Grapple Z was interesting because it tested an external initiator. The bomb assembly was too large to fit into an airplane which is why balloons were used to raise it to the desired detonation height.

Ah yes, a sunny day, a floating balloon, piano music, some amazing science, and a nuclear explosion. so relaxing, lol. Good video, and nice restoration, thank you for posting. 😊

@alreaud

16 сағат бұрын

You get a good tan. With the quickness...

I know these things are bad for just about anything, but there is beauty in these detonations.

@daffidavit

4 ай бұрын

They are awesome, in the truest sense of the word.

@timharnans

4 ай бұрын

I love watching smoke billow. There’s a natural gas plant in a city not far from me, and in -5° weather it looks beautiful with the smoke clearly visible and as white as snow.

@proosee

4 ай бұрын

There are actually multiple things that are beautiful and bad at the same time: drugs, women...

@iitzfizz

4 ай бұрын

They amaze me. I would have loved to have seen a test back in the day.

@Dickusification

3 ай бұрын

Afterall it's just nature. How man uses it is on his conscience

The second and third shots were fascinating for making the reflection of the shockwave from the ground visible on the fireball and what looked to me like the separation of the transient condensation cloud rising like a clear slit upwards!

@jmanner2562

4 ай бұрын

That is awesome. For a millisecond all appears quiet at ground level, then not. 🎉

@realnerd9

Ай бұрын

Why was the explosion teal in the other two slow-mo shots?

@alreaud

16 сағат бұрын

@@realnerd9 The colors that we see in such old archival films depend on the film, the filters, exposures, and how it was scanned into digital format. At 1/4 speed view, the physics is breathtaking. And as shots went back in the day in the South Pacific, this one was tiny... I wonder what science package they were testing.

I reckon this is the closest, most realistic view of what the Nagasaki bomb blast would have looked like from ground view minus the buildings. It was an airburst close to 20 kilotons, and exploded on a cloudy day. Crazy.

@The_Fat_Controller.

4 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing! The Nagasaki detonation was a couple hundred feet higher and a few kilotons less in yield, but the impression is the same.

@Republic9323

4 ай бұрын

@@The_Fat_Controller. Yeah if you consider scaling factors with the yield/height of burst for both these explosions, then it is undoubtedly what the Nagasaki blast would have looked like. Even the subsequent mushroom cloud and stem look similar.

Has anyone else noticed in the first and second test what looks like birds flying across the screen about Midway from the top to the bottom what are those crazy silly Atomic Birds doing out there

Ive never seen this one..great video and quality was good clarity

This is a good one, you can see the scale of it because there is a sign and what look like wooden light/telegraph poles or something in the foreground

Pretty cool nice restoration thanks for posting

That was beautiful, They sure don't make fireworks like that anymore.

There is something haunting about watching these videos. Watched from a distance, decades later, it is mesmerizing. Especially with the tranquil music playing. But if you were directly under that detonation, you would be dead long before your brain could even begin to register that you were dying. I get roughly the same feeling watching videos of strong, violent tornadoes.

Amazing... fantastic... never seen before, thanks.

Excellent shot of the hard xrays consuming/dissolving the balloon tethers. One of the most interesting effects to me of the slow speed atomic fireball progression vids. Hard sleeting neutron radiation, right at the break, for miles around, in all directions imaginable. Only savior is that it is short lived. Even if the thermal effect or shock wave doesn't get to you, the screaming Neutrons will find you if close enough and unshielded. God help if they ever test a clean Neutron-only bomb.

Whoa! I’ve watched a lot of nuclear test videos but have never seen this one. So cool!

The scientists, having calculated the stresses, did indeed create an atomic hot air balloon.

Great footage!

A less common but super valuable piece of test footage where u can so clearly see the pure spherical fire all transform into the mushroom cloud

... or even better with Ultra Spectral, or Full Spectral camera.

i hope this movies can be enough. so no one will spend expensive materials for nothing.

I don't understand how the birds didn't fall from the sky, blinded by the light and disoriented from the shock. There is one of these tests out at the Nevada test site where someone is giving a speech right after the blast and a small bird falls to the ground in front of him.

Fascinating footage! ☢️

Wonderful

Hyper spectral camera would reveal hidden details and insights that cannot be seen with normal human vision.

would that have been after the yanks broke their word and didnt give us the bomb we'd done so much work on?

@1:08 the plume created by the vaporization of the helium barrage balloons.

There is a famous photo of the French Island blast, if you can find it. The island sounds like Murial or something like that. If you can post that particular famous picture, I will point something out something very interesting. I can't tell you what it is yet because it will spoil what I want to show. There is also a video of that special blast. The island was used by the French for many tests, but this one particular picture is pretty famous. If I have to search for it, I will try but I think the author of this channel is way more advanced in this stuff than I. Thanks.

@indigohammer5732

4 ай бұрын

Mururoa Atoll.

@daffidavit

4 ай бұрын

Yes, thank you. If I can find the photo and the video, I'll post it in a later video and show you what I'm talking about. @@indigohammer5732

Imagine if they record this explosion with hyper spectral camera.

I watch all of your videos and enjoy them if you know what I mean but this one is A Cut Above the Rest the dramatic shadows and the way the Shockwave ran across the ground like an animal of Unstoppable ability I love your channel thank you man

Just beautiful!

Such gentle music for such POWER Fangs fur sssharing

Relaxing music 😁

Christmas Island.

interesting shot.

You're telling me they attached a nuclear weapon to a balloon? Holy shmow

Funny to think my Dad was there and saw that.

Maralinga? Or Christmas Islands?

Christmas Island,was there.

Looks bigger than 24kt

We can split the atom but we can't solve hunger.

@captaincapitalism264

4 ай бұрын

Well, in a sense...some of the Soviet people were starving by the end of that regime, and the threat of M.A.D. by these weapons solved that. Not that they were for that goal specifically, I get it, but still...much of military R&D filters down to the private sector eventually. Laser eye surgery for example, is a direct fringe benefit from Reagan's 'Star Wars' program.

When your wife asks what you did today "oh I blew up some s****"

Were there 2 or 3 birds flying in the scene?!😮

@gabrielc6252

Ай бұрын

why ?

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Hydrogen balloons.

These Poor Birds and Other Living Things near and far from the Effects.

Imagine Putin palyng the piano while one of these on Moscow

Love how the radiation ate into the film,little white specks…….there good for ya

You should put specifications of the blast, type height of the blast, etc.

holly shittt

Why am I getting a real bad feeling about 2024?

66年の実験(テスト)は終わった。 今年、66.6年目に最後が訪れる。

@blazezxt10d57

3 ай бұрын

私は、全ての消滅を以てこの実験結果を受け入れる。

Name: BURGEE 2 or Z

Sorry but that footage is using layered film and old hollywood tricks. It looks as fake as it is. Back in the day it was good special effects, but now it looks like the Apollo 11 LEM docking hahahahaha.

@BlobB-kn9ww

3 ай бұрын

Do you think the internet is a hoax too?

Hotpot grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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