Posted on 10/09/2006 12:20:15 PM PDT by weegee
Selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures.
Famous Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack.
Producer: Archer Productions, Inc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0K_LZDXp0I
Anyone have info on the strength of this bomb or what N.Korea could potentially put on a missile?
In 1951, were the school desks certified nuke shields?
I still think it depends on the strength of the bomb.
You'd still face cancer and other problems, but the bombs dropped on Japan did offer some real world examples of people being near the incident and being partially shielded not having some of the skin problems.
And bomb shelters were also known as fallout shelters. Not designed to withstand a hit so much as the later contamination (and you'd probably still evacuate the area afterwards when possible).
What would a dirty bomb do?
The bomb we dropped on Hiroshima was 14.5 kt.
So the NK bomb seems to have been at most 3-4% as powerful as the USA's very first weapon deployed.
The very first test bomb the USA conducted in NM, "The Gadget", was 18kt.
There was a turtle by the name of Bert
And Bert the Turtle was very alert
When danger threatened him he never got hurt
He knew just what to do
He'd duck and cover, duck and cover
He'd hide his head and tail and four little feet
He'd duck and cover!
He hid beneath his little shell until the coast was clear
Then one by one his head and tail and legs would reappear
By acting calm and cool he proved he was a hero, too
For finding safety is the bravest wisest thing to do
And now his little friends are just like Bert
And every turtle is very alert
When danger threatens them they never get hurt
They know just what to do
They duck and cover, duck and cover
They hide their heads and tails and four little feet
They duck and cover!
He hid beneath his little shell until the coast was clear
Then one by one his head and tail and legs would reappear
By acting calm and cool he proved he was a hero, too
For finding safety is the bravest wisest thing to do
And now his little friends are just like Bert
And every turtle is very alert
When danger threatens them they never get hurt
They know just what to do
They duck and cover, duck and cover
They hide their heads and tails and four little feet
They duck and cover!
They duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, and cover
Don't be like "Mr. Bungle" watch the video.
I can't find good footage online of China's first nuclear bomb test.
There is a clip on Youtube (I think sourced from the people who compiled videotapes of many of the atomic tests around the world).
My problem with their video is that they took what was a seized Chinese Communist Propaganda film (which was duplicated and dubbed for American viewing) and recut it and overdubbed it with new sound effects and monumenal music.
The other film may have been campy, but that was as the Chinese Communists MADE it. Okay, so the American narrator was LESS than enthusiastic as he read lines honoring Mao and China's greatness, it still got the point across.
THAT version of the Chinese nuke film was released (in the 1980s or 1990s) to VHS by Rhino (pre-Warner Bros. days) as "Mao's Little Red Video".
A 1 kiloton bomb can fit on the tip of the medium range missiles Kim has been firing over Japan. A 15 kiloton bomb barely fits in a WWII B-29 bomber.
The only possibly good news is that the PRK bomb was supposed to be a 15 kiloton device, but it "fizzled" at less than a kiloton.
See Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears.
No, Mr. Bungle is THIS guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khcK-dmypt0
Thanks for the ping. Check out the film Atomic Cafe if you want to get a good idea about what the hell was going on back then.
Yep. There's a clip in that film of Rep. (later Senator and VP candidate) Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) urging citizens to write Congress telling them to support the use of the nuclear bomb in Korea.
It was NOT something that made his "highlight reel" when he passed away.
An hour later those same troops walked through ground zero inspecting the damage.
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