Master Devoe fission doesn’t release more energy, fusion does. The sun uses fusion energy. This bomb is a fission bomb, however we have fusion bombs (sometimes caked hydrogen bombs) which are the biggest weapons in the world. Tsar bomba is a fusion bomb with a yield of 50,000kt. The weapon shown in this video is 55kt.
Then you should go watch The SlowMo Guys, or even the femto-camera which is fast enough to capture the reflections of light traveling through an object! All very fascinating stuff, lets you see life from a mesmerizing perspective, tiny slices of time too fast for the human mind/eyes to even perceive
@@logix8969 yeah, the slomo guys are a great watch. They do all sorts of things from lighting, to a 50 cal. through a mirror, tank shells, smashing things, explosions etc
Nicholas Ennos you are an absolute disgrace to humanity. If nukes were fake then how did Hiroshima and Nagasaki get obliterated in seconds and what is all the holes in the ground in the Nevada test site. Get actual proof before you completely embarrass yourself.
@Nicholas Ennos Although Caesium-137 is one of the numerous radioactive products of a nuclear explosion, both of the bombs used on Japan were air bursts which means that there was not a great deal of Cs137 generated. That which was generated was spread over a very wide area and was washed away by weathering or buried. It should be noted that all cesium salts are all highly water soluble. Consequently, when it is released into the environment, it tends to be washed away. The consequences were that although there was contamination, the highly radioactive isotopes rapidly decayed, and the longer lived ones like cesium were not in a concentration to be harmful.
For those curious, the erupting "tentacles" are due to support lines for the drop tower carrying the explosion's energy faster through it's more densly packed atoms as opposed to the much more empty air around it. So insane at how fast matter is being accelerated and heated to cause such an effect.
I suspect that what is happening is this: Electrons are stripped from the atoms by ionization. The shockwave from the blast pushes the low mass electrons into a layer surrounding the fireball, accelerating them and increasing their potential energy.....These electrons then race down the conductive tower cables in a huge surge of current that heats and vaporizes them. The electrons are moving faster than the shock. This effect is what gives rise to the electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear blast......The accelerated sheath of electrons around the fireball give off bremstrallung radiation as they expand into the surrounding environment.
@@Ahbueoasabernomas i don't think so......the fireball from a nuclear explosion expands with a speed of several thousand kilometers per second, far faster than any possible rocket. They would be incinerated and pulverised into atoms a few microseconds after the bomb was detonated. No time to telemeter data.
Well, there have been naturally occurring structures that approximate nuclear reactors, so theoretically, an uncontrolled nuclear reaction isn't _un_natural. Hydrogen bombs are, plutonium did not exist in the universe until we made it.
Planet Purgatory Uranium is the largest naturally occurring element, Plutonium is easier to make than almost any element over 100 but it is certainly a man made element.
your right in fact the discover of fission didn't intend on killing people with his creation but the purpose of his discovery was to help humans not kill them
@Planet Purgatory Lest just say you are both right because plutonium does occur naturally but but under extremely rare circumstances so its ALMOST always man made.
These spikes (tendrils) are caused by the cables steadying the high tower on which the bomb has been mounted. The energy starts to run down these cables before the heat vaporizes what's left of them.
It's fake. It's like a balloon inflating with a light inside it. Shouldn't the cables be angled completely the opposite way if they are steadying the tower? And how come you don't see a single piece of that tower breaking off nor the cables falling away when you pause the video? And the cables totally remain frozen in place while this inflating ball of fire pushes against them? Right.
The energy runs DOWN the wires, which are tethered to the ground (where else?) The tower falls outside the filmframe on this one, but there are other clips where you can just see the tower. Tower breaking off? Wires falling away? - Have you ANY idea what speed nuclear explosions occur and what temperatures are involved?
Kieran Lepley this is called slow motion where motion is slower than real time, it's the energy equivalent of putting a pen on your hand and very quickly slamming your hand down onto a table
I was wondering about those spikes too. If you pause it at 0:48 and at frame 001442, you can clearly see the tower and the 4 guide wires. Kieran is a tad slow and is looking at those little smoke trails or whatever they are that you always see in nuclear explosions. They are going the opposite of what the guide wires are. The spikes (tendrils) Arthur was talking about are OBVIOUSLY the spikes of the explosion that look so cool, and those are directly where wires would be.
@@stephengray554 Oh, I was under the belief that this was a thermonuclear explosion, you know a hydrogen bomb? They're fusion reactions typically initiated by a fission reaction.
@@chrisloUSA I tried to find information before i replied with that, but yeah i guess this was actually hydrogen bomb. It was a year after castle bravo so that makes sense. But yeah, that's absolutely correct with thermonuclear bombs
@@stephengray554 I'm not an expert, I just done some light reading on the subject because our man made technological marvels have fascinated me since I was young. Just from pictures and videos, the intensity of explosion looked thermonuclear.
@@Kuznet609 thats true, but for our eyes or any other camera, there will be a flash thats it, no visuals or anything, there is filters on these cameraas
Lenses will be normal camera lenses. However, the cameras for tests like this are inside armoured bunkers with foot thick quartz glass windows. Usually they will film a mirror so the window and camera is never exposed directly to, or even facing anywhere in the direction of the explosion. Not just for the sake of getting the correct exposure, but the x-ray burst at close enough range would expose all of the film in the camera, the radiated energy will melt stuff and set the internals on fire! They used similar techniques on the engineering cameras that filmed rocket launches, filming into a metallic mirror from a shielded position. Also the slow motion cameras of the day were fascinating. Upto a certain speed you could just run film through faster, and get maybe up to 100 frames per second with precision and proper film for the job. But beyond that the mechanisms weren't fast enough to expose a frame and move it through the camera quick enough. So a sort of rotating drum with multiple camera mechanisms was used to not only interleave the shutters and take the strain off the film feeders, but also to multiply the amount of film you could even have in the camera, As you imagine there's only so big you can make a single reel of film before it gets impractical. There's videos on here somewhere of the camera systems themselves. Technology that cost a HUGE sum of money to develop specifically to film nuclear explosions, but was then used afterwards for all manner of other discoveries. It's one of the many things that show that even in our efforts to kill each other better there is always some good that can be taken out of it.
@@scottyj6226 Realistically we'll still use guns, bombs, and tanks... except we would be foraging them from abandoned military factories and military installations
As Einstein said "I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." and he was probably right.
The recent Beirut explosion is terrifying as you can somewhat, as a human being, wrap your mind around the amount of power in that blast, nuclear explosions are another world... Almost inconceivable power behind such a thing
Christian Hoffmann the tsar bomba is 50000 kilotons (according to what I’ve read they’ve toned it down from 100 megatons to 50 megatons due to it probably being able to damage the atmosphere) and the beirut explosion was only 1.5 kilotons. Please don’t even try to compare them. I’m not saying the beirut explosion is insignificant, I’m saying the tsar bomba is ridiculous.
When I was in high school one of my teachers was at one or more of these tests as a soldier... The amount of stuff they WERE NOT told these tests was mind-boggling.
That makes sense. Would you want to know? Sort of like why race car mechanics don't drive race cars. They know how close to blowing the engine is while running. The driver doesn't.
@@robertthomas5906 Nothing the same. Blowing the engine is the least of a race car drivers worries but they drive knowing the risks and they have the protective gear for when things go wrong and I am sure the drivers would know more about the engine than you give credit since they don't start with a mechanic and pit crew. Using soldiers as human guinea pigs is a little different. All they were told is to line up on the deck then face the other way. Close enough to the blast to feel the heat burning their bodies and to see the bones in their hands.
@@Michael467012 Exactly. Not only that but documents have been leaked proving that soldiers have been used to seal detonation sites with no intention to protect them from the danger of radiation. They were then studied to learn of the effects of radiation in humans. It's despicable.
When you sign up, your life literally belongs to the government. They needed to know how the effects of nukes affect the human body, in order to design countermeasures and medical knowledge. This is how we learn and improve things.
Nature is often terrifying and wondrous at the same time. Such elemental power and ferocity. The very forces of the atoms and molecules that make up all matter being unleashed in an awesome display of power. Truly something to behold. Nature has a way of humbling us to reckon with the forces that make our universe work and govern all that exists, including our own lives and destiny. For the first time man's destiny is in his own hands. Truly a terrifying and humbling notion. I can understand Oppenheimer's infamous words more than ever... *_I am become death, destroyer of worlds_*
@@livethefuture2492 Yeah, it´s really awesome in the old sense of the word that humanity nowadays can do things and unleash powers on a scale that were for most of human history where stuff of legend and under the purview of gods. Obliterating a whole city in moments is something straight out of the old testament. And we can do that with but the flick of a button. We could even bring on armageddon at any point.
If one travels to New Mexican Deserts in the late 40s and early 50s, one may see them without watermarks. The space traversing isn't that difficult, it's in the time traversing that things get hairy
Lawrence Livermore is an equally disgusting place to deliver freight to,w/safety senselessness & control entry on a lot not made for road trucks.🖕Lawrence Livermore,🖕in>ways than 1!(🖕!)!
I agree, I think the person that put these watermarks on this video would deserve the death penalty. But that's just my opinion, which I'm not supposed to have...
A nuclear bomb burns at relatively the same temperature as the surface of the sun. The only difference is the molecules of different elements that make up our atmosphere.
If the camera has a 15mfps and the shockwave moved 15m in 1 frame, it was traveling at 225,000 km/h in the first 1/15kks, still 4800 times slower than the light.
If you think that's fun, there was one nuke where a large steel door was literally sent into interstellar space, one single frame was captured of it which showed that it was traveling upwards at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour, and it was heavy enough that it wouldn't have slowed down that much from the atmosphere. I don't remember what nuclear test that was from though.
As you watch this amazing footage, keep in mind that this is a ~42 kiloton warhead, about twice the size of the Nagasaki blast. This was testing the plutonium core fission implosion device meant to be the primary source for a two-stage W-27 thermonuclear warhead with a design yield of about 2 megatons - or about 50 times the size of this detonation.
Yep, it was used as a primary to heat up the secondary part of the explosion on the magaton range. So initially, you have 2 explosions....milliseconds apart.
No one knows the size of this "explosion", which looks more like a deflagration. There is no scale is these shots that lets us appreciate the size of it. It could be a shot of gasoline on fire shot from very close or using a specific camera lens that gives the illusion of grandeur.
Pause it 0:49. It looks like a damn balloon inflating textured like the sun or something with a bright lamp inside it with separate explosions superimposed on top of it. Nukes may be real, but this video is certainly not a fucking video of a nuke blowing up. Come on, if anyone saw this in a movie made in the 60's or 50's, they'd laugh at the cheesy special effect, but because people were conditioned to believe this is real, that's what they believe. Look at a fucking CGI nuclear explosion now and how much more real it looks (if we assume nukes actually produce a mushroom cloud) and we know right away it's fake. This is like a pimpled balloon inflating. Anyway, people should buy up my "Dance of Death" a James Grider novel on Amazon so I can accrue money and afford a used car.
I wish this had more slo-mo of the fireball development. This sequence illustrates the reason why a ground burst blast (anytime the fireball touches the ground) is an extremely "dirty" explosion. The fireball sucks up tons of dust and dirt which gets mixed with the radioactive byproducts and gets elevated into the jetstream winds as the fireball cools and rises into the stratosphere, scattering radioactive debris for tens of miles downwind. This is literally hell unleashed on Earth.
Not really. In your normal shadow caused by the sunlight the ground will stay cooler. It's the same thing with the nuclear bomb flash, but in that shadow the ground or whatever the shadow falls upon will be "in the shade" and will burn slightly less, which leaves a lighter patch that is the shape of the person. It's not residue from the person
A truly incredible sequence of images. How much energy released, how much death it can cause, how much destruction. A terrifying beauty. The music of At the Foot of the Sphinx - Twin Musicom suits him more than well. May that weapon never be used against someone.
i ask that question a lot. the scary truth is with thermonuclear weapons the amount of power that we can unleash is almost limitless. there are theories that state that we can build a 1 gigaton (1,000,000,000 tons of TNT) or bigger bomb or larger. but it wouldn't be as destructive as some would think. most of the weapons energy would go up into the atmosphere and down into the earths crust.
Dirk Pitt depends which author, how bout the greatest possble GOoD designing the universe to include every possible motion (ever hair on your head) from birth of the universe to death of the universe (and our various exit points for souls levellng UP vs repeating or going DOWN, and pressing THAT ‘fire’ button...now that IS a “GOOD GOD!” OMG moment in eternity (and back)
@@josephjackson1956 Actually plenty of people could survive just fine after a nuclear war. Most scientists now agree the nuclear winter scenario is unlikely even with large numbers of nukes being used. Even if there were such a nuclear winter humanity has survived one even worse then what nuclear war could generate back when the Super-Volcano Toba erupted... yeah it came close to wiping us out but we survived and that was during the stone age when there were maybe only 100 million humans on the planet at the time. Finally, its been shown that the transfer of radioactive fallout between the north and south hemispheres would be minimal unless large numbers were used in both of them so even if the north gets wiped out the south will do just fine. Almost any such war would be mostly confined to the northern hemisphere so those in the south would have a good chance at the very least.
Had to look this video up again after seeing Oppenheimer because of how well the movie recreated this exact phenomenon. I couldn’t even tell if it was shot for the movie or taken from actual test footage.
I was underwhelmed by the explosion in Oppenheimer. It looked like a typical movie explosion: a few gallons of gasoline blown up by a small explosive. Interesting movie nonetheless.
It's because Nolan didn't want to use CGI in his movie... Yes, who didn't know, there is not a single CGI scene in the movie. One can only imagine how beautiful the explosion could have been if Nolan hadn't been so stubborn.@@freetrade8830
The entire fission reaction is done in about ten nanoseconds. Initially the fireball is opaque as the energy that is released is primarily neutrons, gamma radiation and X-rays
The mushroom cloud is what you get afterwards-- bubble of extremely hot air submerged in Earth's atmosphere... Look at a big bubble in a pool sometime-- they're flat on top and curl around underneath just like a mushroom cloud, without the stem... Later! OL J R :)
The film is running at more than thousands of frames a second. That counting box on the screen is showing the progression in hundreds of a thousandth of a second steps.
Teapot Turk had a yield of 43 kilotons and was fired on March 7, 1955 at 5:20 AM in Area 2 of Yucca Flat in Nevada. The test involved a 500-foot tower detonation. (from a google search.)
How the gov. contained the nuke blast from fallout on the vicinity areas like Cali, Utah, Oregon, Arizona I mean, wouldn't radiation reach the while continental US, México and Canadá whithin days of the blast?
@user-qg2xx6qh4e If you're talking about tests in the Pacific they didn't. The radioactive cloud rises into the stratosphere, dissipates and winds carry it all over the world. It rains down on everyone for 20 years. The one doctors worried about most was strontium 90. It enters the food chain by landing on grass that cows eat. It displaced calcium in nones causing bone cancer and leukemia. They were a death sentence. That's why the atmospheric nuclear test ban treaty was signed in 1963.
For a 1 megaton device, 7/10 of a millisecond is about a 440 foot fireball and expands to roughly 5700 feet in diameter, so slightly larger than a mile.
The spikes are due to the fact that thermal radiation spreads faster than the fireball does. The spikes are traveling down the guy wires that support the tower that the bomb is on as well as the tower itself. Pretty neat phenomena.
@@Touretti Fair, but Nolans explosion looked like a Fuel/Diesel bomb of sorts, plus those added embers didn't make much sense. Amazing movie otherwise.
@AcidBot66 so you're saying an invasion of the Japanese homeland which would've likely just resulted in more suffering from both sides of the war would be preferable? think again? it's likely millions more American and Japanese soldiers would've died in the fierce fighting, and a nuclear bomb is worse?
@AcidBot66 also the fact you wrote this comment with many grammatical and spelling errors says to me how angry you were on writing this, which makes sense.
rzomg If the USA never dropped those bombs, WW2 would’ve continued for another five years. Costing both sides millions of lives. It had to be done to END the war. The truth hurts
Craziest part is, look at when the initial fireball "touches" the ground. That's not dust. It's too hot. That's literally vaporized material, basically a swirling cloud of plasma that used to be matter. The core of the explosion attains a staggering 50 to 150 *million* degrees Fahrenheit.
@@NightRunner417 Yup - math does not lie. It is crazy how these guys created these bombs with paper and pencil. Slide rulers, charts, graphs, etc... They also knew that in order to get the H Bomb to work later on, the two isotopes of Hydrogen of Tritium and Deuterium would have to be heated to EXTREME temps - 100 MILLION AND BEYOND! These guys were the smartest men ever to me!!!
@@peanuts2105 Get off your ass and learn how to convert if you need it that badly, lol. That's what I do. Or do they not teach work and tolerance of individuality where you come from?
@@BoostedS650 created through evolution or by the hands of an unknown superior being, who cares? The fact humanity came into existence was a horrible mistake.
The Turk test was the 4th in the Teapot series, conducted from a tower on March 7, 1955. It was a weapons development test for the Mark 27 thermonuclear device and had a nominal yield of 43 kilotons
The enormity of that fireball descending onto the earth is beyond terrifying. If you've ever been burned, by a stove or a candle even, now imagine a mass of hellish fire the size of a small town dropping down on you from the sky. There are no words to describe the horror this image conjures.
Wer diese Bilder sieht und normal menschlich reagiert wird es nie verstehen, warum es ein Säbelrasseln mir Atomwaffen gibt. Diese Typen haben kein Wohnrecht auf der Erde verdient. 😢
Awesome video. Thanks. I had to look this up... "Operation Teapot" was a series of 14 individual atomic tests of both fission and fusion devices that took place in Yucca Flats, NV. in 1955. The total blast yield of all 14 detonations was rated 43 kilotons or an average of 3.7 kilotons per test. That's pretty light for a nuclear explosion. It would be cool to see a slomo video of a 5 megaton thermonuclear detonation
Only fission and boosted fission devices. No H-bombs. The total yield was 167kt, for an average of 12kt. 43 was the yield of the largest test, which is the one in the video.
It’s pretty awesome to see the guy wires and tower get vaporized faster than the surrounding air, the fireball impact the ground and bounce back up into itself, and the pressure wave blown outwards after the fireball bounces back into itself.
What you are seeing is raw elemental power of nature. The very forces that keep atoms and molecules together to form all matter being unleashed on an epic scale. The majesty and grandeur of the universe is something we can only humble at, On the contrary what you are seeing is the very power that allows all life on this earth to exist, indeed fusion is the mechanism by which out sun and all stars produce light and energy. It is rather poetic then one might say that the very force that makes all life on this earth possible, may very well be the force the ends it.
The same thing occurred on July 5th 2023, when my grandpa opened the lid on his secret recipe 75-alarm chili which had been cooking for the previous 2 days. There is still a crater and patch of glassed sand in the spot where we had that cookout.
While the video is paused, you can use the ',' and '.' keys (that's < and >, but you don't have to shift...) to single-step forward and backward through frames. From frames 1439-1440, you can see the very first part of the flash, and in frame 1440, the tops of the 4 guy wires and most of the support tower are lit up at that point, so you can see where they are. Then, as you advance the frames, you can see the rope tricks proceed down the guy wires. Note the biggest prominence that comes straight out the bottom is actually vaporizing the tower itself.
@ThingEngineer Every gram of matter contains roughly 20 kilotons of TNTs worth of energy. And now imagine how much energy is contained within the universe if only one gram has that much energy. It's simply incomprehensible to something on our scale.
Truly, you have the best videos but it's amazing that you persist with the damn watermark. I think I told you at other video you can put that sheet in better places but in the middle of the image.
My dad used to work in an Titan 2 nuclear silos when he was enlisted years and years ago something to be said about a weapon that can do so much damage at one time
One of the aims of weapon designers is to build a nuclear device in such a way that at the point of detonation, it maximises its yield of energy before it destroys itself. Thus, all the energy you see being released in this massive explosion must be released within the first tiny fraction of a second after detonation; an awesome thought.
apparently in a lot of these tests they figured out that the nuke had only used up usually about half or less of the total mass it started out with. so that means that a lot of those old footage detonations were actually a lot smaller than they intended! makes me wonder had any one of those actually used up all its mass if we would still be around to talk about it?
@@musek5048 you mean half of the mass of the nuclear mass itself, rather than the whole weight of the bomb? The scientists could calculate a bombs yield, but they got it badly wrong on the Castle Bravo test when it was a lot bigger than anticipated.
@@musek5048 I think it they thought it was going to be 6 megatons but it turned out to be 15 megatons. The designers underestimated the reactivity of one of the nuclear "ingredients".
This video about Castle Bravo is good, although it does not properly explain why it went wrong. It was something to do with the lithium deuteride which is used to produce the fusion part of the nuclear reaction.
It's the x-rays radiating from the fission process and being absorbed by the support wires, heating them to the point that they vaporize into plasma and then are overtaken by the fireball of superheated air.
The incredibly powerful X-ray and gamma radiation released from the center of the bomb reaction is absorbed into all matter around the bomb raising it's temperature to a plasma, making it seem to explode. The X-rays and gamma rays travel out more quickly, at the speed of light, and start the expansion of the wire and tower, before the fireball reaches them.
It is one of the greatest achievements that mankind has ever made which kept us safe from horrifying aspects of conventional warfare during the Cold War and even today.
Of all the nuclear/atomic bomb explosions this one, for some reason, Is one I find really disturbing. They are all chilling in their destructive power but this one makes me feel like I’ve seen a portion of hell that I wasn’t supposed to be able to see. And it left me scared for life.
The mass-energy conversion in a fission bomb is tiny - basically just the rounding error. Now imagine a quantum annihilation bomb, where ALL the mass is converted
A cup of knowlage, 2 dashes of psychopath, table spoon of lust for power, a few narcassists and 1 giant bag of stupid gave us this... thanks you guys are awesome.
@@scottc977 Scott C were you there cause you seem to know what was going on in 1945? How many innocent people died in japan or do you concider them all heathens? What if someone drops this where your living now... would you still consider it a good invention?
@@cmainger3140 The Bomb - is estimated to have saved the lives of about 1-2 million Japanese, who would have died on the beach during the immanent invasion. you really should read up on history the political stresses at the time, before you write or say any more embarrassing stuff.
@@Verfolnirwere you there... Or is this someone elses account of what happened at the time... If we enter a new war and "the bomb" get used where you live to "save lives" would it still be a good invention. History is written by the victor and not always the truth... dont believe everything you read/or see... even salt looks like sugar.
@@scottc977 I see... So you consider avoiding one singular military campaign to be the lesser evil, when compared to the entirity of humanities shared existence being perpetually a single launch-order away from ending? This, at the mercy of whatever narcissistic head-of-state or militaristic missile commander who happen to be in control at the time? ...Is all of humanity really that expendable to you, or do you honestly believe that "accidents happen" is merely a saying?
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Damn, it looks like the sun crashed into the ground
a millisesecond star
interestingly, it's sort of the opposite process of the sun
That is exactly how japanese survivors described it...
Master Devoe Hotter than the SURFACE of the sun not the core buddy aha. If it was hotter than the core it would be unbelievably catastrophic
Master Devoe fission doesn’t release more energy, fusion does. The sun uses fusion energy. This bomb is a fission bomb, however we have fusion bombs (sometimes caked hydrogen bombs) which are the biggest weapons in the world. Tsar bomba is a fusion bomb with a yield of 50,000kt. The weapon shown in this video is 55kt.
I've never watched a fraction of a second for three minutes before.
Then you should go watch The SlowMo Guys, or even the femto-camera which is fast enough to capture the reflections of light traveling through an object! All very fascinating stuff, lets you see life from a mesmerizing perspective, tiny slices of time too fast for the human mind/eyes to even perceive
@@logix8969 yeah, the slomo guys are a great watch. They do all sorts of things from lighting, to a 50 cal. through a mirror, tank shells, smashing things, explosions etc
100 times in a row
Wait until The Slow Mo Guys film a nuke with the Phantom v2512 at 300,000 fps.
LOOKS LIKE AN ASTEROID
This footage is absolutely stunning. It is also absolutely horrifying.
@Nicholas Ennos And you are totally gullible.
Nicholas Ennos you are an absolute disgrace to humanity. If nukes were fake then how did Hiroshima and Nagasaki get obliterated in seconds and what is all the holes in the ground in the Nevada test site. Get actual proof before you completely embarrass yourself.
Nicholas is the same kind of asshole who says “covid19 virus is a hoax” and refuses to wear a mask
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@Nicholas Ennos Tell that to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Three planes, one bomb. I dare you to call them liars.
@Nicholas Ennos Although Caesium-137 is one of the numerous radioactive products of a nuclear explosion, both of the bombs used on Japan were air bursts which means that there was not a great deal of Cs137 generated. That which was generated was spread over a very wide area and was washed away by weathering or buried. It should be noted that all cesium salts are all highly water soluble. Consequently, when it is released into the environment, it tends to be washed away.
The consequences were that although there was contamination, the highly radioactive isotopes rapidly decayed, and the longer lived ones like cesium were not in a concentration to be harmful.
For those curious, the erupting "tentacles" are due to support lines for the drop tower carrying the explosion's energy faster through it's more densly packed atoms as opposed to the much more empty air around it. So insane at how fast matter is being accelerated and heated to cause such an effect.
Makes no sense the angle. Theses trails come from rockets, that are launched to collect much data as possible.
Spikes*
God i love science.
I suspect that what is happening is this: Electrons are stripped from the atoms by ionization. The shockwave from the blast pushes the low mass electrons into a layer surrounding the fireball, accelerating them and increasing their potential energy.....These electrons then race down the conductive tower cables in a huge surge of current that heats and vaporizes them. The electrons are moving faster than the shock. This effect is what gives rise to the electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear blast......The accelerated sheath of electrons around the fireball give off bremstrallung radiation as they expand into the surrounding environment.
@@Ahbueoasabernomas i don't think so......the fireball from a nuclear explosion expands with a speed of several thousand kilometers per second, far faster than any possible rocket. They would be incinerated and pulverised into atoms a few microseconds after the bomb was detonated. No time to telemeter data.
I feel like I'm seeing something that no one is ever supposed to see because it's not supposed to exist.
Well, there have been naturally occurring structures that approximate nuclear reactors, so theoretically, an uncontrolled nuclear reaction isn't _un_natural. Hydrogen bombs are, plutonium did not exist in the universe until we made it.
@Planet Purgatory nnnnnnnnnnnnope. Try again.
Planet Purgatory Uranium is the largest naturally occurring element, Plutonium is easier to make than almost any element over 100 but it is certainly a man made element.
your right in fact the discover of fission didn't intend on killing people with his creation
but the purpose of his discovery was to help humans not kill them
@Planet Purgatory Lest just say you are both right because plutonium does occur naturally but but under extremely rare circumstances so its ALMOST always man made.
These spikes (tendrils) are caused by the cables steadying the high tower on which the bomb has been mounted. The energy starts to run down these cables before the heat vaporizes what's left of them.
Arthur Benjamins thats neat thanks, wondered why that was happening!
It's fake. It's like a balloon inflating with a light inside it. Shouldn't the cables be angled completely the opposite way if they are steadying the tower? And how come you don't see a single piece of that tower breaking off nor the cables falling away when you pause the video? And the cables totally remain frozen in place while this inflating ball of fire pushes against them? Right.
The energy runs DOWN the wires, which are tethered to the ground (where else?) The tower falls outside the filmframe on this one, but there are other clips where you can just see the tower. Tower breaking off? Wires falling away? - Have you ANY idea what speed nuclear explosions occur and what temperatures are involved?
Kieran Lepley this is called slow motion where motion is slower than real time, it's the energy equivalent of putting a pen on your hand and very quickly slamming your hand down onto a table
I was wondering about those spikes too. If you pause it at 0:48 and at frame 001442, you can clearly see the tower and the 4 guide wires. Kieran is a tad slow and is looking at those little smoke trails or whatever they are that you always see in nuclear explosions. They are going the opposite of what the guide wires are. The spikes (tendrils) Arthur was talking about are OBVIOUSLY the spikes of the explosion that look so cool, and those are directly where wires would be.
The amount of energy released is close to the energy my dog has when i take her on a walk.
Are you. Midget?
Genuwine6799G possibly
Atomic Dogs... Funkey dogs... Nasty dogs...
@@GenuwineG that is so random lol
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Is it because she wants to go to pee and poo so badly?
Probably the most jaw-dropping nuke footage of all time. The rope-trick adds to the menacing appearance with a “spiked fireball” effect.
John Wayne Gacy and his rope trick.... terrifying. heh
The spiked fireball has zero to do with ropes.
It's still called the rope trick effect though@@Mike-xq7ib
It still blows my mind that humans can recreate such powerful forces of nature here on Earth, this is literally a man made sun.
Not exactly though. These bombs work by fission, while the sun is fusion.
@@stephengray554 Oh, I was under the belief that this was a thermonuclear explosion, you know a hydrogen bomb? They're fusion reactions typically initiated by a fission reaction.
@@chrisloUSA I tried to find information before i replied with that, but yeah i guess this was actually hydrogen bomb. It was a year after castle bravo so that makes sense. But yeah, that's absolutely correct with thermonuclear bombs
@@chrisloUSA even though its not a sustained fusion reaction, it's a fusion reaction none the less that fuses hydrogen to helium just as the sun
@@stephengray554 I'm not an expert, I just done some light reading on the subject because our man made technological marvels have fascinated me since I was young.
Just from pictures and videos, the intensity of explosion looked thermonuclear.
...I said LUNCH
-not LAUNCH!!!!
I loved your comment! It's "The Three Stooges" in me. What does the sign say? And Curly replies Goslow!
Dan Wright yes! 🤣Lol!!
Hey Dan You Tube the intro to “The Far Out Space Nuts”....you’ll love it!!🤣👍🤣
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Lol
shut up
imagine the filter on that lens, it must be like a welding glass
@@Kuznet609 thats true, but for our eyes or any other camera, there will be a flash thats it, no visuals or anything, there is filters on these cameraas
I don't think a basic welding glass would be enough lol
Lenses will be normal camera lenses. However, the cameras for tests like this are inside armoured bunkers with foot thick quartz glass windows. Usually they will film a mirror so the window and camera is never exposed directly to, or even facing anywhere in the direction of the explosion.
Not just for the sake of getting the correct exposure, but the x-ray burst at close enough range would expose all of the film in the camera, the radiated energy will melt stuff and set the internals on fire!
They used similar techniques on the engineering cameras that filmed rocket launches, filming into a metallic mirror from a shielded position.
Also the slow motion cameras of the day were fascinating. Upto a certain speed you could just run film through faster, and get maybe up to 100 frames per second with precision and proper film for the job. But beyond that the mechanisms weren't fast enough to expose a frame and move it through the camera quick enough. So a sort of rotating drum with multiple camera mechanisms was used to not only interleave the shutters and take the strain off the film feeders, but also to multiply the amount of film you could even have in the camera, As you imagine there's only so big you can make a single reel of film before it gets impractical.
There's videos on here somewhere of the camera systems themselves. Technology that cost a HUGE sum of money to develop specifically to film nuclear explosions, but was then used afterwards for all manner of other discoveries. It's one of the many things that show that even in our efforts to kill each other better there is always some good that can be taken out of it.
@@nathantjenkins93 strength 50 :D not just 10
i found myself thinking "dang i'm kinda surprised the negatives didn't just come out white" but a welding lense sounds like a brilliant answer
WW3: So you want to see this "beauty" in person?
WWIIII: here's your stick and your stone, have fun.
WW3 and Nuclear war is not the same idiot
@@scottyj6226 Realistically we'll still use guns, bombs, and tanks... except we would be foraging them from abandoned military factories and military installations
@@scottyj6226 WW V: Bronze Age 2 electric boogaloo
As Einstein said "I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." and he was probably right.
The recent Beirut explosion is terrifying as you can somewhat, as a human being, wrap your mind around the amount of power in that blast, nuclear explosions are another world... Almost inconceivable power behind such a thing
Anti-Matter
Imagine a black hole swallowing a star. An even greater level of inconceivable power
Beirut was a fraction of the Russian Tsar Bomb.
Christian Hoffmann the tsar bomba is 50000 kilotons (according to what I’ve read they’ve toned it down from 100 megatons to 50 megatons due to it probably being able to damage the atmosphere) and the beirut explosion was only 1.5 kilotons. Please don’t even try to compare them. I’m not saying the beirut explosion is insignificant, I’m saying the tsar bomba is ridiculous.
shahab Rahgozar did you miss the part where I said “fraction”?
When I was in high school one of my teachers was at one or more of these tests as a soldier... The amount of stuff they WERE NOT told these tests was mind-boggling.
That makes sense. Would you want to know? Sort of like why race car mechanics don't drive race cars. They know how close to blowing the engine is while running. The driver doesn't.
@@robertthomas5906 Nothing the same. Blowing the engine is the least of a race car drivers worries but they drive knowing the risks and they have the protective gear for when things go wrong and I am sure the drivers would know more about the engine than you give credit since they don't start with a mechanic and pit crew.
Using soldiers as human guinea pigs is a little different. All they were told is to line up on the deck then face the other way. Close enough to the blast to feel the heat burning their bodies and to see the bones in their hands.
@@Michael467012 Exactly. Not only that but documents have been leaked proving that soldiers have been used to seal detonation sites with no intention to protect them from the danger of radiation. They were then studied to learn of the effects of radiation in humans. It's despicable.
When you sign up, your life literally belongs to the government. They needed to know how the effects of nukes affect the human body, in order to design countermeasures and medical knowledge.
This is how we learn and improve things.
???? @@robertthomas5906
It's scary how mesmerizing and eerily beautiful the fires of destruction are
chaos is always beautiful. but we define it as death
@@mouchthebiker2938 Beautiful from a distance. Hell up close.
_Fuel scooping complete._
Nature is often terrifying and wondrous at the same time.
Such elemental power and ferocity. The very forces of the atoms and molecules that make up all matter being unleashed in an awesome display of power.
Truly something to behold. Nature has a way of humbling us to reckon with the forces that make our universe work and govern all that exists, including our own lives and destiny.
For the first time man's destiny is in his own hands. Truly a terrifying and humbling notion. I can understand Oppenheimer's infamous words more than ever...
*_I am become death, destroyer of worlds_*
@@livethefuture2492 Yeah, it´s really awesome in the old sense of the word that humanity nowadays can do things and unleash powers on a scale that were for most of human history where stuff of legend and under the purview of gods. Obliterating a whole city in moments is something straight out of the old testament. And we can do that with but the flick of a button. We could even bring on armageddon at any point.
this might be one of the most terrifyingly beautiful videos ive ever seen
Thanks, but really, thats the most obscene watermark in history.
If one travels to New Mexican Deserts in the late 40s and early 50s, one may see them without watermarks. The space traversing isn't that difficult, it's in the time traversing that things get hairy
Lawrence Livermore is an equally disgusting place to deliver freight to,w/safety senselessness & control entry on a lot not made for road trucks.🖕Lawrence Livermore,🖕in>ways than 1!(🖕!)!
I agree, I think the person that put these watermarks on this video would deserve the death penalty.
But that's just my opinion, which I'm not supposed to have...
I’m not too far from the laboratory.
It's almost like the footage doesn't belong to them anyway so its pointless
Soundtrack - at the foot of the sphinx - twin musicom
спасибо
IKR! So haunting.
Dude thanks.
Thank you, man.
Thanks
When someone tries to brighten your day with a little sun shine but takes it too literally.
Hahahahahaaaa... Awesome.
Thanks for the laugh.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me hapOHGODMYEYESIT'SSOBRIGHT!
Fuck yeah!
*literal
Heard the Enola Gay played 'Here Comes the Sun' on Aug 6 1945. That's 24 years before its release, amazing.
The music is frightening and makes a person realize the sheer terror of these weapons.
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
xc5647321 xc5647321 deus Vult
oppenheimer
This needs the Terminator theme as background music....
creative destruction?
@Kevin Richards we've tried to nuke santa claus in the atmospheric testing phase of nukes, but atmospheric tests have been banned. unfortunately....
It looks like the Sun just landed on Earth ☀🌏
The music is perfect for this.
same energy
Technically it did.
A nuclear bomb burns at relatively the same temperature as the surface of the sun. The only difference is the molecules of different elements that make up our atmosphere.
@@edwardpotter5212 thermonuclear* regular atomic bombs do not have that power.
Does anyone know who the music is by?
If the camera has a 15mfps and the shockwave moved 15m in 1 frame, it was traveling at 225,000 km/h in the first 1/15kks, still 4800 times slower than the light.
What are those numbers in the black box at the right side?
If you think that's fun, there was one nuke where a large steel door was literally sent into interstellar space, one single frame was captured of it which showed that it was traveling upwards at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour, and it was heavy enough that it wouldn't have slowed down that much from the atmosphere. I don't remember what nuclear test that was from though.
Okieman Mike So it’s not frames? Seems unusual to be seconds
@@Divine_R it could be. I'm not sure actually. I just guessed but you could be right
This is why we can't have nice things...
you can see the inspiration for shots from Oppenheimer here
Really think that movie was overrated. And the lack of CGI is dumb. The bomb going off looks nothing like a nuclear detonation.
All of the filmed nuclear explosions. This was inspired by the real dude first ya know
As you watch this amazing footage, keep in mind that this is a ~42 kiloton warhead, about twice the size of the Nagasaki blast. This was testing the plutonium core fission implosion device meant to be the primary source for a two-stage W-27 thermonuclear warhead with a design yield of about 2 megatons - or about 50 times the size of this detonation.
Yep, it was used as a primary to heat up the secondary part of the explosion on the magaton range. So initially, you have 2 explosions....milliseconds apart.
are you serious...the stuff they are doing in those government contracted labs is insane..
tribexa I very much doubt that.
Fission-Fusion giggity
No one knows the size of this "explosion", which looks more like a deflagration. There is no scale is these shots that lets us appreciate the size of it. It could be a shot of gasoline on fire shot from very close or using a specific camera lens that gives the illusion of grandeur.
Looks like a Star.
iliketrains0pwned Amazing. It really looks like the Sun, just for a moment. A man made star.
It IS a star. It's simply a man made star.
Jeremy Walker physically correct. The devil is in the details...literally and physically
yes, our star, and all stars, or nothing more then gigantic thermonuclear fusion detonations that have been exploding for eons upon eons.
Just like detonating a mini sun. Scary.
I have become Megatron, leader of the Decepticons.
HAAAAAA
That would be "I am become Megatron" if you'd like to keep the weird grammar of Oppenheimer's famous quote from Bhagavad Gita.
This had me on the fucking floor
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Doing "What"?
The fireball bounced off the ground..imagine the pressure underneath that
Don’t worry some guy on the internet told me nukes arnt real and the earth is flat and there is no space so we are super safe.
Spear Shaker I hope he us living in New York. That city will be the first of many to be struck by nuclear bomb.
For something to be real, you need proof. Scientific proof. Not war propaganda.
earth can't be flat, its just a simulation ran by lizard people
Pause it 0:49. It looks like a damn balloon inflating textured like the sun or something with a bright lamp inside it with separate explosions superimposed on top of it. Nukes may be real, but this video is certainly not a fucking video of a nuke blowing up. Come on, if anyone saw this in a movie made in the 60's or 50's, they'd laugh at the cheesy special effect, but because people were conditioned to believe this is real, that's what they believe. Look at a fucking CGI nuclear explosion now and how much more real it looks (if we assume nukes actually produce a mushroom cloud) and we know right away it's fake. This is like a pimpled balloon inflating. Anyway, people should buy up my "Dance of Death" a James Grider novel on Amazon so I can accrue money and afford a used car.
lol It's on the internet, so it must be true, eh? : )'
I wish this had more slo-mo of the fireball development. This sequence illustrates the reason why a ground burst blast (anytime the fireball touches the ground) is an extremely "dirty" explosion. The fireball sucks up tons of dust and dirt which gets mixed with the radioactive byproducts and gets elevated into the jetstream winds as the fireball cools and rises into the stratosphere, scattering radioactive debris for tens of miles downwind. This is literally hell unleashed on Earth.
Tell us how stupid you are without telling us😂😂
Imagine becoming a shadow figure on a sidewalk.
Imagine not becoming a shadow figure on a sidewalk, would anyone even know you died?
That's exactly what happened to the Japanese in WW2. Near the blast it vaporized those people into nothing but a shadow on the ground. 😳
@@johnanderson5500 nice
Not really. In your normal shadow caused by the sunlight the ground will stay cooler. It's the same thing with the nuclear bomb flash, but in that shadow the ground or whatever the shadow falls upon will be "in the shade" and will burn slightly less, which leaves a lighter patch that is the shape of the person. It's not residue from the person
At the proximity, there's not going to be a sidewalk for you to become a shadow onto.
A truly incredible sequence of images. How much energy released, how much death it can cause, how much destruction. A terrifying beauty. The music of At the Foot of the Sphinx - Twin Musicom suits him more than well. May that weapon never be used against someone.
This looks biblical.
Boy thatsa spicy meataballa
I understood that reference th-cam.com/video/NQhwNtY3N2k/w-d-xo.html
CacheRAM close but was referring to jim careys the mask when he swallows the TNT 😉
Sure, but Carey was referring to the commercial, so ...
CacheRAM ahh I didn't know that we didn't get that commercial in uk
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How can something that is so destructive be that beautiful?!!
Boobachie “The beauty of pure annihilation”
i ask that question a lot. the scary truth is with thermonuclear weapons the amount of power that we can unleash is almost limitless. there are theories that state that we can build a 1 gigaton (1,000,000,000 tons of TNT) or bigger bomb or larger. but it wouldn't be as destructive as some would think. most of the weapons energy would go up into the atmosphere and down into the earths crust.
Boobachie I kept asking myself this very question about the first girl I ever dated about 10 years ago
Just think, that's how the whole universe started!
Dirk Pitt depends which author, how bout the greatest possble GOoD designing the universe to include every possible motion (ever hair on your head) from birth of the universe to death of the universe (and our various exit points for souls levellng UP vs repeating or going DOWN, and pressing THAT ‘fire’ button...now that IS a “GOOD GOD!” OMG moment in eternity (and back)
"The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war, 'Judgement day'..."
Dundun dun dundun
Dundun dun dundun
I’m pretty sure nobody could survive that nuclear fire...
@@josephjackson1956 Actually plenty of people could survive just fine after a nuclear war. Most scientists now agree the nuclear winter scenario is unlikely even with large numbers of nukes being used. Even if there were such a nuclear winter humanity has survived one even worse then what nuclear war could generate back when the Super-Volcano Toba erupted... yeah it came close to wiping us out but we survived and that was during the stone age when there were maybe only 100 million humans on the planet at the time. Finally, its been shown that the transfer of radioactive fallout between the north and south hemispheres would be minimal unless large numbers were used in both of them so even if the north gets wiped out the south will do just fine. Almost any such war would be mostly confined to the northern hemisphere so those in the south would have a good chance at the very least.
@Daemon Hauyer good set of books, I'm trying to remember who wrote them
@Nature and Physics Its a judgment of our stupidity.
Nolan nailed it.
For some size comparison:
The bomb was detonated at an height of *500 feet* / *152 meter* and had a yield of *43 kT* TNT-equivalent
A tiny one then
@@danielmclean6780 relatively
Where?
It's like seeing a miniature sun appear one Earth for a split second. Actually terrifying.
Ironically its the opposite type of reaction, though.
@@asyncasync this is ironic
Had to look this video up again after seeing Oppenheimer because of how well the movie recreated this exact phenomenon. I couldn’t even tell if it was shot for the movie or taken from actual test footage.
I was underwhelmed by the explosion in Oppenheimer. It looked like a typical movie explosion: a few gallons of gasoline blown up by a small explosive. Interesting movie nonetheless.
It's because Nolan didn't want to use CGI in his movie... Yes, who didn't know, there is not a single CGI scene in the movie. One can only imagine how beautiful the explosion could have been if Nolan hadn't been so stubborn.@@freetrade8830
@@freetrade8830yeah, I love how they attempted it practically but there wasn't enough scale to it
No, lol. It looked nothing like an original nuclear explosion. You have no idea what you're talking about.
@@summerlove7779did you get there late or something?
It’s kind of beautiful, in its own nightmarishly, apocalyptic way.
The entire fission reaction is done in about ten nanoseconds. Initially the fireball is opaque as the energy that is released is primarily neutrons, gamma radiation and X-rays
I think you mean initially invisible, becoming opaque as the massive amount of energy released heats the air itself to incandescence.
Part of a complete breakfast.
This is a fusion bomb, not a fission bomb.
ah so thats what they meant when they said "drop a sun"
thought that was weird since a mushroom cloud isn't shaped like a star
The mushroom cloud is what you get afterwards-- bubble of extremely hot air submerged in Earth's atmosphere... Look at a big bubble in a pool sometime-- they're flat on top and curl around underneath just like a mushroom cloud, without the stem... Later! OL J R :)
The film is running at more than thousands of frames a second. That counting box on the screen is showing the progression in hundreds of a thousandth of a second steps.
The tendrils look evil af. Also, excellent choice of sound track.
Teapot Turk had a yield of 43 kilotons and was fired on March 7, 1955 at 5:20 AM in Area 2 of Yucca Flat in Nevada. The test involved a 500-foot tower detonation. (from a google search.)
How the gov. contained the nuke blast from fallout on the vicinity areas like Cali, Utah, Oregon, Arizona
I mean, wouldn't radiation reach the while continental US, México and Canadá whithin days of the blast?
@user-qg2xx6qh4e If you're talking about tests in the Pacific they didn't. The radioactive cloud rises into the stratosphere, dissipates and winds carry it all over the world. It rains down on everyone for 20 years. The one doctors worried about most was strontium 90. It enters the food chain by landing on grass that cows eat. It displaced calcium in nones causing bone cancer and leukemia. They were a death sentence. That's why the atmospheric nuclear test ban treaty was signed in 1963.
It's hard to imagine how big that actually is. Amazing yet frightening
For a 1 megaton device, 7/10 of a millisecond is about a 440 foot fireball and expands to roughly 5700 feet in diameter, so slightly larger than a mile.
@@KlaustheVikingI wonder what will happen to the atmosphere
The spikes are due to the fact that thermal radiation spreads faster than the fireball does. The spikes are traveling down the guy wires that support the tower that the bomb is on as well as the tower itself. Pretty neat phenomena.
Operation Crossroads Baker shot says " Hold my beer "
no, he does not say that
You’re right, ”it” says that, not “he”...and yes the rumors are true, “it” drinks Pabst Blue Ribbon.
No...operation Teapot has about 15kilitons on operation Crossroads.
Meanwhile tsar bomda does not give a single fuck
Castle bravo: hold my radiation water
Makes you realise how shit Nolan’s reenactment of the trinity blast was.
Yuuup. They should have gotten Alec Baldwin to direct it. He’da founda way to detonate a real nuke 😂
Comparing Turk with Trinity.... Trinity was about 10Kt and this one here had 45Kt.
@@Touretti Fair, but Nolans explosion looked like a Fuel/Diesel bomb of sorts, plus those added embers didn't make much sense. Amazing movie otherwise.
Whoopss 😢😢 vfx arist accidentally put a real gadget in the tower 😅😅😅😅@@bendameron5896
Humans:
They life
They create
But most importantly, they destroy themself.
*live
@@ProtoIndoEuropean88 thanks
I love lifing
@AcidBot66 so you're saying an invasion of the Japanese homeland which would've likely just resulted in more suffering from both sides of the war would be preferable? think again? it's likely millions more American and Japanese soldiers would've died in the fierce fighting, and a nuclear bomb is worse?
@AcidBot66 also the fact you wrote this comment with many grammatical and spelling errors says to me how angry you were on writing this, which makes sense.
'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds' - Robert Oppenheimer, Director of the Manhattan Project.
Stalin and Mao killed 100 times the amount of people Nuclear Weapons have....
Who was quoting an Hindu scripture, from the Bahagavad gita
rzomg If the USA never dropped those bombs, WW2 would’ve continued for another five years. Costing both sides millions of lives. It had to be done to END the war. The truth hurts
@rzomg literally the only one on the planet ive ever seen say this
Harry Kuheim it’s about potential. Nuclear weapons literally have the potential to destroy all life on earth.
Craziest part is, look at when the initial fireball "touches" the ground. That's not dust. It's too hot. That's literally vaporized material, basically a swirling cloud of plasma that used to be matter. The core of the explosion attains a staggering 50 to 150 *million* degrees Fahrenheit.
Nah, the core of that explosion is unknown. Unless you want to go inside and have a peek for yourself, we’ll never truly know.
@@Roachomane Nuclear explosion science is very, very well documented. Trust me, they know all there is to know about basic fission and fusion weapons.
@@NightRunner417 Yup - math does not lie. It is crazy how these guys created these bombs with paper and pencil. Slide rulers, charts, graphs, etc... They also knew that in order to get the H Bomb to work later on, the two isotopes of Hydrogen of Tritium and Deuterium would have to be heated to EXTREME temps - 100 MILLION AND BEYOND! These guys were the smartest men ever to me!!!
Fahrenheit?? Get with the times. Science and engineering and the rest of the modern world use Celsius
@@peanuts2105 Get off your ass and learn how to convert if you need it that badly, lol. That's what I do. Or do they not teach work and tolerance of individuality where you come from?
See...THIS is what happens when you let a species evolve with Opposable thumbs.
Opposable thumbs are opposing humans, haha.
We didn’t evolve. We were created and given free will.
Everybody gangsta till the chimps preform a nuclear test
T M god hated us. If there is a god, he looks down on us in disgust on what we do
@@BoostedS650 created through evolution or by the hands of an unknown superior being, who cares? The fact humanity came into existence was a horrible mistake.
This needs the Terminator theme as background music....
The background music also has dark undertones, and it sounds frightening to me.
In fact, it sounds A LOT like how T2 starts, before the familiar Terminator theme kicks in...
No dude the "Predator" movie theme..
Yeah Man!...
Wow, Gav and Dan really went the extra mile with this one.
As sobering as this video is, this comment made me laugh. Slow Mo Guys out of left field.
So glad that no more tests are done these days, but imagine watching these explosions with today's camera technology....
The Turk test was the 4th in the Teapot series, conducted from a tower on March 7, 1955. It was a weapons development test for the Mark 27 thermonuclear device and had a nominal yield of 43 kilotons
It's hypnotic and beautiful, but so deadly and poisonous💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Who’s here after Oppenheimer
He really did become death "destroyer of worlds".
It's awe inspiring the magnitude of the weapon.
What's also weird is that it was filmed during the daytime but the explosion is so bright that it outshines daylight.
The enormity of that fireball descending onto the earth is beyond terrifying. If you've ever been burned, by a stove or a candle even, now imagine a mass of hellish fire the size of a small town dropping down on you from the sky. There are no words to describe the horror this image conjures.
Wer diese Bilder sieht und normal menschlich reagiert wird es nie verstehen, warum es ein Säbelrasseln mir Atomwaffen gibt. Diese Typen haben kein Wohnrecht auf der Erde verdient. 😢
Who's here after watching Oppenheimer movie?
Man I loved the movie.
Nope.
Just the all out love of nukes.
So this is the project where nolan inspired to showcase the blast bursting through ground in oppenheimer
I get the feeling that Nolan might’ve remastered this footage for the opening sequence of Oppenheimer, anyone else feel the same?
He recreated it
Yes, I also feel this video very similar oppenheimer
Hey thanks for leaving the writing across the video,gives it that nostalgia look
Didn't even know TH-cam was around back then and the guy seemed to have a channel on it too.
Respect: +1
Awesome video. Thanks.
I had to look this up... "Operation Teapot" was a series of 14 individual atomic tests of both fission and fusion devices that took place in Yucca Flats, NV. in 1955. The total blast yield of all 14 detonations was rated 43 kilotons or an average of 3.7 kilotons per test. That's pretty light for a nuclear explosion. It would be cool to see a slomo video of a 5 megaton thermonuclear detonation
Only fission and boosted fission devices. No H-bombs. The total yield was 167kt, for an average of 12kt. 43 was the yield of the largest test, which is the one in the video.
It’s pretty awesome to see the guy wires and tower get vaporized faster than the surrounding air, the fireball impact the ground and bounce back up into itself, and the pressure wave blown outwards after the fireball bounces back into itself.
What you are seeing is raw elemental power of nature. The very forces that keep atoms and molecules together to form all matter being unleashed on an epic scale.
The majesty and grandeur of the universe is something we can only humble at,
On the contrary what you are seeing is the very power that allows all life on this earth to exist, indeed fusion is the mechanism by which out sun and all stars produce light and energy.
It is rather poetic then one might say that the very force that makes all life on this earth possible, may very well be the force the ends it.
The same thing occurred on July 5th 2023, when my grandpa opened the lid on his secret recipe 75-alarm chili which had been cooking for the previous 2 days. There is still a crater and patch of glassed sand in the spot where we had that cookout.
😂😂😂
While the video is paused, you can use the ',' and '.' keys (that's < and >, but you don't have to shift...) to single-step forward and backward through frames. From frames 1439-1440, you can see the very first part of the flash, and in frame 1440, the tops of the 4 guy wires and most of the support tower are lit up at that point, so you can see where they are. Then, as you advance the frames, you can see the rope tricks proceed down the guy wires. Note the biggest prominence that comes straight out the bottom is actually vaporizing the tower itself.
0:06 when the Death Star crashes into a planet’s surface
there is just something about those spikes that make the fireball look even more evil.
Cool video, keep up good work.
The potential energy inside atoms gives me chills, in an awe-inspiring way.
you have the same energy holding you together. the same energy.
@ThingEngineer
Every gram of matter contains roughly 20 kilotons of TNTs worth of energy. And now imagine how much energy is contained within the universe if only one gram has that much energy. It's simply incomprehensible to something on our scale.
When humans cracked that one puzzle and reality said "so you want to play a game?".. Chilling stuff.
Truly, you have the best videos but it's amazing that you persist with the damn watermark. I think I told you at other video you can put that sheet in better places but in the middle of the image.
Especially when you are watermarking SOMEONE ELSES source material.
Alejandro Sintes Ruiz de la Escalera you're not the boss of me
It's publicly released video so the water mark is stupid.
Those burst that come out of the fireball are so unnerving. So much tremendous force from a man made monster..incredible
My dad used to work in an Titan 2 nuclear silos when he was enlisted years and years ago something to be said about a weapon that can do so much damage at one time
Amazing. The dust and debris at the base of the explosion moves like a pyroclastic flow. Hundreds of feet high and hot in the thousands of degrees.
One of the aims of weapon designers is to build a nuclear device in such a way that at the point of detonation, it maximises its yield of energy before it destroys itself. Thus, all the energy you see being released in this massive explosion must be released within the first tiny fraction of a second after detonation; an awesome thought.
apparently in a lot of these tests they figured out that the nuke had only used up usually about half or less of the total mass it started out with. so that means that a lot of those old footage detonations were actually a lot smaller than they intended! makes me wonder had any one of those actually used up all its mass if we would still be around to talk about it?
@@musek5048 you mean half of the mass of the nuclear mass itself, rather than the whole weight of the bomb?
The scientists could calculate a bombs yield, but they got it badly wrong on the Castle Bravo test when it was a lot bigger than anticipated.
@@davidb4192 did castle bravo use up most of its mass? i know they werent expecting the size of the blast to be what it was right?
@@musek5048 I think it they thought it was going to be 6 megatons but it turned out to be 15 megatons. The designers underestimated the reactivity of one of the nuclear "ingredients".
This video about Castle Bravo is good, although it does not properly explain why it went wrong. It was something to do with the lithium deuteride which is used to produce the fusion part of the nuclear reaction.
The explosion is not a perfect sphere. It has these long tendrils of turbulence. Its like a monster that tries to reach the ground.
Those tendrils are the effect the fireball has on the wires holding up the test tower, cool ay.
Correctomundo.
They earned the name of rope tricks. The firball is vapourising the tower guide wires.
It's the x-rays radiating from the fission process and being absorbed by the support wires, heating them to the point that they vaporize into plasma and then are overtaken by the fireball of superheated air.
The incredibly powerful X-ray and gamma radiation released from the center of the bomb reaction is absorbed into all matter around the bomb raising it's temperature to a plasma, making it seem to explode. The X-rays and gamma rays travel out more quickly, at the speed of light, and start the expansion of the wire and tower, before the fireball reaches them.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
That was a quote from Albert Einstein.
With our today's society so dependent on technology, someone with a backhoe or two can totally cripple us.
Hate to be that guy, but: quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/16/future-weapons/
We went from rubbing two sticks together to create fire. now we split atoms for that.
Song name At The Foot Of The Sphinx by Twin Musicom. Good choice mate 👍🏼
Thank you wery much !
It's amazing that back in the technology of the 1940's, they invented the Rapatronic Camera which could take thousands of frames of film per second!
Used a spinning prism for the "shutter" nothing stopped , it was all full speed with a bunch of shattered film at the end of the run.
God damn this video quality is amazing
Atomic fission: 100,000,000 degrees
Thermonuclear: 150,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit
That's HOT 🔥
Operation Teapot, 3x more powerful than the explosion that led Oppenheimer to quote the Bhagavad Gita.
It is one of the greatest achievements that mankind has ever made which kept us safe from horrifying aspects of conventional warfare during the Cold War and even today.
Saw this scene in oppenheimer.. 😮
"There is a heat beyond heat. A pain beyond pain."
-Vincent Price, "House of Wax"
It’s amazing that things so terrifying can appear so beautiful
Of all the nuclear/atomic bomb explosions this one, for some reason, Is one I find really disturbing. They are all chilling in their destructive power but this one makes me feel like I’ve seen a portion of hell that I wasn’t supposed to be able to see. And it left me scared for life.
The gloomy music really helps this along. But i would have picked the theme tune from the Banana Splits.
Or Benny Hill.
😂😂😂😂😂
Prop to Nolan and his feam that re-created the footage precisely in Oppenheimer.
Nolan showing this in Oppenheimer 2023
I hear this song in so many of these videos. It fits perfectly. Terrifying and beautiful.
That is an absurd watermark that ruins the video. It is also a video you don't own in the first place.
You should be a hero and report this illegal activity asap..
Don't watch it then Karen.
Karen alert...
Greta alert
Shut up bitch make me a sandwich
E=mc2 Therefore Mass (c) X the speed of light squared (a phenominal number) creates massive energy E ! For a very small amount of M
ass.
"thats one hell of a way to boil water" Einstein commenting on nuclear power
The mass-energy conversion in a fission bomb is tiny - basically just the rounding error. Now imagine a quantum annihilation bomb, where ALL the mass is converted
Lmao they used THIS EXACT SHOT in Oppenheimer 💀
This is what Prometheus gave us. Now you understand why Zeus was so pissed.
A cup of knowlage, 2 dashes of psychopath, table spoon of lust for power, a few narcassists and 1 giant bag of stupid gave us this... thanks you guys are awesome.
It's obvious you were not involved in WW2. You'd have kissed their ass if you would have had to land on Mainland Japan in 1945.
@@scottc977 Scott C were you there cause you seem to know what was going on in 1945? How many innocent people died in japan or do you concider them all heathens? What if someone drops this where your living now... would you still consider it a good invention?
@@cmainger3140 The Bomb - is estimated to have saved the lives of about 1-2 million Japanese, who would have died on the beach during the immanent invasion.
you really should read up on history the political stresses at the time, before you write or say any more embarrassing stuff.
@@Verfolnirwere you there... Or is this someone elses account of what happened at the time... If we enter a new war and "the bomb" get used where you live to "save lives" would it still be a good invention. History is written by the victor and not always the truth... dont believe everything you read/or see... even salt looks like sugar.
@@scottc977 I see... So you consider avoiding one singular military campaign to be the lesser evil, when compared to the entirity of humanities shared existence being perpetually a single launch-order away from ending? This, at the mercy of whatever narcissistic head-of-state or militaristic missile commander who happen to be in control at the time?
...Is all of humanity really that expendable to you, or do you honestly believe that "accidents happen" is merely a saying?