The Devastating True Scale of Nuclear Weapons
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- The devastating true scale of nuclear weapons began on July 26, 1945, when the Allies demanded the unconditional surrender of Japan, warning of "prompt and utter destruction" if compliance failed. Japan ignored this ultimatum. By summer, the Allies' Manhattan Project had developed two atomic bombs: the uranium-based "Little Boy" and plutonium-based "Fat Man." A top-secret mission saw six B-29 bombers heading to Hiroshima, with the Enola Gay carrying Little Boy. It was released over Hiroshima on August 6, releasing 15 kilotons of TNT, devastating a 1.6 kilometers radius.
Three days later, Bockscar dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki, resulting in a 21-kiloton explosion. These bombings led to 129,000 to 226,000 deaths, prompting Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945, ending World War II and igniting a nuclear arms race, especially between the USA and the Soviet Union.
The US's most powerful nuclear weapon today is the B83, with a maximum yield of 1.2 megatons of TNT, designed for enhanced safety and varied applications including the "Nuclear Bunker Buster" project and asteroid impact avoidance strategies.
Castle Bravo, detonated on March 1, 1954, remains the most powerful device tested by the US, yielding 15 megatons. The Soviet Union responded by developing the Tsar Bomba, detonated on October 30, 1961, with a yield of 50 megatons, marking the largest human-made explosion.
The nuclear arms race led to the development of extensive arsenals capable of mutual assured destruction (MAD), a doctrine suggesting that nuclear conflict would result in the annihilation of both attacker and defender, effectively deterring outright nuclear war. These developments have left a lasting impact on global politics and security.
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U.S. Department of Energy www.energy.gov/
Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation rosatom.ru
Screen Gems Collection, Harry S. Truman Library catalog.archives.gov/
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National Museum of the U.S. Air Force www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
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Army Reserve CBRN here, very accurate info on everything I heard here. If this stuff doesn't keep you up at night... nothing will
Unit 731 keeps me up at night.
I would love to witness and survive it just because I want to be around to see it take place and one day speak about it aside from that I’d want to be right in the blast,
ooooo so scary 🙀
Back in the day, the thought of been vaporized in a nuclear exchange seemed very real. Inevitable in fact. We'd joke about painting bullseyes on top of our heads so the living would envy us. Then the wall came down, the Soviet Union collapsed and China discovered capitalism. All seemed better.....until. Some things just don't change I guess.
You say this like being a reservist gave you authority on this topic.
The true horror is what happens after the blast. Those that are vaporized by the blast are the lucky ones.
Instant death or living in a doomed world.
True
You get vaporized so fast you become graffiti. Look at the after math of the only nukes actually ever used. And those were tiny ones btw
What do you mean by this? If you are talking about radiation, that's not a big issue. Nuclear weapons radiation is very rapidly dispersed around the world and doesn't have hardly any negative effects cause there is no nuclear material to continue releasing radiation.
@@JTheraos Nuclear blast causes devastation in other ways too, than just vaporization and radiation. Those who don't starve under rubble, have severe burns. Krutzegat made a great educational video about it.
1880-1950 has to be the craziest time in the history of earth. We went from horse and buggy to jets, cars, and weapons that can blow up entire cities and were on the brink of space flight in less than 60 years.
dont say yet now we living in more crazy time
humans are not intelligent enough to control🎉 their cleverness.
So then, the sweetspot is around 1914!
Not natural progression. Otherwise neanderthals would have had the same technology.
@@SeanWilson. before 1913 is best timeline.
Peace to all of us. Greetings from Russia.
Greetings from america
100000% 👍 agree my orthodox brothers
Leave Ukraine.
I love you guys.
@@DoStuff1958 Stop NATO expansion
"I don't know what WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones"
-Albert Einstein
Wipeout
Einstein had sex with his 2 cousins and his personal life was a mess, his acting life was a joke. Why quote this fool?
@@velyris "I don't know what weapons might be used in World War III. But there isn't any doubt what weapons will be used in World War IV." "And what are those?", a guest asked. "Stone spears." replied Einstein. - March 1947, as reported anecdotally by friends at a dinner party.
I wanna revise this;
“I don’t know how we will fight world war 3, but I know where we fight world war 4, at your mom’s house”.
Give it a rest. MAD assures no nuclear war. Maybe tactical nukes used on troops or bases, but not large scale nuclear war.
Always remember, the politicians that caused the situation are always safe and sound when SHTF
Maybe, living underground for the rest of their lives. ☢️
Until they meet their maker.
Politicians are expendable as the rest of us. They’re just scumbag actors.
@@davidrockey7190 hopefully.
The people who write this bs are safe and sound... the rest live in their imaginations where the nuclear fallout never stops.
Nothing like the brevity of a British accent to scale up our existential nuclear dread
Which one? There are about 80 accents in Britain. Do you mean a posh English accent? That's the enemy of the British people right there.
@@lachlan1971 Why would you even say such a thing? It's not even a posh English accent, it's received pronunciation, a voiceover artist, or as I suspect, as with many YT videos, generated text to speech. There are far more than 80 accents in Britain too.
“Screw You! That’s Funny!” 😂👍
Seems like a transatlantic accent to me, the one you were hearing in the early 1900s to the 60s
Not a British accent, posh American.
all i can say is, I'm glad humanity has not used nuclear weapons on each other since 1945, and may that be forever true.
Hope so, but the ongoing wars all over the world seems like we are close for a nuclear war. Taiwan vs China, Russia vs Ukraine. Israel vs Palestine, all the wars in different lands in Africa. Eu against Russia. And USA who seems to be in everyones war.
Lol you wish 😅
@DonLee1980.
There is no need to use nuclear weapons now to destroy humanity; there is a far better and more effective way to do it. Have you not heard of the COVID-Jab?
THE BOMBS ARE COMING BACK SOON
@@J0EFERNY-bq1vo where can i buy one
I've often wondered what effect these weapons tests had on the ozone layer, and then they blame it on aerosol cans.
That was 25 years ago, they have shifted to climate change now and cows are to blame
^this
Never underestimate the power of billions of people using aerosol on a daily basis.
The hole we had is the 80s was caused by aerosol cans. Once everyone stopped manufacturing it, the hole is no longer there.
The B83 is the most powerful in our arsenal... Except the other ones that are off the books.
Even the B83 is going to storage. B61 mod11/12 replaces it. Nuclear weapons are easy to build but very expensive to maintain... especially when old.
They are ALL on the books ...If by that I presume we KNOW about them .. just not enabled or deployed.the B83 was the largest deemed usefully deployable but by no means the largest CAPABLE of being deployed
@@user-kw5qv6zl5etrust... we have nukes that the world doesn't know about. If all our enemies new the exact locations of all our nukes and how many we have, we would be at an insane disadvantage. You bet your ass Russia also slhas tons off the books.
@@user-kw5qv6zl5e I'd doubt there area larger weapons in the US arsenal. There's not a lot of value in secretly having bigger bombs, there's no real technical capability being hidden. Nor is there much need for bigger bombs - getting the nuke to the target is the big deal, bigger bombs just give you a bit of leeway in accuracy. If you can deliver one right where it needs to go, you can go smaller. For targets with a larger area, you can use multiple warheads. For really deeply buried targets, a weapon designed to penetrate the earth before detonating. That's a large part of the reason that no one made bigger bombs after Tsar Bomba - they weren't going to be useful. The other part is that after that blast, and Castle Bravo, is that it became clear that there were practical limits on what it was politically feasable to test.
Not that weren't advocates of bigger bombs. Edward Teller, one of the physicists working in the US nuclear weapons program, was a big fan of giant explosions, pushing for the development of ever larger devices. Never built - for obvious reasons - were the 1000MT 'Gnomon' and the 10,000MT 'Sundial'. He kept trying to get the US government to do it, throughout his life. That nerd really loved giant fireballs.
Oh there’s so much we have that the other countries don’t know anything about.
Sadly humans never learn the lessons of the past.
So true😨
We do, but this time is gonna be different.
The humans who make these same kinds of awful decisions anyway.
👍
What lessons? Sorry I wasn't listening.
Up until now, I thought the Enola Gay flew solo for the mission and I have heard the story countless times.
Can you imagine a country blazing 200 thousand souls and keeping a straight face about it today?
And pretending they are the best, empathetic and moral country in the world. When they have murdered the most people. Atomic bombs, 2 million Iraqis, Afganistán, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Latin America, Africa, Middle East and in Europe.
If it ever comes to a nuclear war everybody loses the instant the first explosion takes place 🤦🏻♂️
ah not true. for instance if there was a nuclear explosion in ukraine, it would not trigger article 5. it would have to go outside of that. also no one really knows what would happen anyway & the brits policy is that the PM has the say so on any launch of nuclear weapons, even if the uk is completely destroyed.
@@mrrolandlawrenceso they would destroy everything west of the Urals. What's your point
@@Shoelessjoe78 I think the point is.. it's hyperbolic to say "everyone loses". If one guy has nukes and the other guy doesn't.. then, in a nuclear war the guy without the nukes loses. Obviously.
@@mrrolandlawrence The UK is screwed then, if we still have Sunak in power!!!
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"Where Soros is, there is a blow to the sovereignty of any country and any government. Including the USA. And even starting with the USA. Hence the logical protests against Israel... Meanwhile, student unrest over Palestine is growing, and it is possible that Soros has set a course for an apocalyptic scenario of a civil war in the United States," explains Dugin. Therefore, multinational corporations need... other countries to fight against countries! This is how globalists use the whole of Europe and even the United States for their own interests. It makes Americans feel bad, and Europeans feel terrible.
But how all this is connected with Soros' campaign against Israel is just very interesting. There are, frankly, a lot of plans there... if the globalists get direct access to the management of all US bases, all US special services, all tons of compromising material on the whole planet - what then? They will get to rockets, to space, to submarines. And all this is just for the sake of plunging Russia and China into chaos together with America? And then, so to speak, to feast in muddy waters
perhaps THE SCARIEST aspect of this video IS how out of date the described technology MUST BE in order for it to be declassified AND made publicly available.
MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT SORT OF UNIMAGINABLY ADVANCED WEAPONRY MIGHT BE OUT THERE AT THIS POINT already...
On the other hand, tests of nuclear weapons have decreased significantly since the end of the Cold War, which is probably an indication that the tech hasn't evolved that much, because you can't improve without testing.
Direct Energy Weapons
There's no need for furthur development.
they have NOT developed anything more powerful when it comes to nuclear bombs, because of a problem of diminishing returns--2x the megatons does not cause 2x the damage, but way less than 2x.
That's why the US keeps a nuclear arsenal with bombs of up to 1.2 megatons "only", when they could build much more powerful bombs than that. Pretty much all technological advancement has been focused on the delivery systems, and the missile defenses
@@User-jr7vf Naw. They run simulations on supercomputers. Not as good as the real thing, but sufficient for data gathering.
Imagine being tasked to just simply run a test and being told your survival odds are 50% I'd go awol.
Excellent clarity of the spoken word. No music sheer bliss.
The older I get, the more I realize that humanity everywhere on planet earth does not have any business having nuclear weapons.
Then you need to get a lot older . Because you are utterly wrong.
@wrongfullyaccused7139 Yeah, I suppose so. These days, it's a necessary evil to have, even I know that. You don't have to be condescending about it though.
@@unityxg : A statement of fact is never condescending.
There are nations with ideologies so despicable that they would wipe out every Christian, and every American, and every jew with a wave their hand if they could.
The only thing that stops them from even trying is the knowledge that they would never survive the attempt.
The truly disturbing fact is that you have not yet figured that out.
That is why you are so wrong.
Not all cultures are equal.
Goodbye.
@@wrongfullyaccused7139 He's actually not wrong. Humanity has no business having nuclear weapons anywhere. But we do, so now we have to. It'll be our undoing one day.
@@babybirdhome : As long as socialism/marxism/communism has it devotees and acolytes who blindly follow that morally bankrupt, evil ideology America had better hang on to its' nuclear arsenal.
Goodbye.
My uncle was part of the Manhattan project in WW2. He’s 102 years old and still doing well
Awesome!❤
He is the last Ronin
Incredible. Best luck!
Why you lying for?
Who is your uncle?
“A nuclear war is one that shouldn’t be fought, and cannot be won”
One doesn't know that until one tried it... twice.
Perhaps it's not as bad as people think it will be.
Stalin knew about them before Truman did. Think about that under today’s circumstances.
I was born in 1957 and grew up as a child in the heart of this madness. The weekly air raid sirens were terrifying. Every week local television would show film of the latest atomic test in the Nevada desert. They were all above ground until 1965 or so.. I was told not to eat the snow due to radioactive fallout concerns.
That’s terrible (sorry had to edit since everything is so terrible to think of ) but don’t eat the yellow or nuclear green snow
Where did you live
@@nnonotnow At that time I wasn't far from where that broken arrow crashed near Goldsboro NC in 1961 carrying two multi megaton atomic bombs.. Fortunately, neither went off.. Only one was recovered. Six of the seven safeties had been tripped. The other one remains buried deep underground, they were unable to recover it.
Atomic Weapons don't exist.It has been over 70 years now.70 years are a long time for a mortal.Given Human Nature if Atomic Weapons really existed;Someone would have used them to take over The World by now.Just stop and think for a moment.You have a Invention - The Atomic Bomb,which is capable of demolishing Entire Cities,which can crush The Human Spirit and which has "The Power" to literally enslave/conquer The Whole World and No One All Of This Time has tried to take over The World???It doesn't make any sense.Some people might say this is because of "Mutually Assured Destruction",but my devastating point is this:The Americans were "seemingly" the first to develop Atomic Weapons years before Anyone else,so if The Americans were the first to develop Atomic Weapons and had Atomic Weapons,then why didn't they use them to take over The World.They could have bombed every other Country in The World and then enslaved the survivors.No Army in The World could have stopped them at the time.People will say what about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?What about All the pictures,photos,videos,destroyed buildings and dead bodies?When I look at those pictures and videos of destroyed buildings;they look "burned","scorched" and "incinerated" to Me;not by "One Giant Brutal Super-Bomb",but by Thousands,Tens Of Thousands maybe even Hundreds Of Thousands of "Mini-Firebombs".To Me those devastated buildings don't appear to have been "Crushed" by "One-Single Mega-Brutal Crushing Super-Force",but by "Innumerable Smaller Burning-Forces".Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like burned Towns/Cities instead of Towns/Cities that were completely wiped out by "One Enormous Force".Now this is only Theoretical.I could be very-wrong,but if Atomic Weapons truly existed - by My estimates a Atomic Bomb would have not only "Completely Flattened" a Entire City to a pancake,but it would have also left "A Giant Crater" in the ground.The sheer "Monstrous Crushing Force" of a falling Atomic Bomb would have not only flattened The Entire City to ground-level it would have also "Torn-Apart The Very Ground From The Ground Itself".The Entire City would have been "Grinded Into Dust"- there would be Absolutely Nothing and Nobody left except "A Enormous Crater".There would be no clue that a City even existed.Example:If You build a Sandcastle on The Beach ( The Sandcastle is The City and You are The Atomic Bomb ) and then jump and stomp on it or punch it with All of Your might;it will Completely Flatten and You may even carve a Deep Hole in the ground.The Demons and The Fallen Angels who rule over this World need "Human Life Blood".Hiroshima and Nagasaki were "Satanic Human-Sacrifice Rituals".All of those Hundreds Of Thousands of people were being sacrificed to Demons and Fallen Angels for their blood.Many Ancient Civilizations from The Past were also sacrificing people for their blood,because The Demons and The Fallen Angels told them so.The Wars in The World are Human Sacrifice Rituals.Nothing has changed.Atomic Weapons are a monstrous deception designed to frighten The Public out of their Minds in order to create a Future situation where A False Saviour or False Saviours can rescue them.If Atomic Weapons truly existed;Someone would have used them to take over The World by now,but Nobody has and maybe this is because Atomic Weapons don't exist!
Were milk cows eating fallout grass? Did we drink it as children?
So, 15K ton. 15,000 ton. 15000×2000=30,000,000 pounds of TNT? (30 million pounds of TNT)?
Tsar Bomba 50 megaton H-bomb is 100,000,000,000 pounds of TNT? ... (100 TRILLION pounds of TNT) ... out of words
It's all MAD!
Well done! I spent a lot of time researching nuclear weapons and technology, and you work is spot on. Tell you narrator that he sounds like Mark Strong. That's a compliment, BTW.
Have a great day. o7
Unfortunately we can't unthink nuclear science.
"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves" The Terminator
i did allready happen in paralel versions of earth.. darryl anka has some mind blowing content about it he channels a extraterrestrial
80 years and it hasn't happened...Probably never will.
“I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.” Also The Terminator
Because it is not in our true nature we are here...
Who's to say we haven't destroyed ourselves before, and we're just doing it all over again. Life finds a way to survive, but we also have a self destructive nature, so it's like a vicious cycle repeating itself over, and over again.
Humans are so good at ending lives rather than preserving it
and yet there are 8 billion of us. More than ever before
@@TheIronDuke9 yes, but one mistake can end all of it
It's easier to destroy than to create
not true there are more people alive today than ever before
*Government
Excellent video, thank you. I’m sure it took a tremendous amount of research to produce it.
Thanks for the Great Vid.
"Gentlemen! You cannot fight in here: this is the War Room." (Peter Sellers in 'Dr Strangelove.')
Man Invented the Atom bomb
But No Mouse Would Build a Mousetrap,
Albert Einstein
You realize Albert Einstein was the one who wrote a letter to FDR that started the development of the atomic bomb
So he is the one responsible for it
Albert Einstein wrote a letter to FDR that started the Manhattan Project
so he actually started the whole thing
@@FP194 The Quote was said after the War,
Albert Einstein Wrote that letter to Roosevelt, because the Germans were also working on A nuclear bomb, and He stressed the Importance of getting it before the Germans did
@@tzvi3660 in the end it was nonsense Soviets & US beat the Germans
@@alexanderjason434 it wasn't Nonsense,
The Germans were working on a bomb,
But the Americans amd Russians won the War before either country developed anything, America was first, and they used it against japan
Castle Bravo was a complete fuck up. It was massively more potent than expected. It just goes to show that even scientist can get it wrong.
Look at the atmospheric tests for fuckups, one side did it and burnt out every phone line for several hundred miles, and then the other side thought "the bastards are trying to blow up space! We need to do that too" and then they did the exact same thing, lmao. Can't remember who did it first, the US (with Starfish Prime) or the Soviets but despite the massive damage it caused to the home country the other side copied it and damaged their own country.
but every mistake teaches us something theres a certain design that can fit in a 155mm shell that came from that
yeah, a miscalculation about Lithium-7 being inert. It obviously was not. 🧐
Don't question science. Science is unassailable. Get another booster. I am science itself. -Dr. Fauci
So without any testing you know everything....where is our warp drive and gravity polarizers?
great vid ,, thank you
In all of WWII about 2.5m tons of TNT was dropped from bombers. A single 2.5 megaton bomb is the quivalent therefore of all of the bombs dropped during WWII, in a single event.
The US doesn't use megaton bombs anymore. They currently have warheads in the kiloton range. I don't know about the Russians.
However, for instance during the 1980s when I was in the service a B-52 could carry 12 weapons. The SRAM missiles alone each had about a 180 kt warhead. EACH of those was ten times the yield of the ones dropped on Japan. I think the gravity weapons were more like 400 kt. It's all mind boggling. 12 nuclear weapons totaling 3 megatons being signed for by a three stripe high school drop out.
Unofficial reports state the Russians have the largest number of nuclear weapons, more than all the rest of the countries combined. Most of them are mobile, fitted to submarines. Russian also developed the GBM which can do loops around the globe, thanks to their built-in mini nuclear reactors that provide almost endless propulsion fuel. And yes, the yield in the warheads for the latter ones are in Mega Tons.
Unit of measurements you have used are incorrect:
m= milli (10^-3)
M= mega (10x^6)
@@Rod_MolinaBachmann Russia are losers as is proved by their bungling in Ukraine. Our military has all of their nukes targeted.....including their noisy submarines.
@@rael5469 If u think they only have kiloton bombs then you are either a fed or probably just mistaken
These are all impressive feats of engineering but don't let this distract you from the the fact that in 1966, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers.
Oh dear lord, thanks for the memories!
I've been getting an itch to binge watch some Married with Children.
This is must be the sign I'm looking for to binge it all.
GO B-U-N-D-Y!! 🏈
I Do Recall Such A Thing 😂😂
Gay
Never forget!
Well done. Great documentary.
I really think people should give serious thought about firing or even testing Nuclear arms. It is very bad for planet Earth. Mr. X
this is why billionaires are running to space lol
Of course ,what would you do ?
They ain't going nowhere lol 🤣
Space won't save us, there will be a Death Star one day
A few have become toothpaste at the bottom of the ocean.
The common sheep finance the billionaires to try and escape through Naza.
I remember in grade school in the 60’s when the teachers would make us drop and cover if there was ever a nuclear attack. This scared the crap out of us and was useless against a nuclear attack. Then came the Cuban missle crisis. Thirteen days we were waiting for Armageddon. Now kids lose it if the Wi-Fi goes out. 🤯
Woefully unprepared. So is everyone else
There was an era around the 70s when most rugged schools and many homes had an underground fallout shelter. That's better than under a desk, but still wouldn't survive decades of contamination and nuclear winter. Putin and his sad followers want to bring this era back.
OMG!!! THE STRESS of not knowing if you still have the most expensive iPhone in your circle of friends! And, and, and maybe The Taylor gets, like dumped. Worst of all, not knowing if you can afford a sex change, or a new rack... Times have never been worse...
@@kevinp3550LMFAO😂
LOL ;)
Great video! Why is does the 21KT bomb used on Nagasaki look smaller than the 15KT bomb used on Hiroshima in your infographic though?
The test-device fired in the Castle Bravo was the TX-21S SHRIMP device:
Length: 179.5 in
Diameter: 53.9 in
Weight: 23,500 lb
Fun fact!
Modern thermonuclear weapons are cleaner and more fuel efficient than old bombs made in the 1940’s. 😎
Environmentally friendly Nuclear Warheads ! No way. This is awesome ! Now I want one of them to drop in my school yard to make the Apricot Trees grow faster !
@@Rod_MolinaBachmann 200# apricots? 🙈
@@michaelgarrow3239 200 sounds about right, Cobber.
So happy humanity is still progressing!
I'll keep that in mind while my flesh is burning, at least is burning clean.
Imagine being told that your mission to test drop a bomb for science only had 50% odds of survival. I guess saying "no" had 0% chance of survival.
I'd be willing to bet it was calculated at much lower odds than that. 50% was giving them some hope.
They should have installed a lead coated small room for the crew to settle in after the explosion.
Imagine being told that you are about murder 200,000 innocent men, women and children.
@@matbroomfield did you forget what the Japanese did too the Chinese? They slaughtered by hand and gun over 150,000 in a week it was genocide and 85% of them were women and children
Yeah i don't think personal choice and communism ever go hand in hand lol.
Soooo why was the explosion for Hiroshima bigger on the size chart despite being 6 kilotons smaller?
No matter how much time passes, I know that Japan will never really forget these bombings....
Shouldn't have started a war then. 💀🇬🇧
The great filter reference at the end only cemented my sub. Glad i found this channel, very nice
Welcome aboard!
It's absolutely bonkers that something so small can wield such an awesome power 😬😳
E = m c squared
Look up cobalt salt bombs 🤪 thats some depressing wicked stuff
I feel this is both a good and a bad time for...That's what she said 😅
@@southstalk I can only hope that someday my wife will say something like that! 🤣
Thats what i tell the chicks about myself
Ok, Just one final video before bedtime. Am sure it will be a nice one.
Subscribed.
It really frustrates me that such a positive, useful advancement: Nuclear Energy, has gotten sadly lumped together with these devastating weapons of war.. I wish we didn't have mental trauma that ties these weapons to such helpful advancements in energy production. Things have improved so much since the early days of nuclear energy and learning about radiation safety measures.. If only we could utilize it.. Too many people fear nuclear energy tho.. I hope that changes one day.
I think it is the radioactive wastes from the expended fuel that bothers most people. With at least 2 reactor meltdowns having happened ( Chernobyl and one recently in Japan after an earthquake and tsunami ) without killing us off it's the dangerous waste products and safely disposing of them that will be the biggest concern.
If you really want to be frustrated, google Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, find the wikipedia article on it, and read the "advantages" section. Its not a perfect source but it gives you an idea of what an amazing design for nuclear power LFTR's are and its very frustrating we never went with them partly due to initial construction cost being higher (though its much cheaper in the long run) and their inability to make nuclear weapons from the waste. They use about 99% of their fuel, and the waste is 83% short-lived but more radioactive and decays in hours to days instead of the 24,000 years a majority of current nuclear waste would take. The remaining 17% takes around 300 years to reach background levels, this is vastly better than current models achieve. To power the USA for a year would make about a briefcase sized amount of waste. Thorium is much more abundant than uranium (and silver, tin, and mercury) and is currently a nuisance byproduct of rare earth mining, we already have enough buried in the nevada desert to power the world for hundred of thousands of years. Also theyre 45% thermally efficient compared to 33% from BWR's and could reach 54% thermal efficiency with theorized improved processes and models since the 1960's. LFTRs require enriched uranium or spent nuclear fuel from current reactor models to kick start their reactions (great way to get rid of current nuclear waste thats radioactive for thousands of years otherwise) but then dont need enriched fuel to maintain their reaction, which is 1 of 4 reasons LFTRs are terrible for nuclear weapons proliferation attempts. They are inherently safe for multiple reasons. 1: if the core fuel heats up and begins to react too much the fuel expands and leaves the core and self limits itself, 2: the graphite rods that moderate the reaction have a similar thermal feedback limiting function, 3: The LFT salt also absorba more neutrons the hotter it is which is a 3rd form of negative temperature coefficient creating passive inherent safety limits to the reactions in the core. 4: Passive fail-safe, if power were lost or the plant abandoned it would melt a salt plug and self drain to a storage tank below and could be recovered later even. 5: If it spills its not really a huge deal, whatever it touches is radioactive but thats it and itll also drain into the storage tank due to the kitchen sink like design of the core room. 6: The fuel is extremely stable and will not react with air or water explosively or anything. 7: And the reactor can operate at atmospheric pressure. 8: Core doesnt need concrete or lead shielding. The worst thing about it is the corrosiveness which beryllium, nickel, lithium, and molybdenum is what would mainly be required to make LFTR's, plus theyre scalable if you want, they dont need concrete or lead shielding, the core is jacketed by the liquid fluoride thorium salt and absorbs the radiation and is converted into the uranium isotope needed for fuel and then pumped into the core in a continuos cycle that doesnt need to shut down to "refuel". Due to the molten liquid nature of the fuel/waste salt you can remove nuclear waste selectively by half life and remove xenon gas byproduct build up during operation to both stop xenon poisoning AND the gas is dissolved in the salt and cant build up pressure or require a shutdown to remove it, like conventional reactors. And thats literally just the tip of the iceburg, theres an unreal amount of pros to this tech and it irks me everyday that we arent going full steam ahead with it.
Spot-on comment. I would further add that that trauma was not by accident. Certain organizations and environmentalist activist groups WANTED such a misunderstanding to occur to further their own ends.
"Helpful advancements." Yeah, like the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The plant is still leaking 300+ tons of highly radioactive water into the Pacific -- daily since 3/11/11. It can't be stopped. Huge coverup. It's spreading to oceans worldwide, killing & radiating ocean life, causing cancer in people. Some of the radioactive elements have 1/2 lives of hundreds of years or more. I stopped eating all fish.
We have been capable of building more efficient nuclear power plants since the beginning. They took longer to build so in the race with the USSR, we didn't build them. We can adapt what we have and recycle most of the waste we already produced to a tiny fraction of what we had. A small 5×5×5 inch cube per person for their whole life could be used.
This should be shared worldwide.
did u share it? 😉
The thing most ppl don't understand is that when knocking an asteroid off course, you only have to do it by like a quarter of a quarter of a quarter degree. It doesn't take much when considering the enormous amount of space out there.
Edward Teller, one of the scientist who helped develop the hydrogen bomb for US said in 1950s "we could develop a bomb with output of 1 gigaton or even 10 gigaton". Teller was also instrumental in Oppenheimer losing his security clearance because Oppy opposed development of hydrogen bomb.
I'm glad you highlighted the fact that it could be "The Great Filter" beyond which no civilization ever survives.
Considering we are in a simulation, what's the longest amount of time humanity has survived prior to us getting rebooted, by a being on a higher dimensional level... I see us like one of those old box TVs .. like pushing the button with the initial flash in the center of the screen,accompanied by nothing but static
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@@sukuna9142 Maybe someday we'll be able to really know what reality is. If we're in a simulation it could be just a game being played. When we extinguish ourselves the game is over? Boom, rinse, repeat?
@@sukuna9142 considering we are in a simulation? what? why are you saying it as if it was a fact?
@@alicorn3924It is a fact though. The question is, does it reboot all the way back to the beginning or just this portion of planetary events? If it’s the latter, that would suggest every other historical event never happened. What a mind f**k.
I guess the "" duck and cover "routine that I learned in grade school in the late 1950's would not work today.
Neither in that time😅
Nope. Thermonuclear weapons make Fat Man and Little Boy look like firecrackers comparatively.
@@joaoneves5701With proper shelter underground, they'd have survived, but considering this was something the world hadn't seen before, yeah. They had no clue, and it wasn't survivable back then.
Can you freaking imagine being there, when the first atomic weapons were dropped within a 5-10km radius..?
"Duck and cover" could make a difference if you're far enough from Ground Zero.
It actually still works - if you are far enough away to see the flash, it’s the glass from your windows blowing in that will kill you.
Thermonuclear bombs have a three second black window between the initial nuclear blast and following thermonuclear blast caused by ionisation of the atmosphere - enough time to duck from the immediate radiation bloom and following sonic velocity shrapnel.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH THIS... 😢
2:255 - When showing the scale of the nuclear weapons, why is the 21 kiloton explosion graphic smaller than the 15 kiloton one?
Inferiority complex perhaps? Nukes have feelings too.
Threads is a great movie that depicts how depressing it would be to survive a nuclear apocalypse.
Great movie
Agreed watched at school was terrified for years even now I'm scared of nuclear bombs
@@debndavid Well if you live near a big city you'll probably die instantly so it's not all bad lol
Threads barely comes close.
you mean will be
Did you hear +100,000,000 C (for Americans it's about 180 million F) and some folks believe they could survive 1000s of these nukes being dropped.
The only way to survive is to not drop them in the first place
I think some of us would make it but very few the real worry is radiation turning everything that wasn’t sealed before the blast life threatening, you’d have to cover your plants use light systems in a greenhouse and get soil from 10 feet down to ensure you aren’t creating food with alpha particles around after the fact and I don’t think sunlight would be showing so you better fight for that gasoline for your generators and even then I don’t know how you’d grow anything but you better figure it out quickly. Not to mention you’d have to be somewhere the wind didn’t travel after the attack. I’m not sure what you can grow in minimal light conditions but you’d have to find something that can consistently be grown without much sunlight cause you’ll be relying on generators and then find a way to sustain those light systems for the next 100 years. Assuming the sun won’t be out for awhile after that.
@@spagooter1807 Wind from the nuclear tests in Nevada carried radiation north to cover a big piece of eastern Canada. With all the blasts shown in the video every pipe carrying water, sewer, gas, oil etc would be cracked. Would there be any remaining hospitals and first response facilities? Radiation sickness killed over 150,000 in Hiroshima years after the blast. Internet and everything electronic would fail to operate. For me I'd rather be standing facing the blast. Non-human inhabitants a million years in the future may wonder how a shadow appeared on the rocks.
@@shawnsanders6113 A 1980's movie War Games with Matthew Broderick shows the insanity.
@@spagooter1807The after radiation is the main issue with nuclear war. It's terrible.
10:57 that's quite interesting, the upcoming test of the Tsar Bomba being disclosed by the New York Times - I always wondered what that line in Dr Strangelove was in reference to.
I was born in Los Alamos in 1951. My father was an electrical engineer working on the projects there.
Underwater nuclear torpedo, should scare you more.
Especially if it does achieve its target precisely ( meant to be aimed at sea shelves thus creating a huge tsunami due to mud displacement)
Nuclear tsunamis aren't a (practical) thing.
Submerged nuclear explosions are known to be extremely toxic because of the radio-active elements only dispersing very slowly.
Nuclear torpedoes, especially the autonomous ones (drones), are best to block harbors. The classic ones to attack convoys.
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Read first. Respond later. It’s not about the explosion as an underwater explosion creates nothing but a local tidal.
It’s about hitting an sea shelve , thus displacing huge amount of mud. The displaced mud, exactly like an earthquake , is what creates the tsunami.
As long as the displaced mud is in the general direction of your target, you create a tsunami. That simple that deadly.
That’s how underwater earthquakes creates tsunamis btw. It’s not the sheer power of the quake but the displaced underwater mud.
@@JZsBFF earth displacement mate. That’s how tsunami comes to life. If you cause a huge enough under water mud slide, you can create not just a “Fukushima like” tsunami, but one with a tidal wave - pending on how shallow is your coastal point of interaction.
I won’t elaborate more as to the how, but you can look it up on google.
Just to be clearer . Tsunamis ?are not created by under ground earthquakes. That only occurs if there was a massive underground dirt displacement.
Catastrophic tsunamis I’m the past century even happened because of man made mistakes like in a dam in Italy.
I suggest you look it up. See just how high of tidal wave, and how devastating was the result.
I just hope we will never see it being activated.
Incredible work on this video
Thank you very much!
nice dramatic video, informational too
It's horrible, I pray that people on both sides, every side can work it out, talk it out with out using weapons of mass destruction.
The Day After was the scariest TV movie I ever saw while growing up in the 80's
It was scary, BUT it was too clean; BBC's docudrama "Hiroshima" REALLY depicts
the nightmare of a nuclear weapon; interviews of survivors from Hiroshima giving eye-witness accounts of what they experienced & saw ; personal stories;
from drinking "black rain" (radioactive raindrops) , charcoal bodies, people walking with their flesh hanging off them to 100's drowning in the river because of massive dehydration from buirns & them crawling over other people drowning the people beneath them. the slow agonizing death from radfiatin poisoning -
This film depicts the horror of horrors of a nuclear weapon. And, Hiroshima was
just one bomb & by todays scale , was very small ~15ktons vs todays typical yield of 92 to 495 kton warheads.
@@rickhensen3278 Threads (1984) available on Vimeo is a UK movie showing UK before, during and after nuclear attack.
And it was pure bullcrap. I guess the China Syndrome movie scared you all to pieces as well.
Don't forget TESTAMENT. That was a great movie too.
Wikipedia:
Testament is a 1983 drama film based on a three-page story titled "The Last Testament" by Carol Amen (1933-1987),[2] directed by Lynne Littman and written by John Sacret Young. The film tells the story of how one small suburban town near the San Francisco Bay Area slowly falls apart after a nuclear war destroys outside civilization. It was one of the films, along with The Day After and Threads that portrayed life after a nuclear war, mostly in response to an increase in hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Originally produced for the PBS series American Playhouse, it was given a theatrical release instead by Paramount Pictures (although PBS did subsequently air it a year later). The cast includes Jane Alexander, William Devane, Leon Ames, Ross Harris, Lukas Haas, Roxana Zal and, in small roles shortly before their rise to stardom, Kevin Costner and Rebecca De Mornay. Alexander was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.[3]
Threads is a great movie to remove your happy thoughts.
The best in getting a nuclear fix.
Imagine if Tsar Bomba was tested at its full potential yield...
Sorry, I still think this was a major war crime. And it should be treated and regarded as such.
You can't just drop a weapon of mass destruction on civilians and then go like "but is saved so many lives in the long run"
Palestinians babies: Hold milk bottle.
Victors make the rules, Baby.
... so many American lives. Japan was the aggressor, remember?
Not generally known is that most of the energy released from thermonuclear weapons is from the U-238 tampers. The fast neutrons released by fusion of lithium deuteride have enough energy to fission U-238. (Fission weapons such as Little Boy required U-235.) The narrator correctly explains that the U-238 tampers in the Tsar Bomba were replaced with lead tampers to greatly decrease the yield.
I am the science nerd's science nerd. Everything you have stated here is 100% accurate, which is odd for a CZcams channel but appreciated. Unlike the pinned thread, I don't let this mutually assured destruction issue bother me. Do you realize how many times the US and Russia have been at odds in key conflicts around the world since the 1960's? It is the certainty that if the two countries cross swords it will mean the end of the world and...that has stopped that very thing from happening. No body is ready to kill humanity! And it's worked for 80 years. Oh...one really nerdy thing I'd like to request though...we need to stop calling it a nuclear fireball. Fire is created chemically...this is a plasma ball....it is a man made star. That's why it gets to between 10 million and 100 million degrees. No fire burns that hot...just sayin.
We had a "wargame" simulated nuclear attack once when I was stationed on USS Ranger.
Apparently at least one of the "nuke tosser" aircraft got within a couple miles or so and managed to "simulate" release of at least one weapon.
After about 5 minutes of silence, the exercise was declared over.
Yes, nukes cause that major of shockwaves AND displace that much water forming a tidal-type wave to sink a carrier on a "not all that near" miss.
Given that air defences have improved significantly, do you think the US would be able to shoot down all the nuclear missiles before they reach their targets in the US?
@@User-jr7vf Not this year.
We don't have ENOUGH of them to cover all targets, and inland targets mostly are not covered AT ALL (most or all of our ICBM nuke defenses are Aegis ship based, and I'm not sure how well they would work against sub-launched missiles given the short response time - probably OK if those defenders are already at a high alert level when the launch happens, otherwise iffy to "forget it").
Perhaps in a decade if we start widely deploying comparable land-based defenses we'll be able to get 90% or more of them.
@@User-jr7vf Russia has a 1,000 MT nuclear torpedo that is launched near (30miles) of US shoreline when looking at underwater geography could cause a several 100 foot high tsunami. Basically tossing docked aircraft carriers onto the land. But since the both sides are equally diabolical, both sides likely have something insane like this developed.
@@superchuck3259 They supposedly have something similar around the UK just in case they need to sink the island lmao... I'm so glad to know we humans have planned well in regards to mutual self-destruction... actually... there is no "we".. I never planned for this. See the problem?
@@User-jr7vf No It is one thing to shoot down cruise missiles or low altitude ballistics. It is another matter to shoot down a warhead from a true ICBM. They come down somewhere in the mach 25 range. We have gotten good at missile defense (in the age of computer targeting, speed isn't nearly the defense it used to be) but that kind of speed is quite different than couple of mach we usually deal with. A luckily place ship might, might get a lucky hit....maybe but the fact is even if they were prepared and waiting they are unlikely to be able to protect a city. That would take some very tricky and extremely expensive interceptors and associated guidance and tracking systems to do and frankly I don't think that we could make them reliable enough to justify the costs.
Oh and while it is unlikely that a nuke will detonate if destroyed in the air, there is still that possibility. (The damage somehow sets off the ignition explosives before destroying the containment chambers.)
The movie 'Threads', should be required viewing for all.
Reportedly, Ron Reagan saw the US version -The Day After - and immediately began to reduce the number of nuclear weapons we had.
Fun fact the fastest man made object is a manhole cover launched into space by a nuclear explosion in navada. Its currently somehere outside the solar system.
@ 4:35 What a stunning panoramic! The camera starts to the right of the Earth with high exposure so the stars are visible and the night side of the Earth is lit, then pans to the left to show how bright the day side of the Earth is, while lowering the exposure to reduce the brightness, so it looks normal, while the stars and the night side of the Earth go dark. I've never seen that before, anywhere. Now I'm going to be upset with every sci-fi movie and video game that doesn't feature an example of this.
Thank you for noticing it
Those were completely different frames though! And are computer generated with advanced tech making it look semi real!
The speaker really adds the gravitas needed for such a serious, real video of facts and what it means over all of us today.
Did this tests like castle bravo and tsar bomba pierce/damage the layers of the atmosphere???
Before the detonation of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos scientists were unsure and slightly mortified that it could possibly detonate the atmosphere because they had no knowledge or data of what the chain reaction would do would it stop? It's just crazy to think about.
0:45 the sneaky fallout theme is subtle, but a nice touch.
War ... War never changes .....
We talk about not committing war crimes but our nuclear strategy involves wiping out cities.
It’s a necessary evil that must exist so the enemy knows the consequences of them trying do the same to us.
Cities are not targeted just to target the populace. Only strategic targets are targeted but there are many of them. After the first strike and all your weapons have been largely successful then there really is not a need nor is there any reason to keep launching. Once the main targets have been hit the cost of maintaining more weapons begins to to great for the possible targets destroyed, diminishing returns.
If there was a "bully on the block" running around threatening everybody and scaring the wholly hell out of everyone after 1945 it was the U.S. We carried weapons in bombers up to the Soviet borders every day. We ran so many sorties like that there were many, many mistakes of our planes crashing with weapons onboard or them dropping them accidentally all over the country and several places around the world. We got lucky the Soviets never thought we had actually launched and launched as well.
Commentator: "Almost everyone who died was civilians" he says with a proud voice.
There’s no war crime if you win.
@@danielaramburo7648Russia said hello 😊
Imagine throwing nukes on civilians - not to defend America on the other side of the world - pure insanity
2:55 how come the 21 Kiloton of TNT mushroom cloud looks smaller than the 15 Kiloton mushroom cloud? Was this a mistake or is the cloud smaller the stronger it is?
Check the scale
*"Comrades! If we're not all dead after this sucker explodes, the vodka is on me. Lenin help us."* -TU95 pilot (probably)
*"Guys! Let's name our plane after the dirty perverts who will indoctrinate American children in public schools and libraries 80 years from now!"* - Americans (probably)
Thanks for using the metric units
There really is no upper limit of how powerful a fusion bomb can be. The restrictions have to be imposed but we could potentially build planet killers that would sterilize most of the surface in a single blast (given of course you don't expect to survive and you don't need to deliver the bomb)
Immediately reminds me of the introduction to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast.
Former grunt here. It is my highest hope that humanity will never use any kind of WMD ever, be it chemical, biological or nuclear. I still cling to the hope that rational and logical people will never press the "red button" ever again.
Joe Biden is trying hard to start a nuclear war with Russia !!
And it's all about Nato expansion !!
Point is,,,not a lot of people understand why there's a Nato in the first place!
There's no Soviet union anymore,,,all Russia want is to live in peace and security...
What's so difficult about that ?
That was one of the best nuke documentaries I've seen well done!👍
How are we able to get video of this?
My condolences to those woman and children who died in the blast and those that suffered the radiation..
What about the men??
Note - on Castle Bravo, the reason the expected yield was so much lower than what the final yield was, is they didn't realize how much of an effect the Lithium 6. When they calculated the yield, they thought only the Lithium 7 would increase the yield and didn't account that 40% of the Lithium used, Lithium 6, would react.
Yes, and when ignited, Li7 produces Tritium which significantly boosted the yield.
muricun scientists too dumb
The B53/W53 were the largest warheads ever deployed at 9 Megatons. The W53 was the warhead on top of the Titan II missile. At one point in the early 60's they were working on upgrading that yield to 25 Megatons.
I thought back in the 1960s, the US B-52 bombers carried each 2 20-megaton bombs, and Russia tested out a Czar/Tsar Bomb, which was 50 megatons.
Titan II Launch crew member here. We were so young and our job was to end civilization.
FYI: As targeting improved, they reduced the yield ; they didn't have to destroy
everything in a 10 mile radius for that one little ammunition depot; Just everything in a 5 mile radius:). Depending on yield of course.
Actually the Mk-41 gravity bomb was the largest yield US weapon deployed at 25MT...To this day it still has the best yield to weight ratio of any nuclear weapon. They were retired in the late 70's
If this doesn't utterly terrify you. Then NOTHING will. What we have developed in terms of weapons is beyond the scope of reality. It's truly disturbing and we will ultimately be our own undoing in the end. No doubt about it.
I agree. And yet, because of the woke madness, the used-to-be-great Atomic Clock website now puts CLIMATE CHANGE on equal footing with nuclear Armageddon! Stupid fools. Nothing is near as dangerous for not only humankind but 99% of Life on Earth than a full out nuclear war. Nothing. And we escaped such total annihilation quite a few times already. By accidents or false computer reads no less. Not even by deliberate choice. And those are the known ones...
Little boy and fat man were adorable little buggers!
the most dirtiest war tactics ever used by mankind, its like if one cant win a hand to hand combat, pushing the opponent to fire while the opponent turns back to rest.
The atomic bombs saved hundreds of thousands of American casualties in the planned invasion of Japan and perhaps millions of Japanese casualties.
The idea that warfare is fought with any sense of fairness is so naive it's heart warming. I have weapon that has a range of 100 meters....you have a weapon that has a range of 200 meters... The premise that you would willingly come within 100 meters of me, in the pursuit of "fairness", is laughable.
yeah the Japsanese during ww2 were well known for never doing anything "dirty"... just ask the POWs and the residents of Nanking
@@TheNomad2727 I like how you choose the Japanese as an example there - Name one country that hasn't done anything ''dirty''.
@@rianmacdonald9454read the comment Im replying too dummy! are you so delusional you think I think Japan are all alone in being dirty?
Why did I get roped into this chaotic world man?.....
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My uncle was on bikini atoll in the military during these nuclear tests. He had many cancers over the years. The lung cancer that killed him came up suddenly, and he passed on for that. This Memorial Day think of the brave soldiers who list their lives during war, and during the aftermath that ensued
3 points not mentioned in relation to the year of 1945 events:
1. The Fat Boy was dropped for no strategic reason but to test the plutonium scheme. So, around 100k people died and many more got hurt just because they were used as the lab rats.
2. The almightily Red Army attacked Japanese (in accordance with the request of the US) on August 9. So, there was, possibly, no reason to drop any bombs at all - and all reason to wait at least a few days to see the Japan’s reaction to the Russians entering the war and getting through the Kwantung Army defense lines as a knife through melting butter.
3. So, why the hurry? The above leads us to a guess that the US wanted to show Uncle Joe that they had something special. Before the Japanese had a chance to surrender without being A-bombed.
What a load of shit ..
This comment is the most correct of all here... on all points. The US was afraid that Stalin would not give up a large part of European territory that the Red Army had occupied whilst pushing out the Nazis.
You should have started with Truman's "Rain of Ruin" speech. More applicable.
Ughh what a miss. For some reason I didn't think of that.
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I do NOT want to survive a nuclear exchange. Any God help those that survive. The future would be hell.
Obviously there have been many simulations run regarding the outcome of every possible scenario involving a nuclear exchange. Apparently Australia and New Zealand are the only places that have any likelihood of surviving. Partly because we aren't particularly important targets for Russia, and also because the spin of the earth causes air in the northern and southern hemispheres to spin in opposite directions keeping the two air masses largely separated. Australia has the best chance because of the sheer amount of space to grow food, so even with severely reduced sunlight, there's still the capacity to produce enough food.
That's good and all, but then China became all bullish, so we're probably fucked here in Australia anyway. The moral of the story is, don't start writing comments if you haven't had your ADHD medication or you'll end up in a long rant. 😂
@@Alex.The.Lionnnnn
There's medication for ADHD? Crap, now they tell me. 😖
@@Alex.The.Lionnnnn
P.S. What medication do you take for your narcissism? Anti-anxiety meds? Just asking.
Even if you did survive we'd be coming for our land back. That you wouldn't....@@Alex.The.Lionnnnn
Unfortunately, you cannot hide behind death.
I'll tell you what keeps me up at night. Converting drat kilo meters to feet. Now that's what keeps me up!
2:56 Why does the graphic show the larger explosion as smaller?