I used to work at Hanford, where they manufactured the plutonium for the bomb, and this is by far the best explanation and animation I've yet seen of it. Thank you.
@@oatlord In spite of all the fear-mongering that environmental groups spill out, the radioactivity of U235 and Pu239 is not at all intense or dangerous (I used to have a 5lb. chunck of U238 as a desktop paperweight). It was even common for some of the nuclear engineers to hold a piece of pure Pu239 in in their hand to experience the heat generated by the alpha radiation, which cannot penetrate a piece of paper (the particle, not the heat).
Give this man a medal, i havent seen a nuclear bomb presentation so detailed and well made. The animations were awesome and you explained every step with detail and you also started the video with the basic idea. You should be more popular 👍👍
This was how I learnt it perfectly in chemistry and physics till some UA-cam guys tryna confuse me into doubling mass that becomes unstable and I wonder how that represents the well understood physics and chemistry that I was a distinction student in. The only thing is I wasn't told back in school that you have to let the distance between atoms in the plutonium be very short to increase contact possibilities. I taught there will be continuous contact however.
This is the "engineering of Atomic Bomb explained"...for the rest of us. I never thought such a complex engineering mechanism can be explained so simply any eloquently. Well done!
I am a nuclear physicist and this is a very well done BASIC explanation. It is very accurate, but understand the complexity is significantly greater than this video. If you get anything from this, i hope everyone now understands that a nuclear detonation from a dropped bomb or air crash is impossible because of the incredible precision of the explosives to compress the sphere. I
@@aduboi1534agreed. It’s just most of these videos assume the viewers are stupid and leave out stuff like the explosive lens. If you have advice for a more detailed look, I’d love to take a look. Just starting American Prometheus now.
@@aduboi1534also, THANK YOU I always wondered why that live nuke the American govt accidentally dropped on American soil didn’t explode. I was on tour with a punk band and our host brought us to this little tiny sign that commemorates the event. I couldn’t conceive why this wasn’t more commonly held knowledge.
Amazing. I NEVER understood until now that the symbol for radioactivity is actually a depiction of the explosive lense charges with the supercritical mass at the center. Mind blown.
It is not, it represents activity radiating from an atom. Quote: _The three-bladed radiation warning symbol, as we currently know it, was "doodled" out at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley sometime in 1946 by a small group of people. This event was described in a letter written in 1952 by Nels Garden, head of the Health Chemistry Group at the Radiation Laboratory: "A number of people in the group took an interest in suggesting different motifs, and the one arousing the most interest was a design which was supposed to represent activity radiating from an atom."_ I cannot imagine the USA, in 1946 on an ultra top secret project, designing a warning symbol which gives the architecture on how to do an atomic bomb, it would be like: _"Hey every one on Earth, this is how we made it"_ ;)
@@patlab555 that’s interesting. truth is always stranger than fiction, here it is because somehow the doodle still ended up looking exactly like an explosive lense and a supercritical core. Crazy.
If anyone is starting this and wondering if it’s accurate and worth the time, yes. It is. Best description that for a layperson, lays out the basic details most of these kind of videos leave out. The explosive lens is such a beautiful, complex engineering idea. Thank you for making this.
Excellent, clear explanation of a complex subject. Thanks for the effort taken to keep the graphics and detail accurate and understandable while not ignoring the moral dimensions.
This is absolutely the best explanation of the workings of the bomb that I've ever seen. It's difficult (at best) to give simple explanations and still capture this much detail. Very well done!
This is the very best explanation that ive seen on this subject. I feel like i have a thorough understanding of how it works, and an immense appreciation for the engineering involved
It was wonderful documentary. With all the superb explaining and detailed illustration, my mind still can't fully wrap around how something so small can become so big and powerful in the blink of an eye. It's like trying to understand gravity, invisible forces. Bugs me a little bit.
Never quite understood the mechanics of the explosives' action that was created to make the sphere reach super critical mass to create the fission reaction itself, which is measured in picoseconds. An incredible feat of science and engineering.
Very very well done Sir! Incredible to see a simplified explanation of the most complex and destructive device ever build. Please continue your great work! 👌
This is so well explained. I'm just from watching an Oppenheimer video by Veritasium, then I read about the Japanese vs US war so I got curious about the bomb. I may have to watch it again and read further to cement my understanding but you've made it an approachable subject without prior knowledge, thank you.
One of the best animations I’ve seen on this. They even got the witting initiator design and explosive lensing detonation waves correct - which people usually gloss over. Excellent!
This video is awesome. Good job man, thanks for all the detailed explanation and animation. After seeing this video, I now finally understand the reason why the hazard symbol for radiation looks the way it looks.
I have sen many videos explaining the atomic bomb but must say this one is by far the best one and explaining/showing it in a really "easy" way that not to complicating to understand! Awesome done by the creator!
Cool video!! I have published extensively on the physics and history of the Manhattan project, and I would show this to my students. A few very minor quibbles: It is more properly called an "implosion" lens (for obvious reasons), the Po and Be have to be separated initially (I think they used gold foil to stop the alphas until the two were mixed by the implosion), the Pu core was in two hemispheres (they had to put the initiator inside!), and the bomb was raised into the plane form a loading pit in the ground. But these really are quibbles. Love the 3D deconstruction of the bomb.
Right, having gold between the beryllium and polonium would explain why the neutron burst from the initiator comes after the implosion. Until now I assumed the initiator was always emitting neutrons but that they didn't have an effect until the plutonium was supercritical.
My uncle was in the Marines and went to Nagasaki weeks or months after the bomb. He’s been in many war zones, conflicts, Korea, Vietnam, etc. but said he had never seen such destruction before and that he felt bad for the people of Japan. Even though they started the war. His sympathy was great for them.
There in lies the moral dilemma. Was the use of this horrific weapon on an unsuspected civilian population justified ? Your uncle witnessed the aftermath, did it change his opinion om nuclear weapons? Do not get me wrong I am not particularly a pacifist, but I do consider nuclear weapons an immoral obscenity and would have been better never to have been created at all!
Both Nagasaki and Hiroshima were mainly buildings made of wood they were literally firebombed into submission similar to Dresden not one person that I know in military has ever witnessed a so called nuke being exploded they use it as a scare tactic
@@khankrum1 The problem lies in the Primary Mover. Japan tried to take an inch when they bombed Pearl Harbor and killed innocents along with military, America came back and took a mile for what they did to us. Imperial Japan slapped a lion in the face and thought the entire pride was asleep. They got what they deserved.
Let's face it. Imperial Japan slapped a colonial cockroach in the face and the cockroach did what cockroaches do. Instead of manning up to the situation, they dragged it down to a pathetic tit for tat like 5 year old moronic pre school sandbox children.
@@khankrum1 You hit the nail on the head. This obscene weapon was used on a civilian population, NOT a military target. By any objective reasoning this is a crime of the highest order. The USA to its disgrace is the only country to have used a nuclear weapon. I have also heard that Japan was on the verge of surrender at the time and that the nuclear bombs were unnecessary making their use even more obscene. Chalk up another mega war crime to the USA.
This has to be the best explanation for a layman I've ever seen and I've studied this at length. Brilliant video. Beyond the horror that is the bomb, the engineering is stunningly complex. To think that the Manhattan project had to think this all through in theory before testing is a testament to the genius of the scientists.
I've seen a few videos on this subject, and I have to be honest, this was by far the best most detailed explanation and presentation that I've come across thus far. Excellent video my friend 👍🏼
Fantastic video with the best animation and graphics I have ever seen on the subject. I am obsessed with nuclear physics so have seen hundreds of videos and lectures. Your teaching skills are excellent. It takes a lot of work to simplify this subject. Congratulations to all of you who worked on this.
@@Pau182pau I'm not studying. I work in logistics. I just love the subject since the age of 12. Nuclear weapons are my primary obsession. Radiotherapy and the biological effects of ionizing radiation is my second favourite area. I dont think I could tell you anything you don’t already know ..!
Further to my last reply, I am only self taught in this subject so can offer little but I think you could help me understand some things if you don't mind discussing.. Here is my first rather basic question - If you had 2 atoms of freshly made Plutonium 239 in a box, that after 24,000 years one of those would have decayed and the other would have not ? How long after the first would the second atom decay ? And what controls this ? Is it due to subatomic or weird quantum processes ? Also on the topic of fusion ..As you know Hydrogen bombs use a fission assembly to initiate fusion, but now that we can trigger fusion in the lab setting without detonating a Plutonium weapon first, do you think it is possible that we will see pure fusion weapons in the near future? And do you think Californium weapons will ever become viable ? It would be a nightmare if battlefield artillery weapons started using Californium in my honest opinion.
Great power with great responsibilities. Human against the other remaining nature. Human himself destroying own home Definitely radioactivity is inside the earth since beginning. Most dangerous type of energy. Number of incident occurred Chernobyl, Fukushima known to us, we unable control it. We have numerous atomic arsenals if not destroyed properly may destroy mother earth absolutely
Till this point, this video has been the most coherent representation of the implosion-based atomic weapon, regarding every single aspect. Excellent digital rendering and usage of allegories (such as comparing the instability to jenga) makes the representation even better. Jolly good!
wow, even as a 14 year old I understood everything in this video, completely clear, fantastic! the visuals were very helpful, too. I saw other videos on bombs and this one is easily the best. great job! 🎉
Outstanding rendering of the composition of Fatman! Well done! I had tried to piece together in my mind the structure of the bomb from written descriptions and drawings, but this really helped clear things up. Some commenters are grousing about the (Indian?) accent, but I find it very melodious and easy on the ear. I occasionally have to listen twice to a word because of emphasis on different syllables than I am used to, but that’s not really a problem. I have conversed with English speakers from a number of countries and regions, and to my American mid-western ear the Indian accent is one of the most pleasant. More so than some of my countrymen! A small nit: the depiction of the B-29 Bockscar, that carried Fatman, is a bit off. The atomic bomb-carrying B-29s were modified and built to a different configuration under the codename Silverplate than the standard conventional bomb-carrying B-29 depicted in the video. The most obvious differences with respect to the video are that Silverplate bombers had no gun turrets to save weight for payload, and the engines and props were different (although very similar). Not obvious were that armor was also removed, and fuel tanks installed in the fuselage. And the bombays were reconfigured to carry either Fatman or Little Boy. Also, the Fatman was too big to simply roll (especially by a single man!) under the aircraft as depicted in the video, the scale of bomb to plane is not quite correct. The bomb on its cradle was lowered into a pit, the B-29 was positioned over the pit, and the bomb was hoisted into the bombay. But that is not central to the focus of the video, so no worries. Again, well done!
I used to work on A-4 Skyhawks which at one time had been nuclear capable. As an electronics technician I wondered at some of the remaining electronics and came away with the thought that a nuclear bomb must need a lot of electrical current to detonate. Now I know that to be true and why it is needed. Great video.
yes but 5kv really wasnt that much. 7mm high tension wire would suffice from say spark plug leads. Heck, automotive points-type ignitions provided that at the time. CD ignitions produce about 40kv at high speed!
Amazing. What I want to know is how in the hell did people figure out these invisible and complex elements and how to manipulate them to yield such a catastrophic result. It blows my mind how people figured this stuff out.
Agree . All those great minds but somewhere along the line they seem to forget that they are building something to kill their fellow man . Seems strange to think about .
An amazing book written when many of the scientists and engineers and military personel who worked on it were still available to be interviewed which Rhodes did. One notable interviewee was Bethe. Another was Teller. A book where one should read the notes at the end and the bibliography.
@@animalntelligence3170 I am not assuming anything here, but if by chance you aren't aware of a fascinating bit of history, Google "The Atomic Bomb and Kodak." Essentially, Kodak was developing standard run-of-the-mill course photographs when they discovered the finals were spotted, which they could only conclude was due to stray atomic particles/radiation. This was well over 1000- miles away from Los Alamos. Kodak basically discovered that experiments with radiation were going on at a grand scale, in an era where secrecy was at it's highest. Seriously, Google it. In the mean time, best regards and have a great weekend.
I have seen maybe a hundred different videos or documentaries throughout my life that gives you pieces of this, but nobody has ever explained it and put it all together. Congratulations on this video!
I just watched this for the third time. I'm so impressed with the way that you presented this and the information and the graphics are simple but represent quite clearly what is going on inside
An immensely complicated subject beautifully broken down into simple easy to understand steps. Well done on creating such a well put together video, you've earned yourself a like and subscription from me 😊
Considerably more complicated than simply a plutonium ball surrounded by TNT. Those dead guys were really smart---without computers to do their thinking.
I’m blown away.. this is THE BEST VIDEO explanation of how it worked with great animation..I’ve been looking for a video like this for years.. and finally it’s here..THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU..now I finally have a clue as to how it worked..
Great job explaining the details. My initial question is, how did they experiment with all this material without killing themselves? Did they do all this via calculations and then hoped that it would work in the first desert test? Did they do very small tests to determine the types, ratio and shape of the explosive material needed to trigger the compression? I find the process of how all these details became known to the scientists to be fascinating.
I have the same question, along with who initially started pursuing this with what goal in mind? I’m hoping the new movie “Oppenheimer” answers all of these questions.
just in awe at the almost unbelievably massive engineering challenges to get this contraption to actually work in the 1940's. truly an incredible story.
Unlimited budget and no enemy bombing of the facilities during testing and manufacturing helped the US come up with just enough enriched material for 3 weapons.
@@ct1762 they don't have nukes; the nuclear experiment didn't work so Nagasakli and Hiroshima were firebombedi, with intact wooden buildings and other combustibles remaining at ground zero. Marshall Islands were dynamited, both sides, and the posters all doctored but you know that one... Depleted Uranium burns fast and leaves traces but it's not what they were trying for.
This is the most explanatory video on atomic bomb with such a good animation and exact facts and the specific science behind each step. Most of the videos I have seen miss to explain 2 points, the detonation wave and the fact the whole detonation process finishes within millionth of a second. Unimaginable speed. Nuclear physics is beyond the realm of our day to day physics. And these are the same electrons, protons and neutrons behaving so differently in different atmospheric conditions and atomic arrangements.
Fantastic video. Very clearly explained with every detail. Amzaing at the same time most scariest engineering inventions of all time. Keep making more videos.
I watched many videos but couldn't able to understand but this video is very clear and simple, a common man can easily understand the concept... thanks a lot...
The best description and video of the plutonium bomb process that I have ever seen! It was very easy to understand, even for a lowly non-physicist like myself.
Soo Much Details Explained ✨ ⭐ It's the first time I fully understood the engineering of Fatman & Nuclear Boom Technology⚡ Thanks for giving so much Effort & Details in this video 👏🤍
Wow ! This will be at least for me, the most outstanding and clear video explanation of how a nuclear bomb works. Amazing work was done in this video and like I said; very clear and understandable. Great job!
Hello. I am way to old to have not understood what you have taught me today. I have seen many descriptions on Nuclear fission, and yours has been by a landslide the easiest and most comprehensive. Your animation work is on point. I initially thought there might be a accent difficulty, but you have blown my mind there as well. My friend, please, keep up the good work. Liked and subscribed. ❤
I used to work at Hanford, where they manufactured the plutonium for the bomb, and this is by far the best explanation and animation I've yet seen of it. Thank you.
I live in Richland
How do you work with the radioactive materials? Manufacturing wise. How do you assemble it without death?
@@oatlord In spite of all the fear-mongering that environmental groups spill out, the radioactivity of U235 and Pu239 is not at all intense or dangerous (I used to have a 5lb. chunck of U238 as a desktop paperweight). It was even common for some of the nuclear engineers to hold a piece of pure Pu239 in in their hand to experience the heat generated by the alpha radiation, which cannot penetrate a piece of paper (the particle, not the heat).
@@dudeismydog I was living in Benton City.
@@brillopad1392 Ah, cool. I am legitimately curious what kind of safety measures you would have to deal with for a shift. Doesn't sound that bad.
Give this man a medal, i havent seen a nuclear bomb presentation so detailed and well made. The animations were awesome and you explained every step with detail and you also started the video with the basic idea. You should be more popular 👍👍
You too
Fr. I’m tired of seeing all these lazy slideshows with AI voices.
This was how I learnt it perfectly in chemistry and physics till some UA-cam guys tryna confuse me into doubling mass that becomes unstable and I wonder how that represents the well understood physics and chemistry that I was a distinction student in.
The only thing is I wasn't told back in school that you have to let the distance between atoms in the plutonium be very short to increase contact possibilities.
I taught there will be continuous contact however.
I agreed 100%
I think the lack of content is the defining factor here... he's only made 13 videos.
This is the "engineering of Atomic Bomb explained"...for the rest of us.
I never thought such a complex engineering mechanism can be explained so simply any eloquently.
Well done!
I am a nuclear physicist and this is a very well done BASIC explanation. It is very accurate, but understand the complexity is significantly greater than this video. If you get anything from this, i hope everyone now understands that a nuclear detonation from a dropped bomb or air crash is impossible because of the incredible precision of the explosives to compress the sphere. I
@@aduboi1534agreed. It’s just most of these videos assume the viewers are stupid and leave out stuff like the explosive lens. If you have advice for a more detailed look, I’d love to take a look.
Just starting American Prometheus now.
@@aduboi1534also, THANK YOU I always wondered why that live nuke the American govt accidentally dropped on American soil didn’t explode. I was on tour with a punk band and our host brought us to this little tiny sign that commemorates the event. I couldn’t conceive why this wasn’t more commonly held knowledge.
sir pakistan is building also
Whats also insane is how the animation is pieced up together to form a well made video! This channel deserves more subs!
If he makes more videos (he's only made 13), I've no doubt he'll increase his subs.
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Best explanation,Oppenheimer is proud of you bro
I read somewhere that Oppenheimer had to go to Jon von Neumann for the explosive lenses solution 😊
Amazing. I NEVER understood until now that the symbol for radioactivity is actually a depiction of the explosive lense charges with the supercritical mass at the center. Mind blown.
It is not, it represents activity radiating from an atom.
Quote: _The three-bladed radiation warning symbol, as we currently know it, was "doodled" out at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley sometime in 1946 by a small group of people. This event was described in a letter written in 1952 by Nels Garden, head of the Health Chemistry Group at the Radiation Laboratory: "A number of people in the group took an interest in suggesting different motifs, and the one arousing the most interest was a design which was supposed to represent activity radiating from an atom."_
I cannot imagine the USA, in 1946 on an ultra top secret project, designing a warning symbol which gives the architecture on how to do an atomic bomb, it would be like:
_"Hey every one on Earth, this is how we made it"_ ;)
@@patlab555 that’s interesting. truth is always stranger than fiction, here it is because somehow the doodle still ended up looking exactly like an explosive lense and a supercritical core. Crazy.
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It doesn't look like it! 🥴🤦🏻
They don’t want ‘ garage warriors ‘ pissing round with nuclear fission, dum dum
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If anyone is starting this and wondering if it’s accurate and worth the time, yes. It is. Best description that for a layperson, lays out the basic details most of these kind of videos leave out. The explosive lens is such a beautiful, complex engineering idea. Thank you for making this.
Worse than the carnage and devastation caused by the bomb it also makes Zirconia atoms which are used for fake diamonds
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We can manufacture REAL diamonds for next to nothing now.
@@worsethanhitlerpt.2539whoa terrible!
Man!! This is the most detailed animation of Fat Man assembly I came across. Kudos!
Pls make another animation for Fusion bomb. 👍🏻
Ive never seen an explanation video at this much clear and precised. Thankyou
This is the best explanation EVER of how the bomb actually works
Congratulations, man! You did a great job in the rendering!
@@Droolbaby agreed....it sounds like a indian try to speak english....good video tho!
@@Droolbaby 😡🤬
The video animation was done well. Facts were lacking. The weapon killed between 60 and 80,000 people. Not including the late effect radiation
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Excellent, clear explanation of a complex subject. Thanks for the effort taken to keep the graphics and detail accurate and understandable while not ignoring the moral dimensions.
Best explanation of the actual engineering I've seen on UA-cam, and the way he says "Thirty-two detonators" fills me with an inexplicable joy.
This is the best video I've ever seen on an Atom Bomb... please make another on Hydrogen/Tsar Bomb.
The enormity of the engineering required to make the first atomic bomb is mind boggling! Thanks for making this video to help explain how it was done.
This is absolutely the best explanation of the workings of the bomb that I've ever seen. It's difficult (at best) to give simple explanations and still capture this much detail.
Very well done!
Will you make one ?
@@pauldjdundas No. Neither bomb nor animated video are within my means or skillset.
LOL
This is the very best explanation that ive seen on this subject. I feel like i have a thorough understanding of how it works, and an immense appreciation for the engineering involved
It was wonderful documentary. With all the superb explaining and detailed illustration, my mind still can't fully wrap around how something so small can become so big and powerful in the blink of an eye. It's like trying to understand gravity, invisible forces. Bugs me a little bit.
Never quite understood the mechanics of the explosives' action that was created to make the sphere reach super critical mass to create the fission reaction itself, which is measured in picoseconds. An incredible feat of science and engineering.
We do know
Would you like to see a video of the implosion lenses at work (not animated). France declassified footage of implosion tests.
@@221b-l3t yes
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Very very well done Sir! Incredible to see a simplified explanation of the most complex and destructive device ever build. Please continue your great work! 👌
This is so well explained. I'm just from watching an Oppenheimer video by Veritasium, then I read about the Japanese vs US war so I got curious about the bomb. I may have to watch it again and read further to cement my understanding but you've made it an approachable subject without prior knowledge, thank you.
Same
One of the best animations I’ve seen on this. They even got the witting initiator design and explosive lensing detonation waves correct - which people usually gloss over. Excellent!
This video is awesome. Good job man, thanks for all the detailed explanation and animation.
After seeing this video, I now finally understand the reason why the hazard symbol for radiation looks the way it looks.
I have sen many videos explaining the atomic bomb but must say this one is by far the best one and explaining/showing it in a really "easy" way that not to complicating to understand! Awesome done by the creator!
Man this was a tremendously excellent visual representation. Bravo. Thank you
Thank you for the extremely interest video. The content and graphics are awesome.
Cool video!! I have published extensively on the physics and history of the Manhattan project, and I would show this to my students. A few very minor quibbles: It is more properly called an "implosion" lens (for obvious reasons), the Po and Be have to be separated initially (I think they used gold foil to stop the alphas until the two were mixed by the implosion), the Pu core was in two hemispheres (they had to put the initiator inside!), and the bomb was raised into the plane form a loading pit in the ground. But these really are quibbles. Love the 3D deconstruction of the bomb.
Right, having gold between the beryllium and polonium would explain why the neutron burst from the initiator comes after the implosion. Until now I assumed the initiator was always emitting neutrons but that they didn't have an effect until the plutonium was supercritical.
My uncle was in the Marines and went to Nagasaki weeks or months after the bomb. He’s been in many war zones, conflicts, Korea, Vietnam, etc. but said he had never seen such destruction before and that he felt bad for the people of Japan. Even though they started the war. His sympathy was great for them.
There in lies the moral dilemma. Was the use of this horrific weapon on an unsuspected civilian population justified ? Your uncle witnessed the aftermath, did it change his opinion om nuclear weapons?
Do not get me wrong I am not particularly a pacifist, but I do consider nuclear weapons an immoral obscenity and would have been better never to have been created at all!
Both Nagasaki and Hiroshima were mainly buildings made of wood they were literally firebombed into submission similar to Dresden not one person that I know in military has ever witnessed a so called nuke being exploded they use it as a scare tactic
@@khankrum1 The problem lies in the Primary Mover. Japan tried to take an inch when they bombed Pearl Harbor and killed innocents along with military, America came back and took a mile for what they did to us.
Imperial Japan slapped a lion in the face and thought the entire pride was asleep. They got what they deserved.
Let's face it. Imperial Japan slapped a colonial cockroach in the face and the cockroach did what cockroaches do.
Instead of manning up to the situation, they dragged it down to a pathetic tit for tat like 5 year old moronic pre school sandbox children.
@@khankrum1 You hit the nail on the head. This obscene weapon was used on a civilian population, NOT a military target. By any objective reasoning this is a crime of the highest order. The USA to its disgrace is the only country to have used a nuclear weapon. I have also heard that Japan was on the verge of surrender at the time and that the nuclear bombs were unnecessary making their use even more obscene. Chalk up another mega war crime to the USA.
This has to be the best explanation for a layman I've ever seen and I've studied this at length. Brilliant video. Beyond the horror that is the bomb, the engineering is stunningly complex. To think that the Manhattan project had to think this all through in theory before testing is a testament to the genius of the scientists.
Outstanding video. Clear, accurate, no frills and no cheap moral last words.
I’m 5 minutes in and the fact that someone was able to figure this all out is absolutely mind blowing 🤯
Literally
I've seen a few videos on this subject, and I have to be honest, this was by far the best most detailed explanation and presentation that I've come across thus far. Excellent video my friend 👍🏼
Fantastic video with the best animation and graphics I have ever seen on the subject. I am obsessed with nuclear physics so have seen hundreds of videos and lectures. Your teaching skills are excellent. It takes a lot of work to simplify this subject. Congratulations to all of you who worked on this.
Great! Me 2, I'm already doing my masters in nuclear engineering
Let's become friends, we can share some information, what are you studying? :)
@@Pau182pau I'm not studying. I work in logistics. I just love the subject since the age of 12. Nuclear weapons are my primary obsession. Radiotherapy and the biological effects of ionizing radiation is my second favourite area. I dont think I could tell you anything you don’t already know ..!
Further to my last reply, I am only self taught in this subject so can offer little but I think you could help me understand some things if you don't mind discussing.. Here is my first rather basic question -
If you had 2 atoms of freshly made Plutonium 239 in a box, that after 24,000 years one of those would have decayed and the other would have not ? How long after the first would the second atom decay ?
And what controls this ? Is it due to subatomic or weird quantum processes ?
Also on the topic of fusion ..As you know Hydrogen bombs use a fission assembly to initiate fusion, but now that we can trigger fusion in the lab setting without detonating a Plutonium weapon first, do you think it is possible that we will see pure fusion weapons in the near future? And do you think Californium weapons will ever become viable ? It would be a nightmare if battlefield artillery weapons started using Californium in my honest opinion.
Look up nuke lies.
.. everyone who contributes to making nuclear weapons is a murderer. They are not good people.
Such an incredible achievement… but also horrible and terrifying. With great power comes great responsibility
Great power with great responsibilities.
Human against the other remaining nature. Human himself destroying own home
Definitely radioactivity is inside the earth since beginning. Most dangerous type of energy. Number of incident occurred Chernobyl, Fukushima known to us, we unable control it. We have numerous atomic arsenals if not destroyed properly may destroy mother earth absolutely
Not if that great power was handed to a woman.
Ppl don’t care about the well being of themselves and others….why would anyone be stupid enough to make those?
343>bungie
@@montedyoung3247 Mutually assured destruction in order to incentivize peace between big world powers.
This video Came into my feed right before watching Oppenheimer 🎉
Thanks a lot. It's the best explanation for a frenchie: Slow and clear diction. Very serious and motivative.
Jean Luc
Big respect putting this video together. Intricate and complex concepts made crystal clear and fascinating. So insightful, thank you
wow this is an incredibly detailed and insightful video. the graphical renderings were top notch and professional. thank you. great work
Till this point, this video has been the most coherent representation of the implosion-based atomic weapon, regarding every single aspect. Excellent digital rendering and usage of allegories (such as comparing the instability to jenga) makes the representation even better. Jolly good!
Quick fact, a name 'Jenga' comes from a Swahili word meaning 'Build'... It's a wonderful thing to have this significance in the world...
@@nazirkatabaro6347 I wasn't aware of that fact. Glad to know, thank you for this interesting piece of information.
The absolute best explanation and animation of the Fat Man "Gadget" !!!! Great Job!!!!!
wow, even as a 14 year old I understood everything in this video, completely clear, fantastic! the visuals were very helpful, too. I saw other videos on bombs and this one is easily the best. great job! 🎉
Simple, clear, concise. Well done.
Lets hope there's no end game to this example?
Outstanding rendering of the composition of Fatman! Well done! I had tried to piece together in my mind the structure of the bomb from written descriptions and drawings, but this really helped clear things up.
Some commenters are grousing about the (Indian?) accent, but I find it very melodious and easy on the ear. I occasionally have to listen twice to a word because of emphasis on different syllables than I am used to, but that’s not really a problem. I have conversed with English speakers from a number of countries and regions, and to my American mid-western ear the Indian accent is one of the most pleasant. More so than some of my countrymen!
A small nit: the depiction of the B-29 Bockscar, that carried Fatman, is a bit off. The atomic bomb-carrying B-29s were modified and built to a different configuration under the codename Silverplate than the standard conventional bomb-carrying B-29 depicted in the video. The most obvious differences with respect to the video are that Silverplate bombers had no gun turrets to save weight for payload, and the engines and props were different (although very similar). Not obvious were that armor was also removed, and fuel tanks installed in the fuselage. And the bombays were reconfigured to carry either Fatman or Little Boy.
Also, the Fatman was too big to simply roll (especially by a single man!) under the aircraft as depicted in the video, the scale of bomb to plane is not quite correct. The bomb on its cradle was lowered into a pit, the B-29 was positioned over the pit, and the bomb was hoisted into the bombay.
But that is not central to the focus of the video, so no worries.
Again, well done!
Thank you!!
I used to work on A-4 Skyhawks which at one time had been nuclear capable. As an electronics technician I wondered at some of the remaining electronics and came away with the thought that a nuclear bomb must need a lot of electrical current to detonate. Now I know that to be true and why it is needed. Great video.
yes but 5kv really wasnt that much. 7mm high tension wire would suffice from say spark plug leads. Heck, automotive points-type ignitions provided that at the time. CD ignitions produce about 40kv at high speed!
What is your evidence that nukes exist?
The best explanation of atomic bomb I have seen so far...
Beautifully explained through visuals!
Amazing. What I want to know is how in the hell did people figure out these invisible and complex elements and how to manipulate them to yield such a catastrophic result. It blows my mind how people figured this stuff out.
Quantum physics
Agree . All those great minds but somewhere along the line they seem to forget that they are building something to kill their fellow man . Seems strange to think about .
The best explanation I have seen on the subject. Thanks for a great job! I can recommend the book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", by Richard Rhodes.
Yes. Thats great book. And the author wrote another book on Hydrogen bomb also.
And read this if you want to not sleep well for a few days. Confessions of a Nuclear War planner by Daniel Ellsberg.
A very good read.
An amazing book written when many of the scientists and engineers and military personel who worked on it were still available to be interviewed which Rhodes did. One notable interviewee was Bethe. Another was Teller. A book where one should read the notes at the end and the bibliography.
@@animalntelligence3170 I am not assuming anything here, but if by chance you aren't aware of a fascinating bit of history, Google "The Atomic Bomb and Kodak." Essentially, Kodak was developing standard run-of-the-mill course photographs when they discovered the finals were spotted, which they could only conclude was due to stray atomic particles/radiation. This was well over 1000- miles away from Los Alamos.
Kodak basically discovered that experiments with radiation were going on at a grand scale, in an era where secrecy was at it's highest.
Seriously, Google it. In the mean time, best regards and have a great weekend.
An incredibly well made video. Very well put together, one of the best explanations I've seen.The 3D work is damn good.
I have seen maybe a hundred different videos or documentaries throughout my life that gives you pieces of this, but nobody has ever explained it and put it all together. Congratulations on this video!
Mind blowing video..🙏 I think the best video on Fatman in the world..
I just watched this for the third time. I'm so impressed with the way that you presented this and the information and the graphics are simple but represent quite clearly what is going on inside
An immensely complicated subject beautifully broken down into simple easy to understand steps.
Well done on creating such a well put together video, you've earned yourself a like and subscription from me 😊
Same here... It's a so wonderfully done work...
Really amazing well presented and explained. Visuals are perfectly depicted.
wow, this is pure excellence. clear, precise but most importantly understandable. thank-you.
I've never seen it explained in this detail, excellent job.
Considerably more complicated than simply a plutonium ball surrounded by TNT. Those dead guys were really smart---without computers to do their thinking.
I just heard the narrator, and I am overjoyed. His voice is unique and completely different from every other narrator from this platform.
What an amazing explanation of the atomic bomb, even someone like me, with no scientific awareness could understand this ,
Brilliant presentation.
Yup, trotting out the lies must've been fun.
I’m blown away.. this is THE BEST VIDEO explanation of how it worked with great animation..I’ve been looking for a video like this for years.. and finally it’s here..THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU..now I finally have a clue as to how it worked..
YOU have done a REALLY GOOD JOB of explaining the ENTIRE event! Especially the TECH side!
Great job explaining the details. My initial question is, how did they experiment with all this material without killing themselves? Did they do all this via calculations and then hoped that it would work in the first desert test? Did they do very small tests to determine the types, ratio and shape of the explosive material needed to trigger the compression? I find the process of how all these details became known to the scientists to be fascinating.
Many scientists and researchers died from radiation exposure. Look up Marie Curie and also look up the Demon Core accidents.
I have the same question, along with who initially started pursuing this with what goal in mind? I’m hoping the new movie “Oppenheimer” answers all of these questions.
just in awe at the almost unbelievably massive engineering challenges to get this contraption to actually work in the 1940's. truly an incredible story.
Unlimited budget and no enemy bombing of the facilities during testing and manufacturing helped the US come up with just enough enriched material for 3 weapons.
it didn't work so they firebombed instead.
@@DrCorvid what didn't work?
@@ct1762 they don't have nukes; the nuclear experiment didn't work so Nagasakli and Hiroshima were firebombedi, with intact wooden buildings and other combustibles remaining at ground zero. Marshall Islands were dynamited, both sides, and the posters all doctored but you know that one... Depleted Uranium burns fast and leaves traces but it's not what they were trying for.
@@DrCorvid what you're saying couldn't possibly be true. The Earth would have to be round for that to be possible.
Who's watching this after Oppenheimer
This is by far the best explanation of Fat man.....incredible work...looking forward to more such videos
Best video I've seen on the workings of the device. The exploded (pun yeah) views of the lens layers is awesome too.
Who is here after watching Oppenheimer 💥💣
Making the bomb 💣 isn't that hard but making weapons grade plutonium or uranium is extremely hard.
Not only making the material but infact getting enuf material is most hard thing itself.
Me watching this before OPPENHEIMER 💥
This is the most explanatory video on atomic bomb with such a good animation and exact facts and the specific science behind each step. Most of the videos I have seen miss to explain 2 points, the detonation wave and the fact the whole detonation process finishes within millionth of a second. Unimaginable speed. Nuclear physics is beyond the realm of our day to day physics. And these are the same electrons, protons and neutrons behaving so differently in different atmospheric conditions and atomic arrangements.
One of the best educational videos I have watched on UA-cam. Well done and thank you. 👍
Who are after #oppenheimer Movie .......
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After oppenheimer
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Very thoughtful interpretation of science, especially in its narration too.
What an incredible invention and your video too!
Clean and crystal clear.
Brilliant and accurate description behind the science of a explosion and also the science how energy can be produced.
Fantastic video. Very clearly explained with every detail. Amzaing at the same time most scariest engineering inventions of all time.
Keep making more videos.
Absolutely great work man! Lovet it ❤
By far the best explanation of the inner workings of a nuke I have ever watched (and I used to be an AF tech. on ICBM's).
Probably the most easily understood explanation with comprehensive graphical illustrations. Thank you.
I watched many videos but couldn't able to understand but this video is very clear and simple, a common man can easily understand the concept... thanks a lot...
This is really the best description of Fat Man I have ever seen.
That was incredibly presented, the concept simplified, yet it retained the necessary details! kudos!
Superb. Many thanks.
This was the best and most concise version I have ever seen. Great job
Wow. Excellent 👍please keep up the good work I clearly see this channel will go viral soon.
Clear explanation thanks for sharing
Excellent presentation! Probably the best I have seen.
You should make more of these. Excellently done.
I am a student of the nuclear weapons game, and this video is the most accurate I have seen. It's excellent in all respects.
Excellent animated and explained!
This is the best explanation about the contends of such a bomb.
Very nicely explained. Awesome video
This is by far the best and most detailed video that I have seen on this topic and easy to understand too. Thank you so much
The best description and video of the plutonium bomb process that I have ever seen! It was very easy to understand, even for a lowly non-physicist like myself.
Soo Much Details Explained ✨ ⭐
It's the first time I fully understood the engineering of Fatman & Nuclear Boom Technology⚡
Thanks for giving so much Effort & Details in this video 👏🤍
This is a tremendous video. There is much more information in this video than I have found in many others.
Absolutely brilliant video, thank you Curism
Great presentation !!! Clear and precise !!!
This is unbelievable good. UA-cam should save this as the gold standard for N.B's explanations.
Wow ! This will be at least for me, the most outstanding and clear video explanation of how a nuclear bomb works. Amazing work was done in this video and like I said; very clear and understandable. Great job!
Hello. I am way to old to have not understood what you have taught me today. I have seen many descriptions on Nuclear fission, and yours has been by a landslide the easiest and most comprehensive. Your animation work is on point. I initially thought there might be a accent difficulty, but you have blown my mind there as well. My friend, please, keep up the good work. Liked and subscribed. ❤
Adipoli…superb animation!!! Was curious how these things worked!!! Thanks for making it make sense!!