[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.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I have an old VHS copy of Trinity and Beyond, which was an excellent documentary on the nuclear testing program from 1945 through 1964, narrated by William Shatner.

I highly recommend it!

[katana]

It all depends on the strength.

And the proximity.

If even half of what the doomsayers spout was true we should all be dead already. Over the course of around fifteen years the US and Soviets (and Brits and French) detonated hundreds of nuclear devices. Yet the population of the earth approximately doubled during the same time period.

The alarmists are like the people who wrote and directed the mutant sci-fi films of the fifties, except of course that those films were sometimes entertaining (like Them with the bus size ants).

[TalonDJ]

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.

Yup. I heard people for decades poo-pooing the old 'duck and cover' when in reality if you saw the flash you darn well needed to duck and cover or the flying glass was going to cut you up. If you were a few miles from ground zero you were probably going to be ok.