"Survival Town" - 1955 Newsreel about US atomic weapons tests

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Uploaded by on Apr 18, 2011

"Survival Town" was a purpose-built collection of structures, buildings and mannequins designed to measure the effects of an atomic weapon used against urban centres. On 5 May 1955 a 31 kiloton bomb was detonated with the effects recorded for later analysis.

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  • I'm very sure Spielberg, Lucas and crew watched this as research/inspiration for the nuclear bomb test scene in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"

  • how to Survival... you dont

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