Atomic Bomb blast with shock and effects in HD

These clips are from shot Grable, the Atomic Cannon test in 1953 showing the initial burst and shockwave. Identified also are the various vehicles on the desert floor which are very, very tiny compared to the fireball of the blast. There are cars, jeeps, buses and tanks under the blast area. I have put a title over a frozen frame to be able to see the positions of the vehicles. Can anyone find the bird?
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[@Crazyman1212]

The only things that survived the blast was school desks.

[@The_CIA]

*_Hah. Under-rated comment._* *_Duck and cover lol._*

[@theraiden1018]

And refrigerators

[@1971dave]

And the bank manager,

[@kevinhicks8455]

Crazyman1212 lol ikr “get under your desks children!”

[@TheShadowless]

And the old ass outdated computers

[@GasPoweredProductions]

The clarity of this HD footage makes it look like it went off yesterday! Amazing restoration guys!

[@jamessmith84240]

Yea I have always wanted to see what one of these monster bombs looks like without the crappy quality. Fantastic!

[@TymphaRedbreaduwuowo]

its not restored footage, beleive it or not, this is how it originally looked, we just never had the means for hd playback.

[@deplorableamerican9451]

FUTURE KIDS It did.

[@-danR]

Except the blast-sound is dubbed in. This gets nuke-vids more upvotes.

[@psychedeliccarrie5921]

It's amazing how high quality film really is, the only reason it didn't seem that way was the means to playback the film. You can see this in The Beatles music videos, amazingly well preserved film can look almost lifelike with new technology.

[@Marinesoldier54]

Imagine this being the last thing you hear and see, terrifying

[@SK-kb2wc]

I think seeing, experiencing such an explosion and surviving it, instantly makes you think about the crimes humankind hast created.

[@Te0L0ser]

Last thing you hear or see, I think you'd be dead before you could even hear or it and you'd probably get a half second's worth of God's wrath racing towards you

[@sourpuss5951]

I think I'd be too shocked and paralyzed to realize when it actually gets to me 😂

[@KandiKlover]

Not really. Death would be instant. The real terrifying is this not being the last thing you see and having to living with the leukemia and radiation poisoning and burns.

[@rudytoth]

It had exploded 150ft in the air from the ground level. ☑

[@benrifkin1981]

“Now I am become Death...the destroyer of worlds.”

[@douggief1367]

@RAJVEER SINGH Both

[@dylankelly7928]

What a legacy he left. He should have just lied and not finished his work

[@vika0194]

”I am become”??? What grammar is that?

[@douggief1367]

@@vika0194 True, but that's how it was said ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/opOUZKykqph8l8U A formalised poetic rendition of the original Sanskrit. Furthermore, "I AM" is a Biblical expression of the name of God.

[@ME-ru4hv]

Now I am become a hoaxed believer of your every utterance

[@GassedGasMask7]

This was shot 60+ years ago. Imagine what we have now.

[@Blackflack52]

+Filipe Baleijo the thing is that is doesnt makes sence to build bigger bombs as tactical weapons. (the ammo of the M65 "atomic annie seen in that clip is one) 15KT is more than enough to deal with enemy troops on a battlefield. the only thing that is possible, is that the warheads are smaller OR a hydrogen bomb. you cant do that much more in terms of nuclear bombs, because the limits are reached Uran and plutonium bombs are a physical limit of explosion power, because you cant exceed the critical mass (the mass of material where the reaction starts from itself) Hydrogen bombs are also at the technological limits mostly at 1-10MT explosive power, because everything above is too much and too expensive. (and absolutety not needed with the precission of most systems) and this technology excisted in the 60ies every test after that was made to try to get the bombs even smaller and to get data. (the smallest nuke was made in the 50ies BTW)

[@majorgeneralsherman1348]

+Drumead Josh technicaly we could make bombs with a gigaton(1000 megatons) of explosive yield but there is no reason for such a device

[@williamgrand9724]

They probably don't have anything special as modern weapons are designed to mitigate collateral damage. After the Tsar Bomba explosion there was really no need to go any bigger. They knew how easy it was to build a bomb that could kill off all life on earth so there really wasn't any need to develop nukes any further. Whats the point? If you nuke the Russians then chances are the Russians sent their nukes over to you, and the nuclear fallout will do allot of damage to everywhere else on the planet. The potential loss of life is what stopped atmospheric testing of nukes and is the reason why we agreed to stop the nuclear dick measuring contest of the cold war.

[@jamessmith84240]

Yea thats what I was going to say. They definitely did not need to go bigger than the Tsar. Plus that was only made because the russians did not have accuracy. If they really wanted to kill a lot of people they could just do it with nerve agents or biological weapons these days.

[@oweidaloud]

GassedGasMask7 ybybubtbt

[@keenanthornley7680]

0:31 man, straight up deleted those trees.

[@aarongreenfield9038]

The hundreds of thousands of degrees Flash boils the water in the wood, and instantly turning them into vapor. the same thing happened to some people in Hiroshima, they found shadows flashed into the concrete where people stood, but their bodies were instantly vaporized, and all that left was an imprint on the concrete.

[@andreasgiasiranis5206]

Reduced to atoms

[@blackrock3402]

Andreas Giasiranis like what Thanos said

[@empyrean196]

Aaron Greenfield, damn. At least their deaths were truly instant.

[@andreasgiasiranis5206]

@@blackrock3402 exactly, yeah. xD

[@shortscene8477]

It’s scary that this kind of weapon even exist and I guess it’s even scarier nowadays.

[@m.h.7630]

Yes, the Anti-Christ has created this weapon and all other super weapons for his Europeans allies.

[@Ali-hu8jr]

@@m.h.7630 True.

[@w.s.7567]

@@m.h.7630 Dude wtf is wrong with you. Most of europe is christian.

[@imadkhan7330]

@@w.s.7567 He is saying according to muslims

[@pleasecontactme4274]

@Rational PoC nah can't happen

[@philhatfield8905]

I am 63 years old and this is the most spectacular one minute video that I have ever seen! The sound through headphones is awesome!

[@Uaarkson]

I hope I can get this psyched over KZbin vids when I’m 63 lmao.

[@SNESdrunk]

Ah yes, straight from my childhood nightmares. Thanks, Terminator 2.

[@sameeknowsitall]

@Carlos Floresmata wow you just broke a streak :/

[@darkcomet1607]

@Carlos Floresmata Amogus

[@freeman2399]

@@sameeknowsitall He plays Among Us, can you blame him?

[@sameeknowsitall]

@@freeman2399 He is the type of person to day first like bro it dosnt matter your not the new jesus just watch the vid. It feels like the kid kindergarten who gets first in the line for bathroom break or for launch or whatever and says OMG IM FIRST like sheesh.

[@ministerofchlorine9090]

@Carlos Floresmata who gives a shit buddy

[@Ballsarama]

Out of all the brilliantly restored films that Peter Kuran has done for his atomic bomb films, this has got to be one of the top 5...expertly restored and just fantastic. The effect of an air burst bomb on the ground below and the reflecting shock wave is just stunning.

[@reasonsformoving]

Agreed, well done!

[@shaneb.9458]

I slowed the playback speed down to 0.25 and at time stamp .38 second mark, you can see the shockwave ahead of the concussion. It's absolutely amazing!!

[@drpappapillz6307]

@@shaneb.9458 check this out below waist line at same speed👌

[@shaneb.9458]

@@drpappapillz6307 not sure what you mean...

[@drpappapillz6307]

@@shaneb.9458 yep

[@b.s.7693]

some explanations: - the footage seems very dark, because the capturing cameras had to be adjusted to very quick shutter speeds for producing sharp images - also the cameras are adjusted to the very bright explosion flash (otherwise it would be completely overexposure), so this becomes the only light source and creates that strange mood in the whole scene - many of the fogging effects on ground and objects are caused by the incredible intense thermal radiation comes from the initial fireball, virtually all objects get burn

[@Uaarkson]

Man. At 0:18 you can see a few of the vehicles near center of frame just literally get vaporized.

[@dinil5566]

Love it when the vacuum causes air to push back again into the blast.

[@fpsdovah2572]

0:38 onwards you just see the shockwave so clearly

[@UwBuis]

The paint spatting of the utility poles.

[@DANGJOS]

You can see its refractive effects

[@fasiistyrer]

This is one of the coolest things i've watched my entire life. Fuck there's power in a nuclear explosion.

[@atomicsteameng]

The thing is, this detonation is pretty small compared to other ones.

[@thesilentsnake3633]

I want to see one get detonated now because of the cameras have gotten better.

[@strawberyyicecreamdream216]

Frede Fup Not only is this a small bomb, there are ones thousands of times more powerful. Even at the highest yield 50 megatons. The energy being released is a tiny fraction. Something like less than 1 percent of the potential energy. Very little of the material is actually used in the reaction. Imagine if we could use all the energy all at once. Luckily it destroys itself so fast the reaction stops.

[@RichardNutman]

+gzac95 That's not really true for implosion based weapons that assemble the plutonium into a super-critical state. The Little Boy bomb only fissioned a very small percentage (around 1%) of its 50 kilos of uranium. But the Fat Man only had around 6 kilos of plutonium and fissioned around 18%. Modern nukes are vastly more efficient, hence why they can pack in so much explosive yield into vastly smaller warheads.

[@strawberyyicecreamdream216]

Richard Nutman Thank you for the correction, my bad. Though it is still pretty crazy to think it is only a tiny fraction of the potential energy.

[@geodog6854]

The Grable shot was designed to detonate at a specific altitude that created a shockwave along the surface. It was a test of a smaller bomb to possibly use in a battle setting.

[@ajaydon1997]

How To Survive A Nuclear Attack ... Be a Cameraman...🔥

[@bomcstoots1]

lol right

[@tommy87_888]

If you are Indiana Jones and have a fridge nearby 😉😂

[@JBSD84]

Word

[@ayamisdelicious3600]

Be on a plane?

[@Fister_of_Muppets]

Those cameras were panned at 90 degrees through 45-degree angled mirrors, and remotely operated. Or, as others have pointed out... Harrison Ford was operating them lol.

[@mdr1396]

Straight up props to whoever restored this footage. This is the first time I've ever actually been able to see the details of a blast. I've seen this footage before but never so clearly, I never even noticed there were vehicles right under it. This is incredible.

[@nonovyerbusiness9517]

That was the clearest A-bomb test footage that I have seen in a long time.

[@effortlessproductions]

Absolutely incredible footage. It's hard to believe this was shot in 1953! Great work restoring this.

[@joecampbell2529]

Amazing that it makes the surface of the earth move like water.

[@PusiaTeam]

At the end "GoPro be a hero" :D

[@DCvsDJ]

0:13 Detonation Button!

[@ginosogoretic2276]

Spirit bomb

[@Andrew-my1cp]

I find it eerie how beautiful the blast looks whilst knowing the reason behind the creation of such a device.

[@Palpatine4Senate]

no

[@22fordfx49]

Could you imagine how careful the person was assembling this bomb?

[@223antemerediem2]

The detonator to trigger the bomb was probably off

[@22fordfx49]

@@223antemerediem2 maybe but you still need to wire the detonator up to the bomb. I could see them taking it step by step with lots of supervision lol

[@nguyennam1945]

a jerry boi it nuclear bom. The donation part is very diffirence than normal bomb. It bloody hard to make one so of course they br carefully

[@stefanpigford6891]

HOW EVIL & VILE THEY WERE...

[@michaelwalker7570]

It's not as hard as you might think. I saw The Coyote do it a couple times when he was after that bastard Road Runner.

[@AsymptoteInverse]

This is the clearest video of a nuclear blast I've ever seen. Thanks for uploading it!

[@Robert_Douglass]

All those vehicles look so tiny due to being so far off, and the blast wave knocked even the tanks like a hundred meters out of position, and that was 15 kilotons?! At that range a multimegaton blast would VAPORISE them!!!

[@r-saint]

> Can anyone find the bird? The bird appears at 0:34 from the dust and tries to escape. In the central area of the screen, flying to the left.

[@GELVIII]

Operator: Game Mode: Creative

[@BiteMyShinyMetal4ss]

This is what it would really look like when they fight in DragonballZ

[@easterislehead]

+BiteMyShinyMetal4ss one could argue that the cultural effect the old WWII atom bombs have had on Japan might have even influenced the totally insane booms in Dragon Ball

[@BiteMyShinyMetal4ss]

easterislehead Interesting thought you have there :)

[@shaboopie12]

It's in a lot of anime. I only realized it now that I'm grown up the Japanese are so poetic.

[@wexham08]

Not even the younglings survived.

[@pooder53]

Hands down the easiest way to remove rust from a older car.

[@motorheadbanger950]

If you look at the bottom of the fire ball from 18-19 seconds, you can see the shockwave hitting the ground then reflecting onto the fireball.

[@nspinicelli]

Dude, so insane. So insane...

[@wolfgang169]

it's amazing that humans have created something this powerful

[@ZValenT]

That's some incredible footage

[@JaybayJay]

"I TOLD YOU THAT'S TOO MANY MENTO'S FOR THAT MUCH COLA!!!!"

[@samoriab5999]

But....they didn't listen :)

[@JaybayJay]

@@samoriab5999 "IT WAS WASHINGTON SIR, THEY HAD US ADD A SECRET INGREDIENT TO THE SURFACE OF THE ORB BEFORE DETONATION.." "WHAT?!!!" "POP ROCKS!!!" "MY GOD...."

[@fantasticanomaly838]

Great work! One suggestion: you should have the sound lag the explosion to match what it was like more accurately. That camera is placed very far away, and you'd see the explosion and its effects before you could hear anything.

[@Crazystuffyousee]

I can totally see how "duck and cover" would work under this situation...

[@auri1075]

Did you see the effect it had on paint and stuff from closer? Literally vaporizes off any paint on cars and ignites any wood poles, as well as burn off any electric cables, that just from the light and heat it produces, then comes the shockwave. If you notice the bomb and duck and cover then you probably would still suffer those. Its pretty crazy tbh.

[@amazingusername8925]

You'd be surprised how much protection can be gained by having a mallard and a duvet.

[@PelinalWhitestrake9147]

It works.

[@stevewildeagle965]

For anyone thinking holy fuk, this is a very small Atomic detonation, compared to today's weapons.

[@MooseMeus]

I've watched this a hundred times. Really incredible.

[@busyman05]

Amazing footage.

[@44kondi]

"Amazing how something so beautiful can be part of something so ugly" - PFC. Leggett

[@HITESH___544]

First reply for a seven year old comment

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

The light from the blast and then camera settings make it look like it was table top model.

[@RetroGamerzzzMUSIC]

People stop fighting. Help each other.

[@ketis06]

It would be cool to see this from all thermo camera and stuff like that

[@TheRealSkeletor]

Well worth every penny.

[@sirannikus]

Incredible footage!

[@lessermook7608]

gorgeous frames, thanks for sharing

[@Jbm0230]

Can you imagine combusting just because the light fell onto your skin? It astonishes me to know thats how powerful the light from one of these bombs is.

[@AverageAlien]

This is a tiny nuke

[@edgarbarrera3871]

Jacob Moreno not combust you'd be turned into carbon without you even realizing you got nuked

[@superskullmaster]

Jacob Moreno it doesn't take a nuke to get this effect and it's actually not because of the light. It's thermal radiation, just like putting your hand near something hot. Because of the size and temperature of the fireball you get a long distance high temperature "warming by the campfire" effect.......to the 10th power.

[@WaffleBlako]

superskullmaster It is the light, if the heat is not spreading by conduction then it is electromagnetic radiation. It is not necessary the spectrum of light that we can see though (ie UV and IR)

[@superskullmaster]

Thermal Pulse=Infared=heat. What i'm am saying is that its not because the light is bright that you get instant fires and 3rd degree burns, but it's because of how hot and how large the fireball is. If you want to see what I mean, then just go to an airshow where they do the wall of fire. You will feel like an oven opened in your face and the wall of fire is like 1/4 mile away and only 1200 degree's or so. Now increase the size of the wall x500 and multiply the temperature by 10 and you will get my drift. In a nutshell it's not the visible light that causes heat (which is what Jacob is refering to) but the infrared radiation.

[@noctis678]

Damn, those vehicles got vaporised.

[@thefantasticdrill788]

It’s terrifying, yet somewhat beautiful.

[@tonyrandall3146]

You can really see how the sphere of the explosion bounces of the air cushion against the ground giving the start to the mushroom cloud - impressive!

[@A_Bake5]

Its actually not an air cushion. It's the blast reflecting off the ground back in to it's self.

[@pop5678eye]

Impressive, but why do all these clips keep perpetuating the myth that the light and sound arrive at the same time? The sound can only be heard once the shockwave hits...

[@slamdvw]

If you have the DVD of "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie", they have an unedited bomb explosion - it's rather boring.

[@SeeOurWrecks]

.slamdvw+ ..."they have an unedited bomb explosion - it's rather boring"... I guess you had to be there :p

[@slamdvw]

LOL, when you watch the video of it, it's rather lackluster. It's been a while since I've watched the video, but you see the flash, then like 30 seconds later you hear the kaboom ( the earth shattering kind - couldn't resist ). ...boring

[@miisu]

Awesome, and this was a small one!

[@strikerdelta]

miisu Tell that to the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those were "small" ones too.

[@miisu]

STRIKERDelta2387 Cry me a river...

[@mounteverestiiiii2932]

+STRIKERDelta2387 He dind not say that nukes (especially used to destroy a city) are awesome. He said that they *look* awesome...

[@strikerdelta]

Mount Everest Point out where the work "LOOK" is in his post. I'll wait. And don't give me any shit about "it was implied" because you can sell that shit to the fucking tourists!

[@miisu]

+STRIKERDelta2387 What a clever boy you are!

[@chitterlingsrtasty]

Video quality was so good.

[@saratok4580]

I'm glad someone made a video like this I always wanted to see how a bomb breaks down during impact

[@videoswithsubscribers-xk5hb]

All of this came out of something 50 quintillion times smaller than a grain of sand.

[@jjryan1352]

Sure it did. Sure it did.

[@user-lv7ph7hs7l]

Nah the core was 32 kg of plutonium, a sphere 2-4 inches across. Probably about 1 g of that turned into the enrgy of the blast and light, that would be like maybe a pin head sized ball of plutonium. Stuff's pretty dense and heavy, significatly heavier than gold. This would have been a Nagasaki type bomb, 32 kg Pu 20 kt or so yield.

[@ct92404]

@@jjryan1352 Another flat Earther nut...

[@jjryan1352]

@@ct92404 wow that's really great. A proud illiterate.

[@ct92404]

@@jjryan1352 You believe in nutty conspiracy theories. You're the only illiterate one here. 😂 Go back to watching "flat Earth" videos and looking for your magic glass "dome" or "firmament" or whatever.

[@aeniur8329]

KZbin: lets recommend them this after beirut explosion

[@CyborXT]

1953 Atomic bomb: 1080p HD 2021 Pentagon UFO: 16 bit

[@FreelanceDev4life]

I actually really would have liked to see one of these things live.

[@dekkard4982]

me to

[@ancileproject]

Am I the only one who thinks it would be much more realistic if sound of the explosion didn't follow it's appearance immediately?

[@HostileLemons]

It's in slow motion anyway so it doesn't matter

[@jerwolf8961]

It doesn’t. The sound follows the shock wave.

[@nibolay7266]

Yeah the shockwave is as fast as the sound

[@ambroxp]

If the spirit bomb was real.

[@HUSTLER1346]

ShorNiWa it would be bigger than that. It basically took out an entire planet.

[@ticktockbam]

@@HUSTLER1346 You're thinking about Freezer's attack. Goku never destroyed a planet with the spirit bomb.

[@davidmorales8644]

This was shot 60 years ago and I felt that on this video

[@fuffoon]

Wonderful film restoration!

[@KBABZ]

I don't get it. Isn't this just HD footage of Friday night at Taco Bell?

[@lifeofnix4102]

STRIKERDelta2387 I do, you shut uo asswhipe

[@strikerdelta]

Niclas Olsson NO ONE FUCKING ASKED YOU! You mind your fucking business, you little shit! Or you'll get fucked up good!

[@KBABZ]

STRIKERDelta2387 What, are you gonna rotate your avatar by 45 degrees and post "Bang!"?

[@strikerdelta]

KBABZ You can shut up too unless you want to lose teeth as well, sweetheart.

[@adamngaykoala3048]

KBABZ You sir have just made my day with that great reply,thank you.

[@nahuelfantino]

damn nature you sca... wait.

[@HighCalip]

lmao

[@manwithtwoeyes6911]

Nature made us, we made nukes. It's kinda indirectly nature.

[@STAR-RADIANCE]

Please “show” me a demonstration where nature is actually “making” something.

[@higorss]

@@STAR-RADIANCE no, thanks

[@ArchangelExile]

Amazing footage

[@davidacosta193]

Camera man straight vibing

[@TechnoStickmen]

WOW!

[@cha-chi_xgaming5654]

Nah it’s just goku defeating buu with a spirit bomb

[@bepisbepi]

It is undeniable that Nuclear Weapons are, as much as it hurts to say, the apex of human technology. Harnessing the raw power of physics from the most unthinkable of materials, purifying it with incredible specificity and assemblying it with such precision as to obtain an almost perfectly predictable device of destruction. Nuclear Weapons are incredibly beautiful, yet incredibly harrowing.

[@adjuster57]

This is one cool video!!

[@Sir_Stalwart]

I'm at a lack of words the describe my appreciation of this clip. The awesome power, the true horror and visual beauty of it.

[@glennquagmire7696]

Are a lot of these clips on AC from original LM negatives or 1st gen positives? I can't imagine those old crummy reels that contain various tests LM cobbled together causing them to be 2nd or 3rd gen really being worth the effort to create these exceptional videos. Or, if they are 2nd or 3rd-gens, that must have been a severe PITA to bring to such an excellent piece here.

[@srwntjaayerhaer]

Could watch this for hours. So aesthetic.

[@Th3Mafia]

nice footage!

[@hashbrownz1999]

stop with the editing of the sound please. That's the coolest part of explosions. Stop being so hollywoodish youtube ;-;

[@puncheex2]

Sorry, the sound comes from the Lookout Mountain studio, because live sound was just about impossible to afford before the early 1960s. It is not even the real sound of an atomic blast; see the vid on Teapot/Annie, which was transmitted on live TV and recorded in a studio.

[@MooseMeus]

it's film. it wasnt recorded on a freakin gopro

[@JTelli786]

i didnt know the 1950s had 1080p

[@MrSwiftness]

they had film which does not have any pixels and can be converted to a digital format...

[@glennquagmire7696]

MrSwiftness Agreed. Old film with the recent advents in film-to-digital technology really brings it out something exceptional. Telecine, that's yesterday's shtick. Although, Kuran's mid 90's results using TC was a massive leap forward.

[@PhilippSeven]

MrSwiftness 35mm film has the equivalent of 6K resolution. But it depend of film iso.

[@Boris1987Rus]

Stupid post, really very stupid.

[@JTelli786]

STRIKERDelta2387 Discussing camera capture quality is a "serious fucking subject"?

[@reginaldpoofta5]

There is something that makes this even more terrifying and incredible, something noone really thinking about when watching this video. Its the size of the device that created such a huge fireball. The size of the bomb is about 2 pixels of your screen.

[@enikata7349]

The fact you can seen things on fire before the shock wave even hits.... why do we still have these things??

[@Deepshade_]

Beirut explosion: happens KZbin: LeT's ReCoMmEnT tHiS!

[@TheNightKing22]

"When atomic fire consumed the Earth, those that survived, did so in great underground vaults."

[@derekwall200]

0:20 you can see the blast pressure wave bounce off the ground creating the so called Mach stem

[@thenewguyinred]

Barefoot Gen wasn’t kidding with how terrifying nukes can be.

[@mattcallard721]

The most horrific device weve ever created.

[@MrPxce]

Who knew that there could be so much beauty in so much destruction

[@TheDancingHyena]

HOLY SON OF A BITCH

[@player101player101]

Holy son of a bitch indeed...

[@billystrife7049]

Indeed...

[@hamfistsman6267]

The fact that those are in the hand of people is terrifying.

[@codywright7932]

Another video proving the Camera man is immortal

[@Kanibulus]

why is there smoke coming off of the objects before the shockwave impacts?

[@boobak]

The thermal radiation (infrared, visible, ultraviolet rays) from blast cause vaporization of object's surface.

[@johnny_eth]

+Shruk That fireball is just too damn hot. The surface of the objects burns.

[@KenoshiAkai]

+WebNinja Hijack And even looking at at a nuclear fireball with unshielded eyes can result in permanent blindness from many miles away.

[@VictorGarcia-vk6xe]

Just a KZbinr thermal radiation

[@chitterlingsrtasty]

correct. precedes the blast wave.

[@EKJ79980284217]

Rip to all the microorganisms that died that day 😔

[@gnappibr]

And plants and little animals...

[@michigandermichiganian8173]

STFU

[@dragon6414]

Endlessly fascinating

[@hoot1141]

This is incredible.

[@Water4Jeremiah]

Is that the individual U-235 molecules separating at 0:13? Or is that fragments of the bomb's casing?

[@ronalrowlett]

You would not see the individual U-235 atoms separating; they are way to small to be seen; the bomb casing would be 99% vaporized by the high temperatures of the atomic fission; if there is anything left of the bomb casing, it would be highly radioactive.

[@fayezsalka]

no....this is just a noise from the original film

[@Water4Jeremiah]

***** Since you can't present empirical evidence perhaps you should consider a refund on your engineering degree.

[@leechlittle2767]

that is the bomb being set off, there are some photos of what you just saw( if its the little white circular things) online, its what the explosion looks like when it is just set off

[@VictorNiss]

Yes and no. It's clusters of "micro" catalysts of matter reacting that are not part of the main sequence fusion. It's not individual particles, but it is smaller nuclear reactions on the peripherals. Remember, only around 4% of the nuclear matter in these weapons was being consumed at that time. That's why there are latent reactions like you see there. And despite the size of those specks of light around the massive explosion, it's easy to forget they are only small relatively small to the main detonation. In fact each one of those latent reactions is still enough to destroy a city block and give thousands of people mild acute radiation sickness.

[@animalhead6222]

What is cool is that the explosion itself is detonated ABOVE the ground rather than on the ground. I've heard that most missile or bomber weapons usually explode as close to their target as they can for the shockwave to generate the most collateral damage. And I guess seeing this vid proves me right...I think.

[@KrissyNotty]

You are right! A nuclear "airbust" covers a larger surface area, but at a reduced damage. A surface detonation covers a smaller surface area, but at higher damage.

[@darwinchipat9175]

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[@AverageAlien]

ecuavoz is wrong. Airburst nukes cause more damage but less radiation

[@djscrizzle]

This how a 'soft' nuclear target gets targeted in a nuclear weapons salvo.With an airburst. now, imagine the area just outside of the ground zero being your neighborhood. It being damaged the same manner as if a large,violent tornado came through. Despite the complete lack of nuclear fallout, rescue would be weeks away, as people dug through what was left to find victims.

[@derekwall200]

you are correct, if you pause it at 0:19 you'll see the blast wave bounce off the desert floor and expand outward. airbursts have a larger destruction radius than what you'd see from a surface blast. so if you detonate it at the optimum altitude you'll be able to destroy more real estate than you could with a ground blast with a larger weapon yield

[@Stargaze79]

Looks amazing on my 130". Great lens quality on those cameras even back then.

[@shanekoszczewski8289]

That was impressive filming

[@FredtheDorfDorfman1985]

The slow motion is so cool. You can see the expanding vaporized device components right before the massive flux of gamma, and x-rays, outruns the initial plasma front and is absorbed by the surrounding air, turning it into a blindingly bright, and extremely hot, expanding plasma as well. Amazing what a few kg of the correct type of metal, under the right conditions, can do...

[@rctapia3589]

Fricken awesome.

[@tron3entertainment]

Death: I have an Atomic Blast. Stark: We have a HULK.

[@nalartv3407]

"Nobody's in the wrong side, it is just this world is... cruel..."