Project Long Shot (one of three atomic bombs in Alaska)
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- Project Long Shot (1965) - 13:15 - Color. This film discusses Project LONG SHOT, a Department of Defense, Defense Atomic Support Agency- sponsored underground test, with participation of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of the Interior, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and numerous university scientists and engineers.
The approximately 80-kiloton LONG SHOT device, buried 2300 feet underground, was detonated on October 29, 1965. As part of the Vela Uniform Program, LONG SHOT's primary purpose was to find ways to detect nuclear explosions underground using ground-based seismic instruments.
The film discusses geological studies conducted on the island prior to the detonation; test preparations including construction milestones; an overview of experiments conducted during the project; and environmental and safety activities before and after the test. The canister holding the nuclear explosive is shown being lowered into the shaft. Surface effects during and after the detonation are also shown.
The three underground nuclear tests conducted on Amchitka Island, Alaska, were as follows:
LONG SHOT, October 29, 1965, shaft, Vela Uniform Project, approximately 80 kilotons
MILROW October 2, 1969, shaft, weapons related, approximately 1 megaton (Mt)
CANNIKIN, November 6, 1971, shaft, weapons related, less than 5 Mt - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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My heart actually flutters a bit when I see the beautiful restorations of these tremendously historical films.
Sincere thanks for posting these.
@Daniel Rodriguez indeed, how can someone enjoy such horrific abilities of something as such.
@Goettschwan not a good effort, that was a great effort from you.👍
9:30 "and by a number of other stations not affiliated with the network". He's talking about those filthy Commies.
My Dad participated in this test. He told me stories about it my whole life. RIP Maj. HRC, USAF.
gnarly Harley I am incredibly humbled by your father among many other of our nation's Atomic Veterans. I just want you to know there are some of us out in the world that truly appreciate the magnitude of their service. The Atomic Veterans deserve more than the recognition I or anyone else can offer. My heart goes out to you, your father and the rest of your family.
You put that into words so perfectly. Is there any chance I can repost your comment on my (tumblr) blog? @ Pierre
yawn
12:17 oh thank god the sea otters are okay
They were taught how to fly, they're all fine.
The sea otters got a lot more controversy in the Cannikin Test; Greenpeace made a big stink over them. The Cannikin event at Amchitka was actually the birth of Greenpeace
9:31 The yellow dot in Ireland is at Rosslare, the site of Ireland's only seismograph for several decades. It was operated by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) but was decommissioned in the 1990s. The yellow dot in the UK is at Eskdalemuir.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskdalemuir_Observatory
I love how they call the atom bomb a "device." When they detonate the bomb they call it an "event."
stephenblair67 Yes, that's tradition and nondescription security protocol.
Yet the Manhatten Project called the developed weapons as gadgets.
Bombs also typically indicate a tactical aerodynamic and possibly penetrator deployment casing, not a performance diagnostic canister instrumentation stack immediately above the device, common with vertically drilled underground testing. The diagnostic canister is why you see many cables leading out of the stemmed/capped lowering shaft in underground testing, as well as other signal timing cables to monitor melting cavity characteristics.
Just another gadget.
Gidget's gadget gets geigered
I like that comment.
They choose to use this tech as a weapon when it’s really capable of actually providing humanity with means to evolve to the next level. Infinite sustainable energy, space travel, etc..I mean thermonuclear technology is literally harnessing the power of the sun.
6:32 => Why did they tape a dollar to the casing ?! :o
It was a Federal Reserve Board inflation test.
A joke maybe? they were literally blowing up millions of dollars worth of bomb, one more dollar couldn't hurt.
Back in the day, that's what they did to counterfeit notes.
TheTarrMan one note at a time:)
@@psikogeek My favourite explanation so far.
anyone want to see those otters again? Here they are, 12:17, they didn't skimp on the footage one bit. Really lingers on those otters.
Unfortunately, about 100 sea otters were killed by the 5 megaton Cannikin test in 1971.
CanadaAuroraBorealis Fuck sea otters!!
CanadaAuroraBorealis Show us the evidence. All known otter rafts (aka groups) were captured and isolated to caged areas where they wouldn't be harmed. They're gregarious animals, surviving in such rafts.
I remember this test. In Canada, CBC had news coverage during the event. The doomsayers feared that the blast would trigger faults and volcanoes all along the Ring of Fire. As usual, when nothing happened, the media was disappointed that there was no world-wide disaster. I listened with my Grandmother while she was teaching me how to bake cookies. My first experience with media over-reaction, sadly far from the last.
What an awesome memory from that time though
I found this one to be quite interesting, with lots of information regarding the setup & preparations leading up to the main event. All that is usually shown is the BOOM.😎🤘
Where's the KABOOM? Where the f*ck is the Earth shattering kaboom?!? Marvin the Martian would be f*cking pissed, just like me - you can't have a 12minute video on YT with ATOMIC or NUCLEAR in the title without a GD explosion!
12:00 "Very little damage was noted to any island installations, including the tech building at surface zero". Next scene shows the tech building with bent walls, door frame askew, and every window blown out.
12:45 That's quite a kick from an 80 kt shot buried half a mile down.
sailors on vessel’s monitoring the site said their Aircraft Carrier plummeted 20 feet at detonation!
10:40 USN P-3A Orion patrol plane from VP-45 "Pelicans". Squadron still operational and flying P-8A Posiedons as of this post.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that caught that and is commenting.
My father was Commander of the airfield after the "higher ups"'left prior to detonation. He died in '73, a week shy of his 49th birthday. Lt. Col. RLS USAF Ret. Pilot WWII, Korea, and Vietnam and Longshot did him in. He knew the job was dangerous when he took it? He was also on Tinian when they brought the parts for the bomb. Go figure. I guess it comes full circle.
Dan Straitt God bless your Dad and all the other men here. My Dad was a radar officer for Long Shot. He monitored the Soviet presence. I heard about this operation my whole life. He passed away in 2013. Maj. HRC USAF Ret.
Just curious how those events 'did him in'?
Anybody else notice the $1 bill taped to the device at 06:31? Lol I thought intentional destruction of American currency was prohibited by Federal Law. Ahhhh fk it, it's a nuke. 🤣
The sea otters were unharmed XD
imagine pressing the button and nothing happens. "ok boys, who is going to dig this bad mf up".
Pete Smith just leave it🤣
MINOR cracks in the road??? Where does that guy live?? Chicago?!
And the sea otters weren't harmed?? I'm sure their guts tell another story.
Can you find there guts and read there story for us to hear?
@@blvp2145 he's got a point, you know. You shouldn't be that much of an asshole.
@@alienduce-unocero Sometimes you just have the be the asshole in the room. The truth is nuke testing was needed and it was done. The Soviets did it. The CCP has done it. Its life.
Lol the Rig scene gave me hardcore flashbacks of when I used to run casing. Seriously don’t miss doing that one bit.🦜
10:50 first clip
12:42 second clip
NOTHING ELSE
Los Alamos is still losing radioactive materials. Latest only two weeks ago.
At 1245 I see a tiny bright flash near the technical building. Did some of the detonation fireball make it to the surface?
No. It was a light intentionally wired to flash when the firing command was sent to the bomb.
Why do people project so much of their uninformed personal views, without considering the reasons for seeking extreme remoteness of Amchitka in the United States?
Amchitka is also home to among the most hostile weather environments on the planet, with storm winds frequently exceeding 160 km/hr, wet and cold most of the year.
This is why the buildings were built connected to each other, including the containment of the drill holes, to minimize outside exposure of personnel, until lowering of the devices, especially the Cannikin device inside a Spartan missile model. They were stemmed inside conveyor feed buildings.
Does gold survive an underground nuke test?
Radioactive gold!!
The best!
@@justicewarrior9187 Have you seen the James Bond film "Goldfinger"? No spoilers but...
@@BarryRowlingsonBaz
I have seen the Pornhub version
Gardener Earth Guy actually the bomb creates gold by melting certain minerals
I have to imagine that created a rather large void that's going to eventually collapse.
80 kt, not going to be all that huge.
2nd, 4th, 12th.......there is a 'th' or a 'nd' after dates.
Bring back atmospheric "testing", sell tickets to different distances from the explosion. Record it with every imaginable wavelenght in 8k at high speed. Blow few up every year make IMAX VR etc. versions . C'MON lets make nukes fun again!!!
This is what you would call a "bad idea".
Let me guess....Trumpster, yes?
"Varying distances" how close are you suggesting exactly ...
A lot of the footage from nuclear testing is still highly classified - and for good reason. There is no way in hell any nation with an ounce of sanity would allow public viewing of a nuclear detonation.
Unfortunately there are now nations without an ounce of sanity but with nuclear weapons.
"The sea otters were unharmed." They also got more screen time that any other living thing lol. A good four seconds of silence while watching otters haha
Greenpeace was founded as a result of a test on an active volcanic chain with these “devices”.
That deep hole the russians dug out. Should stick one down there
at least, the sea otter is fine!
The 1971 test killed 100 of them
Cant see why some one would vote this historic video down?
Well, the Sea Otters were somewhat disgruntled by all the hubbub....
geonerd Those were communist sea otters.
who decides to make the water brown and the land blue on a map?? seriously? that sir is why
11:04 Keanu Reeves
1964-1965-OPERATION LONG SHOT - AMCHITKA.jpg
would love to see/visit these underground craters
John Goerger me too! I spent a month on the surface in 2004. All you see now is tundra, rommel spikes from WW2 and concrete pads at the test sites with little metal plaques left to mark each of the tests
My step father was part of the construction crew of the Alaskan Highway.
There were any Projects built under the military using US troops in the building of this country. Trump could and should be using Militart construction and troops for border security. Watching this test makes me realize we have the ability to do many projects just using the military.
To test a ( not a weapon ) device and its not an explosion, implosion, chemical reaction,, its simply an event,,, very eventful in Hiroshima and Nagasaki...😮😮
They were trying to see if they could cause an earthquake
No, they were testing the ability to verify testing in the Soviet Union, as part of treaty negotiations. Look up "Vel Uniform" and see what it's purpose was.
In Canifornia...we can only wish
I find it hard to imagine they ever tested these devices in this manner. It seems horribly irresponsible and dangerous.
Nah fam let's just drill 2300' into the faults around the world and donate thermonuclear weapons. What could go wrong?
It wasn't 'dangerous' at all. The real world does not operate like a _Superman_ movie.. 😒
I sure hope that airplane that transported the 'device' from Los Alamos had some kind of escort. Can never be too careful..
Holy shit 7:05 that guy is wearing baggy clothing and way to close for comfort to that motorized belt O_O...
11:39 "Rad safe men"... Normal clothes with a hood, because Radiation can not harm your face or lungs.
It's nice to see how much work goes into getting maximum human kill from these devices.
Next test at Yellowstone, if you can think it man is more than willing to do it. We don't need Earth anymore we got Space Force.
11:39 Good to see black guys being given good jobs in the military.
I like their misleading reasons for doing this. They didn't want to just say "we wanted to test one of our big ass bombs".
Longshot was 80Kt, which wasn't very "big ass" even at that time. There's a video on the right telling of test Cannikin, also on Amchitka, which was about 70x larger in yield. Their reasons were perfectly reasonable.
The way I see it, a nuclear blast measured in kilotons (which is still a big explosion) is small potatoes, compared to detonations measured in megatons.
Nothing "misleading" about the reason. Only misleading if you don't comprehend the purpose.
I wish I had a ball crusher gauge for one or two of my past lovers.
We still have more nukes than we know what to do with... LoL
Hopefully any potential adversaries keep that in mind.
12:46
Nice how they time the detonation with the narrator saying "longshot" at 12:46
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds..oh so you’re a democrat.
Those maps irritate me in ways i cannot explain..
3:10 lol no hazard
"The sea otters were not harmed"
Run this at half speed and the narrator sounds drunk.
6:30 , Imagine what that dollar is worth today !
Makes you wonder what their not telling us.
Sea otters were unharmed, made my night.
12:17
Sea Otter: " Evil humans ! Quick ! Run for your life ! "
Sea Otters were nearly hunted to extinction on the Pacific Coast in the 1800's
Now we know where earthquakes come from.
@9:40 Must be a Mercator map? Judging by the size of Greenland..
im sorry gnarly harley
Wow, it looks like this was filmed yesterday.
If the quality of the film is still good, modern scans can achieve extremely high resolution footage basically 4k. 35mm film is far superior to even modern digital formats.
That map is fucking annoying
his voice and accent are so smooth I can listen to him for days. why American's don't talk like this any more?
Are you telling me they detonated a bomb in Amchitka. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
amazing
increible
Wow. Cement that never cracks?
It probably cracked at T + 1
Atomic manhole.
"...The Seaotters where Unharmed." Uhm, good?
the thumbnail looked like someone taking cover in fallout on a roof lol
Sooooo basically they drilled a deep hole in the earth to detonate a nuke just to see how much the earth shook...
Awesome
How did the fish do in those ponds nearby? Glow fish?
6:31 poor dollar.
Miss my stripper intro!😱👁️👁️😂🇺🇸
Well thank goodness the sea otters are ok. Shhhuuuu.
We are so environmentally risk adverse now days; making it almost but impossible to do this type of T&E. sad really. You wouldn't believe just how crushed our MRTFB's get under this pressure when it's these last few areas we can test.
Didn’t this test kick off Greenpeace?
I thought it strange that he used "kilometres" instead of miles in describing distances
scientists have been using SI units world wide for a long time
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well that was anti-climactic
the sea otter were unharmed
12:45 is what you came for
I have an old Atomic Bomb documentary on VCR tape that has much better footage of this test. I’ll have to dig them out but there was a lot of footage of ground swells and cliffs falling with tractor trailers bouncing all over the place.
Did you ever find it?
That was the later Cannikin test, also done underground in Alaska in 1971. The reason there was so much upheaval in that test was because instead of being 80KT it was 5MT!
Earthquake zone
An average derived
12:46
Wish we could start nuke testing again
John Goerger we stopped because nearby civilizations were drenched in radioactive particles from atmosphere jets that carried the particles into cities
Carlos Martinez..u really are smoking way to much Marijuana!
Your brained is TOAST!
Why the tests were partially stopped in 1963. However I think underground ones should be continued by the United States and the now Russia. Only North Korea tests them now and possibly Pakistan and India later this year.
Underground nuke tests are FUN and results "interesting"
(SEE 'THEM'!)..joking
I've heard that thanks to the data from both above ground and below ground nuclear detonations, it is possible to use computer simulations for any further needed research. New weapons can be designed, tested and tweaked without having to actually detonate a device. That also keeps the research more clandestine, since it's pretty much impossible to hide a real detonation.
I wonder what would happen if you stood on ground zero
Your nuts would glow and you’d be 3 inches shorter.
Seriously it looks like you would suffer from the shock wave. Would it be immediately lethal?
the worlds fair could be brought back with small nuclear devices as the main attraction
Even alaska had to suffer this poison.
You know what would’ve been a cool test would’ve been these people drilling a 200 to 3000 foot deep hole in the California area of the San Andreas Fault and tested there and see what would happen since they like playing with these things like toys because why do they call it a device when personally I think it’s a toy to them because they’re showing off to Russia that’s why I say they should’ve done this test in the California San Andreas Fault area since they like to show off.7:02 what would happen if those cables that controlled the device would have broke they would have to dig that thing up again
So in other words - a colossal waste of time and manpower.
we need to do atomic tests again, they were truly amazing
They sent in black men to take radiation reading 🤣