In facto back in 1954 they could make footage with exceptional quality. But if nowadays we can only see these footage with so poor quality it's because it's copies from the raw footage that have been copied and then copied again, and every time the quality is getting worse.
That's the power of good correction. The guy who licenses these clips is a professional film and color guy if you read his website. He worked on Star Wars. HA
+l8tbraker yes they were prop engines. if you search hard enough you can find which aircraft were used on said tests and they were prop engined aircraft. FACT
Whole sky isn't red, all these cameras have extremely dark filters on in order to see the bomb which is brighter than the sun. In reality everything was white light
@BlackWatchAmbush Plus it would just be downright cool. People announcing to your relatives and friends you died in a giant 30km wide flaming ball of death that came from the sky? Not bad.
@@crogthecreator7290 everything would be vaporized the intense heat of the blast would be so powerful your shadow would be stuck to the ground even years after the explosion you can see this with the Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions too
The most mind blowing thing to me has always been that the *core* of the Sun itself is actually relatively cool in comparison to the epicenter of that explosion.
@@k1osmait’s true. The temperature of the average hydrogen bomb is around 100 million at detonation for a timespan so small it is insignificant. The core of the Sun is estimated to hold a temperature of around 27 million.
Only for the first microsecond or so of the explosion. By the time the fireball is where you see in this film, it's "only" several thousand degrees in there.
I could discuss this shit for hours. It's fascinating from mining to enrichment to assembly to detonation. So many gigantic brains Involved. And to think all at a period in time with none or very little computer assistance.
-opens window -smells air -sky turns red -big boy goes KABOOM -screams in terror -turns body to a over cooked steak -window shatters and is gone -closes ashes of window -slips on a banana -dies a slow painful death
> Opens windows > Searches for Bobs >Gets caught by fbi > Opens Glass Windows > Watches giant mushroom cloud > Feels bad man.jpg > Gets into a fridge... > Blasts indiana jones theme in headphones...
The realisation came way before Castle Bravo was even a thing, as way back as Project Manhattan many of the leading scientists and engineers left the program for moral reasons, Oppenheimer himself almost committed suicide after understanding what they had just created
I think after 6 years of war we were looking for any desperate reason to end WW2 quick .. I don’t think this was intended to get into the hands of our enemies i believe they thought back in the day it was just a once (technically twice) thing just to get the war over with
@@woof7538Trinity was the point where the scientific community realized what a terrible mistake they have made. Castle Bravo was the point where government and military realized what a terrible mistake they have made
Markyboy28 Stock recordings added later. The number of these films with actual sound recorded at the time of the explosion can be counted on one hand. Sound recording in the field was an expensive and cumbersome process. The first actual live TV broadcast to capture the sound was in 1953. It can be found on You Tube.
Markyboy28 I'm thinking something like 75 miles. Other commenters may have hazarded a guess. I do know the fireball was 7 km across, and was visible over 400 km away.
To be honest the atmosphere in this video is kinda relaxing. Of course nukes aren't good, but all the light being absorbed from a massive glowing cloud is gorgeous.
@@PretendCaleb It killed 1 person and that was an accident, it was a test but the wind changed directions and blew towards a ship and 1 person in the crew of 23 died of acute radioactive poisoning so not "many" innocent people were killed compared to the Soviet detonation of the tsar bomba. So it can be seen as more of a very powerful firework which could potentially kill millions of people.
pretendnotch come on man, I bet that you are the type of person who gets butthurt over a simple joke, life has it’s shitty moments. This was one of them and we can’t do anything more than watch.
The amount of time that fireball hangs in the air is terrifying, anything within 20 miles of it would be literally set on fire or burned beyond recognition. Yet somehow its so hypnotizing watching it. Truly astounding.
And people will say it is beautiful. No. Nothing about nuclear bombs are beautiful. They're destructive, and horrific. They should never be used again.
There's almost no limit to the size (power) they can detonate. The Soviet Tsar-Bomba was actually designed to be 100 MT's. But there was a problem. The blast would have been so massive, that the bomber crew sent to deliver it would have had no chance of surviving. So they scaled it back 50%. Essentially, the full yield version was undeliverable by bomber crews (suicide mission).
Grady L. Appearantly the Tsar Bomb was so powerful, that some people in eastern Europe recieved burns from the heat generated. "Eastern Europe" may not be the best way to describe the distance, but my knowledge of global Geography is limited.
The tsar was impractical. The bomber used to carry it had to be heavily modified. It was purely a proof of concept bomb. The difference between Russia and the US. One bolsters and blusters. The other thinks practically.
Also, the Castle Bravo bomb was detonated in 1954 in order to kill Godzilla in first place, after his first appereance, but they failed in doing so. Since then, they've kept these facts hidden by simply refering to the Castle Bravo explosion as a regular nuclear test.
@@hallfrir3716 I thought Godzilla's killing in the name of the bomb test was just a dialogue from the movie. I mean, was it even real that tests in the 1950's were meant to kill the dinosaur which raises the question that was Godzilla even alive in the 1950's?
I think you didn't understand my comment. Everything I said was refering exactly to the plot of the 2014 movie, which takes place in the Monsterverse timeline. They use the real life event of the Castle Bravo detonation as a background for the story of the film. None of this really happened in that way
But the early beginning of the event is missing. In "Trinity and Beyond" You can watch the primer explosion followed by the growth of the thermonuclear second stage fireball.
@@TheFailLord72 Yeah it´s crazy how big this is. I mean, those rings of condensed air are traveling faster than sound, so probably like.. one kilometer per second, maybe a little less? -Spino
this and the relatively tiny meteor which we get every 100-300 years which exploded over siberia have something in common, both exploded with the same strength of 15 megatons
The 35mm film format was introduced into still photography as early as 1913 but first became popular with the launch of the Leica camera in 1925. It is difficult to compare the quality of film to digital media but a good estimate would be about 20.8 million total pixels (20 megapixels) would equal one 35 millimeter high quality color frame of film.
Actually the quote came from KONG SKULL ISLAND when John Goodman's character Dr. Randall was trying to get congress to fund the expedition to the island; because otherwise there would be no movie. So in a way this particular quote could sum up the entirety of the Monsterverse as a whole.
@@ricardoacosta2456No it didn’t, the quote came from Godzilla 2014. They may have reiterated it in Kong Skull island but that’s not where it originated.
@HogzillaGaming Thank you for correcting me. I just seem to remember remember the quote more from KONG SKULL ISLAND than from GODZILLA 2014. So anyways, thank you for correcting me.
Men saw their bones appear as shadows through their living flesh. More than 30 miles away from Ground Zero on Bikini Atoll, sailors on board Navy ships said the heat was like having a blowtorch applied to their bodies. The fireball was four miles in diameter and hotter than the surface of the sun. It rose at the rate of 1,000 feet per second, and created a mushroom cloud that eventually topped 130,000 feet above sea level.
@@RileyGoss just to add on a great comment, it was an accident because they made a mistake with the tritium, instead of evaporation it added another unstable element, the yield was supposed to to be 5 to 6 Mt, it was 2.5x larger at 15Mt a second Hiroshima irradiated 23 Japanese fisherman
+YawnGod that fireball was just so beautiful and I think this is real time video and not slow motion. which means that fire mushroom had to be almost a few miles across. and yet we built stand off nuclear warhead that had way more power like the B41 H-bomb which had a max yield of 25 megatons
This is the most terrifying detonation ever. Even if something like the Tsar Bomba was more powerful, the atmosphere of Castle Bravo is just something else. The hum of the plane, the shockwaves, the fireball. Horrifying
@@flazerflint it's probably not even that, it's probably that the recordings weren't as public as the ones in the us + it was harder to get good equipment in ussr
@@Firecat7409The size doesn't matter, it's the atmosphere. Sure the Tsar Bomba was impressive, but it cannot capture the same level of eeriness as Castle Bravo
For those who don’t know, this explosion was supposed to equal to 3-5 megatons of TNT. Instead, it was 15 due underestimation of the lithium-7. It killed quite a few people, and displaced many people from their homes. Incredible though it was, Castle Bravo was a disaster.
@@megamilyon6111 : The arms race didn't defeat Communism. It sure as heck didn't defeat authoritarianism in Russia. The Soviets defeated themselves, slowly but surely.
@@megamilyon6111 @MegaMilyon wha?? This was being tested years after. To say testing nukes because of Communism was a good idea just makes you sound.... I will be polite. The idea that because communism was bad it justifies irradiating an entire portion of our planet. Come on..
@@megamilyon6111lol we never used the atom on the soviets, and if we had, far more people would have died. There is not and never will be an excuse for this power. Unfortunately we're stuck with this sword of damacles now but god this is not "good" You want to know what helped bring down the soviets? Chernobyl. Civil unrest. Their own misuse of the atom. The us did nothing to defeat them, they did it themselves.
Man the sound of the plane is honestly the perfect soundtrack for such a gorgeous and terrifyingly perfect creation. Absolute destruction, the pinnacle of human power. Few of our next great achievements will be as "history changing" as the nuclear bomb. The computer, of course, being one of those few.
AI virtual reality and automation all rely on computers. Longevity and genetics work will be based off of simulations and models made on and by computer
Castle Bravo is exciting for one reason. It is not an atomic bomb, but rather the first hydrogen bomb in history to explode in three stages. As for the Soviet Caesar and the American B41, it is an imitation of Castel Bravo, but it is full of titanium, so you do not arouse interest. You can fill the hydrogen bomb with titanium that you need.
plusplusplusplusp If I'm not mistaken this video is running at half speed, so the fireball would rise exactly twice as fast. I believe there is footage of it at regular speed. The slower speed allows you to see it in more detail as it rises..
And to think this is only a fraction of the power of the atom. When you consider our own star has millions of atomic explosions millions of times bigger that castle bravo going off ever second...
this is literally terrifying. Imagine it's a normal day, you're eating out with your friends and then everything turns white from a massive light source and without knowing what happened you and everything you knew was gone. That's horribly scary.
Castle Bravo led the American public to rethink nukes, and what they could do to civilization. Before it the idea of a 'limited nuclear war' was perceived as reasonable, as nukes were viewed as basically really powerful conventional weapons. But Castle Bravo was vastly greater anything that had been seen before, and the massive fallout was shocking. Afterwards, the spectre of global thermonuclear war became, in Khrushchev's words, one in which "the living would envy the dead."
valinor100 "the living would envy the dead" is actually also a saying that has to do with the end times before the day of judgment in shia islam just saying i thought that was pretty interesting
valinor100 The reason it was so demoralizing wasn't because of the fallout or the actual scale, it's because Castle Bravo shouldn't have been that big. It was only supposed to be a 5 megaton bomb, but the scientists miscalculated the fuel sources, and it ended up being three times more powerful, nearly killing the test crew and tearing a hole into the Bikini Atoll.
The Addiction 2 The yield was indeed much greater than anyone imagined. The fallout had a really big effect though. The knowledge that it could reach so far led to the idea that wiping out your enemy could end up getting you too. A few years later a sci-fi author wrote the famous book 'On the Beach' about a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere leading to huge fallout making its ways south and giving everyone in the Southern Hemisphere a few years to live. People are distributed cyanide pills, etc. The American government vigorously denied a scenario like that but it was impossible to downplay what had happened...Castle Bravo was originally supposed to be a secret!
70 years from detonation of this monstrosity. I would sound like cliché guy who says i hope we never see these going off in our life times, but at this point where current situation is going on planet earth, it is like hoping someone who is suffering from cancer to recover from it. I hope reason and sanity prevails, no matter how much world has gone in opposite direction.
I know man it's so crazy I can't believe what I see sometimes. We just witnessed western leaders give "permission" to Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia, which has the largest nuclear arsenal on earth! So I have to ask, why the hell would Ukraine even want to do that? If I was over there. If I was a Ukrainian soldier or civilian I would be scared to death of being vaporized!
If that's the sound of the plane, it's a bloody ominous sound when mixed with that giant nuke explosion. When I look at this, all I see is hell basically.
Yeah it is the engines you can even hear them slightly change rpm. Its fucking terrifying though when playing along with the video. As a musician it also gets on my nerves because each rpm makes it a different pitch so for the first part of the video my music part of my brain was waiting for it to change pitch after X beats but it just remained at the same pitch.
Watching this before Oppenheimer, its hard to imagine what seeing this in person would be like - an inferno of death, with the unearthly orange glow, serenely forming clouds, the imagery of molten skulls ablaze within the cloud itself etc. It still feels more like something a celestial being or higher power would unleash than the hand of man...
Wow great input! The fact that this kind of power is in the hands of egotistical petty people is such a scary thought. Need to settle there differences between them and leave us out of it
I had an old friends who was personel on some of tests they dis out near Vegas. He said the fireball had every color you could imagine swirling and churning like some psychedelic nightmare.
You have to remember that the observation spot used by Oppenheimer would be inside that blast, if they used a hydrogen bomb like Castle Bravo instead of a fission one
Must be because the Tsar bomb was an air detonation (2.5 miles above ground) where as Bravo was a ground detonation. Also the Tsar bomb was soo powerful that it's own shock wave prevented the fireball from hitting the ground causing it to go up quicker.
Yup, the US was always better at making movies. When you can't really use your superweapons and the vast majority of people can't really go into space, what really matters is how good you make it look on their TV screens.
My father watched this shot from Kwajalein when he was a young Seabee. He's 88 now and still has very clear memories. He says it's the sort of thing you don't forget.
I’m beginning to think you aren’t one dude but a collective of people with the same name and picture who go and trick everyone into thinking your every where
I was there I don't recommend no one to be there it's I can't tell you the feeling but it's like the oxygen will stop and you feel that Human being is cheap I DONT WISH AT ALL TO USE THESE KIND OF BOMBS ITS AGAINST NATURE AGAINST THE HUMANITY
First of all, damn thats some high quality video for the 50's and second of all, that is a TERRIFYING bomb. The way it makes the entire horizon glow a deep red while the absolutely massive mushroom cloud rises into the sky, dwarfing an entire city. Just terrifying.
It was originally captured on FILM, and then later (much later) digitally enhanced and converted to video. The 1995 movie from which this clip is taken is on Blu-ray HD DVD. www.atomcentral.com/
@@puncheex2It’s is though since the vast majority of film from that time is digitally copied at a far lower resolution, killing the quality, for a digital copy of film from the 50s, this is really crisp test footage. Go look at Tsar Bomba footage and get back to us.
If you actually heard this you would shit your pants. Hell, I would. It was said that people on the boats could feel the bomb throughout their bodies and feel it crawl through their bones. The heat was so bad some thought they would burn to death. This bomb was crazy
Marc Lloyd strange thing about hell, it is said that a very, very minuscule amount of matter disappears during a nuclear bomb detonation.. whether it was specifically a fission or fusion type bomb that does this, i cant recall at the moment.
@@puncheex2 yes indeed, it was really appropiate, but also imagining how oppenheimer thought about himself because of what he helped to make is incredibly sad
tvercetti1 If he doesn't take shit from other countries, that might increase the chances that many of us may find ourselves bathing in radiation one day. I don't think the international community reacts well to leaders acting overly bold and assertive.
@zooofie America saved the World 3 times in 100 years. No one else could have or would have done that. President Trump is doing just fine. Foreigners just hate that our current leader isn't a weak kneed fruit or pushover like the 4 previous Presidents were.
@@dshedwick3235 lmao the US is the world's greatest exploiter, imperialist, terroriser and war criminal. it's allied with, or does nothing to stop, the most evil regimes in the world. fuck Trump, fuck the Republicans and Democrats, fuck the US military, and fuck capitalism. they're all bastards who kill and exploit innocent and working-class people in order to profit the owner class
In one minute, the fireball reach 100km diameter and expanding at 220mph. In one second after detonation reach 7.2km of diameter. Absolutly Massive. Imagine detonate this bomb over N.Y. or another "big" city, VAPORIZED
yeah this is absolutely terrifying with that sound in the background. is it music or actually the airplane's engines? also, this was apparently shot about 40 miles away from ground zero. that's completely insane.
SimMaster Holy shit...if that's true. I need to see one of these things in real life before I die. It is the power all men crave. Pure, unfiltered power.
To think all that power, all that destructive potential in a device smaller than a car, to produce a spectacle like this, it really is a thing of beauty and ingenuity.
There was another film of this where the quality of the film was not as good, but the aircraft sound was the same. I can't remember what site I watched it on, but the camera aircraft was a B-36 bomber, which had 6 propeller driven engines and 4 jet engines that were only used for taking off and shut down after reaching maximum altitude. Those 6 propeller driven engines put off a sound like no other aircraft.
Castle Bravo is exciting for one reason. It is not an atomic bomb, but rather the first hydrogen bomb in history to explode in three stages. As for the Soviet Caesar and the American B41, it is an imitation of Castel Bravo, but it is full of titanium, so you do not arouse interest. You can fill the hydrogen bomb with titanium that you need.
It looks weirdly beautiful, but also harrowing at the same time. If you were shown this without knowing what Castle Bravo is, you might think this is on a different Planet.
The fact that this is not in slow motion and is real time footage goes to show just the sheer magnitude of this nuclear explosion. A fireball that sustains that sort of heat output for longer than a minute. It's a literal star in the sky (albeit much cooler at sustained periods). This footage is something to marvel at, I'm in complete awe by what I see here. To know that these sorts of weapons exist terrifies me but the engineering and science involved to craft a weapon fascinates me.
It comes from paper or talking leaves. It's manifest into our world. Everything is put on paper manifest here. The ground has abundant of resources for us to manipulate. Haha
Fun fact, this blast was 2.5 times more powerful than it was supposed to be because the bomb designers thought the 60% of the fuel that was Lithium-7, instead of Lithium-6, wouldn’t have reacted at all. They were wrong
@@ColdSid What’s funny is that from the sheer size of the blast, even the news people who were there to record the event immediately knew that something was seriously wrong
my grandfather viewed this explosion from eniwetok atoll during his participation in operation castle with the air force. he saw castle romeo too and a few others i think. i showed him this video one day and he said "yeah, thats the one." hes even got the certificate of participation from the government still hanging on the wall in his name. imagine holding your hand in front of your face and seeing the bones in your hand like an xray, in real time, outside, with your own eyes... only surviving grandparent for me currently, but boy does he have some stories to tell. seems the rest of the family misunderstands him but he and i get along just fine, hes a good man at the end of the day
by the measurements of where the video was shot from(50 miles and or 50 nautical miles) I was able to calculate how long it would take you to hear the explosion from castle bravo. and the time it would take for the shockwave to reach the camera, was 4 minutes or more specifically 240 seconds to 280 seconds. If that isn’t terrifying then I don’t know what is
Actually these weapons are what's keeping humanity from killing itself, its called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD for short) as long as each nation has atleast one of these weapons not a single one will press the big red button
relax, there's no such things as "atom bombs" or "nuclear weapons". If there were, don't you think deep state would have been pushing all the buttons right after hitlery lost? I mean, come on. Or before that for any reason that challenged their monumental lack of temperance.
You're not far off from 'not of this world', this is the very thing that drives the sun, and the nuclear fusion inside the cores of all stars, that in turn provide light and energy to all life on earth and in the universe. Nature is often terrifying and wondrous at the same time. Such elemental power and ferocity. The very forces of the atoms and molecules that make up all matter being unleashed in an awesome display of power. Truly something to behold. Nature has a way of humbling us to reckon with the forces that make our universe work and govern all that exists, including our own lives and destiny. For the first time man's destiny is in his own hands. Truly a terrifying and humbling notion. I can understand Oppenheimer's infamous words more than ever... *_I am become death, destroyer of worlds_* The very thing that makes all life on earth possible may very well be the thing that ends it.
