Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #65

[mandyshea79]

my dad was at Johnston island at this time... where can i actually view these videos??? i try the dept of defense website, but w/o any luck of finding these actual videos.

[kabarutfa]

@mandyshea79 The Department of Energy is the custodian for the material produced by the US nuclear program. Most of the test films on this channel can be ordered from their website (for a nominal fee).

[Bbendfender]

A nuclear blast over a city would be catastrophic but if one of our enemies decided to cause some real havoc for us, they would explode 3 or 4 nuclear weapons in the atmosphere over the US. EMP!

I was on an ICBM missile launch crew in the 70's. We often talked about what might happen if Russia successfully exploded a nuclear weapon over the US. It would be much more damaging today than it would have been in the 70's.

[Robosos]

Mankind will destroy itself....somewhen...

[chevybuilder350]

YAY!!

[wgilroy]

Right smack in the middle of the cuban missle crisis....

[Transitrat1]

Looks like the army put the undesirables on the island the ones that wouldnt be missed. I got my data by looking at the robotic Lt. Colonel. He looks like he was on the launch pat fixing the wires on the Thor rocket when someone hit the ignition switch.

[Lea71777]

Now i know how my Grandad got leathle radiation......

[tohoward33]

I stood outside the bunker and watched the Thor explode on the pad! Watched two of the tests later. Spooky!!

[bork9050]

@tohoward33 I probably stood close to you!!  I remember "assholes and elbows" scrambling to get into the bunker as this happened. I was a weather guy at the time.

[lithiumdeuteride]

That Lt. Colonel looks perpetually confused. Not exactly a confidence-inspiring quality in a military officer.

[Nguli34689]

I would like to view the diagnostic techniques and the data gathered during the 50+ megaton blast from Tsar Bomba in the early part of 1960's.