Madness - USSR '61
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- Wishful Thinking - Hiroshima
On October 30th 1961 the USSR carried out the first and only test of the AN602 bomb, more commonly known in the West as the 'Tsar Bomba', originally planned a 100 megaton device, the design used in the test was eventually limited to 50MT. The 27 tonne, 8 metre bomb produced a fireball 5 miles across and a mushroom cloud 42 miles high, going beyond the stratosphere.
The test ended the one-upmanship between the USA and the USSR and in 1963 they signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty, effectively ending the era of open air nuclear testing.
Fun fact: This is one of my favourite songs.
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Forget big booba, I want big bomba
Well both have a sense of arousal men look for
. So no difference
Too much to ask for both?
@@bhutochakrabarti4173 real men want the big bomba
Tsar Bomba
Boobamba
they did a little trolling
It ain't much, but it's honest work
Some might even say a little too much trolling
@British Pride It's called they did a little trolling
@@conordwyer1553 Not too much trolling , the fact that we are alive today shows that they just did the right amount of trolling
some tomfoolery was perpetrated indeed
I had no idea the Soviets recorded so much footage of the test. You know something is in fact madness when early-60s Soviet military leadership thought something was too powerful and needed to be toned down!
goverment wanted a 100 MT bomb but scientist know was too much, so they reduce to almost half the power
Some of this footage was only declassified and released last year I think.
@@countsmyth yep, late August 2020
Could be wrong but I always assumed the Tsar bomb was more of a stunt and "proof" of Soviet scientific genius than a practical weapon of war. I'm not even sure they could develop a delivery system for the weapon especially since ICBMs and ultimately multiple-warhead missiles would come to dominate both sides of the Cold War.
@@sonofccn since it's a nuclear released from a plane, I think it was never designed for combat or bombing other countries since you know, Anti Air and aircraft interceptors exist.
Oh shit
- some random Nenet herder, 30th October 1961
some random windows in Helsinki.
@@OmnistarEast Found him in the wild
Thousand of nukes built but not being used as they are intended to still amazing how humanity always find a way to destroy each other but choose not too
It ain't over til'' it's over
The game of deterrence.
Mutually assured destruction prevents it.
Arguably, them just sitting in depots is exactly the way they were meant to be used. A nuclear armed world is a diplomatic world
Humans never had major wars ever since the nukes were made
i’m so grateful i discover this channel
Me too, thanks for watching.
@@MajorSamm wait what?
@@cpeezy3119 he's grateful that xeap discovered this channel
Cool profile picture
@@Thomas-tc7hp thanks man uwu
Ive never heard this song, glad I have now though.
It's a good one, glad you like it too.
Just heard one of the lines of the song "fly to Hiroshima" and now I'm like 😐
@@tennisyn6493 same
Last time I was this early, the USSR was still together.
In 1961 there were some signs of the downfall. In 1956,10 days after Khrushchev ruled the country and start insulting Stalin's legacy, a uprising went off in Tiflis, Gruzia. In 1957, Khrushchev start the "coming back progress" for minor ethnics that be moved violently in the late of WW2 to their old hometown, but the fact is this action increased the conflicts between the minor and the Russian (because the Russian moved to the old house and farm of the minor and used them when the minor was moving), and facilities in a lot of villages in Central Asia were thown away. From 1957, after decades without any great economic crysis, the economy of USSR was slowly go down, started with its food production, because of some shitty policies of Khrushchev. From 1961 to its ending, USSR became more and more depent on oil and gas, and had to import cereals from its allies and even the West, although it was one of the most mechanized food production system in the world. What a weird.
@@mrmakhno3030 "stalin's legacy" stfu
Yee Yee ? Stalin had a legacy, After all he was one of the main founders of the USSR.
@@serbianmonkeyclub1146 and that's a good thing?
Yee Yee Well, It is. Love the Soviet Union or not, They had the most power out of any country in the world until the 1970s.
The greatest irony is how such devastating weapons, able to end civilization, have kept the peace between the great powers.
Why fight a nation when you can disrupt a market
I still think to this day that the arms race are the only thing that kept the world from another all blown out world war(until the soviet collapses of course)
@@sruicruicplox9803 Well yes that's a well established theory of international security studies
For now.
Until 4 days ago.
man, majorsamm never disappoints
Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it.
I second this, the combo "interesting topic"+"images well chosen"+"incredible related song" makes everything
Never a disappointment.
I'm fucking shredded
@@MajorSamm Just found your channel MajorSamm. It's not hurting my philosophy at all, but man o man it's not helping my PTSD one bit. Thanks for your content.
Man the music is so soothing
. Your song choices are the best
.
Glad you liked it, it's one of my favourites.
@@MajorSammU are one gem for someone like me who is interested in geo politics and cold war. As a pol science student these videos are once in rare soothing feeling
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The specially modified Tu-95 used a special white paint to reflect the enormous amount of heat radiation given off by the Tsar Bomba's fusion reaction. Here at 3:15 you can clearly see it.
It looks like they are applying the paint at 1:26.
@@Gerle71 yep they are
It was almost blown out of the sky by the blast
When it was back it was scorched
Anti-Flash White. The brits used it a lot as well.
2:22
I may be wrong here, but I think that the pilots were told they had a 50/50 chance of returning, so that salute, at least to me, is just a very powerful image.
I think it was lower than that, because even with the tsar Bomba being dropped from so high and it's parachute giving them more time, it might still not have been enough time to leave the blast zone, but they made it out, thankfully
They were initially told they would not survive, then when they reduced the yield I think they said 20% chance. The point being the pilots were willing to die for their countries pride.
@@tomsoki5738 Besides, their plane and them would dissolve into particles too small to be seen by the naked eye in a flash, you wouldn't feel anything, at most maybe a small pinch and extreme heat for like 2 miliseconds, and their plane would crash, killing anyone left near-instantly
No, they've been dropped with a little parachute, so pilot had enough time to pull the gas to full to escape.
And those planes have extra metal plates on the pilot's back to block hazard rays.
Pretty sure we wouldn't have footage of the flight if it killed them
In a few years we might be in these types of videos. Try to get our good side ok MajorSamm. God bless everyone.
I hope to god that its something like this and not us killing each other.
We sure could use a SpaceX montage (might be too recent).
I'm having trouble finding inspiring mainstream stories that give hope to humanity's potential, and that indeed is a troubling find ^^ :/
But maybe blowing our world to hell with nukes/ preventing wars, deserves more attention than anything else.
@Porridge Man, God bless everyone (and you too)
MajorSamm has been using footage from as recent as 2015 so it's not a stretch someone who watches this channel may appear in one of his videos one day. Imagine seeing yourself in a MajorSamm thing
"Capitol Riots - USA '21"
RDS-220 50+MT tritium core test "bomb".
It wasn't a Weapon of Destruction - It was Weapon of Peace.
The saving angel that wore the mask of... Certain Death.
10th like
Everyone knows that it was originally supposed to be 100 megs and that the pilots were given 50/50 odds of making it back
Imagine if it wasn’t limited to 50MT and tested at 100MT. You’d literally become the destroyer of worlds no doubt.
I'm pretty sure such a bomb would have light up the sky to some parts of Europe as well. Such a bomb could even wipe out a cluster of small nations.
At that point they'd need to either get a remote controlled plane or a missile for it
@@bryanmartinez6600 it would wipe new York city off the map literally all of the city and a fair bit of the state
The actually wanted to drop a 100mt bomb but couldn’t because the plane wouldn’t get away fast enough
@@ss-qm5hz and even with the fifty Megaton bomb they were given a 50-50 chance of making it back alive and there were two other planes trailing it to make sure that they got the footage for it and I think one of them was a mid-air refueling plane
"I know not what weapons World War 3 shall be fought with, but World War 4 shall be fought with sticks and stones." -Einstein
@OVOD.net Im pretty sure that's exactly what would happen... the eradication of not just the human race, but all life on earth.
@OVOD.net bet your fun at parties
@OVOD.net A big rock hitting earth is a bit different than a nuclear fallout caused by over 5000 nuclear missiles
Like on Chinese-Indian border
Great and famous quote, but today it isn't actual anymore.
A new song to add to the playlist.
Incredibly good work as always Major. The songs always fit the footage you present
Thanks a lot man, it's good to know the intended effect is coming across.
A currency of peace, but what a price to pay.
Damn Majorsamm is just reading my mind at this point, I was working on a British nuclear test video recently! Great video, as always.
Thank you and thanks for watching, good luck with your video too.
@@MajorSamm Of course! Thanks.
@@PrestonFrankel You've got promise, guys check his channel out...
1 video out, it's a start (y)
This is pure Art,love your music taste
Thanks a lot man, and thank you for watching.
@@MajorSamm RDS-220 50+MT tritium core test "bomb".
It wasn't a Weapon of Destruction - It was Weapon of Peace.
The saving angel that wore the mask of... Certain Death.
this is honestly great id never seen most of the video of the tsar bomba so this is extra cool
those footage has been published by russian around 1 year ago, before it was classified
This all white TU-95 is even more creepy. The bear in its most deadly shadow. Great Major.
Я жил рядом с аэродром 20 км. Так эти ту95 каждый день, да через день и ночью летали. Низко, гул...
I love that you put a paragraph or two of historical context to go with the video. Makes it more than just different shots strung together with a song. Keep it up!
That's part of the song lol
@@rg4730 What is?
LETS GO MAJOR SAM UPLOADED! Any chance of you making a video on the Iranian revolution of 1978?
2:40 Great TU-16 footage, my country (Indonesia) had a couple of those and some il-28 back in the day, they even called my Air force "the strongest" in all of South East Asia. That was before the regime changes and the beautiful was put out of commission.
as a young kid it feels so weird knowing that not to long ago we where living in a constant existential threat of nuclear annihilation. cant imagine what it would feel like knowing that at any moment any time everything you have ever know could be destroyed.
Puts some perspective on today’s problems.
Hahaha, dear God, you must be from some first world country that never saw any war on its soil. Your calm state of mind is a true luxury in my opinion.
According to factual reality, after Biden slandered Putin as a killer and directly threatened Russia, relations between America and Russia have never been worse through the entire existence of America.
@@BigSmartArmed well they might have been worse during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the Checkpoint Charlie standoff, or the U2 Spy Plane Crisis, or y'know, a vast period of the Cold War
@@loocat5070 "might have been" becasue back then they were reported on, yet now censorship is under such totality of tyranical control, that American public would not know if Russian tank columns already rolled through Berlin.
loved the irony between the name of the music and the footage, very good job, piece of art
When the human being created a new star for a few seconds
The pilots had no idea what they were getting themselves into... bet they hit the turbo-boosters and got the heck outta Dodge when they released that bad boy!!!!
I really liked the shots of the Soviet Railways (SZD) seeing as they were the main artery for the transport of the Soviet Nuclear arsenal.
The Soviets are kinda like a SD80MAC, powerful and gone but not forgotten!
I don't know where you find all this old footage, but damn Sam. Thank you for keeping this oft forgotten history relevant and fresh.
This video is both depressing but awesome,
“I don’t want to set the world on fire...”
„This is one of my favourite Songs.“
I Need a Playlist Major.
Love the Song.
th-cam.com/play/PLi5aQwmna4FPBNNz8RKY21R0sBnuDcGFp.html here's a good one
I just love these vids. Short. Calming. Awesome
This is stunning...probably your best work to date.
Is it weird to find that this is kind of peaceful
There is some weird hypnotic thing about nuclear detonations...a sense of finality perharps
Its in our deep nature to war and destroy. Its like a fire that warms the warrior spirit in us all.
No, it is rational, because these irrational bombs didn't lead to the complete annihilation of the human race and we actually managed to survive
As you could probably tell, you are watching this on the internet through the comfort of your screen in the future, far far far away from the radiation or the heat- or shock-waves that came with such irrational nuclear bombs.
I've always struggled to get good footage of the tsar bomba project and marjo sam just like makes a dope music video out of it like nbd
The footage was only declassified about a year ago.
Some American spy plane pilot 250 miles away “my god no ones going to win”
ICBM's were already around by this point. Multiple lower yeild devices are more effective in combat simulations. This is just a proof of concept at the end of the day.
@@05pittsd funny thing, strategic nukes are not meant to destroy the world. They are meant to wipe out enemy industry quickly to achieve victory faster than flying bombers over enemy territory. If a nuclear war had started the fallout would have subsided in a short time allowing people to live, but the unrest that would follow would change the entire world.
@@goforbroke4428 however we all know the mentality of many nations. If they fall they take as much with them as possible. Wouldn't doubt the largest nations having a a dead man switch that will just unleash their arsenal of missiles across the globe and some priority targets. The USSR had the Dead Hand and the US had the ERCS. In a simple form I believe it's there's no one left the computer will now take the final command use the entire nuclear and conventional arsenal. It's on the idea of mutual destruction to Guarantee no victor comes out in the end.
Damn this hit different a wierd kinda nostalgia to a place ive never been
Basically Alaska?)
@Erozpl01 01 yea exactly
@@sgtvarenuha_viii_leg that feel when you are Alaskan
Sovietwave music be like that
Если хотите, то это вы можете подобное увидеть где-нибудь в Мурманской области. Такой же ландшафт.
this hits different now
Rest assured. The total number of nukes currently ready for deployment is not enough to destroy the planet or cause a nuclear winter, but it will fuck up the world as we know it. So even if Putin pushed that button, we will still get to watch the world crumbles before our eyes.
Tbh im really glad,to found this channel.
“Fly the metal bird to Hiroshima” straight shivers man
Everyone complaining about the song choice or title is missing the main idea. Both the USSR and the US of the 50s engaged in continuous and active one-upmanship when it came to nuclear weapons. The culmination of these tests is arguably the test we're seeing in this video, where the explosion reached the stratosphere! It's not a critique of the USSR alone, it's calling the situation of continuously more apocalyptic nuclear weapons and aresnals madness.
Madness is a maleable concept. At a galactic scale it doesn't matter what happens to us. Lets not get overly emotional.
Man uploaded as I start my enjoyment of nuclear energy phase nice timing and video samm keep up the great work man
I was just about to go to sleep and saw this video.
Thanks for the content, Major
You're welcome man, thank you for watching it.
Another excellent video!!!
Glad you liked it, thank you.
The scary thing is the plane used in the test, got bombarded with enough high energy particles to weaken the metal to the point you could push your finger though its skin.
So the pilots were pretty lucky they even land intact
@@novanoir8309 i heard one of the pilots quit his job after he saw the destruction
I bet if you did that you'd be kissing your finger goodbye too
I think that is your masterpiece. Combining perfect song with appropriate video
This is the first time that I'm this early
same
I know I say this about literally every upload from you Samm but you have truly out done yourself on this one. New favorite. Keep it up mate.
I like how mild rock music is paired with footage of the most destructive weapon ever built.
It's amazing that they didn't destroy the planet in the 50's and 60's
It's pretty rad huh?
God tier editing
Just realized humanity could destroy itself before setting foot on another celestial body
Song fits so well, great editing as always!
Now i have a new Playlist ... It's called : Majorsamm Playlist !
Great work !
at 3:11 am i the only one who has an apocalypse feeling? Like the music is so slow and smooth and the planes just fly into nowhere. it gives me goosebumps...
All of the songs fit perfectly to the videos, I love it
At first i've thought about the first spaceflight but Tsar-bomba is even more catchy. As always it's high quality from you
3:38 great song timing
This could be a sunday playlist while chilling in your porch
I love how they painted the Plane white, they tought my parents to drape a white cloth over the table and hide under it if the atomic bomb exploded.
beautiful song, crazy how i never heard it anywhere else before
My favourite channel. Thanks for making me discover my favourite song! (Long Run by Redgum)
i love these videos you put up they put me to sleep everynight
the beauty of human madness
Honey! MajorSamm posted!
Music matches the footage perfectly.
I never knew there was so much video footage about it. Great as always, Major!
Whoever said a general was more important than a major never met this Sam!
He's has probably put more people off war than every peace protestor in history. The easiest way to get people to despise war is to show them it in all its glory and horror.
When World understood how powerful can nuke, but this weapon keep peace. Thank you MajorSamm.
Just think how archaic that computer must be on that bomb
Great song choice!
I got kicked out of high school and had to go to an "alternative learning program" (still got a HS diploma) but my science teacher was an old ex doctor from a "former Soviet state" she never did say what one and said she was an ex doctor because she couldn't get licensed here
How can something so deadly, be so beautiful?
The world is duality
First time listening to this song today and I've already listened to it 4 times. Great pairing with the filming by the way. Already watched 5 of your videos so far this is my favorite.
Love those pilot goggle at 03:31
Good stuff as always!!!
Just discovered your channel. Oh boy i got lucky
Always a joy to see new projects from you. Keep up the work motivator
Just found this channel and I’ve already seen all the videos, greetings from Canada and keep up the great work
This is art. Beautifully edited with hard to find images and a musical score to tip it all off . Well done my man.
A good Majorsamm thing
One of my favorite channels left on this cesspool of a platform.
Ah back in the early 60s when large megaton warheads were necessary to offset the horrible CEP (Circle Area of Probability). A missile could miss it's target by miles so use a biggun' to wallop the whole area.
My god, the contrast of steam and atomic energy; 0:59.
Man you always have good songs
Thanks man, glad you liked it.
@@MajorSamm almost every single music you have, I have it in my playlist
The documentary on which this video was made is so mesmerizing... Well done Major samm !
This is also one of my favorite songs
Excellent work MajorSamm
and it only went off at 60% capacity, had it been full that whole bomber crew would of been killed along with a town and some top scientists.
best channel on utube.
I never knew this much footage existed of the tsar. Thanks sam
Probably one of the best MajorSamm videos of all time.
Its weird looking at something that was literally designed to kill me an my whole family
Samm out here showing us things we’ve never seen with just splendid music in the background to boot, thx Samm.👍🏾
Another great video thanks for all the excellent content man we really appreciate it all