What people did for excitement in the 1950's

Yeah, crazy stuff. 

LOL

"This is new to me!"

pfft 2kt, I let those of in my pockets all day long.

Party!!!!

bapu


Fun Times.

No more.

Well, aren't YOU the buzz kill!

I still prefer pudding head.

I sensed you would say that.
(Pillock + 1)

Amounts to the same thing.

They (the U.S.) "only" shot off about 1,000 nukes...  What harm could that cause?

Mooch takes a perfect shot my singing all the time.

Well deserved I'm sure.

Zactly.

I wouldn't think of shaving everything!
(Unless the tub of jello was ready.)

In other news... they also used to let the kids in school go outside to set on the ground and watch the blasts when they knew the government would be testing that day. 

In the video.... that musta been a really small nuke. If you read the account of Hiroshima..... that too was an air burst above the city.  Nothing remained standing for miles.  The heat from the blast incinerated people and horses instantly, sometimes their silhouette on a wall was all that was left to show they were there. 

The eyes of Japanese soldiers outside of the city who watched the blast, melted in their heads. Thousands died from the flash burns..... 

It was on a missile as well.... back in the day, they did not have the technology to make powerful nukes to ride on missiles. They dropped them from planes and the planes immediately turned and high-tailed it out of the area. 

No, that blast in the video had to be extremely small. 

craigb


They (the U.S.) "only" shot off about 1,000 nukes...  What harm could that cause?

The military carefully measured the brain function of all the volunteers before and after the event.  There was not found to be any discernable difference.

Science then can re-assure everyone that they are absolutely harmless.

Guitarhacker


In other news... they also used to let the kids in school go outside to set on the ground and watch the blasts when they knew the government would be testing that day. 

In the video.... that musta been a really small nuke. If you read the account of Hiroshima..... that too was an air burst above the city.  Nothing remained standing for miles.  The heat from the blast incinerated people and horses instantly, sometimes their silhouette on a wall was all that was left to show they were there. 

The eyes of Japanese soldiers outside of the city who watched the blast, melted in their heads. Thousands died from the flash burns..... 

It was on a missile as well.... back in the day, they did not have the technology to make powerful nukes to ride on missiles. They dropped them from planes and the planes immediately turned and high-tailed it out of the area. 

No, that blast in the video had to be extremely small. 

As far as nukes go it was tiny at 2 kilotons (2000 tons of tnt). You notice this was a single small(ish) interceptor plane firing just one missile. (The second plane looks like an RB-57 which would have been used for taking atmospheric measurements only)

Consider that as 4,000,000 lbs of convential bombs which would be roughly the total payload of an entire RAF 1000 bomber night raid over Germany during World War II.

So extremely small is certainly a relative term.  Multiply that explosions destrutive power by 10,000 times to get your average workaday strategic weapon of 20 megatons...