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Refresher course! DUCK AND COVER (1951 educational film viewable online)
You Tube ^ | 1951 (now public domain) | Archer Productions, Inc.

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


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: abombtest; atomicbomb; china; duckandcover; karlrove; korea; koreannuke; northkorea; nuclearattack; nuclearbomb; octobersurprise; russia
What with the Korean nuke test...


1 posted on 10/09/2006 12:20:17 PM PDT by weegee
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To: weegee

Anyone have info on the strength of this bomb or what N.Korea could potentially put on a missile?


2 posted on 10/09/2006 12:21:22 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Revolting cat!; t_skoz
QUICK! DUCK AND COVER!


3 posted on 10/09/2006 12:23:51 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: weegee
LOL, how naive we were back then.
4 posted on 10/09/2006 12:27:18 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.)
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To: weegee

In 1951, were the school desks certified nuke shields?


5 posted on 10/09/2006 12:31:22 PM PDT by smith288
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To: AxelPaulsenJr

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?


6 posted on 10/09/2006 12:33:37 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: weegee
I've seen conflicting reports of yield being anywhere from 0.1 to 0.5 kiloton.

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.

7 posted on 10/09/2006 12:39:42 PM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: weegee

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

8 posted on 10/09/2006 12:47:20 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: weegee

Don't be like "Mr. Bungle" watch the video.


9 posted on 10/09/2006 12:48:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: wideawake

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".


10 posted on 10/09/2006 12:50:48 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: wideawake
I am much more worried about a PRK nuke that yielded 1 kiloton than one that yielded 15 kilotons.

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.

11 posted on 10/09/2006 12:56:09 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: dfwgator

No, Mr. Bungle is THIS guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khcK-dmypt0


12 posted on 10/09/2006 12:56:39 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: weegee

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.


13 posted on 10/09/2006 3:53:46 PM PDT by t_skoz ("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
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To: t_skoz

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.


14 posted on 10/09/2006 8:13:45 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: AxelPaulsenJr

An hour later those same troops walked through ground zero inspecting the damage.


17 posted on 10/13/2006 5:40:48 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
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