Duck and Cover

[Enkidu1701]

Wow, what a great advice! I recommend always go with the newspaper, always.

Be it the atomic bomb or a meteorite or something, don´t worry, it´s so easy to deal with those issues, just have a newspaper with you.

[yuuiuu11]

Yay I bought this for $2 at the shops today XD Now I will be ready!! :D

[Anatrolly]

epic!!!

[Pesendorfer]

"Actually my theory is that you duck and cover so that you dont see the horrible burning death come towards you."

WORD!

[searchanddiscover]

we do duck and cover for tornado drills...i just realized that duck and cover is an experience not everyone gets to have....

[pillowbugg]

Thanks for the advice uncle sam.....you truly know what's best for us!

[turgeo2004]

LMAO at :16 "even a thin cloth can protect you" From an Atomic Bomb, PURE genius why didnt i think of that. Man i could get rich selling Atomic bomb proof towels, just wrap your self up immerse yourself in 10 million degrees of heat plus 400 mph blast wave and youll be fine.

[ObssesedNuker]

@turgeo2004 I know, it's like the guys who made this video completely forgot that this kind of shit is going to ignite from the thermal pulse which means your head is now wrapped in FIRE.

[TwyztdValkyrie]

I actually remember doing this in my very early days of school -- and I'm a few years away from thirty yet... Kinda sad...

[liketammysaids]

duck and cover under a blankie haha xD

[toby070]

Do you remember what to do when you see the flash?

Well, all that anyone would do logically is just be in shock and get fried or have their clothes fused the next moment.

I talked about it with a friend, and see that despite it's scientific flaws (non would help if you are that close to a blasy site) it actually would boost the morale.

But it's flawed and in my opinion, quite repetative and boring.

[MercuryClock]

Where's Vault Boy?

[flarn2006]

@MercuryClock Where's Fallout Boy? THE GOGGLES THEY DO NOTHING

[Spacelamb]

I hope that's a magic picnic blanket.

[barrywilliamsmb]

And uh, don't eat the lettuce or drink the water.

The sports section of your newspaper also gives a person the best coverage...

Thanks muchly for this, Araxmas.

[aniki91344]

A newspaper?

[notilhenger]

When you see a duck, you have to hit it with a shovel!

[alzahir]

Isn't "duck and cover" what pretty much anybody would do if they saw an atomic blast anyways? What's the alternative? "Run around like a headless chicken"?

[Balnazzardi]

@alzahir Well at that point it wouldnt matter....If you see the flash..IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE!!!

[Zappina]

@Balnazzardi you wouldnt even see the flash but you feel it when its burning down your flesh...if you not too close to be dead in the first nanosecond.

[Balnazzardi]

@Zappina Well it all depends how far you are from the "ground zero"

[Razzzzzar]

@Balnazzardi

Not necessarily... I mean, the flash travels at the speed of light, because, well... it's light. But the radiation travels more slowly. I'm not sure how fast exactly, but alpha and beta type radiation are emissions of particles, thus they are incapable of travelling at the speed of light. so you might have even as long as a minute after seeing a flash to crawl down into the bomb shelter, or AHAHAHAHAHAHA crawl inside a refrigerator... AHAHAHAHAH

[ChristopherSaindon]

...and BOOM goes the dynamite

[EvolutionAFact]

LMFAO, kids what are you supposed to do in a nuclear blast? "Duck and Cover!!" ahh the 1950's

[Zappina]

@EvolutionAFact Roasted duck and cavern :D

[MakeFoodNow]

This isn't actually that stupid, you know. The flash from a nuclear bomb is visible far away from the actual "you're definitely dead" zone. Covering up with something like a blanket or a newspaper will help shield you from the initial heat wave, as well as some debris from the two blast waves (outward and inward) that follow.

[Pokerfriend007]

lol if you see the flash, it's already too late when ur' outside far away from a shelter or house...the only thing you can do is : to pray for god's help !

[lykopis]

Yeah!! That'll work! My god these old videos show the stupidity of that time .. or how stupid they perceived the people to be.

[ThemOldaBoys]

What is that sound made after they sing "Duck..."? Around 0:37 it sounds like a person with a respiratory problem.

[sledgeka]

Yep Duck and Cover under ur school desk or put ur head in a sink. Drop the bomb! lol

[hotdogman67]

"Duck and cover." *Boy gets vaporized*, "'Adda boy, Johnnay!" 3 days ago

[cubanboy740]

@hotdogman67 lmao funny as coment xD

[fluteplayer3454]

Yeah, a cloth or newspaper can totally save you from an atomic bomb!!! lolz

[rhcprxbandits]

i would be scared out of my mind if i was alive then

[icini123]

@rhcp rx bandits I was alive then ( Cuban Missile Crisis)!! We had a air raid drill , went to the sub sub basement in school and then sent home. My mother was in tears because she realized( having just come from post war UK ) that we would never make it home , or if we did there would be nobody there. Trust me -we were not stupid and we were very aware. This was merely a way to try and give us humans a preceived measure of control over an uncontrollable situation. WE came "that close"

[hotdogman67]

A flash! Duck and cover! 'adda boy, Johnny!

[musjew24]

These old nuclear announcements creep me out

[hellzbomber]

What? If there was a nuke, I would say:

OH, THEY GONNA HAVE TO GLUE YOU BACK TOGETHER - IN HELL!

Demoman ftw.

[deoine0lynches]

0:09 LMFAO

[TheTriIogy]

emochild987, go listen to your shit music pussy.

[FreedomProduction15]

This should be more like "Duck and Kiss Your Ass Goodbye!"

[darthflyeroflines]

Depends where you're lying and where the warhead lands.

If you're far away and lying low you could survive the initial blast, especially back then when the warheads weren't as advanced as they are nowadays.

Still, if you're near the impact zone, you're more likely to die of the radiation or the extreme heat afterwards.

[ChristopherSaindon]

@FreedomProduction15 How 'bout it?! A USSR

nuclear weapon (though hardly the quality of ours)

would have turned you into powered toast man in

the space of a breath :-)

[Razzzzzar]

@ChristopherSaindon

The most powerful Nuke ever made, tested, etc... was the Soviet Tsar Bomba. Much much MUCH higher quality than anything the americans ever made. And even though the accuracy of their ballistic missiles had a greater CEP than the american Minuteman missiles (about 500m for Soviet missiles and about 200m for american ones) it didn't bloody matter!!! They were nukes for christs sake!!! I'd rather have been on the side of the Soviets with a stockpile of Tsar Bomba's...

[Razzzzzar]

@ChristopherSaindon

Sorry, strike that. I'd rather have been living on anouther planet instead. If they ever exchanged nukes, I'd much rather have been living on another planet, than anywhere on Earth...

There were doccumentaries in the 80's that showed and told us about all the different things we could expect if there ever were to be a nuclear war. They terrified me so much, I had trouble sleeping at night. For years!!!

[ChristopherSaindon]

@Razzzzzar I understand my friend :-) Tsar bomba was more

for show than practical military value as was, some may argue,

the cold war as a whole. I'll join you on that planet and we'll have

some Tastee Freeze's and watch the fireworks ;-)

[emochild987]

lol america..... dumb ppl since beginning of time.

[Gaiacarra]

@emochild987 Not really. Even a piece of cloth or a newspaper IS better than nothing at all, and giving people advice, useless or not, helps ease fear and limit mass panic.

[Razzzzzar]

@Gaiacarra

Absolutely. Check out some of the pics of survivors from Hiroshima/ Nagasaki. I remember seeing a picture of a woman wearing a checkered dress. There were patches of white ink and patches of black ink. Because the white ink was better at reflecting the radiation than the dark ink, she ended up with a checkered pattern of burns on her back.

[jaydglass]

B...S... They're gonna get cooked!!!

[clatonium]

I have to defend poor Bert the Turtle.

When Duck and Cover was made, they didn't have the Hydrogen Bomb, which is orders of magnitude more powerful than the A-Bomb. While being less than a kilometer from ground zero meant probable vaporization, ducking into a gutter could really save your life at even a moderate distance.

If you want to be a cynical jerk and mock Bert the Turtle or 'America' (because its fashionable to be a cynic I guess), well go ahead. But you're being thoughtless ape.

[FuckUSAEmpire]

Duck and Cover was produced in the same year the first hydrogen bomb was tested.

Your shipment of FAIL has arrived.

[Razzzzzar]

@clatonium

Also, H-bomb = comparitively little radioactive fallout (though there will always be some)

whereas A-bomb = enormous amounts of radioactive fallout.

If it were an A-bomb going off, duck-and-cover would probably mean you'd live through the blast, only to die slowly and painfully from radiation sickness.

If it were a H-bomb then duck-and -cover wouldn't necessarily help you in the sightest. But if you DID survive the blast, your chances were good. Much better than with an a-bomb...

[GayGeisha]

Seems like the waste of a good picnic to me

[darthflyeroflines]

At least it'll be nicely toasted afterwards.

Mmmm... Radioactive sammich. perfect for that healthy green glow!

[freakingsunshinee]

Lmao.

This is my favorite.

[tetsuyaryuji]

Wow, why are people angry over this? The idea was you had a better chance of survival if you laid on the ground and covered yourself. This is a really old video.. It was a time when people needed to be aware, but now, it's funny to watch. Stop bitching and just enjoy it

[Drewkuskilz]

A newspaper can protect you from a nuclear burn??? Wow, then i should be damn safe in a wooden shack. America's fucking bullshit.

[ImaWatchAVideo]

What are you so worked up for

[AmericanSerb1977]

Complain when your banana republic has the capability to even build a nuke=)

[Lumpyfarts55]

Duck.... and cover... ( they forgot a verse)

its "Duck ... and cover... Duck.... then die... Duck....then fry.... dooo doo do do dooo dooo doo do"

[adept91]

Govt. bullshit

[antihax91]

It is bullshit, and they knew it, but i think the people needed something to cling to. Back then, not quite as much was widely known about the results of a nuclear explosion, and people also needed to feel like they could do something.

Also, if you duck and cover, it means you wont leave a recognizable carbon shadow, which means people wont stop and get emotional about war, just fight back unquestioningly.

[spontaneousshow]

ok. if there is an atomic bomb. they would be SCREWED. haha.

[doobsta]

FEAR FTW!!!!

[cassiejonasfan]

lol this is sooo funny

[movielova15]

yay now i know that a picnick blanket will same me !!

[MasterMario548]

At picnic

dad reads newpaper

bomb its ground

dad uses newspaper for protection

"HONEY, THERES A SALE AT SEARS TODAY, SHOLD WE GO? HONEY?

[dothebedn]

its duck and cover then fry.

[butterscool]

if a boom went of a fucking a news paper wood not halp for shit sso that iss way tom the monkeys says get of your ass and ran

[BTPossum]

Perhaps duck and cover was so that the corpses would be all neatly tucked into gutters and corners, making it much easier for the clean up guys.

[jetsam50000]

The US should have invaded the USSR after WW2,and we would have competly avoided the cold war.

[BTPossum]

I don't think that would have went very well at all.

[jetsam50000]

Well duh,we'd just nuke'em. Its not like they'd be any less radioactive .

[BTPossum]

Well duh, they would have just nuked you too.

[jetsam50000]

Nu-uh, we have Chuck Norris.

[BTPossum]

Shit yeah. Forgot about that.

[rosswoof]

interesting thought

[mongorians22]

@BTPossum Have you ever tried to scrape a mound of charred and fused corpses out of a gutter? I'd prefer if they were in an open space myself.

[jediman500]

Don't forget that these videos were put out to, rather than actually help you survive a Nuke going off A mile away, keep the people feeling safe.

[WeHeartFilmTrailers]

Cover yourself - in sunscreen that is, 'cause nothing else is gonna work.

Hahahaha.

[xde18]

holy shit a damn newspaper NEWS FLASH YOU WILL DIE IT YOU ARE OUTSIDE!

[Djmoyd1055]

Holy shit....I now see why they thought this would work. You know when they sing Duck and Cover

Have you notice BEFORE they say "and cover" they make that noise which sounds like they're inhaling? They smoking a joint, which is why they thought this shit would work! Duck (inhales) and cover!!

[hydraa]

"Even a newspaper can save you from a bad burn."

-_- ...

[albee1000]

"What are you supposed to do when you see the flash?"

Die burning.

[frbe0101]

Useless, the thermal effects of the bomb reach out furthest, the initial flash would ignite your skin, you would automatically fall to the ground and try the find cover like an ant being cooked by a magnifying glass. Cloth or paper is not going to protect you much either as those will likely ignite under the heat as well.

[GreyWolfWhiteTeeth]

L M F A O

[witzkeyman]

propaganda as an excuse to build nukes.

Duck and Cover. lol

The Cold War. lol

[MarRilYunTidManJes]

the newspaper will protect them from a burn but they'll burn in hell anyways

[smallfrie81]

you guys are so stupid, this is correct. The government wouldn't lie to us. Your all fucking liberal assholes. Conspiracy theorists have no right to live in this country, i hope you retards don't duck and cover during a nuclear attack and you all fry!!! You are the kind of people that are making this world a terrible place to live.

[hairyneil]

looks like sarcasm doesn't carry across the innernets too well eh?

[smallfrie81]

it is not sarcasm, i dont know why i get thumbs down for speaking the truth. the government has never done anything to hurt its people. i defy you to name one time when that has happened.

[Djmoyd1055]

This guy is obviously smarter than the average retard

(Directed to Smallfrie81)

[smallfrie81]

thank you, ill take that as a compliment, assuming you mean the retards that win the olympics and can memorize whole libraries. But if you mean the retards on this comment page that say duck and cover doesn`t work, then you can just go to hell. i know 3 people who lived in nagasaki at the time of the nuclear bomb dropping and they are still alive, only because they used the duck and cover method.

[Djmoyd1055]

No...you're just the dumb one.

Plus duck and cover was used for the Virgina shooting and well....no joking...it didn't work for most

[3190423]

Hey, some of them lived, and they are still alive because they ducked and covered. /sarcasm

[WeHeartFilmTrailers]

In reply to smallfrie81, the government has done plenty to hurt its people. Including but not limited to: passing laws that favor corporations or industry, rather than human good - launching illegal military operations - testing virus' on the public (yes, this does happen, a lot!) Wake up.

[NorskeDivision]

You guys are such numbnuts, ducking and covering obviously isn't going to save you if a bomb blows up above you. It will protect you from a massive sunburn and flying debris. People not far from Nagasaki survived with good health for their entire life, but they would have died immediatly if they had their head chopped off by flying glass because they followed dumb kids from the 20th century who would have told them "ROLZ DUCKING COVER DOESNT HELP AT ALL"

[spuncky]

I think this video is only for the moral. If an atomic bomb explode, there will be no chances to survive, but with this video you can calm down the people of thinking that they are gonna to die if they see the flash.

OR ducked and covered, they will not see the very same hell coming to them xP and they can die in peace

[Nitritox]

funny xD

[PerryPlanet]

Can you imagine how many people dove for the ground every time there was an innocent flash of light? Quite humiliating, it would seem...

[hipechik]

They should've called this maneuver "Fuck! Bend Over" (to kiss your ass goodbye!)

BTW, how do you like the cynical ploy of these civil defense films to paint a benign picture of nuclear war to the public? Every single one of the people who made these films KNEW more than anyone that no one had a snowball's chance in hell at surviving. If you were so close to a detonation where you NEEDED to duck and cover, you were probably close enough to be fricaseed or blown apart by the blast.

[speeps84]

did they know ANYTHING about Radiation poisoning back then?

[perukid796]

Wtf at 6-10? Did those people at the picnic disinigrate or something cause they just dissapeared in a flash

[NorskeDivision]

Honestly I think most of the people talking about this are not really paying attention to the facts, for most people the whole duck and cover thing is something to laugh about and feel like we are so much smarter then people back in the 50s. In reality there are good reasons for it, it's really only laughable now because we're no longer threatened by imminent global atomic warfare. Admittedly they are a bit cheery about the prospects after the bomb goes off, but that was just the tenor back then

[NorskeDivision]

Actually this is not bad advice, at least you avoid an instant sunburn, protect yourself from flying glass and debris (which a atomic explosion would create a lot of) and protect your eyes from blinding intense heat. If there's ever an atomic bomb going off near you feel free to stand up, I'll take cover.

[night447]

What's funny about it is that it's about the only thing you can do, but it wouldn't make much difference anyways. Within a certain radius of the blast, they'd be gone standing or covered.

[kathyroxlikesox]

i learned so mmuch! the highly flammable newspaper would totally help if an atomic bomb hit us! we wouldnt burn or anything...would we? XD

[toxicpickle]

this must be from that city that has a nuke pass through it every six months.

[Chocoboknight99]

this also must be that city that has atomic bomb-proof newspaper

[albee1000]

And bullet-proof towels to boot!

[Deutschlieber]

Well into the late 1970s, my K-8 grammar school was still conducting these drills. Our principal had his feet squarely planted in the fifties. The teachers would say, "In the event of an emergency, if you see a flash---", whereupon some wiseacre would invariably interject, "You mean like if the Russkies nuke us?" That this scenario was precisely what our doughty authority figures had in mind was never conceded. But even at age 9, one knew the true formula: duck, cover, and KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE!

[bvc069]

if more people had blankets in japan maybe less people would have been evaporated.

[MarRilYunTidManJes]

no chance ... the gamma rays would have gone right through the blankets

[3190423]

It's called "sarcasm".

[MarRilYunTidManJes]

"even a newspaper will save you from a bad burn" ... BUT YOU'LL BURN IN HELL!!!

[usmc6891]

you actually just disintergate or get really bad flash burns or go blind. or develop cancer. duck and cover works if your behind a 5 foot think cement wall and 25 miles away.

[MarRilYunTidManJes]

ya but wut r the chances there will b a 5 foot wall there anyway?

[usmc6891]

exactly

[aquacommiebat]

Well, they had to tell 'em something, but come on! Duck and cover??

[jmantnafan]

aaaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahaha lol thats great!!! thank you for posting this this is quite refreshing! lol

[MulliganBloom]

At first I was afraid Dad was going to get hot coals on his head when he flung himself to the ground, but when he covered his head with newspaper I knew he'd be fine.

[segamanxero]

we will just be incinerated, i guess the atoms of what we once were will go flying

[whiskeytango24]

Oh my god! 'Even a thin cloth can protect you'...what a load of shit. It's funny to a fault though. I like it that both the USSR and the US were using ridiculous propoganda techinques to get their people in on the game...The US's evil democtatic wish to dominate as a super power...the USSR's evil communist dictatorship wishing to dominate as a super power. Like two kids fighting over a ball on the playground...and it's still going on today...war is stupid.

[siipikarja]

Well, a thin cloth can protect one from alpha and beta particles to a certain extent, but not from gamma particles. So there's a seed of truth in that a thin cloth can protect you. However, as far as I know, the radioactive fallout from an A-bomb consists mostly of gamma particles.

See "radioactive decay" from Wikipedia.

[Chocoboknight99]

because we all know that wikipedia is an acurate source.

[siipikarja]

Because we all do know that, yes. :D

But seriously, a thin cloth is worth shit when a radioactive fallout from an A-bomb takes place. But still, a thin cloth can block alpha and beta particles to a certain extent.

[Thegreen007]

retard

[whiskeytango24]

if you were talking about dude above, bravo....WTF?

[ducktasm]

Cheers very 4 de info. I feel a load safer now. Can chuck out me old tin helmet. Qwackin up.

Peace n larfs

[JasonBonitati]

Because we all know that, if we duck and cover, we will be saved us from being vaporized by a nuke.

[darkling9109]

I love the old duck and cover vids where someone does that and there's this huge crater but their is a pinacle of dirt supporting them in the middle of the crater and they're fine lol

[scottboa]

What's the point of this? Your just as dead.

[LuvvyDuck]

They put those fallout shelters so frigging far apart, you'd be a shadow on the pavement before you got there anyway.

[segamanxero]

even if you was to reach one, and it was to hold together and protect you (which i doubt) the radiation will kill you, because radiation goes down.

[KingR3aper]

Yeah, no..

If a bomb did drop..

They'd be fucked 3x over. Hiding under a newspaper or not..lmao

[Tigford]

You gotta love the initial gamma rays for that oh-so-warm, toasty womb feeling.

[tylercal]

You may laugh, but when you only have seconds, duck and cover is the best way to minimise the damage from a nuclear explosion - since the actual explosion only kills outright for a few kilometres radius, outside that you have to minimise the burns and the exposure to gamma rays. And the best way to do that is make sure the rays go through as much earth as possible. Duck and cover cuold easily halve or even quarter your radiation dose.

[randyslicker]

Actually what this is meant to do is stop you going blind from the flash, the explosion will kill you if you too close and then there's the radiation...

[somerandomfireman]

actually, even a thin layer such as cloth or newspaper can protect from flash-burns. you'll still get burned, but that little layer makes the difference between a 2nd degree and 3rd degree burn.

also, this film was mostly for morale, so people wouldn't go around scared shitless and they'd have a "confident sense of survivabilty". doesn't mean they'd actually live, but at least their minds were at ease.

[rr8ch66]

it's terrible ducking and covering when you're just going to die. how is a newspaper supposed to do anything? won't you just burn faster? oh well maybe they didn't have common sense

[rekone607]

fun stupid americans :)

young powerful country with analphabet people.

[Drewkuskilz]

lol i agree I am an american, but i grew up in Austria (no americans not australia) Americans are dumbasses.

[XkelleyvampyreX]

@Drewkuskilz I'm an American and sadly I must agree. We are not (collectively) the smartest subspecies.

[MrKittyCat22]

@XkelleyvampyreX hmm we were the first country to create the atomic bomb and we are stupid? russia had to use fucking spies to learn how to make the atomic bomb. this duck and cover stuff only seems stupid now because our understanding of atomics is greater now. if anyy other country had created the atomic bomb first, they would have had little knowlege of atomics at first too. i will admit, we are not the smartest country. china is lol

[darthflyeroflines]

Actually Russia built the bomb theirself.

And I'd say the credit goes to Ally Einy myself ;)

...Although I wouldn't say creating something capable of wiping out the human race is "Clever" :s

[darthflyeroflines]

Subspecies?

[blinkingblythe]

So, what happens to the dry and brittle newspaper in an atomic explosion. :)

[loofaboy]

YES! THATS IT! WE SHOULD CREATE A DOME OF OLD NEWSPAPERS AROUND THE USA! TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM NUKES!....lmfaooo, i doubt a newspaper can protect u from an atomic bomb explosion....

[vandalianize]

A newspaper can save you from a bad burn? Man....its amazing we ever made it to the 21st century.

[das6795]

no for a fladssh burn a news paper can help u

[Drewkuskilz]

bullshit. lol.

[DEKA1]

Hell they could of used Disney characters ! or even Ronald McDonald to get kids to do this Crap !

[R13245]

and dont forget lately, in case of a chemical attack apply duck tape to the cracks of your doors and windows lol

[Araxmas]

Hm when ive uploaded it the sound seems to of jumped behind the animation, does this happen to you or is it mine?

[kimmijo]

This just goes to show you that the government has ALWAYS lied to us!

"a newspaper can save you from a bad burn"

(?!!!) OMG!!! Did anyone ever question this?!

[das6795]

no from a flash burn its difirent

[outofmyelement]

yes they are called "nut jobs".