Nuclear Test Film Highlights - Restored Footage, New Films, Epic Explosions

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  • čas přidán 24. 12. 2017
  • This five-minute video showcases a handful of the 1,054 (official) United States nuclear tests that have taken place since 5:29 a.m. on July 16th, 1945. Much of the first half of this video is newly declassified material, recently released. The second half progresses toward lesser-known sequences, finishing off with footage that has been in the hands of the original videographer for decades. Many of these films were scratched, dusty, and exhibited significant color fading. Those have been restored to the best of my (admittedly novice) ability.
    Enjoy the disturbingly lovely kilotonnage.
    Something cool: If you pause the video at ~:26 and watch the first second or two of Tumbler-Snapper Able at 1/4 speed, you can actually see the air-dropped device falling before it detonates.
    Thank you to Gregory Walker of the Trinity Atomic website for his assistance in identifying nuclear test shots and for his advice. If you are interested in information about nuclear weapons I highly recommend checking out his website, www.abomb1.org.
    Music is by - and with thanks to - Steven O'Brien.
    / stevenobrien
    Many of the nuclear test shots in the first half of this video were sourced (pre-restoration) from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, whose complete playlist of atmospheric nuclear test footage is available online at tiny.cc/nukefilms (case sensitive).
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  • @glorbusborbus480
    @glorbusborbus480 Před 5 lety +672

    3:17 is one of the few sequences that actually gives a sense of scale to how large some of these fireballs actually were

    • @Balnazzardi
      @Balnazzardi Před 5 lety +79

      Holy fuck you are right..... only now did i see the palm trees in front of IT and that really gives you idea of the scale of the Fireball.....another good ones were where they showed tanks/vehicles on the ground near ground Zero as well as that underwater "Baker" shot where you could see ships near ground zero

    • @ITRIEDEL
      @ITRIEDEL Před 5 lety +7

      Anyone know the yield?

    • @robm5581
      @robm5581 Před 5 lety +25

      @@ITRIEDEL Only 43Kt. The largest of the Op. Teapot bomb, I think.

    • @oceanhome2023
      @oceanhome2023 Před 5 lety +28

      Rob M
      LOL Only 43KT .......43thousand tons of TNT only

    • @jayc2469
      @jayc2469 Před 5 lety +32

      @@ITRIEDEL 5Mt Operation Redwing Tewa 1956. It closely resembles the Zuni shot but the rocket trails and position of palm trees on the islands ID'd it

  • @ThisIsWheelLife
    @ThisIsWheelLife Před 4 lety +434

    I’m surprised we still have an atmosphere

    • @laux3202
      @laux3202 Před 4 lety +13

      @Justin batchelar Interesting, thanks for the knowledge haha

    • @marcplaisted460
      @marcplaisted460 Před 4 lety +9

      Justin batchelar Wowser. We’re you there?

    • @Dontlook146
      @Dontlook146 Před 4 lety +2

      Justin batchelar bhahahahhahahaha. I thought I was the only one!!!

    • @UCMJ_Family_Law_Expert
      @UCMJ_Family_Law_Expert Před 3 lety +4

      It heals itself

    • @godfreecharlie
      @godfreecharlie Před 3 lety +8

      Some scientists believed prior to Trinity shot the atmosphere would ignite and burn up.

  • @pyrusrex2882
    @pyrusrex2882 Před 5 lety +340

    I have been an atomic footage freak ever since trinity and beyond came out, but this far and away the best atomic bomb footage I've ever seen, and I've seen damn near every film declassified. DAMN GOOD STUFF

    • @pyrusrex2882
      @pyrusrex2882 Před 5 lety +8

      I'll drag out the KY any day for some fission action

    • @Onemadgnome-yy1vs
      @Onemadgnome-yy1vs Před 5 lety +14

      I think everyone should watch these films and imagine this...
      12:45 pm /unknown date...
      AND SUDDENLY...
      ... that's your city's location !
      Might scare enough crap out of the ignorant US and worldwide population that thinks we EVER SHOULD have designed and built these Satan-wet-dream's weapons !
      SMFH at mankind's utter stupidity, arrogance and hubris in thinking that this technology was EVER needed on our poor 3rd rock !
      I pray to GOD that these insane hellbombs are never used again !

    • @pyrusrex2882
      @pyrusrex2882 Před 5 lety +12

      Peter, I completely agree. I don't find the Bomb fascinating because it can kill everyody. I find is fascinating because it's just GOOD PHYSICS. The H Bomb program, in particular, has been responsible for many technological advances we now take for granted. Color film, for one, as developed by EG&G to better help understand the visual phenomena of the detonations. Digital computers are another one. The M.A.N.I.A.C. computer used by Los Alamos was one of the, if not the actual, very first digital computers, used in this case to run massively complicated calculations to determine fission and fusion reaction cross sections and the likelihood that the liquid deuterium or lithium deuteride would react to the primary's radiation pulse. Teflon is another, invented to protect the thermal diffusion cascades from uranium hexafluoride gas used in HEU production at Oak Ridge in Tennessee.. There are many others, as well.

    • @MMMMMMMMM2
      @MMMMMMMMM2 Před 5 lety +1

      Same! Arround 2010 i used to watch lots of historical archives related with nuclear test footages.

    • @dynjarren7523
      @dynjarren7523 Před 5 lety +1

      Pyrus Rex Wow! Thanks for the detailed analysis of the many inventions that were developed because of the bomb. I did not know half of those were related to Nukes but then we didn’t learn much in High School. There was always some jackass disrupting the class. The only think I learned that was useful was how to type.

  • @user-yo8ab1ys9e
    @user-yo8ab1ys9e Před 10 měsíci +21

    3:17 is my favourite because due to being able to see the coastline I could appreciate the scale of the weapon. This is something I struggle to do with most videos like this.

  • @PharkDysics
    @PharkDysics Před 5 lety +98

    The way the sky turns from day to night so quickly in Operation Castle 1:29

    • @goodluck6948
      @goodluck6948 Před 4 lety +6

      castle bravo

    • @NR-cr762
      @NR-cr762 Před 4 lety +4

      Castle Bravo - scary mistake

    • @NR-cr762
      @NR-cr762 Před 4 lety +15

      A young scientist loaned his safety goggles to a high level observer. He turned away from the initial flash. When he turned back and looked into the faces of the older scientists, and stated, "OMG, I could see it in their faces,......the horror that they may have just set the sky on fire"

    • @d.dementedengineerc99isurf26
      @d.dementedengineerc99isurf26 Před 4 lety +8

      @@NR-cr762 Best yield guess: 6Mt. Actual yield: 15Mt! 15!! An error of 150%!! D:

    • @Maxfr8
      @Maxfr8 Před 4 lety +7

      Castle Bravo must have been sheer terror to witness first hand. The oops factor is off the charts.

  • @stevenburvenich168
    @stevenburvenich168 Před 9 měsíci +12

    4:19 very mesmerising event. Astonishing how different these explosions can behave.

  • @Grabbabba
    @Grabbabba Před 5 lety +15

    I think this is the single greatest thing I have ever seen on you tube!
    Charlie Bravo to ya!

  • @tgirard123
    @tgirard123 Před rokem +12

    A man I worked for named Allen Winslow actually witness The Castle bravo test. He said everybody on that boat was scared shitless. If that footage is from the observation boat realize that the boat (a Navy destroyer) is 40 miles from the detonation point. He said it felt like somebody had a heat lamp right in front of his face and he had to squint even though he was wearing a mask. He said then the control room started counting back as the pressure wave came across the ocean. He said you could actually see it as it was coming. After that he said the whole boat was blown completely over and back and that is ears popped from the vacuum difference. I can't imagine anything more terrifying or thrilling...

    • @captainsalty9022
      @captainsalty9022 Před 10 měsíci +1

      I knew a Naval officer who saw the same from 600 miles away. He said it looked like the sun rose in the west for a full 20 seconds.

  • @jhyland87
    @jhyland87 Před 5 lety +20

    2:05 i really like how that one was filmed. With the tanks in the scene you have better perception and get an idea of just how massive these yields really were

    • @aarongreenfield9038
      @aarongreenfield9038 Před 4 lety +10

      Those aren't tanks, those are full size navy ships sitting on the water. The scale and size of those mushroom clouds are sometimes incomprehensible, unless you have a frame of reference, once you realize those are navy ships, you start of get a grasp.

  • @RichardMNixon-zh6uz
    @RichardMNixon-zh6uz Před 6 lety +68

    0:22 is Operation Teapot, Apple II in May 1955. Upshot-Knothole/Annie was in 1953.
    2:45 is possibly Operation Greenhouse, Easy, 1951
    3:20 is possibly Operation Greenhouse, George, 1951
    3:33 is definitely Upshot-Knothole, Grable, 1953 or "Atomic Annie", the 280mm projectile.
    4:20 is above description, up closer
    4:35 is possibly Operation Teapot, Met, 1955

    • @WhatYouHaventSeen
      @WhatYouHaventSeen  Před 6 lety +21

      Good afternoon, Mr. President.
      1. The only way you are right on this is if Los Alamos is wrong. You're welcome to look into it further. The specific source information you would need is: The EG&G Scientific Film Collection at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Operation Upshot-Knothole, Annie, Film No. 17082 titled "House #1 - Blast," 16 KT Tower, March 17, 1953.
      2. Greenhouse, Shot Easy. Spot on!
      3. Operation Greenhouse, Shot Dog
      4. I agree. (Though if not for the smoke trails, Grable and Priscilla look remarkably alike from certain angles)
      5. Likely!
      6. I agree.
      Thank you for that contribution.

    • @RichardMNixon-zh6uz
      @RichardMNixon-zh6uz Před 6 lety +6

      Possibly you're correct on No. 1. I'm going by AtomCentral/VCE visually, which matches up to Apple II 1955. Kuran did state in 2015 that many film cans from LM and elsewhere were labeled in error, Dr. Spriggs over at Livermore also implied the same or one of his assistants did. The only video I know of Knothole-Annie 1953 where it contains the audio of a before/during/after of the shot. It's good that all those old films are getting sorted out over time, though. It's a lot further in it's corrections compared to just a few years ago.

    • @timmytommy2921
      @timmytommy2921 Před 6 lety +8

      3:20 is almost certainly Greenhouse Dog. I did some research a few months back when people were arguing over it on another video. Here is my copy/pasted response from those comments:
      It's Greenhouse Dog, not George. Dog was detonated at the north end of Runit island. The camera is south of Runit looking north across the island to ground zero. Search for Runit on Google Maps and you'll see the exact shape of the island in the video, with that little sweeping bay. You can see the fireball sweep over the far tip of Runit, just like it looks on Google maps. George was detonated on Ebiriru which does not look like anything like what we see in the video.

    • @stephaniesadie832
      @stephaniesadie832 Před 6 lety +3

      If the second one really IS Greenhouse Easy, thats very interesting. GE was the proof test of the TX-5D bomb, a major advance in weight reduction for implosion bombs. Weight was 2700 lb with a 40 inch diameter, compared to 10,000 lb and a 60 inch diameter for earlier designs. It used the 92 point (92 lens) implosion system and a composite (plutonium/oralloy) core. This design was used as the primary in Ivy Mike.

    • @RichardMNixon-zh6uz
      @RichardMNixon-zh6uz Před 6 lety

      It is Easy. See here: watch?v=GqMY7Er_1fE
      Clouds match, little buildings center-left. Only difference is a different camera.

  • @Nawabid
    @Nawabid Před 4 lety +4

    Well done, Thank you that was amazing.

  • @EphemeralProductions
    @EphemeralProductions Před 4 lety +29

    Amazing how many of the films captured the ionized air and gasses around the explosion

    • @br6768
      @br6768 Před 4 lety

      -I think thats low and high pressure waves-
      Nvm i think i saw what u were talkin about

  • @ChrisZoomER
    @ChrisZoomER Před 2 lety +8

    I love Grable's explosion at 3:33 starts off stellar blue and once it cools markedly, it dims to white and then yellow followed by orange and red as it continues to cool.

    • @Chris11249
      @Chris11249 Před 11 měsíci +1

      I hope they get these colors right in the Oppenheimer movie and not just do the typical "white flash followed by yellow" deal

    • @ChrisZoomER
      @ChrisZoomER Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@Chris11249 Many cameras use red filters to dim the blue light. Otherwise, you'd not be able to see anything, the whole screen would be white as if it were blank. This was especially true with the multi-megaton yield hydrogen tests in the Pacific.

  • @markpointer2967
    @markpointer2967 Před 5 lety +3

    A-MAZE-ING.
    From a physicist’s, chemist’s, and engineer’s points of view, to be far away enough to view all of this safely (depending on which shot, up to 50Km away) and yet, with such stunning clarity and precision, is something truly to behold. Let us hope those were the last times such films will ever be captured intentionally.

    • @DavidEllis94
      @DavidEllis94 Před 5 lety

      Mark Pointer Thank you! I was starting to wonder if no one else could understand that being able to admire the impressive nature of what is being shown does not equate to loving the implications of its use as a weapon.

    • @markpointer2967
      @markpointer2967 Před 5 lety

      David Ellis
      Absolutely. Shock and awe can equate to being shocked into awe and impressed!

    • @semperfool459
      @semperfool459 Před 5 lety

      I think we should get everyone together and set one more off, just to capture it all in HD!

    • @markpointer2967
      @markpointer2967 Před 5 lety

      Semper Fool
      If it could be done in complete safety, with no harm to the environment too, it would be amazing to see, say, a 10MT device detonated in today’s world.....

  • @canadagoose1480
    @canadagoose1480 Před 5 lety +2

    Amazing footage, great job!!

  • @timothymcchickenburger4385
    @timothymcchickenburger4385 Před 8 měsíci

    Bless you for these! I'd love to see hardtack Scaevola if it's ever released, it may have been one of the smallest nuclear yields ever set off, didn't even destroy the barge it was on.

  • @MyFriendOfMisery13
    @MyFriendOfMisery13 Před 4 lety +81

    1:28 “those nuclear tests in the pacific, they weren’t tests...”
    “They we’re trying to kill it.”

  • @manny-77
    @manny-77 Před 9 měsíci +6

    Try to see: "threads", 1984 movie. You'll never see nukes with same eyes again...

    • @Fuck_U-se5zb
      @Fuck_U-se5zb Před měsícem

      I think we can see it in our eyes soon. Good luck guys, god bless you and your family.

  • @johnkern7075
    @johnkern7075 Před 6 lety +2

    Very good! Thank you for your work.

  • @ericanderson2987
    @ericanderson2987 Před 11 měsíci +2

    These Restored Detonations are incredible and beautiful to watch. The only knoxk, was tge ending of Titles describing Test Name and Yield.

  • @pattykuvshin
    @pattykuvshin Před 5 lety +34

    Wow, those restorations are impressive

  • @TheNightKing22
    @TheNightKing22 Před 4 lety +3

    That castle bravo film is the stuff of anxiety and fear footage at it's finest man. Holy testicle Tuesday.

  • @StopFear
    @StopFear Před 5 lety +2

    I love your videos. Please in the future use some epic scary music, or music from horror movies. It would be cooler to watch.

  • @plupkination
    @plupkination Před 4 lety +2

    More than anything else, the names that they used for both the operations and the individual test shots, give a real insight into the frame of mind of those involved in these tests back then..

    • @michaelfranklin4276
      @michaelfranklin4276 Před 21 dnem

      Indeed. Kind of like the oddball NATO code names for Soviet combat aircraft in the fifties and sixties. Humorous and derogatory at times.

  • @phlarb6505
    @phlarb6505 Před 5 lety +18

    2:15 The camera man's last thought; "In retrospect, we should not have gotten this close..."

    • @a.morphous66
      @a.morphous66 Před 4 lety +2

      *Holds out thumb*
      Yep, I just failed the fallout test. I can feel the skin cancer already.

    • @plupkination
      @plupkination Před 4 lety

      In almost all cases, they were nowhere near the detonations/cameras. They were operated remotely.

    • @macklenk5326
      @macklenk5326 Před 4 lety

      plupkination you can see people in it

    • @plupkination
      @plupkination Před 4 lety

      @@macklenk5326 Where? At what time in the video?

    • @averagepizza7873
      @averagepizza7873 Před 4 lety

      Look at the bottom

  • @kamoe407
    @kamoe407 Před 4 lety +6

    I looooove watching these. It's so mesmerizing.

  • @hinder90
    @hinder90 Před 4 lety +2

    What these retouched footage reveals is not simply the massive scale of the size of fireballs, but the incomprehensible amount of energy that is released. The Dominic footage reveals this where ball of plasma comes seemingly out of nowhere and is so insanely hot, expanding under such an incredible pressure differential with the surrounding air, and elevating as fast as it can make its way through the ever thinning atmosphere, that it’s hitting multiple physical limits by simply being on planet Earth. amazing.

  • @nehorlavazapalka
    @nehorlavazapalka Před 5 lety +141

    0:40 is clearly a big mistake, it should be mt not kt!!!!!!! It's obviously faar bigger than 7.65 kt!!!!

    • @brunoblivious
      @brunoblivious Před 5 lety +31

      nehorlavazapalka You are correct. It's supposed to be megatons. Definitely a typo.

    • @mimoslavich6639
      @mimoslavich6639 Před 5 lety +6

      Are you sure? There was not even enough of a vacuum created to produce any ground swell and thus a connected mushroom.

    • @JETJOOBOY
      @JETJOOBOY Před 5 lety +8

      @@mimoslavich6639 yeah, he is correct.

    • @theterrible101
      @theterrible101 Před 5 lety +20

      Yep. Megatons. 11, 000 feet in the air.

    • @narcolepticpenguin7108
      @narcolepticpenguin7108 Před 5 lety +32

      @@vancemccaskill440 -yeah except the 7 MEGATON dick melter, melts 1,000X more dicks than the 7Kiloton dick melter.

  • @thecandyman9308
    @thecandyman9308 Před rokem +5

    @0:28 Tumbler-Snapper is only 1kt. It's truly a "baby-nuke". Also extremely rare to actually see one fly in on a missile instead of being mounted to some kind of platform.
    Even at that small yield it's something to see how different the action of atomic weapons are compared to actually detonating 1K of traditional TNT.

  • @generalkruger7071
    @generalkruger7071 Před 4 lety +7

    Castle Bravo is the most impressive test ever staged,you could make any nation think twice just by sending them the footage, wether they would admit it or not.

  • @ad_2211
    @ad_2211 Před 4 lety

    Just good to see some of these shots at normal speed instead of the usual slowed down versions.

    • @mournblade1066
      @mournblade1066 Před 2 lety

      I think these were sped up. I mean, look at the people at the bottom of the screen around 2:16 for Hardtack.

  • @gray011170
    @gray011170 Před 4 lety +1

    Usually not a fan of music over footage but that score is awesome.

  • @berryberrykixx
    @berryberrykixx Před 4 lety +4

    Each one is amazing, beautiful, and absolutely terrifying, but Operation Castle Bravo will always be the monster in the bunch.

  • @justincase4812
    @justincase4812 Před 5 lety +12

    Bighorn shot from Operation Dominic was in the 7.x MT scale not kT.

  • @bostonfan1300
    @bostonfan1300 Před 4 lety

    Excellent job on the scoring

  • @markstengel7680
    @markstengel7680 Před 4 lety +2

    Stunning ! What didn't we know with # 718 detonation that we knew at # 928 in NNSS aka-test range ?

  • @salientsoul
    @salientsoul Před 5 lety +4

    I love the music in and of itself, and to revel in the power of this weaponry in reference to no target. But in reference to targets, the music is at best ironic, showing how some people excessively glorify the bomb and inflate it’s deterrent power. Overestimating the deterrent power of nuclear weapons could lead to their use. This would be well placed in some kind of anthropology study. But yeah next time, I’d recommend somber, terrifying music, like ‘Running to the Rain’ or something else that wouldn’t attract a copyright strike.

  • @Shkunk1
    @Shkunk1 Před 4 lety +4

    Why are atomic/nuclear detonations so damn hypnotic?

  • @htos1av
    @htos1av Před 5 lety +2

    Everything from firecrackers to mega monsters, insane!

  • @jck1794
    @jck1794 Před 4 lety +1

    the one at 3:00 is insane. And the music makes it even better, damn.

  • @pro.gnosis
    @pro.gnosis Před 2 lety +3

    Interesting how something so devastating can be so beautiful

  • @TheGodParticle
    @TheGodParticle Před 6 lety +163

    Compliments of the tax payers.

    • @basspig
      @basspig Před 4 lety +7

      Taxes make war possible.

    • @lonekiterrocky
      @lonekiterrocky Před 4 lety +7

      I guess we should quit paying taxes then shouldn't we

    • @basspig
      @basspig Před 4 lety +4

      @@lonekiterrocky Taxes also make tyranny possible. Yes, we should become ungovernable.

    • @lonekiterrocky
      @lonekiterrocky Před 4 lety +9

      @@basspig that's what the Second Amendment is for... protect us from a tyrannical government. Why do you think they're trying to go for a our guns now. People need to wake up and rise up together we stand divided we fall

    • @basspig
      @basspig Před 4 lety +1

      @@lonekiterrocky The gun shops caved in to the regulations. What should have happened was the gun shops saying "we won't comply with unconstitutional laws" and continue free trade with American citizen gun buyers. Militias would move in to protect the gun store owners from the feds, etc. But no, they caved in, and now it's a fun ride down the slippery slope.

  • @tarqys
    @tarqys Před měsícem

    Stunning video. Is it possible that some sections are sped up? at 2:18, the way the humans - barely visible in the lower frame - move seems to suggest that the film was sped-up. Perhaps that change in motion is a byproduct of the restoration?

  • @oni1608
    @oni1608 Před 4 lety +3

    I have to admit, the music added an epic feel to the videos. Well done to the composer(s) and music selection.

  • @paulgottfried622
    @paulgottfried622 Před 4 lety +22

    I found watching this video to be a real "blast."
    Compared to other CZcams uploads, this one's the "bomb!"
    One certainly gets a "bang" for their buck.
    Start to finish, this film "radiates" interest.
    Simply put, it just "blew" me away.
    My neighbours surely heard my "outbursts" of awe.
    Half way through, i realized, subconsciously, I was holding my breath, had to pause, and allow the "discharge" of air, so I could continue breathing.
    From me, the "fallout" will be nothing but positive, when recommending this film to others, because compared to most YT videos, this one, is
    "ground zero," by countless
    "shock wave-lengths."
    Seriously, though, Jesus! Some of these look like they've been trapped for 1000's of yrs. and they're breathing life back into themselves, especially the last 3 or 4. The very last one, seemingly in b/w, if you stare at it long enough, as it billows it seems to reveal the identities of every victim it has ever vaporized.
    .......and that's the oxymoron: a scene of total destruction and one step beyond death: anything that was a victim, now, is non-existent. Yet, somehow, one of the most beautiful and engaging sights, the eye will ever see.

  • @luciusvorenus9445
    @luciusvorenus9445 Před 5 lety +116

    "I become death, the Destoyer of Worlds...." Robert Oppenheimer.

    • @My-Pal-Hal
      @My-Pal-Hal Před 5 lety +23

      Michael Johnston
      Actually, that's from the Bhagavad Gita. Oppy just quoted from it.

    • @lobisomembjj5304
      @lobisomembjj5304 Před 5 lety +1

      Michael Johnston The actor from California Oppenheimer

    • @dynjarren7523
      @dynjarren7523 Před 5 lety +8

      He seemed to regret his teams creation because that creation could cause our entire destruction.
      He had a conscience. He was probably troubled because of this until the end of his life.

    • @SuperScottCrawford
      @SuperScottCrawford Před 4 lety +2

      OMG, you're so philosophical.

    • @SuperScottCrawford
      @SuperScottCrawford Před 4 lety

      @Sean Baca why doomsday? why not doomsnight?

  • @jimbalio
    @jimbalio Před 4 lety

    What are the multiple columnar smoke trails - sometimes vertical-ish, sometimes angled, off to the sides, that can be seen to accompany some of the nuclear explosions?

  • @r0cketplumber
    @r0cketplumber Před 10 měsíci +2

    At 2:45 the shock wave temporarily erases the clouds via compressive heating, then the rarefaction behind it makes the cloud chamber effect.

  • @rapid13
    @rapid13 Před 3 lety +3

    I've always wondered what caused the thin smoke "streamers" you see in a few of these, like at 3:37 on the right of the screen?

    • @belia_
      @belia_ Před rokem +1

      Rocket smoke trails used to provide a scale (kind of like graph paper) for the test

  • @gravios9641
    @gravios9641 Před 6 lety +59

    The bigger the bomb, the more impressive the explosion

    • @TheLousyGames
      @TheLousyGames Před 5 lety +30

      Gravios 96 you're a genius bro

    • @JETJOOBOY
      @JETJOOBOY Před 5 lety +8

      I find the opposite to be the case.
      The bigger bombs have to filmed from so far away, the perspective is hard to comprehend..
      My personal favourite is Grable Shot .. The Davy Crocket field gun shot..

    • @JETJOOBOY
      @JETJOOBOY Před 5 lety +2

      Note with Buster Jangle 1:45 or so..
      You can see the fireball and the shockwave travelling across the ground...
      Really cool

    • @user-td1zo3tv9p
      @user-td1zo3tv9p Před 5 lety

      You THINK?
      SMH

    • @MrRedeyedJedi
      @MrRedeyedJedi Před 4 lety +1

      Thanks, captain obvious lol

  • @fibonacciCache
    @fibonacciCache Před rokem

    that first background track was a perfect touch

  • @CharlesHuse
    @CharlesHuse Před 4 lety +1

    What are those little vertical streams that appear off to one side of the blast? Never been able to figure those out. Are they rockets with sensors and test equipment?

  • @rsstnnr76
    @rsstnnr76 Před 4 lety +17

    3:18 is my favorite shot. You can see how big the fireball is.

    • @reWerzz
      @reWerzz Před 3 lety

      @Rachel Broadley someone posted in the comments, is is possibly the Operation Greenhouse, George shot, 225kt

    • @low_bldp4480
      @low_bldp4480 Před 3 lety

      It's Dog, 81 kt.

  • @crazypilot4017
    @crazypilot4017 Před 4 lety +16

    "Hey guys! Let's walk towards the mushroom cloud!" "What a great idea!"

  • @elijahcollier8348
    @elijahcollier8348 Před 3 lety

    Thanks ahead of time for the nightmares

  • @suprafrase
    @suprafrase Před 4 lety +1

    The explosion at 3:00 was of a device in a tower. When it detonates you can actually see the fireball racing down the tower support towers towards the ground. Almost looks like the fireball is sprouting legs

  • @chetpomeroy1399
    @chetpomeroy1399 Před 4 lety +13

    Beautifully restored! These nuclear weapons did a *wonderful* job of protecting us from an attack during the Cold War!

    • @Balnazzardi
      @Balnazzardi Před 3 lety +4

      Best weapons are those that are never used as they say....well ofc in case of nuclear weapons that it is not entirely true, but they are true as far as Cold War is considered. Thanks to them Cold War stayed cold.

    • @hawkenfox
      @hawkenfox Před 2 lety +1

      Well it can end 2 ways. If it didn't then you wont be here anyway.

    • @TheHadi545
      @TheHadi545 Před 2 lety +3

      1) Cold War took million of lives
      2) we almost all died cause of nukes TWICE

    • @chetpomeroy1399
      @chetpomeroy1399 Před 2 lety +1

      @@TheHadi545 The Cold War _itself_ didn't take millions of lives, but proxy wars of that era, such as Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan _et al_ were the cause of massive casualties. Even back in the early 60's, there were safeguards that prevented the accidental and/or uninformed launch of nuclear ICBM's/SLBM's.

    • @TheHadi545
      @TheHadi545 Před 2 lety

      @@chetpomeroy1399 I am as much in awe of this power as any reasonable person. However safeguards against permanent man made destruction of the earth, seems dumb haha. Also proxy wars directly related to the Cold War, I feel like Cold War is too chill of a term.

  • @aamany247
    @aamany247 Před 6 lety +3

    Why didnt you mention the name and yield of the tests in the second part of the tape isnt there any info about them?

    • @WhatYouHaventSeen
      @WhatYouHaventSeen  Před 6 lety +3

      Pretty simple answer here: When I put this together I hadn't yet identified most of the tests in the second half.
      Some info I've since figured out : The shot around 2:55 is likely Operation Greenhouse Shot Item, 45.5 kt and the first boosted fusion weapon. The fireball at 3:00 is probably Operation Greenhouse Shot Easy, 47 kt. The awesome shot at 3:20 is almost certainly Operation Greenhouse Shot Dog, 81 kt.

    • @samwell2386
      @samwell2386 Před 4 lety +1

      @@WhatYouHaventSeen How is the one at 3:20 only 81kt?

  • @Arch3an
    @Arch3an Před 3 lety +1

    If anyone is wondering, the first song played is "Epic Theme No. 1" by Steven O’Brien

  • @marvinacklin792
    @marvinacklin792 Před 3 lety

    Superb, fascinating, horrifying...best I have seen

  • @stevene.6430
    @stevene.6430 Před 5 lety +5

    You can almost see the sky burning. Great footage but scary as well.

  • @Edario
    @Edario Před 4 lety +3

    Government: stay at home
    Me: *THIS VIDEO*

  • @entropy7888
    @entropy7888 Před 4 lety +2

    Dominic, Bighorn looks sort of like a glowing jellyfish. Who knew, beyond the design, that such a bomb could be beautiful.

  • @iloveamerica1966
    @iloveamerica1966 Před 4 lety +1

    What are the 10 or 12, vertical, thin, smoke or cloud like streamers on the right side of almost every detonation?

  • @GrimPlayer95
    @GrimPlayer95 Před 6 lety +17

    Bighorn was 7.65 megaton test!

    • @WhatYouHaventSeen
      @WhatYouHaventSeen  Před 6 lety +2

      Not anymore, it's not! (Thanks for the correction!)

    • @GrimPlayer95
      @GrimPlayer95 Před 6 lety +1

      It was an advanced concepts test, successful. 4.14 kt/kg. 7650 kt total.

    • @freeman2399
      @freeman2399 Před 5 lety

      LOL I was watching it and thinking, no way that was 7.65kt.

    • @carreraman8364
      @carreraman8364 Před 5 lety

      i know

  • @user-oh2uz2pm1d
    @user-oh2uz2pm1d Před 4 lety +5

    0:28
    こんな映像が取れたなんて凄い
    カメラが熱で壊れてもおかしくないのに
    人間が生で見たら全身黒焦げになって即死だろう。
    恐ろしい…

    • @user-kr2mb2jc2c
      @user-kr2mb2jc2c Před 4 lety

      所でこの曲何て言うの?

    • @Zholobov1
      @Zholobov1 Před 2 lety

      🦃🥙🚇🏀📀☢️🐵🐽🎂🧭

  • @skyoreece9805
    @skyoreece9805 Před 4 lety

    Great video many thanks

  • @Gabe_52967
    @Gabe_52967 Před 3 lety +2

    To show you the power of Flex Tape,I sawed this atom in half!

  • @MegaBait1616
    @MegaBait1616 Před 5 lety +2

    Kinda beautiful in a way ? I remember seeing 2 tests from L.V.....

  • @litespeed65
    @litespeed65 Před 5 lety +6

    3:00- Face in the upper cloud formation...

    • @WootTootZoot
      @WootTootZoot Před 4 lety

      Interesting affect. Those were from xrays that proceeded the blast and traveled through the hold down guy wires on the tower that held the bomb.

  • @100GTAGUY
    @100GTAGUY Před 3 lety

    Is there also a separate edition of teapot tests? I've only ever heard of the teapot apple detonation.

  • @crooked-halo
    @crooked-halo Před 4 lety

    Is there some advantage using a low yield nuclear device over a large conventional weapon of approximately the same blast radius? Watching the 2 lower powered devices got me thinking that.

  • @ufoskytimewatcherolafweng1600

    And now two years after this Video...the nature strikes back!
    GAME OVER!

  • @emersonfernandodasilva8676

    THE NAME SECOND SOUND:13
    The News Is Coming Whether You Want It To Or Not
    STEVE OBRIAN ORCHESTRAL

  • @ruffdog39
    @ruffdog39 Před 4 lety

    So starting at the 2 minute mark , what is the music playing? Soundhound came up with nothing. I need this while heading to work in rush hour....lol

  • @buzaldrin8086
    @buzaldrin8086 Před 6 lety

    Love the Rapatronic shots.

  • @paulbu6003
    @paulbu6003 Před 5 lety +4

    We don't get to see those explosions nowadays. Kind of sad and lucky at the same time LOL

    • @Zholobov1
      @Zholobov1 Před 2 lety

      Those could have been the most happy days in human lives... if not all those nuclear tests going on everywhere.

  • @monkeypoo3000
    @monkeypoo3000 Před 5 lety +3

    this is art

  • @wendysw714
    @wendysw714 Před 4 lety +1

    Absolutely terrifying and utterly disturbing. Man's ego? It's insane.

  • @lregis68
    @lregis68 Před 4 lety

    Please apply the following correction: Operation Dominic, Bighorn test. Yield was 7.65 MT, not KT...

  • @bruceli9094
    @bruceli9094 Před 3 lety +3

    1:45 that tiny one was 4x larger than Beirut blast

    • @celiabugay7523
      @celiabugay7523 Před rokem

      Actually The Blast was 5.6 kilotons (the Beirut blast was 5.6 kt)

  • @SamnissArandeen
    @SamnissArandeen Před 4 lety +25

    "Death, destroyer of worlds" indeed.

  • @davidgrisez
    @davidgrisez Před rokem

    The Castle Bravo Test in 1954 must have really surprised and frightened every one involved when they realized that the explosion was far bigger in size then originally predicted.

  • @MillennialMonk
    @MillennialMonk Před 5 lety +1

    One of my favorites

  • @georgemallory797
    @georgemallory797 Před 3 lety +4

    I would love to have seen them punch an old, pilotless drone F-102 or F-104 or F-105 thru one of those clouds at Mach 2, just to see what would happen.

  • @toasterbathboi6298
    @toasterbathboi6298 Před 5 lety +3

    Is it strange that I actually find those tiny nukes to be the best looking?

  • @davidannett3322
    @davidannett3322 Před 6 lety

    I know Peter Kuran did some work restoring footage like this for his movie Trinity and Beyond; are these all now more accessible that others are doing restore work themselves (such as yourself)?

    • @WhatYouHaventSeen
      @WhatYouHaventSeen  Před 6 lety +4

      I can't speak to their relative accessibility (or to what others are up to) as this is pretty new to me, but there are undoubtedly many factors at play. Kuran is certainly closer to the source films than I am. With only a handful of exceptions I am not dealing in any direct way with film stock, while that's an area of expertise for him. In fact, in this very compilation I make use of some of the scanning work Pete is contracted to assist with at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (Much is available on the LLNL CZcams channel, others have to be obtained through FOIA.)
      The internet is probably the biggest driver of the democratization / flattening of access to historical nuclear test footage, and to information generally. It's not hard to take for granted the ease with which someone can today file a FOIA or Mandatory Declassification Review request, and then sit back and wait for, well, typically the ensuing tug-of-war, but my point stands :-)

    • @davidannett3322
      @davidannett3322 Před 6 lety

      ok right on

    • @davidannett3322
      @davidannett3322 Před 6 lety

      Regardless, it's really good to see these in good quality. My only complaint really is with the source themselves, it's really hard to determine the scale of which there thing exist; as in , is that mushroom cloud a mile across, etc. I've always said I'd love to witness a detonation once before I fie, but I'm definitely NOT going to any part of Korea lol. Great work, thanks!

    • @WhatYouHaventSeen
      @WhatYouHaventSeen  Před 6 lety +2

      Sure thing! I agree with you that the lack of any real sense of scale can be frustrating. I have a few films which provide an _incredible_ sense of scale. I'll try to get one or two of those online soon.
      In the meantime, I recommend checking out the film I uploaded "Atomic Explosion: The Story of Five Atomic Bombs" - particularly the ~8 minutes beginning at 2:31:16. The narrator does an awesome job of describing the various features of the mushroom cloud (including its size), and some of the footage provides a wild sense of scale. Direct link: tiny.cc/5bombs

    • @davidannett3322
      @davidannett3322 Před 6 lety +1

      Sweet dude, thanks!!!

  • @ericanderson2987
    @ericanderson2987 Před 10 měsíci

    Great Footage, except that at about half into Video, the Shot Name and Yield were no longer shown.

  • @SuperScottCrawford
    @SuperScottCrawford Před 4 lety +8

    Growing up, I was terrified of dying in a nuke war. After watching this, I've never wanted anything more.

  • @xawerymeloman3254
    @xawerymeloman3254 Před 4 lety +14

    Triumhant music. I love it :-) But doesn't quite fit to the footage, it's too joyful (music, not the footage ;-)

    • @Vatsyayana87
      @Vatsyayana87 Před 4 lety +5

      I disagree, those were built as weapons yes, but what is actually happening is a true triumph of human knowledge.. Thats the sort of understanding of how the universe works that we can realize with a pen and paper.. Its truly one of, if not the most incredible thing we as a species have ever done.
      Like every single thing in the universe, its just another tool of understanding, if we choose to use such tools to harm each other, is a completely different side of the conversation. But honestly, this tool might have been used to kill less people then most any other created which in itself is another amazing triumph.
      Nuclear reactions are down right incredible and the only way we can even get a grasp of it is to release it in all its glory as shown.. And just watch..

    • @floydgondolli7321
      @floydgondolli7321 Před 3 lety

      I downvoted you

  • @Zholobov1
    @Zholobov1 Před 2 lety +1

    An old Soviet anecdote:
    Petka rushes into Vasily Ivanovich's house and shouts:
    - Vasily Ivanovich, how much does a nuclear bomb cost?
    - One million rubles, Petka.
    - Vasily Ivanovich, we are millionaires: a nuclear bomb is falling down towards our farmyard!

  • @grantrichardet6250
    @grantrichardet6250 Před 4 lety

    I’ve always wondered how they decide who gets to press the button because it seems like a cool thing to get to press

  • @Zabacleaning
    @Zabacleaning Před 4 lety +13

    How the hell did you get all this footage HD!?

  • @smaher032
    @smaher032 Před 4 lety +13

    Incredible quality! You can even see the bomb falling at 0:30...

  • @Pixliized
    @Pixliized Před 5 lety

    I've always wondered what those little streak trails are. Like is it additional artillery?

    • @ArchangelExile
      @ArchangelExile Před 5 lety +3

      Smoke trails left by rockets prior to the explosion, intentionally designed to help observe how the shockwave propagates through the air.

  • @Flame-Bright-Cheer
    @Flame-Bright-Cheer Před 4 lety

    🤘🤘🤘🤘So super hella fucking crazy🤘🤘🤘🤘
    I can't believe we blew up so many of these👎😖
    THANK YOU🖤🖤 thank you for making these videos and spending your time showing us this awesome amazing negatives..🤔..😞but reality😉

  • @Elfnetdesigns
    @Elfnetdesigns Před 6 lety +3

    @0:23 - "That's A LOT of DAMAGE!" Fix it with Flex Tape

    • @arym1108
      @arym1108 Před 5 lety

      ElfNet Gaming its like liquid rubber in a can!

    • @Onemadgnome-yy1vs
      @Onemadgnome-yy1vs Před 5 lety

      @@My-Pal-Hal
      Try PC-7 from your Home Depot... it's an mix-yourself epoxy... comes in 2 film cans in a cardboard cylinder... GREAT STUFF... you could glue two elephants together with it !

    • @My-Pal-Hal
      @My-Pal-Hal Před 5 lety

      @@Onemadgnome-yy1vs
      It was a Godzilla/King Kong joke.
      But I'm an aerospace guy. We Got Epoxy. We Got Glue. And we got Duct Tape stronger than Rope 🤣
      The thing with PC-7. Is it takes a whole week to completely cure.
      Which is the same with PC-11.
      But I do carry 11, as emergency Jetski repair, in the Jetski. Rivers cause holes. Or maybe it's the trees IN the rivers lol.
      Good Call...

    • @My-Pal-Hal
      @My-Pal-Hal Před 5 lety

      @@Onemadgnome-yy1vs
      Oh. And I get it off eBay.
      Never actually checked Home Depot.

    • @Onemadgnome-yy1vs
      @Onemadgnome-yy1vs Před 5 lety

      @@My-Pal-Hal
      Okay... well... I love the stuff ! I used it for my Navy destroyer's forward engine room's gas turbine electric engine's rubber boot, when we had the wrong size boot.
      I was a GSM supervisor and got a medal for that repair, because I saved the captain 12 days of traveling back to Norfolk to get the correct part and it cured for me in 2 days... so it just works great for me.
      Peace.... have a good day, dude

  • @phobos5737
    @phobos5737 Před 4 lety +8

    The soundtrack is biblical

  • @derekwall200
    @derekwall200 Před 4 lety

    0:28 man that kiloton airburst doesn't look like much from a distance but if you're about 4 miles away you'd see how powerful 1,000 tons of tnt (1 kiloton) really is.
    0:51 the schooner shot i bet covered the entire area with highly radioactive dust and debris

  • @amsedelm
    @amsedelm Před 5 lety

    WHat are those vertical plumes to the left or right in some of the scenes? Missile launches?

    • @animal16365
      @animal16365 Před 5 lety

      Smoke rockets. Helps with studying the effects of the shockwaves