This Is How A Nuclear Bomb Works

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[@MTWood]

BTW: The Trinity test bomb was detonated from a platform. Not dropped from a plane. Just sayin’.

[@billmeade9029]

I caught that also and was going to comment that but I figured someone else would have 👍

[@dictatorofthecheese]

Did it before I could say the same thing. Lol

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

I had my suspicions and hearing this makes me wonder how much anti-bomb propaganda there will be. I also wonder what people will think of my choice of words.

[@lancerevell5979]

From wiki..... "The Gadget was hoisted to the top of a 100-foot (30 m) steel tower. The height would give a better indication of how the weapon would behave when dropped from a bomber, as detonation in the air would maximize the amount of energy applied directly to the target (as the explosion expanded in a spherical shape) and would generate less nuclear fallout. The tower stood on four legs that went 20 feet (6.1 m) into the ground, with concrete footings."

[@markclowe]

Thanks. I began reading comments for that reason. I knew someone would mention that. It's a very basic fact and calls into question everything else, sadly.

[@leanrobert9809]

Respect to that one man who experienced both bombings and still lived to tell the tale.

[@thepros5151]

Yes one Japanese guys survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing, to know more about him just check in infographics show

[@paulraymond9886]

Proof it is a hoax....

[@savage6230]

Anyone saw jelly the KZbinr 5:07

[@coolguy-wd5vo]

@@savage6230 yea

[@ozymandiasnullifidian5590]

@@paulraymond9886 What is a hoax? That some people survived both bombings, or that there were nuclear bombings? When the bomb destroyed Hiroshima, what do you think were the closest cities where those who survived or who were injured or sick went? Have you seen on a map how close Hiroshima and Nagasaki are? Who knows how many went or were sent to Nagasaki, so it is very possible that quite a few survived both blasts.

[@chevtruck1000]

The Trinity test was conducted from a tower. Not dropped from an airplane.

[@wieczor3000]

Yes. And power was 18.6 kilotons not 1

[@nomos_lol]

It is simple and well documented history. I wonder how this detail could not have been caught up in editing or the initial writing for script of this video.

[@seaturtledog]

@@nomos_lol It would have been much more risky dropping it from a plane for the pilots and people arounf the area if they missed. The photograph used of the first bomb seems fake as the bomb looks way too big.

[@michaelbailey4164]

@@seaturtledog That picture is the containment vessel. If the bomb turned out to be a dud it would be placed into the containment vessel called Jumbo.

[@zozeme9218]

huh?

[@MrLulu520]

fun fact: the reason nukes make mushroom clouds when they explode is that, because of the shock wave, all of the debris and smoke can only go one direction: up. so, when it goes up, it moves so fast that it not only breaks the sound barrier, but begins to roll into itself because what is on top has lost all momentum and is still being pushed inward from the shock wave. this creates the iconic nuke mushroom cloud effect.

[@davidtatum8682]

Any explosion with sufficient yield makes a mushroom cloud. It's not exclusive to nukes.

[@honor9lite1337]

Understood.

[@leewright5091]

The mushroom clould is created by the air detonation blasting down and being reflected from the ground, back up. You have the blast going down then meeting the blast going back up which forces the detonation side-ways at the speed of sound causing the damage. Basically...Up + Down = Sideways.

[@leewright5091]

That's why nukes are detonated 1 mile above the ground.

[@MastahZen-fr9ko]

No it doesn't. AND you got 77 simps supporting your bullshit assesment....

[@westernmist2808]

Nuclear engineer here: Gadget (the device exploded in the Trinity Test) wasn’t dropped from a plane, but left on a 100-foot tower and detonated. Scientists at the time where concerned that the detonation might be dangerous to any plane overhead, so they made sure to not put any pilots at risk. Also, the Trinity Site is open to the public twice a year (perfectly safe - exposure is less than half that from an airplane flight).

[@laz288]

I was about to say something about it also. Yes this channel should do better fact checking. The Jumbo Bomb weighed 214 tons and a B29 had a 10 ton capacity so there was no aircraft that could even drop that bomb. They used it instead 800 yards from ground zero and it remained intact after the gadget explosion. Wonder how many other videos on You Tube are misleading.

[@user-tz2zz5ij1s]

You don’t even have to be a nuclear engineer to know this. It’s well documented in unclassified documents.

[@bobjones304]

Yep was thinking the same. Less than 3 mins into the video and already multiple things are simply incorrect.

[@josemiguelojedallerandi9409]

That's also how its depicted on the film Oppenheimer

[@joegamingdud1576]

shut up you watched opennheimer thats the only reason

[@scottdakadescot4127]

Huge respect to that Soviet Navy officer who prevented the launch of ballistic missiles aboard his submarine.

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

I agree with your opinion of Mikhail Arkhipov, but it was a nuclear torpedo they didn't release.

[@MrTerrrrible]

FAKE

[@gerardribafernandez3671]

he is a hero

[@danouthousemouse]

The hunt for red October was loosely based on this fact

[@florantesoriano8737]

Is anybody correct if I say not fair for the japanese people civilians are not combatants,why is it ..??😊

[@rhysmodica2892]

For the record, the Trinity test was NOT dropped from an airplane, and the 'Jumbo' container (designed to catch any leftover plutonium in the event of a fizzle) was never used. The bomb (which was of the implosion design) was placed into a tower and detonated there. The gun assembly system as used in 'Little Boy' was not tested first as it was believed to be fool proof (placing two sub-critical parts together to make it critical is somewhat simpler than compressing a smaller sub-critical mass).

[@rhysmodica2892]

Furthermore, it is worth expressing that little boy didn't strictly use compression to set the bomb off. Because the Uranium can never be 100% pure, some other isotopes remained (I can't remember which). These isotopes undergo spontaneous fission meaning that if you assemble enough material in one place, it's bound to go off. Trouble is that this is far from efficient. Compressing a mass and increasing density of plutonium creates a similar but far more efficient design. It is also safer as the material is completely safe unless it is detonated, whereas the gun system could theoretically go off under gravity if something went wrong. Fusion bombs will use the X-rays (in a way that is still rather secret) to remove electrons around styrofoam in order to create a plasma with the heat and pressure required (yes radiation pressure) required to fuse isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium of which tritium is created on the spot through a reaction with lithium which is also secret as to its workings) together. Once fused, they create even more neutrons that will result in further fission, creating further fusion and this cycle with grow exponentially. Whilst the largest fission bomb was about 500kt, there is no limit to a fusion weapon. The Teller Ulam design was the big game changer.

[@kanesailor]

thank you for putting the correct info in. its an important part of the american history that should be rembered

[@NLYS27]

We were told that the Jumbo was made as a back up incase the bomb couldnt go critical for a explosion. Its extremely thick and very heavy. The walls are 4- 6 inches thick.

[@heathmcrigsby]

I thought I was taking crazy pills when he said it was dropped from a plane lol

[@rhysmodica2892]

@@kanesailor I'm glad I could be off help. I'm from the UK but history is important to me and I've been studying nuclear stuff and the cold War independently to make sure I'm up to speed. Nuclear weapons are hard enough to understand without errors in history thrown into the mix. BTW if you wish to put these bangs into perspective, I really recommend nukemap.

[@miguel-xe1dh]

Fact:a man in hiroshima survived the explosion from "little boy" and went to his home town,nagasaki,until it was nuked,he survived,he was both lucky and unlucky

[@Endrick-real]

Extreme PTSD

[@blackfang04]

Great way to explain fusion and fission! I had no idea how nuclear weapons actually worked but you laid it out in a really easy-to-understand way.

[@nuclearpotato6616]

Please do not believe him, he got his info off a website that poorly says anything true.

[@Critterfest_Sanctuary]

Why do I have a feeling your in your garage building one right now. If so can I help lol.

[@Gamerintriguingupdates.007]

@@Critterfest_Sanctuary 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 lol like seriously

[@nonamenoname7468]

b e n

[@iNdUsTrIaLrOcKeR4U]

Worry about Iran.

[@danny_boi3537]

The terrifying part about the Tsar Bomba was that it was detonated at *half* of its possible power. It was capable of delivering a 100-megaton explosion, while they only detonated it at 50 megatons.

[@xiaohanzhao5120]

😨😨😨

[@danny_boi3537]

The good news is that the Soviet Union decided that an explosion that large wasn't practical, so no one has had a warhead like that since then

[@KingstonTiger]

@@danny_boi3537 They still has two of them in their garage.

[@williamvn2928]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the US, Russia or even China has a few of those weapons as that scale or much more powerful in their storages.

[@RandomFunnyGamer]

Nah no wayyyy

[@tonyhall3845]

I met a gentleman 95 years old. he lives in Ransomville, NY. he said he was the last surviving member of the Army unit that was at the Trinity Blast. very nice man, and very smart

[@rjampiolo32]

you should try to interview him, it would be priveless.

[@COSMIC_SECRET]

You should ask before sharing personal info like that

[@AngelosGT]

Someone back from when America was not full of idiots yet🤣

[@JMoroccoMisterBoy]

@@tonyhall3845 TKs. much.

[@Echoempress]

That’s so cool

[@Kingbimmy]

I knew a decent amount about how nuclear fission and fusion work but this made it much clearer in my mind, thank you 🙏

[@Munchimoro]

This is super interesting. The area my family lived in was hit by the radioactive rain after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and alot of them died from cancer, there is still a lot to learn about how radiation effects people. nuclear power is not something to toy around with.

[@kennethkho7165]

I agree, but a lot lot lot more people died from cancer caused by radioactive materials from coal power.

[@willow3168]

If someone takes in just the right amount of radiation they can die but not for because we all know that cells regularly die and then more cells come in but sometimes the cells that make new cells can all die and u slowly get more and more dead it sound weird but it’s true

[@lavinialadlass9432]

I’m sorry to hear that about your family.

[@CookingwithAdam833]

Facts facts facts facts facts facts facts facts facts facts facts facts

[@CookingwithAdam833]

Sorry for what happened to your parents hopefully thy are in heaven

[@rexisnox]

Quick correction, Hirohito wanted to surrender even before the nukes but the warhawks in his parliment stood their ground, it was only after second that hirohito used the powers that he technically had but never used to overule parliment. 3:49

[@den264]

Correct ! His military heads were for fighting until every Japanese perished. When the Emperor recorded his acquisition speech accepting all the terms the allies promoted, a crazed major in his army organized a mutinous force to overthrow the existing government and take hold of the two recordings. Fortunately they failed and the recordings were played over all of Japanese held territories. Unfortunately because the Emperor spoke in a higher class Japanese toung fewer than ten percent of the population understood.

[@cheesyfries7703]

Yes. No one man should get the blame for this.

[@Exolotl_0]

They cut the telephone lines!oh great!like they could EVEN surrender! Innocent lives also!they didn’t ask to die !mosters.absolute monsters

[@americaforever]

Tojo and his war party were out by 1944. The Japanese had tried to discuss surrender thru the Soviets as intermediates 6 moths before the end of the war. The Soviets never passed the word on to the allies. In short a Japan wasn’t allowed to surrender till the bombs were dropped.

[@europaofjupiter]

Love the video. Thanks.

[@mike9387]

If only this amount of time and money was spent on creating medical breakthroughs, eliminating waste and poverty

Shhhhh be quiet

[@TroyWajda]

Enjoyable account of our brief history into nuclear weapons. Overall well done. A couple of things I would like to clarify, though overall probably not the most important: Trinity Test: The device wasn't quite a bomb in it's final form. It was a contraption that was piecemealed together and literally in some places held together with tape. It was not dropped from an airplane, but instead was lifted via wench to the top of a tower and detonated. Tsar Bomba: was originally designed and created to be 100 MT, however due to it's absolute assurance that no pilot could survive dropping the bomb they then lowered it's payload to only be 50 MT. When you talk about diseases you can get from acute radiation you say "leukemia or cancers". Leukemia is cancer. It would be like if I told you, "You can have a honeycrisp or an apple."

[@charlesdayon8420]

Virgin Mary appeared in Necedah, Wisconsin and said that Leukemia was not cancer but a completely different disease. She also said the method of curing cancer that was condemned and is now practiced in Tijuana, Mexico is a effective cure for cancer. Hail Mary full of grace the lord is with thee, Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus, Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. O'my Jesus forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven especially those who have most need of thy mercy. Amen

[@jcsbronx1846]

In addition, it was NOT dropped from a plane, it was perched on a tower. How did this get passed everyone who worked on it???

[@captaincat1743]

good points, you're right on all of them, as far as cancers go, leukaemia is pretty unique because it is not localized, it is spread throughout the whole body from day one, as I'm sure you know. I have often heard of it categorized apart from other forms of cancer in medical texts.

[@mattricks1334]

Nice fairytale Charles

[@gregcoste5332]

@@jcsbronx1846 yes the Trinty bomb was a gadget (not a bomb) and was detonated on top of a tower, NOT dropped from an airplane!

[@AyuuuuuSannnnn]

Nuclear Bombs are truly scary. The quote, "I have become death, Destroyer of Worlds" is so true. Love the video, by the way. Keep it up.

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

You're right. It's a far higher class of utterance than "One step for a man..." which I've concluded was scripted by a committee far less educated and well-read than Oppenheimer.

[@yourbeardispatchyaf]

I believe the idiot said, "i am become death."

[@jaytalley3715]

My dad was born in Carazozo NM. He and my grandparents were contaminated by the radio active drift. They ALL had thyroid issues and cancer. A lot of Native Americans were caught up in the radiation as well. When they set off that first bomb they didn't know for sure what was going to happen. There are a lot of victims of the bomb. Many of them right here in the States.

[@tonyhall3845]

that's true, they were not sure what was going to happen. some thought the bomb would blow up most of the world's oxygen.

[@ryanmozert]

they get $

[@ryanmozert]

or?

[@jaytalley3715]

@@ryanmozert No they/we don't get compensation from the effects of that bomb. Victims of bomb contamination in Nevada, DO get considerable compensation though.

[@ryanmozert]

@@jaytalley3715 why nevada

[@Rock__Dawg]

2:13 the Trinity test bomb wasn't dropped from a plane

[@paolapaz1486]

the trinity test was actually located at an isolated desert NEAR soccoro, mexico called “jornada del muerto”. the bomb was nicknamed, “the gadget” and the bomb was actually detonated on top of a 100 foot tower.

[@simon_777]

Well that's incorrect. It was actually in Los Alamos, New México and the bomb was codenamed: Trinity.

[@LouisRonald3000]

@@simon_777 it was in Los Alamos, the test name was Trinity and the bomb name was "The Gadget"

[@TheEdwinduarte]

​@@simon_777 nah nah los alamos was the place where the object was designed, the zero point wasn't los alamos she was right.

[@TheEdwinduarte]

@@LouisRonald3000 nah nah los alamos was the place where the object was designed, the zero point wasn't los alamos she was right.

[@simon_777]

@@TheEdwinduarte I see what happened there was a misunderstanding because none of us explained well. The test was indeed in New Mexico but near Mexico. They are right the name is indeed "Gadget"

[@sandradelaney8827]

Thank you for explaining how nuclear fission and fusion work, as well as the difference between atomic and thermonuclear explosions. This was the only time that I’ve been able to understand it. My husband will be so impressed!

[@Rebzyyx_fan-545]

can you dumb this down it hurt my brain

[@jajatikeshariswain9533]

Did u see jelly 5:08

[@kennethkho7165]

@@Rebzyyx_fan-545 fission: splitting uraniums; fusion: merging hydrogens.

[@onlyWASABI]

Sadly this video has A LOT of wrong information in it so maybe quote your husband something else, because this video is a joke!

[@TTVKrovixxz]

@@onlyWASABI it’s not meant for actual lessons, it’s there for entertainment

[@ro4eva]

Making such a trivial error as claiming Trinity was dropped from a bomber -- it was actually detonated on a platform -- is amazing.

[@buckhorncortez]

Points out that the rest of the video may be equally as unreliable...

[@mervyfaith4876]

Thanks for explaining how lethal these monstrous weapons are

[@Precious416-w4r]

WOW! I am literally doing a project on nuclear power and this was exactly what I needed! You explained every detail very well. Thank you very much! :D

[@isablame1263]

Nuclear power is definitely powerful yet it is hard to get rid of the waste. It is non renewable..

[@rodger3641]

@@isablame1263 They use sulphuric acid to slurp the urainum from below, they drill a hole into the uranium, send down the acid at a pH of 1, then suck it back up, just hope it doesn't get into the water table....

[@gvndual84]

There’s just one problem (so far): the video is wrong. 2:00 The first bomb was not dropped from an aircraft, it was perched at the top of a tower. And the site is not still radioactive.

[@Evan_Bell]

@@gvndual84 Also it didn't yield a kiloton. The site is radioactive. Everywhere on Earth is radioactive.

[@Evan_Bell]

Some things you should know about nuclear energy. It has the lowest carbon intensity of any source. Causes the fewest deaths, uses least amount of resources and least land area per unit energy produced of any source. It also has the highest capacity factor of any source.

[@addisonlippold1852]

he was like: "hey here's how a nuke works." and KZbin was completely okay with it, yet KZbin will copyright strike a stream when the streamer walks by a coffee shop playing a copyrighted song.

[@bigstuff52]

Addison..There is a ton of technical behind what they're saying that most people wouldn't understand it anyway

[@brucekamps6970]

KZbin doesn't mind missinformation.

[@rajveerkanojiya2985]

what really who's the streamer 🙂

[@maxiandrews8424]

My dad was a UN peace keeper in the new zealand army , taking medical supply's two weeks after the first A bomb went off , the way he had described what he had seen there two weeks after the bombing of hiroshima gave him nightmare's for the rest of his life , which drove him to drink a lot of alcohol , he used to wake up screaming in the middle of the night , My dad was never the same after he come home , he didn't come home alone , he bought something back with that also killed my brother , my brother died of leukaemia at the age of 18yrs old . trust me guys we don't want to use these weapons . life is short enough . the world only gets one chance to get it right , And we're only going to get it wrong one time only.

[@irustv7674]

Sad but 65% commentators and 80% politicals dont think so ..

[@debbielwilliamson8546]

I'm so sorry for your heartache. I agree. No more of these horrible actions. World leaders must use their brains and leave their egos at the door.

[@massimoricciardi6202]

@@debbielwilliamson8546 Problem we got assholes in North Korea to deal with and Iran .

[@lopamudraray4571]

My heart goes out to you. No words to console you for your loss. I worked 6 years with oncologists. Seen much suffering of these cancer patients.

[@lopamudraray4571]

Politicians don't care.

[@shaikbaseer9350]

And now I've become death, destroyer of the world 😢

[@benjypineapple2570]

I love how someone discovered a way to create a lot of energy FIRST thought how can we use it as a weapon

[@facelessandnameless]

The world was at war. It’s not surprising.

[@Voidy_g]

Fun fact: The tsar bomba was deliberately detonated at only half of its full capacity. That shot you saw was taken over 300 miles from the actual blast site edit: why is this getting so many likes

[@mrbubbarosa]

they did that to save the flight crew. The plane would never have survive a full 100mt blast. it barely survived a 52mt blast

[@voidz7611]

but what will the flight crew do with the 100mt bomb? the are developing the 100mt 'poseidon' bomb.

[@adedsjdjwu]

@@voidz7611 that was years ago today we have new technology so the planes will prob be faster

[@rajveerkanojiya2985]

@@adedsjdjwu today there are maybe more advanced weapons than this nukes is it possible

[@gunningamer974]

@@adedsjdjwu yeah fs we have jets, special mission planes, i forgot the one jets name but it goes 1200mph

[@mr.duanesharpe]

A great man once said: “It’s easy to destroy but hard to build!” Point: imagine if humans dedicated all this to health and space travel!?!?

[@TheRealWaffles1]

This was the worst take ive ever seen

[@blu-rae864]

They do

[@dennisny6439]

Space travel doesn't add any tangible value to the human race. You should have said things like poverty eradication, environment conservation, fresh food supply, better education, health technologies, living standards improvement etc

[@sauravrathi2799]

@@TheRealWaffles1 nah you are just being mean

[@lazmo4941]

@@sauravrathi2799 he is right.

[@tamworthtrainnut285]

The Fat Man plutonium nuke was dropped over Nagasaki from the B-29 code named Bockscar as Nagasaki was chosen as a 2nd target, the original target for Fat Man was Kokura but due to visibility issues, Nagasaki was chosen as the target for the Fat Man nuke

[@francineharris9473]

what he said is some what true but it's said that some wars were almost started by accident. Not to mention that God stated that if he didn't shorten the days no flesh would be saved. meaning man would destroy the entire universe and I believe what God says not man that thinks he's god and want to be.

[@John-eh6jg]

Thank you for breaking these videos down simple enough for someone like myself. Scary to think about especially with everyone on edge these days . Great video nonetheless

[@dako5005]

The video is wrong on many things. If you want legit info on how those work you should watch some other video because this one has A LOT of errors and straight up BS out of thin air.

[@user-tz2zz5ij1s]

@@dako5005you aren’t going to learn how a nuclear weapon works by watching any video…. You need to know physics and chemistry to even remotely understand. And to do that you’d need college classes, engineering core physics and chemistry, and then advanced nuclear specific classes. There is no video to “check out”.

[@psychomormon4932]

lol. This video is full of misinformation starting with the “dropping the Trinity bomb from a plane”, lol.

[@luckyedwards4870]

Wow, I'm very surprised to hear u promoting nuclear energy. It's definitely a good thing when done properly, and thusly it's good that u show that. Absolute thumbs up.

[@Aquesius]

Unless you use it the "fun" way

[@oofman1911]

@@Aquesius 😁

[@stmon12]

Nuclear energy is the ultimate green energy.

[@AuBo97]

Thumbs down on the comment 🤮

[@Aquesius]

@@AuBo97 oh wow its not like your overreacting

[@thearmyflyer4905]

The bomb at Trinity was not dropped from a plane, it was atop a 100 foot steel tower. Been there, very interesting place

[@kastellan1324]

Many historians say the bombings did not lead to the Japanese surrender, and the Soviet declaration of war on Japan two days later was a bigger shock. It put an end to any hope the Soviets would negotiate a favourable surrender for Japan

[@bosoxno201]

The mind it took to discover and weaponize Nuclear fission/fusion is terrifying

[@Sonofwill]

Llp

[@Furukawaii]

LORD.. I know right?

[@hoot1141]

Not really. The concept is very simple. The problem needed an engineering solution. It’s not really terrifying at all. Nuclear fission is the energy of the universe.

[@bdasaw]

The dude that discovered nuclear energy prolly died of radiation poisoning.......

[@Preston.Tribble]

The mind it took to be a Nazi or side with one is considerably more terrifying.

[@gsmithy8517]

This video is loaded with errors…. 1). The Trinity test (first bomb at Alamogordo) was detonated from a 100 ft high tower, not dropped from an airplane 2) The strength of the first successful US thermonuclear explosion was codenamed Mike at 10.4 MT (not 15 MT) 3). The yield of the Tsar Bomba was 50 MT not 57 MT 4) You said that by 1980 the nuclear test countries (other than US / USSR) were Britain, France & China. In fact it was more. Britain (1952), France (1960), China (1964) and INDIA (1974). Shortly afterwards it was Pakistan (1983) and much later North Korea in 2006. Shortly after that, I sort of gave up….. Sorry.

[@spidermight8054]

Exactly! Common knowledge, and easily obtained knowledge.

[@johnwalczak9202]

exactly, I stopped watching after he said that Trinity was dropped from a plane. Sloppy research - or no research at all

[@Marsalien100]

Also the US made the first nuke with the help of German Scientists.

[@romaniangypsy3640]

50-58mt

[@romaniangypsy3640]

Dumbass was trying to correct him but failed

[@Daralyndk]

It should also be noted that standard ICBM (Intercontinental Balistic Missile) which is what most people would imagine under "a nuke" can carry up to 12 or so MIRVs with idependent payloads that can pepper the target area with nukes like carpet bomb...so the number of active misiles greatly underrestimate the destructive potential You're welcome

[@Aatell764]

Yep the consensus was done that a single giant nuclear warhead is less effective at destroying a large target like a city then multiple smaller warheads spread out across the entire metropolitan area.

[@rickm6076]

But they don’t. Neither Russian nor American land based missiles are fully loaded anymore, and neither are sub-based missiles, though they are closer to fully loaded

[@Daralyndk]

@@rickm6076 true, and theyyare not extremely precise either, but if you hit the dense urban area, or close to it... you don't need them to be fully loaded anyway. Each of those payload is in and on itself stronger than bombs dropen on Japan back in the day And you know what they say Near hit is enough in shells... and nuclear weapons

[@rickm6076]

If Russia launched a first strike right now they have to spend most of their warheads trying to get minutemen missiles, and then certain high value air bases (Eppley in Omaha, and Whiteman in Missouri) and sub bases, namely Kings Bay in Georgia and Bangor in Washington.

[@neogenmatrix6162]

Trident missiles SLBM's carry 14 mirv warheads while minuteman III ICBM's can carry up to 3.

[@krombopulusdave]

Y'all ought to check your facts. The trinity test was not dropped from an airplane, but a tall steel tower in Alamogordo, NM. And the Department of Energy states that the destructive power was just under 19 kilotons, not one kiloton. Other than that, great video!

[@Dr.M.VincentCurley]

Okay, so you need to edit this video. Not sure where you got your information: 1) Trinity had to be detonated from scaffolding, for obvious reasons. No bomber/plane was used. 2) Trinity was in the "neighborhood" of 25 kilotons of yield. 3) U-235 is the only fissionable isotope of Uranium, and it only makes up less than 1% of all Uranium ore. Thus the need for large centrifuges. As most of Uranium is U-238. 4) "Purification" of isotopes of Plutonium (man made element) are required for a uniform fission explosion. Although technically, almost any of the isotopes could be used. 5) Hydrogen is typically "fused" to He (Helium) but fusion also is required for other elemental formation. All the way up to Fe (Iron if I'm not mistaken). 6) Since at the time, Hydrogen was the only element we believed we could "fuse", hydrogen isotopes such as deuterium (2) and Tritium (3) were used. 7) The location of the United States during world war II was CRITICAL in the development of the "Atomic" bomb as more than 30 different locations within the United States and Canada were used to develop the fissionable material and other components. If any of these sites were to have been "bombed" then the setback would have cost the development team. This is a big reason why Germany never had a chance. 8) The introduction of Fusion to the atomic bomb made it so that the actual destructive power of "nuclear" weapons was "limitless". 9) The amount of radiation caused by Fusion bombs/aka Thermonuclear devices, is exponential compared to that of fission weapons such as little boy and fat man. Both cities in Japan have been re-inhabited, however the Bikini atoll islands in the Pacific remain uninhabitable to this day. 10) The "Doomsday" device that has been theorized consists of a 5-7 stage cobolt salted fusion device that takes advantage of ever expanding/increasing heat. The myth follows that such a device has been developed in secret near the American seaboard and could be housed in a warehouse building without detection. This device, if detonated would destroy most if not all of the eastern coast of the United States if they were to launch a pre-emptive strike.

[@buckhorncortez]

No centrifuges were used to separate U235 from U238 during the Manhattan Project. The separation was done at Oak Ridge using gaseous diffusion, thermal diffusion, and calutrons (cyclotrons made specifically to separate uranium). Centrifuges could not be built at that time that would work as the technology (such as air bearings) had not been developed.

[@johno9507]

2:11 The Trinity bomb wasn't dropped from a aircraft, it was detonated from the top of a 100 foot tower.

[@willhindereeds2590]

Otto Hahn technically didn’t figure that out, he performed the experiments but I’m pretty sure that Lise Meitner was the physicist who actually figured out what was happening

[@Airsoftipsandtricks]

10x background radiation isn’t that much, Chernobyl is like 200x background, 10x isn’t even dangerous that’s why they open up the test sites 2 times a year

[@im2kul74]

Great explanation that doesn't require a lot of scientific understanding of how fission and fusion works. Thanks!

[@mikemann1960]

Imagine what they are doing at C.E.R.N..

[@phavan3360]

​@@mikemann19608 HCG ZAA

[@StonerWatchproductions]

i just saw Oppenheimer at the theaters and the Trinity Test WAS NOT DROPPED FROM A PLANE

[@MastahZen-fr9ko]

Oh you see a movie from Hollywood. Look out everyone we got a subject matter expert over here.

[@StonerWatchproductions]

@@MastahZen-fr9ko that n history books, look it up unless you live where they ban books

[@MonoIyth]

Day 2 of watching new Be Amazed videos on my bus ride home from school. It doesn’t get better than this.

[@danielarnold9042]

Lol

[@ash3s]

14:12 so if i actually manage to get 2 magnets stick together i explode? 😂😂

[@russellcarson4207]

There is a feature-length documentary film that would go well as a companion piece to this one. The title is "Trinity and beyond: The atomic bomb movie." There is not a lot of humor in it, but it still presents technical information in a format that isn't too hard to understand. And, like this short documentary, it starts with the Trinity shot. And yes, the nuke wasn't dropped. It was on top of a tower when it was detonated. The next two were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After that the USA, and a few years later, the USSR, were setting these things off like fireworks in a variety of places - including the sea, high in the atmosphere, underground (and not just in Nevada), and space. One of the most interesting test shots was that of the US Army's "Atomic Cannon." It was a rather large piece of artillery, though not nearly as big as some freaky big guns the Germans used in World War One and Two. Of course it didn't have to be. It used conventional explosives to fire a shell that weighed, I think, around 750 pounds, and when it detonated seven miles downrange it yielded a 15 kiloton blast. That was the first and last time it was fired, even though a few more were built and equipped with nuclear ammo, and deployed. The history of this weapon gets a bit foggy after that. The guns and their shells were retired after a few years. This was in the 1950s. The rapid development of guided missiles, whether launched on land, at sea, or in the air made it obsolete even before it fired that first shot. I found a copy of the movie on DVD at our local library. It's probably available on a streaming site, maybe even KZbin. I only had to see it once. I'm 79 years old, and thus part of the "duck and cover" generation. During the wild, wild period of nuclear testing we saw movies about it in school, watched them on television, and read about them in newspapers and magazines. Fun at the time, if you weren't too close to the tests. Not fun if you were.

[@yourweeklydoseofbadcontent2156]

Dude be here teaching us how to make a nuke

[@James-ef5hi]

Fr tho 😂😂😂

[@jendoi]

20 years from now, we would be seeing DYI nuke videos..

[@Blueesteel_]

No he didn’t… he explained how it works. Very different things.

[@TerriazeCAPCUTeditor]

>:)

[@isaacsdreamyworld9093]

@@Blueesteel_ killjoy

[@royd209]

it is said that the tsar bomba lost half it's destructive capability after the lead scientist behind the project feared that at it's full potential, the bomb could irreversibly damage the planet

[@UnyahPe1601]

YES, The World need's 10,000 Tsar Bomba to Destroy 8billion plus of Dinosaurs on this Planet, VERY2 GOOD IDEA. Let's Build them!!! 👍👍👍💖💝🥳🥰🤩😍🤩😂🤣

[@pedroks7756]

@@UnyahPe1601 what?

[@rajveerkanojiya2985]

@@UnyahPe1601 they have more technology than that

[@fandroid6491]

@@UnyahPe1601 No, let's nuke the corrupt political figures instead

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

*_Not true_* He was perfectly well aware that its blast would crash the bomber.

[@peterfretwell4070]

This is the first time I've heard such a complex topic described in a wonderful understandable way. Many thanks for your insight and ability to teach.

[@Xehemoth]

Imagine surviving Hiroshima and trying to explain what happened to people in Nagasaki just moments before the second bomb went off. Not exactly the time you want to say "Hey look! I told you so! we are about to be vaporized!"

[@uplinktruck]

There were several hundred who experienced that very scenario. The Japanese have a name for people who managed to get hit twice. Alas, it's been too many years since I heard the term and cannot remember what it was.

[@stepfraser8375]

@@uplinktruck As I recall,in Japanese they were termed "Shitoutalucka"

[@fandroid6491]

@@stepfraser8375 "Shitotalucka"? Wait, isn't the correct term "hibakusha" or (Japanese: 被爆者 or 被曝者; lit. "person affected by a bomb" or "person affected by exposure [to radioactivity]"). If that was sarcasm, feel free to r/woooosh me 💀

[@DoggosGames]

@@fandroid6491 It's referring satirically to "sh* out of luck"

[@Xehemoth]

@Idris Ali I am not reading any of that nonsense.

[@AndyBonesSynthPro]

2 things- the "giant bottle" thing in that photo was not the atomic test device, it was a container they almost used as a casing that the device would be detonated inside, in hopes that if it did not work properly, they would be able to collect & reuse the plutonium that, in the event of a fizzle, would be scattered inside. The device itself was much smaller, spherical and covered in cables that would set off the inner mosaic-like sphere of explosive lenses surrounding the fissile core. They ended up abandoning the idea of the container 2, here's the big one: the Trinity device was not dropped from a plane, it was detonated atop a 100ft. metal tower. This was so all the cameras & sensors would precisely capture the whole process from a controlled area

[@Evan_Bell]

1:56 The trinity test did not yield 1 kiloton, it yielded 24.8 (+-2) kilotons. The device shown isn't a weapon, it's Jumbo, a device meant to contain the weapon if it failed. It was never used. The Trinity device wasn't dropped from a plane, it was detonated atop a tower. Sometimes I'm baffled by where KZbinrs get their information from. Even Wikipedia gets these details right. Why's the primary at 7:40 edited to appear like its glowing green? 18:40 several thousand pounds of conventional explosive wasn't detonated in little boy, just 8lbs of cordite. 18:52 The uranium wasn't compressed to any meaningful degree. A change in density of the fuel isn't what initiated the reaction. 19:25 more powerful gun type weapons have been produced. The Mk-8 and Mk-11, for example.

[@TheClumsyFairy]

Yeah, that got me pretty mad too, like how on earth do you get it that wrong, it's almost like they deliberately put BS in their videos to get mugs like us to comment.

[@jamesthreadgill7651]

This video should be removed as "fake" media.

[@RUKII.T.L]

Shut up

[@AnuragSason]

Your video is information loaded! I really liked the way you presented this informative video

[@gregorytobin5754]

The "bomb" we see at around 1:50 is actually a giant metal casing that was going to be place around the Trinity bomb called "jumbo". The idea was to place the bomb inside it to catch any of the nuclear material incase the bomb didn't work. But then someone suggested that if the bomb did work, and it was encased in a giant metal cylinder - it would become the world's largest frag grenade. So they decided not to use it. It was blown up years later, and the remains of it can be seen near the Trinity bomb test site today.

[@jasmineprathibha4022]

imagine Oppenheimer never stoped making atomic bombs

[@WALTHER2WHITE]

He never wanted to built such a Human extermination Bomb and was also feeling bad about what he created and started. He only did it because the of the fear, that the nazis would have a nuclear bomb first.

[@Dr-UnBox]

Nuclear bombs are a monstrosity, people sometimes play with forces that do not understand much, bringing death at the same time, a very good episode👏👏👏👏

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

Imagine a world where it wasn't discovered until the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The leaders of the Soviet Union, China, and most others can be considered able to make mistakes and rational. What about those whose hatred overwhelms reasoning.

[@michaelkantner6420]

First off, the first atomic test in America, was not air dropped, it was a device suspended from a tower, and that test was called "Trinity"

[@demonwalker01]

It wasn’t the Japanese emperor that refused to surrender it was the military command. It was unheard of for the emperor to go around the military like he did to surrender and the leadership tried to kill him to stop him from doing it. Also Tsar Bombba’s core was reduced by half at the last second. It could have been at least twice as strong or more.

[@jman4083]

Screw the Japanese ruler. He was a mad man hell bent on dominating most of Asia or all of it and the Pacific ocean islands. I think many lives would of been saved if he was taken out of power.

[@rhysmodica2892]

What they did was remove the Uranium tamper which would double yield at the expense of tremendous fallout. Instead they used lead which produced almost no fallout whatsoever.

[@Morachnyion]

The first bomb. Known as the gadget, was on a platform. Not dropped

[@michaeltheoret8913]

The Trinity Device was actually staged upon a metal tower and detonated . It was not dropped from a plane. The first time an atomic bomb was dropped by plane was on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

[@Tzunamii777]

It's nuts they would get this so wrong. Perhaps it was intern night when they researched and approved this.

[@enigmaticglo]

fun fact: edward teller, an undercover soviet theoretical physicist (same as oppenheimer himself) worked on the manhattan project and was the first to propose an h-bomb to oppie. he opposed and after the manhattan project, teller put together a blueprint for a potential 1 and 10 GIGATON bomb. 1 gigaton would be 1000 megatons. teller was insane.

[@HeatSGamingXD]

5:10 Did anyone notice Jelly in his green jelly hoodie doing a 'nope' gesture during the UN resolution on calling of A-bombs? Those who did, leave a like here.

[@ARandomGuy5]

Yeah i saw that by the way im a fan of him

[@anthonyr3941]

Same here but I'm more of a slogo fan

[@ARandomGuy5]

@@anthonyr3941 yeah ok

[@ARandomGuy5]

@@anthonyr3941 im a fan of jelly cuz he is more funnier

[@bay6031]

Yea

[@RankSarpac]

I had gotten a lot of this, but your explanation of radioactive decay was very well illustrated and finally clicked being able to visualize that for me. Great explanation.

[@krisbogen973]

As a big fan of the Fallout series, this was really interesting

[@Synonomous]

And full of inaccuracies.

[@kunspitzz]

2:38 Japan did not refuse to surrender.

[@commonlychaotic]

???

[@kunspitzz]

@@commonlychaotic In June and July 1945, Japan tried to get the Soviet Union to help negotiate peace. The US intercepted and decoded Japanese diplomatic communications, which revealed that some in the Japanese government wanted to surrender. Japan started sending peace envoys as early as September 1944, and by December they were in contact with Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Nationalist leader. The US knew that Japan was interested in negotiating peace, and that a surrender without an invasion was possible if the terms were clear.

[@Buggyvrlife]

They did ( ・_・)

[@kunspitzz]

But they needed to test the bomb on people.

[@dorian654]

tf are u talking about

[@azeemroshen4137]

I really don't want any nuclear warfare to happen

[@gian4106]

Why

[@MonkeyInVR]

@@gian4106 are you stupid? it’s nuclear warfare

[@James-ef5hi]

@@gian4106 because it would be scary and there would only be a few survivors

[@chazayah5985]

@@James-ef5hi math 24:22 If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

[@chazayah5985]

You can’t stop it

[@hospitalitypro6359]

excellent presentation and very well laid out, really breaks things down well for even older kids to understand

[@nuclearpotato6616]

Hospitality pro I'm sorry to tell you that the info is wrong.

[@williamfong5427]

Hey, wait a minute. You say the first atomic bomb was a prototype dropped from a plane. But all the history books, Wikipedia and videos say it was detonated atop a steel tower -- which was vaporized in the explosion. What the !! ?? How can you make such a howler of a mistake in military technological history? Who wrote this script?

[@bomcstoots1]

It was dropped from a plane

[@СилвияБрянова]

​@@bomcstoots1nope, it was not.

[@johnharvey1356]

If there had not first been a pearl harbor there would not have been a herosima

[@4everhealthwellness344]

So hard to believe that just 20 pounds of matter can make an explosion powerful enough to destroy a large city

[@alazkaalazka6087]

It’s so horrifically Absurd you can’t even comprehend it

[@Sixstringman]

And that's at a 1% rate of matter to energy conversion

[@vizardman135]

Thanks! I was so curious how that all worked and you explained it perfectly!

[@spondoolie6450]

I, too, was wondering what would happen if I ate a bunch of curry.

[@nuclearpotato6616]

Sorry Vizard he did not explain a lot of it correctly he got his info of a poor quality website where the dev's just put in random numbers.

[@chrisconley8583]

Except this video has mistakes and is more opinion than fact or history. It’s credibility being lost starts at the “Trinity Test”. The bomb didn’t detonate from being dropped from a plane, they built a tower. It’s narration about Cold War you can tell is told by someone that wasn’t alive during it because it moralizes the way things are now and totally discounts how things really were at the time.

[@wm.tomlinson1434]

Dude, get your history straight. The "Trinity" bomb was set on a tower, NOT dropped from a plane. Also, it was based in Los Alamos, not NY

[@mark-kg7wg]

Good catches but not everything he got wrong .. Einstein sent a letter to the president too ..etc

[@MilesTippett]

Also Trinity was detonated in Alamogordo New Mexico, not Socorro.

[@isaiahoconnor8236]

Thank you! You beat me to it!

[@pjduker05]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that. And somebody else said they're using this for a school project, well somebody is getting an F in the history portion of their project.

[@milopepper2559]

And as for innocent people? Every member of the Japanese society was part of the military by order of the Emperor! That included children, in fact at this time children in Japan were being trained to clutch a mine roll under a US tank and push the detonator!

[@mannme13]

13:05 anyone else notice the giant clown head in the mushroom cloud? Or am I suffering from a case of pareidolia? Nice touch 👌🏻

[@thelittleterror]

Yeah I noticed it

[@samuelyu4900]

Now that's a whole new meaning to "When the fire nation have attacked"

[@charlottesauder999]

oh huge respects to the camera man/woman who experienced this

[@ez249]

man*

[@Clowndog339]

@@archie0001 he didnt said it wrong

[@sushantkatare555]

@@Clowndog339 cameraman is itself a noun so doesn't matter if it's a woman

[@yantichandra6358]

@@sushantkatare555 Enoly *Gay*

[@ybloc1428]

I think there's a bit of context missing. Leading up to the dropping of the bomb on Japan, any time Americans won over several islands not only the Japanese soldiers would kill themselves out of shame because they believed their leader was a god but the mother's would walk themselves and their children off cliffs. Hence when the leader asked for soldiers to fly camacazi planes and they'd "be rewarded in the after-life". If American soldiers were to take over by land and their leader never gave up, anyone in that believe would be dead even if they never fought themselves which was everyonein that culture. By using the bomb, it scared the leader because nobody knew how much we had or what else we could do and by surrendering himself the people then saw it was ok to surrender themselves and that he was no more than a human himself. Yes it was a horrifying invention, but it was also used in a horrifying time.

[@Mr.MashenIt]

Japanese culture itself was why they did surrender after the bombs dropped. They were all willing to die for their country....but none were ready to die without fighting first. The martyr is not a new concept by any means or exclusive to any one religion or country. To not even fight before death would be the most dishonorable way to die for a Japanese citizen and with the power of the A-bombs, the realization of there would be no fighting on the home soil, only massacres from above made the Emporer finally relent. The disgrace and extreme dishonor of disobeying the emperor's will were what made them follow so blindly. Honor was everything in traditional Japanese culture. Dishonor was a fate worse than death. And there are no gods in Shintoism, only deities. He was considered a living deity, which is not quite the same thing as being a god. It's more in line with Roman mythology than Christian mythology. The Roman Emperor was seen as the closest man in the empire to the gods...but he was not considered a god. A few Roman emperors even tried and they were all pretty quickly assassinated afterward. The Memento Mori was a reminder as well as a warning given in one breath.

[@Aatell764]

Yeah way back in highschool we had to do an essay about whether or not the bombings were justified, I always thought they were. Japan wouldn't have given up and more then likely an entirely new war between the US and Japan would have raged on with insane amounts of casualties on both sides.

[@swaggychicken.]

@@Aatell764 but that doesn't justify the efectx of nukes still expericanced and civvilains dont deserve to die for political reasons so this is not just

[@Aatell764]

@@swaggychicken. The citizens would have battled to the death if a full invasion would have happened, so they would have died in the millions. Besides the effects of nuclear radiation wasnt well understood at the time. It was the second and third nuclear bomb ever dropped and the only ones where humans were actually directly affected by the blast.

[@swaggychicken.]

@@Aatell764 but still no justification

[@rileymcmead]

that "last night's curry" joke made me burst out laughing 😂😭

[@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS]

If information was delivered to me in school like we see in this video I would have learned a whole lot more, not that I didn’t do well but this would have taken my education to a whole other level, excellent video and explanation.

[@crispynuggets9121]

Yeah but how much is correct

[@georgeday5901]

And they wonder why the aliens came?

[@TeamMagicLifeOfficial]

Learn to read?

[@HELLISH43]

if only you knew hot wrong this video is you prolly wouldn't be saying that lol

[@Mutrino]

yea that works if the information presented is correct, some extremely basic things are flat wrong.

[@itzreece6347]

Very educational. I just hope nobody would actually think to use them on another country again. Scary stuff indeed

[@bobdecarrot7331]

When I was younger I was scared as anything about ICBN Nuclear strike

[@mikoto7693]

Awhile back I learnt that if WW3 began then the city that I live in is 14th on the “priorities to strike” cities and enemy against the West like China or Russia would target. I was scared of that for awhile, especially when I learnt what local engineering corporation whose buildings I’d passed every week were actually making… just to be on the safe side I won’t say where or what. But later on when I learnt what acute radiation sickness does to a human body, I felt mildly reassured. When I learnt about Chernobyl in school it didn’t go into enough detail especially to the firefighters and liquidators. So I went home knowing my Dad knew a lot about chemistry and physics and I asked him. Given I was about 14 at the time he asked me if I really wanted to know. So of course I did so he told me about the Japanese man who got blasted with 17 Sieverts of gamma radiation when 1 sievert is survivable. 86 days that man took to die mostly because the family and doctors prolonged his suffering far too long. I won’t go into detail because it’s truly ghastly. Imagine being in pain, absolute agony day in and day out but your body is so badly damaged that morphine and other very strong painkillers didn’t work. After that he went over the firefighters and liquidators of the Chernobyl disaster, the “Demon Core” scientists and finally the Radium Girls. I think Dad loved teaching me first about fixing cars as I grew up. (He’s an engineer and started his career as a car mechanic and would fix friends and coworkers cars on the weekend a bit cheaper than a garage and I’d often join him.) And he loved teaching me chemistry. We’d have great fun making things fizz, pop, burn or explode in the garden. But to make sure I excelled at the homework assignment on Chernobyl he really made sure I understood the basics of nuclear power and weapons as well as a few different types of reactor. Anyway after learning what acute radiation sickness does, I suppose it is reassuring to know if WW3 does kick off I probably won’t know anything about it as I’d disappear in a flash of nuclear hellfire. It’s the poor bastards living further out to get a dose of 2-17 sieverts I’d feel sorry for. Wouldn’t wish that on anyone except maybe Hitler or one of those Nazi sickos that experimented on people at the concentration camps.

[@MTWood]

What’s scary is that the military of today considers these small tactical nukes. New technology has us to where we can’t even test the power. We have to use simulations. Russia is said to have developed exactly 4 nuclear bombs that could effectively take out the entire United States. Four. That’s 1,2,3,4 everything we have gone or worthless. Crazy.

[@misssunshine7408]

Ukraine vs Russia now has been trying to win the war by using nukes apparently

[@MiaMore.]

I LOVE LOOOOVE how this channel is not only interesting, but has become increasingly more informative and educational!!!!!

[@urboyjames5853]

realise that Gadget (trinity bomb) wasnt dropped from a plane... it was on a 100ft metal tower and was slammed to the ground

[@danmcclung861]

Twitter will be back and legit soon.

[@fourcgames7568]

@@urboyjames5853 Jesus if you wanna correct someone then at least get your facts right. It wasn't slammed to the ground it simply exploded on the top of the tower. "slamming" nukes to the ground is not at all how they work. They don't even make it to the ground in the first place as they are detonated high above ground to maximize the damage.

[@AndreGrisell]

Sadly, there are so many errors that it can hardly be called informative.

[@fredwilliams420]

"At the touch of a button" seems an integral part of the hysteria

[@floot727]

8:40 translation: "the smoke pylon, rising from the ground, quickly increased in volume. After several seconds after the detonation, "

[@davidewhite69]

2.02 is NOT the bomb at "Trinity", but a steel case named "Jumbo" to contain radioactive material in case the bomb 'fizzled", it wasnt used

[@charlesdayon8420]

Speaking of Jumbo , LBJ had a big thing , and he called it jumbo, I never heard what his wife thought about that . Ladybird Johnson was such a dignified Southern lady. ...O'My Jesus forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven especially those who have most need of thy mercy. Amen.

[@bryancunningham5071]

The Trinity test was a tower shot of around 21 kilo tonnes and not the one kiloton airdrop that you have misleadingly stated. With regards to the second attack, Nagasaki was the secondary target after poor visibility spared the primary target Kokura. Running low on fuel, the fat man weapon was dropped around 3 maybe 4 miles from the intended target landing near the hills to the northeast and resulting in less damage even though the weapon was nearly 50% more powerful than the little boy weapon which had flattened Hiroshima. This is still regarded as a war crime by many outside of the United States. Many believe that this second attack brought the Second world war to an end. This is only partly true, as when the Soviet Union ended their neutrality with the Japanese empire and declared war and then invaded Manchuria with plans to take the Northern island of Hokkaido, the high command could see that the military situation was now impossibly hopeless. They were holding out for a conditional surrender to the allies in which they may keep the emperor Hirohito in place. This was accepted by the US administration although they still called it the unconditional surrender of the Japanese empire.

[@mayankchauhan7558]

Imagine developing an atomic bomb but miscalculating the fuel consumption 💀 tbh allied were so hypocrites and always doing war crimes. Nazis bombed london by mistake and regarding colonialism by japan& Germans, what is up with british colonies where they treat other nations people aa their slaves and forcing them to fight for them?

[@medore13]

Exactly. It seems more like "common knowledge" than a myth that only the 2 bombs ended WW2... but the Soviet Union was very important here

[@danknoll4657]

25KT. Was larger than Nagasaki by 4KT.

[@fenz_fern]

Thank you another educated individual on history

[@georgearnold8573]

Who else is watching this past midnight before going to sleep 😂😂😂

[@JaxsonHere]

I do also most of the time😂😂😂😂

[@deandezak9876]

The Trinity test was not dropped from a plane. It was a static test from a 100’ tower. 2 planes were above performing high altitude testing. Also, the picture at the beginning is not the bomb, known as the gadget, that is “Jumbo”. It was a container to place the gadget in if it didn’t work. It was so they could get the unused plutonium out of the gadget. Of course it wasn’t needed.

[@captchompers6920]

Shut up

[@FFFazbear]

2:53 please don’t make puns about this

[@gamering2354]

haha funny word

[@mbnyc5401]

Einstein sent a letter to Roosevelt to warn him about the potential of nukes.

[@Zelia_Wolf]

"I know not what weapons will be used for World War 3. Only that World War 4 will be fought with Sticks and Stones"

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

Umm, you should make it clear that Einstein was warning about possible Nazi Nukes. Oddly enough, I know of no serious design for making bomb grade plutonium in a heavy water reactor, although Germany was planning to ship some from Norway, and Britain was worried enough to sabotage that effort.

[@KatoSento]

Did he listened? I don’t think sooooo ☝🏽

[@Sloff1155]

I really wish that nukes never existed, I understand that they needed to stop the war but it would just be better if people just got along.

[@VenomSP]

Imagine working on something that can wipe everything out in a 3 mile radius

[@lovereligion2258]

Try 300

[@kurt6410]

Nagasaki wasn't the intended target that day. It was the city of Kokura but because of clouds they went with Nagasaki

[@Gtfo_Kenny]

Whos here after watching Oppenheimer?

[@Iam_differ]

No mention of the slaughter they cause

[@reichtangle4146]

5:07 jelly what are you doing here?

[@FPXOLIVERCM250TV]

WAIT I JUST SAW THAT 😂😂😂😂

[@cmcasey1975AO]

​@@FPXOLIVERCM250TVsame

[@bendermanhd1869]

This will be useful info for my next science project!

[@UnyahPe1601]

You need it? Build it as many as possible and use them during New Year Eve, will see the Beautiful displays of them and enjoy them. 💖💝👍👍👍

[@nataliekrenkova4716]

Who is here after Oppenheimer? LOVED IT!

[@AdamG-w3y]

“Mankind invented the atomic bomb but no mouse would ever invent a mousetrap” -Albert Einstein

[@awjb3]

also, the scientist that created the Tzar Bomba, was originally going to make it twice it's big, but realized that most of the blast would just escape into space, so resolved to leave it at around half the size.

[@betatest5789]

Ohhh he was worried about it going to space? Not at all caring about what might be the consequence on humans and animals? What a psycho

[@realbruh850]

@@betatest5789 well US was the first one to test a nuclear warhead

[@jamjardj1974]

It wasn’t engineered that way. Technically it fizzled.