Operation Plumbbob: The Unbelievable US Nuclear Tests Which Irradiated the Population
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Life insurance????? Really Simon? Arrrggghhh ... kerching 🤑
Lmao
The six men at the hypocenter lived another 33, 40, 46, 48, 56, and 57 years past the date of the blast respectively.
At 11:10, how the ... do you define "premature death?" Only two of them died before the turn of the millennium at the ages of 71 and 75, while the others died in 2003, 2005, 2013 and 2014 at the ages of 83, 86, 84 and 91. If that's "premature," please can I have some?
Yeah the writers dropped the ball on this one.
I think every human is different in his body ,so some died fast some later ,its like aids ,some die fast some died never or in a old age
Pascal A: Nuclear Zippo lighter.
Pascal B: Nuclear potato cannon.
Nuclear testing back then was definitely a case of "fuck around and find out."
Pascal C: Nuclear Air Cannon
We've built some deadly air cannons.
Concrete slugs with a re-bar spear.
A dart. Armor piercing was a bolt tip...lol
*edit* why is the autocensor having a issue with this comment?*
10:20 uh, what the heck? Kyle Hill did a video specifically about this... all of them had radiation exposures barely above background, the amount of space between them and the blast shielded them from the rad pulse, and the warhead was a clean one for its era, and they were upwind, and all lived to a old age
The 5 USAF volunteers at ground zero for the air to air nuclear test by no means died premature deaths. One of them didnt pass away until 2014, in fact i think the earliest death was around 1990. Im an avid fan of this channel but i do find it a shame that some of the facts that are stated with certainty are easily proved to be demonstrably incorrect with a very simple google search.
Col. Sidney C. Bruce - died in 2005 (age 86)
Lt. Col. Frank P. Ball - died in 2003 (age 83)
Maj. John Hughes - very common name, but I'm guessing he is Maj. John W. Hughes II (born 1919, same as the above) - died in 1990 (age 71)
Sad when good channels decide that clickbait scary titles are more important than the truth.
@@clytle374 I agree, more and more of them resort to it for the views. Because at the end of the day, it's all about revenue and what ever brings more is what is preferred.
0:07 - No, Boltzmann was not "dropped from a tower". It was fired in a shot cab at the top of a 460 foot tower.
3:10 - no, nothing was ever dropped from a tower, no matter how many times your writer wrote it.
12:37 - Pascal A was "not exactly what they anticipated" because it was a safety test, and thus they expected it to have only the explosion that the conventional focusing explosives would have - perhaps a couple of tons of TNT equivalent. It failed (as a safety test), and produced a yield of 55 tons - not anything like the bomb would have yielded if intentionally exploded, probably about 40 kt. Pascal B also failed as a safety test, yielding 300 tons.
12:42 - no, it didn't develop "50,000 times its expected yield. Try "over 50 times...".
15:40 - No, the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1953 banned all testing except underground. There were no more space, atmosphere or underwater tests after the signing (with a couple of possible exceptions).
Good job, but ... nothing about the 5 guys under the detonation all dying prematurely from cancer ... in their 80s? I'm disappointed.
You must be fun at parties
@@samjones4772 What’s wrong with him making a few corrections to obvious mistakes made in the video by the editing team? Nobody like’s falsified information pushed as absolute facts.
To this day I vividly recall the nuclear space detonation I witnessed as a nine-year-old on 9 July 1962 from northern Aotearoa New Zealand. Starfish Prime was one of a series of U.S. space detonation tests carried out above the northern Pacific Ocean, far to the north of NZ. My recollections are of seeing, purely by chance, perhaps a quarter of the dark northern hemisphere sky suddenly turning crimson-scarlet in slowish motion like some gigantic firework display, before gradually fading. Though I’m generally a little sceptical of the accuracy of anyone’s childhood memories, these memories do check out perfectly with accessible public information of that bomb test.
The Starfish Prime tests had effects on the ionosphere, and the mesosphere and aurora were generated and seen in the tropics and subtropics. The aurora were seen in Hawaii as well as suffering power dropouts due to the electromagnetic pulse.
When Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman who was the maths checker at Los Alamos, was invited to go to the first Trinity test in July 1945, he declined. It was a test of the first Plutonium bomb and there was a dispute as to its actual yield. Richard said they had underestimated it. He was correct. Fermi's calculations came to 15Kt, but it yielded 25Kt, 60% more than planned and the effected area was a lot larger.
Feynman's books remain some of the most interesting and well-told stories from a physicist that I've ever heard or read - "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" was gold
Feynman watched Trinity. He even says he didn't wear the glasses because he watched it from behind a car windshield to block the harmful UV rays and he thought he wasn't going to be able to see anything at 20 miles with the welding glasses so he did underestimate it too
He declined to go along for the Little Boy test, I think you've mixed the two up. He was supposed to be the scientist accompanying them for the first bomb drop (little boy - hiroshima)
Feynman was at Trinity. It’s in his book.
Oppenheimers primary concern was the military seizing the initiative on atomic weapons after 1945.
The test devices were not dropped from towers, they were located at the top of the towers to elevate the center of the explosion above the ground.
that and "the little bomb boy" in the first 30 seconds... not his best edited video
@@totensiebush And a lot of footage used in this vid are from other tests.
Yeah they leave a lot of factual errors in mega projects videos that even simply googling the topic during the research phase would have caught. They really need to revamp their research and writing team. I stopped watching their warship and aircraft videos because they have just way too many basic things wrong.
@@rickhobson3211 I understand that footage may not be available for plenty of tests
of course, some of the Great War videos I've seen are 90% literally reading from Wikipedia, so it's common
The five officers did not die prematurly.
They were were Colonel Sidney C. Bruce, later professor of Electrical Engineering at Colorado University, died in 2005; Lieutenant Colonel Frank P. Ball, died in 2003; Major John w. Hughes II, died in 1990; Major Norman B. Bodinger, died in 1997; Major Donald A. Luttrell, died in 2014.[5] The videographer, Akira "George" Yoshitake, died in 2013.[6]
cut and pasted from Wikipedia. Poor research I would say.
Exactly right. I posted the same thing up thread.
Poor research.
@@jaycie5021par for the course. This guy is Ron Burgundy. He will literally read anything. Eh...ne.....thing.....
Simon owes a retraction/correction. How disappointing.
@@magnemmar4869 exactly
Yup, I think Kyle hill made a video on this.
"The Little Bomb Boy" at 0:18. Now that's gotta be a record for a misspeak. Not even 30 seconds in. How did nobody on your team notice it?
Kyle hill has a good video on the 5 people at ground zero photo-op, but the information there runs a bit contrary to the narrative here. The volunteers lived pretty long lives, some being up to their 90's.
megaproject often just makes up stuff or his research team is just lazy and its a shame because lot of his videos are quite good
Based on some quick research, I found the following information about their lifespans (there seems to be some uncertainty but here):
• Col. Sidney C. Bruce - 86
• Lt. Col. Frank P. Ball - 83
• Maj. John Hughes - 71
• Maj. Norman Bodinger Unknown
• Don Lutrel - 63
Most of them lived longer than the average lifespan or came close to it. However, it’s noteworthy that many reportedly developed cancer as early as their 50s. Additionally, it’s important to consider that this may not have been the only test they participated in or the only occasion they were exposed to irradiated environments.
While neither seem entirely wrong, it seems like Kyle and Simon spun the facts in ways to fit their narratives
@@Premium-Content I found the same information. Also these men were either smokers or around a ton of second hand smoke considering the time they lived. It would be pretty hard to say these tests (all the tests in Plumbob they may have attended) shortened their lives, any more than lifestyle or additional exposures they may have had in life. It's too bad most won't read these comments and do the research themselves and will think the vague assertions by the author of this video are true.
I did the calculations for a different comment up thread but the likelihood of 6 random male adults getting cancer is 1.6% and yes other risk factors like smoking drinking would increase that.
Also I think your death dates are out of date. If that's from the website I saw I believe their methodology was to look for milatarys death records and not all 5 had perished at that point.
Yeah that is incorrect
Don Lutrel didn't die in the 80s
He was alive when that article was written in 2012 and died in 2014.
Note how it was written in the npr article
"Don Lutrel - I think this is a misspelling of "Luttrell." There is a Donald D. Luttrell in the DVA database, US Army CPL, born 1924, died 1987 (age 63). Seems like a possibility."
So that's another random soldier.
There is a movie called "Atomic Cafe". The film was a conglomeration of documentary film and propaganda films about the US nuclear program from the end of WWII to roughly the end of the 60's. There is some film taken from the test as well as some interviews of the solders there just after the test. Scary stuff.
I remember seeing that back in the 80's; one soldier said he got a mouthful of dirt after the blast.
11.06 your statement was incorrect, the members of the group at ground zero did not get exposed to levels much beyond what air crew are during long haul commercial flights, and all men in this group actually had normal expected life spans. Kyle Hill has a good video on the subject. miss information like this is dangerous as people blindly bereave what you say is truth.
^^ THIS
Yep, yep indeed
My old dog years back had advanced macular degeneration.
When the poor fella finally died, I felt blindly bereaved.
Kyle hill is amazing !
Ohh and put : not . For time stamp 11:06
bit of an unfortunate typo there?
My G Pa was part of a special forces team that carried backnpack nukes, mortar tube fired. They only trained, and existed for a bit during the cold war. 1 kiloton yield if I remember correctly, and was a 1 way trip..Amazing the things we come up with
I've heard of nuclear artillery, but not mortars lol. Those are pretty short range, aren't they?
No casual ignorance at apocalyptic pipe bombs makes Bob a dull boy.
The John Wayne movie The Conqueror was filmed downwind of a nuclear testing site, which sparked debate among historians and biologists over whether or not it caused multiple cases of cancer among the cast and crew.
Kyle hill did a video on that. The movie was about Genghis Khan with John wayne playing the part. Statistically, the bomb did not cause the cast's death and the habits of the cast was more to blame.
@@shaider1982 John Wayne smoked like a chimney...
The film was more of a bomb that the nuke.
Getting a notification that you have posted a new video always visibly puts a smile on my face, no matter how down I feel. Thanks again man!
Just remember, even if life kicks you in the nuts good times will come. I know how it is, life is hell sometimes, but there will come a time when you realize it's worth it to suffer through the bullshit. Keep your head up high mate 💪🏻
@@adenkyramud5005 I appreciate the kind words man, thank you. Made me think of the line..."so shines a good deed in a weary world." Cheers mate
I remember a few documentaries of soldiers being used as live test subjects for some of these explosive tests.
Some have documented saying in the initial flash of light you were able to see your bones through your skin for the moment before it went back to normal.
Well this makes me feel much better about the impending nuclear doom we all face. Good to know it'll be slow and painful for most of us.
Yay
Those five guys lived into their 60's and 70's. Two even made it to over 80... the cameraman was still alive, at least until a few years ago...
Don't believe everything you hea on CZcams.
My one 'positive' about nuclear war is that "Well, at least it'll be a quick and painless end for most of us" and now even that's out the window.
Right?
Luckily I live close enough to several targets that I might just get vaporized…..🤞🏻
My mother was a Junior in high school when one of her friend's father invited her to watch an nuclear bomb test. She said the flash and sound from the explosion is something she will never forget. She is 91 now
In the 80s I saw a documentary on this. It’s out there, has to be. The interview with the crew and their physical condition made me cry.
I believe the Russians did similar testing at Semipalatinsk during the 1950's. It was know that during the test of RDS-1, the Soviets built a number of test structures near Ground Zero and also stationed a small number of troops there.
Say the line Bart:
Your disabilities are not service related 😂
They all actually lived rather long lives so unlikely injured by this event not nearly as bad as soldiers that entered areas recently where ground bombed
Tower Shots aren't dropped from towers, they're detonated from atop them.
Yes, he keeps saying this, repeatedly displaying his profound ignorance of how this actually worked.
@@HamHamEggsandHam At least he didn't say "nuculer.."
Plumbbob is a traditional spirit level made of wood string and a lead weight, weird they used a term from stonemasonry for this… 🤔
Seems the officers lived full and healthy lives. I don't know if they had cancer, though:
".[4] The five officers were Colonel Sidney C. Bruce, later professor of Electrical Engineering at Colorado University, died in 2005; Lieutenant Colonel Frank P. Ball, died in 2003; Major John w. Hughes II, died in 1990; Major Norman B. Bodinger, died in 1997; Major Donald A. Luttrell, died in 2014.[5] The videographer, Akira "George" Yoshitake, died in 2013.[6]"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob
Little bomb boy
I'm sure that computers give much more accurate data than test explosions.
Good stuff as always fact boy and team. Please do a video on the Merkava series of tanks
If you ever go to Vegas check out the atomic and nuclear museums and there's one about area51 next to one of them. Really cool to check out
Very interesting video - Surprisingly the Canadian Military during this same period were doing war games along similar line - I have a old 16MM film from my father called "operation mushroom" however instead of detonating a real nuclear bomb they set a bunch of diesel drums on fire that gave a mushroom like cloud.
It's weird the takeaway you have on ground 0 population 5
The blast took place in 1948
The first of the 6 the first died in 1990 and the last 2014. Some of the men loved into their 90s. The youngest still was in his 70s.
Even claiming all 6 got cancer isn't that unlikely an event. An adult male has about a 1:2 chance of getting cancer in their life. 6 people all getting cancer without any other contributing factors would be about a chance of 1.6%. However given the nature of the military at the time it is likely that they all had other risk factors. We even see them smoking at the end.
his team is awful at research they do this all the time and he never addresses it
Thank you. I was pretty sure their data was suspect given that they skipped the actual facts (something they never do when they think they’re factually correct) and it’s… really rather important to judge the risks appropriately, given we can’t get rid of the damn things :-)
Frustrating when he editors screw up the research so badly
I hope I am still loving into my 90s! Probably not a great watch though
All the Plumbbob tests were in 1957. Only the three Sandstone tests in the South Pacific were in 1948.
3:00 - Chapter 1 - The tests
3:30 - Mid roll ads
4:50 - Back to the video
5:45 - Chapter 2 - The controversies
8:55 - Chapter 3 - A quick photo op
11:25 - Chapter 4 - Contribution to the space race
15:00 - Chapter 5 - The end of nuclear testings
Rule of thumb, the lower the yield of a fission-based nuclear bomb, the more radiation is released. It also depends on what you are using as the radioactive isotope. Example, Hiroshima was hit with a uranium bomb and the radiation wasn't too bad. Meanwhile Nagasaki was hit with a plutonium bomb and the radiation was way more extensive.
reminds me of a teacher. he stated one day "a friend from the base called me. said to get in the shower and not to come out for a hour. he couldn't say why. turned out the wind turned. blowing towards town"
At 0:23 Simon slips up and says "compaired to the little bomb boy dropped on Hiroshima" 😂😂😂😂
My Grandpa was a USAAC meteorologist at the end of WW2. He spent a bit of time helping with testing in the Pacific after the war. Almost ten years later, he died of leukemia in 1954. VA said it wasn't related.
Plumbbob is my second favourite test series after Dominic! Priscilla shot is so beautiful!
"Dropping from the tower" is incorrect. They're detonated on the top of it
A mini documentary about friendly nukes sponsored by a life insurance broker, that’s smart marketing 🧠
My father was, at 19 years old, one of the Marines assigned to the ‘57 Operation Plumbob - Shot Hood test. Beyond the extensive and, eventually fatal, damage to his body the impact on his soul, mind and heart was more devastating than can be translated through some pithy recounting. The fact that our government tested these “devices” on Americans, then covered up the truth, refusing to recognize the damage done or provide for the care of those involved (pretty much just waited for them to die off) is a very clear indication of how little the well-being of any of us matter to those in power…
It seems to me the best interests of the citizenry have rarely been served by those whom we have elected to represent us.
Lol, Life insurance sponsor on episodes about death, chaos, and destruction. Fitting. 😆
Where did you get these figures from. The National Library of Medicine studies found that cancer among servicemen from Op Plumbob was almost plumb in line with the US national average in 2010. I assume that you got figures from un-reputable sources like the anti nuclear mob.
The writers pulled the figures out of their asses.
Wow had never heard of the pascal a+b fiascos before. Great find.
I read somewhere that they did end up doing math on that cover and they concluded that it would clear the atmosphere before burning up completely. So it most likely is still up there
The footage of the nuclear cannon shown at 6:36 is from Operation Upshot-Knothole, Shot Grable in 1953 and not Operation Plumbbob. The explosions of Grable and shot Priscilla of the Plumbbob series look very similar and are often confused with each other.
"dropped from a tower"
No...why would you drop something from a tower? It was detonated on a tower. There is not point dropping something from a tower when you can either build a shorter tower, or detonate it on the ground.
One issue with cancer is that it'a not just nukes that can cause it hence carefull checking with the general.population's statistics.
0:15 "little bomb boy". And now I have to go write a messed up Christmas play...
Simon really said "prolicy genuis" at the end of the ad and just left it in lol. Playing god to the Whistlerverse doesn't leave time to reshoot ad spots lol
Talking Nukes while selling Life Incurrence? Ha!
0:05 It wasn’t dropped from a tower. It was fixed in a shot cab and burst at that altitude
When I saw the picture of the test "Wilson" I immediately recognized it as the one used for the front cover of the 1968 album Crown of Creation by the Jefferson Airplane. Great album although a bit spooky.
The guys at ground zero lived into late life, 90s etc...They did not die prematurely. That is incorrect.
I believe the story of the jettisoned test cap, the commander demanding the answer the the physicist’s calculation said it was the first time he’d heard any speed referenced in terms of _“X times the escape velocity of earth”_
It probably did. My assumption is not in one piece. Vaporization, individual particles cooling, I'm thinking pretty much less an explosively formed projectile and more we fired the most extreme grapeshot in history.
@@WaywardVet exactly. If the cap did actually make out of the atmosphere and space without completely disintegrating, it’d be just a couple lucky pieces of molten metal slag like 1/10000th the original mass. The idea of a basically a manhole cover traveling that fast, with so much energy in the atmosphere, while being such an unstable shape, makes me think it could have gone either way, either near completely and immediately vaporized by drag & heat, or it did, but only a few very small chunks still had enough momentum left
@@J_McPhearsom "Lucky Piece of Molten Slag" is what I'll call my next girlfriend. That is an epic quote
@@WaywardVet 😂 hahaha but was only epic now you’ve used it like that! You panned and polished my rambling turd of a comment into some gold! Nice one lol.
@@WaywardVet A “Lucky Piece of Molten Slag” was all what’s left of my soul after the last Ex. What hadn’t been disintegrated was outa there at 7 times earth’s escape velocity!
Cancer is still rampant here in America... I've heard it's really bad right now up in New England😢
@5:20 ish how soldiers handle stuff marked fragile is terrifying!
0:18 "Little bomb boy" hmmmmmm 🤣
Family lived in White City New Mexico before i was born. They spoke of hearing exposions that rattled the windows and would run outside to watch the mushroom cloud.
"Little Bomb Boy" is the new marvel superhero...
To follow up on this very subject, Simon - ask one of your fabulous writers to delve into the story of the making of the 1956 film, The Conqueror. The exteriors were filmed near St. George, Utah in a radioactive fallout affected area and nearly half of the cast and crew later developed cancer, with 46 of them dying from it. In short, the U.S. government, with an assist from Howard Hughes, killed John Wayne.
I've heard of Pascal B And the extra-orbital manhole cover. And so the legend grows, You know I'm going to embellish the story when I tell my grandkids.😇.......maybe I'll include the 'actual' first Astronaut!
Trust me, that hole cap is why we'll be getting an alien visit, charging us for spaceship damages hahahaha
my father was there; one of the Army guinea pigs. he's one of the last survivors.
Did anyone else watch the Trinity documentary narrated by William Shatner which showed the newly declassified footage of most if not all of the nukes detonated since trinity? 20 years old now but still fascinating.
The first extraterrestrials humans will meet, will bring us back the bore hole cap to tell us to stop leaving our trash everywhere.
Whoever lit and filmed that technician with the black rimmed glasses knew what they were doing.😊
Along with some other issues with this video, it’s not true that “… the US has never tested another nuclear device since 1992.” There have been no supercritical tests, the kind that yield the big explosion, but subcritical testing where a device is brought right up to the edge has been performed.
Unless you're happy to go stand under a nuclear bomb test every day for a month, then I'm not sure what you all are trying to prove debating when 5 random dudes died....
Oh and fyi, it is called 'click bait', and yea, it clearly worked 😊
It got to the point where it was like a fireworks party, they couldnt stop themselves letting off more and more, long after all the basic principles were well established.
When you say vaporized in the atmosphere, was it the exact opposite of "burning up on reentry"?
I wasn't expecting my sims and nuclear bomb interests to overlap today, but here we are 😅
VA: “Sorry your acute gamma radiation exposure is not service related”
Looking for the most recent Whistle vid to tell Simon that OceanSky is an airship cruise line. If he's interested
Images from Upshot-Knothole Grable were accidentally relabeled as belonging to the Priscilla shot from Operation Plumbbob in 1957. As a consequence publications including official government documents have the photo mislabeled. The shots can be told apart by the trails of test rockets, which are prominently featured in images and footage Grable, but appear almost completely absent at the actual Priscilla shot.
Also in Grable there was both white and black mist released from ground zero before the projectile was fired, so see which could ameliorate the thermal pulse effects.
Do the Roberto Carlos 1997 free kick that defied physics on one of your channels please
0:17 Hehe he said little bomb boy.
I think this was a more useful thing to do with Nevada than Las Vegas will ever be.
Rick and morty should ft. The iron cap launched into space in one of their episodes
I can think of no better place to stand than directly under a nuclear blast…
it was safe he lied about them all dying young 2 of the men lived to 2013 and 2014 thats 57 + years after this happened.. the other 2 lived to 2000s and 2 died in 90s the first death happened 33 years after this test hardly that premature death
G'day,
I stuck my head in a
Linear-Accelerator for
70 minutes
At
6.1 MegaVolts worth of Beam Energy....
Two minutes per day,
Five days per week
For 7 weeks.
2 Grays per session.
70 Grays in total, but concentrated in 7 discrete
Spheres, where the
Malignant Metastatic Stage-4 Squamous Cell Carcinoma (of the Right Tonsil) & 6 Secondary Tumours were.
And, 10 Grays
Whole Body Dose is
Lethal in 99 of 100
Subjects so treated.
Effectively they gave me
7 Lethal doses of Radiation, in 7 "balls of cooked meat" between my nose & my nipples - say 12.5% of my Body mass ; and 12.5% of 700 is
Only
87.5% of enough Radiation to
Kill
All of me...
And to spice it up, they also mainlined me about half enough
Cytotoxic "Chemotherapy" of the
Cis-Platin variety, half a Gram, in 7 shots of 70 mg, one every Tuesday morning...
So, arithmetically
Squeaking, I'm tcchnically about
137.5% Dead.
A toothless, tasteless, mangy-looking Zombie.
All 20 teeth had to be extracted, pre-emptively, a month before beginning to get my
Head cooked, to prevent them all dying from the radiation and rotting insitu.
Most Tastebuds are gone, or sending random different signals..., And most of the right side of my
Beard fell off.
But, for a
Zombie, I'm doing OK.
It isn't like being alive used to be, back then everything was
EASY...; now maintaining weight is a
Struggle.
But it's better than being
Dead, and I was on track to be pushing up Daisies in September 2022 ; but I'm still
Handfeeding wild unfenced
Kangaroos & posting Night Hazard-Reduction
Firefighting Tutorial Videos.
Radiation can be
OK...,
If the people who're cooking one
Actually do
KNOW
What they're doing.
Standing under an
Atomic Warhead
Detonation is a bit
Slap-Happy and
Broad-Brush regarding
Dosage and
Coverage..., at least in my view.
I wouldn't sign the
Consent-Form for a
Whole-Body
Irradiation effected by
Warhead-Testing...
But, each to their own.
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-P
Ciao !
@@nozyy5684I wouldn't say Simon lied he was just given the wrong information from the script writer
@@michellejones5541 and he is responsible for the people he employs this happens too often tbh and he never addresses it
@@michellejones5541 if you present information as true, and it's not, then you lied.
The lead in to the ad made me anticipate talk about erectile distinction or prostate exams. Worse yet...INSURANCE!
0:22 The range of estimated yield of Little Boy ranges from 12-15 kt so Boltzmann could have had a greater yield technically
Do a Biographics on Carl Simpson or Bob Fleetwood. Kyle Montgomery
Life Insurance? Really Simon? The ambulance chaser of the insurance industry?
"the little bomb boy" huh
None of the guys were harmed during the nuclear tests. They were too busy lighting their cigarettes from the thermal flash to get radiation sickness. Besides, they were happy, too happy to suffer any latent effects resulting from radiation exposure.
The little bomb boy😂
@8:00 those people were called downwinders and they had a cancer rate of ten times the rest of the population.
Dropping from a tower?
Not sure that was how it was done.
Weren't they detonated on top of the tower?
" one kiloton less than the little bomb boy" that's a better name I think. lol.
More nuke related content, pleeeease
1982 documentary film 'The Atomic Cafe' is worth a watch.
Had a Boss who snuck around Laos with a Nuc BACK PACK! and YES! He Knew! their Chances!
Ooh, a double Megaprojects! Excellent
Lol i need to get into selling insurance... 😂
I hate to say it, but one of Simon's channels failed to perform proper research. All five men at ground zero of the AIR-2 Genie lived their lives to old age. One of them even lived into his 90s and died in 2014 at the ripe age of 91. This is public record and easily checkable; none of them died prematurely due to this test. The reason they were fine was because exposure is lessened given distance and minimizing exposure time. Because of how high the detonation occurs and how cleanly it detonated, the exposure was quite safe. The Genie was a total success and the warhead was the only nuclear weapon allowed to be used without presidential authority until it was phased out because nuclear payloads were now put onto ICBMs and not the high-altitude bombers the weapons were meant to be used against.
After watching this, I have to wonder how many other straight up contradictions are stated on this channel, and others of Simon's, but I just haven't know enough about the subject matter to note the false statements. The statement that all men died prematurely is a very impactful statement and one that directly conflicts with history. I don't know if this is laziness or wanting clicks, but either reason is very damaging toward this channel's credibility.
My Uncle flew a jet fighter though a mushroom cloud at this time period. He died from lung cancer when he was 55 years old. Yeah, they didn't fully understand the risk at the time and he paid for it. Still, he had the chance to fly the SR-71, so there is that.
My dad flew his F-84 through a couple mushroom clouds. He also got doused with Agent Orange. He live to 92. I think he thrived on that stuff!!!
@@billgund4532life is for livin' 😉 sounds like you had an awsome dad.
And the fact that pretty much everyone in the US Military was a pack a day smoker wasn’t relevant? A pack of cigarettes was included in each ration pack.
@@allangibson8494 Oh, you are very correct. He was a heavy smoker and that very well could have played a role. But the smoking gun for me is that ALL of the other pilots that were with him died of lung cancer inter 40s or 50s. Smoking is bad, but it is not universal.
@@danieltempas6062 In the Airforce it was pretty much universal - 85% of the male population smoked in the 1940’s. (Women smoked about half as much).
The movies of the era were a pretty accurate reflection of that.
That was compounded by the use of chemical carcinogens like the benzene in WW2 aviation fuel (currently jet fuel is far more safe in that regard) and asbestos in the military issued gas masks and clothing.
This is not saying radiation was safe but rather someone NOT having cancer from environmental toxins would be surprising as these effects are known to be multiplicative not just additive - smoking stops you clearing debris from your lungs as an example (and you don’t have to be the one doing the smoking).