@Marius Ipad no, it won't. You're aware people have lived IN Hiroshima and Nagasaki where two nuclear bombs were dropped right? Being in one of thes craters in 10k years time will be about as "dangerous" as the radiation you get from eating a few Bananas.
the Mosler Safe Company had built some bank vaults in Hiroshima that survived the atomic bomb. after the tragedy, they used the vaults survival as marketing for future business.
My great uncle was one of those grunts who could see the bones in their hands when those blasts went off. Then jumped out of the ditch and they all charged the blast to see how far they could get before the heat turned them back. Died of some weird cancers a while back...
I'm so very sorry - those GI's were nothing but guinea pigs. I know where the trenches were and they were a lot closer than the public was told. I worked at the NTS after the atmospherics (1976-1986). I have a friend (still alive, who was a young sailor in the S. Pacific during the RedWing tests. Yes, he spoke of being able to see the bones in hand, while turned away from the blast and behind ship superstructure. There was a movie made some years back called "Night Breaker" about the "Atomic GI's" at the NTS) and "Radio Bikini" (You can watch it on youtube) about the S. Pacific tests and what was done to those young sailors and to the S. Sea Islanders (some can still not go home) It is a tragedy beyond all proportions. My uncle was the chief safety engineer for the NERVA program out at Area 21 - He is dead too. So much death.....
I've been there twice and got to stand at ground zero in Frenchman Flat and see the blast effects testing including standing below the railroad bridge you see in the video. Just amazing. The greatest parts of travelling through the site was standing at the lip of the Sedan crater and go into the Teapot tower and see the actual device canaster. The gentleman giving the tour started working there in 1954 and was full time until 1992. He had some great stories!!
I was seven years old in 1955 and we had a concrete bomb shelter buried in the backyard. I always thought it cool especially when we neighborhood kids got together and played War.
None wore any type of ppe from skin to breathing, and these guys knew it was deadly radiation back then, shows how we humans clumsily progress through time, high value or low, all of them dead now.
@Heads Mess ok, thanks for the clarification lol i didn't know everyone dies, i thought they just ceased to exist and faded away like General Patton lol
You've been watching too many films. Being in a fridge at ground zero will make no difference. A modern thermonuclear bomb produces temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun. You'll just vaporise along with the fridge
most nuclear half lifes of uranium that i know of is over 1000 years i think atleast uranium 238 has a half life of 4.5 billions year believe it or not but i think that is used in power plants etc and not nuclear weapons but im no scientist so dont hold your breath.
Agent Bill Wilson I have friends who worked at the Hanford Reservation in Washington state during the 60's, 70's and 80's. Some pretty interesting projects were done there also. The Beagle farm, The Pig farm, FFTF, The Sodium Site, etc. Department of Energy was very busy back in the day.
Papoose dry lake is where the UFO stuff supposedly is. 10-15 miles away from Area 51, 9 hangars built into the side of Papoose mountain so they can't be detected from the sky.
Fascinating insight into the Atomic history, I would love to take a tour to these locations. I will have to plan a trip to the USA one day. Greetings from Australia.
Hopefully you'll get to take that trip here soon! I'm the opposite of you lol I live in the United States and I love it here but I'd love to take a trip to Australia one day soon!! The accent those Australian women have just gets to me haha
Visit the atomic museum on Tropicana..east of the strip..i cant wait to go myself..i lived in vegas for 24years an had no idea that was there..but now im dead on heading there to see it myself
I have this original on VHS. Narrated by William Shatner and the Moscow Philharmonic Symphony doing the music. It is surprising and a really great source of information.
Radioactivity decays quite quickly...there hasn't been tests in years, the atmosphere is not full it's fine... During the first hour after a nuclear explosion, radioactivity levels drop precipitously. Radioactivity levels are further reduced by about 90% after another 7 hours and by about 99% after 2 days.
On the Mormons in Southern Utah. For some diabolical reason, they were regarded as expendable. If the winds favored Las Vegas, or Los Angeles, I doubt this testing would have ever occurred.
actually on one or more big tests blew all across the eastern usa and elevated radiation could be found everywhere. they knew and didnt care. fuggin nuts.
I am regrettably, an alumnus of the NTS, I worked shots from 1976-1986. I was blinded by science. I worked at the Control point (CP) (the building with all the antennas) Working on nuclear device shots is not good for your conscience, to this day. This is too hard for me to watch. The world needs peace, and it needs to do away with these horrors, before the horrors do away with the human race. .
Thanks for uploading more content but what we really need is a new feature length film on the history of atomic weapons :) Thanks AtomCentral, you rock!
Its in the process of getting finished regardless if it raises the money. Although contributions make it less painful and every little bit helps. It ain't cheap to make a documentary.
I like Atomic Cafe, however there are differences: Atomic Cafe did not go to the trouble of restoration, they did not do any original photography, they did not pay for a narrator or score any original music. All of these things cost $$$
Well in all fairness - they had to try to see if it was viable :D - it might not be on earth - but on some other planet like say mars or moon where you need to wear protection anyway it might be a handy tool for massive terrain re-shape-ing.
@@krzosu Let's not forget that they were playing with the house's money and big boy toys. They were messing with these things anyway they could imagine.
In the last few dramatic explosion tests are mixed in with a few mach stem effects tests. To maximise the damage a bomb can do. Blast wave catches the reflection wave and rototills the earth.
Here is an aerial view of the site in Google Maps : www.google.com.sa/maps/@37.0843415,-116.0539927,43718a,20y,270h/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en The ground there has more holes than a piece of emmental!
Towards the end of WW2, my grandparents, my mother and Aunt were stationed in the Nevada desert. My mother can remember playing in the sand, running it through her fingers and the sand storms...both my mother and aunt have thyroid problems and my aunt was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. There are no other thyroid problems or cancer in our family history or today.
Well, then laugh your fvcking a$$ off then 777...White paint is highly reflective and was intended to avoid a thermal radiation-induced structure fire.
The point of each test, as the weapons improved an evolved, was to have high-yield devices with less and less actual fissible materials. For example, the Little Boy bomb had and incredible tiny yield for how much uranium it had; a fissile yield by more modern standards. A few hundred bombs could be made with the same quantity of material, and each having a significantly higher yield.
I'm pretty sure my grandfather worked at Area 23. He doesn't talk about it much, but I believe he was a computer technician. Back in the day he worked on U2's and B-52's and many other aircraft, diagnosing computer problems on board the aircraft and also did work at Area 23 he said. Our family lives in cali but he told me he would travel to Area 23 if they had any technical or computer problems. He later went to work for IBM. Crazy stuff... I only found out about this portion of his life a year ago!
They had public tours. I don't know if they still do. Seden creator is about one mile from gate 700 which is the entrance to area 51. I used to make deliveries untill 2006 when I retired
very hard to find the info on the animal tests. my dads ship CVL 22 was in the a-bomb tests at bikini atoll. only heard stories about the zoo on board could never find photos or info on the animals. should FOI the info some day.
C Smith i build shelters, a wine cave type of underground house/shelter. i bore into solid rock then use reinforced concrete to build the shelters. 1000 sq.ft. per person. i am looking for papers written in the 1950s-1980s on the dose of radiation received while in different types of protected areas. yes i admit it is a bit morbid to talk about. not looking for photos..
Pressure waves and sound waves traveling is almost supernatural to watch along with the initial blast ball that looks like a ball of swiss cheese with layers like an onion.
Really scary part: all those observers out there, in the open, watching as the nukes went off, with no thought to exposure or even "what if the blast is stronger than they think?"
That was a rather bald Hollywoodization of what the popular concept of a effects test were. In reality no "neighborhood" was tested against; individual homes and other structures, mannikens to test clothing, including the forest planted in concrete, were used. And there were a number of different tests used for effects testing of one kind or another.
When I worked at the site it was off limits. You could go to the rim, but not down inside it. That was 76-86 time frame. NASA did test the Lunar Rover, but it was in and out. There is a ton of old junk a the bottom old trucks, cars, tires, parts of torn down Butler buildings, etc etc. You wouldn't want to go down there - and the sides are very treacherous anyway.
The shot shown (Sedan) was detonated in 1962 under the Plow Share program - It was placed down hole at approximately 350 feet to maximize the cratering - it was to test the viability of creating a second Panama Canal if something happened to deny use of the primary canal. I once tried to throw a rock across it - not possible. It is very large and very deep, and quite sobering. - Just another bad memory of my years as an engineer at the NTS. Their is nothing trivial or remotely humorous about these devices in any way. If detonated in anger, or by miscalculation, or mistake the living will envy the dead.
My brother and father both worked out at the "Test Site" my brother was a Crane Operator/Oiler and my dad was a rough neck on the drilling rigs used to drill the holes for the underground testing. We lived in Indian Springs, NV which isn't far from Mercury. I used to hear a lot of stories about the "Test Site" and one of my favorites is my mom telling me how they would all gather around outside and watch the mushroom clouds when they still did above ground testing they even got a count down either from the TV news or via the radio but I can't remember exactly how that part happened.
To think one of the original script ideas was to drive the DeLorean to the test site and harness the power from one of these tests to generate the 1.21 Gigawatts needed to send Marty back to 1985. Thinking fourth-dimensionally though, once that baby hits 88 mph, the nuclear blast won't even be there and Marty would've been transported instantly to a very restricted area, just round the corner from Area 51.
I've always wondered about these early nuclear explosions. In Japan, immediately after the war, observers went to Nagasaki and Hiroshima and wandered around the ruins taking pictures and so on - not so much as a stitch of protective clothing on. Same goes for the Nevada test sites - people wandering around the structures, after the explosion - no protective gear. So either there was no radiation, or the US Government is even more callous than previously thought.
the radiation levels quickly drop off to acceptable levels for humans to be present for short times. exposure time is critical. radiation isnt as dangerous as its made out to be and safely traversing a radioactive area is relatively straight forward.
Larger than Rhode Island you say? Wow. I'm used to driving pretty much down the side of RI and that takes about an hour. I can't imagine a place where things aren't close together. When you live in between Boston Worcester and Providence your entire life, anything west of the Hudson River seems big.
the nevada test range has more nuke craters than the moon. total number of detonations in the Nevada test range is 928 atmospheric, underground, and surface blasts. all ranging from low kiloton to multi-megaton warheads
"There are 5,185 craters on the moon that are more than 12 miles across. Scientists estimate there are around 1,000,000 craters larger than half a mile across and over half a billion that are larger than 10m wide." lovethenightsky.com/many-craters-moon/
My 1st tour overseas (Aug '88 - Dec '91) was at NATO Site 104, in Miesau, Germany. It was a nuclear weapons storage facility, and we had the warheads, but not any rocket systems. Of course, back then there wasn't Google Images and UA-cam. So, while we DID KNOW what we were 'safeguarding', I'm 99.999999% certain we all would have taken it a LOT more serious. We had 17 earth covered bunkers, and while the ordnance folks wouldn't tell us a precise quantity (or versions), of what was on site, I heard a variety of claims, such as: 'Enough to destroy most of Europe'......'Enough to take Europe off of the map'.......'Enough to destroy the Northern Hemisphere'.... Maybe it's all for the better that we didn't know, back then.
There was the silhouette of a very nice looking lady coming out of one of the buildings, she was doubtless American but that building shown looked very Japanese in style
They probably wanted to correlate the damage from the two real Japan towns that experienced detonations in August 1945 with Japanese- style structures located at the Nevada Test Site.
It would be interesting to know the effects of all these tests on the underground gravel aquifers at the site. I'm sure those aquifers are no longer radioactive, no longer have any effect on rain and snow melt water passing through them.
From what I read the rock and stone are very good absorbers so that they filter contaminated water well and radioactive matter travels very little through them. Meaning that contamination is localized in a very small area around craters.
It's no different from any other water after 300 years. As for dosage - one could drink famous "contaminated" groundwater that is sleeping under Fukushima for a year and only get same amount of exposure as from getting pelvic X-RAY.
No offense, Sasha, but where are you getting your statistics (regarding Fukushima) ...from the Japanese government? At the Nevada Test Site they were relying on the fact that at the site very little rain or snow ever falls. Still, there is an underground 'plume' of radioactive material slowly moving south. At the Oakridge National Laboratory - where Uranium 235 was produced during World War ll - it rains a lot. At Oakridge the authorities admit that there's nothing they can do about the radioactive contamination underground.
Radiation is a strange beast -- salt water is amazing at getting rid of radiation, so I'd expect a long travel through whatever is under all that sand (also a great filter) to leave minimal effects at best. Those blasts when properly set off leave little of the original core left. Unlike chernobyl where the reactor exploded and left bits of its radioactive core EVERYWHERE, the only thing you have to watch out for in blast areas is vegetation uptakes of cesium -- can't eat plants grown with it in the soil as vegetation replaces it's uptake of potassium with cesium and you get some hot fruits / veggies. Take a look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki --- Also quite a bit of info out there on the Marshall Islands..... including sea-life in the craters.
My grandfather was a valet at a strip casino back then and when he found out I was doing a paper on the impact of atmospheric testing he told me about the parties held by casinos to "Watch the giant mushrooms grow". When I realized he was serious my Jaw dropped
ok so this video is basically a promotion for their tour ... but I do like how it is done like a quick tour with it's own little commentary track to run you along some of the amazing information you will come across if you do the tour .. and still get some awesome facts from this mini tour ;) . well done
One would not believe that people in U.S. they feel that their government is working against the will of the people whose interests it is supposed to represent ...
Wow, this video really put it in perspective on how big these bombs were when they exploded. It's been very difficult to kind of understand how wide and how big a bomb is until i've seen this video Holy cow
My suggestion - if you have time move you and your loved ones as close to the hypo center as possible. It will all be over in 2 or three nanoseconds. (10-e9 seconds) and you will become pure energy.
I went to visit a friend at a prison north of Nevada. It was crazy to see explosions/ tests sitting down talking and seeing all this dirt flying in the air. Radioactive? Who knows. Maybe, it’s next to a prison. The view did blow my mind. My buddy said it’s normal. They were used to it.
so i checked out yucca flat moon on google earth and that area is like the surface of the moon. Weird feature is draggin the yellow streetview dude he turns into a flying saucer icon lol.
The Nevada test site is on my bucket list. Been to Trinity but as a soldier back in 1984. We were training close by so we checked it out. I didn't appreciate it back then. Id like to revisit Trinity.
The thought of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer at Trinity site Jornada del Muerte, New Mexico, 1946. :-( . it should have ended with Trinity. - blame Dr. Edward Teller I am a member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, it is 2 minutes till midnight as close as its been since the 1950's.
This stuff is infinitely fascinating. If you are ever in Las Vegas, I highly recommend seeing the Atomic Testing Museum.
Can attest, it’s really cool and there’s decommissioned bomb casings there
Thank you for the information. I went to the original URL which no longer exists. I will go to the Museum in 2 weeks 🙂
10 000 years later: "The craters were dug for religious purposes.." :D
Haha 😅, good one.
I was thinking the same damn thing hahah
Yes, that’s how it will been seen as we follow today’s science experts!
Church of the Children of atom
@Marius Ipad no, it won't. You're aware people have lived IN Hiroshima and Nagasaki where two nuclear bombs were dropped right? Being in one of thes craters in 10k years time will be about as "dangerous" as the radiation you get from eating a few Bananas.
The music really made this film even better
Sounds like authentic Stromberg.
Narrated by William Shatner, what could be better?!
It was the 70's.
indiana jones anyone?
Wish music was still like this in films
4:00 LOL they tested a bank vault to make sure that after a nuclear explosion, all the people might be dead, but at least the money would be OK.
"Time Enough At Last" on The Twilight Zone , Mr. Bemis survives a atomic blast in a bank vault.
the Mosler Safe Company had built some bank vaults in Hiroshima that survived the atomic bomb. after the tragedy, they used the vaults survival as marketing for future business.
TheTerryTurbo123 Burning jet fuel weakening steal beams, causing a gravity load collapse. The twin towers had no reinforced concrete.
Its just incase a bank robber comes equipped with a nuke.
Speaking of Kool Aid, is that where you acquired your degree in engineering?
My great uncle was one of those grunts who could see the bones in their hands when those blasts went off. Then jumped out of the ditch and they all charged the blast to see how far they could get before the heat turned them back. Died of some weird cancers a while back...
No. Our eyes don't perceive anything in those wavelengths. From the intensity of the visible light alone.
Thor Dehr what bones??
This is true the light is so bright you could see the bones through your hands
My uncles said the same thing about being able to see the bones in their hands too.
I'm so very sorry - those GI's were nothing but guinea pigs. I know where the trenches were and they were a lot closer than the public was told. I worked at the NTS after the atmospherics (1976-1986). I have a friend (still alive, who was a young sailor in the S. Pacific during the RedWing tests. Yes, he spoke of being able to see the bones in hand, while turned away from the blast and behind ship superstructure. There was a movie made some years back called "Night Breaker" about the "Atomic GI's" at the NTS) and "Radio Bikini" (You can watch it on youtube) about the S. Pacific tests and what was done to those young sailors and to the S. Sea Islanders (some can still not go home) It is a tragedy beyond all proportions. My uncle was the chief safety engineer for the NERVA program out at Area 21 - He is dead too. So much death.....
I've been there twice and got to stand at ground zero in Frenchman Flat and see the blast effects testing including standing below the railroad bridge you see in the video. Just amazing. The greatest parts of travelling through the site was standing at the lip of the Sedan crater and go into the Teapot tower and see the actual device canaster. The gentleman giving the tour started working there in 1954 and was full time until 1992. He had some great stories!!
Yeah, that bridge is trippy! Those are very thick steel beams. I was on the tour this past Wednesday. Highly recommended!
Classic nuclear music....
That wind whistling soundbite in the apple 2 house, on repeat to make sure you know its eerie
14:07 It reminded me of music from "Men in Black 3"
@@papaclod-hopper1976 -- The music in this video reminded me of the movie #Godzilla
@@yah9011 - Or the early 1990s Version of #Godzilla
Andrew Ongais You have redefined Idiocy.
I was seven years old in 1955 and we had a concrete bomb shelter buried in the backyard.
I always thought it cool especially when we neighborhood kids got together and played War.
What a cool story
Some kids never grow out of it.
@@andybaldman yeah, I'm a small yield nuke, you're gone...not cricket! 😆
Nuclear scientists conducting after blast tests in a purpose built vehicle? Better crank up the banjo music.
I was imagining how good a driver would have to be if that single cable failed :-D
None wore any type of ppe from skin to breathing, and these guys knew it was deadly radiation back then, shows how we humans clumsily progress through time, high value or low, all of them dead now.
@Heads Mess ok, thanks for the clarification lol i didn't know everyone dies, i thought they just ceased to exist and faded away like General Patton lol
Actually dead lmao
I love the banjo music. Anyone happen to know the name of it?
If you hide in a refrigerator you'll be perfectly fine.
You've been watching too many films.
Being in a fridge at ground zero will make no difference. A modern thermonuclear bomb produces temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun. You'll just vaporise along with the fridge
But who wants to be stuck in there for 200 years?
actionmethod It has to be an older model. These new pieces of shit just aren't built to stand up to a nuclear blast.
most nuclear half lifes of uranium that i know of is over 1000 years i think atleast uranium 238 has a half life of 4.5 billions year believe it or not but i think that is used in power plants etc and not nuclear weapons but im no scientist so dont hold your breath.
Dave Ballard after A few weeks you wouldn't feel the time soo yeah I would gladly
there's just something about the desert in the US i love
all the secret government projects, coverups, ufo stuff...certainly a spooky place
especially Nevada
you forgot mobsters in shallow graves.
Agent Bill Wilson I have friends who worked at the Hanford Reservation in Washington state during the 60's, 70's and 80's. Some pretty interesting projects were done there also. The Beagle farm, The Pig farm, FFTF, The Sodium Site, etc. Department of Energy was very busy back in the day.
Papoose dry lake is where the UFO stuff supposedly is. 10-15 miles away from Area 51, 9 hangars built into the side of Papoose mountain so they can't be detected from the sky.
In what else crazy did you believe in?
I bet if you made that watermark any bigger it would spontaneously fuse.
better take your rad-x and bring some radaway
Robert Bergl and take a dose of jet or mentats
@Israel is an Illegal terrorist state r/woooooosh
Power armor time
@@plaguex1 Don't forget your 5mm Minigun!
Lots of rad scorpions in the desert.
Truly moving footage. It is compelling to see solid ground liquidating in such a big radius.
Fascinating insight into the Atomic history, I would love to take a tour to these locations. I will have to plan a trip to the USA one day. Greetings from Australia.
Hopefully you'll get to take that trip here soon! I'm the opposite of you lol I live in the United States and I love it here but I'd love to take a trip to Australia one day soon!! The accent those Australian women have just gets to me haha
make sure u stand at the center of the site
Visit the atomic museum on Tropicana..east of the strip..i cant wait to go myself..i lived in vegas for 24years an had no idea that was there..but now im dead on heading there to see it myself
rustymotor stay away from America, 4000 shooting in the month of January alone, just saying.
Take your geiger counter and a lead hat!
Americans are worse than you aussies when it comes to cleaning things up!
I have this original on VHS. Narrated by William Shatner and the Moscow Philharmonic Symphony doing the music. It is surprising and a really great source of information.
Bank Vault Test: Good news is...your money survived just fine. Bad news is...you can't touch it for another 10,000 years.
Aaaand no one will be around to spend it
But think of the interest that will accrue. Everyone will be rich.
@@jamesyoung6296 Don't forget to take into account inflation 😊
Just hurry up and pay your taxes with it.
100,000 years
Thanks ever so much for all the atmospheric radioactive dust; really appreciate it.
At least you don’t live in Nevada like me and have to deal with the hordes of mutants...
Radioactivity decays quite quickly...there hasn't been tests in years, the atmosphere is not full it's fine...
During the first hour after a nuclear explosion, radioactivity levels drop precipitously. Radioactivity levels are further reduced by about 90% after another 7 hours and by about 99% after 2 days.
🖕🏼that’s what they say to u
@@ajcook7777 okey
All that fallout was blowing around and people just had no idea it was landing on them.
On the Mormons in Southern Utah. For some diabolical reason, they were regarded as expendable. If the winds favored Las Vegas, or Los Angeles, I doubt this testing would have ever occurred.
actually on one or more big tests blew all across the eastern usa and elevated radiation could be found everywhere. they knew and didnt care. fuggin nuts.
We as kids knew not to eat the snow, even though it was white not yellow.
Riding in right after the blast to check out the damage, with the windows down, in normal clothes LMAO!!
I am regrettably, an alumnus of the NTS, I worked shots from 1976-1986. I was blinded by science. I worked at the Control point (CP) (the building with all the antennas) Working on nuclear device shots is not good for your conscience, to this day. This is too hard for me to watch. The world needs peace, and it needs to do away with these horrors, before the horrors do away with the human race. .
Enlightened beings would say: stupid humans.
she blinded me... WITH SCIENCE!
jack Lennon good song
You were blinded by the $$$$.
Mike Castellon revved up like a deuce another runner in the night
The audio you hear when you see the house being blasted is not actual audio from the test. There were no microphones for those tests.
I think these are SFX
They could have saved a fortune if they built everything out of the same material they used to protect the cameras.
Good point well made 👍
Then why do some of the cameras shake?
Power poles stood steel 🤷🏽♂️
Thanks for uploading more content but what we really need is a new feature length film on the history of atomic weapons :)
Thanks AtomCentral, you rock!
You know Peter is working on a new one right? A film detailing the development of neutron bombs!
www.gofundme.com/r5x8mw7c
Looks like it's going nowhere fast with fifteen hundred raised over the last half a year.
Peter needs to learn how to ADVERTISE.
Its in the process of getting finished regardless if it raises the money. Although contributions make it less painful and every little bit helps. It ain't cheap to make a documentary.
Its called Atomic Cafe
I like Atomic Cafe, however there are differences: Atomic Cafe did not go to the trouble of restoration, they did not do any original photography, they did not pay for a narrator or score any original music. All of these things cost $$$
Absolutely brilliant. Great footage and even greater narration.
"Let's see if we can use Nukes for construction" ... thats mad scientist territory right there
That was the most sane part of the entire thing!
Well in all fairness - they had to try to see if it was viable :D - it might not be on earth - but on some other planet like say mars or moon where you need to wear protection anyway it might be a handy tool for massive terrain re-shape-ing.
People use TNT for digging in Minecraft all the time.
@@krzosu Let's not forget that they were playing with the house's money and big boy toys. They were messing with these things anyway they could imagine.
The ussr did its one of the if not the deadliest man made lakes on the planet
great video, very much enjoyed the entire production from editing, and music, to the actual information provided .
I guess that's what it looks like when scientists are having.....A BLAST
Batman haha
holy mother of god..batman is on youtube
Batman that comment was the bomb.
_"Yes, but the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?!"_ -- Dr. Strangelove
In the last few dramatic explosion tests are mixed in with a few mach stem effects tests. To maximise the damage a bomb can do. Blast wave catches the reflection wave and rototills the earth.
Here is an aerial view of the site in Google Maps :
www.google.com.sa/maps/@37.0843415,-116.0539927,43718a,20y,270h/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
The ground there has more holes than a piece of emmental!
The nuke tests were fake. Just like nuke bombs. Japan was firebombed. Never nuked. Propaganda
I guess that site's no good for a country club or golf range...
piranha031091
Cool!!
Towards the end of WW2, my grandparents, my mother and Aunt were stationed in the Nevada desert. My mother can remember playing in the sand, running it through her fingers and the sand storms...both my mother and aunt have thyroid problems and my aunt was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. There are no other thyroid problems or cancer in our family history or today.
@9:57.painting the trim on the house! LmFAO 😂
Common white house house paint contained lead in those days .
White paint reduces the effect of the heat.
So your smartphone won't work then?
Well, then laugh your fvcking a$$ off then 777...White paint is highly reflective and was intended to avoid a thermal radiation-induced structure fire.
Must be a thermal radiation thing.
I love how you can still hear the vacuum in the background from the old tube tv's.
1054 tests?? This seems less like tests and more scientists playing with a new toy they have found..
Karthik Mahesh they literally built small cities to test this stuff. That kinda money doesn't get invested because somebody wants to have some fun.
Not scientists, Generals. Most of the the test were probably done on the order of DOD, Army, Navy, etc.
Nonono this is purely the work of the US armed forces
Hammer Smith ummmm vacation saves lives dumb ass
The point of each test, as the weapons improved an evolved, was to have high-yield devices with less and less actual fissible materials.
For example, the Little Boy bomb had and incredible tiny yield for how much uranium it had; a fissile yield by more modern standards. A few hundred bombs could be made with the same quantity of material, and each having a significantly higher yield.
I'm pretty sure my grandfather worked at Area 23. He doesn't talk about it much, but I believe he was a computer technician. Back in the day he worked on U2's and B-52's and many other aircraft, diagnosing computer problems on board the aircraft and also did work at Area 23 he said. Our family lives in cali but he told me he would travel to Area 23 if they had any technical or computer problems. He later went to work for IBM. Crazy stuff... I only found out about this portion of his life a year ago!
2:08
That was a sweet transition!
Took that tour several years ago. It's an impressive place and definitely worth the trip.
Are you given a dosimeter
So these super smart people thought they could dig a lake with a Nuke, and only figured out after the hole would be radioactive!!
Da'Fuk
More then likely just an excuse for a justification to ignite another pile of nukes.
well, we could have been like the USSR and ACTUALLY DONE IT, and now people swim in the crater.
Ominous music adds a lot to this video. At times, there's a bit of that THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL feel to it.
I was hearing music from The Shinning, and Planet of the Apes. I found it all to be a bit louder than necessary.
I just love that the Marquee at the Riviera Hotel had Don Rickles name on it!
Was on a tour of the test site 3 years ago and am going back for a repeat shortly. Being a retired nuclear Weapons tech. brings a lot into focus!
I worked there as an engineer, I never want to go back - I just want to put those years out of my mind. I was blinded by the science.
I wanna know about these cameras. How did they make a camera survive a nuke?
Riley Goss .... GoPro testing grounds
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They were embedded in reinforced concrete pillars wirth blast resistant lenses and radiation and light filters.
More like they were Nokia phones
Cameras in the closest areas were inside small concrete structures with thick, small glass windows.
mirror cameras
They had public tours. I don't know if they still do. Seden creator is about one mile from gate 700 which is the entrance to area 51. I used to make deliveries untill 2006 when I retired
Not shown are the affects on Live Animals, they were placed close to explosion to stude effects of heat/radiation.
Photography of live animals during surface tests is publicly available.
very hard to find the info on the animal tests. my dads ship CVL 22 was in the a-bomb tests at bikini atoll. only heard stories about the zoo on board could never find photos or info on the animals. should FOI the info some day.
CASLUICEBOX Why would you want to see what a nuke does to an animal?
C Smith i build shelters, a wine cave type of underground house/shelter. i bore into solid rock then use reinforced concrete to build the shelters. 1000 sq.ft. per person.
i am looking for papers written in the 1950s-1980s on the dose of radiation received while in different types of protected areas. yes i admit it is a bit morbid to talk about. not looking for photos..
Cool, sounds like a fun job.
These Atomic Bomb Collection films are what gave me my start in Nuclear Weapons. Awesome.
This was great. I would love to do that tour one day
is just dust and holes in 50 degree heat, would be rubbish
Pressure waves and sound waves traveling is almost supernatural to watch along with the initial blast ball that looks like a ball of swiss cheese with layers like an onion.
Bank vaults - there you have it, it's always about the money. Mans real God, the dollar.
God
Guns,
Oil
Drugs.
Really scary part: all those observers out there, in the open, watching as the nukes went off, with no thought to exposure or even "what if the blast is stronger than they think?"
The test where they took the Nuke the Fridge scene from India Jones an the Crystal Skull from.
That was a rather bald Hollywoodization of what the popular concept of a effects test were. In reality no "neighborhood" was tested against; individual homes and other structures, mannikens to test clothing, including the forest planted in concrete, were used. And there were a number of different tests used for effects testing of one kind or another.
Two famous tests that inspired that scene were "Grable" 1953 and "Apple 2" 1955. Both are on YT.
That’s what I call excellent music choice and timing with the picture. Great work 👍
how long was it before the people were allowed down into the sedan creater? and for how long?
I think the sign said 27 days before people where allowed in.
It literally says on the sign in the video. 27 days before it was safe to approach crater lip, 167 days before bottom bed was safely accessible.
When I worked at the site it was off limits. You could go to the rim, but not down inside it. That was 76-86 time frame. NASA did test the Lunar Rover, but it was in and out. There is a ton of old junk a the bottom old trucks, cars, tires, parts of torn down Butler buildings, etc etc. You wouldn't want to go down there - and the sides are very treacherous anyway.
whoa, excellent soundtrack with video
exploding an atom bomb leaves a radioactive crater, who'd of thought that ?
Well the point of the test was not to come to such infantile conclusion but rather the effects of the aftermath.
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@MrTNTitans32 no, they d
Imagine all the dust that's irradiated. Even the isotopes that release alpha particles (helium nucleus) are insidious when they get inside the body.
The shot shown (Sedan) was detonated in 1962 under the Plow Share program - It was placed down hole at approximately 350 feet to maximize the cratering - it was to test the viability of creating a second Panama Canal if something happened to deny use of the primary canal. I once tried to throw a rock across it - not possible. It is very large and very deep, and quite sobering. - Just another bad memory of my years as an engineer at the NTS. Their is nothing trivial or remotely humorous about these devices in any way. If detonated in anger, or by miscalculation, or mistake the living will envy the dead.
A wonderfully informative film. Thanks.
My brother and father both worked out at the "Test Site" my brother was a Crane Operator/Oiler and my dad was a rough neck on the drilling rigs used to drill the holes for the underground testing. We lived in Indian Springs, NV which isn't far from Mercury. I used to hear a lot of stories about the "Test Site" and one of my favorites is my mom telling me how they would all gather around outside and watch the mushroom clouds when they still did above ground testing they even got a count down either from the TV news or via the radio but I can't remember exactly how that part happened.
Did they see any Ufos?
Wow! The two story colonial standing in Area 1 took the blast relatively well. Today's houses are lucky to survive an EF-1 tornado.
If they use flutes and harps for the music instead of the brass section, people would be less scared of nuclear bombs.
I wonder how close you have to be for microwave popcorn to pop?
9:57 Funny that hes putting so much detail into house thats about to be blow up lol
Dr. Emmett Brown gotta have very accurate results lol, make it as realistic as possible
To think one of the original script ideas was to drive the DeLorean to the test site and harness the power from one of these tests to generate the 1.21 Gigawatts needed to send Marty back to 1985. Thinking fourth-dimensionally though, once that baby hits 88 mph, the nuclear blast won't even be there and Marty would've been transported instantly to a very restricted area, just round the corner from Area 51.
I've always wondered about these early nuclear explosions. In Japan, immediately after the war, observers went to Nagasaki and Hiroshima and wandered around the ruins taking pictures and so on - not so much as a stitch of protective clothing on. Same goes for the Nevada test sites - people wandering around the structures, after the explosion - no protective gear.
So either there was no radiation, or the US Government is even more callous than previously thought.
the radiation levels quickly drop off to acceptable levels for humans to be present for short times. exposure time is critical. radiation isnt as dangerous as its made out to be and safely traversing a radioactive area is relatively straight forward.
I always wanted to see footage of skyscrapers being in the area of an atomic bomb
fuk u watch the movie Akira
3:23 Looks like 9/11 debris from WTC 1 and 2
Larger than Rhode Island you say? Wow. I'm used to driving pretty much down the side of RI and that takes about an hour. I can't imagine a place where things aren't close together. When you live in between Boston Worcester and Providence your entire life, anything west of the Hudson River seems big.
the nevada test range has more nuke craters than the moon. total number of detonations in the Nevada test range is 928 atmospheric, underground, and surface blasts. all ranging from low kiloton to multi-megaton warheads
The moon doesn't have any nuke craters...
"There are 5,185 craters on the moon that are more than 12 miles across. Scientists estimate there are around 1,000,000 craters larger than half a mile across and over half a billion that are larger than 10m wide."
lovethenightsky.com/many-craters-moon/
very eloquent narration. music is great too. thank you
9:00 whoever made the music. I love you so good damn much.
Judah Boyd you mean 9:12
My 1st tour overseas (Aug '88 - Dec '91) was at NATO Site 104, in Miesau, Germany. It was a nuclear weapons storage facility, and we had the warheads, but not any rocket systems.
Of course, back then there wasn't Google Images and UA-cam. So, while we DID KNOW what we were 'safeguarding', I'm 99.999999% certain we all would have taken it a LOT more serious.
We had 17 earth covered bunkers, and while the ordnance folks wouldn't tell us a precise quantity (or versions), of what was on site, I heard a variety of claims, such as: 'Enough to destroy most of Europe'......'Enough to take Europe off of the map'.......'Enough to destroy the Northern Hemisphere'....
Maybe it's all for the better that we didn't know, back then.
5:29
OK wtf there's a site called "Japan town" WTF
There was the silhouette of a very nice looking lady coming out of one of the buildings, she was doubtless American but that building shown looked very Japanese in style
warning japan that they could be nuked at anytime in the future
They probably wanted to correlate the damage from the two real Japan towns that experienced detonations in August 1945 with Japanese- style structures located at the Nevada Test Site.
there,s also "NukeTown™"...i love that map
The free public NNSS tour is amazing. Highly recommended.
11:05 As a kid, sure everyone played with fireworks at a time, but from today's perspective that's so silly ...
Really great footage in there. What an era
It would be interesting to know the effects of all these tests on the underground gravel aquifers at the site. I'm sure those aquifers are no longer radioactive, no longer have any effect on rain and snow melt water passing through them.
From what I read the rock and stone are very good absorbers so that they filter contaminated water well and radioactive matter travels very little through them. Meaning that contamination is localized in a very small area around craters.
Would you want to drink water that had flowed through those very-good-absorbing gravel aquifers - even after 1000 years? Probably not.
It's no different from any other water after 300 years. As for dosage - one could drink famous "contaminated" groundwater that is sleeping under Fukushima for a year and only get same amount of exposure as from getting pelvic X-RAY.
No offense, Sasha, but where are you getting your statistics (regarding Fukushima) ...from the Japanese government? At the Nevada Test Site they were relying on the fact that at the site very little rain or snow ever falls. Still, there is an underground 'plume' of radioactive material slowly moving south. At the Oakridge National Laboratory - where Uranium 235 was produced during World War ll - it rains a lot. At Oakridge the authorities admit that there's nothing they can do about the radioactive contamination underground.
Radiation is a strange beast -- salt water is amazing at getting rid of radiation, so I'd expect a long travel through whatever is under all that sand (also a great filter) to leave minimal effects at best. Those blasts when properly set off leave little of the original core left. Unlike chernobyl where the reactor exploded and left bits of its radioactive core EVERYWHERE, the only thing you have to watch out for in blast areas is vegetation uptakes of cesium -- can't eat plants grown with it in the soil as vegetation replaces it's uptake of potassium with cesium and you get some hot fruits / veggies. Take a look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki --- Also quite a bit of info out there on the Marshall Islands..... including sea-life in the craters.
My grandfather was a valet at a strip casino back then and when he found out I was doing a paper on the impact of atmospheric testing he told me about the parties held by casinos to "Watch the giant mushrooms grow". When I realized he was serious my Jaw dropped
at 10:45 you'll see a solider setting up the ever common lesbian couple of the 1950s
How did you even notice that xD
At 10:46 you see another guy stealthily drive away with one of the dolls that was rumored to be anatomically correct.
@@orgasmified
If times had been different they would've been using a bulk order of, "My Real Doll", purely for scientific study, you understand.
The music at 9:05 makes me chuckle. "Yeeehoooo bois lets head on down'err and git us some samples!"
William Shatner - Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie.
This place absolutely fascinates me.
I would of loved to of witnessed one of these blast in person...
This film has wonderful editing, and music, and content. I love it.
“Patrolling the Mohave, almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter”...
Welcome to fabulous New Vegas!
Lol look at those craters. If someone were to show that in monochrome reel, it'd look like it was the moon.
And that was what was done I suspect.
The Apollo project , one giant cheat for mankind.....
Even if you don't or can't do the site tour, the Nuclear Test Museum near the strip is totally worth the visit if you are in Vegas.
love the banjo music while the scientists descended into the crater
ok so this video is basically a promotion for their tour ... but I do like how it is done like a quick tour with it's own little commentary track to run you along some of the amazing information you will come across if you do the tour .. and still get some awesome facts from this mini tour ;)
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well done
Team of Scientists: Where should we detonate Nuclear Weapons?
Also Team of Scientists: Our own backyard.
Buffalo Titan Still better than the times they said 'someone else's back yard'
I'm confused as to how the Nevada Desert is NOT the most radioactive place in the United States.
Could we move the underground testing to Washington DC?
One would not believe that people in U.S. they feel that their government is working against the will of the people whose interests it is supposed to represent ...
Wow, this video really put it in perspective on how big these bombs were when they exploded. It's been very difficult to kind of understand how wide and how big a bomb is until i've seen this video Holy cow
So in case of nuclear war, hide on a bank vault
ummm maybe you better check out what that exact scenario did for burgess meredith on that twilight zone episode.
BadAssEngineering or a fridge
You don't want to live through it. You will envy the dead. Also, it won't shield you from radiation, so you will still die a horrible and slow death.
@@HarryBalzak eh... what's a little vomiting, bloody diarrhea, hair falling out, DNA mutating... I get that every day...
My suggestion - if you have time move you and your loved ones as close to the hypo center as possible. It will all be over in 2 or three nanoseconds. (10-e9 seconds) and you will become pure energy.
I went to visit a friend at a prison north of Nevada. It was crazy to see explosions/ tests sitting down talking and seeing all this dirt flying in the air. Radioactive? Who knows. Maybe, it’s next to a prison. The view did blow my mind. My buddy said it’s normal. They were used to it.
so i checked out yucca flat moon on google earth and that area is like the surface of the moon. Weird feature is draggin the yellow streetview dude he turns into a flying saucer icon lol.
I did the same. It's so sad that humans are great with destroying stuff. By the way, that saucer stuff is funny.
this would have so cool to see back when they did it
Is that " capt kirk "
IT SURE SOUNDED LIKE HIM DIDNT IT?
Oh sweet, is this an addendum to Trinity & Beyond?
I've watched that countless times. Fantastic music and stunning footage.
How do you ask *that* question?
"Hey kid, wanna see a nuclear detonation?"
The Nevada test site is on my bucket list. Been to Trinity but as a soldier back in 1984. We were training close by so we checked it out. I didn't appreciate it back then. Id like to revisit Trinity.
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
The thought of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer at Trinity site Jornada del Muerte, New Mexico, 1946. :-( . it should have ended with Trinity. - blame Dr. Edward Teller I am a member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, it is 2 minutes till midnight as close as its been since the 1950's.
did they not know or did they not care about the radiation left after the bombs went off ?
Horrifying, creepy, sad. Well done mankind. There is no survivable plan for nuclear war.
John Petersen the Nazis were close, real close. Could you imagine Hitler with the bomb
@@rsears78 They never were. Heisenberg led them in a dead end, on purpose
@@raffaeledivora9517 Correct.
This is why I love UA-cam. This was so cool