This Is How A Nuclear Bomb Works
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BTW: The Trinity test bomb was detonated from a platform. Not dropped from a plane. Just sayin’.
I caught that also and was going to comment that but I figured someone else would have 👍
Did it before I could say the same thing. Lol
I had my suspicions and hearing this makes me wonder how much anti-bomb propaganda there will be.
I also wonder what people will think of my choice of words.
From wiki.....
"The Gadget was hoisted to the top of a 100-foot (30 m) steel tower. The height would give a better indication of how the weapon would behave when dropped from a bomber, as detonation in the air would maximize the amount of energy applied directly to the target (as the explosion expanded in a spherical shape) and would generate less nuclear fallout. The tower stood on four legs that went 20 feet (6.1 m) into the ground, with concrete footings."
Thanks. I began reading comments for that reason. I knew someone would mention that. It's a very basic fact and calls into question everything else, sadly.
Nuclear engineer here: Gadget (the device exploded in the Trinity Test) wasn’t dropped from a plane, but left on a 100-foot tower and detonated. Scientists at the time where concerned that the detonation might be dangerous to any plane overhead, so they made sure to not put any pilots at risk. Also, the Trinity Site is open to the public twice a year (perfectly safe - exposure is less than half that from an airplane flight).
I was about to say something about it also. Yes this channel should do better fact checking. The Jumbo Bomb weighed 214 tons and a B29 had a 10 ton capacity so there was no aircraft that could even drop that bomb. They used it instead 800 yards from ground zero and it remained intact after the gadget explosion. Wonder how many other videos on You Tube are misleading.
You don’t even have to be a nuclear engineer to know this. It’s well documented in unclassified documents.
Yep was thinking the same. Less than 3 mins into the video and already multiple things are simply incorrect.
That's also how its depicted on the film Oppenheimer
shut up you watched opennheimer thats the only reason
Respect to that one man who experienced both bombings and still lived to tell the tale.
fun fact: the reason nukes make mushroom clouds when they explode is that, because of the shock wave, all of the debris and smoke can only go one direction: up. so, when it goes up, it moves so fast that it not only breaks the sound barrier, but begins to roll into itself because what is on top has lost all momentum and is still being pushed inward from the shock wave. this creates the iconic nuke mushroom cloud effect.
Any explosion with sufficient yield makes a mushroom cloud. It's not exclusive to nukes.
Understood.
The mushroom clould is created by the air detonation blasting down and being reflected from the ground, back up.
You have the blast going down then meeting the blast going back up which forces the detonation side-ways at the speed of sound causing the damage.
Basically...Up + Down = Sideways.
That's why nukes are detonated 1 mile above the ground.
The Trinity test was conducted from a tower. Not dropped from an airplane.
Yes. And power was 18.6 kilotons not 1
It is simple and well documented history. I wonder how this detail could not have been caught up in editing or the initial writing for script of this video.
@@nomos_lol It would have been much more risky dropping it from a plane for the pilots and people arounf the area if they missed. The photograph used of the first bomb seems fake as the bomb looks way too big.
@@seaturtledog That picture is the containment vessel. If the bomb turned out to be a dud it would be placed into the containment vessel called Jumbo.
imagine Oppenheimer never stoped making atomic bombs
i just saw Oppenheimer at the theaters and the Trinity Test WAS NOT DROPPED FROM A PLANE
For the record, the Trinity test was NOT dropped from an airplane, and the 'Jumbo' container (designed to catch any leftover plutonium in the event of a fizzle) was never used. The bomb (which was of the implosion design) was placed into a tower and detonated there. The gun assembly system as used in 'Little Boy' was not tested first as it was believed to be fool proof (placing two sub-critical parts together to make it critical is somewhat simpler than compressing a smaller sub-critical mass).
Furthermore, it is worth expressing that little boy didn't strictly use compression to set the bomb off. Because the Uranium can never be 100% pure, some other isotopes remained (I can't remember which). These isotopes undergo spontaneous fission meaning that if you assemble enough material in one place, it's bound to go off. Trouble is that this is far from efficient. Compressing a mass and increasing density of plutonium creates a similar but far more efficient design. It is also safer as the material is completely safe unless it is detonated, whereas the gun system could theoretically go off under gravity if something went wrong. Fusion bombs will use the X-rays (in a way that is still rather secret) to remove electrons around styrofoam in order to create a plasma with the heat and pressure required (yes radiation pressure) required to fuse isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium of which tritium is created on the spot through a reaction with lithium which is also secret as to its workings) together. Once fused, they create even more neutrons that will result in further fission, creating further fusion and this cycle with grow exponentially. Whilst the largest fission bomb was about 500kt, there is no limit to a fusion weapon. The Teller Ulam design was the big game changer.
thank you for putting the correct info in. its an important part of the american history that should be rembered
We were told that the Jumbo was made as a back up incase the bomb couldnt go critical for a explosion. Its extremely thick and very heavy. The walls are 4- 6 inches thick.
I thought I was taking crazy pills when he said it was dropped from a plane lol
@@kanesailor I'm glad I could be off help. I'm from the UK but history is important to me and I've been studying nuclear stuff and the cold War independently to make sure I'm up to speed. Nuclear weapons are hard enough to understand without errors in history thrown into the mix. BTW if you wish to put these bangs into perspective, I really recommend nukemap.
Quick correction, Hirohito wanted to surrender even before the nukes but the warhawks in his parliment stood their ground, it was only after second that hirohito used the powers that he technically had but never used to overule parliment. 3:49
Correct ! His military heads were for fighting until every Japanese perished. When the Emperor recorded his acquisition speech accepting all the terms the allies promoted, a crazed major in his army organized a mutinous force to overthrow the existing government and take hold of the two recordings. Fortunately they failed and the recordings were played over all of Japanese held territories. Unfortunately because the Emperor spoke in a higher class Japanese toung fewer than ten percent of the population understood.
Yes. No one man should get the blame for this.
They cut the telephone lines!oh great!like they could EVEN surrender! Innocent lives also!they didn’t ask to die !mosters.absolute monsters
Tojo and his war party were out by 1944. The Japanese had tried to discuss surrender thru the Soviets as intermediates 6 moths before the end of the war. The Soviets never passed the word on to the allies. In short a Japan wasn’t allowed to surrender till the bombs were dropped.
Love the video. Thanks.
I knew a decent amount about how nuclear fission and fusion work but this made it much clearer in my mind, thank you 🙏
As stated elsewhere, Trinity Test was a platform test, not an aerial test. There were planes airborne over the test site to measure the impact from the sky. The bomb released 25 kilotons of energy, not 1 like the video claims.
The terrifying part about the Tsar Bomba was that it was detonated at *half* of its possible power.
It was capable of delivering a 100-megaton explosion, while they only detonated it at 50 megatons.
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The good news is that the Soviet Union decided that an explosion that large wasn't practical, so no one has had a warhead like that since then
@@danny_boi3537 They still has two of them in their garage.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the US, Russia or even China has a few of those weapons as that scale or much more powerful in their storages.
Nah no wayyyy
Huge respect to that Soviet Navy officer who prevented the launch of ballistic missiles aboard his submarine.
I agree with your opinion of Mikhail Arkhipov, but it was a nuclear torpedo they didn't release.
FAKE
he is a hero
The hunt for red October was loosely based on this fact
Is anybody correct if I say not fair for the japanese people civilians are not combatants,why is it ..??😊
I had gotten a lot of this, but your explanation of radioactive decay was very well illustrated and finally clicked being able to visualize that for me. Great explanation.
Well....we're on several FBI watch lists.....👍
My “How to make Counterfeit Money” search already got me there
Not unless we can get that uranium 235....
Great way to explain fusion and fission! I had no idea how nuclear weapons actually worked but you laid it out in a really easy-to-understand way.
Please do not believe him, he got his info off a website that poorly says anything true.
Why do I have a feeling your in your garage building one right now. If so can I help lol.
@@critterfestsanctuary2446 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 lol like seriously
b e n
Worry about Iran.
I met a gentleman 95 years old. he lives in Ransomville, NY. he said he was the last surviving member of the Army unit that was at the Trinity Blast. very nice man, and very smart
you should try to interview him, it would be priveless.
You should ask before sharing personal info like that
@@COSMIC_SECRET i did, MYOB
Someone back from when America was not full of idiots yet🤣
@@tonyhall3845 TKs. much.
also, the scientist that created the Tzar Bomba, was originally going to make it twice it's big, but realized that most of the blast would just escape into space, so resolved to leave it at around half the size.
Ohhh he was worried about it going to space? Not at all caring about what might be the consequence on humans and animals? What a psycho
@@betatest5789 well US was the first one to test a nuclear warhead
It wasn’t engineered that way. Technically it fizzled.
As they said in War Games: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
This is super interesting. The area my family lived in was hit by the radioactive rain after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and alot of them died from cancer, there is still a lot to learn about how radiation effects people. nuclear power is not something to toy around with.
I agree, but a lot lot lot more people died from cancer caused by radioactive materials from coal power.
If someone takes in just the right amount of radiation they can die but not for because we all know that cells regularly die and then more cells come in but sometimes the cells that make new cells can all die and u slowly get more and more dead it sound weird but it’s true
I’m sorry to hear that about your family.
Facts facts facts facts facts facts facts facts facts facts facts facts
Sorry for what happened to your parents hopefully thy are in heaven
the trinity test was actually located at an isolated desert NEAR soccoro, mexico called “jornada del muerto”. the bomb was nicknamed, “the gadget” and the bomb was actually detonated on top of a 100 foot tower.
Well that's incorrect. It was actually in Los Alamos, New México and the bomb was codenamed: Trinity.
@@simon_777 it was in Los Alamos, the test name was Trinity and the bomb name was "The Gadget"
@@simon_777 nah nah los alamos was the place where the object was designed, the zero point wasn't los alamos she was right.
@@LouisRonald3000 nah nah los alamos was the place where the object was designed, the zero point wasn't los alamos she was right.
@@TheEdwinduarte I see what happened there was a misunderstanding because none of us explained well. The test was indeed in New Mexico but near Mexico. They are right the name is indeed "Gadget"
The most impressive image contains a common error of magnitude. At 7:30 we see a Tsar bomb that is 5 times higher, wider and deeper than the 10 MT bomb. It is labelled with 57 MT. However, the energy would have to be about 1250 MT to match this representation, i.e. an error of more than factor 20. A 57 MT bomb should have a cloud that is "only" 78% bigger in each of the three dimensions.
you forgot to mention that the Tsar bomba was reduced by 50% so the crew can escape. the actual bomb was suppose to be twice as powerful lol.
This video is loaded with errors….
1). The Trinity test (first bomb at Alamogordo) was detonated from a 100 ft high tower, not dropped from an airplane
2) The strength of the first successful US thermonuclear explosion was codenamed Mike at 10.4 MT (not 15 MT)
3). The yield of the Tsar Bomba was 50 MT not 57 MT
4) You said that by 1980 the nuclear test countries (other than US / USSR) were Britain, France & China. In fact it was more. Britain (1952), France (1960), China (1964) and INDIA (1974). Shortly afterwards it was Pakistan (1983) and much later North Korea in 2006.
Shortly after that, I sort of gave up….. Sorry.
Exactly! Common knowledge, and easily obtained knowledge.
Video has a lot of historical mistakes
exactly, I stopped watching after he said that Trinity was dropped from a plane. Sloppy research - or no research at all
Also the US made the first nuke with the help of German Scientists.
50-58mt
My dad was born in Carazozo NM. He and my grandparents were contaminated by the radio active drift. They ALL had thyroid issues and cancer. A lot of Native Americans were caught up in the radiation as well. When they set off that first bomb they didn't know for sure what was going to happen. There are a lot of victims of the bomb. Many of them right here in the States.
that's true, they were not sure what was going to happen. some thought the bomb would blow up most of the world's oxygen.
they get $
or?
@@ryanmozert No they/we don't get compensation from the effects of that bomb. Victims of bomb contamination in Nevada, DO get considerable compensation though.
@@jaytalley3715 why nevada
Thanks for this simple explanation of fusion and fission atomic bomb.. hasn't understand this stuff since high school ..
Many historians say the bombings did not lead to the Japanese surrender, and the Soviet declaration of war on Japan two days later was a bigger shock. It put an end to any hope the Soviets would negotiate a favourable surrender for Japan
1:56 The trinity test did not yield 1 kiloton, it yielded 24.8 (+-2) kilotons.
The device shown isn't a weapon, it's Jumbo, a device meant to contain the weapon if it failed. It was never used.
The Trinity device wasn't dropped from a plane, it was detonated atop a tower.
Sometimes I'm baffled by where UA-camrs get their information from. Even Wikipedia gets these details right.
Why's the primary at 7:40 edited to appear like its glowing green?
18:40 several thousand pounds of conventional explosive wasn't detonated in little boy, just 8lbs of cordite.
18:52 The uranium wasn't compressed to any meaningful degree. A change in density of the fuel isn't what initiated the reaction.
19:25 more powerful gun type weapons have been produced. The Mk-8 and Mk-11, for example.
Yeah, that got me pretty mad too, like how on earth do you get it that wrong, it's almost like they deliberately put BS in their videos to get mugs like us to comment.
This video should be removed as "fake" media.
Making such a trivial error as claiming Trinity was dropped from a bomber -- it was actually detonated on a platform -- is amazing.
Points out that the rest of the video may be equally as unreliable...
The difference between war crimes, mass murder and heroism is always determined by the victor.
Also, not Socorro. Many miles southeast of there. Not dropped. Detonated from a tower.
Fun fact: The tsar bomba was deliberately detonated at only half of its full capacity. That shot you saw was taken over 300 miles from the actual blast site edit: why is this getting so many likes
they did that to save the flight crew. The plane would never have survive a full 100mt blast. it barely survived a 52mt blast
but what will the flight crew do with the 100mt bomb? the are developing the 100mt 'poseidon' bomb.
@@voidz7611 that was years ago today we have new technology so the planes will prob be faster
@@roblohub today there are maybe more advanced weapons than this nukes is it possible
@@roblohub yeah fs we have jets, special mission planes, i forgot the one jets name but it goes 1200mph
Enjoyable account of our brief history into nuclear weapons. Overall well done. A couple of things I would like to clarify, though overall probably not the most important:
Trinity Test: The device wasn't quite a bomb in it's final form. It was a contraption that was piecemealed together and literally in some places held together with tape. It was not dropped from an airplane, but instead was lifted via wench to the top of a tower and detonated.
Tsar Bomba: was originally designed and created to be 100 MT, however due to it's absolute assurance that no pilot could survive dropping the bomb they then lowered it's payload to only be 50 MT.
When you talk about diseases you can get from acute radiation you say "leukemia or cancers". Leukemia is cancer. It would be like if I told you, "You can have a honeycrisp or an apple."
Virgin Mary appeared in Necedah, Wisconsin and said that Leukemia was not cancer but a completely different disease. She also said the method of curing cancer that was condemned and is now practiced in Tijuana, Mexico is a effective cure for cancer.
Hail Mary full of grace the lord is with thee, Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus, Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. O'my Jesus forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven especially those who have most need of thy mercy. Amen
In addition, it was NOT dropped from a plane, it was perched on a tower. How did this get passed everyone who worked on it???
good points, you're right on all of them, as far as cancers go, leukaemia is pretty unique because it is not localized, it is spread throughout the whole body from day one, as I'm sure you know. I have often heard of it categorized apart from other forms of cancer in medical texts.
Nice fairytale Charles
@@jcsbronx1846 yes the Trinty bomb was a gadget (not a bomb) and was detonated on top of a tower, NOT dropped from an airplane!
Yes the trinity test was fired from a tower. I think the 1 kilo ton yield confusion was that prior to the test shot of the nuclear weapon, they fired a test of 1,000lb of dynamite.
The Manhattan project they figured out a way to split the atom, then put radioactive stuff into the bomb like uranium all that stuff, and that creates a huge explosion
Even though most informed adults - world wide - realize that nuclear weapons are unimaginably destructive, I really don't think that they KNOW, just what kind of awful, horrific, catastrophic atrocities that a nuclear war would entail. Literally, there aren't enough adjectives to describe the result. You made a valiant effort with this video, and I appreciate the content. I really do. But I hope, for mankind's sake, that no one will EVER find out. 👍🇺🇲🌎🌏🌍✌️
Nuclear winter would destroy humans if the fire didn’t kill em first.
@@phildillard4298 undoubtedly true.
@@phildillard4298 You would literally need to mine and weaponize every single bit of uranium on the planet then detonate it all at once to come close to causing a real nuclear winter. There have been hundreds of studies that did out the math.
In a US/Russia nuclear war situation nuclear winter would happen. That’s at least what google said. It wouldn’t be like the ice age if that’s what you are saying…
Only one adjective needed. ANNIHILATION!
Thank you for explaining how nuclear fission and fusion work, as well as the difference between atomic and thermonuclear explosions. This was the only time that I’ve been able to understand it. My husband will be so impressed!
can you dumb this down it hurt my brain
Did u see jelly 5:08
@@i_love_anarchy fission: splitting uraniums; fusion: merging hydrogens.
Sadly this video has A LOT of wrong information in it so maybe quote your husband something else, because this video is a joke!
@@onlyWASABI it’s not meant for actual lessons, it’s there for entertainment
Thanks for explaining how lethal these monstrous weapons are
Feynman wrote he (Nobel Laureate) watched an atomic bomb explode without any apparent safety precautions. People saw these things in real time. Not just the Japanese survivors were the only spectators
A great man once said:
“It’s easy to destroy but hard to build!”
Point: imagine if humans dedicated all this to health and space travel!?!?
This was the worst take ive ever seen
They do
Space travel doesn't add any tangible value to the human race. You should have said things like poverty eradication, environment conservation, fresh food supply, better education, health technologies, living standards improvement etc
@@TheRealWaffles1 nah you are just being mean
@@sauravrathi2799 he is right.
I love how someone discovered a way to create a lot of energy FIRST thought how can we use it as a weapon
The world was at war. It’s not surprising.
Y'all ought to check your facts. The trinity test was not dropped from an airplane, but a tall steel tower in Alamogordo, NM. And the Department of Energy states that the destructive power was just under 19 kilotons, not one kiloton. Other than that, great video!
2:00 - 2:09 all of that information is incorrect. The "gadget" from the Trinity Test had an estimated yield of about 19 kilotons. It was also hoisted up on a 100 foot tower and detonated remotely. The picture shown at 2:01 wasn't the bomb. That was an encasing they wanted to put the bomb in, in case it didn't achieve nuclear fission. They decided not to go with this, due to the HIGH amount of fragmentation it would've produced. It would've sent radioactive material for tens of miles across the desert.
My dad was a UN peace keeper in the new zealand army , taking medical supply's two weeks after the first A bomb went off , the way he had described what he had seen there two weeks after the bombing of hiroshima gave him nightmare's for the rest of his life , which drove him to drink a lot of alcohol , he used to wake up screaming in the middle of the night , My dad was never the same after he come home , he didn't come home alone , he bought something back with that also killed my brother , my brother died of leukaemia at the age of 18yrs old . trust me guys we don't want to use these weapons . life is short enough . the world only gets one chance to get it right , And we're only going to get it wrong one time only.
Sad but 65% commentators and 80% politicals dont think so ..
I'm so sorry for your heartache.
I agree. No more of these horrible actions.
World leaders must use their brains and leave their egos at the door.
@@debbielwilliamson8546 Problem we got assholes in North Korea to deal with and Iran .
My heart goes out to you. No words to console you for your loss. I worked 6 years with oncologists. Seen much suffering of these cancer patients.
Politicians don't care.
The first nuclear test was The Gadget, it wasn’t dropped from a plane. It was tested from atop a tower. Also, it wasn’t in the city of Socorro. Just Socorro County. The Trinity test sight is closer to Alamogordo or Bingham. Currently in White Sands MR, you can visit the site a few times a year and see the obelisk erected in 1965.
Trinity is closer to Socorro than Alamagordo. Trinity is about 37 miles from Socorro and about 58 miles from Alamagordo in straight lines. Bingham is about 12 miles. Bingham consists of 1-2 houses, and at that time (1945), was a general store and trading post.
Fact:a man in hiroshima survived the explosion from "little boy" and went to his home town,nagasaki,until it was nuked,he survived,he was both lucky and unlucky
Who’s here after watching Oppenheimer?
Me
Not me, I’m here because of a famous dinosaur that ate a bomb, might’ve heard of him.
🙋🏻♀️
Strangely enough I'm here after watching coronation street 🤪
Me
WOW! I am literally doing a project on nuclear power and this was exactly what I needed! You explained every detail very well. Thank you very much! :D
Nuclear power is definitely powerful yet it is hard to get rid of the waste. It is non renewable..
@@isablame1263 They use sulphuric acid to slurp the urainum from below, they drill a hole into the uranium, send down the acid at a pH of 1, then suck it back up, just hope it doesn't get into the water table....
There’s just one problem (so far): the video is wrong. 2:00 The first bomb was not dropped from an aircraft, it was perched at the top of a tower. And the site is not still radioactive.
@@gvndual84 Also it didn't yield a kiloton. The site is radioactive. Everywhere on Earth is radioactive.
Some things you should know about nuclear energy. It has the lowest carbon intensity of any source. Causes the fewest deaths, uses least amount of resources and least land area per unit energy produced of any source. It also has the highest capacity factor of any source.
5:10 Did anyone notice Jelly in his green jelly hoodie doing a 'nope' gesture during the UN resolution on calling of A-bombs? Those who did, leave a like here.
Yeah i saw that by the way im a fan of him
Same here but I'm more of a slogo fan
@@anthonyr3941 yeah ok
@@anthonyr3941 im a fan of jelly cuz he is more funnier
Yea
Already mentioned several times it wasn’t dropped.
But it also was not dropped over Socorro NM. It detonated on a tower about 60 miles north of White Sands NM.
First off, the first atomic test in America, was not air dropped, it was a device suspended from a tower, and that test was called "Trinity"
2:11 The Trinity bomb wasn't dropped from a aircraft, it was detonated from the top of a 100 foot tower.
The bomb at Trinity was not dropped from a plane, it was atop a 100 foot steel tower. Been there, very interesting place
The bomb in Hiroshima did not vaporize everyone there. Because the guy standing directly underneath it survived. Because his burns were so bad, he jumped in the river, which was near boiling but said it felt better. He lived many, many years afterward for decades. Though he did have many health problems the rest of his life. Somewhere, there is an interview of him talking about it.
Lot’s and lot’s of Health problems! 1979 Tucson,AZ Hospital awaiting my first son’s birthday I met a “Lifer” military man that was exposed to radiation intentionally as an experiment into the effects on soldiers at numerous distance’s in an attempt to find capacity to continue to fight and or defend. Quite the dedicated soldier, I remember thinking how they take advantage of the patriotic naivety of the youth of course at the time not fully realizing what he was in for, hindsight! He went on to explain he was one of the few remaining and with quite the myriad of ailments glandular, nerves, eyes and I don’t think he had “any” hair, all expenses covered, said could’ve taken the quick money route like some. Regardless, if you realize the truth behind the wars since Constantine, that’s most of them, to which the insurmountable undeniable mountain of proof the egotistical ruler keeps track of thanks to one man that exposed the document’s and photos to prove it before They killed him. Now their vast repository of the worlds true history is carefully guarded!
There are so many inaccuracies in this video
Thank you for breaking these videos down simple enough for someone like myself. Scary to think about especially with everyone on edge these days . Great video nonetheless
The video is wrong on many things. If you want legit info on how those work you should watch some other video because this one has A LOT of errors and straight up BS out of thin air.
@@dako5005you aren’t going to learn how a nuclear weapon works by watching any video…. You need to know physics and chemistry to even remotely understand. And to do that you’d need college classes, engineering core physics and chemistry, and then advanced nuclear specific classes. There is no video to “check out”.
lol. This video is full of misinformation starting with the “dropping the Trinity bomb from a plane”, lol.
Okay, so you need to edit this video. Not sure where you got your information:
1) Trinity had to be detonated from scaffolding, for obvious reasons. No bomber/plane was used.
2) Trinity was in the "neighborhood" of 25 kilotons of yield.
3) U-235 is the only fissionable isotope of Uranium, and it only makes up less than 1% of all Uranium ore. Thus the need for large centrifuges. As most of Uranium is U-238.
4) "Purification" of isotopes of Plutonium (man made element) are required for a uniform fission explosion. Although technically, almost any of the isotopes could be used.
5) Hydrogen is typically "fused" to He (Helium) but fusion also is required for other elemental formation. All the way up to Fe (Iron if I'm not mistaken).
6) Since at the time, Hydrogen was the only element we believed we could "fuse", hydrogen isotopes such as deuterium (2) and Tritium (3) were used.
7) The location of the United States during world war II was CRITICAL in the development of the "Atomic" bomb as more than 30 different locations within the United States and Canada were used to develop the fissionable material and other components. If any of these sites were to have been "bombed" then the setback would have cost the development team. This is a big reason why Germany never had a chance.
8) The introduction of Fusion to the atomic bomb made it so that the actual destructive power of "nuclear" weapons was "limitless".
9) The amount of radiation caused by Fusion bombs/aka Thermonuclear devices, is exponential compared to that of fission weapons such as little boy and fat man. Both cities in Japan have been re-inhabited, however the Bikini atoll islands in the Pacific remain uninhabitable to this day.
10) The "Doomsday" device that has been theorized consists of a 5-7 stage cobolt salted fusion device that takes advantage of ever expanding/increasing heat. The myth follows that such a device has been developed in secret near the American seaboard and could be housed in a warehouse building without detection. This device, if detonated would destroy most if not all of the eastern coast of the United States if they were to launch a pre-emptive strike.
No centrifuges were used to separate U235 from U238 during the Manhattan Project. The separation was done at Oak Ridge using gaseous diffusion, thermal diffusion, and calutrons (cyclotrons made specifically to separate uranium). Centrifuges could not be built at that time that would work as the technology (such as air bearings) had not been developed.
"And Hirohito still refused to surrender." Seriously, did this guy ever watch Last Samurai and Emperor, in those films we found out the Emperors of Japan were just figurehead leaders without any real power, the Prime Ministers were really the ones with the power, Hideki Tojo was the real bad guy in WW2 in the Pacific, of course we rightly dealt with him after WW2 ended.
What we seem to forget is the fact that UFOs and alien entities have been able to easily fly over nuclear complexes and turn everything off just like that.❤
The Trinity test was a tower shot of around 21 kilo tonnes and not the one kiloton airdrop that you have misleadingly stated. With regards to the second attack, Nagasaki was the secondary target after poor visibility spared the primary target Kokura. Running low on fuel, the fat man weapon was dropped around 3 maybe 4 miles from the intended target landing near the hills to the northeast and resulting in less damage even though the weapon was nearly 50% more powerful than the little boy weapon which had flattened Hiroshima. This is still regarded as a war crime by many outside of the United States. Many believe that this second attack brought the Second world war to an end. This is only partly true, as when the Soviet Union ended their neutrality with the Japanese empire and declared war and then invaded Manchuria with plans to take the Northern island of Hokkaido, the high command could see that the military situation was now impossibly hopeless. They were holding out for a conditional surrender to the allies in which they may keep the emperor Hirohito in place. This was accepted by the US administration although they still called it the unconditional surrender of the Japanese empire.
Imagine developing an atomic bomb but miscalculating the fuel consumption 💀 tbh allied were so hypocrites and always doing war crimes. Nazis bombed london by mistake and regarding colonialism by japan& Germans, what is up with british colonies where they treat other nations people aa their slaves and forcing them to fight for them?
Exactly. It seems more like "common knowledge" than a myth that only the 2 bombs ended WW2... but the Soviet Union was very important here
25KT. Was larger than Nagasaki by 4KT.
It should also be noted that standard ICBM (Intercontinental Balistic Missile) which is what most people would imagine under "a nuke" can carry up to 12 or so MIRVs with idependent payloads that can pepper the target area with nukes like carpet bomb...so the number of active misiles greatly underrestimate the destructive potential
You're welcome
Yep the consensus was done that a single giant nuclear warhead is less effective at destroying a large target like a city then multiple smaller warheads spread out across the entire metropolitan area.
But they don’t. Neither Russian nor American land based missiles are fully loaded anymore, and neither are sub-based missiles, though they are closer to fully loaded
@@rickm6076 true, and theyyare not extremely precise either, but if you hit the dense urban area, or close to it... you don't need them to be fully loaded anyway. Each of those payload is in and on itself stronger than bombs dropen on Japan back in the day
And you know what they say
Near hit is enough in shells... and nuclear weapons
If Russia launched a first strike right now they have to spend most of their warheads trying to get minutemen missiles, and then certain high value air bases (Eppley in Omaha, and Whiteman in Missouri) and sub bases, namely Kings Bay in Georgia and Bangor in Washington.
Trident missiles SLBM's carry 14 mirv warheads while minuteman III ICBM's can carry up to 3.
Sorry but the "splitting" of the U nucleus and the fact that the mass loss observed during fission is converted to energy was explained for the first time by Lise Meitner!!
I thought that was Ernest Rutherford - a New Zealand scientist working at Cambridge University in England in about 1911 (not sure if the date is correct though).
@@eloquentlyemma No, Rutherford, in 1911, discovered the alpha particle and established the fact that an atom is mostly empty with about >99% mass concentrated in its "center" which was termed as the nucleus (consisting of protons and neutrons) and the rest consists of electrons. What I am referring to is what happened during Otto Han's era and the experiment that concerned Han in this video. This is sometime around early 1940s. Lise Meitner was exiled from Nazi Germany (she used to work with Otto Han) and Han used to collaborate with her through letters. And it was during this time Lise Meitner was able to explain the mass loss when U was bombarded with neutrons.
There ar so many inaccuracies about the first test that I basically stopped watching it. Trinity, the name of the test procedure, detonated the "gadget" bomb hung in a tower, and it's yield was more like 15 Kt, not 1. Hahn did study nuclear fission, but he did not discover it. The ability to make a controlled fission reaction was done in Chicago.
There is a feature-length documentary film that would go well as a companion piece to this one. The title is "Trinity and beyond: The atomic bomb movie." There is not a lot of humor in it, but it still presents technical information in a format that isn't too hard to understand. And, like this short documentary, it starts with the Trinity shot. And yes, the nuke wasn't dropped. It was on top of a tower when it was detonated. The next two were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After that the USA, and a few years later, the USSR, were setting these things off like fireworks in a variety of places - including the sea, high in the atmosphere, underground (and not just in Nevada), and space. One of the most interesting test shots was that of the US Army's "Atomic Cannon." It was a rather large piece of artillery, though not nearly as big as some freaky big guns the Germans used in World War One and Two. Of course it didn't have to be. It used conventional explosives to fire a shell that weighed, I think, around 750 pounds, and when it detonated seven miles downrange it yielded a 15 kiloton blast. That was the first and last time it was fired, even though a few more were built and equipped with nuclear ammo, and deployed. The history of this weapon gets a bit foggy after that. The guns and their shells were retired after a few years. This was in the 1950s. The rapid development of guided missiles, whether launched on land, at sea, or in the air made it obsolete even before it fired that first shot. I found a copy of the movie on DVD at our local library. It's probably available on a streaming site, maybe even UA-cam. I only had to see it once. I'm 79 years old, and thus part of the "duck and cover" generation. During the wild, wild period of nuclear testing we saw movies about it in school, watched them on television, and read about them in newspapers and magazines. Fun at the time, if you weren't too close to the tests. Not fun if you were.
The "bomb" we see at around 1:50 is actually a giant metal casing that was going to be place around the Trinity bomb called "jumbo". The idea was to place the bomb inside it to catch any of the nuclear material incase the bomb didn't work.
But then someone suggested that if the bomb did work, and it was encased in a giant metal cylinder - it would become the world's largest frag grenade. So they decided not to use it.
It was blown up years later, and the remains of it can be seen near the Trinity bomb test site today.
Shlawg did not do his research.
1: Trinity was not dropped from a bomb.
2: Truman did not order the bombing of Nagasaki, he ordered the bombing of Kokura, but due to whether and smoke, they couldn't find the target so they went for Nagasaki.
3:the Japanese surrendered because the Soviets declared war on them.
it is said that the tsar bomba lost half it's destructive capability after the lead scientist behind the project feared that at it's full potential, the bomb could irreversibly damage the planet
YES, The World need's 10,000 Tsar Bomba to Destroy 8billion plus of Dinosaurs on this Planet, VERY2 GOOD IDEA. Let's Build them!!! 👍👍👍💖💝🥳🥰🤩😍🤩😂🤣
@@UnyahPe1601 what?
@@UnyahPe1601 they have more technology than that
@@UnyahPe1601 No, let's nuke the corrupt political figures instead
*_Not true_* He was perfectly well aware that its blast would crash the bomber.
Great explanation that doesn't require a lot of scientific understanding of how fission and fusion works. Thanks!
Imagine what they are doing at C.E.R.N..
@@mikemann19608 HCG ZAA
What is interesting is that Tsar Bomba was deliberately scaled back by half by its designer: it could have been equivalent to greater than 100 MT of TNT if they had used the designed load of deuterium. Ironically, the Soviets were worried about the very same thing some of the American designers of the bomb were worried about: an unstoppable chain fusion reaction of the gases in Earth’s atmosphere, which would have burnt Earth to charcoal.
And just like J. Robert Oppenheimer was eventually persecuted by the U.S. government in part for advocating against the design of more powerful bombs, the Russian designer of Tsar Bomba was persecuted by the Soviet authorities for advocating the same thing.
The Trinity test wasn't dropped from a plane it was detonated from a tower (the shot tower) in the Los Alamos desert in New Mexico that's incorrect information provided by the author of the video at 2:06
Nuclear Bombs are truly scary. The quote, "I have become death, Destroyer of Worlds" is so true.
Love the video, by the way. Keep it up.
You're right. It's a far higher class of utterance than "One step for a man..." which I've concluded was scripted by a committee far less educated and well-read than Oppenheimer.
The Trinity Device was actually staged upon a metal tower and detonated . It was not dropped from a plane. The first time an atomic bomb was dropped by plane was on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
It's nuts they would get this so wrong. Perhaps it was intern night when they researched and approved this.
really good, understandable explanation of how nuclear weapons work.
Also, nuclear power is not 100% environmentally friendly. There's always the used up fissionable material that has to be disposed of (ie. buried until it's radiation reaches a half life safe enough for exposure (read: 100s of years)). But, of course, IF CONTAINED, nuclear power is great.
2 things- the "giant bottle" thing in that photo was not the atomic test device, it was a container they almost used as a casing that the device would be detonated inside, in hopes that if it did not work properly, they would be able to collect & reuse the plutonium that, in the event of a fizzle, would be scattered inside. The device itself was much smaller, spherical and covered in cables that would set off the inner mosaic-like sphere of explosive lenses surrounding the fissile core. They ended up abandoning the idea of the container 2, here's the big one: the Trinity device was not dropped from a plane, it was detonated atop a 100ft. metal tower. This was so all the cameras & sensors would precisely capture the whole process from a controlled area
Otto Hahn technically didn’t figure that out, he performed the experiments but I’m pretty sure that Lise Meitner was the physicist who actually figured out what was happening
I remember the Platoon director breaking down the timeline, and it showed that between the bombings and the surrender that it was the Soviet victorys in the east that lead to the surrender.
Correction at 15:58. Hydrogen atoms are neutral, not positively charged. The nuclei are positive, as mentioned.
Dude, get your history straight. The "Trinity" bomb was set on a tower, NOT dropped from a plane. Also, it was based in Los Alamos, not NY
Good catches but not everything he got wrong .. Einstein sent a letter to the president too ..etc
Also Trinity was detonated in Alamogordo New Mexico, not Socorro.
Thank you! You beat me to it!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that. And somebody else said they're using this for a school project, well somebody is getting an F in the history portion of their project.
And as for innocent people? Every member of the Japanese society was part of the military by order of the Emperor! That included children, in fact at this time children in Japan were being trained to clutch a mine roll under a US tank and push the detonator!
It wasn’t the Japanese emperor that refused to surrender it was the military command. It was unheard of for the emperor to go around the military like he did to surrender and the leadership tried to kill him to stop him from doing it. Also Tsar Bombba’s core was reduced by half at the last second. It could have been at least twice as strong or more.
Screw the Japanese ruler. He was a mad man hell bent on dominating most of Asia or all of it and the Pacific ocean islands. I think many lives would of been saved if he was taken out of power.
What they did was remove the Uranium tamper which would double yield at the expense of tremendous fallout. Instead they used lead which produced almost no fallout whatsoever.
for the record the Trinity bomb as not dropped from a B 29 it was dropped from a hot air balloon so it could stay aloft and film the mushroom cloud .
The first bomb. Known as the gadget, was on a platform. Not dropped
Imagine surviving Hiroshima and trying to explain what happened to people in Nagasaki just moments before the second bomb went off. Not exactly the time you want to say "Hey look! I told you so! we are about to be vaporized!"
There were several hundred who experienced that very scenario. The Japanese have a name for people who managed to get hit twice. Alas, it's been too many years since I heard the term and cannot remember what it was.
@@uplinktruck As I recall,in Japanese they were termed "Shitoutalucka"
@@stepfraser8375 "Shitotalucka"? Wait, isn't the correct term "hibakusha" or (Japanese: 被爆者 or 被曝者; lit. "person affected by a bomb" or "person affected by exposure [to radioactivity]"). If that was sarcasm, feel free to r/woooosh me 💀
@@fandroid6491 It's referring satirically to "sh* out of luck"
@Idris Ali I am not reading any of that nonsense.
The Manhattan project didnt take place in Manhattan. They worked in Los Alamos
Tsar Bomba was small to what the Russians were capable of creating. If that 57mt hydrogen bomb had included a uranium-238 tamper, the yield of the explosion would have been in excess of 100mt.
Hey, wait a minute. You say the first atomic bomb was a prototype dropped from a plane. But all the history books, Wikipedia and videos say it was detonated atop a steel tower -- which was vaporized in the explosion. What the !! ?? How can you make such a howler of a mistake in military technological history? Who wrote this script?
It was dropped from a plane
@@bomcstoots1nope, it was not.
Wow, I'm very surprised to hear u promoting nuclear energy. It's definitely a good thing when done properly, and thusly it's good that u show that. Absolute thumbs up.
Unless you use it the "fun" way
@@Aquesius 😁
Nuclear energy is the ultimate green energy.
Thumbs down on the comment 🤮
@@austinb1824 oh wow its not like your overreacting
I find it concerning that the 2 bombs dropped on Japan by the USA is being presented as the USA having their hand forced because Japan would not surrender - for the record, Japan offered their surrender 3 times before the USA dropped their bombs anyway (twice before the 1st bomb and again before the second). The USA went ahead with the bombing anyway because there is a massive difference between testing in a test environment and testing in an active battlefield and they wanted real scenario data to more accurately measure how effectively they could destroy their enemies.
Where did you get this information? According to history, from a lot of different sources, the Japanese government did not want surrender, and even tried to kill their own Emperor because he wanted to do it. They reject the US's offer of a surrender twice during the Potsdam Conferences, so that's when Truman decided to go ahead with the bombings. The Japanese publicly declared their intent to fight to the last man, so they gave the US no other choice. A quote from Wikipedia " We can no longer direct the war with any hope of success. The only course left is for Japan's one hundred million people to sacrifice their lives by charging the enemy to make them lose the will to fight" So you tell me, was the US's hand forced? By that statement, I think so. And for the record, it only came out afterward that the US also had ulterior motives for dropping the bombs, so that they could accurately test what would happen to the public and the structures after a nuclear blast. The US public in general was not aware of those plans, only top government officials really knew all of the particulars of those tests.
Dont feel bad for the soviet pilot who dropped the bomb feel bad for the scientists who made the bomb.
8:40 translation:
"the smoke pylon, rising from the ground, quickly increased in volume. After several seconds after the detonation, "
he was like: "hey here's how a nuke works." and UA-cam was completely okay with it, yet UA-cam will copyright strike a stream when the streamer walks by a coffee shop playing a copyrighted song.
Addison..There is a ton of technical behind what they're saying that most people wouldn't understand it anyway
UA-cam doesn't mind missinformation.
what really who's the streamer 🙂
Misinformation: the trinity test was detonated from a scaffold tower. Not dropped by a bomber.
Thanks! I was so curious how that all worked and you explained it perfectly!
I, too, was wondering what would happen if I ate a bunch of curry.
Sorry Vizard he did not explain a lot of it correctly he got his info of a poor quality website where the dev's just put in random numbers.
Except this video has mistakes and is more opinion than fact or history.
It’s credibility being lost starts at the “Trinity Test”. The bomb didn’t detonate from being dropped from a plane, they built a tower.
It’s narration about Cold War you can tell is told by someone that wasn’t alive during it because it moralizes the way things are now and totally discounts how things really were at the time.
The mind it took to discover and weaponize Nuclear fission/fusion is terrifying
Llp
LORD.. I know right?
Not really. The concept is very simple. The problem needed an engineering solution. It’s not really terrifying at all. Nuclear fission is the energy of the universe.
The dude that discovered nuclear energy prolly died of radiation poisoning.......
The mind it took to be a Nazi or side with one is considerably more terrifying.
Detonation above the ground reduces radioactive fallout contamination. This fact is used by the side that uses a nuclear device. If they want the area to be permanently inhabitable or if they want the area to be usable once again.
I've never understood how humans can be so capable of dropping nuclear bombs on the only planet we have to live on. You can only do that so many times before it affects everybody on the planet.
excellent presentation and very well laid out, really breaks things down well for even older kids to understand
Hospitality pro I'm sorry to tell you that the info is wrong.
Its important to remember that the "Gadget", the bomb used at trinity was not dropped from a plane (that would be stupid to say the least, since there were people on the ground. It was detonated from a tower.
A number of factual errors round the 2 minute mark. For the trinity test the bomb was *NOT* dropped from a plane but from a tower, and it's yield was 25 kilotons not 1 as stated. The image of a giant bomb shaped thing at 2:03 is not a bomb at all but instead was a safety device in the event of a fizzle called "Jumbo" and it wasn't actually used in the trinity test.
The narrator did forget to mention that because of mutual destruction to all countries involved, it was a contributing factor that lead to the nuclear test ban treaty during the Cold War.