Five years (~2008) before my dad died he disclosed for the first time that his Navy time was with this exact operation. He kept the secret as he was told to not talk about it. And only after seeing it broadcast on History Channel.
Boy, the Navy was REALLY stroking it's own ego on this one... The Army had the bomb project, and the Navy got jealous and tried to insert themselves in any way possible.
True, the rivalry all through the war years between the Army and Navy was bad but nowhere near as bad as between the Japanese Army and Navy or the German Army and navy, but I agree it looks like the Army got three bombs and they used them both on military targets and to hit the ships on shot able, and the Navy then got a few, being as they were the ones who were probably going to have to drop the other ones from aircraft carriers. But I'm sure the baker shot probably would have been used as some kind of torpedo, it would have been a big torpedo but still, the Navy wanted to know what would happen in an anchorage. In that case it probably would have been Tokyo, with the thing being launched at Yokohama harbor from an LCI or something, where the torpedo approaches the target relatively slowly to allow the LCI to get way out of range. But I bet these lighter ones would have been dropped from carrier aircraft
A lot of it is still classified in DOD and DOE archives. Quite a bit has been declassified, but it's an arduous process to make sure that anything shown isn't pertaining to any still-classified technology or processes or weapons systems, etc. Peter Kuran's films, "The Atomic Bomb Movie" and several others are available, some here on TH-cam, and are based on a lot of these films. He even made a film about the films, entitled "Atomic Cinematographers: Hollywood's Top Secret Film Studio" detailing the operations of the 1352nd Photographic Group who made all these films for the DOD and DOE. Later! OL J R :)
Not really they probably spent around 200 to 500 million dollars, which would probably be 2 to 5 billion today, which is a drop in the bucket for us given what the government wastes today 🤔 😒.
@@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster Good point but with the stupidity of balance of power n mutually assured destruction, the only thing the arms race gave us is mutual potential catastrophe: the United States can destroy Russia n Russia can destroy the United States. Put out the flags for that
@@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster The entire Manhattan Project was only $2 billion dollars in 1940's money. The entire Apollo project for the Moon landings was only $26 billion in 1960's money. Now we're building Moon rockets from pre-existing shuttle parts to "save money" that will cost over $4 billion dollars PER LAUNCH, not including any mission costs or mission hardware... that's JUST THE ROCKET! Just shows how worthless our money has become. OL J R :)
And literally, 30-40 years prior, the U.S. wasn’t even an international recognition from the world. It just shows you how much can change in such a short time
Always remember everyone duck and cover! Or the Turtle will have to go back to your school and do the training all over again. Rëgärds, The WMD Officer's.
@@LaPabst Nah, just pointing out the fact that the phrase, "Be kind.. Rewind", was coined by the video rental stores decades later, when people got lazy and wouldn't rewind VCR tapes before they returned them. With a film projector, you kind of HAD to rewind them because sometimes the take-up reel was permanently attached to the projector, and you also wanted to put the film back onto the proper reel it came on. This wasn't an issue when VCR tapes arrived.
"And this is the way a deck is... Uh... Decorated..."
That was oddly humorous for a test film.
More prolongation from that era that everything is safe in the environment and no hu.ans were exposed to any rads.
Five years (~2008) before my dad died he disclosed for the first time that his Navy time was with this exact operation. He kept the secret as he was told to not talk about it. And only after seeing it broadcast on History Channel.
Now that's devotion to duty, and I think he did the right thing. Not about the test, which was out of his hands but about following orders. ❤️👌
26:04 Navy Radioman aboard ship copying morse code message traffic on typewriter, using RBB, RBC and RBA heterodyne radio receivers (on shelf).
Boy, the Navy was REALLY stroking it's own ego on this one... The Army had the bomb project, and the Navy got jealous and tried to insert themselves in any way possible.
True, the rivalry all through the war years between the Army and Navy was bad but nowhere near as bad as between the Japanese Army and Navy or the German Army and navy, but I agree it looks like the Army got three bombs and they used them both on military targets and to hit the ships on shot able, and the Navy then got a few, being as they were the ones who were probably going to have to drop the other ones from aircraft carriers. But I'm sure the baker shot probably would have been used as some kind of torpedo, it would have been a big torpedo but still, the Navy wanted to know what would happen in an anchorage. In that case it probably would have been Tokyo, with the thing being launched at Yokohama harbor from an LCI or something, where the torpedo approaches the target relatively slowly to allow the LCI to get way out of range. But I bet these lighter ones would have been dropped from carrier aircraft
What happened to all of the VAST amount of movie film and still photos taken during tests like this? It would be great to see.
Idk, wouldn't they be placed somewhere or destroyed? I'd like to hear the bloopers from stuff like this lol, which was SURELY destroyed
A lot of it is still classified in DOD and DOE archives. Quite a bit has been declassified, but it's an arduous process to make sure that anything shown isn't pertaining to any still-classified technology or processes or weapons systems, etc. Peter Kuran's films, "The Atomic Bomb Movie" and several others are available, some here on TH-cam, and are based on a lot of these films. He even made a film about the films, entitled "Atomic Cinematographers: Hollywood's Top Secret Film Studio" detailing the operations of the 1352nd Photographic Group who made all these films for the DOD and DOE. Later! OL J R :)
How about this one
Imagine the dollars spent on a test like Sandstone. The mind simply boggles.
Not really they probably spent around 200 to 500 million dollars, which would probably be 2 to 5 billion today, which is a drop in the bucket for us given what the government wastes today 🤔 😒.
@@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster Good point but with the stupidity of balance of power n mutually assured destruction, the only thing the arms race gave us is mutual potential catastrophe: the United States can destroy Russia n Russia can destroy the United States. Put out the flags for that
@@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster The entire Manhattan Project was only $2 billion dollars in 1940's money. The entire Apollo project for the Moon landings was only $26 billion in 1960's money. Now we're building Moon rockets from pre-existing shuttle parts to "save money" that will cost over $4 billion dollars PER LAUNCH, not including any mission costs or mission hardware... that's JUST THE ROCKET! Just shows how worthless our money has become. OL J R :)
And literally, 30-40 years prior, the U.S. wasn’t even an international recognition from the world. It just shows you how much can change in such a short time
Ummm Not as a land force..
2nd largest Navy after the RN..
A signatory to the Washington Naval Treaty.
Always remember everyone duck and cover! Or the Turtle will have to go back to your school and do the training all over again.
Rëgärds,
The WMD Officer's.
"Or the Turtle will have to go back to your school"
Are you talking about Moscow Mitch;)?
Be kind.. rewind.
"Be kind.. Rewind", came decades after these films.
@@davelowets Still gotta rewind 'film' baby. That was the best part of most movies!! Are you unkind?
@@LaPabst Nah, just pointing out the fact that the phrase, "Be kind.. Rewind", was coined by the video rental stores decades later, when people got lazy and wouldn't rewind VCR tapes before they returned them. With a film projector, you kind of HAD to rewind them because sometimes the take-up reel was permanently attached to the projector, and you also wanted to put the film back onto the proper reel it came on. This wasn't an issue when VCR tapes arrived.
@@davelowets it's all good!
@@LaPabst 🍻
My Dad was a Marine on this
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