The House In The Middle (Nuclear Attack Protection)

The House in the Middle is a 1954 short (Edited from the original 12:09) documentary film produced by the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau, which attempted to show that a clean, freshly painted miniature house is more likely to survive a nuclear attack than its poorly maintained counterpart.
Note that you have to be on the outer fringes of an attack to even consider the paint job as worth while.

In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The film was actually produced by the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association.
The likelihood that repainting a house would be effective in protecting it from the extreme heat and blast force of a nuclear explosion is questionable.

Category:

Comedy

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• Federal
• Civil
• Defense
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• House
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• Holocast
• Middle
• Nuclear
• Attack
• Protection
• WW3
• Nuke
• Atomic
• Bomb
• Radiation

[left4trance]

"This is the Nevada Proving Ground."

I went there. Got Critical Rad Poisoning.

Remember kids, radiation is deadly. Don't go out unless you have a RadAway or RadX on hand.

[medicvet]

Just remember people, if you paint your house white and keep a clean house, you too can survive global thermonuclear war.

[guitarfuckist]

It amazes me that the same species that came up with the splitting of the atom is this fucking stupid.

[NoiseWords]

Almost all of these tests were under 20kT, the same yield as the ones exploded upon Japan.

Some 90 nukes in the kT range were exploded in the air on US soil in Nevada.

A megatonne is 1000x bigger folks, Castle Bravo was 15MT largest USA nuke, nothing survives those not even steel war ships. (Bikini Atoll)

Some 50 years later these sites are still radioactive.

[Jonwood74]

If you had just remembered to dust and vacuum you and your family could have survived the nuclear blast. The best way to survive a nuclear explosion is to bury your head in the sand or go to your happy place. A nuclear bomb can only hurt you if you let it. lmao

[peakcanary]

Little Timmy: "Say, what's that flash in the distance Daddy?"

Daddy: "It's ok Timmy I've just Cuprinoled the fenceAAAAAARRRRGGGHHH MY FACE IS MELTING OH GOD THE PAIN, THE PAIN!!!!!!"

[ddancer2009]

I wonder how many chemical and hardware companies had advertising money thrown into this. This is how you create permission marketing... create a situation that will result in proactive sales.

[adamslurch71]

It only worked b/c of their lead paint



[TheDaftpunk02]

remember kids when you grow up clean up your house and yard so nothing will catch fire in a nuclear test. but i have a question how are you suppose to survive the intense wind and how are you suppose to survive the intense heat i like how they just focus on house related things like yard and interior of the house and what about humans what are we suppose to do huh we wont need a house wed all be dead no matter what we vaporize in seconds or die from be thrown 50ft and dont forget the radiation

[Dumblikeyoutu]

The scrappy house looks so much more quaint though with its feng shui garden next to it.

The nuke-proof house looks creepy.