. . . and they decided to reduce the original size by half. . . Because the pilot who was almost forty miles away wouldn't have been able to escape the blast. Yep, we're definitely a wise and noble species.
The pilots lives were only one of many reasons.But they were more concerned 100MT could ignite the athmosphere and damage the ozon layer.Also because they couldn't calculate the exact power the explosion would have...It was guestimated the bomb would be around 50MT, but in reality it was 57.5MT .Also the Americans made big mistakes in their calculations.Sometimes a bomb would turn out to be a lot more powerful than expected or than what they had calculated.So making a wrong estimate with a 100MT bomb would be catastrophic if the actual explosion yields 130 or 150MT instead of 100MT.The biggest fuck up so far was Castle Bravo...it was estimated to yield 5 MT.But the actual explosion was 15 megatons.Imagine this fuck up with a 100 MT bomb that turns out to be 300 MT.That's 20000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb
I was a weapons repairman in the US Army. These are all strategic weapons. If you think these people were a bit too close to a nuclear detonation, check out the tests for the "Davey Crockett". It was a tactical nuke launched from a 4.2" mortar. Maximum effective range? About one mile. Those involved in the testing were a minimum of a 1/4 mile and a maximum of 3/4 of a mile away. From a nuclear detonation. The leukemia rate for the 50,000+ soldiers used in US testing was 3x the average for people their age. The overall cancer rate was 5x higher. Because these tests were classified higher than Top Secret, most did not "officially" exist. Which means when these soldiers went to the VA for treatment, they were denied because there was no way proving the conditions were service related. There is a very good short documentary made by one of the people involved with the tests called "The Atomic Soldiers".
Unconscionable. This is why there is no real honor in serving in the military. The military has no respect for the lives of servicemen. Same goes for Russia/USSR
VA.gov "In 1996, The Repeal of Nuclear Radiation and Secrecy Agreements Laws was passed. This law states that Atomic Veterans are free to describe their military involvement in nuclear testing as necessary to establish the validity of a service-connected disability." They are called "Atomic Test Veterans." At the Nevada Atomic Test Sites, they would detonate an atomic bomb then move soldiers into the blast site and have them camp there for a couple of weeks. For years the soldiers were monitored by the government and were asked to go to a Veterans' Hospital and give a blood sample, some of them might of been paid to do so. They were eligible for Veteran Hospital benefits but could not claim a disability until 1996.
My Grandfather participated in Operation Teapot as an 18 year old Marine. He was involved in Test Shot Bee. According to him, he was placed in a trench a few miles away from ground zero, where an 8kt payload was strapped to a 500' tower. He recalls reports saying the troops were given thorazine, but he doesn't remember that specifically (probably because of the thorazine). When it came to countdown, their only instructions were to duck and cover, then emerge from the trench after given the clear. He closed his eyes and covered them with the crook of his arm. He said the flash was so bright, he could see his own arm bones through his eyelids and skin, like an x-ray. Later they were taken to ground zero, which was nothing but glass. The tower was completely vaporized. They were scanned with Geiger counters upon returning from their brief visit. It went off the needle when passing over one of his fellow's pants pockets, which they instantly ripped open. Out drops a small glass ball, a souvenir this idiot wanted to take with him from the glassed grounds of ground zero (tbf...wasn't a lot of common information on nukes back then...and they were literal teenagers.) All this to say, our government had an interesting "sciencing" approach in the 50s (*cough* MK Ultra). It was basically *BOOM* "You alive?! Cool. *writes down* 'Won't die at this distance.' K, move 'em up!" My grandfather did end up getting some aggressive skin cancer later in life, but he's beaten it and is still kicking at 85! Anyway, I'm sure regaling all this to a middle schooler will in NO WAY give him a complex his entire adult life; resulting in recurring nightmares of nukes and doom-scrolling UA-cam videos of explosions as a form of exposure therapy...
Lol. Gotta love those dreams when you dream a little cute dreamy nuke going off relatively nearby. Even in dreams the heat and light is terrifying. There’s something scary about the power of the sun… it says if we are returning to where a lot of elements and matter come from supernovas
@@tanweeransari4034 He said about two miles. I didn't always believe him, that sounded WAY too close to me. However, I checked Nuke Map with the same yield at the same site, and it seems more than feasible. More dubious when you look into what the maximum expected yield was supposed to be for that particular test (20kt), but he would've still survived. He just would've gotten a heavier dose of radiation upfront...rather than a few minutes later when they were all brought to the irradiated blast site to trample on. For real, though...the scientific method in the 50s was very much "shoot now, ask questions MUCH later."
Our father was an Air Force chaplain at the base that monitored the radiation from the Flats. We lived downwind from 138 mushroom blasts. I was 1 year old from 1945 through 1961 when our father moved us to Washington state where pastored a new church. My mother and three younger sisters were diagnosed with many immune disorders including tumors including cancers. I was diagnosed with 17 serious medical conditions including kidney cancer, and prostate cancer, 11 major surgeries, and over 40 procedures. I spent eight years in a hospital bed 24/7. Our children have secondary DNA changes. It is a miracle that I'm still a; I've by God's grace at 78, My wife and our 2 children lived downwind from Hanford from 1970-1975 as a minister. There was leakage several times while living there. We lost several friends in our church who worked a Handford. I have a friend in my church who was raised in the Tri-Cities and he lost his dad who was in the unit that stored the spent rods. I am Dr. Thomas Newton.
It´s amazing that you survived all that! I have read that downwinders were to be compensated so I seriously hope you did, but no money in the world can really compensate for what you´ve been through.
My father was on the ground when the british army decided to test Grapple. he's had quite serious cancer and years taken off of his life, but is still going.
I've watched a video of that, and heard how the military personnel described what it was like being there. and how they coulod see the bones in their hands...and feel the warmth of the blast as it detonated. and when the British the decided to carry out their test on mainland Australia in the outback of South Australia, there were similar reports from the personnel working on those tests. and many reports of cancers later in life, both in themselves, and the children, along with birth defects and other illnesses. sorry to hear about your father and his cancers.
Do you know for sure that his health issues are related to this? If your dad was aged about 20 in 1957 that puts him as born in 1937 ie aged 85 today. Most men don't live to be 85. If that test took years from his life it certainly didn't dent it by much.
Yea. The Soviets wanted to test a full battle after a nuke blast and had 45thousand troops perform an exercise on the blast spot. Sad how some nations treat their people
Also, they ran a herd of sheep into the danger zone, which killed them all, and they had to deal with all the dead sheep. Sometimes man can be SO stupid and they seem to ENJOY destruction! Dying from radiation is NOT at all, an easy way to die; there is a LOT of suffering before death occurs, sometimes years of it depending on how close you were to the source.
I really think that so many tests were done because generals just could not grasp how big the explosions were, and how this was radically different from a chemical bomb. A lot of scifi writers, even those with a "hard science" background had the same problem. Lots of stories from that time about powerful space ships with "atomic fuel". Buddies, there's no such thing as atomic fuel. This isn't something you make by adding some "atomic stuff" to ordinary fuel -- like the oxygen and hydrogen that are going to be used in the new Artemis moon rockets. Atomic energy is completely different. BTW, Congress authorized a bonus of $75,000 for any U.S. military personnel that spent time in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, even if you just drove through. It's still available to their children (if you know of any vets, spread the word).
To put it in perspective of how powerful the Tsar Bomba was. Apparently, the parachute was put on the nuke to buy the pilots some time to escape, but even with the parachute the pilots were told that they would only have a 50% of survival!…it also shattered windows 560 miles away. Our brains cannot comprehend the magnitude of sheer power this bomb has. There’s a reason it’s called the King of Bombs (Tsar Bomba) I
My dad once described a nuclear test at which he was present on a US Navy ship, at quite a distance. After the flash, they turned and watched the fireball rise up over the ocean. He said it was like a second sun rising in the south.
Canadian Lt. Col. Robert Klaehn was at the Apple 2 blast in Nevada in 1955, and as a child described to me the blast. He said that from the Canadian soldiers' position at 3 km. from the blast, the light was vividly purple, before white. Also said that despite black glasses, with his eyes closed he could see the bones in his hand when he held it up for extra shielding.
5:50 Actually the primary reason they opted for 50MT is because the 100MT version would have needed a uranium tamper and produced greater fallout than all other nuclear tests put together up to that time. Ironically using a neutral lead tamper it became the cleanest nuclear test ever in terms of the ratio of yield versus fallout.
@@karantikoo9302 hmm, yes...safer 😑 lol, sorry I just think it's funny saying a hydrogen bomb is "safer". But I know what you're saying, it's still funny tho
They actually had to lower the yield to 50MT from 100MT because of the fact plutonium is so heavy, so they switched to uranium instead. The bomb as is was, was already big and very heavy and impacted their planes ability to carry it. So switching the substance, as well as what the bomb was made of, it lowered the yield very greatly but still remained such a large yield. Fun fact: they painted the plane white in hopes it would deflect heat and light. They didn’t escape as the explosion went very far in the atmosphere, very fast, before their plane got away.
@@karantikoo9302 The Tsar Bomba had a fission primary and fusion secondary. There is no such thing as a pure hydrogen bomb. They literally use a fission bomb to set off the hydrogen bomb
@@Arora4926 WTF are you talking about? You realize that Plutonium gives way more bang for you buck, right? A 6kg plutonium mass gives a greater explosive yield than 64kg of uranium, so no, it wasn't because plutonium was 'too heavy.' The reason the yield was reduced from 100 MT to 50 MT was because they thought the fallout would be far too great at 100 MT, due to a uranium tamper, and that the plane might not be able to escape the blast radius. It had nothing to do with the bomb being too heavy, so stop blatantly lying. Using Plutonium would've reduced the mass, as it has a way higher explosive yield to mass ratio. Also, the uranium tamper was switched to a lead one. I am honestly amazed at how people just spew virtually all wrong information. Almost none of what you said was correct, except for painting the plane white to reflect light. What made you so confident in spewing such wrong information? Clearly you thought that your information was right, but why did you think this? Where did you get this information from....? Because whoever or where ever you got it, they were lying to you
6:30 "The (Nevada) proving grounds cover 1360 square miles of mountains and desert, perfect for testing nuclear weapons without hurting a fly." I can't believe he actually said that.
Personally I know that 10 to 20,000 flies died during testing... I know because I've talked to some of their family members. And the first thing they told me was buuuuuuzzzz buzzz buuuuuuzzzzz. I couldn't believe it😜
It was a bold face lie . The government force the Marines to March into ground zero into the mushroom cloud and fallout of an atomic test . Yes, those Marines all later on in life came down with various cancers and diseases and died painful deaths before the age of 50 .
The thumbnail of this video shows some of those Marines and the mushroom cloud I'm talking about. That's an actual frame from the video from that day .
I've never witnessed a test, but I was around when they still did testing. Whenever there was a test, the whole atmosphere would pulse with two quick flashes of light, like a strobe. You could only see it at night, but we could tell whenever Russia did a test. It was very strange.
I remember reading that when the US tested its first atomic bomb there was concern it could ignite the atmosphere. Their scientists did the calculations and came to the conclusion that it probably wouldn’t happen so they went through with it. Insane that they even took the risk.
Imagine going back in time when the mafia owned vegas and the cold war was roaring and nuclear testing was rampant. You use to be able to rent casino hotel rooms and pay extra for a room facing a nuclear test site and watch them. It was advertising a room with a view of nuclear test lol.
@@Belows682 I got it in 2017 and it metastasized to my liver in 2018. A real pain in the ass. Sorry about your mom. Mine got colon cancer the same year I was first diagnosed. So, we suffered together. Both still alive, thank God.
My dad was at Bikini in 1946 for the Able and Baker tests. He had just got his commission as a newly minted ensign in the summer of 45 at the end of the war. He was a crew member of the destroyer U.S.S. Hughes which had been selected to be in the target fleet and had made it through the entire war, they had sailed with a skeleton crew from San Francisco to the rest site for preparations for the 2 shots. I recently found a letter he'd written my grandparents, my grandad was a senior Captain by then and c.o.of the Philadelphia navy yard, detailing the preparations leading up to the tests including fueling and stocking the target ships with full armament stows to fully simulate combat conditions. Made for some anxious moments when they went back to inspect the damage and many of the ships were on fire and very hot radioactively!
I grew up in Las Vegas many decades ago and the ground would often shake from the underground nuclear tests far away. It was just a normal part of life. Or so I thought.
6:45 "without hurting a fly." Yeah, tell that to the downwinders in St George and other cities. Places where people literally sat on their front porches on test days and watched the mushroom clouds. John Wayne's cancer is also said to have originated from the fallout from the many Nevada Test Range tests.
Of course the four to seven packs, depending on his mood, of Camel (unfiltered) that wayne smoked daily, couldn`t possibly have been enough to have played a part.
@@georgerubypoppy1063 cancer rates globally spiked a stupendous amount and haven't decreased since all the nuclear testing performed in this period Nothing, not even the industrial revolution caused anything like this
@@georgerubypoppy1063 we all know smoking is bad, but pretending that testing nukes is at all okay and doesn't permenantly damage land and species on an unprecedented scale is lunacy, your comment is pointless No amount of cigarettes compares do the damage these things cause
@@rambo-cambo3581 Who is pretending that testing nukes is ok, and doesn`t do all the things you mention? Not me. I just pointed out Wayne`s smoking habit, that I believe could well have been the cause of his cancer.
My dad once told me about a time when he was young and hitch-hiking in the Mojave desert before dawn. The sky lit up and he thought for a moment the sun was coming up, then realized it was coming from the north. He found out later it was a nuke test up at the Nevada testing grounds.
I wonder if anyone did a comprehensive study to look at the relationship between incidence of cancer worldwide VS the number of nuclear tests conducted.
One of the purposes sought with the Tsar Bomb test was to show the United States that the Soviet Union had a nuclear weapon of such power capable of destroying the New York area completely, even making its reconstruction impossible. Sakharov, who led the scientific team that built this bomb, talked about this.
Yoo dude, dad was really busy making more offspring! My dad was also the last living person who was present during the first splitting the atom in 1942. Worked with Enrico Fermi.
Man didn't create anything. Man harnessed the raw power of creation. The power of nature itself. Which is terrifying. What we harnessed it for is sickening. "Your scientists were so busy trying to figure out if they could they didn't stop to think whether or not they should."-some Jurassic Park quote probably
In Australia in the 1950's and 60's the British detonated about two dozen fission bombs at the Monte Bello Islands (Pilbara region off W. Australia coast) and at the Maralinga and Emu test ranges in the Woomera region of South Australia. The nastiest, dirtiest and most evil tests were conducted at Maralinga where they just blew up chunks of Pu239 and Pu240 with ANFO (dirty bombs) or just chucked that stuff in a fire to see what happened.
In the mid 60's, I was driving to Big Bear over the pass east of the lake. It was about 10pm and the sky lite up in a bright flash. My father said it was likely a nuclear test since we were high up and facing toward Vegas at that time. About 300 miles south of the blast. Quite a sight.
There is a documentary called ‘Nukes in Space’ and drew a link between the multiple high stratosphere nuclear explosions that went off into the early 70’s and the discovery of holes in the ozone layer which are blamed on pesticides and other man made products and the documentary shows the ozone layers vaporise and creates a northern lights type event as the ozone tries to fill the hole that just happened.. and they did these multiple times..
Being raised in the early 1960’s I clearly remember the videos and drills in the event of an attack. In the mid70’s Army, we planned in our tank battalion on how to react in case of nukes, and as S-4 worked with S-1 to compile data from the individual dosimeters, calculate combat effectiveness of each man and reassign based on life expectancy. Remember calculating flash to bang. Times, measuring the mushroom cloud and estimating the weapon yield. Also with with direction develop estimated downwind hazard for troop deployment. Horrible concept nuclear war.
The interesting thing about high altitude nuclear explosions is that the electromagnetic pulse which destroys electronic equipment doesn't travel in a straight way but along the magnetic field lines of the planet until that line meets the ground. That way you can destroy communication devices and every other consumer electronics that are not specially shielded in an area on the ground that is thousands of km away from the explosion.
I liked the explanation that kilo represents 1000 and then going on to do the maths of adding three zeros to 65. am wondering if this is made for 7 year olds
I remember in the 60s, when the summers in Europe were very cool in temperature. This was caused by the testing of nukes and the dust high up in the atmosphere. Then they switched to sub surface testing.
excuse my potentially dumb question, other then radiation waste, how would this suit as a possible short term solution to global warming? just a funny semi serious throw away curiosity type question.
@@starritsimsports3765 no stp.question. In the 70s they (experts!) were predicting an ice age due to the fine dust in the stratosphere. You see, we are falling from one extinction into another 😉
Interesting. Only test I have never seen was the last one. Almost all of the space test yields are still classified even today. I did read somewhere that the Soviets admitted a few years ago that Tsar Bomba was actually around 47 megatons... but I can't find that source again. The bomber that dropped it barely got out of the blast zone before it went off.
1:40 "To put that into perspective, 1 kiloton is equal to 1000 tons". Man, I had no idea. That's not really putting something into perspective. It would have been better if he showed us some smaller explosion and said that that was 1 ton.
G'day Underworld team! I have a suggestion for a possible future video, I've been a long time fan but have barely seen any Australian content. I suggest that you do a video like "5 Worst Australian Cyclones" or "5 Freaky Australian Events" or something relatable to that
@@gavinhernandez8002 i've been to the desert and there are plenty of snakes, scorpions, creatures etc....and definitely FLIES feasting on carcasses so i dont believe for a moment that no fly was hurt... and it dont take a genius to figure this out, but i guess this planet is full of retards who i have to answer, but luckily i have time to kill
Yeah because the fly vaporized so fast it didn’t even feel it! Along with the lizards, the scorpions, the snakes… The people downwind, however, felt it for a long time.
If I understood that correctly, the pilot and crew that dropped the Tsar Bomba were only 24.85 miles away when the blast happened. It helps me to picture this in miles instead of kilometers. God help us if any of these weapons are dropped on any civilization again...
@@Trancymind to recount, it already happened decades ago with Castle Bravo and the several other tests done in the late 50's in the South Pacific, many beautiful islands and beaches......scarred for centuries to come, radioactivity still high, and the generations of inhabitants still suffering...
@@Trancymind I know that, however many people have already been and are still victims of nuclear warfare testing, not exactly targeted, but still they are victims from it
The total absurdity of nuclear weapons cannot be overstated. I have lost count of the very realistic Nightmares I have had involving these terrible weapons. 😧😨😳
Does anyone else get this strange, unusual feeling of fear and anxiety when watching nuclear explosion videos? Ever since I was a kid I had a fascination with watching old nuclear test videos, but EVERYTIME I'd start the video I'd have to look away and watch out of the corner of my eye or through my fingers... and I still do it now. Is it just me? I'm genuinely curious. I know it has something to do with the sheer size of the explosion and the unforgiving devastation it causes, that makes my brain feel anxious. But it's literally only for videos about nuclear bombs, dark under water videos, or spiders... so I'm curious if theres a specific name or phobia for that type of thing?
Same thing happens to me. Since I was a kid outer space pictures gave me this deep terrifying feeling that I still get with videos like this one and other outer space videos.
I agree with the other guy, looking at nuclear explosions gives me the same uneasy feeling as looking into space on a cloudless night. They're too otherworldly. I've read accounts from people near the drop radius that they could see the explosion through their hands and with their eyes closed. One account from a sailor even described being able to almost feel like he could see the nuke through the top of his head as he was huddled down taking cover. Like the nuke was looking through him.
@@welcometothemonkeyapezone7797 Yes I think I have heard the same dude talk. Many people including the sailor and piolets have said they can actually see x ray light and when looking at there hands they have seen there bones under the skin. Even with there eyes closed. He described how he had his hands over his face and saw his Skelton and finger bones.......that is crazy shit right there.
Shocking and horrible 🤔😔 scary stuff , all because of what them in charge did based on the fear of other peoples beliefs n fears.The populace had no say on the matter , on both sides .Its all about a free world and the opposite to that. The destruction is so huge there are no winners in the end. Just the annihilation of human kind and the rape of a beautiful creation - EARTH! ALL of our home.
The 1000s of detonations that went on during the last century always makes me wonder if it altered the Earth at all as it was an amount of energy released not seen since Tunguska
Makes me wonder if all that atmospheric radiation fall-out mixed into ghe Jetstreams and circulated around the Earth's atmosphere could be the primary cause of many cancers?
Between 1945 and 1996 over 2000 nuclear detonations with over 500 in the atmosphere. Talking about climate change, what would the effect of those bombs have on it I wonder?
Another fact about the tsar bomba that bomb was also able to send 3 shockwaves around the entire planet and also the pilot just about escaped with damage to the plane
But, not as powerful as my uncle's bean gas...... Sorry, I couldn't help the thought and also looked up all the statistics for the Tsar Bomba. When you see such crazy, insane man-made destruction, all there is to do is laugh.
It is claimed that the plane dropped a thousand meters in altitude when the shockwave hit it, luckily it flew high enough to get back control without issues.
I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. And I have felt the underground testing, which was going on, however underground testing does not produce any kind of mushroom cloud as the narrator has suggested.
I can imagine what kind of toll those tests took on buildings in Vegas over time...and they were all relatively small tests compared to those at Bikini, Eniwetok, Christmas Island, and Novaya Zemlya. But, numerous smaller tests can do more damage than a single big test, even if the respective yields of the two scenarios come out the same. I understand that they realized that fairly early on, which was why they decided not to detonate Faultless at the NTS, picking the Hot Creek Valley near Tonopah instead (which turned out to be just as much a mistake).
depends on the test really, I've seen underground test footage where the blast still makes it to the surface, it's convection that creates the mushroom shape. Of course it's nowhere near the scale of atmospheric mushroom clouds though as the ground takes most of the heat away, and the more underground tests they did, the better they got at containing them.
The bombs are so big it almost looks like they are filming in slow motion, but they're not, that's real-time, the bombs are so big and powerful the blast hangs around for minutes.
Had training in the early 90s on nuclear weapons including briefings from someone who was at nuclear tests, including above ground. They talked about the crazy bright flash and shockwaves. Biggest chunk of training was on how human bodies react to being exposed to nuclear weapons. Treating people with radiatiom poisoning/radiation sickness. Frankly terrifying. Lots of training stuff is still classified and even after it stops being covered by Official Secrets Act won't talk about any of it. Saw classified stuff from the official Chernobyl files. Horrific trauma photos etc. I was in the training lectures thinking "I really hope if/when nuclear bombs get dropped I'm near impact point. I know meant to be there helping survivors but surviving will be much, much worse than dying.
Here in my town a few months ago some guys garage blew up from misplaced hot air balloon equipment or something. Anyway it was very early in the morning where it was still sort of dark. Anyway I woke up and the first thing I do is look out the window. These apartments across the street looked like they had smoke over them and I was like woah wtf. I tell my wife "I think there's a fire across the stree-" ... Suddenly this big ass fireball rises, THEN I hear the boom and rattle and our whole room lit up with light when it was dark a sec ago. Explosions are crazy in person.
One of the survivors filmed a documentary, ""The Atomic Soldiers", about it. There were over 50,000 soldiers used in tests from 1946 to 1956. Because the tests went above Top Secret, they were never allowed to talk about it. It was so secret, they couldn't get VA help because the program did not technically exist. Over 3,000 developed leukemia, three times the average for people their age. The only skin that was exposed were their hands. And, well over half of them reported being able to see the bones and veins in their hands, like an x-ray, after detonation.
I'm sure all that jet fuel being burned by the tens of thousands of aircraft in the sky at any given moment has nothing to do with it either...Or anything else the green freaks love to blame us poor people on the ground for. And how about all those "contrails" up there? They are harmless, aren't they? I never knew "hot jet exhaust" was so clean and harmless. Jet exhaust is a hydrocarbon combustion product just like our cars create. Not harmless...The "chemtrail" conspiracy is real in a way. No, not the pilot activated button sprayed, craziness of heavy metal insanity. As some will explode as soon as they oxidize. Real as in our skies are poisoned and so is everything that rains down on us now. And not just from aircraft exhaust. But from so much other activity that shouldn't have happened...
No, it was CFCs which were banned hence why the ozone hole started repairing. Unfortunately air travel also damages ozone so we'd better hope it doesn't have as big an effect.
My friend's grandpa was one of these soldiers VA told him, prove it you got these cancers from this, by the time VA helped him, be was terminally ill. He died 2 days before my friend was born.
I read somewhere that Tsar bomb was 50 Megatons because the person in charge of making the bomb halved the power without knowledge of superiors. Because he realized just how powerful that is, and non nuclear scientists giving the orders didn't.
True and false...They halved its yield to 50 megatons because they didn't know if 100 megatons would damage our athmosphere.It also gave the pilots a way better chance to escape the blastzone in time.Dropping a 100 megaton bomb would be a suicidemission for the pilots. And because calculating the yield of the bomb wasn't an exact science in those days.There were many miscalculations when it came to a bombs yield.Both the Russians and the Americans made errors in calculating and estimating the power of nuclear detonations.The Tsar was estimated to yield 50 megatons, but the actual blast was 57.5 megatons.And what about the American Castle Bravo bomb ??? They thought the yield would be 5 megatons, but it detonated with a force of 15 megatons.Big whoops !!! Can you imagine that fuck up with a 100MT bomb that suddenly yields 300MT? Other interesting numbers about the Tsar...The Tsar's explosion was over 3600 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, the shockwave travelled around the earth 3 times.The mushroomcloud reached up to 40 miles high and could be seen from over 600 miles away.The blast was 10 times more powerful than all bombs dropped during the entire 2nd world war.The blastwave shattered windows in neighbouring countries over 400 miles away.The heatwave was so intense it would still inflict 3rd degree burns to human skin more than 60 miles away from the explosion.We all saw that explosion in Beirut a couple of years ago and many people think that's exactly what a nuclear explosion in a city would be like....NOT EVEN CLOSE !!! That blast was estimated to be somewhere around 1.5 kilotons.Even the 15 kiloton Hiroshima bomb was 10 times more powerful than the Beirut explosion.And that's considered a "small" nuke nowadays.Modern nuclear warfare is very scary.Both the Russians and the Americans have nukes in their arsenal that range from 10 kilotons (to wipe out a few cityblocks) up to 1.2 megatons (to wipe out most of a large city).Mind you that modern ICBM's can carry multiple warheads at a time to have a bigger spread.So 1 ICBM can drop several nukes simultaniously spreaded out over a larger area.That makes smaller nukes more effective and affecting a larger area than one giant megaton bomb.And they are very hard to neutralise.Modern ICBM's travel at hypersonic speeds and they also carry "dummies".Those dummies are fake warheads that scatter thousands of metal particles into the sky to distract anti-missile defense systems from the real "live" warheads.All we need to end life as we know it is 1 nutter that decides to use a nuclear device on another country.Wether that be Putin or Kim Jong Un...the Americans would most likely retaliate against whomever strikes a nato country with a nuclear device.
the tsar bombe was amazingly safe though. people walked on the ground under the blast location, after only a few hours. because it was airburst all the fantastically radioactive radionuclides were distributed everywhere rather than sticking to vaporised dirt and becoming fallout. by the time they stood a chance of falling to earth most of their radioactive goodness had already boiled away into the firmament. wow, i love nuclear weapons - the magic and majesty of a star mixed with the earthy actuality of a volcano or a heart attack. beautiful
The main cause of the nuclear radioactive fallout isn't coming from the bomb itself but rather from all the dust that is pulled up into stratosphere. It then stays up there for a long time and eventually comes down as radioactive rain/snow thousands of kilometers away from the blast site.
I love the video, but I always correct the myth stated at 0:26 . Humanity (and life in general) is too numerous and too spread out for an extinction level event to occur due to nukes. Those who try to do this exercise by simply dividing the number of living creature by the number of nuclear weapons and tonnage can do the exact same thing with the common bullet. There is more than enough firearms ammunition stockpiled to wipe out most of life on Earth, several times over :)
The amount of nuclear fallout is what would create the most damage from an all out nuclear war in the 1980s … 50,000 warheads. In a limited nuclear war between India and Pakistan, it would damage the atmosphere and vegetation enough so that there would be world wide famine. To give you an idea, in the 1950s, there was an incident after a nuclear test 100+ miles away from a movie being made in Utah with John Wayne. Radioactivity drifted over the filming location and over the years, every single person at the the movie site died of cancer.
Most people after 1945: The nuclear fission bomb is the worst, most horrific thing that ever was or will be. Its monumental destructive power is beyond anything we've ever imagined possible. Edward Teller: That would make a good detonator.
I find the concept of an atomic bomb extremly horryfying. Imagine seeing a big glow it in the distance, sitting at your house comfortably with your loved ones. Then a giant atomic mushroom. And then the sound. And lastly you realize, that there is nowwhere to run, and you will eithet get blown away or burned along with your family. Its very scary.
I'm so disappointed we did so many tests before realizing the after effect but, I understand some had to be done to better understand our idiocy over a thousand is just irresponsible.
I would love to see what kind of footage we would be able to get if we tested one now with cameras and tech being what it is today... The available footage is awe inspiring and it was basically recording with a potato
To be able to visualise the size of the explosion the Trinity test conducted a 100 ton TNT test. This was 4334 boxes of explosives. The stack of explosives was 18ft x 18ft x 18ft. If we matched this with the actual Trinity test which was 18.6KT that would be a stack of TNT 0.6 x 0.6 x 0.6 miles! Now take a 50 MT Tsar bomb and that would be 1700 x 1700 x 1700 miles! Crazy.
I think you made a mistake with your calculation and did not take into account that volume of a cube goes up very quickly with the length of the side. Example, - side length 1, volume = 1x1x1=1 - side length 2, volume = 2x2x2=8 - side length 4, volume = 4x4x4=64 Side 18 ft, volume = 5,832 cubic feet. 100 tons TNT in this cube, so 5,832/100 = 68.32 cu ft needed for each ton. 18.6KT = 18,600 ton needs vol of 18,600/58.32 = 1,084,752 cu ft. Length of side = 103 ft approx = about 0.019 miles. By a similar calculation, 50MT needs cube of approx 0.27 miles. I think your calculation would work if the boxes were laid end to end, not stacked in a cube, and we were working with the length of the line.
Wasn't the German ship "Prinz Eugen" one of the ships anchored in the test site in the Marshal Islands? She refused to die but later sunk by a cyclone. Interesting dive.
Yeah sadly, she was left to be used as target practice for WMD. :/ Alot of those beautiful and incredible ships could still be toured today... All that history, just blown up...
@@sekured9950 I’m glad we blew them up- wish we could’ve done it twice! Those Krauts started a war that killed more people than all other wars combined
The Tsar Bomba was absolutely absurd, I dont think people understand just how huge that explosion was.
. . . and they decided to reduce the original size by half. . . Because the pilot who was almost forty miles away wouldn't have been able to escape the blast. Yep, we're definitely a wise and noble species.
How kind of them to let the pilot live.
I could produce a bigger explosion with food from Taco Bell
@@datatwo7405 more like 28 miles
The pilots lives were only one of many reasons.But they were more concerned 100MT could ignite the athmosphere and damage the ozon layer.Also because they couldn't calculate the exact power the explosion would have...It was guestimated the bomb would be around 50MT, but in reality it was 57.5MT .Also the Americans made big mistakes in their calculations.Sometimes a bomb would turn out to be a lot more powerful than expected or than what they had calculated.So making a wrong estimate with a 100MT bomb would be catastrophic if the actual explosion yields 130 or 150MT instead of 100MT.The biggest fuck up so far was Castle Bravo...it was estimated to yield 5 MT.But the actual explosion was 15 megatons.Imagine this fuck up with a 100 MT bomb that turns out to be 300 MT.That's 20000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb
I was a weapons repairman in the US Army. These are all strategic weapons. If you think these people were a bit too close to a nuclear detonation, check out the tests for the "Davey Crockett". It was a tactical nuke launched from a 4.2" mortar. Maximum effective range? About one mile. Those involved in the testing were a minimum of a 1/4 mile and a maximum of 3/4 of a mile away. From a nuclear detonation. The leukemia rate for the 50,000+ soldiers used in US testing was 3x the average for people their age. The overall cancer rate was 5x higher. Because these tests were classified higher than Top Secret, most did not "officially" exist. Which means when these soldiers went to the VA for treatment, they were denied because there was no way proving the conditions were service related. There is a very good short documentary made by one of the people involved with the tests called "The Atomic Soldiers".
No way ! You mean the government used our service members as test subjects.
Unlike Covid where they tried to use everyone.
Too Close for blast,... I thing Castle Bravo did a lot in this category,...
Unconscionable. This is why there is no real honor in serving in the military. The military has no respect for the lives of servicemen. Same goes for Russia/USSR
It’s disgusting what the government gets away with.
VA.gov "In 1996, The Repeal of Nuclear Radiation and Secrecy Agreements Laws was passed. This law states that Atomic Veterans are free to describe their military involvement in nuclear testing as necessary to establish the validity of a service-connected disability." They are called "Atomic Test Veterans." At the Nevada Atomic Test Sites, they would detonate an atomic bomb then move soldiers into the blast site and have them camp there for a couple of weeks. For years the soldiers were monitored by the government and were asked to go to a Veterans' Hospital and give a blood sample, some of them might of been paid to do so. They were eligible for Veteran Hospital benefits but could not claim a disability until 1996.
My Grandfather participated in Operation Teapot as an 18 year old Marine. He was involved in Test Shot Bee. According to him, he was placed in a trench a few miles away from ground zero, where an 8kt payload was strapped to a 500' tower. He recalls reports saying the troops were given thorazine, but he doesn't remember that specifically (probably because of the thorazine). When it came to countdown, their only instructions were to duck and cover, then emerge from the trench after given the clear. He closed his eyes and covered them with the crook of his arm. He said the flash was so bright, he could see his own arm bones through his eyelids and skin, like an x-ray.
Later they were taken to ground zero, which was nothing but glass. The tower was completely vaporized. They were scanned with Geiger counters upon returning from their brief visit. It went off the needle when passing over one of his fellow's pants pockets, which they instantly ripped open. Out drops a small glass ball, a souvenir this idiot wanted to take with him from the glassed grounds of ground zero (tbf...wasn't a lot of common information on nukes back then...and they were literal teenagers.) All this to say, our government had an interesting "sciencing" approach in the 50s (*cough* MK Ultra). It was basically *BOOM* "You alive?! Cool. *writes down* 'Won't die at this distance.' K, move 'em up!" My grandfather did end up getting some aggressive skin cancer later in life, but he's beaten it and is still kicking at 85!
Anyway, I'm sure regaling all this to a middle schooler will in NO WAY give him a complex his entire adult life; resulting in recurring nightmares of nukes and doom-scrolling UA-cam videos of explosions as a form of exposure therapy...
Incredible story, thank you
Lol. Gotta love those dreams when you dream a little cute dreamy nuke going off relatively nearby. Even in dreams the heat and light is terrifying. There’s something scary about the power of the sun… it says if we are returning to where a lot of elements and matter come from supernovas
How far he was from the test site?
@@tanweeransari4034 He said about two miles. I didn't always believe him, that sounded WAY too close to me. However, I checked Nuke Map with the same yield at the same site, and it seems more than feasible. More dubious when you look into what the maximum expected yield was supposed to be for that particular test (20kt), but he would've still survived. He just would've gotten a heavier dose of radiation upfront...rather than a few minutes later when they were all brought to the irradiated blast site to trample on. For real, though...the scientific method in the 50s was very much "shoot now, ask questions MUCH later."
how much time passed between the test and when they were taken to ground zero?
Our father was an Air Force chaplain at the base that monitored the radiation from the Flats. We lived downwind from 138 mushroom blasts. I was 1 year old from 1945 through 1961 when our father moved us to Washington state where pastored a new church.
My mother and three younger sisters were diagnosed with many immune disorders including tumors including cancers. I was diagnosed with 17 serious medical conditions including kidney cancer, and prostate cancer, 11 major surgeries, and over 40 procedures. I spent eight years in a hospital bed 24/7. Our children have secondary DNA changes. It is a miracle that I'm still a; I've by God's grace at 78, My wife and our 2 children lived downwind from Hanford from 1970-1975 as a minister. There was leakage several times while living there. We lost several friends in our church who worked a Handford. I have a friend in my church who was raised in the Tri-Cities and he lost his dad who was in the unit that stored the spent rods. I am Dr. Thomas Newton.
God bless you, sir!
God bless you I hope you sued tha absolute pants off of thr governmet I am so sorry that happened to you.
Blessings , I am deeply sorry you went through that. ☀
John Wayne was diagnosed with terminal cancer shortly after filming the movie Genghis Khan, which was filmed in..... yup. You guessed it.
It´s amazing that you survived all that! I have read that downwinders were to be compensated so I seriously hope you did, but no money in the world can really compensate for what you´ve been through.
My father was on the ground when the british army decided to test Grapple. he's had quite serious cancer and years taken off of his life, but is still going.
I've watched a video of that, and heard how the military personnel described what it was like being there. and how they coulod see the bones in their hands...and feel the warmth of the blast as it detonated. and when the British the decided to carry out their test on mainland Australia in the outback of South Australia, there were similar reports from the personnel working on those tests. and many reports of cancers later in life, both in themselves, and the children, along with birth defects and other illnesses. sorry to hear about your father and his cancers.
Makes no sense.
@@catey62 they actually carried it out around Christmas Island. Its very awful.
Do you know for sure that his health issues are related to this? If your dad was aged about 20 in 1957 that puts him as born in 1937 ie aged 85 today. Most men don't live to be 85. If that test took years from his life it certainly didn't dent it by much.
@@florinivan6907 100% > What I mean by "taken years" he aged suddenly. From being a fit a healthy pensioner to suddenly very unwell.
they 100% knew radiation was dangerous and marched those guys into ground zero just to see what would happen. fucking sickening...
Yea. The Soviets wanted to test a full battle after a nuke blast and had 45thousand troops perform an exercise on the blast spot. Sad how some nations treat their people
our world is built on Murder
After Hiroshima, they sure did.
Also, they ran a herd of sheep into the danger zone, which killed them all, and they had to deal with all the dead sheep. Sometimes man can be SO stupid and they seem to ENJOY destruction! Dying from radiation is NOT at all, an easy way to die; there is a LOT of suffering before death occurs, sometimes years of it depending on how close you were to the source.
I really think that so many tests were done because generals just could not grasp how big the explosions were, and how this was radically different from a chemical bomb.
A lot of scifi writers, even those with a "hard science" background had the same problem. Lots of stories from that time about powerful space ships with "atomic fuel".
Buddies, there's no such thing as atomic fuel. This isn't something you make by adding some "atomic stuff" to ordinary fuel -- like the oxygen and hydrogen that are going to be used in the new Artemis moon rockets. Atomic energy is completely different.
BTW, Congress authorized a bonus of $75,000 for any U.S. military personnel that spent time in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, even if you just drove through. It's still available to their children (if you know of any vets, spread the word).
To put it in perspective of how powerful the Tsar Bomba was. Apparently, the parachute was put on the nuke to buy the pilots some time to escape, but even with the parachute the pilots were told that they would only have a 50% of survival!…it also shattered windows 560 miles away.
Our brains cannot comprehend the magnitude of sheer power this bomb has. There’s a reason it’s called the King of Bombs (Tsar Bomba)
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My dad once described a nuclear test at which he was present on a US Navy ship, at quite a distance. After the flash, they turned and watched the fireball rise up over the ocean. He said it was like a second sun rising in the south.
Yo I literally came here to say, that looked extremely circular and extremely hot - definitely went further up than out....
No wonder aliens are here we're f***ing shooting at them
Oh yeah, sure he did 😆
Very true
@@nitinkataria1515 very BS.
Canadian Lt. Col. Robert Klaehn was at the Apple 2 blast in Nevada in 1955, and as a child described to me the blast. He said that from the Canadian soldiers' position at 3 km. from the blast, the light was vividly purple, before white. Also said that despite black glasses, with his eyes closed he could see the bones in his hand when he held it up for extra shielding.
5:50 Actually the primary reason they opted for 50MT is because the 100MT version would have needed a uranium tamper and produced greater fallout than all other nuclear tests put together up to that time.
Ironically using a neutral lead tamper it became the cleanest nuclear test ever in terms of the ratio of yield versus fallout.
yes and now the denotation site has resorts too lol (hydrogen bombs are better than uranium nukes and safer fallout)
@@karantikoo9302 hmm, yes...safer 😑 lol, sorry I just think it's funny saying a hydrogen bomb is "safer". But I know what you're saying, it's still funny tho
They actually had to lower the yield to 50MT from 100MT because of the fact plutonium is so heavy, so they switched to uranium instead. The bomb as is was, was already big and very heavy and impacted their planes ability to carry it. So switching the substance, as well as what the bomb was made of, it lowered the yield very greatly but still remained such a large yield.
Fun fact: they painted the plane white in hopes it would deflect heat and light. They didn’t escape as the explosion went very far in the atmosphere, very fast, before their plane got away.
@@karantikoo9302 The Tsar Bomba had a fission primary and fusion secondary. There is no such thing as a pure hydrogen bomb. They literally use a fission bomb to set off the hydrogen bomb
@@Arora4926 WTF are you talking about? You realize that Plutonium gives way more bang for you buck, right? A 6kg plutonium mass gives a greater explosive yield than 64kg of uranium, so no, it wasn't because plutonium was 'too heavy.'
The reason the yield was reduced from 100 MT to 50 MT was because they thought the fallout would be far too great at 100 MT, due to a uranium tamper, and that the plane might not be able to escape the blast radius.
It had nothing to do with the bomb being too heavy, so stop blatantly lying. Using Plutonium would've reduced the mass, as it has a way higher explosive yield to mass ratio.
Also, the uranium tamper was switched to a lead one. I am honestly amazed at how people just spew virtually all wrong information. Almost none of what you said was correct, except for painting the plane white to reflect light. What made you so confident in spewing such wrong information? Clearly you thought that your information was right, but why did you think this? Where did you get this information from....? Because whoever or where ever you got it, they were lying to you
6:30 "The (Nevada) proving grounds cover 1360 square miles of mountains and desert, perfect for testing nuclear weapons without hurting a fly." I can't believe he actually said that.
Yeah, that was silly. Unless he was making a joke about Jeff Goldblum.
Personally I know that 10 to 20,000 flies died during testing... I know because I've talked to some of their family members. And the first thing they told me was buuuuuuzzzz buzzz buuuuuuzzzzz. I couldn't believe it😜
Flies lives matter!
It was a bold face lie .
The government force the Marines to March into ground zero into the mushroom cloud and fallout of an atomic test .
Yes, those Marines all later on in life came down with various cancers and diseases and died painful deaths before the age of 50 .
The thumbnail of this video shows some of those Marines and the mushroom cloud I'm talking about. That's an actual frame from the video from that day .
I've never witnessed a test, but I was around when they still did testing. Whenever there was a test, the whole atmosphere would pulse with two quick flashes of light, like a strobe. You could only see it at night, but we could tell whenever Russia did a test. It was very strange.
I remember reading that when the US tested its first atomic bomb there was concern it could ignite the atmosphere. Their scientists did the calculations and came to the conclusion that it probably wouldn’t happen so they went through with it. Insane that they even took the risk.
@@stevenkent1979 not 20 years later we detonated one in the atmosphere to see what would happen aswell. Called operation fishbowl if your curious.
@@burntwaffle9858 thanks I’ll check that out, fascinating stuff.
The tsar Bomba was supposed to be 100 megatons, but they limit it to 50 megatons because of the pilot's safety and nearby cities.
The 100 megaton bomb the famous Doomsday device that was parodied in Kubrick 's movie Doctor Strange Love.
I remember when I was a kid and they blamed hairspray cans for destroying the ozone but always failed to mention nuclear atmospheric testing.
I remember. It only took about 3 videos on UA-cam to fully explain that all of these tests were the actual cause.
Governments do lie, you know.
LOL
@@victororo462 I’m trying to recall a time when governments actually told the truth.
The hair spray ozone layer thing has worked though. When they switched materials, the ozone shield recovered very well.
@@vauchomarx6733 1996....The comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty was enacted.
It was nuke tests, not bloody hairspray.
exactly my thought when i watched "Trinity and beyond". That hairspray/deodorant BS they told us in school popped into my mind.
that tsar bomba looks like a view from hell and the sound after was bone chilling
Imagine all the unclassified ops and/or black ops they have going on currently: that no one will know about for years until our grandkids show us.
What about white ops, would also be cool.
Or the one's that never get declassified
Yes,... no ONE KNOWS HOW MANY....AND HOW STRONG...., PURE INSANITY......!!!
@@Day100 You never know what the ones in power don't show us.
@@ab-js2gwwhy would the opps be white
Imagine going back in time when the mafia owned vegas and the cold war was roaring and nuclear testing was rampant. You use to be able to rent casino hotel rooms and pay extra for a room facing a nuclear test site and watch them. It was advertising a room with a view of nuclear test lol.
The mob run NY and NJ nowadays
Wonder why almost everyone I know gets cancer by the time they're 60.
Yeah. My mother died a year ago from it. Tell me about it
@@Belows682 I got it in 2017 and it metastasized to my liver in 2018. A real pain in the ass. Sorry about your mom. Mine got colon cancer the same year I was first diagnosed. So, we suffered together. Both still alive, thank God.
The radiation got into our milk supply for years .
My dad was at Bikini in 1946 for the Able and Baker tests. He had just got his commission as a newly minted ensign in the summer of 45 at the end of the war. He was a crew member of the destroyer U.S.S. Hughes which had been selected to be in the target fleet and had made it through the entire war, they had sailed with a skeleton crew from San Francisco to the rest site for preparations for the 2 shots. I recently found a letter he'd written my grandparents, my grandad was a senior Captain by then and c.o.of the Philadelphia navy yard, detailing the preparations leading up to the tests including fueling and stocking the target ships with full armament stows to fully simulate combat conditions. Made for some anxious moments when they went back to inspect the damage and many of the ships were on fire and very hot radioactively!
He was in a bikini?
@@poopsock7493Bikini Atoll
If man is able to create a weapon that can wipe out all of humanity in moments, we don't even deserve such a beautiful planet as Earth.
I grew up in Las Vegas many decades ago and the ground would often shake from the underground nuclear tests far away. It was just a normal part of life. Or so I thought.
Many decades ago, Vegas was a great place to be. Now, it is full of filth, and needs to be nuked. 😡
6:45 "without hurting a fly." Yeah, tell that to the downwinders in St George and other cities. Places where people literally sat on their front porches on test days and watched the mushroom clouds. John Wayne's cancer is also said to have originated from the fallout from the many Nevada Test Range tests.
I think John Waynes cancer was caused by smoking 2 packs a day,,,
Of course the four to seven packs, depending on his mood, of Camel (unfiltered) that wayne smoked daily, couldn`t possibly have been enough to have played a part.
@@georgerubypoppy1063 cancer rates globally spiked a stupendous amount and haven't decreased since all the nuclear testing performed in this period
Nothing, not even the industrial revolution caused anything like this
@@georgerubypoppy1063 we all know smoking is bad, but pretending that testing nukes is at all okay and doesn't permenantly damage land and species on an unprecedented scale is lunacy, your comment is pointless
No amount of cigarettes compares do the damage these things cause
@@rambo-cambo3581 Who is pretending that testing nukes is ok, and doesn`t do all the things you mention? Not me.
I just pointed out Wayne`s smoking habit, that I believe could well have been the cause of his cancer.
My dad once told me about a time when he was young and hitch-hiking in the Mojave desert before dawn. The sky lit up and he thought for a moment the sun was coming up, then realized it was coming from the north. He found out later it was a nuke test up at the Nevada testing grounds.
I wonder if anyone did a comprehensive study to look at the relationship between incidence of cancer worldwide VS the number of nuclear tests conducted.
One of the purposes sought with the Tsar Bomb test was to show the United States that the Soviet Union had a nuclear weapon of such power capable of destroying the New York area completely, even making its reconstruction impossible. Sakharov, who led the scientific team that built this bomb, talked about this.
My dad was the last living person who was present during the first splitting the atom in 1942. Worked with Enrico Fermi.
Same.
BULLSHIT. YOU CANT SPLIT ATOMS. ITS ALL A LIE.
What a coincidence! My dad was also the last living person who was present during the first splitting the atom in 1942. Worked with Enrico Fermi.
Yoo dude, dad was really busy making more offspring! My dad was also the last living person who was present during the first splitting the atom in 1942. Worked with Enrico Fermi.
None of these are "recently" declassified. The newest was 5 tears ago. Juniper was declassified in 2018
Wow. Let me tell you… your description and breakdown of 65 kilotons of tnt… on point. Seriously….. well done.
The devastation man has created is indescribable. It's also sickening.
true..so many elite pigs have destroyed this world. We must destroy them NOW
Are you talking about social media?
Man didn't create anything. Man harnessed the raw power of creation. The power of nature itself. Which is terrifying.
What we harnessed it for is sickening.
"Your scientists were so busy trying to figure out if they could they didn't stop to think whether or not they should."-some Jurassic Park quote probably
have you seen what asteroids can do? they make nuclear bombs look like toys
Looks fake
Gets up to millions of degrees? And they’re trying to blame air conditioning and plastic bags on global warming?!?!?
In Australia in the 1950's and 60's the British detonated about two dozen fission bombs at the Monte Bello Islands (Pilbara region off W. Australia coast) and at the Maralinga and Emu test ranges in the Woomera region of South Australia. The nastiest, dirtiest and most evil tests were conducted at Maralinga where they just blew up chunks of Pu239 and Pu240 with ANFO (dirty bombs) or just chucked that stuff in a fire to see what happened.
@Panzai .Joe where did he say he trusted anyone?
what a tool
Yep there's a book all about it which they've tried to ban.
The shock wave from Tsar Bomba went around the Earth numerous times!!
Fucking crazy. I'm sure if they did the 100megaton one it would have ended the world lmao
So did your mom
@@husseymangtv nah bro earth is much much more resistant and too big for that
@@tascapte905 naw
@@husseymangtv 😂ok so half of 100 megaton bomb is fine but 100 destroys our world u trolling bro
man. that last one really was terrifying. I can’t believe my eyes.
The MUSIC is soooo good, i love it everytime i watch your videos, so spooky!🤗
In the mid 60's, I was driving to Big Bear over the pass east of the lake. It was about 10pm and the sky lite up in a bright flash. My father said it was likely a nuclear test since we were high up and facing toward Vegas at that time. About 300 miles south of the blast. Quite a sight.
That’s crazy!
There is a documentary called ‘Nukes in Space’ and drew a link between the multiple high stratosphere nuclear explosions that went off into the early 70’s and the discovery of holes in the ozone layer which are blamed on pesticides and other man made products and the documentary shows the ozone layers vaporise and creates a northern lights type event as the ozone tries to fill the hole that just happened.. and they did these multiple times..
Underworld, congratulations for 1,000,000 subscribers!
Being raised in the early 1960’s I clearly remember the videos and drills in the event of an attack. In the mid70’s Army, we planned in our tank battalion on how to react in case of nukes, and as S-4 worked with S-1 to compile data from the individual dosimeters, calculate combat effectiveness of each man and reassign based on life expectancy. Remember calculating flash to bang. Times, measuring the mushroom cloud and estimating the weapon yield. Also with with direction develop estimated downwind hazard for troop deployment. Horrible concept nuclear war.
The interesting thing about high altitude nuclear explosions is that the electromagnetic pulse which destroys electronic equipment doesn't travel in a straight way but along the magnetic field lines of the planet until that line meets the ground. That way you can destroy communication devices and every other consumer electronics that are not specially shielded in an area on the ground that is thousands of km away from the explosion.
I hate that this technology exists SO MUCH.
Pretty good, good footage and interesting commentary and content. Worthwhile viewing
Nice video congrats on 1 million you deserve it and maybe more for these awesome videos!
I love how this channel puts one clip in 50 videos.
Works perfectly for all the zombies of today
I liked the explanation that kilo represents 1000 and then going on to do the maths of adding three zeros to 65. am wondering if this is made for 7 year olds
@@LilNewo "a kiloton equals one thousand tons...which is a lot!" 🤦♂️
@@JakeAdkinsOfficial well it is..
@@LilNewo that’s..right tho that’s how it works.
????? What even do you mean.
I remember in the 60s, when the summers in Europe were very cool in temperature. This was caused by the testing of nukes and the dust high up in the atmosphere.
Then they switched to sub surface testing.
excuse my potentially dumb question, other then radiation waste, how would this suit as a possible short term solution to global warming? just a funny semi serious throw away curiosity type question.
@@starritsimsports3765 no stp.question. In the 70s they (experts!) were predicting an ice age due to the fine dust in the stratosphere.
You see, we are falling from one extinction into another 😉
@@starritsimsports3765 it’s how Elon musk wants to create a atmosphere in mars and create water.
@@yordygarcia1242 He´s gotta get some more weight on mars beforehand, so his gravitational forces would be able to hold an atmosphere.
@@starritsimsports3765 y
Google this…. Operation Dominic 1962 Johnson Island. Also; Atomic Veterans.
Who's watching this after Oppenheimer?
Me. Coz im disappointed by the explosion on the movie
And “climate change” is my car’s fault? EABOD.
Climate change caused the Russian sub off the coast of Florida and the Russian naval fleet to arrive in Cuba yesterday also 😆
more like DNA change
Interesting. Only test I have never seen was the last one. Almost all of the space test yields are still classified even today. I did read somewhere that the Soviets admitted a few years ago that Tsar Bomba was actually around 47 megatons... but I can't find that source again. The bomber that dropped it barely got out of the blast zone before it went off.
Operation Fishbowl, no space.....
@@TheIronTM Here come the flat Earther nuts 😂
Not 47, but 57 megatons.More powerful than the anticipated 50 megatons
@@ct6502c The Earth was round before the nuke tests, they blew it up so much it made the Earth flat. 😵💫😏
Soldiers going straight towards the explosion 😂
The best part of these old bomb movies, is watching everything blow up while wondering how the cameras remain intact and fully functional.
Very well written for a top 5 video thanks
1:40
"To put that into perspective, 1 kiloton is equal to 1000 tons". Man, I had no idea.
That's not really putting something into perspective. It would have been better if he showed us some smaller explosion and said that that was 1 ton.
americans dont use kilos so... they need an explanation
😄, that's probably it.
How many elephants is that?
@@rilmehakonen9688 900
1kiloton = 2 million pounds . A long freight train full of TNT .
The Tsar bomb flash cloud be seen by almost 700 miles away?? Insane.
Must've been due to the rarefaction of light bending through the atmosphere
G'day Underworld team! I have a suggestion for a possible future video, I've been a long time fan but have barely seen any Australian content. I suggest that you do a video like "5 Worst Australian Cyclones" or "5 Freaky Australian Events" or something relatable to that
45km from drop point, meanwhile im War Thunder people 50 meters above the ground drops nuke.
"reason why aliens are interested in our planet", you cannot travel galaxies without knowing about nuclear also what aliens?...
My Father was a nuclear test dummy. He was at Yucca Flats when he was in the Army.
i laughed out loud when he said that nukes were detonated in the desert "without hurting a fly".....yeah, right
Probably killed many animals.
Well what is in the desert that could be killed?
@@gavinhernandez8002 i've been to the desert and there are plenty of snakes, scorpions, creatures etc....and definitely FLIES feasting on carcasses
so i dont believe for a moment that no fly was hurt...
and it dont take a genius to figure this out, but i guess this planet is full of retards who i have to answer, but luckily i have time to kill
@@gavinhernandez8002 john wayne
Yeah because the fly vaporized so fast it didn’t even feel it! Along with the lizards, the scorpions, the snakes…
The people downwind, however, felt it for a long time.
If you think the old Soviet footage of the Tasr Bomba test was frightening, think of hundreds of those things going off in the span of WW3.
Some nukes might take out half a state
Well there was only one. And that one was supposed to be 100 megatons.
@@adamnichols3506 yeah, what’s next. I would like to see every nuclear weapon gone and people responsible for their invention punished severely!
@@RJDA.Dakota do you realise how silly what you just said is? Obviously not
@@RJDA.Dakota The people responsible for creating nuclear concepts are all long dead. A nuke free world is definitely something I can get behind
The upbeat tone of this narrator is totally appropriate.
If I understood that correctly, the pilot and crew that dropped the Tsar Bomba were only 24.85 miles away when the blast happened. It helps me to picture this in miles instead of kilometers. God help us if any of these weapons are dropped on any civilization again...
I would rather that god help us _before_ we decide to drop bombs, wherever. But I'm not counting on anything.
It will happen.
@@Trancymind to recount, it already happened decades ago with Castle Bravo and the several other tests done in the late 50's in the South Pacific, many beautiful islands and beaches......scarred for centuries to come, radioactivity still high, and the generations of inhabitants still suffering...
@@donaldgregg9250 I meant nukes will be used later in the future against humans. Either a human or Ai's.
@@Trancymind I know that, however many people have already been and are still victims of nuclear warfare testing, not exactly targeted, but still they are victims from it
“The mushroom cloud we all know and love” is not what resonates with me when I watch this. More “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”
That was exactly my comment before i saw yours!!!WHO THE FUCK LOVES THE MUSHROOM CLOUD?!??!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!??
The total absurdity of nuclear weapons cannot be overstated. I have lost count of the very realistic Nightmares I have had involving these terrible weapons. 😧😨😳
They're awesome. Hope you have as many bad dreams as possible. Sucks to be you weird freak.
@@BumboLooks , Now aren't YOU the absolute Paragon of Humility.
@@MichaelTheoret Nukes aren't the end of mankind......
How convenient all this footage was released. That wasn’t planned.
A nice cover story for the rest of the information
we need to get rid of nukes
According to ex servicing men in Pacific who witnessed one of these tests they could see the bones in their hands in the initial flash from blast.
Does anyone else get this strange, unusual feeling of fear and anxiety when watching nuclear explosion videos?
Ever since I was a kid I had a fascination with watching old nuclear test videos, but EVERYTIME I'd start the video I'd have to look away and watch out of the corner of my eye or through my fingers... and I still do it now. Is it just me? I'm genuinely curious.
I know it has something to do with the sheer size of the explosion and the unforgiving devastation it causes, that makes my brain feel anxious.
But it's literally only for videos about nuclear bombs, dark under water videos, or spiders... so I'm curious if theres a specific name or phobia for that type of thing?
Same thing happens to me. Since I was a kid outer space pictures gave me this deep terrifying feeling that I still get with videos like this one and other outer space videos.
I agree with the other guy, looking at nuclear explosions gives me the same uneasy feeling as looking into space on a cloudless night. They're too otherworldly. I've read accounts from people near the drop radius that they could see the explosion through their hands and with their eyes closed. One account from a sailor even described being able to almost feel like he could see the nuke through the top of his head as he was huddled down taking cover. Like the nuke was looking through him.
@@welcometothemonkeyapezone7797 Yes I think I have heard the same dude talk. Many people including the sailor and piolets have said they can actually see x ray light and when looking at there hands they have seen there bones under the skin. Even with there eyes closed. He described how he had his hands over his face and saw his Skelton and finger bones.......that is crazy shit right there.
Shocking and horrible 🤔😔 scary stuff , all because of what them in charge did based on the fear of other peoples beliefs n fears.The populace had no say on the matter , on both sides .Its all about a free world and the opposite to that. The destruction is so huge there are no winners in the end. Just the annihilation of human kind and the rape of a beautiful creation - EARTH! ALL of our home.
Yep. It's called Sissy Syndrome.
The 1000s of detonations that went on during the last century always makes me wonder if it altered the Earth at all as it was an amount of energy released not seen since Tunguska
I believe these tests have something to do with the earth heating up. But I wont die on this hill. its I have no facts or evidence. just a hypothesis.
Makes me wonder if all that atmospheric radiation fall-out mixed into ghe Jetstreams and circulated around the Earth's atmosphere could be the primary cause of many cancers?
Technically yes they did affect earth. However, the effects are negligible to most scales.
No
Between 1945 and 1996 over 2000 nuclear detonations with over 500 in the atmosphere. Talking about climate change, what would the effect of those bombs have on it I wonder?
Great video, I hadn't heard about high altitude tests
(Nevada): "...perfect for testing nuclear weapons without hurting a fly"
Desert Fly: Am i a joke to you?
We wonder why the Earth is pissed, what destruction
In towns in Virginia 3000 miles east of western states tests, the cancer rate in southwest Virginia went up significantly after nuclear testing.
IT WAS FROM ALL THE TNT DUST, YOU KNOB.
Jet stream moves west to east…
@@RedDotCityx2 exactly
Another fact about the tsar bomba that bomb was also able to send 3 shockwaves around the entire planet and also the pilot just about escaped with damage to the plane
But, not as powerful as my uncle's bean gas...... Sorry, I couldn't help the thought and also looked up all the statistics for the Tsar Bomba. When you see such crazy, insane man-made destruction, all there is to do is laugh.
It is claimed that the plane dropped a thousand meters in altitude when the shockwave hit it, luckily it flew high enough to get back control without issues.
11:59 That's not true, ever heard of North Korea?
Isn't funny how the US comes up with a treaty they won't sign themselves? 🤔
The B61 MOD 12 is a game changer. Detonating just 10 feet under the surface increases the chances of destroying underground bunkers by 15 to 25 times.
So rich people cant hide
@@Friday_13th_on_elmstreet Wrong. These monsters are designed to kill countries, not rich oligarchs.
I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. And I have felt the underground testing, which was going on, however underground testing does not produce any kind of mushroom cloud as the narrator has suggested.
You’re right. But it sure’s hell put a manhole cover into outer space.🤣
I can imagine what kind of toll those tests took on buildings in Vegas over time...and they were all relatively small tests compared to those at Bikini, Eniwetok, Christmas Island, and Novaya Zemlya. But, numerous smaller tests can do more damage than a single big test, even if the respective yields of the two scenarios come out the same. I understand that they realized that fairly early on, which was why they decided not to detonate Faultless at the NTS, picking the Hot Creek Valley near Tonopah instead (which turned out to be just as much a mistake).
BECAUSE THEY ARE FKN LYING! ITS ALL TNT DETONATIONS!
depends on the test really, I've seen underground test footage where the blast still makes it to the surface, it's convection that creates the mushroom shape. Of course it's nowhere near the scale of atmospheric mushroom clouds though as the ground takes most of the heat away, and the more underground tests they did, the better they got at containing them.
its just elon
The bombs are so big it almost looks like they are filming in slow motion, but they're not, that's real-time, the bombs are so big and powerful the blast hangs around for minutes.
Had training in the early 90s on nuclear weapons including briefings from someone who was at nuclear tests, including above ground. They talked about the crazy bright flash and shockwaves.
Biggest chunk of training was on how human bodies react to being exposed to nuclear weapons. Treating people with radiatiom poisoning/radiation sickness.
Frankly terrifying.
Lots of training stuff is still classified and even after it stops being covered by Official Secrets Act won't talk about any of it.
Saw classified stuff from the official Chernobyl files. Horrific trauma photos etc.
I was in the training lectures thinking "I really hope if/when nuclear bombs get dropped I'm near impact point. I know meant to be there helping survivors but surviving will be much, much worse than dying.
Here in my town a few months ago some guys garage blew up from misplaced hot air balloon equipment or something. Anyway it was very early in the morning where it was still sort of dark. Anyway I woke up and the first thing I do is look out the window. These apartments across the street looked like they had smoke over them and I was like woah wtf. I tell my wife "I think there's a fire across the stree-" ... Suddenly this big ass fireball rises, THEN I hear the boom and rattle and our whole room lit up with light when it was dark a sec ago. Explosions are crazy in person.
They are quite loud
I would love to know what happened to those soldiers who were told to walk TOWARD the mushroom cloud immediately after the explosion
I don't think it ended well
One of the survivors filmed a documentary, ""The Atomic Soldiers", about it. There were over 50,000 soldiers used in tests from 1946 to 1956. Because the tests went above Top Secret, they were never allowed to talk about it. It was so secret, they couldn't get VA help because the program did not technically exist. Over 3,000 developed leukemia, three times the average for people their age. The only skin that was exposed were their hands. And, well over half of them reported being able to see the bones and veins in their hands, like an x-ray, after detonation.
Night breaker is another movie on the soldiers. It's from the 80's I think.
soooo, that hole in the ozone layer... wouldn't actually be from upper atmospheric nuke testing eh?
I'm sure all that jet fuel being burned by the tens of thousands of aircraft in the sky at any given moment has nothing to do with it either...Or anything else the green freaks love to blame us poor people on the ground for. And how about all those "contrails" up there? They are harmless, aren't they? I never knew "hot jet exhaust" was so clean and harmless. Jet exhaust is a hydrocarbon combustion product just like our cars create. Not harmless...The "chemtrail" conspiracy is real in a way. No, not the pilot activated button sprayed, craziness of heavy metal insanity. As some will explode as soon as they oxidize. Real as in our skies are poisoned and so is everything that rains down on us now. And not just from aircraft exhaust. But from so much other activity that shouldn't have happened...
Radiation ≠ CFCs
No, it was CFCs which were banned hence why the ozone hole started repairing. Unfortunately air travel also damages ozone so we'd better hope it doesn't have as big an effect.
My friend's grandpa was one of these soldiers VA told him, prove it you got these cancers from this, by the time VA helped him, be was terminally ill. He died 2 days before my friend was born.
"Underworld", I just gotta love your irrepressibly cheerful and facetious narrator in describing subject matter such as this!!
There is nothing beautiful about nuclear weapons, and this shouldn’t be brought up in this capacity. This scares the crap out of me
They scare every normal human being apart from the ones who say we should be using nukes on Russia.
ok wimp. Grow a pair.
Nuclear war is the only hygiene for the world.
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 sure hope your wrong
3:26 I wonder if the cameraman in that shot was as close as it looks.
I read somewhere that Tsar bomb was 50 Megatons because the person in charge of making the bomb halved the power without knowledge of superiors. Because he realized just how powerful that is, and non nuclear scientists giving the orders didn't.
Yeah they changed fro 100to 50 at last minute
True and false...They halved its yield to 50 megatons because they didn't know if 100 megatons would damage our athmosphere.It also gave the pilots a way better chance to escape the blastzone in time.Dropping a 100 megaton bomb would be a suicidemission for the pilots. And because calculating the yield of the bomb wasn't an exact science in those days.There were many miscalculations when it came to a bombs yield.Both the Russians and the Americans made errors in calculating and estimating the power of nuclear detonations.The Tsar was estimated to yield 50 megatons, but the actual blast was 57.5 megatons.And what about the American Castle Bravo bomb ??? They thought the yield would be 5 megatons, but it detonated with a force of 15 megatons.Big whoops !!! Can you imagine that fuck up with a 100MT bomb that suddenly yields 300MT? Other interesting numbers about the Tsar...The Tsar's explosion was over 3600 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, the shockwave travelled around the earth 3 times.The mushroomcloud reached up to 40 miles high and could be seen from over 600 miles away.The blast was 10 times more powerful than all bombs dropped during the entire 2nd world war.The blastwave shattered windows in neighbouring countries over 400 miles away.The heatwave was so intense it would still inflict 3rd degree burns to human skin more than 60 miles away from the explosion.We all saw that explosion in Beirut a couple of years ago and many people think that's exactly what a nuclear explosion in a city would be like....NOT EVEN CLOSE !!! That blast was estimated to be somewhere around 1.5 kilotons.Even the 15 kiloton Hiroshima bomb was 10 times more powerful than the Beirut explosion.And that's considered a "small" nuke nowadays.Modern nuclear warfare is very scary.Both the Russians and the Americans have nukes in their arsenal that range from 10 kilotons (to wipe out a few cityblocks) up to 1.2 megatons (to wipe out most of a large city).Mind you that modern ICBM's can carry multiple warheads at a time to have a bigger spread.So 1 ICBM can drop several nukes simultaniously spreaded out over a larger area.That makes smaller nukes more effective and affecting a larger area than one giant megaton bomb.And they are very hard to neutralise.Modern ICBM's travel at hypersonic speeds and they also carry "dummies".Those dummies are fake warheads that scatter thousands of metal particles into the sky to distract anti-missile defense systems from the real "live" warheads.All we need to end life as we know it is 1 nutter that decides to use a nuclear device on another country.Wether that be Putin or Kim Jong Un...the Americans would most likely retaliate against whomever strikes a nato country with a nuclear device.
That person saved Russia from being decimated.
apparently it can go even higher with some modifications like 9550 or something someone said
"The massive mushroom cloud we all know and love"
It's a shame as beautiful as this world is, people are constantly trying to mess it up. Sad
There are still two countries that have tested nuclear weapons after 1998, Israel & North Korea.
the tsar bombe was amazingly safe though. people walked on the ground under the blast location, after only a few hours. because it was airburst all the fantastically radioactive radionuclides were distributed everywhere rather than sticking to vaporised dirt and becoming fallout. by the time they stood a chance of falling to earth most of their radioactive goodness had already boiled away into the firmament. wow, i love nuclear weapons - the magic and majesty of a star mixed with the earthy actuality of a volcano or a heart attack. beautiful
youire fucking sick dude? go love bunny rabbit and cats...not bombs...sick shit really.
The main cause of the nuclear radioactive fallout isn't coming from the bomb itself but rather from all the dust that is pulled up into stratosphere. It then stays up there for a long time and eventually comes down as radioactive rain/snow thousands of kilometers away from the blast site.
You wish !
I love the video, but I always correct the myth stated at 0:26 . Humanity (and life in general) is too numerous and too spread out for an extinction level event to occur due to nukes. Those who try to do this exercise by simply dividing the number of living creature by the number of nuclear weapons and tonnage can do the exact same thing with the common bullet. There is more than enough firearms ammunition stockpiled to wipe out most of life on Earth, several times over :)
Totally agree. Nuclear holocaust would destroy many major cities but the rest of humanity would be able to go on living.
@@franks450 Careful, don't wanna scare the smooth brains with actual world ending threats.
Yes! Indeed!
Still wouldn't be a good time.
The amount of nuclear fallout is what would create the most damage from an all out nuclear war in the 1980s … 50,000 warheads. In a limited nuclear war between India and Pakistan, it would damage the atmosphere and vegetation enough so that there would be world wide famine. To give you an idea, in the 1950s, there was an incident after a nuclear test 100+ miles away from a movie being made in Utah with John Wayne. Radioactivity drifted over the filming location and over the years, every single person at the the movie site died of cancer.
Most people after 1945: The nuclear fission bomb is the worst, most horrific thing that ever was or will be. Its monumental destructive power is beyond anything we've ever imagined possible.
Edward Teller: That would make a good detonator.
I find the concept of an atomic bomb extremly horryfying. Imagine seeing a big glow it in the distance, sitting at your house comfortably with your loved ones. Then a giant atomic mushroom. And then the sound. And lastly you realize, that there is nowwhere to run, and you will eithet get blown away or burned along with your family. Its very scary.
I'm so disappointed we did so many tests before realizing the after effect but, I understand some had to be done to better understand our idiocy over a thousand is just irresponsible.
Just goes to show the negligence of our government.And makes u wonder what we will find out tomorrow about what they doing today behind people's backs
How you managed to make big explosions boring is amazing
I would love to see what kind of footage we would be able to get if we tested one now with cameras and tech being what it is today... The available footage is awe inspiring and it was basically recording with a potato
To be able to visualise the size of the explosion the Trinity test conducted a 100 ton TNT test. This was 4334 boxes of explosives. The stack of explosives was 18ft x 18ft x 18ft. If we matched this with the actual Trinity test which was 18.6KT that would be a stack of TNT 0.6 x 0.6 x 0.6 miles! Now take a 50 MT Tsar bomb and that would be 1700 x 1700 x 1700 miles! Crazy.
I think you made a mistake with your calculation and did not take into account that volume of a cube goes up very quickly with the length of the side. Example,
- side length 1, volume = 1x1x1=1
- side length 2, volume = 2x2x2=8
- side length 4, volume = 4x4x4=64
Side 18 ft, volume = 5,832 cubic feet. 100 tons TNT in this cube, so 5,832/100 = 68.32 cu ft needed for each ton.
18.6KT = 18,600 ton needs vol of 18,600/58.32 = 1,084,752 cu ft. Length of side = 103 ft approx = about 0.019 miles.
By a similar calculation, 50MT needs cube of approx 0.27 miles.
I think your calculation would work if the boxes were laid end to end, not stacked in a cube, and we were working with the length of the line.
@@franksierow5792 Yep, I think you are correct. Still, a crazy amount of TNT compared to fissile material.
I wonder how nervous the pilot carrying Tsar bomba was leading up to the launch date.
Wasn't the German ship "Prinz Eugen" one of the ships anchored in the test site in the Marshal Islands? She refused to die but later sunk by a cyclone. Interesting dive.
Yup, she survived a total of 3 nukes
Yeah sadly, she was left to be used as target practice for WMD. :/ Alot of those beautiful and incredible ships could still be toured today... All that history, just blown up...
Was hunted in ww2, survives the entire royal navy. Only to get nuked in the 60s...
Yup
@@sekured9950 I’m glad we blew them up- wish we could’ve done it twice!
Those Krauts started a war that killed more people than all other wars combined
the strange beauty they hold? wtf ??
Well, don't they? 😅