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Four Damage Factors of Nuclear Weapons (1968)

1968 · Short film · 22 min

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This 1968 film produced by the Headquarters of the Civil Defense of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, a state in the USSR / Soviet Union, looks at the different types of damages caused by the explosion of a nuclear weapon. It looks at initial factors like the light flash and the shockwave caused by the explosion, followed by the actual destruction caused by the explosion, and its aftermath through radioactive fallout. It does this with detailed diagrams interjected with footage of nuclear bombs exploding. It concludes with the importance of underground fallout shelters for civil defense as the best way to minimize the damage caused by most of these factors. 0:08 by the orders of the Headquarters of the Civil Defense of the Moldavian SSR, Moldova Film 1968, 0:24 a bomber aircraft dropping a nuclear bomb which explodes, 0:53 “Four Affecting Factors of Nuclear Weapons”, 1:00 animation showing how different nuclear bombs are brought to explode, 1:16 different delivery methods including rockets, bombs, torpedoes, and munitions, 2:12 a nuclear bomb exploding followed by footage of destruction on the ground, 2:30 animation showing TNT equivalents and building sizes for a nuclear bomb, 2:53 different type of nuclear explosions in the air, underground, on the surface, or underwater, 3:18 animations showing the epicenter of an explosion, 3:38 graph showing the different damage factors of a nuclear weapon, 4:01 a nuclear bomb exploding on the ground, 4:14 footage and animated…

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Running time
22 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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