Holy fuck you are right..... only now did i see the palm trees in front of IT and that really gives you idea of the scale of the Fireball.....another good ones were where they showed tanks/vehicles on the ground near ground Zero as well as that underwater "Baker" shot where you could see ships near ground zero
3:17 is my favourite because due to being able to see the coastline I could appreciate the scale of the weapon. This is something I struggle to do with most videos like this.
A man I worked for named Allen Winslow actually witness The Castle bravo test. He said everybody on that boat was scared shitless. If that footage is from the observation boat realize that the boat (a Navy destroyer) is 40 miles from the detonation point. He said it felt like somebody had a heat lamp right in front of his face and he had to squint even though he was wearing a mask. He said then the control room started counting back as the pressure wave came across the ocean. He said you could actually see it as it was coming. After that he said the whole boat was blown completely over and back and that is ears popped from the vacuum difference. I can't imagine anything more terrifying or thrilling...
I have been an atomic footage freak ever since trinity and beyond came out, but this far and away the best atomic bomb footage I've ever seen, and I've seen damn near every film declassified. DAMN GOOD STUFF
I think everyone should watch these films and imagine this... 12:45 pm /unknown date... AND SUDDENLY... ... that's your city's location ! Might scare enough crap out of the ignorant US and worldwide population that thinks we EVER SHOULD have designed and built these Satan-wet-dream's weapons ! SMFH at mankind's utter stupidity, arrogance and hubris in thinking that this technology was EVER needed on our poor 3rd rock ! I pray to GOD that these insane hellbombs are never used again !
Peter, I completely agree. I don't find the Bomb fascinating because it can kill everyody. I find is fascinating because it's just GOOD PHYSICS. The H Bomb program, in particular, has been responsible for many technological advances we now take for granted. Color film, for one, as developed by EG&G to better help understand the visual phenomena of the detonations. Digital computers are another one. The M.A.N.I.A.C. computer used by Los Alamos was one of the, if not the actual, very first digital computers, used in this case to run massively complicated calculations to determine fission and fusion reaction cross sections and the likelihood that the liquid deuterium or lithium deuteride would react to the primary's radiation pulse. Teflon is another, invented to protect the thermal diffusion cascades from uranium hexafluoride gas used in HEU production at Oak Ridge in Tennessee.. There are many others, as well.
Pyrus Rex Wow! Thanks for the detailed analysis of the many inventions that were developed because of the bomb. I did not know half of those were related to Nukes but then we didn’t learn much in High School. There was always some jackass disrupting the class. The only think I learned that was useful was how to type.
A young scientist loaned his safety goggles to a high level observer. He turned away from the initial flash. When he turned back and looked into the faces of the older scientists, and stated, "OMG, I could see it in their faces,......the horror that they may have just set the sky on fire"
2:05 i really like how that one was filmed. With the tanks in the scene you have better perception and get an idea of just how massive these yields really were
Those aren't tanks, those are full size navy ships sitting on the water. The scale and size of those mushroom clouds are sometimes incomprehensible, unless you have a frame of reference, once you realize those are navy ships, you start of get a grasp.
0:22 is Operation Teapot, Apple II in May 1955. Upshot-Knothole/Annie was in 1953. 2:45 is possibly Operation Greenhouse, Easy, 1951 3:20 is possibly Operation Greenhouse, George, 1951 3:33 is definitely Upshot-Knothole, Grable, 1953 or "Atomic Annie", the 280mm projectile. 4:20 is above description, up closer 4:35 is possibly Operation Teapot, Met, 1955
Good afternoon, Mr. President. 1. The only way you are right on this is if Los Alamos is wrong. You're welcome to look into it further. The specific source information you would need is: The EG&G Scientific Film Collection at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Operation Upshot-Knothole, Annie, Film No. 17082 titled "House #1 - Blast," 16 KT Tower, March 17, 1953. 2. Greenhouse, Shot Easy. Spot on! 3. Operation Greenhouse, Shot Dog 4. I agree. (Though if not for the smoke trails, Grable and Priscilla look remarkably alike from certain angles) 5. Likely! 6. I agree. Thank you for that contribution.
Possibly you're correct on No. 1. I'm going by AtomCentral/VCE visually, which matches up to Apple II 1955. Kuran did state in 2015 that many film cans from LM and elsewhere were labeled in error, Dr. Spriggs over at Livermore also implied the same or one of his assistants did. The only video I know of Knothole-Annie 1953 where it contains the audio of a before/during/after of the shot. It's good that all those old films are getting sorted out over time, though. It's a lot further in it's corrections compared to just a few years ago.
3:20 is almost certainly Greenhouse Dog. I did some research a few months back when people were arguing over it on another video. Here is my copy/pasted response from those comments: It's Greenhouse Dog, not George. Dog was detonated at the north end of Runit island. The camera is south of Runit looking north across the island to ground zero. Search for Runit on Google Maps and you'll see the exact shape of the island in the video, with that little sweeping bay. You can see the fireball sweep over the far tip of Runit, just like it looks on Google maps. George was detonated on Ebiriru which does not look like anything like what we see in the video.
If the second one really IS Greenhouse Easy, thats very interesting. GE was the proof test of the TX-5D bomb, a major advance in weight reduction for implosion bombs. Weight was 2700 lb with a 40 inch diameter, compared to 10,000 lb and a 60 inch diameter for earlier designs. It used the 92 point (92 lens) implosion system and a composite (plutonium/oralloy) core. This design was used as the primary in Ivy Mike.
I love Grable's explosion at 3:33 starts off stellar blue and once it cools markedly, it dims to white and then yellow followed by orange and red as it continues to cool.
@@Chris11249 Many cameras use red filters to dim the blue light. Otherwise, you'd not be able to see anything, the whole screen would be white as if it were blank. This was especially true with the multi-megaton yield hydrogen tests in the Pacific.
@@basspig that's what the Second Amendment is for... protect us from a tyrannical government. Why do you think they're trying to go for a our guns now. People need to wake up and rise up together we stand divided we fall
@@lonekiterrocky The gun shops caved in to the regulations. What should have happened was the gun shops saying "we won't comply with unconstitutional laws" and continue free trade with American citizen gun buyers. Militias would move in to protect the gun store owners from the feds, etc. But no, they caved in, and now it's a fun ride down the slippery slope.
A-MAZE-ING. From a physicist’s, chemist’s, and engineer’s points of view, to be far away enough to view all of this safely (depending on which shot, up to 50Km away) and yet, with such stunning clarity and precision, is something truly to behold. Let us hope those were the last times such films will ever be captured intentionally.
Mark Pointer Thank you! I was starting to wonder if no one else could understand that being able to admire the impressive nature of what is being shown does not equate to loving the implications of its use as a weapon.
Semper Fool If it could be done in complete safety, with no harm to the environment too, it would be amazing to see, say, a 10MT device detonated in today’s world.....
@0:28 Tumbler-Snapper is only 1kt. It's truly a "baby-nuke". Also extremely rare to actually see one fly in on a missile instead of being mounted to some kind of platform. Even at that small yield it's something to see how different the action of atomic weapons are compared to actually detonating 1K of traditional TNT.
Castle Bravo is the most impressive test ever staged,you could make any nation think twice just by sending them the footage, wether they would admit it or not.
He seemed to regret his teams creation because that creation could cause our entire destruction. He had a conscience. He was probably troubled because of this until the end of his life.
Hard disagree, Threads simply doesn't pull any punches. That would be the reality of a full nuclear exchange, certainly in Europe. Day After declined to show the full aftermath.
I found watching this video to be a real "blast." Compared to other UA-cam uploads, this one's the "bomb!" One certainly gets a "bang" for their buck. Start to finish, this film "radiates" interest. Simply put, it just "blew" me away. My neighbours surely heard my "outbursts" of awe. Half way through, i realized, subconsciously, I was holding my breath, had to pause, and allow the "discharge" of air, so I could continue breathing. From me, the "fallout" will be nothing but positive, when recommending this film to others, because compared to most YT videos, this one, is "ground zero," by countless "shock wave-lengths." Seriously, though, Jesus! Some of these look like they've been trapped for 1000's of yrs. and they're breathing life back into themselves, especially the last 3 or 4. The very last one, seemingly in b/w, if you stare at it long enough, as it billows it seems to reveal the identities of every victim it has ever vaporized. .......and that's the oxymoron: a scene of total destruction and one step beyond death: anything that was a victim, now, is non-existent. Yet, somehow, one of the most beautiful and engaging sights, the eye will ever see.
Best weapons are those that are never used as they say....well ofc in case of nuclear weapons that it is not entirely true, but they are true as far as Cold War is considered. Thanks to them Cold War stayed cold.
@@TheHadi545 The Cold War _itself_ didn't take millions of lives, but proxy wars of that era, such as Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan _et al_ were the cause of massive casualties. Even back in the early 60's, there were safeguards that prevented the accidental and/or uninformed launch of nuclear ICBM's/SLBM's.
@@chetpomeroy1399 I am as much in awe of this power as any reasonable person. However safeguards against permanent man made destruction of the earth, seems dumb haha. Also proxy wars directly related to the Cold War, I feel like Cold War is too chill of a term.
I find the opposite to be the case. The bigger bombs have to filmed from so far away, the perspective is hard to comprehend.. My personal favourite is Grable Shot .. The Davy Crocket field gun shot..
More than anything else, the names that they used for both the operations and the individual test shots, give a real insight into the frame of mind of those involved in these tests back then..
The explosion at 3:00 was of a device in a tower. When it detonates you can actually see the fireball racing down the tower support towers towards the ground. Almost looks like the fireball is sprouting legs
Bless you for these! I'd love to see hardtack Scaevola if it's ever released, it may have been one of the smallest nuclear yields ever set off, didn't even destroy the barge it was on.
What these retouched footage reveals is not simply the massive scale of the size of fireballs, but the incomprehensible amount of energy that is released. The Dominic footage reveals this where ball of plasma comes seemingly out of nowhere and is so insanely hot, expanding under such an incredible pressure differential with the surrounding air, and elevating as fast as it can make its way through the ever thinning atmosphere, that it’s hitting multiple physical limits by simply being on planet Earth. amazing.
I love the music in and of itself, and to revel in the power of this weaponry in reference to no target. But in reference to targets, the music is at best ironic, showing how some people excessively glorify the bomb and inflate it’s deterrent power. Overestimating the deterrent power of nuclear weapons could lead to their use. This would be well placed in some kind of anthropology study. But yeah next time, I’d recommend somber, terrifying music, like ‘Running to the Rain’ or something else that wouldn’t attract a copyright strike.
What are those little vertical streams that appear off to one side of the blast? Never been able to figure those out. Are they rockets with sensors and test equipment?
I disagree, those were built as weapons yes, but what is actually happening is a true triumph of human knowledge.. Thats the sort of understanding of how the universe works that we can realize with a pen and paper.. Its truly one of, if not the most incredible thing we as a species have ever done. Like every single thing in the universe, its just another tool of understanding, if we choose to use such tools to harm each other, is a completely different side of the conversation. But honestly, this tool might have been used to kill less people then most any other created which in itself is another amazing triumph. Nuclear reactions are down right incredible and the only way we can even get a grasp of it is to release it in all its glory as shown.. And just watch..
The Castle Bravo Test in 1954 must have really surprised and frightened every one involved when they realized that the explosion was far bigger in size then originally predicted.
Pretty simple answer here: When I put this together I hadn't yet identified most of the tests in the second half. Some info I've since figured out : The shot around 2:55 is likely Operation Greenhouse Shot Item, 45.5 kt and the first boosted fusion weapon. The fireball at 3:00 is probably Operation Greenhouse Shot Easy, 47 kt. The awesome shot at 3:20 is almost certainly Operation Greenhouse Shot Dog, 81 kt.
An old Soviet anecdote: Petka rushes into Vasily Ivanovich's house and shouts: - Vasily Ivanovich, how much does a nuclear bomb cost? - One million rubles, Petka. - Vasily Ivanovich, we are millionaires: a nuclear bomb is falling down towards our farmyard!
@@oscargurdian9389 it certainly did something, its blew a hole in the desert and scattered heavy elements. Good or bad, yes and no, but this potential for destruction is not constructive. Weapons are used on enemies, but these weapons only kill living things. You cannot nuke poverty, nor sadness, nor the poison of the mind. When all obstacles are removed, will you lead your people? Or are you being led?
Joe Coarsey i think countries simply have nukes for show. a situation where there is a nuclear exchange between two nations is unlikely especially now where the world is more peaceful than ever
@@oscargurdian9389 Of course it does something, wtf? It blows pieces of our ozone to space and creates a massive release of radiation. There is a reason countries don't test them anymoore, it is becuase is aggresivley damaging our enviorment.
Stunning video. Is it possible that some sections are sped up? at 2:18, the way the humans - barely visible in the lower frame - move seems to suggest that the film was sped-up. Perhaps that change in motion is a byproduct of the restoration?
They would fire a series of rockets at different locations to make a visible grid pattern like graph paper so you can better see and judge what is going on.
I would love to have seen them punch an old, pilotless drone F-102 or F-104 or F-105 thru one of those clouds at Mach 2, just to see what would happen.
@@My-Pal-Hal Try PC-7 from your Home Depot... it's an mix-yourself epoxy... comes in 2 film cans in a cardboard cylinder... GREAT STUFF... you could glue two elephants together with it !
@@Onemadgnome-yy1vs It was a Godzilla/King Kong joke. But I'm an aerospace guy. We Got Epoxy. We Got Glue. And we got Duct Tape stronger than Rope 🤣 The thing with PC-7. Is it takes a whole week to completely cure. Which is the same with PC-11. But I do carry 11, as emergency Jetski repair, in the Jetski. Rivers cause holes. Or maybe it's the trees IN the rivers lol. Good Call...
@@My-Pal-Hal Okay... well... I love the stuff ! I used it for my Navy destroyer's forward engine room's gas turbine electric engine's rubber boot, when we had the wrong size boot. I was a GSM supervisor and got a medal for that repair, because I saved the captain 12 days of traveling back to Norfolk to get the correct part and it cured for me in 2 days... so it just works great for me. Peace.... have a good day, dude
jurisprudens are you sure because you think that the rockets would be immediately destroyed by the explosion before being able to read any information on the wind an shockwave and also how would they be able to recover the data??
@@fuckoff6924 Yes, it's true. Those are rocket trails to detect what an atomic explosion does to the air and how the shockwave propagates. The rockets themselves are of no use. They don't measure anything. They're just rockets that are launched just prior to nuclear detonation, deigned to leave a visible smoke trail. The smoke trail is the key here and what they're looking at when doing measurements, not the rockets. It's similar to how florescent dye is used in underwater hydrodynanics tests or smoke trails in aerodynamics tests.
3:17 is one of the few sequences that actually gives a sense of scale to how large some of these fireballs actually were
Holy fuck you are right..... only now did i see the palm trees in front of IT and that really gives you idea of the scale of the Fireball.....another good ones were where they showed tanks/vehicles on the ground near ground Zero as well as that underwater "Baker" shot where you could see ships near ground zero
Anyone know the yield?
@@ITRIEDEL Only 43Kt. The largest of the Op. Teapot bomb, I think.
Rob M
LOL Only 43KT .......43thousand tons of TNT only
@@ITRIEDEL 5Mt Operation Redwing Tewa 1956. It closely resembles the Zuni shot but the rocket trails and position of palm trees on the islands ID'd it
I’m surprised we still have an atmosphere
@Justin batchelar Interesting, thanks for the knowledge haha
Justin batchelar Wowser. We’re you there?
Justin batchelar bhahahahhahahaha. I thought I was the only one!!!
It heals itself
Some scientists believed prior to Trinity shot the atmosphere would ignite and burn up.
3:17 is my favourite because due to being able to see the coastline I could appreciate the scale of the weapon. This is something I struggle to do with most videos like this.
Yup!!!! My exact thought
A man I worked for named Allen Winslow actually witness The Castle bravo test. He said everybody on that boat was scared shitless. If that footage is from the observation boat realize that the boat (a Navy destroyer) is 40 miles from the detonation point. He said it felt like somebody had a heat lamp right in front of his face and he had to squint even though he was wearing a mask. He said then the control room started counting back as the pressure wave came across the ocean. He said you could actually see it as it was coming. After that he said the whole boat was blown completely over and back and that is ears popped from the vacuum difference. I can't imagine anything more terrifying or thrilling...
I knew a Naval officer who saw the same from 600 miles away. He said it looked like the sun rose in the west for a full 20 seconds.
I have been an atomic footage freak ever since trinity and beyond came out, but this far and away the best atomic bomb footage I've ever seen, and I've seen damn near every film declassified. DAMN GOOD STUFF
I'll drag out the KY any day for some fission action
I think everyone should watch these films and imagine this...
12:45 pm /unknown date...
AND SUDDENLY...
... that's your city's location !
Might scare enough crap out of the ignorant US and worldwide population that thinks we EVER SHOULD have designed and built these Satan-wet-dream's weapons !
SMFH at mankind's utter stupidity, arrogance and hubris in thinking that this technology was EVER needed on our poor 3rd rock !
I pray to GOD that these insane hellbombs are never used again !
Peter, I completely agree. I don't find the Bomb fascinating because it can kill everyody. I find is fascinating because it's just GOOD PHYSICS. The H Bomb program, in particular, has been responsible for many technological advances we now take for granted. Color film, for one, as developed by EG&G to better help understand the visual phenomena of the detonations. Digital computers are another one. The M.A.N.I.A.C. computer used by Los Alamos was one of the, if not the actual, very first digital computers, used in this case to run massively complicated calculations to determine fission and fusion reaction cross sections and the likelihood that the liquid deuterium or lithium deuteride would react to the primary's radiation pulse. Teflon is another, invented to protect the thermal diffusion cascades from uranium hexafluoride gas used in HEU production at Oak Ridge in Tennessee.. There are many others, as well.
Same! Arround 2010 i used to watch lots of historical archives related with nuclear test footages.
Pyrus Rex Wow! Thanks for the detailed analysis of the many inventions that were developed because of the bomb. I did not know half of those were related to Nukes but then we didn’t learn much in High School. There was always some jackass disrupting the class. The only think I learned that was useful was how to type.
I think this is the single greatest thing I have ever seen on you tube!
Charlie Bravo to ya!
The way the sky turns from day to night so quickly in Operation Castle 1:29
castle bravo
Castle Bravo - scary mistake
A young scientist loaned his safety goggles to a high level observer. He turned away from the initial flash. When he turned back and looked into the faces of the older scientists, and stated, "OMG, I could see it in their faces,......the horror that they may have just set the sky on fire"
@@NR-cr762 Best yield guess: 6Mt. Actual yield: 15Mt! 15!! An error of 150%!! D:
Castle Bravo must have been sheer terror to witness first hand. The oops factor is off the charts.
4:19 very mesmerising event. Astonishing how different these explosions can behave.
2:05 i really like how that one was filmed. With the tanks in the scene you have better perception and get an idea of just how massive these yields really were
Those aren't tanks, those are full size navy ships sitting on the water. The scale and size of those mushroom clouds are sometimes incomprehensible, unless you have a frame of reference, once you realize those are navy ships, you start of get a grasp.
0:22 is Operation Teapot, Apple II in May 1955. Upshot-Knothole/Annie was in 1953.
2:45 is possibly Operation Greenhouse, Easy, 1951
3:20 is possibly Operation Greenhouse, George, 1951
3:33 is definitely Upshot-Knothole, Grable, 1953 or "Atomic Annie", the 280mm projectile.
4:20 is above description, up closer
4:35 is possibly Operation Teapot, Met, 1955
Good afternoon, Mr. President.
1. The only way you are right on this is if Los Alamos is wrong. You're welcome to look into it further. The specific source information you would need is: The EG&G Scientific Film Collection at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Operation Upshot-Knothole, Annie, Film No. 17082 titled "House #1 - Blast," 16 KT Tower, March 17, 1953.
2. Greenhouse, Shot Easy. Spot on!
3. Operation Greenhouse, Shot Dog
4. I agree. (Though if not for the smoke trails, Grable and Priscilla look remarkably alike from certain angles)
5. Likely!
6. I agree.
Thank you for that contribution.
Possibly you're correct on No. 1. I'm going by AtomCentral/VCE visually, which matches up to Apple II 1955. Kuran did state in 2015 that many film cans from LM and elsewhere were labeled in error, Dr. Spriggs over at Livermore also implied the same or one of his assistants did. The only video I know of Knothole-Annie 1953 where it contains the audio of a before/during/after of the shot. It's good that all those old films are getting sorted out over time, though. It's a lot further in it's corrections compared to just a few years ago.
3:20 is almost certainly Greenhouse Dog. I did some research a few months back when people were arguing over it on another video. Here is my copy/pasted response from those comments:
It's Greenhouse Dog, not George. Dog was detonated at the north end of Runit island. The camera is south of Runit looking north across the island to ground zero. Search for Runit on Google Maps and you'll see the exact shape of the island in the video, with that little sweeping bay. You can see the fireball sweep over the far tip of Runit, just like it looks on Google maps. George was detonated on Ebiriru which does not look like anything like what we see in the video.
If the second one really IS Greenhouse Easy, thats very interesting. GE was the proof test of the TX-5D bomb, a major advance in weight reduction for implosion bombs. Weight was 2700 lb with a 40 inch diameter, compared to 10,000 lb and a 60 inch diameter for earlier designs. It used the 92 point (92 lens) implosion system and a composite (plutonium/oralloy) core. This design was used as the primary in Ivy Mike.
It is Easy. See here: watch?v=GqMY7Er_1fE
Clouds match, little buildings center-left. Only difference is a different camera.
1:28 “those nuclear tests in the pacific, they weren’t tests...”
“They we’re trying to kill it.”
John Stivers an ancient alpha predator
Correct Guess
godzilla
@@Hakoji-p7d no not Godzilla. It was the Great and Powerful Megalodon. Lol.
Killing time?
I love Grable's explosion at 3:33 starts off stellar blue and once it cools markedly, it dims to white and then yellow followed by orange and red as it continues to cool.
I hope they get these colors right in the Oppenheimer movie and not just do the typical "white flash followed by yellow" deal
@@Chris11249 Many cameras use red filters to dim the blue light. Otherwise, you'd not be able to see anything, the whole screen would be white as if it were blank. This was especially true with the multi-megaton yield hydrogen tests in the Pacific.
Amazing how many of the films captured the ionized air and gasses around the explosion
-I think thats low and high pressure waves-
Nvm i think i saw what u were talkin about
Compliments of the tax payers.
Taxes make war possible.
I guess we should quit paying taxes then shouldn't we
@@lonekiterrocky Taxes also make tyranny possible. Yes, we should become ungovernable.
@@basspig that's what the Second Amendment is for... protect us from a tyrannical government. Why do you think they're trying to go for a our guns now. People need to wake up and rise up together we stand divided we fall
@@lonekiterrocky The gun shops caved in to the regulations. What should have happened was the gun shops saying "we won't comply with unconstitutional laws" and continue free trade with American citizen gun buyers. Militias would move in to protect the gun store owners from the feds, etc. But no, they caved in, and now it's a fun ride down the slippery slope.
0:40 is clearly a big mistake, it should be mt not kt!!!!!!! It's obviously faar bigger than 7.65 kt!!!!
nehorlavazapalka You are correct. It's supposed to be megatons. Definitely a typo.
Are you sure? There was not even enough of a vacuum created to produce any ground swell and thus a connected mushroom.
@@mimoslavich6639 yeah, he is correct.
Yep. Megatons. 11, 000 feet in the air.
@@vancemccaskill440 -yeah except the 7 MEGATON dick melter, melts 1,000X more dicks than the 7Kiloton dick melter.
A-MAZE-ING.
From a physicist’s, chemist’s, and engineer’s points of view, to be far away enough to view all of this safely (depending on which shot, up to 50Km away) and yet, with such stunning clarity and precision, is something truly to behold. Let us hope those were the last times such films will ever be captured intentionally.
Mark Pointer Thank you! I was starting to wonder if no one else could understand that being able to admire the impressive nature of what is being shown does not equate to loving the implications of its use as a weapon.
David Ellis
Absolutely. Shock and awe can equate to being shocked into awe and impressed!
I think we should get everyone together and set one more off, just to capture it all in HD!
Semper Fool
If it could be done in complete safety, with no harm to the environment too, it would be amazing to see, say, a 10MT device detonated in today’s world.....
@0:28 Tumbler-Snapper is only 1kt. It's truly a "baby-nuke". Also extremely rare to actually see one fly in on a missile instead of being mounted to some kind of platform.
Even at that small yield it's something to see how different the action of atomic weapons are compared to actually detonating 1K of traditional TNT.
Wow, those restorations are impressive
Bighorn shot from Operation Dominic was in the 7.x MT scale not kT.
These Restored Detonations are incredible and beautiful to watch. The only knoxk, was tge ending of Titles describing Test Name and Yield.
That castle bravo film is the stuff of anxiety and fear footage at it's finest man. Holy testicle Tuesday.
Castle Bravo is the most impressive test ever staged,you could make any nation think twice just by sending them the footage, wether they would admit it or not.
Both Castle Bravo and Tsar Bomba both qualify as the largest tests staged.
Equally terrifying and macabre beauty in abundance.
"I become death, the Destoyer of Worlds...." Robert Oppenheimer.
Michael Johnston
Actually, that's from the Bhagavad Gita. Oppy just quoted from it.
Michael Johnston The actor from California Oppenheimer
He seemed to regret his teams creation because that creation could cause our entire destruction.
He had a conscience. He was probably troubled because of this until the end of his life.
OMG, you're so philosophical.
@Sean Baca why doomsday? why not doomsnight?
Try to see: "threads", 1984 movie. You'll never see nukes with same eyes again...
I think we can see it in our eyes soon. Good luck guys, god bless you and your family.
Day after is a better movie. Threads has some stuff that's a little far-fetched.
@@ltsgobrndniagre3endofquote525 thanks for suggestion
Hard disagree, Threads simply doesn't pull any punches. That would be the reality of a full nuclear exchange, certainly in Europe. Day After declined to show the full aftermath.
2:15 The camera man's last thought; "In retrospect, we should not have gotten this close..."
*Holds out thumb*
Yep, I just failed the fallout test. I can feel the skin cancer already.
In almost all cases, they were nowhere near the detonations/cameras. They were operated remotely.
plupkination you can see people in it
@@macklenk5326 Where? At what time in the video?
Look at the bottom
I found watching this video to be a real "blast."
Compared to other UA-cam uploads, this one's the "bomb!"
One certainly gets a "bang" for their buck.
Start to finish, this film "radiates" interest.
Simply put, it just "blew" me away.
My neighbours surely heard my "outbursts" of awe.
Half way through, i realized, subconsciously, I was holding my breath, had to pause, and allow the "discharge" of air, so I could continue breathing.
From me, the "fallout" will be nothing but positive, when recommending this film to others, because compared to most YT videos, this one, is
"ground zero," by countless
"shock wave-lengths."
Seriously, though, Jesus! Some of these look like they've been trapped for 1000's of yrs. and they're breathing life back into themselves, especially the last 3 or 4. The very last one, seemingly in b/w, if you stare at it long enough, as it billows it seems to reveal the identities of every victim it has ever vaporized.
.......and that's the oxymoron: a scene of total destruction and one step beyond death: anything that was a victim, now, is non-existent. Yet, somehow, one of the most beautiful and engaging sights, the eye will ever see.
Yea, I think you got em' all.
@@manbearpig4896 the only thing he forgot was his meds
🤣
Beautifully restored! These nuclear weapons did a *wonderful* job of protecting us from an attack during the Cold War!
Best weapons are those that are never used as they say....well ofc in case of nuclear weapons that it is not entirely true, but they are true as far as Cold War is considered. Thanks to them Cold War stayed cold.
Well it can end 2 ways. If it didn't then you wont be here anyway.
1) Cold War took million of lives
2) we almost all died cause of nukes TWICE
@@TheHadi545 The Cold War _itself_ didn't take millions of lives, but proxy wars of that era, such as Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan _et al_ were the cause of massive casualties. Even back in the early 60's, there were safeguards that prevented the accidental and/or uninformed launch of nuclear ICBM's/SLBM's.
@@chetpomeroy1399 I am as much in awe of this power as any reasonable person. However safeguards against permanent man made destruction of the earth, seems dumb haha. Also proxy wars directly related to the Cold War, I feel like Cold War is too chill of a term.
At 2:45 the shock wave temporarily erases the clouds via compressive heating, then the rarefaction behind it makes the cloud chamber effect.
3:18 is my favorite shot. You can see how big the fireball is.
@Rachel Broadley someone posted in the comments, is is possibly the Operation Greenhouse, George shot, 225kt
It's Dog, 81 kt.
The bigger the bomb, the more impressive the explosion
Gravios 96 you're a genius bro
I find the opposite to be the case.
The bigger bombs have to filmed from so far away, the perspective is hard to comprehend..
My personal favourite is Grable Shot .. The Davy Crocket field gun shot..
Note with Buster Jangle 1:45 or so..
You can see the fireball and the shockwave travelling across the ground...
Really cool
You THINK?
SMH
Thanks, captain obvious lol
Well done, Thank you that was amazing.
More than anything else, the names that they used for both the operations and the individual test shots, give a real insight into the frame of mind of those involved in these tests back then..
Indeed. Kind of like the oddball NATO code names for Soviet combat aircraft in the fifties and sixties. Humorous and derogatory at times.
I looooove watching these. It's so mesmerizing.
If anyone is wondering, the first song played is "Epic Theme No. 1" by Steven O’Brien
and the secound ?
Bighorn was 7.65 megaton test!
Not anymore, it's not! (Thanks for the correction!)
It was an advanced concepts test, successful. 4.14 kt/kg. 7650 kt total.
LOL I was watching it and thinking, no way that was 7.65kt.
i know
Why are atomic/nuclear detonations so damn hypnotic?
To show you the power of Flex Tape,I sawed this atom in half!
The explosion at 3:00 was of a device in a tower. When it detonates you can actually see the fireball racing down the tower support towers towards the ground. Almost looks like the fireball is sprouting legs
Interesting how something so devastating can be so beautiful
Bless you for these! I'd love to see hardtack Scaevola if it's ever released, it may have been one of the smallest nuclear yields ever set off, didn't even destroy the barge it was on.
"Hey guys! Let's walk towards the mushroom cloud!" "What a great idea!"
MotoMech not so famous last words
Very, very scary. We are getting closer to this by the day.
I have to admit, the music added an epic feel to the videos. Well done to the composer(s) and music selection.
What these retouched footage reveals is not simply the massive scale of the size of fireballs, but the incomprehensible amount of energy that is released. The Dominic footage reveals this where ball of plasma comes seemingly out of nowhere and is so insanely hot, expanding under such an incredible pressure differential with the surrounding air, and elevating as fast as it can make its way through the ever thinning atmosphere, that it’s hitting multiple physical limits by simply being on planet Earth. amazing.
Each one is amazing, beautiful, and absolutely terrifying, but Operation Castle Bravo will always be the monster in the bunch.
A fine video collection of Absolute Madness.
Incredible quality! You can even see the bomb falling at 0:30...
0:30 Maybe the detonation failed
Great video. The physics behind nuclear weapons are beautiful in their own way.
And now two years after this Video...the nature strikes back!
GAME OVER!
Lmao tf you talking about
Just good to see some of these shots at normal speed instead of the usual slowed down versions.
I think these were sped up. I mean, look at the people at the bottom of the screen around 2:16 for Hardtack.
Government: stay at home
Me: *THIS VIDEO*
Cool as hell, but scary as hell at the same time.
The soundtrack is biblical
Amazing footage, great job!!
I love the music in and of itself, and to revel in the power of this weaponry in reference to no target. But in reference to targets, the music is at best ironic, showing how some people excessively glorify the bomb and inflate it’s deterrent power. Overestimating the deterrent power of nuclear weapons could lead to their use. This would be well placed in some kind of anthropology study. But yeah next time, I’d recommend somber, terrifying music, like ‘Running to the Rain’ or something else that wouldn’t attract a copyright strike.
What are those little vertical streams that appear off to one side of the blast? Never been able to figure those out. Are they rockets with sensors and test equipment?
These gender reveal parties are getting out of hand
Best comment on here!
Congratulations ! It's a plutonium-239
@hristohristov7491 let's name it "Little Boy."
@@DavidVerbout Or something more modern , like Minute-baby (after LGM-30 Minute-man ,the ICBM we currently have in service.
Very good! Thank you for your work.
Growing up, I was terrified of dying in a nuke war. After watching this, I've never wanted anything more.
ScotSpeed uhh ig
Cool story bro
mmmmmm you good bro?
Be carefull what you wish though😅
You might just get it
Stunning ! What didn't we know with # 718 detonation that we knew at # 928 in NNSS aka-test range ?
Triumhant music. I love it :-) But doesn't quite fit to the footage, it's too joyful (music, not the footage ;-)
I disagree, those were built as weapons yes, but what is actually happening is a true triumph of human knowledge.. Thats the sort of understanding of how the universe works that we can realize with a pen and paper.. Its truly one of, if not the most incredible thing we as a species have ever done.
Like every single thing in the universe, its just another tool of understanding, if we choose to use such tools to harm each other, is a completely different side of the conversation. But honestly, this tool might have been used to kill less people then most any other created which in itself is another amazing triumph.
Nuclear reactions are down right incredible and the only way we can even get a grasp of it is to release it in all its glory as shown.. And just watch..
I downvoted you
What is the name and location of the shot at 3:17?
THE NAME SECOND SOUND:13
The News Is Coming Whether You Want It To Or Not
STEVE OBRIAN ORCHESTRAL
What about the first?
The shot at 0:38 looks like it's an H-bomb in the MT range.
"Death, destroyer of worlds" indeed.
The Castle Bravo Test in 1954 must have really surprised and frightened every one involved when they realized that the explosion was far bigger in size then originally predicted.
1:45 that tiny one was 4x larger than Beirut blast
Actually The Blast was 5.6 kilotons (the Beirut blast was 5.6 kt)
the one at 3:00 is insane. And the music makes it even better, damn.
Why didnt you mention the name and yield of the tests in the second part of the tape isnt there any info about them?
Pretty simple answer here: When I put this together I hadn't yet identified most of the tests in the second half.
Some info I've since figured out : The shot around 2:55 is likely Operation Greenhouse Shot Item, 45.5 kt and the first boosted fusion weapon. The fireball at 3:00 is probably Operation Greenhouse Shot Easy, 47 kt. The awesome shot at 3:20 is almost certainly Operation Greenhouse Shot Dog, 81 kt.
@@WhatYouHaventSeen How is the one at 3:20 only 81kt?
Absolutely terrifying and utterly disturbing. Man's ego? It's insane.
it would be so cool to see a nuclear explosion live
If you do get to see one, it won't be a good thing lol
Yeah, enjoy it while you can.
Nope,you would die by rads friend
You'd be dead within minutes if you saw one live
If you want to die yes...
An old Soviet anecdote:
Petka rushes into Vasily Ivanovich's house and shouts:
- Vasily Ivanovich, how much does a nuclear bomb cost?
- One million rubles, Petka.
- Vasily Ivanovich, we are millionaires: a nuclear bomb is falling down towards our farmyard!
This just made me feel sick. Not finishing it. Senseless pointless damage to our planet.
꧁Cat G꧂ they legit test these in empty deserts it wont do anything lol
@@oscargurdian9389 it certainly did something, its blew a hole in the desert and scattered heavy elements. Good or bad, yes and no, but this potential for destruction is not constructive. Weapons are used on enemies, but these weapons only kill living things. You cannot nuke poverty, nor sadness, nor the poison of the mind. When all obstacles are removed, will you lead your people? Or are you being led?
Joe Coarsey i think countries simply have nukes for show. a situation where there is a nuclear exchange between two nations is unlikely especially now where the world is more peaceful than ever
@@oscargurdian9389 And then the fallout goes around the globe...
@@oscargurdian9389 Of course it does something, wtf? It blows pieces of our ozone to space and creates a massive release of radiation. There is a reason countries don't test them anymoore, it is becuase is aggresivley damaging our enviorment.
Bighorn was 1000 times that yeild but just a typo I know
3:00- Face in the upper cloud formation...
Interesting affect. Those were from xrays that proceeded the blast and traveled through the hold down guy wires on the tower that held the bomb.
We should try detonating 2 100 Gigaton bombs over each of the poles simultaneously to see what happens
Yeah, great idea 🙄
How the hell did you get all this footage HD!?
Film restoration
What are the 10 or 12, vertical, thin, smoke or cloud like streamers on the right side of almost every detonation?
I've always wondered what caused the thin smoke "streamers" you see in a few of these, like at 3:37 on the right of the screen?
Rocket smoke trails used to provide a scale (kind of like graph paper) for the test
Excellent job on the scoring
4:12 you can see a eye on the right side in the sky.
What type od druge u use ?
Youre right.
@@valentenaupton2805 your right. That popped out immediately. I watch the but always focussing on the background .
what are the names of the singualr pieces of music? espicially that at the begining and around 3:10?
Steven O’Brien
The News Is Coming Whether You Want It To Or Not
0:28
こんな映像が取れたなんて凄い
カメラが熱で壊れてもおかしくないのに
人間が生で見たら全身黒焦げになって即死だろう。
恐ろしい…
所でこの曲何て言うの？
🦃🥙🚇🏀📀☢️🐵🐽🎂🧭
So starting at the 2 minute mark , what is the music playing? Soundhound came up with nothing. I need this while heading to work in rush hour....lol
what's that music name from the first start??
"Epic Theme No. 1" by Steven O’Brien
@@Arch3an 😅 Im sry for being 2 year late
Stunning video. Is it possible that some sections are sped up? at 2:18, the way the humans - barely visible in the lower frame - move seems to suggest that the film was sped-up. Perhaps that change in motion is a byproduct of the restoration?
I (we) wish no nuclear world.
From Japan.
Well said.
I (we) wish no attack on Pearl Harbor...
辻佑太 ;) ja ja.
Чья бы корова мычала. *Himmler* .
What are the strange vapour lines going up from the ground on some of them?
They would fire a series of rockets at different locations to make a visible grid pattern like graph paper so you can better see and judge what is going on.
@@cancel1913 I see, thanks.
this is art
Darth Porkins yes. ARTE ;)
I love your videos. Please in the future use some epic scary music, or music from horror movies. It would be cooler to watch.
Is it strange that I actually find those tiny nukes to be the best looking?
Damp potato #36 yeah it is
Dominic, Bighorn looks sort of like a glowing jellyfish. Who knew, beyond the design, that such a bomb could be beautiful.
I would love to have seen them punch an old, pilotless drone F-102 or F-104 or F-105 thru one of those clouds at Mach 2, just to see what would happen.
Everything from firecrackers to mega monsters, insane!
@0:23 - "That's A LOT of DAMAGE!" Fix it with Flex Tape
ElfNet Gaming its like liquid rubber in a can!
@@My-Pal-Hal
Try PC-7 from your Home Depot... it's an mix-yourself epoxy... comes in 2 film cans in a cardboard cylinder... GREAT STUFF... you could glue two elephants together with it !
@@Onemadgnome-yy1vs
It was a Godzilla/King Kong joke.
But I'm an aerospace guy. We Got Epoxy. We Got Glue. And we got Duct Tape stronger than Rope 🤣
The thing with PC-7. Is it takes a whole week to completely cure.
Which is the same with PC-11.
But I do carry 11, as emergency Jetski repair, in the Jetski. Rivers cause holes. Or maybe it's the trees IN the rivers lol.
Good Call...
@@Onemadgnome-yy1vs
Oh. And I get it off eBay.
Never actually checked Home Depot.
@@My-Pal-Hal
Okay... well... I love the stuff ! I used it for my Navy destroyer's forward engine room's gas turbine electric engine's rubber boot, when we had the wrong size boot.
I was a GSM supervisor and got a medal for that repair, because I saved the captain 12 days of traveling back to Norfolk to get the correct part and it cured for me in 2 days... so it just works great for me.
Peace.... have a good day, dude
that first background track was a perfect touch
You can almost see the sky burning. Great footage but scary as well.
Does anyone know what the thin parallel smoke trails are that are often see along side nuclear detonations?
Rockets launched to test the wind and shockwave direction.
Really? I genuinely had no idea. Dumb as it sounds I thought it was something to do with the explosion itself. Thanks for responding.....:)
jurisprudens are you sure because you think that the rockets would be immediately destroyed by the explosion before being able to read any information on the wind an shockwave and also how would they be able to recover the data??
@@fuckoff6924 Yes, it's true. Those are rocket trails to detect what an atomic explosion does to the air and how the shockwave propagates. The rockets themselves are of no use. They don't measure anything. They're just rockets that are launched just prior to nuclear detonation, deigned to leave a visible smoke trail. The smoke trail is the key here and what they're looking at when doing measurements, not the rockets. It's similar to how florescent dye is used in underwater hydrodynanics tests or smoke trails in aerodynamics tests.
We don't get to see those explosions nowadays. Kind of sad and lucky at the same time LOL
Those could have been the most happy days in human lives... if not all those nuclear tests going on everywhere.
Great Footage, except that at about half into Video, the Shot Name and Yield were no longer shown.