UNCUT RARE FOOTAGE OF AN ATOMIC BOMB MUSHCROOM CLOUD AND FIREBALL DEVELOPING AT NEVADA 

The rapidly rising and very hot fireball creates a vacuum effect that draws up air and material from the ground, which has usually been shocked by the overpressure wave and is amenable to being lofted. Depending on the yield, there may also be rebounding effects in play, carrying more material upwards. Sometimes the overpressure wave is so powerful it bounces off the ground and sends some of the energy back up to interact with with the space above it in interesting ways.

@Ronald 240Bravo I believe this is one of the air drop tests. You can usually see the shot cab and tower. Crucially for me, though, is that the stem doesn't reach the fireball until later. Even if the device had been detonated in a tower, it would have a stem connected to the fireball from the first moments.

@@noecarrier5035 It appeared to be a ground burst but maybe not!

@@noecarrier5035 It also has a lot to do with a thermal updraft; the hot spot on the deck creates an intake of wind that collide and push air upwards

@@josephpacchetti5997 The ground shots have much more pronounced and flared ground interactions, you get much more material involved and it is a lot more chaotic. I think this was air dropped and fused for low height of burst. There were a whole bunch of these airdrop tests carried out as the US raced to produce a more reasonable, deliverable tactical nuclear munition than the first generation of mass production bombs derived from the Mk 4. This would have been the Mk 7, the Thor tactical fission bomb, the first real, fully featured weapon system put into service. It had yields from 8 to 61 kilotons, which was achieved by modular pit design, weighed less than a ton and was only five metres long, with a thin body, which meant it could be carried externally.

@Ronald 240Bravo my grandfather was on Easter Island. The stories. I've got a few.

Only the little ones tend to look MASSIVE The Megaton blasts just defy scale as they are at such a distance...they are more like Weather events on a geographical sort of level. I was expecting this blast to be down in the corner of the screen... it was way OUT of screen

Almost like death is poetic

@@baileyandersen614 Well said. 👍

What is the Music?

@@JETJOOBOY I wish I knew.

@@BigArt1970 Tôi Thích Hút Cần by Ngáo Cần. i think

even davy crocket was terrifying

Lol

mother nature. Lets thank mother nature for the things she has provided us--- floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, sand storms, hail that destroys crops and live stock, extreme cold, extreme heat. All this long before the "man-made" global warming mantra was going on. You can have your mother nature....

My peoples been surviving natural disasters but blowing up the planet is a different level of insanity I'm pretty sure you fit right into that.

@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 all these tests are the most common cause of cancer , theses test have allready condamn us , it was too late before chernobyl and all others like fukushima we are a litle bit screwed lol how much of theses detonation occured in the world in total ?? search for this video A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto

@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 the real history will be , mother nature give life to human , then human nuked itself

Or maybe Children of The Grave

What is this that stands before me ? That would be pretty cool

Yes, or Pantera. They both have the soundtracks.

Agreed, this is kinda creepy.

What consequences? Radiation? They'd have to walk to ground zero and back to be in any real danger of lethal irradiation--and even that would be survivable after a day or two. After the ill-fated 15 megaton Castle Bravo--due to the Li-7 snafu of the scientists and a bad fallout path prediction--there were some natives in the Marshall islands who suffered immediate radiation sickness and long-term susceptibility to cancer--but most of them lived long, healthy lives. And that was the worst post-WW2 fallout disaster in history. Yes, cervical cancer was a higher risk, but still rare. Admittedly, the Japanese sailors on a much nearer fishing boat got a much bigger dose--but most of them lived out long lives as well. The irrational stigmatization in Japanese society against irradiated citizens was as bad as the poisoning itself. Japanese people thought radiation sickness was contagious, you see...lol. I'm afraid many people are still superstitious about radiation. But viewing a Nevada test from a few miles away would have been completely safe--as long as your eyes were protected at the moment of the blast. I envy anyone who saw them. But I'd wait a week before walking to ground zero lol. The world's ubiquitous fear of radiation from nuclear testing and nuclear reactors is about a thousand times overblown. And it's sad: nuclear power is the answer to man-made global warming, but we're irrationally afraid of it like the jungle indigenous are afraid of their own photographs. That's the real tragedy of irradiation: the phobia of it.

@@zippymax1 A lot of people have bad misconceptions about nukes, it's just ignorance of the subject.

@@orange70383 True...but it's a politically-correct, elitist ignorance perpetuated by government-school indoctrination from an early age. It won't be undone easily. There's a megaton of cultural force behind it.

@@zippymax1 Trouble with nuclear power is that although severe events are rare, when they do happen, things go catastrophically bad. Obviously Chernobyl and Fukushima are the worst ones, potentially affecting continents but Three Mile Island and Windscale were pretty bad in themselves. The more generators the more the likelihood of severe accidents. I'd rather the world collaborated on fussion power.

Chernobyl: irrelevant example...decades-obsolete design, incompetently built and maintained by a pathetically paralyzed Communist bureaucracy. Yet even then: less than 100 dead. Fukushima: one dead. Three Mile Island, the worst nuclear power disaster in American history: a staggering zero deaths. How many have died in the coal mines? In the oil industry? If you claim environmental radiation from nuclear reactor accidents is catastrophic (it isn't--that's just neanderthalithic superstition), how does it compare to pollution from coal and oil? And I daresay historical coal and oil pollution contain more cumulative random isotopic radiation than a thousand such nuclear accidents. Hydroelectric, wind, and solar? Don't even get me started. The environmental impact of batteries--especially cars batteries--is the true monumental environmental catastrophe. Not to mention the inherent and massive inefficiencies converting any power source to electricity. That makes wind and solar prohibitively expensive. And those options also have environmental problems of their own. And here's a cute little secret the idiots in power don't tell you: if you use coal to generate electricity for electric cars, the net pollution per mile exceeds gasoline powered cars lol! No...time to take the old hippie blinders off. Nuclear is the safest, cleanest, cheapest option by orders of magnitude.

And don't forget Chernobyl. They nearly screwed the world, not to mention Europe.

@@jimsewell6509 I am not anti-nuclear power in any way. We can do better. I was just a few miles down range from Three Mile Island when it occurred and it was obvious that the nuclear energy portion of the energy industry was asleep at the switch. I am really glad that we don’t do atmospheric nuclear testing anymore.

You’re still here aren’t you? Any problems you have? Cmon man!

Not to mention movie production companies "downwind" f IP lming, and those states with thousands of visiting tourists who were invited to witness these test events. They were assured that they were at a safe distance!

@@georgehays4900 Rest assured, the effects since '45 aren't over. Ever! The irradiation keeps a "life" of how many years, if not cenyuries. We've done how many tests, above, below ground AND IN SPACE? NO WONDER we've had so many visitors checking up on "us kids", now that our playboys have now reached the atomic level (cue Klaatu to enter from stage left..)

Your description is far superior to the pinned comment.

Yep. Now we have Fukushima which is the gift that will keep in giving until everything on our planet is dead

I'm still annoyed that they tag Biden to these videos. He doesn't have jack shit to do with this subject.

@Ronald 240Bravo I'm sure they tagged Trump to videos uploaded during his presidency too. They could have at least tagged the presidents who were president at the time of the test. It's like tagging Biden to a video about the Revolutionary War

@@willk4862 no they didn’t I just went and checked.

Lol, the biggest bomb so far was Tsar Bomba at 50+ megatons in the Soviet arctic, but we can dream... 😄

sure ya did

My generation has its own Cold War we’re growing up with, only with China instead of the USSR

Most people seem to say that it is 10 to 15 miles, a bit closer than I would want to be

They were far as fuck. Like 15-20 miles to my knowledge. The 100,000,000 *C fireball was .5km or 1km across, so the entire blast radius is around 2-3km. It looks the same as a danger close J-DAM or MOAB because they were danger close for a nuke. Our brains go to the storage banks for previous explosions and have trouble grasping the true scale of what is happening. The scariest part is that this was a weak nuke compared to what we have now. Truly terrifying, but since we know aliens are real, maybe we need more.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c0jkYmyaj_A.html @3:37 is most likely the culprit

Most of those are either contrails from small sounding rockets with recording instruments, or ground smoke puffs that tested the speed and location of the MACH stem pressure wave.

I could be wrong but with a lot of tests they would fire smoke rockets ( not sure what they're called). I think the would use them to measure the pressure wave or something. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

That might have been Buster Charlie, a device set off as part of the Operation Buster-Jangle series, about 14kt.

@@LordZontar Thank you. I was quite curious about which test this was.

MY MOM LIVED IN VEGAS 4 AWHILE AND SEEN 2 TESTS. SAYED IT WAS SCARY BEAUTIFUL.

Not if there are enemy aircraft flying around.

@@technologic21 yes that would ruin their whole day wouldn’t it?

Could be a rocket. They launch those just before the shots are detonated to help judge the speed rate of the concussion wave. Helps to determine the rate of tonnage

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Actually, earthworms, and other organisms such as fungi break down and sequester radioactive materials. The problem with the Nevada test sites is the lack of moisture. Radiation will hang around a lot longer where it's very dry ... unfortunately. Support global worming!

Humanity got tricked into killing itself. Humanity itself isn't evil, but it's very gullible, and easily led and tricked into thinking all it's ills is because of the other guy, or them over there. Just recently the entire world was shut down because a handful of people on TV said to do so.

America uses the titian 2 ICBM, 9 megatons 90x the power of the Hiroshima bomb, Also the missiles have multiple warheads that can strike at multiple targets. Let's not forget the b83s, 80x the Hiroshima, waiting to go. Oh we also have a state of the art "star wars" defense grid that can destroy missiles at a very high rate of speed.

@@trevordavis2499 the U.S. scaled back their missiles and do not use multi megaton warheads anymore. Most are boosted fission devices between 100 and 500 kilotons.