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In this video Teller was so much kinder to Opie than when we talked briefly about 'Opie' in 1974 (Vietnam was 'semi-concluding' in 74, but divisive anger was still in the air). In Teller's later writings, he went back to less anger as he described 'Opie'. I think Dyson Freeman described Teller perfectly! ... That said, I found Teller to be very entertaining and he was VERY kind to me and the several folks at UCLA during his weekly visit from his main office in the Bay Area... In my firsthand opinion, some of the comments below unfairly describe Teller.
The entire story has been publishef in a book written by author Benjamin Labatut, entitled "The Maniac". Published in 2023. Incredible read.
Los Alamos is still a functional weapons lab yet you wouldn't know it. Well done, NSA
I was in the audience that day as a young postdoc. Thank you for posting this!
"You didn't' see graphite!"
The chemistry that these people are explaining is some frightening frightening stuff iodine is not nice
Mouthwash.
For a second I thought this was Colin Furze’s DIY channel, and that he’d really stepped up his game!
Time capsules, Guys and Gals that lived it . 🎉Greatest generation group. Thanks🎉!
wow, why was this classified .... nothing here "top secret".... thanks for posting.
What year(s) are we seeing here?
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its so weird seeing teller, yknow, like, mr. h-bomb himself, just being a sweet old man. look at his little hawaiian button-up. how can u hate this guy.
Pretty easily considering his actions
It goes pew pew pew!
Just... wow. Moments of irony abound.
This is the man who led the NRA, "pry my guns from my cold dead hands" Heston.
Finally more footage of the caisson which I first saw in the updated version of Trinity and Beyond. I imagine playing Ground Zero as they prepare the bomb.
1:35 you can see a curtains around the atomic bomb because it was very secret device and only small amount people can see it. Even for workers it was forbidden to see it.
I wonder if Helen of Bikini was either written on the bomb or caisson?
Hi. Could you upload more such nuclear test videos?
Both my father and grandfather worked there operating a drag line crane. Not sure what year
Interesting. Thx for posting.
i wouldn’t call this awesome - it’s insane - plus the people who lived and still live downwind are still dying of cancer- nuclear colonialism - it pretty much sucks
Really cool. I saw videos about this facility, but never the metallurgy operations. Cool.
Great video. I live near the Former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. That process was brought here from LASL.
Entertaining as always Alan thanks for sharing.
Very interesting, but what exactly were they accomplishing here for the underwater shot? They are opening up something obviously designed and sealed for deep submersion and pulling out something that looks more like a dummy device than a nuclear device. Was this after a submersion test with a proper mass dummy device? At 1:35 something which looks like the nuclear device is briefly shown and the deep submersion cylinder is then shown being sealed up again, but what is inside is hidden and I would guess is the nuclear device. At least that's my guess about what is shown.
fantastic mini documentary, these always make me wonder how many others like this exist in some vault, why are not they all available in a single playlist? Anyway, thanks for sharing and looking forward to watching more jewels like this.
Beautiful strong young men. Difficult not to imagine their very serious doses and internal contamination accumulations in the ensuing futile "decontamination" exercises over the next few days ordered by Blandy. The 23kT Able device air dropped a few weeks before Baker is visible at 1:33
I think it is the device they are putting into the deep submersion cylinder which they are shown closing immediately afterwards. Showing the Able device in that sequence makes no sense.
@@winstonsmith478 It has a large fat ellipsoidal pumpkin bomb case and the Archie radar antenna, hinges fixing the two halves, an AN219 contact fuze, and California parachute box tail are all visible. It's Able.
It is Mk-3 bomb. In the Able and the Baker tests were used same bombs.
Neat footage! But here’s a somewhat related question I have: If the first atomic weapon test was a plutonium type device, why was a uranium type device used for the first (Hiroshima) war application? Didn’t this risk a very embarrassing dud on the first use of an atomic bomb?
The scientists were quite certain it would yield and did not need a full scale test before it was fielded. Of course everything except the full nuclear yield was tested over and over before put into use.
The very low rate of spontaneous fission in U235 made it extremely unlikely to suffer a predetonation and fizzle compared with Pu239, which itself has a spontaneous fission rate of 10 fissions/second/kg and unavoidably contains a certain fraction of Pu240 that has an extremely high 415,000 fissions/second/kg spontaneous fission rate. U235's rate is a mere 0.3 fissions/second/kg. Thus if the supercritical mass of 235 is assembled in a few milliseconds, the likelihood of a SF event causing a predetonation before the mass is fully assembled is effectively zero. The 235 based device therefore was such a completely sure thing that it didn't need testing before "use". Conventional explosives were more than capable of assembling the thing within a few milliseconds and the polonium-beryllium neutron generators would then decisively initiate the chain reaction only when activated at the moment of full assembly.
Both of these answers are very helpful. Thanks!
For my (hopefully last) question… I understand the Hiroshima bomb was transported to Tinian by ship (USS Indianapolis), but the Nagasaki bomb was flown to Tinian. If true, why the difference, and why use a ship to transport a weapon designed to be dropped from an airplane?
i was there in 1969, was very nice and yes the prime rib was good, saw nixon and the pool was nice, work on 4th floor on main building installing teletype , wasd tdy from Geeia out of Clark AB
Sam, you and I were there a the same exact time...we installed tty equipment from Detachment 5 PACGEEIA out of Hickam.
I love yt recommendations
Given the atomic bomb tested at Alamogordo was of the Plutonium type, why did the US use an untested enriched Uranium type device for it’s first atomic bomb dropped on Japan? Didn’t that risk an embarrassing failure of the first atomic bomb to be used in war?
This is awesome, thanks! Just found this in a 1966 catalog and was happy to find it already digitized. Did you get it scanned from the National Archives?
This is awesome. My father and his friend are in this video. I'm glad I stumbled across it.
It took me ages to find this video unedited, thanks for uploading this.
Imagine how intense the radiation must have to be that air glow is visible at sunlight conditions. I wonder, if someone was besides that reactor how bright their vitreous humor would glow. I also wonder about how much of that glow was directly caused by gamma rays and how much of it was due neutrons.
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At 1:13 "Critical assembly elements" means the core nuclear weapons component. At 1:16 the "serious health hazards" means it causes cancer. Breathing in just a few atoms of the stuff will cause lung cancer in a week.
These are the sounding rockets fired before the detonation, whose smoke trails distortion observes by camera was used to determine the yield of the gadget (bomb).
The appearance of the condensation after the passing of the shockwave was interesting to see.
great timing, with the world the way it is right now i wish this clip had more views
Thanks Mr. Carr. This is some beautiful footage.
Sick, twisted, backward, man.
Some time after this video was made, the entire process was moved to Hanford and reassembled at the Plutonium Finishing Plant. The Finishing Plant was the last part of the Hanford Plutonium Production Facility to be shut down. It was also one of the most contaminated areas and took years to disassemble and decontaminate. With the exception of B reactor, all the reactor fuel preparation buildings, reactor areas, plutonium separation facilities and the finishing plant have all been torn down or sealed. The completion of the Waste Processing Facility and the removal of all materials in the underground tanks is the last step in cleaning up after thew Manhattan Project.
can you imagine a world without zinc
How would we even kill ourselves???
This is soo cool!
Such a cool video! Why was it declassified? It's crazy but from the past readings I naturally understood exactly every process, why it was done, how it was done, why it was done the way it was done, the Pu alloy that was used and what will be done afterwards. And yes, staking Pu sheets together made me very uncomfortable.
Plutonium chemistry is pretty cool. Not sure why this video was declassified, I bet axis countries learned a lot from it, shame.
Because the information contained in this video has been well known by everyone for decades. Nothing they can learn here that they didn't already know.
That looks like a fun project. Where can you get that plutonium nitrate solution?
I ask every time I go to Home Depot. And every time they tell me they're fresh out, and that I barely missed it once again.
The started with natural metal uranium in reactor B at Hanford, moderated with nuclear grade graphite. The giant pile they built there had a push through system for uranium fuel rods/slugs. They loaded the reactor with uranium fuel, and after a few weeks to a few months depending on where the fuel was located in the reactor it was removed. The neutron exposed fuel was pushed out the back of the reactor, dropping into a cooling pond, and a few weeks later they fished out the fuel slugs, chopped them into pieces, and dissolved them in boiling nitric acid. There is a classified organic process, actually a couple of them at least, that selectively pulls out uranium and plutonium from the acid solution, leaving all the radioactive nuclide fission products.
apparently plutonium is not made anymore perhaps due to disarmament agreements and NASA has to use old stock to make RTGs to send to (ahem Pluto) and other space missions. Perhaps some of the stockpiled nukes could be used. Apparently nukes have a shelf life anyway, doesn’t metal go brittle in the presence of radiation over years?
Just the words "plutonium tetrafloride" are frightening in all that they imply.
Why are there no such videos from communists?
They used this one, with subtitles.