paulanderson79 The radiation does so it produced a the sound locally all around it so every observer has their own near instantaneous pop. (First time I've read about this but if it does occur this would be the most plausible explanation).
The power of these devices is truly awesome. I'd pay millions to watch this happen for real ... in an isolated area, of course, and if I had millions, of course. The physics - nuclear, atmospheric, fluids, literally at all scales - involved in this is astounding to think about. Consider that within about a nanosecond after pressing the button, so to speak, all the energy has been generated and is now moving out into the atmosphere. It does so at the speed of light - 80% of the energy pulse is hard X-ray and soft gamma photons, which are absorbed over another instant or so in the air, hyperheating it into a fireball of maybe 500 000 K when first fully formed, 18 times hotter than a lightning bolt and 200 times hotter than a blast furnace, yet with immensely greater volume. That fireball further expands so fast that it pushes a literal mountain's volume of air outwards from around it, compressing it into an intense blast wave which at close proximity can disintegrate a tank, and even after traveling outward for tens of kilometers - distances that span between towns and cities, and can still shatter windows and injure the sensitive tissues of the human ear so as to cause lasting hearing loss, similar to the report from a firearm when listened to without hearing protection. And afterward, when all is said and done, the plume generated - a perverse version of that shot up from a natural volcano - mushrooms and spreads out into a pall of deadly and noxious radioactive contamination that can keep causing cancer even for megaseconds, gigaseconds perhaps (over 30 years!) - covering up to the scale of a human lifetime and beyond, afterwards. The full import of the explosion thus spans effects covering an incredible eighteen orders of magnitude in time - from a nanosecond, a billionth of a second, to a gigasecond, a billion seconds. It's a shame that we decided to make them with the chief goal being to murder as many of each other as we could. This same power could also send a spacecraft to the stars, and yet attempts to do just that were made, and then shelved, precisely because of the politics surrounding their use as mass murder weapons. It's like whenever we think of new forms of power, we always seem to gravitate to "how can I hurt someone with it", not "how can I help someone with it". Though arguably it's not everyone who thinks that way; many of the people who worked on the first one regretted every bit of what they did. Were that power to be released below a suitably-designed craft at suitable distance, it could easily send thousands or tens of thousands of megagrams (metric tons) of payload beyond orbit, even beyond Mars - payload big enough to make Elon Musk's new rockets look like pathetic toys in terms of their launch capacities. Still another sobering fact is not only how much energy is involved here, but also, in a real way, how little. The blast seen here emitted 41 petajoules (PJ) of energy virtually instantly, triggering the fireball and blast wave, whose boom not doubt would have been immense and resounding, even at great, great distance. Yet our human civilization consumes about 20 terawatts: that's 20 terajoules per second, which by the calculational economy of the metric system equals 20 petajoules per kilosecond meaning that, in all of two kiloseconds - a brief time out of the day (86.4 ks) suitable to take a lunch break, or a bit over 30 traditional minutes - our civilization burns up all the equivalent energy that was released in this one moment. And in doing so it got it predominantly from sources far less efficient than the nuclear ones involved here, releasing much greater amounts of deadly pollution of its own forms, and which is slowly choking and overheating the Earth. (I've been in China, and witnessed first hand the effects of the worst forms of energy usage. It is awful. And even here back at home in America, I see the mercury climb with every passing year.) It seems that we really can't stop using energy to cause death and harm in some way or another, even when we don't mean it to do so. Oddly enough - or perhaps not so oddly - I am firmly in favor of reviving and expanding the development and use of nuclear power to replace these noxious forms of energy. The kinds of reactors that scared a lot of people about it are far from the best we can actually do and the bad accidents were more the signs of an immature industry. Had we paid attention to history, we'd have seen this pattern with many other things we now use today yet take for granted. With reactors, today's designs are much better, and if we had had our heads on straight we would have seriously researched molten salt cores, which would be inherently safe: it is literally impossible for them to melt down or lose containment in the way that Chernobyl did. Waste is actually not as big a problem as some may think: put it down a deep enough mine shaft in a solid enough area of rock, and any leakage will be negligible compared to the effects of the pollution we are already releasing in terms of health risk over the long term, especially if you properly reprocess all the high-radioactivity stuff. The stuff that lasts a long time is actually the least deadly, precisely _because_ of this: that means it releases its energy very slowly. Though I think that ultimately our fear came from this - the bomb, and that fear was and is legitimate, but nonetheless, a fear which still needed to be analyzed rationally to see if we weren't, perhaps, applying it too broadly. FWIW the music in this sounds like something from a cheap slasher flick. Geez.
What an eloquent explanation! Thank you for that, it certainly made me think! I’ve always been a firm believer in nuclear energy if applied correctly. All those that protested against it up until the 80/90s are now, in part, responsible for our reliance on fossil fuels, the thing they are now against, and supposed green energy which isn’t as green as it might seem.
Great info. I appreciate it. As i said ,fission reactors are great, especially now with the proper safeguards, reprocessing of waste etc. . Amazing. People point to Chernobyl as a good example of how bad fission power is..That's not true, Chernobyl was just not maintained, repaired properly. Many don't realize Chernobyl produced 6000 plus megawatts when it was working right, that's like 10 times the output of a typical coal,gas or hydroelectric etc. plant. Incredible. Fusion sounds great, I'm sure it will be , but "radiation pollution free"? Maybe not, they say it will be difficult to contain the massive wasted neutrons from fusion.. Anyway , radioactive waste etc is not waste if they reprocess it correctly..
Love your description and factual based narrative, and i am with you when subject of nuclear reactors producing energy for nations (responsible! and modern-right?), the disasters that chernobyl and fukishima leave behind are unfortunate and with distinct lessons to be learned, and looked over long after damage is done and studied.(at least i have faith in japanese resolve and responsible efforts to reduce unsafe practices).thanks bud again for such a effort here writing about history now and future.
You think this one is scary... check out the score for Castle Bravo in "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie"... it starts out kind of sweet and angelic... then goes full on demonic: th-cam.com/video/Ge865CR9pN8/w-d-xo.html
“Hardtack Poplar” was a test of the TX-41 (MK-41) bomb - versions of which could be increased in yield to 25 MT, potentially the most powerful deployed US nuclear weapon.
The “Poplar” test yield was 9.3 MT but deployed versions could be greatly increased in yield by adding fission uranium. Выход «Тополя» составил 9,3 тонны, но в развернутых версиях можно было значительно увеличить выход за счет добавления делящегося урана. (Vykhod «Topolya» sostavil 9,3 tonny, no v razvernutykh versiyakh mozhno bylo znachitel'no uvelichit' vykhod za schet dobavleniya delyashchegosya urana.)
It was just physics - the easy way to get a big yield was to use the relatively smaller fusion reaction to “burn” or fission a large bunch of surrounding uranium - and it’s this massive fission event that makes it dirty. The Hardtack tests were actually less dirty than the earlier Castle and Redwing ones as there was a growing political and military desire to do so and reduce radioactive fallout. In fact there was a cancelled Hardtack test to demonstrate a nearly pure fusion bomb that they called “clean”.
That’s very true - the early bombs that reportedly made big use of expensive Lithium6 (Shrimp/Bravo and the MK-14) were not developed or discontinued in favor of the other Uranium based ones tested at Castle.
Meant to add: Lithium6 had been considered so important that a few years later civilian University labs found there was no L6 isotope in any available Lithium - it had all been extracted by the government and the remainder dumped back into the commercial market.
That is honestly one of the greatest pieces of film ever. How can you beat a beautiful top of the line US aircraft in the foreground looking upon a nuclear explosion in the background. Don't get me started on those colors.
No more likely than you have because of this test. I presume you mean because of his exposure to prompt gamma and neutron radiation fro the explosion rather than fallout.Like any point source of radiation, the inverse square rule holds - the intensity drops with the square of the distance - twice as far away means only 1/4 the exposure. Secondly, air is a shielding medium:600 feet serves to attenuate radiation of this kind by 1/2, so a mile cuts it by 2^8, or 256. 5 miles cuts by a factor of 2^40 or about 1 in a trillion. He absorbed less from the bomb than the cosmic rays he exposed himself to in the flight there and back.
This particular test ("Poplar") was made with a two stage "clean" warhead, without the depleted uranium tamper. Most of the yeld was by fusion, not fission. Fallout was limited, and the airplane was too far away to catch a significant does of neutrons
It always amases me how, even this long ago, they fitted not only all the tons of Scientific & Military test equipment, and all the huge amounts of photographic hardware, to capture every aspect of the test, into such a modestly sized observation airplane; but they even found room to fit a huge, complete orchestra on board too. Not forgetting, of course, the vast amounts of hi-fdeliity audio recording equipment, which would have been essential for such high quality recording & reproduction. Wow, an ‘existential crisis’, such as the rush to develop usable, deliverable A- and H- bomb devices, really can, ironically, lead to huge leaps in development, in relatively very short time periods. I guess it’s true: “necessity (really is) the mother of invention”, even when said invention is something as grotesque and frightening as The Hydrogen Bomb....
I noticed you added a bit more footage of the cloud development into this clip! Thank you for sharing such beautiful and very important films of these tests!
A detonation of a thermonuke is no joke to see! An atomic bomb far enough away would barely break the horizon, but an H-bomb would fill the whole fuckin' sky in front of you! Anyone who witnessed one tested would have an experience that nothing but nothing would compare to!! Very few ever saw one!!!
That Canberra pilot had real guts to fly right through that cooling mushroom cloud. It was science that needed to be done, of course, and no remotely controlled plane could do it adequately. Still, it was a big leap into the unknown. The effects of secondary radiation on humans wasn't well understood back then.
Explosion sound obviously added because the shot is from miles away and sound doesn't travel that fast. There's quite a lot of test footage where they do this.
when you think about it... people have created a piece of metal only the size of a car or a bus. and it explodes bigger than the size of mount everest...
The B-57s are carrying air sampling pods to collect fission products for laboratory analysis of the efficiency of the detonation. The aircraft were "hot" from radiation after flying through parts of the mushroom cloud. Pretty hazardous duty for those airmen. I may have loaded some of those aircraft in Vietnam in 1965-66.
If they'd only let him open a window and dangle a microphone outside... Yes, it's original, taken on the scene without sound. Sounds added later in the studio. Music added much later by poster.
9.8 MT!! that is not small.. Hiroshima is small it still made new york city look like an ant in size comparison which is insane. If this was dropped on Nagasaki or Hiroshima everyone would just vaporize out of existence
The warhead on the Titan ICBM was nine megatons. It was the largest known nuclear warhead ever deployed in the US nuclear arsenal. While it didn't kill any Russians or Chinese communists, Titan ICBM accidents did kill some US personnel.
Scientists were so awed by watching nukes go off that there was some talk about setting one off and have all of the heads of state experience it for real sitting in bleachers relatively close but still a safe distance . Hoping the overwhelming experience would make them think twice about using one . Good idea !
@Ali Arshad1 Meh, most people in the world would survive even full scale exchange. Remember that noone would care about dropping nukes on Africa, Canada, South America, New Zeland, Australia, Indonesia, vast territories of Asia... Even if we consider the war between all of the nuclear powers at once (which is highly improbable). Since 1945 there were about 2000 nuclear explosions, most of them took place to 1990s. Apart from increased cancer cases (excluding people directly affected by nuclear tests - radiation sickness) and several places being radiated, no lethal effects for most of the worlds population were noticed. Even nuclear explosions have limited range of effect, world is too big to get destroyed immidiately by even 2000 warheads exploding at once (most of them have yeld below 500kt). It would affect the natural enviroment for sure, but would it kill all of the people living in the world? Directly - im sure not, by after effects (fallout, potential nuclear winter) - Im sure some big percentage of population would still survive.
It’s a great video except yet again you can hear the nuke when it detonates. I really wish they didn’t add that to the footage. They should have edited in a delayed blast sound (and the right sound, if you watch the video where there’s actually sound from a nuke blast, it sounds totally different to these edited in sounds). It’s important to add the delay to get a good idea of how nukes work.
1 megaton would wipe out New York City and Manhattan Island. If you look at the 1.6 megaton test Russia did, and what it did to buildings and people many miles away, imagine what 10 megatons would do to New York.
well judging how far away a plane must be from a hydrogen bomb (which is very far more than about 3Km) then ,I should expect to see the explosion with at least a 9 second delay for the sound to arrive considering the fact the sound travels about 330m/s. So the exploding sound was an added effect which was not in the original.
... well what else did you think lol. Also if youd be 3km away from a 9.8 Megaton hydrogen explosion, you would be turned into dust instantly. this plane was definitely much much much further away.
carloS although yes you are right that distance was way to small. Although I did mention that I judged the video and so it looked like 3 km away although back when I wrote it I did not research the bast radius. Although at the time I didn’t realise that it was more that 100km in diameter.
Think of it now, the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima was only around 12 to 15 kilotons, that is 12,000 to 15,000 tonnes of TNT. This monster makes that bomb look like a firecracker, with the equivalent, and let's round up, of 10 megatons, or 10 MILLION tonnes of TNT!
The explosive device in this test is called "Poplar". Not to be confused with the word popular, as I think you may have understood it. In summary, this is a shot of the Poplar detonation.
@@nazcasteve Martin RB-57D-2 Model 796 53-3979 (BA-979). 'BA' index may be means Bikini Atoll, but I'm not sure. The same RB-57D participated in "red flights" during the Juniper shot.
That is a most interesting view a of a neuclear explosion. I have never seen the smaller fire ball moving skyward before, then the larger fireball overtakes it as it slows, very interesting, any more views similar to this in other test??
Dramatic orchestral music is an essential part of any nuclear test.
Yep. Makes the footage seem all the more realistic.
As is a fake "explosion" sound at detonation, which wouldn't be heard at that distance for some time in reality.
+A.R Coaster Guy - What's the source of this small pop?
+A.R Coaster Guy - Sound can't travel as fast as light. It's an odd phenomenon for sure.
paulanderson79 The radiation does so it produced a the sound locally all around it so every observer has their own near instantaneous pop. (First time I've read about this but if it does occur this would be the most plausible explanation).
"Aaand ladies and gentlemen if you look out to the left you will see a-"
0:19
"Holy shit."
+nosorab3 you'll see a 8=====D ..
+Galactic Overdrive Gaming this isn't a video game, son. This is real life.
They won't see anything ever... What a BRIGHT future.
a watermark?
Holy shit is americas most popular landmark
Isn't it amazing how the speed of sound back then was equal to light speed. Amazing how things have changed.
Sounds added at the studio. Films are silent.
you should be a detective
lol
First thing I noticed too...
I was about to say wow wtf why is there no delay on the blast..
"Here is a film of various planes flying. You might notice a bomb in the background, but ignore it. This film is about the planes".
Lol, almost best comment
😂 😂 😂 😂
What type of jet is that?
@@ericfranco5336 English Electric Canberra, built under licence as the Martin B-57 Canberra.
I’m actually laughing out loud
This music would make petting a kitten look scary.
It also sounds as though somebody is about to shout "TEAM DEATHMATCH" at you any second.
Exactly. This music isn't necessary.
And none of this is his, obviously, so why is the loser putting his watermark right in the middle of the whole video
Petting a kitten is scary.
If you think that explosion is scary just rub the kittens belly too fast...
The power of these devices is truly awesome. I'd pay millions to watch this happen for real ... in an isolated area, of course, and if I had millions, of course. The physics - nuclear, atmospheric, fluids, literally at all scales - involved in this is astounding to think about. Consider that within about a nanosecond after pressing the button, so to speak, all the energy has been generated and is now moving out into the atmosphere. It does so at the speed of light - 80% of the energy pulse is hard X-ray and soft gamma photons, which are absorbed over another instant or so in the air, hyperheating it into a fireball of maybe 500 000 K when first fully formed, 18 times hotter than a lightning bolt and 200 times hotter than a blast furnace, yet with immensely greater volume. That fireball further expands so fast that it pushes a literal mountain's volume of air outwards from around it, compressing it into an intense blast wave which at close proximity can disintegrate a tank, and even after traveling outward for tens of kilometers - distances that span between towns and cities, and can still shatter windows and injure the sensitive tissues of the human ear so as to cause lasting hearing loss, similar to the report from a firearm when listened to without hearing protection. And afterward, when all is said and done, the plume generated - a perverse version of that shot up from a natural volcano - mushrooms and spreads out into a pall of deadly and noxious radioactive contamination that can keep causing cancer even for megaseconds, gigaseconds perhaps (over 30 years!) - covering up to the scale of a human lifetime and beyond, afterwards. The full import of the explosion thus spans effects covering an incredible eighteen orders of magnitude in time - from a nanosecond, a billionth of a second, to a gigasecond, a billion seconds.
It's a shame that we decided to make them with the chief goal being to murder as many of each other as we could. This same power could also send a spacecraft to the stars, and yet attempts to do just that were made, and then shelved, precisely because of the politics surrounding their use as mass murder weapons. It's like whenever we think of new forms of power, we always seem to gravitate to "how can I hurt someone with it", not "how can I help someone with it". Though arguably it's not everyone who thinks that way; many of the people who worked on the first one regretted every bit of what they did. Were that power to be released below a suitably-designed craft at suitable distance, it could easily send thousands or tens of thousands of megagrams (metric tons) of payload beyond orbit, even beyond Mars - payload big enough to make Elon Musk's new rockets look like pathetic toys in terms of their launch capacities.
Still another sobering fact is not only how much energy is involved here, but also, in a real way, how little. The blast seen here emitted 41 petajoules (PJ) of energy virtually instantly, triggering the fireball and blast wave, whose boom not doubt would have been immense and resounding, even at great, great distance. Yet our human civilization consumes about 20 terawatts: that's 20 terajoules per second, which by the calculational economy of the metric system equals 20 petajoules per kilosecond meaning that, in all of two kiloseconds - a brief time out of the day (86.4 ks) suitable to take a lunch break, or a bit over 30 traditional minutes - our civilization burns up all the equivalent energy that was released in this one moment. And in doing so it got it predominantly from sources far less efficient than the nuclear ones involved here, releasing much greater amounts of deadly pollution of its own forms, and which is slowly choking and overheating the Earth. (I've been in China, and witnessed first hand the effects of the worst forms of energy usage. It is awful. And even here back at home in America, I see the mercury climb with every passing year.) It seems that we really can't stop using energy to cause death and harm in some way or another, even when we don't mean it to do so.
Oddly enough - or perhaps not so oddly - I am firmly in favor of reviving and expanding the development and use of nuclear power to replace these noxious forms of energy. The kinds of reactors that scared a lot of people about it are far from the best we can actually do and the bad accidents were more the signs of an immature industry. Had we paid attention to history, we'd have seen this pattern with many other things we now use today yet take for granted. With reactors, today's designs are much better, and if we had had our heads on straight we would have seriously researched molten salt cores, which would be inherently safe: it is literally impossible for them to melt down or lose containment in the way that Chernobyl did. Waste is actually not as big a problem as some may think: put it down a deep enough mine shaft in a solid enough area of rock, and any leakage will be negligible compared to the effects of the pollution we are already releasing in terms of health risk over the long term, especially if you properly reprocess all the high-radioactivity stuff. The stuff that lasts a long time is actually the least deadly, precisely _because_ of this: that means it releases its energy very slowly.
Though I think that ultimately our fear came from this - the bomb, and that fear was and is legitimate, but nonetheless, a fear which still needed to be analyzed rationally to see if we weren't, perhaps, applying it too broadly.
FWIW the music in this sounds like something from a cheap slasher flick. Geez.
What an eloquent explanation! Thank you for that, it certainly made me think! I’ve always been a firm believer in nuclear energy if applied correctly. All those that protested against it up until the 80/90s are now, in part, responsible for our reliance on fossil fuels, the thing they are now against, and supposed green energy which isn’t as green as it might seem.
That's why fusion/fission power is the future! Pure Fusion power will never work.. When fusion/fission is combined, it is incredible.
Great info. I appreciate it. As i said ,fission reactors are great, especially now with the proper safeguards, reprocessing of waste etc. . Amazing. People point to Chernobyl as a good example of how bad fission power is..That's not true, Chernobyl was just not maintained, repaired properly. Many don't realize Chernobyl produced 6000 plus megawatts when it was working right, that's like 10 times the output of a typical coal,gas or hydroelectric etc. plant. Incredible. Fusion sounds great, I'm sure it will be , but "radiation pollution free"? Maybe not, they say it will be difficult to contain the massive wasted neutrons from fusion.. Anyway , radioactive waste etc is not waste if they reprocess it correctly..
Love your description and factual based narrative, and i am with you when subject of nuclear reactors producing energy for nations (responsible! and modern-right?), the disasters that chernobyl and fukishima leave behind are unfortunate and with distinct lessons to be learned, and looked over long after damage is done and studied.(at least i have faith in japanese resolve and responsible efforts to reduce unsafe practices).thanks bud again for such a effort here writing about history now and future.
Underrated post
The music scared me more than the damn explosion lol.
It did its job.
then something must wrong with you
You think this one is scary... check out the score for Castle Bravo in "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie"... it starts out kind of sweet and angelic... then goes full on demonic: th-cam.com/video/Ge865CR9pN8/w-d-xo.html
Well we call that dramatic shock most political entities such as Obama and Clinton and our misra able Trump whom justly be replaced👺
It should because Russia is slacking good thing Trump will be replaced and Putin shitty in a pot by himself!!!👿
“Hardtack Poplar” was a test of the TX-41 (MK-41) bomb - versions of which could be increased in yield to 25 MT, potentially the most powerful deployed US nuclear weapon.
Yeps. '41' (das ist 1941Jahre) habe this.. '43' =~ 10Mt.. Ну попробуйте сами оцените энерговыделение.
The “Poplar” test yield was 9.3 MT but deployed versions could be greatly increased in yield by adding fission uranium.
Выход «Тополя» составил 9,3 тонны, но в развернутых версиях можно было значительно увеличить выход за счет добавления делящегося урана. (Vykhod «Topolya» sostavil 9,3 tonny, no v razvernutykh versiyakh mozhno bylo znachitel'no uvelichit' vykhod za schet dobavleniya delyashchegosya urana.)
It was just physics - the easy way to get a big yield was to use the relatively smaller fusion reaction to “burn” or fission a large bunch of surrounding uranium - and it’s this massive fission event that makes it dirty. The Hardtack tests were actually less dirty than the earlier Castle and Redwing ones as there was a growing political and military desire to do so and reduce radioactive fallout. In fact there was a cancelled Hardtack test to demonstrate a nearly pure fusion bomb that they called “clean”.
That’s very true - the early bombs that reportedly made big use of expensive Lithium6 (Shrimp/Bravo and the MK-14) were not developed or discontinued in favor of the other Uranium based ones tested at Castle.
Meant to add: Lithium6 had been considered so important that a few years later civilian University labs found there was no L6 isotope in any available Lithium - it had all been extracted by the government and the remainder dumped back into the commercial market.
The music is the same sound track that I hear when my in law comes Down the drive way. For real
th-cam.com/video/mj8_9IwFgT8/w-d-xo.html :)
Jeff DIxon , haha!
I've been watching nuclear explosion videos for weeks, this might be the best video I've ever seen.
Best nuclear explosion video ditto
I agree. I have seen many dozens of videos and this looks the best.
That is honestly one of the greatest pieces of film ever. How can you beat a beautiful top of the line US aircraft in the foreground looking upon a nuclear explosion in the background. Don't get me started on those colors.
Wouldn't there be radiation hazards?
Not as long as they maintain their distance.
No more likely than you have because of this test. I presume you mean because of his exposure to prompt gamma and neutron radiation fro the explosion rather than fallout.Like any point source of radiation, the inverse square rule holds - the intensity drops with the square of the distance - twice as far away means only 1/4 the exposure. Secondly, air is a shielding medium:600 feet serves to attenuate radiation of this kind by 1/2, so a mile cuts it by 2^8, or 256. 5 miles cuts by a factor of 2^40 or about 1 in a trillion. He absorbed less from the bomb than the cosmic rays he exposed himself to in the flight there and back.
No. Too far away from the explosion
This particular test ("Poplar") was made with a two stage "clean"
warhead, without the depleted uranium tamper. Most of the yeld was by
fusion, not fission. Fallout was limited, and the airplane was too far away to catch a significant does of neutrons
when the pilot banks right because the flash is too damn bright even with a full mask
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My favorite part is the inch high font across the middle of my screen.
Shows u how powerful that blast is. Usually with explosions that far away it’ll take a couple of seconds to reach u but that.... that was instant
It’s an added sound effect
@@DCvsDJ 🤣 😂 (you're not supposed to tell..it spoils their child-like imagination)
It's just crazy to think about the fact the thing lit up the entire atmosphere.
It is so hot and bright that even it overpowered daylight.
It always amases me how, even this long ago, they fitted not only all the tons of Scientific & Military test equipment, and all the huge amounts of photographic hardware, to capture every aspect of the test, into such a modestly sized observation airplane; but they even found room to fit a huge, complete orchestra on board too. Not forgetting, of course, the vast amounts of hi-fdeliity audio recording equipment, which would have been essential for such high quality recording & reproduction. Wow, an ‘existential crisis’, such as the rush to develop usable, deliverable A- and H- bomb devices, really can, ironically, lead to huge leaps in development, in relatively very short time periods. I guess it’s true: “necessity (really is) the mother of invention”, even when said invention is something as grotesque and frightening as The Hydrogen Bomb....
Hahahaha. That was my genuine LOL of the day.
Still most beautiful footage of a nuclear explosion I know.
I noticed you added a bit more footage of the cloud development into this clip! Thank you for sharing such beautiful and very important films of these tests!
Brendon Milligan, I will never call this types of captures beatiful in any means. You should not too...
One of the most beautiful pieces of motion picture I have ever seen.
I wore a welding helmet when I viewed this video at first
Beautiful! And what an absolutely baller pilot to get close enough for those particle traps to catch anything useful!
Scary stuff.. we flew Canberra"s with our RNZAF.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
A detonation of a thermonuke is no joke to see! An atomic bomb far enough away would barely break the horizon, but an H-bomb would fill the whole fuckin' sky in front of you! Anyone who witnessed one tested would have an experience that nothing but nothing would compare to!! Very few ever saw one!!!
Thank you, Atomic Tests Channel. 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
Can you please show next time just a watermark, it looks amazing
That Canberra pilot had real guts to fly right through that cooling mushroom cloud. It was science that needed to be done, of course, and no remotely controlled plane could do it adequately. Still, it was a big leap into the unknown. The effects of secondary radiation on humans wasn't well understood back then.
It sure looks like one to me. What's your problem with Americans, Fidel?
One of my favourite Wilson Clouds! And love the different U-2 angles!!!
Cheers
Yeah, its a planes footage, bomb is added by mistake
Explosion sound obviously added because the shot is from miles away and sound doesn't travel that fast. There's quite a lot of test footage where they do this.
I look forward to your videos as much as I love a good 1950's nuclear bomb test-explosion video that TH-cam also promotes.
Interest in the science fell away after the incessant orchestral music continued to invade my ear-holes.
when you think about it... people have created a piece of metal only the size of a car or a bus. and it explodes bigger than the size of mount everest...
Must've been life changing to witness something like that
I like that Nuclear Bomb Test music. I have it on an old CD, "Sounds of Relaxation".
I heard this rhythm many times.. in different musics.. what is it called
Thanks for the awesome footage, just mind blowing. Great color restoration.
Ja, danke. Schöne flügzeugen ;)
Dang that explosion is so bright
So powerful the sound travelled at the speed of light!!
Scary to think if this was a war that cloud would contain the pulverized debris of a city.
0:21 I want a high resolution poster of this on my wall.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"by the dawns early light"
Novel how the flash and bang are perfectly synchronised when ground zero is several dozen kilometres away.
@Kohima1944 By whom was the sound (and music) added?
Hey, let's fly though it!!!!!
Tom, are your eyes bubbling?
No Jerry no..
The B-57s are carrying air sampling pods to collect fission products for laboratory analysis of the efficiency of the detonation. The aircraft were "hot" from radiation after flying through parts of the mushroom cloud. Pretty hazardous duty for those airmen. I may have loaded some of those aircraft in Vietnam in 1965-66.
This is like a hype video we sent to aliens in 1958 like "C'mon down here and fuck with us... we're ready"
And to think that entire stars explode with this type of energy. This isn't even a fart. Scary.
I love this video, it's perfect, the music, the B50 and the Martin B-57 Canberra and BOOM!
Yeps. Aka 'DSS 43' ;)
The fact is that these things are so powerfull that we cannot even fully imagine the raw power and the size of these monstrous explosions…
Plot twist: The music was actually playing on giant speakers during this test detonation.
So powerful.... So beautiful
POPLAR SHOT! damn trees started taking photos of our tests!
Because it was detonated on the Beech 🙃
My morning farts would look like an end of the world weapon with this music.
0:19 is exactly the same sound the queue pops in the league client, strange usage in this context but guess it works
*I kept waiting to see the Wicked Witch fly up alongside on her broomstick*
Can you imagine a pilots reaction? 😆
0:19 it's interesting how thy explosion gets brighter in the first few seconds.
Geezus... Even from a small screen does this look terrifying..
Pretty sure that also happens when you eat a lot of taco bell.
Is this footage really original? The distance-dimmed sound seems to be heared simultaneously with the flash! Which is impossible for the distance.
cheap sounds effects
If they'd only let him open a window and dangle a microphone outside...
Yes, it's original, taken on the scene without sound. Sounds added later in the studio. Music added much later by poster.
Back then sound traveled at the speed of light
@@Mateyhv1 🤣🤣🤣
9.8 MT!! that is not small.. Hiroshima is small it still made new york city look like an ant in size comparison which is insane. If this was dropped on Nagasaki or Hiroshima everyone would just vaporize out of existence
The warhead on the Titan ICBM was nine megatons. It was the largest known nuclear warhead ever deployed in the US nuclear arsenal. While it didn't kill any Russians or Chinese communists, Titan ICBM accidents did kill some US personnel.
@@KSmall109CAB, Which is bigger than the expected size. Castle Bravo test went wrong it was too big
I didn't see any trees. I would expect at least ONE poplar, especially if it's in the title.
They shot the tree with the bomb 🤦♂️
One hell of a stump grinder!
report it for clickbait
EE Canberras as the RB-57s.
Good video.
Ah, the good old days. Men were men, and nuclear weapons were in the multi megaton range and tested in the atmosphere!
Brilliant and extremely deadly
Maybe men aren't men anymore because too many nuclear weapons were tested in the atmosphere 😂👌
Scientists were so awed by watching nukes go off that there was some talk about setting one off and have all of the heads of state experience it for real sitting in bleachers relatively close but still a safe distance . Hoping the overwhelming experience would make them think twice about using one . Good idea !
Not much of an idea. Since heads of state change often you would have to repeat said experiment. Nevermind the fact that some might actually like it.
Well, yeah. A hydrogen bomb, or thermonuclear device. It's essentially a miniature sun. So, yeah. It's a little scary.
Excellent work! Wow looked great on my iPhone plugged into my HP screen via lightning to VGA connector. Badass little device. Loved the video. Thanks!
TMI
I would've thought that the flight-crews of the sampling aircraft would've worn full pressure-suits to minimise their exposure to radiation.
An awesome sight and great music, whats the name of that piece?
Mother Earth : It hurts 😓
This barely tickles Earth.
@@rock3tcatU233 he's probably more thinking about the fallout
A h bomb can barely make a dent in the earth surface so it wouldn't hurt
The pilot must have been shitting good bricks while watching THAT down there and waiting for the shock wave to come.
When this was filmed The Beatles were called The Quarrymen.
And as a natural consequence, they changed their name.
They went nuclear after this.
"Hey, I'm just gonna fly into this thing"
LoL
If somebody press the red button we Will back to the Stone age.
@Ali Arshad1 Meh, most people in the world would survive even full scale exchange. Remember that noone would care about dropping nukes on Africa, Canada, South America, New Zeland, Australia, Indonesia, vast territories of Asia... Even if we consider the war between all of the nuclear powers at once (which is highly improbable).
Since 1945 there were about 2000 nuclear explosions, most of them took place to 1990s. Apart from increased cancer cases (excluding people directly affected by nuclear tests - radiation sickness) and several places being radiated, no lethal effects for most of the worlds population were noticed.
Even nuclear explosions have limited range of effect, world is too big to get destroyed immidiately by even 2000 warheads exploding at once (most of them have yeld below 500kt). It would affect the natural enviroment for sure, but would it kill all of the people living in the world? Directly - im sure not, by after effects (fallout, potential nuclear winter) - Im sure some big percentage of population would still survive.
Now do the same video with the Benny Hill theme tune.
The pilot flew straight into the radioactive cloud and then he was never seen again
It’s a great video except yet again you can hear the nuke when it detonates. I really wish they didn’t add that to the footage. They should have edited in a delayed blast sound (and the right sound, if you watch the video where there’s actually sound from a nuke blast, it sounds totally different to these edited in sounds). It’s important to add the delay to get a good idea of how nukes work.
1:04 And he flies right over the mushroom cloud XD
1 megaton would wipe out New York City and Manhattan Island. If you look at the 1.6 megaton test Russia did, and what it did to buildings and people many miles away, imagine what 10 megatons would do to New York.
I just s**t my pants....
well judging how far away a plane must be from a hydrogen bomb (which is very far more than about 3Km) then ,I should expect to see the explosion with at least a 9 second delay for the sound to arrive considering the fact the sound travels about 330m/s. So the exploding sound was an added effect which was not in the original.
... well what else did you think lol. Also if youd be 3km away from a 9.8 Megaton hydrogen explosion, you would be turned into dust instantly. this plane was definitely much much much further away.
carloS I don’t think you get the point. The sound was an edit and was not included in the original tape.
carloS although yes you are right that distance was way to small. Although I did mention that I judged the video and so it looked like 3 km away although back when I wrote it I did not research the bast radius. Although at the time I didn’t realise that it was more that 100km in diameter.
Mightily impressive.
That looks like the TSAR BOMB!!
That's a lot more than 9.8!!
Maybe an even bigger Castel Bravo one, that was told to be 9.8 to not let the enemy know
Think of it now, the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima was only around 12 to 15 kilotons, that is 12,000 to 15,000 tonnes of TNT. This monster makes that bomb look like a firecracker, with the equivalent, and let's round up, of 10 megatons, or 10 MILLION tonnes of TNT!
I don't see why this one should be any more popular than the other nuclear tests.
The explosive device in this test is called "Poplar". Not to be confused with the word popular, as I think you may have understood it. In summary, this is a shot of the Poplar detonation.
CP Ash I think that he was being sarcastic.
xxxmurray Me? Sarcastic?.... :-)
xxxmurray Great. Now it's me who looks the thick one. :(
Thanking you reluctantly, for pointing the missed sarcasm out.
CP Ash Sarcasm doesn't translate well to text.
The RB-57D visible at 0:48 was actually flying during Hardtack "Juniper" shot, a miniaturized (at this time) thermonuclear device of about 60-65 kt.
Any chance you know the serial number of that RB-57D?
I've always wondered what that aircraft was. I thought it was the U-2 but I think it was in development during Hardtack. Thanks for the information!
RD.. Gut job. ;) used RD 58M.
This is not Juniper. This is 9 mt. Hardtack I Poplar mushroom cloud.
@@nazcasteve Martin RB-57D-2 Model 796 53-3979 (BA-979). 'BA' index may be means Bikini Atoll, but I'm not sure. The same RB-57D participated in "red flights" during the Juniper shot.
I paused at the right time when it exploded :D
When the mushroom topped out, it looked like a cumulonimbus (thunderstorm cloud)
As Frieza once said "lovely fireworks!"
Nice to see the English Electric Canberra as a chase plane, you called it a B57 made 403 under licence.
This is literally like the sun rising twice as it was the largest pure Fusion yield test only second to Tsar Bomba.
What does "pure fusion" supposed to means?
Energia limpa! Ah, que orgulho da raça humana...
was it delivered via titan ll?
That is a most interesting view a of a neuclear explosion. I have never seen the smaller fire ball moving skyward before, then the larger fireball overtakes it as it slows, very interesting, any more views similar to this in other test??
BEAUTIFUL
Reading about these high altitude test didn't realize how some were 3-9 MT yields. They also used ICBM's to fire them.
Five most powerful h-bomb tests by US: Castle Bravo, Castle Yankee, Castle Romeo, Ivy Mike, Hardtack1 Poplar.
Collecting samples from the atomic cloud, exciting times, remember that in the late 1950's
My God why did we do so many of these to the earth. Crazy madness and it only takes a mad man to start the end of us all.
Everyone blame governments and elites lol but it's einstein that discovered the hydrogen bomb, blame him unstead
Отличные кадры 🔥👍
1958 . Long time back.😊
Now 5 mins earth will be wooof .
is a little fireball thrown up after secondary stage ignition is blast from first stage?
سبحان الخالق الذي لا تمثه ثنه ولا نوم الذي علم الإنسان بالقلم استخراج الجحيم من الماء