"Do not worry about your children at school, nor those at work--they are as safe as you." Which is to say, _not_ .

@alwenke212

Жыл бұрын

six and a half miles from my grade school, was a minuteman II silo. the third "duck and cover" drill the school put us through, I pointed out in no uncertain terms that the drill was an absolute waste time! if we're going to get vaporized, hiding under the stupid desk wasn't going to help !! there were no more drills after that.

@tbd-1

10 ай бұрын

But...I put a _blanket_ over my window...

This sounds like Stuart Smalley reading the Civil Defense script. “and remember, you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like you.”

This was recorded shortly before the deployment of nuclear ICBM's. The CONELRAD system was developed at that time to prevent Soviet bombers from homing in on commercial AM transmitters in major U.S. cities.

I love how they had all these pictures of families in their Sunday best just hanging out in the ol' bomb shelter like they were riding out a thunderstorm. "Well, looks like the world is coming to an end... who's up for parcheesi?"

Thanks for the upload that was awesome. I love this stuff!!

Here where I live they still use these wailing wavering sirens for weather alerts. Every year we get Tornado warnings. It always creeps me out when I hear them. I can't help thinking of nuke attack, having grown up in the cold war years. 🚀🚀🚀🚀... 🚬👓...

@captainretro373

3 жыл бұрын

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@captainjohn7833

3 жыл бұрын

@@captainretro373 a pox apon thee Comrade Captain ! 🚬👓...

"...if you do not become panicky." I love how normal words like that used to be.

I love how matter of fact and unbothered the announcer is. He’s like a school principal telling everyone to behave.

"Keep calm" OUUUUUUUWWEEEEEIOOOONNNNNNNNNNNOOUUUUUUUUUUUWWWWWWWWEIIIIIIOOOOOON

@musicfan101ful - After World War II and the US' usage of nuclear weapons in Japan, the USSR began developing nuclear weapons of their own. Because of the hatred filled relation between the 2 superpowers, the US felt that the USSR would attack a major city at any moment. This message, part of the then warning system CONELRAD, alerted Los Angeles County residents on a possible air strike, which may or may not have been conducted with nuclear weapons. The CONRELRAD system gave way in the 60s to the Emergency Broadcast System, then in 1997, the Emergency Alert System.

"Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"

This would automatically get my attention if I heard this at the time

@Sean. Probably not ICBMs. Bombers definately

@leandar if the bomber came in low enough they would be un-detectable until they were very close in. they would still need time to pull up to altitude but there would be a great deal less time to intercept.

"Keep calm" even though you're about to be evaporated! 😂

One of our neighbors had a kind of DIY bomb shelter at their house. I asked my dad why we didn't have one, and he looked at me kinda sideways and said it'd be a waste of time and money. His opinion was that when - not IF but WHEN - the Soviets attacked, all of CA south of Sacramento was gonna be a big smoking crater and there wouldn't be any way to survive it, regardless of how deep underground you were

@allen480

Жыл бұрын

Maybe, but sorry on this topic he was full of sh*t.

@Zeakthecat

Жыл бұрын

@@allen480 yea well the cold war fears were instilled into everyone really, even to this day. however the fears are unfounded for the most part. unless your city was near a major us military base, then might be a good idea to move. other than that, both military tactics back then and today keep population damage as a last resort, MAD was never a option due to the limitations of missile silos, nuclear subs and mobile missile systems. but the general public believe nuclear war is the end of the world, not something that falls alongside actual military tactics. fallout would be deadly but only if you don't have shelter.

@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co

7 ай бұрын

Your dad had more confidence in Soviet bombs than the Soviets did.

@Petemonster62 All interesting info. Glad we never really had to worry about it and I pray we never do still.

Somebody's got to BE IN CONTROL OF THE DANGER?

Graham Keith Todd doesn't hear "In school"

I wish I could find one for Oil City PA

Klaus Fuchs' hints, while not representing full details of a working Ullam-Teller bomb design, seem to have spurred the Soviets (and, later, the Chinese) towards useful research directions, which may have helped them.

When the sirens WAIL it may be to late!

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Hi everyone, would anyone tell me why they are precising that you should close your outside doors but not lock them? I mean why not locking them? Is it because of eventual assistance or for if anybody needs to get a shelter? Thank you for eventual responses

@fathersymeonparsons

7 жыл бұрын

Ivan Laplante the way I remember it, the reason was so emergency services could get in to rescue you, if necessisary

@ivanlaplante

7 жыл бұрын

FR. SYMEON Parsons good! thanks you for your answer!

@worldofbrandan

7 жыл бұрын

Yes it was so that emergency services can come in and rescue you, your areas Civil Defense would be able to come in and rescue you without having to delay the rescue by grabbing a Haligan and prying the door open which would actually delay the rescue by five minutes and then on top of that having to dig through debris to find you, and a crew that's already been delayed by prying your door open is not going to perform the same pace digging through debris.

@travosk216

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you m8

@worldofbrandan

6 жыл бұрын

Ivan Laplante Its also to help others take shelter if you're the closest available shelter.

"keep calm...." yeah, life as you know it is over but "keep calm and do not become panicky."

@seronymus

3 жыл бұрын

Eh, life as we know it was boring anyway.

@Petemonster62 I imagine it would have depended on how soon the bomber was detected incoming on radars, figuring out it's course and most probable target. Although I've often thought, at the same time as everyone was ducking, wouldn't nearby airbases surely be scrambling jets and fighters to intercept and shoot down the bomber before it's mission could be carried out? You never heard of that, but one would think that was a standard procedure too.

@warreneckels4945

3 жыл бұрын

Jets would probably be scrambling to intercept the bombers. Google says that radar range is 100 miles for targets at 10,000 feet and 260 miles at 25,000 feet. At 500 mph, that would be 12 minutes away at least. Do note that Southern California was a target-rich area, so Twentynine Palms and the airbases north of San Diego were likely to get hit, so it might take more time to verify that incoming aircraft were heading in from the Pacific. If they were heading from points north, Monterey and San Luis Obispo had military targets so it would take some time to establish that the planes were not bombing them instead,

@BlueAgaveStudios

2 жыл бұрын

Bombers? What in the world are we talking about bombers for? This is not 1962. Intercontinental ballistic missiles enter the atmosphere at around 7,000 mph. At that point multiple reentry payloads with nuclear tips will disperse over a large area. Where are you going to put your fighters then? Why would the enemy be sending bombers, for God's sake?

@leandar

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, now. But then, when this recording was made, ICBMs didn't exist yet and so the warheads would have to have been delivered by plane, just like the US did at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

@allen480

Жыл бұрын

@@warreneckels4945 Doesn’t San Diego have a large Navy base and a Marine Corps base?

0:24 this is your station LACD

Keep Calm! *Sirens intensifies* Ok, Panic a little!

er so your saying that if your kids are in school they are safe? er not quite old son!in fact most of them would be buried under the tons of debris that falls upon their desks,that they would have been hiding under

This is for Civil Defense in the 1950's think nuke town for blackops

Could Soviet missiles reach as far as Los Angeles in the 1950's?

@travosk216

7 жыл бұрын

yes they could reach unlikely places

@nopcshere6097

6 жыл бұрын

I would think it depends where they were launched from, but certainly a possibility.

@williamcasadone5071

5 жыл бұрын

They would most likely be using bombers as well which could easily bomb LA

@Bravo2uniform

4 жыл бұрын

ConelRad was designed to disallow Soviet bombers from using our radio stations as guidance beacons to cities. ConelRad went away with the advent of the ICBM. These warnings were primarily in the era of manned bombers, not missiles (IIRC).

@captainretro373

3 жыл бұрын

Sean Furlong if in Cuba, yup If in USSR probably not

Don't panic you have sufficient time... Sufficient to kiss your ass goodbye.

Now see, there's the difference. I would not peek a word against your comment. Event the smallest intelligence on such expensive research is of vast help to the competitors, even negative data. It's the obvious ignorance of "Soviets obtained the plans to build one from spies" that irks me.

@thecoolestofthe834s2

9 ай бұрын

the rds 1 was a copy of the fat man

COOL STORY, BRO

Gaming from other sites or states because they to do but remember shadow players and restarting on Facebook

"The Soviet Union obtained the plans to build one from spies." - Really? =) Isn't it too simplistic, if not outright wrong?

@Bravo2uniform

4 жыл бұрын

I think he meant that the information obtained from spies dramatically shortened the development cost and time. There is no doubt in my mind that the USSR could have developed nuclear weapons without any help. In fact I would guess their designs would be simpler and more robust if what I have seen in their small arms, armor, and aircraft design held true. The USSR certainly did not lack the intelligence or skill to build anything they chose to build, after all, they put the first man into space. If a foreign power develops a weapon that can destroy your country, you develop that weapon, or its counter, as fast as possible or face annihilation. That means by hook or crook, we did not leave the USSR any viable options as to whether they developed nuclear weapons or not.

@aryanson

3 жыл бұрын

The Soviet's first atomic bomb, the RDS-1 was an exact coby of the U.S MK-3 "FatMan" bomb used on Nagasaki, The Manhattan Project had several spies

Well today on 2/24/2022 Russia just invaded Ukraine so maybe we need to brush up on all of this