# " RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT " & " FALLOUT IN THE AFFECTED AREA " 1960 UK NUCLEAR WAR CIVIL DEFENSE 72592

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 the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast or a nuclear reaction conducted in an unshielded facility, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and shock wave have passed. 00:00 - Bright, peaceful day hints at underlying threat. 1:02 - Sun shines, birds sing, unaware of devastation. 1:21 - Nuclear weapons cause fire, blast, fallout. 1:42 - Radiation is undetectable by senses. 1:56 - Film aims to teach survival during nuclear attack, reduce radiation sickness. 2:18 - Radiation hazards 2:26 -Danger from 10 megaton blast within 2.5 miles. 2:42 - Residual radiation a lingering threat beyond Ground Zero. 3:01 - Radioactive dust. 3:19 - Beta, gamma rays 4:00 - Beta rays stopped by clothes, gamma penetrate deeper. 5:00 - Gamma rays cause damage over time. 5:08 - Radiation measured in "runin." 6:00 - Emergency radiation dose set at 75 runin. 6:30 - Fatality rates linked to radiation doses. 6:48 - Protection via distance, screening, decay. 7:19 - Radiation reduced by…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Science, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/72592RadioactiveFalloutTheOverallSituationFalloutInTheDamagedArea)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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