2020 New Megatons Fireball Footage :Dominic Bighorn & Bluestone

[@hkguitar1984]

My Father was an Air Force Meteorologist at Luke AFB back in the 1950s, he told me that several of the night time detonations/tests in Nevada could be seen in Arizona and looked like the Sun rising in the North.

[@jamesortiz5388]

I saw blue light going up and was told it was radiation

[@jamesortiz5388]

@Vladimir Putin are the gamma rays blue.

[@hkguitar1984]

@@jamesortiz5388 Gamma Rays are out of the visible spectrum for humans. That said, when the Earth's atmosphere is heated/ionized many different colors become visible dependent on local makeup of the atmosphere in the area of detonation. LOL Vladimir Putin, would be so cool if that was actually him!

[@jamesortiz5388]

@@hkguitar1984 ok thanks. I remember people saw pulses of light going up at fukishima power plant.

[@yascanzi3380]

God Bless America

[@davida.p.9911]

When I saw "Trinity and Beyond" the yields on these later detonations were, presumably, at that time, still classified. Thanks for providing the information.

[@ad_2211]

Nuclear weapons archive have a full list of all shot yields from Dominic for many years: nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Dominic.html

[@slurpingticklepest926]

Why would anyone down vote this? I mean, if you don't want to watch this kind of thing, don't click on it. But if you do click to watch, why or how could someone think "nope! This gets a down vote!"? Some straaange people out there...

[@angryonion9550]

Meh, yeah... There's some pretty silly people out there. Oh well! Upvotes don't mean anything if you don't have the ability to downvote.

[@slurpingticklepest926]

@@angryonion9550 Touche. You make a good point about the down votes.

[@skandalf9726]

i think i can understand him. he may not downvote the clip but the atomic bomb itself... that would be a legit reason i think. maybe he's lost a familymember because of cancer or anything like that...

[@Gremriel]

Some people just want to watch the world burn. Oh.... wait.

[@jefflyon2020]

really putting their sandaled foot down giving it a "NO", asshole hippy, thermonuclear detonations are the most beautiful, but destructive object we can conceive, 60some years later, in heaters HD clips of megaton blasts would draw a crowd.....of fans and protesting losers trying to ruin a amazing movie i am guessing.

[@wesleywright6484]

Again you've out done yourself!! This photography is great!!! For the time in which it was taken!! Keep it coming! And don't let them discourage you! Keep plugging at them! Thanks again my friend!!!

[@SuperScottCrawford]

I feel like if I heard you talking, I would be upset!! That you were on meth!!!! And weren't sharing!!!!!!! I'm not sure why!!!!!!! Maybe I'm reading too much into it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@K0GAi.]

Nice job, bud! Especially with the music, well orchestrated!

[@markkarasik2211]

😎 absolutely gorgeous and beautiful music as well! I always get great nuclear explosions here, so much better than other similar channels

[@mikeet69]

Yes I too love the music. Any chance the channel could tell us what it is and how to download it if possible?

[@benrees5555]

Sounds like Vangelis?

[@AresRed]

Now, imagine, one bomb exploding where you live, that would be beautiful!

[@markkarasik2211]

😎 of course it would, to an observer a safe distance away. Since I live about six miles from an Air Force base and a major aircraft company plant I might not have a lot of time to appreciate the event myself...

[@gooner72]

Agree mate, do you feel a sort of morbid attraction to them? Even though I'm intelligent enough to understand the physics and in turn the results of such enormous detonations I find them stunningly beautiful to look at.

[@robroskey6515]

I love how white and "pretty" the mushroom clouds look from the megaton bombs and how the stem gets way fatter by pulling the condensation clouds downward around the rising stem. Beautiful really. My favorite in that regard is hardtack oak.

[@Anonomush_oranges]

This is excellent. I have never seen this. Keep posting this stuff. I worked at a nuclear weapons lab as a research technician. It was a job and it paid well. I never thought about what the end result was. This clarified that.

[@EmersonCapuano]

Such fireballs in megaton range are quite amazing. Can't wait the next releases. Thanks 4 sharing ATC.

[@giuseppegatani704]

Nice work, Atomic Test Channel!🔝🔝

[@derekwall200]

damn those fireballs glow bright as hell for almost a full minute before they begin to dim enough to where you can safely gawk at it without worrying about retinal damage

[@Indrid__Cold]

I'd happily pay ten grand to be able to view any megaton yield weapon detonation in the atmosphere in person. I know it would be something I'd NEVER forget.

[@thetruth7633]

Indrid_Cold me too, maybe we can start a crowdfund?

[@Indrid__Cold]

@@thetruth7633 I like the way you think! Unfortunately, there is the small matter of the comprehensive test ban (and the limited test ban before it), both of which the major powers are signatories. Then you'd have Greenpeace getting all over our shit because of ecological damage. However, there is an outside chance that if North Korea, or the Chinese were painted into too tight a corner, they would detonate a "warning shot" in the Pacific with a big H-bomb. Just to remind us that what we once feared is still possible. I don't think they'd sell tickets though.

[@thetruth7633]

Indrid_Cold yes, and we can put (most of) our leaders in their underwear at 10 miles distance so they can feel the heat from the burst and then they understand the power.

[@gabrielc6252]

4:25 that is the most unusual phenomenon. Even though it was detonated at 1.5km altitude, it drawn the "stem" of the mushroom from the ground ...

[@hisafe]

Amazing, I hope to see more!

[@tlamn1905]

One of my Top Three Favourite Burst and Cloud Formation! Thank you. These are awesome, and I'm now counting all three as One, LOL!

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

Beautiful profile picture

[@Indrid__Cold]

Superb work! You frame this raw display of power with the respect it deserves. My sincerest compliments!

[@alessandrocovacevich5346]

💥🔥Spectacular🔥💥

[@iitzfizz]

These are both new for me , Awesome!!

[@josephastier7421]

Such beautiful music for the second sunrise of the day.

[@tomdecuca3627]

Does anyone know the source of these films? They do not look like LLNL or Lookout Mountain.

[@trcostan]

Amazing to see a 1.2Mt shot which is equal to the max yield of the B83 currently in US service!

[@buzaldrin8086]

It was the Minuteman missile warhead at the time.

[@Uaarkson]

Yep, and in the event of nuclear war, explosions of this magnitude will pepper every enemy city multiple times over within 30 minutes

[@buzaldrin8086]

@@Uaarkson kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5Szloaje8ScocU

[@gamertag7676]

Other nuclear explosion can't wait 😀

[@jamesortiz5388]

They say the mushroom cloud is created by dust and debris. There's not much dust and debris in the atmosphere.

[@willrichards9482]

These mushroom clouds are from water vapor in the air condensing.

[@jamesortiz5388]

@@willrichards9482 it must happen on the ground too.

[@willrichards9482]

@@jamesortiz5388 Most definitely but you have all that dirt and debris that gets kicked up and so it looks darker. You tend to see water vapor accumulate as the mushroom cloud rises and cools a little on ground tests too though.

[@maksphoto78]

The cloud in aerial tests consists mostly of vapourised bomb itself, water condensation and ice, and nitrogen dioxide which gives the cloud reddish colour. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_dioxide Ground-based tests are a lot messier as they lift a lot of dust and smoke from the ground.

[@oceanhome2023]

They don’t need dust and debris they just need some atmosphere, the fire ball is created by the Xrays and Gamms rays heating the nearby atmosphere into millions of degrees, nitrogen gas is the most prominent in our atmosphere so that is what we see from these detonations

[@AgentXiO]

nice soundrack! :)

[@FISSIONINITIATEDSUNRISE]

The bluestone W56 physics package weighted 600 pounds. The later mod 4 with extra safety and rad hardness brought the weight to 680pounds. You do the math how efficiently we can make those things. I guestimate that the warhead in the b83 is a similar package weighting 550-600pounds

[@buzaldrin8086]

Burst height: Bighorn - 11,800 ft Bluestone - 4,980 ft

[@P-G-77]

wow nice work man

[@gooner72]

Bighorn was obviously the most visually stunning..... although Bluestone looked cool as well.

[@Red-rl1xx]

Pretty cool! I don't think I've seen this footage.

[@hydrogenbombb]

Am I the only one who thinks that this is beautiful?

[@tonybigalow3236]

You are not the only one

[@ingorichter649]

... absolutely not 😉🎆

[@Draxindustries1]

Great footage but a shame we can't hear the explosions. A 10mt nuke doesn't come with mellow music..

[@superskullmaster]

You’d be waiting like 70 seconds to hear what sounds like a normal explosion from that range.

[@nebraskafan4889]

1:11 ice cap forming on fireball is fascinating

[@DavidGarcia-kw4sf]

Why would you place the camera behind the plane's tail where visibility is the worst? Who made that decision?

[@acewrench]

I like the music. What is it?

[@SuperScottCrawford]

You know what would be a "nice touch" (©️ Sebastian Maniscalco)? If you included more on screen specs like "Distance from detonation is 35 miles", or "Mushroom cloud diameter: 4 miles" or "Height: 90,000 ft." You know, stuff that geeks like us that watch this stuff would find fascinating.

[@miladkhoshnoodi6244]

This music is a great match with the H-bomb detonation

[@Nitrous-ej5zy]

If you pause this at exactly 1 sec in, it looks like a sunset or sunrise. Creepy....

[@coltonlucas1016]

This really puts the size of these bombs into perspective

[@robroskey6515]

That's what I thought too when I read that airial footage of castle bravo's fireball was shot from like 75 miles away and it's still massive. Spectators used to sit like 5 miles away at the Nevada test site to watch most of those kiloton range tests, youd be f dust if you were 5 miles from one of the big boys

[@ssrv4gaminggrounds98]

A few months away before the Cuban Missile Crisis happened, the closest event came to Cold War into Full scale Nuclear War.

[@giulianostella8603]

Looking at the abyss is wonderful but it is always abyss!

[@dkelban]

Where is the music from ?

[@gooner72]

Even though nuclear detonations are catastrophic for obvious reasons, they have a strange attraction that I cannot explain. To the human eye, they are one of the most beautiful things to see....... even though you know what they can do. The music is a perfect accompaniment to the visual spectacular, thank you for posting.

[@canweshoot]

At what frame rate is the filmed?

[@barneylinet6602]

At some time, very near the beginning of time, the particles that make up hydrogen atoms condensed out. A little later, when the universe had cooled to the conditions of an exploding H-bomb, some of the hydrogen atoms fused into helium.

[@mohammedhaque5770]

Thanks

[@rsstnnr76]

How big is the cloud (diameter)? It's hard to tell the scale. 1:30

[@kpkndusa]

I have always been curious as to how the descending conical and cylindrical cloud forms are created as shown at 4:45.

[@maksphoto78]

It's moisture freezing out into tiny ice crystals.

[@MisterIvyMike]

The uprising fireball sucks air from below up. This uprising air cools adiabatic down and the moisture in the air condense to droplets or ice crystals. I love these mushroom stems! 👍😂

[@Revivethefallen]

That's great! I wonder how far away they were from the blast when they filmed this. Can anyone tell us the average distance it might be?

[@superskullmaster]

40-50 miles.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

I guess with the new released high definition video of the tzar bomba, uncle Sam does not want to be left out...

[@noecarrier5035]

No, I believe these videos are the fruits of various recent FOIA requests made by this channel. The US has released a vast quantity in excess of Russia covering their various nuclear escapades. Almost every single shot conducted above ground.

[@noecarrier5035]

@Mike Oxlong The terms clean and dirty nuclear weapons relate to whether the weapon uses lots of fission or is primarily driven by fusion. As for soot, lots of the public Russian tests were ground or near-ground explosions. They suck up dirt, tainting the fireball and cloud. Doesn't happen with an air burst, so they look brighter. Also high yield versus low yield and relative cloud cooling times.

[@noecarrier5035]

@stephenblair67 The TU design is often said to be arbitrarily scalable and, within designs for weapons, it sort of is. An emplacement-class device of fearsome size could be built but, as you say, you run into increasingly less easy to solve containment problems. Pressure drops too quickly and the tyranny of the Lawson criteria kicks in. You need more and more mass to contain the fusion events for long enough. I think a fast fission to fusion loop would be the easiest method to carry on. It would be underneath a large mountain range and look like a ball with many large, granite tubes leading away from it -- various rich fusion fuel mixes, trit, D, etc -- surrounded by arrays of parabolic reflectors and fission stages consisting of natural uranium. The idea would be to use a large nuclear explosive as a fast neutron generator to light the first natural uranium sections up. These will emit more neutrons, lots more, some of which will pass through those stages to the first fusion stages. Each fusion stage is compressed in each of the tubes by the next fission stage yet to be lit and the lit up prior fission stage burning below it. It combines the "deuterium candle" models with a single giant primary right at the centre. Imagine a huge globe, deep underground, with thousands of the tubes leading away from it packed with ton after ton of alternating fission and fusion stages. Dirty as hell. The fusion stages act as neutron sustainers for more fission power. The bigger it is, the further underground beneath a mountain it needs to be. There are therefore practical limits on size because of increasing temperature at depth.

[@noecarrier5035]

@Vladimir Putin You're not the REAL Vladimir Putin. The Real Vlad only posts using obscure Russian chanboard memes. I bet you don't even own a Dacha or enjoy birchwood canings

[@flyingtigerline]

Sublime.

[@abelchristian951]

This is the biggest firecracker I've have ever seen 🤯🤪

[@michaelstanich70]

interesting music for this video.

[@SimonEkendahl]

Set playback speed to x2, and you'll perceive the explosions much better!

[@waltdude]

What is the altitude of these bombs?

[@bobjones263]

Need one of these for Portland, Oregon.

[@Bravo2uniform]

Now, Bob...

[@williamlove3087]

I always wanted to see a sunrise from the north, instead of the east.

[@barneylinet6602]

uranium atoms are created in the most extreme environments in the universe, supernovae and even more energetic events. when you split this atom of uranium the environment of its creation is re-appears for a brief instant.

[@Thelby1]

Music Score, Please!!!

[@SuperScottCrawford]

You know you're bad-ass when you don't even need slow motion cameras. You make your _own_ slow-motion. I dunno. Those tests don't look to dolphin friendly, like the Japanese.

[@jamoR72]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

[@Indrid__Cold]

I think that thermonuclear weapons in the multimegaton range produced the most beautiful destructive force ever achieved by humanity. Nothing else has or will come close to such an amazing display of raw destructive power. Sigh...

[@SpencerAK74M]

Oh humanity will eventually develop larger yield warheads or unlock the secrets of pure fusion bombs

[@davidh9844]

Has the US ever had open air testing of thermonuclear weapons (Hydrogen weapons) in the continental US?

[@MisterIvyMike]

Plumbbob Hood. 75kt, july 5, 1957.

[@P-G-77]

Amazing !!!!!

[@satheeshmenon9289]

Woooow😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@rachellynn1507]

How many miles away were the planes ✈️ filming the explosions❓

[@superskullmaster]

40-50 miles

[@drtidrow]

What's the music being used for this?

[@Philios2Glory1]

They never respond. Its Copy righted music and this needs to be reported to youtube.

[@JeffMcDuffie72MeridianGate]

@@Philios2Glory1 lame. Y'all idiots dont work for KZbin.

[@zulfakarzuhdi4867]

What's song ? Please , tell the title 🥺

[@scorpionking4012]

When the sun comes out u know u pushed it too far...

[@karlheinzkoter6596]

Hallo Es gibt nichts schlimmeres auf diesem schönen Planeten : als der Mensch.!!!! Gruß aus Köln Karl Heinz Köter.

[@andie_pants]

Hallo aus Amerika! (thank you Google Translate)

Hey Mr atomic ever get any home movies from citizens close to Nevada tests from their homes or Vegas

[@ralfsoost6794]

I beleave, the music track can be a title from jeam marie jarre.

[@JeffMcDuffie72MeridianGate]

Project lightbulb.

[@ad_2211]

What’s the shot name @ 3:10?

[@damanyocum149]

1962 Bluestone 1.2 MT

[@ad_2211]

@@damanyocum149 I thought Bluestone is the one before, the fireball looks different but could be due to different angle.

[@damanyocum149]

@@ad_2211 maybe

[@ronsteinbrecher4799]

Think you have the wrong kind of music for this video

[@stephenbrandel5292]

Grandad was here and many others LPH5

[@Indrid__Cold]

Ah, real honest to goodness weapons of Armageddon! When one bomb could destroy a city AND its suburbs.

[@Indrid__Cold]

Oh how I wish we could see the high yield tests done by the USSR during this period right before the limited test ban. The newly released Tsar Bomba footage just make me all the more anxious to see those twenty and thirty megaton weapons detonating. Will they become available in my lifetime? Sigh.......

[@markcrombie5280]

Vangelis?

[@benperry490]

NICE BUT I HATE the added music?

[@superskullmaster]

You’d hear silence otherwise.

[@DirtyLilHobo]

As gorgeous as these detonations are let us hope we never see them over our cities again. WWII and its ending use of two nuclear weapons was a desperate choice to end the war quickly and decisively. Trinity, Little Boy, and Fat Man were but mere firecrackers compared to the enormous power of the Dominic, Bighorn, and Bluestone..

[@ganooggonunderwood4480]

Power of God.... Possible to sell a tickets on this show

[@アルゼンチンのアレ]

Please tell this BGM

[@Imn3xus]

2:53 song?

[@IMAN7THRYLOS]

They don't make them like they used to

[@tlamn1905]

Now, they're even better...

[@jonnyjackson6050]

@@tlamn1905 well, more accurate but not bigger. All the huge ones are long gone. The biggest in the US and Russian arsenals are about 1.4mt. The drive is now on to make very low yield weapons but that makes them more likely to be used.

[@superskullmaster]

@@jonnyjackson6050 that’s what YOU think. Best believe us and Russia still have some 10 megaton class weapons.

[@jonnyjackson6050]

@@superskullmaster ok. You obviously know more than anyone else on the planet. I bow down to your superior wisdom.

[@superskullmaster]

@@jonnyjackson6050 I’m a left leaning independent and I know for damn sure the government lies to EVERYONE.

[@justinschreiner2352]

Destruction dam look amazing. It's had a wonderful beauty but the damage each blast caused to the planet was way to intense to justify.

[@maximinozaratezavala327]

He ahí la causa😲 de la destrucción😱 de la capa 😭de ozono.😥.. Los ensayos 🔥nucleares a Cielo abierto 😯😯😯

[@RicardoLopez-bg3me]

Como pudieron...!? Esto no sabia, sabía de muchas atrocidades...pero esto es imperdonable, como lo han de ser las q están haciendo en la actualidad, si hace 60 años se atrevieron a esto q más habrán hecho hasta hoy...no cuidaron nuestro único paraíso, la serpiente sigue engañando y haciendo creer y en honor al poder y dominio. Dios dijo q cuidaremos esto, no q lo destruyeramos.

[@leonardoguzman8987]

Que hermosas explosiones!!! Estoy ansioso de que llegue la guerra nuclear!!!!

[@oceanhome2023]

How many of the technicians felt like they were rolling dice with the Gods every time they set one of these off ?!

[@室井慎次-r6k]

なんでキノコの下ないの？

[@richardsonlm2011]

Não podem romper o Domo de Deus!

[@dkelban]

Beautiful and awful at the same time

[@MisterIvyMike]

It is time for new atmospheric testings! Maybe India and Pakistan or Isreal and Iran can do this for us? With the now available cameras the movies would be amazing. Or we startd a raise found for our own testing, maybe in the baltic sea. So I wouldn't have to ride that far to see it. 🤔

[@absolutlynobody]

Please, what is the music?

[@Neutr0niumGD2310]

they are copyrighted

[@toma4692]

Beautiful yet such an ugly device

[@Neutr0niumGD2310]

3:47

[@brianvector]

They all look fake

[@joshuag3125]

Why do you put this crappy music on these films is so valuable and their unwatchable because of it soundtrack

[@claudiamiller7730]

Nope nope nope nope nope...didn’t need to see this on my already crappy Monday...nice music, tho......

[@matthewtalbot7854]

Please stop.