• The Rise & Fall Of American Fallout Shelters [Vox]
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[video=youtube;4gKhm09PKPQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gKhm09PKPQ[/video]
The editing in this is really weird. It feels like a fever dream at parts.
[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;52713022]The editing in this is really weird. It feels like a fever dream at parts.[/QUOTE] I think that's intentional, the fallout shelters themselves only delayed the inevitable of walking out into the wasteland if nuclear war happened. It was psuedo security to the public consciousness, so all the "aw shucks" chipper CD PSAs made the public feel more at ease. I.e. a bizarre juxtaposition to the horrors of nuclear weapons.
It seems that the soviets were far more prepared with shelters than USA. I mean i never seen soviet shelter that is made of bricks and thin metal door or with no filtration system.
the argument with Tsar bomb is totally flawed as that is too big and heavy to be delivered by ICBM nor economically viable to build more than once shelters got logic, considering precision or misfire ICBMs weren't that precise and altitude of explosion vs terrain elements could spare some areas
[QUOTE=Dwarden;52713245]the argument with Tsar bomb is totally flawed as that is too big and heavy to be delivered by ICBM nor economically viable to build more than once shelters got logic, considering precision or misfire ICBMs weren't that precise and altitude of explosion vs terrain elements could spare some areas[/QUOTE] Until MIRVs came around, suburban shelters made atleast some sense but then MIRVs turned MAD up to 11.
I've been searching endlessly for the distant nuclear detonation sound used in the final part of this video (12:08) ever since I first heard it in AlternateHistoryHub's Cold War video. [video=youtube_share;e3AzwBPnUxs]http://youtu.be/e3AzwBPnUxs?t=265[/video] It can be heard during the sequence at 4:25. Does anyone have any idea what the source of this sound effect is? It's absolutely chilling, and I want to know where it comes from.
that editing and audio design was perfect for the unsettling thing that is nuclear holocaust. didda dum dum, yellow spots never gave me dread like this
our high school had a big fallout shelter. there were even ration cans down there. we cracked one open in our vietnam war class and found dusty old crackers
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