FALLOUT SHELTER NYC IS AN ATTEMPT TO FIND AND CENTRALIZE THE ATOMIC HISTORY OF THE NYC AREA AND THE EASTERN SUBURBS OF LONG ISLAND NY AND THE NUCLEAR GENIE THAT BEGGED TO BE LET LOOSE AND ITS ATOMIC MASTERS THE US NUCLEAR FORCES - DECLASSIFIED-DESANITIZED- ARCHIVAL FILM FOOTAGE,PICTURES,STORIES FROM THE COLD WAR TELLING THE STORY OF A WAR THAT WAS ANYTHING BUT COLD-THE CIVIL DEFENSE, THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE ,THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ,THE ARMED DEFENSE ,AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
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THE LAYOUT OF THIS BLOG IS ODD , PUNCUATION AND SPELLING HAVE SUFFERED AS MOST OF THIS BLOG WAS DONE ON A TABLET AND CELL PHONE, YOU CAN BE AN ELITIST AND SAY ITS THE WORK OF A CHILD OR YOU CAN ENJOY IT. THE VARIOUS POSTS YOU WILL SEE ARE SEMI PERMANENT, MOSTLY THE FILMS,THE MONTHLY POSTINGS ARE LOCATED MID WAY DOWN AS YOU SCROLL TOWARDS THE BOTTOM, USE THE DIRECTORY OF POSTS TO FIND A PARTICULAR POST AND IT WILL BE FOUND MIDWAY DOWN AS YOU SCROLL DOWN TOWARDS THE PERMANENT DECLASSIFIED ATOMIC FILM COLLECTION. IT IS A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO NAVIGATE BUT THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF POSTS ON LOCAL NEW YORK / LONG ISLAND ATOMIC HISTORY LOTS OF ATOMIC AGE ART AND PROPAGANDA, NEVER SEEN ATOMIC KITSCH AND MORE! BE PATIENT, USE THE POST DIRECTORY, SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM TO SEE IT ALL AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED WITH A TRIP UNDERGROUND IN FALLOUT SHELTER NYC , AND PLEASE FEEL FREE TO LEAVE COMMENTS, ENJOY, SHELTER WARDEN0910
FALLOUT SHELTER NYC TABLE OF CONTENTS-CHECK OLD POSTS FOR EXCELLENT IMAGES AND NEVER SEEN ATOMICA!!
THE FALLOUT SHELTER STARTS HERE SIGN IN WITH THE FALLOUT SHELTER OFFICER UPON ARRIVAL
WELCOME- THIS BLOG HAS MANY POSTS THAT CAN BE FOUND ABOVE IN THE TABLE OF CONTENTS, I TRY TO ADD THINGS MONTHLY SO ALWAYS CHECK BACK. THE MAIN SECTION OF FALLOUT SHELTER NYC DOES START HERE AND YOU CAN SCROLL ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE AND FIND DOZENS OF DECLASSIFIED NUCLEAR TEST MOVIES AND CIVIL DEFENSE FEATURES, THERE ARE LOTS OF POSTS TO GO THROUGH AND YOU WILL FIND SOMETHING GUARANTEED THAT WILL HAVE YOU COMING HERE MORE, SO DECONTAMINATE ,FIND YOUR BEDDING AREA AND RECEIVE YOUR SHELTER RATIONS WHO KNOWS HOW LONG YOU WILL BE HERE FOR.
NYC MANNEQUINS USED IN ATOMIC WEAPON TEST TO RIDE OUT ATOMIC BLAST IN
"SURVIVAL TOWN"
THIS NEWSREEL SHOWS THE WEAPON EFFECT TESTING ON BUILDINGS,FABRICS,TEST SHELTERS,UTILITY LINES,TRAINS AND THE FEROCITY OF THE BLAST IS SHOWN THROUGH CAMERAS SURROUNDED BY OVER 4" OF LEAD, SOME OF THESE STRUCTURES ARE STILL OUT ON FRENCHMANS FLAT AND ARE PROTECTED LANDMARKS.
NYC DURING THE 1950's AND 60's WAS A BUSTLING AREA OF COMMERCE JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING WAS MANUFACTURED THERE, ONE OF THE BIGGEST WAS THE FASHION DISTRICT AND LARGE DEPARTMENT STORES SHOPPERS AND FABRIC BUYERS MADE NYC THE CAPITOL OF FASHION AND WINDOW DISPLAYS WERE A VERY BIG PART OF NYC. WOMEN AND MEN WOULD STOP AND SEE THE CURRENT LOOK OR FASHION TREND BY GOING TO MACY's OR BLOOMINGDALES AND STAND ON THE SIDEWALK AND LOOK AT THE WINDOW DISPLAYS WHERE VOUGE MANNEQUINS AND WOMENNIQUINS DISPLAYED CLOTHING,THE 1950's HAD THE CITY ON EDGE WITH AIR RAID ALERT DRILLS AND HEADLINES ABOUT THE SOVIETS NEW BOMBERS AND THIS ANXIETY CARRIED OVER TO SHOPPERS ALTHOUGH MANY DESIGNS CAME FROM THE ATOMIC AGE "THE BIKINI" DESIGNED AFTER THE BIKINI ATOLL NUCLEAR TEST , AND MADE MONEY FOR NYC's STORES SO WHEN THE CALL CAME FOR VOLUNTEERS TO BE INHABITANTS OF WHAT WAS NAMED SURVIVAL TOWN IF YOU WERE AN OPTIMIST OR DOOM TOWN IF YOU WERE A PESSIMIST NYC WINDOW DISPLAY MANNEQUINS WERE THE FIRST TO GO AND SERVE THEIR NATIONS DEFENSE IN THE NEVADA TEST SITE WOMEN CHILDREN AND MEN MANNEQUINS FROM MACY's,GERTZ,BLOOMINGDALES,A&S,JC PENNEYS WERE SOON ON THEIR WAY TO MERCURY NEVADA,ALONG WITH MANNEQUINS FROM AROUND THE UNITED STATES TO THE NEVADA ATOMIC WEAPON TEST SITE. AND WOULD NEVER SEE NYC OR THEIR DEPT STORE AGAIN.
CIVIL DEFENSE CHIEF APPEARS TO BE CHATTING WITH AN INHABITANT OF SURVIVAL TOWN
HERE THE QUINS CHECK OUT THE BASEMENT SHELTER ,AND THE MALE IS WEARING A BATHROBE THAT LOOKS LIKE THE SAME PICTURED IN A FABRICS TEST PICTURE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST ALSO I WOULD LOVE TO FIND A JOHNSON & JOHNSON CIVIL DEFENSE FIRST AID KIT I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE.
MACYS MATERNITY GETS THE KIDS READY FOR BED
AFTER THE TRIP FROM NYC THE QUINS FROM MACY's SETTLE IN TO THEIR NEW HOME .
HEY! WHY ARE ALL THOSE PEOPLE LEAVING SO FAST? ALMOST LIKE SOMETHINGS GOING YO HAPPEN
SETUP IN A VARIETY OF ACTIONS AND EVERYTHING AMONG THEM IS BEING TESTED FOR REACTION TO THE ATOMIC WEAPON CLOTHES,FURNITURE,WINDOWS,PAINT,
THE DESTRUCTION FROM THE ATOMIC TEST WAS UNLEASHED UPON THE MANNEQUINS WHO WERE CAUGHT UNAWARE THE TESTS IN THE DESERT OF NEVADA NEVER WERE IN THE MEGATON RANGE OR THERMONUCLEAR THESE SIZE WEAPONS WOULD HAVE NO DOUBT BEEN FELT IN LAS VEGAS.
THE TOWNS MAIL DELIVERY SUFFERED HEAVY DAMAGE
THE AEC TEST AND RADIOLOGICAL TEAMS GO OVER A TEST SUBJECT THAT SHELTERED IN A CAR , THE INSPECTORS ARE WEARING SOME REAL SERIOUS RESPIRATORS THERE MUST OF BEEN SOME HIGH RESIDUAL RADIATION
ANOTHER INNOCENT MANNEQUIN
ANOTHER TEST SUBJECT MUST OF BEEN WEARING SOMETHING SECRET TO BE WRAPPED UP IN A SHEET AFTER THE TEST
THESE MANNEQUINS WERE OUT IN THE OPEN FOR THE TEST, IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE THEY JUST JUMPED OUT OF THE CAR AND TRIED TO MAKE A RUN FOR IT.
THE ATOMIC DEVICE CAUGHT THE MANNEQUINS OF SURVIVAL TOWN OR DOOM TOWN UNAWARE HAD THEY LISTENED AND DUCKED AND FOUND COVER THEY MIGHT BE BACK IN MACY's WINDOWS, NOTE THE BOARDS ON THE GROUND WITH FABRICS AND PAINT THIS WAS DOCUMENTED IN A TEST SITE FILM CALLED "THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE"
THE DAMAGE WAS OVERWHELMING AND TORE THROUGH HOMES AS IF THEY WERE PAPER. SOME OF THE TEST MANNEQUINS SEEM TO BE PEPPERED WITH SHRAPNEL, GLASS, SAND? EVEN BREAKING THE GLASS FROM A FRAMED PICTURE WITHOUT KNOCKING IT OFF THE WALL
SOME OF SURVIVAL TOWNS RESIDENTS AND FURNISHINGS WENT ON A CIVIL DEFENSE TOUR AS SEEN HERE, LOS ANGELES COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICIALS SEEM TO BE IN AWE OF HOW A MANNEQUIN WAS BROKEN UP IN PIECES AND SCORCHING OF FURNITURE AND RUBBER BALL IN FRONT
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT STORES AND CIVIL DEFENSE WERE ABLE TO TEST A VARIETY OF CLOTHING AND MATERIALS AS SEEN IN THE ABOVE PICTURES OF VARIOUS MANNEQUINS THAT WERE USED IN SURVIVAL TOWN ALMOST LOOKS LIKE MISSING PICTURES SINCE THE MAJORITY OF THE MANNEQUINS WERE BURIED OUT ON FRENCHMANS FLAT, AFTER BEING FOUND TO HOLD UNSAFE LEVELS OF RADIATION.
AFTER THE LONG DRIVE FROM NEW YORK THEY FOUND PARKING PLENTIFUL IN SURVIVAL TOWN
1958 MISSILES DEFENDED THE UNITED STATES AND IF YOU WANTED YOU COULD EVEN FIND A NIKE SITE AND GET A TOUR, NOT A RESTORED SITE BUT AN OPERATING PART OF THE UNITED STATES DEFENSE, WE AS AMERICANS RAN THIS COUNTRY WITH THE FRAMEWORK IT WAS FOUNDED ON DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,BILL OF RIGHTS,THE CONSTITUTION AND THAT WAS THAT WE HAD A ARMED FORCE TO DEFEND OUR NATION - NOT EVERY ONE ELSE BUT US AND THESE ROCKETS WERE THE TOOLS WE USED SO A KID RECEIVING THIS KIT WOULD LEARN SOMETHING AND THATS SOMETHING WE DONT HAVE TODAY.
SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE ON THE ROCKET GROUND TO AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM NIKE WITH FOOTAGE OF A NIKE INTERCEPT
EARLY FEDERAL CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCY PSA/PAMPHLET ON THE THERMAL EFFECTS OF A NUCLEAR DETONATION A GREAT MOVIE SHOWING HOW CLEANING UP YOUR YARD/CITY AND USING LIGHTER COLORS FOR PAINT CAN HELP FIRES FROM IGNITING FROM A NUCLEAR FLASH. THE MOVIE IS CALLED "THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE" CHECK YOU TUBE OR PRELINGERS.
NUCLEAR DARKNESS.ORG HAS A COMPUTER SIMULATION OF VARIOUS SOVIET NUCLEAR ICBMS THAT THE RUSSIAN STRATEGIC ROCKET FORCES STILL HAVE AIMED AT THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES THE SIMULATOR LETS YOU PICK THE CITY EVEN THE ADDRESS AND GIVES YOU THE THERMAL EFFECTS OF THE FIRESTORM GENERATED BY THE WEAPON DONT FORGET BLAST AND RADIATION THIS IS A FIRESTORM SIMULATION GENERATOR AND YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF THE EFFECTS OF THIS BYPRODUCT OF A NUCLEAR WEAPON DETONATION, THE SIM CAN CHANGE HOW THE AIR IS HAZE ,FOG, CLOUDS, HISTORICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS, EVEN WEAPONS IN THE US INVENTORY, THE SITE IS VERY INFORMATIVE WITH TONS AND TONS OF INFORMATION AND LINKS AND VERY ANTI NUKE POLITICS SO IF YOU CANNOT DEAL WITH POLITICS YOU MAY NOT WANT TO USE THIS SITE BUT YOU WILL BE MISSING OUT ON SOME GREAT INFORMATION.
THESE TWO SCREEN SHOTS OF NUCLEAR DARKNESS.ORG ARE OF THE FIRESTORM SIM ULATION
THIS CLIP FROM THE MOVIE "THE WAR GAME" IS PROBABLY THE BEST FILM ON NUCLEAR WAR TO DATE , MADE IN ENGLAND BY THE BBC DURING THE EARLY PART OF 1965-1966 WAS DEEMED TO CONTROVERSIAL AND GRAPHIC TO AIR TO THE ENGLISH PUBLIC AND IT WAS MANY YEARS LATER THAT IT WAS. THE FIRST AIRING IN THE UNITED STATES STARTED ON PUBLIC ACESS STATIONS IN THE EARLY 1980's AND DEVELOPED A CULT FOLLOWING EVEN THOUGH IT WAS NEARLY ALMOST 20 YEARS LATER THE FILM STILL WAS VERY GRAPHIC AND LEFT VIEWERS WITH A SICK FEELING IN THEIR STOMACH I DID NOT GET A CHANCE TO VIEW THIS FILM UNTIL THE 1990s AND IT WAS A BAD COPY BUT VIEWABLE AND IT TOTALLY BLEW ANYTHING I HAD SEEN BEFORE AWAY, "THE DAY AFTER" WAS A WATERED DOWN SOAP OPERA COMPARED TO THIS EVEN "THREADS" I FELT COULDNT HOLD A CANDLE TO THIS MOVIE, THE SCENE DESCRIBES WHAT A FIRESTORM IS LIKE AND EVEN WITHOUT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI THE ALLIED FORCES USED FIRESTORMS TO INCINERATE WHOLE CITIES IN GERMANY AND JAPAN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WERE BURNED ALIVE OR SUFFOCATED IN AIR RAID SHELTERS, I MET A GERMAN IMMIGRANT WHO AS A BOY SURVIVED THE DRESDEN FIRESTORM AND WAS THE ONLY ONE IN HIS AIR RAID SHELTER TO SURVIVE OUT OF A HUNDRED PLUS OTHERS AND HIS STORY WAS ONE OF HORROR, I LOVE THE COLD WAR PERIOD AND THE EXTREMES WE WENT THROUGH TO PROTECT AND INFORM OUR COUNTRY BUT THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG IS NOT TO GLORIFY A NUCLEAR WAR , THINGS IN WAR HAPPEN FOR A PURPOSE BUT IGNITING FIRESTORMS ARE NOT PURPOSEFUL SINCE DRESDEN HAD NO ENEMY TARGETS OF WAR,NAGASAKI AND HIROSHIMA SERVED A PURPOSE AND SAVED ALLIED LIVES ENDING A WAR THEY WANTED AND WE FINISHED AND SHOWED WHAT BOMBS OF THE SAME PROPERTIES COULD DO TO A CITY AND THAT LESSON WAS SOMETHING I BELIEVE KEPT US FROM USING THESE SAME WEAPONS AGAIN AND ALSO KEPT OTHER NATIONS FROM USING THEM ON US KNOWING THAT THE AMOUNT OF MEGATONS WOULD CAUSE THE ENTIRE WORLD TO BE CONSUMED IN A NUCLEAR FIRESTORM
in this view we see ICBMS are flying in a usa/ussr grudge match and subs wait off shore and the west coast has already been vaporized.....
here cities are listed by name and population
DEFCON A GAME INSPIRED BY WARGAMES AND THE WHAT THE BIGSCREEN IN NORAD OR SAC WOULD LOOK LIKE ,THE GAME CAN BE PLAYED YOU AND THE COMPUTER OR 2-5 PLAYERS ONLINE EACH PICKING A COUNTRY OR LAND MASS "NORTH AMERICA""EUROPE"SOVIET UNION" ETC AND EACH COUNTRIES LARGE CITIES ARE LISTED AND POPULATIONS AS WELL , YOU DEPLOY A LIMITED NUMBER OF AIR/DEFENSE FACILITIES,EARLY WARNING RADAR,NAVAL FLEETS-CARRIERS,DESTROYERS & SUBS (CARRIERS LAUNCH AIRCRAFT TO PROBE AND ATTACK ENEMY COUNTRIES ICBM LAUNCH FACILITIES) AIR &BASES (WITH FIGHTER INTERCEPTORS AND LONG RANGE NUCLEAR ARMED BOMBERS)AND ICBM LAUNCH SITES THAT ARE AIR DEFENSE FACILITIES BEFORE DEFCON 1 IS CALLED, AS YOU WAIT AND THE GAME TIME CAN BE SPEEDED UP OR PLAY IN REAL TIME YOU PROBE AND ATTACK NAVAL ASSETTS SEARCH FOR SUBS THAT LAUNCH SLBMS AND WAIT OFF YOUR COUNTRIES SHORES FOR CONFIRMATION OF DEFCON 1 THIS GAME CAN BE DOWNLOADED AND PLAYED FOR FREE AS A DEMO AND PLAYS JUST ABOUT LIKE THE FULL VERSION AND IT IS FREE!! WHEN YOU ARE READY TO PURCHASE THE GAME IT CAN BE HAD FOR 10.00$ USC IF YOU LOVE THE COLD WAR AND FEEL YOU COULD OF BEEN A NUCLEAR WARRIOR IN THE BOWELS OF NORAD OR THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND THIS IS THE BEST HANDS DOWN WINNER OF NUCLEAR WARFARE GAMES AND YOU WONT HAVE TO LEAVE THE SAFETY OF YOUR BUNKER TO PLAY AGAINST THE COMPUTER OR WITH OTHERS ONLINE AND IF THE LATTER IS YOUR CHOICE YOU BETTER BE GOOD CAUSE SOME OF THE ONLINE PLAYERS ARE REINCARNATIONS OF THE GODS OF WAR THE TRAILER BELOW HAS A LITTLE MORE INFO AND THE REST OF THE INFORMATION YOU SEE CAN BE HAD AT >>>>> STEAM.COM OR INTROVERSION.CO.UK
THE TELETYPE IN THE CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICE IS GIVING READINGS FROM MONITORING TEAMS THAT THE POST ATTACK FALLOUT IS HEADING TOWARDS NEW YORK NEW JERSEY AND MONITORING UNITS START CHECKING FOR RADIATION AT PRE SELECTED AREAS
LOCAL VOLUNTER FIRE DEPARTMENTS START TO CHECK FOR FALLOUT SO CITIZENS CAN TAKE SHELTER BEFORE GETTING DUSTED WITH RADIOACTIVE ASH AND PARTICLES
KNOWING THAT CARS EVACUATING WASHINGTON DC AFTER A NUCLEAR STRIKE ON THE CAPITOL COULD CARRY RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES AND ITEMS THAT MAY HARM OTHERS SO A NYS TROOPER MONITORS ON THE HIGHWAY
SHELTER IS ADVISED AND BEFORE THE NATIONAL FALLOUT SHELTER PLAN OR COMMUNITY SHELTER PLAN WAS DRAFTED FALLOUT SHELTER SIGNS DID NOT EXSIST UNTIL THE EARLY 1960's SO A BLACK SIGN WITH A LARGE "S" MARKED SHELTER AREAS
THE RADEF MINUTEMAN CAME FROM ALL AREAS HERE A PUBLIC WORKS OFFICIAL IS AT HIS POST AND WAITING FOR ANY CHANGES IN RADIATION
SCHOOLS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR STUDENTS IN A EMERGENCY HERE STUDENTS ARE BEING BUSED TO A LOCAL SHELTER ,DURING THE LATE 1950s AND 1960s IT BECAME MANDATORY FOR NYS SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO INCORPERATE SHELTER WITHIN SCHOOLS THAT WERE BEING BUILT AS WELL AS HEAVY THICK WALLS THAT COULD BE SHELTER FROM A STORM AND SHIELDING FROM A NUCLEAR ATTACK, THE LONG ISLAND AREA WAS A BOOMTOWN AS CHEAP LAND WAS BOUGHT AND HOUSES BUILT AND LONG ISLAND SCHOOLS WERE UNABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THE RISE IN STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS STARTED BUILDING NEW SCHOOLS, EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT BUILT BETWEEN 1-3 NEW BUILDINGS , FALLOUT SHELTERS WITH HIGH CAPACITY WERE INCLUDED IN BUILDING PLANS AND WERE STOCKED WITH RATIONS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT
HERE A HIGH SCHOOL HEADING FOR SHELTER GRAB A EARLY VERSION OF RADIOLOGICAL DEVICES THAT WERE STOCKED IN SCHOOLS AS WELL
MONITORING
HERE A RADEF WORKER MONITORS RADIATION AT AN AIRPORT POSSIBLY IF PLANES EVACUATING WASHINGTON DC OR TRAVELED THROUGH THE REMAINS OF THE NUCLEAR MUSHROOM NOW A CLOUD CARRYING HEAVY FALLOUT
FACTORYDIRECTMODELS.COM I ORDERED A WING YB-49 FOR MY LIBRARY ITS A REPLICA WITH VERY DETAILED WORK AND IT WAS WORTH EVERY PENNY AND IF YOU LOVE AIRCRAFT OR FLEW ONE AND WOULD LIKE A DISPLAY MODEL OF IT THIS COMPANY CAN CUSTOMIZE ANY ORDER, AND THEY STAND BEHIND THEIR WORK. CHECK IT OUT
(1968) USAF SURVIVE TO FIGHT ATOMIC WEAPON HITS ADC BASE JETS SCRAMBLE INTERCEPT SOVIET ATTACKERS
THIS IS A CLASSIC UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TRAINING FILM THAT IS BASED ON SURVIVABILITY OF USAF BASE OPERATIONS IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES AFTER A NUCLEAR ATTACK,BASES LIKE THIS ONE WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES DURING THE COLD WAR PERIOD THE AMOUNT OF PRESSURE AND RESPONSIBILITY THESE MEN HAD HAD HANDLING NUCLEAR WEAPONS THAT WERE USED ON INTERCEPTOR AIRCRAFT ,THE # AM SCRAMBLES INTO THE WINTER NIGHT NOT KNOWING IF THIS WAS FOR REAL AS BASE AIRCRAFT PEELED OUT LAUNCHING IN PAIRS SC REAMING INTO THE WINTER NIGHT WAITING FOR WORD OF WHAT WAS GOING ON. THE AIRMEN AT THESE BASES KNEW ANY ATTACK ON THE US THEY WOULD BE AMONG THE FIRST TO KNOW AND FIRST TO GO WHILE THE COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE THE GATES NEVER KNEW HOW CLOSE THEY WERE TO WAR AS THE BASES WENT TO DIFFERENT DEFCON LEVELS, THIS WAS NOT INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC.
THE FILM STARTS AT NIGHT AND THE SAC AIR DEFENSE COMMAND LAUNCHES ITS F-101 INTERCEPTOR AIR CRAFT AND PREPARES TO RIDE OUT A NUCLEAR STRIKE AS CONFIRMATION OF INCOMING MISSILES IS CONFIRMED. THANKS TO A CLIMATE OF GUARDED DEFENSE THE AIR FORCE BASE IS ABLE TO BUILD DEFENSIVE AND SHELTER FACILITIES TO SURVIVE AND FIGHT AND AS A NUCLEAR DETONATION IS CONFIRMED ON BASE THE AIR FORCE BEGINS TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS SO ITS AIR WING CAN COME BACK AND RE-ARM AND RE-FUEL A GREAT SUBJECT THAT U.S. MILITARY FORCES HAD TO PLAN FOR AND TRAIN AND THIS FILM SHOWS WHAT THEY EXPECTED, THE REAL QUESTION IS IT REALISTIC IN ITS EXPECTATION?
THE ONE THING IS THAT IT IS PRICELESS THAT THE USAF MADE THIS TRAINING FILM AND ITs QUOTES LIKE "HAVE NO UMBRELLAS,IF IT STARTS TO RAIN WE WILL LET YOU KNOW." AND "YOU CALL US BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T WE WILL BE CALLING YOU" WEIRD,.. BUT STILL GREAT PROPAGANDA!FILMED AT A SAC AIR DEFENSE INTERCEPTOR BASE LOCATED IN OXNARD, OXNARD AFB CALIFORNIA 1967 THIS IS BASICALLY WHEN CLOSING OF SAC ADC BASES WAS GOING ON ALL OVER (SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB LONG ISLAND NEW YORK) RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NYC AREA FOR MOST OF THE COLD WAR.DURING 1968- EARLY 1970s MOST OF THESE AIR FORCE ADC UNITS WENT OVER TO FIGHT IN VIETNAM AND THAILAND AS FORWARD AIR CONTROL AND MUNITION LOADERS FOR USAF STRIKE PLANES USING IRON BOMBS INSTEAD OF ATOMIC MUNITIONS BOMBING NVA BASES AND NORTH VIETNAM AND THE ADC PILOTS AND BACKSEATERS WENT OVER ALSO, TO ME THESE GUYS REALLY SERVED THEIR COUNTRY PLUS ONE AND DESERVE BIG RESPECT , MY HATS OFF TO THE USAF AIRMEN OF ADC/SAC AND VIETNAM/THAILAND/LAOS
NYC EMERGENCY BROADCAST PLEASE STAND BY FOR OFFICIAL INFORMATION (1980-1984)
USAF/SAC AT DEFCON ONE AND CONFIDENCE IS HIGH! "EXECUTIVE DESCISION" USAF'S NUCLEAR POSTURE
PROBABLY THE MOST TELLING STORY OF USAF MIGHT AND POWER AS WAR IS UNLEASHED ON THE AGRESSOR NATION WHO IS LATER IDENTIFIED TO BE THE SOVIET UNION, THE STOCK FOOTAGE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS BEING DROPPED BY B-47 STRATOJETS and B-52 BOMBERS ARE FROM ONCE CLASSIFIED USAF NUCLEAR TEST OPS. MOST OF THIS ENTIRE FILM IS FROM CLASSIFIED WARPLANS AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS, THIS HOMAGE TO SAC AND STRATEGIC AIR COMMANDS DEDICATION TO MISSION IS A JEWEL AND FROM A TIME WHERE THE WORLD WAS A TINDERBOX READY FOR SOMEONE TO STRIKE THE SPARK AND IGNITE A WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR CONFLAGRATION WHERE LIFE MOST LIKELY WOULD OF WENT THE WAY OF THE DINOSAUR AND ONLY MILLIONS OF YEARS LATER A FOSSILIZED REMAINS OF MAN WOULD BE DISCOVERED BY THE NEXT GENERATION THAT CAME FROM THE ASHES OF THE OLD, THIS FILM IS NOT KNOWN IF IT WAS EVER SEEN OR VIEWED OTHER THAN A HANDFUL OF HIGH RANKING USAF OFFICERS, SEE THE DESCRIPTION AND INFORMATION FROM THE NUCLEAR VAULT.COM
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"The Power of Decision" may be the first (and perhaps the only) U.S. government film dramatizing nuclear war decision-making. Commissioned by the Strategic Air Command in 1956, the film has the look of a 1950s TV drama, but the subject is the ultimate Cold War nightmare. By the end of the film, after the U.S. Air Force has implemented war plan "Quick Strike" following a Soviet surprise attack, millions of Americans, Russians, Europeans, and Japanese are dead. The narrator, a Colonel Dodd, asserts that "nobody wins a nuclear war because both sides are sure to suffer terrible damage." Despite the "catastrophic" damage, one of the film’s operating assumptions is that defeat is avoidable as long as the adversary cannot impose its "will" on the United States. The film’s last few minutes suggest that the United States would prevail because of the "success" of its nuclear air offensive. Moscow, not the United States, is sending out pleas for a cease-fire.
The conviction that the United States could prevail was a doctrinal necessity because Air Force leaders assumed the decisiveness of air power. The founding fathers of the U.S. Air Force came out of World War II with an unshakeable, if exaggerated, conviction that the strategic bombing of Germany and Japan had been decisive for the Allied victory and that air power would be crucial in future conflicts. (Note 1) The film’s title: "Power of Decision" embodies that conviction. The title itself is a reference to a 1948 statement by General George C. Kenney, the Strategic Air Command’s first commander-in-chief: "A war in which either or both opponents use atomic bombs will be over in a matter of days...The Air Force that is superior in its capability of destruction plays the dominant role and has the power of decision." (Note 2) A confident statement made by one of the characters, General "Pete" Larson, near the close of reel 6 flows from that assumption: the Soviets "must quit; we have the air and the power and they know it."
The story begins with Colonel Dodd, standing in the underground command post of the "Long Range Offense Force" (oddly, the Strategic Air Command is never mentioned by name). Dodd discusses the Force’s strike capabilities, its mechanisms for keeping track of its strategic assets, and its war plans. That hundreds of bombers, based in U.S. territories and overseas bases, are ready to launch at a moment’s notice is the "surest way to prevent war." Dodd does not think that the Soviets are likely to strike, but if deterrence fails and the Soviets launch an attack, "this is what will happen."
What "happens" is the initial detection by U.S. air defense network of the approach of Soviet bombers over the Arctic Circle. That leads to General Larson’s decision to launch the SAC alert force under plan "Quick Strike"; airborne and nuclear-armed alert bombers fly toward the Soviet periphery, but stay at position until they receive an attack order (this was the concept of "Fail Safe" or "Positive Control" although those terms were not used in the film). About an hour after the alert force is launched, General Larson receives reports of attacks on U.S. bases, followed by more information on Soviet nuclear attacks on cities and military bases in Japan and Western Europe. "That does it," General Turner (one of Larson’s deputies) exclaims. He soon receives a call on the red phone from the Joint Chiefs, who with the President, are in a protected command post. The president has ordered the execution of "Quick Strike," releasing bombers and missiles to strike the Soviet Union. This simultaneous bomber-missile "double punch" is aimed at "all elements of [Soviet] air power" [bomber bases] along with "war making and war sustaining resources," which meant strikes on urban-industrial areas and urban populations. To depict the undepictable, the film’s producers use stock footage of nuclear tests and missile and bomber launches.
Once it is evident that the Soviets have launched a surprise air attack, Colonel Dodd observes that "By giving up the initiative, the West must expect to take the first blow." This statement is not developed, but for Air Force planners, "initiative" meant a preemptive attack or a first strike. By the early 1950, senior military planners and defense officials had begun considering the possibility of pre-emptive attacks on the basis of strategic warning; that is, if the United States intelligence warning system collected reliable information on an impending Soviet attack, decision-makers could approve strikes against Soviet military forces to disrupt it. Consistent with this, Strategic Air Command war plans assumed "two basic modes" for executing strike plans [See Document One below]. () One was retaliation against a surprise attack; the other "plan was based on the assumption that the United States had strategic warning and had decided to take the initiative." The SAC strike force would then be "launched to penetrate en masse prior to the enemy attack; the main target would be the enemy’s retaliatory capability."
In the last part of reel 6, Air Force intelligence briefings review the destruction of the Soviet military machine, including destruction of air bases, weapons storage centers, and government control centers, among other targets. "Target M," presumably Moscow, has "been destroyed" by a nuclear weapon which struck 300 yards from the aiming point. The Soviet attack has done calamitous damage to the United States, with 60 million casualties, including 20 million wounded, but evidence was becoming available of the "success" of the U.S. air offensive. The Soviet Air Force has been reduced to a handful of aircraft, it had stopped launching nuclear strikes outside of its territory, and SACEUR [Supreme Allied Commander Europe] reports the "complete disintegration of resistance" by Soviet ground forces. Moreover, cease-fire requests are coming in from the Soviets. In this context, General Larson’s certainty that the "Soviets must quit" conveyed prevailing assumptions about the value of strategic air power.
Around the time when "The Power of Decision" as being produced, a statement by SAC Commander-in-Chief General Curtis LeMay made explicit what was implicit in Larson’s observation. In an address before the Air Force’s Scientific Advisory Board in 1957 [see Document Two], LeMay argued that U.S. strategic forces could not be an effective deterrent unless they were "clearly capable of winning under operational handicaps of bad weather and no more than tactical warning." And by winning, LeMay said he meant "achieving a condition wherein the enemy cannot impose his will on us, but we can impose our will on him." Larson’s statement about control of the air dovetailed exactly with LeMay’s assumptions about winning.
Little is known about the production and distribution of "The Power of Decision," or even if it was actually shown. According to the history of the Air Photographic and Charting Service for January through June 1957, on 28 May 1956, the Strategic Air Command requested the service to produce the film, which would be classified Secret. SAC leaders may have wanted such a film for internal indoctrination and training purposes, to help officers and airmen prepare themselves for the worst active-duty situation that they could encounter. Perhaps the relatively unruffled style of the film’s performers was to serve as a model for SAC officers if they ever had to follow orders that could produce a nuclear holocaust. In any event, the script for "Power of Decision" was approved on 10 May 1957 and a production planning conference took place on 29 May 1957. The contract productions section of the Air Photographic and Charting Service was the film’s producing unit.
The next step was to find actors with security clearances because even the synopsis of the film was classified secret (although later downgraded to "official use only"). As the Air Force was not in the business of hiring actors, the production unit engaged the services of MPO Productions, a New York-based firm which produced commercials and industrial films. [References to MPO, Inc. are on the index cards and on "The End" frame at the close of reel 6]. What happened next, when the work on the film was completed, SAC’s assessment of the project, and whether, when, or where the film was shown, cannot presently be determined, although the information may be in the living memories of participants or viewers from those days.
Note: The relatively poor quality of this digital reproduction reflects the condition of the original reels as turned over to the National Archives by the Air Force.
PROPAGANDA No.2 "Your New Sound Of Freedom"
PUBLISHED FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MISSION OF THE USAF AIR DEFENSE COMMAND AND THATS TARGETED FOR LONG ISLANDERS WHO LIVED NEAR SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE IT WAS A PRIMARY ADC SQUADRON THAT WAS TO INTERCEPT ANY SOVIET BOMBERS OR OTHER UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT OF UNKNOWN ORGIN, SUFFOLK AFB BECAME PRIMARY WHEN FLOYD BENNET FIELD CLOSED AND CEASED OPERATIONS, THE CONVAIR F102-F-106 DELTA DART AND DAGGER WERE THE MAIN INTERCEPT AIRCRAFT FROM 1958-62 WHEN THE USAF DECIDED TO USE THE F-101 VODOO ALL WEATHER INTERCEPTOR, THE F-102-106 WAS USED BY THE USAF AT SUFFOLK AS WELL AS MANY OTHER AIRCRAFT THAT WOULD COME THROUGH THE AIRBASE, EARLY POSTS ON THIS BLOG HAS NUMEROUS PHOTO'S OF THESE DART LIKE AIRCRAFT AT THE BASE, THE EARLIER AIRCRAFT WERE F-86 SABRES AND THEY WERE PHASED OUT IN 1958, THERE WERE A FEW LOST AIRCRAFT OUT OF SUFFOLK AND EVEN A FALCON AIR TO AIR MISSILE AND THE INFAMOUS 1966 "STRANGE LIGHTS MOVING AT HIGH SPEEDS OVER THE SOUTH SHORE OF LONG ISLAND" THE AD WAS TO DEFEND THE MISSION OF THESE AFB'S LOCATED IN SUBURBS AROUND THE U.S. WHO HAD THE JOB OF SCRAMBLING AND GREET ANY UNIDENTIFIED RADAR CONTACT.THROUGH THE END OF WORLD WAR 2 UP UNTIL 1970 THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND HAD THESE BASES SCATTERED AROUND MAJOR CITIES AND VITAL US DEFENSE CONTRACTORS, SINCE THESE AIR WINGS WERE ON ALERT THEY FLEW OUT CONSTANTLY AND 6-7 IN FORMATION FLYING LOW IS LOUD SO SUBURBAN AMERICA COMPLAINED ABOUT THE NOISE AND THE USAF AND CONVAIR STARTED A ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN TO INFORM AND EDUCATE JUST HOW IMPORTANT THAT SOUND IS. AND HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO HERE IT. DURING THE 1970s to PRESENT USAF/ADC AND OTHERB MILITARY BASES WERE CLOSED BY THE HUNDREDS, IMAGINE A CITY LIKE NEW YORK HAS NO AIR DEFENSE THE NEAREST ARMED AIRCRAFT IS 30 MINUTES AWAY , AND MOST CITYS ARE NO LONGER DESIGNATED MILITARY PROTECTION, THIS MAKES NO SENSE SINCE OUR MILITARY IS TO DEFEND THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES AND I REALLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW OUR NATION CAN FORGET WHY WE HAVE ARMED FORCES. THEY ARE NOT FOR FIGHTING ON FOREIGN SOIL AND IF WE HAVE TO WE CAN SEND B-52S ON BOMBING MISSIONS, WE NEED TO LOOK BACK AT WHAT THIS NATIONS FOUNDATIONS WERE AND REBUILD IT, BECAUSE SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT!
- Meeting the Terrorist Threat, Produced by the Defense Nuclear Agency - Early 1970's - 7:30 - Color - Since the emergence of the terrorist threat, the U.S. Governments concern about the possible terrorism against nuclear facilities has intensified. This video is a dramatization. It shows how the Government has responded to this threat.
The video depicts nuclear security activities at an early nuclear storage site and how a small unarmed force of intruders easily enters under the security fence surrounding the site. The protective force subdues the intruders easily. In another scene, a well-armed terrorist team enters the base and kills a roving patrol with a well-placed sniper. Security forces finally overcome the terrorists after a superior counter-force arrives.
On a third entry, a terrorist team enters the site under the cover of a fellow terrorist, hidden in the forest, armed with a heavy machine gun. This terrorist team reaches and penetrates a storage igloo after the roving patrol is killed, and the rapid response force is destroyed. However, the terrorists do not escape. When the superior security force appears with helicopter support and an armored personnel carrier, the terrorists, including the machine gunner, are killed.
Since this film was made, the Department of Energy (DOE) has constantly improved the training and tactics of the security forces at each installation as well as the in-place security systems. With its modern day posture, it would be highly improbable that a small group of armed individuals could forcibly enter any DOE facility and escape with a nuclear weapon or any special nuclear
NEW!!!! ----GREAT FALLOUT SHELTER SONG 1961
(1975) RARE FOOTAGE OF ANG F-102s BASED AT SUFFOLK AFB (DECOM) FLYING OVER LONG ISLAND
THIS VIDEO SHOWS NATIONAL GUARD 2nd FIS FLYING F102s OVER EASTERN LONG ISLAND THE FLIGHT SCENES ARE DUBBED WITH A HORRIBLE MUSIC SOUNDTRACK "HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE" SO I ADVISE THAT YOU MUTE THE SOUND WHILE WATCHING THIS LAST OF THE CENTURY FIGHTERS BEING FLOWN AS INTERCEPTORS AND NOT TARGETS FOR MISSILE TESTS, THE SUFFOLK AFB NOW GABRESKI AIRPORT WESTHAMPTON HOME NOW TO THE 106th AEROSPACE RESCUE AND RECOVERY WING WHO OCCUPY AND USE THE OLD ALERT HANGARS AND USAF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND "ADC" LEFT BEHIND WHEN THE SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR BASE WAS DECOMMISSIONED, EVEN THEN A NATIONAL GUARD UNIT USING F-102s WAS BASED THERE FROM 1969 - PRESENT.RARE CAMOFLAUGE F102s
*UPDATE THE F-102 THAT SAT OUT FRONT TO PAY RESPECT TO THOSE THAT SERVED THE COLD WAR MISSION AND FLEW JET AIR CRAFT LOADED WITH LIVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WAS SCRAPPED AND CUT UP ON BASE BY A SCRAP YARD IN A TOTAL DOUCHE BAG MOVE! I DONT CARE HOW BAD OF SHAPE IT WAS IN IT COULD OF BEEN SAVED AND SHOULD OF.JUST BECAUSE THE MISSON NOW INVOLVES HELICOPTERS YOU DONT FORGET HISTORY AND TRY TO TAKE THE LIME LIGHT BY DROPPIN A HELICOPTER IN ITS SPOT, YOU DISRESPECTED THOSE THAT SERVED A WAR COLD IN NAME BUT WAS A DIRECT THREAT AGAINST THIS NATION AND THOSE WHO FLEW THOSE JETS DURING THOSE YEARS WOULD OF GAVE THEIR LIVES TO KEEP THE POPULATION OF THIS COUNTRY SAFE, IT MAKES ME SAD TO SEE SUCH DISRESPECT AND PERSONALLY YOU CAN STICK THAT HELO UP YOUR ASSES!
COLD WAR PROPAGANDA No.41 (1951) USAF CARTOON RECRUITING COMMERCIAL
THIS USAF COMMERCIAL FROM THE EARLY 1950s MOST LIKELY WAS THE REASON AMERICA WON THE COLD WAR AND BEAT THE SOVIETS IN TO SPACE THE JINGLE IN OF FLYING DAH DAH DAH WITH CARTOON JETS AND PEOPLE PROBABLY CAUGHT THE EYE OF MANY YOUNG KIDS WHO TEN YEARS LATER ENLISTED AND HELPED KEEP THIS COUNTRY FREE OF ANY COMMUNIST AGGRESSORS, WE NEED MORE GOOD WHOLESOME RECRUITING PITCHES LIKE THIS ONE!
SOME OF SURVIVAL TOWNS RESIDENTS AND FURNISHINGS WENT ON A CIVIL DEFENSE TOUR AS SEEN HERE, LOS ANGELES COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICIALS SEEM TO BE IN AWE OF HOW A MANNEQUIN WAS BROKEN UP IN PIECES AND SCORCHING OF FURNITURE AND RUBBER BALL IN FRONT
