Newly Declassified Nuclear Test Videos

[Kensington]

lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just posted a bunch of newly declassified and digitalized films of past nuclear tests. The high quality of the footage and the extent of it provides a whole new perspective on the ominous power of the world's most destructive weapons.

The videos are taken from a number of above and below-ground nuclear detonations that took place in the 1950s. They include multiple angles covering different aspects of each detonation, from the initial shockwave that propagates just after the reaction, to the glowing fireballs that morph into towering mushroom clouds, to the shock effects that roar outward from the epicenter at high-speed. Some of the films are even in color, and one, in particular, is especially dreadful looking.

The Juniper test of Operation Hardtack I occurred on July 22nd, 1958. It was the last test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. The 65 kiloton device was detonated on a barge just a dozen feet above the waterline and it sent a cloud rocketing up 40,000 feet into the sky. The conditions that day resulted in a film that looks incredibly bleak and foreboding, if not downright evil, with blast's mushroom cloud appearing charcoal black as it rises from the sea.

These Newly Released Nuclear Test Videos Are Horrific And Beautiful At The Same Time - The Drive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X5Jh0KlDdg&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EKPzAXbxlc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es5S1Q1iG0w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGh4OM-M0-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YInti8shAyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=eLIFeeW4jwA

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[OffshoreDrilling]

The videos are so eerie. Small KT yield bombs, I can’t imagine what the crazy Russia n 50MT bomb was like

 

[MrDragster1970]

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All modern technology amazes me!!
Every time I see a space launch, watch TV or use a computer.

For a species that is still so backwards, ignorant, and honestly so screwed up,
it amazes me we can control the atom, electrons, cells etc etc.

It was not that long ago we were still savages and now IIRC we double our knowledge every 4-5 years last I heard???
We are still murdering each other daily, we are still judging a man by his appearance, we still can't get along with our neighbors

It is despicable what a screwed up species we truly are

I'm just some nobody, and if I can see it, why the frick can't everyone

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[Kensington]

The videos are so eerie. Small KT yield bombs, I can’t imagine what the crazy Russia n 50MT bomb was like

I have a weird eerie fascination watching these videos. And as you correctly pointed out, these are in the 7-47 KT range, or about 7,000 to 47,000 tons of TNT...whereas the Tsar Bomba (largest Russian bomb tested) was 50 MT, but in theory capable of 100 MT...or 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 tons of TNT...the below graphic always boggles my mind....

 

[MuffHugger]

Fun fact about nuclear explosions. Hold your arm out with a thumb up and try to cover the mushroom cloud. If your thumb is bigger than the cloud; you're (somewhat) safe. This is why the Fallout games, the dude is holding a thumb up.

 

[Spectragod]

The movie had no sound......[emoji22]

 

[wombat]

Fun fact about nuclear explosions. Hold your arm out with a thumb up and try to cover the mushroom cloud. If your thumb is bigger than the cloud; you're (somewhat) safe. This is why the Fallout games, the dude is holding a thumb up.

https://www.inverse.com/article/10099-vault-boy-s-rule-of-thumb-can-t-save-you-from-nuclear-fallout

Fun, sure, fact? probably not so much

 

[MuffHugger]

https://www.inverse.com/article/10099-vault-boy-s-rule-of-thumb-can-t-save-you-from-nuclear-fallout

Fun, sure, fact? probably not so much

Well shit

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Poor barge... It Didn Du Nuffin

So comparing that scale, and looking at Hiroshima (and Nagasaki) in pictures, I can't fathom the amount of utter devastation of the Tzar bomb. Would there be any ground left under the epicenter of that.

 

[Kensington]

Poor barge... It Didn Du Nuffin

So comparing that scale, and looking at Hiroshima (and Nagasaki) in pictures, I can't fathom the amount of utter devastation of the Tzar bomb. Would there be any ground left under the epicenter of that.

Check out https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ it's a cool, albeit morbid tool.

Also here's the difference between the Tsar Bomba and the Hiroshima bomb if dropped on Chicago...

 

[Kensington]

Also the Tsar Bomba would make a crater 1.2 miles wide and 1120 feet deep

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Shit, I'd be in the later blast for 3rd degree burns.

Maybe CPD needs to drop one of the "Little Boys" in the city to help stem the violence.

 

[Fish]

Also consider that most likely if someone were to get mad and drop one of those in Chicago, they wouldnt do directly downtown. Most of the damage and fallout would be in Lake Michigan. I would imagine they would want max land damage. So move that pin a little west and hold onto your butts.

 

[MrDragster1970]

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Hurray, Minooka is safe!!!!


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[MrDragster1970]

Also consider that most likely if someone were to get mad and drop one of those in Chicago, they wouldnt do directly downtown. Most of the damage and fallout would be in Lake Michigan. I would imagine they would want max land damage. So move that pin a little west and hold onto your butts.

AH MAN, damn you, now I'm dead also


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[Fish]

AH MAN, damn you, now I'm dead also


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So am I. Hell Im getting burned if you leave it dead center.

 

[Kensington]

Also consider that most likely if someone were to get mad and drop one of those in Chicago, they wouldnt do directly downtown. Most of the damage and fallout would be in Lake Michigan. I would imagine they would want max land damage. So move that pin a little west and hold onto your butts.

I usually pin it at O’Hare

 

[DEEZUZ]

Safe AF

 

[Flyn]

I'm safe. Nobody's going to launch one at Florida.

 

[Fish]

I'm safe. Nobody's going to launch one at Florida.

They just rain bath salts over FL and let the problem solve itself.

 

[guspech750]

I love these old nuke films. They are truly fascinating yet eerily disturbing on so many levels.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

I'm safe. Nobody's going to launch one at Florida.

You DO realize how close Florida was (as well as the rest of the U.S. and of course "commieland," due to M.A.D.), of ceasing to exist in October 1962, and peeps getting to see something like this firsthand, right?

Think about any of us born after that, say 1963 and on... Had that happened, none of us would be here! Pretty somber thought...