I can never grasp why something so diabolical and terrifying is so beautiful...

Thanks, very nice work.

Thanks for posting ATC!

That's some spooky footage. That explosion was huge.

Great footage as usual. Not a fan of the picture-in-picture thing, but great footage.

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I was waiting for the shockwave to arrive... disapointed 😅

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Afterward, they had a steak cookout and ran off to the Philippines to get laid. And there was much rejoicing. Yehhhh. Definitely George, 1951 - an upgrade from the Item device sometime before.

A small ice cap is viewable

US didn’t conduct any high-yield thermonuclear testing in 1955, this may be a shot from operation Redwing (1956)?

@Fercurix

9 ай бұрын

This was Greenhouse George where they tested experimental deuterium/tritium capsule burn in its center. Technicly its themonuclear but beter known as boosted.

That picture in picture thing wrecks it

Wow

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It’ s George. 1952

@jaboba69

9 ай бұрын

1951

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@diplodocusj.f.8897

9 ай бұрын

1951.05.08 (GMT) 21:30 Isle Eberiru 225 kt @@jaboba69

How far away from the people is this?

@mehdibellahcene5461

9 ай бұрын

If it's a H bomb, at least 50kms

Was that a countervalue weapon test?

@rags417

9 ай бұрын

It looks like the Greenhouse George shot. This was a test of a boosted fission device that yielded around 225 kilotonnes or around 12-15 times the Hiroshima device. It was a classic fission device but boosted by adding radioactive tritium to the core and was the largest nuclear blast until the first full thermonuclear test Ivy Mike the following year.

Was that Castle Bravo?

@muzzmatrix

9 ай бұрын

No, it wasn't.

@Bob-yl9pm

9 ай бұрын

The timeline is close 1954/55@@muzzmatrix

Yikes.....a big'un. May they always remain in the past, cuz that sorta thing is serious.

This was the George event and was not 1955

Not as deadly looking as the footage used for Mike Oldfield's "Nuclear" video.

Algorithm.

Yikes

The original is better. Too washed out and overly bright in new version.

@ablestationfoxtrot8037

9 ай бұрын

Yep

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pin for nuke 👽