Wide Screen Castle Romeo Cinemascope HD - Rare
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- This is a rare clip of a wide screen panoramic shot of the Castle Romeo detonation. Romeo was detonated on March 26, 1954 on a barge off of Bikini atoll. At 11 Megatons, it was the third largest nuclear bomb detonate by the United States behind Bravo (15 MT) and Union (13 MT).
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For a sense of scale: If the test had been conducted over the island of Manhattan, this would be the view from a plane over Philadelphia.
jesus christ
And more, much more.
@BlackholeTtson452 The shock wave also gives a good sense of scale. The white cloud near the ground expands at the speed of sound, roughly 1100 feet per second. By the end of the clip, that shock wave has traveled about 19 miles in each direction. The fireball alone is about the size of the island of Manhattan.
For those not familiar: The distance between those two cities is 90 miles and a 2 hour commute by car.
Tx-17 a.k.a Mark 17, the first mass produced hydrogen bomb by the US. Yield 11 Mt almost exactly 1000 Hiroshimas. Similar to Mark 24. They weighed over 20 t, roughly 300 produced. Yield between 10-15 Mt depending on the level of lithium enrichment.
I've never seen such high quality video of Castle Romeo.
AI enhanced video.
Does this guy ever get hit by the shockwave or just too far away and/or not enough time lapsed in the video?
@@VesperAegis The shockwave would've hit about 4 minutes after detonation, at a distance of around 55 miles.
Not sure how far away this footage was taken but the airplane footage of Castle Bravo was 55 miles. This looks farther if anything, although the detonation was also somewhat smaller.
@@VesperAegis So, not enough time elapsed in the video. Although at this distance it would been a loud sound, not dangerous.
@@hieronimusbosch2744 It's just film restored.
I’m glad the dude kept his iPhone horizontal while recording this.
🤣
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Nowadays on TikTok it would be a 6 second choppy vertical video with some kid dancing in the background. ha-ha
🍄 ☁️ 📱 😉 🧠
😂😂
That fireball went on forever!
Like the Bravo test, it produced far more than its predicted yield, and for the same reason - an unexpected participation of the common lithium-7 isotope in fusion reactions. Although it had been predicted to produce a yield of 4 megatons with a range of 1.5 to 7 megatons (before the results of the Bravo test caused an upgrade in the estimates, it had originally been estimated to produce 3-5 megatons), it actually produced a yield of 11 megatons, the third-largest test ever conducted by the U.S.
it was like lighting charcoal to barbecue with gasoline instead of domestic alcohol.
They already had an idea of the scale, firing this after 15 MT Bravo.
The point was to test different levels of lithium enrichment versus performance, among other things.
How far from the explosion is it?100km?50km?
@@mehdibellahcene5461 As I posted earlier from data I have.
Photography aircraft during the test:
C54-1 4.3 km/14,000 ft altitude 138.9 km/86.3 mi slant range from G0 330°
C54-2 3.2 km/10,500 ft altitude 92.6 km/57.5 mi slant range from G0 090°
C54-3 3.8 km/12,500 ft altitude 138.9 km/86.3 mi slant range from G0 210°
@@EK14MeV the aircraft was 138km away?
Small recommendation: add a 2-4 second buffer at the beginning before the "action" starts so that CZcamss play button and other stuff has time to get off the screen and not obscure the money shot. Or we have enough time to tap and make it go away.
Thank you for putting all this out here for us! Invaluable resource for nuclear history for the masses!
The "money shot" ha-ha
Activate "Repeat" -> go to the end -> clean money shot
Amazing how much energy it took to illuminate an area that massive for that long.
That was produced with about as much as a 8 oz glass of water weighs.
"yes professor, I have invented a revolutionary new method of illumination"
@@Harold1305That’s how the sun works.💀
@Auroral_Anomaly except the sun works by nuclear fusion instead of fission
@@LukeSquires This was fusion.
That is beautiful yet utterly terrifying
They say not to look at the flash cause it will blind you.
@@Crackshotsteph You would be right. The only reason you can get it so well on the camera is because it auto-adjusts to dim the light. It would be like staring at the sun on steroids. It's so bright in fact that you can't even close your eyes and cover them with you hand while looking at it. People who have done that in similar tests have said that even though their eyes were tightly closed they could still see the outlines of the bones in their hands.
@@Crackshotsteph That is the cruel thing - when a thermonuclear weapon is detonated the very first instant is the flash. Blinded, burned, exploded .. then the radiation.
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds....
Beautiful? How? It's stupid looking. A fireball. Wow!
Say no to war
Imagine being in a regular plane all those miles away and seeing that unexpectedly... It had to be shocking to that crew filming it. Now imagine being on a regular airliner and seeing that out of the blue. You'd wonder if you'd ever land and then start wondering how much longer you had to live.
I wouldn't wonder IF I'd ever land (one way or another I would), but I would wonder how much longer I had to live...
EMP knocks the plane out and you die
You don't see "regular" General Aviation airplanes flying over open ocean. This is so far from civilization. And those islands were inhabited by Natives and Gilligan and friends. But, you are right, it would have been quite scary....
@@dh-flies Commercial airliners travel over open ocean every day. Lol.
@@jacobcook245 jacob, take note, if you meant commercial airline you should have said commercial airline. The word you use was regular. What the hell does that mean? The video you just watched was taken from a commercial plane. It may have been owned by the military but it was a commercial plane. Sweet Jesus get your shit together
This truly allows us to appreciate the sheer scale of the operation...Truly there are incredible viewpoints of it but they don't do justice to just how huge in scale it was....This is incredible!
Now then, light the blue touchpaper then retire to a safe distance.
Oh dear.
almost as incredible as the idiocy of doing it in the first place. ruining those areas for people who lived there
Til you realize nuclear bombs are a hoax 😮
Their operation to fuck up the innocent people of the marshal islands? Fuck the U.S. and fuck the troops that are retarded enough to put their lives on the line for these commanders in queefs that initiated every illegal war since world war II. They actually aren't even a war, because only Congress can declare war, so a special military operation
Incredibly stupid. No wonder our planet is dying.
Holy fuck. If you look closely, you can see the blue Cherenkov radiation from the fission reaction emitting out of the blast as it goes off. That's absolutely terrifying.
Fuck you're right. Never saw that, that's amazing. A literal sci fi film shot.
This is the sound of the Patswain Revival!
Is that the small bright ball on top of the the fireball at the beginning?
@@venomactual73 Yeah at the beginning you see that blue aura above the blast. It's due to charged particles traveling faster than the wave velocity of the EM wave. cant occur in a vacuum, but it can in a medium light atmosphere or water.
It's not cherenkov radiation, but xrays turning the air into plasma.
Super pronounced double flash event on this shot. You can see how the early fireball starts to absorb the light for just a few moments then the light starts to peak again. Watch it in slow mo, no wonder they used that phenomenon to detect nuclear detonations from space. I think the Romeo device was also the first thermonuclear warhead put into the emergency stockpile program.
yeah, as EC-17\24. And Union led to EC-14 device.
You can even see a good amount of blue, what I assume is, Cherenkov-radiation in the very earliest moments, and then again peeking out of the top of the fireball just as it has been formed.
@@Pow3llMorgan Yeah I thought the same thing. Its a very vibrant blue. I would have love to have seen that test.
Neutron capture
@@Pow3llMorgan it is more likely ionizing glow coming from fission and activition products here rather than Cherenkov radiation.
Nothing can grab your attention like the power and beauty of these explosions.
Disagree.
chick's asses > any given nuke
Beauty? Looks like destruction and Damnation what's beautiful about it?
The beauty of deadly
1. Ivy Mike (NOV 1952) 10.4 MT
2. Castle Bravo (FEB 1954) 15 MT
3. Castle Romeo (MAR 1954) 11 MT
4. Castle Yankee (MAY 1954) 13.5 MT
The Soviet multi MT tests came in OCT 1961 to DEC 1962 in the 10-50 MT range
I prefer Hardtak Oak 8.9 MT shot and whole operation Dominic, Redwing Cherokee 3.8 MT shot and Soviet multi MT test conducted in 1961 and in 1962.
My Toilet (FEB 2024) 25 MT
My Barn (May 2025) 6,66 MT.
Castel Wolfenstien (Nov 1981) $16.99
@@DarthVader-1701Nothing quite like Taco Bell beef to thoroughly clean out the guts.
Good job to the cameraman for holding his phone horizontally to get this awesome footage.
The most fascinating part about these tests I find to be the immense light produced from the atomic reaction. I mean, wow! Light so bright you could not only see bone through your hands but even go blind. Imagine the epicenter though.
For a split second, a nuclear bomb can be as bright as the sun. Here it pretty much lights up the night sky, but when they are detonated during the day, it's the opposite because they are so powerful they displace all photons in the surrounding area, which is why it looks like ground zero turns into night for a few seconds.
@@christianblair8663 Its night time? Damn.
You can see the bones in your hand with an ordinary flashlight.
The epicenter reached temperature comparable (if not exceeded) the temperatures of our own sun. That's truly mind boggling and I dont think most people can/could fathom that information. The Tsar Bomba made Castle Bravo look like a stick of dynamite. Those damn Soviets won the pissing contest have haven't even came close to second. That bomb was almost unbelievable.
@@Mrderful Yeah it was originally going to be 100 MT (!) but such a large yield isn't practical - most of the energy is radiated into the atmosphere, so they downgraded it to 50 MT to allow the delivery team time to escape, which they barely did.
Its mindlowing how material can store enough energy to blow up in such fashion
Just wait until they make a pure fusion weapon and a matter - antimatter weapon.
Energy=mass x (the speed of light)^2
That blue flash at the top near the start was something.
It’s amazing to see the plasma column lead the mushroom rising at great speed, as the fireball expands at up to 100 Mach.
The temporarily, nearly optically opaque (in a specific temperature range), breakaway blast wave (at outer fireball) allows seeing the early fireball on color film.
The water around the barge flash-converts inside the fireball from liquid to plasma. This is why the mushroom column glows in a stout profile nearly as wide as the mushroom head a brief moment as the head first begins to appear, immediately after the direct radiation effect on air fireball-where nitrogen burns-dissipates.
Photography aircraft during the test:
C54-1 4.3 km altitude 138.9 km slant range from G0 330°
C54-2 3.2 km altitude 92.6 km slant range from G0 090°
C54-3 3.8 km altitude 138.9 km slant range from G0 210°
I've read that the fireball expands at speeds of up 710 Mach!
@@ChrisZoomER It’s up to 100 Mach.
Here are some details of the films, in interview with retired nuclear weapons physicist leading film restorations at Lawrence Livermore.
czcams.com/video/tsOrRWzmmUU/video.html
Do you know which aircraft this was?
@@ChrisZoomER No no it is 3006 Mach
@@SpencerAK74M Not specifically, and it’s trivial.
The important data were the listed locations of Douglas C54 Skymaster platform aircraft.
Really cool! Like watching this old footage!
Excellent example of the telltale “double flash”
So initial blast, and subsequent fireball? Quick then longer lasting? I've heard the term for decades, but never really knew what it meant. I assumed quick flash, quick flash, but didn't think more on what the difference was.
@@mundanestuff The first peak is from the prompt radiation. It then dims due to the opaqueness of the fireball at higher temperatures to emit radiation. When it gets larger the fireball cools down, so the light can escape more readily. Normally it would be too fast to notice the difference, but since the yield was so high on this shot, you can see it in real time.
The timing of the double flash isn't just useful as a way of detecting nuclear explosions, it also gives an indication of the device yield. Measure the time between flashes in milliseconds and divide this number by 30, then square the result and you have the approximate yield in kilotons. I don't know if this footage is playing back in exactly real time because the delay is too long so its possible that when it was digitised and converted, it was also slowed down. That's not uncommon with older military footage, or you often see the other effect when it gets sped up.
Mesmerizing and terrifying at the same time....
This is the most beautiful shot of a nuclear test I've ever seen. I love to see them progress in real time and how they would look like if you actually were there.
Thank you so much! 😁👍
You have to see Castle Bravo...
Thats a beautifull explosion!!
Send that to Russia
@@cheekydevil69ER Russia already tested Tsar Bomba. Besides, most countries nowadays use tactical nukes of sub-megaton range and rely on thermonuclear chain reactions, in order to reduce radioative fallouts for a cleaner destruction, thus more environmentally friendly. Go Green.
@@cheekydevil69ER that sentiment is why Russia maintains the largest stockpile of nukes on Earth.
“Green bombs” are a myth caused by replacing the depleted uranium casing of a standard thermonuclear (not fissile, but fissionable with fast neutrons for a significant increase in yield) with lead or some other inert material (not fissionable). While these “clean” bombs were developed in the 60’s and 70’s, they aren’t as economical in their use of more expensive fissile materials, like Plutonium, U-233, or U-235 as just using a smaller “dirty” thermonuclear of comparable yield. That’s why basically all of the deployed weapons are the “dirty” type.
Anymore HD , that was insanely awesome 👌
Whoa this is what I really wish all the tests were like in quality.
Beautiful! Thank you! I’ve not seen this angle and POV before! Operation Castle; Romeo Shot, is one of my favourite fireballs-early-stage detonations, esp. the “slightly off & elongated” asymmetrical shape of the rising fireball “Cap” punching through the atmosphere vs the typical roundish “Cap” seen in most tests. Plus, the “Stalk” is pure fire, which is kinda bad-arse. It’s amazing though, like the other Li6/Li7 miscalculations, and the early generation fission-fusion staged devices, the sheer size allows the Dual Thermal Pulses to be seen in real-time, pretty cool! Whilst the storage, fuel, and device design housed within the Shot Cab, causes said Cab to be lifted up and seen as “riding” on top of the Fireball, kinda like surfing and hoping on top and riding the barrel, before dropping back onto the wave’s face. Granted, this is more absorbed and sucked into the Hellish singularity vs the beauty and awesomeness that is being inside of and shooting out of the curl. This is a wonderful clip of a milestone Shot, capturing the power and demonstrating the incredible power released at Z-Hour.
Thank You so much for posting!!
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"Beautiful"?
Yes, annihilating all that sea life was wonderful.
@@rv.9658 Something that terrifying and destructive and hellish can be beautiful, yes. You can be in awe of something so mind bogglingly powerful and fear it. Abhor it even and yet still find it mesmerizing. Eye of the beholder and all that.
Beautiful? Get a life!
All those insane amounts of released inertia. As if a trillion tightly wound pocket watches suddenly unsprung themselves all at once.
The cameraman never dies
Kudos to the pilot and cameraman, both of whom kept things rock steady.
It just keeps getting brighter.
Castle Romeo's cloud was the most beautiful one among all the tests.
Ivy Mike was a fine cloud too.
At the start, if you watch this in .25 playback speed, you'll see the blue light they talk about that shows immediately after the reaction starts.
You're right! It looks really creepy.
Mabye this the because of the Cherenkov radiation?
@@plauze82I don't think so. This type of radiation happens when electrons travel faster than the speed of light in some medium. But the speed of light on air is pretty much the same as in a vacuum. If It was water from a nuclear reactor it would be another story.
Faster than the speed of light ...really Einstein ? Tell us more
@@SCIPs-xx5yl Look it up, before trolling.
"Cherenkov radiation happens when electrically charged particles, such as protons or electrons, travel faster than light in a clear medium like water. "
Fantastic footage guys, thanks... this is AWESOME !!!! Thanks. He always looked at Bravo ... but Castle-Romeo was another great explosion .... One of those that looking at it leaves you dazed.
The horizontal resolution is noticeably lower than vertical in this one, not sure if it's due to the extremely anamorphic lens used with Cinemascope. Almost looks SD-like. Shame the runtime is shorter than the earlier SD version released, but always nice to see more of Romeo.
I’m amazed that we as humans still exist.
Mutually Assured Destruction. Mexican Standoffs of the future, my friend.
For now.
You think we civilians want this? The people who have more control are doing this.
@@killie2847 Exactly. We're just collateral. It's insane. We're at the mercy of our leaders, who will be tucked away under a mountain somewhere while we burn.
We keep making stupid choices we won't for much longer.
Romeo, O Romeo, why art thou skin melting?
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Jesus look at that ionized air! I don’t think I’ve ever seen better airglow than that.
You KNOW you fuked up when you’re 7 Megatons over yield.
Ionizingly spectacular!
Fun fact: it was detonated at the Bravo Crater site just 3 weeks after.
A beautiful sight. Truly beautiful.
A very impressive shot
It's so perfect...
@0:01 is that mottling effect in the first milliseconds of detonation due to the ionization of the surrounding air? Is it turning air into plasma?
Close, its the xrays interacting with the bomb and barge fragments themselves. You see it in other tests too.
No your both wrong, the initial flash is the shockwave moving at mach 100 forming a plasma around the explosion, then you see that it becomes transparent and the X-rays heat makes the second final flash
The first 2 seconds of this video were really cool!
I bet this would look fantastic in an IMAX or even a regular movie theatre with surround sound.
I'm sure it would look great. Not sure about the sound, because it would be completely silent (until the sound arrives at the position of the airplane, about 6 minutes later). Witnesses of nuclear tests often mentioned the lack of sound as feeling very strange. I'm not sure that feeling can be reproduced in an IMAX.
I don't know why, but watching this is almost magical. It made me feel naïve and enchanted, like the way I felt about so many aspects of reality when I was an 11 year old kid. That sort of sublime otherworldly magnificence that poetically coated every perception of the world with an intoxicating indescribable meaningfulness. That bursting mystical sense of wonder, which ultimately is cruelly and imperceptibly diminished, by the fake clarity of years of accumulated knowledge and reason....
Knows how to write a comment .....
@@freeatlast1963 more like he's a good writer in general
You sad bruh?
Agreed, although it brings me some comfort to know that one day people will know this star like glows from a difference source: fusion torch drives as they zip across the solar system.
You perfectly captured the feeling I remember when I was a child in my parents cars, driving at late evening in the dark through an unfamiliar big city (childrens doctor appointment). Everything seemed exactly as you said. Cool to know I'm not the only one who felt that. I also believed that all grown-ups know everything and are all good, mature people. Boy was I wrong.
That's why I love the discovery of quantum mechanics and SciFi. After years of school with teachers acting like they know it all, I was finally able to dream and wonder again. Since I'm an agnostic / atheist, this really helped. There must be other dimension for stuff to exist, how else does one explain quantum entanglement. So who's to say that there isn't actually a "heaven" dimension.
LSD an shrooms are the only way I know of to get that feeling back. I hate society and would like to live in nature, randomly visiting friends and family. That's how spirituality dies. By going to work everyday, only to fight through loads of bs after work. There's also bad news everyday, that threaten our positions in society. Every materialistic gain (house on loan, car, etc.) ist just another worry to live with. Buddha figured it out. You have to let go to be free / happy. I find myself dreading and longing for that exit route at the same time. What if I get cancer ? What if I get tooth decay ? But on the other hand: What if I throw my life away to have all these securities ? Will I be happier if I die at age 50 in the wild, or if I die at age 85 in a building ?
I want that feeling back that you described. Without worry and an open mind. I wish I was born in Canada, so I could live in Yukon territory. Life is still wonderful in many places around the globe. But being stuck in society we're unable to see it, because our minds are preoccupied. 2 weeks of vacation each year can't fix that.
I want to experience this in VR in order to really appreciate the scale of it
May be putin will let u see it in a couple of days . Who knows :))
Best video I've ever seen on CZcams.
The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen
It must have been a terrifying sight for those on board that plane seeing that atomic explosion and witnessing the size and the power it had.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't their first rodeo...
Calm down Zach it wasnt a passenger flight?
@@therealdeal6846 you're the one getting worked up
Yeah, and it was a lot bigger than expected apparently. They thought it was going to be 4 - 5 megatons and it turned out being 11
@@TheTruthKiwi Not really, after shot Bravo they recalculated the expected yields for the subsequent shots based on the new data. Although significantly more powerful than the *original* estimate, Romeo I believe was in the ballpark of the (new) estimate so it wasn't nearly as a surprise as Bravo was.
Kid: I want the sun!
Mom: we have the sun at home!
Wow, the got a Cinemascope camera? That's excellent!
The camera & film were overwhelmed by that intense five seconds of blinding light. Utterly terrifying.
Watching this is very very scary .I hope i never live long enough to see it in person.
This is a true peacemaker...
Re. description, you're thinking of the Yankee shot (13.5 MT). The Union shot was only 6.9 MT.
When you see sun light lit up in the sky,
but it's 11PM
This test was done at 0630 in the morning, halv an hour after local sunrise. The power of the weapon is such that it makes the daylight look dark.
@@deildegast Cool, thanks for the infos. Anyway 11PM is just a joke buddy 😁
@@tac-cobserver3788 Yeah i know. I just point that out because a lot of people think from the camera footage that these were photographed at night. To my knowledge, none were.
@@deildegast Oh i see, ok i got it mate 👍
Pink Floyd - Two Suns in the Sunset
Instant sunrise.
Damn, that's cinematic.
Love how the Wilson condensation clouds form behind the shockwave
As a lifelong cold war obsessive, this is the best, and most sobering, example I've seen of that test.
Do you want hot war?
Incredible purple (ionization hue)? at the top of the fireball, very pronounced double flash and extended heat signature/fireball, crazy..
Indeed, this is some fantastic footage.
Hadn't noticed, you can totally see the primary ignite before the main stage. The entire clip was probably half a second or so.
@@user-lv7ph7hs7l Nuclear reactions/weapons don't work that way. The primary and secondary explode with microseconds of each other. What your probably seeing is the double flash present in high yield explosions. Its caused by the ionization of the air making it opaque to the actual visible flash, after it fades the visible flash brightens again giving large yield explosions that double flash signature.
@vandalbelis544 Makes sense.
Whoever filmed this took one hell of a dose of Radiation
How? They weren't anywhere near the radiation
I wrecked that Home Depot bathroom. Its cool to finally see the outside footage.
Wow, it's beautiful yet so terrifying.
Yes I know Tsar Bomba was the biggest nuke. But I have to smile when people say Castle Bravo was “only” 15 megatons. Lol.
This is a perfect demonstration of the characteristic double-flash.
Essentially as the fireball grows, the "case shock" of the now vaporized weapon and its equipment races out of the fireball and the shockwave is actually ionized into a plasma itself to the point that it becomes opaque to the fireball underneath. As time progresses, the case shock becomes transparent again and that's why you get the flash>dark>growing light effect.
That truly is beyond frightening.
Note how dark it is before the reaction starts and the immediate seconds after. The brightness surpasses that of the sun during the day. These weapons are a primordial force unlike any other.
it only surpasses the sun because the sun is far, far away. this is a tiny blimp compared to the sun, not even worth mentioning in the same sentence
@@hazardeur Nevermind a supernova
@@hazardeur The funny thing is even still the explosion is far more *intense* than the sun. The sun produces the amount of energy it does due to it's shear size, the overall energy density is actually lower than that of a human body, indeed it's a good approximation of the metabolism of a large lizard.
dude, that sounds way off. the sun is doing an actual fusion process whereas i'm just burning up some calories by a chemical process. @@J.G.H. anyway, i'm certainly no specialist on the subject so care to provide some evidence to your claim?
Interesting the blue light right at the start out of the top of the explosion. Cherenkov radiation?
Ultra Violet Gamma radiation.
In spite of all the criticisms of the multitude of tests conducted, they are truly a site to behold.
to me the romeo videos are the most impressive because you can distinctly see the two stages of initiating the thermonuclear reaction - incredible
No you can’t . The entire chain reaction from the initial implosion and the secondary ignition is less than a millionth of a second .
@@BF4pawntard despite the timeframe of the reaction sequence you can visualize the different stages of the reaction based on the luminosity in the video . there are obvious temperature differences in the “fireball” .
@@jackthegreen As I said you can not visually see any stages as the entire chain reaction is over in less than a few millionths of a second
What do you mean by two stages?
If you mean the initial fission reaction and the subsequent fusion then you are wrong, those happen in a matter of nanoseconds or smth like that, the whole reaction has to happen before the device itself is deleted from existence.
@@marcossidoruk8033 you can see the glow of the fission reaction at the top of the initial 'fireball', and the subsequent fusion reaction continue to heat through the brightness of the shot. at around 7 or 8 seconds the apparent luminosity is the highest, indicating the highest temperature.
So beautiful, and yet to think someone drops it on a city just the heat from the fireball and the flash along would kill everyone in that radius.
The Japanese whom survived the Hiro and Naga bombings can testify to that. They said it was hot as hell.
The power of the sun, our destruction, in the palm of our hands
It’s in the government’s hands plus this isn’t nowhere as strong as the sun even when copying fusion
@@teslacoil719 It's hotter than the sun but only briefly.
This is horrible, terrific and beautiful at the same time.
Bizarrely beautiful.
It was good until the end when the "watch my other videos" buttons that you can't get rid of overlayed themselves over the current video. If you're going to do that, put them over something that we aren't actually watching.
Nukes are so weird. The explosion is so powerful that it seems frozen in "exploded" state. Normal explosions fade in seconds, but this is something else.
Amazing footage.
It’d be interesting if somebody would use the wonders of modern CGI to add or superimpose some images to give a sense of scale to footage like this. Maybe familiar buildings like the Empire State or Burj Khalifa, or even a series of concentric circles on the ground (say at 1,2,3 kilometres for example) to give the viewer some perspective of how massive these events were.
If I had to guess, they wouldn't even be visible, that's how big this is
Truly Epic.But absolutely terrifying as well.Pity mankind cant devote this much effort into not wanting to destroy ourselves.....
Bad ideas create threats to human life, necessitating that also those with good ideas need weapons.
The best one yet
Man i love cinemascope
What year is this?
1954
@@atomcentral thanks
It's a shame that there isn't a government funding for this restoration..This should be public works!
Chilling but stunning.
Amazing footage..
"Let's use that high definition camera the time traveler kid brought us for this test."
You must genuinely not understand how analogue film works. They didn't use digital cameras with a specific resolution.
35mm film with high quality optics is still better than digital media . The reason it’s still used in Hollywood productions
Original glass plates pics taken from archeologists in the early 900s are still used for studying instead of digital pictures
@@logitech4873you must have genuinely not understood that the comment was a joke
@@cameron8529 Sorry at one point it becomes hard to tell jokes from conspiracy stuff, especially in comments sections like this.
Just hope we never have to witness this….
its literally the best way to die wtf are you talking about. I wish for it every day.
We might.
We may but not on this scale . No nation needs bombs this big anymore as 2 or 3 smaller yeild weapons do far more damage than massive megaton range blasts .
@@BF4pawntard That's the American doctrine. Russia probably does still have bombs in the high yield class in their gravity bomb arsenal.
@@DinoDudeDillon They claim to have those 100-Megaton Poseidon torpedoes....if one hit the IRS headquarters, I'd most likely celebrate.
That beautiful blue flash.
really good view of the ionization of the air in this :o
Is that ran at true speed, or was it slowed down?
the scale is gigantic everything looks slow when viewed from a long distance but nothing would stand up close to detonation.
True speed. That fireball is miles wide, so if it looks from a distance like it's growing slow that's still incredibly fast moving air, steam and plasma.
True speed. It was just so gigantic it took its time to develop and rise.
This film appears filmed at much higher framerate than playback. Thus it plays back at proportionally slower progress.
This is essential for capturing the fireball development and early cloud.
Films in Cinemascope were shown to Congress, for those who couldn’t attend the tests. Making real-time films would be very disappointing in the brevity, since the intention was to allow the audience to absorb the spectacle of the event, as well as notice different details.
Mushroom clouds rise very quickly in real-time, especially multimegaton shots, perceived at even far away.
@@EK14MeV That's not true dude. This is a real time video.
The toilet when I poop after taco bell
Perfect video, keep up the good work!👌🏼
The video clip description it has an error, the second most powerful nuclear test was the Yankee shot (13.5MT, TX-24 device - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Yankee ), the Union shot (TX-14 ALARM Clock device - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Union ) was the 6.9MT in yield.
Anyone who suggests NATO close the skies over Ukraine and risk escalating to a WWIII nuclear war - should review this footage. I lived through the Cold War and remember the terror we all felt at the prospect of nuclear war. It seems these days we've lost that sense of terror and dread.
It's what i thought about. It seems everyone here is in admiration for this giant fire ball, so much that it inhibits any idea that it might fall on our heads in the upcoming days
@@flotreizzz8197 Well said - and I quite agree.
@@flotreizzz8197 There's a scene in The Patriot where Mel Gibson and his guys blow up a British supply ship in the harbour. A woman standing on shore starts clapping and says, "Oh look...fireworks!"
@Al Zheimer. I wouldn't say that with any certainty. At this point no one knows either way.
That's because there's not an app for terror and dread.
To think there are people who do not take these weapons seriously, who think active US or NATO engagement Ukraine is a *good* idea, reminds me that it is of mighty importance to make sure the next generation comprehends the magnitude of nuclear bombs, and the extinction level scale of destruction they bring.
Yup, and this was 70 years ago imagine what they are capable of now.
@@TheTruthKiwi Not much more, probably less considering we realize we don’t need absurdly strong nukes to do significant damage. The physics haven’t changed.
Sadly I do not think there will be a next generation as war is most likely coming soon. I sure hope for the best but it seems to be getting worse each day. So few people seem to be aware of how fragile our way of life is and how far we will fall.
@@TheTruthKiwi They're capable of much less today because targeting systems are so much better than individual giant bombs are pointless.
These weapons are precisely why Russia cannot be allowed to gain anything from threats of nuclear blackmail. Allowing them to get any benefit from verbally threatening with them means that more people will do so in the future.
How can something be so terrifying but beautiful at the same time? Sort of messes with your head.
nice RARE L@@K EXCLUSIVE HD footage, I really like the watermark, very cool
That initial fireball from a thermonuclear explosion is so mesmerizing and a thing of beauty...
... so deadly on a massive scale too.
Unlike the black widow spiders I often find in the yard. Beautiful but just needs a bit of respect.
I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of fish suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
imagine all the marine life destroyed
@@jedi4049 All of the nuclear testing was dreadful. People and nature were immeasurably harmed. But it was done in the shadow of WW2, with the full knowledge of how bad we can be. Given what Russia is doing now it seems we've learned little.