@@Wes4TrumpI saw a documentary about some English soldiers who said that they saw their bones during a test. They were far enough away to survive, but I think they were all sterile and couldn't have children.
@@donniefaust2763 No, the interview is somewhere on RU-vid and took place at some veteran club. They got old but complained that they couldn't have children.
My great uncle was part of one of the detonation tests and he got to see it go off and he said the smell is horrible and metallic and you feel like you are getting cooked
It’s used in that terrible x men film apocalypse, when the villain fires all the nukes into space. I’m pretty sure that’s where the idea for using it in this clip came from.
From pure pyrotechnical kind of view such "F5" devices are simply stunning. Following this perspective the example shown here is not well placed, becsuse it is a groundburst. But the slowed down excerpt of Beethoven's passacaglia passage from the ballad-movement of his Seventh fits. Not nuclear explosions as is are the problem, but the still negative behavior of the humankind to employ ecerything until nothing remains at all ist the problem. Humans currently do far to much as makes sense overall.
Only thing that is truly disturbing about this footage is the fact that out government can use this in our environment, but I can't have a diesel truck without having to put def fluid in it. Seems like a double standard.
In fact the US doesn't field anything close to the enormous bombs we tested in the 1950s and 60s. This is largely due to the dramatic improvements in the accuracy of missiles. When we could only guarantee the warhead got within a mile or two of the target, it had to be huge to assure destruction. Now that we can guarantee the warhead gets within spitting distance of the target, a bomb "only" ten times as big as those dropped on Japan is sufficient.
@@thesprawl2361if you think that's true than your just a mindless worker drone because they have 100s if not thousands of the tasar bomb made in Russia
Nukes aren't as powerful as you think, nukes contain barely enough radioactive material to cause fallout and radiation poisoning for a few weeks at best.
@@erenb.2806except the part where they will be strategically detonated in places that will cause the most casualties and losses to critical infrastructure.
The scariest test picture i think is the test they did against a naval flotilla. Normally with the test footage there is no frame of reference, with that one you can see a really wide black line on the side of the 'stem' of the mushroom cloud, which happens to be a full sized naval vessel, and how puny that ship looks, when you realize the bomb they used wasn't all that powerful for what can be made, scary
This is probably about 5 miles away. Just based on the size of the blast and videos I’ve seen with verified distance. The castle bravos video was roughly 50 miles away. Give that a watch.
@@donaldtolbert7804 actually he's sorts correct. but not either. the radiation NOT being broken down by the salt water is unfortunately being absorbed into the micro plastic pollution. thusly entering our food chain through the fish, same as the mercury.
We've come a long way fellow humans. From arrows to guns and now the final ultimate weapon. Hopefully the next civilizations learn from our mistakes and understand war is never the answer. Evil will loose one day.
Los Alamos is in the bottom left hand corner for those that think ole boy was lying about the type of clearance and work they were doing!! Not one of you in the comments picked that up.
why not ... it's not the first time we've done this to ourselves. oh, that's right you got educated in the American school system. turns out, they lied to you about everything. ALL OF IT !!!
The wild part is that this is only a 25kT blast, similar to that dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But we literally have weapons up to 1000x more powerful...
It's twice as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, & thermonuclear unlike Hiroshima & Nagasaki, which were both atomic. In other words, a far nastier device altogether.
@@tacotuesday2381: Steve is right. "Since we've had" implies we lost it back then. Typically you'd phrase it, "80 years since we got" or "80 years that we've had."
If you’re referring to the stem, the physical part you see, that looks like a tree, it’s because that’s where the “fireball” is. The main point of the blast, and it doesn’t go very far. - The most impactful part of a nuclear explosion is the shockwave that shoots out of the explosion, which destroys buildings and wrecks everything. And then the radiation as it falls back to the earth, is what causes the land, water, food, etc. around it to become unusable and also creates a large area human life cannot survive in or will greatly suffer. So to answer your question more directly, the blast does move far. It’s a shockwave, not that stem you can see. The stem is where the explosion occurred, and the pressure explodes outwards into that shockwave. I hope this makes sense.
It’s the distance. This is a few miles away. That fireball is ripping through the sky at several hundred miles per hour. It just doesn’t look like it at distance.
I believe the name of this bomb was Mike. It was an 11 megaton hydrogen bomb. It almost killed the forward operators in monitoring in an observation station. The blast was heading right towards them,they jumped into a helicopter and scrambled out of there.
It’s amazing how distinct each nuclear explosion is from the next. I have only ever seen aerial footage of the nutmeg test and as soon as this started playing I knew it was nutmeg from the shape.
For the Average Us citizen on the eastern side, this view would be within 30 miles of their homes in several directions or closer if nuclear war were to start.
I’m pretty sure that’s this one but if tou don’t know the name of that bomb it’s castle bravo I think it was like 4 times more powerful then they thought
