It's amazing how they threw these things up like they were fireworks to play with.

@EK14MeV

8 ай бұрын

These were very complex tests, each involving hundreds of highly technical experiments, spread across the Pacific basin. Lots of new technologies were developed for these tests. Remember, even high altitude rockets were very primitive then in 1958, including the Redstone launch vehicles, that first went into active military service in June of 1958. Von Braun directly applied V2 rocket technology to Redstone, as its chief developer in Huntsville, Alabama. Von Braun blatantly copied and upscaled from Goddard patent designs, for the V2, except for new guidance technologies his German engineering team originated.

@penguin44ca

3 ай бұрын

Indeed. It's so dumb.

This was Operation General Electric: Balsa shot. Yield = 1.9 megawatts.

Majority of comentors didn't watch the vid. or read the description

😂take 2 send up another nuke!

@EK14MeV

8 ай бұрын

These were multiple filming takes not done during the actual shots. The flashes were faked for dramatic effect. Lookout Mountain regularly filmed personnel before the test day, to not interfere with their doing their jobs during the actual events.

Guy on the right has a suspicious scar... 😑😑😑What country did he originally come from??🤨🤨🧐

@deltapee9259

8 ай бұрын

He is a German rocket scientist from Operation Paperclip. The scar is a dueling (with swords) scare that were kind of trendy for certain Germans. Looked like a Thor rocket was used to launch the experiment.

Funny how they simulated the fireball flash with a lamp.

@dominicseanmccann6300

8 ай бұрын

It's all 'relative'......

@EK14MeV

8 ай бұрын

@@dominicseanmccann6300 Nobody was outside for the Orange shot, because of the Teak shot occurring directly above the island because of a navigation programming error. Orange burst altitude was 141,000 feet, compared to 252,000 of Teak, and the island surface temperature rose to nearly 500°F/260°C during Orange. Johnston Island was cleared of vegetation and other combustibles for the huge thermal pulse of the Orange test. It’s easy to see it was a bulb by the point source decline of the light in the later segments. The military typically films before operations. The film of 1952’s Operation Ivy’s narration and presentation by Reed Hadley was mostly shot the day before the Mike test, to not disturb the actual test’s workers and process. That particular window in the bunker scene was the observer window of the launch pad area. You can see the towers of lights outside the launch pad, if you look carefully. Also, the room would be darkened during the actual launch, to avoid internal reflections on the windows interfering with the view.

@dominicseanmccann6300

8 ай бұрын

@@EK14MeV yeah I heard the test director & a few other vips bailed out, after the near miss. Courage indeed. Stupid bastards...

@EK14MeV

8 ай бұрын

@@dominicseanmccann6300 Actually no. Nobody was harmed, only alarmed to speed for cover, by Teak’s powerful thermal pulse directly above the launch island. There were personnel outside during the Teak detonation, famously captured in the scientists running for cover of the bunker door concrete tunnel. kzread.info/dash/bejne/d2yl08dpnLmbZrw.htmlsi=fqpF_L-g7vFY0CJp Only required personnel were on Johnston Island during Operation Newsreel, the Teak and Orange shots. William E. Ogle was the Los Alamos Test Division commander of all nuclear weapons, succeeding Alvin C. Graves before Hardtack I. Ogle oversaw the Newsreel series. Graves was in declining health, and died young at 55 in 1965. And there’s nothing stupid about these historical people. The reality of nuclear technology developing weapons had to be dealt with competently, and thus only through testing. Nobody can develop a competent national defense without understanding how their systems impact enemies, technologies, infrastructure, and civilians.

@dominicseanmccann6300

8 ай бұрын

@@EK14MeV appreciate the comments; my ever decreasing memory thought it was either Teller or von Braun who found it all a bit too 'exciting' , or so I seem to remember from the Richard Rhodes book on the weapons developement. Perhaps I'm mistaking the tests; maybe it it was one of the tests from my namesakes series. Fascinating subject. Was telling someone this morning about a mutual friend, a French legionnaire, who was security at some of their (underground) tests, in 70s, although there is a dearth of material on the French programme. Leastways in English. Thanks again.

Why show this without the after effects? *Looks As If They Was Knocked On Their Asses From The Pressure Waves!*

@dominicseanmccann6300

8 ай бұрын

Well getting knocked on your arse is an 'after effect' Still, could be worse......😆

@StewieGriffin505

8 ай бұрын

No pressure waves. It was detonated near space. There is nothing to compress in space! That's why you can't move an asteroid with a nuclear weapon.

I wish they would restore and color-correct these films. And not with those horrible added-on sepia/red effects they always use.

Original raw 16mm colour film? Looks very black and white to me.

@StewieGriffin505

8 ай бұрын

It's faded out over the years. There is a large effort to save and restore these test films.

@tmd1sleep237

8 ай бұрын

I think you may be colour blind, there is definitely skin tone and colouration in this shot. Some colourblind people can see shades of red, pink and purple as grey.

Looks like a film. How come they didn't cover their eyes at critical mass and it seems like it took them two takes. Regardless use uranium to power plants. New ones hold gravity tanks to pour water on fuel rods for 4 days to prevent anymore meltdowns.

Interesting to see how the researchers reacted to the shot, this one in space (or close to it). Thanks for posting ATC!

@EK14MeV

8 ай бұрын

Those were multiple takes under a fake flash simulation.

Whats controversial about it

Teak

What this for? Education or what? Why all this fake? There must be a reson.

@MrTiti

8 ай бұрын

the reason is your brain

How much nuclear explosions they made for only this shot.

pretty corny.