It's like ALL the ones we watched in school. I think they had an orchestra of naturally warbled musicians and a warbled annoucer when they created the film, that way when the film soundtrack aged it still sounded distorted like the original!
My dad worked the Nuclear Test Site in the 1950’s . . . he lived at Mercury NV. We used watch the flash from the atmospheric test shots in Easter California. The shock wave from underground tests could be felt in our home. The atomic age. Duck and cover!
it was to cover up the US troops that were poisoned by radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ..US troops had to clean up Japan when USA lost the war...by Jet stream and biological weapons threated by Japan in the last week of war
@@martytrueblood5902 Okay, that is a new one for me. How does it go? The Us actually _lost_ WWII, were defeated by Japan? Who just ordered us to fake it and pretend that we actually _won_ , so they could secretly enslave the world? This sounds like a good one, please explain more. Just when you think you've heard it all, someone tops everything!
@@justforever96 the US laws say it.. proclamation 2714 Truman orders all troops to drop weapons... 1948...US loses war dept.. has to form a self defense force instead.. meanwhile USA troops clean up Japan Treaty of San Francisco ..USA gives up and capitulates open markets and becomes vassal to Japan .. USA lost race war...USA loses white supremacy and had to free blacks with desegregation
I read about a program the air force had which tested unmanned, fully autonomous aircraft (full size, not drones) squadrons that could take available data (radar, ground images, etc) and then assess based on the planes available, their fuel, weapon loadout, etc and the enemy intel which plane or planes to use in the attack... then they tell you this was 1988.
It is hard to comprehend the amount of money, materials, and manpower that the US government dumped into every one of these tests. I also wonder how this impacted our present national debt.
The day after this blast there was a giant tornado in wooster Massachusetts that did incredible damage my grandparents took a drive up there to see the damage.
There was some controversy over whether or not nuclear blast had effect on weather phenomena. I'm sure they found no concrete connection, but I remember this idea going around.
I'm sure a test could SLIGHTLY change a weather pattern, but it certainly isnt goimg to produce tornados and deadly storms. Mother nature has WAY more power than a lowly nuke has.
oh I remember those old projectors in the 70s, it would start up the lights go out and I'd be asleep with my head on the desk in 5 minutes lol good ol days indeed
Those old Bell and Howell projectors chattering, the teacher sneaking off to have a cigarette, chaos breaking out, then the teacher would return. Definitely a great time to be in school!
He said they waited 6-8 months before digging. That is plenty of time for the vast majority of decay particles to disappear. The remaining low-level radiation is not enough to hurt anyone, especially if they limited the time they spent doing the work to a day or two. In spite of what everyone likes to think, the US spent a lot of money training their soldiers and did not just treat them as disposable drones to be sent to work in deadly conditions.
@@jsheridan9110 They were WELL aware of the EMP effects back then. They blew out the street lights in Hawaii with the EMP from a test back then, and knew all about it. The military was testing the ionosphere for the resulting EMP effwcts in the 50s. They knew...
@@MrTruckerf Winners: Oppenheimer et al., financial beneficiaries of resultant cancer clusters, the DOE. I’m just spitballing what appears to be a very short list compared to the staggering costs. Feel free to add to it if you can.
1.2 kilotons.....!? That's a firecracker !! We had to have tested underground stuff bigger than that !! Though I suppose that would be useful for determining tactical nuke yields. A firecracker!
They used small nukes so they could quickly get in and test without large amounts of radiation present. The radiation from the small bombs decayed faster.
Cannikin was a 5 megaton underground and largest done underground. The video on YT is awesome. That was one bad ass missile they lowered down about 6000 feet into the earth. It blew the surface up about 25.feet higher than it was before. It's actually my favorite video aside from Castle Bravo. Highly recommended.
I still remember seeing this vid back in 1951. I was still taking over the Planet Meridian back then using the Guardians as mind slaves to get the job done real quick 🤔.
I wonder what parts of this were sanitized, classified and removed and why? even after all these years, they still dont want us seeing it? and like whats going on here? > 17:00
Yes. My Dad was in a foxhole with a bunch of others. They were in the 82nd airborne. They told them to wear those glasses and stay down when the after shock came. He saw the mushroom cloud and ducked down during the aftershock. Afterwards they told him that all those guys were probably sterile. I'm glad they got that wrong. He had lung cancer, but then he smoked too.
2:48 So in 4 years, all the sage brush, etc,; grew back in the crater? That seems weird. I know nature recovers very well (in spite of all hyperbole), but i wouldn't think sagebrush had that kind of propagation rate, like a weed. I could see it verging in from the edges, but all over the crater in just 4 years? I suspect that the "crater" they are showing is not the actual crater from the shot. After, 1.2kT is a very small nuclear weapon.
Radiation fallout is no joke. It would take hundreds of years to even begin to reduce the environmental radiation enough to be livable. Chernobyl Exclusion Zone could take another few hundred years before radioactive elements decrease enough that the land around the affected reactor will be livable again. But it may also take much longer than that. Some estimates reach into thousands of years. Each of these tests polluted huge areas, increasing the chance for cancer and other illnesses.
While short term effects of fallout are indeed deadly, the long term ones are subject to discussion. ChNPP exclusion zone is livable - there is no immediate danger to life and health. Some people even live there (so called samosely - “self-settlers”), mostly elderly rural people who refused to evacuate from their homes or returned back as soon as was possible. However, any activity involving disturbance of the soil (construction, agriculture or even off-road movement) would dig up and kick off dust which may increase cancer rates in future.
Also Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt quite fast with not that big increase in oncology findings. And Fukushima exclusion zone is shrinking as well - but this time due to enormous engineering effort (topsoil removal etc)
Was going to make a joke about Hiroshima and Nagasaki still being uninhabitable blast zones today and Chernobyl wiping out half the population of Europe. But that's the 'Hollywood' bomb. Here in England all the cows still have two heads. In reality the evacuation of Fukushima killed over a thousand people - mainly due to stress. The radiation killed probably less than 10.
No way the average Joe understood any of this... What they did understand, was .. We,re going be fucked if crazy men start playing with these weapons..
@@justforever96 Einstein was alluding to something along those lines in a statement he once made because, as the preeminent physicist of the era, he knew that the use of atomic technology would slowly (or suddenly) raise the levels of background radiation, which is bad for your health.
This testing is how it was discovered what the dangers were. Before the test program no knew if it was dangerous or what the dangers were. Until they did the testing no information was available. Do you see the problem with what you said ?
1000 years from now historians will look at these film with astonishment and wonder at our stupidity. It all seemed so urgent and important at the time.
1000 years from now it WILL look silly to historians, because there will be MUCH more powerful WMD's, and the nukes of our time will look like little toys.
@@samueladams1775 Then you'll have to provide backup documentation since they had no idea about things like lithium deuteride 7 turning into lithium deuteride 6 until the results of the Castle Bravo test were analyzed. There are many, many other examples of what they didn't know until they did the tests. Lots of effects predicted didn't work as designed or expected. One of the examples is a test done by Ted Taylor that resulted in the only dud (no fission) when tested because the fissile material was too small. That's still a piece of classified information as it defines the lower end of atomic weapons. So, please spare me the projection on your part without facts.
Utterly sickening. This is what you get when you let a gang of fourteen year old boys loose with powerful weapons and lots of kit. How many times have I heard in my youth 'hey, that looks cool, let's try it and see what happens....' with no thought for the consequences. Is there any hope of the world growing up? Not a chance.
Weapons aside, that's the thinking that has led to countless valuable discoveries through history. One can use a radio to listen to music, or call in airstrikes...
Well it will not be long now before the nukes fly. American film maker is sadly killed by russians today. If this was in the cold War they wouldn't have bothered waiting this long before lighting the nuke fuse. We are more civilised today so we will wait a couple of days then..............see you at the end of wigan pier.
The narrator was Ray Walston, of My Favorite Martian fame.
He narrated many classified documentaries at the time.
He was also Mr. Hand in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
I thought that voice was familiar.
Thx for that.
But did they have any idea he was a Martian hiding out here?
0:30 - It would not be a proper 1950s military film without the warble distorted opening music track.
It's like ALL the ones we watched in school. I think they had an orchestra of naturally warbled musicians and a warbled annoucer when they created the film, that way when the film soundtrack aged it still sounded distorted like the original!
My dad worked the Nuclear Test Site in the 1950’s . . . he lived at Mercury NV. We used watch the flash from the atmospheric test shots in Easter California. The shock wave from underground tests could be felt in our home. The atomic age. Duck and cover!
How many shots about did you witness as a kid?
@@Aura-vv2dl we would see the eastern horizon “light up” every time there was an atmospheric or above ground test . . . so quite a few. 😎
its that classic projector warbling sound
It’s dubbed in….
I remember it well !!
The audio was on the side of the film strip running up the slack to the take up spool.
Large percentage of "wow and flutter"
Born in 1951, it's a small miracle I and my family survived these mad times.
Not really....
just calm down, it's just military propaganda
My family and I
@@MrDavito2 Thank you grammar teacher. :)
The scorpions & snakes on the ground never thought the Nevada temperature could get vastly more hotter.
This documentary made glow with pride... and gamma particles.
The shear amount of testing is amazing...
it was to cover up the US troops that were poisoned by radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ..US troops had to clean up Japan when USA lost the war...by Jet stream and biological weapons threated by Japan in the last week of war
That's why we're all irradiated now 👽.
@@martytrueblood5902 Okay, that is a new one for me. How does it go? The Us actually _lost_ WWII, were defeated by Japan? Who just ordered us to fake it and pretend that we actually _won_ , so they could secretly enslave the world? This sounds like a good one, please explain more. Just when you think you've heard it all, someone tops everything!
@@justforever96 the US laws say it..
proclamation 2714
Truman orders all troops to drop weapons...
1948...US loses war dept..
has to form a self defense force instead..
meanwhile USA troops clean up Japan
Treaty of San Francisco
..USA gives up and capitulates open markets and becomes vassal to Japan ..
USA lost race war...USA loses white supremacy and had to free blacks with desegregation
@Patrick Gragg seek help
thank you for this amazing documentary
The moment when you encounter a legendary death radscorpion
FINISH HIM..
FATALITY! 🆎🅰️🅱️🅾️
🦂☢️💯
And then you reload to get a better *
Thank you for the upload. Fascinating data. The unredacted version would be a real treat.
So, we had DRONES in 1955. Think about that in relation to some modern day events. 🤔
I read about a program the air force had which tested unmanned, fully autonomous aircraft (full size, not drones) squadrons that could take available data (radar, ground images, etc) and then assess based on the planes available, their fuel, weapon loadout, etc and the enemy intel which plane or planes to use in the attack... then they tell you this was 1988.
The nazis had drones they could steer via video camera link in ww2. So, that's what, 48ish?
the US used remote control airplanes packed with explosives during WW2. Aircraft such as the B-17.
@@mikemurphy5898 World War 2 ended in 1945.
Full capability to fly commercial jet aircraft by remote control before 9-11-01
It is hard to comprehend the amount of money, materials, and manpower that the US government dumped into every one of these tests. I also wonder how this impacted our present national debt.
The day after this blast there was a giant tornado in wooster Massachusetts that did incredible damage my grandparents took a drive up there to see the damage.
Are you suggesting there is a relationship, or are you just pointing out the coincidence?
There was some controversy over whether or not nuclear blast had effect on weather phenomena. I'm sure they found no concrete connection, but I remember this idea going around.
I'm sure a test could SLIGHTLY change a weather pattern, but it certainly isnt goimg to produce tornados and deadly storms. Mother nature has WAY more power than a lowly nuke has.
oh I remember those old projectors in the 70s, it would start up the lights go out and I'd be asleep with my head on the desk in 5 minutes lol good ol days indeed
Those old Bell and Howell projectors chattering, the teacher sneaking off to have a cigarette, chaos breaking out, then the teacher would return. Definitely a great time to be in school!
12:35: The apocalypse WILL have valet parking.
17:24 "Are you sure you put enough fluid on the BBQ, Phil?".....Peak 1950's
Have a good day
You as well. :)
I want to see the testing they did on these soldiers after digging in radioactive dirt. The Teapot vid
He said they waited 6-8 months before digging. That is plenty of time for the vast majority of decay particles to disappear. The remaining low-level radiation is not enough to hurt anyone, especially if they limited the time they spent doing the work to a day or two.
In spite of what everyone likes to think, the US spent a lot of money training their soldiers and did not just treat them as disposable drones to be sent to work in deadly conditions.
@@justforever96 Yep. Agreed..
Thank you
Amazing documents
Interesting video.
I’m glad they did all these tests back then. We can’t do them now.
Would you want them done now?
Don't underestimate that what government is doing right now is any less destructive.
Sanitized for your protection.
Duck and Cover.
They looked at everything very well done
But not everything. Remember, it was just 1980 or shortly thereafter that we realized the potential for destructive EMP effects.
@@jsheridan9110 They were WELL aware of the EMP effects back then. They blew out the street lights in Hawaii with the EMP from a test back then, and knew all about it. The military was testing the ionosphere for the resulting EMP effwcts in the 50s. They knew...
“I don’t know how WWIV will be fought, but WWIII was fought in Nevada.”
- Me
Who won?
@@MrTruckerf Winners: Oppenheimer et al., financial beneficiaries of resultant cancer clusters, the DOE.
I’m just spitballing what appears to be a very short list compared to the staggering costs. Feel free to add to it if you can.
The cockroaches. They'll survive nuclear holocaust before we do
6k Roentgen is serious radiation. “Hello darkness my old friend”
Remember boy's and girl's duck under your desk and cover your head 😅
I had bomb-proof desks in grade school...
This must be where "The Beast of Yucca Flats" came from
I'm thinking the Amazing Colossal Man...
1.2 kilotons.....!? That's a firecracker !! We had to have tested underground stuff bigger than that !! Though I suppose that would be useful for determining tactical nuke yields. A firecracker!
They used small nukes so they could quickly get in and test without large amounts of radiation present. The radiation from the small bombs decayed faster.
Cannikin was a 5 megaton underground and largest done underground. The video on YT is awesome. That was one bad ass missile they lowered down about 6000 feet into the earth. It blew the surface up about 25.feet higher than it was before. It's actually my favorite video aside from Castle Bravo. Highly recommended.
be kind, stop transcribing before you rewind
I still remember seeing this vid back in 1951. I was still taking over the Planet Meridian back then using the Guardians as mind slaves to get the job done real quick 🤔.
17:23 this guy... on the left... just puffs his pipe like "yeah a nuclear blast (sarcastically) whooooo hooo"
💯👍
When you've seen many of them.... 🤷🏻
I wonder what parts of this were sanitized, classified and removed and why? even after all these years, they still dont want us seeing it? and like whats going on here? > 17:00
Rogue nations.... Thats why it's sanitized.
I wonder if they ever put condemned prisoners or somebody out there to test effects. Bet they did
Yes. My Dad was in a foxhole with a bunch of others. They were in the 82nd airborne. They told them to wear those glasses and stay down when the after shock came. He saw the mushroom cloud and ducked down during the aftershock. Afterwards they told him that all those guys were probably sterile. I'm glad they got that wrong. He had lung cancer, but then he smoked too.
Bästa Lennart 🙌❤️🤗🐣🐥🐤
Is the guy at start rod serling?
No.
2:48 So in 4 years, all the sage brush, etc,; grew back in the crater? That seems weird. I know nature recovers very well (in spite of all hyperbole), but i wouldn't think sagebrush had that kind of propagation rate, like a weed. I could see it verging in from the edges, but all over the crater in just 4 years? I suspect that the "crater" they are showing is not the actual crater from the shot. After, 1.2kT is a very small nuclear weapon.
Was hoping to spot Indiana Jones climbing out of a refrigerator 😂
That should have been, "Marty McFly climbing out of a refrigerator".
So now we know how the Nike missile program came about...
Radiation fallout is no joke. It would take hundreds of years to even begin to reduce the environmental radiation enough to be livable.
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone could take another few hundred years before radioactive elements decrease enough that the land around the affected reactor will be livable again. But it may also take much longer than that. Some estimates reach into thousands of years.
Each of these tests polluted huge areas, increasing the chance for cancer and other illnesses.
depends, most of these lands are under government property and they still currently use it even today to test lots of stuff
While short term effects of fallout are indeed deadly, the long term ones are subject to discussion.
ChNPP exclusion zone is livable - there is no immediate danger to life and health.
Some people even live there (so called samosely - “self-settlers”), mostly elderly rural people who refused to evacuate from their homes or returned back as soon as was possible.
However, any activity involving disturbance of the soil (construction, agriculture or even off-road movement) would dig up and kick off dust which may increase cancer rates in future.
Also Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt quite fast with not that big increase in oncology findings.
And Fukushima exclusion zone is shrinking as well - but this time due to enormous engineering effort (topsoil removal etc)
There is a difference between nuclear power plant accidents and nuclear bombs and the after effects. Fusion vs fission.
Was going to make a joke about Hiroshima and Nagasaki still being uninhabitable blast zones today and Chernobyl wiping out half the population of Europe. But that's the 'Hollywood' bomb. Here in England all the cows still have two heads.
In reality the evacuation of Fukushima killed over a thousand people - mainly due to stress. The radiation killed probably less than 10.
A signature who was sent accross the universe how bad are the human species............
'Qualitatively'kn'fricken'firmed' 18:12 🤣
Property now affordable housing tracts.
Waiting for the classified portions to be leaked
Find something better to do
nooooo not the jeeps ..... :o(
@18:11 ...'qualitatively con-fricken-firmed'.
2021: follow the science.
2022: believe the science.
1955: make the science.
Now it's reject the science.
Nut job claims to BE the science.
@@crushingvanessa3277 I suspect the point was that they haven't given us a lot of reasons to trust the science.
No way the average Joe understood any of this...
What they did understand, was .. We,re going be fucked if crazy men start playing with these weapons..
4:57 "Do not push the plunger until you are _out_ of the hole.... Bob?.... _Bob!?_ ... Did you hear me?... _BOB!_ ...
I'm an average Joe, and I understand ALL of this. 🤷🏻
@@davelowets
Maybe you're an above average Joe 👍
@@idiotwind2248 I'm a lowely construction worker.
@@davelowets
I'm a 66 yr old retired social worker for NYC Beth Israel hospital s methadone clinic.
A pretty lowly gig ,but rewarding.
7:27 looks like some dude with his middle fingers in the air
Would effect the ground water?. Would it get into the atmosphere and pollute every country on earth.
Cancer clusters were actually considered a mystery
Indeed. 😡
I wonder how many people who worked there died of cancer?
The same percentage as from the civilian population.
Looks familiar.......
" We should never mess with atomic energy, it's too dangerous for humanity".
Albert Einstein
I am pretty sure Einstein never said those words.
@@justforever96 Because didn't was on CNN and BBC right ?!
@@justforever96 Einstein was alluding to something along those lines in a statement he once made because, as the preeminent physicist of the era, he knew that the use of atomic technology would slowly (or suddenly) raise the levels of background radiation, which is bad for your health.
@@pharaon6718 ?????
@@pharaon6718 Huh?? 🤔
@9:22, there's always some dummy ready to do the craziest things. smh
Truck & jet abuse at the Kirtland Radiation Spa.
does the word. 'sanitized' make anyone else laugh?
Hahahahaha
No
Burt the Turtle
#614👍This was a really stupid test considering the fallout!! Exactly who died from this the DOD did it's best to cover up 💀😝
This testing is how it was discovered what the dangers were. Before the test program no knew if it was dangerous or what the dangers were. Until they did the testing no information was available. Do you see the problem with what you said ?
No one covered anything up. Put your tinfoil hat back on, and stay off the internet.
Jesus the wow and flutter in the audio is depressing
what i would do to get my hands on one of those obliterated jeeps!
It's deadly dangerous to touch I guess
@@boris.m2624 surely by now the radiation would have dissipated. that was almost 70 years ago! hard to imagine
@@katsumiskytower8714 I’m thinking the radioactivity will last a LOT longer than 70 years
Do you think that will be in the Carfax report battle
@@sirclarkmarz “low miles and only driven to a radiological testing site once” 😂
And they all got cancer.
What about GM Modified mosquitoes 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😡🙏
11:45 21:16wow I didn't know they had drones back then...
They had drones in WW2
Nikola Tesla had a drone.
Typical human stuff -goes way back to when we were cavemen watching a huge Boulder crash down a mountain.
Dust.
Stop talkin Ray Walston and start blowin sh1t up!!
Y así amenazan con si no haces lo que te digo te tiro la bomba
1000 years from now historians will look at these film with astonishment and wonder at our stupidity. It all seemed so urgent and important at the time.
It was. Unfortunately, 50 years from now there will be no historians…
No, future historians will look at your comment and wonder at your stu-pidity.
17:24 .... "Hey everyone! Let's go have a cookout and watch the nuke test!"
Were looking at it now with astonishment how stupid they were to radiation poisoning
1000 years from now it WILL look silly to historians, because there will be MUCH more powerful WMD's, and the nukes of our time will look like little toys.
Algorithm.
Back when it meant something to be in the military before all the lipstick and gender theory
True, the entire point of the military is peak efficiency in killing the enemy and nothing more, no weird wokery.
@@connerstines1578 Who’s to say the LGBT Woke thing could be an active live military psychological warfare test by NATO?
@@mcleodclan Could be a psy op at this point anything could be.
Yeah, I remember when it was called 'This Man's Army', and for a good reason. I'm embarrassed for the Army of today.
@@david9783 Bunch of Americans crying about their services. Pitiful. Go carry some ammo for the guns or keep quiet about it.
Test results: ...The abject stupidity of using nuclear devices as construction explosives...
Well, unlike you, they had no idea what couldn't be done with nuclear devices.
@@buckhorncortez actually they pretty much did and were warned not to do it. They did it anyway.
@@samueladams1775 Warned not to do "what"? 😕 Nothing they did didn't have scientific measurements galore all over it, and olenty of forethought.
@@samueladams1775 Then you'll have to provide backup documentation since they had no idea about things like lithium deuteride 7 turning into lithium deuteride 6 until the results of the Castle Bravo test were analyzed. There are many, many other examples of what they didn't know until they did the tests. Lots of effects predicted didn't work as designed or expected. One of the examples is a test done by Ted Taylor that resulted in the only dud (no fission) when tested because the fissile material was too small. That's still a piece of classified information as it defines the lower end of atomic weapons. So, please spare me the projection on your part without facts.
Utterly sickening. This is what you get when you let a gang of fourteen year old boys loose with powerful weapons and lots of kit. How many times have I heard in my youth 'hey, that looks cool, let's try it and see what happens....' with no thought for the consequences.
Is there any hope of the world growing up? Not a chance.
Weapons aside, that's the thinking that has led to countless valuable discoveries through history. One can use a radio to listen to music, or call in airstrikes...
No one was "14" in the military, and the men in charge of it CERTAINLY weren't 18 year olds. Wise up.
@@davelowets He was saying it metaphorically. Obviously, he wasn't talking about actual 14 year old kids...
@@ct6502-c7w No shit...
@@davelowets Then why did you even make that ridiculous comment in the first place??
7:19 the explosion looks like a pot plant.
Weed = harmless???
1955 Science, compared to Current politically correct “Pseudoscience-religion”…
The science is still the same today
@@davelowets Science hasn’t changed, it’s the depraved activist, frauds waving its banner that has…
Well it will not be long now before the nukes fly. American film maker is sadly killed by russians today. If this was in the cold War they wouldn't have bothered waiting this long before lighting the nuke fuse. We are more civilised today so we will wait a couple of days then..............see you at the end of wigan pier.
Nukes aren't going to happen
Atlantic Council
Putin deploys nuclear-capable missiles to Belarusian border with Ukraine
18 hours ago
@@davelowets Atlantic Council reports putin (they mean russia) is deploying nukes on Belarusian border within 18 hours. .....I wonder why?
@@drpeterc12 He won't use them... He's all talk. That would be the DUMBEST thing he could ever do.
Ever heard of M.A.D.?
Nothing to be proud of.