British nuclear tests at Maralinga One Tree Shot 1956

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Operation Buffalo consisted of four tests; One Tree (12.9 kilotons of TNT (54 TJ)) and Breakaway (10.8 kilotons of TNT (45 TJ)) were detonated on towers, Marcoo (1.4 kilotons of TNT (5.9 TJ)) at ground level, and the Kite (2.9 kilotons of TNT (12 TJ)) was released by a Royal Air Force (RAF) Vickers Valiant bomber from a height of 11,000 metres (35,000 ft). This was the first drop of a British nuclear weapon from an aircraft. Operation Antler in 1957 tested new, light-weight nuclear weapons. Three tests were conducted in this series: Tadje (0.93 kilotons of TNT (3.9 TJ)), Biak (5.67 kilotons of TNT (23.7 TJ)) and Taranak (26.6 kilotons of TNT (111 TJ)). The first two were conducted from towers, while the last was suspended from balloons. Tadje used cobalt pellets as a tracer for determining yield, resulting in rumours that Britain was developing a cobalt bomb.

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  • @garysmith9818
    @garysmith98184 ай бұрын

    That's a shot we've seen less of, thanks for the posting ATC!

  • @terratec1001
    @terratec10014 ай бұрын

    0:38 - A dog leaping in the sky.

  • @Z301B
    @Z301B4 ай бұрын

    It kinda looks like the Trinity test and RDS-1

  • @Republic9323

    @Republic9323

    4 ай бұрын

    Same tower height and relatively same yield. The scaling factors were about the same for all three of these tests. Which would explain the explosions similar physical appearances.

  • @dr.strangelove8846

    @dr.strangelove8846

    4 ай бұрын

    Looks like trinity test and you are right

  • @16alphav
    @16alphav4 ай бұрын

    I like how You Tube blocks like 45% of this video with recommendations for other videos.

  • @Republic9323
    @Republic93234 ай бұрын

    Beautiful footage as always. Just curious as to how much you paid for this film?

  • @MySteamChannel
    @MySteamChannel4 ай бұрын

    My father was working there during the tests...he lived into his 80s, but I have prostate cancer.

  • @normkirk65
    @normkirk654 ай бұрын

    Looks more like 15kt or 20

  • @Mamalotty0725

    @Mamalotty0725

    3 ай бұрын

    It was 15.9 kilotons

  • @mrbrain3339
    @mrbrain33394 ай бұрын

    It is One Tree Shot.

  • @FISSIONINITIATEDSUNRISE
    @FISSIONINITIATEDSUNRISE4 ай бұрын

    1.5KT ? Im giving up judging yields if I have no size comparison or landscape footage for size approximation.

  • @Republic9323

    @Republic9323

    4 ай бұрын

    15 kilotons.

  • @FISSIONINITIATEDSUNRISE

    @FISSIONINITIATEDSUNRISE

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@playboyrepublic9371 In the description, it's stated as 1.5 kt.

  • @Republic9323

    @Republic9323

    4 ай бұрын

    @@FISSIONINITIATEDSUNRISE typo on his part. This was shot Buffalo R1/One Tree. Edit: Even I was wrong, it’s actually 16 kilotons.

  • @FISSIONINITIATEDSUNRISE

    @FISSIONINITIATEDSUNRISE

    4 ай бұрын

    @playboyrepublic9371 Yes, indeed, I thought that my judgment had gone completely out of the window. My aproximation by the footage was around but under 20kts.

  • @EK14MeV
    @EK14MeV4 ай бұрын

    That’s One Tree shot (Round 1), not Marcoo.

  • @somejackball
    @somejackball4 ай бұрын

    What are all those lines?

  • @petehafner3844

    @petehafner3844

    4 ай бұрын

    Rockets before explosion to see blast radius

  • @warboy216
    @warboy2164 ай бұрын

    Deadly for the local Aboriginal people which were affected not to mention the Australian and British servicemen

  • @LordEriolTolkien

    @LordEriolTolkien

    4 ай бұрын

    Few if any people were directly exposed ...

  • @warboy216

    @warboy216

    4 ай бұрын

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClelland_Royal_Commission

  • @insideoutsideupsidedown2218
    @insideoutsideupsidedown22184 ай бұрын

    Not a very big detonation

  • @MikeHunt-rw4gf
    @MikeHunt-rw4gf4 ай бұрын

    ALgorithm.

  • @inappropriatejohnson
    @inappropriatejohnson4 ай бұрын

    Shoulda tested it in England. Leave the Aussies alone.

  • @LordEriolTolkien

    @LordEriolTolkien

    4 ай бұрын

    This was many hundreds of kilometers from any major population centre. Your proposal is asinine

  • @sentowrite4562
    @sentowrite45624 ай бұрын

    Black toxic column

  • @yewknow5420
    @yewknow54204 ай бұрын

    Studying these bombs, compared to the movies. They seem pretty weak, I think I could survive the explosion but not the shockwave

  • @jdogsful

    @jdogsful

    4 ай бұрын

    this one looked weak as piss. the blast barely disturbed the smoke lines and then there was just a tiny puff of smoke afterwards. not even as powerful as the beruit blast. not a nuke, just regular explosives. honestly, the more i watch these videos, the less i believe in nuclear weapons.

  • @nealkelly9757

    @nealkelly9757

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@jdogsfulYeah, nuclear weapons are a conspiracy man

  • @ZXLNT

    @ZXLNT

    4 ай бұрын

    @@jdogsful Believe less what? Usefulness or existence?

  • @jdogsful

    @jdogsful

    4 ай бұрын

    @@ZXLNT existence. nagasaki and hiroshima experienced no nuclear fallout and are still inhabited to this day, and i simply dont believe mutually assured destruction would prevent humanity from entering nuclear war. When is come right down to it, there is simply fuck all proof of nuclear weapons.

  • @buckhorncortez

    @buckhorncortez

    4 ай бұрын

    I'll take "stupid things people say for $1,000, Alex..."

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