Atomic Weapons Tests: TRINITY through BUSTER-JANGLE
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- Courtesy National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office
This was a broad overview report to carefully qualified members of secret oversight committees of U.S. Congress, as well as a collective archive of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project.
This film was declassified in 1997 after careful sanitization by experts to edit out secrets sensitive to technical information protected by the U.S. Department of Energy -- the successor to the Atomic Energy Commission -- and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Atomic Weapons Tests Trinity through Buster Jangle Vintage Atomic Bomb Film
As a unqualified member of secret oversight committee of U.S. Congress, It's great to see this gem.
I love that he has a Bugs Bunny -esque opening
Looking back with all we know now it was kinda a comedy! of errors
The Germans built short range radio controlled cruise missiles in the early '40's. Don't discredit the technological ability of that era. They were more advanced than you think.
Yup. We had night vision scopes on rifles before that war was over, radar detonated fuses, magnetic fuses, by the late 50s we were a "smart" military. By the late 60s we had damn near everything we have today. The stuff has only gotten smaller, lighter, faster, more lethal, and with exceptions cheaper.
Our veterans generally disliked that tv program Hogan's Heroes because they portrayed the Jerry's as being buffoons. They were far from it. Their LEADERS were the buffoons but the combat soldiers were fierce......
No. They were NOT radio controlled. They were guided by a crude gyroscope system.
@AuschwitzSoccerRef.king
@AuschwitzSoccerRef.
Cry harder bigot
Ah, 1951, when detonating multiple nuclear weapons sixty miles from downtown Las Vegas was considered A-OK. The Cold War consisted, in large part, of Russia and the US bombing themselves.
Are you suggesting that bombing elsewhere would have been better? Imma gonna bet your're one of those clever damned if they do, damned if they don't geniuses.
@Crazy Sven Both the US and USSR carried out close to 1800 combined nuclear weapons tests, only a fraction being atmospheric in nature. The US proved their capability in 1945 and the size measuring contest pretty much ended after the Soviet operation Tsar Bomba and the subsequent Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 making above ground testing a thing of the past for the Cold War adversaries. In reality the only proving of capability a nation needs is one underground test for show, for proof look no further than Pakistan, India and most recently the DPRK.
@Crazy Sven Atmospheric testing peaked in the late '50s and early '60s between the two superpowers with all atmospheric, underwater, salvo and even exoatmospheric testing banned in the Partial Testing Ban Treaty of 1963. The nine Christmas Island tests were conducted by the UK before signing the US-UK mutual defense agreement that permitted their use of the Nevada Test Site. The planned atmospheric testing of Operation Ploughshare(peaceful nuclear explosions) never took place after the 1961 Project Gnome's release of radio active steam through surface vents and the 1962 Yucca Flat's near surface Storax Sedan shots also accidentally released radioactive fallout into the atmosphere. The only countries to carry out significant atmospheric testing after 1963 were China and France, with the possible exception of the UK during their secret thermonuclear research and development. The number of safety tests conducted above ground is difficult to quantify because not all ended with detonation and those that did were carried out with devices considered less than weapon yields, whatever that means.
I once read that Las Vegas loved the free shows put on by the test shots.
@@willyburger I think it was the Flamingo who actually advertised a picture of a lady sitting poolside while sipping a cocktail and watching a mushroom cloud in Life magazine.
"The military was looking for a perfect area in the continental US. They found the perfect wasteland that no one wants to visit anyway. It's named.... Nevada"
Not to poke fun at a state, but it gotta be a hit to the self esteem when no one sees a problem with detonating radioactive wepons in it.
Zoomer30 That explains what caued the brain damage Harry Reid suffers from.
New Mexico was the initial candidate
@@curtiskretzer8898 Yea, I was about poke fun at Nevada but then I remembered I am in New Mexico.
@@shananagans5 really horrible that🇺🇸💥💣off
in any of these places...😐
Richard Vaughn - WTF?🤔
While understandably the explosion sounds were added later, at least they did give a better sense that sound travels slower than light, unlike most nuclear explosion videos where they incorrectly edit in the sound of an explosion simultaneously with the light.
I ran across a film of a nuclear weapon with the actual sound. No dubbed in sound effects. When it went off you saw the flash of light and a few seconds later there was this big bang and that was it in the way of sound. no constant thundering rolling crashing smashing booming sound like they showing a lot of these films.
John Kern - About 5 seconds per mile.
Sure, there are plenty of videos out there with the actual blast sounds.
@@davelowets The sound does not reproduce well from most recordings ,.
Flash to bang time. Can be very innacurate depending on terrain and weather conditions. @@coiledsteel8344
I always wanted to observe an above ground nuclear test.
Too late!
You and me both..
Lol. Is it?
Me too
Wow, I am always stifled by the sheer power of atomic bombs. It is just total madness.
Stifled? Is there another Archie Bunker fan out there?
It's unreal how much power those tiny atoms really hold. The amount of material that actually contributed to the explosion of the first bomb dropped on Japan weighed about the same as a dollar bill. 😳
It’s beyond madness. Those Trinity physicists will forever rot, burn and suffer in the furthest bowels of hell for what they’ve subjected future generations to endure. Their creation soon will make history’s greatest despots look like kindergartners.
They have damned humanity to live a future where only cockroaches walk the surface of the earth.
Shame on all of them
@@davelowets They used 56 kgs or roughly 121 lbs of Enriched Uranium 235.
nice!!!!!
Thanks for posting!!!:D:D:D
"this video has been sanitized" perhaps they sent it to the dry cleaner in order not to offend anyone with their madness
those are stains that don't wash out
Hear that high pitch noise. Even this video is radio active.
This is a REALLY good video...
Quite informative. 👌
Wow Buster jangle was a beautiful atomic bomb great footage beautiful fireball
1:47 you can see the seismic shock race to the camera in the blink of an eye
4:26 I wouldn't recommend making giant piles of either plutonium or uranium.
Get a big enough pile and it will self detonate.
@@Zoomer30 yes. Critical mass.
@@Zoomer30 You wouldn't get a good detonation or even a good fizzle. Adding material to a pile would be so slow, in terms of the speed of a nuclear chain reaction, that the material would at worst just melt, while spewing copious amounts of radiation. It would be a criticality accident and nothing more.
@@josephastier7421 A criticality accident that would lethally irradiate whoever was assigned to put that last consignment of fissile material on the pile, and probably a bunch of people who had nothing to do with it.
bami2 no, your absolutely right. I’m the 21st to like your comment by the way, I would of thought you would have had more.
I like how the voice cuts out occasionally. No you don't get to hear that little tidbit of information.
I know. He almost gave up the recipe for coca cola!
@Bernard de Fontaines They don't give out the dimensional numbers....not often anyway :)
The good old days, you could smoke a pipe in a board meeting.
If you DIDN'T smoke in a meeting back then, you were the odd one.
America did a beautiful job developing these weapons.
@William Wright it were Hungarians, italians, polish physicists..you know? the guys Hitler ran out of their homes...funny how things work some time. They provided the plans, the designs, most of the theory, the spark of genius...the revenge feeling probably
The resources at that time required a monumental effort though. Probably impossible anywhere else than usa because no war there.
I’ve been to Nevada Test Site .... it was very interesting.
What kind of facilities are still there? You can walk in craters there? Or was it the history that impressed you most
Operation TRINITY wow incredible
Bombs and guns have always been apart of man's life from the beginning
Cavemen had bombs and guns? I did not know that...
@@buckhorncortez Sure, stick guns and rock bombs.
I’d love to have seen one of the tests from Las Vegas
Wow, people these days try to find a conspiracy behind just about everything. Do you not think, according to you, the veterans who apparently flew into these clouds would have a memory of the awesome event? that is, if it happened? No, these really were drones, just as the radio operated tanks/weasels at 20:45 were drones/unmanned. You must also remember that it was thanks to these tests that we learned the ins and outs of fallout, without them we'd still be saying it was 'possibly dangerous'.
Later on in testing, the drones were abandoned, and it was ALL manned aircraft that flew through the bomb cloud collecting samples.
The government takes some of the most beautiful islands in the world complete with magnificent reefs and turns it into a nuclear wasteland. Brilliant!
Somebody had to do it...
Better than in YOUR own backyard... 😕
And tried to return some of the former inhabitants or their children way too early - what a pitty
I saw a PBS documentary about nuclear weapons that showed high definition pictures of shots of the instant of ignition. Plasma genie out of the bottle
cool
19:12 nice shot
@2:40 And people think drones are a new phenomena, they were flying them all the way back in 1946! That's 73 years ago!!
You ACTUALLY BELIEVE those were drones? Why didn't they use drones during the war? THE PILOTS WERE ORDERED into these radiation clouds, n some pilots were killed during the "experiment" n their planes obviously crashed. You think these ghouls ACTUALLY CARE about a few pilots? Then I got a big bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell u lol
No one thinks drones are a new phenomena. What's your point anyway dumb ass?
@@tinafoster8665 Yes, they WERE remote controlled aircraft early during the testing. Later on, when it was determined that it was "safe", then manned aircraft flew through the clouds.
@@davelowets i know that's the official story, but you know both the US Army AND Navy (in the Navy the fighting troops are Marines) marched troops RIGHT ON TOP of ground zero in Nevada right? I just don't see how a remote control system could be used on a combat aircraft, AT THAT TIME, and wouldn't the ionizing radiation interfere with the radio signals? I just can't buy it, n what about those "fires in stored material" on the hangar deck of the light CV USS independence? I wouldn't doubt if that fire was from POWs burning in the steel cage they were put in "for testing".
@@tinafoster8665 Electronics used vacuum tubes back in those days. They are naturally hardened against radiation. There are even videos out there of guys on the ground using their radio transmitters to land the pilotless planes. It was real.
It's no wonder why Eisenhower Warned of the Military Industrial Complex....
Okay, thank you! I guess I'm kind of a noob at this subject.. :)
What have you read about the development of radio controlled planes? Have you not read about the 1960s mach 3+ D-21 recon drone? built and flown into China in the 60s, it had to make it all the way there at mach 3 and deal with winds and so on along the way making fine adjustments to its path, then take pictures and jettison them. Far more complicated than just flying straight over a short distance like the drones in this 1950s Nuclear testing film.
These test were just firecrackers compared to the yields of today. Long live SAC!
Great. So we developed an Atomic Bomb that could basically take out most of a city. What could we do next Bill?? How about a bomb that could take out the ENTIRE city? I love the Mutual of Omaha style of narration.
The goof before detonation in manhattan is funny. Wrath of God.
So many beautiful islands...gone.
hi A C...
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which island and name...
big worse ussr russia did used a tsar bomb on the novaya zemlya island in the arctic sea
NOOOOOO NOT THE UNOCCUPIED ISLANDS NOOOOOOOOOOO
There and glowing if you dig. They actually are pretty well contained if you don't dig or mess with plants and animals.
I loooove atom bombs
Outrageous doing this in the pacific.
Well...it was YOUR backyard OR the Pacific and the Pacific won the honors. I realize how disappointed you must be...
I’m surprised they had high speed cameras back in the 1940s
Sorry for the strange question but you know when the bomb goes off and the cloud forms what are the streak lines that rise up along side the explosion. I have always wondered that.
Rockets to form smoke trails to show the shockwaves from the bomb
@@mickyday2008 . Thank you.
San Antonio, NM ... US 385
Yeah...and? Birthplace of Conrad Hilton...any other trivia..? Owl Bar?
Posted 10 years ago, only now we get it in recommended?
Is youtube trying to tell us something...?
Yes
No
Maybe so..
I don't know
"Duck and cover"
My best friend spent his childhood in Vegas, his father being involved in the testing; Dad would leave for work, and the family would know just when to expect the house to shake.
Howie Dewin - Why do that, when in Las Vegas, there was a light that would turn Red, when Atomic Tests scheduled. It wasn't any secret when they were testing.
@@coiledsteel8344 That's the first i've heard of that; I just asked my friend and he says you're full of sheet. Do you have anything to substantiate your statement??
How many tests do they need
Oh
'Don't worry folks - we assure you that all that pollution and devastation was absolutely necessary to ensure that future pollution and devastation will be easier and more efficient!'
what were they thinking
@wcresponder MADNESS???
THIS IS........MADNESS INDEED!!!
Just imagine using Modern technology studying these bombs if they could’ve used today’s technology Cameras and what not and all the mistakes that could’ve been avoided knowing what we know today about nuclear fallout like flying in the clouds of nuclear debris after detonations together data
👍👍👍👍
Good lord!
I invented Buster, Capstone
I'm wondering how they got remote control drone aircraft to function during the EMP from the nuclear bomb blasts????
This is old technology era. EMP’s have less effect on old vacuum tube verses solid state electronics.
morgielivie - 🤔👍
EMP is a phenomena that occurs when you detonate a nuclear weapon in the ionosphere to create a huge cloud of charged particles. They all decay together releasing a lot of electromagnet radiation in a very short period of time.
The ground based detonations (meaning ones within 1000 or so feet to surface), or underground don't send the gamma radiation to the ionosphere to create the big cloud of ions, since it is low in the atmosphere.
The larger tests were from helium balloons and one at 250 miles (quoting Wikipedia for quick reference). Those are the really bad ones. There were some odd things that hinted at something going on, and it was eventually discovered. But the effects didn't take down aircraft. The physical effects were the worst problems, heat, radiation, and shock wave.
The shock wave and heat could arguably be handled by personnel, but the radiation is very bad. Plus the flights were directly thru the hot rising cloud.
The Secret Devices Testing using the Dragon's Tail to brew A better Coffee and Engineering that Thermo Shock to the Last Drop and get it in Everybody's Home, Shockwaves of Taste Propagating across Land Squared, that's A Good Brew
Boy, Sandia and NEC really did their due diligence editing this.
The National Electrical Code (NEC)? Sandia had nothing to do with declassification (editing). The declassification was done by the Department of Energy, Albuquerque Operations Office - that's NOT Sandia.
Why are the comments weird?
Firesign Theater type of question there.
Instant cooking fish
How to poison a planet 101
I knew this would be darkly funny. But really, ''Preoject Green House'' ? You've got to be kidding!
Stefan Schleps - Funny? Watch, ATOMIC CAFE, a documentary.
They probably named it greenhouse because it was the first series of tests involving thermonuclear fusion in the bombs design.
Guess you haven't heard about the mutant, man-eating, monster plants growing right there at Enewetak, hidden underneath the Runit Dome...🤨🤥🥦
Because they were "cleaner". 😕
Now I become death, the distroyer of world's
World's what ???.... Dignity?....T.V. reception?..... Perhaps you mean the world's ability to use proper grammar and punctuation in a simple sentence......
@@dmc2554 look the quote up dummy..
@@michaelleahy123 I merely point out the bad grammar; The apostrophe before the S in "world's" denotes possession, not plurality. It is a possessive pronoun, hence my douchbaggery in sarcastic rhetorical questions pointing out the mistake. You are a dummy in all this. I forgive you.....
@Don White Woops!.....I missed that.......
dude it is human
No.
Anyone else notice the alien creature on the ground at 10:30 running from the center to the lower right of the screen?
10:30
That's some kind of dessert animal it could be a lizard or a bird
Que gente amorosa !
Sí, sí. Muy bien.
NO??!!?!
Why would we want to waste all this priceless nuclear material and thousands of man hours?....
Oh ya and destroy the planet.
But we can use them to destroy hurricanes, donnie said so.
We wasted the first few bombs on defeating Japan.
@matt.....thanks for your comment, Mr "I Wasn't There Back Then To See The Effects of Two World Wars Firsthand And Therefore Look For Shortcuts Intended To Preclude Recurrence Of Such Things Based On What My Generation Had Witnessed and Experienced So Really I'm In No Position To Say Much." I'm sure your brilliantly born-woke generation will avoid any and all mistakes and/or decisions that others lacking perspective and experience might question/criticize.
@@tripplefives1402 Not true. The United States easily makes peace with nonviolent nations.
The cold war could have been avoided between US & Russia but nobody wanted to get off their high horses to sensibly negotiate solutions, stupid lives on to this very day..pathetic.
I Am Energy ⚛️ 😁
They screwed Oppenhiemer
Well, Oppenheimer provided the screws for the screwing with very poor life choices.
All these poor guys died of cancer
Namanya juga war emang kayak gitu semuanya kejam jadi itu wajar
the untold story in all of this, is that they moved Islanders away from the island's 30 miles with a blast encompass 40 miles... Oops!
+2right4words I think you're referring to the Bravo shot of Operation Castle where they thought that the Lithium-7 in it would not play a part in the explosion and only the Lithium-6 would and so estimated a 5MT explosion but actually got a 15MT because the Lithium-7 actually captured a neutron, decayed to an alpha particle, a tritium atom and a neutron. The released neutron made the Fission reaction more efficient while the tritium fused with deuterium, releasing more energy and another neutron making the Fission reaction still more efficient. However, this was not shown in this reel. This is only shows up to 1951. Castle Bravo was 1954. It also irradiated a japanese trawler which was outside the NANS warning zone but down wind of the bigger than expected radiation cloud.
Nope, I'm referring to Bikini Atol...
+2right4words yes Bikini Atoll. The only time the natives were exposed was when they underestimated the yield of Castle Bravo which was detonated in 1954. This video is only detonations upto 1951. Therefore the contamination that you refer to did not happen in the time period covered by this video.
+BabyMakR When you put it that way absolutely none of this was amoral and everyone should go back to quietly trusting their government.
N00b.
+BabyMakR I didn't specifically mention this video in reference to my comment, the point that I was trying to make, was the injustice that was done to the natives.
That seems to have gone over your head, in your zeal to correct and criticize someone
WE MAY NEVER KNOW JUST HOW MANY TRILLIONS WERE PISSED AWAY TO INVENT THE BEST DOG BEATING STICK. A STICK NO SANE RULER WOULD DARE USE UNLESS, OF COURSE YOUR NAME IS KIM
Nuclear weapons have probably saved more lives than they have cost.
Vance McCaskill and that’s why the USA 🇺🇸 is the only country that was insane enough to use 2 of them? Using nuclear weapons to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians isn’t a war crime?
@@PaulNewfield-PasadenaCAU-wb4xg The use of the bombs was to end a terrible war RIGHT NOW! How many Japanese civilians and military personnel would have died in an invasion or a long drawn out blockade? Who knows how long it would have been before the Japanese leadership quit. And if it saved American lives, including my father who was on a destroyer out there, I have no big issue with it.
I am not searching a conspiracy. I just think that in this time at ~1950 it was impossible to build a plane, that operates indipendent and radio controlled.
I am aware of the fact that most nuclear research was done during the nuclear bomb testing. Maybe there wouldn't be nuclear power stations today if this didn't happen? Who knows. My thought is: These airplanes were manned (why the hell should they have windows if not) but the pilots have to remain silent (if they are not already dead..).
Not at all. There is no particularly difficult technology in making drones. Radio receiver, servo motors, well within the technology of the 1940's and 1950's.
Oh, right. As for the supposed pilots, do you think that someone dying of radiation-inducef cancer would remain silent? Maybe some, but I'm sure at least some would speak up.
And why would you remove the windows?
The QB-17G mentioned was around. A friend worked for Sperry in the 80s and they were and still are converting F-102s, F-104s, to QF or drone operation. The M designator of the M9A is a different unmanned class, of course, just to mention.
The bombers were easy to convert, because if you go study what a bomber has on it, the bombsight, you can control all the flight characteristics of the aircraft from that point.
the rest of the problem is handled in various ways, starting the aircraft, getting them to altitude and getting the autopilot engaged was handled different ways.
But replacing the bomb sight is a simple spot to fly the aircraft via a remote connection, with the aircraft trimmed.
I have heard of drones in these times being flown airborn, with a pilot and copilot getting them basically where they needed to be in the air, the bailing out.
In this case, I suspect they couldn't do that, because these aircraft became hot enough they couldn't be approached without precautions, much less flown safely. They could be fueled and serviced with people who were using exposure monitors, and the like, but flying them would not have been a good idea after the first mission.
madness.
Event horizon
COPPA jan 2020 ))
it's a dog..
insane
1 kt that’s smaller than the new mini nukes Donald Trump had commissioned W 76-2 mini nuke supposed to be a 10th of the power of the bombs dropped in Japan so 1.5 to 2 kt
Who knew it would be a virus
At first they took a chance not knowing if they would ignite the atmosphere. Well it didn't remember marijuana bad
R.I.P
Enrico Fermi
Edward Teller
Harold Agnew
Claus Fuchsand Andre Sacorove (Creator of the Tzar)
David Vermillion Edward Teller can rest in pieces, he was a fucking loon.
Richard Feynman. Probably many more.
The Q - Fuck Klaus Fuchs, he was a Manhattan Project spy and traitor, gave Stalin regular detailed reports, which helped Stalin save years of research!
Rot in hell all of them .. fucking idiots
learn earn serve life after death deserve
Tesla.
Peter Pan
Was a crank. Well-intentioned, but an ineffectual crank.
nothing burned, nothing nuked!
英語よくわからんけど、なんとなく「ガチで日本列島すべて核で焼き払う気だったな」と思ったよ。当時の有色人種差別キツかっただろうしな。
It wasn't a Japanese archipelago, it was the property of the Pacific islands. Was it nice to do, different question. Was it racist? no.
Where these "drones" really drones, or did they say that just to make all viewers shut up over the exposure of the pilots to radioactive materials?
Drones. Even if the army were OK with sacrificing soldiers, drones were cheaper.
FAAAAARRRRT!
✓T®UMP.2020'🇺🇸
lmfao, 6:23 Metric units because imperial sucks!
Fool's
20:00 any fool outside the military or mining would say Oh Nuclear! but, jesus its conventional explosives; no other