Nov
18
2011
Nuclear Detonations – How to respond in the first 60 seconds
Posted by Arms Control Center in NUCLEAR WEAPONS, tags: civil defense, Civil Defense Office, DOD, nuclear detonations, nuclear explosion
Residual radiation? Long term fallout accumulation? Sweltering two-week shelter stays? Those concerns are for another film! As both the title and the narrator make clear, Nuclear Detonations: The First Sixty Seconds, only focuses on the immediate energy released in a nuclear explosion. Created by the Office of Civil Defense in 1964, the film appears to be one of many focused instructional shorts likely used to segue into longer discussions