Duck and Cover

Duck and Cover was a suggested method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear weapon which the United States government taught to generations of United States school children from the late 1940s into the 1980s.

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+13 1. Mix commented 15 years ago

Haha seriously :D
Yeah, hide for atomic bombs, that will save you^^ >:)
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+6 2. moskwiz commented 15 years ago

That's one warm-hearted Cold war :P
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+2 3. Mooz commented 15 years ago

Effin' commie monkeys!
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+18 4. Cavabardus commented 15 years ago

Aaaaaah, if the people in Pompeii had seen this video, they'd certainly be alive, now :D
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+16 5. dave9191 commented 15 years ago

even a thin cloth or a newspaper can stop you from being burnt... as the area around you is vaporised....
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+1 6. Bender_Rodriguez commented 15 years ago

And now let's practice duck&cover with live a-bomb >:)

Let's see if duck&cover will help anyone :)
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+4 7. wyvern1978 commented 15 years ago

I don't like duck and covering... please remove all a-bombs from the planet to save me the hassle!
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+5 8. Craigza commented 15 years ago

6:10 Did that kid faceplant the wall out of exciting of the Abomb going off? :P

I wonder if this technique works against swine flu also.
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+3 9. zerorain commented 15 years ago

Dont think this will work if the lands next to you...

Indiana Jones jumped in a refrigerator and survived a atom bomb.
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-1 10. 95731 commented 15 years ago

hummmmmmmm i dont think this will work XD
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+2 11. BombDiggady commented 15 years ago

The film forgot to mention how you will be vaporized in steam if you are swimming when the bomb strikes.
I guess duck and cover doesn't work all the time :|
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+1 12. Robjeknor commented 15 years ago

Hilarious
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+2 13. Skeesicks commented 15 years ago

Hehehe
"If there is a flash, brighter than anything you've ever seen"

If you see this flash...you won't be able to see anything bright again.
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+1 14. Erazor commented 15 years ago

7:55 omg .. the best thing i ever heard!!: even a newspaper can protect u from a bad sunburn xD
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0 15. 0m3ga3 commented 15 years ago

I can't believe it is taught after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. :O The victims of those places (and the human stupidity :S ) should teach more than any videos. There is NO cover only if you are already 100 feet deep in a bunker and the radiation is still a factor.

This short from the Terminator 2 is seem more realistic.
That's for duck and cover kids... smile at last and hope it's only the cam's flash. If it doesn't you wouldn't smile forevermore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR_midwZ2f0
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-2 16. LightAng3l commented 15 years ago

this is the pinnacle of human stupidity ! Ha ha ha ha ha ... I can't imagine anyone wold have believed this crap. It's more like : Duck & burn motherfucker !
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+1 17. kekke2000 commented 15 years ago

#15 too bad they didn't have newspapers in Terminator 2 :)
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0 18. Zoooidberg commented 15 years ago

Shouldn’t the turtle be a duck instead??
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0 19. sealand commented 15 years ago

I'm still not sure what I'm meant to do with the duck :S
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+1 20. Chrisofskjern commented 15 years ago

Ive gotta try that. Suddenly shout DUCK AND COVER! and see if people know what to do.... if they know they would throw themselves off their bikes onto the ground to duck and cover. and stay that way until a stranger comes to pick you up :D
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+2 21. Dark_Leaf commented 15 years ago

Reminds me of fallout :)
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+2 22. AshBird commented 15 years ago

i think is mostly done for propaganda purposes: for assuring people that there is an escape from A-Bomb
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+1 23. MiMe commented 15 years ago

#22 finally someone is smart enough to understand this video
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+1 24. Xionbox (moderator) commented 15 years ago

@Dark_Leaf: if you've played Fallout 3, that's from why the learning book for the Explosive skill called "Duck&Cover". ;)
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+1 25. JerryD commented 15 years ago

Yeah! The firecracker in the beginning for sure took care of that monkey! Doubt it would be possible to Duck&Cover when becoming a cloud of vapor ... sad to say but part of the vid made me laugh ... but during these days it was no joke for sure! :S
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+1 26. ragou commented 15 years ago

When the bomb explodes the soldier must walk slowly to avoid panic and hold his gun in his reached out hands because the temperature is 3000 degrees and the gun will melt and liquid metal might drop on his feet.
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0 27. Zeubest commented 15 years ago

Nice, and as said, makes me remember of fallout!

Made fot people think they are prepared : propaganda !
Ans an insidious other purpose : usual paranoîa... the danger is here , the governement is your protector.
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0 28. maniel commented 15 years ago

fallout 3 climax;-)
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0 29. makbeth commented 15 years ago

i think the point of these videos was so that your average american would believe that should a bomb fall, they would be nice and safe in a doorway or under a newspaper:)
I guess it beats the constant fear that you could be instantly vaporised at a moments notice, with zero chance of surviving.
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0 30. dhedarkhcustard commented 15 years ago

I'd stand in the bushes and flash a bright light at a bunch of people and then laugh when they faceplant.
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0 31. Beaver307 commented 15 years ago

I remember duck & cover drills. I also remember we all had our names on our desks. I now realize those name tags would make it easier to identify all those little bodies. I wonder if my children are any safer. :'(
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0 32. pookiinator commented 15 years ago

om3ga3, you are so right. This stupid film was made so long after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We knew FULL well what the bomb did to people, even our pathetic little (thank God) bombs that we dropped to end the Japanese engagement. THere was a horrific amount of photographic information about what they did. If you ever have the opportunity to rent a Japanese DVD called "Black Rain", do so. It shows you in graphic detail what it was like, during and after. This includes the many who survived, unscathed, and seemingly unscathed. It is a true lesson in what an atom bomb, even a little one megaton one, can do. Realize that the ones these idiots NOW have are just a tad bigger. The ones we used were survivable, but we didn't know what we had. Duck and cover? Only in a concrete bunker. Once you see the light, well, there goes your flesh, unless you are very far away. Best place to be is right under.
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+1 33. Robert61 commented 15 years ago

Actually; they should teach 4 steps:
1. Duck
2. Cover
3. Tuck in head and put hand behind neck
4. Kiss ass good bye.
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0 34. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

Yeah..let's make nuclear war fun, like everything else...woohoo :D