5 Recently Declassified Nuclear Test Videos

5 Recently Declassified Nuclear Test Videos

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[krkhns]

I was a weapons repairman in the US Army. These are all strategic weapons. If you think these people were a bit too close to a nuclear detonation, check out the tests for the "Davey Crockett". It was a tactical nuke launched from a 4.2" mortar. Maximum effective range? About one mile. Those involved in the testing were a minimum of a 1/4 mile and a maximum of 3/4 of a mile away. From a nuclear detonation. The leukemia rate for the 50, 000+ soldiers used in US testing was 3x the average for people their age. The overall cancer rate was 5x higher. Because these tests were classified higher than Top Secret, most did not "officially" exist. Which means when these soldiers went to the VA for treatment, they were denied because there was no way proving the conditions were service related. There is a very good short documentary made by one of the people involved with the tests called "The Atomic Soldiers".

[davidca]

The Tsar Bomba was absolutely absurd, I dont think people understand just how huge that explosion was.

[tomnewton]

Our father was an Air Force chaplain at the base that monitored the radiation from the Flats. We lived downwind from 138 mushroom blasts. I was 1 year old from 1945 through 1961 when our father moved us to Washington state where pastored a new church.
My mother and three younger sisters were diagnosed with many immune disorders including tumors including cancers. I was diagnosed with 17 serious medical conditions including kidney cancer, and prostate cancer, 11 major surgeries, and over 40 procedures. I spent eight years in a hospital bed 24/7. Our children have secondary DNA changes. It is a miracle that I'm still a; I've by God's grace at 78, My wife and our 2 children lived downwind from Hanford from 1970-1975 as a minister. There was leakage several times while living there. We lost several friends in our church who worked a Handford. I have a friend in my church who was raised in the Tri-Cities and he lost his dad who was in the unit that stored the spent rods. I am Dr. Thomas Newton.

[ekimerer]

My Grandfather participated in Operation Teapot as an 18 year old Marine. He was involved in Test Shot Bee. According to him, he was placed in a trench a few miles away from ground zero, where an 8kt payload was strapped to a 500' tower. He recalls reports saying the troops were given thorazine, but he doesn't remember that specifically (probably because of the thorazine). When it came to countdown, their only instructions were to duck and cover, then emerge from the trench after given the clear. He closed his eyes and covered them with the crook of his arm. He said the flash was so bright, he could see his own arm bones through his eyelids and skin, like an x-ray.

Later they were taken to ground zero, which was nothing but glass. The tower was completely vaporized. They were scanned with Geiger counters upon returning from their brief visit. It went off the needle when passing over one of his fellow's pants pockets, which they instantly ripped open. Out drops a small glass ball, a souvenir this idiot wanted to take with him from the glassed grounds of ground zero (tbf...wasn't a lot of common information on nukes back then...and they were literal teenagers.) All this to say, our government had an interesting "sciencing" approach in the 50s (*cough* MK Ultra). It was basically *BOOM* "You alive?! Cool. *writes down* 'Won't die at this distance.' K, move 'em up!" My grandfather did end up getting some aggressive skin cancer later in life, but he's beaten it and is still kicking at 85!

Anyway, I'm sure regaling all this to a middle schooler will in NO WAY give him a complex his entire adult life; resulting in recurring nightmares of nukes and doom-scrolling YouTube videos of explosions as a form of exposure therapy...

[GamerSpencer]

My father was on the ground when the british army decided to test Grapple. he's had quite serious cancer and years taken off of his life, but is still going.

[jasonr.]

they 100% knew radiation was dangerous and marched those guys into ground zero just to see what would happen. fucking sickening...

[popeye]

5:50 Actually the primary reason they opted for 50MT is because the 100MT version would have needed a uranium tamper and produced greater fallout than all other nuclear tests put together up to that time.
Ironically using a neutral lead tamper it became the cleanest nuclear test ever in terms of the ratio of yield versus fallout.

[ProfessorJayTee]

My dad once described a nuclear test at which he was present on a US Navy ship, at quite a distance. After the flash, they turned and watched the fireball rise up over the ocean. He said it was like a second sun rising in the south.

[argeldelacruz]

that tsar bomba looks like a view from hell and the sound after was bone chilling

[keving]

To put it in perspective of how powerful the Tsar Bomba was. Apparently, the parachute was put on the nuke to buy the pilots some time to escape, but even with the parachute the pilots were told that they would only have a 50% of survival!…it also shattered windows 560 miles away.

Our brains cannot comprehend the magnitude of sheer power this bomb has. There’s a reason it’s called the King of Bombs (Tsar Bomba)

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[robertkerr]

I've never witnessed a test, but I was around when they still did testing. Whenever there was a test, the whole atmosphere would pulse with two quick flashes of light, like a strobe. You could only see it at night, but we could tell whenever Russia did a test. It was very strange.

[TheXanSam]

Imagine all the unclassified ops and/or black ops they have going on currently: that no one will know about for years until our grandkids show us.

[ratboygenius]

6:30 "The (Nevada) proving grounds cover 1360 square miles of mountains and desert, perfect for testing nuclear weapons without hurting a fly." I can't believe he actually said that.

[jesseraina]

Imagine going back in time when the mafia owned vegas and the cold war was roaring and nuclear testing was rampant. You use to be able to rent casino hotel rooms and pay extra for a room facing a nuclear test site and watch them. It was advertising a room with a view of nuclear test lol.

[markredgrave]

My dad was at Bikini in 1946 for the Able and Baker tests. He had just got his commission as a newly minted ensign in the summer of 45 at the end of the war. He was a crew member of the destroyer U.S.S. Hughes which had been selected to be in the target fleet and had made it through the entire war, they had sailed with a skeleton crew from San Francisco to the rest site for preparations for the 2 shots. I recently found a letter he'd written my grandparents, my grandad was a senior Captain by then and c.o.of the Philadelphia navy yard, detailing the preparations leading up to the tests including fueling and stocking the target ships with full armament stows to fully simulate combat conditions. Made for some anxious moments when they went back to inspect the damage and many of the ships were on fire and very hot radioactively!

[Warpgatez]

Wow. Let me tell you… your description and breakdown of 65 kilotons of tnt… on point. Seriously….. well done.

[mycroft]

6:45 "without hurting a fly." Yeah, tell that to the downwinders in St George and other cities. Places where people literally sat on their front porches on test days and watched the mushroom clouds. John Wayne's cancer is also said to have originated from the fallout from the many Nevada Test Range tests.

[crinnes]

I remember when I was a kid and they blamed hairspray cans for destroying the ozone but always failed to mention nuclear atmospheric testing.

[megafauna]

In Australia in the 1950's and 60's the British detonated about two dozen fission bombs at the Monte Bello Islands (Pilbara region off W. Australia coast) and at the Maralinga and Emu test ranges in the Woomera region of South Australia. The nastiest, dirtiest and most evil tests were conducted at Maralinga where they just blew up chunks of Pu239 and Pu240 with ANFO (dirty bombs) or just chucked that stuff in a fire to see what happened.

[haroldingmire]

Being raised in the early 1960’s I clearly remember the videos and drills in the event of an attack. In the mid70’s Army, we planned in our tank battalion on how to react in case of nukes, and as S-4 worked with S-1 to compile data from the individual dosimeters, calculate combat effectiveness of each man and reassign based on life expectancy. Remember calculating flash to bang. Times, measuring the mushroom cloud and estimating the weapon yield. Also with with direction develop estimated downwind hazard for troop deployment. Horrible concept nuclear war.