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@DJ_C41DER

9 ай бұрын

How did the video survive the nuke blast and stay so still and stable 🤔

Nothing says America like a live nuclear test brought to you by JC Penney

@julianaylor4351

9 ай бұрын

😆🤣

Indy drank from the Holy Grail, and that made him nuke proof

@julianaylor4351

9 ай бұрын

😆

He may have survived the radiation just fine, but you would have had to bring him to the ER afterwards in a couple of buckets.

I dunno… I’m pretty sick of my neighbors at the corner who won’t keep their trash and random junk out of view. They’re not “underprivileged”. They’re just slobs.

In the documentary "The Atomic Cafe" there's a scene of soldiers ducked down in trenches during a blast. As soon as the shock wave washes over them they climb out of the trenches and start marching towards the mushroom cloud. It always surprised me that I never saw that shot being used as an album cover.

Working as a painter and decorator I’m pleased to here I’m providing benefit for a nuclear apocalypse.

@marcbeebee6969

9 ай бұрын

🫡

@Nefville

9 ай бұрын

Who's going to spruce up the ashes once its all over?

@bunyipdragon9499

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service 😅

The main thing I learned from this video is that apparently it is wrong for me to want my house to be in good repair and my neighborhood clean and nice to look at.

Kyle Hill already did a video about surviving a nuclear blast in a fridge, and he came to the conclusion that it is completely possible to have done so

I remember the duck and cover drills in grade scool and being told they were for tornados. Some of the things they told us to do were exactly wrong for tornado survival.

@annalorree

9 ай бұрын

That was to protect you from flying glass and debris, hoping you would have been far enough away from ground zero that you weren’t in fact incinerated by the thermal pulse, but were just impacted by the over-pressure/under-pressure waves.

Simon has never played CoD.

For the record, no one can survive being shot hundreds of meters into the air inside a lead lined can. The force of the impact into the ground would kill you instantly.

@SoMuchFacepalm

9 ай бұрын

The force of impact? Bro the force of acceleration will make you into a red puddle.

@robertmiller9735

9 ай бұрын

And if he had survived, the prompt radiation would still have been lethal: that little bit of lead would only have generated a shower of secondary particles. He's dead at least three times over.

A lot of this footage was used in the movie doc "The Atomic Cafe." Next, do one about the pigs. That one's gonna need some squeam alerts. :)

I reckon they need to build everything out of whatever the cameras used to document the tests were made of...

@redred7289

9 ай бұрын

I don't really want to live in a concrete bunker. The wooden/brick homes look much nicer.

Some of the Apple 2 houses are still there. Ditto the bleachers, bank vault, railroad trestle, etc... I've seen them while working at the NTS.

@20joy06

9 ай бұрын

Right, I was there for a short while in the mid 70's. Our office and shop were furnished with things from some of the houses.

@Melody_Raventress

9 ай бұрын

​@@20joy06Whaaa? They weren't contaminated? I guess if anyone would know it would be you guys...

Honestly, having grown up during the later couple of decades of the Cold War, this footage is part of my nightmares. No one who was born in the 90s or later can understand the absolute fear that we lived with on a daily basis. 'Live for today for tomorrow we die' was our reality. THANK GOODNESS that didn't happen. I hope that it never does.

@TheRedjack77

9 ай бұрын

1985, my teacher telling us that we where lucky because if they (Russia) launch a nuclear attack we would all be dead first.

@TheRedjack77

9 ай бұрын

true school shooting are very scary and real, but for us it was the fact that EVERYONE and everything you know your home your school, your town will be gone. Not just your friend or a number of them will die (again a legitimate fear and very real this day and age ) but some will survive. For us back then it was everybody not a death tole in the twenties or thirties, or even hundreds......but Millions Every Thing you know and love will be gone in 30 minutes. @@nharber9837 watch Threads and keep in mind that this is a optimistic or ideal interpretation of a nuclear attack, in realty the entire UK would be gone in 15 minutes

@Darkknight-dn4wc

9 ай бұрын

that's true but its happening all over again today for the newer generations so its going to get worse sadly. each generation gets its horrible scenario to deal with left by the others whatever it may be

@SioxerNikita

9 ай бұрын

If you lived in "the absolute fear", you should've stopped listening to media and Government propaganda. Nukes are devastating, but they are city devastating, not continents. And even in cities, the survival rate is rather high, and for that matter Nukes are more likely to be fired upon strategic and tactical targets, and munitions were becoming increasingly more accurate by the day at that time, meaning there was less risk of massive collateral damage. The thing is, a fear does not translate to actual reality, and the media thrives on fear.

@QBCPerdition

9 ай бұрын

80s, too. I was born in 83, and I don't remember any nuclear drills or fear. Maybe it was because i was in a tiny town quite far from any soviet target. Maybe it's because the fall of the USSR happened when I was 8, or in 3rd grade. But it was never a concern for me and I have no traumatic memories of it.

In addition, those taking any positives from these tests in the 1950s did not take into account the use of not only more powerful nukes over the next 20 years. But crucially also the use of multiple warheads per target, esp. with the use of MIRV's (Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles). So even if you survived one nuking, would you survive another less than a minute later?

@3:25 it amazes me that the camera from this iconic part of the video remained intact despite the intense pressure of the explosion. The camera didn't even shake or showed any blur

@Melody_Raventress

9 ай бұрын

The cameras in the zone of effect were basically embedded in lead bricks with non-melting flint lenses. Other shots were taken with a LONG zoom, for obvious reasons.

@jerrykorman7770

9 ай бұрын

EG&G (Edgerton, Germeshhausen, & Greer) was contracted to do a lot of measurements and film work during the early testing. The documentary series Trinity and Beyond, by Peter Kuran, is an excellent reference

@Melody_Raventress

9 ай бұрын

@@jerrykorman7770 Bingo, Hal Edgarton invented the "Rapatronic" camera, with an electronic shutter, since mechanical shutters lacked the frame rate to capture significant data. The early Rapatronics were single shots set up in series, that's where you get the "fireball progression" style shots early in the American program, they got more sophisticated later.

New Knob sounds like the name of a character in a Monty Python sketch.

Somehow people can suspend disbelief with a magical Ark of the Covenant that melts off Nazis faces, an immortal knight, a Nazi rapidly aging and disintegrating into dust, and a whole bunch of crazy stuff in the Temple of Doom movie but they can't suspend disbelief for Indiana Jones surviving a nuclear explosion by hiding in a lead lined fridge.

@battlesheep2552

9 ай бұрын

I mean ancient Hebrew magic is one thing but that was just a regular ass fridge

@jonathanpidock5599

9 ай бұрын

It’s all in how it’s written and done. I agree with your point though. It’s Indiana Jones. It’s like John Wick. You can enjoy it if you check your brain meat at the door

@jasonwomack4064

9 ай бұрын

Anyone that has moved one of those tanks of a fridge, found it at least plausible.

@thejackal5099

9 ай бұрын

A lead lined fridge is a familiar item that exists in the real world and thus something that is expected to be subject to the laws of physics of the real world, it's not an explicitly magical artifact.If you want to make a comparison to the older movies then the stunt with the inflatable boat would be a better comparison.

@sanctionh2993

9 ай бұрын

The fridge thing has been covered by engineers and scientists, and no, he would not have survived.

6:12 - WOOOAAAH! Where did you get that footage!? It's soo much crisper than all the ones I've seen of it before?

Around the 12:10 mark at the mention of Behlen Manufacturing I just busted out laughing. They're still going strong.

I'm now 68 years old and find myself experiencing quite a bit of anxiety watching this one. When i was 6, in first grade,we lived in one of the towns on the West Coast that had a deep water port. That was during the Cuban missle crisis. We had bomb drills frequently. We marched to the auditorium and had to sit against the walls with our heads down and our arms crossed over our heads. We knew this was because "airplanes could drop bombs on the school." Probably not exactly correct,but extremely frightening to us kids. For years afterwards,if i heard an airplane droming overhead, I would get scared and immediately go inside the house. Nobody ever really explained anything to me so i didn't really understand that it was a crisis that had passed. Haven't felt that anxiety for years until now.

Maybe the fridge was made from whatever the cameras used to film the explosion were encased in.

Sure they built houses out of bricks but did they build a house with sticks and one with straw?

The military veterans that were there also got told the cancer they had a wasn't service related.

So it's fine when someone holds their breath for days holding onto a uboat and uses a raft to survive falling out of a plane in the middle of the Himalayas but they can't use a fridge to survive a nuke?

Love this channel simon!

Excellent explanation, thanks Simon. That beautiful beard could do with a delicate barbering though, 😁

There's a reason why we haven't been contacted by an advanced alien civilization: "Scout: "Commander, the people of Earth detonate nuclear weapons in their own biosphere! And they keep nuclear arsenals for use against each other!!" Commander: "Nope! We aren't going there! Lay in a course for the next star system!"

@johnbainbridge9034

9 ай бұрын

There's a line in one of the Star Trek Series, I think DS9, where some time traveling Ferengi see a nuclear test and incredulously observe "they irritated their *own atmosphere*?!?"

@Bacopa68

9 ай бұрын

@@johnbainbridge9034 This is a reference to the original script of Back to the Future. The time machine was originally a refrigerator, and they used a nuke test to get the energy to come back to the future.

Call of duty has taught me to just run around when in nuketown not a fridge

I'd love to see them do that test with modern cars because I highly doubt any of them would start afterwards let alone survived the blast with all the plastic and computerized B.S that they put in them nowadays

@liamevans1508

9 ай бұрын

All the plastic bs is there so the car absorbs the forces of a crash and gets destroyed- instead of your body. The energy has to get absorbed somewhere. If you’d rather drive a steel vehicle and let your organs cushion the blow of an impact, that’s your decision I guess.

Simon getting a little Robin Leach-y for the ad read today

The Nevada Test Site continues to be used for nuclear weapons research and development. This includes subcritical testing. These tests are conducted jointly by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the British Atomic Weapons Establishment. A recent one was Ediza (2019), and Nightshade A (2020).

I mean, Indy is immortal anyway because he drank from the Holy Grail so....

@robertmiller9735

9 ай бұрын

He aged...

@julianaylor4351

9 ай бұрын

Not immortal but maybe nuke proof. 😆

@robertmiller9735

9 ай бұрын

I'll buy that. Different damage mechanisms, after all.

"Nuking the 'fridge" is not well known expression.

great vid this one

Ah, nuketown. I love and hate it equally.

"HELLO there..." The audience is now deaf.

@rottweilertrainingUK

9 ай бұрын

Those of us used to Billy Connelly back in the day are used to it 😂

@akizeta

9 ай бұрын

@@rottweilertrainingUK Already deaf, you mean.

5:06 i want to buy a car exactly like the one in the picture and paint the same graphics on it, go to shows with it after that, that would be cool.

Gets me real nostalgic for COD y'all 😩

Mickey Rooney outdid Indiana Jones in the 1954 movie "The Atomic Kid." He plays a drifter who, with his pal, find one of these fake towns. He's eating a sandwich when the test nuke goes off and survives.

"Remember kids, in the event of a nuclear attack: duck and cover and kiss your [butt] goodbye!"

Can't wait to hear Factboy's take on Russell Brand.

So, the Indiana Jones movie sort of took the idea from an episode of Crime Story.

I'm surprised that the national Cleanup Paint-Up Fix-Up Bureau didn't say "This house is safe from atomic radiation, because its paint has LEAD in it."

Its crazy to think about how big of a part nuclear annihilation played in everyday life back then. I wasn't there ofc but it seems as common as us complaining about inflation. Edit: maybe an even better comparison is the pressure we put on cybersecurity. Where they worried about being ready to run to a basement we worry about accounts being compromised. As simon often says, theres no better time to live than now.

wait, so the unrealistically clean and proper aesthetic of the perfect American household in that period was in part due to the results of nuke tests, Is this how the term nuclear family came about?

A coat of lead paint keeps the radiation away

What's funny is many of the videos you can see no vehicles and then all of a sudden a vehicle and vice versa.

Lead-lined refrigerators that was awesome

What a great question!!!

Okay let's be real, calling it anything other than Nuketown is madness

The main practical learning seems to be that forests provide excellent blast protection. So obviously, we started chopping down trees around metro areas and put up cheap homes instead ... I guess I should go lacquer my fence.

Wasn't there also a whole section in the movie Kalifornia in this town? I think it was that movie, though I literally can't remember anything else about it, lol.

Did you just say they took highly radioactive materials on tour???

1985, my teacher telling us that we where lucky because if they (Russia) launch a nuclear attack we would all be dead first. Due to us living next to a major port.

@adamc1966

9 ай бұрын

I lived near two air force bases in southern CA in the 70's so yeah duck and cover was pointless.

Vehicles were built like tanks back in the 50s though. I doubt any modern vehicle would fair as well these days.

3:29 What measures? Just to buy a big lead-coverred fridge!😎

10:54 A question for that author immediately arose in my mind. Is he saying that clearly slums - replacing squallor with nicer accommodations - is BAD? We should encourage slums? What?

@eadweard.

9 ай бұрын

Can you imagine a fashionable academic saying anything else?

@PantheraOnca60

9 ай бұрын

It's part and parcel of their Class Warfare agenda.

@SoMuchFacepalm

9 ай бұрын

If you improve conditions, that’s gentrification or colonialism. If you make them worse, that’s colonialism or ghettoisation. If you don’t do anything to change the conditions, that’s bad too cause you aren’t doing anything to solve the problems, which is elitist. The point is, you’re wrong, always, so do as I say.

@eadweard.

9 ай бұрын

@@SoMuchFacepalm That is precisely the dynamic.

05:11 str8 whippin

I have been at the real test site at the Mercury Nevada Test Site.

See also Andy Rooney's *"The Atomic Kid"*

Barbenheimer was REAL!

No more fears of nuclear war...until now. Good video but are we on that knifes edge again or have we become so arrogant that the warnings of the past are seen as just being foolish?

And the led paint reduces the after blast glow.

Cant believe yall didn't notice the nuke video was fake lmao. Or do nukes usualy magically spawn cars behind houses? 6:12

I kinda wanna watch indi now

refrigerators save lives 😉

@julianaylor4351

9 ай бұрын

Unless you forget to clear then out of off food. ( Food poisoning)

So a 50s commercial atom blast sales plug. 😮

Simon, I enjoy your video's much more when you stay on task & don't wander off on a tangent.

I'd imagine all this research was quickly rendered useless with the advent of megaton weapons, though. Castle Bravo, 15 mega- tons. All you need is a new coat of paint.😂

4:14 This clip was specifically sourced from _Trinity and Beyond,_ as evidenced by the minor cut made just before the explosion, which is unique to said documentary. An important distinction from other, public domain clips of the same declassified footage, as all test footage in Trinity and Beyond was non-digitally remastered using a process developed by the documentary's creator, Peter Kuran. The editor attempted to disguise this lazy pilferage by adding a blatantly fake layer of film artifacts... which unfortunately repeat in an obvious way, dispelling the disguise. For example, you can see a fake "m"-shaped digital scratch appear several times atop the cannon itself, identical in shape every single time. One wonders if Mr. Kuran was notified.

@blakenaftel3637

9 ай бұрын

Normally in cases like this they provide a list of credits in the description, not that that's really the same thing as paying the copyright owner a reasonable sum for using their property, but I don't even see that much lol

Leave it to the 1950s US govt to a) help an industry sell more stuff & b) try to scare folks into cleaning up their property using atomic weapons...

I've just had an above ground nuclear explosion. 🤣🤣🤣

Wouldn't their lungs collapse from the over/underpressure waves?

Now I wanna play cod on nuketown😭🤣

Why does the car behind the masonry house vanish before the blast and appear right as it hits?

Its silly how some people resent the 50s so much that they reduce attempts to improve safety to profitt seeking. . Yes businesses want to sell you things. Get over it

While this is all very frightening, I'd still would love to see a nuclear blast from a safe distance in person. A big one. That must be a sight to behold.

@Melody_Raventress

9 ай бұрын

Oh, my. Me too! I've always wanted to see one, and people look at me like I'm crazy. People gathering to watch buildings being demolished is hardly shocking, why should this?

I love how some idiot in Joe Rogan was all like "how did the camera survive?!" They debated it for a while. People are stupid.

Don't worry, Vault Techs Vault program will keep us all safe!

Now I need to play BO zombies on Xbox again... Ugggg

How many channels does this guy have 😂

"Japanese houses were built from wood and paper making them less blast resistant than American houses" well I mean yeah, wood and paper is technically weaker than wood and cardboard

Whatever mic or editing that used in this video.. MUST be used in all Simon-Verse videos! Not a fan of lower audio vids.

telling viewers what their house will be like when atom bomb falls?

Sorry but hollywood does it (wrong) again: Indiana Jones chances of surviving this is the same as John Blutarsky's grade point average in Animal House -0.0 😐

is simon really bald or does he just shave since forever in anticipation of a keeps sponsorship?

Is this where the *Logic* for the laughable *Duck n Cover* came from. ha ha ha

After Japan, there was no excuse for Americans not knowing how dangerous radioactivity was. The military still insisted on the tests because, well you know, the last thing you want during Armageddon is for something to unexpectedly go wrong.

@tracyrreed

9 ай бұрын

For better or worse, because the bombs that hit Japan detonated well above the ground there was little radioactive fallout created. What fallout there was decayed quite quickly per the 7:10 rule which says: "The 7:10 Rule of Thumb states that for every 7-fold increase in time after detonation, there is a 10-fold decrease in the exposure rate. In other words, when the amount of time is multiplied by 7, the exposure rate is divided by 10. For example, let's say that 2 hours after detonation the exposure rate is 400 R/hr. After 14 hours, the exposure rate will be 1/10 as much, or 40 R/hr." So by the time anyone with instruments got there the radiation was pretty much gone. Remember that the bomb was top secret and they didn't even know what they had been hit with so nobody immediately thought to get out geiger counters or whatever. Modern day Hiroshima and Nagasaki do not have any measurable levels of radiation above background. So it's not at all surprising that the lesson about fallout was not learned from the attacks on Japan.

@kenkahre9262

9 ай бұрын

This is correct. For the first few years, most people (read military and general public) thought the A Bomb was simply one big firecracker. Radioactive fallout as we understand it today wasn't yet known or even understood. @@tracyrreed

I guess that house in the second video had the wrong kind of paint on it... 😅

Gotta hand it to the yanks, they know how to be paranoid...

first time being early

what in gods name is an "on treppin nure"

WHO would WANT to survive a nuclear attack?

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By the late 50's, Eisenhower said you might as well shoot yourself cuz the chances of surviving big blasts were pretty much zilch.

It is real if you played COD