The Chinese sequence from "Trinity and Beyond - the Atomic Bomb Movie." The last sequence in the film. Check out the latest version on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Trinity-Beyond...
Riding a gasmask-wearing horse while wearing a gasmask yourself and firing an AK as you charge into a low-yield atomic test in a propaganda video? Poetry.
It's quite likely he's ok. If he stood behind cover during the initial blast(which he did, considering he's alive), and had full protective equipment(looks like he did), and if he didn't do it for many hours, the radiation dose should not be so bad. Those dumbfucks charging into the dust with no gasmasks concern me more.
The nuclear explosion scene happened in 1964, and the horse charging scene happened in 1965, where the nuclear bomb was replaced by some special TNT to simulate the nuclear explosion.
Peter Kuran paid 10,000$ to scan these 3 minutes in high quality in China, give or take the same for the score by Moscow Symphonic Orchestra. But it is worth it
The army troops and cavalry charged in after the detonation blast wave passed. Mao and his last yet estranged (and ugly) wife, Jiang Wing, led millions of Chinese to their deaths in the mass starvation and executions of the vicious and incompetent Cultural Revolution, but not here in the thousands. Let's hope they all stopped before the railroad ties barricade, where soldiers tossed grenades ahead of them. Charging grenades creates much unhappinesses.
@@robwells5753 That doesn't make sense. High as F? Mao instituted a brutal program to attack opium use and other drugs. He saw it was ruining his country when he consolidated power, with so many addicts hooked on opium. From Wiki (History of opium in China) The Mao Zedong government is generally credited with eradicating both consumption and production of opium during the 1950s using unrestrained repression and social reform.[9][10] Ten million addicts were forced into compulsory treatment, dealers were executed, and opium-producing regions were planted with new crops. Remaining opium production shifted south of the Chinese border into the Golden Triangle region.[41] The remnant opium trade primarily served Southeast Asia, but spread to American soldiers during the Vietnam War, with 20 percent of soldiers regarding themselves as addicted during the peak of the epidemic in 1971. In 2003, China was estimated to have four million regular drug users and one million registered drug addicts.[42]
This is a spliced video，The latter part is a chemical defense exercise，is no connection with nuc，you people live all time in stupid media，No wonder west always lose when competing with China🤣
Man trying to reduce production for being an advertisement, seems to ignore the fact that the superheroes that are seen today by the capitalist world, are based on ridiculous and individualistic advertisements of the USA.
they kinda had, back that time most riders were just had swords and archers were on foot. mongols combined both and they had some sort of medieval blitzkreig!:D
As a Chinese, I also wondered why the soldiers were charging towards the exploded A-bomb when I first saw this video several years ago. I have since learned that they were not actually charging towards the A-bomb blast, the video is a highly misleading edit of two videos, the footage of the soldiers charging is actually from another biochemical exercise, they didn't even take place in the same year and in the same place, and the explosions in the exercise were simulated with tnt.
eso lo explica todo. la mayoría de comentarios son de anglosajones diciendo que probablemente el soldado que estaba montando a caballo y yendo en dirección a la explosión probablemente murió tiempo después a causa del cáncer ocasionado por la radiación que recibió por estar tan cerca de la explosión
2:37 I never thought I would see gas mask wearing soldiers, on horseback, with guns and sabers drawn, riding into a nuclear mushroom cloud, but man I'm glad I've seen it now.
I thought it was stupid, but actually: Horses don't suffer from the effects of the EMP; being animals and all. This means that when cars stop working, horses are still ready to go.
@@rixille The latter part is a chemical defense exercise，is no connection with nuc，you people live all time in stupid media，No wonder west always lose when competing with China
My high school history teacher let us watch Trinity and Beyond and I fell in love with this final sequence. Downloaded the soundtrack ("China Gets the Bomb") and listened to it over and over on my lime green ipod
Gotta admit, the cavalry charge with type 56 full auto rifles got me, that's exactly what I imagine with a "futuristic" nomadic cavalry charge with rifles.
Running into a hot radioactive blast zone is probably not the wisest thing to do. Especially since anyone there is already dead. But maybe that's just me.
Back then, atomic bombs were viewed as just another strategic weapon, might as well integrate your retrograde classic combloc human wave charge doctrine and make it into a combat strategy, the point was probably the bomb works as a devastating and psychological weapon while troops would later deployed to sweep of the survivors if they ever exist.. You blew a large hole on the ground where the enemy stood, might as well take it so no one can retake it back
@@Aztec1050Cavalry is useless in war because of machine guns that can just shoot dead the horse. Tanks in the other hands are good for protecting the infantries from machine guns, that's why they invent it in WW1
In fact, China's first nuclear experiment and anti nuclear exercise were not conducted together, and the time and location were completely different. These are just two separate videos edited, and in fact, in history, the first country to use real people to charge at the site of a nuclear bomb explosion was the United States. Moreover, the soldiers were not protected and developed serious sequelae afterwards.
imagine a nuclear bomb explodes in your city and then you are overrun by masses of riders on horses with gas masks and machine guns XD just too surreal
Question. Say someone wanted to turn the proving ground where the very first nuclear bomb was detonated into a more exciting tourist destination by recreating the blast using non-nuclear explosives, how much would it cost to do that? Also to preserve the original test site you can put the new one a few miles away.
Trinity was 22kt if Google is accurate. Kt refers to 1,000 tons of TNT, but I feel with the advances we've made since the 40's, I think we could do more with less.
the DoE in Las Vegas does schedule bus tours of the Nevada Test Site but don't hold your breath that the tour would end in a spectacular TNT explosion before you hit the gift shop.
Another fine post! Trinity & Beyond has been in my collection since it came out on DVD. I would like to mention, you have two spammers posting six different messages in your comments. Can you guess which ones they are? If you don't know about this issue already, they all need to be reported as spam to RU-vid at once. They're trying to contact you & your viewers to harvest their account &/or personal info. There are a good many videos on YT about this epidemic of idiocy. Regards!
Thought it was edited together in the film clip. The original propaganda film was called 'Hurrah for our nation's three nuclesr test successes'(欢呼我国三次核试验成功）, I believe the military exercise secnes were from the third test, which was a H bomb test.
Clearly that tower shot was the first Chinese A bomb testing, also that's why 'the white hat guy jumped and fell'. A great thrill at that time, many people named their children after the Bomb or the Chinese satellite etc. But very cheap film editing involve in this movie sequence distorted the facts a lot.
@@Spams-the-lasers Hey buddy, thanks for the information. I suspected as much that the two tests were spliced together to form a single "coherent" event for the documentary, I suspect there just isn't enough footage of the Chinese nuclear tests available to the west to create a longer segment detailing the tests they did and it was put together like this. In the movie it's used as a "or is it?" finale when the US and USSR "stopped" testing nuclear weapons and in comes China to show off their work, so it had to be brief to put it at the end of the documentary or required way more footage to cover the entirety of the Chinese nuclear weapons program. Thanks to your direct mention of the original films title (欢呼我国三次核试验成功) I could find the original and it indeed is this film of both tests but with portions cut out to speed it up.
@dorddord8634 Gas masks are not only used for chemical or biological environments, you want to be wearing a gas mask near a atmospheric nuclear explosion as well to protect yourself from the fallout, the direct radiation is not good for you but it's meh, but once you start inhaling alpha and beta emitters is when you're in the fast track to cancer. Doing cavalry charges into a nuclear cloud isn't that dumb or propagandy to to be honest, the US did basically the same with infantry and helicopters moving towards nuclear fireballs with the Desert Rock exercises. In that time it was expected that tactical nukes would rek the battlefield and troops in BMPs and other enclosed troop carriers would have to move through that garbage to defend/attack. Using horses isn't that bad of an idea either because if the enemy detonates some high-altitude shots throwing EMPs everywhere, the horses won't be affected while you can't say the same for most vehicles. Gathering how the horses would react to gigantic blast waves and giant balls of fire in the sky is quite valuable so I can believe that they did that while not being stupid.
If you look at the 0:40 mark, there a Chinese soldier in the background pretending to hammer. I own this documentary and have seen it countless times since the 90's, and just very recently noticed that funny detail.
In reality, the kind of "nuclear cavalry" specially built for nuclear warfare described in the video does not exist at all, because having basic anti-nuclear anti-biological and chemical capabilities is the basic condition for troops to have effective combat effectiveness in an all-out war after the beginning of the Cold War . The video claims that the electromagnetic pulse of nuclear war will cause the mechanical and electronic components of mechanized troops to fail, so cavalry and infantry can only be used to commit suicide charges and go into battle. But in fact, it is difficult to paralyze electronic equipment on a large scale under the electromagnetic pulse of a nuclear explosion. Although the electric field strength of the nuclear explosion center can reach 10kV/m or higher, the attenuation in the atmosphere of this thing is very fast, and the distance of ten kilometers Basically it will be reduced to 1kV/m-100V/m. The pulse peak generated by a nuclear explosion can block communication or damage a small range of transistors/integrated circuits in a short period of time, but it is difficult to cause permanent damage to other electrical equipment. In particular, military equipment itself has an anti-electromagnetic pulse design, so there is no possibility of armored forces failing under nuclear warfare. In fact, armored forces have higher three-defense capabilities and are more suitable for use in nuclear warfare. Our army kept a large number of cavalry in the last century not to replace mechanized troops under nuclear warfare, but because the troops were limited by industrial capabilities and could not manufacture so many mechanized vehicles, so they were forced to use cavalry to achieve campaign-level mobility. At the same time, in actual combat, no troops will attack the center of explosion. Under nuclear warfare, the high mobility of troops is required to bypass the high-radiation area as much as possible to attack the enemy's flanks and cut off the enemy's salient. It is completely unreasonable to go to the center of explosion. Moreover, our army has worked out a detailed plan for combat against the background of nuclear warfare. For infantry, cavalry and other arms that lack continuous protection capabilities, they are all required to give priority to concealment, stay away from the center of the nuclear explosion, and wait for opportunities to block and encircle the enemy. The so-called charge towards the nuclear explosion in the video is actually a tactical exercise accompanied by my country's third nuclear test. The exercise area is about 10 kilometers away from the epicenter. This distance is very safe with protective equipment. The so-called charge to the heart comes from a short film recorded by the United States on China's nuclear test. The BGM of that short film is the famous "China get the bomb". The peripheral combat troops are depicted as dead soldiers charging towards the nuclear explosion to show the cruelty of the Chinese. Although this documentary has largely caused "reverse effects" in the West, there is no doubt that it is American fictional garbage. Our army will not sacrifice the lives of people's soldiers meaninglessly like this!
