For a sense of scale: If the test had been conducted over the island of Manhattan, this would be the view from a plane over Philadelphia.

@WeinerMaster14

2 жыл бұрын

jesus christ

@P-G-77

2 жыл бұрын

And more, much more.

@renerpho

2 жыл бұрын

@BlackholeTtson452 The shock wave also gives a good sense of scale. The white cloud near the ground expands at the speed of sound, roughly 1100 feet per second. By the end of the clip, that shock wave has traveled about 19 miles in each direction. The fireball alone is about the size of the island of Manhattan.

@KindaGross

2 жыл бұрын

For those not familiar: The distance between those two cities is 90 miles and a 2 hour commute by car.

@user-lv7ph7hs7l

2 жыл бұрын

Tx-17 a.k.a Mark 17, the first mass produced hydrogen bomb by the US. Yield 11 Mt almost exactly 1000 Hiroshimas. Similar to Mark 24. They weighed over 20 t, roughly 300 produced. Yield between 10-15 Mt depending on the level of lithium enrichment.

I've never seen such high quality video of Castle Romeo.

@hieronimusbosch2744

2 жыл бұрын

AI enhanced video.

@VesperAegis

2 жыл бұрын

Does this guy ever get hit by the shockwave or just too far away and/or not enough time lapsed in the video?

@DinoDudeDillon

2 жыл бұрын

@@VesperAegis The shockwave would've hit about 4 minutes after detonation, at a distance of around 55 miles. Not sure how far away this footage was taken but the airplane footage of Castle Bravo was 55 miles. This looks farther if anything, although the detonation was also somewhat smaller.

@DinoDudeDillon

2 жыл бұрын

@@VesperAegis So, not enough time elapsed in the video. Although at this distance it would been a loud sound, not dangerous.

@irwinisidro

2 жыл бұрын

@@hieronimusbosch2744 It's just film restored.

I’m glad the dude kept his iPhone horizontal while recording this.

@airpowered2235

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@jedi4049

2 жыл бұрын

W

@billant2

2 ай бұрын

Nowadays on TikTok it would be a 6 second vertical choppy video. ha-ha

@Joe-jv5mm

Ай бұрын

🍄 ☁️ 📱 😉 🧠

@ronb112

Ай бұрын

😂😂

Small recommendation: add a 2-4 second buffer at the beginning before the "action" starts so that KZreads play button and other stuff has time to get off the screen and not obscure the money shot. Or we have enough time to tap and make it go away. Thank you for putting all this out here for us! Invaluable resource for nuclear history for the masses!

@billant2

2 ай бұрын

The "money shot" ha-ha

@ArkonPT

Ай бұрын

Activate "Repeat" -> go to the end -> clean money shot

That fireball went on forever! Like the Bravo test, it produced far more than its predicted yield, and for the same reason - an unexpected participation of the common lithium-7 isotope in fusion reactions. Although it had been predicted to produce a yield of 4 megatons with a range of 1.5 to 7 megatons (before the results of the Bravo test caused an upgrade in the estimates, it had originally been estimated to produce 3-5 megatons), it actually produced a yield of 11 megatons, the third-largest test ever conducted by the U.S.

@renatoigmed

2 жыл бұрын

it was like lighting charcoal to barbecue with gasoline instead of domestic alcohol.

@EK14MeV

2 жыл бұрын

They already had an idea of the scale, firing this after 15 MT Bravo. The point was to test different levels of lithium enrichment versus performance, among other things.

@mehdibellahcene5461

2 жыл бұрын

How far from the explosion is it?100km?50km?

@EK14MeV

2 жыл бұрын

@@mehdibellahcene5461 As I posted earlier from data I have. Photography aircraft during the test: C54-1 4.3 km/14,000 ft altitude 138.9 km/86.3 mi slant range from G0 330° C54-2 3.2 km/10,500 ft altitude 92.6 km/57.5 mi slant range from G0 090° C54-3 3.8 km/12,500 ft altitude 138.9 km/86.3 mi slant range from G0 210°

@m3nt4l173

2 жыл бұрын

@@EK14MeV the aircraft was 138km away?

That is beautiful yet utterly terrifying

@Crackshotsteph

2 жыл бұрын

They say not to look at the flash cause it will blind you.

@BullsMahunny

Жыл бұрын

@@Crackshotsteph You would be right. The only reason you can get it so well on the camera is because it auto-adjusts to dim the light. It would be like staring at the sun on steroids. It's so bright in fact that you can't even close your eyes and cover them with you hand while looking at it. People who have done that in similar tests have said that even though their eyes were tightly closed they could still see the outlines of the bones in their hands.

@XXSkunkWorksXX

Жыл бұрын

@@Crackshotsteph That is the cruel thing - when a thermonuclear weapon is detonated the very first instant is the flash. Blinded, burned, exploded .. then the radiation. Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds....

@alanduncan1980

10 ай бұрын

Beautiful? How? It's stupid looking. A fireball. Wow!

@socialtraffichq5067

9 ай бұрын

Say no to war

Amazing how much energy it took to illuminate an area that massive for that long.

@insideoutsideupsidedown2218

2 ай бұрын

That was produced with about as much as a 8 oz glass of water weighs.

@Harold1305

29 күн бұрын

"yes professor, I have invented a revolutionary new method of illumination"

@Auroral_Anomaly

23 күн бұрын

@@Harold1305That’s how the sun works.💀

@LukeSquires

16 күн бұрын

@Auroral_Anomaly except the sun works by nuclear fusion instead of fission

@Auroral_Anomaly

16 күн бұрын

@@LukeSquires This was fusion.

Imagine being in a regular plane all those miles away and seeing that unexpectedly... It had to be shocking to that crew filming it. Now imagine being on a regular airliner and seeing that out of the blue. You'd wonder if you'd ever land and then start wondering how much longer you had to live.

@chrisantoniou4366

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't wonder IF I'd ever land (one way or another I would), but I would wonder how much longer I had to live...

@after_midnight9592

2 жыл бұрын

EMP knocks the plane out and you die

@dh-flies

2 жыл бұрын

You don't see "regular" General Aviation airplanes flying over open ocean. This is so far from civilization. And those islands were inhabited by Natives and Gilligan and friends. But, you are right, it would have been quite scary....

@jacobcook245

2 жыл бұрын

@@dh-flies Commercial airliners travel over open ocean every day. Lol.

@dh-flies

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobcook245 jacob, take note, if you meant commercial airline you should have said commercial airline. The word you use was regular. What the hell does that mean? The video you just watched was taken from a commercial plane. It may have been owned by the military but it was a commercial plane. Sweet Jesus get your shit together

This truly allows us to appreciate the sheer scale of the operation...Truly there are incredible viewpoints of it but they don't do justice to just how huge in scale it was....This is incredible!

@XXSkunkWorksXX

Жыл бұрын

Now then, light the blue touchpaper then retire to a safe distance. Oh dear.

@hotdog9262

9 ай бұрын

almost as incredible as the idiocy of doing it in the first place. ruining those areas for people who lived there

@rxw5520

9 ай бұрын

Til you realize nuclear bombs are a hoax 😮

@alexmaccity

8 ай бұрын

Their operation to fuck up the innocent people of the marshal islands? Fuck the U.S. and fuck the troops that are retarded enough to put their lives on the line for these commanders in queefs that initiated every illegal war since world war II. They actually aren't even a war, because only Congress can declare war, so a special military operation

@waynemerlo7448

4 ай бұрын

Incredibly stupid. No wonder our planet is dying.

Nothing can grab your attention like the power and beauty of these explosions.

@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid

4 ай бұрын

Disagree. chick's asses > any given nuke

@lavapop1900

3 ай бұрын

Beauty? Looks like destruction and Damnation what's beautiful about it?

@Constantinesis

Ай бұрын

The beauty of deadly

Holy fuck. If you look closely, you can see the blue Cherenkov radiation from the fission reaction emitting out of the blast as it goes off. That's absolutely terrifying.

@emptyfile9

9 ай бұрын

Fuck you're right. Never saw that, that's amazing. A literal sci fi film shot.

@TheVoiceofTheProphetElizer

9 ай бұрын

This is the sound of the Patswain Revival!

@venomactual73

9 ай бұрын

Is that the small bright ball on top of the the fireball at the beginning?

@nickthebold

9 ай бұрын

@@venomactual73 Yeah at the beginning you see that blue aura above the blast. It's due to charged particles traveling faster than the wave velocity of the EM wave. cant occur in a vacuum, but it can in a medium light atmosphere or water.

@mike4402

7 ай бұрын

It's not cherenkov radiation, but xrays turning the air into plasma.

At the start, if you watch this in .25 playback speed, you'll see the blue light they talk about that shows immediately after the reaction starts.

@civotamuaz5781

4 ай бұрын

You're right! It looks really creepy.

@plauze82

Ай бұрын

Mabye this the because of the Cherenkov radiation?

@elmojackson6621

Ай бұрын

​​​@@plauze82I don't think so. This type of radiation happens when electrons travel faster than the speed of light in some medium. But the speed of light on air is pretty much the same as in a vacuum. If It was water from a nuclear reactor it would be another story.

@SCIPs-xx5yl

Ай бұрын

Faster than the speed of light ...really Einstein ? Tell us more

@plauze82

Ай бұрын

@@SCIPs-xx5yl Look it up, before trolling. "Cherenkov radiation happens when electrically charged particles, such as protons or electrons, travel faster than light in a clear medium like water. "

Super pronounced double flash event on this shot. You can see how the early fireball starts to absorb the light for just a few moments then the light starts to peak again. Watch it in slow mo, no wonder they used that phenomenon to detect nuclear detonations from space. I think the Romeo device was also the first thermonuclear warhead put into the emergency stockpile program.

@zLobsterRus

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, as EC-17\24. And Union led to EC-14 device.

@Pow3llMorgan

2 жыл бұрын

You can even see a good amount of blue, what I assume is, Cherenkov-radiation in the very earliest moments, and then again peeking out of the top of the fireball just as it has been formed.

@terrydavis8451

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pow3llMorgan Yeah I thought the same thing. Its a very vibrant blue. I would have love to have seen that test.

@Mp57navy

2 жыл бұрын

Neutron capture

@orson3185

10 ай бұрын

@@Pow3llMorgan it is more likely ionizing glow coming from fission and activition products here rather than Cherenkov radiation.

1. Ivy Mike (NOV 1952) 10.4 MT 2. Castle Bravo (FEB 1954) 15 MT 3. Castle Romeo (MAR 1954) 11 MT 4. Castle Yankee (MAY 1954) 13.5 MT The Soviet multi MT tests came in OCT 1961 to DEC 1962 in the 10-50 MT range

@tobiaszpasterski481

5 ай бұрын

I prefer Hardtak Oak 8.9 MT shot and whole operation Dominic, Redwing Cherokee 3.8 MT shot and Soviet multi MT test conducted in 1961 and in 1962.

@DarthVader-1701

3 ай бұрын

My Toilet (FEB 2024) 25 MT

@tobiaszpasterski481

3 ай бұрын

My Barn (May 2025) 6,66 MT.

@Herbie11

2 ай бұрын

Castel Wolfenstien (Nov 1981) $16.99

@deletdis6173

6 күн бұрын

​@@DarthVader-1701Nothing quite like Taco Bell beef to thoroughly clean out the guts.

The most fascinating part about these tests I find to be the immense light produced from the atomic reaction. I mean, wow! Light so bright you could not only see bone through your hands but even go blind. Imagine the epicenter though.

@christianblair8663

2 жыл бұрын

For a split second, a nuclear bomb can be as bright as the sun. Here it pretty much lights up the night sky, but when they are detonated during the day, it's the opposite because they are so powerful they displace all photons in the surrounding area, which is why it looks like ground zero turns into night for a few seconds.

@jedi4049

2 жыл бұрын

@@christianblair8663 Its night time? Damn.

@oaktadopbok665

2 жыл бұрын

You can see the bones in your hand with an ordinary flashlight.

@Mrderful

Жыл бұрын

The epicenter reached temperature comparable (if not exceeded) the temperatures of our own sun. That's truly mind boggling and I dont think most people can/could fathom that information. The Tsar Bomba made Castle Bravo look like a stick of dynamite. Those damn Soviets won the pissing contest have haven't even came close to second. That bomb was almost unbelievable.

@GuaranteedEtern

9 ай бұрын

@@Mrderful Yeah it was originally going to be 100 MT (!) but such a large yield isn't practical - most of the energy is radiated into the atmosphere, so they downgraded it to 50 MT to allow the delivery team time to escape, which they barely did.

Good job to the cameraman for holding his phone horizontally to get this awesome footage.

It’s amazing to see the plasma column lead the mushroom rising at great speed, as the fireball expands at up to 100 Mach. The temporarily, nearly optically opaque (in a specific temperature range), breakaway blast wave (at outer fireball) allows seeing the early fireball on color film. The water around the barge flash-converts inside the fireball from liquid to plasma. This is why the mushroom column glows in a stout profile nearly as wide as the mushroom head a brief moment as the head first begins to appear, immediately after the direct radiation effect on air fireball-where nitrogen burns-dissipates. Photography aircraft during the test: C54-1 4.3 km altitude 138.9 km slant range from G0 330° C54-2 3.2 km altitude 92.6 km slant range from G0 090° C54-3 3.8 km altitude 138.9 km slant range from G0 210°

@ChrisZoomER

2 жыл бұрын

I've read that the fireball expands at speeds of up 710 Mach!

@EK14MeV

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisZoomER It’s up to 100 Mach. Here are some details of the films, in interview with retired nuclear weapons physicist leading film restorations at Lawrence Livermore. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqeD1LSQqtDThbg.html

@SpencerAK74M

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know which aircraft this was?

@eippp8

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisZoomER No no it is 3006 Mach

@EK14MeV

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpencerAK74M Not specifically, and it’s trivial. The important data were the listed locations of Douglas C54 Skymaster platform aircraft.

Its mindlowing how material can store enough energy to blow up in such fashion

@Spartan536

6 ай бұрын

Just wait until they make a pure fusion weapon and a matter - antimatter weapon.

@bingus549

Ай бұрын

Energy=mass x (the speed of light)^2

A beautiful sight. Truly beautiful.

This is the most beautiful shot of a nuclear test I've ever seen. I love to see them progress in real time and how they would look like if you actually were there. Thank you so much! 😁👍

@LuisSilva-qe4jm

2 жыл бұрын

You have to see Castle Bravo... Thats a beautifull explosion!!

@cheekydevil69ER

2 жыл бұрын

Send that to Russia

@joeya6795

2 жыл бұрын

@@cheekydevil69ER Russia already tested Tsar Bomba. Besides, most countries nowadays use tactical nukes of sub-megaton range and rely on thermonuclear chain reactions, in order to reduce radioative fallouts for a cleaner destruction, thus more environmentally friendly. Go Green.

@Jeton6

2 жыл бұрын

@@cheekydevil69ER that sentiment is why Russia maintains the largest stockpile of nukes on Earth.

@dgarcia0rivera

2 жыл бұрын

“Green bombs” are a myth caused by replacing the depleted uranium casing of a standard thermonuclear (not fissile, but fissionable with fast neutrons for a significant increase in yield) with lead or some other inert material (not fissionable). While these “clean” bombs were developed in the 60’s and 70’s, they aren’t as economical in their use of more expensive fissile materials, like Plutonium, U-233, or U-235 as just using a smaller “dirty” thermonuclear of comparable yield. That’s why basically all of the deployed weapons are the “dirty” type.

Excellent example of the telltale “double flash”

@mundanestuff

2 жыл бұрын

So initial blast, and subsequent fireball? Quick then longer lasting? I've heard the term for decades, but never really knew what it meant. I assumed quick flash, quick flash, but didn't think more on what the difference was.

@nexusofjoseph

2 жыл бұрын

@@mundanestuff The first peak is from the prompt radiation. It then dims due to the opaqueness of the fireball at higher temperatures to emit radiation. When it gets larger the fireball cools down, so the light can escape more readily. Normally it would be too fast to notice the difference, but since the yield was so high on this shot, you can see it in real time.

@trolleriffic

9 ай бұрын

The timing of the double flash isn't just useful as a way of detecting nuclear explosions, it also gives an indication of the device yield. Measure the time between flashes in milliseconds and divide this number by 30, then square the result and you have the approximate yield in kilotons. I don't know if this footage is playing back in exactly real time because the delay is too long so its possible that when it was digitised and converted, it was also slowed down. That's not uncommon with older military footage, or you often see the other effect when it gets sped up.

That blue flash at the top near the start was something.

Beautiful! Thank you! I’ve not seen this angle and POV before! Operation Castle; Romeo Shot, is one of my favourite fireballs-early-stage detonations, esp. the “slightly off & elongated” asymmetrical shape of the rising fireball “Cap” punching through the atmosphere vs the typical roundish “Cap” seen in most tests. Plus, the “Stalk” is pure fire, which is kinda bad-arse. It’s amazing though, like the other Li6/Li7 miscalculations, and the early generation fission-fusion staged devices, the sheer size allows the Dual Thermal Pulses to be seen in real-time, pretty cool! Whilst the storage, fuel, and device design housed within the Shot Cab, causes said Cab to be lifted up and seen as “riding” on top of the Fireball, kinda like surfing and hoping on top and riding the barrel, before dropping back onto the wave’s face. Granted, this is more absorbed and sucked into the Hellish singularity vs the beauty and awesomeness that is being inside of and shooting out of the curl. This is a wonderful clip of a milestone Shot, capturing the power and demonstrating the incredible power released at Z-Hour. Thank You so much for posting!! t.

@rv.9658

2 жыл бұрын

"Beautiful"?

@TheTruthKiwi

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, annihilating all that sea life was wonderful.

@XXSkunkWorksXX

Жыл бұрын

@@rv.9658 Something that terrifying and destructive and hellish can be beautiful, yes. You can be in awe of something so mind bogglingly powerful and fear it. Abhor it even and yet still find it mesmerizing. Eye of the beholder and all that.

@alanduncan1980

10 ай бұрын

Beautiful? Get a life!

@maeton-gaming

9 ай бұрын

All those insane amounts of released inertia. As if a trillion tightly wound pocket watches suddenly unsprung themselves all at once.

Jesus look at that ionized air! I don’t think I’ve ever seen better airglow than that.

Romeo, O Romeo, why art thou skin melting?

@maksphoto78

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mquL1aOOoNWflbA.html

Mesmerizing and terrifying at the same time....

Really cool! Like watching this old footage!

Kudos to the pilot and cameraman, both of whom kept things rock steady.

The cameraman never dies

Castle Romeo's cloud was the most beautiful one among all the tests.

@Gumshrud1

Жыл бұрын

Ivy Mike was a fine cloud too.

Love how the Wilson condensation clouds form behind the shockwave

Anymore HD , that was insanely awesome 👌

I’m amazed that we as humans still exist.

@joeya6795

2 жыл бұрын

Mutually Assured Destruction. Mexican Standoffs of the future, my friend.

@ge2623

2 жыл бұрын

For now.

@killie2847

2 жыл бұрын

You think we civilians want this? The people who have more control are doing this.

@dom9882

2 жыл бұрын

@@killie2847 Exactly. We're just collateral. It's insane. We're at the mercy of our leaders, who will be tucked away under a mountain somewhere while we burn.

@rromero7849

2 жыл бұрын

We keep making stupid choices we won't for much longer.

Fantastic footage guys, thanks... this is AWESOME !!!! Thanks. He always looked at Bravo ... but Castle-Romeo was another great explosion .... One of those that looking at it leaves you dazed.

Whoa this is what I really wish all the tests were like in quality.

I don't know why, but watching this is almost magical. It made me feel naïve and enchanted, like the way I felt about so many aspects of reality when I was an 11 year old kid. That sort of sublime otherworldly magnificence that poetically coated every perception of the world with an intoxicating indescribable meaningfulness. That bursting mystical sense of wonder, which ultimately is cruelly and imperceptibly diminished, by the fake clarity of years of accumulated knowledge and reason....

@freeatlast1963

2 жыл бұрын

Knows how to write a comment .....

@UserName-ss7kz

2 жыл бұрын

@@freeatlast1963 more like he's a good writer in general

@UBeesh10

9 ай бұрын

You sad bruh?

@maeton-gaming

9 ай бұрын

Agreed, although it brings me some comfort to know that one day people will know this star like glows from a difference source: fusion torch drives as they zip across the solar system.

@devanov3103

9 ай бұрын

You perfectly captured the feeling I remember when I was a child in my parents cars, driving at late evening in the dark through an unfamiliar big city (childrens doctor appointment). Everything seemed exactly as you said. Cool to know I'm not the only one who felt that. I also believed that all grown-ups know everything and are all good, mature people. Boy was I wrong. That's why I love the discovery of quantum mechanics and SciFi. After years of school with teachers acting like they know it all, I was finally able to dream and wonder again. Since I'm an agnostic / atheist, this really helped. There must be other dimension for stuff to exist, how else does one explain quantum entanglement. So who's to say that there isn't actually a "heaven" dimension. LSD an shrooms are the only way I know of to get that feeling back. I hate society and would like to live in nature, randomly visiting friends and family. That's how spirituality dies. By going to work everyday, only to fight through loads of bs after work. There's also bad news everyday, that threaten our positions in society. Every materialistic gain (house on loan, car, etc.) ist just another worry to live with. Buddha figured it out. You have to let go to be free / happy. I find myself dreading and longing for that exit route at the same time. What if I get cancer ? What if I get tooth decay ? But on the other hand: What if I throw my life away to have all these securities ? Will I be happier if I die at age 50 in the wild, or if I die at age 85 in a building ? I want that feeling back that you described. Without worry and an open mind. I wish I was born in Canada, so I could live in Yukon territory. Life is still wonderful in many places around the globe. But being stuck in society we're unable to see it, because our minds are preoccupied. 2 weeks of vacation each year can't fix that.

Fun fact: it was detonated at the Bravo Crater site just 3 weeks after.

It just keeps getting brighter.

The first 2 seconds of this video were really cool!

Ionizingly spectacular!

It's so perfect...

A very impressive shot

I wrecked that Home Depot bathroom. Its cool to finally see the outside footage.

Incredible purple (ionization hue)? at the top of the fireball, very pronounced double flash and extended heat signature/fireball, crazy..

@renerpho

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, this is some fantastic footage.

@user-lv7ph7hs7l

2 жыл бұрын

Hadn't noticed, you can totally see the primary ignite before the main stage. The entire clip was probably half a second or so.

@ZXLNT

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-lv7ph7hs7l Nuclear reactions/weapons don't work that way. The primary and secondary explode with microseconds of each other. What your probably seeing is the double flash present in high yield explosions. Its caused by the ionization of the air making it opaque to the actual visible flash, after it fades the visible flash brightens again giving large yield explosions that double flash signature.

@vandalbelis544

Ай бұрын

Cherenkov light

@ZXLNT

Ай бұрын

@@vandalbelis544 Makes sense.

When you see sun light lit up in the sky, but it's 11PM

@deildegast

2 жыл бұрын

This test was done at 0630 in the morning, halv an hour after local sunrise. The power of the weapon is such that it makes the daylight look dark.

@tac-cobserver3788

2 жыл бұрын

@@deildegast Cool, thanks for the infos. Anyway 11PM is just a joke buddy 😁

@deildegast

2 жыл бұрын

@@tac-cobserver3788 Yeah i know. I just point that out because a lot of people think from the camera footage that these were photographed at night. To my knowledge, none were.

@tac-cobserver3788

2 жыл бұрын

@@deildegast Oh i see, ok i got it mate 👍

The horizontal resolution is noticeably lower than vertical in this one, not sure if it's due to the extremely anamorphic lens used with Cinemascope. Almost looks SD-like. Shame the runtime is shorter than the earlier SD version released, but always nice to see more of Romeo.

@0:01 is that mottling effect in the first milliseconds of detonation due to the ionization of the surrounding air? Is it turning air into plasma?

@nexusofjoseph

2 жыл бұрын

Close, its the xrays interacting with the bomb and barge fragments themselves. You see it in other tests too.

It must have been a terrifying sight for those on board that plane seeing that atomic explosion and witnessing the size and the power it had.

@ugowar

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it wasn't their first rodeo...

@therealdeal6846

2 жыл бұрын

Calm down Zach it wasnt a passenger flight?

@rv.9658

2 жыл бұрын

@@therealdeal6846 you're the one getting worked up

@TheTruthKiwi

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and it was a lot bigger than expected apparently. They thought it was going to be 4 - 5 megatons and it turned out being 11

@ugowar

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheTruthKiwi Not really, after shot Bravo they recalculated the expected yields for the subsequent shots based on the new data. Although significantly more powerful than the *original* estimate, Romeo I believe was in the ballpark of the (new) estimate so it wasn't nearly as a surprise as Bravo was.

The camera & film were overwhelmed by that intense five seconds of blinding light. Utterly terrifying.

The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen

I want to experience this in VR in order to really appreciate the scale of it

@duykhongthanh1589

2 жыл бұрын

May be putin will let u see it in a couple of days . Who knows :))

Watching this is very very scary .I hope i never live long enough to see it in person.

Singularity the most beautiful thing ever created by man.

I bet this would look fantastic in an IMAX or even a regular movie theatre with surround sound.

@renerpho

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure it would look great. Not sure about the sound, because it would be completely silent (until the sound arrives at the position of the airplane, about 6 minutes later). Witnesses of nuclear tests often mentioned the lack of sound as feeling very strange. I'm not sure that feeling can be reproduced in an IMAX.

This is a true peacemaker...

Yes I know Tsar Bomba was the biggest nuke. But I have to smile when people say Castle Bravo was “only” 15 megatons. Lol.

Nolan, please detonate a real nuke for your movie. It would be so cool to see modern cameras capture a nuclear explosion

Imagine maybe THOUSANDS of these going off around the planet. We are inching our way in that direction.

Kid: I want the sun! Mom: we have the sun at home!

As a lifelong cold war obsessive, this is the best, and most sobering, example I've seen of that test.

@user-hy3mj6qn5r

3 ай бұрын

Do you want hot war?

This is a perfect demonstration of the characteristic double-flash. Essentially as the fireball grows, the "case shock" of the now vaporized weapon and its equipment races out of the fireball and the shockwave is actually ionized into a plasma itself to the point that it becomes opaque to the fireball underneath. As time progresses, the case shock becomes transparent again and that's why you get the flash>dark>growing light effect.

Nukes are so weird. The explosion is so powerful that it seems frozen in "exploded" state. Normal explosions fade in seconds, but this is something else.

Instant sunrise.

It was good until the end when the "watch my other videos" buttons that you can't get rid of overlayed themselves over the current video. If you're going to do that, put them over something that we aren't actually watching.

Wow, the got a Cinemascope camera? That's excellent!

Best video I've ever seen on KZread.

The power of the sun, our destruction, in the palm of our hands

@teslacoil719

2 жыл бұрын

It’s in the government’s hands plus this isn’t nowhere as strong as the sun even when copying fusion

@trolleriffic

7 ай бұрын

@@teslacoil719 It's hotter than the sun but only briefly.

So beautiful, and yet to think someone drops it on a city just the heat from the fireball and the flash along would kill everyone in that radius.

@joeya6795

2 жыл бұрын

The Japanese whom survived the Hiro and Naga bombings can testify to that. They said it was hot as hell.

The blue flash of the Cherenkov is so terrifyingly awesome.

That beautiful blue flash.

Amazing footage..

Note how dark it is before the reaction starts and the immediate seconds after. The brightness surpasses that of the sun during the day. These weapons are a primordial force unlike any other.

@hazardeur

9 ай бұрын

it only surpasses the sun because the sun is far, far away. this is a tiny blimp compared to the sun, not even worth mentioning in the same sentence

@freetrade8830

9 ай бұрын

@@hazardeur Nevermind a supernova

@J.G.H.

9 ай бұрын

@@hazardeur The funny thing is even still the explosion is far more *intense* than the sun. The sun produces the amount of energy it does due to it's shear size, the overall energy density is actually lower than that of a human body, indeed it's a good approximation of the metabolism of a large lizard.

@hazardeur

9 ай бұрын

dude, that sounds way off. the sun is doing an actual fusion process whereas i'm just burning up some calories by a chemical process. @@J.G.H. anyway, i'm certainly no specialist on the subject so care to provide some evidence to your claim?

Wow, it's beautiful yet so terrifying.

Damn, that's cinematic.

Amazing footage.

Truly Epic.But absolutely terrifying as well.Pity mankind cant devote this much effort into not wanting to destroy ourselves.....

@freetrade8830

9 ай бұрын

Bad ideas create threats to human life, necessitating that also those with good ideas need weapons.

What year is this?

@atomcentral

2 жыл бұрын

1954

@skvirex9257

2 жыл бұрын

@@atomcentral thanks

I used to watch all of these videos in middle school and thought it was the coolest shit ever but watching it now at 26 it’s f*cking terrifying

In spite of all the criticisms of the multitude of tests conducted, they are truly a site to behold.

It’d be interesting if somebody would use the wonders of modern CGI to add or superimpose some images to give a sense of scale to footage like this. Maybe familiar buildings like the Empire State or Burj Khalifa, or even a series of concentric circles on the ground (say at 1,2,3 kilometres for example) to give the viewer some perspective of how massive these events were.

@sealofapproval3163

7 ай бұрын

If I had to guess, they wouldn't even be visible, that's how big this is

It's a shame that there isn't a government funding for this restoration..This should be public works!

Chilling but stunning.

Whoever filmed this took one hell of a dose of Radiation

@slooob23

2 ай бұрын

How? They weren't anywhere near the radiation

Bizarrely beautiful.

Just hope we never have to witness this….

@sethvicious

2 жыл бұрын

its literally the best way to die wtf are you talking about. I wish for it every day.

@DinoDudeDillon

2 жыл бұрын

We might.

@BF4pawntard

2 жыл бұрын

We may but not on this scale . No nation needs bombs this big anymore as 2 or 3 smaller yeild weapons do far more damage than massive megaton range blasts .

@DinoDudeDillon

2 жыл бұрын

@@BF4pawntard That's the American doctrine. Russia probably does still have bombs in the high yield class in their gravity bomb arsenal.

@davidweyer79

2 жыл бұрын

@@DinoDudeDillon They claim to have those 100-Megaton Poseidon torpedoes....if one hit the IRS headquarters, I'd most likely celebrate.

As much as I enjoy watching these, I dread the day when these kinds of videos are no longer test but actual usage. Hopefully not in anyones lifetime.

A glowing nuclear mushroom cloud is one of the most ominous looking phenomenon to ever exist…..💀

Anyone who suggests NATO close the skies over Ukraine and risk escalating to a WWIII nuclear war - should review this footage. I lived through the Cold War and remember the terror we all felt at the prospect of nuclear war. It seems these days we've lost that sense of terror and dread.

@flotreizzz8197

2 жыл бұрын

It's what i thought about. It seems everyone here is in admiration for this giant fire ball, so much that it inhibits any idea that it might fall on our heads in the upcoming days

@SilentKnight43

2 жыл бұрын

@@flotreizzz8197 Well said - and I quite agree.

@SilentKnight43

2 жыл бұрын

@@flotreizzz8197 There's a scene in The Patriot where Mel Gibson and his guys blow up a British supply ship in the harbour. A woman standing on shore starts clapping and says, "Oh look...fireworks!"

@SilentKnight43

2 жыл бұрын

@Al Zheimer. I wouldn't say that with any certainty. At this point no one knows either way.

@ge2623

2 жыл бұрын

That's because there's not an app for terror and dread.

Is that ran at true speed, or was it slowed down?

@renatoigmed

2 жыл бұрын

the scale is gigantic everything looks slow when viewed from a long distance but nothing would stand up close to detonation.

@DinoDudeDillon

2 жыл бұрын

True speed. That fireball is miles wide, so if it looks from a distance like it's growing slow that's still incredibly fast moving air, steam and plasma.

@maksphoto78

2 жыл бұрын

True speed. It was just so gigantic it took its time to develop and rise.

@EK14MeV

2 жыл бұрын

This film appears filmed at much higher framerate than playback. Thus it plays back at proportionally slower progress. This is essential for capturing the fireball development and early cloud. Films in Cinemascope were shown to Congress, for those who couldn’t attend the tests. Making real-time films would be very disappointing in the brevity, since the intention was to allow the audience to absorb the spectacle of the event, as well as notice different details. Mushroom clouds rise very quickly in real-time, especially multimegaton shots, perceived at even far away.

@DinoDudeDillon

2 жыл бұрын

@@EK14MeV That's not true dude. This is a real time video.

It is absolutely beautiful

It's really eerie watching @1:07 , what I can only presume is the hot gases striking the tropopause, buckling the cirrostratus (?) formation like a man punching a curtain; then condensing as a high altitude white cap above the blast, and your mind knows that the altitude that's occurring is a solid 10mile/15 kilometres up. Unimaginable expansion.

To think there are people who do not take these weapons seriously, who think active US or NATO engagement Ukraine is a *good* idea, reminds me that it is of mighty importance to make sure the next generation comprehends the magnitude of nuclear bombs, and the extinction level scale of destruction they bring.

@TheTruthKiwi

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, and this was 70 years ago imagine what they are capable of now.

@stuarthamilton5112

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheTruthKiwi Not much more, probably less considering we realize we don’t need absurdly strong nukes to do significant damage. The physics haven’t changed.

@ianmclaughlin8987

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly I do not think there will be a next generation as war is most likely coming soon. I sure hope for the best but it seems to be getting worse each day. So few people seem to be aware of how fragile our way of life is and how far we will fall.

@trolleriffic

9 ай бұрын

@@TheTruthKiwi They're capable of much less today because targeting systems are so much better than individual giant bombs are pointless.

@personzorz

7 ай бұрын

These weapons are precisely why Russia cannot be allowed to gain anything from threats of nuclear blackmail. Allowing them to get any benefit from verbally threatening with them means that more people will do so in the future.

"Let's use that high definition camera the time traveler kid brought us for this test."

@logitech4873

2 жыл бұрын

You must genuinely not understand how analogue film works. They didn't use digital cameras with a specific resolution.

@BF4pawntard

2 жыл бұрын

35mm film with high quality optics is still better than digital media . The reason it’s still used in Hollywood productions

@gabrieleporru4443

2 жыл бұрын

Original glass plates pics taken from archeologists in the early 900s are still used for studying instead of digital pictures

@cameron8529

Ай бұрын

@@logitech4873you must have genuinely not understood that the comment was a joke

@logitech4873

Ай бұрын

@@cameron8529 Sorry at one point it becomes hard to tell jokes from conspiracy stuff, especially in comments sections like this.

to me the romeo videos are the most impressive because you can distinctly see the two stages of initiating the thermonuclear reaction - incredible

@BF4pawntard

Жыл бұрын

No you can’t . The entire chain reaction from the initial implosion and the secondary ignition is less than a millionth of a second .

@jackthegreen

Жыл бұрын

@@BF4pawntard despite the timeframe of the reaction sequence you can visualize the different stages of the reaction based on the luminosity in the video . there are obvious temperature differences in the “fireball” .

@BF4pawntard

Жыл бұрын

@@jackthegreen As I said you can not visually see any stages as the entire chain reaction is over in less than a few millionths of a second

@marcossidoruk8033

10 ай бұрын

What do you mean by two stages? If you mean the initial fission reaction and the subsequent fusion then you are wrong, those happen in a matter of nanoseconds or smth like that, the whole reaction has to happen before the device itself is deleted from existence.

@jackthegreen

10 ай бұрын

@@marcossidoruk8033 you can see the glow of the fission reaction at the top of the initial 'fireball', and the subsequent fusion reaction continue to heat through the brightness of the shot. at around 7 or 8 seconds the apparent luminosity is the highest, indicating the highest temperature.

"I am sure that at the end of the world, in the last millisecond of the Earth’s existence, Man will see what we have just seen." - George Kistiakowsky, after seeing the first atomic test Trinity July 16, 1945
 Kistiakowsky was in charge of the non-nuclear explosives section of the Manhattan Project which designed the implosion detonation system. He spent his final years campaigning for nuclear disarmament.

That initial fireball from a thermonuclear explosion is so mesmerizing and a thing of beauty... ... so deadly on a massive scale too. Unlike the black widow spiders I often find in the yard. Beautiful but just needs a bit of respect.

this test and production are brought to you by The Capitalist-Imperialist American Empire

@mrsupremegascon

9 ай бұрын

Are you trying to blame them ? Did you forgot the test Communist-Imperialist USSR did, which was 50x that.

@vvnstn

8 ай бұрын

@@mrsupremegascon you act as if what the Soviet Union created wasn't a deterrent against the Capitalist-Imperialist American Empire, the only nation to have ever used nuclear weapons against another, when it most certainly was. mutually assured destruction is what kept the Soviet Union from ever being nuked. p.s. _imperialism_ is the highest stage of _capitalism._

i could understand when krennic says "it's beautiful"

really good view of the ionization of the air in this :o

The crazy part about this is that it made the black of night look like day time for a significant amount of time.