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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- The new Crossroads Able sequence from "Trinity and Beyond" 70th Anniversary Tribute. The new version includes new footage, longer sequences and improved restoration. Now 100 minutes long!
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The anchor chain from the USS Nevada eventually made it back to the University of Nevada, Reno campus. Pieces were used as landscape edging around the ROTC building (Hartman Hall). I walked by them, stood on them and sat on them many times. Snow didn't seem to accumulate on them though.
Radiation chain good for hair removal lol !
Holy shit man, snow falls in Reno?
😳😳😳😳
Lol you got some plenty radiation i suppose
Did it prevent you from getting Hemmroids, or Colon Cancer ?
Gotta love the orange painted battleship at 3:24. The navy's way of telling the Air Force that they don't think their bombardiers can successfully spot a battleship.
The fact that they missed anyway, makes it even spicier😂
That orange painted ship was USS Nevada BB-36.
military vehicles not used for military purposes are commonly painted orange to signify non combatants
My father, at the time an Air Force officer working for LeMay, was an observer at Able. Was not present at Baker.
Awesome
My father was in both, ash fell on him. They scrubbed it off the ship, threw out clothing and food. Imagine cleaning that. Not sure how his body lived to almost 80. Our Dads are heroes
@Literally Hitler Beside serving our country, he endured these hellish tests as well as watch his children and grandchildren suffer the affects! Foolish question
@Literally Hitler I guess you dont care either, your name fits your attitude!
What a bunch of arseholes. All of them!
My late father was in both Baker and Able tests. Proud atomic veteran daughter! I'm sorry you went through this hell Dad. Hard to understand why our government held you under the threat of tyranny for 60 years knowing the affects it would have on your body and we children. Your love for our country never wavered, you kept your word but our leaders did not. Dad, you're my hero, miss you
My father was stationed on Kwajalein during WW2, and recounted seeing a second sunrise. He and his buddies woke up the next day with the worst sore throats of their lives. He later was diagnosed with a fatal case of bladder cancer at the end of his life at 81 years.
If you haven't already, make sure you apply for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act through the Department of Justice.
We applied after my father passed, and received an award of $75,000.
-Atomic veteran son.
@@Cybersawz no nukes there in WW2, i.e. nonsense
Well, that's the Democrat party for ya...they plant you as cannon fodder (so to speak), while making you feel good about it.
To get a sense of scale, the white dots (flying in from the right) at 3:01 are B-17 drones.
Wow!
Wow again!!!
Seriously? I always thought that were a mistery (UFOs :v)
I know it’s amazing 😉
Wow! Love that.
USS Nevada survived Pearl Harbor and a nuke. Gotta give props to that ship. Deserved a better fate though.
Amazingly the Nevada actually survived both Able and Baker so make that two nukes.
And then survived 5 days and nights of shelling by the navy until finally a torpedo sunk her. She still sits upright at the bottom of the ocean.
Frankie 107
NAVADA LIIIIIVVVEEESSSS!!!
Survived Pearl Harbor, 2 nuclear bombs, used as target practice for USS Iowa and USS Missouri... yet she was still afloat haha
Frankie 107 god damn beauty of a ship
I always look for the Gilliam-class attack transports when I see footage of Crossroads. One of them is the ship my grandfather served on during the war. Survived both Able and Baker!
(Btw, WOW, that new footage, wow!)
that's one way to vet the rust off
The reason for the wide miss of the target was never determined - the wobble caused by the drag fins on the bomb was one idea, as was the possibility of unknown wind changes on the way down. Paul Tibbets later claimed he had checked the bombardiers figures and found “obvious miscalculation” - however I was told by an AF vet that Tibbets was biased as “he wanted to be the one making the drop”.
Wasn't the bomb exactly like Fat Man? If so, perhaps those drag fins also caused Fat Man to miss it's intended mark on Nagasaki? Mmmmm.
Yes was the same as Fat Man. Thing is no one would have noticed a similar thousand or so foot miss at Nagasaki - they were already miles off from their intended mark which was the center of the city. They had to drop visually and only did so when a break in the clouds showed a known landmark which was on the outskirts.
I see in the Coster-Mullen book I was a little off - the Crossroads Able miss was 2,130 ft, and at Nagasaki they were only 1.3 miles from the intended target the dock area. Still, in that situation no one would notice a 2000 ft error (if there was one) as you would during a measured test.
I just wish they had spared some of those ships. The Nevada, Nagato and Prinz Eugen. All those should be in museums for centuries to come. Just look at what a marvel the HMS Victory is. And they sank the Nevada later in target practice... This reminds me of the time before WWI when it was proposed to use the USS Constitution as target practice for the new dreadnoughts... And that was only stopped by someone writing a great poem about it and it making a lot of publicity. Otherwise she would have been "quietly" shot to pieces.
Just for the record, the poet that wrote about the impending destruction of the USS Constitution was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. He was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, who would later be a Supreme Court justice.
Nevada and her sister are both missing meaning there wrecks have yet to be found
A casino in Vegas should have bought the Nevada and had it shipped over(I admit, a minor detail) . Imagine a damned battleship in a desert city far from the coasts. It would have been worth it just to imagine the confusion it would cause later generations.
Nagato and the other Japanese Destroyer should have been spared, since they were basically all that was left of the Japanese navy. BUT NOOOHH we had to go nuke all the ships.
@@snazzydazzy Nagato was the command ship which directed the attack on Pearl Harbor... So most folk at the time wouldn't have shared your sentiment.
Both Blandy's gigantic "waffle nose" - as he was nicknamed - and those aircraft certainly show the scale of the cloud. You can see the little, white dots clearly at 3:04. Incredible footage of the growth and development of the early fireball. Thank you Atomcentral - VCE.
those white doots are ufos
@@bladerj they are drone aircraft to collect samples from the Mushroom Cloud
@@kyleJohn19971946 Drones?
Absolutely *fantastic* image quality! I have watched the original DVD many, many times but even streamed from a UA-cam clip the pictures here are so much cleaner and more vivid. I had always considered Able a pretty lacklustre shot, visually at least - but that mushroom cloud and its veils of condensation are... staggeringly beautiful.
I *must* get a copy of the BD!!!
Trinity & Beyond is one of the best atom bomb documentaries ever made!🇺🇲
Absolutely beautiful! Even The Atomic Playboy at the end there looks suitably awe-struck!
Isn't that the same guy in the Grable cannon shot video?
And the Ivy Mike video as well?
Here it was, 10 months after the greatest air offensive in history, with hundreds of trained experienced aircrews available, and the bombardier of a special project Air Force plane missed the target ship of the fleet anchored in the Bikini lagoon by 700 yards, even though the ship was painted red. Messed up a whole lot of observatipns, that one did. Only one worse was when Redwing/Cherokee was dropped 4 miles off the target in the open ocean.
The Nevada was actually painted orange, but we get your drift.
@@dougbrowne9890 Thanks for tthe c9rrection, Doug. They all look red to me.
How shoud I explain this feeling…although Im Japanese, but there is me watch this with mixed mind, beautiful and tragic…
Had forgotten that there were Japanese ships in the test. If the ship was still flying Japanese colors, then, technically, US nuked Japan four times, and would've nuked them five times if Charlie had gone off as well.
For those confused, Sakawa appears in the middle of the video. She was a Japanese Agano class cruiser. And per water law a ship is an extension of the country that she's registered to. Of a lesser kind of course, but this is just a hypothetical thing nothing more.
On a side note, if the white dots are what i think they are, then, it's nice that they made it in to the video. After all, it's original footage element.
Much like in videos from the space station, especially in their latest video on the deployment of their new inflatable module, we can see the damaged CCD peppered with dots and the images from Chernobyl have deterioration at the edges.
I guess that means they nuked the Germans twice , because the Prinz Eugen was present at both tests.
The Nagato was there too.
I don't think they were still flying Japanese colors at that point.
Yes they where prizes of war. Legally the US could do whatever they wanted with those ships.
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Bravo. Vast improvement! Amazing color shot of the USS Nevada in its red targeting paint, with the whitewashed, big guns.
Crazy that both Able and Baker shots didn't sink her after this test. Later when they towed her back and anchored her 65 miles sw of Oahu, not even USS Iowa with all her might couldn't take her down when they used her as a target ship again. It finally took an aerial torpedo to get her to go under.
This "new" footage is really nice, but I can't see buying this again, just for what is "added". Happy with what I have.
5:04 Nagato Battleship(left)
At 3:14 we see a face shot of Admiral Blandy. I worked with his grandson at Bell Labs in Whippany, N.J. for a year in 79-80. He was the spitting image of his grandpa.
Look at the lovely radioactive fallout those soldiers and personnel were exposed to
Watch the documentary called “Radio Bikini” which details “Operation Crossroads” and the aftermath. Many of those poor men stationed there during those two tests were exposed to lethal amounts of radiation and many later died as a result.
There's a re-done, longer version of this movie?? And you're just telling me this *now?!* Great...now I have to look for a copy.
Where did you find such hi quality footage? Unbelievable the power of those weapons. Horrifying is the one word that enters my mind every time I see clips like this.
The quality comes from a great scan of the high quality film stock and photographic equipment used to film the tests. I believe it was all declassified and released into the public domain a while back?
And these are like firecrackers compared to what we have now. Mankind is not mature enough for this technology. I wish we had never discovered it.
You know you pissed somebody off when they hand you a bucket and a paintbrush, and tell you to paint an entire battleship day-glow orange.
Was there ever a movie-camera in the bomb-bay of the B-29 that dropped the bomb for the Able shot? If so I'd love to see the footage of the bomb being dropped.
Almost certainly yes. Still classified ? Same answer.
Wow incredible footage and quality! Very impressive yet amazingly enough some observers of this test were underwhelmed
Yeah, those fellas were quite a distance away from the detonation. We made up for that remoteness in later nuclear tests!
All those beautiful battships, cruisers, and destroyers rip
Nevada survived both Able and Baker shots for operation crossroads. The navy then towed her from bikini to about 65 miles sw of Oahu to be used as a target ship for a training exercise for uss Iowa, but still didn't sink. It then took an aerial torpedo to finally take her under.
Nobody knows what the B-29 Superfortress 'Dave's Dream' was dreaming about, because they missed the target ship 'Saratoga' by 624m. A further investigation by the Joint Army presented no conclusions. They even painted the 'Saratoga' red to visually help the bombadier.
It's generally believed to have been a problem with the bomb sight. The crew of Dave's Dream were the back ups for the Nagasaki A-bomb mission.
The target ship was the battleship Nevada, not the aircraft carrier Saratoga. That is why at 3:22 you see a battleship painted orange. That is Nevada, having been painted orange to make her more visible to the bomber crew.
Absolutely incredible!! After watching this, imagine what the still classified footage shows?!
I would imagine it has all been declassified by now.
@@zosxavius lol no way
Just cannot sink the Nevada.
They checked a sailors locker after the Nuke and there was a working Nokia 3310.
Wow, the USS Nevada had a time machine?
@@floo1465 No, a Nokia 3310 *is* the time machine!
I like the new longer improved footage so much better. The original release of TAB had sped up footage of this shot which was disappointing. Thanks for uploading.
I know Prinz Eugen was on the outskirts of the blast but you still think the mast,boats and crane would have been blown off. Amazing.
The Able blast only bent her foremast and broke the top of her main mast.
Most of the damage was underwater. She later sank at Kwajelein Atoll.
Amazing how the one ship was red hot after the blast. WOW!
That was the target ship that the Air Force was supposed to aim for. The navy painted that ship bright orange in a middle finger salute to the Air Force to say "were going to make absolutely sure that your incompetent bombardiers can find it"
At 3:00 mark you see 3 white objects pass over the mushroom cloud in a triangular formation. Any ideas as to what this could be?
Probably, not birds at that height.
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
Enemies Of The People 😂 that's funny dude. I can hear him saying it.
The turrets from Nevada looked relatively unscathed, i imagine if there were crew inside they would have survived. The thick nickel iron class A armor would have protected them from the radiation as well.
How now, brown cloud?
Fascinating cloud. Very nice footage.
Iron Golem I guess it has to do with the warships's paint and debris being smoked out and absorbed...
Nitrogen oxides and nitric acid formed from the nitrogen ions liberated by the energy of the blast. Check out the wikipedia article on mushroom clouds.
@@paulmoir4452 Wow, I thought it was from the seabed being vaporised
@@paulmoir4452 Lol... my guess was that they had colorized a black and white film, using a land shot as template.
I believe that is what killed my father, died of inoperable brain cancer at the age of 50.
Never talked about it, but the family had mentioned " things "about him from time to time.
He had something to do with the electronics packages that they sent aloft. Had a balloon and one of the packs in our basement in a locker.
If there is a God, may my dad be with it in the universe.
I hated him as a child.
Time has changed that!
It is remarkable that no footage has emarged of the actual bomb release from the B-29 - either from the cameras mounted in the bomb bay or from the chase aircraft.
No dought this footage exist and should be unclassified.
Wasnt this the first atomic test after ww2 had ended
Yep.
Paul Tibbetts commander of the Hiroshima A bomb mission predicted that the Bikini Able bomb would miss. He was not impressed with the crew or aircraft for the Able shot and correctly predicted the 800 ft error.
Nuclear explosions are so beautiful. Truly breathtaking in their extreme power, such a small thing creating such a large explosion. I really wish that we could do one more atmospheric hydrogen bomb test and record it with today’s camera and film technology. Make it bigger then tsar bomba. Detonate a true 100 megaton bomb.
I wonder what happened to all those guys walking around on the blasted ships?
Some suffered what are called "beta burns" from radiation from irradiated sea salt used to "wash" contamination off the target ships. I iimagine some statistical number of them developed cancers earlier than they otherwise would have; something in the low single percents..
The nevada might be impressive but the pennsylvania is so much more special. Its sister ship USS Arizona sank at peark harbor, Pennsylvania was extremely damaged but got refloated. Then in bikini atoll it survived the nuclear bomb, and had the bell removed and put on a college in pennsylvania. Not only that, but 2 WHOLE YEARS after this, the ship was scuttled on a nearby island. Aint it amazing?
For those who may be interested, there are 3 UFO’s flying from the right to the left 3:04-3:07 😂
120 of these monsters were built each producing 23 kilotons and known as Fat Man or The Nagasaki Bomb
fat man was 20kt and little boy was 15kt
That's not neccesraily true. The Mark 4 bombs from Operation Sandstone were the first mass produced weapons. Before the U.S. only had about 56 of them. After Sandstone, before test Yoke (I think) they cancelled further production of Mark 1's and 3's with a consequence of about a double to tripple in production.
Lovely music.
Wonder how long all of those sailors and scientests that were close to the blast and those that got on the blasted vessels lived.
Robert Casagrande there were no sailors on those ships...
@@bit7841 he's talking about the sailors that boarded the ships after the tests to see the damage caused
Anybody else notice the triangular UAP formation at the 3:02 timestamp?
The spray on the ships was combination of seawater and chemical solvent (gunk?), to wash away deadly radioactivity before before boarding.
There was virtually no detectable radioactive fallout on any of the ships from Able (it was an air-burst that didn't produce a lot of fallout). At the same time, though, all the ship that had been in the zone of the radiation fireball would have become contaminated by the fireball neutrons, but that isn't the kind of radiation that can be washed away. So, most of the radiation cleaning efforts we see were from Baker... except they worked to limited effect, largely because they were using highly irradiated sea water from within the atoll itself, and they were actually making the problem worse. One of the problems with the sea water was the radioactive sodium... because the sodium is a solution, it doesn't sink. So, while the current was flushing the radioactive particles out, it was doing so very, very slowly. In addition, they were also making all the support craft radioactive, just by driving in there to study the boats and retrieve the animal test subjects. Another huge problem was plutonium, which doesn't set off geiger counters very well. The stuff was everywhere but, because the geiger counters were showing low levels of radiation in certain areas, they had sailors decontaminating the ships while wearing regular clothes and breathing in radioactive mist created by the spray. In fact, thinking the radiation problem wasn't serious, Admiral Blandy originally wanted to re-man the boats and sail them back to the mainland to show how tough they were (one of the purposes of the test was to show how well naval ships could hold up to nuclear attack). He was talked out of this only at the last moment after one of the doctors took a living fish, captured from the water and set it on an X-ray film, whereupon the radiation permeating the fish made it's own X-ray.
+The Bonesaw .. Yes, I was aware of that, by fast neutron induction of radioactivity on the vessels and equipment.
that's astonishing
420apache657 -- You think that's cool... the boats in the radiation fireball (like the Nevada) would have been ghost ships within a day had they been manned. The dose topside was 10,000 rem, but... even as far down as the engine room, it was 1,000 rem, which is more than the human body can take and survive. So, even though the Nevada looked seaworthy, she would have been adrift within hours.
Source of your data?
3:15 that would also be my face after seeing that explosion
2:52 look at the upper right corner, 3 ufos apear and move to the left, and dont tell me that is lenses artifacts because you can clearly see it was shadowed by the smoke before coming into the sun and become brighter,and they travell in the same retangular triangle we are used to see them in modern ufo videos
If you would take a minute and read some of the comments here you will find what they were. UFOs, lol.
at 3:05 what were those 3 objects flying close to the cloud
Drones
Yes, drones were flown through the mushroom cloud straight after the blast to collect data.
So was that a formation of UFOs' in front of the mushroom cloud at 3:00?
Saw the same
birds or gas balls ...
B-17 Drones, which were a thing in those days.
Grandfather stationed and survived on U.S.S. Nevada BB-36 Dec 7th 1941 Chuck M Skibbe III 3rd Gen. USN Ret.
those guys on the boat at 4:00 were probably speechless...
If they put that device deep inside an aircraft carrier and detonated it, would it vaporize the ship? Or just blow it apart?
It would vaporize it pretty much, no identifiable remains were found from the closest ship to test baker (the second test after this one)
Is this how you send down great ships to their FATE?
3:42
他の軍艦越しに、戦艦長門が見える。
終戦間際の擬装の為に、煙突とマストを切り詰めた姿は、何度見ても痛々しい。
後に長門は、水面爆破された原爆『ベイカー』の標的艦にも供され、改めて日本と連合艦隊の最後の意地を、強くアメリカ軍に示す事になる。
3:01....Sorry but these three objects that pass what are they? UFO?
birds or gas balls ...
Does anyone have a clue what those plumes are at 1:54 at around the 7 o'clock and 5 o'clock position ? Now my assumption is those are huge waves generated by reefs or some other type sea floor anomaly . But they are giant compared to waves being made from the obstruction of the ships in comparison . Just curious if anyone besides a troll has an answer . I'll of course do some research of my own to try and figure this out,but if anyone knowledgeable in this or these areas could provide an idea of what and why and how they occurred would be of great interest to me. Thanks!
If you look real close at the last couple frames before the scene changes you can see several other plumes starting to form a concentric ring that includes the plumes you mentioned.
420choochy I'm guessing its some sort of forced cloud formation from the local air pressure change right after the shockwave passes by
Flash burns caused by the intense heat
Wait, does that mean Spongebob lives on the ground of bikini lagoon, which means him and all the other fish there were exposed to radiation, which made them talk...?
Yes, this nuclear test is the premise of the cartoon.
Uss nevada survived both nukes
So they just destroyed perfectly working destroyers or were they going to be scraped but used to test on the bomb?
I should get this new version.
Nice restoration. Can't remember seeing this footage in the original movie Trinity and beyond. Is this new?
Lik3werdz, I think this is a bit of the additional x70th version to promote it
What were those things flying close to the cloud
Drone planes measuring radiation.
Where do i get the full extended version of this documentary. Its stunning footage.
It's called Trinity and beyond, it's around on the internet from various sources and there's also a DVD available
My great grandpa was one of the guys hosing down the target ships
He died of cancer. Probably unrelated
Anybody know where I can get one of these, I'd like to put on a lil' fireworks display in my garden. Thanks in advance.
Ridiculous how a hollow grapefruit-sized sphere of metal can release the energy of 23 thousand tons of tnt.
The B29 crew were spot on, and did not miss their target!!
They missed the target ship Nevada by nearly half a mile (800 m). Nevada survived both Able and Baker tests.
Is the norton bomb sight rated for a nuke?
3:05 -3:09 ???does anybody else see the three objects flying from the right to the left in the mushroom cloud?
Remote controlled F6F Hellcats used to observe the nuking
Katyusha ohh ok I thought maybe I just saw some ufo’s 😞
This video at between 3 min and 3 min 15 seconds seems to show 3 UFOs in the mushroom cloud going right to left.
2:42
The USS Nevada deserved better than being sunk after. One of the toughest ships in the world
3:26
Is that the Pennsylvania or Nevada?
Nevada painted in high visibility red-orange for the atomic tests
Thank you!
So who is the guy who threw the bomb at the wrong place? :D
3:02 on hop of all the living things affected by nuclear testing. I also feel bad for those birds who must think that is just a regular clouds
those arent birds they are B-17 drones.
The Nevada and the Prinz fared the best out of the other ships
Nice new footage but I still prefer the old version. The music was perfect.
The music in the drop plane sequences sounds almost like electronic MIDI, whereas the original film soundtrack was a bombastic (pun intended), symphonic version. Especially dramatic was the rousing music of the camera zoom shift toward the Norden bombsight targeting of the fleet.
Is there a music license restriction in the standalone clips of this sequence, that forced a change to the electronic replacement?
+Graviton64 I can see a problem of trying to fit new footage into the original music, but I would really miss the original, awesome music if it were replaced in the final version.
Yeap. Its a shame they had to change the music to fit these new sequences.
Quite a bit of controversy on this shot as the bomb was way of target . So much for the Norden bomb sight !
Crazy to think the Tsar bomba was over 2000 times more powerful than this ...
And ASASSN-15lh was approximately 5000000000000000000000000000 times more powerful than that…
These all ships were used for test captured from enemies around the world.
what was the yield of this shot? and from what i heard this bomb missed its intended target
22-23 kilotons, same as the Nagasaki bomb. The bomb missed the target by 710 yards (649 m).
@@buzaldrin8086 not very good accuracy. but with 22-23 kilotons accuracy won't be a problem with an airburst
@@derekwall200 "Had the bomb exploded over the Nevada as planned, at least nine ships, including two battleships and an aircraft carrier, would likely have sunk."
@@buzaldrin8086 only 11 ships total? i think it would possibly sink or disable more vessels if it went off at the ideal altitude of 2000 feet over the target vessel. i am surprised hiroshima is used as a reference and not nagasaki because Hiroshima was only 15 kilotons, nagasaki was 21 kilotons
@@derekwall200 Baker sank nine ships. Physics = > "The underwater fireball took the form of a rapidly expanding hot gas bubble that pushed against the water, generating a supersonic hydraulic shock wave which crushed the hulls of nearby ships as it spread out. Eventually it slowed to the speed of sound in water, which is one mile per second (1,600 m/s), five times faster than that of sound in air."
The bomb missed it's target by 730 meters.. That's pretty poor
It wont destroy gravity, it wont knock a hole in the bottom of the ocean and let all the water of all the oceans drain down, I am not an Atomic Playboy, as some of my cridic's labeled me... lol
3:25 “the bomb missed its target by nearly 800 yards” 😂😂 that’s 730 meters yo Mfs almost put that shit in the wrong grid square
01:25 Fantástico
What year is this trial record?
Was the USS Wyoming there?
No. After the war, she was scrapped.
What year was this
They said this blast didn't hurt the ships bad enough..
Looks bad to me!!
UAPs at 2:59
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