Protect and Survive - Nuclear Explosions Explained

[rorrt]

I think the end sound is bloody terrifying!

As is the odd optimism, of saying "If you hear the bomb go, DUCK AND COVER, in a doorway, or under a bridge...Failing that, cover your face with the jacket you may, or may not be wearing"...

Because as everyone knows, the polyester from a jacket, can deflect heat and radiation as affectively as brick and mortar!

[pennywise778]

This is fucking grim

[Standuble]

@C76EM One thing parents don't tell their children anymore is that some radioactive materials in your breakfast cereal don't have a very long half-life. It's important to eat your breakfast in a timely yet prompt manner so it doesn't lose its alpha, beta and gamma health benefits.

[DancingMadRB3]

Just remember when your hair falls out and you are covered in marks brush that nasty fallout off of you, it leaves a stain

[marcusantonio91]

you'd think heat and blast can kill would be fairly obvious

[soipmeotnh]

i really want to play fallout 3 now

[pab70]

Imagine how scary it would sound if Keith Barron narrated this instead of Patrick Allen?

[Dharkhaze17]

I love how 'nicely' they explain it yet it's still shit scary

[Standuble]

@Dharkhaze17 I find what they don't explain to be scary also.

[TheMoonPower]

Am I the only one severely creeped out by the fallout noise?

[racer927]

@TheMoonPower Heck no. So am I

[TheMoonPower]

@racer927 *Brohoof.*

[AnonymousParticipant]

These video series show nothing but utter contempt by the ruling elite in the UK, getting the proles to remove doors and build some bull shit shelter as a distraction before atomization, unlike Scandinavian countries that built real fall out shelters for their populous. In the event of anyone surviving you would have been put to work, feeding to ruling elite in the usual unquestioning way that English people do. Show me when has the UK government given a shit about it's citizens?

[Senfig]

I'm not a native speaker, what do he say after the first sentence?

"..suches H-bombs and atombombs. they are ?????? explosions only more..."and so on.

The next point: "The heat and blast is so ??? but it can kill..."

can someone help me, please? :)

[kiteagle17]

@Senfig …such as H-bombs or atom bombs. They are like ordinary explosions only many times more powerful. They cause great heat and blast...

…The heat and blast is so severe that it can kill...

[Senfig]

@kiteagle17 Thank you very much! :D

[ntfclad1985]

The thing is the whole of Britain would be bombed in a nuclear war so there would be very little houses in the uk left standing to hide in anyway

[MicraJames]

The sound effect at 0:25 ALWAYS puts shivers down my spine

[neo196910]

If the bomb don't get ya, the fall out will....

[Currie01]

If your grandmother or any other member of your family should die whilst

in the shelter, put them outside, but remember to tag them first for

identification purposes

[miniroll32]

The real crime would be if Justin Beiber was mankind's only survivor.

[Brecconable]

@miniroll32 Voted down for worst outcome in a nuclear holocaust

[motherfan55]

Is it creepy that I keep clicking the end of the video to hear the end sound again and again.

[neo196910]

@motherfan55 I know what you mean....its very disturbing. Always sends a shiver down my spine. I just keep thinking that this is the last sound we would all probably hear before armageddon. Chilling.

[Standuble]

If you hear a wiggly-wiggly noise when in the middle of a nuclear fallout zone realise you're not just screwed, you're FUCKED. Everyone knows that radioactive particles look like white chaff and make silly little noises.

Plus I laughed at the minor damage the shockwave caused to the house at 0:20. Yeah you'll only lose a piece of your roof, please ignore your neighbour who's whole house was obliterated by it!

[Nothefaceyoubitch]

@Standuble damage to buildings depends on how far away from the blast they are situated. The area of total destruction is relatively small, so most people would probably see less damage. They then have an agonizing death from radiation poisoning to look forward to.

[Standuble]

@Nothefaceyoubitch Thanks, I was aware of that and was referring to the houses that would be in the main destruction zone. The british public would expect videos like these to protect them and that would include those who would live in primary shockwave zones. Having your house destroyed when you were expecting minor damage to the roof will probably seriously undermine any "survival strategies" you may have considered.

[Nothefaceyoubitch]

@Standuble Yes, and a shelter made of furniture and pillows would be of doubtful protective value...

[Standuble]

@Nothefaceyoubitch I agree, you should be telling that to Protect and Survive, not me. But people are stupid, they'll believe that just because it comes from the government it must be the most informed advice they can find.

[KNGarver]

@grahamkeithtodd Actually there is no contamination in the air that is from Japan. At least not yet. And I find it impossible for them to be affected, because they don't live in mainland Alaska.

[RightWingHunter666]

You know what would be a fucked up joke. If they just started playing these on TV all of sudden out of nowhere. Folks would be like WTH are we getting ready to get attacked.

[KNGarver]

I know a way to stay safe from nuclear power...Move to Alaska. It is one of the only states without nuclear plants.

[grahamkeithtodd]

@KNGarver yes what a pity your in the jet stream that blows from Japan old son eh?

glow in the dark polar bears anyone?

[CynicalStrike]

The heat and blast is so severe it can remove up to 1/3 of the tiles on your roof.

[danno700]

If a nuclear bomb explodes near me, the first thing I'll do is tell Twitter all about it.

[Cannibal713]

Who are they kidding? I can understand "Duck and Cover" that was made in 1951 when WW3 would suck, but could be survivable..By 1979 when this was made your talking H-Bombs, MIRVs, Sub launched missles with NO WARNING...The northern hemisphere of the planet would be uninhabitable for a long time...These films were made to keep people from cracking up when the end is near...

[lolspys]

@Cannibal713 Well,all I can see now that if I "duck and cover" when the atomic bomb blows,I think only a quarter of my body isn`t going to be bones and burnt tissue.You`d probably have to be in a shelter to survive or be behind something or be crushed by a building falling and luckily survive. Only a few more ways to survive sadly.

[IntoTheShade]

The heat and blast are so severe they can kill!

Really?

[lazyman556]

AGHHH THE DEADLY DUST!!!!

[maximuslaurius]

from 0.25: I think I heard that noise in my nightmares for years when I was a kid :(

[dantheman1432]

Anyone remember that episode of 'The Young Ones' where Neil builds a fallout shelter under the kitchen table, then paints himself white to "deflect the blast"?

[AxlsGroupie]

@dantheman1432 Yeah, in 'Bomb'! That's what led me here!

[Steveoqotsa]

@dantheman1432 Racial discrimination,even in death.....

[dantheman1432]

@Steveoqotsa "Neil, what are these?"

"Sandbags, Rik"

[MrJackanddena]

The best way to survive a nuclear explosion is by going into your fridge.

[XxGothSpikeXx]

WTF AM I WATCHING?

[thelaughingman79]

the ending theme needs to be used in a game....everything about these psa's makes me uneasy, i think the brits intended to scare the hell out of everyone

[MRresievil310]

this was in the nuclear holocaust film, threads.

[danglebearing]

Deadly dangerous indeed, is that noisy fall out stuff.

[HawaiiKnut]

"The heat and blast is so sever that it can kill"

Isn't that the point of bombs?

Also, gotta love the creepy ending theme.

[kbgreen1234]

I love how in the early cold war people liked to pretend that an all-out nuclear exchange was survivable. I guess it was only towards the end of the cold war that people realized a nuclear war would be the end for EVERYONE, and survival was not an option.

[planejunky]

@kbgreen1234 Very true, and the film Threads pulled no punches in making that point! Interestingly the Protect And Survive films and radio broadcasts were featured in the film too. Some people would've survived, but their lives wouldn't be worth living.

[NukeAttackWarnings]

heat will scorch a house , radiactivity will be blocked off by the concrete walls, and the blast will PULVERISE it all together :)

[bradhig]

Are houses like that common in England? I am in the US and I see that house in all the protect and survive videos.

[ianlorenc]

@bradhig I guess it's pretty typical of a UK dwelling, though it's more likely to be terraced or semi-detached as opposed to a detached building.

[SupaBriMan26]

I was just a small child during The Cold War, I was born in 1983, so I was around at the end of it, but just seeing these gives me chills.

[utubeguy35]

1952- USA made an epic survival film.

1975- UK makes a scary realistic survival film.

[NikThaStik22]

I love the giant bomb at the beginning

[NikThaStik22]

Britain tried to copy off US and just scared the shit out of everyone. US just made neat turtles! Jeez this is scary!

[PoisonInc]

I'm a little worried that these videos never discussed Super Mutants or Deathclaws.

[jessandlulaaX]

These video's freak me out but i have an obsession to watching them

[msc1969x]

it can be" DEADLY DANGEROUS" AT 058 secs

[flakfanatic]

World war 3 would be such fun if you protect and survive.

[greenscreenn00bster]

0:43

lolololol

No shit it's a bomb! Any bomb can kill!

[ats1988]

it's one of Richard Taylor's animations for the COI in 1975

[jeffryfourmile]

was this broadcast in 1982?

[umahuma4]

this is for people that have been living under the rock since before 1944

[TROUSERFLAP]

Is there a Protect And Survive video on the correct way to melt? I wanna be sure I get it right.

[toekneef1]

heheh I love the sound they give fallout

[typo368]

is there a part2 to this

cause that house aint going to last

[miraoister]

Haha! The video doesnt mention tents! Im going to live in my tent and be ok!

[boobtuber06]

I play the end musical phrase on the electric guitar for my students; it creeps them the hell out!

[ARTSIEBECCA]

Ha ha...Very funny and demented I like it!

[PASPCHE]

for good reason... I saw that end musical piece is scarier than the nuke ;)

[TheRantingRocker]

Can you tab it for me?

[Syndication]

@boobtuber06 HAHA. What are the tabs? I want to freak out my friends. :D

[boobtuber06]

Does anyone know Is there anyway I can get a P&S ringtone of the music at the end?

[boobtuber06]

Ever see the "War Game"?

when they were interviewing the public and noone knew about fallout dangers?

[billabongodrum]

the war game was 100% drama.

[boobtuber06]

could this be aired today, or are these obsolete?

[billabongodrum]

i think they should be made available to libraries and museums as an archive, after all if the British government sees fit to let them be viewed on youtube why not?

watch the tories ban them next year now

[assigerd]

useless movie...

[rubber4532]

These films are creepy and that music at the end gives me chills.

[GammyGoose]

"The heat and blast is so severe that it can kill."

[DJgaZman]

no, it WILL kill!

Also, I don't think that house would just have a bit of roof missing after the blast. More like a pile of gravel.

[radioactiveshoes]

nuclear explosions are caused by nuclear weapons naw i thot they were caused by ice tea!

[geoffck6969]

@radioactiveshoes EPIC comment! If we had a best of youtube comments, this would get my vote to be in there...

[pen6816]

@radioactiveshoes

this was made during the cold war where atom bombs were a new idea.

[Wolfboy183]

did these ever get aired on TV?

[Pandemian]

No. They were only to be aired if nuclear war looked 'inevitable'.

[den1889]

Thanks for the video. I hope I never see a video broadcast giving us advice on how to **survive a nuclear explosion**

To think that our goverments are still making/ or have made weapons of mass destruction.

God!! We are so F*cked!!

[Cybrludite]

Actually, the threat of those WMDs kept the Soviets out of Western Europe, and the eventual Soviet collapse peaceful.

[DopedUpMonkey]

@Pandemian If it suddenly came up on my telly, I would get pissed as soon as possible.

[Teenybash46]

@Pandemian they were aired at one point. my parents saw them when they were around 8.

[MrRik2]

@Wolfboy183 I remember seeing the one about building an "inner refuge" as a child. At least a couple of them were shown.

[SamuelR45]

@Wolfboy183 Yes they did. I have spoken to a lot of old people who remember them and the booklet. The DVD that has these on says they were never aired but that is really a lot of rubbish. They would put them on in between programmes and in adverts.

[flute4hire]

@SamuelR45 I remember them being playe in the 80s very briefly, the 'music' sticks in my mind. My mother was in CND yet my father worked on the 'Guardian Bunker' in Manchester. He was tasked with stocking it up with food ect, there was a point in the early 80s where we were getting close to war over some silly breakdown in comunication. These were aired, my father told my mother that all this stuff had been ordered & she shot off to Greenham common. So they were aired for about 2 weeks..

[maclachj1]

@Wolfboy183 - sure did.....planty of airtime. gave me nightmares....especially the creepy jingle at the end.

[iannerd97]

@Wolfboy183

according to wikipedia, it was top secret until it was leaked to the BBC.

[CeticWales]

@iannerd97 They were never top secert. Some of bits of them were used as part of the 1980s BBC drama Threads. They were never actually boardcasted in full though.

[mediamadman747]

Thanks for posting; entertaining as it is unsettling.

[mookie12344]

these vids scare me and to think that non of this advice would actually be any good in real life. esp as the government people who make these tgings will be safe in bunkers. i hate that

[TheGerkuman]

Actually, a lot of them would die too. Only the prime minister and his cabinet would get guaranteed places in the bunkers, most of the poor civil servants would die along with the rest of us.

I have to say though, deadly danger is a pretty stupid tautology. You should know better Mr. Allen!

[andymerrett]

Not true. "Deadly danger", though not the best phraseology, is not a tautology.

It's dangerous for me to stick my hand in the fire, but it probably won't kill me. There are many dangerous situations that are unlikely to cause me to die.

[miniroll32]

Question is: Would you even want to survive? I don't think after being burnt, almost blinded, living in a stone age for the rest of my life sounds like a nice step to take!

[Stefnir94]

So, a nuclear explosion burns the roof of my lil sisters doll house!

[biopsychosocio]

"You can protect yourselves and your family..." No you can't. The End.

"The heat and blast is so severe that it can kill" Hahahahahahahahahaa

What the hell are these people thinking? They really must think most of the population are all brain-dead morons who watch soap operas, read The Sun etc...oh....hmmm....

[ALFWEDARF]

Very true

[biopsychosocio]

not as scary as fall out...

[PsychoticNeurotic]

the fallout-falling sound is incredibly scary

[racer927]

@PsychoticNeurotic *beuu, beuu, beuu* (Or something to that extent)

[DJgaZman]

I don't think a 400+mph nuclear blast-wave will take a bit of roof off your house somehow.

[mrsgeo2004]

The fallout sound effect and the ending jingle is creepy Thanks for posting

[mwilso]

thanks for uploading this. This one isn't featured in the Imperial War Museum London, please see my IWM Tribute which features the Protect and Survive films

[heartandhumour]

Thanks for posting