Scientist : **invents nuclear RPG** General : I’ll take that! Scientist : No wait! Its range is only 2000 meters and its blast is 5000 meters. General : I see... General : Hey private, take this! Private : Sir yes sir!
It's a common misunderstanding that the blast radius of the Davy Crocket warhead was greater than the range. That is not the case. That 5000m danger zone was for the possible fallout cloud should the wind shift or be unfavorable to begin with. That thing wasn't designed for direct fire from open positions like an AT gun would be. The crew was expected to fire it from the reverse slope of hills, as per the manual. That or they'd fire from defilade, from prepared positions or some other cover. It was a pretty god dammned stupid weapon TBH.
Well, these are the same kinds of people that thought nuking the moon was a good idea to show how tough they are. Or that walking around with a nuke in a briefcase might be a worthy investment and could in no way go wrong. ......MADD......yup, more fitting than anyone ever would have guessed.
So.... I suppose this is not the best time to tell you about Russia's Dead Hand then? Also, just like the Tsar Bomba, it is not a matter of practicality. They knew it even back then. It is a matter of pride and prestige. Russia has the biggest bomb ever deployed, and even after they shrunk it down. On the other hand, if they actually had that nuclear-machine-gun,.... well... I would be rather discouraged to charge their lines, even if my general himself comes to my barracks every night to tell me they have not deployed it on a noteworthy scale because of impracticality...
Depleted uranium, (DU), which is the U²³⁸ left over when you enrich uranium. It gets used in AP rounds for two reasons: It has the second highest density of any material cheap enough to use, (tungsten is a bit better but it runs $60/lb compared to the "what are we going to do with this stuff?" of DU¹). It has an interesting interaction with steel. It turns out that uranium/iron alloys have low melting points and the impact of a DU penetrator can be forceful enough to create a thin layer of alloy and melt it, with actually lubricates its passage through armour. 1: There are things even better, such as osmium, but it runs $13 _per gram_.
The air gap rang a bell with me. I read a book that was titled 'The Curve of Binding Energy' which was about the guy who probably came up with the air gap idea. It might have still been classified at the time, because he described it only by saying that you get more energy if you hit something with a hammer, than if you just push against something with a hammer. At the time of the book he had designed both the largest and smallest fission devices in the U.S.
Is it more energy, or just more instantaneous pressure? Put the same amount of energy into either a hydraulic press or a mechanical mechanism swinging a hammer, and provided that the surface being either compressed or hit has the same area, the hydraulic press will deliver a more consistent pressure, but the hammer will deliver a much higher instantaneous pressure at the moment of impact. Which works by kinetic energy being converted into pressure, which broadly speaking is how most rotary compressors work too: Whether you have a centrifugal compressor (aka radial outflow) or an axial flow compressor, the blades give the air kinetic energy which is subsequently converted into static pressure.
Scott, i know this series is about nuclear weapons and it's really interesting and in depth, but do you think you'll do an episode or a similar series on nuclear reactor technology? I'm personally more interested in it, and i think a lot of people have misconceptions, and clearing those up could educate people in the political conversation about nuclear energy.
You're supposed to capitalise i when you're talking about yourself, but apart from that your English is better than some English people I know. Good work! :) And yes, I'd love to hear Manley on reactors.
Swedes were a pretty long way into developing a nuclear bomb for their arsenal, with a Mach 2 nuclear bomber to go with it, until they decided that nah, let's not go there.
Supposedly there was a scientist who remarked: _"If the army wants it, we could develop a nuclear hand grenade. The only problem is finding a soldier dumb enough to throw it."_ Unfortunately, I cannot find a source for this quote.
That make me remember a game of Paranoia where my character had a «special» grenade. It was a tack nuke hand grenade, but I did not know that tiny bit of information. When I used it, it obliterated the opponent, as well as my whole party.
@@HappyBeezerStudios minimum safe distance would have been problematic, there's no reason to use something that expensive without giving it a deployment mechanism. Grenades hit a sweet spot of cheap + bang + around/over cover. A nuke would trash whatever cover you were using, and they aren't cheap, so you may as well give them a half-decent rocket and make them explode far enough away they wouldn't blow a hole open in your own lines.
Linear implosion weapons also make use of delta phase stabilised Pu-Ga alloy. Those assembly shocks induce a phase change to a higher density monoclinic structure. The yield of the 155mm W-48 device you showed was tens of tons, not tens of kilotons.
This is by far my favorite of all the Scott Manley series, which says a lot as he is by far my favorite science guy (well, possibly tied with Cody's Lab).
Hey Scott, you’re doing a fantastic job on this series. I’ve never seen some of the fantastic diagrams you’ve been showing here. Also, your detail on fission device internals is really appreciated. Haven’t seen a lot of this material before. Keep up the good work! I’m recommending to my friends!!!
This is without a DOUBT the best video I’ve ever seen on nuclear weapons. I’ve always wondered how they were able to shrink them when they were still implosion type weapons. Thanks so much for how informative this had been 👍
As an 11D (cavalry scout) corporal I arrived at my duty station in Germany in 1976. Upon my arrival at battalion HQ (I was being assigned to the scout platoon of the 2/87 Mech Inf Bn's Combat Support Company, in the 1st Bde, 8th Inf Div) I noticed an award plaque for "Best Davy Crockett Section." I had never heard of the weapon, and was quite shocked to find that it was once doctrine to turn loose a battalion commander with the authority to use nuclear weapons! During the previous two years, I had been based at Ft. Knox, KY (2nd platoon, E Troop, 2nd Sqdn, 6 ACR after basic and advanced training also at Ft. Knox). One day an extremely well-armed convoy came through the post, with MP cruisers and gun jeeps with M60 machine guns and orbiting Cobra attack helicopters. Being escorted was a jeep towing a very secure-looking locker or small Conex on a trailer. There was no official word on what we had witnessed, but our guess was that we had witnessed the delivery of W48 155 mm nuclear artillery shells.
I think linear implosion is my favorite trigger type. A 72 ton yield weapon can be fired over twenty kilometers from a standard 155mm howitzer with a rocket assist base on the shell.
@Jonathan Stiles using pocket nukes or nukes of ANY size is more about salting the Earth than taking out a target. But area denial lasting centuries (until radioactive contamination decays over its lengthy half lives) is beyond simply being Punitive. Who is to say what the borders will be of future countries. An enemy today can become an annexed state/ new ally tomorrow. Using Nukes in any capacity is, simply put, reckless for all our children. The fact that the super power governments armes with nukes even have an approved counter nuke response called MAD (Mutually assured destruction) says enough.
I recently watched “Trinity and Beyond” for the first time, WOW, such a powerful and awe inspiring documentary that touches your very core of humanity. Such a very well done documentary/movie, one that you can watch more than once and still be super interesting on multiple levels.
An analogy I heard relating to the suspended core, probably from a Richard Rhodes book, is that if you want to drive a nail with a hammer you don't place it on the nail and push, you swing it.
@1:50 The "air gap" is what's known to go by the codename "FOGBANK" in modern physics packages, an aerogel of sorts made of a material composition that does not (I assume) interfere with the energy component that is hauling ass towards the fissile pit.
Fun story about FOGBANK - the manufacturing process was lost, and reverse engineered but the new material failed in testing. Eventually they figured out that impurities in the original process were essential to the functionality.
@@scottmanley indeed, which is precisely what piqued my interests, particularly the nature of the "contaminants". I nearly selected it as my senior thesis in college, but I chickened out & took the route of easier subject matter.
3:30 Glad to see you included something from Sweden, I believe it is from 1956 when we still had an active program. It was a very modern design for it's day, looks like the Swan device you talk about later.
Excellent series, I thought I knew the basics of nuclear bomb construction, but there was so much I didn't know. I really love the in depth infos. Thanks, Scott!
my high school physics teacher worked at the AEC way way back in the day. He told us that as modern purification methods improved then it was much easier to set off a chain reaction... as in with a sharp blow from a hammer. I've always wondered if that was true or more likely if i misunderstood what he was trying to get across.
Harry Daghlian make the "Demon Core" became critical - start a chain reaction, what lead to this dead days after due radiation poison; when he accidentally leave a tungsten carbide brick fall over the core.
Thank You Scott...I learned more about nukes and there different designs...in you video ..then books that I've read....The timing in these devices are incredible.... Very interesting....
page 3:29 is a Swedish sketch of a nuclear weapon. it reads "Atomic weapon construction and effect" "Fig. 2. The principal construction of a uranium bomb." Sweden ran a nuclear program up until the 70's not building a bomb but doing all the design and research to be able to. Then we joined the IAEA and those scientists then became well known experts at disarmament of nuclear weapons.
You should have had one last clip at the end where there was a knock at the door, followed by the men in black dragging you away as you yell, _"I'M SCOTT MANLEY! FLY SAFE!"_ and then the camera gets knocked over. Joking aside, it's incredible how ingenious these warmongers can be. Great video, Scott.
At 3:30 - north korea stuff is discussed while showing a schematic with Swedish descriptions with the title translated to: "Atom weapons' design and effect"
Since it's made the mainstream news I'd love to see discussion / analysis / opinion on the recently released UFO footage and the conversation surrounding it.
Whilst it's not a nuke, this guy is pretty interesting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn. David attempted to build a breeder reactor in his garden shed. There's a book on it too.
They had a really great expo about it at the Luftvapenmuseet (air force museum) in Linköping, it might even be a fixed installation. Found out the JAS 37 Viggen was partly developed to be able to carry these nukes(!).
Apparently the government shipped off the weapons grade plutonium, and the breeder reactor, which for a long time was kept around just in case, is also dismantled. We're no longer "a wrench" away from having a nuclear bomb (we no longer have the parts lying around), but we reportedly came very close to actually testing a bomb design.
Wow, Scott...this series is amazing! (and also rather frightening) Thank you for putting this together. That last device you were showing with the oval-shaped pit looked like it was the size of an artillery shell. Do you think a device like that could have been stable enough to deploy with long-range artillery?
My favorite nuclear weapon factoid is probably the fact that the main nuclear and explosive components inside the bombs casing are called the "physics package".
Always love your videos, very entertaining and insightful content! I was wondering what the mic was you're using that's clipped to your shirt though! Thanks for everything, fly safe ^-^
France and India's last atmospheric nuclear tests were in the 90s. France in 1996 and India in 1998 I only know of this because of their references in Worms 2 with the French Nuclear Test, followed by the Indian Nuclear Test in Worms Armageddon (which happens to have the iconic Castle Romeo mushroom cloud on the title screen)
Some amazing thought and effort we put into blowing sht up. I would be typing this comment from one of our Tau Ceti colonies if we put half as much time and effort into building a space fairing infrastructure.
FYI the M-29 Davy Crockett Weapon System blast range was bigger than the range of the 106 that fired it. Was told they were ordered to fire in on the top of a hill and quickly drive down the hill. Still not something I would want to crew
Strategic bombers to a4. Strategic bombers to a5. Ballistic submarine to c5. Tactical nuke on d-8. Nuclear tipped anti air missiles to a4. Massive launch on row 8. Counterlaunch on row 1. Checkmate for both sides.
Scott whare did you get the picture at 3:28? Asking mostly becous it is in Swedish and I would find it intresting to see the rest of the paper or book.
Hey Scott, I really enjoyed your video. Will you do a video on the different types of nuclear fusion reactors and their benefits/risks? Thanks. P.S. I think you forgot Israel as a nuclear power.
I watched a Davy Crockett fire non-nuclear. The jeep mounted weapon also had a 37-mm spotting gun. The operators aimed the weapon using numerous 37-mm shots at a specific target, then they lit a delay fuse, the weapon being dismounted, and drove away at high speed to avoid the blast if it had actually been a nuclear device. The fuse burned down and fired the weapon. The high explosive projectile missed the target point by hundreds of meters. Makes you wonder why a spotting gun was needed! Probably increased the price of the unit $ millions.
My dad was trained to fire nukes with the self-propelled artillery he was the commander over during the Vietnam era. Never did of course, but he was trained at handling and firing them.
This video was atomically good. I'm subscribing because your channel is a fusion of science and gaming.
He has a-mass-ed great knowledge, it's not critical to absorb it all, your neurons will be firing off of the charts.
Danish Aheer What can I say? Scott Manley’s the bomb.
These puns are too much for me, I'm splitting.
It's awesome how he manages to compress these into a perfect sphere of learning.
Best. Reply. Thread. Ever.
Scientist : **invents nuclear RPG**
General : I’ll take that!
Scientist : No wait! Its range is only 2000 meters and its blast is 5000 meters.
General : I see...
General : Hey private, take this!
Private : Sir yes sir!
Things Mr. Welch is no longer allowed to do in an RPG #868: _"I cannot have a gun with an area of affect larger than it's range."_
It's a common misunderstanding that the blast radius of the Davy Crocket warhead was greater than the range. That is not the case. That 5000m danger zone was for the possible fallout cloud should the wind shift or be unfavorable to begin with. That thing wasn't designed for direct fire from open positions like an AT gun would be. The crew was expected to fire it from the reverse slope of hills, as per the manual. That or they'd fire from defilade, from prepared positions or some other cover.
It was a pretty god dammned stupid weapon TBH.
@@mr.pavone9719 hear me out - nuclear trip mine. Now you don’t have to worry about the danger zone greater than the range
@@HappyBeezerStudios RPG here referred to the RPG-7 anti-rank grenade launcher...
The Davy Crockett has got to be one of the craziest devices ever actually deployed. Nuclear hand grenades shot from a potato cannon...
Russians had plans for nuclear bullets. They were so impracticable as to have never been used, but imagine shooting 1 ton bombs from a gun?!
Well, these are the same kinds of people that thought nuking the moon was a good idea to show how tough they are. Or that walking around with a nuke in a briefcase might be a worthy investment and could in no way go wrong. ......MADD......yup, more fitting than anyone ever would have guessed.
In the gulf war, didn't America use decayed uranium bullets?
So.... I suppose this is not the best time to tell you about Russia's Dead Hand then?
Also, just like the Tsar Bomba, it is not a matter of practicality. They knew it even back then. It is a matter of pride and prestige. Russia has the biggest bomb ever deployed, and even after they shrunk it down.
On the other hand, if they actually had that nuclear-machine-gun,.... well... I would be rather discouraged to charge their lines, even if my general himself comes to my barracks every night to tell me they have not deployed it on a noteworthy scale because of impracticality...
Depleted uranium, (DU), which is the U²³⁸ left over when you enrich uranium. It gets used in AP rounds for two reasons:
It has the second highest density of any material cheap enough to use, (tungsten is a bit better but it runs $60/lb compared to the "what are we going to do with this stuff?" of DU¹).
It has an interesting interaction with steel. It turns out that uranium/iron alloys have low melting points and the impact of a DU penetrator can be forceful enough to create a thin layer of alloy and melt it, with actually lubricates its passage through armour.
1: There are things even better, such as osmium, but it runs $13 _per gram_.
The air gap rang a bell with me. I read a book that was titled 'The Curve of Binding Energy' which was about the guy who probably came up with the air gap idea. It might have still been classified at the time, because he described it only by saying that you get more energy if you hit something with a hammer, than if you just push against something with a hammer. At the time of the book he had designed both the largest and smallest fission devices in the U.S.
And he lit a cigarette using a parabolic reflector aimed at a nuclear explosion!
@@CONNELL19511216 That physicist was Ted Taylor. The cigarette story can be read in George Dyson's book "Project Orion".
Is it more energy, or just more instantaneous pressure? Put the same amount of energy into either a hydraulic press or a mechanical mechanism swinging a hammer, and provided that the surface being either compressed or hit has the same area, the hydraulic press will deliver a more consistent pressure, but the hammer will deliver a much higher instantaneous pressure at the moment of impact. Which works by kinetic energy being converted into pressure, which broadly speaking is how most rotary compressors work too: Whether you have a centrifugal compressor (aka radial outflow) or an axial flow compressor, the blades give the air kinetic energy which is subsequently converted into static pressure.
Researching for this series has put Scott on every single watchlist on the planet
Oddly, the ads I see now are things like job search sites for people with security clearances.
I just put him on my watch later list.
I've books with this stuff, had them back in the 1980s...
And most of the rest is from openly available, declassified, US documents.
You're on my watchlist +Scott Manley ! I've been loving your videos since the early KSP days!
@@scottmanley Please dont take any..with non-disclosure forms, we would miss your awesome content.
The Dial-a-Yield type devices was something I had never really understood how they worked. Kudos on teaching me how they work!
Love this series, Scott. As a fellow physics student, this is just fascinating. I never get tired of this topic.
Scott, i know this series is about nuclear weapons and it's really interesting and in depth, but do you think you'll do an episode or a similar series on nuclear reactor technology? I'm personally more interested in it, and i think a lot of people have misconceptions, and clearing those up could educate people in the political conversation about nuclear energy.
Oh and sorry for my english, its not my first language and i've never really had any good formal english education
You're supposed to capitalise i when you're talking about yourself, but apart from that your English is better than some English people I know. Good work! :)
And yes, I'd love to hear Manley on reactors.
The possibilities for nuclear space propulsion would also be a nice subject to cover.
Seconded
On the subject of nuclear propulsion I highly recommend looking up Project Rho.
www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
I'm gonna be so upset if N Korea kidnaps Scott before we get part 5.
he has already been replaced. the glory of north korea is undeniable.
Doing that would be an act of war...even Kerbin would want to be involved.
I’m sure many engineers would be happy to go there and work on dangerous toys.😹
joemacneil2 ☆ Yeah, but when he "gets back", he'll have "Amazing Stories" to tell about "Best Korea"!!!
Did not expect to see a Swedish diagram of a nuke.
Awesome video :D
...does it come with those weird pictogram assembly instructions, then? And a Phillips-head screwdriver plus an Allen wrench to assemble it?
IKEA - nuklær went of style some decades ago
ua-cam.com/video/O0RMOk_LB7M/v-deo.htmlm28s
Swedes were a pretty long way into developing a nuclear bomb for their arsenal, with a Mach 2 nuclear bomber to go with it, until they decided that nah, let's not go there.
I'd say it was the Americans that said. Don't even go there. And offered Sweden protection in exchange.
"Fly safe"
Instructions unclear, destroyed Megaton.
+Tian kay
"Fly safe" - instructions unclear, started the great war.
"Fly Safe"
Instructions Unclear. Changed War
Old Snake: "War...has changed."
Supposedly there was a scientist who remarked: _"If the army wants it, we could develop a nuclear hand grenade. The only problem is finding a soldier dumb enough to throw it."_
Unfortunately, I cannot find a source for this quote.
I believe Teller said that to Feynman.
That's like somewhing where I wonder if they didn't do it, or if there was just nobody with the incentive to use it.
That make me remember a game of Paranoia where my character had a «special» grenade. It was a tack nuke hand grenade, but I did not know that tiny bit of information. When I used it, it obliterated the opponent, as well as my whole party.
Maybe apocrypha, but I heard they worked on, albeit briefly, a nuclear rocket launcher.
Only to be operated by those with a death wish.
@@HappyBeezerStudios minimum safe distance would have been problematic, there's no reason to use something that expensive without giving it a deployment mechanism. Grenades hit a sweet spot of cheap + bang + around/over cover. A nuke would trash whatever cover you were using, and they aren't cheap, so you may as well give them a half-decent rocket and make them explode far enough away they wouldn't blow a hole open in your own lines.
Thanks for the series Dr. Strangelove, really interesting
wow. flawless explanation, good pace, well described and easily visualised. very well done.
Linear implosion weapons also make use of delta phase stabilised Pu-Ga alloy. Those assembly shocks induce a phase change to a higher density monoclinic structure. The yield of the 155mm W-48 device you showed was tens of tons, not tens of kilotons.
this series is one of my favourite educational series on youtube, keep of the great job!
up*
same :D
This is by far my favorite of all the Scott Manley series, which says a lot as he is by far my favorite science guy (well, possibly tied with Cody's Lab).
Hey Scott, you’re doing a fantastic job on this series. I’ve never seen some of the fantastic diagrams you’ve been showing here. Also, your detail on fission device internals is really appreciated. Haven’t seen a lot of this material before. Keep up the good work! I’m recommending to my friends!!!
This is without a DOUBT the best video I’ve ever seen on nuclear weapons. I’ve always wondered how they were able to shrink them when they were still implosion type weapons.
Thanks so much for how informative this had been 👍
As an 11D (cavalry scout) corporal I arrived at my duty station in Germany in 1976. Upon my arrival at battalion HQ (I was being assigned to the scout platoon of the 2/87 Mech Inf Bn's Combat Support Company, in the 1st Bde, 8th Inf Div) I noticed an award plaque for "Best Davy Crockett Section." I had never heard of the weapon, and was quite shocked to find that it was once doctrine to turn loose a battalion commander with the authority to use nuclear weapons!
During the previous two years, I had been based at Ft. Knox, KY (2nd platoon, E Troop, 2nd Sqdn, 6 ACR after basic and advanced training also at Ft. Knox). One day an extremely well-armed convoy came through the post, with MP cruisers and gun jeeps with M60 machine guns and orbiting Cobra attack helicopters. Being escorted was a jeep towing a very secure-looking locker or small Conex on a trailer. There was no official word on what we had witnessed, but our guess was that we had witnessed the delivery of W48 155 mm nuclear artillery shells.
I think linear implosion is my favorite trigger type. A 72 ton yield weapon can be fired over twenty kilometers from a standard 155mm howitzer with a rocket assist base on the shell.
@Jonathan Stiles using pocket nukes or nukes of ANY size is more about salting the Earth than taking out a target. But area denial lasting centuries (until radioactive contamination decays over its lengthy half lives) is beyond simply being Punitive. Who is to say what the borders will be of future countries. An enemy today can become an annexed state/ new ally tomorrow. Using Nukes in any capacity is, simply put, reckless for all our children.
The fact that the super power governments armes with nukes even have an approved counter nuke response called MAD (Mutually assured destruction) says enough.
I recently watched “Trinity and Beyond” for the first time, WOW, such a powerful and awe inspiring documentary that touches your very core of humanity. Such a very well done documentary/movie, one that you can watch more than once and still be super interesting on multiple levels.
Please don't ever stop making videos about nuclear weapons.
This is by far my favourite series of yours.
This is one of the most engaging series tou have ever produced in all the years I've been a viewer. Excellent work, thank you so much!
An analogy I heard relating to the suspended core, probably from a Richard Rhodes book, is that if you want to drive a nail with a hammer you don't place it on the nail and push, you swing it.
@1:50 The "air gap" is what's known to go by the codename "FOGBANK" in modern physics packages, an aerogel of sorts made of a material composition that does not (I assume) interfere with the energy component that is hauling ass towards the fissile pit.
Fun story about FOGBANK - the manufacturing process was lost, and reverse engineered but the new material failed in testing. Eventually they figured out that impurities in the original process were essential to the functionality.
@@scottmanley indeed, which is precisely what piqued my interests, particularly the nature of the "contaminants". I nearly selected it as my senior thesis in college, but I chickened out & took the route of easier subject matter.
Wait the MGS3 nuke was a real thing?!
...It is impossible to tell where reality stops and Kojima's mad genius begins.
It wasn't actually as small as it looks in that game, but yeah, it's real.
3:30 Glad to see you included something from Sweden, I believe it is from 1956 when we still had an active program. It was a very modern design for it's day, looks like the Swan device you talk about later.
I love Richard Feynman. Thanks Scott. 👍. Truly an unsung hero.
"... once you have multiple critical masses trying to get together for a big nuclear party!" Is gonna be my favourite euphemism from now on!
Great series Scott! Definitely the videos I am looking forward too seeing the most on UA-cam right now.
Excellent series, I thought I knew the basics of nuclear bomb construction, but there was so much I didn't know. I really love the in depth infos. Thanks, Scott!
These videos are incredible! Keep up the good work!
Great video Scott, thanks!
Great video, Scott. This has definitely become my new series of choice. Looking forward to episode 5!
my high school physics teacher worked at the AEC way way back in the day. He told us that as modern purification methods improved then it was much easier to set off a chain reaction... as in with a sharp blow from a hammer. I've always wondered if that was true or more likely if i misunderstood what he was trying to get across.
Harry Daghlian make the "Demon Core" became critical - start a chain reaction, what lead to this dead days after due radiation poison; when he accidentally leave a tungsten carbide brick fall over the core.
Nice video, thanks for continuing to educate the masses
The critical masses
Scott this video series is AWESOMESAUCE, keep'em comin'.
can u set it to stun?
You can set it to "kill all organic lifeforms" without harming buildings, is that good enough?
r3dp9 that's rad.
Scott, once again, a terrific series! Learning a great deal! Thanks!
Listening to your explanations with that background music was quite nice. Thank you.
Best series on this channel by far.
Thank You Scott...I learned more about nukes and there different designs...in you video ..then books that I've read....The timing in these devices are incredible....
Very interesting....
page 3:29 is a Swedish sketch of a nuclear weapon. it reads
"Atomic weapon construction and effect"
"Fig. 2. The principal construction of a uranium bomb."
Sweden ran a nuclear program up until the 70's not building a bomb but doing all the design and research to be able to.
Then we joined the IAEA and those scientists then became well known experts at disarmament of nuclear weapons.
Love your channel. Your explanations of how these processes work are very good. Keep up the great work
I'm actually a phsicist and I must say that this is excellent stuff by Scott Manley!
Surely you’re joking!
Cool in-depth explanation
Impressive! lots of stuff I have wondered about even after a ton of reading.
You should have had one last clip at the end where there was a knock at the door, followed by the men in black dragging you away as you yell, _"I'M SCOTT MANLEY! FLY SAFE!"_ and then the camera gets knocked over.
Joking aside, it's incredible how ingenious these warmongers can be. Great video, Scott.
Yes! Thanks Scott .
At 3:30 - north korea stuff is discussed while showing a schematic with Swedish descriptions with the title translated to: "Atom weapons' design and effect"
Thanks Scott.
I like that the things omitted are classified. This means that the history can be interested freely.
I'm loving this series.
Loving this mini series you are doing
Since it's made the mainstream news I'd love to see discussion / analysis / opinion on the recently released UFO footage and the conversation surrounding it.
Can't wait for part 5!
Scott i was in uni when i first watched you. So proud of you.
J w
Up next: how to make your own nuke...
Cody?
Whilst it's not a nuke, this guy is pretty interesting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn. David attempted to build a breeder reactor in his garden shed. There's a book on it too.
That's where codyslab steps in.
Step eight: Use the threat of nuclear annihilation to steal underpants.
Step three; I'm curious, is it ever possible to build a bomb without enrichment?
This is a great series, can't wait to see what this episode has!
Where is that picture at 3:30 from? It's written in Swedish...
It's from the (abandoned) Swedish Nuclear program.
I didn't even know we had a Nuclear program XD
"Abandoned" ;-)
They had a really great expo about it at the Luftvapenmuseet (air force museum) in Linköping, it might even be a fixed installation. Found out the JAS 37 Viggen was partly developed to be able to carry these nukes(!).
Apparently the government shipped off the weapons grade plutonium, and the breeder reactor, which for a long time was kept around just in case, is also dismantled. We're no longer "a wrench" away from having a nuclear bomb (we no longer have the parts lying around), but we reportedly came very close to actually testing a bomb design.
Wow, Scott...this series is amazing! (and also rather frightening) Thank you for putting this together. That last device you were showing with the oval-shaped pit looked like it was the size of an artillery shell. Do you think a device like that could have been stable enough to deploy with long-range artillery?
Atomic Annie was designed to fire nuclear artillery shells. Davy Crockett was designed to be a jeep mounted sort of nuclear bazooka...
Looking forward to part 5. Love you're channel :D
well done scott!!!
My favorite nuclear weapon factoid is probably the fact that the main nuclear and explosive components inside the bombs casing are called the "physics package".
he's scott Manley, " 'Splode safe"
Loving this series
Great video! I'm loving this series!
Scott Manley, you always do great Videos!
Great series...
on this subject would be great to see you discuss orion/deadalus concepts
Really liking this series
I can't imagine being one of those weapons designers. You get up and go to work, but you can't tell your family what you did at work.
Wasn't just weapons. Satellites/spacecraft, advanced electronic equipment, etc. During the Cold War lots of stuff was classified.
Miniaturisation has no limit!! Thanks for the vid
Always love your videos, very entertaining and insightful content! I was wondering what the mic was you're using that's clipped to your shirt though! Thanks for everything, fly safe ^-^
I would like to see you make a video about how the decision was made to stop atmospheric weapons testing.
This series is awesome!
Great video, thanks Mr Manley!
You should make another episode covering what these holes are youre referring to at ~12:40
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France and India's last atmospheric nuclear tests were in the 90s. France in 1996 and India in 1998
I only know of this because of their references in Worms 2 with the French Nuclear Test, followed by the Indian Nuclear Test in Worms Armageddon (which happens to have the iconic Castle Romeo mushroom cloud on the title screen)
Going Nuclear proves that you can find excellent content on UA-cam.
Great narration thank you
Awesome video with surprising detail. What references do you use for such level of detail?
The music is a nice touch.
thanks for the tips.
have you got any advice for a DIY beginner?
Some amazing thought and effort we put into blowing sht up. I would be typing this comment from one of our Tau Ceti colonies if we put half as much time and effort into building a space fairing infrastructure.
FYI the M-29 Davy Crockett Weapon System blast range was bigger than the range of the 106 that fired it. Was told they were ordered to fire in on the top of a hill and quickly drive down the hill. Still not something I would want to crew
How about a nice game of chess?
Strategic bombers to a4.
Strategic bombers to a5.
Ballistic submarine to c5.
Tactical nuke on d-8.
Nuclear tipped anti air missiles to a4.
Massive launch on row 8.
Counterlaunch on row 1.
Checkmate for both sides.
Is it you, Joshua ?
How about Global Thermonuclear War?
@@JoshuaTootell I'm in JOSHUA !lol
12:35 you should make a video of these holes.
I did not know the fallout mini nukes were based off real life thank you Scott!!
Scott whare did you get the picture at 3:28? Asking mostly becous it is in Swedish and I would find it intresting to see the rest of the paper or book.
Hey Scott, I really enjoyed your video. Will you do a video on the different types of nuclear fusion reactors and their benefits/risks? Thanks. P.S. I think you forgot Israel as a nuclear power.
He are talking about the countries that actually tested a nuclear bomb.
What a thrill
With darkness and silence through the night
MGS3 references....
Nice gozanti class imp carrier in the back Scott!
I watched a Davy Crockett fire non-nuclear. The jeep mounted weapon also had a 37-mm spotting gun. The operators aimed the weapon using numerous 37-mm shots at a specific target, then they lit a delay fuse, the weapon being dismounted, and drove away at high speed to avoid the blast if it had actually been a nuclear device. The fuse burned down and fired the weapon. The high explosive projectile missed the target point by hundreds of meters. Makes you wonder why a spotting gun was needed! Probably increased the price of the unit $ millions.
Scott, could you make a video on thorium nuclear power?
Yeah, I'd love to see a separate series talking about the various nuclear _reactor_ designs. :D
Me too. Would love to see this.
My dad was trained to fire nukes with the self-propelled artillery he was the commander over during the Vietnam era. Never did of course, but he was trained at handling and firing them.
4:49. Less than 20 cm, if it was solid, which it wasn't. It was a shell probably around 48cm in diameter.
Thank you. Excellent Explanation.
Part 5, Scott shows us how to build one in his garage.