I used to work at Hanford, where they manufactured the plutonium for the bomb, and this is by far the best explanation and animation I've yet seen of it. Thank you.

@dudeismydog

9 ай бұрын

I live in Richland

@oatlord

9 ай бұрын

How do you work with the radioactive materials? Manufacturing wise. How do you assemble it without death?

@brillopad1392

9 ай бұрын

@@oatlord In spite of all the fear-mongering that environmental groups spill out, the radioactivity of U235 and Pu239 is not at all intense or dangerous (I used to have a 5lb. chunck of U238 as a desktop paperweight). It was even common for some of the nuclear engineers to hold a piece of pure Pu239 in in their hand to experience the heat generated by the alpha radiation, which cannot penetrate a piece of paper (the particle, not the heat).

@brillopad1392

9 ай бұрын

@@dudeismydog I was living in Benton City.

@oatlord

9 ай бұрын

@@brillopad1392 Ah, cool. I am legitimately curious what kind of safety measures you would have to deal with for a shift. Doesn't sound that bad.

Give this man a medal, i havent seen a nuclear bomb presentation so detailed and well made. The animations were awesome and you explained every step with detail and you also started the video with the basic idea. You should be more popular 👍👍

@saeediqbal7713

9 ай бұрын

You too

@elguitarronista

Ай бұрын

Fr. I’m tired of seeing all these lazy slideshows with AI voices.

@josephujiadughele6035

4 күн бұрын

This was how I learnt it perfectly in chemistry and physics till some KZread guys tryna confuse me into doubling mass that becomes unstable and I wonder how that represents the well understood physics and chemistry that I was a distinction student in. The only thing is I wasn't told back in school that you have to let the distance between atoms in the plutonium be very short to increase contact possibilities. I taught there will be continuous contact however.

Whats also insane is how the animation is pieced up together to form a well made video! This channel deserves more subs!

If anyone is starting this and wondering if it’s accurate and worth the time, yes. It is. Best description that for a layperson, lays out the basic details most of these kind of videos leave out. The explosive lens is such a beautiful, complex engineering idea. Thank you for making this.

@worsethanhitlerpt.2539

7 ай бұрын

Worse than the carnage and devastation caused by the bomb it also makes Zirconia atoms which are used for fake diamonds

This is the "engineering of Atomic Bomb explained"...for the rest of us. I never thought such a complex engineering mechanism can be explained so simply any eloquently. Well done!

@aduboi1534

9 ай бұрын

I am a nuclear physicist and this is a very well done BASIC explanation. It is very accurate, but understand the complexity is significantly greater than this video. If you get anything from this, i hope everyone now understands that a nuclear detonation from a dropped bomb or air crash is impossible because of the incredible precision of the explosives to compress the sphere. I

@RustinChole

9 ай бұрын

@@aduboi1534agreed. It’s just most of these videos assume the viewers are stupid and leave out stuff like the explosive lens. If you have advice for a more detailed look, I’d love to take a look. Just starting American Prometheus now.

@RustinChole

9 ай бұрын

@@aduboi1534also, THANK YOU I always wondered why that live nuke the American govt accidentally dropped on American soil didn’t explode. I was on tour with a punk band and our host brought us to this little tiny sign that commemorates the event. I couldn’t conceive why this wasn’t more commonly held knowledge.

@nexusdrexus9361

9 ай бұрын

Because its fantastic fantasizing pseudoscience that never existed,ONLY throughmilitar propaganda & Hollywood.

@jackwhitestripe7342

9 ай бұрын

sir pakistan is building also

Amazing. I NEVER understood until now that the symbol for radioactivity is actually a depiction of the explosive lense charges with the supercritical mass at the center. Mind blown.

@patlab555

10 ай бұрын

It is not, it represents activity radiating from an atom. Quote: _The three-bladed radiation warning symbol, as we currently know it, was "doodled" out at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley sometime in 1946 by a small group of people. This event was described in a letter written in 1952 by Nels Garden, head of the Health Chemistry Group at the Radiation Laboratory: "A number of people in the group took an interest in suggesting different motifs, and the one arousing the most interest was a design which was supposed to represent activity radiating from an atom."_ I cannot imagine the USA, in 1946 on an ultra top secret project, designing a warning symbol which gives the architecture on how to do an atomic bomb, it would be like: _"Hey every one on Earth, this is how we made it"_ ;)

@CMDRFlyAuburn

10 ай бұрын

@@patlab555 that’s interesting. truth is always stranger than fiction, here it is because somehow the doodle still ended up looking exactly like an explosive lense and a supercritical core. Crazy.

@janospeto831

10 ай бұрын

​@@CMDRFlyAuburn It doesn't look like it! 🥴🤦🏻

@shauncummings2361

10 ай бұрын

They don’t want ‘ garage warriors ‘ pissing round with nuclear fission, dum dum

@moltenlava1877

10 ай бұрын

True

One of the best animations I’ve seen on this. They even got the witting initiator design and explosive lensing detonation waves correct - which people usually gloss over. Excellent!

The enormity of the engineering required to make the first atomic bomb is mind boggling! Thanks for making this video to help explain how it was done.

Congratulations, man! You did a great job in the rendering!

@killroy2014

11 ай бұрын

@@Droolbaby agreed....it sounds like a indian try to speak english....good video tho!

@jayr8282

10 ай бұрын

​@@Droolbaby 😡🤬

@ronniecochran8366

10 ай бұрын

The video animation was done well. Facts were lacking. The weapon killed between 60 and 80,000 people. Not including the late effect radiation

@josephmuiruri5082

10 ай бұрын

₩₩₩

@selcukbayraktarphd

10 ай бұрын

Microsoft call centre, what can i help you ?

Excellent, clear explanation of a complex subject. Thanks for the effort taken to keep the graphics and detail accurate and understandable while not ignoring the moral dimensions.

This has to be the best explanation for a layman I've ever seen and I've studied this at length. Brilliant video. Beyond the horror that is the bomb, the engineering is stunningly complex. To think that the Manhattan project had to think this all through in theory before testing is a testament to the genius of the scientists.

Big respect putting this video together. Intricate and complex concepts made crystal clear and fascinating. So insightful, thank you

This is absolutely the best explanation of the workings of the bomb that I've ever seen. It's difficult (at best) to give simple explanations and still capture this much detail. Very well done!

@pauldjdundas

9 ай бұрын

Will you make one ?

@arsey5118

8 ай бұрын

@@pauldjdundas No. Neither bomb nor animated video are within my means or skillset.

Man!! This is the most detailed animation of Fat Man assembly I came across. Kudos! Pls make another animation for Fusion bomb. 👍🏻

This is so well explained. I'm just from watching an Oppenheimer video by Veritasium, then I read about the Japanese vs US war so I got curious about the bomb. I may have to watch it again and read further to cement my understanding but you've made it an approachable subject without prior knowledge, thank you.

@mikestephens5200

5 ай бұрын

Same

An incredibly well made video. Very well put together, one of the best explanations I've seen.The 3D work is damn good.

This is the very best explanation that ive seen on this subject. I feel like i have a thorough understanding of how it works, and an immense appreciation for the engineering involved

@Josh-cz9lp

9 ай бұрын

It was wonderful documentary. With all the superb explaining and detailed illustration, my mind still can't fully wrap around how something so small can become so big and powerful in the blink of an eye. It's like trying to understand gravity, invisible forces. Bugs me a little bit.

The best explanation I have seen on the subject. Thanks for a great job! I can recommend the book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", by Richard Rhodes.

@gautamkabra8665

11 ай бұрын

Yes. Thats great book. And the author wrote another book on Hydrogen bomb also.

@Mike44460

11 ай бұрын

And read this if you want to not sleep well for a few days. Confessions of a Nuclear War planner by Daniel Ellsberg.

@jonathanrobertson3406

10 ай бұрын

A very good read.

@animalntelligence3170

10 ай бұрын

An amazing book written when many of the scientists and engineers and military personel who worked on it were still available to be interviewed which Rhodes did. One notable interviewee was Bethe. Another was Teller. A book where one should read the notes at the end and the bibliography.

@jonathanrobertson3406

10 ай бұрын

@@animalntelligence3170 I am not assuming anything here, but if by chance you aren't aware of a fascinating bit of history, Google "The Atomic Bomb and Kodak." Essentially, Kodak was developing standard run-of-the-mill course photographs when they discovered the finals were spotted, which they could only conclude was due to stray atomic particles/radiation. This was well over 1000- miles away from Los Alamos. Kodak basically discovered that experiments with radiation were going on at a grand scale, in an era where secrecy was at it's highest. Seriously, Google it. In the mean time, best regards and have a great weekend.

Best explanation of the actual engineering I've seen on KZread, and the way he says "Thirty-two detonators" fills me with an inexplicable joy.

Man, what a well produced and clear video. Since I was a child, I’ve been trying to understand this but this video helped a lot. Well done.

Never quite understood the mechanics of the explosives' action that was created to make the sphere reach super critical mass to create the fission reaction itself, which is measured in picoseconds. An incredible feat of science and engineering.

@ugonelearntodayknewz4794

9 ай бұрын

We do know

@user-lv7ph7hs7l

9 ай бұрын

Would you like to see a video of the implosion lenses at work (not animated). France declassified footage of implosion tests.

@colinkennedy4646

8 ай бұрын

@@user-lv7ph7hs7l yes

@user-lv7ph7hs7l

8 ай бұрын

@@colinkennedy4646 kzread.info/dash/bejne/rHqVmMGFYrepmNI.html

@user-lv7ph7hs7l

8 ай бұрын

@@colinkennedy4646 kzread.info/dash/bejne/laxsysxwg7KXpKw.html

Fantastic video with the best animation and graphics I have ever seen on the subject. I am obsessed with nuclear physics so have seen hundreds of videos and lectures. Your teaching skills are excellent. It takes a lot of work to simplify this subject. Congratulations to all of you who worked on this.

@Pau182pau

10 ай бұрын

Great! Me 2, I'm already doing my masters in nuclear engineering Let's become friends, we can share some information, what are you studying? :)

@captaincat1743

10 ай бұрын

@@Pau182pau I'm not studying. I work in logistics. I just love the subject since the age of 12. Nuclear weapons are my primary obsession. Radiotherapy and the biological effects of ionizing radiation is my second favourite area. I dont think I could tell you anything you don’t already know ..!

@captaincat1743

10 ай бұрын

Further to my last reply, I am only self taught in this subject so can offer little but I think you could help me understand some things if you don't mind discussing.. Here is my first rather basic question - If you had 2 atoms of freshly made Plutonium 239 in a box, that after 24,000 years one of those would have decayed and the other would have not ? How long after the first would the second atom decay ? And what controls this ? Is it due to subatomic or weird quantum processes ? Also on the topic of fusion ..As you know Hydrogen bombs use a fission assembly to initiate fusion, but now that we can trigger fusion in the lab setting without detonating a Plutonium weapon first, do you think it is possible that we will see pure fusion weapons in the near future? And do you think Californium weapons will ever become viable ? It would be a nightmare if battlefield artillery weapons started using Californium in my honest opinion.

@allthingsbing1295

10 ай бұрын

Look up nuke lies.

@Chris_Sheridan

9 ай бұрын

.. everyone who contributes to making nuclear weapons is a murderer. They are not good people.

I am a student of the nuclear weapons game, and this video is the most accurate I have seen. It's excellent in all respects.

This is for the first time when i understand the science behind a nuke. I always wanted to know about this but could never find such a detailed information with simple presentation. Now I can understand the shape of nuclear symbol as well. Thanks for making this.

This video is awesome. Good job man, thanks for all the detailed explanation and animation. After seeing this video, I now finally understand the reason why the hazard symbol for radiation looks the way it looks.

My uncle was in the Marines and went to Nagasaki weeks or months after the bomb. He’s been in many war zones, conflicts, Korea, Vietnam, etc. but said he had never seen such destruction before and that he felt bad for the people of Japan. Even though they started the war. His sympathy was great for them.

@khankrum1

10 ай бұрын

There in lies the moral dilemma. Was the use of this horrific weapon on an unsuspected civilian population justified ? Your uncle witnessed the aftermath, did it change his opinion om nuclear weapons? Do not get me wrong I am not particularly a pacifist, but I do consider nuclear weapons an immoral obscenity and would have been better never to have been created at all!

@donaldtrumpenstein9722

10 ай бұрын

Both Nagasaki and Hiroshima were mainly buildings made of wood they were literally firebombed into submission similar to Dresden not one person that I know in military has ever witnessed a so called nuke being exploded they use it as a scare tactic

@megamortus

10 ай бұрын

@@khankrum1 The problem lies in the Primary Mover. Japan tried to take an inch when they bombed Pearl Harbor and killed innocents along with military, America came back and took a mile for what they did to us. Imperial Japan slapped a lion in the face and thought the entire pride was asleep. They got what they deserved.

@ernststavroblofeld1961

10 ай бұрын

Let's face it. Imperial Japan slapped a colonial cockroach in the face and the cockroach did what cockroaches do. Instead of manning up to the situation, they dragged it down to a pathetic tit for tat like 5 year old moronic pre school sandbox children.

@geoffreyveale7715

10 ай бұрын

@@khankrum1 You hit the nail on the head. This obscene weapon was used on a civilian population, NOT a military target. By any objective reasoning this is a crime of the highest order. The USA to its disgrace is the only country to have used a nuclear weapon. I have also heard that Japan was on the verge of surrender at the time and that the nuclear bombs were unnecessary making their use even more obscene. Chalk up another mega war crime to the USA.

wow, even as a 14 year old I understood everything in this video, completely clear, fantastic! the visuals were very helpful, too. I saw other videos on bombs and this one is easily the best. great job! 🎉

Very very well done Sir! Incredible to see a simplified explanation of the most complex and destructive device ever build. Please continue your great work! 👌

Cool video!! I have published extensively on the physics and history of the Manhattan project, and I would show this to my students. A few very minor quibbles: It is more properly called an "implosion" lens (for obvious reasons), the Po and Be have to be separated initially (I think they used gold foil to stop the alphas until the two were mixed by the implosion), the Pu core was in two hemispheres (they had to put the initiator inside!), and the bomb was raised into the plane form a loading pit in the ground. But these really are quibbles. Love the 3D deconstruction of the bomb.

I have sen many videos explaining the atomic bomb but must say this one is by far the best one and explaining/showing it in a really "easy" way that not to complicating to understand! Awesome done by the creator!

This was an excellent and informative video! My sister and I just watched Oppenheimer over the weekend, and I wanted to know more details about the bombs. Thank you! You have a new subscriber in me!

Coming from a commerce background I had queries related to the fission of an atom being used as a source of destructive power .... thank you for explaining it in such simplified way

I've seen a few videos on this subject, and I have to be honest, this was by far the best most detailed explanation and presentation that I've come across thus far. Excellent video my friend 👍🏼

wow this is an incredibly detailed and insightful video. the graphical renderings were top notch and professional. thank you. great work

Excellent demonstration of the Plutonium Fat Man. First time I've seen it explained in such detail. Quite an engineering achievement. Alas it would not remain a secret for long. This was the bomb that was tested a month earlier at Los Alamos. Little Boy was detonated for the first time over Hiroshima.

By far the best explanation of the inner workings of a nuke I have ever watched (and I used to be an AF tech. on ICBM's).

Till this point, this video has been the most coherent representation of the implosion-based atomic weapon, regarding every single aspect. Excellent digital rendering and usage of allegories (such as comparing the instability to jenga) makes the representation even better. Jolly good!

@nazirkatabaro6347

10 ай бұрын

Quick fact, a name 'Jenga' comes from a Swahili word meaning 'Build'... It's a wonderful thing to have this significance in the world...

@IsaacT704

10 ай бұрын

@@nazirkatabaro6347 I wasn't aware of that fact. Glad to know, thank you for this interesting piece of information.

By far, the most detailed video of how a fission bomb works that I've seen thus far. Thank you for this video.

Thank you, sir, I learned a great deal from this video after watching others that were too vague. Thank you.

Ive never seen an explanation video at this much clear and precised. Thankyou

A really well done explanation of the process! Kudos for that effort, Sire!

Simple, clear, concise. Well done.

@wayneparkinson4558

10 ай бұрын

Lets hope there's no end game to this example?

Quite well done! The most accurate and complete explanation of the Fat Man device. The question becomes, given the materials needed, can a person(s) get the implosion sequence correct? I did notice an omission regarding the explosive lens assembly.

The most complex aspect is the explosion lens. The wires to the detonators have to be the exact same length, to detonate the explosives at the exact same time. The shape of the explosives must be exact, and the composition must be uniformed in both explosive rates... That is really hard to do...

Such an incredible achievement… but also horrible and terrifying. With great power comes great responsibility

@chandrashekharbarge4160

10 ай бұрын

Great power with great responsibilities. Human against the other remaining nature. Human himself destroying own home Definitely radioactivity is inside the earth since beginning. Most dangerous type of energy. Number of incident occurred Chernobyl, Fukushima known to us, we unable control it. We have numerous atomic arsenals if not destroyed properly may destroy mother earth absolutely

@Puzzoozoo

10 ай бұрын

Not if that great power was handed to a woman.

@montedyoung3247

10 ай бұрын

Ppl don’t care about the well being of themselves and others….why would anyone be stupid enough to make those?

@MeinSophie

10 ай бұрын

343>bungie

@SubtleHawk

10 ай бұрын

@@montedyoung3247 Mutually assured destruction in order to incentivize peace between big world powers.

Outstanding rendering of the composition of Fatman! Well done! I had tried to piece together in my mind the structure of the bomb from written descriptions and drawings, but this really helped clear things up. Some commenters are grousing about the (Indian?) accent, but I find it very melodious and easy on the ear. I occasionally have to listen twice to a word because of emphasis on different syllables than I am used to, but that’s not really a problem. I have conversed with English speakers from a number of countries and regions, and to my American mid-western ear the Indian accent is one of the most pleasant. More so than some of my countrymen! A small nit: the depiction of the B-29 Bockscar, that carried Fatman, is a bit off. The atomic bomb-carrying B-29s were modified and built to a different configuration under the codename Silverplate than the standard conventional bomb-carrying B-29 depicted in the video. The most obvious differences with respect to the video are that Silverplate bombers had no gun turrets to save weight for payload, and the engines and props were different (although very similar). Not obvious were that armor was also removed, and fuel tanks installed in the fuselage. And the bombays were reconfigured to carry either Fatman or Little Boy. Also, the Fatman was too big to simply roll (especially by a single man!) under the aircraft as depicted in the video, the scale of bomb to plane is not quite correct. The bomb on its cradle was lowered into a pit, the B-29 was positioned over the pit, and the bomb was hoisted into the bombay. But that is not central to the focus of the video, so no worries. Again, well done!

@Curism

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

Just awesome how much work and effort went into this, would love to see more content like this.

@Curism

8 ай бұрын

More to come!

@Bigsupreme2000

7 ай бұрын

So much work and effort to destroy mankind, but not to sustain them, the motto of usa Nothing other than evil utilization of God's provision, its a satanic crime they did

Amazing. What I want to know is how in the hell did people figure out these invisible and complex elements and how to manipulate them to yield such a catastrophic result. It blows my mind how people figured this stuff out.

@sahilking2391

9 ай бұрын

Quantum physics

@michaelblankenau6598

9 ай бұрын

Agree . All those great minds but somewhere along the line they seem to forget that they are building something to kill their fellow man . Seems strange to think about .

I used to work on A-4 Skyhawks which at one time had been nuclear capable. As an electronics technician I wondered at some of the remaining electronics and came away with the thought that a nuclear bomb must need a lot of electrical current to detonate. Now I know that to be true and why it is needed. Great video.

@ct1762

10 ай бұрын

yes but 5kv really wasnt that much. 7mm high tension wire would suffice from say spark plug leads. Heck, automotive points-type ignitions provided that at the time. CD ignitions produce about 40kv at high speed!

@allthingsbing1295

10 ай бұрын

What is your evidence that nukes exist?

I’m 5 minutes in and the fact that someone was able to figure this all out is absolutely mind blowing 🤯

Very nice description and graphics. I also read later on that they design the core with a spherical void of the fission material. It had the effect of a hammer blow against the core compared to a person trying to crush an egg with 2 hands at the ends of the egg trying to crush it, it's hard to break.

An immensely complicated subject beautifully broken down into simple easy to understand steps. Well done on creating such a well put together video, you've earned yourself a like and subscription from me 😊

@nazirkatabaro6347

10 ай бұрын

Same here... It's a so wonderfully done work...

Excellent treatment of this assembly. "The making of the Atom Bomb" is also a very good book and research on the topic. One item that still remains highly confidential is the actual configuration of the plutonium. This is normally shown as spherical but actual designers get very quiet when asked to confirm the shape. It's likely that both the exterior and interior are different than assumed.

@darby5987

9 ай бұрын

Good observation. The physics and engineering presented in this video is based on the knowledge of nuclear weapons science as it was in late 1945, not 2023.

This is the best video I've ever seen on an Atom Bomb... please make another on Hydrogen/Tsar Bomb.

That was the most mind blowing greatest video on nuclear weapon I have ever seen it was amazing well-researched I don't have any kind of words to express the joy and knowledge that I have quote from watching this video absolutely wonderfully thank you for making it .

@liberationyogi

9 ай бұрын

You are absolute giga chad 🗿

I just watched this for the third time. I'm so impressed with the way that you presented this and the information and the graphics are simple but represent quite clearly what is going on inside

This is the best explanation EVER of how the bomb actually works

This is a superb explanation of the physics, engineering, and deployment of "Fat Man." Incidentally, I knew the pilot of Bock's Car, General (Major in 1945) Charles Sweeney. He was the uncle of a good friend of mine.

Now i feel like I can make my own bomb. Very clear explanation

@johnstuartsmith

10 ай бұрын

That's an easy feeling to get from learning a little bit about something until you start wondering enough about how much you haven't been told about the other things that you still don't know about because the explanation wasn't complete.

@nordino9176

10 ай бұрын

@@johnstuartsmith you ere right. it takes a whole engineering team and a hard work.

What an amazing explanation of the atomic bomb, even someone like me, with no scientific awareness could understand this , Brilliant presentation.

@DrCorvid

10 ай бұрын

Yup, trotting out the lies must've been fun.

Probably the most easily understood explanation with comprehensive graphical illustrations. Thank you.

10 years after my engineering graduation. Today I understood how a nuclear weapons works. Very great presentation. Thanks.

Great job explaining the details. My initial question is, how did they experiment with all this material without killing themselves? Did they do all this via calculations and then hoped that it would work in the first desert test? Did they do very small tests to determine the types, ratio and shape of the explosive material needed to trigger the compression? I find the process of how all these details became known to the scientists to be fascinating.

@jacobt.9250

10 ай бұрын

Many scientists and researchers died from radiation exposure. Look up Marie Curie and also look up the Demon Core accidents.

@jcastanza

9 ай бұрын

I have the same question, along with who initially started pursuing this with what goal in mind? I’m hoping the new movie “Oppenheimer” answers all of these questions.

Please make more videos explaining things :) this was amazing

What a clear explanation of nuclear fission, which I always failed to understand in school or anywhere else. Thank you so much, I now am super clear on this subject.

The best explanation of atomic bomb I have seen so far...

just in awe at the almost unbelievably massive engineering challenges to get this contraption to actually work in the 1940's. truly an incredible story.

@insideoutsideupsidedown2218

10 ай бұрын

Unlimited budget and no enemy bombing of the facilities during testing and manufacturing helped the US come up with just enough enriched material for 3 weapons.

@DrCorvid

10 ай бұрын

it didn't work so they firebombed instead.

@ct1762

10 ай бұрын

@@DrCorvid what didn't work?

@DrCorvid

10 ай бұрын

@@ct1762 they don't have nukes; the nuclear experiment didn't work so Nagasakli and Hiroshima were firebombedi, with intact wooden buildings and other combustibles remaining at ground zero. Marshall Islands were dynamited, both sides, and the posters all doctored but you know that one... Depleted Uranium burns fast and leaves traces but it's not what they were trying for.

@robertmiles9942

10 ай бұрын

​@@DrCorvid what you're saying couldn't possibly be true. The Earth would have to be round for that to be possible.

The best video on this topic so far. When I have a few billion dollars I'm gonna build this thing and then we'll have a mega youtube event where we invite all tech youtubers like slowmo guys, veritasium, others ... and of course the creator of this truly revealing video. Or this could be a crowd funded project ?

@talusranch990

10 ай бұрын

They weren't people, they were the enemy!

@miguelcastaneda7257

10 ай бұрын

Be surprised how much material goes missing ever year

@ryanmarkagustero5491

10 ай бұрын

Yeah. But if the intelligence discovered it, you will enjoy it in jail. 👍👍

@twistedyogert

10 ай бұрын

😮

@johnstuartsmith

10 ай бұрын

Please reconsider..

Man this was a tremendously excellent visual representation. Bravo. Thank you

The best description and video of the plutonium bomb process that I have ever seen! It was very easy to understand, even for a lowly non-physicist like myself.

I've never seen it explained in this detail, excellent job.

@elultimo102

10 ай бұрын

Considerably more complicated than simply a plutonium ball surrounded by TNT. Those dead guys were really smart---without computers to do their thinking.

Hello. I am way to old to have not understood what you have taught me today. I have seen many descriptions on Nuclear fission, and yours has been by a landslide the easiest and most comprehensive. Your animation work is on point. I initially thought there might be a accent difficulty, but you have blown my mind there as well. My friend, please, keep up the good work. Liked and subscribed. ❤

YOU have done a REALLY GOOD JOB of explaining the ENTIRE event! Especially the TECH side!

VERY nicely done! I know of the physics (I had good teachers), but to see it laid out in such a fashion of yours made my day. If I were a high school physics teacher I would play this to my students while I stole away to the teacher's lounge to smoke a cigarette with the rest of the teachers, knowing that my students were getting a proper education in my absence.

@qazmatron

10 ай бұрын

If you were that teacher, I would tell you: 1) Quit smoking, loser. Your permanent "absence" will come sooner than you like. 2) Smoking is prohibited EVERYWHERE in every school. Leaving the classroom is prohibited. I have reported you for both violations. 3) Never mention smoking as if it were part of life or positive; you are advertising for the merchants of death and slavery. 4) Never mention smoking at all. 5) This video needs improvement.

The most difficult and expensive part of the Manhattan project was not designing and constructing the weapons. It was producing the fissile materials in the quantities needed. It required mega-project sized facilities at Oak Ridge and Hanford. Firstly they had to discover how to produce large amounts of enriched uranium, which was used in the Little Boy gun type atomic bomb. Plutonium is a byproduct of uranium fission. The reactors to produce it in large enough amounts were perfected and built. That provided the material for the Fat Man implosion atomic bomb. This is why I doubt the Rosenberg couple apparently leaking bomb plans is what allowed the Soviets to produce nukes years sooner than expected. The industrial infrastructure to produce fissile materials is a massive undertaking requiring many years of research and work. It was also extremely expensive. Problems that bomb plans do not solve. The Soviets already had a nuclear program. How US leaks may have accelerated it is not yet known publicly. Some very prominent people were suspected of leaking secrets. The USSR would have got the bomb regardless. How a nuclear explosion occurs was well understood in theory even before WWII. Making it happen is what was not so easily understood, or undertaken. P.S. The gun type bomb was far simpler than this one. Two sub-critical portions of uranium shot together to form a critical mass and therefore an explosion. The design was not efficient though, so is generally not used today (thermonuclear weapons use an implosion device similar to Fat Man as a primer for a fusion reaction in one or two stages). BTW. Japan was trying to surrender before their cities got nuked twice over. All those civilians probably did not need to die, and be scorched and irradiated etc. It's too late now. A very ugly feather in Uncle Sam's cap. I do not want the USA to do good to make amends though, because their idea of doing good around the world tends to do far more harm than good over the decades since WWII (some might argue doing good is a fig leaf for ulterior motives).

@blainegwen4858

10 ай бұрын

japan wanted surrender with conditions, the u.s. wanted unconditional. on aug 8th, the russians invaded with a rapid advance, and of course, the japanese were much more terrified of the russians than the u.s. -- the u.s. wanted control of japan and did not want the russians to have it. hence, we accepted japans surrender WITH conditions such as the emperor remains as a figurehead n such. if the russians had not invaded, we could have probably dropped many more bombs before the the surrender. remember, in dictatorships, the people actually suffering, fighting, and dying have little say compared to the dictators who are usually very safe and comfortable. the actual process and surrender was a lil difficult between the emperor and war factions with even a minor coup attempt n what not-

@anonymike8280

10 ай бұрын

​@@blainegwen4858 It goes further than that. By 1945, the implicit Japanese plan was to keep the war going until the American home front and even world opinion rebelled against the policy of unconditional surrender. Japan may not have surrendered even in the face of the atomic bomb campaign. Once there was no conceivable threat to the American homeland, and all of our territories and all of our allies were liberated, the control of the home front might well have broken down and the American people might have rebelled. against the American government over continuation the war. I am not certain there was any deal allowing Japan the maintain the monarchy. I have always heard, Gen. MacArthur made the decision to allow Japan to keep the emperor. I have my own take on the policy of unconditional surrender. What I believe is that Allies wanted the war to end in way which made it impossible for the German and Japanese nationalist to come back later and try to claim that it somehow had not really happened. It was known already in the 1930s that the aim of the Nazi German and Imperial Japan was to overthrow the world order and install the German and the Japanese as the world's flagship civilizations. German and Japan saw the American, the Russian and Chinese as civilizations whose power grew out of the possession of land on a continental scale and the British and French as leaders of worldwide linguistic cultures and civilization. Fascist Italy had the lesser aim of supplanting France as a Mediterranean power and a linguistic culture. I saw this explained clearly, albeit briefly, in the novel _Swastika Night,_ by British communist author Kate Burdekin, published in 1938. It was a fight to death because it was.

@jannejohansson3383

10 ай бұрын

'Japan was trying to surrender before...' Trying? I think you speaking 💩 Japan started bombing USA 5 minutes after their war message to USA's. diplomatic. So they were always few steps ahead clearly.. 'Don't nuke us, we surrender!! -What is nuke?'

Wow ! This will be at least for me, the most outstanding and clear video explanation of how a nuclear bomb works. Amazing work was done in this video and like I said; very clear and understandable. Great job!

Well done this explains it a lot more then the old encyclopedia. Physics has always been my favorite subject. Although it seems a lot of technology has been over engineered. I always try to simplify it as much as I can so you don't have to spend a lifetime on 1 project

Who's watching this after Oppenheimer

Tzar bomba design is amazing the precision to achive this blast is out of this world

The animation to explain The phenomenon to apply uniform pressure equivalent of 500k elephant and then explosion, was amazing

Who is here after watching Oppenheimer 💥💣

Me watching this before OPPENHEIMER 💥

Great video. I always wondered how they crushed the plutonium evenly. Apparently they worked it all out with slide rules and a pen and paper. Amazing. Very well presented. All up an excellent job.

Really appreciated the graphics and explanation showing the pusher and neutron generator, I have always wondered about those.

Great video.. really well executed.. I just dont understand how japan could ever forgive the US for doing this to them.. just boggles my mind

@elchinpirbabayev5757

11 ай бұрын

there is nothing to forgive.. Japan has made the most of it.. Put the nukes in the right context.. Conventional carpet bombings were far more disastrous than nukes.. Dresden, Tokyo... etc... in Dresden fires tornadoes would suck in people hundreds of feet away. Imagine that. Why bombed.. Because Dresden being the cultural heart of Germany was going to be in Soviet hands.. So the solution? Burn it all! Japan killed more Asian people than Germany killed anybody else.. And they did it in horrific ways.. that troubled even German death camp operators who were on "exchange programs".. If Germans at least knew deep in their hearts they are doing something terribly wrong.. Japanese never showed any signs of regret.. "Hey why do you care, these are Chinese!".. Japanese never even thought that were doing anything wrong... Within this context Hiroshima and Nagasaki are heavenly gifts that immediately turned Japan from the horrible monster it was to be regarded as the victim of USA. Two 20 kiloton nukes meant nothing to Japanese leaders and they weren't even impressed with the news... they still had 7 million soldiers on Japanese mainland and ready to fight and USA knew they can't take Japan even with nukes... But Red Army had just gained momentum... and USA immediately switched sides exonerating Japanese Emperor and chose to become Japanese colony for the next 50 years, rather than share Japan with the Soviets. How could Japan forgive? They had the last laugh, getting away with crimes exceeding those of Nazi Germany and earned themselves the biggest colony (the USofA) to prosper for the next 50 years... showing Germans how it's done. )) Frankly, Germans achieved the same results economically, but still had to bear the cross of "German guit", which became part of their identity.. Japanese on the other hand never gave a fuck.

@philgiglio7922

11 ай бұрын

We DID help them rebuild and gave them a market to sell to. The Honda & Toyota are the modern version of the AG6M Zero fighter. By 7 August Japanese physicists knew exactly what had detonated over the city and had a good idea of the design. They never believed we could have more. This comment was being made by the imperial staff to the emperor just as news of Nagasaki was announced. A high official said when asked if it had really been necessary to use the bombs "It took 2".

@elchinpirbabayev5757

11 ай бұрын

@@philgiglio7922 I mostly agree, but giving a market to sell to is a bit more than just helping rebuild.. That's what wars were and are about.. I get to sell to you as much as I can, whether you ask it or not, while buying as little as I absolutely need to.. preferably that money flows back to my country through value added chain... So in all honesty... USA lost to Japan.

@badi95toinfinity

11 ай бұрын

@@philgiglio7922 people died almost half a million.. we can agree at least that human lives are more valuable than any market and money combined.. in all honesty it still doesn't justify what the US did man..

@briansture4353

11 ай бұрын

At that time even the creators of the bomb didn't understand the ramifications of using such a weapon. You must remember it was wartime and everyone was in a hurry to survive and save their troop's lives. So many people died every day and even more on that fatal day. It is said Aliens have visited this planet and warned us of the dangers of nuclear weapons. Maybe they have seen first-hand the devastation these weapons have caused somewhere else in this vast universe.

Who are after #oppenheimer Movie .......

@gastheweebs

9 ай бұрын

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I love your videos, thank you for sharing such interesting information in a very professionally and journalistic fasion. You are really good at presenting things:)

This is the best explanation I've seen of how the nuclear chain reaction is actually achieved. It's far more complicated than I thought it was. I wonder how fission is achieved at a nuclear power plant... maybe it is easier to achieve because we're not trying to release the power all at once?

After oppenheimer

@gastheweebs

9 ай бұрын

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Oh wow I didn't knew that the A-bomb had 2 diffrent explosives forms to make the explosions reach at the same time, really well done, something new learned!

As an engineer ..this was the best explanation i had in my chemistry lectures.

Genius explained simply

This is a masterful explanation of something highly complex. Great video!

bro casually teaching how to make a nuclear bomb

@JinuJinu-nd6hb

10 күн бұрын

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@TISINLI2

18 сағат бұрын

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I was hooked and once i heard the explosion I felt remorse and goosebumps all over

This is really the best description of Fat Man I have ever seen.

Please make another such video explaining gun type uranium bomb (The little boy). I searched throughout youtube but no one has explained this simply and in details.

Wow, What an explanation, I regret that I missed this video recommendation for almost 1 year..

That was incredibly presented, the concept simplified, yet it retained the necessary details! kudos!

Excellent video. Certainty the best explanation of the implosion process I have seen that is very clear and understandable. All the while protecting the sensitive information. Well Done