The Devastating True Scale of Nuclear Weapons
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The devastating true scale of nuclear weapons began on July 26, 1945, when the Allies demanded the unconditional surrender of Japan, warning of "prompt and utter destruction" if compliance failed. Japan ignored this ultimatum. By summer, the Allies' Manhattan Project had developed two atomic bombs: the uranium-based "Little Boy" and plutonium-based "Fat Man." A top-secret mission saw six B-29 bombers heading to Hiroshima, with the Enola Gay carrying Little Boy. It was released over Hiroshima on August 6, releasing 15 kilotons of TNT, devastating a 1.6 kilometers radius.
Three days later, Bockscar dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki, resulting in a 21-kiloton explosion. These bombings led to 129,000 to 226,000 deaths, prompting Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945, ending World War II and igniting a nuclear arms race, especially between the USA and the Soviet Union.
The US's most powerful nuclear weapon today is the B83, with a maximum yield of 1.2 megatons of TNT, designed for enhanced safety and varied applications including the "Nuclear Bunker Buster" project and asteroid impact avoidance strategies.
Castle Bravo, detonated on March 1, 1954, remains the most powerful device tested by the US, yielding 15 megatons. The Soviet Union responded by developing the Tsar Bomba, detonated on October 30, 1961, with a yield of 50 megatons, marking the largest human-made explosion.
The nuclear arms race led to the development of extensive arsenals capable of mutual assured destruction (MAD), a doctrine suggesting that nuclear conflict would result in the annihilation of both attacker and defender, effectively deterring outright nuclear war. These developments have left a lasting impact on global politics and security.
Sources:
U.S. Department of Energy www.energy.gov/
Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation rosatom.ru
Screen Gems Collection, Harry S. Truman Library catalog.archives.gov/
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National Museum of the U.S. Air Force www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
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Army Reserve CBRN here, very accurate info on everything I heard here. If this stuff doesn't keep you up at night... nothing will
@averageGoat_meh_eh_eh_eh
17 күн бұрын
Unit 731 keeps me up at night.
@PsalmMiracle
17 күн бұрын
I would love to witness and survive it just because I want to be around to see it take place and one day speak about it aside from that I’d want to be right in the blast,
@stevenaintmyname
17 күн бұрын
ooooo so scary 🙀
@steveofthewildnorth7493
17 күн бұрын
Back in the day, the thought of been vaporized in a nuclear exchange seemed very real. Inevitable in fact. We'd joke about painting bullseyes on top of our heads so the living would envy us. Then the wall came down, the Soviet Union collapsed and China discovered capitalism. All seemed better.....until. Some things just don't change I guess.
@markpozsar5785
17 күн бұрын
You say this like being a reservist gave you authority on this topic.
The true horror is what happens after the blast. Those that are vaporized by the blast are the lucky ones.
@BOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOB69
15 күн бұрын
Instant death or living in a doomed world.
@kawaki4277
14 күн бұрын
True
@Ceezy_yt
14 күн бұрын
You get vaporized so fast you become graffiti. Look at the after math of the only nukes actually ever used. And those were tiny ones btw
@JTheraos
14 күн бұрын
What do you mean by this? If you are talking about radiation, that's not a big issue. Nuclear weapons radiation is very rapidly dispersed around the world and doesn't have hardly any negative effects cause there is no nuclear material to continue releasing radiation.
@muranziel
14 күн бұрын
@@JTheraos Nuclear blast causes devastation in other ways too, than just vaporization and radiation. Those who don't starve under rubble, have severe burns. Krutzegat made a great educational video about it.
1880-1950 has to be the craziest time in the history of earth. We went from horse and buggy to jets, cars, and weapons that can blow up entire cities and were on the brink of space flight in less than 60 years.
@unnamedsoldier5446
6 күн бұрын
dont say yet now we living in more crazy time
@donaldmacallister-qz5vi
5 күн бұрын
humans are not intelligent enough to control🎉 their cleverness.
@SeanWilson.
5 күн бұрын
So then, the sweetspot is around 1914!
@wavular
5 күн бұрын
Not natural progression. Otherwise neanderthals would have had the same technology.
@JizzoCalrissian
4 күн бұрын
@@SeanWilson. before 1913 is best timeline.
Always remember, the politicians and leaders that caused the situation are always safe and sound
@MikeW-yk5tr
6 күн бұрын
Maybe, living underground for the rest of their lives. ☢️
@davidrockey7190
3 күн бұрын
Until they meet their maker.
@sirpgm2859
2 күн бұрын
Politicians are expendable as the rest of us. They’re just scumbag actors.
@aurynwestwield1682
2 күн бұрын
@@davidrockey7190 hopefully.
@kwimms
Күн бұрын
The people who write this bs are safe and sound... the rest live in their imaginations where the nuclear fallout never stops.
The older I get, the more I realize that humanity everywhere on planet earth does not have any business having nuclear weapons.
@wrongfullyaccused7139
11 күн бұрын
Then you need to get a lot older . Because you are utterly wrong.
@unityxg
10 күн бұрын
@wrongfullyaccused7139 Yeah, I suppose so. These days, it's a necessary evil to have, even I know that. You don't have to be condescending about it though.
@wrongfullyaccused7139
10 күн бұрын
@@unityxg : A statement of fact is never condescending. There are nations with ideologies so despicable that they would wipe out every Christian, and every American, and every jew with a wave their hand if they could. The only thing that stops them from even trying is the knowledge that they would never survive the attempt. The truly disturbing fact is that you have not yet figured that out. That is why you are so wrong. Not all cultures are equal. Goodbye.
@babybirdhome
9 күн бұрын
@@wrongfullyaccused7139 He's actually not wrong. Humanity has no business having nuclear weapons anywhere. But we do, so now we have to. It'll be our undoing one day.
@wrongfullyaccused7139
9 күн бұрын
@@babybirdhome : As long as socialism/marxism/communism has it devotees and acolytes who blindly follow that morally bankrupt, evil ideology America had better hang on to its' nuclear arsenal. Goodbye.
Nothing like the brevity of a British accent to scale up our existential nuclear dread
@lachlan1971
16 күн бұрын
Which one? There are about 80 accents in Britain. Do you mean a posh English accent? That's the enemy of the British people right there.
@ohdearism
16 күн бұрын
@@lachlan1971 Why would you even say such a thing? It's not even a posh English accent, it's received pronunciation, a voiceover artist, or as I suspect, as with many YT videos, generated text to speech. There are far more than 80 accents in Britain too.
@maddeusdoggeus1
16 күн бұрын
“Screw You! That’s Funny!” 😂👍
@painthuret
15 күн бұрын
Seems like a transatlantic accent to me, the one you were hearing in the early 1900s to the 60s
@BOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOB69
15 күн бұрын
Not a British accent, posh American.
If it ever comes to a nuclear war everybody loses the instant the first explosion takes place 🤦🏻♂️
@mrrolandlawrence
17 күн бұрын
ah not true. for instance if there was a nuclear explosion in ukraine, it would not trigger article 5. it would have to go outside of that. also no one really knows what would happen anyway & the brits policy is that the PM has the say so on any launch of nuclear weapons, even if the uk is completely destroyed.
@Shoelessjoe78
17 күн бұрын
@@mrrolandlawrenceso they would destroy everything west of the Urals. What's your point
@technokicksyourass
17 күн бұрын
@@Shoelessjoe78 I think the point is.. it's hyperbolic to say "everyone loses". If one guy has nukes and the other guy doesn't.. then, in a nuclear war the guy without the nukes loses. Obviously.
@TheJew-vc8qj
17 күн бұрын
@@mrrolandlawrence The UK is screwed then, if we still have Sunak in power!!!
@Ksins1
17 күн бұрын
Пгон "Where Soros is, there is a blow to the sovereignty of any country and any government. Including the USA. And even starting with the USA. Hence the logical protests against Israel... Meanwhile, student unrest over Palestine is growing, and it is possible that Soros has set a course for an apocalyptic scenario of a civil war in the United States," explains Dugin. Therefore, multinational corporations need... other countries to fight against countries! This is how globalists use the whole of Europe and even the United States for their own interests. It makes Americans feel bad, and Europeans feel terrible. But how all this is connected with Soros' campaign against Israel is just very interesting. There are, frankly, a lot of plans there... if the globalists get direct access to the management of all US bases, all US special services, all tons of compromising material on the whole planet - what then? They will get to rockets, to space, to submarines. And all this is just for the sake of plunging Russia and China into chaos together with America? And then, so to speak, to feast in muddy waters
perhaps THE SCARIEST aspect of this video IS how out of date the described technology MUST BE in order for it to be declassified AND made publicly available. MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT SORT OF UNIMAGINABLY ADVANCED WEAPONRY MIGHT BE OUT THERE AT THIS POINT already...
@User-jr7vf
12 күн бұрын
On the other hand, tests of nuclear weapons have decreased significantly since the end of the Cold War, which is probably an indication that the tech hasn't evolved that much, because you can't improve without testing.
@DocHydroponic
12 күн бұрын
Direct Energy Weapons
@interstellarsurfer
11 күн бұрын
There's no need for furthur development.
@marcosvidal4940
11 күн бұрын
they have NOT developed anything more powerful when it comes to nuclear bombs, because of a problem of diminishing returns--2x the megatons does not cause 2x the damage, but way less than 2x. That's why the US keeps a nuclear arsenal with bombs of up to 1.2 megatons "only", when they could build much more powerful bombs than that. Pretty much all technological advancement has been focused on the delivery systems, and the missile defenses
@futuresick100
11 күн бұрын
@@User-jr7vf Naw. They run simulations on supercomputers. Not as good as the real thing, but sufficient for data gathering.
"I don't know what WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones" -Albert Einstein
@velyris
2 күн бұрын
He didn't say that 😂
@jamesgibson6509
Күн бұрын
Wipeout
@kwimms
Күн бұрын
Einstein had sex with his 2 cousins and his personal life was a mess, his acting life was a joke. Why quote this fool?
Humans are so good at ending lives rather than preserving it
@TheIronDuke9
15 күн бұрын
and yet there are 8 billion of us. More than ever before
@doodskie999
14 күн бұрын
@@TheIronDuke9 yes, but one mistake can end all of it
@Geomasterthesecond
12 күн бұрын
It's easier to destroy than to create
@briannichols9491
11 күн бұрын
not true there are more people alive today than ever before
@lotharlundgren9509
11 күн бұрын
*Government
The B83 is the most powerful in our arsenal... Except the other ones that are off the books.
@S300V
15 күн бұрын
Even the B83 is going to storage. B61 mod11/12 replaces it. Nuclear weapons are easy to build but very expensive to maintain... especially when old.
@user-kw5qv6zl5e
14 күн бұрын
They are ALL on the books ...If by that I presume we KNOW about them .. just not enabled or deployed.the B83 was the largest deemed usefully deployable but by no means the largest CAPABLE of being deployed
@JTheraos
14 күн бұрын
@@user-kw5qv6zl5etrust... we have nukes that the world doesn't know about. If all our enemies new the exact locations of all our nukes and how many we have, we would be at an insane disadvantage. You bet your ass Russia also slhas tons off the books.
@mattrobson3603
14 күн бұрын
@@user-kw5qv6zl5e I'd doubt there area larger weapons in the US arsenal. There's not a lot of value in secretly having bigger bombs, there's no real technical capability being hidden. Nor is there much need for bigger bombs - getting the nuke to the target is the big deal, bigger bombs just give you a bit of leeway in accuracy. If you can deliver one right where it needs to go, you can go smaller. For targets with a larger area, you can use multiple warheads. For really deeply buried targets, a weapon designed to penetrate the earth before detonating. That's a large part of the reason that no one made bigger bombs after Tsar Bomba - they weren't going to be useful. The other part is that after that blast, and Castle Bravo, is that it became clear that there were practical limits on what it was politically feasable to test. Not that weren't advocates of bigger bombs. Edward Teller, one of the physicists working in the US nuclear weapons program, was a big fan of giant explosions, pushing for the development of ever larger devices. Never built - for obvious reasons - were the 1000MT 'Gnomon' and the 10,000MT 'Sundial'. He kept trying to get the US government to do it, throughout his life. That nerd really loved giant fireballs.
@kevinwhite7647
13 күн бұрын
Oh there’s so much we have that the other countries don’t know anything about.
These are all impressive feats of engineering but don't let this distract you from the the fact that in 1966, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers.
@bigv6724
6 күн бұрын
Oh dear lord, thanks for the memories! I've been getting an itch to binge watch some Married with Children. This is must be the sign I'm looking for to binge it all.
@johnmguzman7491
5 күн бұрын
GO B-U-N-D-Y!! 🏈
@Mrbamis22
3 күн бұрын
I Do Recall Such A Thing 😂😂
@yepsure4202
3 күн бұрын
Gay
@TheSecretOfNem
2 күн бұрын
Never forget!
all i can say is, I'm glad humanity has not used nuclear weapons on each other since 1945, and may that be forever true.
@kennydacklin4275
21 сағат бұрын
Hope so, but the ongoing wars all over the world seems like we are close for a nuclear war. Taiwan vs China, Russia vs Ukraine. Israel vs Palestine, all the wars in different lands in Africa. Eu against Russia. And USA who seems to be in everyones war.
Sadly humans never learn the lessons of the past.
@chipmunk6386
18 күн бұрын
So true😨
@Hairy.Whodini
17 күн бұрын
We do, but this time is gonna be different.
@echelon2k8
17 күн бұрын
The humans who make these same kinds of awful decisions anyway.
@fazepkjr4645
17 күн бұрын
👍
@SuperScottCrawford
16 күн бұрын
What lessons? Sorry I wasn't listening.
"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves" The Terminator
@Arnoud-nf6iz
17 күн бұрын
i did allready happen in paralel versions of earth.. darryl anka has some mind blowing content about it he channels a extraterrestrial
@johnfish837
16 күн бұрын
80 years and it hasn't happened...Probably never will.
@TheFactMan1
15 күн бұрын
“I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.” Also The Terminator
@Triggernlfrl
15 күн бұрын
Because it is not in our true nature we are here...
@TChalla616
15 күн бұрын
Who's to say we haven't destroyed ourselves before, and we're just doing it all over again. Life finds a way to survive, but we also have a self destructive nature, so it's like a vicious cycle repeating itself over, and over again.
Imagine being told that your mission to test drop a bomb for science only had 50% odds of survival. I guess saying "no" had 0% chance of survival.
@sbultitude-paull303
11 күн бұрын
I'd be willing to bet it was calculated at much lower odds than that. 50% was giving them some hope.
@Captainumerica
11 күн бұрын
They should have installed a lead coated small room for the crew to settle in after the explosion.
@matbroomfield
11 күн бұрын
Imagine being told that you are about murder 200,000 innocent men, women and children.
@foxmulderfbiufo1770
11 күн бұрын
@@matbroomfield did you forget what the Japanese did too the Chinese? They slaughtered by hand and gun over 150,000 in a week it was genocide and 85% of them were women and children
@ATomRileyA
10 күн бұрын
Yeah i don't think personal choice and communism ever go hand in hand lol.
The speaker really adds the gravitas needed for such a serious, real video of facts and what it means over all of us today.
In all of WWII about 2.5m tons of TNT was dropped from bombers. A single 2.5 megaton bomb is the quivalent therefore of all of the bombs dropped during WWII, in a single event.
@rael5469
15 күн бұрын
The US doesn't use megaton bombs anymore. They currently have warheads in the kiloton range. I don't know about the Russians. However, for instance during the 1980s when I was in the service a B-52 could carry 12 weapons. The SRAM missiles alone each had about a 180 kt warhead. EACH of those was ten times the yield of the ones dropped on Japan. I think the gravity weapons were more like 400 kt. It's all mind boggling. 12 nuclear weapons totaling 3 megatons being signed for by a three stripe high school drop out.
@Rod_MolinaBachmann
15 күн бұрын
Unofficial reports state the Russians have the largest number of nuclear weapons, more than all the rest of the countries combined. Most of them are mobile, fitted to submarines. Russian also developed the GBM which can do loops around the globe, thanks to their built-in mini nuclear reactors that provide almost endless propulsion fuel. And yes, the yield in the warheads for the latter ones are in Mega Tons.
@williamp8305
15 күн бұрын
Unit of measurements you have used are incorrect: m= milli (10^-3) M= mega (10x^6)
@rael5469
15 күн бұрын
@@Rod_MolinaBachmann Russia are losers as is proved by their bungling in Ukraine. Our military has all of their nukes targeted.....including their noisy submarines.
@Cd5ssmffan
14 күн бұрын
@@rael5469 If u think they only have kiloton bombs then you are either a fed or probably just mistaken
I was born in 1957 and grew up as a child in the heart of this madness. The weekly air raid sirens were terrifying. Every week local television would show film of the latest atomic test in the Nevada desert. They were all above ground until 1965 or so.. I was told not to eat the snow due to radioactive fallout concerns.
@eazyridin7283
18 күн бұрын
That’s terrible (sorry had to edit since everything is so terrible to think of ) but don’t eat the yellow or nuclear green snow
@nnonotnow
18 күн бұрын
Where did you live
@MarinCipollina
18 күн бұрын
@@nnonotnow At that time I wasn't far from where that broken arrow crashed near Goldsboro NC in 1961 carrying two multi megaton atomic bombs.. Fortunately, neither went off.. Only one was recovered. Six of the seven safeties had been tripped. The other one remains buried deep underground, they were unable to recover it.
@aleisterdenven
17 күн бұрын
Atomic Weapons don't exist.It has been over 70 years now.70 years are a long time for a mortal.Given Human Nature if Atomic Weapons really existed;Someone would have used them to take over The World by now.Just stop and think for a moment.You have a Invention - The Atomic Bomb,which is capable of demolishing Entire Cities,which can crush The Human Spirit and which has "The Power" to literally enslave/conquer The Whole World and No One All Of This Time has tried to take over The World???It doesn't make any sense.Some people might say this is because of "Mutually Assured Destruction",but my devastating point is this:The Americans were "seemingly" the first to develop Atomic Weapons years before Anyone else,so if The Americans were the first to develop Atomic Weapons and had Atomic Weapons,then why didn't they use them to take over The World.They could have bombed every other Country in The World and then enslaved the survivors.No Army in The World could have stopped them at the time.People will say what about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?What about All the pictures,photos,videos,destroyed buildings and dead bodies?When I look at those pictures and videos of destroyed buildings;they look "burned","scorched" and "incinerated" to Me;not by "One Giant Brutal Super-Bomb",but by Thousands,Tens Of Thousands maybe even Hundreds Of Thousands of "Mini-Firebombs".To Me those devastated buildings don't appear to have been "Crushed" by "One-Single Mega-Brutal Crushing Super-Force",but by "Innumerable Smaller Burning-Forces".Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like burned Towns/Cities instead of Towns/Cities that were completely wiped out by "One Enormous Force".Now this is only Theoretical.I could be very-wrong,but if Atomic Weapons truly existed - by My estimates a Atomic Bomb would have not only "Completely Flattened" a Entire City to a pancake,but it would have also left "A Giant Crater" in the ground.The sheer "Monstrous Crushing Force" of a falling Atomic Bomb would have not only flattened The Entire City to ground-level it would have also "Torn-Apart The Very Ground From The Ground Itself".The Entire City would have been "Grinded Into Dust"- there would be Absolutely Nothing and Nobody left except "A Enormous Crater".There would be no clue that a City even existed.Example:If You build a Sandcastle on The Beach ( The Sandcastle is The City and You are The Atomic Bomb ) and then jump and stomp on it or punch it with All of Your might;it will Completely Flatten and You may even carve a Deep Hole in the ground.The Demons and The Fallen Angels who rule over this World need "Human Life Blood".Hiroshima and Nagasaki were "Satanic Human-Sacrifice Rituals".All of those Hundreds Of Thousands of people were being sacrificed to Demons and Fallen Angels for their blood.Many Ancient Civilizations from The Past were also sacrificing people for their blood,because The Demons and The Fallen Angels told them so.The Wars in The World are Human Sacrifice Rituals.Nothing has changed.Atomic Weapons are a monstrous deception designed to frighten The Public out of their Minds in order to create a Future situation where A False Saviour or False Saviours can rescue them.If Atomic Weapons truly existed;Someone would have used them to take over The World by now,but Nobody has and maybe this is because Atomic Weapons don't exist!
@MikeJones-rk1un
17 күн бұрын
Were milk cows eating fallout grass? Did we drink it as children?
"Gentlemen! You cannot fight in here: this is the War Room." (Peter Sellers in 'Dr Strangelove.')
Man Invented the Atom bomb But No Mouse Would Build a Mousetrap, Albert Einstein
I remember in grade school in the 60’s when the teachers would make us drop and cover if there was ever a nuclear attack. This scared the crap out of us and was useless against a nuclear attack. Then came the Cuban missle crisis. Thirteen days we were waiting for Armageddon. Now kids lose it if the Wi-Fi goes out. 🤯
@user-on7vr4cs7l
14 күн бұрын
Woefully unprepared. So is everyone else
@onehitpick9758
14 күн бұрын
There was an era around the 70s when most rugged schools and many homes had an underground fallout shelter. That's better than under a desk, but still wouldn't survive decades of contamination and nuclear winter. Putin and his sad followers want to bring this era back.
@kevinp3550
13 күн бұрын
OMG!!! THE STRESS of not knowing if you still have the most expensive iPhone in your circle of friends! And, and, and maybe The Taylor gets, like dumped. Worst of all, not knowing if you can afford a sex change, or a new rack... Times have never been worse...
@Squeakypickles619
13 күн бұрын
@@kevinp3550LMFAO😂
@androidemulator6952
13 күн бұрын
LOL ;)
My uncle was part of the Manhattan project in WW2. He’s 102 years old and still doing well
@josmclove4426
15 күн бұрын
Awesome!❤
@lillarry1872
15 күн бұрын
He is the last Ronin
@ps5home
15 күн бұрын
Incredible. Best luck!
@chelsea321123
15 күн бұрын
Why you lying for?
@TChalla616
15 күн бұрын
Who is your uncle?
It isn't true that Japan ignored the warnings. They were trying to negotiate a conditional surrender, in which they wouldn't have to give up the Divinity of their emperor. But we were eager to test these two types of weapons
@buckhorncortez
8 күн бұрын
The Japanese attempted to use Russia as an intermediary to negotiate an end to the war in their favor. Stalin had Molotov purposely ignore their request to send a special envoy to Moscow as Stalin wanted to enter the Pacific War to qualify for the compensation agreed upon in the Yalta Agreement.
@Snipergoat1
7 күн бұрын
Well then they ignored reality which was their ass was about to get nuked. Besides. any god worth having could just miracle that blast away. Can't miracle a nuke away? I got no use for you as a deity.
@jeffreybrown8061
6 күн бұрын
You are correct sir and it was a total fabrication that if the US invaded Japan that we would lose millions of men and BS just so we could try out are weapons on the innocent population of brown people. The US is the terrorist of the world.
@AlanWinterboy
6 күн бұрын
@@buckhorncortez Interesting. Didn't know this bit.
@buckhorncortez
6 күн бұрын
@@AlanWinterboy Read, "140 Days to Hiroshima," "Japan's Decision to Surrender," or from a Japanese perspective, "The Cause of Japan" written by Togo Shigenori the Japanese Foreign Minister at the time of surrender. The Russian's refusal to accept an envoy is documented in these three books and many others.
We talk about not committing war crimes but our nuclear strategy involves wiping out cities.
@danielaramburo7648
3 күн бұрын
It’s a necessary evil that must exist so the enemy knows the consequences of them trying do the same to us.
@minirock000
3 күн бұрын
Cities are not targeted just to target the populace. Only strategic targets are targeted but there are many of them. After the first strike and all your weapons have been largely successful then there really is not a need nor is there any reason to keep launching. Once the main targets have been hit the cost of maintaining more weapons begins to to great for the possible targets destroyed, diminishing returns. If there was a "bully on the block" running around threatening everybody and scaring the wholly hell out of everyone after 1945 it was the U.S. We carried weapons in bombers up to the Soviet borders every day. We ran so many sorties like that there were many, many mistakes of our planes crashing with weapons onboard or them dropping them accidentally all over the country and several places around the world. We got lucky the Soviets never thought we had actually launched and launched as well.
this is why billionaires are running to space lol
@herrseekadett1172
11 күн бұрын
Of course ,what would you do ?
@sc4708
10 күн бұрын
They ain't going nowhere lol 🤣
10 күн бұрын
Space won't save us, there will be a Death Star one day
@toxlaximus3297
9 күн бұрын
A few have become toothpaste at the bottom of the ocean.
@useryggfdcc
9 күн бұрын
The common sheep finance the billionaires to try and escape through Naza.
The Day After was the scariest TV movie I ever saw while growing up in the 80's
@rickhensen3278
10 күн бұрын
It was scary, BUT it was too clean; BBC's docudrama "Hiroshima" REALLY depicts the nightmare of a nuclear weapon; interviews of survivors from Hiroshima giving eye-witness accounts of what they experienced & saw ; personal stories; from drinking "black rain" (radioactive raindrops) , charcoal bodies, people walking with their flesh hanging off them to 100's drowning in the river because of massive dehydration from buirns & them crawling over other people drowning the people beneath them. the slow agonizing death from radfiatin poisoning - This film depicts the horror of horrors of a nuclear weapon. And, Hiroshima was just one bomb & by todays scale , was very small ~15ktons vs todays typical yield of 92 to 495 kton warheads.
@tommyslavic898
8 күн бұрын
@@rickhensen3278 Threads (1984) available on Vimeo is a UK movie showing UK before, during and after nuclear attack.
@americanpatriot4227
4 күн бұрын
And it was pure bullcrap. I guess the China Syndrome movie scared you all to pieces as well.
@soberthinking2102
4 күн бұрын
Don't forget TESTAMENT. That was a great movie too. Wikipedia: Testament is a 1983 drama film based on a three-page story titled "The Last Testament" by Carol Amen (1933-1987),[2] directed by Lynne Littman and written by John Sacret Young. The film tells the story of how one small suburban town near the San Francisco Bay Area slowly falls apart after a nuclear war destroys outside civilization. It was one of the films, along with The Day After and Threads that portrayed life after a nuclear war, mostly in response to an increase in hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union. Originally produced for the PBS series American Playhouse, it was given a theatrical release instead by Paramount Pictures (although PBS did subsequently air it a year later). The cast includes Jane Alexander, William Devane, Leon Ames, Ross Harris, Lukas Haas, Roxana Zal and, in small roles shortly before their rise to stardom, Kevin Costner and Rebecca De Mornay. Alexander was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.[3]
@kevinowens6010
4 күн бұрын
Threads is a great movie to remove your happy thoughts. The best in getting a nuclear fix.
Excellent clarity of the spoken word. No music sheer bliss.
Threads is a great movie that depicts how depressing it would be to survive a nuclear apocalypse.
@HaxxorElite
15 күн бұрын
Great movie
@debndavid
14 күн бұрын
Agreed watched at school was terrified for years even now I'm scared of nuclear bombs
@HaxxorElite
14 күн бұрын
@@debndavid Well if you live near a big city you'll probably die instantly so it's not all bad lol
@ortho-g9826
14 күн бұрын
Threads barely comes close.
@morbidmanmusic
12 күн бұрын
you mean will be
Fun fact! Modern thermonuclear weapons are cleaner and more fuel efficient than old bombs made in the 1940’s. 😎
@Rod_MolinaBachmann
14 күн бұрын
Environmentally friendly Nuclear Warheads ! No way. This is awesome ! Now I want one of them to drop in my school yard to make the Apricot Trees grow faster !
@michaelgarrow3239
14 күн бұрын
@@Rod_MolinaBachmann 200# apricots? 🙈
@Rod_MolinaBachmann
14 күн бұрын
@@michaelgarrow3239 200 sounds about right, Cobber.
@Onionbaron
14 күн бұрын
So happy humanity is still progressing!
@rcritic2910
14 күн бұрын
I'll keep that in mind while my flesh is burning, at least is burning clean.
A point worth mentioning is that the UK helped the US with the Manhattan project but at the end of the war the US refused to assist the UK with getting their own. It was with this snub and the feeling that the US were dismissive of the UK that made Bevin to insist we needed our own bomb whatever the cost and, "We've got to have the bloody union jack on top of it."
It's all MAD! Well done! I spent a lot of time researching nuclear weapons and technology, and you work is spot on. Tell you narrator that he sounds like Mark Strong. That's a compliment, BTW. Have a great day. o7
It's absolutely bonkers that something so small can wield such an awesome power 😬😳
@ronaldturner4849
18 күн бұрын
E = m c squared
@chupacabra304
18 күн бұрын
Look up cobalt salt bombs 🤪 thats some depressing wicked stuff
@southstalk
17 күн бұрын
I feel this is both a good and a bad time for...That's what she said 😅
@anthonymiller2038
17 күн бұрын
@@southstalk I can only hope that someday my wife will say something like that! 🤣
@inutero10
17 күн бұрын
Thats what i tell the chicks about myself
I'm glad you highlighted the fact that it could be "The Great Filter" beyond which no civilization ever survives.
@sukuna9142
16 күн бұрын
Considering we are in a simulation, what's the longest amount of time humanity has survived prior to us getting rebooted, by a being on a higher dimensional level... I see us like one of those old box TVs .. like pushing the button with the initial flash in the center of the screen,accompanied by nothing but static
@sukuna9142
16 күн бұрын
A❤❤❤❤😊❤010101010101❤
@epiccurious3536
15 күн бұрын
@@sukuna9142 Maybe someday we'll be able to really know what reality is. If we're in a simulation it could be just a game being played. When we extinguish ourselves the game is over? Boom, rinse, repeat?
@alicorn3924
15 күн бұрын
@@sukuna9142 considering we are in a simulation? what? why are you saying it as if it was a fact?
@carlix8035
15 күн бұрын
@@alicorn3924It is a fact though. The question is, does it reboot all the way back to the beginning or just this portion of planetary events? If it’s the latter, that would suggest every other historical event never happened. What a mind f**k.
Thanks for the Great Vid.
I am the science nerd's science nerd. Everything you have stated here is 100% accurate, which is odd for a KZread channel but appreciated. Unlike the pinned thread, I don't let this mutually assured destruction issue bother me. Do you realize how many times the US and Russia have been at odds in key conflicts around the world since the 1960's? It is the certainty that if the two countries cross swords it will mean the end of the world and...that has stopped that very thing from happening. No body is ready to kill humanity! And it's worked for 80 years. Oh...one really nerdy thing I'd like to request though...we need to stop calling it a nuclear fireball. Fire is created chemically...this is a plasma ball....it is a man made star. That's why it gets to between 10 million and 100 million degrees. No fire burns that hot...just sayin.
It really frustrates me that such a positive, useful advancement: Nuclear Energy, has gotten sadly lumped together with these devastating weapons of war.. I wish we didn't have mental trauma that ties these weapons to such helpful advancements in energy production. Things have improved so much since the early days of nuclear energy and learning about radiation safety measures.. If only we could utilize it.. Too many people fear nuclear energy tho.. I hope that changes one day.
@jaquigreenlees
15 күн бұрын
I think it is the radioactive wastes from the expended fuel that bothers most people. With at least 2 reactor meltdowns having happened ( Chernobyl and one recently in Japan after an earthquake and tsunami ) without killing us off it's the dangerous waste products and safely disposing of them that will be the biggest concern.
@Fangman123789
15 күн бұрын
If you really want to be frustrated, google Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, find the wikipedia article on it, and read the "advantages" section. Its not a perfect source but it gives you an idea of what an amazing design for nuclear power LFTR's are and its very frustrating we never went with them partly due to initial construction cost being higher (though its much cheaper in the long run) and their inability to make nuclear weapons from the waste. They use about 99% of their fuel, and the waste is 83% short-lived but more radioactive and decays in hours to days instead of the 24,000 years a majority of current nuclear waste would take. The remaining 17% takes around 300 years to reach background levels, this is vastly better than current models achieve. To power the USA for a year would make about a briefcase sized amount of waste. Thorium is much more abundant than uranium (and silver, tin, and mercury) and is currently a nuisance byproduct of rare earth mining, we already have enough buried in the nevada desert to power the world for hundred of thousands of years. Also theyre 45% thermally efficient compared to 33% from BWR's and could reach 54% thermal efficiency with theorized improved processes and models since the 1960's. LFTRs require enriched uranium or spent nuclear fuel from current reactor models to kick start their reactions (great way to get rid of current nuclear waste thats radioactive for thousands of years otherwise) but then dont need enriched fuel to maintain their reaction, which is 1 of 4 reasons LFTRs are terrible for nuclear weapons proliferation attempts. They are inherently safe for multiple reasons. 1: if the core fuel heats up and begins to react too much the fuel expands and leaves the core and self limits itself, 2: the graphite rods that moderate the reaction have a similar thermal feedback limiting function, 3: The LFT salt also absorba more neutrons the hotter it is which is a 3rd form of negative temperature coefficient creating passive inherent safety limits to the reactions in the core. 4: Passive fail-safe, if power were lost or the plant abandoned it would melt a salt plug and self drain to a storage tank below and could be recovered later even. 5: If it spills its not really a huge deal, whatever it touches is radioactive but thats it and itll also drain into the storage tank due to the kitchen sink like design of the core room. 6: The fuel is extremely stable and will not react with air or water explosively or anything. 7: And the reactor can operate at atmospheric pressure. 8: Core doesnt need concrete or lead shielding. The worst thing about it is the corrosiveness which beryllium, nickel, lithium, and molybdenum is what would mainly be required to make LFTR's, plus theyre scalable if you want, they dont need concrete or lead shielding, the core is jacketed by the liquid fluoride thorium salt and absorbs the radiation and is converted into the uranium isotope needed for fuel and then pumped into the core in a continuos cycle that doesnt need to shut down to "refuel". Due to the molten liquid nature of the fuel/waste salt you can remove nuclear waste selectively by half life and remove xenon gas byproduct build up during operation to both stop xenon poisoning AND the gas is dissolved in the salt and cant build up pressure or require a shutdown to remove it, like conventional reactors. And thats literally just the tip of the iceburg, theres an unreal amount of pros to this tech and it irks me everyday that we arent going full steam ahead with it.
@MalachiWhite-tw7hl
14 күн бұрын
Spot-on comment. I would further add that that trauma was not by accident. Certain organizations and environmentalist activist groups WANTED such a misunderstanding to occur to further their own ends.
@ice9594
14 күн бұрын
"Helpful advancements." Yeah, like the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The plant is still leaking 300+ tons of highly radioactive water into the Pacific -- daily since 3/11/11. It can't be stopped. Huge coverup. It's spreading to oceans worldwide, killing & radiating ocean life, causing cancer in people. Some of the radioactive elements have 1/2 lives of hundreds of years or more. I stopped eating all fish.
@lalacrypto1
14 күн бұрын
We have been capable of building more efficient nuclear power plants since the beginning. They took longer to build so in the race with the USSR, we didn't build them. We can adapt what we have and recycle most of the waste we already produced to a tiny fraction of what we had. A small 5×5×5 inch cube per person for their whole life could be used.
I guess the "" duck and cover "routine that I learned in grade school in the late 1950's would not work today.
@joaoneves5701
18 күн бұрын
Neither in that time😅
@blakena4907
18 күн бұрын
Nope. Thermonuclear weapons make Fat Man and Little Boy look like firecrackers comparatively.
@blakena4907
18 күн бұрын
@@joaoneves5701With proper shelter underground, they'd have survived, but considering this was something the world hadn't seen before, yeah. They had no clue, and it wasn't survivable back then. Can you freaking imagine being there, when the first atomic weapons were dropped within a 5-10km radius..?
@jimslancio
18 күн бұрын
"Duck and cover" could make a difference if you're far enough from Ground Zero.
@allangibson8494
18 күн бұрын
It actually still works - if you are far enough away to see the flash, it’s the glass from your windows blowing in that will kill you. Thermonuclear bombs have a three second black window between the initial nuclear blast and following thermonuclear blast caused by ionisation of the atmosphere - enough time to duck from the immediate radiation bloom and following sonic velocity shrapnel.
@ 4:35 What a stunning panoramic! The camera starts to the right of the Earth with high exposure so the stars are visible and the night side of the Earth is lit, then pans to the left to show how bright the day side of the Earth is, while lowering the exposure to reduce the brightness, so it looks normal, while the stars and the night side of the Earth go dark. I've never seen that before, anywhere. Now I'm going to be upset with every sci-fi movie and video game that doesn't feature an example of this.
@ScienceTime24
8 күн бұрын
Thank you for noticing it
We don't make these weapons for a invading Dalek regime. We make these ridiculous things for our species, on this beautiful world. It's a wonder we have lasted this long.
This was common knowledge. Even for kids in my generation. It’s been so long, that some people today don’t think it’s a big deal. No, it’s an end of civilization event.
@johnr.timmers2297
8 күн бұрын
Most British people who have lived on the island all their life can't comprehend the size of the US. People's perceptions of nukes are the same, but opposite. Nuclear weapons have been so dramatized that many people falsely believe that nuclear weapons can have a blast radius in the tens of miles and put out radiation that would make it forever unlivable. When in reality the blast radius is smaller and the radiation dissipates quite quickly, especially in an air burst. The fact is most of us aren't emotionally invested. The people worshiping nukes cannot say the same
@glenndavis4452
7 күн бұрын
@@johnr.timmers2297 Modern nukes have a lethal radius of tens of miles. Ten to a hundred times Hiroshima is not a small explosion. The heat flash and radiation generated are bigger than the actual blast area. No big deal ?
@americanpatriot4227
4 күн бұрын
@@glenndavis4452 NO they dont, or rather the have a blast effect radius of the planet, as in a butterfly in China affects the weather in the US, but the Serious damage radius is less than 5 miles - The Burn Radius ( MODERATE ) is about 7 miles for a 1 Megaton weapon. NEARLY ALL Weapons are less than 1 MT now. Your simply ill informed or a cool aid drinker living in fear. Put down the glass, and do some research.
@EH-the-1
4 күн бұрын
@@johnr.timmers2297 What does living on an island have to do with this? The only one who can't comprehend, as far as we're concerned, is you.
@daytonaofcv6856
3 күн бұрын
It's only a big deal if it happens. Being born right before the end of the Cold War. Nuclear weapons are just a part of life. We've been lucky so far. But if it happens it happens there is literally nothing we can do about it. We obviously can't disarm like stupid liberals want us to so we can be bullied by states with bombs. But MAD has worked so far. As long as someone doesn't launch multiple nukes I don't see the world ending. Plus there are so many other threats to human existence. Nukes almost seem merciful. Compared to gray goo, super pathogens, AI enslavement, micro plastic contamination, near complete ecological failure, humans beings replaced by AI, just to name a few.
Did you hear +100,000,000 C (for Americans it's about 180 million F) and some folks believe they could survive 1000s of these nukes being dropped.
@shawnsanders6113
17 күн бұрын
The only way to survive is to not drop them in the first place
@spagooter1807
17 күн бұрын
I think some of us would make it but very few the real worry is radiation turning everything that wasn’t sealed before the blast life threatening, you’d have to cover your plants use light systems in a greenhouse and get soil from 10 feet down to ensure you aren’t creating food with alpha particles around after the fact and I don’t think sunlight would be showing so you better fight for that gasoline for your generators and even then I don’t know how you’d grow anything but you better figure it out quickly. Not to mention you’d have to be somewhere the wind didn’t travel after the attack. I’m not sure what you can grow in minimal light conditions but you’d have to find something that can consistently be grown without much sunlight cause you’ll be relying on generators and then find a way to sustain those light systems for the next 100 years. Assuming the sun won’t be out for awhile after that.
@DennisCambly
16 күн бұрын
@@spagooter1807 Wind from the nuclear tests in Nevada carried radiation north to cover a big piece of eastern Canada. With all the blasts shown in the video every pipe carrying water, sewer, gas, oil etc would be cracked. Would there be any remaining hospitals and first response facilities? Radiation sickness killed over 150,000 in Hiroshima years after the blast. Internet and everything electronic would fail to operate. For me I'd rather be standing facing the blast. Non-human inhabitants a million years in the future may wonder how a shadow appeared on the rocks.
@DennisCambly
16 күн бұрын
@@shawnsanders6113 A 1980's movie War Games with Matthew Broderick shows the insanity.
@gillesashley9314
16 күн бұрын
@@spagooter1807The after radiation is the main issue with nuclear war. It's terrible.
Fun fact about castle Bravo: The blast was so much bigger than they initially thought it would be, that many natives to the Atoll and many fishermen nearby were affected by the blast, it killed some natives from gamma exposure.
excellent done..thank you. And for metric units:)
0:45 the sneaky fallout theme is subtle, but a nice touch.
@Dlf212
12 күн бұрын
War ... War never changes .....
This should be shared worldwide.
@arjanmuyen3684
5 күн бұрын
did u share it? 😉
great vid ,, thank you
Well done. Great documentary.
Former grunt here. It is my highest hope that humanity will never use any kind of WMD ever, be it chemical, biological or nuclear. I still cling to the hope that rational and logical people will never press the "red button" ever again.
@davidsmith5094
6 күн бұрын
Joe Biden is trying hard to start a nuclear war with Russia !! And it's all about Nato expansion !! Point is,,,not a lot of people understand why there's a Nato in the first place! There's no Soviet union anymore,,,all Russia want is to live in peace and security... What's so difficult about that ?
The great filter reference at the end only cemented my sub. Glad i found this channel, very nice
@ScienceTime24
15 күн бұрын
Welcome aboard!
“A nuclear war is one that shouldn’t be fought, and cannot be won”
Note - on Castle Bravo, the reason the expected yield was so much lower than what the final yield was, is they didn't realize how much of an effect the Lithium 6. When they calculated the yield, they thought only the Lithium 7 would increase the yield and didn't account that 40% of the Lithium used, Lithium 6, would react.
@ericb592
8 күн бұрын
Yes, and when ignited, Li7 produces Tritium which significantly boosted the yield.
@davidjr4903
2 күн бұрын
muricun scientists too dumb
The B53/W53 were the largest warheads ever deployed at 9 Megatons. The W53 was the warhead on top of the Titan II missile. At one point in the early 60's they were working on upgrading that yield to 25 Megatons.
@rickoshay5525
12 күн бұрын
I thought back in the 1960s, the US B-52 bombers carried each 2 20-megaton bombs, and Russia tested out a Czar/Tsar Bomb, which was 50 megatons.
@tomyost2249
11 күн бұрын
Titan II Launch crew member here. We were so young and our job was to end civilization.
@rickhensen3278
9 күн бұрын
FYI: As targeting improved, they reduced the yield ; they didn't have to destroy everything in a 10 mile radius for that one little ammunition depot; Just everything in a 5 mile radius:). Depending on yield of course.
@ericb592
8 күн бұрын
Actually the Mk-41 gravity bomb was the largest yield US weapon deployed at 25MT...To this day it still has the best yield to weight ratio of any nuclear weapon. They were retired in the late 70's
Fun fact the fastest man made object is a manhole cover launched into space by a nuclear explosion in navada. Its currently somehere outside the solar system.
Absolutely SICK job 👌🤘
Imagine if Tsar Bomba was tested at its full potential yield...
That was one of the best nuke documentaries I've seen well done!👍
Sometimes I feel so defeated and depressed I'm like I don't even care if this happens, but imagine surviving a nuclear attack. That's gotta be a whole new kind of hell to experience and knowing my luck I won't have the luxury of being vaporized immediately.
"Our great filter".... It’s a nice way to put it.😅
the most dirtiest war tactics ever used by mankind, its like if one cant win a hand to hand combat, pushing the opponent to fire while the opponent turns back to rest.
@CharlesVaughn-bm9gq
17 күн бұрын
The atomic bombs saved hundreds of thousands of American casualties in the planned invasion of Japan and perhaps millions of Japanese casualties.
@dsm3759703
14 күн бұрын
The idea that warfare is fought with any sense of fairness is so naive it's heart warming. I have weapon that has a range of 100 meters....you have a weapon that has a range of 200 meters... The premise that you would willingly come within 100 meters of me, in the pursuit of "fairness", is laughable.
@TheNomad2727
14 күн бұрын
yeah the Japsanese during ww2 were well known for never doing anything "dirty"... just ask the POWs and the residents of Nanking
@rianmacdonald9454
14 күн бұрын
@@TheNomad2727 I like how you choose the Japanese as an example there - Name one country that hasn't done anything ''dirty''.
@TheNomad2727
14 күн бұрын
@@rianmacdonald9454read the comment Im replying too dummy! are you so delusional you think I think Japan are all alone in being dirty?
Why did I get roped into this chaotic world man?.....
@TheIronDuke9
15 күн бұрын
horny parents
great vid
Where is all this ingenuity for the betterment of humanity? We don’t deserve this world.
*"Comrades! If we're not all dead after this sucker explodes, the vodka is on me. Lenin help us."* -TU95 pilot (probably)
@I_Fight_Instacart
5 күн бұрын
*"Guys! Let's name our plane after the dirty perverts who will indoctrinate American children in public schools and libraries 80 years from now!"* - Americans (probably)
You should have started with Truman's "Rain of Ruin" speech. More applicable.
@ScienceTime24
18 күн бұрын
Ughh what a miss. For some reason I didn't think of that.
@MojeeMosese
18 күн бұрын
😅
I really think people should give serious thought about firing or even testing Nuclear arms. It is very bad for planet Earth. Mr. X
Ok, Just one final video before bedtime. Am sure it will be a nice one.
Incredible work on this video
@ScienceTime24
18 күн бұрын
Thank you very much!
We had a "wargame" simulated nuclear attack once when I was stationed on USS Ranger. Apparently at least one of the "nuke tosser" aircraft got within a couple miles or so and managed to "simulate" release of at least one weapon. After about 5 minutes of silence, the exercise was declared over. Yes, nukes cause that major of shockwaves AND displace that much water forming a tidal-type wave to sink a carrier on a "not all that near" miss.
@User-jr7vf
12 күн бұрын
Given that air defences have improved significantly, do you think the US would be able to shoot down all the nuclear missiles before they reach their targets in the US?
@bricefleckenstein9666
11 күн бұрын
@@User-jr7vf Not this year. We don't have ENOUGH of them to cover all targets, and inland targets mostly are not covered AT ALL (most or all of our ICBM nuke defenses are Aegis ship based, and I'm not sure how well they would work against sub-launched missiles given the short response time - probably OK if those defenders are already at a high alert level when the launch happens, otherwise iffy to "forget it"). Perhaps in a decade if we start widely deploying comparable land-based defenses we'll be able to get 90% or more of them.
@superchuck3259
10 күн бұрын
@@User-jr7vf Russia has a 1,000 MT nuclear torpedo that is launched near (30miles) of US shoreline when looking at underwater geography could cause a several 100 foot high tsunami. Basically tossing docked aircraft carriers onto the land. But since the both sides are equally diabolical, both sides likely have something insane like this developed.
@sterix_gg
9 күн бұрын
@@superchuck3259 They supposedly have something similar around the UK just in case they need to sink the island lmao... I'm so glad to know we humans have planned well in regards to mutual self-destruction... actually... there is no "we".. I never planned for this. See the problem?
@Snipergoat1
7 күн бұрын
@@User-jr7vf No It is one thing to shoot down cruise missiles or low altitude ballistics. It is another matter to shoot down a warhead from a true ICBM. They come down somewhere in the mach 25 range. We have gotten good at missile defense (in the age of computer targeting, speed isn't nearly the defense it used to be) but that kind of speed is quite different than couple of mach we usually deal with. A luckily place ship might, might get a lucky hit....maybe but the fact is even if they were prepared and waiting they are unlikely to be able to protect a city. That would take some very tricky and extremely expensive interceptors and associated guidance and tracking systems to do and frankly I don't think that we could make them reliable enough to justify the costs. Oh and while it is unlikely that a nuke will detonate if destroyed in the air, there is still that possibility. (The damage somehow sets off the ignition explosives before destroying the containment chambers.)
Glad I saw this right before bed. Good night .. . .... .. .. .........!
We should go back to fist fighting before we force ourselves to go back to fist fighting.
6min26sec to 6min 35 sec looks like 3 faces. One looking away, one like a chimp, and the last like a skull 💀. They start from right to left.
My brother was in the Airforce back in the early 1970's. He said the manual they kept incase of nuclear attack said to do all these things to prepare for a nuclear attack.. store water food etc.. etc.. .. the last paragraph says .."after you done all these things.. bend over grab the back of your legs and kiss your ass goodbye."
Wow…so clever and yet so incredibly short sighted
Soooo why was the explosion for Hiroshima bigger on the size chart despite being 6 kilotons smaller?
I for one am not proud of the destructive horrors we've created as a species.
Thanks for using the metric units
Its worth noting that Castle Bravo's yield was accidental, its was predicted to be 6mt but was actually 15mt because they used much more lithium-7 instead of lithium-6 as it was more abundant and thought to be inert, it was not and caused unforeseen additional reactions and caught everyone by surprise.
@ericb592
8 күн бұрын
Most significantly, when ignited, Li7 produces Tritium, which drastically boosted the yield.
Castle Bravo was a complete fuck up. It was massively more potent than expected. It just goes to show that even scientist can get it wrong.
@krashd
3 күн бұрын
Look at the atmospheric tests for fuckups, one side did it and burnt out every phone line for several hundred miles, and then the other side thought "the bastards are trying to blow up space! We need to do that too" and then they did the exact same thing, lmao. Can't remember who did it first, the US (with Starfish Prime) or the Soviets but despite the massive damage it caused to the home country the other side copied it and damaged their own country.
God Bless Science Time. I have been in the Canadian Reserves for over 22 years and still serving. I am 40 now.
I do NOT want to survive a nuclear exchange. Any God help those that survive. The future would be hell.
@Alex.The.Lionnnnn
17 күн бұрын
Obviously there have been many simulations run regarding the outcome of every possible scenario involving a nuclear exchange. Apparently Australia and New Zealand are the only places that have any likelihood of surviving. Partly because we aren't particularly important targets for Russia, and also because the spin of the earth causes air in the northern and southern hemispheres to spin in opposite directions keeping the two air masses largely separated. Australia has the best chance because of the sheer amount of space to grow food, so even with severely reduced sunlight, there's still the capacity to produce enough food. That's good and all, but then China became all bullish, so we're probably fucked here in Australia anyway. The moral of the story is, don't start writing comments if you haven't had your ADHD medication or you'll end up in a long rant. 😂
@JustReed
17 күн бұрын
@@Alex.The.Lionnnnn There's medication for ADHD? Crap, now they tell me. 😖
@JustReed
17 күн бұрын
@@Alex.The.Lionnnnn P.S. What medication do you take for your narcissism? Anti-anxiety meds? Just asking.
@iprofox3758
17 күн бұрын
Even if you did survive we'd be coming for our land back. That you wouldn't....@@Alex.The.Lionnnnn
@dependent-wafer-177
16 күн бұрын
Unfortunately, you cannot hide behind death.
Subscribed.
amazing we are all still here
@Mikemonoa-hz2rz
9 күн бұрын
For now yes
@alitharealist4730
9 күн бұрын
Not for long with Demented countries who send 60 billion here n 60 billion there for more conflict around the globe..
6:33 do you see the skull face appear
@jsp7205
15 күн бұрын
Yes
@TheIronDuke9
15 күн бұрын
Ok whatever
@Ed_Stuckey
15 күн бұрын
pareidolia
@petehuckleberry5068
14 күн бұрын
@@TheIronDuke9you don't see it kid?
@gabrielmorales156
14 күн бұрын
I see a skull face and an ape face.
That is just terrifying
I've seen some sh*t but this is utterly disturbing.
My uncle was at Christmas Island when the bomb was dropped. He told me that they faced away from the blast and covered their eyes with their hands. He related to me that he could see his bones through his hands.
@crandonborth
15 күн бұрын
Thats true... its from the Xrays and Gamma rays the bombs produce.
@ChrisWolfe31
15 күн бұрын
That's freaky 😬
@T.R.E.D.
15 күн бұрын
I’m sure that was your uncle, and not every story all over the internet. Idk why people don’t just say “I heard that” instead of it always being “my uncle” or whoever. It’s weird.
@T.R.E.D.
15 күн бұрын
Just scroll around, there’s a quite a few more of these “my uncle” stories. A story someone heard on the internet.
@T.R.E.D.
15 күн бұрын
It even tells that story in the video 😂😂😂
Terrifying yet fascinating!
Truman: "Comrade Stalin, we have developed a new weapon capable of destroying a city. It was tested six days ago successfully..." Stalin: "You have just been told? I got the results with the evening report on the day of the test Mr. President..."
@buckhorncortez
7 күн бұрын
Nothing quite like total fiction...
@krashd
3 күн бұрын
@@buckhorncortez It's hardly fiction, it's well documented that the Soviets had people inside the Manhattan project.
Skynet is self-aware.
@4:20 the non nuclear variant of the B83 is designed to deliver a nuclear warhead...
Madness, true madness. 😮😢
When doing videos like this, could you please show a conversion number from metric to American? I cannot conceptualize what a kiloton is or those other metric terms you use.
How considerate of the USSR to minimize the fallout of Tsar Bomba. Then again they're detonating in their own territory. Can't say the same for the US. The poor Pacific islanders and South East Asians didn't have anything to say.
That’s insane I knew nuclear weapons were powerful but I didn’t realize how powerful they truly are a 15 kilotons detonation is the equivalent of 33 million plus pounds of tnt and that’s a regular bomb if a thermonuclear bomb was dropped instead which is weighed in megatons it would’ve been the equivalent of 33 billions pounds of tnt the absurdness of these numbers and what we know now about radioactive fallout no one should ever be talking about dropping one of those bombs
@mattmarzula
13 күн бұрын
So understanding a measurement conversion has enlightened you? What's the next revelation you're going to have? That a light-year is a measurement of distance and is really far? There's plenty reason I can think of to use nuclear weapons. We already had two.
@CakeMonster82
13 күн бұрын
@@mattmarzula using them? Or not using them? Not sure of your point towards mine but yes I never really gave a shit about the yield of the weapons until I started understanding fallout the devastation of places and the inhabitation of locations for millennia Hiroshima and Nagasaki were small yield bombs and the use of them were justified at the time we didn’t know if they’d work their devastation and overall knowledge of them now that we know and we’ve created much larger weapons continued use of them isn’t feasible or conducive with continued life on this planet it isn’t worth it so saying using them again is crazy smdh
@Kingcarparpeggio
11 күн бұрын
@@CakeMonster82 : Interesting…..but I suggest you use or learn punctuation. Your comments would be so much easier to read.✅
Er...the minute Trinity blasted, the Soviets knew it all along through Klaus Fuch. The reason why Stalin wasn't fazed when Truman boasted about the bomb.
@santoriniblue8413
16 күн бұрын
Since Einstein laid out his famous formula, physics saw its potential ... the difficulty lay in how to achieve it. It is much talked about the British, US and USSR effort, but other players like Germany and France where also relevant, specially due to their access of Uranium from their colonies at the current Sahel. The French effort was interrupted by the occupation, and the British engulfed "manu militari" by the Americans. Fuch like others was a comunist adn they naïvely thought it was a power to dangerous to be in the sole hand of one power; if I remeber well he came within the British team. They ignored the USSR was also running a secret project.
@buckhorncortez
8 күн бұрын
Truman didn't "boast" of having an atomic bomb. Purposely, slanted choice of wording. The exact quote from Truman to Stalin is "a new weapon of unusual destructive force." Please explain how that is "boasting."
Understanding or truly conceptualizing the destructive power of modern nuclear weapons is like trying to do the same to a trillion dollars.
I thinkbsmall autonomous drones might be the great filter as those work like neutron bombs
Nikita must’ve been like “ YALL WANNA SEE SOME COOL SHIT??”
Perfect 👌