Troops observe nuclear test Plumbbob Priscilla (1957)
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- čas přidán 5. 11. 2023
- Army troops are protected by an embankment as nuclear test Plumbbob Priscilla is detonated. Priscilla was a 37 Kiloton nuclear device detonated from a balloon on June 24, 1957 in area 5 at the Nevada Test Site now known as the Nevada National Security Site.
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"Your cancer is not service related"
Also note the predominant ethnicities of the 'test' soldiers in the first 5 seconds of this reel...
Depends on the type of weapon and distance from the explosion, you have to be really close to the explosion for the instantaneous radiation to affect you, mainly cuz of the square cube law and because air scatters, absorbs and disperses it
@@castlebound2010 - As an alternative to being housed in Japanese American internment camps young adults could enlist as soldiers.
how do you know they got the radiations?
@@Soloohara - Unfortunately, there is no direct evidence that a cancer, contracted decades after the test exposure, resulted in a specific diagnosed cancer. We only know that such exposures can increase the risk of contracting certain types of cancer.
Always a good day when atomcentral uploads
"Nice beaver!"
"Thank you. I just had it stuffed" - Priscilla.
You can see the bomb device as a small white speck visible to the right of the radar in 01:58
Yep, that would be the shot balloon.
This video made me wonder for the first time, what would a radar image of a nuclear explosion look like?
Those guys were guinea pigs.
I appreciate you guys so so much for restoring and uploading this footage like you do. Truly amazing work
Pretty wild how detailed the footage is from way back then. I know it's film and probably digitally enhanced and all, but still. Pretty cool.
Awesome
Turn your key, sir!
no audio
sound for this video would have been nice.