It's easy to build strong camera emplacements, when you know what it has to withstand ahead of time and are not impeded with a close budget. Those lack of constraints are sadly not available to the average home builder.
@ masacatior The guy on the Video walked in the House long before the Bomb was dropped, you just have to look on the cars. They're not there anymore when bomb explodes
I was just thinking the same thing! Most videos have cars before the blast, then no cars right before the blast hits. Also, the cameras don't even vibrate while filming nuclear blasts? Fake videos?
Conclusion: too many people here don't realize they put people in frame before the blast because this is a simulation of what would happen to American homes and buildings at the time if they were hit by an atomic bomb, and then BEFORE the bomb went off they removed them. And since I doubt they walked, the cars were probably their own personal ones.
there could be some delinquent in prison, this guy in the case, sentenced to death, so the test founders thought "hmm, why not put someone sentenced to death to see how their body will react" well, I think so
The thing that impresses me the most is how instantly destructive the thermal radiation pulse is. Things burst into flame at a distance the moment the bomb detonates.
There aren't really any flames bursting... its just a quick radiated melting of the surface and the seismic wave of the bomb. You can see on the structures after the smoke passes that nothing is burning (except for a couple of videos).
@@West_Coast_Mainlinepffffffff wake up…..one of these house flashes frames and theres trucks and people walking around then the flash and then theres no trucks. This footage was made in a studio
@@observer4916 In the early days of nuclear testing, the US gov intentionally chose inconspicuous or even silly sounding names as a way to deter espionage. It would be stupid to call your test program something like "Operation Death's Hellfire" because it would be like inviting every spy on the planet to come see your research.
I genuinely believe the clip at 0:06 is one of the most incredible and most badass shots in all of film history. Everything about it is absolutely perfect.
For the people calling this fake, I'd love to know how _exactly_ were they able to fake the thermal pulse? Please describe the techniques required to _instantly_ scorch and ignite an entire model set- vaporizing phone lines and roof antennae- evaporating the paint _only_ on the side being hit by light- causing the very _ground_ to start smoking. I'm a VFX artist myself and I'd love to know how Hollywood could achieve such an effect in _1955._
Let's not also forget the fridge seemed to fly through the air about a mile before crashing down to earth...and he just sort of climbs out it and goes about his day.
@@libo2000 also don't forget that that scene was poorly done and heavily criticized. Its not like superhero movies do any better either. They just want things to look cool, not realistic
@@skychieftain Superhero movies at least can argue they are inhuman. The only unreasonable powers he has is a good aim and a whip that never fails, things you can ignore as "pure skill". Surviving a Nuclear Blast in a friudge is just moronic, you can't even argue it was calculated luck.
As im sitting on our 11th floor software engineering office... i can tell you that the details have not yet been able to capture something of this magnituded. So many variables to account for with physics. We can get close but not close enought... yet. For CGI
So in theory, the best house that is not, underground, would be lead lined, highly reflective with a strong structure and low profile on all directions, so no complex shapes, just a square footprint.
Well, no. The best one would be any structure that could be built, say, 20 feet below the surface with enough structure to resist a 10 psi over-pressure for 5 seconds. Lining, profile, etc are irrelevant. and what Liam says.
It all depends on how close/far you were from the blast really. At some point, even if you built a structure that could withstand the blast, you'd still be cooked from the heat alone. No getting around that.
The heat pulse is not that much to contend with. After all, all you need is a layer of material that could stand up to the heat for, oh, 5 seconds to hide behind. Of course that may become difficult to find closer in than a half-mile. OTOH, again, at a half mile or less the prompt radiation gets dangerously high at around there, and that is no where near as easy to avoid. Lead lined refrigerator notwithstanding. If you look ata video of the Grable shot (teh one out of a canon), you'll notice black and white smoke near ground zero before the blast. That was an experiment to determine whether white or black smoke would interfere with the heat pulse better. As it turned out, they were both pretty effective in absorbing/reflecting the light/heat.
Your Argument Is Wrong. He Put The Mannequins In The House Then Got Out Of The House And Ran Far Away From The Bomb. And Then Says: "Uhp Atomic Test, Put On Your Glasses."
I admire the more realistic sound effects in this one, if a little repetitive. Something ignites, shockwave rumble, BOOM! (Yes, I know it's edited. The only audio of a test was from Annie during Upshot-Knothole) I do find the test setups fascinating and it must've been some crazy work to set up identical houses at further intervals and such to test the effects, especially additional infrastructure like power and radio broadcast to see how it would affect Smalltown, U.S.A. in the event of an attack. You can even see with the furthest single-story that the power was still on after the blast.
In reality none of these films had sound; it wasn't required by its intended audience (scientists and AEC/military brass), and at the state of the art was very difficult to record. Its all added sound effects, I'm afraid.
Why do you think is edited ? If they did have cameras that can take nuclear blast with no sweet im sure they also have microphone who can take blast like this
@@mikepilot777 when the pyrotechnic guys setup the pyros too early btw the moonlanding 100% real} this america made to fuck with the russians abd brag about there bombs
45 seconds you can see the light stand still in the house.....hmmmm and the camera wasnt touched? How'd we recover the film on the reel used to film this?
The cameras were specially designed to resist damage, being encased in steel, lead, and concrete. It's not like they took a film camera from hollywood and slapped it on a tripod and called it good enough. The dumbest person involved in these tests was twice as smart as you.
@@t-man1587 tearing down of our beautiful statues is not peaceful and violence is not peaceful. These people need to be returned to God as in dead immediately. Amen.
@@mrtoast244 These are real tests. It's actually become a problem, they detonated so many test devices at these sites that they are incredibly contaminated.
Was filmed in bunkers lined with 350 pounds of led, far outside the radius of even light blast damage. High magnification lenses were used to film all of these shots.
That's smoke from the fire. When the bomb goes off everything in a certain radius just bursts into flames instantly, and the things in ground zero just evaporate.
To people wondering, the cameras and film were not destroyed because they were specifically designed and placed in structures similarly designed to survive the shockwave, insulate, and shield radiation. The houses shown were not those structures. There is a big difference between a wood and drywall house and a militarily bunker The cars disappear during the explosion because they cut from a "before" during daytime inspections when personnel are present on site, to a night shot when they actually ran the test
1:37 Oh god today sucked. First I'm late for work, then my boss takes five dollars of my pay check for today, it's hot, and now I think my wife burnt dinner. This day can't possibly get wor..1:53
1:18 Someone explain why background vehicles keep disappearing after the flash. Like this one on the lower left. My guess is a rough cut from before to after rather than something sinister. But it’s odd how in several scenes, things will disappear from the frame.
I love this footage. It’s hard to appreciate the scale of nuclear weapons at the distance they’re usually captured from. They always seem like a slow moving fireball that immolates everything. You forget they’re an incredibly violent, unthinkably powerful monstrosity that will bulldoze everything at the speed of sound. I’m in awe at the raw power of these weapons. Even these small explosions set everything near them ablaze instantly, vaporizing the surface layer of paint and brush, and then destroying them all soon after. The fireball is just a side effect. Its main function is what you see here. To deliver overwhelming destructive force to a large area. Very scary stuff.
@@draconicdestruction5352 @ 40 seconds the car between the house and the blast just disappeared because they couldnt recreate it flying through the house
I find videos like this so entrancing they completely capture my mind, I actually watch them to tackle my anxiety issues. As odd as it may sound, they actually help me relax.
@@Richiebax yes, they were not gonna destroy their people or vehicles they wanted to use, they removed the people and relevant cars out of blast zone before recording the explosion. through the magic of editing you get to see the scale of the buildings with people and cars milling about then immediately after the buildings being destroyed
@@Richiebax The shots with cars and people shot at day were meant for effect, to show that people live in the house. The explosion was shot at night, when the vehicles and people are gone far away. This test was meant to showcase the power of destruction on human infrastructure, mainly buildings at different distances from ground zero.
@@SamkoKalajdzini since when did the wars stop? They literally havent stopped since ww2. All it takes is one person with this weapon and the world could be thrown into nuclear war
Say what you want though, the major world powers havent had any wars since this bomb. Partly due to this as well as economic reasons as our economies are more global and we relying on global trade and good relations
@@22fordfx49 lol your funny mate. Everythings global and internationalised unwillingly because notions leaders no longer have choices. Countries become simple pawns for the western world. Each to their own, if u think nuclear weapons are good overall for the future and history of huminity then i want what ur smoking
I was teached that the clip 00:58 was publicly released during the Cold war to put fear into the enemy. But if you pay attention it was clipped as one second there is the vehicles there and as soon as the explosion goes off the cars are no where to be seen. Was this true?
And the person walking into the house! Do you think they forgot to leave him there too? Because the evil government wizards forgot to leave the real people and real cars there for the actual blast. How stupid of them!
The Bomb, in this case the "A" bomb, which as soon as the H-Bomb was developed was looked down upon, perceived as "weak" in comparison, is utterly terrfying. Look at 2:13
@@__cdbThey didnt use them. Refer to the reply above yours, they used lead glass and lead sheets to shield the cameras from the radiation. Had they not, the film would have been intensely damaged by the immediate release of neutrons from the explosion. Thankfully the cameras of the day were mechanical and not electric, so the EMP had no effect.
"Teapot Apple 2" may be literally the most disproportionately cute name for something possible. It sounds like the name of the sequel to a slice of life anime about running a cafe or something but it's an actual f-ing nuclear bomb test
Starfish Prime is my favourite. Crossroads Baker destroyed many famous ships of WWII including Prinz Eugen and Nagato (well irradiated anyway in her case). Tests have funny names you can look up lists.
"back in the day" code name were generated from a list of random words. for the past 20 years or more the politicians have apparently named them for most impact with the dum dums.
Is there any indication of what the distances are in each video? I feel that the first half is probably within 1-2 miles of the blast, which is pretty much the "death zone" where you wouldn't make it. Others towards the end seem to be at least a few miles from the blast center and it just breaks windows. Obviously, that would vary based on size of the blast.
Your pretty much right the first few houses were within a mile of ground zero, the final few houses were around 2.5km away. The last one almost 2 miles away.
@@elric5371Same as thunder, light gives you the time of detonation and shockwave moves at the speed of sound. Seems like 3 seconds or so delay, thats at 330 m/s approximately 1 km from ground zero. Some where further.
I always wondered how they got those cameras to stay perfectly still while everything else around it gets obliterated. That had to be a seriously strong pole to mount the cameras on.
@@BrandON-rd7gpits called a white lie. When countries kicked out white colonials, they came up with new lies to control. As long as countries agree to the satanic ways of the west in abortion, homosexuality and genocidal 'medicine ' they are safe. It is a spiders web of lies
@@BrandON-rd7gp Indoors recording do not require this much protection, the building already absorbs a lot of the heat and shock wave. The standard is less elevated.
After Reagan and I saw this a few hours ago, I had to climb out of the ground and let those at Atomcentral know what a fantastic job they are doing with this footage in it's organization, preservation and updating. You know, this particular presentation reminds me of the time when Ike and I came out to the proving grounds to watch these tests in action and he later went to eat some of the roast beef that was done to perfection. He turned a little green later on, but he was a tough old man and blamed it on rookies in Supply. They gave me some it too, but I fed it to Checkers. Gentlemen, a damn fine presentation. Keep up the good work.
According to Wikipedia, the warhead used in Teapot Apple 2 had a yield of 29 kilotons, quite modest compared to today’s arsenal which ranges between 100 and 400kt, and a firecracker compared to the most powerful nuclear device tested by the United States: Castle Bravo, which due to a miscalculation ended up yielding a staggering 15,000kt.
This video was just during my basic training. It beatifully shows the different phases of the explosion. 1st is the flash which is bright enough to permanently blind people looking directly at it. 2nd is the heat wave which vaporises everything close enough to it (for example the paint covering the houses). 3rd is the shockwave created by the blast. 4th is the shockwave of air being sucked back into the vacuum created by the blast. 5th is nuclear radiation being spreaded and 6th is the Electro Magnetic Pulse that fries all electronics close enough. If you ever get in the unlikely event of a nuclear explosion, lay on the ground face down with your feet pointing in the direction of the blast.
Nr 1, 2 and 6 are all the same thing and come first. Most of the energy is released in x-rays but plenty of visible light too. Thermal radiation is just light. It's the lighr that sets stuff on fire like a laser beam. Broad spectrum electromagnetic pulse across all frequencies from radio to infrared, visible and all the way to gamma rays but the vast majority is in x-rays. So the light, heat and emp arrive at the same time, your TV cuts out, while you are blinded and set on fire, then comes the shockwave. Radiation exposure is both prompt from the x-rays etc in the moment of detonation moving at the speed of light (in air) and delayed from the fission profucts falling back down and material being sucked into the fireball and becoming activated and radioactive. High altitude detonation with no fallout will still kill you with radiation sickness. Fallout you ingest and alpha rays shoot your molecules apart from the inside. Gamma and x-rays smash your molecules (especially DNA, proteins, amino acids etc...) from afar. Alpha rays can't pen a sheet of paper so they are "harmless" unless ingested. That's why you can hold the plutonium core of a bomb in your hands, no problem (heavy though) or natural uranium. But if you smash the uranium with a hammer and breath in the dust, yeah... call the ambulance. Gamma and x ray go through walls like radio. Only thick heavy material stops it like 3 m of lead. Or soil is good too. Also the blindness can recover. The eye has a remarkable ability to heal. Even if you burn out all your "sensors" they will grow back. Vision returns after minutes to days to weeks, depending how close you where, how bright it was. Same thing as staring at the sun. Your eyes recover. But don't do it. Still likely permanent damage, not 100% again. It depends. Everyone is different. Crawl upwind after detonation. You can feel that if you still have skin left, which is unlikely as close as these houses are. That's more in the "poof" regime.
@@221b-l3t Great statement overall, but its worth noting crawling upwind if you're downwind of a blast will bring you to ground zero. Its like trying to escape a rip-tide, you have to run sideways to the wind to escape the fallout. though, if you're already upwind of the blast then running further upwind will just take you further away.
@@basil9973 Well I'm assuming the hypothetical person being nuked saw that nuke go off so presumably they wouldn't move towards it. It's not like a test where after 30 s there's only some blackened desert, there would be firestroms and skyscrapers toppled so I'm guessing it would be pretty obvious where the bomb went off roughly. Of course if you're blinded and crawling along the pavement with radiation burns it probably doesn't make much of a difference what direction you crawl you won't be making a lot of progress and also you're extremely unlikely to survive. If it's even a question qhere the bomb went off you were far enough away and then probably best stay put and close the windows. I forget what the scenario was, an all out exchange or some terror attack. If it's the latter help is on the way and you best stay qhere you are if it's the former you ahould probably envy the corpses.
I'm fascinated by the cameras. I understand they were made to withstand the blast, but I'm more fascinated about the tripods, or whatever was holding them. Some of those shots are pretty high up, and the bomb was able knock down a chimney, but whatever was holding those camera's stayed in place. I also wonder how did they hit the record button? A roll of film doesn't shoot for very long. I think on average you'll get like 10-12 minutes of footage per roll, so I don't think they had enough time to hit "record" and leave the site. My only guess is that they did it remotely.
@@jarekmatthew8039CGI in 1955… yea right. Please smart man tell me why you think they are miniatures? Do you think that it’s because of the cars and seemingly living people getting away to not die? Pls enlighten me
@@Inkxo3Dif you slow this footage down using the UA-cam player and you can’t tell that it’s a miniature, I won’t be able to convince you or explain it to you. Not being pedantic, but it’s extremely obvious if you’re willing to see it.
Lead lines to prevent to much radiation to get absorbed while shoved in steel boxes rooted to the ground to prevent it from going to the shockwave, mirrors were used to record it and many of the footage actually didn't survive this test
I’m not sure what’s more disturbing..the fact that humans made this DECADES AGO, the fact that people in charge of these things are really in control of our lives or that you’d die before you’d ever even know what happened
We took a tour of the Nevada test site in 2007. Our bus drove right by the house you see @2:22 The structure still stands. Windows are missing and you can still see the charring on the wood siding.
2:49 I like this clip because it really underscores what the foley sounds are trying to sell: That when there's a big ground explosion far in the distance, you'll get a minor earthquake from it, and that will arrive five times earlier than the air blast. (Though it won't sound like a volcanic eruption with all the bass, any more than an earthquake does. That's just poetic license here.)
@@iamarizonaball2642 A measurement that high would require special circumstances. Simply exploding a bomb at surface level probably wouldn't do it, unless the bomb was of an extremely unconventional and fundamentally impractical yield. But if you buried the bomb at a decent depth, you'd more easily reach earthquake-like conditions. Project Cannikin was a 5MT bomb buried in Alaska and its detonation was measured as 7.0. That gives a good estimate. Maybe somewhere between 8 and 12MT (again, buried) would reach 7.5.
So, who knew - Duck and Cover really was fantastically good advice. Lying on the ground meant that 99% of the flying debris could be avoided, even very close to the blast. So neat seeing the various target sites during normal operation and during an actual blast. Brilliant stuff !
Yes and if you're outside and lie on the street next to a tall sidewalk or a heavy building it might shield you from practically all of the radiation, thermal as well. You might be able to walk away while others are incinerated. And inside that supersonic flying glass is not fun. Do what Bert did.
This takes me back to grade school, growing up in the early 1970s when we regularly had atomic bomb drills, similar to earthquake drills (I grew up in Southern California). In both instances we were told to duck and cover. Looking back, the drills may have worked well for an earthquake. But a nuclear attack? We would have been nothing but ashes whether we ducked and covered, or simply remained in our seats. They used to tell us "If you see the flash, duck and cover". Folks, if you see the flash, you're dead.
You never now from how far you're from the impact zone and what direction the wave is coming from. You know, there's deadzone, where you're pretty much dead, but you may get serious cut's from debris ( 99% shattered glass particles ) even at greater distances. You need a little math to get idea of how blast waves work, ---> 🎯. Instant death rate gets lower more you get closer to border of circle, but casualties (almost) remain high because of larger impact zone.
There is something genuinely terrifying watching videos of a nukes effects, i thought movies and games would desensitize me but I don’t think any media can actually capture the real effect. What’s extra creepy about the video is how it’s shot in black and white but the sky is just black so you can see the horizon but it all looks like a toy set, mannequins adding that effect too, so it looks like everything is insignificant compared to even the effects of the bomb.
You can tell the houses that were pretty close to the blast because they were immediately destroyed as opposed to the ones that were further from the blast.
Last few houses were outside the heat pulse, i.e beyond 1300-3000m. You can tell because the time between flash and shockwave is longer. It's also why the houses didn't vaporize instantly. Anything outside the heat pulse is considered minimum safe distance.
1:36 "Hey john, do you know where billy went?" "Im pretty sure he said he was going to the restroom" "Yeah. Well I was just wondering cause the bombs about to go off" "Im sure he'll be fine" "Wait, isnt the only restroom in the hou-" *Explosion* " *O h G o d* "
the craziest thing about the radiation especially noticeable at 0:49 is that it's so insanely intense that the absurd temperature generated in such a tiny amount of time on surfaces facing the bomb actually cause them to get pushed away from the surface vaporizing and newton's third law, the vapor goes one way and the original object goes the other way so you can actually see the blinds get pushed back WELL before the blast or any seismic activity occurs. Watch that over and over again. Also this is a much better version of the footage since many clips are cut short, in this one again at 0:49 you can actually see the several hundred foot cloud of dust outside the house for a split second before the camera is completely overrun by the enormous dust storm. Lool and i love the way it's edited at 1:50, Did he make it?!?
I was getting increasingly horrified there until it cut to the moment the bomb went off and all the vehicles were gone without a trace even before the shockwave hit.
@@LieutenantAlaki they shot the explosion at a different time of the day. The shots with cars and people were meant for effect to show that people live in the house etc.
my Dad 82 now was in this very Atomic blast. it has done a bunch of damage to him. Veterans. Affairs should be ashamed of not paying these MARINE'S for what was done to humans on this blast not to mention he was in 2 of these blasts 74 kilotins of blast
The film is cut. One before the detonation and one during. At 1:44 you see a guy walking up to the building enters and then the nuke goes off. It's them demonstrating "real" every day events before a nuclear attack. And so the cars dissappear because the film of the house is at two different time periods. Just like how the man enters and the nuke goes off, but obviously the man didn't get vaporized because well, that'd be murder on camera. They simply moved the cars before the nuke goes off
To expand on that point, it's also possible that for at least some of the camera angles that were completely shaded from the flash, the engineers may (note may, I'm not certain) have rigged the film lighting rigs to add a flash synchronized with the firing command, to provide a visible time reference for the physicists to use in calculating the effects; if you watch films of various forms of crash testing of vehicles, you'll often see a similar flash at the moment of impact for the same purpose.
The shock wave moves much slower, while the burst of light moves at speed of light so you see it first. Nuclear blast light is so bright that reportedly blind people literally can see for the first time in their lives.
It's so surreal it's almost become an art installation piece . Nearly 30 years after the cold war it's fascinating to see these explosions in a new light . They're actually quite beautiful .
0:08 I don't think anything has ever made me appreciate the power and speed with which atomic bombs work and would level a city than this shot did. In an instant, blinding light and searing heat to the point where everything instantly flared and burnt off smoke, and then a shockwave fast enough it pulverizes anything in its path. It is incredible humans invented something as powerful as a nuclear bomb.
The worrying part is how easy it is. We barely cobbled together a radar and a primitive TV and we already had the bomb. It's expensive not hard. Enriching uranium or making plutonium is expensive. Making a nuke once you have that is super easy compared to dunno a Boeing 737 or something like that. A 737 is technologically far more advanced than 1940s state of the art atom bombs. Even hydrogen bombs. The complicated part about hydrogen bombs is the atom bomb thats ignited the "hydrogen" (lithium-deuteride). It's why NK has the bomb. It's really not that hard. The explosive lens geometry is trivial, France declassified it and the synchronisation of the detonators is achieved by spark gap switches (2500V) and the detonators are precise ones of the exploding bridge wire variety. That's it... all you need is plutonium the rest is super duper easy. Well at least compared to most high tech things like making the processor in your phone. Russia or China can't do that. Not by a long shot. They have been building h-bombs for the better part of a century. It's why all the secrecy. Because it's so simple. That's the big secret and enriching enough fuel costs like 2 billion. So all you really need is 2-3 billion.
@@221b-l3t And nowadays we can achieve the same level of destruction of a low yield nuke with a bunch of conventional weapons. One example is the TOS1. It carries 30 rockets and each rocket warhead causes a massive overpressure(5psi or above) within a radius of 30 meters. If all rockets are used an area of ((0.03^2)*3.14)*30=0.085km^2 can be destroyed. For comparison the W48 nuclear artillery shell used 13kg of plutonium(that costs 84.5 million dollars) and it causes 5psi overpressure within an area of ((cbrt(72000)*0.0045)^2)*3.14=0.11km^2 That means for a fraction of the cost of the W48 you can get a similar area of complete destruction and because the TOS1 is so much cheaper you can get a bunch of them for the price of one W48. Let us just assume that a TOS1 with its rockets costs 6.5 million dollars(according to the sources that I found). So you can buy 13 TOS1 for the cost of just the fissile material in one W48. Then you would be able to utterly destroy an area of 1.1km^2. To cause the same level of blast damage within that area with a nuclear device you would need a yield of 2.3 kilotons. TLDR: *Low yield nukes are a waste of money if you can get a bunch of modern conventional weapons in the vicinity of the target*
The cameras were also actually the same cameras that the Air Force used for gun cameras in fighter planes, meaning that they were already rather ruggedly built to withstand vibration and shock loading while still functioning correctly, and high G-loading, too. The lead boxes were more to protect the film from radiation effects than to protect the camera itself. The cameras--and their protective housings--were actually rather similar to the ones used as engineering cameras in the Apollo program for getting those close-up, high-speed shots of the rocket launching, including the rarely-seen one that was actually down in the flame bucket and looking up the throats of the engines. The only time NASA lost any data or equipment from one of those was on one launch when the "down the throat" camera got torn loose from its mounting and blown away; they found the camera a mile away from the pad, and while they lost all data from after it tore loose (no power to run the camera), the camera itself still worked and the film was undamaged. The cameras for the wide shots had their housings mounted on steel structures specifically designed to withstand the blast by basically being latticework that the wind could blow through without tearing them apart... that's how they were able to get those low birds-eye angles.
It is easily possible to build survivable shelters from something as small as a camera. All it takes is money and fore-knowledge about what it has to withstand.
I think this is not even a particularly large nuke, 29 kilotons. That's around a thousandth of the Castle Bravo nuke. Just insane what these things can do.
"Whoa, whoa - we're not going near that thing. You know what those things can do? Suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro." - Austin Milbarge, 1985
That's the air coming back. The explosion is so strong it pushes massive volumes of air away, obviously those have to come back. Whilst it seems very violent much of what you see is actually because the initial impact of the shock wave with the structure had loosened the structure, created debris etc. "Energy from a nuclear explosive is initially released in several forms of penetrating radiation. When there is a surrounding material such as air, rock, or water, this radiation interacts with and rapidly heats it to an equilibrium temperature (i.e. so that the matter is at the same temperature as the atomic bomb's matter). This causes vaporization of surrounding material resulting in its rapid expansion. Kinetic energy created by this expansion contributes to the formation of a shockwave. When a nuclear detonation occurs in air near sea level, much of the released energy interacts with the atmosphere and creates a shockwave which expands spherically from the hypocenter. Intense thermal radiation at the hypocenter forms a nuclear fireball and if the burst is low enough, it is often associated mushroom cloud. In a burst at high altitudes, where the air density is low, more energy is released as ionizing gamma radiation and x-rays than an atmosphere-displacing shockwave." That's from the Wikipedia page on Effects of nuclear explosions, you can see the effect touched upon at the end. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions
What I take away from this video is that if we made our houses as strong as we made those cameras, insurance companies would die out.
It's easy to build strong camera emplacements, when you know what it has to withstand ahead of time and are not impeded with a close budget. Those lack of constraints are sadly not available to the average home builder.
its amazing the camera's used didnt vaporize, get destroyed by the shockwave or short out from the EMP
Derek Wall for the emp part these cameras were most likely not using computer chips so there would be nothing to be fried
For real
I'm wondering if insurance companies would consider the damage to the roof as wind damage?
crazy how it sets everything on fire first in a near instant, then boom with the shockwave
Imagine standing in that.Your body suddenly combusts and you literally get blown away just a few seconds later.
Yep. The first wave is the thermal wave, followed by the successive shockwaves
C.T. P That's because the heat is travelling at the speed of light. The blast wave has to move through the air itself.
RIP 01:38
@ masacatior The guy on the Video walked in the House long before the Bomb was dropped, you just have to look on the cars. They're not there anymore when bomb explodes
Love how everything starts burning right when the flash hits. So pretty, yet so terrifying.
Yes, like the dream scene of Sarah Connor in terminator 2
where do you think the James Cameron got the idea 👀
Like the first time you got laid
Yeah a 10,000 degree flash will do that 😐
And that destruction is just from a little atomic bomb detonation. Imagine if it was a blast from an Hydrogen Bomb with multi megaton force.
Conclusion : atomic bombs make cars disappear
I was just thinking the same thing! Most videos have cars before the blast, then no cars right before the blast hits. Also, the cameras don't even vibrate while filming nuclear blasts? Fake videos?
They just did transitions and stabilize the video
Conclusion: too many people here don't realize they put people in frame before the blast because this is a simulation of what would happen to American homes and buildings at the time if they were hit by an atomic bomb, and then BEFORE the bomb went off they removed them. And since I doubt they walked, the cars were probably their own personal ones.
LMAO though the same sarcastic thing when I saw that
But mama was still people out that window as you did that hit I yelled at I centigrated
Did anyone else think they were about to set one off while that guy was walking to the house?
Yes!
I was like: what the fuck are you doing?!
I thought he had farted!
ME TOO, I SEE IT, WTF IS THAT GUY DOING 1:39
there could be some delinquent in prison, this guy in the case, sentenced to death, so the test founders thought "hmm, why not put someone sentenced to death to see how their body will react" well, I think so
Yes. I was like: WHAT ARE YOU DOING! YOU ARE GONNA HAVE LOW CHANCES OF SURVIVING!
The thing that impresses me the most is how instantly destructive the thermal radiation pulse is. Things burst into flame at a distance the moment the bomb detonates.
7000 mph. No time to blink think or count.
There aren't really any flames bursting... its just a quick radiated melting of the surface and the seismic wave of the bomb. You can see on the structures after the smoke passes that nothing is burning (except for a couple of videos).
I’m very impressed by how the truck and jeep vaporized at @1:16 😳😳 complete vaporisation
@@anonymeister123 Those things also vaporized from the twin towers
@@anonymeister123 it’s a cut, they’re not going to nuke civil defense workers
1:53 “ Ohhh finally, after years of hard work now i can start enjoying my new Home”
*BOOM*
I mean atleast it cleaned the roof
One big fart and it was over...
Nope not gonna happen.
F
No wonder the camera man never dies. The camera has an aura that protects even against nuclear bombs.
Nuclear-bomb-proof cameras. Later, they designed the cases for Nokia phones.
Because it’s a hoax,they are keeping us in fear with this nuclear bomb bullshit
Concrete is a wonder material
@@West_Coast_Mainlinepffffffff wake up…..one of these house flashes frames and theres trucks and people walking around then the flash and then theres no trucks. This footage was made in a studio
@@jessemauer5455yep
Person 1: "I'm going to set off a huge, terrifying explosion."
Person 2: "What are you going to call it?"
Person 1: "Teapot Apple."
American nuclear tests had all sorts of stupid names, like Buster Jangle
bogus peanus, or, my favorite one, Upshot-Knothole.
At least Castle Bravo is a cool name.
Teapot is the name of the test series. Apple 2 is the name of the specific test. A retry of the failed Apple 1 test.
@@92kosta castle bravo even looks like a aggressive name
@@observer4916 In the early days of nuclear testing, the US gov intentionally chose inconspicuous or even silly sounding names as a way to deter espionage. It would be stupid to call your test program something like "Operation Death's Hellfire" because it would be like inviting every spy on the planet to come see your research.
I thought I saw a man in a refrigerator!
Jason Spangler: Fallout 4 reference?
Terabit3 Gaming Indiana Jones reference you fucking casual
Its so easy to recognise that reference!!!
lol
The Fallout 4 reference's from the movie :|
3:11 when girls sneeze
0:42 when boys sneeze
😂me rei mucho con tu comentario😂😂😂.....y si es verdad😂😂😂
Doesn't apply to me, my sneezes are incredibly loud.
It's the polar opposite for my class tho. There's this 4 girls who sneezes extremely loud honestly it's disgusting.
@@sthepaniegarcia8929 si jajaja
😂
Remember if you duck and cover under a desk you'll be fine.
Lmao
0:05 the most haunting sight ever, really puts it in perspective just how powerful these things are...and this was a small one.
Tessso
Homes and houses got a lot more batter so they would probably last better against a small blast
@@MaPule2468 actually homes are not built near as well as they once were so it would probably be even worse. Jesus bless y’all.
Agreed. That is a particularly haunting perspective..
Ye,only like 5 kilotons
I genuinely believe the clip at 0:06 is one of the most incredible and most badass shots in all of film history. Everything about it is absolutely perfect.
And that was a near ground burst, imagine a higher altitude.
Fr
Why does it look like battlefield cutscenes
A colorized version would be frightening.
Fisheyes are underrated in videography
The house at 2:27 is still there and has been part of several modern documentaries about the testing. It was 6000 feet from ground zero.
and they blew it up two separate times in this video...
@@ricardocardoso5423Or…and hear me out…they built multiple exact copies of the house to test the effects of the blast on it from different ranges………..
I wonder if it were brick whereas the rest were made of wood ?
@@eyesturnedeverinwardit was far away
For the people calling this fake, I'd love to know how _exactly_ were they able to fake the thermal pulse? Please describe the techniques required to _instantly_ scorch and ignite an entire model set- vaporizing phone lines and roof antennae- evaporating the paint _only_ on the side being hit by light- causing the very _ground_ to start smoking. I'm a VFX artist myself and I'd love to know how Hollywood could achieve such an effect in _1955._
You can see the vehicle’s disappear before the blast. So it was obviously cut. And how do you explain the camera not even budging…..?
@@Saltcracker007 Read other comments if you want answers to those questions, now answer mine: How do you fake a thermal pulse?
I'd _love_ to know.
@@PWN3GE all this was exposed recently on Joe Rogan’s podcast
@@Saltcracker007 He didn't expose how they faked a thermal pulse. That's the part I wanna to know.
@@Saltcracker007they disappeared before the blast because it’s called a film cut my guy
Love how Harrison Ford survived this blast inside a fridge
Let's not also forget the fridge seemed to fly through the air about a mile before crashing down to earth...and he just sort of climbs out it and goes about his day.
@@libo2000 also don't forget that that scene was poorly done and heavily criticized. Its not like superhero movies do any better either. They just want things to look cool, not realistic
@@skychieftain Superhero movies at least can argue they are inhuman. The only unreasonable powers he has is a good aim and a whip that never fails, things you can ignore as "pure skill". Surviving a Nuclear Blast in a friudge is just moronic, you can't even argue it was calculated luck.
@@libo2000 yeah that's why it was heavily criticized.
@@libo2000 Not a single Hollywood movie is realistic. Even the ones based on a true story.
4700 ft = 1432.56 meters
are these the real sounds or are they edited in? because some of them sound like they are form half life 2.
nvm
The numbers they invented to make "nuclear" blasts impressive are just ridiculous.
Simboiss invented? Lol
Me: Oh god he’s about to catch me I gotta hide in here
The criminal: oh shit
The bomb: I m a b o u t T o E n d T h i s W h o l e M a n s C a r e e r
3:02 Now she's bald
Free haircut
LMFAO
talk about a snatch game
@@pablitoilmito3297 lol
Fastest cancer in the west
0:40 The amount of times I've seen this one in cartoons is insane
Not even special effects could mimic how unsettling this is in my opinion
They can. Pretty easily.
Where r u from
It's not the same
As im sitting on our 11th floor software engineering office... i can tell you that the details have not yet been able to capture something of this magnituded. So many variables to account for with physics. We can get close but not close enought... yet. For CGI
And these weapons are puny!!. If this was a 15 megaton Hydrogen bomb forget the windows being blown out the entire house would simply disappear.
So in theory, the best house that is not, underground, would be lead lined, highly reflective with a strong structure and low profile on all directions, so no complex shapes, just a square footprint.
aserta the best structure at 4700 ft. is the 1 story, pre-cast, concrete house.
In theory--yes. But these double digit kt warheads are one thing; the triple digits are another; I suppose distance is key, among other things.
Well, no. The best one would be any structure that could be built, say, 20 feet below the surface with enough structure to resist a 10 psi over-pressure for 5 seconds. Lining, profile, etc are irrelevant. and what Liam says.
It all depends on how close/far you were from the blast really. At some point, even if you built a structure that could withstand the blast, you'd still be cooked from the heat alone. No getting around that.
The heat pulse is not that much to contend with. After all, all you need is a layer of material that could stand up to the heat for, oh, 5 seconds to hide behind. Of course that may become difficult to find closer in than a half-mile. OTOH, again, at a half mile or less the prompt radiation gets dangerously high at around there, and that is no where near as easy to avoid. Lead lined refrigerator notwithstanding.
If you look ata video of the Grable shot (teh one out of a canon), you'll notice black and white smoke near ground zero before the blast. That was an experiment to determine whether white or black smoke would interfere with the heat pulse better. As it turned out, they were both pretty effective in absorbing/reflecting the light/heat.
1:55 "Honey I'm ho-ooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
xD
MY LEG
Your Argument Is Wrong. He Put The Mannequins In The House Then Got Out Of The House And Ran Far Away From The Bomb. And Then Says: "Uhp Atomic Test, Put On Your Glasses."
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R.I.P
☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
Kudos to the sound designers. All of this was recorded with no sound.
0:26 Dad: "Don't worry son,well be fine down here."
Son: "ok DAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH"
😂🤣😂🤣
😂🤣😂🤣
I read that in king of the hill accent lmao okkaaay daaahhhd *Bobby
they are deep inside some structure but the flash is still visible
I admire the more realistic sound effects in this one, if a little repetitive. Something ignites, shockwave rumble, BOOM! (Yes, I know it's edited. The only audio of a test was from Annie during Upshot-Knothole)
I do find the test setups fascinating and it must've been some crazy work to set up identical houses at further intervals and such to test the effects, especially additional infrastructure like power and radio broadcast to see how it would affect Smalltown, U.S.A. in the event of an attack. You can even see with the furthest single-story that the power was still on after the blast.
In reality none of these films had sound; it wasn't required by its intended audience (scientists and AEC/military brass), and at the state of the art was very difficult to record. Its all added sound effects, I'm afraid.
puncheex2 No fuckin’ shit dude.
Looks like miniatures
Russian test footage has sound. They sound like lightening or a naval gun. No long rumble. It's a very sharp bang or crack.
Why do you think is edited ? If they did have cameras that can take nuclear blast with no sweet im sure they also have microphone who can take blast like this
0:50 The way the blinds begin burning just after the flash but before the window breaking is so truly awesome. That heat. My God.
I just noticed that too.
@@mikepilot777 when the pyrotechnic guys setup the pyros too early
btw the moonlanding 100% real}
this america made to fuck with the russians abd brag about there bombs
The clip is fake
@@AGENT_02056 haha...you are fckin fake.
@@AGENT_02056no, its not... Yall saw that one short that said it was faked and thought. "GeE i GuEsS iTs fAkE."....
45 seconds you can see the light stand still in the house.....hmmmm and the camera wasnt touched? How'd we recover the film on the reel used to film this?
The cameras were specially designed to resist damage, being encased in steel, lead, and concrete. It's not like they took a film camera from hollywood and slapped it on a tripod and called it good enough. The dumbest person involved in these tests was twice as smart as you.
Between 0:08 - 0:12 the view from that camera will forever hunt humanity.
I completely agree with you, it's a terrifying site to behold.
I thought it was funny. This is what should be used on the terrorist protesters.
Who the fuck thinks that we should nuke people who are peacefully protesting.
@@t-man1587 tearing down of our beautiful statues is not peaceful and violence is not peaceful. These people need to be returned to God as in dead immediately. Amen.
@Tyrone Taylor round them all and put them in the old test areas and lets do a test.
Crazy how such small atoms can release so much energy when you force them to do something they don't want.
Nuclear physicist award goes to you.
Comment of the decade
Crazy how this “bomb” can be created completely practically in a Holly wood basement….
@@CoercedJab they exist though, idk if this clip is specifically fake or not but it's undoubtably amazing what science has achieved
@@mrtoast244 These are real tests. It's actually become a problem, they detonated so many test devices at these sites that they are incredibly contaminated.
2:59 when your neighbors decide that everyone within a 10 mile radius shares their taste in music.
I love how a whole ass house and car gets vaporized but the camera survives to tell the story
Was filmed in bunkers lined with 350 pounds of led, far outside the radius of even light blast damage. High magnification lenses were used to film all of these shots.
The first one was hauntingly beautiful.
lambaline wasn't it tho
Courtney Romiti
In a way it was kinda.
@@AMirrorForAFace But it was
As a guy said earlier:"Haunting,Hellish ..." and obscen...
10 days of human work
1 second of nuclear destruction
The way the dust first moves away from and is then sucked back towards the blast is amazing
Smoke, not dust. It's from everything directly touched by the light bursting into flames.
That's smoke from the fire. When the bomb goes off everything in a certain radius just bursts into flames instantly, and the things in ground zero just evaporate.
Its both dust and smoke, this test took place in a desert so lots of sand to be kicked up. @@GoodOlPain9
This is Nuketown 2025
why do items and junk disappear like the items in 0:58 and 1:17 and also 1:54 there is plenty more
Its crazy how the explosion is so intense that things start to burn before the shockwave even hits
Yeah
These were faked. How could it exploded everything yet the camera and film stayed in tact
@@PerforatedPaperboydo you not understand how bunkers and zoom work? Real footage, real tests, real damage.
Yeah burns everything except the camera 😂
@@commanderstargazer686 because of mirrors, bunkers and zooming equipment..
To people wondering, the cameras and film were not destroyed because they were specifically designed and placed in structures similarly designed to survive the shockwave, insulate, and shield radiation. The houses shown were not those structures. There is a big difference between a wood and drywall house and a militarily bunker
The cars disappear during the explosion because they cut from a "before" during daytime inspections when personnel are present on site, to a night shot when they actually ran the test
god, all those shots that show the interior's are terrifying. the way the ground shakes and the curtains instantly start burning. most of all: 1:28
that little whiff noise is terrifying
Why is everything destroyed except these cameras.... Fake!
@@phaggotsigiloccultstatus5592 It is almost as if these cameras were built specifically for these kind of tests.
@@phaggotsigiloccultstatus5592 what purpose would it serve to just destory a ton of houses for no reason? It would just seem like a waste of money
@@phaggotsigiloccultstatus5592 How is this fake? You can tell it's clearly not CGI in anyway.
1:37 Oh god today sucked. First I'm late for work, then my boss takes five dollars of my pay check for today, it's hot, and now I think my wife burnt dinner. This day can't possibly get wor..1:53
Closes front door and proceeds to shit pants 🤣
BUUUUUUURRRRRNNNNN 🔥🔥🔥🙃🔥🙃🙃🙃🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Now it’s extra toasty
@@djmarsone5209 literally!
The way the blinds and paint instantly vaporize from the heat of the flash moments before the shockwave impact is chilling.
They aren't being vaporized
the paint vaporises.
1:18 Someone explain why background vehicles keep disappearing after the flash. Like this one on the lower left. My guess is a rough cut from before to after rather than something sinister. But it’s odd how in several scenes, things will disappear from the frame.
0:51 Timmy get away from the window...
@ Nathan Stice I dont think getting away from window is gonna do you any good when your whole damn house is about to get demolished :D
That's what he get for being such a brat 🤣
Dammit Timmy
and thats how little timmy died
I love this footage. It’s hard to appreciate the scale of nuclear weapons at the distance they’re usually captured from. They always seem like a slow moving fireball that immolates everything. You forget they’re an incredibly violent, unthinkably powerful monstrosity that will bulldoze everything at the speed of sound. I’m in awe at the raw power of these weapons. Even these small explosions set everything near them ablaze instantly, vaporizing the surface layer of paint and brush, and then destroying them all soon after.
The fireball is just a side effect. Its main function is what you see here. To deliver overwhelming destructive force to a large area.
Very scary stuff.
Fake
@@CB-ou4hitell that to Hiroshima and Nagasaki 🤡
@@CB-ou4hi*comes in
*calls footage fake.
*refuses to elaborate further
yeah your claim is fake as hell bruh open your eyes
at 23 seconds you see the roof that blew off still in once piece, its a model...@@draconicdestruction5352
@@draconicdestruction5352 @ 40 seconds the car between the house and the blast just disappeared because they couldnt recreate it flying through the house
That shot at 0:07... Probably the best shot of a nuclear explosion ever. Real time and raw.
It's fake
@@urbanobstaclesI know, how does nobody else realize it’s animated.
@@LP-my9sdIts real footage from teapot apple 2 or operation cue, look it up dummy
@@urbanobstaclesIt takes 2 seconds of research to find out its real my guy.
@@psychopunk8817it's fake tell me how did the camera survive
I find videos like this so entrancing they completely capture my mind, I actually watch them to tackle my anxiety issues. As odd as it may sound, they actually help me relax.
“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”
Face your fears is an ancient method for overcoming anxiety.
@@GalootWrangler lol!
"Billy, stop playing with that switch!"
The most disturbing part is how it goes from looking like the middle of the day to night with the only light source being the explosion
the beginning of each clip was shot during day, the explosion part may have actually been night, or at least later in the day
Or how the cars suddenly disappear before the "explosion" 🙈🙉🙊
@@Richiebax yes, they were not gonna destroy their people or vehicles they wanted to use, they removed the people and relevant cars out of blast zone before recording the explosion. through the magic of editing you get to see the scale of the buildings with people and cars milling about then immediately after the buildings being destroyed
It’s because Joe Rogan had some dipshit on his show calling these fake.
@@Richiebax The shots with cars and people shot at day were meant for effect, to show that people live in the house. The explosion was shot at night, when the vehicles and people are gone far away. This test was meant to showcase the power of destruction on human infrastructure, mainly buildings at different distances from ground zero.
The weapon that never should have been invented.
Kinda not...these weapons are keeping the eorld wars off currently tbh
@@SamkoKalajdzini well there are many victims of this cruel bomb
@@SamkoKalajdzini since when did the wars stop? They literally havent stopped since ww2. All it takes is one person with this weapon and the world could be thrown into nuclear war
Say what you want though, the major world powers havent had any wars since this bomb. Partly due to this as well as economic reasons as our economies are more global and we relying on global trade and good relations
@@22fordfx49 lol your funny mate. Everythings global and internationalised unwillingly because notions leaders no longer have choices. Countries become simple pawns for the western world. Each to their own, if u think nuclear weapons are good overall for the future and history of huminity then i want what ur smoking
I was teached that the clip 00:58 was publicly released during the Cold war to put fear into the enemy. But if you pay attention it was clipped as one second there is the vehicles there and as soon as the explosion goes off the cars are no where to be seen. Was this true?
And the person walking into the house! Do you think they forgot to leave him there too? Because the evil government wizards forgot to leave the real people and real cars there for the actual blast. How stupid of them!
*taught
@@tubecated_development damm, sorry if my english is not the best, i had to learn it to speak with you americans
@@goncas1300 maybe read my comment again?
0:51 It's creepy how, for a moment, you can see some of mushroom cloud in the distance right as the wall splits open.
"I'm a little Teapot
Short and stout
This is my thermal pulse
And this is my blast."
This is my nuclear pay load
Putin stalin payback time soon folk's
I’m a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my blast
Enjoy my fallout
The Bomb, in this case the "A" bomb, which as soon as the H-Bomb was developed was looked down upon, perceived as "weak" in comparison, is utterly terrfying. Look at 2:13
It’s amazing how the film survived all the radiation in the cameras survive the explosion and radiation
Sheilded with lead crystal glass, and metallic lead.
Telescopes. Have you heard of them?
@@__cdbThey didnt use them. Refer to the reply above yours, they used lead glass and lead sheets to shield the cameras from the radiation. Had they not, the film would have been intensely damaged by the immediate release of neutrons from the explosion. Thankfully the cameras of the day were mechanical and not electric, so the EMP had no effect.
Nukes are fake
@@__cdbtelescope that records sound?
"Teapot Apple 2" may be literally the most disproportionately cute name for something possible. It sounds like the name of the sequel to a slice of life anime about running a cafe or something but it's an actual f-ing nuclear bomb test
Starfish Prime is my favourite. Crossroads Baker destroyed many famous ships of WWII including Prinz Eugen and Nagato (well irradiated anyway in her case). Tests have funny names you can look up lists.
"back in the day" code name were generated from a list of random words. for the past 20 years or more the politicians have apparently named them for most impact with the dum dums.
Teapot party and this is Satan's Apple
Peter, this is some remarkable footage, and it's uploaded in HD! I really do appreciate this upload. Thank you very very much!
Is there any indication of what the distances are in each video? I feel that the first half is probably within 1-2 miles of the blast, which is pretty much the "death zone" where you wouldn't make it. Others towards the end seem to be at least a few miles from the blast center and it just breaks windows. Obviously, that would vary based on size of the blast.
Your pretty much right the first few houses were within a mile of ground zero, the final few houses were around 2.5km away. The last one almost 2 miles away.
@@elric5371Same as thunder, light gives you the time of detonation and shockwave moves at the speed of sound. Seems like 3 seconds or so delay, thats at 330 m/s approximately 1 km from ground zero. Some where further.
The range varied from ground zero out in a five mile raduus from what I gathered on other vids.
@@221b-l3t Shockwaves move a lot faster than the speed of sound. That property is a part of the definition of a shockwave.
I like how setting all this up was so much work, it was inevitable they'd have some fun including real people in the "before" footage.
I always wondered how they got those cameras to stay perfectly still while everything else around it gets obliterated. That had to be a seriously strong pole to mount the cameras on.
Theres another vid around here someplace where the show camera set up.
The cameras were encased in steel and lead and placed on Towers rooted into the ground with concrete.
@@BrandON-rd7gpits called a white lie. When countries kicked out white colonials, they came up with new lies to control. As long as countries agree to the satanic ways of the west in abortion, homosexuality and genocidal 'medicine ' they are safe. It is a spiders web of lies
It's fake, fake I tell you. 😂
@@BrandON-rd7gp Indoors recording do not require this much protection, the building already absorbs a lot of the heat and shock wave. The standard is less elevated.
1:55 When your Mom comes home and the chores she told you to do before she got back from work still haven't been done.
God damn it harry, I thought I told you to barricade the house! Now we are going to- *the house gets ignited*
After Reagan and I saw this a few hours ago, I had to climb out of the ground and let those at Atomcentral know what a fantastic job they are doing with this footage in it's organization, preservation and updating. You know, this particular presentation reminds me of the time when Ike and I came out to the proving grounds to watch these tests in action and he later went to eat some of the roast beef that was done to perfection. He turned a little green later on, but he was a tough old man and blamed it on rookies in Supply. They gave me some it too, but I fed it to Checkers.
Gentlemen, a damn fine presentation. Keep up the good work.
This is why I voted for you
Richard Nixon next time you say you're not a crook, try not to do it at Disney World, ok?
Nixon you idiot! why did you send more troops to Vietnam when you knew that only made things worse!!
Didn't this guy kill Kennedy?
So about those plumbers...
Apparently, venitian blinds afford no significant protection from atomic fireballs.
What do you talking about? It was clearly a good shield against the flash. Not so much for the blast.
According to Wikipedia, the warhead used in Teapot Apple 2 had a yield of 29 kilotons, quite modest compared to today’s arsenal which ranges between 100 and 400kt, and a firecracker compared to the most powerful nuclear device tested by the United States: Castle Bravo, which due to a miscalculation ended up yielding a staggering 15,000kt.
This video was just during my basic training. It beatifully shows the different phases of the explosion. 1st is the flash which is bright enough to permanently blind people looking directly at it. 2nd is the heat wave which vaporises everything close enough to it (for example the paint covering the houses). 3rd is the shockwave created by the blast. 4th is the shockwave of air being sucked back into the vacuum created by the blast. 5th is nuclear radiation being spreaded and 6th is the Electro Magnetic Pulse that fries all electronics close enough. If you ever get in the unlikely event of a nuclear explosion, lay on the ground face down with your feet pointing in the direction of the blast.
7th they're all die
Nr 1, 2 and 6 are all the same thing and come first. Most of the energy is released in x-rays but plenty of visible light too. Thermal radiation is just light. It's the lighr that sets stuff on fire like a laser beam. Broad spectrum electromagnetic pulse across all frequencies from radio to infrared, visible and all the way to gamma rays but the vast majority is in x-rays. So the light, heat and emp arrive at the same time, your TV cuts out, while you are blinded and set on fire, then comes the shockwave. Radiation exposure is both prompt from the x-rays etc in the moment of detonation moving at the speed of light (in air) and delayed from the fission profucts falling back down and material being sucked into the fireball and becoming activated and radioactive. High altitude detonation with no fallout will still kill you with radiation sickness. Fallout you ingest and alpha rays shoot your molecules apart from the inside. Gamma and x-rays smash your molecules (especially DNA, proteins, amino acids etc...) from afar. Alpha rays can't pen a sheet of paper so they are "harmless" unless ingested. That's why you can hold the plutonium core of a bomb in your hands, no problem (heavy though) or natural uranium. But if you smash the uranium with a hammer and breath in the dust, yeah... call the ambulance. Gamma and x ray go through walls like radio. Only thick heavy material stops it like 3 m of lead. Or soil is good too.
Also the blindness can recover. The eye has a remarkable ability to heal. Even if you burn out all your "sensors" they will grow back. Vision returns after minutes to days to weeks, depending how close you where, how bright it was. Same thing as staring at the sun. Your eyes recover. But don't do it. Still likely permanent damage, not 100% again. It depends. Everyone is different. Crawl upwind after detonation. You can feel that if you still have skin left, which is unlikely as close as these houses are. That's more in the "poof" regime.
@@221b-l3t Great statement overall, but its worth noting crawling upwind if you're downwind of a blast will bring you to ground zero. Its like trying to escape a rip-tide, you have to run sideways to the wind to escape the fallout. though, if you're already upwind of the blast then running further upwind will just take you further away.
@@basil9973 Well I'm assuming the hypothetical person being nuked saw that nuke go off so presumably they wouldn't move towards it. It's not like a test where after 30 s there's only some blackened desert, there would be firestroms and skyscrapers toppled so I'm guessing it would be pretty obvious where the bomb went off roughly. Of course if you're blinded and crawling along the pavement with radiation burns it probably doesn't make much of a difference what direction you crawl you won't be making a lot of progress and also you're extremely unlikely to survive. If it's even a question qhere the bomb went off you were far enough away and then probably best stay put and close the windows. I forget what the scenario was, an all out exchange or some terror attack. If it's the latter help is on the way and you best stay qhere you are if it's the former you ahould probably envy the corpses.
Best to be underground and no where near the detonation
I'm fascinated by the cameras. I understand they were made to withstand the blast, but I'm more fascinated about the tripods, or whatever was holding them. Some of those shots are pretty high up, and the bomb was able knock down a chimney, but whatever was holding those camera's stayed in place. I also wonder how did they hit the record button? A roll of film doesn't shoot for very long. I think on average you'll get like 10-12 minutes of footage per roll, so I don't think they had enough time to hit "record" and leave the site. My only guess is that they did it remotely.
5 miles telescopic cameras apparently hehe fake shit,
I think that they were in bunkers with the lens behind glass.
Or these are miniatures and when you watch this footage (except for the first one, which is CG) in .25 speed, it becomes very apparent.
@@jarekmatthew8039CGI in 1955… yea right. Please smart man tell me why you think they are miniatures? Do you think that it’s because of the cars and seemingly living people getting away to not die? Pls enlighten me
@@Inkxo3Dif you slow this footage down using the UA-cam player and you can’t tell that it’s a miniature, I won’t be able to convince you or explain it to you. Not being pedantic, but it’s extremely obvious if you’re willing to see it.
I want to know more about the cameras.
There is a document ADA995330
Does have a lot to say about the internal cameras but explains the external ones.
Doesn't*
Lead lines to prevent to much radiation to get absorbed while shoved in steel boxes rooted to the ground to prevent it from going to the shockwave, mirrors were used to record it and many of the footage actually didn't survive this test
I’m not sure what’s more disturbing..the fact that humans made this DECADES AGO, the fact that people in charge of these things are really in control of our lives or that you’d die before you’d ever even know what happened
I'd frankly find it more disturbing to die knowing what was happening.
Based on 6th and 9th of August 1945, you evidentially can know what happened a week before you die
We took a tour of the Nevada test site in 2007. Our bus drove right by the house you see @2:22
The structure still stands. Windows are missing and you can still see the charring on the wood siding.
2:49 I like this clip because it really underscores what the foley sounds are trying to sell: That when there's a big ground explosion far in the distance, you'll get a minor earthquake from it, and that will arrive five times earlier than the air blast. (Though it won't sound like a volcanic eruption with all the bass, any more than an earthquake does. That's just poetic license here.)
I wonder how much tnt would be needed to mimic a 7.5 quake?
@@iamarizonaball2642 A measurement that high would require special circumstances. Simply exploding a bomb at surface level probably wouldn't do it, unless the bomb was of an extremely unconventional and fundamentally impractical yield. But if you buried the bomb at a decent depth, you'd more easily reach earthquake-like conditions. Project Cannikin was a 5MT bomb buried in Alaska and its detonation was measured as 7.0. That gives a good estimate. Maybe somewhere between 8 and 12MT (again, buried) would reach 7.5.
So, who knew - Duck and Cover really was fantastically good advice. Lying on the ground meant that 99% of the flying debris could be avoided, even very close to the blast. So neat seeing the various target sites during normal operation and during an actual blast. Brilliant stuff !
Yes and if you're outside and lie on the street next to a tall sidewalk or a heavy building it might shield you from practically all of the radiation, thermal as well. You might be able to walk away while others are incinerated. And inside that supersonic flying glass is not fun. Do what Bert did.
This takes me back to grade school, growing up in the early 1970s when we regularly had atomic bomb drills, similar to earthquake drills (I grew up in Southern California). In both instances we were told to duck and cover.
Looking back, the drills may have worked well for an earthquake. But a nuclear attack? We would have been nothing but ashes whether we ducked and covered, or simply remained in our seats. They used to tell us "If you see the flash, duck and cover". Folks, if you see the flash, you're dead.
You never now from how far you're from the impact zone and what direction the wave is coming from. You know, there's deadzone, where you're pretty much dead, but you may get serious cut's from debris ( 99% shattered glass particles ) even at greater distances. You need a little math to get idea of how blast waves work, ---> 🎯. Instant death rate gets lower more you get closer to border of circle, but casualties (almost) remain high because of larger impact zone.
I'm shock how fast a thermal impact set fire to everything. Almost in the same time as light blast.
That's because they are the same thing, EM radiation
There is something genuinely terrifying watching videos of a nukes effects, i thought movies and games would desensitize me but I don’t think any media can actually capture the real effect.
What’s extra creepy about the video is how it’s shot in black and white but the sky is just black so you can see the horizon but it all looks like a toy set, mannequins adding that effect too, so it looks like everything is insignificant compared to even the effects of the bomb.
Why do the frames keep getting cut then the cars that where there are no longer there THEN the house blows up?
To prove it's a real life size house and not a miniature, they film with people in and around the house before the explosion.
@@07Kristin11 I heard it was just propaganda to scare Russia and it's all just bad editing lol
Got about enough time for "what the fu"
You can tell the houses that were pretty close to the blast because they were immediately destroyed as opposed to the ones that were further from the blast.
I like 2:55. This house is fairly far away and the seismic wave makes the furnishings shake before the shockwave gets there.
Did they add sound effects from shutter stock?
“And I JUST cleaned the house!”
Last few houses were outside the heat pulse, i.e beyond 1300-3000m. You can tell because the time between flash and shockwave is longer. It's also why the houses didn't vaporize instantly.
Anything outside the heat pulse is considered minimum safe distance.
Yep, first blast is 3 sec or less, objects farther out of range were 5 to 7 seconds. Still no time to react.
1:36
"Hey john, do you know where billy went?"
"Im pretty sure he said he was going to the restroom"
"Yeah. Well I was just wondering cause the bombs about to go off"
"Im sure he'll be fine"
"Wait, isnt the only restroom in the hou-"
*Explosion*
" *O h G o d* "
ded
* cue cable sitcom laugh track *
Proof that the cameraman never dies. Can even survive a nuke.
cameras were 40ft underground looking up at mirrors, and miles away. con-theorists are treated like scumbag idiots because they are scumbag idiots.
0:18 do you smell something burning ? 0:20
In the event of Total Atomic Annihilation, the rebuilding of this great nation of ours' may fall to you.
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that's why we at vault tech have made this thing called S P E C I A L
Welcome to tranquility lane
incredible how everything gets set on fire just before it gets blown the fuck up
I must ask, how do the cameras stay up? Surely the blast would knock any towers with cameras down due to the shockwave?
0:16 i just saw the death of 2 people
No, the footage was manipulated... the cars disappeared
@@tommasozucol4160 it was when they were setting it up and then it skipped to when it went off
@@rexjolles yeah lol
Easy there, Minecraft Boy, it's a clever camera trick
They recorded that b4 the bomb went off
the craziest thing about the radiation especially noticeable at 0:49 is that it's so insanely intense that the absurd temperature generated in such a tiny amount of time on surfaces facing the bomb actually cause them to get pushed away from the surface vaporizing and newton's third law, the vapor goes one way and the original object goes the other way so you can actually see the blinds get pushed back WELL before the blast or any seismic activity occurs. Watch that over and over again. Also this is a much better version of the footage since many clips are cut short, in this one again at 0:49 you can actually see the several hundred foot cloud of dust outside the house for a split second before the camera is completely overrun by the enormous dust storm.
Lool and i love the way it's edited at 1:50, Did he make it?!?
I was getting increasingly horrified there until it cut to the moment the bomb went off and all the vehicles were gone without a trace even before the shockwave hit.
@@LieutenantAlaki they shot the explosion at a different time of the day. The shots with cars and people were meant for effect to show that people live in the house etc.
my Dad 82 now was in this very Atomic blast.
it has done a bunch of damage to him.
Veterans. Affairs should be ashamed of not paying these MARINE'S for what was done to humans on this blast not to mention he was in 2 of these blasts
74 kilotins of blast
Was this before or after he had you?
If it was after how many extra arms n legs do you have?
@@octaneartllc it would have had to have been before to be funny.
This was a test blast lmao
Mannequins were used
@@octaneartllc lol, I wish she would answer for the sake of science!
Uhhh. What's with the cars poping in and out of the shots mid explosion?
The film is cut. One before the detonation and one during. At 1:44 you see a guy walking up to the building enters and then the nuke goes off. It's them demonstrating "real" every day events before a nuclear attack. And so the cars dissappear because the film of the house is at two different time periods. Just like how the man enters and the nuke goes off, but obviously the man didn't get vaporized because well, that'd be murder on camera. They simply moved the cars before the nuke goes off
The footage at 0:05 is incredible
What terrifies me is that even if you're inside a building, you still see that momentary flash the instant the bomb detonates. Why is that?
DukeGoat147 The flash is very, very bright.
To expand on that point, it's also possible that for at least some of the camera angles that were completely shaded from the flash, the engineers may (note may, I'm not certain) have rigged the film lighting rigs to add a flash synchronized with the firing command, to provide a visible time reference for the physicists to use in calculating the effects; if you watch films of various forms of crash testing of vehicles, you'll often see a similar flash at the moment of impact for the same purpose.
Good point, I have never even thought of that aspect.
The shock wave moves much slower, while the burst of light moves at speed of light so you see it first. Nuclear blast light is so bright that reportedly blind people literally can see for the first time in their lives.
oldtwins na ...and last :)
0:08 brutal, menacing, terrifying, hellish, sinister, A few words I can use to only begin to describe it.
And it just came to me this word: obscene. I dont know why.Maybe because we re not suppose to have and see that.
I love that pshycopatic Sinister devil
So the cameras and film were invincible?
It's so surreal it's almost become an art installation piece . Nearly 30 years after the cold war it's fascinating to see these explosions in a new light . They're actually quite beautiful .
0:08
I don't think anything has ever made me appreciate the power and speed with which atomic bombs work and would level a city than this shot did. In an instant, blinding light and searing heat to the point where everything instantly flared and burnt off smoke, and then a shockwave fast enough it pulverizes anything in its path. It is incredible humans invented something as powerful as a nuclear bomb.
Humans were "given/shown" how to make an atom split!
The worrying part is how easy it is. We barely cobbled together a radar and a primitive TV and we already had the bomb. It's expensive not hard. Enriching uranium or making plutonium is expensive. Making a nuke once you have that is super easy compared to dunno a Boeing 737 or something like that. A 737 is technologically far more advanced than 1940s state of the art atom bombs. Even hydrogen bombs. The complicated part about hydrogen bombs is the atom bomb thats ignited the "hydrogen" (lithium-deuteride). It's why NK has the bomb. It's really not that hard. The explosive lens geometry is trivial, France declassified it and the synchronisation of the detonators is achieved by spark gap switches (2500V) and the detonators are precise ones of the exploding bridge wire variety. That's it... all you need is plutonium the rest is super duper easy. Well at least compared to most high tech things like making the processor in your phone. Russia or China can't do that. Not by a long shot. They have been building h-bombs for the better part of a century. It's why all the secrecy. Because it's so simple. That's the big secret and enriching enough fuel costs like 2 billion. So all you really need is 2-3 billion.
@@221b-l3t And nowadays we can achieve the same level of destruction of a low yield nuke with a bunch of conventional weapons.
One example is the TOS1.
It carries 30 rockets and each rocket warhead causes a massive overpressure(5psi or above) within a radius of 30 meters.
If all rockets are used an area of ((0.03^2)*3.14)*30=0.085km^2 can be destroyed.
For comparison the W48 nuclear artillery shell used 13kg of plutonium(that costs 84.5 million dollars) and it causes 5psi overpressure within an area of ((cbrt(72000)*0.0045)^2)*3.14=0.11km^2
That means for a fraction of the cost of the W48 you can get a similar area of complete destruction and because the TOS1 is so much cheaper you can get a bunch of them for the price of one W48.
Let us just assume that a TOS1 with its rockets costs 6.5 million dollars(according to the sources that I found).
So you can buy 13 TOS1 for the cost of just the fissile material in one W48.
Then you would be able to utterly destroy an area of 1.1km^2.
To cause the same level of blast damage within that area with a nuclear device you would need a yield of 2.3 kilotons.
TLDR: *Low yield nukes are a waste of money if you can get a bunch of modern conventional weapons in the vicinity of the target*
I found the 1963 price of a W48. It cost 1.25 million dollars. That would be 12.5 million dollars today.
How did the camera and film survive those blasts? I want a house made up of whatever housing they were in! haha
the cameras were protected by 2-inch thick lead boxes. More importantly, they were bolted into the ground, or the housing foundation.
Olemarskan cool. thanks!
The cameras were also actually the same cameras that the Air Force used for gun cameras in fighter planes, meaning that they were already rather ruggedly built to withstand vibration and shock loading while still functioning correctly, and high G-loading, too. The lead boxes were more to protect the film from radiation effects than to protect the camera itself. The cameras--and their protective housings--were actually rather similar to the ones used as engineering cameras in the Apollo program for getting those close-up, high-speed shots of the rocket launching, including the rarely-seen one that was actually down in the flame bucket and looking up the throats of the engines. The only time NASA lost any data or equipment from one of those was on one launch when the "down the throat" camera got torn loose from its mounting and blown away; they found the camera a mile away from the pad, and while they lost all data from after it tore loose (no power to run the camera), the camera itself still worked and the film was undamaged.
The cameras for the wide shots had their housings mounted on steel structures specifically designed to withstand the blast by basically being latticework that the wind could blow through without tearing them apart... that's how they were able to get those low birds-eye angles.
It is easily possible to build survivable shelters from something as small as a camera. All it takes is money and fore-knowledge about what it has to withstand.
In preparation videos, we also see cameras without protection on top of poles, so there are some anomalies.
I think this is not even a particularly large nuke, 29 kilotons. That's around a thousandth of the Castle Bravo nuke. Just insane what these things can do.
"Whoa, whoa - we're not going near that thing. You know what those things can do? Suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro."
- Austin Milbarge, 1985
2:16 is one of the only shots where you can still see something through the dust
The ... what do you call it ... suck? after the explosion comes on much quicker and more violent than I expected.
That's the air coming back. The explosion is so strong it pushes massive volumes of air away, obviously those have to come back. Whilst it seems very violent much of what you see is actually because the initial impact of the shock wave with the structure had loosened the structure, created debris etc.
"Energy from a nuclear explosive is initially released in several forms of penetrating radiation. When there is a surrounding material such as air, rock, or water, this radiation interacts with and rapidly heats it to an equilibrium temperature (i.e. so that the matter is at the same temperature as the atomic bomb's matter). This causes vaporization of surrounding material resulting in its rapid expansion. Kinetic energy created by this expansion contributes to the formation of a shockwave. When a nuclear detonation occurs in air near sea level, much of the released energy interacts with the atmosphere and creates a shockwave which expands spherically from the hypocenter. Intense thermal radiation at the hypocenter forms a nuclear fireball and if the burst is low enough, it is often associated mushroom cloud. In a burst at high altitudes, where the air density is low, more energy is released as ionizing gamma radiation and x-rays than an atmosphere-displacing shockwave."
That's from the Wikipedia page on Effects of nuclear explosions, you can see the effect touched upon at the end.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions
its called the negative phase...
The air moving back inward is called a dragwind. The air moving outward is a shockwave which is followed by blast winds.
At 0:19 what's all that smoke? Is it smoke from the heat or air from the blast?
Josh R i'm very late here, but i heard that the smoke coming off from objects after the flash is the paint evaporating because of the heat
coool!
Hey pikapete
This is the moment when humanity realised that their doom is one of their own.
Kinda depressing