It's incredible the number of people who think that because the gov published a newsreel 5 years after World War II on how people should behave in a bombing strike, such being the main involvement of civilians in the World War just past, that this is stupid, propagandistic advice. It was practical for the time, thankfully not needed. It is obviously not applicable to today.
The fellow in the hat and suit on the street no doubt burned his eyeballs out by looking directly at the flash, but otherwise all is well...our government's finest work. :\
" If the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had known what we know, they might be alive today." Or not. Japanese people are the cleanest, most polite and careful people you'll ever meet. They've forgotten more about clean fingernails than most of us will ever know. Still, we bombed Hiroshima BECAUSE it was a non military target. And the US Military wanted to see what neat things this A bomb would do to them. So much for Duck and Cover.
7:28 nuclear attack happens, dinner is clearly ruined.. I love how the narrator says the danger is over after a minute UNLESS ETC.. then a huge bomb goes off. Ilove watching government videos like this just to remind myself how stupid my government believes I am...
To any of you people who are watching this and think some of this is accurate. Go ahead, if a nuke hits your city do like that guy in 7:11 and lay on the floor lol, sure you may live for a few days, but if you ever saw a hiroshima victim after the blast, your clothes will be a permanent tattoos on your back... just sayin lol
Ok, let's look at it this way. In 1955 the Soviet had "Bear" bombers capable of dropping nuclear bombs on the US mainland. The fear at the tie was....you guessed it, a potential Russian attack. Yes, today these videos look silly to many, most of who were not alive at the time. The US had 2 lines of defense, the Nike Missile and Air Force jet fighters, jets being the first line. Read up about the 240 Nike missile bases. Interesting. Fast forward to today. What's our line of defense?
@zeke1312 No Nike Missile..... 9/11 everyone? Jet fighter, slow response? Anyhow, what is your plan to "duck and cover"? At least they had a plan in the 1950s. ;)
There's a way to survive,make sure you are at least 500 miles away from the blast then goto the high mountains in a deep cave in a motorhome,and stock up on water and cans foods
'If the nearest shelter is more than a couple of steps away, fall to the ground immediately. Chips of balsa wood and styrofoam rubble will rain down on you. Once the all clear has sounded, get up off the ground, dust off your clothes and continue with what you were doing.'
Earth--- insane asylum of the universe with all the inmates wearing human primate bodies. And have obliging chit-eating grins on their faces as they're being murdered by the more insane inmates who have a craving to do violence to others.
Who knows what we need for protection today? Protection from what or whom? Do what to do in case of a nuclear attack? Wait around for the govt to do what? What will you do if a nuclear or "dirty" bomb is detonated in your city? If you think the US Border Patrol, Airport inspections or cops in NYC (as an example) can protect you 100% think again. ;)
People just need to love one another. I never seen a time like now were people just hate one another without a valid reason. And then if there is a reason, it's so petty trying to justify hatred. Love is the key man in the mirror.
I love these old reels they were ludicrously cheerful. For example around this time one of the provisions for dealing with survivors of a nuclear attack in the UK was lots of sweet tea. Later on the government stockpiled heroin to help those on their way to their deaths.
"If the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had known what we know, thousands of lives would have been saved..." Does anyone else find that quote sadly ironic, considering it was America who dropped the bombs and put them in that situation? That's like saying, "I'm going to inject you with poison, but if you don't know how to make the antidote, it's all your fault if you die." (And there is no antidote, either). Oh and, @thewastelandwarrior9 Me too! Love that game.
"Production must go on if we are to win"... I would add "whenever physically possible. This is the kind of attitude we need to win the war against Al Qeada.
jumping in a doorway wont help look at the guy who was sitting in a door way at Hiroshima all that was left of him was a shadow on the steps he was sitting on he was vaperized
"if the people of hiroshmah had known the things we know when we boomed them thousand of lives would have survived" yah like the boom was just to spreed bad smell and not kill people......... pathetic
@jaredlegomaster: Ummm, what exactly do you think radiation is? Is it something like measles, acute and then lying dormant for 10, 20 years before arising again? You don't think anyone recovers from radiation poisoning?
i know what will protect me frm radeation----- CARDBOARD lol what happent to all the pple getting burnt as well ???? i ws wating to see mcr jst pop up and start singing lol fallout lol fuck russia shit nw im going puked lol
Do this, do that, take your time. And don't forget to take a look outside whether the bomb has already exploded or not before you return to normal life and take a walk in the park...
Funny thing is. They were talking about "How to survive this" a few years after dropping them on Japan. Also saying "Protecting our children against these weapons" and showing a Japanese family then the ruins of Hiroshima. ha wow.
there is a lot of propaganda going on here, but people don't understand that this could save lives, a few miles away from the blast (depending on size) there is a debries danger, and they can start fires more than 12 miles away from the blast site.
@nice9008 Geeez, find a history book (not modified by liberals) and read the chapters concerning the subject. Notice I wrote chapters as in plural. If it's one chapter, select another history book. What's this America "the state I live in". Please correct that statement. Japan waited too late, the USSR was too close, politics in part determined the outcome. Decipher that statement.;)
Having lived through the Hippie Era, it is suprising to me the number of people who buy into their bull. We don't live in a world where thousands on megaton weapons will fall. We live in a world where some kiloton weapons will fall, at most. Be prepared to survive. The Russians believe in this, which is why they are building fallout shelters in a fever pitch.
You choose. Do you want to abandon the pre-eminent form of civilian controlled government, or do you want to grow a spine?
It is interesting that there is *no* "civil defense" training or even information made available to the American public today concerning nuclear or "dirty" bombs. Actually training the public may be more appropriate today than ever before. This 1950s video may look "hokey" but there is valid information presented. So much for knocking the vid;)
Duck and cover and..boom goes the dynamite :-) This was just for morale and even people watching it THEN probably knew it. I decided in 1980 at 10 years old the best place to be is at ground zero. Your brain wouldn't even begin to process the flash..in 1/600th (or so) of a second you just disappear. Thank God this never happened!
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.
The jokes are made about the 50s Civil Defense films is how they were telling you to survive a nuclear blast and that radiation and fallout wasn't as dangerous as blast and heat.
In the end it only takes one Nuclear Bomb in the hands of a maniac who will use it, to devistate a city and the area around it
So stupid that it's fun to see. Even at that time the US civilian population do not know what war means. The only reason one could concoct such a crap! In Europe, one sees the damage of wars even today. Here above all in Germany and Poland. If 9 11 already is war for the U.S., then I ask myself: Why do we Germans swear by today's bomb attacks, no war on it? It makes everything much worse! The U.S. will therefore resolve by itself in this century. Other ideas need to be invented!
@MMICGER America does not know what war is, even today? Well maybe today. No draft, video games make it look painless and easy. The exception is for those in the military today. In WWII as I understand it, the US lost 448,000 dead in Europe. I'm not sure what the number of the number of those killed in the Pacific. In the 40s gas rationed, no new cars built,nylon, food rationed, etc and the *draft*! Back to the books MM;)
@zeke1312 I was thinking of the non-affected civilians. Not in e.g. Fallen professional soldiers who are sent abroad. Except for the Civil War, the U.S. has on its own soil not experienced a war. That's what I meant by experience.
@zeke1312 "gas rationed, no new cars built, nylon rationed"
I am indeed grateful, but the U.S. did not even have to go into the second world war. Pearl Harbor and a few German U-boats off the east coast do not justify that. It was a political decision. Although I'm stupid, but also not so stupid now. The U.S. is embroiled in the world in war again and again. And that only for political and economic reasons. The assistance offered is often only a pretext. Not very peaceful!
@MMICGER Within days after Japan and the US declared war, Hitler declared war on the US. It would seem to me the US would reciprocate and of course, it did. Also until the 1970s the US had the draft system. Many soldiers in WWII, Korea and Vietnam were drafted. Hence they were not "professional" volunteers.The Third Reich instigated WWII. Unfortunately from them, they were pounded into submission and thankfully lost. The results of that war can still be seen in Europe.
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.
people need to understand that life after a nuclear holocaust would not be like a fallout game. we would not be able to leave any form of shelter for months. and we certainly would NOT be walking around the wasteland like a pseudo god. things would be very different after world war 3. something that human kind is smart enough to deter.
@DOMORCIDEA true but you must understand once upon a time on a country america was at war with this actually happend.. thats where the department of defense gets its understanding about life after fallout happens-many japanese people-tho suffering from radiation poisining did just ''walk around'' and if you think about it- it was somewhat lke fallout. raiders stealing from houses killing people-Radiation scares - old tunes and radio- so yeah in a way it might be just like fallout.
@barf245 not true. i remember watching a myth busters documentry where they filled an isolated area with radiation and left it for two weeks. after the time period was over, they tested the area with Geiger counters. the radiation level was still at 700 rads. still too high for human or animal survival.
@DOMORCIDEA if the wind is blowing away from you it will go down to safe lvls but everyone is different one of the survivors of Chernobyl took 4 lifetimes worth of radition and survived died in 96 from a heart attack. either way i much rather get killed by the blast then to suffer from radiation poisining
for god's sake. typical propaganda. "our factories must become battle stations if we are to win". when will people realize, you CANNOT win a nuclear war! the whole purpose is to destroy. and even if a single country was unscathed what spoils of war would they have? all the water would be irradiated, all soil infertile, all oil dried up, no electricity, no solar power, no more gold reserves, coal reserves, no more ways to make any type of metal, and of course no humans to work.
Latins do not have that traumas, we always believe FALLOUT is only a gringos trouble, if you come to Peru, Argentina, Chile, Brasil, Ecuador or Colombia you will never see a door with the following advice: FALLOUT SHELTER.
Actually there is a lot of common sense in these videos. If you are at ground zero, you're screwed. However the shock wave does huge damage. If you are a coupel of miles a way, ducking and covering WILL save your life. Being sliced to ribbons by an exploding glass window isnt' good. Neither is being hit by debris. This is what is intended by these videos. Not surviving being melted at the centre of the blast.
"if the people of hiroshima and nagasaki had known what we know about civil defence, thousands of live would have been saved" ... and more thousands would have been saved if the nukes never were dropped
@BUGArachnide And firebombing of German cities killed many thousands of civilians. If that practice was not used many lives would have been spared. Many of those cities such as Dresden had no military significance. Your statement like others here are 20/20.
@jjohn2k radiations effects can be felt at 50 roentgens as slight sickness at, 200 its a strong sickness and you should survive, but some may die, up to 500 roentgens, more than half die, severe radiation sickness causes fever, mouth soreness, and diarrhea, and may cause gums to ulcerate and bleed along with hair falling out, at 1000 roentgens all are dead. and it can be several 1000 roentgens per hour after the bomb goes off
@kazzemg As posted on the smartplanet web site, author Janet Fang provides an overview concerning the subject. Although and in fact survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb had severe medical problems to quote her "with respect to the search for radiation-induced mutations and risk to succeeding generations, the goal is that future studies using newer DNA analyses will be able to detect an elevated mutation rate (IF ONE EXISTS) or confirm the low rate they observed in the second generation.
@kazzemg cancer is really the only longterm effect of radiation, mutations occur all the time in america thanks to our own waste, really industrial waste is just as, if not more dangerous than radiation.
@lazarus7x how did u like living under soviet union. I still remember that while in H.S. the United Nations was spreading its propaganda in American cities. The United Nations will of course unite the Fascist west with the Communist east to create a single totalitarian WORLD government. All the fighting was for nothing, it only served the rich elite in their agenda to create a single world government. Its annoying the news agencies and historians admit Capitalists funded communists everywhere.
@deceiver123m Ah sweet propaganda :) But I must admit that soviet propaganda was kinda positive in comparison to western. Something like "Yes, there probably will be a war, but that's OK, there is nothing to worry about" :) Generaly it was quite a peaceful time with a great confidence that we build a better future.
Build vaults! vault 101 or whatever. have an overseer. have a father that is a scientist and a doctor, have a mother that died giving birth to you, have your father dissapearing, walk into the wasteland and look for him, build a town and name it Megaton, have a bomb in the centre of it! have a man and name him Mister burke! have a military group thingy and call it the brotherhood of steel....Etc etc...people know what i'm talking about! so you know the rest!
Bombing of *any* cities is deplored whether using nuclear or conventional devices. One has only to search the internet to see the debate on the use of bombing, both on Hiroshima or Dresden. Fire bombing of many German cities which many people are either not aware or disregard shows even more deaths. It is also an absolute that the effects of radiation are horrendous! Numbers of deaths are debated in either case.
Its not that BS, an air burst explosion has minimal radioactive fallout compared with a ground level explosion, so most immediate casualties are from the overpressure wave, which a basic shelter will protect you from. In the short run, basic shelter will protect you from most of the immediate risks outside of the immediate blast zone.
FAS has a few articles about the effects of nuclear attack on urban areas.
Boy, the load of shit they told them in the 50's so they could sleep at night...... WOW! In the 80's, the Army told us "ass to the blast".... or "better to be at ground-zero" haaaaaaaaaaaaaa If such happens, I want to be at or very near ground zero....
@Wedwickboy Sorry I only spent 9 Years in the Royal Artillery from Nov '81 to Feb '90. So I can only comment on what I was taught, Which was, circuits get power surges caused by Electro Magnetic Pulse and blow components. I was pretty much convinced what My officers and instructors were telling Us was the truth. I may be wrong. But if I am, then so was My NBC officer. Regards, Ricky
Funny. They don't explain how the fallout gets freaking EVERYWHERE, even through closed windows. And I guess they knew why not to mention it. They could have at least mentioned to drink only bottled water.
They pretty much say "get in the fucking basement, walk the radiation off and back to work."
That's how US government always was. Propaganda above lives.
One should try to survive if one has anything to offer- even a basic emergency first aid course, or basic knowledge building, machine, electrical, or agricultural trades, knowledge of history or mathematics, science, spiritual knowledge, or techniques that may ease the suffering of the dying, yoga, meditation, breathing, cultural characteristics, poetry, music - things that may comfort the surviving 5-25%.
Hunting, Fishing, Sowing, Gathering- skills to resolve disputes-even just to think.
Even if you only survive for 1-2 years after the war - your labour could be significant for the other survivors in the long run. In order to return land to productivity, most topsoil will have to be removed - with most machines destroyed, this will be a massive task - food stocks will be used to feed the surviving labour force - until they run out. Efforts will consist of securing, and the race to prepare any harvest. If you have a sail boat, ocean going, South America and quick..
Have a backpack ready with iodine pills, water purification tabs, 2 gallons of water - and nuts and grain and dried ffruit for 500 calories a day for 30 days.
Government relief within 60 days at best - be prepared to forage -
Dying is not garaunteed at all - if you want to die - head directly for the target zones.
It's understandable but I enjoin survival - if more survive the initial blast, and are ready to survive the fallout period [2-3 weeks] the more will survive overall.
Apart from the initial radiation -if you shelter behind one foot or .3 meter of steel reinforced concrete or 1 meter of earth from the line of sight to the blast you will reduce your dose by 1000 times - the blast wave itself [good luck]
the next most serious threat is firestorm - which will suffocate you if you are hiding in a basement - give yourself two-three hours or until a snow-like ash begins to fall before you go in radiation cover. A site like a residential suburb or town - sh
Know your city - know the centres that are targets - major industrial sites, nuclear power stations, financial centres, ports, airports, military bases, universities, government centres.
If you can put about 5 km or 3 miles between you and any of these locations within 5 minutes - you have a survival chace on the immediate blast if you shelter behind natural cover [a gulley or behind a hill] then you have evacuate the area immediately - you first fear is the fire zone -
from 1:42 absolute bullsh*t omg for gods sake its like almost sarcastic saying they beared children-oh dont worry they where normal. they would be contaminated and the cells would be destroyed in thier bodies that would turn into cancer thier trying to make it like they didnt bomb japan
the third global war is coming soon
avadrato 4 days ago
rather than having my family and house blown up I'd much rather have the first bomb droped on my head than survive in a smelly grot hole
dingdangdongization 1 week ago
I'm pretty sure the nuke would flatten the house...
clonedecalmaker12 1 week ago
Same brain-washing as we get today. Moral - news and government public education programs keep us and make us good little -free?- slaves.
orange70383 1 week ago in playlist Cold War
how in the hell would a blind help protect you from a nuke
BF3ification 1 week ago
I love how lax they are about the Radioactivity, It may harm you etc... no if you're exposed to it, it will more than likely kill you ha!
mrdavidsmithism 3 weeks ago
It's incredible the number of people who think that because the gov published a newsreel 5 years after World War II on how people should behave in a bombing strike, such being the main involvement of civilians in the World War just past, that this is stupid, propagandistic advice. It was practical for the time, thankfully not needed. It is obviously not applicable to today.
puncheex 1 month ago
@puncheex It isn't? Who says the USA is prepared for a nuclear attack? What will you do? Are you prepared? ;)
zeke1312 1 month ago
The fellow in the hat and suit on the street no doubt burned his eyeballs out by looking directly at the flash, but otherwise all is well...our government's finest work. :\
falldownhard 1 month ago
The USSR could ahve attacked us at ANY TIME! It could happen right now, Russia (today) still isn't too satisfied! DICK!!
polandpal97 1 month ago
@polandpal97 19 yr old skateboarder knows it ll?
zeke1312 1 month ago
There children live normal today????????????? Fucking propaganda.
johnrafale2 2 months ago
@johnrafale2: Ummmm... How do you think they live?
puncheex 1 month ago
You need to build a nuclear bunker, or like blast into space.
ecarnie 2 months ago
Lol, this isnt gonna help you out all that much. Im pretty sure ya'll be dead, if you did what there telling you.
ecarnie 2 months ago
" If the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had known what we know, they might be alive today." Or not. Japanese people are the cleanest, most polite and careful people you'll ever meet. They've forgotten more about clean fingernails than most of us will ever know. Still, we bombed Hiroshima BECAUSE it was a non military target. And the US Military wanted to see what neat things this A bomb would do to them. So much for Duck and Cover.
jamusthebartender 2 months ago
2:38 : Well, let's face it, Clark Kent and Lois Lane would probably fare pretty well during an atomic attack. Clark Kent, anyway.
jamusthebartender 2 months ago
7:28 nuclear attack happens, dinner is clearly ruined.. I love how the narrator says the danger is over after a minute UNLESS ETC.. then a huge bomb goes off. Ilove watching government videos like this just to remind myself how stupid my government believes I am...
chicseeker 2 months ago
To any of you people who are watching this and think some of this is accurate. Go ahead, if a nuke hits your city do like that guy in 7:11 and lay on the floor lol, sure you may live for a few days, but if you ever saw a hiroshima victim after the blast, your clothes will be a permanent tattoos on your back... just sayin lol
chicseeker 2 months ago
Ok, let's look at it this way. In 1955 the Soviet had "Bear" bombers capable of dropping nuclear bombs on the US mainland. The fear at the tie was....you guessed it, a potential Russian attack. Yes, today these videos look silly to many, most of who were not alive at the time. The US had 2 lines of defense, the Nike Missile and Air Force jet fighters, jets being the first line. Read up about the 240 Nike missile bases. Interesting. Fast forward to today. What's our line of defense?
zeke1312 3 months ago
@zeke1312 No Nike Missile..... 9/11 everyone? Jet fighter, slow response? Anyhow, what is your plan to "duck and cover"? At least they had a plan in the 1950s. ;)
zeke1312 3 months ago
There's a way to survive,make sure you are at least 500 miles away from the blast then goto the high mountains in a deep cave in a motorhome,and stock up on water and cans foods
TheMrsuperman2000 3 months ago
'If the nearest shelter is more than a couple of steps away, fall to the ground immediately. Chips of balsa wood and styrofoam rubble will rain down on you. Once the all clear has sounded, get up off the ground, dust off your clothes and continue with what you were doing.'
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thenarzod 3 months ago
Earth--- insane asylum of the universe with all the inmates wearing human primate bodies. And have obliging chit-eating grins on their faces as they're being murdered by the more insane inmates who have a craving to do violence to others.
electronfun 4 months ago
stimpak, radx, radaway, my pipboy3000 and a fatman. im ready for the sovjets.
huereremo 4 months ago
Boy,I better pop some rad-x!
isomikieee 4 months ago
yea, like I can wash radioactivity away, bull shit !!
235stefan 4 months ago
I've been practicing kissing my arse goodbye.... I've got it down to 9 seconds without warning.
grundgemonster 4 months ago
Yes, you can recover from radiation sickness, until the leukemia kicks in in 20 years. It WILL get you eventually.
matthewkeene 4 months ago
@matthewkeene: You think so, do you? Where did you get your information? Describe for me the mechanism of your leukemia, if you will.
puncheex 1 month ago
lulz, harmless radiation.
iamthe1337est 4 months ago
Who knows what we need for protection today? Protection from what or whom? Do what to do in case of a nuclear attack? Wait around for the govt to do what? What will you do if a nuclear or "dirty" bomb is detonated in your city? If you think the US Border Patrol, Airport inspections or cops in NYC (as an example) can protect you 100% think again. ;)
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@Complainer45 doomed? it never happened and the nuclear arms race is over so....
DarPower1 4 months ago
People just need to love one another. I never seen a time like now were people just hate one another without a valid reason. And then if there is a reason, it's so petty trying to justify hatred. Love is the key man in the mirror.
ccalll1 4 months ago
@ccalll1 this film sounds like it was narreted by edward r. murrow
spacepatrolman 4 months ago
2:44
"Don't worry, dear- I've got the handbook right here"
"Oh great- I feel better now"
early65model 4 months ago
I love these old reels they were ludicrously cheerful. For example around this time one of the provisions for dealing with survivors of a nuclear attack in the UK was lots of sweet tea. Later on the government stockpiled heroin to help those on their way to their deaths.
RedJoe10 4 months ago
"If the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had known what we know, thousands of lives would have been saved..." Does anyone else find that quote sadly ironic, considering it was America who dropped the bombs and put them in that situation? That's like saying, "I'm going to inject you with poison, but if you don't know how to make the antidote, it's all your fault if you die." (And there is no antidote, either). Oh and, @thewastelandwarrior9 Me too! Love that game.
fishwithoutwings 4 months ago
"Production must go on if we are to win"... I would add "whenever physically possible. This is the kind of attitude we need to win the war against Al Qeada.
MIKON8ERISBACK 4 months ago
jumping in a doorway wont help look at the guy who was sitting in a door way at Hiroshima all that was left of him was a shadow on the steps he was sitting on he was vaperized
freacls 4 months ago
I wanna go play Fallout 3.
TheWastelandWarrior9 4 months ago
:O the survivors in fallout understood these concepts all too well :P
prophion333 5 months ago
"if the people of hiroshmah had known the things we know when we boomed them thousand of lives would have survived" yah like the boom was just to spreed bad smell and not kill people......... pathetic
mrmax293 5 months ago
Total BS When they said japenese civilians completely recovered
jaredlegomaster 5 months ago
@jaredlegomaster: Ummm, what exactly do you think radiation is? Is it something like measles, acute and then lying dormant for 10, 20 years before arising again? You don't think anyone recovers from radiation poisoning?
puncheex 1 month ago
i know what will protect me frm radeation----- CARDBOARD lol what happent to all the pple getting burnt as well ???? i ws wating to see mcr jst pop up and start singing lol fallout lol fuck russia shit nw im going puked lol
gibs9105343 5 months ago
wow
blacksmoke37 5 months ago
this is like fallout
Killidan233 5 months ago
Umm...after the first 2 minutes I thought he was going to say, "So, really, Atom Bombs are very close to being practically harmless..."
replyandyousuckballs 5 months ago
Do this, do that, take your time. And don't forget to take a look outside whether the bomb has already exploded or not before you return to normal life and take a walk in the park...
:-D
rfactormo 5 months ago
Funny thing is. They were talking about "How to survive this" a few years after dropping them on Japan. Also saying "Protecting our children against these weapons" and showing a Japanese family then the ruins of Hiroshima. ha wow.
MattJoey2142 5 months ago
I dont know about you guys but, Who would WANT to survive, Id rather have 1millisecond of pain than 10 years of radiation poisoning and slow death.
TheCGIMaster 5 months ago
Woman gets first aid kit "...learn how to stop bleeding" XD
LactobacillusBrevis 5 months ago
...SIGN UP NOW! AND PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE!!
darkjack86 5 months ago
This video was made by Vault Tech :o
ninjutsuwolf 5 months ago
there is a lot of propaganda going on here, but people don't understand that this could save lives, a few miles away from the blast (depending on size) there is a debries danger, and they can start fires more than 12 miles away from the blast site.
ema576 5 months ago
4:37- Electric lights might go out? Electric lights WILL go out in a nuclear war you dolts!
TideatMileHigh 5 months ago
@TideatMileHigh Depends on the type of the bomb, and where it hits. EMP is not always unleashed at the time of explosion, but it's probable.
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nice9008 6 months ago
@nice9008 Geeez, find a history book (not modified by liberals) and read the chapters concerning the subject. Notice I wrote chapters as in plural. If it's one chapter, select another history book. What's this America "the state I live in". Please correct that statement. Japan waited too late, the USSR was too close, politics in part determined the outcome. Decipher that statement.;)
zeke1312 6 months ago
Wait, hang on. All I have to do to survive is hide under a wooden table? Well, that's easy.
Lee303Enfield 6 months ago
Having lived through the Hippie Era, it is suprising to me the number of people who buy into their bull. We don't live in a world where thousands on megaton weapons will fall. We live in a world where some kiloton weapons will fall, at most. Be prepared to survive. The Russians believe in this, which is why they are building fallout shelters in a fever pitch.
You choose. Do you want to abandon the pre-eminent form of civilian controlled government, or do you want to grow a spine?
kurioryu1013 6 months ago
It is interesting that there is *no* "civil defense" training or even information made available to the American public today concerning nuclear or "dirty" bombs. Actually training the public may be more appropriate today than ever before. This 1950s video may look "hokey" but there is valid information presented. So much for knocking the vid;)
zeke1312 6 months ago
Thanks, very interesting footage.
ArtificalSoldier 6 months ago
Duck and cover and..boom goes the dynamite :-) This was just for morale and even people watching it THEN probably knew it. I decided in 1980 at 10 years old the best place to be is at ground zero. Your brain wouldn't even begin to process the flash..in 1/600th (or so) of a second you just disappear. Thank God this never happened!
ChristopherSaindon 6 months ago
@ChristopherSaindon The question may be: When will it happen? Oh, by the way, at 10yrs old you "decided"? I doubt so. ;)
zeke1312 6 months ago
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.
NickB1967 6 months ago
@NickB1967
The jokes are made about the 50s Civil Defense films is how they were telling you to survive a nuclear blast and that radiation and fallout wasn't as dangerous as blast and heat.
In the end it only takes one Nuclear Bomb in the hands of a maniac who will use it, to devistate a city and the area around it
snakes3425 6 months ago
@Complainer45 Hmmm...at 20 yrs you are the man. What's your take on the world today? ;)
zeke1312 6 months ago
Thats a lot of shit you have to do between the sirens and getting vaporized
Foxiesz 6 months ago
WHAT?! there were no buildings left standing where the bomb hit nothing at all
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youneekk 6 months ago
So stupid that it's fun to see. Even at that time the US civilian population do not know what war means. The only reason one could concoct such a crap! In Europe, one sees the damage of wars even today. Here above all in Germany and Poland. If 9 11 already is war for the U.S., then I ask myself: Why do we Germans swear by today's bomb attacks, no war on it? It makes everything much worse! The U.S. will therefore resolve by itself in this century. Other ideas need to be invented!
MMICGER 7 months ago
@MMICGER America does not know what war is, even today? Well maybe today. No draft, video games make it look painless and easy. The exception is for those in the military today. In WWII as I understand it, the US lost 448,000 dead in Europe. I'm not sure what the number of the number of those killed in the Pacific. In the 40s gas rationed, no new cars built,nylon, food rationed, etc and the *draft*! Back to the books MM;)
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MMICGER 7 months ago
@zeke1312 I was thinking of the non-affected civilians. Not in e.g. Fallen professional soldiers who are sent abroad. Except for the Civil War, the U.S. has on its own soil not experienced a war. That's what I meant by experience.
MMICGER 7 months ago
@zeke1312 "gas rationed, no new cars built, nylon rationed"
I am indeed grateful, but the U.S. did not even have to go into the second world war. Pearl Harbor and a few German U-boats off the east coast do not justify that. It was a political decision. Although I'm stupid, but also not so stupid now. The U.S. is embroiled in the world in war again and again. And that only for political and economic reasons. The assistance offered is often only a pretext. Not very peaceful!
MMICGER 7 months ago
@MMICGER Within days after Japan and the US declared war, Hitler declared war on the US. It would seem to me the US would reciprocate and of course, it did. Also until the 1970s the US had the draft system. Many soldiers in WWII, Korea and Vietnam were drafted. Hence they were not "professional" volunteers.The Third Reich instigated WWII. Unfortunately from them, they were pounded into submission and thankfully lost. The results of that war can still be seen in Europe.
zeke1312 7 months ago
@MMICGER My hope would be the US once again become an isolationist nation, shunning the rest of the world and their problems. But that is not to be.
zeke1312 7 months ago
Who is surprised? The US govt. has always lied to its citizens and the world. I would be surprised if you told the truth.
azzy314159 7 months ago
Search YouTube for "Weird NJ" and select Nike Missile.
Interesting.
zeke1312 7 months ago
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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.
NickB1967 7 months ago
All I need is a trusty vault from vault-tec to survive :)
MRF1NLAY 7 months ago
DUCK AND COVER !
atoms97 7 months ago
interesting: a few short years later, after the development of thermonuclear bombs the US went from "stand your ground" to "duck and cover"
jim62sch 7 months ago
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twittermonz 7 months ago
everything was A ok is jap.. after the Atomic B. wow" if thats not the definition of Bullshit i don't know what is.
wbooker10 7 months ago
Nothing short of propaganda
TheGamersEnjoyment 7 months ago
Tell that to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
TheGamersEnjoyment 7 months ago
people need to understand that life after a nuclear holocaust would not be like a fallout game. we would not be able to leave any form of shelter for months. and we certainly would NOT be walking around the wasteland like a pseudo god. things would be very different after world war 3. something that human kind is smart enough to deter.
DOMORCIDEA 7 months ago
@DOMORCIDEA true but you must understand once upon a time on a country america was at war with this actually happend.. thats where the department of defense gets its understanding about life after fallout happens-many japanese people-tho suffering from radiation poisining did just ''walk around'' and if you think about it- it was somewhat lke fallout. raiders stealing from houses killing people-Radiation scares - old tunes and radio- so yeah in a way it might be just like fallout.
KaiOtanashi 7 months ago
@DOMORCIDEA I hope are smart enough.
qwertasdcfghjklmo24z 7 months ago
@DOMORCIDEA you can leave shelters after 2 weeks for limited exposure so long as the wind is blowing the fallout away from you
barf245 7 months ago
@barf245 not true. i remember watching a myth busters documentry where they filled an isolated area with radiation and left it for two weeks. after the time period was over, they tested the area with Geiger counters. the radiation level was still at 700 rads. still too high for human or animal survival.
DOMORCIDEA 7 months ago
@DOMORCIDEA if the wind is blowing away from you it will go down to safe lvls but everyone is different one of the survivors of Chernobyl took 4 lifetimes worth of radition and survived died in 96 from a heart attack. either way i much rather get killed by the blast then to suffer from radiation poisining
barf245 7 months ago
for god's sake. typical propaganda. "our factories must become battle stations if we are to win". when will people realize, you CANNOT win a nuclear war! the whole purpose is to destroy. and even if a single country was unscathed what spoils of war would they have? all the water would be irradiated, all soil infertile, all oil dried up, no electricity, no solar power, no more gold reserves, coal reserves, no more ways to make any type of metal, and of course no humans to work.
DOMORCIDEA 7 months ago
Latins do not have that traumas, we always believe FALLOUT is only a gringos trouble, if you come to Peru, Argentina, Chile, Brasil, Ecuador or Colombia you will never see a door with the following advice: FALLOUT SHELTER.
joseluisnewyork 8 months ago
This was made in the 1950's, not in 2011. What was known then is a lot different than what is know now about nuclear attack.
krstnlhjt 8 months ago
The USA sent warnings to the people of heroshima to evacuate but they didnt listen.
Miki2471 8 months ago
@NODDINGCAT: What was the name of that test at :42 and when did it happen? If anybody knows, thanks in advance. =)
MiracleMile90 8 months ago
nice.
javoman13 8 months ago
if they drop the bomb the table will not help you get real you'll get radiation poisoning
MaryJoMuser 8 months ago
Shh, June, it's death from above!
nicholsjoshua15 8 months ago
Actually there is a lot of common sense in these videos. If you are at ground zero, you're screwed. However the shock wave does huge damage. If you are a coupel of miles a way, ducking and covering WILL save your life. Being sliced to ribbons by an exploding glass window isnt' good. Neither is being hit by debris. This is what is intended by these videos. Not surviving being melted at the centre of the blast.
xvoy2002 8 months ago
@xvoy2002 Good point.
zeke1312 8 months ago
"they lead normal lives" wtf they would have cancer from it, how is that a normal life??
connorhobson1 8 months ago
"if the people of hiroshima and nagasaki had known what we know about civil defence, thousands of live would have been saved" ... and more thousands would have been saved if the nukes never were dropped
BUGArachnide 8 months ago
@BUGArachnide And firebombing of German cities killed many thousands of civilians. If that practice was not used many lives would have been spared. Many of those cities such as Dresden had no military significance. Your statement like others here are 20/20.
zeke1312 8 months ago
hide under a table then die
urantiruslan 8 months ago
.. we sleep walk off to work, while our ne-ne-ne-nervous systems...TICK
StoneCold75 8 months ago
love how every one of these videos have multiple people making fallout references in the comments.
dragtoss 8 months ago
Why can't a fallout game have a video clip similar to this playing on a still functional TV.
left4trance 9 months ago
They all recovered fully from radioactive sickness like it were the common cold. HORSESHIT!!!
jjohn2k 9 months ago 49
@jjohn2k i much rather get vaporized by the blast then have to live with radiation sickness that is a life long sickness if it dont kill ya
barf245 7 months ago
@jjohn2k radiations effects can be felt at 50 roentgens as slight sickness at, 200 its a strong sickness and you should survive, but some may die, up to 500 roentgens, more than half die, severe radiation sickness causes fever, mouth soreness, and diarrhea, and may cause gums to ulcerate and bleed along with hair falling out, at 1000 roentgens all are dead. and it can be several 1000 roentgens per hour after the bomb goes off
ema576 5 months ago
@jjohn2k looks like RadAway works xD
julio13wrathchild 4 months ago 9
@julio13wrathchild Hehe.. Don't Just Pray, Use RadAway!
DetectiveDickBent 1 month ago
what bullshit even now children are born in Hiroshima with mutations like 6 fingers. People have a much higher rate of cancer
kazzemg 9 months ago
@kazzemg As posted on the smartplanet web site, author Janet Fang provides an overview concerning the subject. Although and in fact survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb had severe medical problems to quote her "with respect to the search for radiation-induced mutations and risk to succeeding generations, the goal is that future studies using newer DNA analyses will be able to detect an elevated mutation rate (IF ONE EXISTS) or confirm the low rate they observed in the second generation.
zeke1312 9 months ago
@kazzemg cancer is really the only longterm effect of radiation, mutations occur all the time in america thanks to our own waste, really industrial waste is just as, if not more dangerous than radiation.
FUBUXGEAR 9 months ago
I still have a small book which was given at schools about what to do in case of biochemical or nuclear attack :D
Former USSR citizen
lazarus7x 9 months ago
@lazarus7x how did u like living under soviet union. I still remember that while in H.S. the United Nations was spreading its propaganda in American cities. The United Nations will of course unite the Fascist west with the Communist east to create a single totalitarian WORLD government. All the fighting was for nothing, it only served the rich elite in their agenda to create a single world government. Its annoying the news agencies and historians admit Capitalists funded communists everywhere.
deceiver123m 9 months ago
@deceiver123m Ah sweet propaganda :) But I must admit that soviet propaganda was kinda positive in comparison to western. Something like "Yes, there probably will be a war, but that's OK, there is nothing to worry about" :) Generaly it was quite a peaceful time with a great confidence that we build a better future.
lazarus7x 9 months ago
The girls then were so pretty now its whores with makeup
TheSuzula 9 months ago
Build vaults! vault 101 or whatever. have an overseer. have a father that is a scientist and a doctor, have a mother that died giving birth to you, have your father dissapearing, walk into the wasteland and look for him, build a town and name it Megaton, have a bomb in the centre of it! have a man and name him Mister burke! have a military group thingy and call it the brotherhood of steel....Etc etc...people know what i'm talking about! so you know the rest!
TheMillazilla 9 months ago
This video depicts how one may avoid the initial blast of an atomic bomb Childish but geared not only adults but children. Hindsight is always 20/20.
zeke1312 9 months ago
Bombing of *any* cities is deplored whether using nuclear or conventional devices. One has only to search the internet to see the debate on the use of bombing, both on Hiroshima or Dresden. Fire bombing of many German cities which many people are either not aware or disregard shows even more deaths. It is also an absolute that the effects of radiation are horrendous! Numbers of deaths are debated in either case.
zeke1312 9 months ago
oh god.......people who will be affected by radiation will live a normal life? kiss my ass.,.you fucking liars
kimonap 9 months ago
@kimonap It's obvious by your retort you are a moron. Using foul language further shows you are a child.
zeke1312 9 months ago
@zeke1312 And why excacly am i a moron? A child? Oh dear please! Anyone can post their opinion so whats wrong with you?
kimonap 9 months ago
Just observing the results of the blast on the bridge rails in this video shows what protection is possible.
zeke1312 9 months ago
Its not that BS, an air burst explosion has minimal radioactive fallout compared with a ground level explosion, so most immediate casualties are from the overpressure wave, which a basic shelter will protect you from. In the short run, basic shelter will protect you from most of the immediate risks outside of the immediate blast zone.
FAS has a few articles about the effects of nuclear attack on urban areas.
saylrp 9 months ago
@saylrp Finally a reply that has some sense to it.
zeke1312 9 months ago
ummmm...past de marshmellows?.
chadberry75 9 months ago
We need to protect ourselves from blast, heat, radioactivity, and the stupid lies of government.
jimtrueblue99 9 months ago
This bs makes me wanna punch someone in the face!
Thelonesniper101 9 months ago
"Get a first aid kit, and learn how to stop bleeding."
Yeah, bleeding.
airsoftoverkills 9 months ago
Checked most of the posts, most mock. I didn't read any "solutions" to the possibility of surviving. If not you, maybe your kids or parents? ;)
zeke1312 9 months ago
These old documentaries are full of Fallout related comments, making them easier to watch. :)
ozerataoglu 10 months ago
Imagine the lies they tell us today...
kimosabesun 10 months ago
@kimosabesun Exactly! Finally a UTuber who is using his brain to pose the right question :)
MillyVanillification 9 months ago
anyone else think that MST3K should of got a hold of this for an episode?
AODrtrlt 10 months ago
Boy, the load of shit they told them in the 50's so they could sleep at night...... WOW! In the 80's, the Army told us "ass to the blast".... or "better to be at ground-zero" haaaaaaaaaaaaaa If such happens, I want to be at or very near ground zero....
Landotter1 10 months ago
@vre655u What? Say that again.
zeke1312 10 months ago
Hey, Honey, let's have a romantic evening and read up about surviving a nuke.
StanBennet 10 months ago
"If the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have known [...] thousands of lives could have been saved". Say those who dropped the bombs!
Sleeper001 10 months ago 2
@Sleeper001 The aggressor lost.
zeke1312 10 months ago
4.51 "a radio" no EMP then?
Rickyzippy1 10 months ago
@Rickyzippy1 if it's battery powered it won't be harmed
Wedwickboy 10 months ago
@Wedwickboy Sorry I only spent 9 Years in the Royal Artillery from Nov '81 to Feb '90. So I can only comment on what I was taught, Which was, circuits get power surges caused by Electro Magnetic Pulse and blow components. I was pretty much convinced what My officers and instructors were telling Us was the truth. I may be wrong. But if I am, then so was My NBC officer. Regards, Ricky
Rickyzippy1 10 months ago
Funny. They don't explain how the fallout gets freaking EVERYWHERE, even through closed windows. And I guess they knew why not to mention it. They could have at least mentioned to drink only bottled water.
They pretty much say "get in the fucking basement, walk the radiation off and back to work."
That's how US government always was. Propaganda above lives.
LaughinGarry 10 months ago
And STAY OUT of the Dunwich building!
Stormclouds777 10 months ago
Yeah right!!!, recovering from radiation sounds very Fairy Tale like..
Zoza15 10 months ago
@ 7:55 - "Cover broken windows against radioactive dust with blankets or cardboard!". That's '50s-speak for "Duct Tape!", and as laughable.
scarred2112 10 months ago
Survival Under Atomic Attack!... yup, as individual atoms, but I suppose that's *technically* survival.
scarred2112 10 months ago
Wouldn't they vaporize in street....
watchdog15 10 months ago
they make it look so easy.
TheNucleusBomb9000 10 months ago
Hell yeah! Crank out the shotguns, we're having super mutant tonight!
SkateOfLols 11 months ago
We need to start manufacturing G.E.C.K's (Garden of Eden Creation Kit)
STON3SL1VEMU5IC 11 months ago
One should try to survive if one has anything to offer- even a basic emergency first aid course, or basic knowledge building, machine, electrical, or agricultural trades, knowledge of history or mathematics, science, spiritual knowledge, or techniques that may ease the suffering of the dying, yoga, meditation, breathing, cultural characteristics, poetry, music - things that may comfort the surviving 5-25%.
Hunting, Fishing, Sowing, Gathering- skills to resolve disputes-even just to think.
:-)
Nicksvoiceinthewild 11 months ago
Even if you only survive for 1-2 years after the war - your labour could be significant for the other survivors in the long run. In order to return land to productivity, most topsoil will have to be removed - with most machines destroyed, this will be a massive task - food stocks will be used to feed the surviving labour force - until they run out. Efforts will consist of securing, and the race to prepare any harvest. If you have a sail boat, ocean going, South America and quick..
Nicksvoiceinthewild 11 months ago
Have a backpack ready with iodine pills, water purification tabs, 2 gallons of water - and nuts and grain and dried ffruit for 500 calories a day for 30 days.
Government relief within 60 days at best - be prepared to forage -
Dying is not garaunteed at all - if you want to die - head directly for the target zones.
It's understandable but I enjoin survival - if more survive the initial blast, and are ready to survive the fallout period [2-3 weeks] the more will survive overall.
Nicksvoiceinthewild 11 months ago
Apart from the initial radiation -if you shelter behind one foot or .3 meter of steel reinforced concrete or 1 meter of earth from the line of sight to the blast you will reduce your dose by 1000 times - the blast wave itself [good luck]
the next most serious threat is firestorm - which will suffocate you if you are hiding in a basement - give yourself two-three hours or until a snow-like ash begins to fall before you go in radiation cover. A site like a residential suburb or town - sh
Nicksvoiceinthewild 11 months ago
Know your city - know the centres that are targets - major industrial sites, nuclear power stations, financial centres, ports, airports, military bases, universities, government centres.
If you can put about 5 km or 3 miles between you and any of these locations within 5 minutes - you have a survival chace on the immediate blast if you shelter behind natural cover [a gulley or behind a hill] then you have evacuate the area immediately - you first fear is the fire zone -
Nicksvoiceinthewild 11 months ago
these instructions are to no help a Nuclear Bomb Destroy everthing in its path
ARGUS90912 11 months ago
Remember your sins, Americans...
KDNARUSE 11 months ago
What the fuck?! WE WERE THE ONES WHO FUCKING DROPPED THE BOMB!!!
PickThisCar 11 months ago
What a bumch of crap, i am going to get a six pack and climb on the roof and watch it... Hahahahaha
prcsouthwest 11 months ago
At the home during 3:39 - 3:59 it looks like the one at the old lady's house from Stephen Kings Storm of the Century!
LeonSKennedy656 11 months ago
JUST TAKE PLENTY OF RAD AWAY :)
top414141 11 months ago 2
Hahahahahah!!!!!!!
Pbdts 11 months ago
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Dandramere 11 months ago
from 1:42 absolute bullsh*t omg for gods sake its like almost sarcastic saying they beared children-oh dont worry they where normal. they would be contaminated and the cells would be destroyed in thier bodies that would turn into cancer thier trying to make it like they didnt bomb japan
triggerdance 11 months ago
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@triggerdance its a propaganda,of course they would feed them with bullshit as long as they stay their Sluts.
parzit888 11 months ago
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@parzit888 lol
triggerdance 11 months ago