryclevername]

Yep Duck and kiss your ass goodbye!

[FrobblOo]

our fucking government is treating us like the dumbest idiots since hundreds of years

[sudikai]

@FrobblOo hundreds of years... complete the sentence please

[Zamav]

Back of the neck has a gland that produces large quantities of Potassium iodide when the subject is in danger. Ducking increases the blood flow going through the neck, so it pushes the mucus like iodide through the necktal cavity.

Its amazing this defense mechanism still works after 60 years.

[AspiringPotato]

What would happen nowadays if nuclear sirens went off? Would people know just what to do?

[logosfabula]

@AspiringPotato You've just earned your full potato status.

[2epikforyou]

No Wonder why Americans are producing retards nowadays

[MeatTycoon]

I wonder how many people actually ducked and covered by mistake after watching that video, in broad daylight, and made complete fool out of themselves?

[TheA5hiq]

@MeatTycoon UR RIGHT MABY AT LEAST MORE THEN 1000



[Lazzerus413]

Remember kids... Duck and Cover :)

[TheA5hiq]

@Lazzerus413 NO WAY

ITS DUCK AND DIE

[TheA5hiq]

@Lazzerus413 no way

it duck and DIE TODAY

[Lazzerus413]

@TheA5hiq

That's all very Spectacular, but... I am thinking of the IRON GIANT version :L But yeah, cool.

[highwind153]

yeah, this wil MOST DEFINITELY SAVE YOUR LIFE. When a fucking atomic bomb lands all you have to do is duck and cover in a building that will obviously stand the forced of the bomb.

Great... i feel safe now

[GoldenBoyXCM]

we must be ready everyday anytime! now i know why america is like that

[janeknife]

rofl this is really cool

[medexamtoolsdotcom]

I saw a picture of a Hiroshima victim, a woman with the pattern of her dress burned into her back, because most of the thermal energy was carried by what? That's right, visible light! Which means if her dress was uniformly as thick as it was at its thickest part, it would have protected her back ENTIRELY. That proves that if a little piece of cloth can protect you, you shouldn't write off this as fact-free propaganda.

[medexamtoolsdotcom]

Why do so many of you have a problem with this? At ground zero, duck and cover won't save you, but so what? Most people wouldn't be AT ground zero. It says things like "SOMEtimes, it even saves his life", and "She will be safER too." There wasn't one thing in this video which was unreasonably optimistic. Is it SO hard for you to understand that hiding behind a newspaper can be effective against a flash from an incandescent fireball whose primary energy transfer mechanism is visible light/UV, hm?

[masssina]

atomic bomb-> bang-> take off your helmet-> wai? -> it won't melt on your face.

[nibler16]

Oh no suicide monkeys!

[GypsyAvira]

last time i checkked.... newspapers are flamable...

[skygod227]

when its bomb vs. desk desk always win! and thumbs up if your here cuz of deviantart!

[alphamone]

did,

did that monkey blow itself up?

[tormentoxx]

Comparing fire and vehicles with atomic bombs. FUCK YEAR AMURICA!

[MachinimaGuy]

Duck and Disintegrate!

[kogapraser]

Video: *kids duck and cover the right way and don't talk*

Now: "Hey lets wait 5 minutes before listening" *slowly as hell sits down under desk while talking the /entire/ time*

Result: Desks pwnd Bombs 24/7 since forever o3o

[Szgerle]

Well, getting into cover might save you from glass shards but in a global thermonuclear war you could kiss your ass anyway.

[SuperCnZ]

7:57 WTHeck kind of newspaper did they have back then!

[volcomsk8ing4]

was that hitler that slid down third at 1:48?

[dfshjb44]

TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING

[ZappaFan101]

This video saved my life.

[ChenJunHung]

love how some antihomosexual commercial is in the related videos, coz both are so sarcastic lol

[ephemeraldeep]

Those nuclear-proof school desks will save us all. :D

[Slaine40]

That doesnt doesnt help against the radiation though

[Batmanchick]

@Slaine40

It was just propaganda meant to make the American population feel safer.

[Idrinkvault]

This is creepy.

[TheSteelFire]

I just had to watch this after hearing that Fallout 3 montage.

[CallOfDoughnuts]

"We must all get ready now!"

[centuryrox]

Better advice: Stick your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

At least it's truthful.

[D353RT5TORM]

84 people were stupid Commie monkeys.

[arkayen666123]

84 people must have lived in hiroshima

[arkayen666123]

i suppose this is proof that americans arent as dumb as they used to be...they really believed this to be true? maybe all the asbestos and lead paint was getting to them

[ShueBoxAndCo]

"even a thin cloth can prevent... nothing."

[MCKuempel]

DUCK AND…

…HIDE

LOL

[CrazyChemist84]

ULTIMATE DEFENSE!



[midnightmirage]

Duck and vaporize!

[SHMEDLYBOB]

now i know what to do! THANKS! :D

[pacman5698]

I'd be safer off submerging myself in radioactive waste!

[Kurama034]

How do you duck and cover during sex?

[zwgrad09]

It can knock you into a tree??!?!?!? If only that was the worst effect of a nuke.

[Redsoxrule143]

i can't imagine how embarassing it would be if someone took a flash photo of a kid who saw this lol

[tintanmaster]

It may cut u but guess wat ull die

[saxmachine7]

Don't worry, your wooden desk will save you from a FIRE-FUCK-BALL!

[Nitrobulgarine]

How very very very very bad... You know why this happened? Because you were AFRAID from the Soviets... And they just wanted understanding. Bulgaria was in the Eastern Block, and I have never heard of such things to have happened here during the Cold War. But... what could you do... This is America!!!! IYES YOU CAN!!!!.... Wait, wait... you're not alone, try to COEXIST... ignorant Usanians. Bad for you. :((((

[phoeniximperator]

what a nice jingle ... It's a pity Burt the turtle died from cancer due to radiation poisoning but he did live a full two agonizing days.

[SecretService80]

I love the corny jingle, suicide bombing monkey, and the naive procedures.

[SotaBoyOG]

duck and cover and kiss your ass goodbye

[cadman2300]

If this film was shown to Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors at the time, they probably would have been offended enough to want every single copy destroyed. Ducking and covering is NOT going to stop that bright flash from turning you into radioactive dust.

[kwt800]

OBEY the civil defense worker, the Government knows best while they hide in bunkers lol

[donutcaboose]

an atomic bomb would fuck them up even if they are duck and covering

[SotaBoyOG]

@donutcaboose nuh uh.

[SuperSpaceCore]

this is epic..

[kwt800]

@SuperSpaceCore It is a lulzfest

[AxeFielder]

I would kill for a narrating voice like this...

[TheLakabanzaichrg]

@AxeFielder use an atomic bomb!

[EmpathosProductions]

Duck! No!  The other kind of duck!

[Fintwon]

This really helped me !

[S3f61]

I watched this in school and it is the dumbest shit ever thank god the cold wars long and gone

[ABomm77]

An Atomic bomb will destroy everything... but if you duck and cover. It will destroy everything still!

[MrAkk141]

@ABomm77 true... but if your not within 2-5 miles of the blast it will protect you from flying debris like glass

[TheA5hiq]

@ABomm77 YOURE RIGHT

I MEAN LOOK IT SO OBBIVIOUS THAT ANYTHING CAN BLOW AP OR BRACK

SEE TRIANGLE OF LIFE IT SAFE PEOPLE IN EARTHQAUKES

[athomicritics]

yes kid duck and cover under your desk then fly in the air with your whole fucking school building

[jackwill76]

I bet all those kids, afterwards, Duck and Covered every time there was lightning.

[kwt800]

@jackwill76 LOL more than likely

[slagarshadow]

what happened to the monkey at the beginning :(?

[kwt800]

@slagarshadow He was incinerated when he ducked and covered

[BlueYoshiGamer]

6:07 thats right! If you see a flash make sure to shove your sister into a wall! It's the only way to be safe! and at 7:11 you'll know when its safe when a stranger in a trench coat comes and tells you its ok

[squints328]

It's just so they'd be comfortable in their last moments prior to incineration.

[doodledude9000]

That picnic blanket totally won't blow away and/or instantly vaporize.

[TheLaKitKat]

Hands down my favorite video my history teacher has ever showed us. Duck. And cover. (:

[Lolsauce117]

Lol best thing ever.

Cause what do you do children when your at school and an atomic bomb goes off. That's right you duck and cover under your desk or under the closest thing.

[orangexmuffin]

yeah, because a 1 and a half foot tall brick wall is totally gonna save my life from an atomic bomb!!! Reffering to the boy who jumped of his bycicle of course...

[MonkeyManPersonShow]

Lol had to watch this for social studies