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Uploaded by on May 31, 2008

Atomic bomb blasts a fake American town, but no Indy in the fridge.

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  • @Joseph565112 Oh ok, thanks for clearing it up for me :D

  • @Maddy922 Actually no...the guy above is an idiot and doesn't know what radiation is.

    There is initial short-wave radiation during the blast (heat or infrared; x-rays; and some gamma rays)...these things are only an issue at first.

    The so-called fallout is dust and rock that rains out of the cloud with radioactive nuclei attached.....there is no reason for that house to have much fallout if any on it....it would blow downwind

  • @dajokn19 Sorry if this is stupid to ask, but is that bad?

  • 0 seconds to nuketown or modern warfare 2 poof 40 kills and 1 death

  • @Lucassandro25 I think this was shot silently; then they added explosion sound effects in post-production. Keep in mind, it was often difficult to record the sound of a nuclear explosion with a sound movie camera (even in the 1950s, when this was made). Also note the "shock wave" noise (whenever a building or something is suddenly hit by the explosion waves) is actually the sound of a thunderclap (like in the old Frankenstein movies of the 1930s).

  • Isn't there smoke because of the heat?I guess an atomic explosion must be pretty hot so it makes things burn, no?

  • This is why 1 out of 3 people in Nevada have glow in the dark testicles..including women!

  • @ppcg25102 it's not smoke they used so they could see where the blast wave was. The heat from the detonation travels at the speed of light, so anything exposed to the light from the blast starts to burn. the shockwave traveling through the air travels slower, so it arrives a bit later.

  • Where does the footage at 1:17 & 1:22 come from? and why is this in black and white? I've seen most of these in colour before. The footage at 1:22 I've seen before, but for the life of me I can't name the operation or shot that it filmed. Any help?

  • @ppcg25102 Smoke they used so they could see where the blast wave is.

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