2020 Released Operation Ivy Mike Shot 10 Megatons

[@RDog4484]

It’s a real shame that there doesn’t seem to be any available, *uninterrupted* footage of Mike’s transformation from fireball to mushroom cloud.

[@lernaeanhydra5766]

Look up: Castle Romeo - previously unseen rare footage (SD) on KZbin its about the same size as Mike and has a pretty good shot of the transformation from fireball to cloud.

[@LuciusVulpes]

It's probably still classified(more than half of all surviving nuclear tests footage is still either kept in secret or it's too old/degraded to even bother remastering/releasing).

[@EK14MeV]

Cameras were assigned to specific scales to capture limited phenomena. The fireball was 3.25 miles wide while the mushroom cloud was 100 miles wide, 10 minutes after detonation. ASA 10 Kodachrome I film of 1952 couldn’t deal with the huge flash close up, for its very low luminance dynamic range. Early fireball footage was 0.1 ASA B&W running at very high speed, likely over a million FPS for a fraction of a second. Notice the tremendous frame rate in its capture of slow motion lightning (from Compton scattering of fast electrons ahead of the positively charged fireball plasma), seen above the brighter bulge along the ground, where atoll islands’ sand and vegetation were plowed up by blast and vaporized. Bomb and shot cabin materials can be seen as splashed blobs along the outer fireball surface.

[@64curarine]

@@lernaeanhydra5766 That is an awesome video from Atom Central...I believe the site is run by Peter Kuran the filmmaker of Trinity and Beyond.

[@oceanhome2023]

@@EK14MeV Thank you SO much for your commentary ! You are extremely knowledgeable yet explain what we are looking at in terms we can understand. Your knowledge of the filming aspect is all new to me . I hope to see more comments from you in the future !

[@williamharmatuk7251]

Kept thinking this would be the usual Ivy Mike films, but improved. Nope. This is barely seen film of Ivy Mike, and it looks great. This channel delivers.

[@jamoR72]

In-fucking-credible....Much thanks! This is a much more full version. That super heated plasma dome from the intial blast is insane

[@turdferg9703]

To be lucky enough the witness something like this.. from 50-70 miles away of course lol.

[@20Eyes1974]

Further. 150m on mountain top . Its kinda beautiful in a way.

[@lonewandererdan]

You wanna be a little farther away.

[@nicholasmaude6906]

Provided you're upwind you probably could be as close as 20 miles.

[@clintonscottwalsh]

Thinking 70 miles you will still ignite on fire.

[@josephschewe9734]

Its different in person, videos offer nothing in retrospect to what its actually like. Most of those who were there to witness the tests, wish they hadnt/never want to again.

[@tomdecuca3627]

This is so incredible!! These men who created this -despite its obvious use, must have been so thrilled to see this actually work! It is so hard to believe this was accomplished in the 1950s. These were some driven individuals to say the least!!

[@NZENZN]

they're criminal scum, could have actually spent time doing sonething to improve and progress our lives

[@jmwoods190]

The man helming the H-bomb development, Edward Teller, was in fact very obsessed with the H-bomb and even pushed the use of H-bombs for non-military applications!

[@gooner72]

In a strange, bizarre, twisted and warped way, nuclear, and especially thermonuclear, detonations are a spectacular and beautiful thing to see. I know they are a horrendously terrifying prospect if you're on the receiving end of them but I actually enjoy watching them.

[@ad_2211]

The intense Neutron flux from this explosion created two new elements on the periodic table, einsteinium and fermium (aptly named after Einstein and Fermi).

[@roquefortfiles]

I heard that it also created Illudium Q36. The space modulator.

[@mikew5858]

And crapyourpantsium.

[@sub-adolescentshingoijra2016]

IJDJS

[@truthseeker2321]

@@mikew5858 LMFAO! That was created by the first atomic test in New Mexico, your thinking of Crapyourpantsmoreium for Ivy Mike.

[@alessandrocovacevich5346]

Awesome! Thanks ATC and Happy🎃Halloween my atomic friends!

[@wesleywright6484]

Wow! Think of the effort it took to get this photography done! Many cameras! In many places! And this was how many years ago!!! It maybe old like some of us! But it's still great!!! Thanks again my friend! Keep up the great work!!!!

[@ieatgreenfleas]

May be*

[@Foxxorz]

Watching t-n bombs go off feels like astronomy.

[@jmwoods190]

1:12 Those of us who have seen other thermonuclear tests would know that this was only the beginning of the 2nd, much brighter flash H-bombs produce, but the footage for the rest of this 2nd flash is nowhere available- that perfect dome-shaped fireball from 0:05-0:42 was merely the smaller, briefer 1st flash which somehow lasted longer than most other H-bombs did!

[@gabrielfrank2878]

Great footage!! Music name?

[@marioragucci1009]

The men looking at the detonation at 2:24 must have had the same thoughts as Robert Oppenheimer, "Now we have become death, the destroyer of worlds."

[@imtoostonedtocomeupwithaus5976]

:o

[@chrisb.1214]

Nah...they were probably just thinking like 'HOLY SHIT!' lol

[@arguchik]

My dad was on a USN destroyer that was some distance away from this blast. He said that all the men on the ship were lined up on deck and told to face amidships. Then he saw the flash and felt heat on the back of his neck, and they had to wait "several minutes" before they were allowed to turn around and look. (He didn't say whether or not he was given goggles to wear, but I assume so.) He told me that he and a lot of his fellow sailors basically fell down onto the deck because it was so terrifying. That experience turned him into a lifelong pacifist.

[@marioragucci1009]

@@arguchik Thanks for the comment. I also listened to other accounts of soldiers near the tests in Nevada said they could see the bones in their bodies from the blast. That would be a unique experience.

[@truthseeker2321]

@@marioragucci1009 That was just from fission weapons, imagine how much more bright a fusion weapon's initial burst was. I had an instructor in the Army,who was one of the soldiers in those trenches for such a test. He said it was smaller than the Hiroshima bomb, and it was the first nuclear artillery round tested. They were told to keep their eyes closed, and put the palms of their hands over their eyes. Even though their faces were below the edge of the trench, he said it was so bright from that small nuke, that they could still see the bones of their hands. After the shockwave hit, and returned towards the blast area, they were ordered to climb out of the trenches and march towards the mushroom cloud, which was about 2 miles away.

[@seymoorepoone9512]

New footage? Or has it been redone? Can't wait. Cool. Now I know.

[@kzm1934]

It's a shame this is the only footage we have of the mike shot. It's so historically important and interest and all we have are these unclear films.

[@Indrid__Cold]

Once Mike was proof tested, they built several Emergency Capabilities weapons based on WET technology. I'd love to see what they looked like.

[@doncarlton4858]

That's one of the reasons for an atomic powered bomber aircraft. To power the onboard cryogenics plant to keep the deuterium liquid.

[@Indrid__Cold]

@@doncarlton4858 THAT MAKES TOTAL SENSE. I honestly never made the connection, and I've been studying the Cold War for twenty years. My compliments.

[@jmwoods190]

At least one was slated for testing, but after Castle Bravo exceeded its estimated yield as a 'dry' bomb that cryogenic device(codenamed 'Jughead') was considered obsolete and scrapped.

[@TerryMartinART]

Imagine how awesome it would be if The Slo Mo Guys captured a new explosion with one of their 100,000 fps or greater cameras.

[@SwiftyDeejay]

Something I’ve always wondered with the Ivy Mike blast. Why does the fireball seem to expand so symmetrically yet (at around 33 seconds on this video) the actually mushrooms looks as though it is forming way left of the centre of said expansion?

[@truthseeker2321]

I think that was something else burning, like maybe parts of the coral reef that didn't get vaporized in the burst, or maybe a barge that was moored close by with test equipment on it. It's just a guess of mine, because that blast left a crater more than a mile in diameter, and 200 feet deep.

[@trolleriffic]

@@truthseeker2321 It was vaporizing the helium-filled tube designed to let radiation pass more easily to instruments on a neighbouring island (that wasn't obliterated).

[@colinarmstrong9590]

LOVE THIS CHANNEL!🙂👍

[@NapoliTube1]

a little sun appears on the horizon...

[@P-G-77]

From 1.58 WOW !! First TIME VIEW, NICE WORK MAN, NICE WORK.

[@gpt-jcommentbot4759]

1:45 that looks goddamn terrifying just right above you

[@RILakeLife88]

That's an insane mushroom cloud

[@Indrid__Cold]

I'd love to see the high yield USSR shots. Somewhere there is a 20+ megaton shot from a full scale ballistic missile system. Imagine the unmitigated CHEEK it takes to fire a live twenty megaton bomb on one of the hinkey ballistic missiles of those days.

[@frimodig]

I don't think any footage from that test exist. Because of the huge lack of accuracy for that era of ICBMs, they would have no idea where they would station themself to be safe from the explosion and still be able to record it.

[@Indrid__Cold]

@@frimodig Well they must have had some film, else why do the test at all? Its listed as a weapons development test along with a bigger 35 megaton test (which is another bomb I'd LOVE to see.)

[@trolleriffic]

I know it's called Test 219 but I've never seen any footage or images of it.

[@Indrid__Cold]

@trolleriffic Unfortunately, with Cold War II now firmly esconsed within the current regime, it is unlikely that any currently classified information will ever reach the light of day.

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

Perfect for capital punishment. You damn well won't register the pain before your body is vaporized by the heat of the explosion. Gives a reason for live test fires, too. It's a win win!

[@maxpower78-15]

Maybe a new angle? Either way cant wait

[@spaghettibender7607]

That's mainly the shock wave, not the fireball. We went through this before.

[@lamontcranston3185]

Is that Schroeder from the Peanuts playing the piano?

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Didn’t know that Ivy Mike sounded like a Phillip Glass rip off

[@P-G-77]

I'm really curious and can't wait !! Great.

[@outdoorslife4style831]

I've never been so excited for a nuclear bomb to explode! 🔥🔥

[@tlamn1905]

You get to see the Primary... For a few μs, then the Secondary Stage is where things really get cool! Be sure to watch the top & centre of the Fireballs!! It's only a second but that should qualify! Cheers

[@tlamn1905]

I knew you'd come through for the Anniversary of the Super!! Or, Dr Teller's Very Large Bomb! Nice. Also, best BURN! (pun unintended) Dr. Teller watched the seismic activity and sent Dr. Graves (at LANL) the unclassified telegram: "It's a Boy", a dig at Dr Oppenheimer During the Manhattan Project, The Gadget/the nuclear bomb in general, was known as "Oppenheimer's Baby" Nice! Any chance we'll see footage of the "Other Super"? "The SOB?" largest Fission Device detonated by the US? AKA the Fallback in case THE Super failed to Burn? Gotta love the choice of Code Letters and reverse order of testing, LOL! And the punk band inspired! What a Historical Operation and "only" two Shots!

[@joziozakrzewski9981]

Oppenheimer’s Stewie Griffin

[@joziozakrzewski9981]

That’s what I call Oppenheimer’s baby

[@lewsheen7514]

Seems to be lots of footage widely ID'ed as Greenhouse George shot in here...

[@joziozakrzewski9981]

I can’t wait, I hope this video of the Mike shot will show a more clear picture of the mushroom cloud forming

[@ssrv4gaminggrounds98]

70 years now since the dawn of the new type of nuclear weaponry.

[@ChrisZoomER]

10,400 kilotons, *yikes!*

[@MachineHeadDissent]

The soccer ball pattern explosion was the hydrogen bomb wasn’t it?...

[@Flames-jc6eh]

Yes

[@r0cketplumber]

I think the faster-moving brighter fireball extension (at the lower left at 0:25, lower right at 0:43 from a different camera at another angle) is the helium-filled sensor causeway that was used for device diagnostics, being vaporized by the higher gamma and neutron flux traveling through the low-density helium. But I might be mistaken.

[@truthseeker2321]

@@r0cketplumber You may be right. It could also have been a moored barge with test instruments, or just part of the coral reef that didn't immediately vaporize during the burst.

[@trolleriffic]

@@truthseeker2321 Ivy Mike was constructed on the island of Elugelab which no longer exists. The causeway was built to link it to a couple of neighbouring islands with a bunker on the far one for all the instrumentation.

[@fadolmcnicolet.-co2318]

Today, 69 years ago.

[@roquefortfiles]

The Dave Grusin music really adds to it.

[@marcoafro8234]

What title pls? It's so soothing.

[@roquefortfiles]

@@marcoafro8234 The Love theme is great. The entire soundtrack is amazing

[@gabrielfrank2878]

@@marcoafro8234 kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4acYXd7nadreNU

[@vibrolax]

The lightning bolts induced at 0:06 and 0:15 are fun. Castle Bravo had some too.

[@emitowww]

I dont think those are lightning bolts. Maybe the smoke of rockets used for blast study

[@vibrolax]

@@emitowww yeah, could be.

[@rfergusiii7207]

@@vibrolax Yes, they are bolts of lightning. There are various still frames of the fireball that show the bolts more clearly.

[@vibrolax]

@@rfergusiii7207 I saw stills of Castle Bravo's lightning, and thought Ivy Mike was similar. Castle Bravo also had stills of a 1 kt 'ball' travelling down the 12 vacuum pipes to the neutron measurement experiment bunker.

[@vibrolax]

@@rfergusiii7207 I just found Castle Bravo video with the kiloton-strength energy pulse exiting the early fireball to the left down the vacuum pipes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWWvoqR3aayXqbs

[@Indrid__Cold]

So what is the little "tumor" on the edge of the fireball?

[@marjua24]

Elugelab island the test site was connected to the islands of Dridrilbwij (Teiteir), Bokaidrikdrik (Bogairikk), and Boken (Bogon) by a 9,000 ft (2.7 km) artificial causeway named "Krause-Ogle box", it was an aluminium-sheathed plywood tube filled with helium ballonets This allowed gamma and neutron radiation to pass uninhibited to instruments in an unmanned detection station, Station 202, on Boken Island, the little "tumor" was this causeway being vaporized.

[@Indrid__Cold]

@@marjua24 Thanks! I never knew that.

[@pon2oon]

Chrono Triger eques music?

[@barneylinet6602]

Better choice of music would be "Fat Old Sun" by Pink Floyd

[@scottmitchell3641]

There was orange in the cloud at first but then it got really white.

[@cow_tools_]

Great footage, but the music is inappropriate. It sounds like background music to a Zelda minigame or something. A lot of you nuclear test channels have a REALLY weird sense of appropriate music, I have to say. There are worse examples than this one.

[@wmv84]

Сочно бахнуло. Они наверняка сами переsрались от невиданной ранее мощи)

[@Crstalean]

why do it look like the fire ball is slowed down a thousand time ?

[@ryszardadamski]

Great music! Who knows??

[@sofaking6949]

Its a music video. Why

[@mayhemk8927]

Happy Birthday Ivy Mike!

[@johnadm3479]

First American hydrogen Bomb

[@badcompany-w6s]

There at the beginning it looks like a giant blob.

[@tamtamich4]

2020? Ivy mike detonated in 1952

[@Bartatua1]

What a music ?

[@ganooggonunderwood4480]

Ultimate weapon!!!

[@ganooggonunderwood4480]

I think good business to sell tickets for this show.....

[@mattking3439]

Do you have Ivy King shot? That's what my girlfriend's name would be if we got married. Also the largest purely fission test

[@josephvoglewede8587]

Dude you have to marry just to make that happen

[@davida.p.9911]

An interesting fact about H-bombs: There is no yield limit. Its possible to make one that's 1,000 megatons. If you want to create a black hole that swallows the universe, that is.

[@Draxindustries1]

A real shame there isn't the same testing today. Great footage for a beautiful explosion..

[@leodikinis7390]

Thank the gods for EG&G.

[@lamegame420]

Sounds like 70s elevator music..

[@gabrielfrank2878]

If someone wants to know the music: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4acYXd7nadreNU

[@joshuag3125]

Why the crappy70 s musak soundtrack destroyed the valuable footage .

[@billhaneline7498]

Goofy music. Should have had some Dark Ambient genre of music.

[@russianagent9175]

Fireball footage is fake

[@tvHTHtv_is_A_Crackhead]

Very first hydrogen bomb test just over 68 years ago