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4000mw!!! Omg 😳

"Jackass flats" 3:40 lol.

What is more amazing is that after the hole is finished, miners go down the shaft and hollow out a test chamber. Some of the test chambers were huge, one was a 150 foot diameter sphere to investigate shockwave decoupling. It took 2 years and removed 250,000 tons of material. In the deepest holes, 50'c+ water would literally spray out of the walls.

14:10 50 inch diameter, with an 8 foot stroke. I feel inadequate for some reason.

So awesome! Where was this film scanned from?

What you've just seen was the smallest nuclear explosion in history yielding a mere 0.5kt TNT.

@Historian Alan B. Carr Good evening, thank you for the presentation. You mentioned another talk that picks up where this one lets off, could you please share a link to that? Thanks again!

This is impressive although the audio matches anything made in Hollywood 3 decades earlier!

This is so cool! I don't know where you find this stuff!

Wow never thought I would see Plutonium extrusion.

I was the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) Program Manager for Particle Beams. SDIO funded the Neutral Particle Beam effort at Los Alamos National Laboratory. See also the Beam Experiment Aboard a Rocket (BEAR). I recently published a book on Barnes and Nobles on this topic “The Guardian A Space Based Neutral Particle Beam A powerful Guardian of peace. “ OSD restarted the program in 2018. The effort was terminated due to budget priorities. The Space Force has command and Control and sensors but no weapon.

Now this, Mrs. Ricardo is a nuclear warhead. Your job is to take a can of whipped cream, spray the nuclear warhead like so, put a cherry on the top of the nuclear warhead, and place it on this shelf, like so. Do you understand so far? Yes, Mr. Witherbottom.

I feel like a refreshing glass of nuka cola

Starts at 7:26

Same here. 👀. Also, background music by Chicago. ;)

I absolutely love the music from these vintage AEC videos !

Its so interesting how love of numbers and music go together. Dr. Teller was my father’s boss. My dad and I are both pianists., organists, and flutests. Dad a geophysicist and I am an financial analyst. Thank you for this video.

Like to see the analyais video of them taking it apart

I love this! Thanks for posting! Perhaps next time you could include the visual of the audio track for future archiving? Keep up the good work Alan!

Although the specific impulse of this type reactor/propellant can be very high, just look at the exhaust plume of the nozzle in this and similar videos. There is virtually NO thrust. There isn't a hint of a shock diamond. Based on the visual flow stream, I'm guessing that the nozzle exhaust pressure might be at about 100-to-200-psi, as based on steam venting comparisons. Using Water as the propellant would raise the total thrust by a decade or more, and the volume of the tankage would be reduced by a factor of 100-less or more, and not require as much insulation. The reduced SI would be well offset by the weight loss and size reduction of the actual rocket.

Hi Alan, this footage is incredible, priviliged to view this first hand historical record! Where did this footage come from? Many thanks

I've never seen this footage before. I did slow it down to 0.25X speed to make it closer to actual speed. It might have been my dad behind the camera.

Remarkable.

You have nice footage, Iam interested in US nuclear test mainly underground tests from 60´s to 90´s.

Wazzup😊!

Fascinating subject

The videos of hand lathe turning of uranium out there are nuts

Testing was done at the "Jackass Flats".... TIL

In this video Teller was so much kinder to Opie than when we talked briefly about 'Opie' in 1974 (Vietnam was 'semi-concluding' in 74, but divisive anger was still in the air). In Teller's later writings, he went back to less anger as he described 'Opie'. I think Dyson Freeman described Teller perfectly! ... That said, I found Teller to be very entertaining and he was VERY kind to me and the several folks at UCLA during his weekly visit from his main office in the Bay Area... In my firsthand opinion, some of the comments below unfairly describe Teller.

The entire story has been publishef in a book written by author Benjamin Labatut, entitled "The Maniac". Published in 2023. Incredible read.

Los Alamos is still a functional weapons lab yet you wouldn't know it. Well done, NSA

I was in the audience that day as a young postdoc. Thank you for posting this!

"You didn't' see graphite!"

The chemistry that these people are explaining is some frightening frightening stuff iodine is not nice

For a second I thought this was Colin Furze’s DIY channel, and that he’d really stepped up his game!

Time capsules, Guys and Gals that lived it . 🎉Greatest generation group. Thanks🎉!

What year(s) are we seeing here?

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its so weird seeing teller, yknow, like, mr. h-bomb himself, just being a sweet old man. look at his little hawaiian button-up. how can u hate this guy.

It goes pew pew pew!

Just... wow. Moments of irony abound.

Finally more footage of the caisson which I first saw in the updated version of Trinity and Beyond. I imagine playing Ground Zero as they prepare the bomb.

1:35 you can see a curtains around the atomic bomb because it was very secret device and only small amount people can see it. Even for workers it was forbidden to see it.

Hi. Could you upload more such nuclear test videos?

Both my father and grandfather worked there operating a drag line crane. Not sure what year

Interesting. Thx for posting.

i wouldn’t call this awesome - it’s insane - plus the people who lived and still live downwind are still dying of cancer- nuclear colonialism - it pretty much sucks

Really cool. I saw videos about this facility, but never the metallurgy operations. Cool.

Great video. I live near the Former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. That process was brought here from LASL.

Entertaining as always Alan thanks for sharing.