Fun fact: Scientists can use isotope testing to help determine the age of unidentified human remains. Remains from before the development of nuclear stuff will have much lower levels of radioactive isotopes in the bones and teeth. In some cases this testing can even identify if someone was born before or after the explosion of Reactor No.4 at Chernobyl.
Similar testing can be done on 35mm film from before/after the nukes were dropped. Kodak discovered in the early 1950's that some film was fogged before use, and it traced the problem to fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests, both American and Russian. The company had discovered the fallout effects because some film was fogged prior to use as it had been packed in a material made from corn husks that had been contaminated by fallout.
@@user-wn3un1jp5h No you don't just take science on faith. That's the joy of science, any claim can be tested. You can go do the testing yourself to verify the same results. And if that person was wrong, you can help the community by sharing your results and theory to be tested. Scientific consensus results in facts, not faith.
As for suing the US, apparently, back in the Cold War people tried to sue because of bioweapons tests ran on California and it was established that the government has the right to experiment on US citizens without consistent when national defense is at stake...
yeah indigenous tribes that had testing done on their reservations still experience adverse health effects because of it to this day, have tried to get the US to make some kind of reparations or at least acknowledge what they did but you can take a guess how that went
@@ABoredGod oh yeah the hordes of homeless, rich people that don't care about anyone and the endless waves of self obsessed varieties of wannabees,,, yeah california surely is more important than tribe 😂.
The fact we are still finding ww2 bombs in the UK is crazy , they found another one in Plymouth last week and had to move it carefully through the city and take it out to sea and detonate it.
The effects of nuclear warfare research on soldiers at the time is crazy. My grandpa was in the navy during the cold war, and he was part of a research team that tested nuclear dispersion methods on small unnammed atolls in the Pacific Ocean. He got sent to the islands after they tested whichever dispersal method was decided upon and took radiation readings wear a suit made of asbestos. To this day his military records are accessible, but completely redated (think of black ops 1). The only information able to be seen are the date and his name. He has really severe health issues now so the navy has been surprisingly helpful finding him specialists and covering his travel and medical costs. But its awful, he doesn't have lips or parts of his tongue or gums anymore and can only eat soft foods like pudding and stuff. I just think its a percpective that gets forgotten about, these weapons were built on the backs of people the Federal Government basically deemed expendable.
wow very interesting, thanks for sharing. i feel so sorry for your grandpa. what caused the loss of tissue around his mouth? was it cancer from radiation or something?
@@actuallytyler8262 its pretty hard to get him to talk about it, but we've gathered that it was from exposure. It basically ate at all of the tissue on his face and only stopped actively killing it after recieving some sort of regular treatment. He also ended up losing all of his teeth because of the damage to his gums. The cosmetic damage is abhorrent, the only thing I could use as an example is like if a ghoul from fallout got a skin graph.
@@ExiledPalaceit’s pretty normal for veterans to not talk about their time served. my grandfather didn’t even want people bringing up he was in vietnam. agent orange was the main reason he passed. he got cancer bc of the chemicals used. but i can’t imagine what that must be like for him. i hope he gets the physical and mental help he needs.
@@BigPunDude drive and disappear are 2 completely different things... I can't believe I have to actually say that to someone 🤦🤦🤦🤦 Maybe go do some research
My day has been brightened. The video buffered and froze at the 0:02 sec mark and just stared at papa oomp staring at me with one of his goblins the frankster
In 1950 the US military sprayed “harmless” bacteria around San Francisco (without telling people) to test the city vulnerability from a bio weapon attack. In result 11 people got infected with urinary track disease. One people unfortunately passed away. No one was held accountable…
Unrelated to nukes, but one of my favorite conspiracy theories is that oxygen is actually a hallucinogen and we’re always just living in a state of delirium that we get accustomed to since childhood
That's refuting it How can 8 billion people be seeing something and interacting with the same things all the time It's impossible for a hallucination to be universal on that large of a scale
8:54 but also the nukes were air bursts which means they exploded a mile or a couple miles above the ground, which is another reason why there isn’t nearly as much destruction as places leveled by conventional explosives. If it had been detonated on the ground… Hiroshima and Nagasaki both would have been practically atomized and it would have been *so much* dirtier as the radiation would get into the soil and wildlife in much higher doses
@actuallytyler8262 are you saying if the nukes dropped on Japan was detonated on impact it would be similar to chernoybl? I'm no nuclear physicist but I don't think that's accurate. Maybe in terms of radiation fallout it is comparable but not in terms of destruction
@@kennymorelandiii9406 They literally meant in terms of Fallout. it doesn't take a genius to understand that. Everybody knows that bombs destroy stuff.
I base my fear of bombs, real or fake by how big they are. Suitcase bomb? I can out run that. Hand grenade? Dive behind a wall. Micro explosives? O no my fingernail! Nano explosives? A bomb based on an mp3 player wooo scary. Atom bomb? Ha I can't even see atoms. so insignificant.
I was pleased to find out that around the time I was born, about a few hundred miles from where I was born, existed a literal military stockpile of VX nerve agent that had just been abandoned. Literally tons and tons of liquid death just chilling unguarded. They did clean it up and that's the only reason I know about it but still I can't even fathom what else is just lying around out there in the world forgotten and abandoned. Go do some urban exploration guys! :D
My grandfather was too young to see action in WW2, he was drafted just before the end, served in the occupation force in Japan after the Japanese surrender. Spent a year in Hiroshima, he traded his cigarette rations for camera film and getting them developed. I’ve seen the pics, nukes are real folks
nukes can be detonated a different altitudes to cause different effects such as destroying building. US detonated the naga bomb at i think 3000 feet to destroy as many building as possible. The Chernobyl plant caused so much fallout because it was close to the ground, it mixed with the dirt/water when it blew up and rained back down.
It's more to shape the pressure front/shock wave by bouncing the bottom of the spherical shock wave off the ground, creating a highly concentrated and intense wedge at ground level.
I remember visiting Hiroshima as a kid, we went to the museum about the bomb. They had a case of melted off fingernails on display because of the heat from the radiation. They also had wax dummies showcasing what people looks life, their skin melting off and stuff.
13:24. In Holland, they’ll discover a bomb or mine from ww2 like at least once a year. Mostly in the woods. And our population density is very high, so most woods are right next to or in the middle of villages and/or cities.. Now I begin to wonder why we are still forgetting that fact and just mindlessly having children events and parties in the woods
France and Belgium are still dealing with farmers digging up explosives from WWI, apparently, and people have been killed by them as recently as 2014 - a century after WWI began.
I have a Dutch friend that told me that at one point in life, Dutch children are left in the woods and told to come back home on their own (as a tradition?)... It's even worse when you think about the landmines 💀
as someone who used to live on tybee island it’s a part of the islands culture with coffee shops naming drinks after that, restaurants having food items based on or named for it, over all just a super interesting place to be
I live in Exeter where they set off that bomb and it made a way bigger explosion than they though and blew out a lot of peoples windows that hadn't been evaluated 😅 also we just had another bomb as of last week dug up in our neighboring city of Plymouth in someone's back garden and just evaced half the city 😂
North Carolinian here. Swamp Bomb story is one of my favorite stories to tell my coworkers. As another fun fact the only thing signifying the incident is a small historical plague that casually mentions the incident as, and I quote: “Nuclear Mishap. B-52 transporting two nuclear bombs crashed. Jan. 1961. Widespread disaster averted; three crewmen died 3 mi. S.”
A simple clarification about the detection of radiation from Fukushima. It's not the radiation being detected in the whine but rather the radioactive isotopes. This matters a bit because the actual radiation being given off is so minuscule that its effectively undetectable blending in with background or other natural sources but through some form of Spectrometry or similar extremely small amounts of elements can be detected. When the CDC says all people have been exposed to radioactive materials from nuclear tests or nuclear accidents normally there isn't a claim of it affecting people since the affect would be so small no study can really prove such. Your exposure via these means would fall so far behind what a single plane flight exposes you to that it really doesn't matter.
It's almost like systems resiliency and radiation hardening engineers exist or something. Crazy that a camera system in an enclosure designed to withstand a small nuclear blast survived a small nuclear blast.
As far as the Tybee incident goes, the bomb is very unlikely to ever detonate now. The bomb could've possibly had it's uranium core replaced with a lead core for the training mission, it's likely classified. Even if it did have the uranium core the bomb wasn't armed at the time, which has to be done in a real bombing scenario. The reason the pilot chose to release it from the plane is likely bc the damaged wing could've broken off at any moment and it would cause them to go into an uncontrolled, spinning dive and then crash within seconds. It would've caused a shockwave and high temperature fire. This wouldn't necessarily cause the bomb to detonate BUT the chances of that causing it to were much higher than the chances if they just released the bomb. Also, that particular bomb had a device, that sent electrical pulses to the detonators, which was powered by a battery. The battery has long since quit working. The bomb is very likely under 150+ feet of sea floor and sediment as well. The chance of it ever detonating now, or in the future, is highly unlikely bc it lacks the capability. However, the possibility of contamination of the soil, water and wildlife due to leakage will remain for a long time. If it did indeed have uranium, plus other dangerous materials, the threat of contamination will remain for centuries, unless it's ever located and successfully extracted and disposed of.
As I'm watching this video I get a knock- My Sour Boys Cameeee! Cannot waittt to try Frankie's Fruit! It's like Oompa Inception- watching oompa while sourboys get delivered. It's a sign to eat SourBoys and Watch more Vids 😂😂😂
I'm always misplacing and losing my stuff.... Keys, glasses, cell phone, radioactive explosive devices, small children or pets... once I even had my cell phone in my hand and was frantically searching for it. Crazy, right? I've even occasionally, i know it's unusual, but I've even been known to set down and lose track of a drink! Conspiracy theories are fun as long as you don't dive too deep. There's some really insane 💩 out there! 😱
The camera is most likely mounted to metal post encased in a metal box with a very sturdy concrete foundations and the test sites most likely were done on one of the US many islands that are exclusively used for weapon testing purposes
Tybee Island really leaned the lost nukes into their local culture. I remember finding out about it when I visited the island as a kid. Lost Puppy signs stapled to the telephone polls, asking folks if they had seen a lost nuke in the area. I really appreciate tongue in cheek humor.
the elephant's foot was from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster back during the Soviet Union era, so that is unlikely to ever directly affect the US due to it being in another country thousands of miles of ocean and land away. By and large though, disasters like the one at Chernobyl are remarkably uncommon, and we learned a lot about reactor safety (unfortunately after thousands were harmed) because of that incident
I love to make miniatures and dioramas and yeah, the possibility of someone going out of their way to put that much detail into a miniature just to blow it up is highly unlikely
On top of the fallout arguments there's this; the type of long lasting fallout that we think of (The high dose dangerous type) only happens when a bomb is detonated at in below ground level BUT the most destructive type of blast is air-burst which notably does not allow as much of the radioactive isotopes to bind to the dirt. While an air-burst does still leave radiation it does not leave as much as you would think. I may be slightly off with the exact mechanisms but the idea is correct.
18:49 Most nuclear weapons can be activated or deactivated, it depends on the type but a deactivated nuclear weapon. Most types were armed by an altimeter and others were armed by the pilot. Some are even armed by both (requiring the pilot to arm the bomb before drop halfway then the altitude arms it the rest of the way).
For those that somehow don’t know, (which I bet I sound pretty 🤓 but still) every nuclear style bomb needs to be physically armed by hand by inserting vital components (that they will do nothing without), and numerous different electronic safety mechanisms. In most cases of “broken arrows”, with the exception of a certain few, these efforts to arm the bombs would not have been executed for training procedures so that even if they were dropped, they would drop like a rock and do nothing. Most bombs like this are meant to detonate above ground anyway, so they would be practically destroyed on impact if they did end up needing to be dropped in an emergency. Bombs like this would be used in training, but because they wouldn’t have been armed, they’d simply be a huge capsule of highly expensive materials that would do nothing on impact with anything, like hitting an spent ammunition cartridge with a hammer.
there was also a "broken arrow " incident over the Mediterranean sea near coast of spain in 1956 theres been a total of about 32 known " broken arrows "
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My cousin managed a Canadian Tire several years ago, and the owner got a shipment of pristine WW2 M1 Garands and a German rifle I can’t remember which one, along with several crates of ammunition. All from the actual time with papers and everything. They opened the boxes for the first time in 70+ years. It was really neat. They sold them in store.
US Air Force here (been stationed at Seymour Johnson), if you drop a bomb from the sky it won't blow up. I need nuclear weapon I've worked with is the safest munition I've ever worked on. If you jettison the bomb it'll hit the ground and won't detonate but if you let it crash with the aircraft it could get set off by the blaze from the fuel. There's something called an explosive train. Crashing into the ground won't set off a regular bomb, let alone a nuke with a very particular method of detonation. There's fuses, adapter boosters, and the explosive filler. Each one creates more energy release seeing off the bomb.
There was a plane crash near where I live now that included a nuclear bomb being dropped in Garrett county Maryland. Don’t remember all of the details but it ended up with some random person strapping it into their truck bed with two mattresses and driving around town afterwards
There’s a little film on the events that took place called “buzz one four” if anybody is interested. Small correction, it wasn’t in Garrett county but in Allegheny county. Really interesting stuff as it happened in the same time frame as what oomp covers in this video
Film cameras which in the 50s the shutter button HAD to be manually pressed. Unless, the camera was built with a removable shutter release cord. That means no matter what someone had to be there to press that button, and I wonder if they ever got radiation poisoning?
Close up shots were also filmed using underground bunkers with a periscope (mirrors people, how do they work?) thus allowing the recording cameras to be protected.
Its wild that they were doing training missions with actual bombs that didnt involve testing the bomb itself, its crazy that the planes collided, and its absolutely insane that they regained control of the plane at all. And then to not be able to find it knowing the location of the planes when the incident happened. Did they recover the wrecked f86 i wonder?
wait- and Atom bomb IS fundamentally different from a nuclear bomb??? They may both be classed as 'nuclear weapons' but the actual physical rockets we refer to as a 'nuke' are significantly stronger than atom bombs and rather than only using fission, rather than using some form of nuclear fusion to create what are now referred to as thermonuclear bombs, or hydrogen bombs. Kinda funny how we make little 'gotcha' points like this based off a quick google search without really considering the context or nuances.
The trinitite at the Trinity test site is a radioactive byproduct of the detonation. Owen wouldn't reply to that either. There's also the stuff about low background steel.
Atom Bombs are a 'type' of Nuclear bomb but they are SIGNIFICANTLY different than current Thermonuclear bombs. Atom Bombs rely on nuclear fusion instead of nuclear fission. Basically Atom Bombs FUSE atoms together while the Thermonuclear bombs SPLITS the atom in half. Thermonuclear bombs are also exponentially more powerful than Atomic Bombs
My father was stationed on a carrier in the 70s guarding nukes, some duds others not. Planes would take off on "patrols" carrying either but the marines were never told if it was a live nuke or not
I don’t personally know him to well, but I’ve met Derek Duke at a relatives funeral. Great guy from what I’ve been told, longtime family friend. I remember hearing about him searching for something off the savannah coast, but I never thought I’d hear about it here.
