This is Radioactive Fallout 1963

Fallout is the residual radiation hazard from a nuclear explosion, so named because it "falls out" of the atmosphere into which it is spread during the explosion. It commonly refers to the radioactive dust created when a nuclear weapon explodes. This radioactive dust, consisting of hot particles, is a kind of radioactive contamination. After an air burst, the fission products, unfissioned nuclear material, and weapon residues which have been vaporized by the heat of the fireball will condense into a fine suspension of very small particles 10 nm to 20 µm in diameter. Atmospheric nuclear weapon tests almost doubled the concentration of radioactive 14C in the Northern Hemisphere, before levels slowly declined following the Partial Test Ban Treaty. Initially little was known about the dispersion of nuclear fallout on a global scale. The US Atomic Energy Commission assumed that fallout would be dispersed evenly across the globe, dispersed by atmospheric winds and will gradually settle to the Earth's surface after weeks, months, and even years as worldwide fallout. Nuclear products were deposited in the Northern Hemisphere becoming "far more dangerous than they had originally been estimated. For more on fallout, click to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout . This was clipped from the 1963 film, About Fallout, from the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense. The entire film is available at the Internet Archives.

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• DOE
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• downwinders
• cancer

[1A2B43C]

Gotta love all those snazzy effects they put in for comforting emphasis.

[Unicron4ever]

You'd think that if this WAS fallout, the guy would, at least, be wearing gloves... Lol

[Zyworski]

I always thought of fallout as being much finer like household dust. When Bikini Atoll was decontaminated the had to bulldoze the entire island into a mound and then bury it under a dome of concrete. Check out the photos of Bikini you find on G Earth.

[StickGuitarMan]

"this is Fallout."........and this is your Pip-Boy 3000.

[zoralynne]

@1A2B43C those "snazzy effects" as you say, are not snazzy at all. They are a very straight forward artistic representation of how radioactive particles behave. I recommend you look up videos of cloud chambers . Cloud chambers are used to observe how cosmic rays and radioactive particles act. Examine the similarities. The part of the film markdcatlin uploaded here shows almost exactly how radio active particles look in one of these controlled studies. Not very comforting to me.

[wardenphil]

@Invadurr  Yes, it could.

[Invadurr]

I thought radiation got imbedded in particles of dirt/dust from the area it exploded? Wouldn't that be just any ordinary pieces of dirt that guy could be looking at?

[MissJ1nsu]

At 0:50 it looked like when during the partial showered, red laser beams also come out!

[Petemonster62]

The round & oval particles are slidified molten metal. The irregular shaped one is a burnt ash. They were immersed in radioactive gases miles up in the atmosphere.

[TheCaptainLulz]

looks like urananite, and yeah its pretty tame.

[Nguli34689]

Those particles look like asteroids when magnified.