(1959) Very interesting video for any who hasn't seen it before. Nuclear testing on the effects of an atomic blast on troops. Silent film and in colour. Duration over 8 minutes.
The troops relax and enjoy themselves, despite the fact they will soon be running toward a mushroom cloud. I would have given myself cancer from chain smoking before the bomb even went off. Props to these guys!
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The Nevada National Security Site[1] (N2S2), previously the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada, about 65 mi (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds,[2] the site, established on 11 January 1951, for the testing of nuclear devices, is composed of approximately 1,360 sq mi (3,500 km2) of desert and mountainous terrain. Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a 1-kilotonne-of-TNT (4.2 TJ) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on 27 January 1951.
Many of the iconic images of the nuclear era come from NTS. The Nevada Test Site contains 28 areas, 1,100 buildings, 400 miles (640 km) of paved roads, 300 miles (480 km) of unpaved roads, ten heliports and two airstrips.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_National_Security_Site
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i wouldnt wanna be a test subject, i bet you a few of these tests were, look directly at the blast and hope you dont go blind forever.
Posted May-8-2012 Bynowhereman1 (466.12) 
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@nowhereman1 the sad part is the radiation is already seen, it comes up silver as it coems in contact with the film, same thing is scene with chernobal
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Where are they now?
been over 50 years
Posted May-8-2012 ByAiredale (2618.46) 
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2 for flinching.
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Cancer....
Posted May-8-2012 ByFatBastard_2010 (376.00) FatBastard_2010 View Channel Send Message
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Nope. didn't happen. People in Vegas used to go out or to the windows to watch the flash and the cloud rise from the hotels.
Posted May-8-2012 Bygrunt (481.70) 
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I wonder how many are healthy and still with us........
Posted May-9-2012 ByFatBastard_2010 (376.00) FatBastard_2010 View Channel Send Message
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This wasn't science, it was advertising. Letting the soviet union know what was possible and pretending that nuclear bombs were just another battlefield weapon.
Lambs to the slaughter.. one of the soldiers is reading a comic.
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WHat tests done behind the Iron Curtain, remaind behind the iron Curtain
Posted May-8-2012 ByAiredale (2618.46) 
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sshhwow
Posted May-8-2012 Bymancs (57.90) 
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I knowin the 50's they favored moving Marine and paratroop units through there for the test shoots.They wanted to teach them to not fear the bomb.It worked. It also built confidence.
They taught you to take cover,to lookaway from the blact, and cover your eyes. After the detonation they stood upto feelthe shockwave. It was weak at that distance. They didn't get hit with thermal either.Both of those effects are limited in radius from ground zero.
Then they walked closer, with monitors, to see wha More..
Posted May-8-2012 Bygrunt (481.70) 
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so basically it was ok? I don't think
you are going to volunteer for this test
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@grunt Those trenches seem kind of close to the point of impact- wouldn't being that close expose you to some pretty nasty rads?
Posted May-8-2012 Bybypassomega (29.66) 
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Nope. The radioactivity is only close to the blast,or up in the cloud.The trench or hole, preferrably deep and covered, will protect you from the blast wave and the Thermal radiation, the flash you see that cooks shit. Both dissipate rapidly as the radius increases. There is far less fallout from a airburst. The soil and debris carried up in the fireball are radioactive fallout. As you go closer material and soil becomes radiated and radioactive. Some of the isotopes have very shor More..
Posted May-8-2012 Bygrunt (481.70) 
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@grunt Great explanation, thanks!!
Posted Jul-13-2012 Bybypassomega (29.66) 
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That sequence beginning @ 3:30 is incredible.
And just think, this is a low-yield tactical nuke.
Posted May-8-2012 Byjeffbaustin (431.60) 
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It was sureal
and
a small one
Maybe this would have been the way to "island hop" across asia?
Posted May-8-2012 ByAiredale (2618.46) 
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Good 'ole American patriots!
Listen to ANYTHING your government says or does. Then again, they are soldiers, aka pawns in the hands of the fat Generals watching the blast from the safety of their home.
Posted May-8-2012 Bymphatik (676.68) 
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I was a "American Patriot" in my day. 8 years in the Marines. And my IQ is 137.
This testing happened in the 50's. The Cold War was at it's peak,Russia had the H Bomb and the means to deliver it. Our cities were ringed with 90 and 120 mm AA gun batteries for about 7 years, until the Nike Hercules Missile sites were established all around our cities to replace the AA guns. And the Nikes were armed with tactiacl nuke warheads.The russians had multiple 10 and 20 megaton bombs ta More..
Posted May-8-2012 Bygrunt (481.70) 
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Aaah, that's when they made the Hulk, right?
Posted May-9-2012 ByLacroix (330.50) 
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@BOGGUN
Take your thorazine, you crazy fuck. You are clearly having another psychotic episode.
Posted May-8-2012 Bygrunt (481.70) 
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@BOGGUN ...and we sure as fuck don't care about you...LOL..Period!!
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