Nevada atomic test, 1955

The height of the cold war, and both America and Russia were merrily detonating nuclear weapons in the atmosphere (soon to joined by England, France and China). This shows how an A-bomb blast affects a mock town. The footage is truly awesome, but also I was stunned at how close they allowed people to get to the blast, and how unprotected the researchers were who went into the town afterwards. I'll bet that many people were exposed to high doses of radiation. Happily, atmospheric testing ended a decade later, and even underground tests are rare these days. But there are still many thousands of nuclear weapons around, far more powerful than this 1955 blast. When will we finally get rid of them?

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[RoosterG33rs]

there was a group of people that were sent into the blast sight with inproper clothing for there kind of work and all died of radioactive poisoning. apperently US sent them in there to test the side efects on human beings......... thats a douche bag move >:(

[roseforvendetta]

i was born at the nevada test site

[marmaladekamikaze]

@TheVariantstrain

Could you possibly help me in naming the shot names filmed at 1:22 1:29 1:42 & 1:17 and is it just me or is the footage here purposely converted to black and white? I've seen some of this footage like that at 1:22 in colour before.

[crazyguy1913]

To bad they did not tell the soldiers they would be apart of the experiment as well.

[poleeed]

wouldnt like to have been around when that happened.

[TheVariantstrain]

It seems like all these atomic test videos are spiced together...some from Cue, Annie, Grable and others.

[MrPolus911]

@RoosterG33rs your right i saw something about it on tv!

[j00d00d]

1:21 Wow!

[gordongate]

these tests wernt for finding out how your parents could survive, they were to see the damage inflicted on population centres wether it be an enemy or an ally and how powerful the effects were, how much damage could be done and how effective salting methods were for creating a larger long term toxic area.

[TomDeTomTom]

nikos4free - These tests were so your parents could survive a nuclear attack and they could eventually have an ignorant and uneducated child.