Project GNOME (1961)
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Project GNOME was part of Operation Nougat, a 45-test series conducted at the Nevada Test Site from September 15, 1961 through June 30, 1962, except for the GNOME test. The 3-kiloton GNOME test was detonated 1200 feet underground in a salt bed formation on December 10, 1961, near Carlsbad, New Mexico. There were 48 subsurface experiments involved, making GNOME the most heavily instrumented seismic nuclear test in history. This testing provided valuable data for both the Plowshare and Vela Uniform Programs.
GNOME was the first nuclear test in the Plowshare Program. The Plowshare Program objectives were to determine how energy produced from nuclear explosions could be used for peaceful or civilian purposes. The Vela Uniform Program studied seismic detection, identification, and location of nuclear explosions. Studies were conducted underground with ground-based instruments for detecting explosions in outer space and with established satellite-based instruments for detecting explosions in outer space.
Although GNOME was a Plowshare test, the Vela Uniform objective was to determine how the signals and effects of a 3-kiloton device detonated underground in salt beds differed from the outputs of detonations of different yields in other geologic formations such as tuff and granite. Scientists also wanted to compare the seismic signals from underground tests with that of earthquakes.
This video contains footage different from that shown in video number 0800028, and includes an introduction by Dr. Edward Teller, one of the few times he was captured on film. Several longrange and close-up views of surface effects from the detonation are shown as well as people
reentering the detonation cavity approximately 6 months after the test when the underground cavity was opened to both official observers and members of the press. No other Operation Nougat footage is shown in this video.
0800034 - PROJECT GNOME 1961 Color 29:13
if this video was in any lower of a resolution.... youd have to watch it on the radio
Lol, I was thinking that ! 😆
I had never heard Teller's voice before! Easy to see where Peter Sellers got his inspiration for Dr. Strangelove.
You beat me to it. Hearing this makes Seller's performance even creepier and the real guy is like Bela Lugosi and Stephen King had a baby .... somehow.
You can hear him talk quite a lot in Trinity And Beyond.
Golly. I thought the same thing.
I'm watching at 144p, it adds a new dimension to the entire experience
LOL. Imagination fills in the rest
That's an upgrade from the source 😉
Scrappers watching this video... 12 tons of cables you say! 🤔
I had a project to replace all of the lightning protection on remote buildings at a government test site. The client was worried no contractors would bid on the project because of the remote locations and logistics. For the demolition section of the specifications, I made the contractor responsible for removing and disposing of the existing equipment (all copper). There were 15 contractors that bid on the project - amazing what scrap metal will do to increase a contractor's enthusiasm...
I'm dead!🤣🤣🤣
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Imagine vandalising abandoned buildings and ruins, thanks. :)
Give some tweakers the Geo Code and some Pick axes. They will have that up in a few hours.
What I’ve learned from a number of these 50’s and 60’s videos: if you’re out west and hear something that sounds like Ravel or Debussy, take cover immediately.
Teller was a classic madman and obviously a genius. I always enjoy watching him.
Yes... Teller was quite a character!
Due to low resolution this video looks best when viewed on your calculator.
I fucking love retro American documentaries
This guy gives me a Dr Strange Love kind of vibe. 🍻🇺🇸
Teller was a big influence on the character supposedly
Robert STRANGE McNamara true full name. Peace
I was immediately thinking the “Bela Lugosi School of Diction”
@Michael Kiefer More like the "Mother" of the H-Bomb with the "Father" being Stanislaw Ulam.
ignorance is bliss I have no recollection of who Dr Strangelove is or was
Teller was myopic thinking nukes could "excavate" for new construction.
Today, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is located near Carlsbad, NM. The salt beds are used as"The Nation's Only Deep Repository for Nuclear Waste."
AND ITS A BIG ASS RADIOACTIVE LOOT JOB! SEND IT ALL TO THE SUN! STOP MAKING IT
@@DgurlSunshine Nuclear power is the only technology with enough power density if you want to reduce the use of fossil fuels for electric generation. BTW - the use of all caps immediately brings into question your mental acuity given your seeming inability to master the use of the caps lock key......
@@DgurlSunshine put Nuclear waste on a Rocket. Filled with highly explosive fuel and launch it in to the atmosphere. Do you have any idea want would happen if the rocket exploded in either the atmosphere or in range of earth gravity. It them time it takes you to cook a cup of soup the earth would be as dead a Mars.
@@buckhorncortez questionable mental acuity AND IQ as well 🤔
The federal government treats New Mexico like it's the "landfill of enchantment."
01:15 "Dr Strangelove".
@Christie Malry 1 Megalomaniac?
@@malachiwhite356 Not a fan of Edward Teller either, sure he he was one of the tip top of his field but even this clip sounds like a short sighted justification for the efficiency he added to the horror he helped create. Part of that efficiency was political, you'll have to look him up, read about his testimony.
@@cowboybob7093 Project Plowshare was the idea of the Eisenhower Administration, not Edward Teller. Teller had little to do with the fission atomic bomb development as by his own admission, he was "not very good at calculations," so he spent most of the Manhattan Project pursuing the "Super" (hydrogen bomb) and not working on the fission bomb. While Teller was the key individual in the development of the hydrogen bomb and the creation of Livermore Laboratory, his hydrogen bomb design would not have worked without a total redesign based on the ideas of Stan Ulam. Teller's testimony about Oppenheimer was a factor in Oppenheimer's hearing and subsequent termination of his clearance,. But, the fact is Oppenheimer's own testimony was equally as important in that decision.
Back in those day people used their brain to think. A computer was a slide rule. No Wokeness then.
@@buckhorncortez Thus my restraint
5:55 - Teller loved big bombs, and had no qualms about fallout, but he understood that Kennedy and the rest of the country was likely going to support above ground test ban treaties, and Teller became resigned to advocating big, and expensive, nuclear tests underground. They already knew that detonations inside salt domes and beds melted the salt, and they needed immediate access to the gasses in the pressure cavity from underground tests in order to check their yield. So drilling equipment was used to access the underground cavity, and then they tried injecting water to see if they could convert the molten salt pool into steam energy.
Teller immediately latched onto this, and he was talking about underground thermonuclear generators, where thermonuclear explosions would be used to create cavities and melt salt and rock, then drillers would drill into these cavities, inject water, and generate power from the steam. When the heat was used up, then it would be time for the next thermonuclear test.
I've been to that site several times geocaching. There's nothing much to see, except some concrete foundations and a concrete monument with a plaque describing the project.
"We'll find some area with some low level lifeforms no one will miss"
Quark, Deep Space Nine.
33:999 500 principles of acquisition
Teller, to this day, gives me the chivers.
IIRC he coined the term "megadeath" as in millions of death to measure the human loss in nuclear warfare.
I read project gnome, then saw Teller.....hmmmm.
Yeah - lucky that most of his brilliant "Ideas" never came to pass
When did he hook up with Penn?
Given the heat radiated deaths should be measured in grillions
@@rapman5363 Learn some history....
Plowshare was supposed to open up a new industry for mining, oil exploration, canal construction and cutting rail, highway passes through mountainous regions.
INSTEAD WE GOT BIG PHARMA & CANCER & WAR CRIMINALS KILLING ECOLOGY
And it was utterly STUPID.
Project Gnome turned everything radioactive.
Neutrons will do that...
Teller was a brilliant man, but ruthless professionally. He also didn't appreciate the toxicity of Nuclear explosions.
The model for Dr. Strangelove. Ruined Oppenheimer. A real piece of work.
@@stevenschnelz6944 Other people would argue the character was based on Henry Kissinger. And Oppenheimer was his own worst enemy given his previous associations, lying to the FBI, and the testimony he gave. He's not exactly faultless in the whole affair.
How smart can Teller by not to know how toxic the salt would be?
Teller was famously monomaniacal when it came to the H-bomb. Anything tangential to that, he viewed as a distraction or a hindrance, even back when he was supposed to be developing the A-bomb. It made him a lot of enemies because it was all he cared about. He (notoriously) refused to participate in the official H-bomb project because they wouldn't make him project director because nobody wanted to work under him, and even refused an invite to see the first test because he felt "unwanted". He sullenly observed the test on a seismometer in a basement lab at Berkeley.
Didn't Teller come up with the "Thunder well" I guess in case aliens attacked the Earth very forward thinking.
Wow. Edward Teller himself!
16:50 dude's just chugging a pre-nuke beer
Keen eye mate
When this came up under recommend I liked the first 2 vids new sub
Wow! I live right next to Livermore labs!
Nice - could you please go over and borrow a cup of zirconium hydride for me? ;*[}
He gets pretty strident and chops his hand abruptly toward the table just as he says "for peaceful purposes alone!". Hmmm.
Teller. Good Lord.
Hello,
240 pixels resolution is too low,..
Because even the sound is becoming strongly impacted, at least 360 pixels or even 480 p is much better.
I like very much to watch these interesting, and sometime incredible old classified videos.
A big thank you !
Edit : It's crazy to see how they get inside the cavity, without any mask on, it must stay inside some bad isotopes.
Also, this project show very well how they were over confident about geology knowledge and danger management.
Doesn't have anything to do with pixels... This is old film. Film decays, just like people.
@@scottashe984 I know it is old, but youtube compresses sound, and even if an old video there is 240 p. the sound quality is better than that. I know it is old, and they do with what they have, But I try to explain why it can be useful to upload in 480 p a 240 p video, because of UA-cam's sound compression. I know that many people doesn't ear it like I do, but believe me, I can instantly tell you when it's sound from a 240 p youtube's video, and this is adding defaults on an already bad tape due to age.
Snowflake Millennial, it's an old film.
@@scottashe984 It is a video file of poor quality. The film itself is probably still in pristine condition, aside from discolouration &c., as film is far superior when compared to digital.
@UCOWf0mDHdqQNBHD8KxXym3w I think also Nuclear Vault didn't update the original digital scan of the film. It seems a reupload from who knows what source.
It would be interesting to know how many of those people got cancer or other terminal illnesses from being there, especially those workers.
I'll bet plenty of them did
Avg 4%, based on exposure time.
@@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft, says the paid commenter...
@@iCyWEdontCi2i I'm not paid to comment, I wish I were
@@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft, How many people have and will get Terminal illnesses and CancerS from Fukushima ?
For a scientist he's a very good actor. I can practically see him biting some doxie's neck now.
Thought he was going to start fixating on POE there for a minute.
Seems that one peaceful purpose would be to drill a 5000 ft hole and then use a nuclear explosion to produce a large cavity for a nuclear waste repository.
Since the cavity would store nuclear waste anyway, the residual radiation from the explosion would be moot.
An underground explosion test has already been performed in a remote island in Alaska, confirmed no radioactivity escaped.
Not quite true. I have the entire bio-remediation report for Amchitka Island and that's not what the report says.
33:999 ask the Centarians first under paradise Calif, the chino tunnel
@@QAnnon-hk9ry Whatever... 🙄
Evil man Teller. Millions of cancer deaths, cancer victims due to him. What a legacy.
Prove it. But, first, read how cancer rates have declined since the 1930s in the research paper "Long-Term Trends in Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1930-1998."
Here at ‘Project Gnome’ we expose assorted primates to atomic mutation! Thereby facilitating their raiding the underwear draws of sorority coeds!
MADNESS !
I just watched Bridge on the River Kwai yesterday. Madness!
FILMS LIKE THIS color govt made film needed a film projector with an incandescent super bright and hot bulb to make the color show up on the screen,damn bell & howell projectors often
broke the film,causing the tech to have to move quick to mend the break with a piece of celluloid tape and evil smelling cement, trim it rethread the film over 5 or 6 rollers
20:23 The Countdown
90 ft tall, with a 60 ft radius... 120 ft across. Am I the only one asking why we never looked at this as a way to excavate the deep underground research and military bunkers? Within 6 months of the test, the radiation inside had fallen below 5 milliroentgen (0.005 roentgen) or twenty times below what even now we consider a dangerous dose (0.3 roetgen/day). Now, considering that the cavern was formed over 1,000 ft below the surface, I can understand why we did not continue to study there. But the idea could have provided one of those very rare civilian uses for mans greatest waste of money in history.
OMG! It's Edward Teller!
Needless to say, the dramatic guy with the accent towards the end was mistaken.
But I guess they had to try ...
What did "GNOME" stand for?? Again - basic information that should be included in the description
This was before the era of making everything an acronym; it's just a random code word like IVY MIKE or BUSTER JANGLE.
@@TimperialBroadcastingAgency See? It's getting to the point I can't tell if something is an acronym or not! 🤦♂️
@@Zickcermacity Doesn't help that codewords are traditionally all-caps as well. I can't blame you; the addiction to acronyms for _everything_ post-Vietnam has really given us some tortuous names.
@@TimperialBroadcastingAgency Two totally moronic examples, post-Millennial era: "HBD" instead of wishing someone a HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Or the latest gem: "k" for "OK" 🤦♂️
@@TimperialBroadcastingAgency One of my favorites is "OPNAV Acronyms" which is an acronym that stands for the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Acronyms. This is the official list of Naval Operations acronyms - and OPNAV doesn't appear in the list - you just have to know what it means...
Nuclear weapons meets civil engineers
He should have been cast in Dr. Strangelove.
He was the person Sellers based the character on.
Teller you got the salt but forgot the pepper condiments to you and other nuclear scientists
Dr. Strangelove's younger bro. Atoms for peace, yeah!
Better version here: ua-cam.com/video/rdtJOn8gHMk/v-deo.html
Teller had a minor psychotic break when he got kicked off as lead of the "Ivy-Mike" project. He hid in his basement when the test was to happen. He was always coming up with ways to blow stuff up with hydrogen weapons and was rather unstable even in the early Manhattan project years.
What? No, he was in his office in California.
He wasn't psychotic but he was somewhat difficult to get along with.
Does anyone remember when Superman drove that nuclear explosion back into the ground?
I still remember the day he flew around the Earth and made it turn backward and time was reversed...
Peter Graves?
He sounds like Dr Strangelove......
🟥there be no fighting in the War Room!🟥
Then after Project Nougat was Operation 3 Musketeers. It was very tasty
A solution in desperate search of a problem.
I was born in 1960 - in the middle of this...experimentation.
🤷🏻 So?
Health issues ?
Quite the display of reaching for more sources of funding to continue our jobs researching nuclear weapons designs! We have gotten used to being important and being paid so we want it to continue.
That's actually exactly why this happened, but there is a good reason for it. If we hadn't worked to keep these people employed domestically there was a very real risk they could have been bought out by foreign powers. Letting our nerds play with nukes in the desert just to see what happens is surely vastly preferable to giving nukes to our enemies.
I think it was more along the lines of trying to convince people that if nukes were safe to use for excavation, then there was little to fear from an atomic war.
@@booklover6753 That wasn't the idea.. Everyone already KNEW that nuclear war was a hellacious end to their lives.
Edward Teller was not much liked after what he did to Oppenheimer
Shot time is at 20:30 if you want to skip all the blahblahblah.
Freaky how similar this is to pro-nuclear propaganda from the USSR of the same era. Like that one where the russians put out a burning oil well with a nuke.
No radiation at surface zero the following day 🤔 I call B.S. on that.
so it wasn't a large enough of a nuclear incident to create an elephants foot, just a bunch of melted elephant snot I guess.
Dr. Strangelove. A Doomsday Gap!
They also nuked the salt mines of South Mississippi.
They tested a SINGLE 5 kiloton device (Hiroshima was estimated at 15 kilotons). I repeat.....a SINGLE device, so to claim they they "...nuked the salt mines..." is misleading as it was a single mine, and that mine was nuked with a very small device (relatively speaking that is), and only one device. It was the single test in the eastern United States (eastern being recognized as east of the Mississippi River).
@@BigDaddy-yp4mi actually there were two in the 5.3 Kt or less range. One in 1964 and one in 1966.
Project Dribble
Test salmon in 64 and Test sterling in 66. Lamar county. Tatum salt dome formation.
@@BigDaddy-yp4mi Actually, two tests were done. The tests were to see if another country could hide underground atomic weapons tests, so the government found the best place they could hide a test, and then detonated the weapons to see how far from the location they could detect the tests. The military first tested a 5 kiloton device under codename Project Dribble in 1964 and a second 350-ton device under codename Project Sterling in 1966.
Project Gnome, lol you can't make this $hit up!
This was a cover to destroy Fraggle Rock.
Can you elaborate ?
@@daryljonesfoster4102 It was a kids show about little creatures that lived under ground.
@@booklover6753 ohhhhh , ok thanks !
Interesting seeing Mr. Teller. He was the man that hired Bob Lazar.
If you believe that Bob Lazar is telling the truth…..very unlikely that someone at Teller’s level would directly hire anyone as Lazar claims.
IAEA LIES BAD
@@DgurlSunshine Yup, and anna nicole smith married for love and there were WMDs in iraq.
@@AMD7027 Hard to know the exact truth. I saw an article with Bob's paystubs and phone and address at the New Mexico site after the government said he never worked there.
@@jimsworthow531 Lazar never worked for Los Alamos. Lazar worked for K-Tech, a DOE contractor. Lazar, at one point, also claimed he worked for EG&G Special Projects. I worked for EG&G and I can tell you he didn't work in the Albuquerque office or the Las Vegas office. All of the range support personnel in Nevada worked for the Las Vegas office and went to their day locations via Janet flights. Bob has a vivid imagination...
basically 90% of the crew die by cancer
Edward Teller was an intimidating man; He had no patience for fools and at his level of intellect he was five steps beyond 99.9999% of the rest of the human race. There were a great many things that he was involved in raising the warning-flag about in the 1950's (CO2 and global warming, reactor safety). One of his biggest hinderances was that he royally pissed off the other scientists he had worked with; He would propose an idea, the general response was to say that something he proposed was impossible and then after a few years the consensus and scientific research bore-out many things he claimed (radiation pressure as the force to initiate fusion, megaton range fusion weapons that could be submarine launched). If you ran afoul of him he would remember it and if the time came for him to stick a fork in your behind he would do it.
Only a fool would recommend excavation via nuclear bombs
The thermonuclear radiation triggered gadget is called a Teller-Ulam configuration. Stan Ulam really came up with it but Teller stole half of it.
You really need to read more about Teller. Robert Serber encapsulated it best when he said Teller would start an idea and never carry it through. He was totally unreliable when it came to supporting other physicists with their work. He frustrated Oppenheimer to the point Oppenheimer gave Teller his own group to pursue the Super so Oppenheimer didn't have to deal with Teller. BTW - he was no more brilliant than Leo Szilard, Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, Hans Bethe, and a number of others. Teller's hydrogen bomb would never have worked until Stan Ulam corrected what Teller had gotten wrong. Other people like Ted Taylor were far more valuable for bomb design as Taylor could design different types of atomic weapons that actually worked.
@@buckhorncortez You need to understand that Teller and the other top physicists of that era were several orders of magnitude more intelligent than average humans. More than you can even comprehend. What you gleaned from your reading was a superficial, jaded view of a man who, like others of his time, came up with this technology using damned chalk boards!! No computers, no internet. Einstein, Teller, Bohr, Szilard, Fermi, and others were cracking the secrets of the atom and the universe using thought experiments and pencils!!! Of course they didn't always agree, but their intellects complemented each other. And they knew these secrets for decades, but they had to wait for engineering technology to catch up. There were no laboratory instruments at the time that could "see" what those people saw in their minds.
I am sorry but I can not watch this video in 240p. It is a waste of time for my eyes to look at such blurry footage especially when I know it could be better.
Bye....
Another way for gnomes to say hoo-ray.
Salt and cancers of thee earth....
33:222 we never hear about the workers who braved the hazards for posterity, the sacrifices to get where we are today. The price is always justified, advancement of knowledge. LLL and the antares program of lasers is boss.
I immediately recognize the host, from his thick eyebrows within a second, though the video was not clear. Edward Teller......!
Good to see a good American introduce this wonderful piece of Disney world rhetoric !
Ziss geiss esent meke ziss veddao vunvotchable
ahh Edvard Teller, composed of equal parts Dr. Strangelove, Richard Nixon and count Dracula
a great success, the area will remain contaminated for millions of years...
No, it won't...
@@davelowets Well, then build your house there ;-)
@@sbcinema Id have no issue with that, but I already have one.
@@davelowets how about a apartment in Ukraine?
Use it to excavate underground high-security prisons. With robot guards.
Sound not good
Tellers' still alive, major peacenick
He died in 2003.
... when criminals are free to exploit their crazy dreams ...
Audiobook video quality. 👎🏿👎🏿
Video resolution in BidenVision.....
PelosiVision if it were double lol
"I pity Dahfoo".
You people don't have the intellect to understand what you're watching. Go back to watching your Trump rallies.