Atomic Bomb Explosion Test Footage : The 1950s Atom Soldier - CharlieDeanArchives
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- Atomic Bomb Explosion Test Footage / Testing weapons of mass destruction. Shows Frenchman's Flat, Nevada, in January of 1955, where the Army at Camp Desert Rock utilized thousands of ground troops in an effort to establish the proper coordination between the foot soldier and the atomic explosion.
This film made available courtesy the Department of Defense, National Technical Information Service, and the National Archives and Records Administration www.archives.gov/
This film made available courtesy the Department of Defense, National Technical Information Service, and the National Archives and Records Administration www.archives.gov/
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My dad just passed away last week. He was in the army in Bakersfield, CA. He was one of the soldiers entrenched two miles back from the blast zone. He never talked about it. It was only in the last two years did he tell us about it. He cried when he spoke of it. He felt used by the government....a guinea pig.
Atomic Veterans was indeed a thing and the Government had to pay compensation to soldiers involved in it many years later
@@johno1544 I have heard the opposite, that they have never received compensation. Do you have a source for that info?
They definitely were!
He was. Government files referred to the soldiers as "human test subjects."
My Grandfather was TDY'd there and died of a bronchial carcinoma at 56. Rest in Peace Perry - WW 2 Vet.
Sorry for your loss. Much gratitude and freedom are owed to him and his brethren.
@@planetina5616 you look saddened in your picture. Beautiful... But sad.
Shush shush shush shush
shush be quiet
I am so sorry that happened to your grandfather. For me the only side I could ever choose in war, would be the love I had for a family member heading into combat.
insane stuff...those poor soldiers
Helps explain the reaction of the American public, kids in their early 20s during the VietNam War era. We knew we were being lied to by the military and the politicians! Stuff like this almost makes Jane Fonda look like a heroine.
They all probably had cancer after this
@@barksum9882 look up "what a nuclear explosion feels like" or "atomic soldiers"
Yes most of them are dead now and most can't have children or have had children with birth defects
The real test was on the soldiers. After it exploded they were ordered to march toward the blast area.
The poor bastards didnt know a thing about long term effects from even the smallest doses of radiation. And the govt wasnt about to tell them.This is the type ot experimentation on human subjects the Nazis were famous for.
Spot on mate.
Jonathan Noel your right it's a shame our older generations did this but it's history now and I hope we can learn from this
Daniel Goemaat - We haven't learned a damn thing. History is rewritten, the truth is now "fake news" because it might be inconvenient, embarrassing, a bad narrative or perhaps we have to take responsibility for something. This is one of the reason why I despise Trump, the truth is whatever he says it is, even in the face of irrefutable evidence.
William Mellor
Context, as they say, is everything.
The Soviets were the aggressors, and they had no qualms about using live nerve agents and nuclear testing on their troops. What we did here is relatively benign. And it was done openly, not hidden behind the iron curtain. This was part of Cold War strategy, defense, and training. Keep in mind I'm not saying I like it. For all we know now, our defense posture here during the time this film was made prevented a full scale exchange. I think if you study this issue with an open mind you'll see that it was more complicated than the appeasement gang suggests.
“The Big Picture” should have been called “The Big Propaganda” since it was all lies. They tested those men. THEY were the test!!!
I read that. They were all denied veteran rights for medical treatment because no war existed that they were in! Such a crock! Those poor kids were just following orders.
" -pale blue dot- " 0:30 pale grey blob
@@-danR my Dad got outta the Navy about the time of the Able Baker tests. A ship like the one that was hosing down a test ship was his second ship. Sooooo happy he wasnt part of that!
My 84 year old mother witnessed one of these Nevada tests when she was in her late teens. She was best friends with a girl who's father was in the Air Force who took the two girls to witness the explosion. Mom told me that the shockwave from the bomb made her bones feel like they were rattling apart. They were situated in a bunker and wearing goggles and ear protection. It is kind of weird that I didn't know that little aspect of her life until last year when she told me about it.
I envy her the opportunity to witness this
Cool.
Japanese Jews? P.S. You realize that life has always been in color, they just filmed this in black and white, correct?
TheMoezilla your wrong back in the 1950s they didn't have color photos or videos! Get it right!
Crasher! Online Wow...you're extremely stupid
He did not talk about radioactive dust which is the most dangerous factor after surviving blast.
Sweeping radiation away with a brush. Absolutely pathetic
Yes and sweeping it away, can't sweep it out of your lungs. They didn't even wear gas masks.
The dust was contained within the cloud so it was not of immediate concern for the 'atomic battlefield' .
They where checked by geigers at the time, the ground zero dust is not massively radioactive for short term exposure it would be the fallout from the cloud as the main concern after the blast (but it was suspended in the air)
They didn’t exactly have a good idea of that concept lol, but sad that they just got those men out there right away, they should’ve done more studies beforehand.
I wonder how many of these guys died of cancer.
less than its often hyped but still more than we should be comfortable with, though most of the fault lies with the effects of compartmentalization which meant that those who knew of the effects of fallout (very few) often couldn't tell those that needed to know (the generals etc.)
Coffee Shark many got sick. Congress past a bill just for these soldiers, there called the atomic soldiers.
All of them.
Samsqwamched I've seen video of soldiers in trenches marching to ground zero right after the shockwave blows over them. Pretty hard not to think that they weren't exposed to radiation.
both of you are wrong, the people running the operation were careful to limit the exposure of the troops but the understanding of what was a safe amount of radiation was at the time in its infancy so many soldiers did get a lot of radiation
My uncle was there when they tested these bombs. In his late 50s he told me his friends was all dyeing of a very bad cancer. Some came to visit him and tell him of the truth and say there good byes. Soon after he too had come down with this cancer. It killed him very fast after. As I see this crowd in the desert, I know he’s out there but I can not make him out.
Radiation gone after 90 seconds? That's a long 90seconds for Chernobyl
Chernobyl did not reach critical mass and go off in a nuclear explosion so the radioactive material was spread by fire and steam explosions, lingering for longer.
Chernobyl was indeed a critical mass, which is what allowed the chain reaction to even produce electricity. In fact, it was a type of reactor that was _fail deadly._
More importantly is that because of the physics of a nuclear detonation versus controlled chain reaction, the fuel is expended in an incredibly short time due to various factors such as density, compression, heat, etc. Thus, the radiation effects of the bomb are primarily short in duration and range. Fallout, longer-term radioactive byproducts, are produced from the irradiated residues of the bomb itself and any material caught in the nuclear fireball - hence, fallout could be greatly reduced by detonating the weapon such that the fireball didn't reach the ground.
Also consider the amount and type of fissile materials used in both. Essentially, Chernobyl was spewing what could be regarded as fallout, which is what made it so devastating.
90 seconds for the bomb detonation to stop actively creating radioactive material and direct radiation. Most of the direct radiation is in the flash. If you see it, you've been irradiated to some degree. For the soldiers going through ground zero, there's secondary radiation from all the material close to the detonation plus nobody was shown wearing breathing apparatus, so they would have breathed in radioactive dust. In the attack on Hiroshima, people also died from radioactive material in black rain which fell from that "beautiful white cloud".
You’re an idiot, you obviously don’t understand the differences in radiation from the different forms of fission/fusion used by each weapon/generator respectively.
@@sednabold859 It actually was a criticality and at least one worker next to the reactor when it exploded was outright vaporized.
And everyone that was there that day died of unexplained cancer.
The End.
My father and my uncle (identical twins) were two of those soldiers who died at the age of 43. My son had cancer at 3 and I have health issues starting at 31. My brother, his 2 kids were both born premature and weighed 1.10 and the other 2.1 lbs both survived. On my uncles side, his son lost his hair at 18 and his daughter lost and eye due to tumor at 19. The down winders bill was passed to help people in towns with moving due to radiation but nothing to the families like us who lost our father and our health nadda. The soldiers were government property and we got zero support from this crap.
I'm sorry
I was in the Army in the 90’s and this just seems insane to me. Once again it makes me question my own country’s moral compass
I think it's safe to say most people are questioning this Country's moral compass these day's 🙄
Also thank you for your service ❤ I am absolutely fascinated with vets. I love hearing their stories too. So many of us love and appreciate all of you for everything you've done for us.
The United States government does not have a moral compass. That's lesson 1.
“you’re probably thinking: so it’s beautiful, what’s dangerous about it”
oh i don’t know, ITS A FCKING BOMB????
I was a young child in the 1950s. I distinctly recall the concern of my parents regarding reports of radiation in the milk supply.
The worse part is that practically all the food exposure was completely avoidable.
The expression on my mans face at 11:47 is priceless. And I agree with him. Fuck this!
+James Crane Jr. "You are BURNED in the first half second" Oh hell no. Sarge! I think I have an affliction for men and I also have asthma and a bum leg. Can I go home now? lol
Totally. He's like "That the worst Jimmy Stewart impression I've ever heard."
Basically, they just wanted to make sure the soldiers could survive close to the blast incase they needed to infiltrate ground zero. They didn't care about long-term effects.
So if an a bomb goes off in your town, just roll down your sleeves and wear a hat.
Why am I so fascinated with this era?
The naïveté of this whole thing is breathtaking.
My favorite part was when he said that the radiation was the least of their worries
Grant C a lot of important things seemed to be the least of their worries...
"The blast cloud is a beautiful thing".....unless your underneath it
better to be underneath it than around the blast area much better to be thousands of km away
Lol "Radiation is the least concern compared to the other ones."
It's true. Radiation is the least dangerous aspect of a nuke. Prompt radiation from the explosion does very little because those other two effects are there. Fallout is only significant if the nuke explodes on the ground, but still, as long as the nuke explodes in a city, the direct explosion will kill thousands of times more people than any potential fallout.
and without rain or immediate fallout it can be distributed globally so a lower local impact.
we should ask again...
@@zolikoff
The really tiny tactical nukes meant for infantry and tank warfare actually had a prompt lethal radiation radius larger than the lethal blast radius.
@@gregorymalchuk272 Yep, those definitely yes. Although their effect radii wouldn't be measured in miles.
It's a myth that the tiny nuclear mortars had a shorter range than their lethal effects. They could definitely be fired "safely", provided they flew the intended distance. However, the small warheads would indeed have a longer ranged lethal prompt dose effect than any of the other effects.
UN F*ing believable! They were clueless as to what they were dealing with.
no they weren't, please read up on the matter
+rav ravensdale After a while, most of these veterans died from cancer caused by radiations.. I don't think that qualifies for ''they knew what they were getting into''.
+TheFamousOG Prooflinks? )))
+jurisprudens I am Canadian and the first time I heard about was last year. They only learned that they were going to be part of A-Bomb test after they already signed everything. Of 40 “atomic veterans,” Huntley says 10 are left alive 58 years later. “We got papers from the American government that we got more radiation than any of the American forces in the exercise,” Bunt said.ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/canadas-once-secret-atomic-veterans-get-place-in-war-museumAnd another onewww.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=d24cc46e-cdbc-4832-a779-36ae55adc00fAnd another one.. legionmagazine.com/en/2008/11/veterans-exposed-to-radiation-to-receive-compensation/Really not that hard to find you know!
Link? Their dosage was measured, sure the cloud was bad but that was someone else's problem.
He paused on spelling radiation...
Had to think about it.
I would have stood up and left right there, fuck it call me a deserter.
Most people overlook the small things, I'm glad someone else noticed this.
That was like a split second. You need more patience if you're gonna be a soldier in the first place. Lol
Christian The Jew You shouldn't need a spilt second to spell a basic English word.
Go loyally March into a country blindly following orders.
To be fair, how many of these people had every written or even heard the word "radiation" before? This is at the start of the atomic era. Let's be honest here. It was a simpler time. Lol
Thanks for the history lesson, I'm not trying to argue. It was a brief pause, and let's just say that military intelligence in an oxymoron.
Had the all the men walk toward ground zero after blast...........who's idea was that? Brilliant
Poor soldiers
I thought I knew evil, and then I saw this film.
Most people don't know that israel nuked America far more than they nuked Japan.
Absolute insanity of what went on back then. The fact they walk to their own doom minutes after the bomb has gone off. So sad that these people had absolutely no idea what they were walking into.
did you even watch the video ? they literally got the explanation right upfront + the effects of radiation are grossly exaggerated.thanks to the media.
I wonder how many of these brave soldiers suffered horrible side effects, died of cancers and how it effected their children ?
THE GUY WITH THE GIGER COUNTER 2 DAYS LATER " DAMN I DIDN'T SWITCH IT ON"
“You can live to fight another day”
Yeah.. maybe not another decade or two, but another day
I watched a documentary about the army men that were in the trenches when testing nuclear bombs. They said they could see through their skin, and see the bones and muscles and things of that nature. Pretty hard to wrap your head around...
WTF were we thinking?!? This is like thinking it's okay to turn your own back yard into a toxic waste dump and then order your kids to play in it.
The Atlantic documentary made me come here
"This first hand experience is one that will be imbeded in the memory of every man....."
Not to mention imbedded in their bones blood and DNA
and humans still can't find a way to dispose of radioactive waste :(
Walking straight into a fallout zone using 1950's equipment, many of those soldiers would've gone early 🇺🇲
23:22 is some intense footage, almost looks modern it’s so crisp as well
My uncle was one of those men. But his military records show that he was never there with not being AOL. He's got some interesting stuff about that experience
>> " _He's got some interesting stuff about that experience._ "
It was Top Secret 😢
My 97 year old neighbor just pasted away a couple weeks ago. He was in ww2. He said he was close to an atomic explosion. He was underwater in a dive suit when it went off. He said that saved him from the radiation.
The only atom bombs that were used in ww2 were on hiroshima and nagasaki. Unless, he's referring to a later nuclear test.
Water is the best protection
woah!!! what a hard ass
Unpublished ending: everyone present died earlier than should have
Yeah when I think of beautiful things, an ice covered mushroom cloud is usually the first thing that comes to mind.
How the hell did I end up here? Just having my coffee and end up watching a bunch of 1950s nuke test videos.
Great video, thank you for having posted it.
Ah for the good old days when people thought these things could be used as weapons.
+Jean DIckson
1-25-2016 5:35 pm.
Yes, that is the fear. Below from Wikipedia:
" A Mexican standoff is a confrontation among
two or more parties in which no participant can proceed or retreat
without being exposed to danger. As a result, all participants need to
maintain the strategic tension, which remains unresolved until some
outside event makes it possible to resolve it."
+q7wasp7 What has given you the impression they cannot be used as weapons o_o A stick is a pretty effective weapon... let alone a mile wide nuclear fireball o_o"
+N33b0
3-16-2016
The civilized world would not tolerate the use of nuclear devices as weapons in today's political climate. All other nations would ostracize the offending party.
+q7wasp7 ostracized or not it doesn't change the fact that the offending party was/are able to use it as weaponry :o
+N33b0
3-16-2016
Yes, however ostracization is the superior weapon. It covers more territory, lasts longer and affects more people. Things that go "bang" only appeal to the disenfranchised lower levels of civilization, like terrorists for example.
Scary to think how "Brave" the U.S. acted then like we were #1 then with nukes, look today at multiple superpower with nukes... were not #1 anymore...
I wonder if these people ever felt remorse for lying blatantly to these soldiers and sending them to their deaths?
Sociopaths don’t feel guilt
Now c'mon people the military would never lie to it's soldiers, honest ingian
If the military wouldn't lie to its soldiers, no one would ever fight in a war. That is called ideology & propaganda and is the main means to brainwash men into picking up a rifle and become professional murderers (i.e. soldiers).
Never mind the fact that we kept expanding our bombs to waste you 50 miles out. They won’t hurt you. Just duck when you see the flash!
Odd numbered years testing happened in Nevada, even numbered years the Marshall Islands.
Channelingus Llcix I'm not sure but I think only nuclear test were done in Nevada where thermonuclear tests were done out by the Marshall Islands
15:19
The soldier on the left is like: "WTF, this guy can't be serious."
The soldier on the right is like: ...
A Man I worked with years ago he has since died of Cancer, but he was in the Military when they were exploding these Nuclear Bombs and they stationed the Military away a certain specified distance circling around where the Explosion was going to be to be used as watchers to describe what was happening in the after effects. After a few days following the explosion the men that were near him had lost all of their Hair while they were sleeping never to get it back but just very small amounts, By what he told us. While I worked with him he was completely Bald.
23:20 one of the best shots I've ever seen
Every one of those poor foot solders “advancing on ground zero” probably were dead of cancer before age 55.
"keep your sleeves rolled down and wear a hat"
Thanks for that !
"...keep your sleeves rolled down and wear a hat..." !!!
Poor young lads 😭😭😭 they have not born for atomic bomb experiments, most of them died later from cancer, leukemia. Some were not able to have children and some have children but abnormal 😭
Sgt Queen must have had a hell of a time in the military and during childhood
my father worked out there some years afterward...as a Radar Specialist. (mercury) but...i always knew that he's surely been up the back road to Groom, during his time. this would have been '65-68'. he later became a civilian Air Traffic Controller at McCarran Tower thru '73...when we moved to northern Cal. love the comment by narrator at 24:10: 'this experience will be embedded in the mind of every soldier, as he witnesses first hand, the damage and event, resulting from the blast". yeah... probably will. via the radiation fallout from following those horrifically ill-advised orders to march right into that death cloud...
Buncha doubting Thomas's 13:10
15:19 That "Not bad" face))
"Ignorance breeds fear. And never have we bred ignorance and fear more successfully."
"...embedded in every man..." well yuh in more than one way
At least they brushed the soldiers and tanks off with a broom. That protected them for sure. Poor guy with a broom kicking up dust with the broom and breathing all the dust, no. Breathing protection ... geez.
4:12 “You can live through an atomic attack, and by taking common sense precautions, live to fight another day.”
- hahahaha was this a lie they were yelling people back in the day? Like, if you get under a desk and wrap your hands over their head that they would survive an A-Bomb? Because there’s no way that’s accurate because you cannot take “precautions” and survive radiation. Js
Radiation - "Truthfully, it's the least important of the 3 effects"
lololololololololol
I'm pleased to hear that radiation isn't an issue ninety seconds after a blast if you just have some dirt around you. This was no doubt based on a study by the 1950s version of Dr. MAGAt.
Lots of shots mixed here. The thermal during item shot was interesting
"You can live through an atomic attack" NO you mcfreaking cannot.
These vids are incredible!🤔
they had a good understanding of how split the atom but failed comprehend the implications Fallout caused by the nuclear explosion kicking up particles into the atmosphere where it then was carried by air currents particles like cesium-137 iodine 131
Cs-137 and I-131 are produced in very small amounts in a nuclear explosion. They come directly from the splitting atoms, so there won't be more than a few grams of them. They're not the dangerous part of fallout. The real fallout comes from nearby matter activated by neutrons. It produces short lived isotopes which decay to harmless levels after a few days but for those few days (and especially in the first hours) they are very intense and cause radiation sickness on exposure very fast. There's a lot more fallout if the nuke explodes on the ground and is close to lots of nearby solid matter. If the nuke is detonated high up in the air, and the fireball doesn't touch the ground, fallout is almost a non-issue.
It's crazy how ignorant these guys were at the time...
They knew of the radiation, but didn't think it was nearly as dangerous as it turned out to be. And when they eventually did discover the dangers, they proceeded to run more tests with soldiers trying to learn how severe the effects were.
I'm sure it provided some great information, but unfortunately that information provides no solace for the thousands of servicemen who were hurt or died as a result of these tests.
My dad know all about the dangers he didn't allow us to eat snow because it contains fallout. He was so smart man at the time he was in ICBM electronics technician.
don't eat the ' yellow snow '..😂
@@paulgentile1024how original...
The 1950s Atom Soldier - "Yeah great, I'm gonna defeat the atom bomb with my M1 Garand, thanks a lot".
Actually they used M1 Carbines too.
One thing I don't understand, is how the cameras managed to survive
They were heavily shielded and not at ground zero.
Only a 1 mile radius of radiation lmao
‘Duck and Cover’ 👍😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Step 1:be a player in GMod and survive the blast and noclip away up so high so u can see the blast
"Radiation from the bomb will go out in like, 90 seconds, go walk around ground zero, it's fine!"
"If it's ok why is there a decontamination team cleaning the airplane and inspecting for radioactive activity? Also what about the fallout that-"
"Why are you questioning me, soldier? Are you a Russian or something?"
Yeah, we didnt know the long term effects of radiation. BUT, the amount that these soldiers would have been exposed to from this particular blast would have less of an issue on their health than the lead based paint everything of theirs is painted with.
It's the 50's SO MANY things were marketed to people that were far more dangerous than this experiment.
Having said that, I still wouldn't want to be there lol.
Another interesting thing is in the video footage of the explosion, you can see the film being distorted as its hit by the blast. Those little spots that start to pop up on all the film during the blast is caused by radiation.
Cigarettes were good for you back in the 50's!
+tsptl152 They still are DERP!!!!!
+bobwillneverdie The initial radiation was low(but not as a lead based paint) but not the secondary radiation from fallout. Even if it was a low yield nuclear warhead, the radiation from the fallout was high and very dangerous.
Yes but that was contained within the cloud for the moment on the 'nuclear battlefield'.
they set up as iif they knew the exact timing of an enemy nuke attack.....soooooo realistic
I wonder how many of these men went on to father some squid kid that ended up on a telethon for some past obscure but growing affliction.
25:35 "yes I see you just walked through pure lethal radiation, let me use this broom on you to remove it"
Imagine if that artillery duded and that shell went off. I would not have wanted to be the one standing next to it.
50s Army safety protection instructions “keep your sleeve rolled down and wear a hat”.
1/2 second to travel 186000/2 miles ...if you see the flash., goodbye :( then why 3 miles? Pray for a ground burst and at 3 miles the curve of thearth drops about 10-15 feet... final suggestion jump into the pool !!
The radiation hazard is over after 90 seconds...
Yes, it's talking about the prompt radiation from the nuclear chain reaction itself, and any immediate aftereffects of that, like bremsstrahlung. Not the potential fallout.
This prompt radiation has a much shorter effect radius than the heat wave or the shockwave of a nuke. Therefore, in order to be affected by it, you need to be behind cover to not be burnt, not be in or near a building for it to collapse on you, and there has to be little solid material between you and the explosion to absorb the incoming radiation. Practically, your chances of surviving the heat and shockwave but dying from the prompt radiation are extremely small.
that information seminar thing at the start boggles my mind. no mention of fallout. like - radioactive dirt, mate. that line about radiation damage having less of a radius than the blast is absolute insanity. chernobyl wasn't even a bomb and it saturated half of europe
This guy explaining the bombs affects was a very intelligent human being.
Wow. I bet those soldiers all died an early death.
JUST think the ones in power wouldn't think twice(on any side of the fence you choose)about using theese on the common citizen,on our homes,towns,places of employment our world...
While THEY hide in safe places OUR tax dollars have been used to prepare with little regard to us...
Anyone here played Fallout 4? You can see where they got their inspiration from. “Your S.P.E.C.I.A.L!”. Just need Vault Boy. 😊
Looking at the pic in the thumbnail it looks like they were pretty close to that explosion.Hey wait,don't you have to be at least 50,000 miles away from an atomic, or nuclear blast?So much for the existence of nukes.
Those were early ones. They're a bit more powerful these days.
Glad to see everything will be ok if we take care or dig a foxhole or not look at the flash. Feeling very confident. Bring on those thermodevices!!!! See you all afterwards.
dude is punishing that chalkboard...could not be pressing harder
I wonder how many delayed deaths in the form of cancer of both the military personnel and civilians were caused by these test.
You get an atomic bomb! And you get an atomic bomb! And you! And you… 👉🤗🫡
At 3:42 was a high explosive. Not nuclear
25:56 well after a explosion theirs nobody in the battle field to fight.
Gotta LOVE this fruit loop instructor around 4:10 into the clip. "You can survive an atomic attack. And by talking common sense precautions, live to fight another day." OK, yes you can maybe survive the damn blast and live to fight another day. But in a short time, fallout and other baddies will set in and "another day" won't come anymore.
And at 10:32 "To avoid trouble, get down, FAST!!" Duck, and cover!! Duck & cover!!!.
The thing is we didn't know anything about the long term effects of radiation we just knew that a certain level was enough to kill you right away not that I can hurt you long term