Nuclear blasts, preserved on film
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- čas přidán 2. 03. 2019
- Beginning in 1945, and until atmospheric nuclear testing was banned, the United States conducted 210 above-ground nuclear tests, documented on film. Now, footage that has survived, now being preserved by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is being analyzed for their scientific data, changing what we previously knew about the destructive power of our nuclear arsenal. David Martin reports.
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My father was a colonel in the Air Force in the 50s. He described to me his experience witnessing an above-ground atomic detonation in the desert of Nevada (I believe he said it was in Nevada). The men were in very narrow, deep trenches and wore blinders over their eyes. They were instructed to get as low as they could in the trench and bury their eyes deep in the joint of their elbows. He said that when the bomb detonated, the ground shook, and the light passed through their arms, through their blinders, and through their eye lids, and it was still so bright that it hurt his eyes. The wind concussion crossed over the top of the trench that was itself like an explosion, and the heat quickly increased to the point where it was almost unbearable for just a moment, then quickly dissipated. When it was over, my father and some of the other men were driven closer to ground zero in jeeps. He told me that all the sand around them had been turned to glass, and incinerated birds had fallen from the sky and were laying about on the ground. There was a metallic smell in the air. My father died in 1985 of a brain tumor that his doctors said had all the traits of a tumor caused by radiation exposure. At the time of the detonation he witnessed in the early 50s, they still weren't fully aware of the effects of radiation exposure, and from his description of the event, it sounded like the men were stationed too close to the point of detonation.
Wow, your father gave the ultimate sacrifice as a serviceman!
My Uncle Bruce was in the trenches. They were sent into ground zero almost immediately afterwards
They knew the damage radiation would cause your father they just didn't care.
I was the one who launched the nuke
A Salute to your Father and you
yours very truly Alfonso Cantu USMC
I’m glad he clarified that it was 15mllion Kelvin, and not 15,000,273.15 degrees Celsius
Same here!
haha it's only 14,999726.85 degrees celsius, how lame.
Exactly what I though. But he probably meant Kelvin as opposed to Fahrenheit, not Celsius, where the difference is A LOT more.
@@M4XC4V413R4 Be nice.
@Adam B
I got the feeling that, in any scale , you'll end up toasted and crispy on your feets in less than two secs.
Writing this for my grandfather who was a LT. Colonel in 1962. 'I thought of two things when the blast went off; God and my family. There is nothing more horrific than what we carried out in the desert. The lasting consequences, even today, are being shrouded with silence almost as tall as the mushroom cloud itself. When the light flashed and the heat felt like it was somehow going straight through us, most of the tough men surrounding me either dropped to their knees or about faced and retreated, hastily. I hope and pray, that there is enough common sense, that lingers in the current generation to avoid such atrocities'.
Well said, Russell.
I give it not even half a year until we have nuclear war
@@Q-Bits8 just a month to go then 🤣🤣🤣 not...
feel sorry that most of the older generations that experienced these things are becoming old enough now they are passing away. not enough of the younger generation will listen to these stories either. which is very scary because i know growing up hearing these things are the very reason why we all were so terrified of nuclear war. generations now days laugh it off because they equate a nuclear bomb to a video game , or some high paid CGI movie. its not real enough to them for them to fear it.
My god.
Albert Einstein is often quoted as having said: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"
I recall an individual I met at the railroad where we were both employed. He talked about witnessing a nuclear test somewhere in the Pacific back in the 1950's or early 60's when he was a sailor in the U.S. Navy. He was aboard a destroyer and he mentioned what it was like after the blast of the nuclear device. He said, "the heat felt like what you feel just after opening the oven door of your stove." He also said his ship was located about 50 miles from the blast itself.
All i can imagine is the radiation you would absorb if you could feel heat from it like that...
There was a video/mini-documentary made recently here on youtube about a group of American sailors that were used for tests by being exposed closer to the blasts than what would be considered safe distances. I remember one of the guys describing that even covering your eyes with your hands you'd see the blast through the skin and it would create an effect that looked like an x-ray image. If I remember correctly, according to the video a lot of the guys that were there that day have died from cancer and others have struggled with it early on in their lives.
@@TheOneWithComments that part about the x-ray effect sounds familiar i believe i have briefly heard about the subject as well. Interesting....
@@TheOneWithComments If it is the same one that I watched, the sailors were actually british.
@@jujucabal you're right. I was getting my nations mixed up. The video I was referencing was actually done by the channel "Motherboard". I found after I had made my comment.
Imagine the aliens saying about us: _"They did _*_what_*_ to their own planet?"_
You mean talking about not saying
Every technological alien civilisations can reach self destruction point and either they survive and get very advanced or not. Our earth reaching the point in our living time so it depends if we will survive and we will advance like them or human race will be gone is up to us
I love when people say this like automatically assuming no alien species ever made bombs or fought lmfao based off literally NOTHING except self hatred
@@edharris5855 I second that, always that negativity yet they want positivity.
@Jesus is Dog : those people are us humans and we are electing them
Film perserving is such an important and awesome job man! You're the person that let's us lazy people comb the internet looking for rare footage.
Sure is! Maybe you can tell that to the morons at NASA who erased the moon landing footage.
My grandfather was in the army during 1970s. He saw a nuclear weapon test executed by the Chinese in the South China Sea. He said it's just like in the movies, you gotta put on special eye goggles and it's so bright its like a second sun rising into the night sky. He said it illuminated everything so much, to where he could see doezens of vessels that were also out in the South China Sea to witness the test. Unbelievable
Interesting story. Especially since there have only been 45 nuclear tests conducted by China and NONE of them were in the South China Sea. All tests were conducted in Lop Nur in the desert.
Nukes literally leaves your shadow on the ground.
no it doesnt
iDeagle it does. That’s what happened in Hiroshima
@@skfoxjrxzz5051 You know what shadows are right? I think you meant to say that it vaporized them so fast it imprinted unburnt hair and skin on the ground that looks like a shadow.
@@bigredone1030 Yes it does I seen it in Hiroshima..
@@skfoxjrxzz5051 The Hiroshima bomb was practically a dud. Only 3% of the material ignited. If the bomb went off as desired, no one could live there today. The blast and heat did the killing. Radiation was minimal. Today's weapons would leave a circular void. There would literally be nothing left...anywhere.....wiped completely clean. If a city like St. Louis (random example) were hit.... and you flew over it later on....you would not be able to tell there was ever anything there.
"....Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds..."
There had to be at least person who posts this
Thank you, Oppenheimer.
Actually, Shiv said that, in the Bhagwad Gita. Oppenheimer merely quoted Shiv.
Joe Rogan has entered the chat
turns out that the real death was just the way the rich live haha bombs the least of our worries
Normally, I would find this highly interesting as I've always been interested in military history and its weapons since elementary school. I would be fascinated and would think how cool it was. I'm having a bit of a difficult time returning to that fame of mind at the moment.
It's just CZcams classically recommending videos again
Yeah, with Putin threatening to use nukes if anyone tries to help Ukraine from the invasion. Hopefully he isn't that insane.
I don't think alot of people should die but Putin and ramzam should have bullets with their names on em
Lol i remember when everyone was worried about world war three because of Putin last year. Nothing even happened.
@@xoxo8321 The only difference between then and now is that Russia has literally invaded another European country now, one that is allied with both the US and Western Europe.
If you can't connect the dots from there, and figure out why now, WW3 is much likelier than ever, then that just means you're the type of person who'll only notice a world war after it has already started.
People who are worried about the situation are smarter than you in that sense.
What an amazing job he has done to save and restore those incredible images
won't matter, we will have nuclear war in not even half a year
Those images are phenomenal.
2:11 this just looks horrifying
It does
I have a HD version of that exact photo as my desktop background. It reminds me everyday that I made it through the cold war, without having to see it in my backyard!
So sad
Jaw dropping.
Look up Tsar Bomb
Nuclear bomb goes off with hundreds of people watching
Radiation: Its free real estate
@JGD Ok Redditor
Private owned and I told you not for sale
They all gone with the wind 💨
Yeah, I was thinking this while watching. Why are they standing there? Out of reach for the radiation?
@@gijsboltjes26 nope, in fact many watchers ended up getting cancer
Really interesting! Very informative. Why can't they make documentaries like this today?
When I was young I thought the vertical cloudy streaks you see in some tests were some sort of atmospheric phenomenon, but it turns out those are the smoke trails left by individual rockets used to provide a reference scale for estimating how the blast moves the air and measuring blast size.
Hey, ACTUAL journalism. Haven't seen that in a while..
Soak it in. Never know when you'll see another piece of real journalism again.
@@jtno2 haha
I know it! They totally forgot to tell us how this is Trump's fault!
I know right?
Some of vice's older vids
03:30 - Props for mentioning the vinegar syndrome problem with film. I don't think enough people realize that their old family slides and films on what we thought was permanent "safety film", like Kodachrome, are degrading and decaying, year by year, as they sit in their shoeboxes and attics. After about 50 years, acetate-based films - basically ALL slide film, movie film, and negatives that we have used since the 1940s - begin to change back from plastic into its component parts. Acetate film decays into acetic acid - which gives off the familiar smell of vinegar. As it does so, the plastic base of the film begins to shrink, curl, and grow brittle. The acid and other chemicals produced by the decay of the substrate begin to attack the emulsion, distorting and eventually destroying the image. The damage is non-reversible, except by costly, labor-intensive and risky measures, such as floating the emulsion off of the old base and replacing it onto a new one.
If you have your parent's or grandparents slides and movie film stored away, go take a whiff of it. If you smell vinegar, the process is underway. You should digitize important slides and film right away.
Probably not much of real importance there.
@@u.v.s.5583 wtf
Thanks
How many digital images have been lost? I trust the physical more than the digital. Both should be made.
@@MichaelSHartman First, you should make multiple copies. So trust in copies.
Nice calming video to watch before sleep.
I wish we could watch this piece again on CBS Sunday Morning...this is what the algorithm SHOULD be pushing.
I lived in Southern Utah during the 1950's and remember my Dad taking us to the top of a mesa ridge near where we lived to watch the nuclear test blasts. From our point, you could only see the flash of light then the sound that rumbled through the earth like a big drum beat.
I hope you were wearing eye protection. What you witnesses was only a small fraction of the muliple blasts from just one MIRV missile. God help us all if we use them. I think all 7 billion of us will be dead if we use them.
How are you still alive?
@Dennis Mitchell For me it was around 56, 57, 58. We lived in Hurricane Ut.
@@crand20033 It was too far away to need eye protection. There wasn't anymore glow than what you see after the sun sets on a clear day.
this is gonna be so cool man oh man were going to get in so much trouble daaaannnngggg
I feel the cancer just from watchin this..
Edit: oh damn my first blown up comment lesgo!
And many have got it indeed -- by this way!
I can feel it growing inside me already
@@lossatbear16 thats what she said
Andrew Guadarrama haha just realised how this can be taken out of context 😂
@@lossatbear16 i saw my opening and I dived right in head first
So fascinating and terrifying at the same time
My grandfather was a Merchant Marine Captain, and was on Liberty ships, in the Pacific as well as after WWII and Korean wars was on other ships. During fishing trips he spoke of seeing one of the test, as well as the resulting fall out.
Finally, we can have new stock footage for movies!
Nope. Same footage, new news coverage to coincide with the recent DPRK summit
gay.
I wonder if Kubrick knew .... I can't help but think of his perfectionism and the end of Dr. Strangelove. He'd have probably gone through every can of film just for the stock footage of the blasts at the end.
And memes!
@@oonis.aucoix Kubrick is probably the one who helped fake the tests. Nukes are fake autohoax.com infiniteplanesocietydotcom.com
"Explain to us why your dog is so skinny"
03:10
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Haha!!! Indeed
@Cole Park oh haha now I understood the joke.
I didn't understand this for a second... I read it and thought "where and when was there a dog!?".... and then it hit me lol... Thank you for the amusement.
@Dennis Mitchell Yeah I was thinking the same. Its cos of the radiation right? Turned your dog into a wrinkly furless freak
“Not even close to what you see in real life.”
Scary to think how the decisions of leaders can lead to something so horrific being used on simple people.
the US has already used them, I hope no one will use them again.
The blast at the beginning low kt range, here it is from the arial view (From 'Trinity and Beyond the atomic bomb movie'). from artillery czcams.com/video/iEFSt-w4ZhI/video.html Unexpected behavior Castle Bravo. 2.5 x higher then expected power 15mt. czcams.com/video/iEFSt-w4ZhI/video.html 15mt. Most of our warheads are in the 3 to 4 Megaton range czcams.com/video/iEFSt-w4ZhI/video.html the russians 5 megaton. czcams.com/video/iEFSt-w4ZhI/video.html
@@kafir1mw2quick I have a feeling that because the US has used it. Now we're a big target in the future. And tech is way different now.
@@yume3am488 Nah, USA is just more likely to use them again compared to others.
@@kafir1mw2quick Based on what? I mean, I get that it's trendy to bash the States, but what makes you think that the US is more likely than, say, Putin, to fire of a nuclear weapon?
This aged very well i barely found it and we are at war perfect timing .i been looking for raw unedited nuclear film for a long time in know i learned alot from this . Its VERY interesting real world ending imformation .
What? Which war are “you” at? I mean, which “you” are you, first of all? American? I wouldn’t be surprised that you are at war if so, for when aren’t you? But I’d like to know with whom you’re at war with, exactly.
2:03 gives me chills down my spine...
Makes me stiff in my nether region... eeekkk
Same
@@eemgee9185 tf 😂
Agreed
Yeah that alone just shows how powerful this is. The nuke doesn't even have to hit something directly right away. Just sad when you think about the two places we nuked. Even worse that we sent one to space and too many tests here on earth. 🤦♀️
I hope the algorithm brings the future youngsters here, for my days are almost over 😔
And what do you say about your life? Was it a fulfilled one? Any regrets? Any wisdom for us youngsters?
Life is a recipe we are not the chefs nor the tasters just the finished product
How was your life?
Did you enjoy it?
How was life?
i can say im a "youngster." and the algorithm brought me here. dont worry.
This aged like fine milk
Spectacular and terrifying all at once!
Absolutely Horrific !
I grew up in the 1960's, right in the middle of the Cold War and Vietnam and remember the "duck and cover" drills in school and seeing waves of B-52 bombers coming over Los Angeles in air raid simulations.
I have tried to explain to my son just how "normal" this was then and how terrifying it is looking back and realizing just how close we were to the brink.
seems like a hard experience.
I love the idea of nuclear war and hope to see it before I die a boring normal death,
I grew up in the 50s and 60s and don't remember it being all that traumatic - we just accepted it - callow youth I suppose.
@@Amber-ng9db let the guy dream
@@mirrorblue100 That's what I told my son...we didn't know any different, so it was normal.
I was a tactical nuclear weapons crewman in the Army for a while during the Cold War years. We knew if we ever had to use our nukes we probably wouldn't survive.
@Meme Memeson Russia is getting its tail kicked. I would be very embarrassed if I were Russian.
@Meme Memeson Hilarious, comrade. Sadly for you, the Soviet Union is over. Now any illusion of Russian power is too.
@Meme Memeson lol really? Russia is clearly the bigger country here but is clearly getting desperate. And fighting for what exactly? Nothing is worth all the lives lost… especially not Putin’s ego.
@Meme Memeson You know Europe didn't lose most of their manpower and army, right? It's Ukraine losing a lot and Russia losing a lot. Nothing else, our military is unaffected. Imagine if Russia had to fight against any NATO, thus invoking Article 5 (an attack on 1 country is an attack on all) while being under extreme pressure due to the war-time ''economy'' way of things. No one is stupid enough to do that, especially if you can't even win from a, with all due respects, kind of third-tier/weaker country like Ukraine.
@@mozzjones6943 logic and rationality starts to go out the window in times of desperation. it is not stupidity that causes one to lose one's senses but rather severe damage to one's massively inflated ego.
Anyone else come here after watching Oppenheimer for the first time?
Yes.
No
this do be hittin different
So strange how beautiful it is.
till it gives you cancer
Well, ask Dr Strangelove, what he's thinking about it.
@Veritas Est Lux I would not want to commit myself to a specific city. The main thing is, it catches Trump and his court.
Everyone wears a mask naw man those things are bad news
@@Shadowfynx what? Nuclear bombs are bad news? No way
Thanks 1950s , for putting all that into the atmosphere for me to breath in as I was growing up.
@Pineappler I have heard somewhere that radioactivity can last 10 or 20 thousand years , so I'm probably breathing it in right now
@Pineappler So the trace radioactive particles that went thousands of feet into the air all came back down and none of them made their way into the atmosphere? Come on. We all breath the same air and the wind circulates everything throughout the planet.
@Pineappler ....and ne’er the twain shall meet?
@@3chords490 that's why its a lie. nuclear energy heats up water and thats all it does. it gets hot and electricity can be generated from the heat. the nuclear bomb is a scare tactic to plant into people's heads to control them.
@@popwarner1526 ah yes Mr. physicist, so Radiation doesnt exist i guess?
awesome video
That mushroom cloud could be one of the last things you see
These explosions are basically bringing miniature suns briefly into existence.
Well hydrogen bombs especially. Artificial miniature supernovae.
Now that brings a whole new perspective to ones thoughts...well done
the Sun, our Sun, is 10 million centigrade, every day for billions of years.................... on nuke is 10 million centigrade for 12 seconds............. its not even close to the SUN........................ you are factually delinquent. go stand in the corner.
@@MrCoors68 Maybe if you were able to read, you’d see that he said *briefly*
@@MrCoors68 You just won the “most awkward” comment of the year😂
I think were about to see em in 4k pretty soon...
Maybe. Maybe not 😏
We're gonna get to see them in person soon!
Beautiful pics!
I really love how interested the journalist looks and behaves in regards to this topic. He seems like a sharp, interesting guy!
Having had the privilege to work at LLNL years ago, I am thankful that the stewardship and scientific oversight has remained in the hands of sober, committed professionals. These educated and often humble men and women were exemplary in their approach to their responsibilities. We never hear enough about the work these national laboratories do, and how much we owe to the effort of their staff.
Neal Klein what’s the LLNL? - -National Lab?
@@ChickentNug Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
why sober?hahaha
@@ChickentNug Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory = LLNL
@@mrtfff Cute. Seriously, though, these folks took their responsibility seriously. I was proud to work with all of them.
I wonder if these will be posted here or if we'll have to pay. There are already quite a few, but it sounds like there are even more and they have been enhanced.
What a invigorating way to wake up in the morning. Opened up my phone and this is the first thing that pops up. Going back to bed.
There’s a 1995 documentary called Trinity and Beyond narrated by William Shatner that contains a lot of unseen atomic film footage.
I REALLY miss my Kodachrome and Ektachrome! I digress. I succumbed to digital in 2006. But I've learned to accept it for many reasons.
Thanks to Peter Kuran (atomcentral)
czcams.com/video/cjhD6HJLd9k/video.html
1:01 when u drop the shampoo in the shower
1:56 your toe when it gets hit by the shampoo.
@@familyfive05 YDZDTG77CY8G9HU UR S4I HIM
I laughed too hard about this😂😂
I like the fact that he states the 15 million degrees is in Kelvin like being 15 million celsius or fahrenheit wouldn't be just as incredible
love this story very much.
Thank you film preservationist. For protecting and preserving our history.
and protecting the Zapruder film where it's apparent that the JFK hit was an inside jobby job
I would recommend everyone watch “Trinity and beyond”; one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen.
Also, the documentary, "White Light, Black Rain." About Hiroshima from the victims' point of view. Heart wrenching.
Narrated by William Shatner. 👍
Now this is the kind of comment everyone should post , it's informative and along with op all the other responders are as well , truly a rare sight to see
Also watch the recently released Tsar Bomba footage.
The largest man made explosion ever created. It was made to deliver a 100 Megaton blast, but thankfully the designer decided to knock it down to 50 megatons for their test. Otherwise there would probably have been a lot of casualties as the pilots that were 100 kilometers away by the time the bomb with a parachute slowing it's decent reached it's detonation altitude barely made it out alive. If I recall, I belive they said they dropped several thousand feet in just a few seconds after the initial shockwave hit them.
The piece on VICE titled 'What a Nuclear Bomb Explosion Feels Like' was scary -
This aged like milk
That was left on a warm windowsill
?
Real journalism is still here! Great report sir!
Thank you for preserving this important information for future generations to see. So they never have to see one with their own eyes
Civil War is about to happen in America with blue vs red. Once that commence, China will exploit the situation.
World War III will eventually begin. It might even set us back several decades or even in the stone age. We have more power and military means today than it was when WWII started.
I wonder if that guy has renewed his Norton subscription by now?
Is there a link to the website where you can watch these?
My dad was one of a very select few chosen to develop the library test film in this video, and it was classified at the time. In the 60 - 80's he was also directly involved in teaching and training astronauts how to use their cameras. I remember receiving 8.5x11 glossies of the Earth taken from Gemini, and even larger from Skylab. I still remember holding rare solar film studies taken during the 1970s. Fascinating stuff. All lost to the passage of time, I wish I had them today.
Heya mate would you happen to know where this film can be seen, the ones this video talks about and shows exerpts from ? Because i don't see it being mensioned anywhere or linked anywhere... Have a nice day!
@@arn0000 This is all from the 50's and 60's. Long before the internet was an idea in Al Gore's head. As far as I know, only the originals exist in various vaults. All the stuff he gave me has been lost in a dozen moves over the years.
@@pizzafrenzyman ah shoot ... Too bad .. well thanks for your fast reply anyway and i wish you the best for the future!
That is SO COOL.
a blast from the past LOL
great movie
XD
@@oblivionlord1242 at least the Joke was no 'bomb' !
Developed by Vicarious Vision...
Idiot
It didn't end in 1963.... We're all still suffering from cancers caused by these tests.
There have been more people alive who have been to space, than witnessing a nuclear explosion today.
People used to watch nuclear tests in the desert as part of their trip to the Las Vegas area...
Nevada, New Mexico, all that Roswell alien crash stuff was the military testing nukes. No ET. Happens all the time. The worlds still turning. Backwards but turning.
WOW! What an interesting and well done report.
Big props to the camera man who went in with the invincible camera to take the footage of the bomb destroying the houses.
I dunno if you're joking since some people say this to "debunk" the existence of nuclear bombs, but there is no camera man in those shots. The cameras are located, if I recall correctly, in boxes on poles which are both designed to withstand the shockwave.
@@majorborngusfluunduch8694 Yea, I was joking, and looking back I kinda regret making this cringe joke.
anybody here in 2023 ? maybe not
☠️☠️☠️☠️x10,000,000 😂
Having growing up during the Cold War, I’ve had a morbid fascination with mushroom clouds.
And that is exactly why they *created* these films.
The newer generations know the "mushroom" from movies... Strange thing... Why do we not have HQ clips from "nuclear detonations" from the eighties and nineties?
Me too, it's crazy.
"...a morbid fascination..." -- To me, too, it was, and that for years, not only "a morbid fascination" but a veritable nightmare. -- But it is no more! It is fake. They are, all of them, created -- videos! Various techniques have been applied to make them (together with the various "comment"-techniques behind them) as fearful as possible...
For the beginners: investigate the Hiroshima businesses, the glaring inconsistencies of their many allegations -- of different times (and don't be afraid when the question arises "What is then the deal with the 'Cold War' so-called?" and similar, now historical, questions...)
Jasper, you’re a special kinda of person.
@@kevinwhite9761 -- You are the judge. But judge the matter for yourself as well not only the person.
The 50 megaton Tsar Bomba had a fireball that was 8km wide and the radius of complete destruction was 100km . A Russian officer observing the blast from around 270km away said he could feel the intense heat from the radiant heat of the fireball. The blast itself was so powerful, it blew out windows in buildings over 7-800km away. Makes these fission bombs look like veritable firecrackers.
To put that in perspective, the fireball touched the ground and was as high as commercial air traffic. It triggered earthquake detectors and the shockwave circled the planet 3 times.
Its scary how something so small to begin with can create such power and energy! The bomb is no bigger than a SUV
@@Ollied wait til we somehow manage to make antimatter bombs, where a bomb the size of your head will do more damage than the Tsar Bomba
If I remember correctly they had plans for an even bigger one afterwards, but they ditched the plans when they saw how insane the first one was.
@@Ollied not correct, it’s weight was 27 tons and it was 8 metres long. For sure bigger than a car.
THese videos keep coming up in my recommended columns. Makes me nervous.
2022 here we go!
Beirut explosion Brought Me Here
Same here. Kinda similar huh?
Same here. Honestly isn’t much different at all in terms of blast force, but the nuke has wayyyyy more heat
TDS Yeah
Yeah. Very different explosions though slowed down the videos and analyse it you see major differences in the blasts
@amine dz wrong ,, you can have any size hydrogen bomb you like ,, small one -> big one
I want to be that guys assistant!!!
What a privilege to be able to study those files!
I really hope they will be catalogued & made available to view in the original resolution!
The level of Photography & Video for these experiments probably STILL puts modern photography into the shade!
Photography now is insanely better than then, so while it'd be interesting, it's old data with old techniques
ive seen them in dreams and felt the fear
majestic.
“It’s all over but the crying”
I think we're all here for the same reason
Hopefully this won't need to be changed to "we were"
Mmmhmm 😰🤯 same
Absolutely terrifying.
0:38 amazing that you can actually see the effect mentioned by people that the light is so bright you can actually see it through the human body, you can see it here in the guy standing second from the left, you can see his shoulders and rib cage for a second as the light fades from too bright to bright enough. Scary and incredible.
thats just his jacket
Well, we gonna be having a lot of Godzilla's showing up soon.
This comment may be a possible prediction for July 2020
@@mdboy2017 yeah. When you think outside of the box its not scientifically impossible. Plus we got more evidence of aliens existing now. Why not have Godzilla too?
@@iminavegetativestatestudio1730 it’s definitely scientifically impossible
@@iminavegetativestatestudio1730 What evidence of alien existence do we have?
Fascinating and frightening at the same time.
1:59 WHICH TEST FOOTAGE WAS THIS? Genuine thank you!
Upshot-Knothole Grable
I want to know which explosion films were not able to be saved.
0:02 - I didn't know that Regina Dubovitskaya speaks so good English!
Spies are required to speak good English.
*A wise man once said*
*mankind invented the atomic bomb but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap*
~Albert einstein
Hm, so overpopulation is the way to go?
@@gijsboltjes26 never have I seen somebody think that a nuclear bomb was the best way to solve overpopulation which shouldn’t actually be as bad as people assume. Our population is expected to rise to 11 billion and stop
That's extremely ironic. As stupid as that mouse is, WE are the _real_ stupid ones.
@Gijs Boltjes cringe
Too much cheese on earth is the problem.
Some of those images are way scarier than any scene in any horror movie.
wish i could find more of these nuclar blast videos
0:42
The guy on the left is just like, "Oh, cool explosion", then turns back to what he's doing.
My grandfather's older brother took part in the over ground nuke testings he had goggles on and his hands over his face when it went off. He said that he could see his bones through his hands and thought it was over then the shockwave hit and scared him😂
Did he die from Cancer.
@@kathyr.8135 No actually from natural causes
@Kenneth Glover because its funny to me and the way he told the story added to it
Yeah Good story but im not buying it kid
@@xdevilxx-_-demons3263 nice👍
What are the lines of smoke visible in the air before the explosions?
You can't deny the beauty in them.
I can't imagine the fireball from Tsar nuclear bomb how it looks on film
Suggestion: Always post the date of the episode as appeared on TV or stream or whatever. Thanks
it's ok , at this rate I'm sure I'll be able to see one myself
ON some, not all, there are vertical lines off to one side of the explosion. What are these? Are they dependant on yield or type? Always confused me so any advice would be greatly appreciated
They fired smoke trailing rockets to better see the blast waves in the air.
@@woodhonky3890 Ahh many thanks. Was one of the qustions i needed answering before i died :)
At the end the reporter asked what it’s like to see that in person. I feel like witnessing that kind of instant physics would be like a glimpse into the universe from earth.
Isn’t that our view all the time?😂
@@gijsboltjes26 Not if you are an amateur astronomer living in light polluted skies!
He was being poetic not just clinical. Kind of like saying the Grand Canyon is magnificent and not just a big hole in the ground.
But you already knew that! 🙂
No horror movie or anything can ever scare me as much as this. True destructive power that’s very real we humans cannot imagine possible.
Tragically the secret was always around us, (the stars). It just took science long enough to understand how it works. During the discussion about building 'The Super' it was pointed out that it had to be pursued, if only because the whole point of science and discovery is always reaching out to the new unknown.
ill being experiencing the force of a nuclear bomb on july 21
WHERE DO I FIND THE FILMS? I couldn't find a link