Making the World's Navies Obsolete, Oppenheimer, and Half Naked Women
Thanks to Lumen for sponsoring. To get $100 go to go.lumen.me/brainfood and start improving your health today!
This video is #sponsored by Lumen.
Until 1946, very few people had ever heard of Bikini Atoll. Located in the Marshall Islands chain 3,000 kilometres southwest of Hawaii, the atoll consists of 23 coral islands surrounding a central lagoon 30 kilometres wide. For thousands of years Bikini was home to a few hundred Marshallese islanders, who sustained themselves by fishing and cultivating coconuts. In 1885 the atoll was annexed by the German Empire, who used it as a production hub for coconut oil. Then, in 1914, the Empire of Japan - at that time part of the Entente Powers - captured the Marshall Islands from the Germans and in 1920 was awarded the chain by the League of Nations as part of their South Seas Mandate. In 1941, following the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific, Japanese troops occupied Bikini in order to protect the nearby - and strategically vital - Kwajalein Atoll. Bikini remained in Japanese hands until February 1944 when, after fierce fighting, American forces recaptured Kwajalein. By this time, the garrison on Bikini consisted of only five men, who all chose to commit suicide by hand grenade rather than surrender.
And there the story might have ended, with Bikini remaining just another coral speck among hundreds in the gruelling American island-hopping campaign. But in December 1945, less than four months after the Japanese surrender, a decision was made that would catapult this once-obscure ring of islands into the global spotlight. While it was clear to all that the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 had forever changed modern warfare, what was less clear was how exactly it had changed. As the Second World War gave way to the Cold War, military strategists began to wonder how best to use this awesome new weapon. Could it be deployed tactically on the battlefield, or was it only good for destroying civilian centres? And what kinds of targets was it most effective against? Particularly concerned about its role in the nascent atomic age was the U.S. Navy, which resented the Army Air Force’s monopoly on the delivery of nuclear weapons. The Air Force, meanwhile, argued that naval ships were extremely vulnerable to nuclear attack, and that the advent of such weapons had effectively made navies obsolete.
Author: Gilles Messier
Host: Simon Whistler
Producer: Samuel Avila
Пікірлер: 199
Thanks to Lumen for sponsoring. To get $100 go to go.lumen.me/brainfood and start improving your health today!
You coaxed me in with bikinis and tricked me in to watching something educational!🤨😂
@TodayIFoundOut
29 күн бұрын
Our evil plan is working. 😋 -Daven
@ivanf4023
27 күн бұрын
Doesn't it just give you a raging brainer?
The bikini atomic explosion also inspired that great classic SpongeBob SquarePants
5:56 Brasseries indeed. Simon, you need to read the autocue, the word is brassieres! 😂
@pioneercynthia1
11 күн бұрын
We once had a restaurant here called "The Brasserie" that was so consistently pronounced "The Brassiere" it was renamed (weirdly enough) "Features."
We meet again men of culture.
@berdilio1989
29 күн бұрын
I read this as we meet aging men of culture...
@michaeljacobs9532
29 күн бұрын
Such a simple, yet accurate post. 👌
@HoLeeFoc
29 күн бұрын
No culture, no happiness
@blackgirlcouchreviews
28 күн бұрын
Men?😂
@TheKalaxis
28 күн бұрын
People of culture
Lumen sounds like something that would be debunked on Decoding the Unknown... 🤔
@scottmeredith3359
28 күн бұрын
They are also an appallingly bad telecom provider in the US lol
@bunyipdragon9499
26 күн бұрын
Surely not. This wonderful gadget tells you to eat more veggies, I'm sure no-one has ever heard that before 😂
lol this reminds me of shorts. in the 1950’s my grandma and her friend were in the newspaper (maybe the hartford courant) for wearing shorts in public. in the summer. by the beach. they were considering making it illegal in the town she was in 😂. she clipped out the article and we still have it today
"the past is the worst" ugh feel so bad for them cattle basically.
Spongebob lore is truly fascinating.
My grandpa was drafted into the U.S. Navy within a month of the bombs being dropped on Japan, and he was present at the Bikini Atoll in the first test there, in 1946 (operation crossroads). He said he skinned his inner thighs sliding down a coconut tree he climbed, and he also told me about how he helped the scientists set up the cameras and the animals in cages, before the atom bomb test. Apparently, the boys in the navy got 2 beer tickets back then, but my grandpa didn’t drink at the time (he was born in 1927).
@JesseJoyce-cj2xg
29 күн бұрын
I’m surprised, but watching you go into detail about all these things he recounted to me when I was a little boy, I almost feel as though I’ll cry. He was a very good man, my grandfather, and I still miss him.
@softkitty775
27 күн бұрын
My dad was also at Bikini while in the navy (1yr in). His ship was the last one turned away from Hawaii and sunk about 100mi away. He told me about them having to sit heads in laps "until the bright flash was gone", scrubbing the ships down, and having to help start the engines. He passed from several cancers in 1980.
@seed_drill7135
13 күн бұрын
My grandfather served on the New York during the war, but they let him go after VE Day, as he was born in 1910 and had two kids at home.
I lived in Portland when Jantzen was going full throttle. There was even a swim park named Jantzen Beach they had in north Portland near the Columbia River. Wearing a Jantzen item was a status thing. I used to love going thru the racks of their swim suits looking at the designs and looking for the coolest one. Jantzen was a leader in current designs. They went further than just plain one color prudish attire. Thanks for the memories.
I recently realized that Naturalist and Naturist are not the same thing lololol
@aceundead4750
29 күн бұрын
That was actually done on purpose by naturists to try and make it seem not weird that entire families were involved in the practice.
@pr0xZen
26 күн бұрын
And here I've been thinking "naturalists are some weird nekkid goofs", but turns out instead I'm one of them and I'm fully clothed! - Well, mostly, I'm missing a sock. And I'm probably a bit of a weird goof too. Not a nekkid one tho.
@bunyipdragon9499
26 күн бұрын
@@pr0xZen nekkid 😂
I'm furious every time there is any mention of that Tuskegee experiment!!!!
If you watch the final years of Majuro documentary by wendover productions where they interview people from Bikni atoll and and a number of Polynesians who have lived in the marshal islands there entire life them saying “it’s in the hands of god” is actually them saying the exact opposite of what you said they meant. They actually were very against the tests and them giving up there land for it
Tip for a Brain Blaze: the wierd s... KZreadrs try to sell....
You can irradiate all the animals, people, ships and oceans you want, just don't show your belly button.
Australia had beach inspectors who measured the length of the bikini. Tough job….😬😬😬 “The bikini had debuted at a Paris poolside a few months before - it was named after the Bikini Atoll, which had been used for nuclear testing by the French - and for the next twenty years, it provoked clashes between the Beach Inspectors and young female beach goers. According to Aub Laidlaw, the first woman who wore a bikini at Bondi in October 1946 was mobbed by a crowd of wolf-whistling and cat-calling boys who tried to undo the tie string of her bikini top. She was escorted out the back of the pavilion and onto a tram. Laidlaw was a regular on the beach over the next twenty years, patrolling the beach with a tape measure, making sure the swimming costumes met regulations.”
20:26 Did I just hear Simon mention a channel I was unaware of?
@zurielsss
27 күн бұрын
Not sure Higher learning doesn’t look it had Simon
@lemonlily4022
26 күн бұрын
Weird - must be owned by whomever owns TIFO these days 🤷🏻♀️ I couldn’t find a video with Simon presenting there.
What a tie in . 😂
The arguments between the navy and air force sound like the dialog of George C Scott in Dr Strangelove
Another kind of bombshell 😂😂😂 You got that right!
🤣🎶"she wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini"🎶
@HarisHuskic-gp1ni
29 күн бұрын
That she wore for the first time....
@bannankev
29 күн бұрын
32:50 💜 😂😂😂😂
@johnmekus9430
28 күн бұрын
@@HarisHuskic-gp1ni "That she wore for the [VERY] first time...."
@bunyipdragon9499
26 күн бұрын
@@johnmekus9430 nope, there is no "very" in that line
@johnmekus9430
25 күн бұрын
@@bunyipdragon9499 After I posted that I thought 'maybe it was the first time TODAY' (It is... mea culpa).
sick jacket
Soap and Water? Yea, lets get some Dawn and hot water, we'll scrub this radiation right off! The past. Shew. But thanks Simon, awesome video as usual.
@HarisHuskic-gp1ni
29 күн бұрын
It's actually recommended to wash off the radiated dust off you as soon as possible.
3:55 I didn’t inhale 😂😂😂
Akin to the word "tantalize", most people are ignorant of it's dark and horrific origin. Beware, it is not for the faint of heart
@WarblesOnALot
28 күн бұрын
G'day, Teenage Boys being Flashed By their Tante...; Nae doubt about it. And, To fully understand the meaning of "Disgruntlement" ; one has but to recall that "Grumble-And-Grunt" is Cockney Rhyming-Slang for Vagina... And when a person is Gruntling away happily, And they find themselves becoming Disgruntled...; 'Tis nae great wonder that they be Extremely very Unhappy, Eh - Chappie (?) ! Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
@sirderam1
27 күн бұрын
The Ancient Greeks enjoyed a little creativity in these matters! 😂
Ah...so that is why when you cross the Columbia River from Vancouver, Washington to Portland, Oregon on Intetstate 5 the first exit is to an island in the river and the industrial area of Jantzen Beach.
Essentially, bikini bans try to suggest that belly buttons are, somehow, obscene. People are weird.
Wow.. .are you going to post this also as a Megaproject?
Oh, Simon is wearing a different jacket!
We need to do another test and film it with expensive phantom slowmo cameras and best HD cameras available now
@dontcallmebaby6927
29 күн бұрын
No
@ripn929707
29 күн бұрын
No, we don't. These trigger happy war mongers acted like children with enormous fire crackers, and poisoned the entire planet. Dont think so? Scientists can tell what wood was harvested before 1946. Wood carvings, and other things like furniture have trace amounts of radio active isotopes if they were alive after the late 40s and early 1950s. Every tree in the world has them now.
@grabbity
25 күн бұрын
Closest we'll likely get is CGI due to treaties etc., or what they did in Oppenheimer, which surprisingly, didn't use any CGI.
@TheMono25
24 күн бұрын
🙄
If this is in any way related to SpongeBob’s Bikini Bottom it somehow explains a lot…
@SSRT_JubyDuby8742
28 күн бұрын
It is,😊.
@TheCanagoose
27 күн бұрын
From what I understand from the lore of the show. Bikini bottom is at the bottom of Bikini attol. The reason all our beloved sea creatures are the way they are is due to radiation in the water after the tests. Maybe its actually just a theory, a film theory. But I remember that as the reason.
Yall oughta *link* all these videos you keep referring to having previously released. Put em right in the description or a pinned post.
Imagine being a fish just outside the death zone on the tests... That's how nemo was made.
Got its name from the Bikini Atoll. The atom bomb gave us some good after all.
@aceundead4750
29 күн бұрын
Ooooooh who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
@albetrosxcore3028
29 күн бұрын
@@aceundead4750 some girl who wears a bikini
@insaincaldo
29 күн бұрын
@@aceundead4750 Please don't bring up the Krusty Krab at bikini bottom, in this context.
@StefanMedici
29 күн бұрын
Pfft western society made women cover their breasts in the first place. I for one will never forgive them. 😂
@theformertexan1642
27 күн бұрын
I'd say a thus far complete lack of WW 3 is a pretty dope biproduct of nuclear weapons. Maybe you disagree.
Just casually finding another one of this dudes channels omg…
Interesting!
We men love bikinis ❤❤❤❤
@aniE1869
29 күн бұрын
Ok, I expect you to wear one the next time you go to the beach!🤣
@THX-vb8yz
29 күн бұрын
Y.E.S.
@tynj4173
29 күн бұрын
No
@user-jt7bx3ek8w
29 күн бұрын
@@tynj4173 Maybe
@legionx4046
29 күн бұрын
@@user-jt7bx3ek8wmayhaps
Met with "stiff" resistance 😉
Perfect. I was just wondering about the origin of Bikinis
32:44 Are you trying to say "Raquel Welch"?
Who knew a movie about ancient humans would push swimwear 😁
Named for our most insane nuclear test.Lol.
why would the Reverend think that priest of the middle ages had more authority? Lol
V-Sauce??!!
The Lumen device is a scam. It’s been debunked multiple times. You may want to revisit them being a sponsor.
@brendanwoodey7961
28 күн бұрын
And then a brain blaze on it
@aaronaaronsen3360
12 күн бұрын
Most products sold on KZread are. That's why I use sponsor block.
there was a Japanese fishing boat near the coast of Japan whose entire crew was irradiated and slowly died off one by one then, finally received a huge settlement from the US after this, as well
@ripn929707
29 күн бұрын
I think that was a later test at a different atol. The one where they had to build a concrete tomb to contain the radioactive waste from the test. The first hydrogen bomb if I'm not mistaken. It's in one of Simon's other videos from a few months ago.
Whistlers bald head amazes me
@sparky7915
29 күн бұрын
He is a smoothie!
There are 2 great things about bikini. Just how good a women looks wearing one; and much more importantly how it taught humanity to FEAR NUCLEAR WEAPONS. That fear keeps us alive. Quite ironically, how women look in a bikini, gave us a reason to live. GOD, as it where, has a sense of humor 😉😋🇺🇸.
The truth is a nuclear weapon would annhilate a surface fleet. At least the personel on them. And likely the ships themselves would be unsuitable for use afterwards. But the aircraft carrier negated most surface fleets anyway, save destroyers and submarines.
Wait, "higher learning" your telling me this man made ANOTHER channel?
@aceundead4750
29 күн бұрын
Higher Learning is hosted by Daven, but is part of the Whistlerverse.
@sarahrosen4985
29 күн бұрын
@@aceundead4750Marvel is jealous of the size of the Whistlerverse.
@konstantin.v
29 күн бұрын
Not a day goes by... 😂
Wait... you're telling me the atom bomb is older than the bikini...?
Yep. It's difficult, if not impossible, to get rid of the last vestiges of the Lizard Overlords.
I would love your content even more if I could drop the sponsorship content. I already pay for KZread premium to not see adverts.
Destroyer of tan lines??? Quite the opposite
The echo in this video is distracting and quite unusual for the channel.
I blame that beautiful bikini on our 50's- 60's baby boom!
And now for the ubiquitous current-day quip about Sydney Sweeney: Lord have mercy! She’s sporting a bikini!
My biological father grew up at the Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
Damn that thumbnail took a while to figure out. Ai?
Came for the bikini pics, stayed for the brutal radiation!
Does this guy ever take a day off?
Raquel Welch had a bikini in 1 Million BC. That's how far it goes back 😜😜😜
navies will be obsolete when there is no sea
I knew the bikini atoll was a thing, and the tests there, and figured the bikini was named after the area... i didn't know it was because of the TESTING. that's... disgusting, honestly. the past was the worst.
The bikini of the past are tame compared to the ones you find today. The ones of today barely cover the essentials.
How/why did women put up with that subjugation for so long ???
I thought it went back to one million years BC.
I thought this was a video about women's fashions.
We men, with our mental imagery can see right thru that bikini 😇
I've heard it said that bikini bathing suits are not so much designed as engineered to do one important job; *stay put!*
If only the horrible background noise would stop.
2:53 She had a body on her!!
I’m so glad they started covering up, too much skin is gross. 😂
Simon lookin old 😟
You're pronouncing Kwajalein, wrong. You pronounced it like Google does. The last part is not line, but sounds like linen... Kwaj-a-linen
@roqua
27 күн бұрын
Most common way to say it is "kwaj ah layn" (like a two "lane" road)
bet there were alot of sweaty smelly blerts back in the day
What is this title and click bait?
Wonder if any of the military men exposed to the blasts or irradiation were told the explosions were going to be "safe and effective"?
Be very careful of sponsors! A channel got taken over and the owner had a very difficult time getting back control of his channel.
Trump invented the bikini too. Time for another lawsuit 😅
185th
You are pronounceing Nevada wrong. Its NOT "Navoda". the correct pronunciation is "Neh-VA-duh"
@mcmoose64
8 күн бұрын
You're new here aren't you. 😂
@thebestnerd4444
8 күн бұрын
@@mcmoose64 what makes you think that?
BCE = Before CHRISTIAN Era CE = CHRISTIAN ERA
@aaronaaronsen3360
12 күн бұрын
No
In the 40's it was against a man to go nude in public. Meaning showing your nipples. It was so risque it went on for 4 years. Then it became a norm for men to walk around nude.
👙 🙏
0:14 This shot could have been done with just two ladies and not the five that we have here.
@megansfo
28 күн бұрын
Ah, fat shaming. How sweet. Time was, though, not that long ago, that the pale lady on the right wouldnt have shown that much of herself on a public beach. I know, my skin is almost that psle and doesn't tan. Tans were everything A few decades ago.
@sheikyerbouti39
27 күн бұрын
I only see 3 equally beautiful, strong, independent women right there. What could you possibly be talking about??
@Manospondylus
27 күн бұрын
@@sheikyerbouti39 Don't worry about it. It's a guy thing.
@sheikyerbouti39
27 күн бұрын
@@Manospondylus Yeah. I was being sarcastic....
@Manospondylus
26 күн бұрын
@@sheikyerbouti39 oh. Lmao. It's hard to tell these days.
"i HAVE become" and not "i AM become"
@davidmonk4949
27 күн бұрын
Grammatically, in modern English, yes, but that is not the quote. Oppenheimers words were taken from a Hindu text translated as “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
@anjoLas
27 күн бұрын
@@davidmonk4949 nevertheless, someone forgot to use " "
@roqua
27 күн бұрын
@@davidmonk4949 this is the correct answer
God made bikinis because He loves us.
0:08 Perhaps not show a child next time?!
@konstantin.v
29 күн бұрын
It's time to touch grass.
“I am become destroyer”??? Uhmm no. Just no. How about “I became a destroyer”? Or “ I am a destroyer”?
@David_K_Booth
29 күн бұрын
It's parodying a quote from the Bhagavad Gita, which Oppenheimer thought of when he witnessed the Trinity test. In the English translation he knew, it is indeed "Now I am become."
@aceundead4750
29 күн бұрын
In addition to what David_K_Booth said there's video of Oppie saying the quote in which he says, "now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds." When translating one language to another grammar can become distorted or even be lost completely, and it's not just from one language into English but also English into other languages.
@helenaalexandra4197
29 күн бұрын
Needing to have this historic phrase explained as (almost deliberate) bad English is a sad report on the History classes being taught.
@JesseJoyce-cj2xg
29 күн бұрын
Take your concern up with the English translators of the Bhagavad Gita
@sirderam1
27 күн бұрын
@@aceundead4750 Agrees with you, Yoda, does! 😅
Show how oppressive religion is and has been
Lumen is BS.
Stop using made up garbage like bce ( before Christian era) and ce ( Christ's era). Just use bc ad
@davidmonk4949
27 күн бұрын
It’s Before Common Era and Common Era, nothing to do with religious prejudice.
@whiteandnerdytuba
27 күн бұрын
@@davidmonk4949 what event happened at 0 to reset the clock
@aaronaaronsen3360
12 күн бұрын
@@whiteandnerdytubathe alleged birth of Jesus, which was later found to have happened in 7 CE.
the one time I want to click through to a video mentioned, it isn't linked anywhere 🥲
The bikini is several thousand years old... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pompeii_bikini_girls.jpg
@nwskier
28 күн бұрын
You should try watching the video before making a comment 0:43