Sleepcore: Nightmares of the Nuclear Age!

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  • @mr.fantastic172
    @mr.fantastic172 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The good old times when we used to dump nuclear waste at sea.
    Good times

  • @seanhudsonforester
    @seanhudsonforester ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Shall we play a game? How about global thermonuclear war? A strange game. the only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

  • @josesousa272
    @josesousa272 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    People look mature, responsible, articulate and sober. Quite different from 2022.

    • @jeffreyyoung4104
      @jeffreyyoung4104 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is all make believe.
      These are all actors playing a role i a warehouse made to look like a bunker, but the reality is there are no CD bunkers for government officials, other than the president and congress, and that has been deactivated decades ago.
      The IRS was the only agency with a bunker to keep the money flowing after a nuclear disaster. But it too is defunct.

    • @SteveMacSticky
      @SteveMacSticky ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah

    • @TheeAbrahamLincoln
      @TheeAbrahamLincoln 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yea but also they were less comfortable on camera

    • @kennethburnett6262
      @kennethburnett6262 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's ignorant naivety,😊

  • @theoldar
    @theoldar ปีที่แล้ว +103

    I lived through this. I had hoped my grandkids wouldn't have to.

    • @CreachterZ
      @CreachterZ ปีที่แล้ว +24

      No worries. With ICBMs, there’s no time for any of this theater.

    • @LilLou97
      @LilLou97 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cap 🧢

    • @AN_PVS-2
      @AN_PVS-2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It may give you some solace knowing younger generations will always have to face new horrifying technologies, but hopefully our understanding of the extent the damage these weapons can cause will prevent their actual use.

    • @Cracktaculus
      @Cracktaculus ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ...they'll never see it comin' or linger in agony in some gruesome fallout scenario, or not. Could be biological, mabey everyone will just go sterile from staring at a meteor shower 🚿, could be mutated insects, ya never know or wanna worry about it too much.

    • @DiodeMom
      @DiodeMom ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AN_PVS-2 nahhh people never learn and we have now raised the dumbest generation of kids who think the most important thing in life is what gender they choose to be today.

  • @MegCazalet
    @MegCazalet ปีที่แล้ว +20

    After experiencing the deadly evacuation of Houston fleeing Hurricane Rita in 2005, i know cities aren’t ready for anything remotely like this. I think I might just stay and get blown up. What’s left to live for if nuclear war breaks out? A future of misery.

  • @Harbalz
    @Harbalz ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Duck and Cover Your ROASTED DUCKS
    🦆☢️🦆☢️🦆☢️🦆☢️🦆☢️🦆☢️🦆☢️

  • @mth469
    @mth469 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    yup.
    There's nothing like lying flat on the ground and pulling your your shirt collar
    to survive a 10 Megaton nuke.
    That should work.

  • @mfaizsyahmi
    @mfaizsyahmi ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I just found this channel and it's oddly soothing and educational even though the subject matter is quite morbid.
    These, are the facts.

  • @DrFrankensteam
    @DrFrankensteam ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Mystery Science Theater 3000 would have had a field day with these films!

    • @wallykimball8829
      @wallykimball8829 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That is exactly what I was just thinking.

  • @andyevans2336
    @andyevans2336 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Ironically, when Mount St Helens erupted in Washington State, even after weeks of warning, confusion reigned. Makes me feel real confident…

    • @tluzanov
      @tluzanov ปีที่แล้ว

      good point. They made out the local governments as properly structured and organized. Even going as far as having plans on how to guide cars through a busy city center and how to follow flashing green traffic lights to get outside of the city. LOL What a joke, as soon as regular people learn there is a nuclear bomb on the way, and you only have 15-30 minutes left... it's going to be a colossal apocalyptic mess, even before the bomb goes off.

  • @judgeomega
    @judgeomega ปีที่แล้ว +56

    i grew up towards the end of the cold war. i asked my father about it once, and he said he wouldnt want to survive a nuclear war. the ppl who are killed by the blast are the lucky ones, and the survivors have nothing but pain, conflict, and hardship to look forward to.

    • @Istandby666
      @Istandby666 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I tell people the same thing.

    • @rharris22222
      @rharris22222 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was born in 64. By the time I was old enough to know about bomb shelters, most people had given up on survival because there were just too many warheads at that point (about 50,000 total at peak, I think). As a kid I never worried about it, but I did think having a bomb shelter would be fun.

    • @RIVALContentJammerz
      @RIVALContentJammerz ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Death over pain, conflict, and hardship? Wow. Doomed before the button was pressed.

    • @threadtapwhisperer5136
      @threadtapwhisperer5136 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I share the man's sentiment.
      Life can be a superficial struggle as it is today but nothing like the aftermath of nuclear weapon use.
      The scarcity of food or worse the contamination of food and water. Likely everyone you know dead or dying and likely having increased risks of radiation sickness.
      No thanks, im fine going quickly. There are much better suited humans to rebuild "society" in the wake of nuclear war.
      I am not one of them.

    • @RIVALContentJammerz
      @RIVALContentJammerz ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How many times have scientists, politicians, and television lied to us? You cowards have given up before fight even started.

  • @ssevngs
    @ssevngs ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Was told this when 8 yrs old in 1963
    If you are outside and we are under attack lay flat on ground face down if you have a jacket pull it over your head.
    Do not look at the flash.
    Every Saturday at 12 PM
    The alert sirens were cranked up for 1 minute.
    Twice every school year we had an evacuation drill everyone at my school who lived in my immediate neighborhood had a purple badge with our name on it every one in the purple group
    Gathered and walked from school to our homes the older kids making sure the younger kids got to there home.
    1st through 6th grade this was the drill.
    I remember going to the local Safeway grocery store on a Sunday with my parents in 63 to look at underground bomb shelters that were on flat bed big rig trucks in the store parking lot.
    It was pretty scary especially after watching many of the above ground nuclear test blasts on TV.
    Even at 8 you know that you won’t live through something like that.
    It was always on my mind through out my life until I was
    20 or so.
    In addition to that the stats of number of viet cong killed and American solders killed were on the evening news every night.
    The war I watched on tv when I was 8-9 years old in 63-64 was still going on when I was 17 in 1972!
    Damn.
    It was unbelievable.
    I seriously never thought I would live to see 25-30 and never have kids to see grow up.
    One good memory was the day it seemed like every kid in our part of town was at the local High School to take our sugar cube with the Polio vaccine on it and then stood in line for various other vaccinations in the arm and the then into the auditorium to watch Cinderella.
    Wow.
    This was Phoenix Arizona in the early 60’s.
    When we weren’t locking our doors and in the summer it was normal to fill my canteen and ride out to the desert with a friend and I had to be home before dinner at 5
    I had a stay at home mom and we all ate at the table every day.
    It was very leave it to beaver’ish
    Seriously
    I never met stranger danger
    If I was ever thirsty we drank out of any facet or hose at any house we chose.
    Nobody ever said do much as boo to us
    That’s just what you did.
    I was frightened by the thought of the ‘bomb’
    But was not afraid of anything in the world I lived in.
    In retrospect I should have feared the sun
    It was always out in Phoenix and hot
    Most days shirtless had enough sun for several life times.
    I’m thankful I never developed melanoma.
    Sun screen had not been invented then.
    Nor microwave ovens.
    And gas was leaded!
    And my fathers VW camper bus had no air conditioner.
    Honey bear was Sugar Bear
    And my sun tea had as much sugar as I saw fit
    That bowel was never empty.
    I’m rambling
    The MAD policy was crazy
    Mutually Assured Destruction
    That was it we had enough to blow up the planet several times over. So It caused the
    players to think real hard
    about pushing the button.
    Dr Strangelove was very much the real deal. No shit.

    • @mopar_dude9227
      @mopar_dude9227 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Definitely a lot has changed. BTW, both sunscreen and the microwave oven had been invented by then. Sunscreen was invented in the late 30s and microwave ovens were invented in the mid/late 1940s. Can’t remember the exact dates and too lazy to search. Did a report on sunscreen and cancer for health class many years ago and watched an episode of “How It’s Made” on microwaves. Funny how some facts stick with you, but I can’t find my keys and I have a 50/50 chance of remembering what I went to the store for.

    • @bobbyd6680
      @bobbyd6680 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm 3 years older and grew up in central Jersey. Everything you said I can relate to. We still had generals left from WWII that though about using nuclear weapons into the Viet Nam War.

  • @jasonhaire8897
    @jasonhaire8897 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That was a lie when he said after the nuclear blast 2 minits later you can walk to the blast site to do work helping people due your military duties.

    • @stevenmerlock9971
      @stevenmerlock9971 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Jason Haire the government knew about the dangers after human tests. (Operation Que-they had an outdoor BBQ in the fallout area after an atomic test)

  • @patriciayoung3267
    @patriciayoung3267 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    In my small Upstate NY village my Father took a radiation monitor training course in 1977 and was assigned to get a certain number of Village officials to the Shelter in the basement of the County Building built in 1962 in case of a nuclear attack. Years later, I worked in that same building and the shelter had showers, desks, phones and blackboards covered with the headings of various radiated areas in the County. Sleeping areas and a very modern kitchen. It was used by Emergency Management and was finally restructured in the mid 1990s.

    • @edwardspencer3906
      @edwardspencer3906 ปีที่แล้ว

      Odd reading that as late as 1977 y'all up north were still taking all this seriously! I grew up in central Florida and after the Missile Crisis, We knew we were ALL GONERS in case of launch...

  • @DisasterxUs
    @DisasterxUs ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "I won't kid you about the A-bomb. I've seen what it can do... it's deadly. ...It's like a woman."

    • @cindys1819
      @cindys1819 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      HAHAHAHAHAHA....
      But hey, he's 100% right....

  • @GeekFilter
    @GeekFilter ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Given the state of the world today… I’m gonna let myself skip this one!

    • @Cracktaculus
      @Cracktaculus ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just remember when you get to start worrying too much about the State of affairs in the world that you have no control over?.... Anyone can diev of anything tomorrow no matter what, even you. No one else has a better chance on this planet as soon as they're born!

    • @GeekFilter
      @GeekFilter ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Cracktaculus I was born with a congenital heart defect, had an experimental surgery at age 10 and a heart transplant in 2013. You don't need to lecture me on life and death. I am choosing not to watch for my mental health, even though I am a Patreon.

    • @Cracktaculus
      @Cracktaculus ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@GeekFilter holy hell man, more power to ya, sounds like you've been through more than most. My hearts' one of those one gonna clog-up regardless of drugs, I have like 375 cholesterol!

    • @puppiesarepower3682
      @puppiesarepower3682 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@GeekFilter Dam, those are some titanium balls.
      I could never handle that. ✌️

    • @Lucky-sh1dm
      @Lucky-sh1dm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@GeekFilter you are a soldier of god brotha

  • @panxerox01
    @panxerox01 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Life under the hammer, welcome young ones to our nightmare.

    • @Matt_Barnes
      @Matt_Barnes ปีที่แล้ว

      Under the Sword**
      (of Damocles)

    • @jackasslawyer
      @jackasslawyer ปีที่แล้ว +1

      with all this going on, why'd you even bother with silly racial discrimination? what a waste of time and energy

    • @Matt_Barnes
      @Matt_Barnes ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jackasslawyer wut

  • @DinoLondis
    @DinoLondis ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Before ICBMs.

  • @charliepearce8767
    @charliepearce8767 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cool...I can't wait to $hit in a bucket with everyone else in a small room...

  • @sjTHEfirst
    @sjTHEfirst ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ever see the movie “Threads”? That’s how this would end.

  • @stifledvoice
    @stifledvoice ปีที่แล้ว +11

    What do you do in case of fallout?
    Put it back in and take shorter strokes....

    • @ebikecnx7239
      @ebikecnx7239 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what she said...

    • @bobcourtier4674
      @bobcourtier4674 ปีที่แล้ว

      It works better if you put the sheep on a stump.

  • @fourtyfivefudd
    @fourtyfivefudd ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Here’s a piece of information to feed your insomnia your insomniacs, January 24th, 1961, a B-52G Stratofortress number carrying a Mark 39 hydrogen bomb, suffered damage and crashed approximately 60 miles from Raleigh, North Carolina. One of the nuclear bombs which had its core inserted, and was dropped to get it away from the plane before it crashed. The bomb crashed and was buried under approximately 200 feet of mud in a field just outside the city. It was determined that the bomb had engaged 6 of the 7 steps in order for the bomb to detonate. Only one safety mechanism prevented the bulb from detonating, even though the physical switch as set to ARM. That hydrogen bomb is still armed and buried in North Carolina to this day, likely slowly deteriorating and become more unstable as time passes.
    Welp, for those living in North Carolina, … GOODNIGHT! Sleep well!

    • @MsLila44
      @MsLila44 ปีที่แล้ว

      wouldn’t there be a “broken arrow” recovery by now?

    • @fourtyfivefudd
      @fourtyfivefudd ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MsLila44 they tried to get it. They drained the waterlogged ground, and dug to 50 feet but still couldn’t find it so they said screw it lol. But they believe it is much safer underground than it would be to have big machines vibrating the ground above, as well as risk hitting it with equipment, or lifting it up etcetera because it’s in its last arming stage and so close to potential being live. All it could take is a bump since it was a mechanical safety and not a digital one. Theres quite a few “missing” nuclear bombs just laying around that we weren’t able to recover. There’s a Mark 15 underwater in the Wassaw Sound which is a few miles from Savanah Georgia.

    • @franciscodanconia4324
      @franciscodanconia4324 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Both bombs were recovered and disarmed from that crash. The buried bomb's detonator was set to arm but it was safely removed after they dug it up

  • @gorymarty56
    @gorymarty56 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yeahhhhh like that's gonna be orderly. You bet mass chaos would occur. This is a best case scenario.

  • @my67falcon
    @my67falcon ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Having worked various BDOCs and disasters, if we reported our departments status as slow as some of these folks, it would be unacceptable. Cut out the excess words and info and give just what is needed. "Let's face it gentlemen" type comments are a waste of critical time.

  • @jimburg621
    @jimburg621 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    this day and age, in Portland, if they did a mass evacuation, when the citizens who left returned, it would for sure look like a nuke bomb had gone off.

    • @nunyabidness674
      @nunyabidness674 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was there for Operation Top Off in 2010... It was a SIMULATED nuclear attack, and after 3 days it might as well have been real...

    • @jacksons1010
      @jacksons1010 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Tell me you watch FoxNews without _telling_ me you watch FoxNews. 😂

    • @nunyabidness674
      @nunyabidness674 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jacksons1010 I don't watch Fox News... Or CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, C-SPAN, BBC, Al Jazeera.. 🤣
      Portland on the other hand... My own two eyes provide PLENTY of news. Like the lovely little "gift" that was left next to our vehicle in the hotel parking lot... All because we set up a couple barricades downtown and the tree huggers couldn't make it to starbucks

    • @Teeveepicksures
      @Teeveepicksures ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nunyabidness674 Take a breath, gramps.

    • @jimburg621
      @jimburg621 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jacksons1010 I haven't had a TV in 15 years, so no, none of that brainwashing stuff in my head. I've seen the big city life, and yeah, 3rd world blight. shame on the mess.

  • @IAmJimRetzer
    @IAmJimRetzer ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The first film, with Glenn Ford is A Day Called X.

  • @scottlarson1548
    @scottlarson1548 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    @2:33 Cool to see the old Orpheum Theater that was demolished in the 70s here in Portland. Of course the "traffic jam" depicted is just a typical afternoon now.

  • @briansweet8904
    @briansweet8904 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These people are dreaming. 10/10 Propaganda

  • @allandavis8201
    @allandavis8201 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I absolutely love these old training and information films, and both during my service and since retiring I must have seen thousands, and it is interesting to compare the differences in the facts as they were and are now known, not just about atomic/nuclear weapons but about civil defence or personal actions you can take in various situations, natural disasters, medical emergencies, road safety and so many other scenarios, but the way that the films, like this one, try to explain how safe or how atomic/nuclear weapons work are fantastic, fantastic in how they try to convince us all how we should NOT worry, well, I’m sorry but if it ever comes to the M.A.D scenario I for one will sit on my porch, gin and tonic (without the tonic) in hand (after about a bottle of gin in 15 minutes) and catch an instant sunshine bomb tan, followed, a fraction of a second later, free cremation and ashes scattered in the wind (nuclear wind that is), and why would I do it that way????, easy, life wouldn’t be worth living in a situation where the very air you breath can kill in a horrific and painful way, nothing would survive for long, not even cockroaches (contrary to popular belief). Even those living in their subterranean converted missile silos and special bunkers for the rich/powerful won’t guarantee survival, at least not for long. The last video about the safety of American airborne weapons “accidentally” detonating was probably very reassuring at the time, but what about other countries with “the bomb” back then and now? I don’t think that their regard for weapons safety was, or is, anything like as comprehensive as the allied/NATO nations, and that is scary, especially with the madman Putin in control (or not) of Russian weapons, and I believe he will use them if he thinks it would “turn the tide” of the war on Ukraine 🇺🇦, but it wouldn’t, Hitler believed that his “V” or “Vengeance” weapons would turn the tide, and look where that got him, and that is why I believe Putin would use them.
    Ok, rant over and soapbox put away, spleen vented and essay completed, thanks for sharing these old but comforting brainwashing titbits, very enjoyable and Halloween 🎃 inspired, you know when you have entered the twilight zone. Thanks again. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸🇺🇦

  • @MrJamesmaco
    @MrJamesmaco ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was on a navy base in charleston south carolina in 1962 during the blockade my dad was a sailor on one of those ships.

  • @MrShobar
    @MrShobar ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:58. That's Mayor Terry Schrunk of Portland. He was Mayor from 1957 to 1973 (while I was growing up there).

  • @fortressgothika
    @fortressgothika ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Evacuation? That's a joke. What do you think you're going to evacuate to?

  • @CreachterZ
    @CreachterZ ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nuclear blast! Rush into the area fellas and get the power back on!
    What radiation?
    Geez.

    • @JimAllen-Persona
      @JimAllen-Persona ปีที่แล้ว

      I was thinking… who’s going to be operating the power plants? Then again, that area has hydro assuming EMP doesn’t knock out the generators.

  • @wallykimball8829
    @wallykimball8829 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    A lot of this dialogue is unintentionally hilarious. I especially like how he advises, in the event of a bombing where you have no shelter, for you to lie down on the ground and cover yourself up! 😂😂😂 might as well wrap yourself in foil.

    • @GilmerJohn
      @GilmerJohn ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well, if you value you life will will try something that only has a 0.001% chance of working. I had an uncle that was a young medical doctor in the Army and was a part of the "Occupation" of Japan. He saw some victims of the atomic bomb. One man was carrying some kind of slatted floor mat. He had a series of parallel burns on his back.

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well at least that way you'll be browned equally all over.

    • @tcioaca
      @tcioaca ปีที่แล้ว

      The fallout this statement would cause today: th-cam.com/video/YktmD8_JC7E/w-d-xo.html. Oh my, didn't know they had cringe back then and that it was allowed in such productions :).

    • @notmyfault29
      @notmyfault29 ปีที่แล้ว

      An atomic bomb is like a woman; just try getting away with that one today.

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In fairness, the A-bombs weren't as powerful as today's bombs.

  • @bluemantom77
    @bluemantom77 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was born in the 70's so the USSR was still a thing there was still a cold war not as intense as it wasn't those days for that generation but nevertheless still a scary time things could have went left at any time luckily it didn't thank goodness it led to the end of that kind of Communism at least for that moment and the Berlin Wall came down I remember Reagan meeting with Russian president discussing peace talks the current president dictator Putin is salty because the USSR disbanded and he was in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down pissed him off as a KGB officer so he's not saying that people are not saying it what I think was personally think it's just my opinion that he's trying to rebuild the USSR starting with Ukraine now hopefully something could be done about this madman I don't think he'll use any of Russia's nuclear stockpile against us but you never know so some ways this is like a part two of The Cold war in some sense becoming like that

  • @toastyPredicament
    @toastyPredicament ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nightmares of a nuclear angel

  • @singalongwrudy8690
    @singalongwrudy8690 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My grampa build his own boat and planned to put in at Toledo and go north into the Great Lakes upward to Canada or out the Seaway. . The boat was always stocked with survival gear.

  • @nigelft
    @nigelft ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I lived through this throughout the 1980's. When I was 13, c. 1987, I remember being at my Comprehensive School (read: High School) talking with a guy I've known since Infant School, about what we would both do if, whilst at school, the sirens started whaling for the 'Four Minute Warning'. Depending on the size of the delivered warhead (and Soviet ICBM warheads had quite large blast yields at the time), given the distance from Heathrow Airport, a 5MT airburst would've wiped out the entire school; either burnt to death, or crushed under tons of rubble, if it hadn't caught on fire, first. Neither of us were told of any contingencies, as in which area(s) of the school was less vulnerable than others, and so forth. In fact, I doubt even if the teachers themselves knew ...
    But one thing us kids did know: that the living would envy the dead ...
    Even the Soviet populations knew. There is a grim joke of that era that can be translated as thus:-
    "In event of a nuclear war, you should cover yourself with a white sheet, and make your was slowly to the nearest cemetery ..."
    "But why slowly, Comrade ...?"
    "Because, my dear Comrade, you're not supposed to panic anyone else ..."
    What neither the Americans, nor the Soviets, truly failed to grasp, nor accept, was each was equally terrified of the other: Yuri Andropv, the Soviet Premier, truly believed that during the NATO exercise, _Able Archer '83_ , that it was based on a pre-emptive Soviet attack, first shutting of West Berlin, then pushing into West Germany, proper - an action which would only escalate to use of Tactical, then Strategic nuclear weapons, it also meant the three NATO nuclear forces (Britain, France, and the US) would use that same exercise as a prelude to a First Strike of their own. He actually raised their nuclear forces Alert Level - allegedly - to that of the equivalent to DEFCON 2; and sent all mobile missile launchers, with their C-n-C into 'the field', with each commander have their own authority to launch if all communications where to fail ...
    ... in the meanwhile, the Americans, knowing the Soviets were beginning to struggle, worried that they (the Russians) would reach the conclusion of 'better now, than be hit first', and had drawn up a First Strike plan themselves ... especially when their number of stockpiled warheads exceeded the Americans, in both number, and blast yields, in the megaton range ...
    For American readers, if you can, find 'Threads' a British drama about the outcome of a nuclear war. It was produced, and aired in 1984, so it looks/feels dated ... though so am I, as I was ~10 at the time ...
    ... but what hasn't dated is the utter fear, and sheer dread, throughout. According to American reviewers, it makes 'The Day After', also a television drama-film about nuclear war "almost like a Disney Movie, such was the optimistic view, rather than come as close to the grim, gritty, reality of 'Threads' ..." ...

    • @asdf9890
      @asdf9890 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m only 2 years younger than you, and I couldn’t describe the era better as a US youth. At the time, I think many expected the other outcome would have already happened by 2000.

    • @franciscodanconia4324
      @franciscodanconia4324 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Remember also that in 1983 we almost went to all out nuclear war because of a software bug in Soviet tracking systems. One Russian officer kept his head, figured it out, and I wasn't immolated in my third grade class.

  • @jasonmikolajewski2653
    @jasonmikolajewski2653 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How very quaint to be back then in the 1950s before ICBMs and have hours before an attack (especially in a coastal city) instead of 5-30 minutes of either pure panic or no notice at all.

    • @ChatGPT1111
      @ChatGPT1111 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There won't be any notice. Nobody wants to take a chance it was an error. Happens time and time again. You'll see a very bright flash and then a lot of heat in your final second on earth.

    • @grahamfisher5436
      @grahamfisher5436 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ChatGPT1111
      yes... no inbound air attack alert
      no point in sending humanity insane before the flash
      May sense and sensibility lead and prevail

  • @siggyretburns7523
    @siggyretburns7523 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And the blind were freaking out because they didn't get to read the "There is not an attack coming" on the TV screen.

  • @TheRattyBiker
    @TheRattyBiker ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just where did they intend evacuating everyone too? The next city that may have been the intended target?

  • @billakers6082
    @billakers6082 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ammunition will be worth more than gold.

  • @timpeterson2738
    @timpeterson2738 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Seems like we need to start doing these drills again everywhere

    • @richbrockmeier3922
      @richbrockmeier3922 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because the US is a warmongering nation full of thugs.

    • @guytech7310
      @guytech7310 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pointless. A Sub launched Nuke can take out coastal targets under 10 minutes. Russian Posidoen system would wipe out most of the coastal cities with a single device. What we need a diplomacy and not poke the bear in his backyard.

    • @grahamfisher5436
      @grahamfisher5436 ปีที่แล้ว

      there's absolutely no point.

  • @alanmoffat4454
    @alanmoffat4454 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    YOU NEED TOO UPDATE ALL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MODREN WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION , JUST A LITTLE OUTDATED .

  • @gorymarty56
    @gorymarty56 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It would have been weird if an earthquake had happened.

  • @jomon723
    @jomon723 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Two minutes after the blast it is safe to enter the area under the blast! That's ok, I will stay far far away

  • @eduardorivera4343
    @eduardorivera4343 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    War can be avoided if we leave them alone..Keep all eyes on the Jew for they love war.

  • @rgarizonahomestead2729
    @rgarizonahomestead2729 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    as kids during this time, it was interesting and scary, but things change, and life moves on we all made it. today folks living around southern calif are finding old bomb shelters in their back yards from what we call the good old days now we have this mess we are living in such fun. take care of each other that's all we have in this world

  • @Barada73
    @Barada73 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you imagine the panic and meltdowns that would occur if they tried a nuclear bomb drill like that in modern day Portland?

  • @Babybugex
    @Babybugex ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow. In light of late events.. Now I will never sleep. Thanks. LOLZ

  • @Cracktaculus
    @Cracktaculus ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I just thought of something while we're watching this film of what bureaucrats might be doing during a nuclear disaster? I want to see the film of all the people partying their ass off knowing they're going to die!!!

    • @charliepearce8767
      @charliepearce8767 ปีที่แล้ว

      Drugs and Hookers...

    • @MichaelSHartman
      @MichaelSHartman ปีที่แล้ว

      See "Raven Rock" TH-cam video.

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg ปีที่แล้ว

      "On The Beach" (1959) about people in Australia waiting to be killed by radioactive contamination from a nuclear war in the Northern hemisphere. Some of them "party like hell" if I remember the picture correctly.

  • @diracflux
    @diracflux ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Timely 😥

  • @TheCorrectViews
    @TheCorrectViews ปีที่แล้ว +1

    47:12... so there is no explosion... just don't breathe. If you breathe in the "harmless" alpha particles, you are as good as toast ol' boy. Now, those are the facts.

  • @sjTHEfirst
    @sjTHEfirst ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @10:00 is that what you’re wearing to the apocalypse ?

    • @Thorstevens1
      @Thorstevens1 ปีที่แล้ว

      The dress looks like it will make a nice picnic blanket! LOL

  • @seanhudsonforester
    @seanhudsonforester ปีที่แล้ว +7

    All the examples of what you should do if a blast goes off are absolutely useless. But it made the public feel a little better about doing "something" Lying down and covering your face all that would do is blind you to your immediate and impending doom.

  • @dskyyksd
    @dskyyksd ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The voice of Alexander Scourby was such a mainstay of these time capsule docs.

  • @Springbok295
    @Springbok295 ปีที่แล้ว

    Targeting Portlandgrad, Seattle, San Fecesco, LA, NYC, Boston, Washington DC, Tampa , Philly, and Chicago.

  • @canibaloxide
    @canibaloxide ปีที่แล้ว +2

    an egg...an atomic...egg

  • @darrenhanson3875
    @darrenhanson3875 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm 55 now and remember a big part of this in the 80s. Sorta ironic the first one was spose to have took place in the city I grew up in and still living in and around! I still say we all should get PTSD pay for having to live through this!😆😅🤣.....JK!!!!😉

  • @dsmith004
    @dsmith004 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I grew up during the cold war and watched the Iron Curtin finally fall and the collapse of the communist state. Even as the wall fell and individuals, groups, and governments poised to pound swords into ploughshares. Unfortunately human nature does not change and here we are; everything old is new again.

    • @spankthemonkey3437
      @spankthemonkey3437 ปีที่แล้ว

      And what's funny is now conservatives support Russia and China 🤷🤦🤣

  • @fritzthedog007
    @fritzthedog007 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    50:08 He puts the "valuable material" in his pocket. (edit) THESE ARE THE FACTS.

  • @randomspurious1066
    @randomspurious1066 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Worked for me! Put me into a deep, trance-like state of profound slumber.
    Say what you will about that ;)

  • @cindys1819
    @cindys1819 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Actually every labor day weekend in Parsippany NJ they have a giant 1950's/
    oldies super festival called LEAD EAST. And every year
    besides doo wop and rockabilly music and a prom
    complete with vintage clothes, they have tons of civil defense/duck and cover
    materials from that golden era....

  • @eldepavas
    @eldepavas ปีที่แล้ว +5

    16:58 "It's... like a woman!" XD

  • @MarkAMMarrk
    @MarkAMMarrk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was born in 1960, so this nuclear war stuff was an accepted and forgone conclusion. It was what it was, and by the 70's, I just wanted to live near a target zone so I could go quickly (I lived near LAX, and so I was good with that).

  • @SteveBrownRocks2023
    @SteveBrownRocks2023 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember having air raid drills in school, in the 60’s. BTW, I’d LOVE to have 1of those bomb shelter things with the bunks & all! (Like in the thumbnail)

  • @AAA-uy2ob
    @AAA-uy2ob ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fear is slavery

  • @allanfifield8256
    @allanfifield8256 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love all the Poodle Skirts

  • @jerrypolverino6025
    @jerrypolverino6025 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s worse now.

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know the topic is morbid but God it's refreshing to see when our government, state & federal actually DID STUFF. It does not feel like that anymore at all. Our country is capable of so much more potential & it definitely seems like they are letting a lot go to waste.

  • @badabam4102
    @badabam4102 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this vid is gonna blow up im sure 4.398 views right now...

  • @johnrudy9404
    @johnrudy9404 ปีที่แล้ว

    While I premptively applaud the efforts of those who will be in charge, it will be a world war and I doubt the enemy will send only one warhead per target. The devastation
    Will be so far removed from what we know, that civil authorities may very well be finished.
    It would be nice to think some will survive, but what will they find? The next war will be horror and misery on unparalleled levels.

  • @MegCazalet
    @MegCazalet ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “AN ATOMIC BOMB IS LIKE A WOMAN”!? Sadly, that kind of shit is still said un ironically today.
    But so any opportunities for jokes:
    “Everyone is obsessed with how and when it’s going to come.”
    “The fallout after one goes off lasts for ages.”
    “Our national infrastructure for maintaining them is crumbling.”
    “At least one is missing somewhere in a swamp in North Carolina.”

    • @ChatGPT1111
      @ChatGPT1111 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, it's a much quicker death.

    • @franciscodanconia4324
      @franciscodanconia4324 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      An atomic bomb doesn't take half your stuff... it takes all of it.

  • @greghemlock6679
    @greghemlock6679 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What folly this all was😮 they found out later that during this time. The Soviet Union only had two working bombs and no delivery with it.

  • @johnholeman2966
    @johnholeman2966 ปีที่แล้ว

    So, watching intelligently, one could say that we tried to invent a star on the surface of a water planet. oops. If a scientist could find a way to ignite water, it's hydrogen and oxygen and they burn, the planet would have gone off like a flash bulb.

  • @duanemediak9675
    @duanemediak9675 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm watching cause I had a dream where a nuke detonatated of the east coast of florida in the daytime sinking a naval ship. In the dream I was astonished the people around me didn't seem to care. like it was normal. Anyway..... so long, farewell.

  • @Paul-ou1rx
    @Paul-ou1rx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    County folk back then were better prepared for this if it happened. More people lived in rural areas and had well water, self canned foods. root cellars. 1/4 of homes still used outhouses.

  • @philhampton8294
    @philhampton8294 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nightmares of the Nuclear Age! The Nuclear age is still here more dangerous than in the 1950s.

  • @cindys1819
    @cindys1819 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This all based on the unlikely premise that the "authorities" will tell you the truth about the dangers you are really in......

  • @jan_phd
    @jan_phd ปีที่แล้ว

    The half-life of Uranium 235 is 700 million years, so pack away enough food and water!

  • @LLAACountyJail
    @LLAACountyJail 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My poor mom is still a slave of the GOV. I keep tryin to tell her the GOV is fulla shyt. Poor thing she still lives in 1961. I love her..

  • @deafmusician2
    @deafmusician2 ปีที่แล้ว

    We'll, it's Portland, we've wanted that place gone for years. What's the down side, boy??

  • @TheDoorspook11c
    @TheDoorspook11c 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ahhhh we knew the bad guys during the Cold War. Happy times.

  • @woollygoat8921
    @woollygoat8921 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who would want to live in the post-nuclear apocalypse? Those who are vaporized are the lucky ones.

  • @arajoaina
    @arajoaina 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    why there are no more civil defense excercises anymore? Is it bc they became useless since the ICBMs can get to us before any evacuations?

  • @PartTimeLaowai
    @PartTimeLaowai ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ♪♫♬ Duck....and cover! ♪♫♬

  • @taylordooley3765
    @taylordooley3765 ปีที่แล้ว

    It must be nice being Canada. See a bomber? No worries, it’s not for us, if for the jerks next door.

  • @mikeschuler2946
    @mikeschuler2946 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Portland lol that is one way of cleaning up that dumpster fire

  • @MegCazalet
    @MegCazalet ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ok seeing that little lone dog run down the sidewalk broke my heart.

  • @MsLila44
    @MsLila44 ปีที่แล้ว

    28:48 a handkerchief should be a good enough filter… yeah sure…

  • @MsLila44
    @MsLila44 ปีที่แล้ว

    And at the end of the day cigarettes is what took them all down 😢..

  • @StrangeScaryNewEngland
    @StrangeScaryNewEngland 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    17:46 Well suppose I ain't one for supposin', mister?!

  • @scottjoseph9578
    @scottjoseph9578 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well, at least they would have Wal-Mart in 2023.

  • @51bobtube
    @51bobtube ปีที่แล้ว

    Why don't they just intercept the bombers?

  • @maxcaulfield6078
    @maxcaulfield6078 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Everything old is new again!

  • @NoName-dn8nv
    @NoName-dn8nv ปีที่แล้ว +3

    All you need is a really old lead refrigerator like indy Jones did

  • @derryjones1029
    @derryjones1029 ปีที่แล้ว

    No 1 will have the balls to attack first no 1😂

  • @Bradyvilleboy
    @Bradyvilleboy ปีที่แล้ว

    9:25 Alex Van Halen gives his report.

  • @venomdust1
    @venomdust1 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    If this was a real scenario you would see nothing less than total violent chaos . And one calm person in the middle of town looking up and sticking the middle finger at a unavoidable fate. We all know someone who would be that person.

    • @calsavestheworld
      @calsavestheworld ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Na people would debate whether the mushroom cloud outside their window was real on r/holyshitamushroomcloud

    • @seanhudsonforester
      @seanhudsonforester ปีที่แล้ว

      I would strip naked immediately and spread my arms and legs out and wait for the rush of the afterlife! I would no lie. Face the afterlife the same way I came into the world.

    • @DiodeMom
      @DiodeMom ปีที่แล้ว

      @@calsavestheworld 💀

    • @gavinvalentino6002
      @gavinvalentino6002 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm the guy looking into the sky every night and begging the space aliens to take me away, so...

    • @tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347
      @tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm thinking Barney Fife. Discuss amongst yourselves people, all responses welcome.....

  • @oldradiosnphonographs
    @oldradiosnphonographs ปีที่แล้ว

    Ugh, I’m glad I was born at the very tail end of this crap. (After the Berlin Wall fell but before the collapse of the Soviet Union…