Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #48

0800048 - U.S. Navy Presents Nuclear Effects at Sea - 1976 - 20:30 - Black&White - This video details the effects of high-altitude nuclear tests of greater than a megaton thermonuclear yield on ships, satellites, and personnel. These blasts produce an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that can knock out electrical components over a wide area and destroy electrical systems in planes, ships and satellites.

The blast causes flash blindness and retina damage to an individual looking at the blast and can cause damage to the eardrums. The air pressure can damage a ship, even causing a roll over. Also, the blast can destroy the outside structure of a ship. The thermal radiation weakens or melts the outside metal surface and burns the skin, similar to the resultant effects of a fire.

The nuclear radiation, consisting of x-rays and neutrons, alters and destroys cells and causes radiation sickness. The three-phase symptoms of radiation sickness are the initial reaction; the latent phase with no symptoms; and the final phase, requiring hospitalization. It was determined that the ships crewmen must take cover in hardened spaces below the water line to escape the effects of radiation. Nuclear radiation also causes failure of the ships electrical systems.

From underwater bursts, the shock wave travels in all directions, damaging ships in its path. A surface burst shown causing direct shock damage to the ships hull and secondary damage to interior components.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Nukes
• Nuclear
• weapons
• WMD
• radiation
• radioactive
• testing
• warhead
• downwinders
• atomic
• cancer

[craigdtibbits]

these videos are incredible

[konman001]

tomorrow, next week, next year . . . or NOW!

[puncheex]

@Lea71777Yeah. The fire was the 1967 Forrestal fire in Viet Nam caused by an accidental missile firing on one of the ready jets hitting another plane and lighting his jet fuel on fire. Bad, bad accident.

[v74Bvdmp]

it takes 20 minutes of government info to tell us what we already know.. we would be fried like burgers

[davidkrethallen]

Building is hard, destruction, easy.

Within me, violence wages war with love and beauty.

Being human is a hard assignment.

[captain775]

these films have a gloriously eeri feel to them. I hope we get blown to shit one day.

[Lea71777]

those were tomcats on the deck.....wow

[Waltham1892]

Couldn't they find a uniform that fit that guy?

[archaedemos]

Yes these videos are Remarkable ! (;