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" Radioactive Fallout " & " Fallout in the Affected Area " (1960)

1960 · Short film · 28 min

  • War

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Produced by the Home Office and the Scottish Home Department in 1960, "Radioactive Fallout // The Overall Situation" and "Fallout in the Affected Area" give a chilling idea of what might happen if the United Kingdom were struck by nuclear weapons. A simple mushroom shown on the ground quickly becomes a mushroom cloud, and so the story unfolds -- with fallout moving quickly across a large swath of England. Nuclear fallout, or simply fallout, is the residual radioactive material propelled into…

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28 minutes

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