Blowing up an Atomic Lake that People were Supposed to Use

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  • @zsoltpapp3363
    @zsoltpapp3363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Points of interest:
    France - Eiffel tower
    Italy - Colosseum
    Kazahstan - Abandoned nuclear test sites

    • @MrTaxiRob
      @MrTaxiRob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      good thing France dumps their radioactive waste in the ocean

    • @joshcanttakeajoke2853
      @joshcanttakeajoke2853 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrTaxiRob you are fake news

  • @laneusealexandre7093
    @laneusealexandre7093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    I'm pretty convinced that the "duck" is just a guy swimming lol

    • @RayKinard
      @RayKinard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      In soviet russia, duck creates wake!

    • @zachshiray8998
      @zachshiray8998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@RayKinard in mother russia duck no create wake. Wake create duck

    • @hancehanson4000
      @hancehanson4000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That is a poor, "misinformed" human-being....
      *(Where'd the narrator get "duck"....?)

    • @teddy.d174
      @teddy.d174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I’m pretty convinced you’re correct sir...😆

    • @0DJKORUPT0
      @0DJKORUPT0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Correct

  • @dapperfield595
    @dapperfield595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    Artificial lakes from thermonuclear detonations, yeah sounds about right...

    • @Lnino-sd3kf
      @Lnino-sd3kf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Who could've forseen the outcome huh.

    • @dakkuri1
      @dakkuri1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Gee what could go wrong

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If you like 3 eyed fish

    • @lonnietillman7127
      @lonnietillman7127 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      YEAH! RIGHT OUTTA A HORRIFIC SCI FI MOVIE. THE WORST THING ABOUT THIS IS ITS REAL LIVE ! IDIOT'S ! INTELLECTUAL ONES AT THAT ! THAT GO TOO FUCKIN FAR ... .....

    • @4Thug2Life0
      @4Thug2Life0 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The word Thermonuclear always makes me thing of the movie War Games( the 1st one not the remake bs). Would you like to play a game?

  • @thedungeondelver
    @thedungeondelver 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    "It was quickly abandoned when _holy fuck this thing glows like a lite-brite_ !"

    • @clearcreek69
      @clearcreek69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No electricity needed.... forever

  • @Theogenerang
    @Theogenerang 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    'Grim ambiance'.
    First thing that came to mind was Detroit.

    • @Fister_of_Muppets
      @Fister_of_Muppets 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Word

    • @BatMan-xr8gg
      @BatMan-xr8gg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Plenty of other Cities in the good ole USA that match Detroit.

    • @gekyumerising3152
      @gekyumerising3152 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ryanspalding875 sure, anywhere that a "projects" but Russia was considerably worse.

    • @BatMan-xr8gg
      @BatMan-xr8gg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @keith moore You know what amazes me the most? People keep whining about Dem run cities. Yet, refuse to get off their lazy fat arses and go and vote.
      That is all you people have to do, is get out and vote. And do not carry on about a stolen election and all that crap. because that is all there is, crap. No evidence, and a Million Dollars waiting to be collected if that person can provide evidence. Funny that, no one has come forward to provided evidence and collect.
      So, get of your bum, and get all your other peoples bums off the seats and go and Vote GOP, and then see what they can do. EASY!!!

    • @BatMan-xr8gg
      @BatMan-xr8gg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @keith moore That is right, all they care about is their seats in Govt where they get rich. In Australia, it is compulsory to vote, so we get a 96% turnout, so they have to appeal to most people to win their seat in Govt. Too few Americans vote, a record 66% voted in 2020, what happened to the other 34%? As Ben Franklin said, "I have given you a Republic, it is up to you to keep it.". You get the Govt you deserve. Remember that. Cheers

  • @ADSheehan
    @ADSheehan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    USSR: "I've made a huge mistake."

    • @marcalvarez4890
      @marcalvarez4890 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      USSR: "Ive made a huge success!"

    • @heyrod59
      @heyrod59 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      On a really long list of many. But this one truly takes the cake, and nukes it.......

    • @thedungeondelver
      @thedungeondelver 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Da.
      Erm, "Duh."

  • @Ozzypup1
    @Ozzypup1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Seems like they wouldve know the radiation would be a problem.

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Yeah, W T F ?????? Although thinking about it further it was probably a facade for a test during a ban.

    • @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245
      @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      In the eyes of your government, everything harmful to us “isn’t a problem”

    • @akizeta
      @akizeta 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Robert Sears "Clean" nukes are a myth. The high-energy ionizing radiation from the nuclear detonation and fireball activates ordinary elements in the soil, making them radioactive. The more matter you have next to the detonation or sucked up into the fireball, the more radio-isotopes are activated. Blow them up high in the air, and there's _little_ fallout; blow them up on the ground, or _in_ the ground, and they make thousands or millions of tonnes of the stuff.

    • @NanoBurger
      @NanoBurger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@akizeta Neutron-induced radiation (fallout) is a relatively short-lived phenomenon. The isotopes are highly unstable and degrade quickly. It varies on the type of substrate that is irradiated but generally follows the 7/10 rule (after seven time periods, dose rate decrease by 10 times). Of course, mathematically it is asymptotic so it will never be zero, but it will be biologically insignificant in days to weeks. If there is radiation still left at the site, it is probably caused by incomplete fission remnants, not neutron-induced radiation.

    • @M167A1
      @M167A1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is easy to say in hindsight but at the time the exact effects were unknown, this is how we found out what we now know

  • @bobthebuilder1360
    @bobthebuilder1360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    Soviets just love to use nukes on every problem lmao

    • @icollectstories5702
      @icollectstories5702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Project Plowshare was the original!

    • @bobthebuilder1360
      @bobthebuilder1360 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jack King we talking bout Russia rn

    • @JacksonHoulihan
      @JacksonHoulihan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You should see The Soviet fly swatters

    • @icollectstories5702
      @icollectstories5702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bobthebuilder1360 Russia has never used a nuke to end a war ... yet!

    • @druid139
      @druid139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Remember when Trump wanted to nuke hurricanes?
      🤣🤣🤣
      Good times, good times.

  • @Andy-nv9pc
    @Andy-nv9pc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    you need to narrate feature length documantaries my man.. top work as always

    • @PaladinOfNerds
      @PaladinOfNerds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah I like him, but I miss when Dark5 made us read the creepy shit...

    • @robertkerr4199
      @robertkerr4199 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree. Specifically, they should do a feature on the Korean War..

    • @brentjames9388
      @brentjames9388 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The next David Attenborough

    • @bobthebuilder1360
      @bobthebuilder1360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@PaladinOfNerds I dont think that would work for a long documentary

    • @wildkarrde3370
      @wildkarrde3370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Nah. He needs to talk more slowly like he did in his older videos. He made way fewer errors and pronunciation mistakes back then.

  • @twizz420
    @twizz420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    RIP to the guys who drank that water and swam in that lake....
    Reminds me of the time my friends bet me $20 to swim across a 30ft long, abandoned, stagnant sewage pond.

    • @baker099
      @baker099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Did... did you do it?

    • @twizz420
      @twizz420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@baker099 Bro, it's $20. Of course I did it.

    • @marttiinnanen4911
      @marttiinnanen4911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Sorry to burst your bubble but drinking that water is not going to kill you, nor swimming in it. People have a hugely overinflated understanding of the danger of radiation. You can pretty safely even walk around Chernobyl today despite it releasing much more radiation than this thermonuclear blast did. The most danger from radioactivity is when particles are inhaled and they get permanently embedded in the lungs. The long term exposure is the dangerous thing.

    • @heyrod59
      @heyrod59 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@marttiinnanen4911 and you do what for a living ? ?

    • @marttiinnanen4911
      @marttiinnanen4911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@heyrod59 I'm an IT specialist. What does it have to do with this discussion?

  • @dx1450
    @dx1450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "OK, here's my idea. We use a thermonuclear device to blow a big crater in the middle of a river, and this will form a lake which, in just 10,000 years, will be able to be used for recreational and commercial purposes."
    "Da, let's do it!"

  • @MrCyphermonkey
    @MrCyphermonkey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    4:13 the duck looks suspiciously like a person with fins and a snorkel. Damn soviets.

  • @ronvoy
    @ronvoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Russians, nuking backyard to make a pool or smthn

  • @RoccoShade
    @RoccoShade 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    he talks at 1.25 speed

  • @Veritas419
    @Veritas419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I wonder how many scientists told them that wasn’t going to work before they started.

    • @travr1131
      @travr1131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      One-and after he was shot, the rest said it was a great idea!

    • @twizz420
      @twizz420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How many scientists ALWAYS say something new isn't going to work...
      They thought a nuke would destroy the entire world, they thought it was impossible to survive in space, they thought germs weren't real, etc.
      If people never did things that someone else said wouldn't work, we'd still be living in caves and using rocks for tools

    • @twizz420
      @twizz420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Robert Sears It absolutely would not work today. I don't even know where you get that idea from. "less radiation" does not equal "no radiation".

    • @twizz420
      @twizz420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Robert Sears "cleaner" does not mean "no radiation".

    • @JJtoob
      @JJtoob 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wonder how many knew the effects but still wanted to collect data that they knew couldn't be collected in any other country.

  • @aermotors
    @aermotors 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video. Also by far my favorite narrator of the couple you use. The voice is just so good and really connects and immerses me in the videos.

  • @anotherarmchairhistorian2831
    @anotherarmchairhistorian2831 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Making lakes with thermonuclear bombs. What could possibly go wrong,?

    • @hazchemel
      @hazchemel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolutely; I'd use a bomb for my swimming pool only it'd take out every living organism for 100,000 years.

  • @roydrink
    @roydrink 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    “Friendly Nuclear Explosion” is an oxymoron...

    • @HexenProzess
      @HexenProzess 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But its friendly

    • @Kpopzoom
      @Kpopzoom 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      4th Gen Fusion is fairly clean - worked out about OK for the Twin Towers.

    • @Kpopzoom
      @Kpopzoom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @keith moore According to Professor Chris Buzby and the celebrated Italian Physicist Emilio Del Giudice 9/11 was a 4th Generation Nuclear Event.
      The weapon used Uranium charged "soaked" with Deuterium to a point just below the critical threshold then pressure was imposed upon it to trigger nuclear FUSION. Its uses the principles of Pressure Fusion first discovered by Percy Williams Bridgman who received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the effects of extreme pressure on materials.
      Dust samples USGS - United States Geological Survey (Department of the Interior)
      Barium = 765-3670ppm
      Strontium = 1000-3130ppm
      Uranium = 3.92-7.57
      Thorium = 30.7
      Barium & Strontium are not trace, but highly dangerous amounts.
      The steel beam coatings contain up to 93Bq/Kg Uranium - Professor Chris Buzby
      Tritium at 55x normal in the water run off - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
      Elevated levels of Uranium in the air 4,000ng/g (EHP) & correlated by Dr Cahill (UCLA Davis)
      Iodine 131 which has a very short half-life of only 8 days was also discovered - Oktay and Partners

    • @captainscarlett1
      @captainscarlett1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Kpopzoom Busby is a health scientist, an expert on what ionizing radiation does to to your insides. His conclusions are controversial and he is abusive to people who disagree with him. Del Giudice was a theoretical physicist known mostly for his work on string theory. Bridgman did indeed win the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics but his work had nothing to do with fission or fusion. He was trying to create diamonds, mostly. None of them worked on weapon design. 4G nuclear weapons are fusion only. They don't use uranium and are only theoretical at this stage. 3G thermonuclear weapons use a fission reaction to produce the heat and pressure necessary to ignite a fusion reaction. A thermonuclear weapon would not leave residue at it's detonation point. Any uranium not fissioned would be vaporized and would be contained within the fireball which creates the mushroom cloud. It would later condense and fall-out somewhere else. I suggest you work on your grammar first then work on fission/fusion physics and weapon design.

    • @Kpopzoom
      @Kpopzoom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@captainscarlett1You think its "theoretical" because of what - they didn't tell you about it?
      Did you expect they would publicize their use of stealth weapons on CNN or something??
      I suggest you upgrade your firmware from 1960's 3rd generation era nukes to the present day. 4th generation Fusion nukes have been proven to exist and are covered in Emillio Del Giudice's book and by others.
      And, if you are more knowledgeable than a Celebrated Nuclear Physicist then please post the link to your Wikipedia page entry and let us know where you got your Phd ?
      I'll wait shall I...

  • @Dopamiine.online
    @Dopamiine.online 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    the red circle around the guy was a hilarious touch for the thumbnail

  • @Commandoman97
    @Commandoman97 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    And we wonder why cancer is so prominent

  • @markcicero7931
    @markcicero7931 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It took 27 tests for US scientist to figure out that this was a bad idea. Geniuses. Super geniuses.

    • @guyforlogos
      @guyforlogos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly. Just more “experts”. We need to stop listening to these government “experts” on everything.

    • @markcicero7931
      @markcicero7931 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @keith moore I'll bet that's the truth. 😂🤣😅

  • @Slodeman
    @Slodeman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    im so glad the arrow and circle were there, i couldnt see the person standing and the lake in the background

  • @Activated_Complex
    @Activated_Complex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I know you meant that the attempts to harness nuclear explosives for peaceful purposes were failures, but for the benefit of anyone less familiar with the peaceful uses of nuclear power, I just wanted to make the following points briefly:
    A growing consensus among the overlapping scientific and environmentalist communities is that nuclear power is sorely needed in any comprehensive plan to slow and eventually halt manmade climate change.
    Tiny amounts of plutonium created in nuclear reactors power the deep space missions that have expanded our understanding of our place in the universe and shown us, by way of comparison with the beautiful but unremittingly hostile other worlds of our Solar System, how unique and precious our home the Earth truly is.
    The field of radiomedicine, often performed with isotopes of technetium or with gold molecules irradiated in small reactors like the one operated by students at MIT, has vastly enriched our diagnostic and treatment options for some of the most dreaded illnesses known to medicine, saving many lives.
    Like the rockets that may ultimately make it possible for humans to preserve the seed of life and plant it in new gardens, nuclear power has sinister applications. Something of a test for us to pass before we can emerge from this world as better versions of ourselves. But ultimately, the universe runs on nuclear power. Both are capable of creating, or facilitating the creation of, beautiful things as well as mind-bending horrors.

  • @arielpaulson9509
    @arielpaulson9509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "It was here, by the shores of this peaceful lake, where Borat was born..."

  • @Phildo8
    @Phildo8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If made to choose between Morgan Freeman or “Dark Narrator” to narrate my life I’m taking “Dark Narrator” hands down! The guys tone, his speed, etc. is top notch! I’ll call him “Dark Narrator” since we have never seen nor heard a name but a name nor a picture is needed when you’re as awesome of a narrator as he is! I’m not even gonna start to say how much I love the “family” of Dark Channels bc that’ll go on forever but suffice to say I’ve been subscribed to “Dark5” for so long that I was around when there was zero narration & you just read the info but even then the content was as great as it is now! So naturally when he expanded the Dark channels I immediately subscribe regardless of name or content choice bc I know whatever it is it’ll be literally the tippy top cream of the crop! I’ve never seen a bad video on any of these channels!

    • @shanekoszczewski8289
      @shanekoszczewski8289 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Omg are you talking about morgan freeman from that old tv show called XGames where they played games and expressed the pro's and con's of anygame? Or wait nvm just realised her name is morgan web..and also just realised morgan freeman is the black sexy voice guy 🤦

  • @hausb0mb
    @hausb0mb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love al your channels! For years now

  • @JakePalmer13
    @JakePalmer13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I feel like society is so soft compared to society back then. Nowadays people would be protesting and crying about someone else's opinion.

    • @filonin2
      @filonin2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The 1960's were nothing but an entire decade of protests. It's how people got rights. Learn your history ffs.

    • @h.cedric8157
      @h.cedric8157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@filonin2 the sixties is exactly were promiscuity and slacker mentality was normalized. Remember why it was called "sexual" revolution.
      Also MOST of your "Rights" had already been solidified into the constitutions of most nations by the start of the 20th century.

    • @filonin2
      @filonin2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@h.cedric8157 The 1960's is the "back then" we are talking about so you are undermining the OP's point about society being tougher back then, not mine. The sexual revolution is when women gained their sexual independence, which was a right. You incels sure are a sad pathetic bunch. Can't even get laid when women can choose.

  • @Fish_Feet
    @Fish_Feet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had trouble locating the image of the lake and person on the thumb nail so thanks for the giant red arrow and circle, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to find the lake and person.

  • @CSGATI
    @CSGATI 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Ducks don't have Geiger counters.

    • @chadcuckproducer1037
      @chadcuckproducer1037 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not yet at least. Keep exposing them to fallout and who knows what could happen!

    • @ClassicStreetIron
      @ClassicStreetIron 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, they have Aflac

    • @felixcastanon87
      @felixcastanon87 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL can’t they rap themselfs in duck tape and armor?

  • @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245
    @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    “Due to environmental concerns...”
    Dark viewers go brrrrrr

  • @rogermcmahon9481
    @rogermcmahon9481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What about the radioactive water leaching into the aquifer and polluting the surrounding area for hundreds if not thousands of miles in every direction.

  • @kaitohess592
    @kaitohess592 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    You should narrate documentarys on history channel. Good work as always.

    • @georgemcmillan9172
      @georgemcmillan9172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As good as that may sound, if he did start narratingfulk length documentaties, he would immediately be in such high demand he would no longer have the time for doing these short films. He would be asked to voiceover everything from food ads to medication. I would really like to hear him narrate for the A.H.C. channel from Discovery, doing the WWll themed documentaries.

  • @KetchupPankaka
    @KetchupPankaka 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like this channel very much

  • @jasonstein460
    @jasonstein460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Duck Duck Goose had a totally different meaning in the USSR.

  • @DeAthWaGer
    @DeAthWaGer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Kazakhstan: "Very Nice!"

  • @collarbone7621
    @collarbone7621 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    very entertaining indeed, been watching for a while. keep it up :)))

  • @ABW941
    @ABW941 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Too bad we dont have anything like a clean geoengineering tool to create lakes, tunnels, valleys,...

    • @hamletksquid2702
      @hamletksquid2702 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      We do. It's called a shovel. Expensive method, though.

    • @ABW941
      @ABW941 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hamletksquid2702 Just a shovel takes ages, an excavator will get the job done faster, but there is no way to build a 100km tunnel in a couple of days.

  • @paktahn
    @paktahn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    sounds like the people who came up with this idea had no clue what the aftermath of detonating an atomic weapon entails

    • @madmax2069
      @madmax2069 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      or they did, and played if off

    • @paktahn
      @paktahn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@madmax2069 no i think that at the time period this was done the only people who had a clue at all to what the aftermath would be is the physicist who designed and constructed the weapons the people that had the authority to use them probably didnt have much more than a rudimentary understanding of physics and thought of it as a really powerful conventional bomb possibly with a few new after affects it would be like giving a super car to a teenager on the day they got their license when they learned to drive with a prius and then expect them to not only be able to handle the power but to also use it wisely looking back in this manor it seems like humanity got really lucky that by the time other countries had gotten atomic weapons the affects of using them were becoming more commonly know and the consequences of using them became one of the main reasons not to use them

  • @jeffreydavidconner
    @jeffreydavidconner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WOW! @2:06 look at how close people are standing next to a underground nuclear explosion.

  • @Jameson4327
    @Jameson4327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Why didn’t you say anything about him dying a year later from radiation poisoning after swimming in the lake?

    • @awesomeblossom1
      @awesomeblossom1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is that true that he died from swimming in the lake?

    • @mtallmen184
      @mtallmen184 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Because it apparently didn't happen
      The Minister of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building at the time was Efim Slavsky, and he died in 1991

  • @BaronFeydRautha
    @BaronFeydRautha 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The coolest and most useful implication the Russians had for nukes was capping aflame oil wells. If we (USA) did that to the BP gulf spill it would have been over in about a month. The russians also have that crazy MIG jet powered water cannon mated to a T34 tank

  • @KnittingPasta
    @KnittingPasta 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dude, every video you narrate, I have to slow it down

  • @legionofsentinels
    @legionofsentinels 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now you know radiation is everywhere

  • @sulufest
    @sulufest 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    @03:06 Great footage!! 💥

  • @DANTHETUBEMAN
    @DANTHETUBEMAN 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I bet they could bring down sky scraper buildings with explosions like that in the basements.

    • @FedericoLucchi
      @FedericoLucchi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah! You just need one (or two) small devices with very powerful gamma radiation to melt the steel structures without causing a real blast, a few airplanes for diversion, and you get the perfect excuse to invade a couple of oil-rich countries! :D

    • @DANTHETUBEMAN
      @DANTHETUBEMAN 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FedericoLucchi I bet with enough underground testing you would know just the right yeald for the bombs.

    • @DANTHETUBEMAN
      @DANTHETUBEMAN 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FedericoLucchi but that would also melt cars between the street and the melting device

  • @drgonzo305
    @drgonzo305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How could someone think that this is a good idea? They know about fallout and radiation? They had to know this would just create atomic crater's!

  • @ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641
    @ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    My god, the soviets with their nukes were kids with cherry bombs, just blowing up random things for fun.

    • @ellayararwhyaych4711
      @ellayararwhyaych4711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Amerikans started it several years before.

    • @ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641
      @ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ellayararwhyaych4711 nobody is swimming in atomic lakes over here buddy.

    • @FedericoLucchi
      @FedericoLucchi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So was the US... you just don't hear about it as often. Also worth mentioning that USA actually detonated not one, but TWO devices on civilian-populated cities. Talk about atrocity...

    • @FedericoLucchi
      @FedericoLucchi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 You just don't know it when you do it, buddy. The amount of nuclear tests and incidents in USA during the Cold War is amazing. Even more amazing how they always managed to cover it up!
      On a side note: USA did most of the testing abroad, blowing up other people's lands, as is the custom for Americans.

    • @ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641
      @ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Typical anti-american lies. Worry about your own country, where covid has a 10% mortality rate because of how awful your country's health is. As for these imaginary nuclear disasters, you really need to stop getting your news from Russian propaganda. There are no nuclear disasters in the US, because we didn't cut corners like the Russians did. Plain and simple.

  • @ethan-youtubetips6577
    @ethan-youtubetips6577 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video deserves more views

  • @nickolos1995
    @nickolos1995 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yea because with something so destructive and truly terrifying always brings peace

  • @neilcheng4429
    @neilcheng4429 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great dark work upload documentary and video thank you again whats the backing music please brilliant narrator

  • @davidprince1138
    @davidprince1138 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looked good on paper.

  • @miatamike206
    @miatamike206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GREAT DOC!!!!

  • @zsoltpapp3363
    @zsoltpapp3363 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lets not forget, that back in this period there were nuclear tests everywhere. Nevada desert and pacific islands were blown up by the US, french also tested on their pacific territories.
    Soviets used Kazahstan (and other places) for their space program and nuclear testing

  • @leeadickes7235
    @leeadickes7235 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Environmental concerns. Is this before or after the upper atmospheric detonations?

  • @Zenthres
    @Zenthres 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good video as always.

  • @0therun1t21
    @0therun1t21 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I never would have found the human or the lake in the thumbnail without the big red arrow and circle, thank you, lol.
    Interesting video, I wish they could have just asked us instead of running all those tests. Soviet people didn't need that, it makes me so upset!

  • @andyharris3084
    @andyharris3084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm amazed that no one seemed to foresee this radiation problem before even the first bomb was detonated far less 156 of them! It seems inconceivable that people can be smart enough to build such a weapon but then be too dumb to realise what the effect would be.

  • @hermanjohnson9180
    @hermanjohnson9180 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So...they didn't know about the radiation I guess.

  • @speez6106
    @speez6106 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    No fish, humans, live nearby. Sounds peaceful.

  • @dirtyd2316
    @dirtyd2316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So they knew these bombs gave off massive amounts of radiation but still thought it would be a great idea to make these huge craters so they could fill them with water to use for crops and human consumption. What could possibly go wrong with that idea. 😂

  • @hughezzell10000
    @hughezzell10000 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lake created in 1965. 55 years later the area is still too radioactive to be used. Makes me think they were testing something else in that bomb to see how dirty they could make an area and how long it would naturally last.

    • @ShainAndrews
      @ShainAndrews 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Many like to dismiss Russia as unintelligent. At 150+ "peaceful tests" it is reasonable to believe they were exploring more than nuclear excavation techniques. The isotopes half life was pretty well understood by then. The effects were pretty well known as well. At the same time Russia has little trust in data sourced outside its borders...They are good intelligent people with a really bad government.

  • @onlyhuman9986
    @onlyhuman9986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That “duck” is a man swimming wearing a snorkel

  • @jean-yvesmead3972
    @jean-yvesmead3972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    USA: Stop nuking your rivers!
    Also USA: Let's nuke the Van Allen belt.

  • @steporafferty4357
    @steporafferty4357 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    At first we are told that no-one lives in the area of the artificial crater lake, then we are shown abandoned apartment buildings.

  • @stickassholio3163
    @stickassholio3163 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “Nuclear explosions for the national economy program “?😀

  • @ksc1406
    @ksc1406 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice!

  • @Splattertube
    @Splattertube 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How many tests did it take for either side to reach the same conclusion? Un-freakin-believable.

  • @kiuk_kiks
    @kiuk_kiks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sounds like a tourism promotional video for lake Chagan.

  • @madbillzgaming4505
    @madbillzgaming4505 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those building look like the buildings in call of duty morden warfare all gullied up

  • @rtd8934
    @rtd8934 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So what happened to the guy who drank the water and swam in it?!

  • @RogerGarrett
    @RogerGarrett 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    So, not actually blowing up an atomic lake, but setting off an atomic bomb to create a lake that later got called Atomic Lake.

  • @minimanadam
    @minimanadam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Friendly and nuclear explosion don't exactly go well together in the same sentence

  • @The_Cat_Authority
    @The_Cat_Authority 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    that was clearly a person swimming not a duck lmfao

  • @paulotado2494
    @paulotado2494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Alternate title: ALTERNATE Russian Vodka Lake (This Video Has 100 Times The Normal Amount of Radioactive Nucleotides)

  • @sgtcwhatley
    @sgtcwhatley 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting video. The USSR fell apart in 1991 not 1989.

  • @NSPlayer
    @NSPlayer 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    hey @Dark Footage i quite enjoy the background music in this one, i got lost!

  • @marcomcdowell8861
    @marcomcdowell8861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When people are so intelligent that they're actually dumb.

  • @nunyabizness199
    @nunyabizness199 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    And we are supposed to believe either side was doing anything but skirting test ban treaties.

  • @kevinjonesmusic
    @kevinjonesmusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    But what happened to the horses that drank the water and the person that jumped into the lake and drank the water?? Huge disconnect to the content flow because the next scene is about visitor having the wear protective gear to visit the lake.

  • @HeyU308
    @HeyU308 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I did not think water could be radio active, isn’t it an insulator to radiation? The rocks and earth surfaces certainly can be radioactive.

  • @marksIItimewarps
    @marksIItimewarps 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    On the 3rd day of Christmas, the atomic crater filled with 3 million cubic meters of water.....On the 6th day of Christmas the atomic crater filled with 6 million cubic meters of water....On the 12th day of Christmas Santa took to snorkeling on the atomic lake and never delivered gifts anymore!

  • @cut--
    @cut-- 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Hey hows it going?"
    "Great and good morning, today we make nuclear lake "
    "Awesome! can I watch" ?
    in russian:
    "Эй, как дела?"
    «Прекрасное и доброе утро, сегодня мы делаем ядерное озеро»
    «Круто! Можно посмотреть»?

  • @joshcanttakeajoke2853
    @joshcanttakeajoke2853 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The duck is clearly a man with a snorkel lol

  • @triwky6208
    @triwky6208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    No views or comments dang

  • @kapillantigua1504
    @kapillantigua1504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Combining water with radiation. Bruh

  • @druid139
    @druid139 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How did they not know radiation might be a side-effect of nuking to create your water reservoir?!!
    🙄

  • @deuteronimus750
    @deuteronimus750 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bald and Bankrupt hasn't been there yet. I hope he tours the area, it's pretty Soviet era.

  • @heyrod59
    @heyrod59 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You kinda wonder if that guy that went swimming in this lake lived to a ripe old age........

    • @joeantolak4629
      @joeantolak4629 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do some research ,he’s dead

  • @bluthammer1442
    @bluthammer1442 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    aight im subbing

  • @johnleinen9409
    @johnleinen9409 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    IVAN says, lake stay warm even im vinter time.

  • @indridcold8433
    @indridcold8433 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is very likely the lake is very clear today.

  • @bravo3000pirate
    @bravo3000pirate 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dark "nonetheless" footage

  • @Twobarpsi
    @Twobarpsi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    LOL, scientists?! Didn't think using a nuclear bomb, would produce NUCLEAR FALLOUT? 🤦‍♂️

    • @FedericoLucchi
      @FedericoLucchi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      USA experimented in similar ways for a long time. They knew about it, they just didn't care. There are still plenty of guys tuning their Duramax diesels until they vomit sooth all over the place! People are dumb and careless, everywhere in the world.

  • @klmnopq
    @klmnopq 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Info is fine what's with the thumbnail?

  • @suiseiuchuno7381
    @suiseiuchuno7381 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice.

  • @josephmountford2292
    @josephmountford2292 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How long did the guy live that drank the water?

  • @empre.sario3394
    @empre.sario3394 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The man who drunk the water & jumped in to swim, what was his name or medical condition after

  • @jasongrim2027
    @jasongrim2027 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder what would happen if you detonated a tsar bomb sized thermonuclear bomb underground

  • @jerrystandecker9101
    @jerrystandecker9101 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey dude we are glowing sweet..

  • @fluffthesergal7640
    @fluffthesergal7640 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now it needs to be retried, but with conventional explosives! Maybe air drop some MOP and use their craters? Idk

    • @FedericoLucchi
      @FedericoLucchi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It would need an insane amount of explosives to replicate that. The Tsar Bomba (not the one used in this test) is a 100 megaton bomb, that means you need 100 million tons of TNT to get a similar explosion. That's 100,000,000,000 kg of TNT, just to put it in perspective.

    • @fluffthesergal7640
      @fluffthesergal7640 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FedericoLucchi I know what it is, but we have a lot of conventional explosives that are going to sit unused. These were what, 4 kiloton bombs for a lake? 400,000kg of tnt if I'm no mistaken? It is doable.