Really dude? I bet the people who were lied to & manipulated off of their native lands know exactly where these islands are! Well actually you’re probably right because most were near able to go back to their homes since the US left it a radioactive wasteland dump & so the descendants have never been to their ancestral homelands. We talk so much shyt about Russia/Soviet Union & their handling of nuclear materials yet we have no room whatsoever to criticize them when we’ve done way worse by 10 fold.
I think there is a chance 3 out of 4 old bombs won't detonate due to aging. The USAF had an article about the test, they wrote they tested three unarmed missiles... yes...
@@precisionleadthrowing4628 Sorry, but that is not a fact but an assumption that is widely dismissed by the scientific community. It comes up from time to time though for whatever reason. The real culprits are CFCs, thus they were banned. There is little to no evidence that the Nukes had an impact on thinning the O3 layer, since the chemicals that are indeed destructive to Ozone and indeed were thrown up by the nukes are destroyed while destroying it, and were never enough to have a lasting effect similar to the constant supply of CFCs through production.
One of the satellites that got fried by the nuke was Telstar, which carried the first transatlantic television broadcast in history. RIP little buddy, you were kind of a shitbox but you did your best
So that creates fake context..it makes things more believable. The polestar shift occurred and opened up a new dimension for. 0001 second. See made up and. .fake. science lies!!
It was a prototype. Experimental. The first satellite the Soviets (and mankind) sent into space beeped. Very simplistic. The 2nd one played the Soviet National Anthem. The Soviets were far ahead of us in rocket technology. It annoyed the Soviets that our U-2 spy planes flew over their air space (understandable.) Their fighters could fly to 60,000 feet but the U-2's flew at 80,000 feet and their air to air cannons were ineffective. They developed rockets that could climb to 80,000 feet and using proximity fuses, detonate close enough to bring them down (like Gary Powers,) or cause enough damage the pilots would fly the U-2 into the ground at 700MPH destroying the plane completely. The Space Race was dominated by the Soviets until the Americans caught up.
There are a lot that aren't & others in the pacific with numerous radiation related illnesses even today. The testers were really a bunch of fck'n toe rags
We saw the Star Fish Prime explosion at about 9p.m. (full darkness in mid-Winter in N.Z.) on July 9th, 1962, from a part of Auckland in New Zealand which looked directly North. It was a ball of bright light like a sun on the northern horizon, many thousands of miles away. Very memorable. We were 13 years old at the time. We knew that it was an American test of a nuclear bomb, but did not know that it was high above the earth in outer space, as this programme on TH-cam reveals. I thought that it was a great atomic explosion on a Pacific Island way above the Equator and marveled that we could see it despite the thousands of miles of curvature of the earth. Thanks for explaining that the explosion was high above the earth, which is why it was so visible to much of the Pacific Ocean, north and south. Enjoyed the programme. Thanks
Thank you very much for the fascinating account, my dear Bruce. What an incredible privilege it was for you to have witnessed this wonderful event. And how generous of you to tell us what you saw. Greetings from me and my family here in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
I know I witnessed a nuclear explosion in space in the late 70’s growing up in Hawaii. While my family was in the backyard and my mom was talking to the neighbor in the evening. It was a clear night and alll of a sudden a bright circular light expanded across the sky yellow in color that ended with a green halo. There was multiple circular lights, it was so large that it looked like it was falling towards earth making us get to the ground quickly. I was probably 10 years old old at the time and I can remember it till today with detail, yet I can’t find any nuclear space testing conducted in that time period.
My late grandpa, 98 years old when he passed, was the Naval Lieutenant in charge of building the tower, runway, and electrical systems for the Redstone rocket which launched Teak and Orange. He was also one of the only military men to stay on the island during the launch of Teak, due to his experience seeing 10 nuclear bombs explode at the time; Nevada. He could recall opening the hatch of the bunker, shortly after the blast melted the TV receiver, they poured out to look at that mini sun and aurora. That bomb was NOT small. He recalled there was no rescue plan because 'if it went off on the island, there would be no island, if it went off a mile up, there would also be no island." He remembers the shockwave of Teak as "mild." I've listened to the story countless times about how difficult it was for him to get the tower running, electrical issues and generator issues, Doctor Debus, while dealing with an Army Major. Amusing, there was a 'nearby' island called Bird Island, a nature sanctuary. You might expect the Navy not to care but they placed black smoke generators to purposely black out the island, during the launch, so the birds wouldn't become blinded by the light.
Scary description. In the movies "Threads" and "The Day After", I wondered about the effectiveness of high altitude nuclear weapon detonations in causing disruptive effects. It seems from practical experience you have described, and in the video, that such a strategy could be effective. The possibilities are quite terrifying.
I love how the mission was simultaneously caring enough to blanket a nature preserve while also cold enough to say you're on your own if you mess up 'cuz we assume you won't exist anymore.
I love how they're always telling us not to be violent, and meanwhile they're tying nukes to balloons and sending them into space to see what they could do with it.
I love how the devil has stupid people so dumb that they really think space exists outside of just some lights in the sky during the night representing light prevailing but y'all are so stupid that water isn't water it's something else which could also be grass like lmao get wrecked when god get here
Well idk but they are trying to nuke the dome that contains us to our earth. Y'all wouldn't be understand because only Jesus can do miracles right so I've never been outside of earth blah blah blah I seen it it's flat look into literally any pilot who talked a bout it, they will tell you earth is flat but not only is earth flat but the dome above us is damn cracked that you can barely see through it like a super cracked phone screen. Wake the fuck up idiots. My god never told me about sheep. And my god said you don't need a church. So why the fuck would I need a book. It's not even wake the fuck up at this point. Grow the fuck up you fucking toddlers. Always waiting for your next goddamned tantrum... 😂
@allangibson8494 I think they're alluding that rules are always being conjured up that make common citizens lives more difficult, while the ones that create those rules are performing acts that exponentially cause effects that oppose the spirit and letter of those rules.
@@CraigPestell There were no rules in the 1960’s. Thats what prompted Richard Nixon to create the EPA. When a Republican thinks things are bad enough to act, they are bad.
Is it any wonder that cancer is so ubiquitous? Besides all the toxic testing in the South Pacific, the US also detonated over 1000 above ground nuclear weapons in Nevada, right here in our own country, with the bulk of the fallout raining down on civilian populations in Utah causing large cancer outbreaks. Residua fallout spread all the way to the east coast and beyond. As mentioned in this video, plenty of other countries have also conducted above ground nuclear tests. This is a global, insane, culture of death.
its unlikely that this would the cause of it, especially given a few generations, air pollutants from gasoline and industrial processes is much more likely to cause this, as well as the foods you consume. It'd be worth comparing the nevada downwind region, to a region like the midwest which is going to have essentially zero radiation exposure comparatively to see the difference, though its also worth doing proper stats and accounting for any obvious differences you might innately encounter.
From Wikipedia: The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, including 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests. So over 800 tests below ground.
Have to add in the Monsanto/Dupont effect. Dioxin in the air and water; Roundup is in all our foods; PFAS in our water. The list of chemicals goes on and on. Not to mention cell phones and cell phone towers. But the sun's going to explode in 23 years, so make hay while you can :)
My father was involved with the nuclear testing in 1962. His Navy ship was assigned with going into the blast zone and taking samples. He’s talked about how hot the water was, and all the dead fish that made the sea stink. His tonsils and several teeth rotted out, I assume from the radiation.
My dad did the "march towards the light" test in Nevada. Put them in trenches no masks no shades no nothing. Had them cover their eyes , count to ten then get out & walk towards the shroom cloud. Didn't talk of it until right before he died. Crazy.
My father worked at Boeing space research lab at this time. They made test equipment to measure various types of radiation. While the primary goal was to determine how to ensure survival for Astronauts by quantifying background cosmic radiation and radiation that exists at high altitudes within the atmosphere, these instruments were carried by aircraft during these tests as well. His team was offered the opportunity to ride along to observe and most accepted and subsequently died from various forms of cancer. My dad declined and although was a cigarette smoker, he never experienced cancer. No hard evidence I know, but those are the facts. This video covers the history very well and accurately. Good work. EMP aside, Starfish Prime punched a hole in the ionosphere that does not rotate as fast as the planet, so the hole that lingered for days created a ray of several miles in diameter that rained harmful cosmic rays on the earth's surface in a stripe the encircled the planet.
About 2/3 of the crew of the USS Kitty Hawk was directly exposed to the effects of the Starfish Prime test. (I), we, were on the flight deck to see the 'over-the-horizon' event, which as it turns out was not 'over-the- horizon'. The weapon detonated about 25 Degrees above the horizon, we were looking right at it. I had thyroid cancer about 2008, and was lucky to survive. It was caught in time. Many of my ship mates were not so lucky. I believe the cancer was the result of being exposed to this thermonuclear blast. Just say'in.
Starfish Prime? That name for the mission was a dead giveaway that you all were screwed, and NOT in the fun way. You guys deserved to not be used as guinea pigs. 😥
@@nutzeeer With nothing but air between them and the source...yep. If they had been below decks they might have had enough metal to protect them. But they were on deck...watching.
My grandfather was a safety worker on the manhattan project, he died when I was 1 years old from a brain tumor at 56, and my cousin recently passed also from a brain tumor at 41, messing around with nuclear power and the long term effects of radiation is no joke. Seriously scary and harmful to all living things. 😢
To this day I recall seeing, as a nine-year-old, the evening sky to the north suddenly turning crimson. This was from rural Aotearoa/New Zealand, far to the south in the South Pacific. It was the July 9, 1962 Starfish Prime explosion. I yelled to my nearby father, who told me it was the ‘Yanks testing atomic bombs’. I understand that months-perhaps years-later dairy products from the country’s farming industry were found to have been contaminated by the fallout. Strontium 90 or something similar.
@@jw5031He talked of it being in 1962, 17 years after the Japs had been beat and surrendered. Plus the US was always going to defeat the Japs without nuclear. The bomb stopped a long, drawn invasion that would cost lots of both civilian and army lives.
Rubbish. By the time the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, they had already lost the war … and knew it. Arguably, those bombs probably hastened their decision to surrender-possibly even saving my own soldier father’s life as a result! However, many contemporary historians argue that the threat from the encroaching Soviet Union forces from mainland Asia was as significant a factor, with the Japanese preferring to surrender to the Allied forces than having anything to do with the communists. (Probably a wise choice!) Notwithstanding, my original comment about seeing the (subsequent … 17 years later) Starfish Prime atmospheric test was neither a criticism nor endorsement of testing programmes, atomic or hydrogen: it was merely a recollection of a spectacular event.
Strontium 90 was distributed all over the world. There was a study when I was a kid where they were collecting baby teeth to measure the radioactive fallout. I was in the American Midwest, but had radioactive material in my teeth.
Beautiful video. My second job just out of Aero Engineering School was at Chrysler Corporation Missile Division (CCMD)Just north of Detroit. CCMD made all the Redstone and Jupiter Army missiles with Dr Wehrner Von Braun as head of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville AL. My job was in the CCMD Advanced Development Branch at 16 mile and Van Dyke north of Warren MI. In the small group of Engineers we supported Von Braun on advanced projects (1959). One was going to used a modified Redstone missile for Project Willow intended to fire a nuclear weapon in space. We helped with some of the trajectory planning and dynamics of one of the 5 instrumented pods kicked off the booster prior to the prime nuclear event. To give measurements of the environment in space long distances away from the event. I never did hear if the project was actually built and tested, Apparently it did and in fairly recent times read some books that indicated exactly what your great video showed. Another event in you video showed the EMP effects. Also Pres. Kennedy agreements with Soviets at the Cuban Missile Crises of 1962. At the height of the Cold War, NATO had Jupiter (ARMY) and Thor (Air Force) IRBM's in Europe and Turkey aimed at the Soviets as part of the mutually assured nuclear destruction of Soviet and Free World as a detent to keep world peace. The Kennedy brothers were given credit for forcing Russia to take the nuclear missiles out of Cuba. When U.S. news media used this for Democratic rhetoric they also claimed that the US didn't give up anything. The Jupiter nuclear IRBM's (Army) were based in Italy and Turkey. The Thor IRBM's (Air Force) were emplaced in France and England. The Jupiter missiles were given up to get the Soviets to get theirs out of Cuba. At CCMD when we found out, a crash study was done to used those hundreds of Jupiter missiles to modify theme to make satellite launch vehicles out of them. A team was sent to Washington to propose this use of this great hardware when it was brought back to the U.S. The team came back broken-hearted when they found out that all the hardware was steamrolled on site to convince the Soviets that they would never return. I was surprised later in my career when the true story was kept secret from the American Public. Many of the younger generations really don't know what life was like during the Cold War. Your video was excellent in covering all the apprehensions that I have had including the EMP danger. Of course that's a current concern. Several years ago I read a brief article in either the newspaper or Aviation Week that our greatest fear is that Iran gets only one nuclear weapon and the capability to put a space detonation several hundred miles over the U.S. A few years ago, monitors of Iran's missile tests indicated a failure thought to occur when its telemetry indicated an event at apogee instead of close to the ground as would be used for a long range attack on an enemy. A relatively small missile carrying a modern nuke could be launched from a private yacht just outside the U.S. coastal waters to detonate several hundred miles in space over the U.S. The EMP from such a weapon would knock out all the unprotected microchips across the whole country. Just about any device we use in our 'advanced' society has microchips to function, i.e. cars, watches, refrigerators, games, computers, etc. etc. etc. The large Solar Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) can do the same. A CME observed in the 1800's which dismantled the Telegraph System has that same capability. Scientists have warned our politicians to do something about this in the 1990's since it could bring down the total electrical grid. A cheap fix for the grip protection could have been done for only several billion dollars back then. Congress voted to take action back then. But politicians don't have the technical understanding and didn't take action because of the cost. We are sitting ducks or lemmings at this soon to happen world disaster either by stupid enemies or stupid rulers. We need some Amazing Grace at this time.
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This was a subject my dad had some education in . The science facts were all he could talk about . And that much only in limited terms . There is so much I would have loved learning . But understood national security issues . Thankyou for the refresher course .
My Aunt Frances lived and worked on Johnston Island many decades later, and the cause of her illness and death long after retiring from service is not entirely clear. Still, it's "interesting" to hear that not only was a nuclear bomb detonated right overhead (though high up), but also one of the failed tests rained down plutonium on the Island. Yikes. It's even scarier to think that those might not have been the most hazardous products she was exposed to there. May she rest in our Lord's peace!
Johnson Atoll contractors read, understood, and signed that waiver. It held true for my uncle who pulled a hitch there in the 70’s and my cousin who worked there in the 90’s. The risks were made very clear, but the money…..
@@blackhawk7r221 My aunt worked for the government and wasn't a contractor, for what that's worth. I can believe she was warned, and I've heard she was well compensated. I hope your uncle and cousin didn't suffer unduly.
@@johnkeck Jeez John, I just reread what I wrote and I really did come off as an asshole. Sorry for that. My uncle did sign up for a government VA type program that tested him annually, but luckily nothing ever showed up. If I remember correctly, they worked in 9 week rotations. Now my cousin who did it in the mid 90’s and is now 61 did come down with early colon cancer, but that’s a normal old guy disease and probably unrelated. He easily beat that. Early detection. If my uncle were still alive I would ask him about that annual monitoring program, but you will have to research it on your own. Sorry.
And tens of thousands of sick and still struggling natives of those islands that the us brutally colonised after kicked the previous also brutal colonisers.
@@stevenbingham3061 the original godzilla was a metaphor for the bombs that hit japan. maybe youre thinking of the newer films by legendary where they make him into a titan of ancient mythology.
One always hears advocates of non-proliferation treaties say "We must make sure that nuclear weapons don't fall into the wrong hands." Sorry, buddies, they are already in the wrong hands.
Human hands will inevitably be bad hands. It's insane, that period of time, when nuclear weapons were in their infancy. The U.S. high command seriously considered preemptively nuking the USSR before they could finalize their own nuclear weapons in order to avoid any future nuclear warfare that could "destroy the world". Fiction can be moving, but reality can be mind-boggling sometimes
We're like kids screwing around with our dad's gun, to quote a line from Jurassic Park. We're messing with powers we can't comprehend, and one of these days we're going to go too far.
We have been warned ( our governments) And one of the reasons why we see so many UFO's these days.. They prevent alot of bs We never see,seen or saw for longer than we will ever probably know.
@@davidholman48 going to far is a part of exploration..and it requires potential sacrifices and always has.. Without risk,the rewards tend to dry up..🤔 Would other beings explore or take risk if they didn't need rewards...🤔likely not
I learned how important nuclear disarmament is for the future of this lovely world of horrors we inhabit. Great Job ! I just subscribed to your channel.
I was a teenager in Hawaii during Operation Teak and saw the bright light. As it dimmed the sky became green and that lasted for quite a while. The public was informed before the test so we would not panic. I still have the front page of the Honolulu newspaper with the picture of the sky over Oahu.
That's the thing. I just see no world in which people hold back on ANY tech. People get a new toy, and we seem to immediately find a way to screw someone with it. Apparently they reciently used AI and two wifi routers to basically make a camera that sees through walls. Golly I wonder how that'll be abused.
there were 2 situations where using a nuclear bomb wasn't a completely terrible idea. uzbekistan had a gas well fire that had been going for 3 years. the soviets drilled a hole 1.4km deep, put a 30kt nuke inside, set it off, and that put out the fire. this worked so well they did it again with another fire at the pamuk gas field. they drilled a hole 2.4km deep, chucked in a 47kt nuke, set it off, and that stopped the fire :)
@@corykunze4330 That is incorrect. The Japanese were already considering surrender after the Tokyo raid. Nuking Japan was the clencher but just Hiroshima would likely have been enough. Bombing Nagasaki was not for the "benefit" of the Japanese, it was to show the USSR that Hiroshima was not a fluke and the US had the ability to make more nukes.
@@MrGrumblierThat's completely incorrect. Both were necessary as Japan was not going to surrender due to how fractured power distribution was in their government
Or was this gaining knowledge on how to live better ? I mean we are still speaking American English.....not Russian......not German.....not Japanese. Remember, who declared war on who.
@@VainRain69 the video should have stated that explicitly. What they said was inaccurate and just plain silly. The number one rule of writing is "say exactly what you mean."
There's a difference between knowing of something and fully understanding something. There are many things we've known of for hundreds if not thousands of years, yet only recently have begun to understand. And there's still so much left to learn.
9:10 "So, for just good measure, the US did this one more time..." I find it hard to believe how this level of child-like and almost blind exploration of the deadliest weapon ever made didn't get us all killed already. Even counting all the times we got this 🤏 close to WWIII because of nuke accidents and fails... it's still miraculous that nothing catastrophic happened. This video will make a great addition to Kyle Hill's nuclear horror series.
"Childish" That term works well to explain the mental pathology behind the "experiments". I disagree your statement about "nothing catastrophic happening". How many of your friends and relatives have died from cancer? How many atoms of Strontium 90 and other isotopes do we eat while enjoying seafood's?
These comments and the video itself, demonstrate a mindset that grew up long after the Cold War and the impact it had on us. Second, the video has little real grasp of the hard science and theory that went behind all of this. For every Demon Core, there were hundreds of times the math questions kept bad happening. That said, we were in a time of almost nonexistent knowledge in the field. All we had were theories and a desperate geopolitical conflict, an ideological fight whose end defined the world as you know it. Inn other words, the video isn't bad, but it doesn't have time to immerse you fully in the world in which I was raised. Give these researchers credit for having a pretty good idea what they were doing. However they didn't know as much as they would after these tests.
the Cold war is honestly the best proof of God in my lifetime - there were so many times we could've been killed by a slight miscalculation. (Of course, the sad thing is, many were. I think the estimates of cancer desths due to fallout from nuclear testing in both countries is close to a million, to say nothing of all the stress, nightmares, and terror we went thtough with nuclear drills and creepy fallout shelters like the one in my grandparents' basement that still shows up in my dreams -and I wonder how many medical and other breakthroughs we could've made if we'd invested tgat money elsewhere. It's like with the military now - the budget is absolutely obscene, yet no one chalkenges it, even when a virus kills more Americans in 2 years than every war going back to 1776. Why do we spend so much money on*waves hands at the nukes* THIS? future generations won't understand.
It's terrifying that human beings feel the need to create such methods of destruction and even more terrifying that they think merely testing them will have no consequences.
I think exactly the same it is insane what we have done to this planet what the testing testing of these bombs I wonder why so many folks get cancer these days play irritating really that they would risk destroying the only place we have to survive just to gain power sad
It’s the nuclear weapons that we’ve been testing that are the causes of cancer, those little particles all over the place get into the food chain and we ingest them or smoke them or breathe them or drink them and sometimes some of them stick inside us and send the little bit of DNA haywire and you have cancer. All we need to do is counter check all of our food, but then they’d find it. It’s all over the place, interesting that they treated with radiation isn’t it?
It's more banal than terrifying. It's also proof that mankind is the most destructive, insane, selfish, most self-deceived and immoral species on the planet, and likely the Universe.
9:06 I don't think anyone who knows anything about nuclear weapons would consider a 3.8 MT bomb to be a "relatively small bomb." Considering that it's more than three times bigger than the biggest bomb in the current US arsenal (the B83, 1.2 MT).
Right, as I understand it as the Cold War progressed warhead yields were starting to settle around 1 MT since that value had flexibility in types of targets that could be eliminated without being wasteful overkill. That would be a morbid area of study, but apparently people did and probably still do study those tactics and efficient use of weapons. Now, so far as back then, there were crazy tests and plans for ever bigger yields, I think that the video is fair to say what it did. It can get nit picky judging a video author, or any author, on a judgement call on choice of description. ✌️
In the context of the time, it was small... The Titan II carried a W-53 warhead with a yield of 9Mt; though the largest nuke in US Arsenal in the 60's was the B41 with a yield of 25Mt
4:15 - No, EMP would be "caught up in a magnetic loop". Electro magnetic pulse is simply a pulse of photons from gamma rays all the way down the spectrum to ratio waves;those would induce voltage pulses in unshielded electronics (even transmission lines), frying some of them. The effect of charged particles in the van Allen belt is secondary.
Econathiest- if that were the case, then a low altitude or ground level nuke would wipe out all electronic equipment in a thousand mile radius. But that just isn’t so.
I am 73 . And learned the history of ww1 , ww2 , depression, and every conflict since , from people who lived through it . And paying attention , as my dad and mom and teachers , and many in my community insisted we kids do . And my dads education , he shared as much as he could . After his military service , and the work experience he had , he was careful about how much he could tell us about . But science was something he shared as much as he could . And every veteran I have ever known is the same way
Don't throw "radioactive" around mindlessly. Particles in the van Allen belts are either electrons or positively charged _ions_ - nothing "radioactive" there.
The “ions” trapped in the Van Allen belts are alpha and beta particles moving at relativistic velocities. They will give you a nasty radiation burn if you stick around for a month.
Well, the Van Allen belt electrons have energies about five times the energies of the beta particle radiation from nukes. The inner belt has Protons between 10MeV, and several GeV, averaging hundreds of times more energy than fission bomb particle or gamma energies. This guy really knows very little. 🙄
Americans don't talk about all the nuclear tests on the west coast and all the fallout in relation to cancer rates in specific locations in the united states.
@@mattmatt6572 Never truer statement spoken the nwoooo and the so called elites have been at this game for not decades but generations, I will see myself out.
I got to visit Johnston Atoll back in the early 80s... interesting place. The missile that failed spread plutonium all over that corner of the island and took awhile to clean up. I got to see the launch pad, as well as the chemical weapon storage area from a distance before the merchant ship I worked on sailed - it's a bird sanctuary now thankfully...
@@TessTearoe-zp5xvIndependent researchers have traveled to the atolls and found only a few spots with radiation levels higher than normal background radiation. Nuclear bomb materials rapidly degrade after detonation into more stable elements. The very reason so much energy is released in a flash of chain reactions is due to this fission of atoms. Some isotopes produced by nuclear detonation have half lives measured in seconds.
@@OldMan854 The solar storm a few months back was likely stronger than the estimates of the Carrington Event, and yet we were sufficiently hardened that there no significant damage.
The animation at 12:48 is to give a general idea of what it would look like to see one of these explosions in space. But the 4 video clips immediately after the aforementioned animation clip, are those 100% real actual video recordings of the explosions?
There are many more equally deplorable actions from the US government. The government is full of wealthy people, no amount of suing will do anything. Make it known that the unknown deaths this has caused will not be forgotten. Let alone the deaths from the Nevada tests, let alone everything still classified. Let alone everything outside of the US. The only way is to stop working. Otherwise, I fear the people in power will always remain at a safe distance. They will remain ignorant to the damages, as they currently are, only to enable more death and destruction. They will only be left in check by less powerful people with a head on their shoulders, as they currently are, still within the greater power to get what they want. This becomes a cycle where we are always on the edge of extinction, as we will inevitably be again, at some point soon. Personally, I think this is far worse than extinction. This is an eternity of suffering.
I think that in some point in human history our great ancestors did indeed nuke space (or something similar) and it went very bad for us....but we recovered with out any knowledge. ...and here we are today circumstances ripe for it to happen again.
What happened was that the ozone layer mysteriously developed a big hole in it from aerosols at the exact same time and thousands of New Zealanders died from skin cancer.
There is a bunch of rotten and leaking nuclear reactors on the oceans floors. Not to speak of the nuclear waste that was dumped in there for decades. Until it was understood that nuclear waste can be put on to tank shells and increase devastation where they hit. Creating deadly nuclear dust that will go into the organ's of every living thing for decades in that region. NATO uses these on regular basis everywhere they go. - there is a Documentary called deathly dust about it. - the journalist who did this documentary was suspended so he is not allowed to publish anymore.
Not to mention the ones on the sunken Russia submarines that are too deep to retrieve. Eat that shrimp and lobster while you can! Remember: ignorance is bliss and get off the Internet!
some of the early test before starfish prime are almost almost more terrifying. i'm still annoyed it fried Telstar one, the Sputnik of theWest (except more versatile; it did a lot of useful things like synchronize clocks in France and North America, the first satellite tv and phone broadcasts between Europe and the US., and computer data transfers.)
2:01 "In the late 1950's scientists confirmed that the earth has a powerful magnetic field". So, compasses have been functioning since before the birth of Christianity, but we couldn't figure out that there's a magnetic field until Fonzie first rode a motorcycle?
Says confirmed, by the people who want to have authority over us all🤦🏻♂️ But they are just people who havent got more authority over us than animals do, when we give them that, it is our own fault...🤷🏻♂️ 💪🏼💙
According to legend, the whole idea of an "emp" as a way to defeat incoming Russian missiles was scrapped when a few facts came to light; It's actually relatively easy to harden against this. Shield sensitive components, use twisted pair cable runs, program the guidance computers to restart if they enter an error state. There's a few things and any electronics technician knows all about them. Once the vehicles were retro-fitted with relatively simple countermeasures, all bets are off. Uh. American ICBMs of the 1960s/70s had swanky microcomputer-controlled guidance but Russian stuff was on the older electromechanical inertial guidance systems with thermionic valve analogue computers - Which aren't really susceptible to this.
sunlight is free, waterfall is free, photosynthesis is free but solar panel isn't, hydroelectric dam isn't, seed/fertilizer/agriculture knowledge/acres of land isn't to gain energy, you need to harvest it in order to harvest, you must do research to make research, you must invest money and time nothing's free
Did you hear all the "scientific" data BS they claimed on this video? Crazy stuff..regardless of what's "true"- "science" be making some crazy claims! Iron ball in middle of earth with flowing lava around it they said LOL that's a theory. It was claimed as CONFIRMED wtf!?!?!
Yup. They knew what they were doing when they named it Operation Fishbowl which was part of Operation Dominick, The late Rob Skiba was right when he said they were testing the fishbowl of the Lord.
- General, Sir, what if we... What if we nuked space? - Johnson, you nutjob, why would we nuke space? - Uh, you know, to see what happens? - Shit, you do have a point. I'll try to get it approved. *In the Oval Office* - You want to do what? Why would we spend huge amounts of time and money just to nuke space? - Mr President, aren't you curious what would happen? - Shit... You do have a point, set it up. Never change, Americans.
@@DavidHusband-yv1qh deterrent for who ? Non N countries are still getting invaded. Humanity as we know it will end if two nuclear countries will goto war .
We are most of the way there just by making current bombs tiny in comparison to the 3-15MT monsters we used to have deployed. If you double the accuracy of a delivery system you can get the same overpressure at the intended target with a bomb 1/8th the yield. 300-700kT is a big bomb these days and we are working on replacing those with 50kT. We also know how to build bombs to minimize fallout. An all-out nuclear was today would cause a small fraction of the environmental damage of one in the '60s through '80s, which we are very lucky never happened.
The U.S. government is the one trying to Weaponize space. They tried to be sneaky and pass a bill in the U.N. about No WMDs in Space but China, Russia, and others caught them because it’d be a loophole for non-WMD weapons.
Modern ballistic missiles have terminal guidance as well. (Actually the V-2 had terminal guidance to a certain degree too (enough to arrive pointy end first)).
MIRV WARHEADS CARRYING 10 INDEPENDENT TARGETABLE DEVICES ARE ALL INDIVIDUALLY TARGETABLE UPON RELEASE UPON 10 DIFFERENT TERMINAL DESIGNATED AREAS. MIRV MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT RE-ENTRY VEHICLES. ALMOST EVERY MISSILE CAN STRIKE MORE THAN A SINGLE TARGET.
In the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, in 1958 as I recall, in the early evening I saw I saw a yellow orange glow on the horizon to the north, one of those tests. About 20 minutes I saw aurora come down a little to the west., so I directly saw one such test.
@@SebastianWellsTL No it’s for Science and the advancement of Humanity. The U.S. is busy playing catch-up to save face. Before China landed Chang’E 3 on the moon in 2013, nobody had done so since 1976.
@@keldonator There are extremely high precision instruments that exist these days that allow us to measure what materials are comprised of, by measuring the patterns that are created when vibrations pass through them. In the case of Earth, these instruments use the vibrations made by seismic waves to measure the internal composition of Earth. Its not 100% perfect, but these instruments work for us in verifiable ways to measure materials on the surface, and thus the measurements being taken are indeed quite closely accurate. We've learned through putting materials through experiments that expose them to absolutely insane levels of heat and pressure, that the materials at the core are in a state known as "super-critical". We've also found an extra layer to the core in recent years. The new layer consists of an iron-nickel alloy, like other parts of the core. But it has a different crystal structure that causes shock waves from earthquakes to reverberate through the layer at different speeds than the surrounding core.
@@knightofcydonia1192 It should be emphasized that we "think" we know what is at the center and not just taught objectively that we know what is at the center
I pay a monthly fee to TH-cam so that I don’t have to watch or listen to annoying commercials or advertisements. Yet, as I’m watching this video, I’m forced to watch and listen to an advertisement…Why? I’m not at all interested in “War Thunder”. sorry, but I am not going to like or subscribe to a channel that forces advertisements upon its viewers! Nor will I watch this video. Sorry!
Same promises were made about cable tv which was supposed to make ad revenue unnecessary because we would each be paying for the shows we wanted to see. That lasted about a nanosecond.
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Less discussed fact is that the nuclear tests created the ozon hole
Really dude? I bet the people who were lied to & manipulated off of their native lands know exactly where these islands are! Well actually you’re probably right because most were near able to go back to their homes since the US left it a radioactive wasteland dump & so the descendants have never been to their ancestral homelands. We talk so much shyt about Russia/Soviet Union & their handling of nuclear materials yet we have no room whatsoever to criticize them when we’ve done way worse by 10 fold.
Stick your garbage ad in your ear
I think there is a chance 3 out of 4 old bombs won't detonate due to aging.
The USAF had an article about the test, they wrote they tested three unarmed missiles... yes...
@@precisionleadthrowing4628 Sorry, but that is not a fact but an assumption that is widely dismissed by the scientific community. It comes up from time to time though for whatever reason. The real culprits are CFCs, thus they were banned. There is little to no evidence that the Nukes had an impact on thinning the O3 layer, since the chemicals that are indeed destructive to Ozone and indeed were thrown up by the nukes are destroyed while destroying it, and were never enough to have a lasting effect similar to the constant supply of CFCs through production.
One of the satellites that got fried by the nuke was Telstar, which carried the first transatlantic television broadcast in history. RIP little buddy, you were kind of a shitbox but you did your best
So that creates fake context..it makes things more believable. The polestar shift occurred and opened up a new dimension for. 0001 second. See made up and. .fake. science lies!!
Telstar the instrumental song!
@@davidlium9338 Just googled it. Lovely little tune.
It was a prototype. Experimental.
The first satellite the Soviets (and mankind) sent into space beeped. Very simplistic. The 2nd one played the Soviet National Anthem.
The Soviets were far ahead of us in rocket technology. It annoyed the Soviets that our U-2 spy planes flew over their air space (understandable.) Their fighters could fly to 60,000 feet but the U-2's flew at 80,000 feet and their air to air cannons were ineffective. They developed rockets that could climb to 80,000 feet and using proximity fuses, detonate close enough to bring them down (like Gary Powers,) or cause enough damage the pilots would fly the U-2 into the ground at 700MPH destroying the plane completely.
The Space Race was dominated by the Soviets until the Americans caught up.
@@tomcusack884 Don't forget the N@zis knew more about rockets than we did, hence Operation Paperclip and the creation of NASA~
It is pretty impressive that we’re still alive.
@@Davidice2005 Ow! The edge! Let's start with your loved ones then if you hate humanity so much.
yeah? well get ready then because the impressive levels will be growing a lot by the decade 😂
There are a lot that aren't & others in the pacific with numerous radiation related illnesses even today. The testers were really a bunch of fck'n toe rags
Some arent
One of the TRUEST comments I've ever read!
We saw the Star Fish Prime explosion at about 9p.m. (full darkness in mid-Winter in N.Z.) on July 9th, 1962, from a part of Auckland in New Zealand which looked directly North. It was a ball of bright light like a sun on the northern horizon, many thousands of miles away. Very memorable. We were 13 years old at the time. We knew that it was an American test of a nuclear bomb, but did not know that it was high above the earth in outer space, as this programme on TH-cam reveals. I thought that it was a great atomic explosion on a Pacific Island way above the Equator and marveled that we could see it despite the thousands of miles of curvature of the earth. Thanks for explaining that the explosion was high above the earth, which is why it was so visible to much of the Pacific Ocean, north and south. Enjoyed the programme. Thanks
Operation fishbowl 🐠
You must be nearing 80 years of age. Just sayin. Congrats!
What other stories have you?
Thank you very much for the fascinating account, my dear Bruce. What an incredible privilege it was for you to have witnessed this wonderful event. And how generous of you to tell us what you saw. Greetings from me and my family here in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
I know I witnessed a nuclear explosion in space in the late 70’s growing up in Hawaii. While my family was in the backyard and my mom was talking to the neighbor in the evening. It was a clear night and alll of a sudden a bright circular light expanded across the sky yellow in color that ended with a green halo. There was multiple circular lights, it was so large that it looked like it was falling towards earth making us get to the ground quickly. I was probably 10 years old old at the time and I can remember it till today with detail, yet I can’t find any nuclear space testing conducted in that time period.
I live in New Zealand, and I remember this. I was seven and my Mum and Dad got me out of bed to see the sky glowing at night.
You are so lucky to have seen it, it must have been so cool?!
@@Kosackk Weel, I was seven, so I didn't really understand what I was looking at until years later.
@@davidanderson4091 I see!
I think these tests weren't test. They were trying to kill Godzilla!
No, thats what godzilla eats and what birthed him😊@@crabjoe
My late grandpa, 98 years old when he passed, was the Naval Lieutenant in charge of building the tower, runway, and electrical systems for the Redstone rocket which launched Teak and Orange. He was also one of the only military men to stay on the island during the launch of Teak, due to his experience seeing 10 nuclear bombs explode at the time; Nevada. He could recall opening the hatch of the bunker, shortly after the blast melted the TV receiver, they poured out to look at that mini sun and aurora. That bomb was NOT small. He recalled there was no rescue plan because 'if it went off on the island, there would be no island, if it went off a mile up, there would also be no island." He remembers the shockwave of Teak as "mild." I've listened to the story countless times about how difficult it was for him to get the tower running, electrical issues and generator issues, Doctor Debus, while dealing with an Army Major. Amusing, there was a 'nearby' island called Bird Island, a nature sanctuary. You might expect the Navy not to care but they placed black smoke generators to purposely black out the island, during the launch, so the birds wouldn't become blinded by the light.
Scary description. In the movies "Threads" and "The Day After", I wondered about the effectiveness of high altitude nuclear weapon detonations in causing disruptive effects. It seems from practical experience you have described, and in the video, that such a strategy could be effective.
The possibilities are quite terrifying.
I thought you were going to say he got cancer, but he lived to be almost 100, God bless him.
I love how the mission was simultaneously caring enough to blanket a nature preserve while also cold enough to say you're on your own if you mess up 'cuz we assume you won't exist anymore.
Government bureaucracy in a nutshell...
If they didn't save the birds, some Americans would have sued them.
I love how they're always telling us not to be violent, and meanwhile they're tying nukes to balloons and sending them into space to see what they could do with it.
They are dead probably and are not telling us anything. And, if you were told not to be violent, it wasn't from the military anyway. Right?
I love how the devil has stupid people so dumb that they really think space exists outside of just some lights in the sky during the night representing light prevailing but y'all are so stupid that water isn't water it's something else which could also be grass like lmao get wrecked when god get here
Well idk but they are trying to nuke the dome that contains us to our earth. Y'all wouldn't be understand because only Jesus can do miracles right so I've never been outside of earth blah blah blah I seen it it's flat look into literally any pilot who talked a bout it, they will tell you earth is flat but not only is earth flat but the dome above us is damn cracked that you can barely see through it like a super cracked phone screen. Wake the fuck up idiots. My god never told me about sheep. And my god said you don't need a church. So why the fuck would I need a book. It's not even wake the fuck up at this point. Grow the fuck up you fucking toddlers. Always waiting for your next goddamned tantrum... 😂
It's not about god u dumb fucks it's about u and fuck everyone else because look what y'all do lmao
like you wouldnt do that?
Government nukes space and blames my Dodge Charger for killing the ozone layer. 🤔
that comment is art
@@maxmusterman3371 that reply is fart
L for you @@MrKingH8sTH-cam
@@MrKingH8sTH-cam poop 💩
This comment is what I sacrifice goats & chickens to Cthulhu for
detonating nukes in the upper atmosphere by the gov is ok, but old mustang with a little 289 is bad for the atmosphere.
@@allangibson8494the half life for uranium is 703800000 years, you're a clown.
@allangibson8494 I think they're alluding that rules are always being conjured up that make common citizens lives more difficult, while the ones that create those rules are performing acts that exponentially cause effects that oppose the spirit and letter of those rules.
At the time they did these tests, we were still using leaded gasoline.
@@CraigPestell There were no rules in the 1960’s. Thats what prompted Richard Nixon to create the EPA. When a Republican thinks things are bad enough to act, they are bad.
@@Pretermit_Sound And spraying DDT from aircraft over all of Florida twice a year…
Is it any wonder that cancer is so ubiquitous? Besides all the toxic testing in the South Pacific, the US also detonated over 1000 above ground nuclear weapons in Nevada, right here in our own country, with the bulk of the fallout raining down on civilian populations in Utah causing large cancer outbreaks. Residua fallout spread all the way to the east coast and beyond. As mentioned in this video, plenty of other countries have also conducted above ground nuclear tests. This is a global, insane, culture of death.
its unlikely that this would the cause of it, especially given a few generations, air pollutants from gasoline and industrial processes is much more likely to cause this, as well as the foods you consume.
It'd be worth comparing the nevada downwind region, to a region like the midwest which is going to have essentially zero radiation exposure comparatively to see the difference, though its also worth doing proper stats and accounting for any obvious differences you might innately encounter.
From Wikipedia:
The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, including 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests. So over 800 tests below ground.
Have to add in the Monsanto/Dupont effect. Dioxin in the air and water; Roundup is in all our foods; PFAS in our water. The list of chemicals goes on and on. Not to mention cell phones and cell phone towers. But the sun's going to explode in 23 years, so make hay while you can :)
AND THE PEOPLE LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT .
My father was involved with the nuclear testing in 1962. His Navy ship was assigned with going into the blast zone and taking samples. He’s talked about how hot the water was, and all the dead fish that made the sea stink. His tonsils and several teeth rotted out, I assume from the radiation.
My dad did the "march towards the light" test in Nevada. Put them in trenches no masks no shades no nothing. Had them cover their eyes , count to ten then get out & walk towards the shroom cloud. Didn't talk of it until right before he died.
Crazy.
Or not brushing his teeth
My father worked at Boeing space research lab at this time. They made test equipment to measure various types of radiation. While the primary goal was to determine how to ensure survival for Astronauts by quantifying background cosmic radiation and radiation that exists at high altitudes within the atmosphere, these instruments were carried by aircraft during these tests as well. His team was offered the opportunity to ride along to observe and most accepted and subsequently died from various forms of cancer. My dad declined and although was a cigarette smoker, he never experienced cancer. No hard evidence I know, but those are the facts. This video covers the history very well and accurately. Good work. EMP aside, Starfish Prime punched a hole in the ionosphere that does not rotate as fast as the planet, so the hole that lingered for days created a ray of several miles in diameter that rained harmful cosmic rays on the earth's surface in a stripe the encircled the planet.
@@transparentaluminum That cosmic ray story sounds apocryphal. Can you provide a link to evidence supporting your claim?
@@Sepi-xh9tr What a dumb comment
About 2/3 of the crew of the USS Kitty Hawk was directly exposed to the effects of the Starfish Prime test. (I), we, were on the flight deck to see the 'over-the-horizon' event, which as it turns out was not 'over-the- horizon'. The weapon detonated about 25 Degrees above the horizon, we were looking right at it. I had thyroid cancer about 2008, and was lucky to survive. It was caught in time. Many of my ship mates were not so lucky. I believe the cancer was the result of being exposed to this thermonuclear blast. Just say'in.
Starfish Prime?
That name for the mission was a dead giveaway that you all were screwed, and NOT in the fun way.
You guys deserved to not be used as guinea pigs. 😥
Grrrr.... I am so sorry you all were lied to. And it's still happening~
Bet the VA was no help
so it was in space, many km away and you still got cancer? damn
@@nutzeeer With nothing but air between them and the source...yep. If they had been below decks they might have had enough metal to protect them. But they were on deck...watching.
My grandfather was a safety worker on the manhattan project, he died when I was 1 years old from a brain tumor at 56, and my cousin recently passed also from a brain tumor at 41, messing around with nuclear power and the long term effects of radiation is no joke. Seriously scary and harmful to all living things. 😢
Correlation does not equal causation.
Radioactive dust is why 1/2 the cast and crew of the movie, The Conqueror (1956) died from cancer, including John Wayne! ☢
To this day I recall seeing, as a nine-year-old, the evening sky to the north suddenly turning crimson. This was from rural Aotearoa/New Zealand, far to the south in the South Pacific. It was the July 9, 1962 Starfish Prime explosion.
I yelled to my nearby father, who told me it was the ‘Yanks testing atomic bombs’.
I understand that months-perhaps years-later dairy products from the country’s farming industry were found to have been contaminated by the fallout. Strontium 90 or something similar.
just think if testing and development was never done, you'd be speaking Japanese right now.
@@jw5031He talked of it being in 1962, 17 years after the Japs had been beat and surrendered. Plus the US was always going to defeat the Japs without nuclear. The bomb stopped a long, drawn invasion that would cost lots of both civilian and army lives.
Rubbish. By the time the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, they had already lost the war … and knew it. Arguably, those bombs probably hastened their decision to surrender-possibly even saving my own soldier father’s life as a result! However, many contemporary historians argue that the threat from the encroaching Soviet Union forces from mainland Asia was as significant a factor, with the Japanese preferring to surrender to the Allied forces than having anything to do with the communists. (Probably a wise choice!)
Notwithstanding, my original comment about seeing the (subsequent … 17 years later) Starfish Prime atmospheric test was neither a criticism nor endorsement of testing programmes, atomic or hydrogen: it was merely a recollection of a spectacular event.
Strontium 90 was distributed all over the world. There was a study when I was a kid where they were collecting baby teeth to measure the radioactive fallout. I was in the American Midwest, but had radioactive material in my teeth.
@@jw5031japan never had such invasiory ambitiions. But hey i speak english now. The more you know.
Beautiful video. My second job just out of Aero Engineering School was at Chrysler Corporation Missile Division (CCMD)Just north of Detroit. CCMD made all the Redstone and Jupiter Army missiles with Dr Wehrner Von Braun as head of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville AL. My job was in the CCMD Advanced Development Branch at 16 mile and Van Dyke north of Warren MI. In the small group of Engineers we supported Von Braun on advanced projects (1959). One was going to used a modified Redstone missile for Project Willow intended to fire a nuclear weapon in space. We helped with some of the trajectory planning and dynamics of one of the 5 instrumented pods kicked off the booster prior to the prime nuclear event. To give measurements of the environment in space long distances away from the event. I never did hear if the project was actually built and tested, Apparently it did and in fairly recent times read some books that indicated exactly what your great video showed.
Another event in you video showed the EMP effects. Also Pres. Kennedy agreements with Soviets at the Cuban Missile Crises of 1962. At the height of the Cold War, NATO had Jupiter (ARMY) and Thor (Air Force) IRBM's in Europe and Turkey aimed at the Soviets as part of the mutually assured nuclear destruction of Soviet and Free World as a detent to keep world peace. The Kennedy brothers were given credit for forcing Russia to take the nuclear missiles out of Cuba. When U.S. news media used this for Democratic rhetoric they also claimed that the US didn't give up anything. The Jupiter nuclear IRBM's (Army) were based in Italy and Turkey. The Thor IRBM's (Air Force) were emplaced in France and England. The Jupiter missiles were given up to get the Soviets to get theirs out of Cuba.
At CCMD when we found out, a crash study was done to used those hundreds of Jupiter missiles to modify theme to make satellite launch vehicles out of them. A team was sent to Washington to propose this use of this great hardware when it was brought back to the U.S.
The team came back broken-hearted when they found out that all the hardware was steamrolled on site to convince the Soviets that they would never return. I was surprised later in my career when the true story was kept secret from the American Public.
Many of the younger generations really don't know what life was like during the Cold War. Your video was excellent in covering all the apprehensions that I have had including the EMP danger. Of course that's a current concern. Several years ago I read a brief article in either the newspaper or Aviation Week that our greatest fear is that Iran gets only one nuclear weapon and the capability to put a space detonation several hundred miles over the U.S. A few years ago, monitors of Iran's missile tests indicated a failure thought to occur when its telemetry indicated an event at apogee instead of close to the ground as would be used for a long range attack on an enemy. A relatively small missile carrying a modern nuke could be launched from a private yacht just outside the U.S. coastal waters to detonate several hundred miles in space over the U.S. The EMP from such a weapon would knock out all the unprotected microchips across the whole country. Just about any device we use in our 'advanced' society has microchips to function, i.e. cars, watches, refrigerators, games, computers, etc. etc. etc.
The large Solar Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) can do the same. A CME observed in the 1800's which dismantled the Telegraph System has that same capability. Scientists have warned our politicians to do something about this in the 1990's since it could bring down the total electrical grid. A cheap fix for the grip protection could have been done for only several billion dollars back then. Congress voted to take action back then. But politicians don't have the technical understanding and didn't take action because of the cost. We are sitting ducks or lemmings at this soon to happen world disaster either by stupid enemies or stupid rulers. We need some Amazing Grace at this time.
You violated about 5 NDAs sir. Why ? Do you think it was worth it? Smh....
@@franklee2683 CIA, is that you? Please don't look at my browser's history...
It was detonated in the thermosphere, not space, at about 400km. Misleading video title. Space happens after the exosphere, about 10000km.
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Almighty God said
PEOPLE only in the LAST DAYS experience the RE-APPEARANCE of the REDEEMER in the FLESH, and they ACCEPT GOD'S PERSONAL WORKS and WORDS. It will not be two thousand years before the LAST DAYS of the END COME; they are SHORT, as JESUS DID the WORKS during the AGE of GRACE in JUDEA. This is because the LAST DAYS are the CONCLUSION of ALL TIME. These are the FULFILLMENT and the END of the SIX--THOUSAND--YEAR PLAN of GOD'S RULE, and they are the END of HUMANITY'S LIFE JOURNEY of SUFFERING. 🙏
My WORK WILL ONLY LAST SIX THOUSAND YEARS, and I PROMISE THAT EVIL'S HOLD OF ALL HUMANITY WILL NOT LAST MORE THAN SIX THOUSAND YEARS either. ☀️
And so timely. I will not continue or delay any longer: In the LAST DAYS I WILL CONQUER SATAN, I WILL RECOVER ALL MY GLORY, and I WILL RECOVER all the SOULS on EARTH that belong to Me so that these suffering SOULS can LOSE in the SEA of SUFFERING, and thus My ENTIRE WORK on EARTH will be FINISHED. From this day forward, I will never again incarnate on earth, and My domineering Spirit will never again work on earth. 🙏
I will only DO one THING on EARTH: I will CHANGE HUMANITY, humanity that is DIVINE, and My FAITHFUL CITY on EARTH. 🌺
But you must know that I will not destroy the whole world, nor will I destroy the whole humanity. I will KEEP the REMAINING PART THREE---the third part that LOVES Me and COMPLETELY SUBMITS to Me, and I will MAKE them fruitful and MULTIPLY in the EARTH as the ISRAELITES DID UNDER the LAW, FEEDING them with Abundant SHEEP and CATTLE and ALL the ABUNDANCES OF THE EARTH. 🌺
This humanity will remain with Me forever, but it is not the vile filthy humanity of today, but the humanity accumulated from My earnings. 🙏 That mankind will not be harmed, disturbed, or besieged by Satan, and they will be the ONLY mankind that WILL REMAIN ON EARTH AFTER I AM VICTORIOUS AGAINST SATAN. This is humanity that I have NOW CONQUERED and GOT MY PROMISE. And so, the humanity conquered in the LAST DAYS is the same humanity that WILL BE SAVED and ACHIEVE My ETERNAL BLESSINGS. 🌺
This will be the only proof of My victory over Satan, and the only spoils of My battle with Satan. The SPOILERS of WAR I HAVE SAVED from SATAN'S ATTITUDE, and the ONLY COMPLETION and FRUIT of My SIX-THOUSAND-YEAR REIGN PLAN. They come from every nation and denomination, and every place and town, throughout the UNIVERSE. They come from different races, different languages, customs and skin colors, and they are scattered in all countries and denominations around the world, and even in every corner of the WORLD. 🏵️ SOON, they will COME TOGETHER to BUILD THE PERFECT HUMANITY, the meeting of humanity that SATAN'S FORCES CANNOT REACH. 🙏 Those of HUMANITY that I have NOT SAVED and CONQUERED and will SINK SILENTLY in the DEPTH OF THE SEA, and MY BURNING FIRE WILL BURN ETERNALLY. 😪
I will wipe out this old, and utter abomination of mankind, just as I DESTROYED the FIRST-BORN BOYS and cattle in EGYPT, leaving only the ISRAELITES, who EAT lamb's flesh, DRINK sheep BLOOD, and STAMP the BLOOD of the asSHEEP on the beams of their DOORS. 🙏🌷🙏
AREN'T the PEOPLE I CONQUERED and became FAMILY the same PEOPLE who ATE My FLESH as LAMB and I REDEEMED and WORSHIP Me? Aren't they the TYPES of PEOPLE who are always ACCOMPANIED with My GLORY? Are they not without My body, the Lamb, and have quietly sunk into the depths of the sea? Now they oppose Me, and now My words and just like those that Jehovah said to the male children and male grandsons of Israel. BUT HARDNESS IN THE DEPTH of your HEARTS STORES MY WRATH, CAUSES MORE JUDGMENT on your SINS, and more WRATH on your unrighteousness. Who will be saved in My day of wrath, if this is how you treat Me now? ☀️
Whose UNJUSTICE can ESCAPE My EYES of PUNISHMENT? Whose sins can escape the hands of Me, the ALMIGHTY? Whose resistance will escape My judgment, the ALMIGHTY? I, JEHOVAH, am SPEAKING to you, TRIBES of GENTILE FAMILIES, and the WORDS I AM SPEAKING to you are MORE than ALL that was SPOKE in the AGE of LAW and in the AGE of GRACE, but you are more stubborn than all people in Egypt. Are you not storing up My wrath while I PREPARE My REST? How can you get away with nothing?g damage from My Sun, the ALMIGHTY? 🌻
From "The Word Appears in the Flesh"
The kingdom that Christ brought down and built from heaven engraved with His Holy name "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD" 💐 fulfillment of (Matthew 16:18) The Lord Jesus said "And I say to you, you are Peter, in upon this rock I will build my Church, that the power of death shall not prevail over her."
💌 So everyone is led here! because this is the last day which means the last age and the last salvation the last stage is the AGE OF THE KINGDOM or the age of the word, in His lowered Kingdom "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD" 💐because the purification of God has come to the individual of the spirit of man ("The Parable of the Washing of the Feet" John 13:5-9)... . EVERYONE WHO HAS AN EAR LISTEN TO WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS TO THE CHURCHES!" (Rev. 2:7,11,17,29 and 3:6,13,22) 🌺
Hey Roy, are there any precautions the average person might take in order to shield some electronics?
This was a subject my dad had some education in . The science facts were all he could talk about . And that much only in limited terms . There is so much I would have loved learning . But understood national security issues . Thankyou for the refresher course .
My Aunt Frances lived and worked on Johnston Island many decades later, and the cause of her illness and death long after retiring from service is not entirely clear. Still, it's "interesting" to hear that not only was a nuclear bomb detonated right overhead (though high up), but also one of the failed tests rained down plutonium on the Island. Yikes.
It's even scarier to think that those might not have been the most hazardous products she was exposed to there. May she rest in our Lord's peace!
Johnson Atoll contractors read, understood, and signed that waiver. It held true for my uncle who pulled a hitch there in the 70’s and my cousin who worked there in the 90’s. The risks were made very clear, but the money…..
@@blackhawk7r221 My aunt worked for the government and wasn't a contractor, for what that's worth. I can believe she was warned, and I've heard she was well compensated. I hope your uncle and cousin didn't suffer unduly.
@@johnkeck Jeez John, I just reread what I wrote and I really did come off as an asshole. Sorry for that. My uncle did sign up for a government VA type program that tested him annually, but luckily nothing ever showed up. If I remember correctly, they worked in 9 week rotations. Now my cousin who did it in the mid 90’s and is now 61 did come down with early colon cancer, but that’s a normal old guy disease and probably unrelated. He easily beat that. Early detection. If my uncle were still alive I would ask him about that annual monitoring program, but you will have to research it on your own. Sorry.
@@blackhawk7r221 thanks for the follow-up: peace be with you!
Fun Fact- Nuking the Bikini Islands is how we got Sponge Bob and Bikini Bottom.
And Godzilla.
@@tcschenks Actually, Godzilla lived long before we created nukes. The nukes just woke him up for dinner!!
And tens of thousands of sick and still struggling natives of those islands that the us brutally colonised after kicked the previous also brutal colonisers.
Sad progress😮
@@stevenbingham3061 the original godzilla was a metaphor for the bombs that hit japan. maybe youre thinking of the newer films by legendary where they make him into a titan of ancient mythology.
Let's just gloss over the fact that in 1962 Operation Bluegill dropped an un-detonated nuke somewhere into the ocean.
Unbelievable the ignorance of some people. They should not have access to these things.
One always hears advocates of non-proliferation treaties say "We must make sure that nuclear weapons don't fall into the wrong hands." Sorry, buddies, they are already in the wrong hands.
😂
They just scared by idea small countries get nuke for self-defence. They're force Ukraine sell nukes to Russia for it.
Human hands will inevitably be bad hands. It's insane, that period of time, when nuclear weapons were in their infancy. The U.S. high command seriously considered preemptively nuking the USSR before they could finalize their own nuclear weapons in order to avoid any future nuclear warfare that could "destroy the world". Fiction can be moving, but reality can be mind-boggling sometimes
Anyone’s hands are bad.
Irans hands are evil, note how they treat non muslims, how they treat women.
We're like kids screwing around with our dad's gun, to quote a line from Jurassic Park. We're messing with powers we can't comprehend, and one of these days we're going to go too far.
We have been warned ( our governments)
And one of the reasons why we see so many UFO's these days..
They prevent alot of bs We never see,seen or saw for longer than we will ever probably know.
We already have. It’s called AI.
AI isn't AI, it's only a marketed name.
Also to quote Jurassic park "Your scientists were so preoccupied because they could they never stopped to think if they should".
@@davidholman48 going to far is a part of exploration..and it requires potential sacrifices and always has..
Without risk,the rewards tend to dry up..🤔
Would other beings explore or take risk if they didn't need rewards...🤔likely not
I learned how important nuclear disarmament is for the future of this lovely world of horrors we inhabit. Great Job ! I just subscribed to your channel.
The rocket you use to illustrate Project Teak is not a Redstone but a Lockheed X-17 that was used for the nuke test for Project Argus.
Launched from the USS Norton Sound
They detonated 938 at Mercury NV over the years. We wore gigger necklaces while working at Area51 (85-89), Down wind states have 500% cancer increase.
San Onofre.
This needs more attention.
Gigger 💀
Is that how that G word is spelled????
And i hope you pronounce it “gigga”
I was a teenager in Hawaii during Operation Teak and saw the bright light. As it dimmed the sky became green and that lasted for quite a while.
The public was informed before the test so we would not panic. I still have the front page of the Honolulu newspaper with the picture of the sky over Oahu.
Aliens just passing through: "Um... if we tell you what happens, would you not do it? Thought so. Bye!"
That's the thing. I just see no world in which people hold back on ANY tech. People get a new toy, and we seem to immediately find a way to screw someone with it.
Apparently they reciently used AI and two wifi routers to basically make a camera that sees through walls. Golly I wonder how that'll be abused.
If you think using WiFi routers to map 3 dimensional spaces is new tech I have some bad news for you.
Aliens passing Earth: "Lock your doors kids, and roll up the windows!"👽🛸🌎
@@eliwilson1146 Ill be finding bin laden 2
@@deneseiB lol aliens with unlocked doors and windows down crusin' around in space 😂
there were 2 situations where using a nuclear bomb wasn't a completely terrible idea. uzbekistan had a gas well fire that had been going for 3 years. the soviets drilled a hole 1.4km deep, put a 30kt nuke inside, set it off, and that put out the fire. this worked so well they did it again with another fire at the pamuk gas field. they drilled a hole 2.4km deep, chucked in a 47kt nuke, set it off, and that stopped the fire :)
I thought you were going to mention the two nuclear bombs the US had to drop on Japan to keep them from wanting to kill everyone else in the world.
Make that 4. Dropping the bombs at the end of ww2 prevented the deaths of millions. Estimates say somewhere between 3 million and 12 million lives.
@@corykunze4330 That is incorrect. The Japanese were already considering surrender after the Tokyo raid. Nuking Japan was the clencher but just Hiroshima would likely have been enough. Bombing Nagasaki was not for the "benefit" of the Japanese, it was to show the USSR that Hiroshima was not a fluke and the US had the ability to make more nukes.
@@MrGrumblierThat's completely incorrect. Both were necessary as Japan was not going to surrender due to how fractured power distribution was in their government
@@corykunze4330 To be fair, the war was nearly over and the Japanese were nearly defeated by the time they dropped the bomb
Humanity is very good at investing in destruction. And when it's not, it's anxiously assuming that someone else is. Unbelievable.
The way how to destroy each other and the reasons for that is our history and I feel ashamed and helpless to change something for peace!
Sad we spend so much on our ability to destroy instead of on gaining knowledge on how to live better
Yes, indeed! Not just money but, time, intellect, natural resources, lives and environmental damage, too.
War is hell.
@@appliedfacts War is good money. If we cant live well, we make sure that our neighbors cant too.
Or was this gaining knowledge on how to live better ? I mean we are still speaking American English.....not Russian......not German.....not Japanese. Remember, who declared war on who.
Nope. We have to do this stuff in order to preserve our way of life, so we do so. Nukes are still needed. Sad, but true. Stop living in fantasy land.
Nice try diddy
Earth's magnetic field was common knowledge way before the 1950s.
Indeed. By many centuries. Case in point, the compass.
They didn't know the specifics of how it worked though. We learned that in the 20th century.
@@VainRain69 the video should have stated that explicitly. What they said was inaccurate and just plain silly.
The number one rule of writing is "say exactly what you mean."
It was proven, in the 1950s. Big deference.
There's a difference between knowing of something and fully understanding something.
There are many things we've known of for hundreds if not thousands of years, yet only recently have begun to understand. And there's still so much left to learn.
Kinda wish I hadn't watched this. Modern times are scary and confusing enough. "We're all lucky to be alive." Sheesh.
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and ARISE FROM THE DEAD, and Christ shall give thee light.
It was detonated in the thermosphere, not space, at about 400km. Misleading video title. Space happens after the exosphere, about 10000km.
I agree 100%
Its like a car accident, terrible to have happened yet i gotta look
it's no wonder Godzilla woke up pissed.
9:10 "So, for just good measure, the US did this one more time..." I find it hard to believe how this level of child-like and almost blind exploration of the deadliest weapon ever made didn't get us all killed already. Even counting all the times we got this 🤏 close to WWIII because of nuke accidents and fails... it's still miraculous that nothing catastrophic happened. This video will make a great addition to Kyle Hill's nuclear horror series.
"Childish" That term works well to explain the mental pathology behind the "experiments". I disagree your statement about "nothing catastrophic happening".
How many of your friends and relatives have died from cancer? How many atoms of Strontium 90 and other isotopes do we eat while enjoying seafood's?
These comments and the video itself, demonstrate a mindset that grew up long after the Cold War and the impact it had on us.
Second, the video has little real grasp of the hard science and theory that went behind all of this. For every Demon Core, there were hundreds of times the math questions kept bad happening. That said, we were in a time of almost nonexistent knowledge in the field. All we had were theories and a desperate geopolitical conflict, an ideological fight whose end defined the world as you know it.
Inn other words, the video isn't bad, but it doesn't have time to immerse you fully in the world in which I was raised. Give these researchers credit for having a pretty good idea what they were doing. However they didn't know as much as they would after these tests.
You haven’t seen anything yet. Just wait a few more weeks when Iran has enough stuff to start testing. They’ve been testing their rockets already.
@@pchris6662 or Russia might just give Iran nukes as retaliation for the West's attack (using Ukraine).
the Cold war is honestly the best proof of God in my lifetime - there were so many times we could've been killed by a slight miscalculation. (Of course, the sad thing is, many were. I think the estimates of cancer desths due to fallout from nuclear testing in both countries is close to a million, to say nothing of all the stress, nightmares, and terror we went thtough with nuclear drills and creepy fallout shelters like the one in my grandparents' basement that still shows up in my dreams -and I wonder how many medical and other breakthroughs we could've made if we'd invested tgat money elsewhere. It's like with the military now - the budget is absolutely obscene, yet no one chalkenges it, even when a virus kills more Americans in 2 years than every war going back to 1776. Why do we spend so much money on*waves hands at the nukes* THIS? future generations won't understand.
Anyone know the background song used during the intro? Main part of the song starts at 0:30
It's terrifying that human beings feel the need to create such methods of destruction and even more terrifying that they think merely testing them will have no consequences.
I think exactly the same it is insane what we have done to this planet what the testing testing of these bombs I wonder why so many folks get cancer these days play irritating really that they would risk destroying the only place we have to survive just to gain power sad
It’s the nuclear weapons that we’ve been testing that are the causes of cancer, those little particles all over the place get into the food chain and we ingest them or smoke them or breathe them or drink them and sometimes some of them stick inside us and send the little bit of DNA haywire and you have cancer. All we need to do is counter check all of our food, but then they’d find it. It’s all over the place, interesting that they treated with radiation isn’t it?
It's more banal than terrifying. It's also proof that mankind is the most destructive, insane, selfish, most self-deceived and immoral species on the planet, and likely the Universe.
They did in the movie Oppenheimer
They thought it would cause an endless chain reaction that might destroy the world(If i remember correctly)
Just men being men
9:06 I don't think anyone who knows anything about nuclear weapons would consider a 3.8 MT bomb to be a "relatively small bomb." Considering that it's more than three times bigger than the biggest bomb in the current US arsenal (the B83, 1.2 MT).
❤agreed. Well said and well OBSERVED.
@@petergreen5337 9:04 though. But yes, good observation/criticism.
relative to the "tsar bomb".
Right, as I understand it as the Cold War progressed warhead yields were starting to settle around 1 MT since that value had flexibility in types of targets that could be eliminated without being wasteful overkill. That would be a morbid area of study, but apparently people did and probably still do study those tactics and efficient use of weapons.
Now, so far as back then, there were crazy tests and plans for ever bigger yields, I think that the video is fair to say what it did. It can get nit picky judging a video author, or any author, on a judgement call on choice of description. ✌️
In the context of the time, it was small...
The Titan II carried a W-53 warhead with a yield of 9Mt; though the largest nuke in US Arsenal in the 60's was the B41 with a yield of 25Mt
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
4:15 - No, EMP would be "caught up in a magnetic loop". Electro magnetic pulse is simply a pulse of photons from gamma rays all the way down the spectrum to ratio waves;those would induce voltage pulses in unshielded electronics (even transmission lines), frying some of them. The effect of charged particles in the van Allen belt is secondary.
Are you saying that the earth’s magnetic fields aren’t primarily responsible for EMP equipment knock out during a space nuke ?
@@mr.objective6936 i don't mean to speak for the person you're replying to, but yes. ah dammit i spoke for them.
secondary.
Econathiest- if that were the case, then a low altitude or ground level nuke would wipe out all electronic equipment in a thousand mile radius. But that just isn’t so.
An "electomagnetic pulse" is exactly "what is says on the tin" - a very powerful pulse of electromagnetic waves... Nothing more - nothing less
@@DavidHusband-yv1qh Well, yes.
3 - 5 MegaTons isn't a small bomb, sir.
So the earth is basically a giant battery, but I have to pay for electricity?
Someone has to pay for those giant terminals at each end. That's a lot of copper and thieves keep stealing it.
@@BalzarRitchin I'm sorry, I thought nobody would notice.
Insane and immoral behaviour. Nothing more to say.
Only in hindsight with modern biases running amok, at the time it was we do it and learn or the other guy does it and learns and has an advantage.
And still....they did it. Feel better now?
They were insane and inmoral at that time. It's a good to know they changed.
It was a crazy experiment... We are lucky they didn't destroy the atmosphere or the planet.......
I am 73 . And learned the history of ww1 , ww2 , depression, and every conflict since , from people who lived through it . And paying attention , as my dad and mom and teachers , and many in my community insisted we kids do . And my dads education , he shared as much as he could . After his military service , and the work experience he had , he was careful about how much he could tell us about . But science was something he shared as much as he could . And every veteran I have ever known is the same way
Great to see what damage you can do when you don't really know what you're doing.
And by demonstration/actions the most nuclear irresponsible bunch on earth.
Like those morons that say, "I wonder what this button does?" and then push it.
It killed the first British satellite. "With friends like these, who needs enemies"
OMFG😂
With friends like these you won't have to worry about your enemies. Unless, of course, you import them into your country.
@@francisdrelling4060you talk about immigration?? Isn't the USA??
@@ami443 Isn't the U.S.A. what?
Don't throw "radioactive" around mindlessly. Particles in the van Allen belts are either electrons or positively charged _ions_ - nothing "radioactive" there.
He popably meant to say "radiation"
to be fair, there would have been many particles that were radioactive after the testing.
The “ions” trapped in the Van Allen belts are alpha and beta particles…
The “ions” trapped in the Van Allen belts are alpha and beta particles moving at relativistic velocities.
They will give you a nasty radiation burn if you stick around for a month.
Well, the Van Allen belt electrons have energies about five times the energies of the beta particle radiation from nukes.
The inner belt has Protons between 10MeV, and several GeV, averaging hundreds of times more energy than fission bomb particle or gamma energies.
This guy really knows very little. 🙄
Not a hot air balloon. A helium balloon.
the helium was sexy
Well, it was certainly hot after the nuke went off.
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
How many people have got cancer and died from all of these nuke tests ??
Americans don't talk about all the nuclear tests on the west coast and all the fallout in relation to cancer rates in specific locations in the united states.
atleast a couple
@@michaelboyle7281 Yeah.....a couple million of them. ☠️
@@markae0 I agree. The trade winds move the fallout all around this planet in several days. Over 2000 nuke tests thus far. Beyond comprehension.
Seems the local tribal cultures of the Bikini Islands were considered unimportant and disposable.
As Carl Sagan once said its like 2 people standing knee deep in gasoline one has 2 matches the other 3 MAD...Mutually Assured Destruction
Stupid is as stupid does
*Mutually Assured Destruction
dont knock it its worked for the last 70+ years
70 years isn't very long in the grand scheme
@@mattmatt6572 Never truer statement spoken the nwoooo and the so called elites have been at this game for not decades but generations, I will see myself out.
Very good delivery of information and illustration-Thanks
I got to visit Johnston Atoll back in the early 80s... interesting place. The missile that failed spread plutonium all over that corner of the island and took awhile to clean up. I got to see the launch pad, as well as the chemical weapon storage area from a distance before the merchant ship I worked on sailed - it's a bird sanctuary now thankfully...
That’s really cool!
Do you really believe it’s cleaned up? I’m sure the Brooklyn Bridge is for sale. OMG
@@TessTearoe-zp5xvIndependent researchers have traveled to the atolls and found only a few spots with radiation levels higher than normal background radiation.
Nuclear bomb materials rapidly degrade after detonation into more stable elements.
The very reason so much energy is released in a flash of chain reactions is due to this fission of atoms. Some isotopes produced by nuclear detonation have half lives measured in seconds.
Bro, sunburn isn't caused by "thermal radiation". It's caused by UVB. Burns from thermal radiation (ie., heat) are known simply as, well, burns.
uvb is thermal rsdiation
My dad was sent on TDY to Johnson Atoll before the test, but never spoke of what he did there. He took Classification seriously.
And almost every weapon in the world that uses electronics of any sort is now hardened against EMP.
@@OldMan854 The solar storm a few months back was likely stronger than the estimates of the Carrington Event, and yet we were sufficiently hardened that there no significant damage.
Yes but our electricity grids arnt hardened just a thought ...........
To a certain degree...
@@DeanStephenthat was a near miss. We'd be absolutely fucked if a full blown solar flare hit earth. Especially with earth's weakened magnetic field.
@@TheSilmarillian But clearly they were.
I don’t know a lot about space. But it’s seems that energy from a nuke in a space would travel infinitely through space
gravity. what goes up must come down. (even if it's an electron). everything has weight.
The animation at 12:48 is to give a general idea of what it would look like to see one of these explosions in space. But the 4 video clips immediately after the aforementioned animation clip, are those 100% real actual video recordings of the explosions?
Old-school, cold-war Sailor. Finally a decent depiction of that history. Dept of Energy was sloppy in their representations.
No. It was detonated in the thermosphere, not space, at about 400km. Misleading video title. Space happens after the exosphere, about 10000km.
Bikini Atoll was used as a test site for a nuke, after the test they renamed the site Nothing Atoll...
ok, ok. funny. But, seriously it still exists. (as far as I remember)
LOL
60s sure were wild.
But it's even wilder that nuking space is more dangerous than nuking the ground.
“ What’s the worse that can happen?”
Famous last words! 🤦♂️
👽 ALIENS RIDE PAST EARTH & LOCK THEIR DOORS! 👽
The ET's did not like it and they came to check it out. Check news reports 1955 to 1965.
Our gov needs to be sued for the cancer it caused
There are many more equally deplorable actions from the US government. The government is full of wealthy people, no amount of suing will do anything.
Make it known that the unknown deaths this has caused will not be forgotten. Let alone the deaths from the Nevada tests, let alone everything still classified. Let alone everything outside of the US. The only way is to stop working.
Otherwise, I fear the people in power will always remain at a safe distance. They will remain ignorant to the damages, as they currently are, only to enable more death and destruction. They will only be left in check by less powerful people with a head on their shoulders, as they currently are, still within the greater power to get what they want. This becomes a cycle where we are always on the edge of extinction, as we will inevitably be again, at some point soon. Personally, I think this is far worse than extinction. This is an eternity of suffering.
Thank you for posting this. It’s very interesting. I had no idea that nukes had been sent into space.
I think that in some point in human history our great ancestors did indeed nuke space (or something similar) and it went very bad for us....but we recovered with out any knowledge. ...and here we are today circumstances ripe for it to happen again.
Sahara Desert
What happened was that the ozone layer mysteriously developed a big hole in it from aerosols at the exact same time and thousands of New Zealanders died from skin cancer.
Does the failure of bluegill mean there's a damaged plutonium core lying somewhere at the bottom of the pacific?
Yes.
There is a bunch of rotten and leaking nuclear reactors on the oceans floors. Not to speak of the nuclear waste that was dumped in there for decades. Until it was understood that nuclear waste can be put on to tank shells and increase devastation where they hit. Creating deadly nuclear dust that will go into the organ's of every living thing for decades in that region. NATO uses these on regular basis everywhere they go. - there is a Documentary called deathly dust about it. - the journalist who did this documentary was suspended so he is not allowed to publish anymore.
along with several others around the world
It's not impossible we went and got it but probably not.
Not to mention the ones on the sunken Russia submarines that are too deep to retrieve. Eat that shrimp and lobster while you can! Remember: ignorance is bliss and get off the Internet!
some of the early test before starfish prime are almost almost more terrifying.
i'm still annoyed it fried Telstar one, the Sputnik of theWest (except more versatile; it did a lot of useful things like synchronize clocks in France and North America, the first satellite tv and phone broadcasts between Europe and the US., and computer data transfers.)
Really good video. Answered many questions I never thought I had. They had balls doing that test.
2:01 "In the late 1950's scientists confirmed that the earth has a powerful magnetic field".
So, compasses have been functioning since before the birth of Christianity, but we couldn't figure out that there's a magnetic field until Fonzie first rode a motorcycle?
Says confirmed, meaning a guaranteed fact and guaranteed scientific means of function
Says confirmed, by the people who want to have authority over us all🤦🏻♂️
But they are just people who havent got more authority over us than animals do, when we give them that, it is our own fault...🤷🏻♂️
💪🏼💙
It's science. Probably working on forces of gravity and other top secret stuff, too, but they just can't share THAT info yet.
2:47 I love gigantic magnetic space onion
Damn you blowin up son! Haven’t checked in for a while and now you are hitting 1.5M views on a video
Go back to your opening statement... We have NOT been fortunate... The ripple effect of all those tests ~ are still in motion and still exist!
According to legend, the whole idea of an "emp" as a way to defeat incoming Russian missiles was scrapped when a few facts came to light;
It's actually relatively easy to harden against this. Shield sensitive components, use twisted pair cable runs, program the guidance computers to restart if they enter an error state. There's a few things and any electronics technician knows all about them. Once the vehicles were retro-fitted with relatively simple countermeasures, all bets are off.
Uh. American ICBMs of the 1960s/70s had swanky microcomputer-controlled guidance but Russian stuff was on the older electromechanical inertial guidance systems with thermionic valve analogue computers - Which aren't really susceptible to this.
Good voice and tempo reading the text, thank you.
The earth’s magnetic field must be capable of producing free energy
Yes, but I wonder what the unforeseen consequences there might be.
sunlight is free, waterfall is free, photosynthesis is free
but
solar panel isn't, hydroelectric dam isn't, seed/fertilizer/agriculture knowledge/acres of land isn't
to gain energy, you need to harvest it
in order to harvest, you must do research
to make research, you must invest money and time
nothing's free
I heard that this is what caused the hole in the ozone layer.
Oh, it absolutely did.
How did you determine that the core is iron and not an area of fusion reaction like The Sun?
Darwin Award, everybody wins!
Can you make a video about the far future of starship, like intergalactic starship...
We did! Flip back to about a month or so ago 🎉
Yeah. Lets colonize the universe with our rotted brains. Lets propagate our prejudice and senseless idiocy everywhere.
🤡 you're all liars. And you're going to hell.
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Then they blame diesel trucks and CFCs for the big hole in our o zone
They were trying to crack the firmament
Amen, finally an up to date comment🤦🏻♂️
They took a long time to come up with this excuse...
God bless you greatly...
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Did you hear all the "scientific" data BS they claimed on this video? Crazy stuff..regardless of what's "true"- "science" be making some crazy claims! Iron ball in middle of earth with flowing lava around it they said LOL that's a theory. It was claimed as CONFIRMED wtf!?!?!
@@heavynetwork6804 oh geezuz
Yup. They knew what they were doing when they named it Operation Fishbowl which was part of Operation Dominick, The late Rob Skiba was right when he said they were testing the fishbowl of the Lord.
Thats what i said.
Has there been any studies comparing cancer rates pre and post testing?
They failed to shatter that glass ceiling. I could go on.
Thats what im saying too
Operation fishbowl 🐠
@@heismyrefuge1027 Operation Dominic Fishbowl tests... at least they acknowledged God built it.
Bruh
DEI is accomplishing that. We are now seeing incompetence in the highest positions. They're shattering the glass ceiling of common sense.
This is one of the REASONS the rest of the universe doesnt want to turn humans loose with it. There isnt another one to move to.
Lucky for aliens there is no supreme court to force integration with mankind.
- General, Sir, what if we... What if we nuked space?
- Johnson, you nutjob, why would we nuke space?
- Uh, you know, to see what happens?
- Shit, you do have a point. I'll try to get it approved.
*In the Oval Office*
- You want to do what? Why would we spend huge amounts of time and money just to nuke space?
- Mr President, aren't you curious what would happen?
- Shit... You do have a point, set it up.
Never change, Americans.
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We as humans should get rid of nuclear weapons.
Why? It has proved to be a *very effective* deterrent...
@@DavidHusband-yv1qh deterrent for who ? Non N countries are still getting invaded. Humanity as we know it will end if two nuclear countries will goto war .
We are most of the way there just by making current bombs tiny in comparison to the 3-15MT monsters we used to have deployed. If you double the accuracy of a delivery system you can get the same overpressure at the intended target with a bomb 1/8th the yield. 300-700kT is a big bomb these days and we are working on replacing those with 50kT. We also know how to build bombs to minimize fallout. An all-out nuclear was today would cause a small fraction of the environmental damage of one in the '60s through '80s, which we are very lucky never happened.
@@michaelstora70 Samme argument can not be made for adversary. There is no guarantee that the adversary would use small nuclear bombs.
@@DavidHusband-yv1qhuntil it doesn't anymore. We will then have gained a century of respite. Yeah, great difference.
Didn't the government say we should not weaponize space? Did we forget our own laws?
The U.S. government is the one trying to Weaponize space. They tried to be sneaky and pass a bill in the U.N. about No WMDs in Space but China, Russia, and others caught them because it’d be a loophole for non-WMD weapons.
Good one. We only hold other people to their promises.
Awesome sauce! Great video.
A ballistic missile only has guidance during the boost phase of flight ,,,, You are describing what is called a "guided" missile ....
Modern ballistic missiles have terminal guidance as well. (Actually the V-2 had terminal guidance to a certain degree too (enough to arrive pointy end first)).
MIRV WARHEADS CARRYING 10 INDEPENDENT TARGETABLE DEVICES ARE ALL INDIVIDUALLY TARGETABLE UPON RELEASE UPON 10 DIFFERENT TERMINAL DESIGNATED AREAS. MIRV MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT RE-ENTRY VEHICLES. ALMOST EVERY MISSILE CAN STRIKE MORE THAN A SINGLE TARGET.
6:50 Helium balloon, obviously, not “hot air balloon!”
Probably aliens if not maybe the Russians and failing that maybe Trump lol.
In the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, in 1958 as I recall, in the early evening I saw I saw a yellow orange glow on the horizon to the north, one of those tests. About 20 minutes I saw aurora come down a little to the west., so I directly saw one such test.
"Trust the science"....yeah...they played with all our lives...time and time again.
Scientific delirium madness. The blind leading the blind into the ditch.
You have to nuke space in order to stop nukes from space.
The amount of people who can recall this and someone in their family who experienced it first hand it insane.
Oil in space?
Helium-3?
There is a reason China is rushing to the moon and it isn't for prestige.
we're about to make space the most free place on earth
@@Wartooth6 Wait, eh, I can't put my finger on it but something in your comment doesn't add up. 🤔
@@SebastianWellsTL No it’s for Science and the advancement of Humanity. The U.S. is busy playing catch-up to save face. Before China landed Chang’E 3 on the moon in 2013, nobody had done so since 1976.
It's funny to see the center of the earth being molten iron thing still being talked about today
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@@knightofcydonia1192 We have no idea what's at the center, just guesses.
@@keldonator There are extremely high precision instruments that exist these days that allow us to measure what materials are comprised of, by measuring the patterns that are created when vibrations pass through them. In the case of Earth, these instruments use the vibrations made by seismic waves to measure the internal composition of Earth. Its not 100% perfect, but these instruments work for us in verifiable ways to measure materials on the surface, and thus the measurements being taken are indeed quite closely accurate. We've learned through putting materials through experiments that expose them to absolutely insane levels of heat and pressure, that the materials at the core are in a state known as "super-critical". We've also found an extra layer to the core in recent years. The new layer consists of an iron-nickel alloy, like other parts of the core. But it has a different crystal structure that causes shock waves from earthquakes to reverberate through the layer at different speeds than the surrounding core.
@@knightofcydonia1192 Not even close, but you are welcome to believe whatever you want
@@knightofcydonia1192 It should be emphasized that we "think" we know what is at the center and not just taught objectively that we know what is at the center
Is ferrite chiped ? Then fold strong right?
NASA: Nukes space
Space: tf did i ever do to u?
I pay a monthly fee to TH-cam so that I don’t have to watch or listen to annoying commercials or advertisements. Yet, as I’m watching this video, I’m forced to watch and listen to an advertisement…Why? I’m not at all interested in “War Thunder”. sorry, but I am not going to like or subscribe to a channel that forces advertisements upon its viewers! Nor will I watch this video. Sorry!
Same promises were made about cable tv which was supposed to make ad revenue unnecessary because we would each be paying for the shows we wanted to see. That lasted about a nanosecond.
What's the name of the music that starts at 14:57 ? 🤔🤨🤔😐