Redwing Tewa is a favorite. I love how the condensation clouds just got higher and higher and higher. And then the stem was so visibly moving. How fast it had to be moving!
The fireball looks like it's slowly rising from this distance, but in reality it's tearing skywards close to the speed of a jetliner. Extreme level convection.
It's just a chemical explosion filmed in high speed then slowed down. They used kilotons of TNT bricks built into giant spheres or cubes. You can find the TNT piles in some photos of the tests. Nuclear weapons don't exist.
That’s one of the most beautiful shots I’ve ever seen. Thank you! It blows me away that the nuclear event and gamma/x-ray emission is over within milliseconds and most of what we’re watching is just the thermal incandescence of matter in our atmosphere and what was stirred up at ground level. I imagine there’s not an insignificant amount of heat generated from the immediate decay of short-lived daughter products.
5 megatons is said to currently be the standard size of Chinese ICBMs. Purely as a “Countervalue” weapon - they’re not targeted at foreign militaries but rather their cities, as a deterrent.
@@jmck5930 You're joking. It's the US that don't know if their nukes even work, because all of their warheads are over 35 years old. Russia has a lot of modern made nukes and they have been tested too.
My mom tells a story when she was a little girl living in Pleasant Grove Utah, and they were conduction above ground Tests in Nevada. One night they set one off. PG is several hundred miles away, and she says it lit the sky like it was day light for several minutes.
I would be interested in that too, especially because Mr. Kuran (who is behind Atomcentral) won an Oscar in 2002 for his work in the engineering progress in the restoration of old film.
@@KatyaAbc575 Maybe now, but I seem to recall an interview with Mr. Kuran that at the time of Trinity and Beyond, they used Photoshop picture for picture because such software and the scanning times of today just weren't a thing. Either way, I would like to see what they do to the original physical film material to restore or prepare it for scanning.
I was watching the surrounding clouds (cumulus and towering cumulus) and how they were barely affected by the blast wave. Reminds me of how the smoke trails in other tests hold their general form too.
Stunning 1956 experiment. 5MT barge-mounted, Mk-41 device, similar in composition to Zuni, all of the tests during this period had Native American designations, following the Castle experiments. Unbelievable amount of fallout, death and destruction, that yielded 30 miles of complete annihilation.
@@15junio97 Surface testing allowed scientists to better understand the destructive power of these weapons, as well as the chemical and atmospheric effects they would have on the environment. They studied everything from the medical effects of fallout and radiation on living organisms (animals and microscopic creatures in the lagoon) all the way up to structural damage for engineering, battle defense purposes. Air-bursts produced their own set of data to the topics listed above. One notable one: a precursor wave, a unique blast effect which travels faster than the initial blast wave. When detonated in the air, the weapon has an absolutely devastating affect on drag-sensitive targets.
I agree with Junio. They shouldn't have done so many ground bursts regardless of the reasons behind it. The fallout is just too dangerous... and honestly these are weapons, who's going to do groundbursts when airbursts are far more destructive...@@technologic21
Top 5 list of comments for nuke videos. 5. Asking what the rocket trails are. 4. This is coming soon because of Putin. 3. Quotes by Einstein. 2. "War...war never changes" 1. Oppenheimer's "become death".
Three RB-50 aircraft (Nos. 7120, 7131, and 7135) at altitudes from 18,000 to 30,000 feet (5.5 to 9.2 km) and ranges of 40 to 125 nmi (75 to 222 km) from ground zero photographed the clouds at times to 17 minutes postshot. Shots: LACROSSE, MORAWK, APACHE (Enewetak); CHEROKEE, ZUNI. FLATHEAD, DAKOTA, NAVAJO, TEWA (Bikini).
I'm struggling to understand the reason for the premature shock breakaway at the apex of the expanding fireball clearly evident in the first second of the video. It is plainly visible on the previous video here of Castle Romeo and VERY plainly visible on the LLNL video of Tewa uploaded a few years ago to their channel. It is also seen on shot Apache and on Castle Bravo and Hardtack Poplar, but is *notably absent* from Ivy Mike and the air dropped Dominic Housatonic. If it is due to ground proximity it should be visible on Mike, but if it's due to radiation case asymmetry and LiD fuel it should be present on Housatonic. What is the common factor causing this anomalous behavior of the early fireball??
It's probably an artefact? Maybe an effect of pressure differentials in the atmosphere, between the base and top of the fireball? A product of less atmosphere impinging outgoing radiation? It's far too early to be reflected shock-front.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, I disagree. In chroma and in changing out the opacity of the ball, it's neither a lensing effect nor a film artefact. As Muo discusses, it is on the other vides, shot differently, and under different circumstances. I believe he is correct; it is an element that rapidly climbs to the perpendicular much faster than explosion beneath. Also, if it were a lense effect, it would match per camera rotation the speed of opposing direction of the light in the cloud, not rise with it.
Could be the camera angle, the only videos of mike and housatonic are below the point in which it could be viewed and in most large tests you can see it take place in other parts of the fireball. On mike you can see the effect proceed horizontally as the fireball 'eats' the instrumentation lines fed into the shot cab. I think it's similar the rope trick effect photographed in the first infinitesimal moments of a lower yield detonation. Just as the thermal maxima of a multimegaton explosion comes after 2 seconds and gradually wanes the rope trick effect could be greatly slowed to what we can detect from unaided observation. Could be atmospheric factors, barometric boundaries at varying altitudes of which the fireball inhabits. Reminds me of RDS-37 where an inversion layer redirected a substantial portion of the blast wave towards the ground though it was a gargantuan explosion. Even megaton scale nuclear weapons are tiny compared to the everyday forces in the atmosphere.
What about this: there was somehow a gap at the top of the blast wave, allowing the original X-ray-generated plasma ball to "leak out". Or it might have had to do with the fact that the device was a 3-stage bomb - with a fission primary exploding a fusion secondary, when then exploded another fusion secondary.
@atomcentral are you able to please refrain from using the end of video tiles? Or possibly just add some black screen to the end of the videos to then overlay these on? Sucks to have the view obscured by unremovable ads. Thanks for all your work.
This was the test of the three=stage BASSOON PRIME device which yielded 5MT with 87.5% of its yield from fission mostly fast-fission of U-238, this test-device was ultimately developed into the B41 three-stage TN-bomb with two yields - 25MT and 10MT.
I am not old enough to have been present at any of the tests, which is why I am so thankful for atomcentral. Releasing most if not all of the shot footage as is was incredible and a real labor of love. Now they are restoring the footage? This is beyond my comprehension. Thank you for your efforts. Thank you for your time. I for one am grateful to have these shots available. My father was at shot Ivy Mike. He said it was beautiful but frightening. You have my gratitude.
I was wondering since the release of photons happens in milliseconds why it appears to take awhile to “build up steam”. I would think it would be like turning on a light. A really REALLY big one. Perhaps a function of atmosphere and/or altitude as the light source gains a “bit” of altitude fairly quickly. Smaller fission bombs seem to reach full intensity quicker.
Said below by someone else: thermal incandescence of atmospheric matter. The fission and fusion products and their stupendous energy create the conditions for visible emissions from the super (ultra-mega) heated gas. As it expands and cools it will create a larger mass of gas with emissions in the visible spectrum. Happy to be told otherwise and would love further detail but that’s my understanding. Most probably an artefact of the film used and the lens speed too.
The above response is partially true. The shockwave of the bomb also playa a part in retracting the light...after the air molecules settle, light can pass thru them freely. It's only noticeable because of the size and speed of the Shockwave. In smaller explosions this happens imperceptibly.
Thermal incandescence of the atmosphere--that makes sense. Amazing we learned how to make tiny renditions of a star on the earth in the 1940s. Greatest Generation indeed.
So, the reaction creates a super-hot ball of plasma around the bomb, due to air molecules absorbing all those gamma and X-rays. That is almost too quick to see but with the quickest cameras. What you do usually see, is a thick air wavefront expanding, which obscures the plasma ball.
With some of the earlier shots in Nevada in the late 40s that were 15-20Kt...the cameras were so close and you could see in slow motion how the blast wave is so destructive....with these 5Mt and above shots in the south pacific the aircraft taking the footage is really far away so it's really freaking crazy what a 5Mt weapon would do to a large city like New York or Los Angeles.
Little white spots are visible after the explosion, meaning that radiation is hitting the camera sensor, even at that distance. Scary the power that humans have with their hands, something so dark and hominous yet fascinating.
*The mighty, proud Saiyan prince hovers in the upper stratosphere holding one hand out in front of himself in an upwards open-palm gripping posture in line with the blast-zone and his eyes…calmly chuckling to himself…* “…Legendary...”
Please forgive my ignorance, but what is actually burning after the detonation? What causes the fireball? I ask because traditional combustion requires heat, oxygen, a chain reaction and fuel. What is the actual fuel that is burning?
The mushroom fireball is a luminous bubble of superheated plasma resulting from the isotopes of hydrogen atoms combined under extremely high pressures to form helium, in a chain reaction known as nuclear fusion. Temperatures are as hot as the interior of the sun, 200 million degrees Fahrenheit. The fireball consists of vaporized, radioactive particles, elements, and debris, pulled from the air and ground (the stem). As the fireball rises, it cools, losing its glow, and water vapor condenses above and around it.
@@technologic21 Thank you. Right after I asked the question, I saw another video about how the radioactive particles form the elements of hydrogen and helium during the process, and a light bulb went off: "Oh, Hindenberg", so it makes more sense to me now. Thank you for the reply. Beautiful, but completely terrifying. We as a species should not have this much power. I feel like we should be having our livers eaten by an eagle everyday for eternity as punishment.
Test: Tewa Time: 17:46.00.0 20 July 1956 (GMT) 05:46.00.0 21 July 1956 (local) Location: Over reef between Namu (Charlie) and Yurochi (Dog) Islands, Bikini Atoll Test Height and Type: Barge shot Yield: 5 Mt This device, the Bassoon Prime, was a "dirty" three stage design, the first U.S. three stage design. This was actually the second test of this design (the earlier "clean" version, Bassoon, was test fired in Redwing Zuni). The fission yield was 87%, the highest known fission yield in any U.S. thermonuclear test. A uranium tamper was used around the tertiary stage instead of the lead tamper used in Zuni. The predicted yield was 6-8 Mt. This design was later developed into the Mk-41 bomb, the highest yield (25 Mt) weapon ever deployed by the U.S. Source: The Nuclear Weapon Archive
Atom Central does it themselves. The dude who runs Atom Central is Peter Kuran - an optical special effects guru who worked on the original Star Wars trilogy (among many other legendary films). Since optical effects lost their importance thanks to CGI, he moved into restoring documenting this test footage (and directed the amazing "Trinity and Beyond" and other related documentaries). Fun fact; If you see atomic test footage in a film, at the end of the end credits you'll find it was licensed from Atom Central (including but not limited to the Monsterverse Godzillas and Fury Road).
Look at that mushroom cloud, ain't that beautiful! and the amazing thing to me is that something so magnificent, colourful could just melt your face right off!
all of the above. Its actually a 2K re-scan with dust busting and an upscale. I have been getting material scanned at 4K but the upscaling with the Topaz tools seems to work better with a lower resolution such as 2K to 4K than with 4K itself.
@@atomcentral Very interesting, thanks for the info - I didn't actually expect that it was a rescan, but I guess I should have because it definitely looks good.
Tewa [data from Nuclear Weapons Archive] Test: Tewa Time: 17:46.00.0 20 July 1956 (GMT) 05:46.00.0 21 July 1956 (local) Location: Over reef between Namu (Charlie) and Yurochi (Dog) Islands, Bikini Atoll Test Height and Type: Barge shot Yield: 5 Mt This device, the Bassoon Prime, was a "dirty" three stage design, the first U.S. three stage design. This was actually the second test of this design (the earlier "clean" version, Bassoon, was test fired in Redwing Zuni). The fission yield was 87%, the highest known fission yield in any U.S. thermonuclear test. A uranium tamper was used around the tertiary stage instead of the lead tamper used in Zuni. The predicted yield was 6-8 Mt.
Redwing Tewa - 5MT; 87% fission; first US 3-stage device, dirty version of Bassoon tested in Zuni, with tamper change. Developed into the 25MT Mk/B-41, the highest yield nuclear weapon ever deployed by the U.S. It was also the only three-stage thermonuclear weapon ever developed by the U.S., and it achieved the highest yield-to-weight ratio of any U.S. weapon design. Yield 25 Megatons Weight 10,670 lb Length 12 ft. 4 in (148 in) Diameter (body) 52 in Diameter (tail fin) 74 in Number Manufactured About 500 Manufactured September 1960 to June 1962 Retired November 1963 to July 1976
It appears that at the test site where it was located, a large amount of water vapor intensified the range of the nuclear reaction, making it look even more terrifying than the largest Soviet bomb in color camera footage.
I think this is the shot they used for the introduction to the old movie "Endgame" from 1983? Looks the same to me. Been wondering what test they were showing there
Thank you Atom Central. It’s a dream of mine to experience a nuclear explosion, but it’s probably for the better that we aren’t in a situation where that’s a possibility. Your videos are enough to satisfy me. It’s amazing to see these historic videos in such quality! It’s something about the power of it. Disgusting, but beautiful.
Yes, I think most of pyro - fascinated persons also like the footages of already went off nuklear explosions except these both two ones who were dropped on Japan. I also do so and I also would like to witness a small nuklear air burst with e.g. 0,1 kT yield or so in a suitable distance on a suitable wide ground and with suitable eye - protection. But this is since 1963 worldwide banned which is absolutely good so due to the highly dangerous radioactive fallout of each nuklear explosion. Let us watch further footages. If You like to experience a very good realistic animation of the Trinity - event You may watch Oppenheimer in a cinema with excellent sound system ... 💥😉
Redwing Tewa is a favorite. I love how the condensation clouds just got higher and higher and higher. And then the stem was so visibly moving. How fast it had to be moving!
The fireball looks like it's slowly rising from this distance, but in reality it's tearing skywards close to the speed of a jetliner. Extreme level convection.
It was sooo dirty
It's just a chemical explosion filmed in high speed then slowed down.
They used kilotons of TNT bricks built into giant spheres or cubes. You can find the TNT piles in some photos of the tests.
Nuclear weapons don't exist.
@@goodbye8995 The Russians? The British? The French? The Chinese? The Indians? The Pakistanis? It's all a bluff? To what end?
@Smithy18 So how does that work? Everyone is bluffing but they still assume that everyone else isn't bluffing?
That’s one of the most beautiful shots I’ve ever seen. Thank you!
It blows me away that the nuclear event and gamma/x-ray emission is over within milliseconds and most of what we’re watching is just the thermal incandescence of matter in our atmosphere and what was stirred up at ground level. I imagine there’s not an insignificant amount of heat generated from the immediate decay of short-lived daughter products.
Beautiful explosion but very dirty. 87% FISSION
@@SuperpowerBroadcasting that’s what your mum said last night
@@Jeffery_Saulter How mature.
@@SuperpowerBroadcasting What did he say?
@@SuperpowerBroadcasting thanks for replying
It has an odd beauty to it, so slow, so quiet... but inside is literal hell, the core of a star on Earth. A Pandora's Box we can never close.
Stars doesnt exist, as nuclear bombs doesnt exists
WOW. This is easily the sharpest nuclear test footage restoration in YEARS.
I guess you haven't seen this czcams.com/video/dflLFFZcZ0w/video.html
@Daniel Langer link it or it didn’t happen
Watch the restoration of the castle romeo one
Tewa was a 5 Megaton blast. Great footage
5 megatons is said to currently be the standard size of Chinese ICBMs. Purely as a “Countervalue” weapon - they’re not targeted at foreign militaries but rather their cities, as a deterrent.
@@kevinhammond2361 Do you know how big the Russian yields are? I have heard 800kt up to 20mt. All ICBM deliverable.
@@Chris2745100 Yeah the Ruski's have the best nukes by a long stretch lol
@@bigbasil1908 they probably don’t even work due to lack of maintenance
@@jmck5930 You're joking. It's the US that don't know if their nukes even work, because all of their warheads are over 35 years old. Russia has a lot of modern made nukes and they have been tested too.
Beautiful. I can't wait to experience it up close!
take a selfie!
You won't !
hahahahaha funny sia!!
Wait a minute--
cant wait
My mom tells a story when she was a little girl living in Pleasant Grove Utah, and they were conduction above ground Tests in Nevada. One night they set one off. PG is several hundred miles away, and she says it lit the sky like it was day light for several minutes.
The USA governments are crazy man lol
So, you were born to "Downwinders". Look it up! You might be entitled to a monetary settlement.
Jesus
That's insane
She's misremembering then, that's ridiculous
Looks great. I can almost feel my retina vaporizing.
I want to see a few nukes go off. They are beautiful
Please make a video about how you restore these so well. I've never seen old videos from the 1950s look this clear
I would be interested in that too, especially because Mr. Kuran (who is behind Atomcentral) won an Oscar in 2002 for his work in the engineering progress in the restoration of old film.
There are very clever neural network* restoration methods
czcams.com/video/EjVzjxihGvU/video.html
I would assume there is very specialised propiatery software for these restoration projects.
@@KatyaAbc575 Maybe now, but I seem to recall an interview with Mr. Kuran that at the time of Trinity and Beyond, they used Photoshop picture for picture because such software and the scanning times of today just weren't a thing. Either way, I would like to see what they do to the original physical film material to restore or prepare it for scanning.
Wow, that looks beautiful yet so frightening.
I was watching the surrounding clouds (cumulus and towering cumulus) and how they were barely affected by the blast wave. Reminds me of how the smoke trails in other tests hold their general form too.
Stunning 1956 experiment. 5MT barge-mounted, Mk-41 device, similar in composition to Zuni, all of the tests during this period had Native American designations, following the Castle experiments. Unbelievable amount of fallout, death and destruction, that yielded 30 miles of complete annihilation.
why did the US do so many surface burst tests
@@15junio97 Surface testing allowed scientists to better understand the destructive power of these weapons, as well as the chemical and atmospheric effects they would have on the environment. They studied everything from the medical effects of fallout and radiation on living organisms (animals and microscopic creatures in the lagoon) all the way up to structural damage for engineering, battle defense purposes.
Air-bursts produced their own set of data to the topics listed above. One notable one: a precursor wave, a unique blast effect which travels faster than the initial blast wave. When detonated in the air, the weapon has an absolutely devastating affect on drag-sensitive targets.
@@technologic21 thanks for the explanation 😊
I agree with Junio. They shouldn't have done so many ground bursts regardless of the reasons behind it. The fallout is just too dangerous... and honestly these are weapons, who's going to do groundbursts when airbursts are far more destructive...@@technologic21
Absolutely devastatingly beautiful
They definitely stepped their game up with camera resolution for operations Redwing and Dominic.
Top 5 list of comments for nuke videos.
5. Asking what the rocket trails are.
4. This is coming soon because of Putin.
3. Quotes by Einstein.
2. "War...war never changes"
1. Oppenheimer's "become death".
Spot on. Another one that is popular is "This bomb is nothing compared to the Tsar Bomba! 50 Megatons!"
The clouds at 0:30 actually look like the Sun.
Three RB-50 aircraft (Nos. 7120, 7131, and 7135) at altitudes from 18,000 to 30,000 feet (5.5 to 9.2 km) and ranges of 40 to 125 nmi (75 to 222 km) from ground zero photographed the clouds at times to 17 minutes postshot.
Shots: LACROSSE, MORAWK, APACHE (Enewetak); CHEROKEE, ZUNI. FLATHEAD, DAKOTA, NAVAJO, TEWA (Bikini).
Merci beaucoup pour ces informations
@@mehdibellahcene5461 De rien.
@@EK14MeV How cute you translated into French, deserve the gay medal of the month.
@@marciocamilo1722 🙄
@@marciocamilo1722 How cute you made this idiotic remark! Now put on your tutu and continue to dance for us...
Holy smoke on the water! Thats a big dam kaboom!
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
I dreamed before I seen the mushroom cloud at 1:05 in the distance. There’s no feeling to describe the terror of that dream.
Looking like it scorched all five atmospheric layers
I'm struggling to understand the reason for the premature shock breakaway at the apex of the expanding fireball clearly evident in the first second of the video. It is plainly visible on the previous video here of Castle Romeo and VERY plainly visible on the LLNL video of Tewa uploaded a few years ago to their channel. It is also seen on shot Apache and on Castle Bravo and Hardtack Poplar, but is *notably absent* from Ivy Mike and the air dropped Dominic Housatonic. If it is due to ground proximity it should be visible on Mike, but if it's due to radiation case asymmetry and LiD fuel it should be present on Housatonic. What is the common factor causing this anomalous behavior of the early fireball??
Interesting!!!
Pronounced lensing effects of casing and configuration?
It's probably an artefact? Maybe an effect of pressure differentials in the atmosphere, between the base and top of the fireball? A product of less atmosphere impinging outgoing radiation? It's far too early to be reflected shock-front.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, I disagree. In chroma and in changing out the opacity of the ball, it's neither a lensing effect nor a film artefact. As Muo discusses, it is on the other vides, shot differently, and under different circumstances.
I believe he is correct; it is an element that rapidly climbs to the perpendicular much faster than explosion beneath. Also, if it were a lense effect, it would match per camera rotation the speed of opposing direction of the light in the cloud, not rise with it.
Could be the camera angle, the only videos of mike and housatonic are below the point in which it could be viewed and in most large tests you can see it take place in other parts of the fireball. On mike you can see the effect proceed horizontally as the fireball 'eats' the instrumentation lines fed into the shot cab. I think it's similar the rope trick effect photographed in the first infinitesimal moments of a lower yield detonation. Just as the thermal maxima of a multimegaton explosion comes after 2 seconds and gradually wanes the rope trick effect could be greatly slowed to what we can detect from unaided observation. Could be atmospheric factors, barometric boundaries at varying altitudes of which the fireball inhabits. Reminds me of RDS-37 where an inversion layer redirected a substantial portion of the blast wave towards the ground though it was a gargantuan explosion. Even megaton scale nuclear weapons are tiny compared to the everyday forces in the atmosphere.
What about this: there was somehow a gap at the top of the blast wave, allowing the original X-ray-generated plasma ball to "leak out". Or it might have had to do with the fact that the device was a 3-stage bomb - with a fission primary exploding a fusion secondary, when then exploded another fusion secondary.
Only just seen this one.... Incredible footage.
Finally after reading a comment in the comment section of Navajo's video I can see the difference between a more fission weapon than a fussion one.
Nice restoration. Thanks for posting.
@atomcentral are you able to please refrain from using the end of video tiles? Or possibly just add some black screen to the end of the videos to then overlay these on? Sucks to have the view obscured by unremovable ads. Thanks for all your work.
This was the test of the three=stage BASSOON PRIME device which yielded 5MT with 87.5% of its yield from fission mostly fast-fission of U-238, this test-device was ultimately developed into the B41 three-stage TN-bomb with two yields - 25MT and 10MT.
I’m amazed at how great this footage looks!
I am not old enough to have been present at any of the tests, which is why I am so thankful for atomcentral. Releasing most if not all of the shot footage as is was incredible and a real labor of love. Now they are restoring the footage? This is beyond my comprehension. Thank you for your efforts. Thank you for your time. I for one am grateful to have these shots available. My father was at shot Ivy Mike. He said it was beautiful but frightening. You have my gratitude.
If you had been old enough, how do you think you'd have gotten to watch a test?!?
That is fucking stunning, even better than the restored shots I've seen of the Castle Bravo shot.
This is what it would look like in 2022.
The swaying of camera made everything surreal
I've seen so many bomb videos but the 4k ones really are terrifying. It's like you're really there and they're suddenly a lot more real
Really great work, it's like watching it live !
The first three stage device the US ever used
now... imagine 1000's of these going off minutes apart or even 5 MIRV's in the MT range spread over a single city. Madness.
So beautiful, both the film and the restauration.
I was wondering since the release of photons happens in milliseconds why it appears to take awhile to “build up steam”. I would think it would be like turning on a light. A really REALLY big one. Perhaps a function of atmosphere and/or altitude as the light source gains a “bit” of altitude fairly quickly. Smaller fission bombs seem to reach full intensity quicker.
Said below by someone else: thermal incandescence of atmospheric matter.
The fission and fusion products and their stupendous energy create the conditions for visible emissions from the super (ultra-mega) heated gas. As it expands and cools it will create a larger mass of gas with emissions in the visible spectrum. Happy to be told otherwise and would love further detail but that’s my understanding.
Most probably an artefact of the film used and the lens speed too.
The above response is partially true. The shockwave of the bomb also playa a part in retracting the light...after the air molecules settle, light can pass thru them freely.
It's only noticeable because of the size and speed of the Shockwave. In smaller explosions this happens imperceptibly.
Thermal incandescence of the atmosphere--that makes sense. Amazing we learned how to make tiny renditions of a star on the earth in the 1940s. Greatest Generation indeed.
So, the reaction creates a super-hot ball of plasma around the bomb, due to air molecules absorbing all those gamma and X-rays. That is almost too quick to see but with the quickest cameras. What you do usually see, is a thick air wavefront expanding, which obscures the plasma ball.
@@DanielFCutter What nonsense the biggest "star" was the Russian Tsar bomb.
Red Wing Teva consisted of 17 different blast tests. This looks like red Wing- Cherokee. All tests were named after tribes.
That footage is beautiful...deadly but beautiful
With some of the earlier shots in Nevada in the late 40s that were 15-20Kt...the cameras were so close and you could see in slow motion how the blast wave is so destructive....with these 5Mt and above shots in the south pacific the aircraft taking the footage is really far away so it's really freaking crazy what a 5Mt weapon would do to a large city like New York or Los Angeles.
Wow those last films quality is unbelievable, like it’s done in Hollywood basement…:)
You can bring high-quality cameras outside of studios. Big shock, I know.
Fried my retinas like the Alamosaurus that saw the Chicxulub impact on the Yucatán before being vaporized.
0:21 Kind of has that Novaya Zemlya effect when you watch a sunset across a body of water.
Little white spots are visible after the explosion, meaning that radiation is hitting the camera sensor, even at that distance. Scary the power that humans have with their hands, something so dark and hominous yet fascinating.
There's no camera sensor.
Absolutely stunning
Who knew that something so terrifying could be so beautiful.
*The mighty, proud Saiyan prince hovers in the upper stratosphere holding one hand out in front of himself in an upwards open-palm gripping posture in line with the blast-zone and his eyes…calmly chuckling to himself…*
“…Legendary...”
Please forgive my ignorance, but what is actually burning after the detonation? What causes the fireball? I ask because traditional combustion requires heat, oxygen, a chain reaction and fuel. What is the actual fuel that is burning?
The mushroom fireball is a luminous bubble of superheated plasma resulting from the isotopes of hydrogen atoms combined under extremely high pressures to form helium, in a chain reaction known as nuclear fusion. Temperatures are as hot as the interior of the sun, 200 million degrees Fahrenheit. The fireball consists of vaporized, radioactive particles, elements, and debris, pulled from the air and ground (the stem). As the fireball rises, it cools, losing its glow, and water vapor condenses above and around it.
@@technologic21 Thank you. Right after I asked the question, I saw another video about how the radioactive particles form the elements of hydrogen and helium during the process, and a light bulb went off: "Oh, Hindenberg", so it makes more sense to me now. Thank you for the reply. Beautiful, but completely terrifying. We as a species should not have this much power. I feel like we should be having our livers eaten by an eagle everyday for eternity as punishment.
Test: Tewa
Time: 17:46.00.0 20 July 1956 (GMT)
05:46.00.0 21 July 1956 (local)
Location: Over reef between Namu (Charlie) and Yurochi (Dog) Islands, Bikini Atoll
Test Height and Type: Barge shot
Yield: 5 Mt
This device, the Bassoon Prime, was a "dirty" three stage design, the first U.S. three stage design. This was actually the second test of this design (the earlier "clean" version, Bassoon, was test fired in Redwing Zuni). The fission yield was 87%, the highest known fission yield in any U.S. thermonuclear test. A uranium tamper was used around the tertiary stage instead of the lead tamper used in Zuni. The predicted yield was 6-8 Mt.
This design was later developed into the Mk-41 bomb, the highest yield (25 Mt) weapon ever deployed by the U.S.
Source: The Nuclear Weapon Archive
Air drop weapon?
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 LANL documentation says barge rather than tower or airdrop.
Correction: Source is U.S. DOE Nevada Operations Office.
This is now my favorite video in your catalog! Where do you find these near perfect restorations?
They restore the videos themselves
I'd imagine they use AI upscaling.
@@T0asty- nope, done mostly by hand I believe
Atom Central does it themselves. The dude who runs Atom Central is Peter Kuran - an optical special effects guru who worked on the original Star Wars trilogy (among many other legendary films). Since optical effects lost their importance thanks to CGI, he moved into restoring documenting this test footage (and directed the amazing "Trinity and Beyond" and other related documentaries).
Fun fact; If you see atomic test footage in a film, at the end of the end credits you'll find it was licensed from Atom Central (including but not limited to the Monsterverse Godzillas and Fury Road).
@@PenguinDT whoa
Love your work, keep it up!
Tewa was a biggun, 5MT. Redwing was a huge series, some really spectacular detonations. Just awful.
Indeed. Most awfully beautiful world ending things.
@@chilling_at_pontiff couldn’t have said it better myself.
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Look at that mushroom cloud, ain't that beautiful! and the amazing thing to me is that something so magnificent, colourful could just melt your face right off!
Nice outdoor field experiment.
Absolutely gorgeous, good lord what a recording!
20. July 1956
17:46
I’d love to see one for real
What a beautiful sunset.... oh wait....
When you say "restored", are you talking about an upscale, or rescan, digital removal of dust and scratches?
all of the above. Its actually a 2K re-scan with dust busting and an upscale. I have been getting material scanned at 4K but the upscaling with the Topaz tools seems to work better with a lower resolution such as 2K to 4K than with 4K itself.
it was also steadied quite a bit in places
@@atomcentral Very interesting, thanks for the info - I didn't actually expect that it was a rescan, but I guess I should have because it definitely looks good.
Amazing quality. Thanks.
Please consider adding yield of the devices in movies description.
Tewa [data from Nuclear Weapons Archive]
Test: Tewa
Time: 17:46.00.0 20 July 1956 (GMT)
05:46.00.0 21 July 1956 (local)
Location: Over reef between Namu (Charlie) and Yurochi (Dog) Islands, Bikini Atoll
Test Height and Type: Barge shot
Yield: 5 Mt
This device, the Bassoon Prime, was a "dirty" three stage design, the first U.S. three stage design. This was actually the second test of this design (the earlier "clean" version, Bassoon, was test fired in Redwing Zuni). The fission yield was 87%, the highest known fission yield in any U.S. thermonuclear test. A uranium tamper was used around the tertiary stage instead of the lead tamper used in Zuni. The predicted yield was 6-8 Mt.
Its so weird to know that humans once was only with sticks and stones, created something like this
Created or discovered?
Awesome footage
That restoration is fantastic....
Do you plan on showing more of these restored films???
1:00 reminds me of my homeland
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
An inert star born upon the earth with the agent of man acting as creater, Carl Sagan !
Looks like a really powerful nuke
Stunning.
0:35 This made me hungry for scalloped potatoes
This is the sun rising up in the dome
Beautiful. I can’t wait to experience this for myself.
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Redwing Tewa - 5MT; 87% fission; first US 3-stage device, dirty version of Bassoon tested in Zuni, with tamper change. Developed into the 25MT Mk/B-41, the highest yield nuclear weapon ever deployed by the U.S. It was also the only three-stage thermonuclear weapon ever developed by the U.S., and it achieved the highest yield-to-weight ratio of any U.S. weapon design.
Yield 25 Megatons
Weight 10,670 lb
Length 12 ft. 4 in (148 in)
Diameter (body) 52 in
Diameter (tail fin) 74 in
Number Manufactured About 500
Manufactured September 1960 to June 1962
Retired November 1963 to July 1976
Sweet Jesus just incredible!
What a spectacular and dirty bomb explosion.
MADNESS
It appears that at the test site where it was located, a large amount of water vapor intensified the range of the nuclear reaction, making it look even more terrifying than the largest Soviet bomb in color camera footage.
Yup, it was a barge shot, a lot of water vapor condensing around that cloud. Burned very hot and bright.
The mushroom cloud of that kind of looks like a mottled pizza if the cheese glowed.
ALL Units to their stations, we have an EVANGELION!
At one point, it looks like a tall stack of delicious pancakes ready to be eaten.
This is at half speed, right? I know many of the big H-bomb test films are. It does look more natural at 2x
Operation Redwing Tewa
July 20, 1956
Bikini Atoll 11.67896°N 165.34042°E
5 MT
Was waiting for the clouds to evaporate
Reminds me of that castle bravo footage a few years ago
This is how we get nice things.
Can I request a Hardtack Poplar upgrade? It is easily my favorite test explosion ever.
Oh they got a aerial shot of my first chipotle experience, I like spicy, but damn.
That's a big ass bomb going above the clouds.
Fission yield of 87%. Which is the highest 'officially' ever attained. That's why it's burning so brightly.
looks like the sun is out to eat the earth 😱
Is there a video of this recorded in real time?
I think this is the shot they used for the introduction to the old movie "Endgame" from 1983? Looks the same to me. Been wondering what test they were showing there
Whoa, nice!
I like these videos without the fake instant explosion sounds. Makes it more realistic.
AMAZING FOOTAGE, Thanks.
Thank you Atom Central. It’s a dream of mine to experience a nuclear explosion, but it’s probably for the better that we aren’t in a situation where that’s a possibility. Your videos are enough to satisfy me. It’s amazing to see these historic videos in such quality!
It’s something about the power of it. Disgusting, but beautiful.
Yes, I think most of pyro - fascinated persons also like the footages of already went off nuklear explosions except these both two ones who were dropped on Japan. I also do so and I also would like to witness a small nuklear air burst with e.g. 0,1 kT yield or so in a suitable distance on a suitable wide ground and with suitable eye - protection. But this is since 1963 worldwide banned which is absolutely good so due to the highly dangerous radioactive fallout of each nuklear explosion. Let us watch further footages. If You like to experience a very good realistic animation of the Trinity - event You may watch Oppenheimer in a cinema with excellent sound system ... 💥😉
*Loved it, should mention it's in Slow Motion.*
It looks like a sunrise
Wow Peter, that's amazing