RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT & FALLOUT IN THE AFFECTED AREA BRITISH CIVIL DEFENSE FILM 72592
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2015
- Produced by the Home Office and the Scottish Home Department in 1960, "Radioactive Fallout // The Overall Situation" and "Fallout in the Affected Area" give a chilling idea of what might happen if the United Kingdom were struck by nuclear weapons. A simple mushroom shown on the ground quickly becomes a mushroom cloud, and so the story unfolds -- with fallout moving quickly across a large swath of England. Nuclear fallout, or simply fallout, is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast or a nuclear reaction conducted in an unshielded facility, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and shock wave have passed.
The film gives advice concerning how buildings and people can be protected from fallout, including the use of sandbags, basements and fallout shelters.
The film apparently contains images of the British nuclear test series at British Nuclear tests at Maralinga, that occurred between 1956 and 1963 at the Maralinga site, part of the Woomera Prohibited Area in South Australia and about 800 kilometres north-west of Adelaide. A total of seven nuclear tests were performed, with approximate yields ranging from 1 to 27 kilotonnes of TNT (4.2 to 113.0 TJ). Two major test series were conducted at the Maralinga site: Operation Buffalo and Operation Antler. The site was also used for hundreds of minor trials, many of which were intended to investigate the effects of fire or non-nuclear explosions on atomic weapons. The site was contaminated with radioactive materials and an initial cleanup was attempted in 1967.
The Civil Defence Corps (CDC) was a civilian volunteer organisation established in Great Britain in 1949 to mobilise and take local control of the affected area in the aftermath of a major national emergency, principally envisaged as being a Cold War nuclear attack. By March 1956, the Civil Defence Corps had 330,000 personnel. It was stood down in Great Britain in 1968, although two Civil Defence Corps still operate within the British Isles, namely the Isle of Man Civil Defence Corps and Civil Defence Ireland (Republic of Ireland). Many other countries maintain a national Civil Defence Corps, usually having a wide brief for assisting in large scale civil emergencies such as flood, earthquake, invasion, or civil disorder.
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Thanks for posting this up. I have a surplus Polish set with a dosimeter, but all of the literature is in rads and grays. It's been very helpful to learn about the Roentgen thresholds. Obviously I hope I never need to use it.
Thank you for sharing this gem.
It's funny that in 1960 they planned for help to come from outside the target areas. There wouldn't be any help coming today. Also, I doubt there'd be any chance of helping anyone inside that 13 mile ring if a 10 megaton nuke was ground burst.
it was a bit of propaganda, for morale more than anything. The mainland will NEVER get hit. Trust me.
Nukes have no Morale👈@@joeditski4589
Sobering film. Thanks for this.
Gruesome to see those men siting around the big map planning and calculating... the fact that they knew more about what they were doing than I have realized. And I heard Oppenheimer went crazy once he understood the impact of his invention/discovery. Is that true? Or was it the nuclear bomb pilots?
no they liked that the weapon ended ww2 instead of prolonging it
worlds worst fire extinguisher at 21.56 also glad to see vintage valve radios unaffected by Electro Magnetic Pulse!
How optimistic of this presentation's producers that only one city or one strike will be all that will have to be dealt with by "rescue" operation teams.
Yep
I love these old movies.
Yeah I think 75 R dose of radiation is quite a lot, even in an emergency. I wonder if the wardens would have really risked it..?
I think the idea was that if the bombs had fallen, it would be a long time before anybody had the luxury of thinking about long-term risks. Why worry about leukemia in 3 years if you're starving in a post-apocalyptic wasteland today?
The War Emergency Dose could in fact be increased to 150 R or 150 C/Gy in the 1980's..............
15:50 coded gents tangent 4hp siren
I just hope mad will prevent the inevitable for now?
These films were written, produced and directed by the late, great David Cobham. You can see more of his films on his channel.
I am watching this after hearing recent news of a serious threats of Russian space weapons. It is sobering to imagine what the world has come to. What a frightening disturbing portrayal this video shows. The numbers part in the beginning was very informative. I wonder if it is still relevant. Whoever posted this, thank you for it.
You are welcome. Thanks for your comment!
Interesting that they considered 10MT to be a typical bomb to plan for - today most nukes are in the 0.1 to 0.4 MT range (i.e. a few hundred kilotons).
Tsar Bomba...
They also work with the theory of one bomb, one city. In fact several would fall in a given area. Though they tend to be smaller, assume every airport, rail head, port, military base and meeting of interstate highways could be targeted. Then scatter a few around the general urban areas/industrial areas.
When this film was made, nuclear weapons were rare. There were more targets than warheads. Sometime around the early to mid 60's this changed. By the mid 70's there were enough to turn every city to rubble, then make the rubble bounce.
Early ICBMs were not very accurate, so high-yield warheads were needed to ensure destruction of the target. Delivery systems became more accurate over time, making it feasible to use lower yields.
This was before the Tsar Bomba test, I believe, which was huge but revealed a law of diminishing returns with nuclear weapons - an increase in the weapon's yield did not result in a proportionately large increase in the area of destruction. It was then that the research moved into different directions, leading to mobile delivery systems (on naval ships as well as on bombers, as well as silos) and MIRVs (multiple independently-targeted re-entry vehicles - multiple warheads delivered by a single missile.)
Even less .1kT to 30kT see B61-12 bomb yield.
50+ years has allowed most humans to not know any of this. Many countries who have no ‘national service’ haven’t bothered to teach kids what to do, in schools. “Never gonna happen” would be the average attitude …………
The living will envy the dead.
I don't think anybody would stand out in the rubble and smoke measuring the fallout.
Don't know for sure. But great name. bunny foo foo
@@whirledpeas3477 😚
I don't want to set the world on fire...
15:50 WHAT?! WIRELESS DAMPER CS8?!!
That is a rare GENTS OF LEICESTER siren with dampers, not a CS8.
@@neohistoryfan1014 oh i see
In the event of War All bets are off do your job and hope
The gents tho
Watch out for radioactive sheep.
Vintage Scaremongering
How so? The threat was real and we nearly experienced in multiple times. In 1983 if it were not for Petrov you would not exist, also several times since, including mid 90s we were mins away from total destruction from false alarms.
If anything this info is far too optimistic
That's just propaganda talking. The GIobalist EIite control the world through WorId Free Mas. Onry. You only have to look at photos of M.arx who fronted the introduction to c.ommunism, and other characters like Lenin and Trotsky, all flashing the Mas. Onic hidden h a n d symbol, to know that. The cold war was staged. They divided the world into two, dualism, a problem for the eventual planned solution
24:15 "incurring their total dose before being withdrawn altogether" ... to where dude?? Tahiti? Southern Chile? lol Their jobs all done, get under the tent, take a rest..
This was all absolute rubbish it was just made to make the public feel safe
Not exactly. Some are in fact just a way to make feel the people safe, so they don’t begin to panic (like the about 10 years later released book and films „Protect and Survive“). But in this film most of the information is correct but some shelters, like the trench, i have to say that i really don’t think that they work as a good Fallout protection.
Effective civil defense was basically abandoned in Britain once they realized the Soviets would likely destroy every major British city 30 seconds after Whitehall got the alert. America would have had many unstruck cities of minor importance - Britain would have virtually none. It would have been an effective annihilation of the island.
@@Rutherford_Inchworm_III yes.
The entire UK would be reduced to Ash and glass
TH-cam the Vulcan Bomber documentaries
the pilots clearly says
' they knew there'd be nothing left of the UK to fly back to .
we would be instantaneously unleashing the power of the SUN .
and some folks think there'd be a future ..
@@grahamfisher5436 Not in the UK, anyway. There'd be plenty of perfectly habitable wilderness and rural survivors in the USA after the dust cleared. The further west you go, the more likely to survive, since the prevailing winds would blow the fallout east across N. America, and fallout from such a huge exchange would be extremely lethal.