[Virginia Ridgerunner]

[Waverunner]

#1 problem - Over exposed film

[Pessimist]

So... “nuts”, or just nuts?

[Ender Wiggin]

Smile and wait for flash

[a fool in paradise]

Two new atomic documentaries, “Countdown to Zero” and “Nuclear Tipping Point,” feature archival images of the blasts. Both argue that the threat of atomic terrorism is on the rise and call for the strengthening of nuclear safeguards and, ultimately, the elimination of global arsenals.

There are a number of DVDs will public doman footage from the blasts as well as training films. I've even picked up one title on the "secret corps of filmmakers".

That said, such images of the cameramen filming the low yield blasts (or even being knocked down but not immediately killed by the blasts) are evidence that those who say "you WILL NOT SURVIVE a nuclear blast" are false. That is directed at those who poo-pooed fall out shelters and who today believe that a terrorist strike with a "suitcase nuke" will kill everyone in a major metropolitan area.

It all depends on the strength.

[a fool in paradise]

Viewers include President Obama.

In April, he hosted a White House screening of “Nuclear Tipping Point.” The documentary profiles a bipartisan group of former atomic officials who are promoting a vision of the world free of nuclear arms — an objective in line with Mr. Obama’s own policies.

You aren't going to put the genie back in the bottle, but Obama is hell-bent on diminishing America's nuclear arsenal even if the Russians and Chinese won't.

[NonValueAdded]

The top photo makes me wonder if a montage of these blasts accompanied by The Beatles’ "Here Comes The Sun" would be as surreal as it sounds.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Virginia Ridgerunner.

Oppenheimer, the principle developer of the atomic bomb, wrote later that during the explosion of the first atomic bomb, he immediately recalled something from the Bhagavad-gita -- "Death I am, cause of destruction of the worlds..."

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[KoRn]

Wow...... I wonder how long those guys survived after making all of those films. They HAD to be exposed to more radiation than a growing boy needs.

[Monkey Face]

If one was a “Down Winder,” there was no question: One took Iodine Pills once a week and never, ever asked why; neither did our parents.

[djf]

Well, they may have been filming things surreptitiously, but I doubt if there was more than a handful of tests that were not officially recorded and documented to the T.

Go out to Youtube and search for “Davy Crockett”...