A-Bomb Blast Effects (1959)

(Silent) Even with the audio missing, it's interesting to see the soldiers running into the mushroom cloud after the tactical strike.

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[ThreeChe]

Mmm, nothing like a face full of radioactive dust to start off the day.

[GSPatton89]

The plan was to march and sweep the area after the bomb went off on a target (IE A Russian City or Commuinist nation) They never took the radioation effects as a serious issue at the time until we went further into our nuclear testing as soldiers and local Nevada residents began to have radiation sickness and cancer soon afterwards.

[totoritko]

@Sgtnolisten Nukes are not all alike.The test in this vid was a small-yield tactical unit (in the kt range), designed to take out specific targets like dams, power plants etc. You can't begin to compare it to the high-yield WMDs which are on the order of 1000 times stronger. The largest US test was Castle Bravo with a 15Mt yield, which produced a nearly 2km crater and massive fallout. The Soviets deployed many 20Mt+ ICBMs (R-36). You'd never walk into that bang a live to tell of it.

[DanFiebiger]

Actually, the military knew about the dangers of radiation exposure long before this test (1959) from studies done in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan right after WWII, and other studies done in the 40s and 50s, but they still sent soldiers into radiation harm's way, since your average soldier was and still is considered expendable by official US Military policy.

[troycreek]

@bobbyvader Best idea ever !

[bobbyvader]

next time don´t take soldiers, better take politicians!

[MtGuyful]

"come closer lets get some more of that nice gamma rays" lol

[wambat125]

This is the first high quality film I've seen of the abomb test amazing! Favoring this

[Sgtnolisten]

@dancingspike Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that today's stuff is bigger yadda yadda, this still causes me to give a sigh of relief when I see it.

When I saw this it put into perspective my imagination to the real world.

It's like comparing the power of a .50 sniper rifle (today's nukes) to a pistol (fat man/little boy) when all you're life, you thought all guns had the power of a a battleship's main cannons (my imagination's image of all nukes power).

[dancingspike]

@Sgtnolisten Hate to pop your safety bubble but today's Hydrogen bombs are as much as 10 times as powerful as the ones dropped to end WWII and the area of destruction would extend up to 5 miles further. And this 'test' shown in the video was but a tiny fraction of the size bombs used in the actual war.

[Sgtnolisten]

You know, this actually kind of comforts me. I've always had the "if you blow a nuke up, you'll end the world" image of a bomb's destructive power, like it has been drilled into my head by schools and the like. But to see one in action, where it would be at it's most effective (flat plain with little to no interrupters like buildings, rocks, trees), and seeing it so... contained is the best word I can think, it's comforting.

I can now scratch nukes off of causes for 2012! Yay!

[sexybacklemon]

mmm wonder how many of thse guy have cancer today because of this