Operation Upshot Knothole (1953)
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Courtesy National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office
0800015 - Operation Upshot-Knothole - 1953 - 35:45 - Color
This operation conducted at the Nevada Test Site consisted of 11 atmospheric tests. There were three airdrops, seven tower tests, and one airburst. Conducted between March 17 and June 4, 1953, this operation involved the testing of new theories, using both fission and fusion devices. A new and revolutionary method of producing deliverable thermonuclear weapons was successfully tested. Approximately 21,000 Department of Defense military and civilian personnel participated in Operation Upshot-Knothole as part of the Desert Rock V exercise.
Unfortunately, Operation Upshot-Knothole, particularly the HARRY test, drew a great deal of criticism as resultant fallout levels produced increased offsite radiation exposures.
The tests comprising the 1953 Operation Upshot-Knothole were as follows:
ANNIE, March 17, tower, weapons related, 16 kilotons (kt)
NANCY, March 24, tower, weapons related, 24 kt
RUTH, March 31, tower, weapons related, 200 tons
DIXIE, April 6, airdrop, weapons related, 11 kt
RAY, April 11, tower, weapons related, 200 tons
BADGER, April 18, tower, weapons related, 23 kt
SIMON, April 25, tower, weapons related, 43 kt
ENCORE, May 8, airdrop, weapons effects, 27 kt
HARRY, May 19, tower, weapons related, 32 kt
GRABLE, May 25, fired from 280 mm gun, airburst, weapons related, 15 kt
CLIMAX, June 4, airdrop, weapons related, 61 kt
The knowledge gained is invaluable. I couldn’t imagine having to pack all the different test on every possible medium.
Something tells me they will be at it again in no time. The excuse will be... rebuilding stockpiles, and former data gathered is now obsolete.
I used the road instructions and followed them on Google Earth from Vegas to Mercury, then north to Jackass flats. You can still see some of the test structures, like the long buildings built with various type of walls, and a cleared area with rows and columns of dots that were the bases of the trees in the "forest".
Wow. Sounds good.
Cool.
You can also see scores of craters, if you know what to look for!
@@robgyanisu312 I've even found the sites where they tested the NERVA nuclear rocket engine and nuclear jet engines, just slightly to the west of the underground explosion test site (look for the railroad tracks they remotely moved the radioactive engines around on.
@@robgyanisu312 That would be Yucca Flats where they shot off many underground tests. The ground collapses into a crater afterwards. The huge Sedan crater to the far north is the biggest exception.
"gadgets" sounds so much more innocuous and nice than "WMDs".
It was keeping to secrecy of early weapon development during WWII. Post WWII the term remained.
Gadgets aren't bombs. Its an explosive, but its more science experiment than deliverable weapons system.
I've been trying operation upshot knothole on my girl for almost 7 years.
As the video explains at 1:18, you've got to ease her into it first with Operations Bust Her Jangle and Tumble Her Snapper
Your girlfriend? We all have. 🙋🏻♂️
@@serotoninsyndrome 🤣
@@serotoninsyndrome oof, these jokes are really taking atoll on me
😂 June 30, 2023
Stanley Kubrick must have watched all these nuclear films before he created “Dr Strangelove”
Howard maryon-davis Oh I’m sure - his satire was so blindingly on point in that film
I'm sure he read the book Fail Safe too.
@@waterandafter The source book for Dr. Strangelove was the Peter George novel Red Alert.
@@LordZontar
Then I'm sure Kubrick read Red Alert then.
I was reading how the film 'The Conqueror' with John Wayne was filmed a year after this in Utah (down wind of the test site). Many cancer deaths to follow of the cast and crew of that film. Sorry if this has already been mentioned.
Hey but thats DATA to these assholes !
Yup,I remember that read
Interesting information, it is amazing how we looked at those sites as not deadly.
I think that in the next 50 years they reveal and understand that a lot of cancers in this country are from those above ground test where millions were exposed to fall out around the world and country.
This of course does not even begin to discuss the tests that were done in the bikini islands.
If you want to see some interesting films look up John pilger
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he has many films on many things mostly on human rights and war, and our criminal governments actions around the world but he does have some on atomic weapons and the bikini islands.
Thanks for the info Ronbo710, never knew about that. I've actually got the DVD of the Conqueror with Mr Wayne and all those who got cancer because they were 137 miles downwind of the test site where they'd detonated 11 devices a few years before. Of the 220 cast and crew, 92 got cancer and 46 died from it. I wonder why all the others at the location did not get cancer when John Waynes own son also got cancer from just a short visit?
Hmm...
Cast of "The Conqueror:
John Wayne: Smoker for 40 years, lung cancer
Susan Hayward: 2 packs a day, lung cancer metastisized
Pedro Armendáriz: suicide
Agnes Moorehead: uterine cancer
John Hoyt: lung cancer, heavy smoker
Lee Van Cleef: heart failure
Thomas Gomez: car accident
William Conrad: heart atttack
Ted de Corsia: heart attack
Richard Loo: stroke
Peter Mamakos: I couldn't find cause of death, but it was in 2008, age 89
Leslie Bradley: heart attack
director Dick Powell: lung cancer, chain smoker
Maybe not conclusively proving any relationship to nuclear tests.
Read the book "The Day We Bombed Utah" if you want to know about the 5000 sheep these shots killed and the hundreds of resulting cancer cases that the people in the desert and in St. George, Utah suffered from. And how the AEC completely covered it all up...
Yes,we nuked our selves, or the government at the time, small towns even took school children to go see the mushroom cloud, and how about the soldiers used as guinea pigs ,I'm sure the Soviets and Ted Chinese have worst horror stories
Mark Gulbrandsen My uncle was one of the enlisted guys who ran out to measure the radiation after the blast. He died at 69 of six types of leukemia. Three of his seven children and two grandchildren have rare genetic defects and one son died, also of leukemia at age 40. For decades, even his wife had no idea where he was stationed or what he did in the service.
What a surprise
Some guy from MN had problems, too.
@Dave Micolichek True, association is not causation. However, there has been elevated rates of cancer occurring in the area that the "down-winders" have been given compensation. Which is, I'm sure you know, unrelated to genetic defects.
Funny point. They stacked a pile of old mattresses at the bottom of the tower when they hoisted the Trinity device into the tower, in a pointless but amusing attempt to protect the device if it fell during hoisting. For many tower shots afterward, they often still used mattresses, as a kind of joke, or out of superstition.
It's not silly the device is not armed when being hoisted up the towers. Therefore it is actually just there to soften the fall of the extremely expensive hardware as no atomic detonation would have occurred, just a loud "thud".
Actual weapons have been dropped out of planes before with cores but not fully armed, bit scary but they just drifted down on parachutes or dropped with said THUD to the ground. to be gathered up later, except for one that landed in a swamp and was never recovered (officially).
"The residual end product of this test series was knowledge." .......And a lot of cancer
The other end product of this test is that we are not all speaking Russian.
@@dale116dot7 Blyat!
The smoke rockets are there to gauge, among other things, the displacement of air due to the shock wave(s). It is one of the methods used to determine the yield of the bomb, its kiloton or megaton equivalent.
I wish they would have showed more of the stuff getting blown away.
You can research this and find the videos from the individual shots. Some of these were recorded with extremely high speed cameras so the film could be matched to the test clock and run frame by frame. You are looking for effects tests movies.
**If I new fission was so dangerous, I would've never taken it up as a hobby when I was a kid! We used to go fission at several local ponds and streams all the time!**
I split my sides laughing at that .
Bottom line: The closer you are to the blast, the worse it gets
I thought it went.... "The closer you.... The better the view!"
delightful.The real fun began with starfish prime.
Uploaded in 2009.
11 years later:
"UA-cam: let's put it into his recommended feed"
Thanks for posting this up. I watched another documentary about the Soviets favourite nuclear testing area the Ural mountains. I'd hate to think how many have died because of this scary science.
Or how many would have died without it.
Very true Paul.
From 16:30 to 18:18 - clean your yard, paint your house and use an oil-smoker. Got that...
That's some good advice about reducing the affects of fire hazards by how you maintain your house. I can be rest assured i can look at my house still in good condition after the fact while the flesh falls off my body like a rotting zombie just before I drop dead of radiation poisoning.
See, no need to be concerned about the house. Your rotting corpse won't care. Smart man cuts right to the core of the issue.
Live fast... Die young... With a great looking house.
For such a humongous book at the beginning, this video should be about 6 months long...
It's full of pictures!
So when I was active duty Air Force we stayed in Las Vegas for training. We'd go to the desert all the time for firearm and night ops training. We'd see all kinds of lights and stuff in the hills. We stayed at a DoE base outside of Las Vegas and we couldn't have our cell phones on or take pictures. Good Times.
@Trumpenstein And you are likely a Marine reject.
@@dadillen5902 Airforce is the military for smart people :)
This is the moral for wild fires too. Most homes destroyed from wild fires are due to crap around the house.
The Photographers who shot this probably died from High Radiation Exposure.
The gaps in audio are maddening where the--no doubt over-zealous--censor has removed something they considered too sensitive to broadcast.
That's how the film was "sanitised" prior to declassification and release. Certain details regarding nuclear weapon design and performance are still considered top secret, even for devices of this vintage.
America and the USSR are the only countries to my knowledge who have bombed themselves with nukes and I'm the mad one,love the videos though.
At the time of these tests, nobody had any real understanding of how bad the contamination problems after a nuclear blast were. You'll notice the tests they are running, with samples to determine neutron emission and what the neutron spectrum was like... tests in those drone aircraft to determine the direct radiation in roentgens from the blast. Nobody is setting up dust collectors or sampling fallout or debris because they weren't thinking about it being hazardous. This is why folks were wandering around on the site a year later... it wasn't very radioactive after a year, so how bad could it be? It could be really bad because the radiation that was there was coming from radionuclides that would wind up inside your body. But it wasn't until a decade later than anyone started thinking about contamination instead of just thinking about radiation exposure.
One of the very cool things to come out of this set of tests was that there was an array of low frequency acoustic sensors deployed around the world to detect the pressure wavefront from the detonations and figure out what infrasonic signatures resulted from various bomb configurations. That research is used today as part of a network to detect nuclear testing and enforce the various test ban treaties. It wouldn't be possible to enforce test bans today if it weren't for the research that came out of this series.
If you think the government did not collect samples and monitor the fallout you are not thinking correctly. The AEC had monitoring trucks and crews that measured radiation levels after test shots and collected soil and air samples for measuring radionuclides. They detected everything there was to see. They knew where to send the trucks because the air force was flying planes through the plumes collecting air samples and measuring height and direction of travel. These plumes traveled east and eventually damaged film being prepared by Eastman Kodak in New York. They had all kinds of problems because of the nuclear tests, contamination was getting into the cardboard packaging and spotting their film.
Only the Air Force could come up with a code name like Upshot Knothole, Buster Jangle and Tumbler Snapper.
Only a dip wade could come up with a name like WootTootZoot. Glass houses boy glass houses.
Super advanced shot nine: ima do some real damage bro
Grable (shot 10): hold my beer
The Q lmao
I love knothole action
The Walking Ghost Phase (not syndrome) was a term coined for the latent phase of acute radiation poisoning. It is a period of apparent good health lasting several days to weeks after receiving a fatal dose of radiation.
It also applies to nitric acid poisoning except you only get one day of good health and a 50-50 chance you'll litteraly drop dead the next day.
Would hate to see the unsanitized version.
I went on a tour of the Nevada test site a couple years ago. Very cool to be eating great fried chicken at a commissary out in the middle of nowhere, within a few miles of Area 51.
10:21 That is a very good point, actually. The fireball and resulting mushroom, although iconic, is quite different from the fireballs you see of ones from implosion weapons. I guess the shape would be different because of the way Mk. 1 gun barrel assembly occurs and the yield could potentially fizzle due to Uranium-235's spontaneous fission versus the implosion assembly's more consistent yield.
Area 51
Brings back memories of my first exploration of YT. There was a grinch avatared character that knew a lot about this subject. Nuclear weapons/history of their production, use etc. Wonder if he still around.
Dang, i'd like to watch the unsanitary version.
It would probably show any military buildings and cars that they also tested (as opposed to the civilian houses and cars).
Also, the dead animals.
@@waterandafter good point.
I find it interesting how they could figure out how the heat of the ground was affecting the blast wave. And talk about the variety of tests, they should have tested the effects on bombers, half tracks, and heavier tanks. I wonder if civil design took any of the information from this operation to heart for buildings? Thanks for shearing this truly fascinating moment of American nuclear history!
Bring back atmospheric testing.
It'd be cool and all to do just one more. You know so we could get it in like 8k footage at 10000FPS. But it might not be worth it tbh.
This test was unique in the fact that two of the weapons (nicknamed Ruth and Ray) tested, were moderated like a reactor using deuterium (Ray),unlike all other bombs witch are unmoderated. Also in the fact that two 280mm nuclear artiler guns were tested.
I think we all know that shooting a nuclear explosive isn't a common way to deliver it, nor is it a pratical way. Heck, i'm sure a general just said ''who needs fancy rocket technology? Lets make a big gun!'' and the project started
Narrator was Reed Hadley.
Its interesting to see this, you know some of the footage in these test film have been seen in 'The Day After (1983)'
Watching this 62 year old video has a nostalgic feeling for me being an American "child of the 50's". Our technology has advanced a LOT over these last 6 decades. I've worked for the DoD at an aerospace facility for over 35 years. Whenever I hear of North Korea or Iran trying to build a basic fission bomb like we dropped on Hiroshima amazes me. Any large university with a couple of Billion Dollars in Government support could build a basic fission bomb in just a couple of years. The technology is almost 70 years old! If Iran, Iraq, Libya, Egypt or North Korea really wanted a good ole "A-Bomb" they would have had one years ago. I'm NOT a conspiracy nut but something sure smells fishy. A smart guy with government support could probably build an A-Bomb in his basement...
(1) My understanding is that N. Korea now has thermonuclear bombs.
(2) Great, now Harvard probably has the bomb. Yikes.
Or not: (re the DPRK): www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-confusion-the-data-suggest-north-korea-s-h-bomb-isn-t/
justachannel of course havard can make a nuclear bomb, they can do it with less than 100,000$. But why would they? The government already has way too many A-bombs. Also, north korea has had a couple nuclear missiles for a while, which i guess is why the U.S.A hasn't invaded it in the name of ''freedom'' yet
The problem is that these countries are under embargo and cannot buy the equipment even if they have the money. Equipment that is accessible even to large non governmental companies like good machine tools.
It is much easier for a non-pariah state to do that and India and Pakistan did it easily.
North Korea did it and probably got thermonuclear bombs and decent missiles right now.
Also a crude bomb is not worth much, NK for example went straight for bombs that could be launched by missiles and that are in the 100kt range.
It is not a problem in finances. But in supporting industry. No matter how much money you have no nuclear power nation would sell you plutonium. And if you try to make supporting industry there is always Isrel to bomb your reactor, od NSA kid to stick a virus into your gaseus centrifuges, or USAF to bring democracy, or at least rest of the free world to pose every immaginable sanction. And this is coming from me, a nuclear enginner (fully capable of design and produce far more advanced devices than multipple-point-solid pit-implosion device) from a country that some 60yrs ago tried to make its own fission bomb, well that didnt go well. First we had our state security reduced to rumbles, then we had our nuclear institutes turned into high end nuclear waste storage units for EU and last but not least our high education institutions, and universities made tottaly incompetent... And yes, we also had really bloody civil war induced, and democracy brought to US by NATO in 1999. Just to be clear, I hate shit US did to my country, but if we take into account history of my people, its love for corruption and other really bad stuff, it is probbably better this way. I woud not like to see no one from my government handling power plant reactor, and certanly no one from my army handling nuclear device. I can tottaly immagine some crazy colonel selling bomb core to terrorists for few million usd. They sure sold the whole country for a little more.😂
Per the opening credits this version of film has been "sanitized". We see planes and building being blasted away. What sort of things would have been cut? Paint on my house is good but I need to get my yard cleaned up!
Bitterrootbackroads Thinking live animals were used in testing.
Idk. Still top secret information maybe.
Calling weapons "gadgets" seems a little too casual for my comfort...
It’s probably pretty normal for these psychopaths though - real life Dr. Strangelove shit
F P basic self awareness. Lack of.f
How about trinkets or maybe widgets? Do you like those better. If they happened on the 4th of July or on bonfire nights (Guy Fawkes night, google it) you could call them firework. Frankly, what happened, who did it and who has or will die as a result is meaningless. It happened can't be undone, can't be fixed. Besides, we have far greater problems now that have and will continue to do far more damage than these little pop guns. There you go we can call them pop guns.
well kiddo, why don't you be a good sport and just call them "doo-hickeys"
@@randomhiphop5055 I like that.
The matter of fact nature of these films is horrific. No mention of the effects on humans, as if we didn't even exist, or certainly wouldn't afterwards.
I completely agree. I don't the class that created these weapons of mass destruction wants a world filled with people.
These tests gave my grandmother Leukemia.
And you brain damage. Do you have any more OPINIONS.
Lol the title sounds really dirty to me for some reason
@@RandomRoulett3 Undoubtedly 🤮
upshot cornhole
Perfectshot wronghole!
Fish slot tuna hole
Operation: Cockblock Bunghole
love these Nevada activities , where gadgets were shot off.
I was looking into some history about the Manhattan Project, Japan, and that time in general from 1945 to 1980 or so but one of the things I like to do is look on maps where these places are; What blew my mind is that on satellite views, you can look at all the nuclear test craters on Yucca Flat ! I mean there’s like 50 or more craters.
IIt’s pretty wild, scary, and interesting all at the same time. - You can even see the Apple House I and II from satellite.
- You can also see ‘News Bob’ where they used to watch the shots. I mean it must’ve been pretty awesome as it’s only like 10 miles away.
It's unnerving to know that the plutonium nitrate from Hanford that was used at the Trinity test went right down highway 95 in front of my house.
Is the audio of the explosion original? Had read or heard most audio is gone or not recorded just curious if that was actual audio
I knew taking care of my property was important. Now I know it will save me in a nuclear war!
Any data how many people working here died of cancer and radiation ?
It was a different time, a different mindset, but it’s still a very serious discussion.
Armageddon's Actuaries were thorough as hell.
Also: Those old cars were pretty much unaffected by EMP.
Gives meaning to the phrase "hot car".
Yeah, though your battery could be destroyed and that fancy car radio would likely be fried, regardless of its vacuum tubes. A _fully_ mechanical diesel-powered vehicle is most resilient, when it comes to withstanding an EMP (or interference from low-flying UFOs).
@@anhedonianepiphany5588 The battery? LOL
If I were to pick THE device most likely to survive an EMP it would be a lead acid battery.
Those cars will be fine.
Radios would be the only real vulnerability.
Yes diesel without a computer would be the champ especially since gasoline deteriorates.
"Operation NutShot WrongHole"
opportunities were missed when naming this Operation....
Ask your average person how many tests of Nuclear weapons have gone on since we started testing nuclear weapons, they will guess so low it will scare them when you inform them of the total number of tests.
2056 that we are privy to.
@F P Who the F are you? Nukes are not smart. It's the dumbest thing that the smartest people have come up with. Thanks Einstein
I noticed that the CP was located to west as they themselves didn't want to be downwind.
Lead based paint is great when it comes to protecting a structure against thermal flash. It isn't so good for your well water though.
Would you rather die from lead poisoning or radiation poisoning.... take your pick!
Lead based paint will not contaminate your well water so your good
@@optimisticfuture6808 It's the inhalation of dust that gets kids brain damage.
No, untrue. The Soviets carried out a huge civil use program for nuclear bombs, much larger than our plowshares program. Several applications worked well for them. The programs were terminated by the requirements of the verification protocols of the test ban treaties. Notably successful were the deep seismic sounding and the storage cavity programs; the data from the former and the cavities of the latter are still in use. The radiation scares in ore/oil/gas production are more PR than real.
puncheex2 nobody is conversing with you.
Aside from the gamma rays, heat, and pressure wave, everything subjected to the tremendous force becomes a deadly projectile.
The worst crime ever committed. One upon a time we dropped one of them on a city full of people and they burned for decades, im so ashamed!
You're right imo,, the bombs at Hiro and Naga were militarily unnecessary,, but Washington couldn't help being hideously evil and bombing a living city...
Upshot Knothole sounds like something found on Urban Dictionary.
More like a yoga position
They had drones in 1953. 19...53. Just imagine what they have now.
They were used in WW2 as well
The Narrator states at 09:20..."number 9 on 8 May" and then goes on to describe the 8th shot ' Encore'........the real number 9 shot was 'Harry' or 'Dirty Harry'...a 32kt tower shot that seriously irradiated downwinders.
Upshot Knothole sounds like something you'd get by browsing furry stuff with NSFW filters off.
Moral of the story;
Shot 9 yielded negligible effects.
Shot 10, on the other hand...
Well, let's just say if you only have one nuclear weapon of this size, to maximize destructive potential it's clearly best to set the ordinance to explode at the lowest altitude to the ground as possible, without touching it or going below. (Like, in a valley, recessed area, or inside a building or basement, subliminal.)
And, survivability depends greatly on cleanliness, preparation, materials, distance from ground zero, and whether or not you're, "dug in," somewhere, during the event.
The chances of living through a nuclear attack are absolutely NONE at ground zero + about a mile radius, and increases very, VERY slowly and steadily after that.
🐢 "Duck and Cover," my ASS! 🤣
You can survive after about 500 metres if you're in a concrete building and about 100 meters if you're in a bunker.
At 6K feet, this is the highest gadget we've ever fired....@5:25 and then the sound goes quiet for a bit. Hmmm....wonder if this was an EMP test. Silence is golden!
Pretty trippy, to say the least.
This
Just this....
Love it
That's funny. I'd never heard of Walking Ghost syndrome, so I looked it up. The whole first page was occupied with it being the name of an album by Pesticide. On the second page I see it is equated to Walker Warburg syndrome, the first phase of ARS.
I have to agree with you about the usefulness of atomic weapons, and I think I can see where you're coming from. You're probably right about it in that light, but it wasn't something that could just be ignored either. I don't see an alternative.
had to have been poisoned for a while after all those damn explosions
All horrible experiments on animals are carefully omitted there.
When I say "no one should have paid attention to", I meant to state my interpretation of your scoffing remark about our preeminence in production that the real reasons were to be ignored. That may be incorrect, but there were many things to be learned from testing, not the least of which is better weapons, and perhaps the greatest is the pure physics.
When ever you see the words this film has been sanitized it just makes you think about the camera guy n camera putting his life on the line by filming this
Who shot this ? David Lean AND David Lynch ?
Who is the narrator? The voice is very familiar
These videos are S.P.E.C.I.A.L. indeed.
Communist countries had nuclear bombs and we were rightfully afraid of them. If you don't factor that information into your mind when you think about stuff like this, you will not come away with a proper understanding of the times. Whatever safety shortcuts were made in the West, the communists cut even more. A war with them was very possible, especially since the Korean war was still going on when these tests were being done. From the time the communists took over Russia, they never stopped saying that they wanted to convert the whole world to communism. After WW2, they had gotten China, were fighting to get Korea. We had given them Eastern Europe in exchange for fighting Hitler. And many other countries were being seduced by soviet money and lies. The reality is communism killed at least 100,000,000 people in the 20th century, so there can't be any confusion about them being anything but evil. Larger capitalist countries have frequently brought pain to small nations who they have exploited, but communism always ended up hurting them even more.
It cracks me up that they thought they could know from which direction a Russian nuke would hit the aircraft.
They try to say that having a clean house and yard will protect you from atomic blast. Lol.
9:32 Question - Can anyone explain what causes these thin smoke columns off to the right of the main explosion here? I've seen similar in other recordings of nuclear explosions.
I believe they are smoke columns started before the shot to observe the blast wave with. They are discussed in another film like this, unfortunately I do not remember which one or what exactly they are called.
Smoke trails left by sounding rockets.
explosion hardware may even be disadvantageous
You're right, the cold war was only a myth, my bad good sir.
Did the mushroom cloud at the end (about 33:35) take on a significant phallic appearance? Or is it just me?
Only people looking for porn see that. Wash your hands.
billo321 Nuclear porn. More bang for the buck.
It's just you. 🙄
There is only an effective EMP with a high altitude air-burst, perhaps 80 or so miles up.
This should be shown in schools. In civics class along side "the corporate you, the private you One citizen" and "inferred consent and what it mesns and how it works". As well as "How trade agreements and treaties impact all aspects of our lives." We don't teach our children and weren't taught ourselves about the many aspects of citizenship and how the exercisium of such helps check the excesses of government and the corruption of it. The power of the Juror and why the "Constitution" is the highest law of the land . Our schools are controlled by the "federal monies" our state gets. As is all things which have federal assistance, which must follow federal guidlines. The Supreme Court decided that as a citizen, you should know so they, the federal government, need not inform or help you implement your rights or duties as a citizen. So they no teach . Have a good day.
@JanThePooka Carburetors and mechanically-timed ignition AIN'T NO THANG
the horror of nuclear explosions is real
@Peter Rumsby I don't think Coronavirus is a bioweapon
I think it's just due to incompetent lab practices in China in some Virology labs
As well as wet markets
The info is out now
I presume that you didn't bother to watch the video. They were at some pains to show that a small part of teh testing was weapon development (it is actually no small part, but integrated into the rest throughout) and the major part is weapon effects studies. How could you listen to that and think it was either delivery methods or simple political posturing?
What does Upshot-Knothole mean?
rrhone nothing really. It's just a codename
@J Dial I think Upshot was the weapons development. Knothole were the tests themselves, could be wrong. Looks like I was born on the year of operation Knothole lol. Shot 10 was the artillery shot, and it had some unusual effects including the "precurser" effect they talk about, involving preheating of the ground, which seems to have caused some unusual propagation of the blast wave which caused additional damage.
Bookcase = 50s Internet.
I can't imagine why cancer rates are so high 🤔
It's now called French fries flats
To my mind there seems to have been a lot of unnecessary testing with all these nuclear tests which must have cost billions of dollars. Weapons of mass destruction proved themselves with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, after that there was ever increasing weapons of power which left little to the imagination of the destruction they would have wrought if used. I understand man's curiosity, but I can't help but think it was testing for the sake of testing.
The further you are away from nuclear radiation
5:23 something got redacted. A good thirty seconds of narration cut🤔
They used the word Sanitized back then.
@JanThePooka Not back then, but it would now because all vehicles these days are fitted with onboatd diagnostics chips....
I love these atomic era films from the Cold War narrated by Reed Hadley
Wouldn´t the EMP render the vehicles unusable @24:31??
No
No, those old vehicles with points and coils would work fine. Today's vehicles would get fried!
DS: not necessarily. The emp from relatively small devices at low altitudes is not great and dissipates rapidly with distance from the blast.
Jan Brinkmann no. It only disables electronic and computer ignition systems such as most modern cars. Back then the gasoline engines had solid state points ignition and the diesels had mechanical fuel injection.
Jan Brinkmann No, there were computerized systems in cars.
WOW this test was the test that killed John Wayne. He was down wind filming a movie. A lot of the crew got cancer and died.
Over 25 years later? After smoking 2 packs a day the whole time? I think you need to check your logic on this one Zarcon. There is no way to tell for sure what causes any individual's cancer, only possibilities and probabilities. For all anyone knows it could have been a photon from a gamma ray burst from a galaxy 200 million light years away hitting a gene on his 4th chromosome.
Totally agree. John Wayne's six pack-a-day smoking had no effect on his health, and his heavy drinking had nothing to do with his stomach cancer.
And the other actors and the camara crew and the supporting crews and the horses and other animals used in the filming of gangus con
@@dshedwick3235 My late Father was on one of the Escort Carriers in WWII. His carrier was involved in going to either Hiroshima or Nagasaki and picking up Allied POW's and also evacuating many Japanese from there. He was exposed. In the late 1990's as he was dying from lung cancer from cigarettes, the VA. finally ran some tests and determined that the radiation from the bomb had also slightly contributed to his cancer. I was told that each atomic device has an atomic signature that can be traced back to that particular device and that is how my Father's radiation was traced back to that time.