What Does a Nuclear Bomb Explosion Feel Like?
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2018
- The existential threat of nuclear war is no longer a Cold War memory. With nine countries armed with around 15,000 atomic bombs up to 53 times stronger than those dropped in the Second World War, the stakes are arguably higher.
Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29, we met up British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like to experience a nuclear bomb explosion up close.
While most people know about the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, fewer are aware that an additional 2,000 atomic bombs were detonated after World War II and tested on hundreds of thousands of young soldiers to prepare them for nuclear war.
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this should be shown in schools all over the world.
I was taught about it from my school. It was an overwhelming topic. This is the type of history that has been forgotten💔
Is ThAt A wEaPoN?
this sparked a new fear in me, i didnt need another. bruh
My science teacher just played this video in class today, i started crying, from not only fear but disgust that these innocent people were exposed to such inhumane "tests".
We saw it in history
These men have been kept in the dark and betrayed by their country. It saddens me to hear the effect on their children. I'm sure none of these men where compensated for their sacrifice.
No one knew of the long term effects back then, no knowledge on how dose permanently affected a person. They used xrays to fit shoes
I'm sure the VA said their leukemia and cancer wasn't service connected for the American Servicemen that were affected.
s Smit even if they didn't know, it still wouldn't be a reason to get away with it
By their country?
You mean the corporate sector that runs what we call the state/country, with the help of their crony puppets in the government and the military.
Dude this thing cant be compensated with money or just about anything else.
I’m shocked, I have nothing but infinite respect for these gentlemen
And tears. They shouldn't have been there.
Wake up there, they don't care about you or I either.
This should not have happened
Look up tsar bomba it's like watching a sun be created.
i’ve interviewed Wayne Williams, he saw several nuclear tests in the Area 51 desert
When they talked about the men on the boat breaking down in tears from the sheer magnitude of the bomb, I had a real rush of emotion all of a sudden. Just imagining how terrifying seeing this thing up close is impossible; just understanding the power of this horrible weapon is beyond me.
This sort of thing really just shows the blatant disregard for human life in war. Doesn't matter if you won or lost, or if no war ended up happening at all, authorities see fit to sacrifice the lives and happiness of millions of young people.
That’s kinda the nature of war. Nobody likes it, the authorities don’t, soldiers don’t, and your average citizen doesn’t but it’s a hell of a lot better than losing.
@K W The comment said nothing (nor even implied anything) about the U.S. Also... I wouldn't say competition or paranoia were the main factors compelling the creation of the atomic bomb. The primary urge satisfied in its unveiling was the lust for power.
It's one reason (of many) why I hold men like these in such high regard. Their motivation in action wasn't to dominate, control, gain wealth or any other faction of greed. It was solely to be a factor in the pursuit of the greater good, to which each felt he was doing his part to attain. To exploit that and betray these men, as their government did, is among the worst sins of which man is capable. Disgusting.
@@thevoicej2511 if we only could be a peacful humanity...it could all be so easy and the start is in us. We dont have to be the cruel ppl we are.
It's hard to imagine there being that much evil in this world, this world is ran by psychopaths, and war equals money in their eyes. I dream of a world where there is no war, or evil beings in control.
And that’s because War, war never changes.
This should be considered a crime against humanity.
It is a crime against humanity, the suits wanted to test the effects of the bomb without knowing what was produced when an atomic bomb is detonated. The light they described was a spectrum of all light, but one that we dont get a lot of is high frequency xray, it's why you could see your hands bones through your flesh with just your eyes covered. Not only this, but they knew of radiation and used these men to test their radiation meds and how to cure or treatment of ailment they inflicted on them. Used them to judge the lifespan and common sickness with people subjugated to the blast and the maximum effective range. In the footage they shown the boats, staggered at different distances away from point of impact and used that to figure out where you could be safe.
It's an experiment using human test subjects, then slapped them with an NDA. Gotta keep that abuse of power from getting out.
@@jared5941 I've never stated that the American government has never done any shady stuff against humanity, take for example MKULTRA, but one should look at instances such as these and hold people accountable. Most new age anarchists, socialists and in some cases american democratic liberals want to just over throw the whole system and start new. This isnt how progress is made, you stand on the shoulders of giants with everything we learn.
So I'm not condemning all British politics as criminals, but the officers and officials that knew the risks, saw the unmanned tests and still went forward with this test and to make it worse they used their own people, people who signed up to protect their loved ones from harm, to be Guinea pigs.
With America during WW2, there was racist rhetoric in japan against the allied nations but of americans in particular. America was adamant about staying out of ww2 telling churchill to fight his own fight, that the USA was not going to get involved. What dragged America into ww2 was pearl harbor, where ships at dock were attacked by kamikaze pilots. This shows that the government of japan was not afraid to throw away the lives of their soldiers if it ment attacking an enemy. The japanese cherished this as a great victory but America wasnt even in the conflict yet. It was a sucker punch in all senses of the word.
So when your in war, your intent isnt to kill civilians, but to intimidate the other country not to continue their violence towards you. So when the atomic bomb was created the USA dropped flyers from air craft before dropping the bombs to warn people get out of there they were going to destroy the city to make japan surrender. They dropped the bombs as a mission that ultimately stopped japan from participating in ww2 with the nazis. This dramatically affected not only the war front in the islands near japan, but germany, without support from the Japanese, lost territory on the russian front and forced the germans to panic and disrupt supply lines in the western US/British front line. It was the turning point in the war against NAZI Germany, and ultimately resulted in the end of WW2.
What I'm saying is if your stuck with people getting killed for no real reason other then some scientist wants real world data, or people getting killed by nazi Germany invading almost all of Europe, gassing the jews, the gays, the invalids and more, the only way you can see to stop it is to drop bombs on japan big enough for them to notice and say oh shit. I'd say they are both shitty but at least Nagasaki and Hiroshima ultimately ended a war and mass genocide it's an hard truth but life isnt black and white.
@Oh yeah chungus other nuclear attacks attempted throughout history? Lmao like what?
Also the atomic bomb _is_ a nuclear bomb, you're in no shape to be calling someone else dumb and uneducated with a dumbass comment like that
Had heard about the war from stepfather, but nothing from my grandfather stationed at Xmas Island. He returned an alcoholic not even his children respeq him. In ‘84,he passed away 3, days after brain cancer.😢
History is written by the victors.
What they experienced and went through is absolutely horrible
Like my classmates when i fart
Bushy brow Sensei
I agree bushier brow sensei
Elder Maxson can I smell please
I think i would love to experience a nuclear blast, except 60-80 km away, or well out of the effective range of the bomb for that matter.
Most of the videos I’ve watched they mention men being so afraid they call out for their mothers. It is just intriguing that some of us have a natural instinct to seek protection from our mothers, the ones that cares for us when we were young.
or maybe they were afraid that they were gna die and wanted to say goodbye before the inevitable
Yeah it’s kind of creepy
I have watched many videos of our hero's in action. I don't want to forget them. There was some sucking their thumbs. Some crying. And the actions of their buddies so admirable. There was no calling names or making fun. They tended to their buddies and comforted them knowing they might crack next. I wish every school child could see this stuff and realize just what war does. There is nothing worse
@@henrycomputer1403 where can we find those videos?
Must be a good thing to have one. But even worse to experience such a thing
*"My God, What Have We Done?"*
The immortal words of Captain Robert Lewis. The co-pilot of the Enola Gay B-29 bomber, which dropped the atomic bomb, Little Boy, on Hiroshima.
"My God, what have I done.", but yes.
It's a bit strange to say this but 300k deaths is better than million deaths, if japan didn't surrender. They literally said that they will sacrifice their 100M of their citizen for each 1M enemy’s death.
@@TheGamingAlong even if that is true, that doesn't diminish the intense guilt that pilot must have felt in dropping it on civilians
@@TheGamingAlong They surrendered more so due to the soviets declaring war. Also the second one was even more debatable (ie let the first one's effect sink in).
That shit was next level they said you could see your skeleton and veins like xrays 😢
"To say it was frightening, was an understatement"
Damn
Pranav Tripathi the noise and thunder in the clouds has to be scary and plus there imagining it hitting a city
And these were soldiers too. They don't scare as easily as civilians.
Hearing their stories is heartbreaking. Thank you for allowing these men to share tell their stories.
Rudy's Movie Reviews yes indeed
Is your heart okay 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀😿😿
"War isn't about who wins but who is left"
"in war there is no victors, only survivors"
"Its in your nature to destroy yourselves"
-T-800
setan! YOU LIE!
War always have a winner, looser weep it
They really need to show this exact video in schools
Jim Boone ???????
wait what meaning that history teachers should at least showed this video to students
Hox it's not directed to the original comment. the person i replied to deleted their reply
wait what ahhh
For what?? To frighten kids?
“I don’t know what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
-Albert Einstein
人生は短いです I get it
„Loved“ wtf is wrong with u
My favorite line from him
Bcoz the whole world will be finished in ww3 and new species will come... They will fight with this to stay in the world
Debdut Chakraborty new species would have to colonize and discover entire habitibal land and fight to be considered a world war and by then there’ll probably be guns
The energy of this video is so moving. I can't imagine the deep rooted pain and betrayal these men live with. We must eliminate these cruel bombs. We owe it to past, and future generations.
Too late. That point was passed decades ago before most of us were born. We've done a great job taking 50,000 warheads down to under 14,000 but other countries are now nuclear so those numbers will grow again.
Not only that, but once the genie is out of the bottle it can never be stuffed back in. Once the weapon has been made and/or used, you can't just erase it... it'll be around forever, even after we manage to invent something even more dangerous or devastating.
Nuclear weapons are a key factor in us not having another world war as of yet. They've forced countries to be more diplomatic for fear of the bomb
Tyler Middaugh, you are delusional, lying to your self if you think nukes do not stop wars.
The bomb didn’t betray these men.
My heart melted when they started speaking. Legends
How stupid
@@falsehoodbasher7240 what??
My Great Uncle was a part of these tests. He never talked all that much about it until he was practically on his deathbed, the thing that's always stuck with me however, is he claimed he saw number of men who had fought and survived in WW2 from El-Alamein to the fall of Berlin, physically fall to the ground and cry for their mothers.
It's true.. Nobody wins a nuclear war. No one.. And these men.. There's nothing left for them, they've suffered a lifetime and everyone they love have suffered that too. There kids, family.. Everyone of them had that expression on there faces, disappointed, disgusted, questions that never will be answered and a lifelong list of suffering.
This
In war nobody wins but humanity always fails
The more terrifying thing (might instead be a relieving thing) is that in a couple of decades time, we will be able to build next generation nuclear weapons that work on fusion alone. That would mean no radiation. Hydrogen bombs without any radiation could be a better thing or they could be our worst invention yet.
@@death_parade isn't that thermonuclear bombs? Humanity has had them since the 50s.
@@Lucky-nv2ph Thermonuclear bombs are Third Generation weapons. They use a fission primary to induce fusion.
What I am talking about is the tech (such as inertial confinement) that will enable Fusion without using any Fission primary. Which could mean extremely limited radiation would occur due to the bomb and radioactive fallout will be almost non-existent. However, there would be nuclear transmutation and activation which could make Ground Zero a high radiation zone.
The British conducted numerous Nuclear tests on Australian soil and the Radioactive plumes were tracked as they travelled across the country and cities. This was an experiment to examine the fallout dissipation over occupied areas and the Radioactive isotope accumulation in Children. The Radioactive isotopes were taken up by grazing cattle and ended up in milk which was given free to all school children during the 1950's and 60's.
Source of that documentary, maybe a name?
rustymotor, source on that? Ive heard this alot before but I have never once been given a source that is reputable.
Sounds like you're talking out of your ass, you got a source where you found this information?
Any radioactive isotope that remains for years is going to be less harmful to you than the Potassium in Bananas.
good luck champ
I can't even imagine sitting w/ your back to the blast eyes covered up and being able to see through all that as if looking at an xray !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MIND BLOWING for me
More like Mind-Microwaving
The key word is nuclear. X-rays are a type of nuclear radiation, hence, visible bones.
@@NickC_222 That's not why they could see their bones. We cannot see x-rays no matter how powerful they are. What they were seeing was immense visible light that was so bright that it passed through protein layers and cells, which on their own are mostly transparent to visible light, but not through the bones. They were essentially seeing the shadows of their bones.
MIND FUCKING WHEN KIDS GET DISEASES
Imagine how horrifying it would be for these young men to see such a thing. They were probably brought out thinking they were just going to see some munitions or artillery testing, and then all the sudden they see their fucking bones through their hands and eyelids. They must of thought that they were about to die.
the feeling of a near-death experience and a "run or die" instinct are possible.... truly traumatizing.
Woah. I never thought of it that schemez
@@YszapHun its kinda sarcastic how you have a fallout picture
"For a government to do that to their own people"
Worse than that, Sir, for a government - successive governments, both Tory and Labour - to do that to their veterans. Shame on the lot of them.
Thank you for your service, gentlemen. I hope you eventually get the recognition and justice you rightly deserve.
Thank democrats.
@@rblock707 This is the UK bro.
@@rblock707 Stop bringing politics into this.
@@Cscuile indeed, but it shows how in war we are all equal, wether it be national socialist or liberal, we are all death.
@eruweraranj0r Yes because soldiers should be paid with medals and pats on the back and not fucking money.
My Father was involved in these tests in the RAF. He got cataracts and all sorts of skin lesions over the years. Was taken from us early in the form of Cancer which affected so many of these brave men. I myself got a form of cataracts only seen in people who have been exposed to ionizing forms of radiation in my mid 30's. Three of my siblings have also had cancers. as well as the same type of cataracts. About 20 years ago what was called the British Nuclear Veterans Testing Association at the time (Do not know if they still use this moniker or not) successfully sued the UK.gov and won their case. Nothing will ever put right the wrongs done to these and other men like them over the globe used by their respective states as guinea pigs for war mongerer's but at least the wrong doing was officially recognised.
"Sure"
Are you suggesting he is lying? If so get a life. What a horrific attitude to have. Only the internet breeds idiots like you. The people who went through this horrific experience and their families deserve the utmost respect.
He was triggered because he was asian.
My father was on Christmas Island
My girlfriends uncle was at Mityushikha Bay, the tsar bomba location
As a disabled veteran this really gets to me.
Thank you for your service. It’s because of men and women like you that I get to sleep comfortably at night.
@@reeverfalls2069 I cant even sleep comfortably at night I have insomnia
B I hope your joking
Thank you for what you did for our country!
yeah you are totally a veteran
The absolutely terrifying thing is today bombs are 50 times as powerful as the ones these guys witnessed.
Lets hope none of us witness todays era nukes otherwise we’re all toast
Abolish nukes
Nuclear nuclear nukes lol this is also very sad and terrifying
I think the biggest US bomb was 1,000 times bigger than Hiroshima. The largest Soviet bomb was 3,333 times bigger.
How horrific for them. I burst into tears when he said 'some cried for their mum's' I have two sons. I imagined them at 18 yrs old. The flood of tears started. Bless each and every one of them. Shame on the UK and US for doing this to them. Thank you for making this video and posting. I had never heard of this happening before and shocks me to the core.
@Roberta Richardson Don't leave out The Soviet Union now which conducted some of the biggest nuke tests. People always seem to give the Russians a free pass when talking about this kind of stuff.
You forgot France, India, Pakistan and China.
This documentary was on the UK and US. I think any country that has done this to their people or those of other nations, should be ashamed and my heart goes out to those victims as well. Maybe those other countries will be the next documentary by this group.
Don’t call us monsters okay calm down we are not bad people
whilst it is terrible the situation, losing a few to benefit the entirety of society is a worthy cause. sure you could then try to argue "the bombs dont benefit anyone/thing" but there were a LOT more applications after these tests, radiation on the human body studies, led to many medical and scientific breakthroughs that benefit society a whole lot these days.
My grandfather was in the most polluted village in Vietnam, Denang. He was there for two tours of his own volition. He lived in the huts and drank from the water, and he'll never see any benefits or retribution for his government poisoning him. Generations down the line, its had its effect with multiple stillbirths and many serious medical problems... I have Parkinsons, and have to live my life feeling like i can't do what i should be able to do. Meanwhile, the government would rather wait for their brave veterans to die off than pay them any kind of compensation for the hell they put them through. Our government is disgusting, and it will unfortunately probably never change.
If they never admit to a problem, They believe no problem exists. There would be far less military volunteers if the paper you signed stated "Your Body now and potential lineage can and will be altered forever by your service to your country, In ways not even we can currently comprehend"
Your grandfather had still births?
Don't join the army. You are getting paid to kill. Find a more honest way to make a living instead of bothering kids in asia and the middle east.
Yo another Vietnamese yes
hearing him say that grown men where begging for there moms is absolutly horrifying.
I don't think they were grown men, from the sounds of it quite a few were between 18-21.
A saying that I will always remember came from a Holocaust survivor who came to speak at my middle school, and he said "We cannot embrace each other with nuclear arms." I remember thinking of how profound that wordplay was, and it has yet to become irrelevant. I think about that a lot.
What a touching interview. Brave vets!
Thank you for sharing motherboard.
RedEyes, why are they "fascists"? Clearly, they are questioning and opposing governments authoritarian stance. They aren't talking positively about what their government did to them, are they?
nicholasowenjones You should’ve just ignored him.
These vets went through hella a lot, the worst part is they weren’t even allowed to talk about it. No one should ever go through that.
As I said before, they are brave!
Yeah, you're probably right Qasim Al-Riyami. He's probably a troll. That or an idiot who doesn't understand what a Fascist is.
+Qasim Al-Riyami Not only were they not allowed to talk about it, but they were only told that it involved testing bombs. I suspect they figured these were just large conventional bombs. They were being used as experimental guinea pigs. No one, at the time, really knew much of anything about the effects of nuclear bombs to human beings.
Im lost of words, the bomb is so powerfull it effects people decades after they expload, phiscally and mentally.
Christian Terrill it changes your DNA which you’ll pass to your offspring they are just as likely to get cancer.
It's ok it took me 3 min of staring at my keyboard before I typed whoa!
It may help to know that the other option meant millions more die on each side had bomb not been dropped. The number of lives saved greatly outnumbered those killed by bomb.
A thermonuclear detonation flattens everything with no opposition and shines 70 time brighter than the sun for about 5 seconds and puts out more heat at the center of the explosion that the surface of the sun making something smaller than a car so powerful it’s almost as if your throwing a piece of the sun at the ground and giving it enough pressure to blast it outward
BRADYLA difference between a nuke and a thermal nuke?
BRADYLA it makes one fear the day a fusion/hydrogen next level atom-bomb is used
@@skiiipawbs A nuke works on the principle of nuclear fission, as in uranium bombs or plutonium bombs the respective material is basically compressed until a chain reaction occurs that converts the matter to energy. A thermo-nuke induces nuclear fusion by using a conventional nuke as a first stage and deuterium or tritium as a second stage. This leads to a lot more heat in relation to the other effects. Look it up, it's quite interesting from an engineering point of view. Needless to say, it's quite horrible from an "effects" point of view.
GE Boesch T&T Fussion and fission are opposites. One collides isotopes while the other separates them in chain reactions
@@TheAbdi9312 Fission is used to achieve enough pressure for fusion in this case.
2:43 I can see this guy picturing the explosions, and mushroom clouds, as he's talking about it. This is just sad.
I think, from the sight of that first mushroom cloud, I might have said goodbye to my military career at that moment, and the consequences be damned.
This is why i hate when my friends say theyre gonna work for the military. I know America was the most justified country throughout the wars, but it kinda sucks knowing that they could be working on this,
@@thequietkid6454 The most justified country that is also the most invasive country (most campaigns on the soil of the countries the US is defending against).
I never knew the blast was so bright even from far away that you could see the bones through your skin, or that people went flying from the shockwave 30 seconds later!
Yes, me too. And I work in the hospital as a radiologic technologist. I have no words to describe this. It's just horrible. I am speechless.
This is terrifying to just hear about, I don’t want to even imagine being in their boots. Heartbreaking
Politicians can lie and be protected while troops are threatened with the OSA and left to suffer. Heads need to roll at the MOD and Whitehall!!!
I just have no words. I feel like the wind has been knocked out of me.
YES!!! THAT'S WHAT WE DO! OR TRY TO!
Do not think for a minute that somewhere there are files of these men that have been updated and they have been tracked their whole lives to see what effects develop and how they died.
The Governments responsible are insidious and should be held accountable and prosecuted for Crimes against Humanity in a international court so something like this could not happen again in the future!!
Im pretty sure that the government make up the rules and can't be charged in their own court room, besides even if you were to succeed then you would just be prosecting people who never actually ordered this through as the people who did are either dead or really old. Honestly there's not much we can do, stripping down and removing every last nuclear bomb/device wouldn't remove the knowledge people have of creating more bombs in the first place. In reality its just about how much longer we have until something terrible happens.
Yes
@@theelderscrollsnerd9066 idk about European countries but in the us you can sue the entire government or anyone individually even the president
I honestly don't think it was or is that organized. It's ironic how people simultaneously think government is essentially inept and incompetent yet simultaneously capable of byzantine conspiracies.
@@taylorwalker2814 yup
How to survive a nuclear bomb:
Hold a camera and record it, the camera person never dies.
Holy Jesus your right
The Douglas Hern guy looked absolutely broken and betrayed, god bless him
I think J. Robert Oppenheimer told it straight after the first test of the nuclear bomb
"We knew the world would not be the same
Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent
I remember the line from The Hindu Scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita
Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty
And, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says:
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another"
Douglas hern just looks like a bad ass
I was going to say the same thing. Looks like Sean Connery.
He might be the only one who looks like a bad ass, but all these men are. I mean, did you see that shot? how close the ships were? it's a surprise to me that they stayed afloat, let alone surviving something like this. These men have been to hell and back. AT THE AGE OF 18 YEARS OLD! crazy.
@@still34u I agree crazy stuff
I feel sick, can't believe they did this to their own people just to study them...
They didn't. They called it "Guinnie pigs' because that's how the soldier felt personally. This was to train them so they could keep their cool in the event of a local nuclear attack.
Had we experienced a nuclear war, we would have needed veterans who could withstand this. The government is crappy at times, but this was not entirely one of them. This was training, not an experiment.
This video is slightly biased however and tried to make it sound different than it was to push an anti nuclear agenda. Everyone always has an agenda. Even this comment I'm writing.
Think for yourself. do your own research. Trust no-one at face value regardless of credentials. That's how this happened to these men.
@@Ranstone No idea what you're trying to say. There's actually no way you think this was actual training, right? You must have a weird sense of humor.. If you think this was to "train them", tell me, which scenario would soldiers survive a nuclear blast from 500m-2km away? You're trying to say that instead of them nuking cities, they're planning on nuking the ocean? Of the 2 nukes that hit cities, what was radius for instant death because of fires and building collapse? Like you say, "Think for yourself. do your own research.", no logical human would think this is training, you've been brainwashed by whoever told u this was actual training instead of testing.
@demilishing
This was federally documented as training. Some of the soldiers were calling for their mothers, so apparently, they needed practice.
@@Ranstone You're a degenerate. Just because it's federally documented doesn't make it true, you should know that right? Again, "If you think this was to "train them", tell me, which scenario would soldiers survive a nuclear blast from 500m-2km away?" and "Think for yourself. do your own research.". I'm just going to assume you're either 12 or trying to troll, if not , I feel bad for you.
@@demilishing
There's no need to call me names.
_"Just because it's federally documented doesn't make it true"_
True, but just because you think otherwise doesn't make it true either.
_"tell me, which scenario would soldiers survive a nuclear blast from 500m-2km away?"_
I don't know where you got 500m-2km, but this was meant to train them to handle a nuclear blast at the exact ranges they tested at. (A few kilometers.) Which they obviously survived. As for the scenario, it was during the cold war, when tactical nuclear weapons were expected to be used against ground assault.
I appreciate you not believing everything you hear, but it's also true that not every conspiracy theory is true. Also, I would appreciate it if you would not jump to conclusions, and call me, or other people names simple because they disagree with you.
Just speechless. The only thing i wish now is to be able to make the world free of these destructive weapons.
Idiot. We haven't had a world war for 80 years because everyone knows it would destroy the world. I suppose you'd rather we keep having massive wars and let millions die because nuclear bombs are scary.
@@Abysia While you are right this also means that if a World War happens the end of humanity will also happen
@@ZeloticMemes The End of The world
@@Abysia Would you prefer extinction to war? A grand finale? A coup-de-gras for all our miserable lives, and the lives of every living, breathing creature upon our planet? Would you prefer that? A barren, dead rock that would be the unlearned lesson of what nuclear wars can do, and how idiotic human pride can be. Nuclear weapons aren't 'scary' as you put it. They're not so simple or banal like some hoodlum with a gun, or an invading force marching into your city. No. They're far more harrowing... and a hell of a lot more permanent.
That was such an eye opener, I've been studying the cold war tests for a few weeks now but have only seen the "amazement" element of it. To hear it from the men involved has put a whole new perspective on it for me which is impossible to describe.
Very glad this was shared. Thanks MB
I’m 29 and I absolutely value out senior citizens. They have so much knowledge and wisdom to share if you share a conversation.. honor our elders !
Thank you, for meeting with these fine gentlemen and giving them an opportunity to broadcast their voices much further than they could do alone. We appreciate it.
Thank you for doing this interview.
Wow. I thought this would be about detonation footage. But by the end, in was scary, sad, terrifying.
thank you so much for this great short doccie. We are homeschooling our daughter (8) due to Covid-19 in SA and watched it yesterday as part of History. Keep u the great work!
imagine being 18 and sent to be in the testing of atomic weapons...
My mother once visited Hiroshima, she said it was one if the most devastating place she has ever visited. It hurts to know that my relatives had to go through this.
Thank you so much for this informative work. I appreciate being able to see the faces and actually hear the words of these brave men who survived their comrades. Their recollections do so much to help inform this generation we belong to, I can only hope this demonstration gains more and more viewership. Thank you!
elodie hi
Thank you for doing this with respect and kindness. It's angering and heartbreaking at the same time.
Thank you for this heartbreaking yet crucial reporting. I vacillated between helpless rage, disgust, & tears.
Fantastic and sad stories at the same time. Hopefully things like this will never happen again.
unfortunately , it will happen again, We are flawed evolution...
That deeply touched me, the experience they went through I would not like to see that happen to us. That was a very horrifying experiences they went through.
This was really powerful and educational. I had no idea this happened and I truly feel sorry for these men and their families. I really almost shed a tear man.
How many people know that the Australian government allowed the British government to test atomic weapons in AUSTRALIA using British and Australian troops Britain has NEVER apologised.
yes we did!
@@weaponized_toaster Please provide evidence - all I can find so far is that some money was paid to the Indigenous people for the land alone not actual compensation and NO apology.
@@eagleone493 Oh yeah we didnt, sorry xD
@@weaponized_toaster No problem Not against Brits personally as many were victims as well - I am talking about Governments only
Weaponised Toaster lol haha
Shaaame on the government
...for not doing anything for 60 years!
Aman
Nothing but utmost respect for these men. They're like kings to me. You see them passing by, you stop what you're doing and you thank them for their service. What they went through, there's no word to describe its brutality.
"Mankind's been trying to kill each other for Thousands of years, the difference now is that they've got the tools to finish the job" - The Comedian (Watchmen)
Great video. Life is special , they will never get over that unfortunately but I’m glad we got to see it and hear it from them personally. Inspiration
I can even remotely explained how mad speechless and sorry I am
People of the recent generations talk about nukes and conflict without any comprehension of the sheer terror and destructive power of war. It renders the earth a wasteland, the flesh rotten and the soul disembodied. Thanks for making this video, more awareness and education is required.
So you can see your bones while its happening!? 🥺😭 Thats scary asf
HE ALSO SAID VEINS
I worked as a home health aide years ago. One of my clients was a WW2 veteran. He told me that during those explosions he could see his bones and the bones of the soldiers in front of him. He developed many devastating physical problems and bone diseases throughout his body over the years, including a bone cancer that ultimately killed him. Horrific.
My Mother’s brother was one of the 326 survivors aboard the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. He was a gunner’s mate. Navy. About a dozen of the 326 were Marines.
Earnest M. Shawn was his name.
You can Google his name as a survivor. He went on to more Pacific battles and earned three “Battle-Stars” including at The Battle of Midway” and “The Battle of Solomon Islands.” He also survived another sinking. I think, on the USS Porter? He retired in Florida as an instructor in anti-submarine hunting warfare.
Just think what the Japanese people must have went through
All innocent people how sad..... what a world we live in
What about the Chinese???
kiDkiDkiD12 Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents had an up close and personal view of a nuclear explosion
wreal musiclover the people’s skin and clothes melted and fused to their bodies. Horrific burns and that’s if they weren’t turned into a black stain on the wall
Well we did give them a warning to leave and most didn’t. This isn’t me saying it’s their fault just stating facts
Bad, it feels bad
Amazing little doc- hope to see more with vets!
Why were all those military boats so DAMN close?? They literally got covered in the explosion, holy hell man that seems way to close.
Nobody was on those ships. They would have vaporized. These guys were very far away.
@@Mattreyu199 yet he said the mushroom cloud was almost above them. And if you are like 10-15km away from a 10-100Kt last you should also not get such severe radiation damage
marmoto liferider How so? There’s no telling how far away they were
@@sparklauerei1 None of us have ever experience a nuclear explosion but an explosion of that magnitude will feel like it's right on top of you.
There weren't any sailors on those ships. They were unmanned target ships--either captured German and Japanese vessels from WWII, or US vessels past their service lives that have been decommissioned (frequently both).
They were towed to the test site and anchored in place. They were there to determine the effects of a nuclear detonation on warships, so that the Navy could better protect its sailors in the event a carrier battlegroup was targeted with a nuclear attack, and how to decontaminate them after the blast (spoiler alert: the ones closest to ground zero COULDN'T be sufficiently decontaminated to be safely returned to service).
It feels like dead
VICE!! I knew you were still capable of making quality content!
Masaharu Morimoto it’s not vice?
Motherboard IS a vice channel. They started it back when vice wasn't shitty.
The number of times the host says "nucular" or "nuke-u-lar" instead of "nuclear" or "nuke-le-ar" is astounding though.
He says it wrong almost every time.
Galacticboy2009 how good is your Dutch? Probably like mine, basically non existent.
@@galacticboy2009 he has an accent
Imagine going on for years, not being able to tell anyone of the traumatic experience. Not getting an therapy for it. I don't care what the government thought was best, no one deserves to go through that.
I'm really glad I watched this! I work in the medical field and I can't recall any classes for radiation sickness or what a human being experiences during a nuclear blast. I've watched documentary interviews of locals in the Polygon and Japan and on a basic level the stories are essentially the same, but everyone experiences/articulates it differently.
Well, there is a whole medical field on how radiation affects living organisms.
@@iamnotevenanumber3312 yes but paramedic training is relative to the area we live in. We were taught about jelly fish stings in a 5 min lecture, the chances of us treating one were slim in Atlanta. I imagine medic classes in Savannah are more detailed on treating radiation given that there's a nuclear power plant in Savannah. So curb your snark.
We had no compassion for anybody, we had no help from anybody and we still have very little.
And for a government to do that to its own people is absolutely disgraceful, it's outrageous.
The same thing happened to Australian soldiers in the Pacific and were forced by the British navy to participate.
Not to forget Maralinga. Thousands of soldiers, as well as Indigenous tribes who were not relocated before being irradiated by the fallout.
To be fair, Australians are British anyway.
you're either a bad attempt at a troll or very misinformed
Or Gallipoli. Generals knew it was suicide but sent them anyway to be cannon fodder and exhaust the Turks and provide distraction from elsewhere. Gallipoli wasn't even that important in the end.
@@MR-X-. dude I have a relative who went through 5 years of chemotherapy because of it, and what the f*ck does it have to do with Ukraine.
that gave me chills 5:39 ... the way he looked back at the camera..
Amazing how little views this video has...this deserves so much more credit...
Holy shit, god help these poor men.
The atomic bomb is one THE most idiotic invention. Horrible. The equivalent of taking these young men and telling them to place their hand on a hot stove just to see what happens. Great documentary though, thank you.
Mutually assured destruction hasn't stopped any war that I know of.
@@SwampyTrails it pretty much stopped world war 2
@@SwampyTrails cold war? we wouldve tangled long ago but both sides had great weaponry capable of mass destruction.
it was made to halt a war and stop millions more from dying, the later applications could be argued to be bad. but its development cause was just.
@@SwampyTrails what's going to stop a war, well let's see. "Can you please drop your guns and stop shooting at us?" or "Cut the shit or we're going to bomb the shit out of you" You choose.
what was the song playing at the end? Also great video, good job!
Wow I was not expecting this when I clicked on it, what an incredible video, so unbelievablely interesting. I can't believe I've never heard of this before, just wow!! Respect to this brave men ❤️
To think that this is the damage already done in 'mere tests'... These things stay terrifying... Here's hoping they will never be used again...
Beautiful video
I had a visit to the Trinity test site on my bucket list. As from this minute it has been removed. Gentlemen I am so sorry you went through that in the name of science/war.
I hope that the younger generation see this video (Which I will share) and perhaps shock them as much as it has shocked a 53 year old man this evening.
I salute you!
Greetings, fellow youtuber. It is acceptable that this video may have shocked you, but please do not erase the Trinity test site from your list. It only has about 3x the normal background radiation today, if you do not inhale the sand dust. Think about it, if you stay there an hour and admire the feats of humanity and human history, the benefits of you being able to tell the story to other people from that excursion are worth it. I still plan to go to Chernobyl (or Pripyat, if you will), because it is actually safe if you don't breathe in particles (wear dust protection), even though I've just seen this video too. The first-hand experience, and "living to tell the tale" raises the attention for these horrible, horrible nuclear constructions.
I'm on the verge of tears right now. This is absolutely disgusting what they were forced to go through and the fact that those in power think it necessary to have these weapons in existence says everything about them.
Im watching this because of the current situation with Ukraine war.
Listening to these men is haunting. We really need to learn from their stories whilst we still can!
The fact that even with eyes closed you're still able to see is shocking, you can't hide from it, it haunts you...
Nu maar hopen dat het zo snel mogelijk echt gebeurd, massaal en globaal.
Damn i feel everything just listen to them am just thinking how can u do this to ppl who volunteered to do right 💯😔
Great touching interview. Incredible how we as humanity didn't blow up the entire world in the last century.
I went to school to be a missile technician on submarines in 2015,this videos makes you think alot about your job and what would happen if we ever had to actually do our job
Can you imagine the class action lawsuit that COULDVE happened if these vets got together w a willing and able attorney??? "If you or your loved ones were part of the atomic tests, and have any injury (related) call 1800badbomb" but seriously... THANK YOU FOR SHOWING THIS, I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS THAT BAD
This is hitting a lot different at this current point in time. I fear for humanity.
Government: "whops yea sorry about the no children thing and cant talk about it haha.."
Vets wife: oml we cant have children
Doctor: sorry for the news we cant find whats the problem tho do you know sir.
Vet: um nope dont know anything about whats wrong maybe just because idk
this. is. sewious.
Garrett Hoffman and Decipher #193, he is making a satirical comment on how fucked it was. He isn't forwarding it as a thing to be mocked.
Thanks for sharing this remarkable documentary.
These lovely lads hold the key to our future. Their stories needs to be heard.
This needs to be seen by every World leader. I have been terrified of nuclear weapons since I was 6 years old (sounds young, but I had a curious scientific nature! And my Dad was very honest)
This hurts me more than anything . My heart is shattered completely by hearing their stories .