Interesting side effect of those early nuclear explosions: Did you notice that the probability of a symphony orchester starting to play at the moment a nuclear device went off was much higher in those early days?
1951...portable cameras, remote controlled rover...just awesome! 71 years ago...and look at today...the next 71 years are going to be something extraordinary.
Remote control "rovers" were invented by the Germans and they invented night vision during WWII. Also portable cameras in WWII as well. Though not as prominent.
@22:46 and @32:32 My father was a pilot of one of those planes. He is in the above clips briefing his crew (his name is Jim) and then a small clip of him in the cockpit piloting the plane. He died of cancer at the age of 62. His bomber flew into the radiation cloud to get the outside readings of the fallout. The ventilation system malfunctioned and blew the contaminated air back into the plane, exposing him and his entire crew to the radiation. The crew were scrubbed down, their flight suits, jewelry & anything else on their person were destroyed as well as the plane. Dad never knew what they did with that plane. *Edited to add the timestamps.
My Uncle was in WW2 and Korea. He worked at the railroad his whole life. A train car leaked "poison gas" and the railroad paid him a huge settlement of just a little over a million dollars. Some years after my cousin grew up and married a girl he met at a strip club. He came home from work one day and caught her in bed with a man. He shot the man with a shotgun and killed him. My uncle then spent all that settlement money keeping the State of Indiana from killing my cousin. Some years later my uncle was really sick and had so much cancer in his body it was literally protruding out his asshole. Turns out that "toxic train car" that gassed him and his railroad buddies was toxic gas product from upgrading nuclear bombs. He survived a two Wars combat but in the end the War machine killed him
He's a complete dildo, I hate that "Father Knows Best" alternating with the "tough guy" tone, I wasn't even alive during the 1950's but by the content of this idiotic film and its trying to normalize nuclear war, I can see why America is a screwed-up place it is right now, and it has nothing to do with civil rights or anti-war marches, it has to do with the psychotic corporate system and it's idiocy and psychosis after it killed a bunch of people and got away with it in World War II with Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. WAR CRIMES that made a complete b******* of every word of the Nuremberg proceedings xx
@@tinafoster8665 sounds like you would fit right in holding peace sign while bombs are dropping. dont kid yourself, nuclear war was normalized since nuclear war was increasingly looking like the only viable option. you live in a bubble, where complete annihalation isnt really on the table.
@@tinafoster8665 you obviously have a pretty narrow view of war and politics. they didnt want a war, and it wasnt just because. the issue comes when someone has the means to end you, and is willing. then the only way to prevent a war is to have the means to end them back, so they cant afford to tread on you. now we're in a spiral where they get bigger guns and you get bigger guns. the reason this ended was that both sides reached a point where they were confident they could annihalate each other, and there was no way to gain an edge.
My dad was in Buster buster jangle. He said the only decontamination was being swept off with a broom. He lived until he was 87. His buddy that was with him lived into his nineties . But I lost my sister when she was fifty from kidney cancer.. if you are a nuclear kid you have a greater chance of certain cancers. Dad was convinced that these tests were necessary and were largely responsible for why we never entered into world war three. Sadly I think that is true.. oddly enough one of the great instruments of peace turned out to be nuclear weapons...
There are thousands of us globally working together on genetic screening for ourselves. The disease pathology is interesting and consistent wherever a nuclear weapon has been detonated. Japan, Australia, UK, US, ALGERIA Kiribati, Maralinga, we all share the same anomalies and genetic profiles.....so far. Human physiology plays a large part in how rhe radiation exposure reacts in the body.
I've watched most of these but this one pissed me off so much with how much they needlessly endangered the soldiers and airmen. Having them expose one eye to the blast on purpose had my jaw dropping. Should have been the top generals doing that for even thinking that was ok.
Geckobane this was the 50s and most of the officers and soldiers had been through or experienced WWII where they saw millions of people killed or injured. These tests seemed almost Inconsequential in comparison compared to what they had seen. It’s hard but you need to look at history through their time not ours
top generals were often in attendance, taking the glow of nuclear blasts to the body. it was a different time, and they considered the risks low and harm at worst temporary.
This was 70 years before the Snowflake revolution... These were all Volunteer Operations - and MANY Volunteered. There used to be a very high sense of Patriotism, Duty and Sacrifice for what they believed in. Besides Nukes... We became the Richest, Strongest Nation on Earth in the 3 decades following WWII. Then, by the late 80's, Ronald Reagan's prophecy sadly came true.... We lost ALL of our Security and Prosperity with Gen X's Kids. 😞
The irony is that a "pure" fusion bomb, while being much more powerful, is much better for fallout (almost none). Unfortunately, all fusion bombs require a fission bomb (standard Trinity style device) to get the fusion going and fission reactions produce a lot of fallout. . Most of them were 3 stage (fission-fusion-fission) bombs, where each stage used the "products" of a pervious stage. The Soviets had a six stage 100MT bomb that was scaled down to 50MT for Zsar Bomb.
Amen the bit about how well civilian and military bunkers would survive a blast was CRUCIAL information. All the nuts in the comments don't realize that the information we have about nukes and how they function and what their effects came from these early tests. We just didn't know and NEEDED to know.
21:52 . . . "Men our primary mission today is to pretend that there are no cameras shooting this fake meeting, observe all safety precautions, don't want anyone to die a slow lingering death. Now go eat your bacon sandwiches on white bread with Mayo and Velveeta, then have three packs of filterless cigarettes for desert".
Dr. Volunteers. One eye exposed. To find ways to save lives. Btw my Dad was killed in these test series, a couple years later. Radiation damage, slow death.
We're carrying out these tests to find out the ideal height for detonation that will give the best results over several varying landscapes and installations. When we drop an egg we're going to make it count.
@@anhedonianepiphany5588 Which is the point... The longer you survive, the better your chances. Half the radiation produced by a bomb is gone in the first hour, and fallout doesn't start arriving downwind until about an hour after detonation. Half the rest that DOES come down is gone after the first day, but it decays more slowly after that... in a heavy fallout area, it can take up to 2 weeks for the fallout to decay to levels safe enough to leave the area. Nobody is going to stay in a heavily fallout-contaminated area after a war anyway. But one thing IS for sure-- if you do nothing and just stand there while the fallout dusts everything, you're dead for sure. Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker With an all out nuclear exchange, levels of the long-lived fission products like Caesium-137 and Strontium-90 (both having half-lives of ~30 years) will be intolerable just about everywhere. That’s part of _my_ point. But thanks for mistaking me for a radiological ignoramus.
@@anhedonianepiphany5588 Depends how much ends up in the stratosphere... where it can circle the world and rain down everywhere long term. Even then it's a long term hazard not an immediate one. After a nuclear war, life expectancy will be reduced to 30 maybe 40 before most people succumb to cancer from long-half life stuff that went everywhere in the stratosphere. Didn't assume you were an ignoramus but most people just don't get the real risks and dangers; seems everyone just assumes that if the balloon goes up they might as well sit in a lawn chair facing ground zero and enjoy a beer since nobody will survive anyway, which is fallacy. Truth is MOST will survive the initial attacks simply due to geography and the area of circles surrounding the detonation point and the nature of the damage levels, but hundreds of millions will succumb to needless death from blast injuries and later radiation simply because of sheer ignorance of the effects and how to deal with them. Later! OL J R :)
@Dave Micolichek true, the Marshall Islands we're basically used as guinea pigs by the idiotic corporate system of the United States. I say idiotic because although the tests were academically oriented, just the stupidity of using people as guinea pigs for Atomic weapons just goes beyond the scale of ordinary lack of intelligence, it goes into just a cruel sadistic stupidity that is typical of the corporate system everywhere, where everything just boils down to profit, and the people being used as guinea pigs were only expedient and profitable objects for finding out what these idiots want to know, which is basically what anyone could tell you, that these things are deadly and will kill the people that they are used on as well as the people who are making them
@@tinafoster8665 The Soviets did exactly the same-- a number of villages in the Kazakhstan steppes just outside their main Semipalatinsk test site were basically left as human guinea pigs. TO this day they suffer HUGE rate of cancer and other maladies, and a huge propensity of grotesque birth defects-- some people survived them but were maimed for life, the worst usually killed the infant before they were born. The US did worse still... they actually injected people WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT with plutonium and other radionuclides to see what the health effects would be over time, tracking these people their entire lives. They fed oatmeal contaminated with radionuclides to orphans in orphanages to test what happened to kids. They even got doctors at Vanderbilt University Hospital to give "irradiated fizzes" to pregnant women without their knowledge to see what would happen to babies at various developmental stages, using a variety of doses and types of radionuclides. At the time doctors usually gave pregnant women fizzy drinks loaded with various vitamins and minerals needed during pregnancy for the developing baby and health of the mother, so they just added in a dose of radioactive material along with it to see what would happen. Of course some babies aborted, some were born dead with various horrific birth defects, some late term babies were born more or less normal, but with a number of health maladies that afflicted them later in life, sometimes as children or young adults, various cancers or other conditions, mental conditions or ailments that affected them their entire lives, many died early from complications or cancers, as did many of the unsuspecting mothers. It was all detailed in a book I read a few years ago, detailing the investigation and exposure of all this in the mid-90's... Yep, I sure trust the gubmint when they tell me to "take this dart, it's fully tested and is SAFE, for a virus that's basically a bad cold... " Yeah, right! We've just seen the biggest lab rat test in history and most people lined up for it. It takes about 10 years of study to get a drug or vax adequately tested to be administered and on the market, yet they somehow miraculously did all that in less than a year??? I call BS on that one! Later! OL J R :)
38:01 "Comparing this forecast with our trajectory problem, we find that the winds at 10,000 20,000 and 30,000 feet will carry the mushroom cloud right on down into Mexico." 😆 No "trajectory problem" there. Let 'er rip... 😂
Why does everyone viewing Nuclear Vault seem to believe that if they were around back then they would've talked sense to these people and straightened them out about nuclear this and that. Sure . . .
LOL:) Where do they think all thier "inside knowledge" actually came from in the first place?? Oh, I know, from these "reckless" insane tests!!! Before that, it was all theory, some right, a lot of it was wrong, and MOST of it was UNKNOWN until they did these tests and FOUND OUT through experience! OL J R :)
Considering that the world was just one bad plate of borscht from turning into a ☢ cinder, the risk of smoking was academic. That being said, we are probably even closer to nuclear annihilation now with the bat shit crazy 🤪 freak we have in the White House now.
Does anyone know what those smoke/ vapor trails are that always accompany a nuclear explosion, those "strings" of vapor or smoke on either side of the blast?? What are those?
They're smoke rockets that are launched just before the detonation. They leave a trail of smoke behind them that the blast shock waves then deform. Since it's all being filmed, and since the scientists know the precise distance between rockets and their smoke trails in relation to each other, and can determine from the film when the shock wave from the explosion distorts the smoke trails, and can calculate from the film how MUCH they were distorted, they can then accurately calculate the actual power and yield of the bomb, as well as some other effects. One of the scientists at Alamogordo dropped some torn-up bits of paper from his hand as the Trinity explosion shock wave arrived-- he then measured from the point he was standing to the spot where the bits of paper landed, and could calculate the yield of the bomb blast by how far the paper bits had been blown downwind by the blast wave, given he knew his exact distance from the bomb's hypocenter. The smoke trails were just a photographic extension of this technique... Later! OL J R : )
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 The first living creature in orbit was a dog named Laika... the Soviets launched her aboard Sputnik 2 in early 1958. They had not yet developed a heat shield capable of returning the capsule to Earth, so it was a one-way trip. It wasn't even really a "space capsule" as we think of them today-- just a pressurized can with the instrumented dog inside. The capsule didn't have sufficient heat insulation or air conditioning capability and Laika, who was to be euthanized at the end of the mission by remote control, feeding her poisoned feed, instead died prematurely of heat prostration after a few hours in orbit. Soviets used dogs quite a bit in their space program for test animals... the first dogs to make it to orbit and return were Belka and Strelka who flew in an early Vostok spacecraft to ensure it was capable of successfully carrying a cosmonaut on a subsequent flight. One of these test missions ended up killing the pair of dogs before when the booster malfunctioned and there was no escape system capable of getting the dogs or capsule off the rocket, which crashed and exploded. Khruschev later gave one of the puppies from Belka and Strelka to John F. Kennedy's kids as a present in a propaganda move. The Soviets tried using trained dogs to attack Panzers in WW2. The dogs were trained so that their handler could attach a backpack to the dog carrying a satchel charge, the dog was trained to then run across the battlefield and crawl under the German tanks, then pull a bone-shaped lanyard below their neck to release the charge, and run back to their handler. The charges would be set off by a time delay the handler activated right before he released the dog. Unfortunately, the Russians had trained the dogs using their OWN tanks, and when the dogs would be turned loose usually ran under the nearest SOVIET tank and blew it up, not knowing they were only supposed to run under GERMAN tanks. The other problem was, often the lanyard was not sufficiently pulled or didn't release the satchel charge, and the dog would run back to the handler with the charge still attached, which then went off and killed the dog and its handler along with any other troops close by. The Soviets experimented with having the dogs run under German tanks with a satchel charge that was then detonated by remote control, sending the dog up with the German tank rather than use the risky and malfunctioning lanyards to release them, but by this point it was too late; more conventional methods to destroy German tanks were working quite effectively and the dog units were disbanded. The US had, at the same time, experimented with "smart bombs" controlled by trained pigeons, and "bat bombs" designed to disperse incendiary bombs in Japanese cities. The pigeon-controlled "smart bombs" used pigeons trained to peck at images of ships and keep them centered in a screen, which then released food pellets for them. The pigeons then had an electrode glued to their upper beak, were placed in the nose of a bomb with a clear window in the nose, over which a gridwork of electrically isolated wires were installed. The electrode on the bird's beak was hooked to a power supply, and the wires on the gridwork were then each individually wired into a control system. When the bomb was dropped, the pigeon would dutifully peck at the image of the ship it saw out the front window of the bomb, making contact with various wires in the gridwork over the front window interior. These electrical signals then caused the controller system to steer the bomb left or right, up or down, to point the bomb directly at the ship as it fell. The pigeon would keep pecking away at the image of the ship out the window, all the way down to the ship, still waiting on its food pellets to be released until the bomb exploded. The system worked REMARKABLY well, but again by the point it was perfected, more conventional means were proving highly successful at destroying ships, so it was never used in combat. The bat bomb used thousands of bats, each equipped with a time-delay incendiary device on their back, which were put into hibernation through exposure to cold temperatures via refrigeration, and loaded into a bomb casing with thousands of stacked small cells in trays, each containing a sleeping bat. The bombs were then to be dropped over Japanese cities, which due to their construction of highly flammable paper and wood, would be easily ignited. At a predetermined altitude, the bomb would deploy a parachute, then pop open and drop the trays apart so the warmed and wakened bats would fly away, each with an incendiary bomblet on its back on a time delay fuze. The bats would fly through the city and roost under eaves, doorways, and windowsills, at which point the incendiary devices would start going off, igniting fires all over the city. Early tests proved successful, but as the idea was developed, it started to run into problems. First, the temperature had to be controlled carefully to keep the bats in hibernation inside the casing, but warm them up quickly enough after dropping the bomb that they were awake by the time the bomb cracked open in midair. Second, on long high altitude flights in a bomber, it was found the bats could freeze to death, in which case the bomb wouldn't work. Third, after a series of tests, some of the bats flew back from the bombing test range to the test headquarters on their home base, roosted under the eaves at dusk, and burned the entire building to the ground! Again, by the time it was becoming feasible, the pile up of problems to be overcome and the success of more conventional means to burn down Japanese cities made the bat bomb obsolete... Later! OL J R :)
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 As far as nuclear testing was concerned, yeah they did the same and worse. Their Semipalatinsk proving ground was upwind from several remote small villages in the steppes of Kazakhstan, and basically they didn't care how much radiation they got exposed to. To this day they suffer HUGE increases in cancer rates as well as many other maladies, and also a very large number of grotesque birth defects that have affected living people who survived but were maimed for life, as well as many who died before being born. There's a vid on YT about it somewhere I watched about a year ago. Later! OL J R:)
The truth is that every citizen, soldier, sailor, airman, marine and any others that worked on these tests in any form, are true American Heroes. Many of these people later contracted illnesses as a result of working on these tests and many didn't, but either way, they ventured into the unknown in order to get the upper hand on a secretive enemy that appeared to be ready to attack, the moment we fell behind. Of course, after the Soviet Union disintegrated, we discovered that they never had the military capability we thought they did and, more importantly, the Soviets didn't want to start a nuclear war any more than we did. But, due to the ultra-secretive nature of communism, we only had our imagination and a few facts about our adversary, both of which pointed to a government that was bent on world domination. And, they were...
Please fix the audio and re-upload this. The video is interesting but the audio in this is so bad I had to download the video and get rid of the deafening noise just to watch it. There is a high pitched tone somewhere between 10 and 15 KHz that is very loud with respect to the rest of the audio and if your speakers/ears can produce/hear it, it's deafening.
Not really... the ones they tested in Nevada were low yield weapons in the kiloton range. The big multi-megaton range bombs were tested in the Pacific, mostly at Eniwetok Atoll and off Christmas Island, and one underground in Tonopah, NV and one in Amchitka Island, Alaska. Check out "Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero" where they talk about those tests and show films made of them. Most weapons nowadays are in the 500 kiloton or less range. We have the ability now (and there's vids of this on YT) to launch a missile from Vandenberg and have it impact a dummy warhead 5,000 miles away in Kwajalein and have it take out a sheet of plywood. Most missiles nowadays from all the nuclear armed powers can easily send a warhead halfway around the planet and have it impact within a typical high school football stadium, easily. The early missiles, back in the 50's and early 60's, they were doing good if they could get them to impact within SEVERAL MILES of the target, which meant you needed a REALLY BIG and powerful warhead to have enough power to ensure you took out the intended target, particularly if it was a military target and in any way protected or "hardened" to survive a relatively nearby nuclear blast. BIG powerful warheads are very expensive to produce, difficult to maintain in the stockpile, difficult to deploy, and are extremely heavy and require a very powerful delivery system (bomber or missile) to get them to the target. Plus due to the squaring law, which says you have to increase a bomb yield by 4X to merely DOUBLE the damage, it's more efficient and practical to make MANY SMALLER BOMBS, particularly when you develop a missile capable of carrying MIRV warheads, or multiple warheads per missile, independently targeted. Most missiles are MIRVed now with many warheads on a single missile. Later! OL J R :)
The irony. We had to bomb ourselves to learn how to better bomb ourselves. Meanwhile we gotten so good at it that there's really no point in talking about repairing stuff or what comes after, because we all know, if they do press the red button ... it will be game over for the entire world. Good game humanity.
Your post is from two years ago but I saw that dog in the cloud, too! They were talking about the dogs at that point and I thought I was imaging it but you saw it, too!
I don't think there was ever a direct comparison, but there was a 100 ton test of TNT before the Trinity shot, and Canada did a 500 ton TNT test at some point. There's footage of both tests out there.
I love washing my radioactive plane with gunk....then its clean and ready to go !..but the tarmac now glows in the dark.... thats weird ? These poor people just hadnt worked it out that something radiated stays radiated for a very long time. 1950's....
You can bet at any potential disciplinary meeting, you'd be hearing "Because I kept my f*****g eyes closed! How else do you think I did so well on your little Flash-Blindness Experiment"?
I completely understand, but war is hell. I would only hope these animals gave their lives to save more lives. I hope with the conflicts going on right now we can find a way to get rid of such weapons. We already have conventional weapons that are better suited for what is needed.
N.V. On the thumbnail you used of the four men standing at a railing , two are wearing their masks , one is not wearing his mask , and one man is wearing his mask over his EYES ! Are they inspecting radioactive LSD ?
1:11:58 "These men KNOW radiation. They live with it everyday, in the field and at their home laboratories. They have neither fear, nor question"..... Back when men were men, and not the typical snowflakes you see today. They did what had to be done, without a complaint or concern for themselves, to secure this country and protect our citizens. I thank these men for their courageous service...👏 🙏 🇺🇸 Those guys, "Put mustard on the fuckin' shit, and ate it for breakfast." ™Frank Rizzo
Imagine how much that all cost. And we're about to pay 450 BIl to keep our (unusable) nukes working even though the triggerman/PoTUS would end up in The Hague War Crimes court.....
The entire Manhattan Project only cost 2 billion dollars in the mid-40's. Now a single SLS "moon rocket" launch is going to cost over 4 billion bucks, and that's using refurbished shuttle engines and boosters that wer already preexisting "to save money". That's not including ANY mission costs, mission hardware, etc... ONLY the rocket and launch costs! Insane! Just shows how graft and corruption have destroyed this country, as well as how worthless our money has actually become over the years due to inflation of our unbacked fiat currency! Back then there were no endless regulations and billions spent on "environmental impact studies" and other nonsense... if they needed or wanted to get something done, they just DID IT... not like now where it takes years and approval from 15 different governing authorities to get ANYTHING done anymore... so it cost A LOT less then! Later! OL J R :)
What if it was Civil Defense that pushed the arms race rather than the existence of the A-bomb? What If we hadn't done the tests and found out how to build effective shelters l and all that other stuff would it have meant the generals would have been fine with the relatively small bombs of WW2?
Back in the days of "Bring me men to match my mountains..." they had briefings aimed at setting up for nuclear testing. Fast forward to nowadays, and we've evolved to briefings on the importance of gender pronoun sensitivity, and not posting warrior-like-things on Twitter or Facebook because they might make somebody sad or otherwise trigger them. SMH. If only these tough old dudes could see what has been done with their fortitude and sacrifice.
These "tough old dudes"? The people setting up these tests are ghouls plain and simple, and the people taking part in them are morons, anybody who actually thinks you can come out on the "winning" end of a nuclear war has got to have something wrong with his thinking process. Just the fact that these dildos we're making an everyday training Mission out of practicing for nuclear war shows where their head was at. It's typical of the corporate system to be so psychotic as to be basically examining which clothes will burn better from a nuclear Flash, as well as the narrator's tough guy tone of the bombs are just waiting, just waiting for somebody with an itchy trigger finger LOL. I'm sorry but you must be an idiot for thinking that this is some kind of real good show or something, and yeah why don't we just go back to yesteryear where all the sexual assault cases were swept under the rug even though they were men being raped LOL, bet you and your tough-guy old dudes really got into that roflmao
Safety first ........unfortunately most of those at these test sights never made old bones and had disformed or handicapped children. Mankind is truly mad
@@dougg1075 I could not, I have feelings .. and have a sense of caring. The people who made and tested these weapons have none of that... Either way, the ignorance is blinding. The amount of isotopes released from the weapons test over the years has killed hundreds of thousands all over the world. Ignorance...
26:24 they are so full of shit those dogs are dead 💀 I myself am a dog lover they say those dogs are under anesthesia that’s full of shit you know you don’t even have to use animals at all common sense if they have any at that time would automatically tell you that if you were exposed to an atomic explosion that close you would have radiation poisoning in your system so they didn’t actually have to sacrifice poor animals to find out that question it kind of reminds me of 1922 when they invented a shoe fluoroscope to measure feet for shoes once people started getting radiation poisoning from those machines they were removed from stores because then people at that time and remember this is before the atomic bomb figured out that Large radiation exposure kills I am so glad that we do not test nuclear weapons anymore it kind of reminds me that I think at that time the US was just showing off to Russia saying hey we got something bigger than you got sort of like boys with toys saying who’s better and also I don’t think the world needs nuclear weapons at all that way we can live in a nuclear free world
Wow, we really really need to KNOW what a atomic bomb will do. Yeah, let's really suss out that mystery. I hear the outtakes have the guy with sledgehammer missing. Ouch.
32:54 These guys are good they can tell if the radiation in the clouds are low enough without using testing equipment he must have x-ray vision for crying out loud sending men to their Radiation dust doom
It's called "science" and they had gained a lot of experience on previous tests in the Pacific. They had been flying various test instruments around bomb clouds in previous tests taking readings, and on Sandstone they had used remote controlled B-17 bombers converted into unmanned DRONE airplanes to collect samples. They figured there was no way a crew could fly through a radioactive cloud and not get a fatal or at least severe radiation dose, so they used DRONE aircraft, which were taken off and landed by remote controllers on the ground at the end of the runway, and controlled in flight by a remote control pilot in the back seat of a chase plane that stayed outside the cloud. From these early tests, they found out that 1) they COULD determine the levels of radioactivity and LOCATION of the pockets of radioactive materials within the clouds (and learned that the pockets even existed, which they had NOT anticipated beforehand but learned from real-world results) and 2) they could fly planes through the mushroom cloud and collect samples, and because planes fly REALLY FAST, they're not in the cloud long enough to expose a crew to a severe dose of radiation. They determined this from instruments placed inside the drone B-17's that measured the radiation rates and total dose a crew inside the plane would have been exposed to. SO, on subsequent bomb tests, they started sending PRESSURIZED sampling planes through the clouds to collect the dust samples. So long as the plane remained pressurized, ensuring the outside air and any contaminating dust couldn't get INSIDE, the crews received a low enough dose to be able to fly through the mushroom cloud MULTIPLE TIMES on sample runs, since the plane was only inside the radioactive cloud for maybe a minute or two at most. Later B-57 Canberra jet bombers were used as sampler aircraft on the larger hydrogen bomb clouds to sample their radioactive dust, since the jets flew faster and the clouds were larger. The OUTSIDE of the planes would be heavily contaminated by radioactive dust, so when they landed they were "hot". Ground crews used special poles and hooks and other tools to remove the sample filters from the exterior housings of the plane, and carry them over to pre-placed lead-lined transportation boxes, and lower them inside, close the lids, and then transport them to the lab for scientific analysis of the isotopes and byproducts of the bomb nuclear reactions, which told them what was going on inside the bomb, how efficient it was, what nuclear reactions were undergoing inside the bomb at detonation, etc, which they could then incorporate into the design of new improved bombs. They would then send in specially trained crews to "decontaminate" the planes, but again had to learn by doing... the decon crews were trained to stay far enough away not to get too much radiation, not touch anything, etc. and it was thought early on just hosing planes or ships down with water would decon them. Some were SO hot that they had to push them to the end of the runway with a tractor and leave them there for weeks or months for the radiation to decay naturally to where they could do more decontamination work. They later discovered that washing the planes with various detergents (boron containing I bet, as well as detergents capable of breaking loose various materials sticking the plane's skin) would allow them to decontaminate a plane in just a few hours. Similarly, the aircrew were taught special procedures on the sampling missions-- they all wore film badges to record their radiation exposure levels, and were trained NOT to touch any part of the exterior of the aircraft after disembarking, and were sent straight to decontamination as soon as they landed. My old man worked in a nuclear power plant and he would sometimes get a "hot particle" and would have to go through decon. When I worked out there, they told us flat out NOT to wear a wedding ring or anything else we weren't willing to part with-- if it tested hot, they took it, and USUALLY they could manage to decontaminate it, and gave it back in a few days. IF for whatever reason they COULDN'T, say from neutron activation of an atom of gold in it or whatever, making that atom a radiation source within the metal, then it became "low level waste" and was buried for the next 10,000 years. Later! OL J R :)
Humans were used, soldiers now coming forward witness men in distance walking with skin drooping off them, men were deliberately placed close to ground zero without a trench. Men were reported also being kept in monkey cages near ground zero. These tests were more horrific than you could ever imagine.
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We always got a chuckle out of the phrase “no offsite radiation detected”.
Of course not- no one was monitoring it offsite. From a Downwinder
If you read The Day We Bombed Utah, they did at least around the Groom Mine and they took away the geiger counter they gave to the family that ran it.
@@fredharvey2720 I believe that was the Sheehan family.
@@unr74 The Sheahans and others.
Interesting side effect of those early nuclear explosions: Did you notice that the probability of a symphony orchester starting to play at the moment a nuclear device went off was much higher in those early days?
Yea, the warped and warbly cat screech was measured in kilotons lol
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Hilarious. I read your comment before watching and had to chuckle each time a bomb went off and the music started.
Yeah... how creapy is that? I think that was the idea.
Hahahahaha!!!
This sort of above nuclear research could never be done today!
The data they received was something pristine and special.
1951...portable cameras, remote controlled rover...just awesome! 71 years ago...and look at today...the next 71 years are going to be something extraordinary.
Remote control "rovers" were invented by the Germans and they invented night vision during WWII. Also portable cameras in WWII as well. Though not as prominent.
@@Niever ...and the Germans got their asses kicked as well. Even with all the technology, they were STILL losers. 🤦🏻
@@Niever NO, They didn't...
@22:46 and @32:32 My father was a pilot of one of those planes. He is in the above clips briefing his crew (his name is Jim) and then a small clip of him in the cockpit piloting the plane. He died of cancer at the age of 62. His bomber flew into the radiation cloud to get the outside readings of the fallout. The ventilation system malfunctioned and blew the contaminated air back into the plane, exposing him and his entire crew to the radiation. The crew were scrubbed down, their flight suits, jewelry & anything else on their person were destroyed as well as the plane. Dad never knew what they did with that plane.
*Edited to add the timestamps.
My Uncle was in WW2 and Korea. He worked at the railroad his whole life. A train car leaked "poison gas" and the railroad paid him a huge settlement of just a little over a million dollars. Some years after my cousin grew up and married a girl he met at a strip club. He came home from work one day and caught her in bed with a man. He shot the man with a shotgun and killed him. My uncle then spent all that settlement money keeping the State of Indiana from killing my cousin. Some years later my uncle was really sick and had so much cancer in his body it was literally protruding out his asshole. Turns out that "toxic train car" that gassed him and his railroad buddies was toxic gas product from upgrading nuclear bombs. He survived a two Wars combat but in the end the War machine killed him
@@Ironman829 God that's horrible, your cousin didn't get executed did he?
They look like propellor driven bombers, I see what you mean tho, wouldn't doubt if the oxygen or canned air system was purposely sabotaged
@@tinafoster8665 Put your tinfoil hat back on, and stay off the internet, or the 5G "Death Beamz" are gonna git ya... 🤦🏻
@@Ironman829 He shoulda shot the stripper instead... 🤷🏻
I love it when Reed Hadley is the narrator. For me, he's the Voice of the Cold War.
He's a complete dildo, I hate that "Father Knows Best" alternating with the "tough guy" tone, I wasn't even alive during the 1950's but by the content of this idiotic film and its trying to normalize nuclear war, I can see why America is a screwed-up place it is right now, and it has nothing to do with civil rights or anti-war marches, it has to do with the psychotic corporate system and it's idiocy and psychosis after it killed a bunch of people and got away with it in World War II with Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. WAR CRIMES that made a complete b******* of every word of the Nuremberg proceedings xx
Tina Feller - Still all butt hurt over Hillary losing election?
Commie Bernie Sanders NOT made it this, his last run at President.
@@tinafoster8665 sounds like you would fit right in holding peace sign while bombs are dropping. dont kid yourself, nuclear war was normalized since nuclear war was increasingly looking like the only viable option. you live in a bubble, where complete annihalation isnt really on the table.
@@ravener96 oh i think I realize these people are basically psychotic who can't understand a world where they can't have wars just bcuz.
@@tinafoster8665 you obviously have a pretty narrow view of war and politics. they didnt want a war, and it wasnt just because. the issue comes when someone has the means to end you, and is willing. then the only way to prevent a war is to have the means to end them back, so they cant afford to tread on you. now we're in a spiral where they get bigger guns and you get bigger guns. the reason this ended was that both sides reached a point where they were confident they could annihalate each other, and there was no way to gain an edge.
My dad was in Buster buster jangle.
He said the only decontamination was being swept off with a broom.
He lived until he was 87. His buddy that was with him lived into his nineties .
But I lost my sister when she was fifty from kidney cancer.. if you are a nuclear kid you have a greater chance of certain cancers.
Dad was convinced that these tests were necessary and were largely responsible for why we never entered into world war three.
Sadly I think that is true.. oddly enough one of the great instruments of peace turned out to be nuclear weapons...
Sad to hear.
Yoir dad was correct...
There are thousands of us globally working together on genetic screening for ourselves. The disease pathology is interesting and consistent wherever a nuclear weapon has been detonated. Japan, Australia, UK, US, ALGERIA Kiribati, Maralinga, we all share the same anomalies and genetic profiles.....so far. Human physiology plays a large part in how rhe radiation exposure reacts in the body.
I'm sorry about your sister. Your dad had balls the size of church bells.
@@kitkat9648What kind of disease pathology
I've watched most of these but this one pissed me off so much with how much they needlessly endangered the soldiers and airmen. Having them expose one eye to the blast on purpose had my jaw dropping. Should have been the top generals doing that for even thinking that was ok.
Geckobane this was the 50s and most of the officers and soldiers had been through or experienced WWII where they saw millions of people killed or injured. These tests seemed almost Inconsequential in comparison compared
to what they had seen. It’s hard but you need to look at history through their time not ours
Geckobane - You're like your Channel - No Content!😁
top generals were often in attendance, taking the glow of nuclear blasts to the body. it was a different time, and they considered the risks low and harm at worst temporary.
This was 70 years before the Snowflake revolution...
These were all Volunteer Operations - and MANY Volunteered.
There used to be a very high sense of Patriotism, Duty and Sacrifice for what they believed in.
Besides Nukes... We became the Richest, Strongest Nation on Earth in the 3 decades following WWII.
Then, by the late 80's, Ronald Reagan's prophecy sadly came true....
We lost ALL of our Security and Prosperity with Gen X's Kids. 😞
@@coiledsteel8344 You got me there
For dog lovers, like myself, this "experiment" is particularly spalling! ... Poor babies 😢
This is actually the first time I've ever felt bad for rats.
You don't want to watch the nerve agent tests from the 50's & 60's
Horrible or what.
When they played Wagner while showing the explosion I couldn't help but be reminded of the soundtracks of WW II German war propaganda films.
Oliver Smith 1/3 of American population then was of German ancestry...
The irony is that a "pure" fusion bomb, while being much more powerful, is much better for fallout (almost none). Unfortunately, all fusion bombs require a fission bomb (standard Trinity style device) to get the fusion going and fission reactions produce a lot of fallout. . Most of them were 3 stage (fission-fusion-fission) bombs, where each stage used the "products" of a pervious stage. The Soviets had a six stage 100MT bomb that was scaled down to 50MT for Zsar Bomb.
23:39 Are there any questions ?
Sir, how many times have you been irradiated and have you noticed any ill effects ?
Yes,did hear the distorted music playing just after the bomb went off!!CLASSIC!!!And lots of W-F in those old sound recorders!
The wow and flutter wasn't so much the recorders in the day, as it is due to the disintegrating film today.
So this is where we get "HotPockets".
How do you heat them? You bombard them with radiation. You "nuke" them in your microwave.
Mmm, nuclear delicious! 😋
The sad thing is that those things probably tear up your guts just as much as being exposed to real nuclear radiation.
2:21. Thats right stocking up nukes isn't enough we NEED 500 megaton nukes to test for the modern age.... 💣💥💥💥💣💥💥💥💥💣💥💥💥💥🤔😃👍.
We need to test those weapons in Russia or China first 🤔, interesting 🤔
Yes BLESS YOU MY CHILD...
@@bohemoth1 Me(👽) you(🙆) = 💣☢️💥💥💥. Me(👽) you(☠️) = Me(👽).
Cold War Hysteria. But not sure why. NO NUKES!
*Thank God for such testing.*
Amen the bit about how well civilian and military bunkers would survive a blast was CRUCIAL information. All the nuts in the comments don't realize that the information we have about nukes and how they function and what their effects came from these early tests. We just didn't know and NEEDED to know.
The Q - Commie loving, ANTIFA, ass clown Bernie supporters!
This is a peice of art
Is that Bob Hope at 11:50?
21:52 . . . "Men our primary mission today is to pretend that there are no cameras shooting this fake meeting, observe all safety precautions, don't want anyone to die a slow lingering death. Now go eat your bacon sandwiches on white bread with Mayo and Velveeta, then have three packs of filterless cigarettes for desert".
Effects of nuclear weapons: Blast, Heat, EMP, Fallout and.....cool ass music
. Bless the men and women who had/possibly cross paths with this danger..
And animals
(1951); less than a year before the maiden flight of our first B-52
I can't believe they had guys LOOK AT THE FLASH to test flash blindness protection.
Dr. Volunteers. One eye exposed. To find ways to save lives. Btw my Dad was killed in these test series, a couple years later. Radiation damage, slow death.
We're carrying out these tests to find out the ideal height for detonation that will give the best results over several varying landscapes and installations. When we drop an egg we're going to make it count.
This one shows what type of shelters work for you and me. That may help us in the future. We're not out of danger yet, I'm afraid.
Given a _M.A.D._ scenario, a shelter - _if effective_ - will simply delay the inevitable by _x_ number of days/weeks/months.
@@anhedonianepiphany5588 Which is the point... The longer you survive, the better your chances. Half the radiation produced by a bomb is gone in the first hour, and fallout doesn't start arriving downwind until about an hour after detonation. Half the rest that DOES come down is gone after the first day, but it decays more slowly after that... in a heavy fallout area, it can take up to 2 weeks for the fallout to decay to levels safe enough to leave the area. Nobody is going to stay in a heavily fallout-contaminated area after a war anyway. But one thing IS for sure-- if you do nothing and just stand there while the fallout dusts everything, you're dead for sure. Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker With an all out nuclear exchange, levels of the long-lived fission products like Caesium-137 and Strontium-90 (both having half-lives of ~30 years) will be intolerable just about everywhere. That’s part of _my_ point. But thanks for mistaking me for a radiological ignoramus.
@@anhedonianepiphany5588 Depends how much ends up in the stratosphere... where it can circle the world and rain down everywhere long term. Even then it's a long term hazard not an immediate one. After a nuclear war, life expectancy will be reduced to 30 maybe 40 before most people succumb to cancer from long-half life stuff that went everywhere in the stratosphere. Didn't assume you were an ignoramus but most people just don't get the real risks and dangers; seems everyone just assumes that if the balloon goes up they might as well sit in a lawn chair facing ground zero and enjoy a beer since nobody will survive anyway, which is fallacy. Truth is MOST will survive the initial attacks simply due to geography and the area of circles surrounding the detonation point and the nature of the damage levels, but hundreds of millions will succumb to needless death from blast injuries and later radiation simply because of sheer ignorance of the effects and how to deal with them. Later! OL J R :)
Somewhere in the US
Somewhere close to home
Somewhere that people really don't care if it gets nuked till it glows.
Nevada.
Perfect
@Dave Micolichek true, the Marshall Islands we're basically used as guinea pigs by the idiotic corporate system of the United States. I say idiotic because although the tests were academically oriented, just the stupidity of using people as guinea pigs for Atomic weapons just goes beyond the scale of ordinary lack of intelligence, it goes into just a cruel sadistic stupidity that is typical of the corporate system everywhere, where everything just boils down to profit, and the people being used as guinea pigs were only expedient and profitable objects for finding out what these idiots want to know, which is basically what anyone could tell you, that these things are deadly and will kill the people that they are used on as well as the people who are making them
Tina Feller - You "FORGOT" about crazy Uncle Joe Stalin, who started the Cold War by stealing our Nuclear secrets from Manhattan Project.
@@tinafoster8665 The Soviets did exactly the same-- a number of villages in the Kazakhstan steppes just outside their main Semipalatinsk test site were basically left as human guinea pigs. TO this day they suffer HUGE rate of cancer and other maladies, and a huge propensity of grotesque birth defects-- some people survived them but were maimed for life, the worst usually killed the infant before they were born.
The US did worse still... they actually injected people WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT with plutonium and other radionuclides to see what the health effects would be over time, tracking these people their entire lives. They fed oatmeal contaminated with radionuclides to orphans in orphanages to test what happened to kids. They even got doctors at Vanderbilt University Hospital to give "irradiated fizzes" to pregnant women without their knowledge to see what would happen to babies at various developmental stages, using a variety of doses and types of radionuclides. At the time doctors usually gave pregnant women fizzy drinks loaded with various vitamins and minerals needed during pregnancy for the developing baby and health of the mother, so they just added in a dose of radioactive material along with it to see what would happen. Of course some babies aborted, some were born dead with various horrific birth defects, some late term babies were born more or less normal, but with a number of health maladies that afflicted them later in life, sometimes as children or young adults, various cancers or other conditions, mental conditions or ailments that affected them their entire lives, many died early from complications or cancers, as did many of the unsuspecting mothers. It was all detailed in a book I read a few years ago, detailing the investigation and exposure of all this in the mid-90's...
Yep, I sure trust the gubmint when they tell me to "take this dart, it's fully tested and is SAFE, for a virus that's basically a bad cold... " Yeah, right!
We've just seen the biggest lab rat test in history and most people lined up for it. It takes about 10 years of study to get a drug or vax adequately tested to be administered and on the market, yet they somehow miraculously did all that in less than a year??? I call BS on that one!
Later! OL J R :)
Godzilla attacked Tokyo 3 years later and then Rodan, then Mothra, then Ghidorah, then cancer rates of hijacked humanity increased 500%.
38:01 "Comparing this forecast with our trajectory problem, we find that the winds at 10,000 20,000 and 30,000 feet will carry the mushroom cloud right on down into Mexico."
😆 No "trajectory problem" there. Let 'er rip... 😂
"Grandpa, what kind of work did YOU do?" ... "Well Jonny, I was what they called a manned sampler back in my day"
The proper term was "rad soldier". No joke.
"Is that what happened to all of your hair, Grandpa?"
Of course this is all spoken with the aid of an Electrolarynx device.
Why does everyone viewing Nuclear Vault seem to believe that if they were around back then they would've talked sense to these people and straightened them out about nuclear this and that. Sure . . .
LOL:) Where do they think all thier "inside knowledge" actually came from in the first place?? Oh, I know, from these "reckless" insane tests!!! Before that, it was all theory, some right, a lot of it was wrong, and MOST of it was UNKNOWN until they did these tests and FOUND OUT through experience! OL J R :)
As much as I hate smoking if I lived back then I'd smoke too!!
Considering that the world was just one bad plate of borscht from turning into a ☢ cinder, the risk of smoking was academic.
That being said, we are probably even closer to nuclear annihilation now with the bat shit crazy 🤪 freak we have in the White House now.
You would be weird if you didn't smoke!
Zoomer30 - We found a Crazy Commie Bernie Sanders (everything for free) Supporter?
Zoomer30
After watching this I'm thinking about taking it up.
Does anyone know what those smoke/ vapor trails are that always accompany a nuclear explosion, those "strings" of vapor or smoke on either side of the blast?? What are those?
@Castle Bravo thanks for the answer...I had wondered what those trails were..
They're smoke rockets that are launched just before the detonation. They leave a trail of smoke behind them that the blast shock waves then deform. Since it's all being filmed, and since the scientists know the precise distance between rockets and their smoke trails in relation to each other, and can determine from the film when the shock wave from the explosion distorts the smoke trails, and can calculate from the film how MUCH they were distorted, they can then accurately calculate the actual power and yield of the bomb, as well as some other effects. One of the scientists at Alamogordo dropped some torn-up bits of paper from his hand as the Trinity explosion shock wave arrived-- he then measured from the point he was standing to the spot where the bits of paper landed, and could calculate the yield of the bomb blast by how far the paper bits had been blown downwind by the blast wave, given he knew his exact distance from the bomb's hypocenter. The smoke trails were just a photographic extension of this technique...
Later! OL J R : )
@@lukestrawwalker That is VERY interesting! Thank you!
@@tonyf.8858 You're welcome! OL J R :)
And----notice the US map along with a security poster on the wall in these videos!So like watching those old films-I was born when these were made!
DANG!!!! THAT WAS BRIGHT!!!!
the dogs killed me. Can you imagine that puppy running to you, tail a wagging with a tennis ball in his mouth?
It made my chest hurt.
Most emotionally resilient TH-cam commenter.
I wonder if the USSR had any qualms about doing the same...
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 The first living creature in orbit was a dog named Laika... the Soviets launched her aboard Sputnik 2 in early 1958. They had not yet developed a heat shield capable of returning the capsule to Earth, so it was a one-way trip. It wasn't even really a "space capsule" as we think of them today-- just a pressurized can with the instrumented dog inside. The capsule didn't have sufficient heat insulation or air conditioning capability and Laika, who was to be euthanized at the end of the mission by remote control, feeding her poisoned feed, instead died prematurely of heat prostration after a few hours in orbit. Soviets used dogs quite a bit in their space program for test animals... the first dogs to make it to orbit and return were Belka and Strelka who flew in an early Vostok spacecraft to ensure it was capable of successfully carrying a cosmonaut on a subsequent flight. One of these test missions ended up killing the pair of dogs before when the booster malfunctioned and there was no escape system capable of getting the dogs or capsule off the rocket, which crashed and exploded. Khruschev later gave one of the puppies from Belka and Strelka to John F. Kennedy's kids as a present in a propaganda move.
The Soviets tried using trained dogs to attack Panzers in WW2. The dogs were trained so that their handler could attach a backpack to the dog carrying a satchel charge, the dog was trained to then run across the battlefield and crawl under the German tanks, then pull a bone-shaped lanyard below their neck to release the charge, and run back to their handler. The charges would be set off by a time delay the handler activated right before he released the dog. Unfortunately, the Russians had trained the dogs using their OWN tanks, and when the dogs would be turned loose usually ran under the nearest SOVIET tank and blew it up, not knowing they were only supposed to run under GERMAN tanks. The other problem was, often the lanyard was not sufficiently pulled or didn't release the satchel charge, and the dog would run back to the handler with the charge still attached, which then went off and killed the dog and its handler along with any other troops close by. The Soviets experimented with having the dogs run under German tanks with a satchel charge that was then detonated by remote control, sending the dog up with the German tank rather than use the risky and malfunctioning lanyards to release them, but by this point it was too late; more conventional methods to destroy German tanks were working quite effectively and the dog units were disbanded.
The US had, at the same time, experimented with "smart bombs" controlled by trained pigeons, and "bat bombs" designed to disperse incendiary bombs in Japanese cities. The pigeon-controlled "smart bombs" used pigeons trained to peck at images of ships and keep them centered in a screen, which then released food pellets for them. The pigeons then had an electrode glued to their upper beak, were placed in the nose of a bomb with a clear window in the nose, over which a gridwork of electrically isolated wires were installed. The electrode on the bird's beak was hooked to a power supply, and the wires on the gridwork were then each individually wired into a control system. When the bomb was dropped, the pigeon would dutifully peck at the image of the ship it saw out the front window of the bomb, making contact with various wires in the gridwork over the front window interior. These electrical signals then caused the controller system to steer the bomb left or right, up or down, to point the bomb directly at the ship as it fell. The pigeon would keep pecking away at the image of the ship out the window, all the way down to the ship, still waiting on its food pellets to be released until the bomb exploded. The system worked REMARKABLY well, but again by the point it was perfected, more conventional means were proving highly successful at destroying ships, so it was never used in combat. The bat bomb used thousands of bats, each equipped with a time-delay incendiary device on their back, which were put into hibernation through exposure to cold temperatures via refrigeration, and loaded into a bomb casing with thousands of stacked small cells in trays, each containing a sleeping bat. The bombs were then to be dropped over Japanese cities, which due to their construction of highly flammable paper and wood, would be easily ignited. At a predetermined altitude, the bomb would deploy a parachute, then pop open and drop the trays apart so the warmed and wakened bats would fly away, each with an incendiary bomblet on its back on a time delay fuze. The bats would fly through the city and roost under eaves, doorways, and windowsills, at which point the incendiary devices would start going off, igniting fires all over the city. Early tests proved successful, but as the idea was developed, it started to run into problems. First, the temperature had to be controlled carefully to keep the bats in hibernation inside the casing, but warm them up quickly enough after dropping the bomb that they were awake by the time the bomb cracked open in midair. Second, on long high altitude flights in a bomber, it was found the bats could freeze to death, in which case the bomb wouldn't work. Third, after a series of tests, some of the bats flew back from the bombing test range to the test headquarters on their home base, roosted under the eaves at dusk, and burned the entire building to the ground! Again, by the time it was becoming feasible, the pile up of problems to be overcome and the success of more conventional means to burn down Japanese cities made the bat bomb obsolete...
Later! OL J R :)
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 As far as nuclear testing was concerned, yeah they did the same and worse. Their Semipalatinsk proving ground was upwind from several remote small villages in the steppes of Kazakhstan, and basically they didn't care how much radiation they got exposed to. To this day they suffer HUGE increases in cancer rates as well as many other maladies, and also a very large number of grotesque birth defects that have affected living people who survived but were maimed for life, as well as many who died before being born. There's a vid on YT about it somewhere I watched about a year ago. Later! OL J R:)
Awesome achievement and an amazing accomplishment. I love things that are made in the USA.
The truth is that every citizen, soldier, sailor, airman, marine and any others that worked on these tests in any form, are true American Heroes. Many of these people later contracted illnesses as a result of working on these tests and many didn't, but either way, they ventured into the unknown in order to get the upper hand on a secretive enemy that appeared to be ready to attack, the moment we fell behind. Of course, after the Soviet Union disintegrated, we discovered that they never had the military capability we thought they did and, more importantly, the Soviets didn't want to start a nuclear war any more than we did. But, due to the ultra-secretive nature of communism, we only had our imagination and a few facts about our adversary, both of which pointed to a government that was bent on world domination. And, they were...
They were designing and test new plutonium pits and the different ways of compression and explosive lenses.
What’s up with this guys eyebrows 37:57 ?
Sockets are sockets
Please fix the audio and re-upload this. The video is interesting but the audio in this is so bad I had to download the video and get rid of the deafening noise just to watch it. There is a high pitched tone somewhere between 10 and 15 KHz that is very loud with respect to the rest of the audio and if your speakers/ears can produce/hear it, it's deafening.
This is an amazing film. Also the bomb back then was much less powerful then ones now. These soldiers thought it was no big deal.
Men were men back then. Not like most of the so-called men today.
Not really... the ones they tested in Nevada were low yield weapons in the kiloton range. The big multi-megaton range bombs were tested in the Pacific, mostly at Eniwetok Atoll and off Christmas Island, and one underground in Tonopah, NV and one in Amchitka Island, Alaska. Check out "Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero" where they talk about those tests and show films made of them.
Most weapons nowadays are in the 500 kiloton or less range. We have the ability now (and there's vids of this on YT) to launch a missile from Vandenberg and have it impact a dummy warhead 5,000 miles away in Kwajalein and have it take out a sheet of plywood. Most missiles nowadays from all the nuclear armed powers can easily send a warhead halfway around the planet and have it impact within a typical high school football stadium, easily. The early missiles, back in the 50's and early 60's, they were doing good if they could get them to impact within SEVERAL MILES of the target, which meant you needed a REALLY BIG and powerful warhead to have enough power to ensure you took out the intended target, particularly if it was a military target and in any way protected or "hardened" to survive a relatively nearby nuclear blast. BIG powerful warheads are very expensive to produce, difficult to maintain in the stockpile, difficult to deploy, and are extremely heavy and require a very powerful delivery system (bomber or missile) to get them to the target. Plus due to the squaring law, which says you have to increase a bomb yield by 4X to merely DOUBLE the damage, it's more efficient and practical to make MANY SMALLER BOMBS, particularly when you develop a missile capable of carrying MIRV warheads, or multiple warheads per missile, independently targeted. Most missiles are MIRVed now with many warheads on a single missile. Later! OL J R :)
31:49- isnt that a dogs head?
Why does it sound like the narrator's talking through a fan ?
Valley of where the tall mushrooms grow...
Thanks again!
*+DrCharlesw* I disagree then, *Something* about Operation Ranger. Shot Echo must be / must have been "interesting"
I wonder how many of these people that we’re doing this Wound up with cancer
Yes
Almost all , I bet
And we learned nothing can negate the fallout.
manned aircraft collected samples...I wonder if all those guys died a painful cancerous death.
The irony. We had to bomb ourselves to learn how to better bomb ourselves. Meanwhile we gotten so good at it that there's really no point in talking about repairing stuff or what comes after, because we all know, if they do press the red button ... it will be game over for the entire world. Good game humanity.
31:57 cloud looks like a dog's head.
Looks like a greyhound to me
And a cat 🐱 at 32:10 at the upper right part of the cloud ☁️. Must be a kinda Ying-Yang effect ☯️ 🤣
Spotted it as well 👍
Your post is from two years ago but I saw that dog in the cloud, too! They were talking about the dogs at that point and I thought I was imaging it but you saw it, too!
Tony F. Great ! 😉 Go Check the cat face too at 31:57 upper right end of cloud ☁️
i would love to see a clip comparing a nuclear blast and a conventional bomb from the same distance.
I don't think there was ever a direct comparison, but there was a 100 ton test of TNT before the Trinity shot, and Canada did a 500 ton TNT test at some point. There's footage of both tests out there.
Also, there's a US test called Sailor Hat that used 500 tons of TNT. That's probably the best comparison to a nuclear blast.
23:30 That's one *hell* of a Pep-Talk! Never get enough Radiation ehh baws? His face is all over these test videos. Who is this 'person'?
somebody's granpa
I love washing my radioactive plane with gunk....then its clean and ready to go !..but the tarmac now glows in the dark.... thats weird ?
These poor people just hadnt worked it out that something radiated stays radiated for a very long time. 1950's....
32m51s mushroom cloud looks like a dog! Probably the spirit of the dogs you just nuked....good old mankind
that trips me out.... ;)
Nuclear weapons better guarantee a safer and happier world without anxiety and fear.
You can bet at any potential disciplinary meeting, you'd be hearing "Because I kept my f*****g eyes closed! How else do you think I did so well on your little Flash-Blindness Experiment"?
Wouldn't have had to worry about that. Nobody "cheated" back then like SO many of today's assholes do...
Cradle Arc Engineer
I completely understand, but war is hell. I would only hope these animals gave their lives to save more lives. I hope with the conflicts going on right now we can find a way to get rid of such weapons. We already have conventional weapons that are better suited for what is needed.
So, who's here in 2019 thanks to TH-cam recommendations?
Here in June, 2020...
Coronavirus!
@@CarminesRCTipsandTricks corona virus is the third world war
N.V. On the thumbnail you used of the four men standing at a railing , two are wearing their masks , one is not wearing his mask , and one man is wearing his mask over his EYES ! Are they inspecting radioactive LSD ?
11:25 Richard M. Nixon?
1:11:58 "These men KNOW radiation. They live with it everyday, in the field and at their home laboratories. They have neither fear, nor question".....
Back when men were men, and not the typical snowflakes you see today. They did what had to be done, without a complaint or concern for themselves, to secure this country and protect our citizens. I thank these men for their courageous service...👏 🙏 🇺🇸
Those guys, "Put mustard on the fuckin' shit, and ate it for breakfast."
™Frank Rizzo
17:24 Jeez, no wonder we have so many radioactive spiders running around.
they're just film grunge
Tall White Aliens were warned about these tests...
Shut the fuck up
Imagine how much that all cost. And we're about to pay 450 BIl to keep our (unusable) nukes working even though the triggerman/PoTUS would end up in The Hague War Crimes court.....
The entire Manhattan Project only cost 2 billion dollars in the mid-40's. Now a single SLS "moon rocket" launch is going to cost over 4 billion bucks, and that's using refurbished shuttle engines and boosters that wer already preexisting "to save money". That's not including ANY mission costs, mission hardware, etc... ONLY the rocket and launch costs! Insane! Just shows how graft and corruption have destroyed this country, as well as how worthless our money has actually become over the years due to inflation of our unbacked fiat currency!
Back then there were no endless regulations and billions spent on "environmental impact studies" and other nonsense... if they needed or wanted to get something done, they just DID IT... not like now where it takes years and approval from 15 different governing authorities to get ANYTHING done anymore... so it cost A LOT less then! Later! OL J R :)
53:18
Wonder if he's drinking the atomic water
What if it was Civil Defense that pushed the arms race rather than the existence of the A-bomb?
What If we hadn't done the tests and found out how to build effective shelters l and all that other stuff would it have meant the generals would have been fine with the relatively small bombs of WW2?
thank God we have a "greater number and variety...and possibly stronger",nuclear weapons.
Only a smooth smoke drops the big one.
Bombs detonate at 25:30 and 59:47
Has anyone ever witnessed a nuclear blast without the dramatic symphony music?? 🤔
20:11 those poor dogs! :(
They should use german death camps crews in these tests instead of dogs.
I bet those poor souls workin that project never collected their pensions.
Back in the days of "Bring me men to match my mountains..." they had briefings aimed at setting up for nuclear testing. Fast forward to nowadays, and we've evolved to briefings on the importance of gender pronoun sensitivity, and not posting warrior-like-things on Twitter or Facebook because they might make somebody sad or otherwise trigger them. SMH. If only these tough old dudes could see what has been done with their fortitude and sacrifice.
These "tough old dudes"? The people setting up these tests are ghouls plain and simple, and the people taking part in them are morons, anybody who actually thinks you can come out on the "winning" end of a nuclear war has got to have something wrong with his thinking process. Just the fact that these dildos we're making an everyday training Mission out of practicing for nuclear war shows where their head was at. It's typical of the corporate system to be so psychotic as to be basically examining which clothes will burn better from a nuclear Flash, as well as the narrator's tough guy tone of the bombs are just waiting, just waiting for somebody with an itchy trigger finger LOL. I'm sorry but you must be an idiot for thinking that this is some kind of real good show or something, and yeah why don't we just go back to yesteryear where all the sexual assault cases were swept under the rug even though they were men being raped LOL, bet you and your tough-guy old dudes really got into that roflmao
@@tinafoster8665 found the snowflake lol
@@thebanfflocal2366 found the fascist apologizer- - OR someone too dumm to kno when they're being fed a shytload of propaganda
@Thane Mac I have to ask you a question, are you actually as stupid as you seem, or do you have to work at it?
@Thane Mac byebye dikkwadd hehe
"...hidden, underground vaults..." right up to Sputnik.
There's so much wrong with that; I don't know where to start!
Experiment says....we all die
Good Lord, the music at 17:30.
They did a groundburst in Nevada? Those poor downwinders, oof
They did about 100.
Safety first ........unfortunately most of those at these test sights never made old bones and had disformed or handicapped children. Mankind is truly mad
Nothing about Operation Ranger. Shot Echo is interesting, but they sanitized that bit.
19:38 Those poor dogs.
I didnt see movement in the cages after the boom when the recovered them
How in the he’ll could you carry sweet dogs to a horrible burning hell?
@@dougg1075 I could not, I have feelings .. and have a sense of caring. The people who made and tested these weapons have none of that... Either way, the ignorance is blinding. The amount of isotopes released from the weapons test over the years has killed hundreds of thousands all over the world. Ignorance...
The important lesson from all of this: Keep a close watch on all of the communists in the vicinity of your testing! If only we did that today...
26:24 they are so full of shit those dogs are dead 💀 I myself am a dog lover they say those dogs are under anesthesia that’s full of shit you know you don’t even have to use animals at all common sense if they have any at that time would automatically tell you that if you were exposed to an atomic explosion that close you would have radiation poisoning in your system so they didn’t actually have to sacrifice poor animals to find out that question it kind of reminds me of 1922 when they invented a shoe fluoroscope to measure feet for shoes once people started getting radiation poisoning from those machines they were removed from stores because then people at that time and remember this is before the atomic bomb figured out that Large radiation exposure kills I am so glad that we do not test nuclear weapons anymore it kind of reminds me that I think at that time the US was just showing off to Russia saying hey we got something bigger than you got sort of like boys with toys saying who’s better and also I don’t think the world needs nuclear weapons at all that way we can live in a nuclear free world
Wow, we really really need to KNOW what a atomic bomb will do. Yeah, let's really suss out that mystery.
I hear the outtakes have the guy with sledgehammer missing. Ouch.
They really did not know much about the secondary effects of radiation on anything. Radiation therapy un medicine was virtually unknown.
Saber rattling
18:20 Thats my mother in laws' theme song!
Who else see's the dog face in the nuclear cloud starting at 31;52?
At 49:35 is great and not one damn hippie.
32:54 These guys are good they can tell if the radiation in the clouds are low enough without using testing equipment he must have x-ray vision for crying out loud sending men to their Radiation dust doom
It's called "science" and they had gained a lot of experience on previous tests in the Pacific. They had been flying various test instruments around bomb clouds in previous tests taking readings, and on Sandstone they had used remote controlled B-17 bombers converted into unmanned DRONE airplanes to collect samples. They figured there was no way a crew could fly through a radioactive cloud and not get a fatal or at least severe radiation dose, so they used DRONE aircraft, which were taken off and landed by remote controllers on the ground at the end of the runway, and controlled in flight by a remote control pilot in the back seat of a chase plane that stayed outside the cloud.
From these early tests, they found out that 1) they COULD determine the levels of radioactivity and LOCATION of the pockets of radioactive materials within the clouds (and learned that the pockets even existed, which they had NOT anticipated beforehand but learned from real-world results) and 2) they could fly planes through the mushroom cloud and collect samples, and because planes fly REALLY FAST, they're not in the cloud long enough to expose a crew to a severe dose of radiation. They determined this from instruments placed inside the drone B-17's that measured the radiation rates and total dose a crew inside the plane would have been exposed to.
SO, on subsequent bomb tests, they started sending PRESSURIZED sampling planes through the clouds to collect the dust samples. So long as the plane remained pressurized, ensuring the outside air and any contaminating dust couldn't get INSIDE, the crews received a low enough dose to be able to fly through the mushroom cloud MULTIPLE TIMES on sample runs, since the plane was only inside the radioactive cloud for maybe a minute or two at most. Later B-57 Canberra jet bombers were used as sampler aircraft on the larger hydrogen bomb clouds to sample their radioactive dust, since the jets flew faster and the clouds were larger.
The OUTSIDE of the planes would be heavily contaminated by radioactive dust, so when they landed they were "hot". Ground crews used special poles and hooks and other tools to remove the sample filters from the exterior housings of the plane, and carry them over to pre-placed lead-lined transportation boxes, and lower them inside, close the lids, and then transport them to the lab for scientific analysis of the isotopes and byproducts of the bomb nuclear reactions, which told them what was going on inside the bomb, how efficient it was, what nuclear reactions were undergoing inside the bomb at detonation, etc, which they could then incorporate into the design of new improved bombs. They would then send in specially trained crews to "decontaminate" the planes, but again had to learn by doing... the decon crews were trained to stay far enough away not to get too much radiation, not touch anything, etc. and it was thought early on just hosing planes or ships down with water would decon them. Some were SO hot that they had to push them to the end of the runway with a tractor and leave them there for weeks or months for the radiation to decay naturally to where they could do more decontamination work. They later discovered that washing the planes with various detergents (boron containing I bet, as well as detergents capable of breaking loose various materials sticking the plane's skin) would allow them to decontaminate a plane in just a few hours.
Similarly, the aircrew were taught special procedures on the sampling missions-- they all wore film badges to record their radiation exposure levels, and were trained NOT to touch any part of the exterior of the aircraft after disembarking, and were sent straight to decontamination as soon as they landed. My old man worked in a nuclear power plant and he would sometimes get a "hot particle" and would have to go through decon. When I worked out there, they told us flat out NOT to wear a wedding ring or anything else we weren't willing to part with-- if it tested hot, they took it, and USUALLY they could manage to decontaminate it, and gave it back in a few days. IF for whatever reason they COULDN'T, say from neutron activation of an atom of gold in it or whatever, making that atom a radiation source within the metal, then it became "low level waste" and was buried for the next 10,000 years.
Later! OL J R :)
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20:15 do you know instead of using poor dogs they should’ve took a brave human being in place of those animals
Humans were used, soldiers now coming forward witness men in distance walking with skin drooping off them, men were deliberately placed close to ground zero without a trench. Men were reported also being kept in monkey cages near ground zero. These tests were more horrific than you could ever imagine.
@@mcleodclan 😆 Where'd you hear THAT bullshit. "Skin drooping off", lol. You're pretty fugging gullible..
27:49 did you see that guy put his ashes in his coffee then later he drinks it I guess he wants to put hair on his chest😃
Don't worry wear your goggles you'll be absolutely safe sheesh!!
my mother was pregnant with me in 1951, glowing in the dark is a neat party trick i do occasionally for my younger friends!
26:14 "Time becomes the most important commodity, for these are living, breathing, beings..."
Yep, and you just nuked them.. 😕
Someone kicked me in the family.jewels once and buster jangle.
Love the Horns LOL.
12:56 there's very little danger,,,,
Its not going to hurt much