Simulated Conelrad Alert (Spring 1962)
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- This is a simulated Conelrad alert that might have taken place in the Spring of 1962. The TV station depicted, WSWO, actually existed, but in the late 60s to early 70s.
The black and white images and distorted picture are meant to make it look as though you're watching an actual old-time-tube television..
DISCLAIMER: This video is a work of fiction. Except for portions that feature my own voice(s) and visuals of my own creation, I do not own the rights to any other copyrighted recordings 
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... and remember this nuclear attack is brought to you by Rike's department stores...
Yes, look fashionable while getting nuked.
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Anything to make money lol
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Really well done. Stumbled upon this by accident. I grew up in Dayton 1965-1986, lived a few blocks from the "Wampler Ballarena" mentioned. As a 16-year old in 1981, my beater car was a 1964 Ford Galaxy. The radio had the Civil Defense channel marked on the dial.
My father owns a 1956 Buick Special, with the same markings
This is SPOT ON with television continuity at that time, with the slides and voiceovers. This is a cool true to form mockup of TV from that time.
Not to mention the accurate impersonation of JFK.
I've watched, too many to count, Civil Defense preparation films.
This is more convincing than any government film I've ever seen.
The JFK voice-over is fucking blood-chilling! Absolutely spot on!
If you shop at Rike's Dept. store, you can be the height of fashion during a nuclear attack.
Alis Sunwolf I have a soft spot for the look that model in the caption card's wearing, but what's it called? It's very elegant and tasteful.
Gotta look good before the end of the world. Might as well get all your name brand looks from Rike's.
News flash: Rike's Department Store was just destroyed by an explosion
Glow in the dark!
I gotta say, I love that you included the real Conelrad activation signal. So few people remember that until the 70s, Conelrad/EBS activation was done by cycling the transmitter so harshly...
Back 'in the day'...we all wondered when we'd hear that alert...not 'if' but 'when'.
This was very realistic...
And here we are again
now it's today we wonder we are closer to midnight now than ever before
It may be odd of me, but I really do enjoy nuclear stuff.
People here on RUclips make it like a movie and in which u get lost in this world and therefore enjoy them
+Karl Hart These sorts of things... Interest me and terrify me at the same time. I know the feeling, even though sometimes I have to sleep with the lights on.
The atomic bombers flew too high for that, and didn't have enough accuracy. Once they were roughly over the target, they would have released the payload and pulled away to get out from over the detonation site. For this reason, the bombs were constructed at a high enough yield for any great accuracy to be unnecessary.
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Fortunately for life on Earth, modern guidance systems have reversed this trend to a great extent, and the vast majority of weapons above one megaton in yield have been dismantled.
Is it even weirder that I get nostalgic for a good old Cold War scare before bed? Someone told me that if you imagine something before you go to sleep, you won't have a nightmare about it. When I was a kid, nuclear bombs were always the first thing I thought of before I went to sleep (then Bigfoot and tornadoes). Usually the plan worked, but still I had awful nightmares sometimes of Soviet aircraft appearing over the local shopping center in Minneapolis to drop their bombs on us. For some reason, planes were scarier to me than ICBMs. Planes had evil people in them. Well, they had people whom I believed were evil in them. But ya gotta admit, Leonid Brezhnev, he just looked so scary! He did to a kid like me anyway.
Chris, except for the voices in the "Password" segments, I did all the voices myself, INCLUDING the voice of JFK.
I really enjoyed watching this, you did a great job with the voices.
@@michellem.8774 Thank you.
Excellent job! Very spooky. Glad this never happened IRL.
Dadgum, very realistic Edwin Newman (whom I watched a lot growing up when you could trust the news) and Kennedy. Great job!!!
I'm impressed.
Looking past the criticism of some of the other posts, this is a rather well produced video, especially those portions which depict locally available programming.
AMStationEngineer Yeah I showed this too my grandpa (we live right next to Springfield) and he remembers the exact broadcast in this video (of course not the fake emergency broadcast but the password episode and the anouncements in the beginning lol) so yea it was very cool that they added that in
An intertaining simulation. I was raised in Ohio and remember the Conelrad symbol on all the radios. As a twelve year old seventh grader (1961), our school issued an excellent little pamphlet on nuclear war preparation and survival. After classroom discussion, we were told to take it home for our parents. My folks were totally disinterested.
World War lll is brought to you by Rick's Department Stores . This is a weather update: high winds of up to 600 mph with temperatures approaching 10,000 degrees. Tomorrow there will be the beginning of nuclear winter. Rick's Department Stores will be having a big "going out of business" sale.
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The term "hertz" for frequency was approved by the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1960, but wasn't put into common use by broadcasters until the late 1960s. It was named after physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.
Excellent simulation and voice characterization, especially of JFK.
It truly sounded like the real JFK, to the point I wondered if it was actually him.
Absolutely spot on. I've been looking for a REALISTIC simulation for years. Incredibly well done and appreciated.
I remember that station in Springifeld, Ohio. It just so happens one of the last movies they ran before going bankrupt was Failsafe.
That was a bit of an anachronism; there WAS a WSWO channel 26, but it was 1968 to 1972.. It went dark for a few years , then it went back on the air in 1980 under new ownership; it's a CW station now..
Very well done. I guess that most of us who are over 50, remember when they would run the 60 second tests on TV. "...This is ONLY a test. We now return you to your normal...."
You couldn't mean the old "Emergency Broadcast system" tests could you..? I sure remember those from the early 90s even...
I remember, I also remember the once monthly blasts with the air raid sirens that occurred on Saturday mornings in the Phoenix area. Any of you remember the regular air raid drills in grade school in the 70's?
Yup. I remember air raid tests in the 70s as well as the EBS “this is only a test”
@@shawnbegay4966 During the early 1960s, we had air raid sirens that went off at high Noon every Wednesday.. Truly terrifying. I was instructed that if I EVER heard that at ANY time OTHER THAN high Noon Wednesday, that I should run to the nearest CIVIL DEFENSE rated structure with the atomic fallout logo, yellow and black triangles in a circle on various buildings.
This was very well done. The only nit I can think of is that the announcements would probably have referred to 640 and 1240 kilocycles rather than kilohertz. Excellent job, I loved seeing the classic "Password."
Betsy cheated at 11:51, but then again, Password was in its infancy at that time. BTW at that time, "kilocycles" was the preferred word over "kilohertz"; nevertheless a realistic and chilling performance here. Now back to our regularly scheduled emergency! :)
Yep, "kilocycles" or simply "KC" was used until the very early 1970s.
@@NipkowDisk True, I was taught, electron Theory, in 10 grade 70', & was taught cycles, not Hertz, as that was a rental car agency.
Color bar test pattern
Well her son was cheated too
This cracks me up.. "Stay tuned to the gameshow 'Password' while we wait for more news ...about the complete obliteration of our major cities...right after these commercial breaks"... Yep...that's about how it would sound...
Only today, it would sound more like, "We'll have more news about the end of the world..right after Dr. Phil. Please stay tuned for these words from our sponsors"
One big problem simulators missed. Ch. 26 would not continue getting the Password feed from CBS if NY had been attacked. Also, isn't the CBS affiliate in Dayton on Ch. 7?
@@TheGBCastle So it would've been a microwave link from CBS directly, and not just a kinescope/tape reel (the program intro mentioned it was pre-recorded)?
This was a nighttime episode of "Password", which in this simulation, was shown on a delayed basis by the fictional Channel 26 from a tape recorded off the network feed for later playback.
Otherwise, if this were a tape fed directly to the network from New York, the feed would have been lost.
Also, thus simulation also assumes that the CBS affiliate in Dayton decided against running the prime-time version of "Password", which would have been made available to the fictional Channel 26., even on a delayed basis.
@@altfactor Historically accurate! The Dayton NBC and CBS affiliates, then WLWD and WHIO, often pre-empted daytime programming from their respective networks. WLWD pre-empted NBC to carry programs from WLWT and WHIO often dumped CBS to carry the NBC shows that WLWT pre-empted.
Imagine if the Cuban Missile Crisis actually went south.
NuclearWinter oooh that would be bad.
NuclearWinter basically this! It is supposed to be from 1962.
Or the 1983 able archer exercise.
None of us would be here today.
Kennedy did imagine it going south asking Bobby if 'you want this guy ki g job'?
This dude's JFK impression is spot on!
***** Yes, it is an actor. Me.
JHopkinsmusic1 I think he was off on the accent, not enough of it, plus the inflections weren't as strong as JFK's. IMO.
Off, yes. Amazing, hell yeah.
+JHopkinsmusic1 Thought it was Diamond Joe Quimby.
The impression of Edwin Newman from NBC was also very good; he was the announcer who introduced Kennedy in this.
Dude this is so cool! I’m watching this what would be 60 years after it aired if it wasn’t a simulation of course. This is so good I love it! This is awesome
Annnd this could happen today at any moment given current events
I wonder if WNBF-TV Binghamton,NY had a similar simulation?
I watched this a few nights ago and am haunted by it. You've done an *excellent* job and service creating it and your performances are spot on.
Conelrad must have been the predecessor to EBS (Emergency Broadcasting System)...I still remember the chill I always experienced when a tv program was suddenly interrupted by the shrill "dooooooooooooooooh" of the EBS
+disoriented1 Yeah, even in the 70s when I grew up, that was always hanging over our heads.
You are correct that CONELRAD was superceded by the EBS around 1964, then by the EAS in 1997.
EBS took over in August of 1963
The month and year I was born.
Here is something I wanted to question about given the situation with North Korea's president testing out and wanting to fire off of his ICBMs---that makes the idea of nuclear attack more and more real. OK...so Conelrad (640/1240 option on the radio) is replaced by the EBS, and then that is replaced by the EAS (Emergency Action System)...Would it still work today for helping to confuse the enemy/enemies on plans of action for our safety? I would think that with technology the way it has advanced now in 2017, we would have more expedited ways of Civil Defense notifying us of a possible attack...then what of today's technology? Could Civil Defense safely notify through FB or Twitter?
Michael: this was an amazing simulation. Just a few points: it was a great "shout out" to the Miami Valley with the many accurate Dayton area references, starting with the vintage Rike's logo on the title card. The fonts in the video don't quite have the look of the early 60s period but it's close enough. Your emulation of Kennedy was SUPERB. Overall your production made my skin crawl. Well done, sir.
This is so realistic, it’s like a time capsule of “What If…”
This is the best one of these on YT.Sir you are amazing! Keep these coming so that if these young crowd decides to actually sit still and listen, they might learn what we had to live through with back then Excellent job with this film!!!! Keep them coming!!
I love how the newscaster is calmly announcing the apocalypse.
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See you guys in Vault 111...
Yes...wait....NONONONONOOOOOOOO!!!!!! DON'T DO IT!!!!!!
Wakashi Nakamoyo Wait wha-*gets frozen*
+Bobby Burkito There is a mod for the PC version to add a radio station of this to the game (along with Fallout 3 and New Vegas)
Simulated Conelrad Alert (Spring 2077)
Myron Ma spring? fall more like
The events that might have been occurred on Tuesday, April 10, 1962... I base this on the fact that the Oscars were actually on April 9, as well as Opening Day... the next day they were the first game for the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium, and won their first game of the year that night, 6-3..
The only problem is that the *35th* Academy Awards were actually in *1963*...plus the obvious fact that WSWO didn't actually come to air until 1968. (I guess that never would've happened in this universe, huh?) Still, this video is excellent...nice job!
Well done. I lived in Dayton, OH from 1951 until 1971 and many of the names of Towns and villages in the clip are familiar. There even really was a low power UHF station called WSWO broadcasting in Springfield on channel 26. I don't think they were on the air yet though in 1962 which is when this clip is set, nor did they carry CBS programming (that would have been WHIO's exclusive contract. They broadcast on channel 7 in that time period) Two more niggles: Rikes Department Store was not located on the corner of Third and Main Street. The company had a notable location in downtown Dayton at the corner of Main and Second streets, where the Schuster Center now stands. The Rike-Kumler Company store was demolished in 1999-2000. The last point of interest is Interstate 70 was already in existence in 1962 and was used by media to divide the Upper Miami Valley from the lower portion of the Miami Valley, not US 35 as you have here in your clip. Some older folks would have used the National Road US 40, as a dividing line instead of I-70, but I don't remember anybody using US 35 as a dividing line back then.
If WHIO wasn't carrying "Password", CBS could have offered it to another station for carriage. Independents could make a little money by doing so.
I wish it had been longer it was such an interesting peace. Great work!
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I expect everybody of a certain age will be glad that this type of scenario ever happened and that we never knew how many times and how close we came to WWIII or M.A.D. Don’t forget to your local Rikes department store for all your fall.....out fashion and accessories, Radiation suits 50% off. Thanks for sharing this interesting look back into recent history in a completely different way. Big 👍🇬🇧🏴
Given current events of the day, I check out EAS nuclear war mocks and such on YT. There are two that are head and shoulders above everyone else. Ben Marking's 56 minute BBC rendition of a nuclear attack on GB, and yours. Never gets old. You would be surprised how many others are making comments today about old mocks. I'm not the only one whose interest has been re-piqued by today's news
I appreciate your compliment, sir.
During this period, the Soviets only had about 25 missiles capable of reaching the US Mainland. They did, however, have around 15 "Golf" class submarines, with 3 medium range missiles each, that could have easily have launched on DC or New York with very little notice. We are talking 3 or 4 minutes, or less, if they slipped past the Sosus line between the UK and Greenland, which they frequently did in this period.
Also, as so often (inaccurately) depicted in these scenarios, the primary targets would not have been population centers. The Soviets were not about to waste missiles on spread out areas like New York. Their primary targets would have been B52 bomber bases, nuclear submarine and naval bases, and missile sites in the Midwest and West. Assets that could be used to damage Russia and kill Russians.
Damage to population centers would only have been incidental to them being located near one of the above named primary targets.
You can see First Strike here on YT, which is a PBS show made in 1979, with real Air Force personnel as actors all the way up the line about how the Soviets could annex the US by slipping past the satellites and launching a strike against the ICBM silos and SLBM ports. Today, it would never go undetected like in the show, but it was well done, and clips were part of The Day After in 1983
Back then (and in many cases now), most game shows taped the entire week of shows on the same day or night, usually well in advance of airing. That way, the guest stars only had to free part of their schedule for one day.
The detail for this simulation is exceptional.
Tom Barrister The people on Password would likely have been dead while the show was still being broadcast.
I'm not exactly clear on what the "transmitter on/transmitter off" measure was for as part of the CONELRAD system activation, but the practice continued into the first version of the EBS. Transmitter technicians often referred to the monthly tests of the system as the "EBS stress test" because older transmitters would infamously fail after cutting the carrier and and off.
It was so enemy bombers could not use the radio signal to navigate. Google "NDB Non Directional Radio Beacon"
There were speciallized Conelrad receivers that would monitor local channels for the two carrier break pattern. When that pattern was detected, the receiver would trip an alarm.
Wow...I'd like to think they wouldn't wait so long to activate Conelrad...this gave me chills...awesomely done.
Very well written dramatization of what would have happened in an actual CONELRAD activation. We are very grateful that we did not have to put CONELRAD, the Emergency Broadcast System or the Emergency Alert System to the test on an actual national scale.
Have you seen Countdown to Looking Glass? That movie - a depiction of events reported on the news that led to nuclear war - gave me the chills. The EBS activation at the end gave me the chills!
Again, this is a great video!
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Rike's had a good line in ladies fashions, I love that late 50s/early 60s look because it's so elegant.
Very nicely done early 60s diction and cadence
Very, VERY well done, especially the early cut-ins on Password. The only little criticism I have is that San Diego would have been the first target on the west coast, it was (still is, I think) the home of the Pacific fleet. Great job.
Well, the Soviets only had so many R-7s in 1962, and perhaps they thought the bombers would get there. Hell, I'd like to think San Diego would be where a Tsar Bomba would be dropped because of its status as a major naval base. By and large, though, the missiles seemed to have been aimed at population and financial centers, as if hoping to wipe out as many Americans as possible, while also crippling Western finances and hopefully hitting anything of military value in the process.
My scenario described above, though, shows NONE of the bombers getting to their targets, mainly due to fighters, anti-air weaponry, and the CONELRAD system exceeding in its purpose. Meanwhile, the Atlas missiles and B-52s encountered zero resistance from the Soviets, mainly because the opening US strike had Thor missiles launched from Alaska pulverize their anti-air weaponry and airfields, and apparently, confusion at the Northern airfields caused commanders to launch too few interceptors, which were outnumbered by interceptors coming from Europe.
San Diego is so close to Mexico, that the Mexican government would also soon declare war on the USSR!
Or it just slipped his mind, being L.A. just got nuked.
@@PerriririWhich would amount to ...?
This is fascinating! Thank you for giving us a closer look at how Conelrad would have worked.
This is a pretty cool simulation.. I enjoyed it!!
"...and now, back to Password!" Terrifying casualness.
Dick Van Dyke - the most amazing actor, dancer, and 100% decent, kind man.
And still kicking at 97.
98 now
Mike Shaver:
You did a fantastic job doing the voices of the off-camera station-break announcer (maybe that's your real voice), and excellent imitations of Edwin Newman (who introduced the President and "came on" after the "speech") as well as President Kennedy himself.
@altfactor, thank you.. The station break announcements and the voiceover at the end were indeed in my own natural voice. I did the pre-recording disclaimer for "Password" in the voice of Glenn Ryle, a longtime announcer (and one time kids' show host) for WKRC-TV in Cincinnati..
I remember Newman as a kid (I came along after JFK). You could actually trust him unlike the trash you see on MSM today.
If you're trying to simulate 1962, reference should probably be to 640 & 1240 kiloCYCLES, not kiloHERTZ.
Same thing. Hertz or Hz. is the name of the guy who discovered the sine wave cycle as it relates to electricity.
Using Hertz for the frequency did not become common until the 1970s. It was Cycles, Kilocycles, & Megacycles before that.
Good catch, very true signed retired US Navy Electronics Technician (Nuclear Submarines)
Ed F They may be the same thing, but the WORD “Hertz” was not used in the US at the time. Historical accuracy is a thing.
Nobody cares................
That was a great act! I was imagining being in 1962 America while listening...a scary time for Americans, I can imagine.
Thanks for creating this. I'm thankful to be here 54 years later not having experienced the real thing.......
I was just reading "Alas Babylon." About a nuclear attack and after in a small town. It's an excellent read.
Grew up in the late '50's/early '60's and was in grade school back then. I can still recalk sitting in
our classroom when the sirens
would go off in the hallways.
Then, we would leave our desks,
stand in line, and proceed single
file to the bus pickup spots, board
the buses, and be counted like
coins before the drill was over.
After that, we went back to class.
Very tense times indeed.
Everytime it whent to static I got a mini heart attack, terrified me
Thank God that this never actually occurred. At least we'd have an idea of how it COULD have happened.
Ronald Reagen cut the trades from Soviets and the soviet union died.
AMERICA HECK YEA
Remarkable, brilliant work indeed Mr.Shaver, alarmingly realistic. This is the first simulation of this kind ive ever seen and wow, I was blown away, I'm still spooked!
From Answers.com: "The Dick Van Dyke Show was not an instantaneous hit. Indeed, the series fared so poorly opposite its first season competition, Bachelor Father and Laramie, that CBS canceled the show outright, sending out notices to the cast members on the last day of shooting. The series might have been just another one season wonder had not one of its sponsors picked it up for a second season, insisting that CBS find a better time slot than Tuesdays at 8: 30 p.m. Thus, the show was moved to Wednesdays at 9: 30 p.m. -- fortuitously right after CBS's biggest success of the 1962-1963 season, The Beverly Hillbillies."
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This video is one of the few videos on RUclips that I come back to and watch over and over.
I do too. Never gets old especially with the world today
AM 640 and 1240 were the Conelrad stations. This was later replaced with the Emergency Broadcast System, which designated one AM, one FM and one TV station per market to perform those functions. Usually they're the most powerful ones available. News did travel more slowly in those days; it would happen much faster now.
Wait, no, skip the nuke and put password back on! If I'm gonna get glassed, I'm gonna die satisfied!
This stuff frightens the fuck out of me but I just love it.
Same here.
Same quirk here.I recommend Threads if you haven't seen it.
Same.
It's a great movie. It really spooked me. But I loved it!
I was born in 62 and this is fascinating. I envision a newsroom full of white shirts skinny black ties crew cuts and Buddy Holly thick black eye glasses and overflowing smoke filled ash trays .
So was I, right before the cuban missle crisis. I've asked my mother if she was scared, she said no, she had 3 babies (my sisters born in 60 and 61 and myself) to care for and she didn't have time to be scared!
Ashtrays would have been cigarette butt filled, not smoke filled.. Smoke doesn't concentrate in ashtrays.
That's what the government wants you to think.@@MarinCipollina
REALLY like this. Terrific job. I don't know if you'd have reason to make any more vids like this, but I'd love to see them if you do.
Wow. I grew up in Oakwood. Moved to Maryland in summer 1962, I don't remember this. I do remember in October 1962 during the time of the Cuban missile crisis, my dad who was in the Air Force was very scared, and as a 10 year old, we had drills to shelter in the basement.
I was born in October 1962.
Betsy Palmer and the teacher kicked ass as a Password team.
"Can I make a sound" gave it away. The judge should have thrown it out.
bruh password sounds like such a fun game show
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I've been trying to find more dramatizations like this one. This was really well done. And frightening.
It's been a year, so I don't know if you found the fictional BBC broadcast of a war between NATO and Russia going nuclear, but there's a nice bit at the end of the (long) video from the Home Office. (The British equivalent of the Department of Homeland Security.)
@@GOFLuvr Yes. Thank you. I managed to find it a while back.
Khrushchev had ordered the attack following intelligence that the United States were very close to discovering their missiles in Cuba, as well as continued American action in Vietnam, the discovery of Jupiter missiles in Turkey, and the intent of stopping the American space program to end the Space Race and ensure the Soviet Union has first dibs on the Moon.
After the inital Soviet missile salvo of R-7 missiles (the Soviets did not have many ICBMs at the time, and there were additional missiles that either failed on the pad, in-flight, or were intercepted), they sent many Tu-95 bombers. However, most of the bombers were shot down by fighter jets. What bombers did make it through the fighter screen over Northern Canada became unable to navigate as the radio and television stations constantly switching on and off (several older transmitters actually failed) and eventually found themselves lost. They became easy pickings for US fighters and anti-aircraft installations. Several bombers, realizing they were behind schedule and there would be no Motherland to return to, landed at airbases and surrendered,
Strategic Air Command, under the command of Curtis LeMay, immediately retaliated. All 144 SM-65 Atlas missiles in the strategic pool were launched, all successfully, in addition to PGM-19 Jupiter and PGM-17 Thor missiles stationed overseas. B-52 Stratofortresses made up the bulk of the attack force, taking off from airbases nationwide, as well as from NATO allies in Europe.
The damage done to the Soviet Union was unfathomable. Indeed, Mutual Assured Destruction had gone through in a way, but compared to US, the Soviet Union was devastated.
Since all of the Soviet nuclear bombers were aimed at the US, the remaining bombers were sent to conduct conventional bombings across Europe, followed closely by tank columns and infantry divisions. West Germany, the Low Countries, and France fell in a week, not the least because of the liberal use of tactical nuclear weapons.
What SLBMs the US had left were used to launch a decapitation strike on Moscow. 8 UGM-27 Polaris missiles were launched from the USS George Washington at Moscow. 2 other missiles were launched at Stalingrad, 4 at Leningrad, and 2 at Kiev. Khrushchev did not survive, and the Soviet military command fell into chaos.
The remaining Soviet forces attempted an invasion of the UK, mainly using conventional bombers in what is now known as the Second London Blitz. But just like with Hitler and his Luftwaffe over 20 years before, the Royal Air Force and civilian population fought back. When news of the Moscow attacks reached the forces, they turned tail and attempted to retreat back across their pre-war borders, abandoning their conquered lands.
NATO would not allow the Soviets to get off scot-free. They started the war, and now the United States was going to put them down, and restore the peace!
Within two weeks, Vladivostok had been destroyed by a nuclear strike, NATO forces had slaughtered the retreating Soviet forces, and what was left of Moscow was occupied, as a Soviet flag was burned and replaced with an American flag. The remains of the Soviet government immediately surrendered, as they had no military left.
Seeing the Soviet Union surrender, North Vietnam stood down, allowing itself to fall to America. North Korea, rather than retreat, attempted to invade South Korea again, and also attempted to land troops in Japan. Both attacks were swiftly stopped by a nuclear strike on Pyongyang. Although Kim Il-Sung survived the attack, he was found hiding in an underground bunker, captured, and executed.
The former Soviet Union was demilitarized and Russia was restored. The former Soviet Republics were also given independence, and Germany was reunified.
In the United States, six cities had been heavily damaged, if not destroyed. Beyond that, though, none of the nuclear bombers were able to drop their payloads, and the US government was intact. Radiation lingered for two weeks, then fell to safe levels. Afterwards, crops failed, the water supply was contaminated, and there was extreme civil unrest as rioters and looters clashed with what was left of the police department each day. When the war ended, the populace calmed down and began rebuilding their ruined cities.
The war did little to cause the end of the US space program. Morale amongst the civilian population was restored when John Glenn made three orbits of the Earth in Friendship Seven. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. The Soviet space program was all but destroyed, as Baikonur had been obliterated by a Thor missile, and all rocket production facilities were destroyed either by conventional or nuclear attack. Russia would not launch another satellite until 1985.
Today, you look at the cities destroyed during World War III, and you wouldn't even know there was ever a nuclear war. The United States of America survived a major civil war in 1968 that started when Martin Luthor King Jr. was assassinated by white supremacists, causing the reformation of the Confederate States, and a brief yet devastating civil war that ended with the Confederacy once again surrendering.
The future is bright for the utopian society of America, and all of humanity.
+BNSF1995 Awesome AU roleplaying. However, one has to consider that even the deployment of nukes to the scale that occurred in this WWIII, even in a one-sided retaliatory operation, would still lead to long-term environmental damage from nuclear winter effects. :P
BNSF1995 : Reading that took some of the anxious edge away after watching the dramatization. Nicely written.
Noice conspiracy m8
Kyle Tekaucic Also, the war would likely have pre-empted the moon landing (which was part of the space race, but how would there be a space race if there was no serious competition?)
Nice scenario! However, a good number of Atlas missiles would have failed. Having lived through the time... they did that often. The Jupiter missiles were described by Kennedy's Defense Secretary later on as a pile of junk. Their presence was no secret in Turkey. Most would have worked correctly but definitely not all. Also the USSR only just started shipping missiles to Cuba in late summer that year, not spring. Except for maybe Washington DC, I'm sure the Soviets would have targeted our military first. It would be the height of stupidity to bomb cities and leave air, sea and missile bases intact to retaliate.
Good job on the JFK voice and the whole period correct feeling. Damn near sounds like JFK himself.
Uhhhh.... Did they use the term kilohertz in 1962?
I thought they used the term kilocycles.
Way ahead of its time. This is ten years old and it might be one of the best EAS (or CONELRAD in this case) scenarios on RUclips.
Nice! The voiceovers are completely spot on for the time.
Yeah, kudos for Edwin Newman. Couldn't tell it was all done by one dude.
you know that after watching this my heart started racing and i got goosebumps you are really good at this
Isn't it the policy of the Executive Branch to have both a radio and television recording of the president prepared to address the nation, as it would be unlikely that that he or she could be in position to give a live address promptly. I worked in radio during and after the cold war, and luckily all I ever experienced were tests of the EBS.
Nice work you've done here. I'm not really sure how the system back then would work in the event of an attack, since I was growing up nowhere near the '60s. But I think you've done very nice work.
Gotta say Michael you have a good voice for radio.
Amazing work on the voices and graphics. 😉👍🏻
I would have been so mad that password kept being interrupted lmao
The spookiest nuclear war-themed production I've seen for RUclips since "The Last Broadcast".
In many respects, this simulation is even spookier and more realistic than "The Last Broadcast", although that too is an excellent simulation of how nuclear war could have broken out during the Cold War era.
Yeah this is amazing but second best to The Last Broadcast
@@altfactor You may want to check out the long (56 minute) version of the BBC broadcast of WW3. VERY simliar to the Ukranian attack, but with Latvia, and seamless too. It would play out over several days in real life, but the editing condenses it very well
@@mrsuns10 Last Broadcast was actually a college class project at the time. They BETTER have got an A on that one.
I like listening to it!
That was wild. I did not look at the length before I hit play and blew it up full screen so I could not see how much time was left. I thought it would last 5 minutes so I was surprised that it kept going. Nice job! BTW Allen Ludden obviously never watched Dick Van Dyke!
I seriously doubt that in a real situation they would have given terse bulletins about nuclear explosions in DC, and then switched back to "Password" so that people could see if Dick Vandyke would guess "dive".
Scheduled programming would have been immediately suspended and they would have switched to the newsroom.
Now they would, but back then it was realistic. If you go back and watch JFK Assaassination coveragethe first bulletin returned the viewer to their show before they went continuous
***** The Kennedy assassination happened shortly after noon (CST) on a Friday. When they came back the second time, this event was covered non-stop on all three networks for the next three and a half days, until a few hours after Kennedy had been buried Monday afternoon. Nothing else aired: no programs no commercials. The nation stood, transfixed, the entire time. Almost everything ground to a halt. Nothing of this magnitude had ever gripped the country this way before, and nothing short of a World War is ever likely to achieve the same effect again.
Back then, We didn't understand the full nuke effects.
They didn't know if it was Nukes anyway.
Tom Barrister I think the 9-11 attack should be included because of the effect it had.
I agree. Its a high bar, but an attack like 9/11 is on the same plane as a Presidential assassination or nuclear attack. The fact that an Emergency Action Notification wasn't issued means we will never see one.
Riding out the apocalypse with reruns of Password!
I was so focused on Password that I forgot the United States was getting nuked. I guess this says a lot about society 😔
I was actually getting engaged in that episode of Password, lol
I actually ended up watching this entire thing.....kind of drew me in. Kind of scary...
An alternate reality...........and....the Kenedy voice is really good as good as any of the Kennedy impersonators
People in that area would not have very long to prepare. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was a high priority target.
No they wouldn't nuke Wright-Pat, they wanted those aliens in Hangar 18 !
In 1962 it was quite possible that the USSR didn’t have enough working nukes to target Wright-Patterson. Keep in mind that Soviet military planners expected as many as 70% (!!) of their weapons to misfire, and that they were far more worried about US bases in Europe than those in the US. They had only 500 nuclear weapons that could be delivered by bomber or missile at that point; if the planners were correct and only 150 of those were effective, why would they waste one on Wright-Patterson when there were so many more important targets? They'd have to pound really important targets - the German and British bases, Washington, New York - with a dozen bombs in hopes of destroying them. They probably didn’t bother to target Los Angeles or Chicago in this time period, let alone inland military bases.
Ten years later would be a different matter entirely.
@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co Makes sense.
I remember once in 1993, in the State of Maine, a radio station in Rockland, ME while doing an EBS Test (which this was in its last few years of existence in the U.S. to be replaced with the Emergency Alert System), they put the wrong tape in that stated it was a "test", and the next thing we heard "This is official news from the U.S. Government". This was the doomsday tape that the disc jockey put into the machine. The FCC did an investigation and I believe the radio station got fined for it's miscue.
I thought that was in 1973,
***** I think this is different.
***** It was in 1993, days before the first inauguration of Bill Clinton. I know this because I met the station manager 4 years after it happened, and he told me how accurate I was with the timing of it.
I used to work as a deejay at a radio station in Spokane. I had the overnight shift. One night, out of curiosity (and boredom), I decided to play (for myself) the 'Doomsday Carts' that were in the studio should the real thing occur. I put them into the cart machine, making sure the feed was set to 'AUDITION', meaning it would NOT go out over the air. The carts contained a former news director of the station I worked at reading a script prepared by the FCC in case an attack was under way and the President was going to make an address. The instruction accompanying the carts was for whoever the deejay was at the time to continue playing the cart over and over until the President came on and made his speech or....you ceased to exist.
Let me tell you....if you have the opportunity to play the tape that you're supposed to play at the end of the world and you decide to do it at 2 o'clock in the morning and you're alone in the studio....DON'T.
I had nightmares for a week afterwards.
It happened nationwide on 2/20/71. You can hear some broadcasts here on YT
Now we shall never know who own that gameshow.
As a longtime resident of Dayton Ohio, this has to be the best example of what. Television combined with conelrad alert would have looked like.
I love the sound of peoples voices on TV and especially landline phones from these past decades, 50s-80s, the audio quality a little scratchy but that old school sound. Peoples voices sounded classy and respectful, love that Jimmy Stewart narration style a lot of peoples voices has back then
This was an awesome and realistic video.... I can only imagine what people would have done if this was real...a really well done job!
holy hell, you do an awesome transatlantic voice
I think that you're thinking of the "Mid-Atlantic" dialect.
Well done! Thank you for sharing.
That was chilling. Well done, great jfk too
Great job because as I'm watching password, jackball cuts in and I get pissed lol. Very well done....on dive I would of used nose
12:32 Of course her asking if it could be a sound instead of a word somewhat gave it away once she gave her clue...
Who played JFK? He certainly didn't sound like him. Not enough accent. "Tonight I come to you with a heavy heart" - that's what LBJ used to say, ugh. I was enjoying Password and forgot I was waiting for an emergency notice.
Alexaklr Except for the voices in the Password video, all of the voices are mine, including JFK..
Michael Shaver You did an amazing job. This video is an incredible part of (fortunately simulated) history. Thank you!
Michael Shaver Well done !! Excellent.
+Alexaklr Yes, the "heavy heart" phrase was an LBJ signature, not JFK.
+King Spaghetti except that, back in the day, TV shows were live and network broadcasts came from New York
so Password would have been blown off the air
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!" I’m using a "Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator" to blow up the Earth. "it obstructs my view of Venus"
I must say this is quite well done. I believe Alan Ludden used to be married to Betty White.
He was. I miss them both
*Allen
How in bloody Hell have I've never found this channel before? This was masterfully done! 😍
Thank you, Linda
@@TheRecordSaver I looked briefly at your channel. Marked it to look at more. Do you have anything else on there, specially, "modern warfare" or "dystopianesque" to recommend, or was this a one-time project? Watching this was TOTALLY convincing!
@@lindakay9552 this video was pretty much a one-shot deal.. I'm not so much into alternate history as I am into retroology, mainly pop culture history and the like..
Excellent voice acting. See how it should be done, all you robot voice video creators?
I want to know how do you reference the way television was broadcast back then and how do you know how to do a nuclear broadcast