Atomic Test In Nevada (1955)

Footage of tests in the Nevada desert. Scientists do research on the effects of atomic bombs. Therefor they set up different scenarios and blow them up.
Nevada, United States of America (USA).
Several shots of Nevada desert - Greyhound busses arrive to atomic testing base. People get out of busses and cars getting ready to study survival chances in an atomic explosion. A special live-size town with different types of buildings has been erected for this purpose. Several shots of people inspecting the site and site itself. There are dummies (women, children, babies) inside the furnished houses. A man is seen pulling bed clothes over dummies. Kitchen cupboards are filled with food which will be tested for radioactivity after explosion. Various shots of single story house, butane tank storage, a 500 feet high shot tower (on which bomb explodes) and army tanks ready to move in as soon as the bomb explodes.
Night - people putting protective glasses on, checking cameras, getting ready for the bomb. The bomb explodes - at first the screen blasts. Succession of shots demonstrating the impact of the blast on the model town. A single story house is seen disintegrating - nothing is left of it. Two story house bursts in flames before disintegrating. A concrete single story house burns inside but construction survives. People in trenches curl down as heath wave passes them. A grand long shot shows rise of a huge mushroom. Lethal cloud is seen over (whatever is left of) model town.
In the morning, men in protective clothing (not to protective) assess the outcome of the explosion. Men are seen walking around debris checking for radioactivity and levels of destruction of different buildings. Succession of shots of shattered town. Only the concrete building survives the explosion but dummies inside are broken up. This was one of the biggest ever atomic bomb tests. This bomb was twice as powerful as Hiroshima one.
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[@luishenrycamacho3159]

After watching this footage, I can guarantee that cameras are the strongest weapon in this planet.

[@squasholantern6343]

Exactly. So strong they even withstood the EMP wave generated by the supposed Nuke blast. I tell you, normies have no ability to use discernment to determine whats real and what isnt. They let papa Government and Uncle Media spoon feed then fake news.

[@AbdelghaniZine3]

Bollshite

[@Stampy13]

Got that Nokia camera

[@hustlelikewilson]

I love you 😂🤣

[@1rajsingodiya]

😂😂

[@thesrndude6588]

Even the 1950's cameras have more FPS and clarity than today's security camara

[@sarpsarp8987]

@Chrisitan Romero Less than 100 years ago, movies were in silent.

[@Swampster70]

Cameras back then were optically very advanced. Most security cameras today are made to be cheap - hence the quality. It's the same with audio equipment. Some of the best microphones ever were designed in the 1960's and still highly sought after. When talking about nuclear weapons and cameras, one cannot forget the absolute king of high speed cameras that were designed in the 1940's. As stolen from Wikipedia: The rapatronic camera (a portmanteau of rapid action electronic) is a high-speed camera capable of recording a still image with an exposure time as brief as 10 nanoseconds. The camera was developed by Harold Edgerton in the 1940s and was first used to photograph the rapidly changing matter in nuclear explosions within milliseconds of detonation, using exposures of several microseconds. To overcome the speed limitation of a conventional camera's mechanical shutter, the rapatronic camera uses two polarizing filters and a Faraday cell (or in some variants a Kerr cell). The two filters are mounted with their polarization angles at 90° to each other, to block all incoming light. The Faraday cell sits between the filters and changes the polarization plane of light passing through it depending on the level of magnetic field applied, acting as a shutter when it is energized at the right time for a very short amount of time, allowing the film to be properly exposed.

[@selfishstockton6123]

@@sarpsarp8987 mute your movies today and you can duplicate the same effect just as effectively as 100 years ago. Silence is silence

[@heyyea386]

Oh no the quality was terrible the tvs sucked but now the are inhanced

[@swapnilpawar8015]

Analog always have a better quality, they don't digitally process and ruin the footage.

[@sneaksquid]

I got chills when I realized the houses started burning first before the shockwave hits. I can't believe nuclear bombs exists. They are so amazing, not in a good way but in a shocking way.

[@camokoy]

@Ich bin ein Staatsfeind big time there have been over 2000 nukes tested how could we breathe the air or drink water if that much radiation was around with a half life of thousands of years I call bullshit on this hoax.

[@camokoy]

@Ich bin ein Staatsfeind you should check out Albert pikes letters from the 1880s about ww1 ww2 and ww3 , how to start them and what they would achieve. This has been going on forever my friend.

[@tylerp1237]

And imagine how strong the nuclear weapons we have today are

[@tylerp1237]

@Ich bin ein Staatsfeind do you not believe in nuclear bombs? Like how is that possible just because we don’t want to blow up the world doesn’t mean we don’t have them

[@tylerp1237]

@Ich bin ein Staatsfeind you have really hurt my head by saying something so stupid have you not seen what just nuclear power plants create when they explode if we have the power to make those we can make a bomb

[@danclayberger770]

I was 14 years old in 1955. We lived on a farm by Sharps General Depot in Lathrop, Calif. We stayed up the night of this test that was being televised. My sister and I went outside to look towards the south west slope of the Sierra Mts. Whn the bomb went of the whole length of the mountain range lite up like the sun was raising. I will never forget that sight.

[@oliviersavard8676]

on one hand i'm a bit envious, i'd have loved to witness this, on the other hand i'm glad i haven't had to see this. did you often see nuclear explosions from your farm?

[@Chris-hf9kz]

You've lived through World War 2. Now that is wild.

[@Srelus]

@@oliviersavard8676 Don't be. Netflix is full of this crap.

[@TheTGOAC]

@@Chris-hf9kz they were 14 in '55 so they were 4 in '45 when the war ended. Just barely lived during the war.

[@notme1296]

@@Chris-hf9kz you do know there’s people over the age of 70 still alive🙄

[@Momthra77]

2:02 is the scariest shot in my opinion

[@N0Xa880iUL]

Agreed. Needed more such shots. Terrifying.

[@hcaltay]

I agree. That's probably what we'll see when the nuclear bomb drops a few blocks away.

[@oscr_zen]

straight up from fallout trailer or something

[@britishpathe]

Remember when Indiana Jones climbed into that fridge? This was the real location: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eonKY4Nvmd1gfa8

[@Aruaruaruaruuuuuu]

wait what

[@kaiserepsilon4011]

It's interesting to see that wooden structures first burst into flames due to the intense thermal radiation, and then the smoke it produces is subsequently blown away, as is the building itself by the shockwave mere seconds later.

[@ZenMasterFilms]

@@dantesparda7719 The cameras were made out of passports. It's a much stronger material than airplane black boxes

[@ZenMasterFilms]

@@dantesparda7719 NIST

[@squasholantern6343]

@@dantesparda7719 exactly and the emp pulse produced by it never destroyed any electronic equipment. Nukes are fake and g**

[@keithmurf426]

Smoke and mirrors lol

[@TheTGOAC]

@@dantesparda7719 maybe because they're secured inside of metal boxes, ret*rd

[@zrk03]

My Dad's uncle was 16 years old and living in Nevada during this time. He even has some pictures he took of a nuclear bomb blast. The picture has the trailer he was living in, in the foreground, while the mushroom cloud was in the background.

[@gabrielboyer1039]

I’d really like to see the picture man! 😮

[@Tylerpierre99]

I hope he wasn't downwind from the radiation

[@natebaby335]

Dude, you should totally upload the photo

[@highbrass7563]

Wow I'd love to see that photo

[@interactiondesign8mojo601]

did he got cancer after that ?

[@Medi_us]

Everyone who was in that video died within ten years from cancer. My grandpa lived not too far from the testing place, he was known as one of the down winders. All of his brothers died from cancer, he also had gotten cancer from it as well. They told the people they would be fine, it would be fine to play in the ashes.

[@rover9300]

Damn

[@DFusions_]

It takes about 48 hours maybe more for nuclear radiation to clear up, they definitely lied about it being safe

[@kathytownsend2758]

I'm sorry I was a baby back then and have ended up with hypothyroidism

[@araina5896]

I'm sorry to hear that😔, what part of Nevada did the testing take place??

[@kathytownsend2758]

I can relate to that. I was born in 1955 the year of 1 series of 14 nuclear tests Operation Teapot. My mother knew nothing of fallout, so she thought it was wonderful that I liked to spend 8 hours a day in the playpen in the yard to free her up for household chores. Who knows how much fallout rained down on me during that time? I have hypothyroidism and constantly take meds. Why couldn't the geniuses figure out that people were being exposed and hurt?

[@gravyontoast8614]

If I saw this in real life I’d be blown away

[@KumaFall]

Figuratively and literally

[@alexandercross9081]

After bursting into flames

[@fasteddie8782]

Man is certainly learned how to kill ....wtf

[@davy3085]

🤣🤣🤣

[@davy3085]

Good

[@OldManLarryCOD]

It’s very very far away my friend

[@cheeseandonions9558]

People who survive a nuclear blast will envy those who died in it

[@robinheijblom2929]

Depends on the conditions. Surviving a blast while being exposed means you will die a slow horrible death the next weeks, months, years depending on the exposure. Surviving a blast while being shielded in a shelter with 3 months of food and no way to get out means you will have 3 months to realize after that you will die of starvation which is also a slow horrible death. But if you survive a blast while being shielded in a relatively large and comfortable shelter with decades of food and/or a way to contact the rest of the world or safely leave, surviving the blast might be worth it. The problem is most people don't think these things through and like to stick wherever they are. If you want to survive a nuclear blast, make sure you have everything you need to survive for at least a few years and after that go to a better place or create one yourself for the future. It can be a lonely future.

[@Swampster70]

@@robinheijblom2929 Show me what decades of food looks like in a stock pile. I see the back of a large SUV each week that has a weeks worth of food. Decades worth... there ain't a building big enough in my city that would survive a nuclear attack to give JUST my family the food they needed for a decade let alone have food that was still good for that long.

[@elchicogore9517]

Well most of the people present there, specially these soldiers in the trenches died years later from cancer.

[@20footerpython]

Ok cringe

[@17kallum]

It’s still to this day amazes me they did this on their own soil....

[@kathytownsend2758]

The U S does a lot of things to it's own people we love free guinea pigs

[@danieltobin4498]

No one knew just how dangerous radiation would be at first

[@TheGravityShifter]

There's a lot of desert in the Western region so it's the perfect place to test things like this in NA.

[@theblackcatgirl7013]

While the replies have good points. Allow me to introduce another, the other nations wouldn't be so lenient if this happened on their soil.

[@gavinlightfoot5521]

@@theblackcatgirl7013 exactly

[@sirholycow]

2:01 is an incredible shot

[@theblackcatgirl7013]

Thanks for timestamping it!

[@Echelon111999]

Im a 25 year old man but that shot scares me so much the more I think about it…

[@lukeaud]

Imagine what the world would look like if they have had usable atomic bombs in 1940

[@WeegeeCool1]

It'd look the same...?

[@patrickthebunny2626]

That's the world we live in

[@StanleyMfYang2022]

@@WeegeeCool1you really think that's what the world would look like if we had complete access to nuclear weapons during a year after the beginning of ww2?

[@podgarekt2775]

like fallout

[@patrickthebunny2626]

@@StanleyMfYang2022 I mean a 5 year difierence wouldnt be that big, But nvm

[@darth_vedant669]

I died during these tests, but my camera kept filming

[@JacoblikesPorsche]

not so fun fact: people lived a couple hundred miles away from where these where tested. the government knew that but just decided to do it anyways. my great grandpa was one one of those people.

[@TheGravityShifter]

I heard testimonies about this from I think people who lived in Vegas. They thought it was cool to see but after a long period of time, I think they suffered from illnesses. Nothing crazy from what I remember though but still dangerous ofc.

[@JacoblikesPorsche]

@@TheGravityShifter yep my great grandpa died from a sickness from it

[@TheGravityShifter]

@@JacoblikesPorsche I see. If that is so then you have my condolences.

[@divljacina1]

2:00 look at that heat.....dude......

[@stevenplatt2679]

Wild how the cameras survived and the footage wasn’t ruined, wonder what they used to protect the film, I remember how Kodak had issues with its film.

[@anonymousguest9290]

Yeah, it seems if everyone built their homes out of that camera material no one need worry about nukes anymore. LOL

[@Tylerpierre99]

I think about half the cameras in earlier testing were just wiped clean from exposure to radiation basically turning the physical film reals completely white. Some were destroyed by the blast and some survived both and their reels were some of what we see in this video here.

[@anonymousguest9290]

@@Tylerpierre99 I'm going to take a guess here and say you probably wore a mask in 2020....am I right?

[@TheTGOAC]

@@anonymousguest9290 wtf does that have to do with anything they said?

[@anonymousguest9290]

@@TheTGOAC Did you know the internet can be used to communicate to one another about real meaningful organization instead of following the mind war talking points?

[@arcticwolf9332]

They should have put the dummies inside the fridge see how they would fair.

[@gino-qd1oy]

Scary part is that this is still a relatively small bomb compared to the later nukes

[@judydavenport9636]

What they don't say and I've only seen it on 1 video, whatever test it was, there was small animals in cages ( rabbits, ducks, and i think cats ), outside to see the effects on animals in the blast area. Sure can't do that today. And whats more horrifying is the interior of those houses catch fire shortly before the shock wave hits.

[@LiamYessayian]

We won’t do it today because we have already done it, sad to say but cruel testing is what advanced up up till today.

[@peterjohnston1224]

Judy - keep digging, and watch more videos. Remember, about 6 million tons of bombs were detonated during ALL of WW-II by ALL combatants. That is equal to about three large nuclear bombs - there are thousands of nuclear bombs. A nuclear war would deliver thousands of MEGA( (i.e. BILLION's) of ton's of explosive yield to targets around the world. The rubble would bounce. Live animals were placed at different distances from the detonation to determine the effects of: a) heat, b) blast; and, c) radiation. Thousands of pigs were used as their physiology is very similar to humans.

[@ThePopeOfAllDope]

@@peterjohnston1224 Mega is million. Billion is Giga

[@vladertx43]

Sure they can do it now days, but without telling the public

[@thepolingclan]

Yeah except we would. Remind me again what Fauci did to beagles?

[@archae108]

Hey! I am currently residing in Nevada and I work at the National Atomic Testing Museum!

[@archae108]

@AnotherMag thanks

[@hugobenitez4971]

I went there yesterday, it was amazing.

[@joeholden6129]

Where's the orchestra? It seems rhat they never missed a beat.......

[@natepeace1737]

Can’t imagine the poor souls in Nagasaki and Hiroshima who experienced this. RIP.

[@highbrass7563]

I can't imagine the poor souls who suffered Pearl Harbour.

[@natepeace1737]

@@highbrass7563 Agreed. War is Hell, anyway you slice it. No matter whose bombing who its all terrible.

[@glasgowblackchigowski6117]

​@highbrass7563 the destruction is incomparable

[@highbrass7563]

@@glasgowblackchigowski6117 Maybe it was a bad idea to surprise attack the most powerful country in the world; a country that also was not yet involved in the war effort. Really bad time to challenge American Sovereignty.

[@glasgowblackchigowski6117]

@highbrass7563 sure, yet the country you're talking about casually blames attacks on other nations to invade and kill off millions of its population when the fight doesn't concern them, I'm sure you'll go on to justify that piece of cake too.

[@mslay-ultra1802]

How could nuke videos in 1955 look better than ufo videos in 2023?

[@ty88]

Film. Also Hollywood

[@AnkhAnanku]

I could say “cuz the ufo videos are fake lol” but to be sincere: really it’s apples and oranges. If you think about it, we know what we’re looking at with the nuke test footage, but the ufo videos (the ones that aren’t hoaxes) are _defined_ by us not being able to tell what we’re looking at, right? Cuz otherwise they’d be identifiable.

[@scotscub76]

Is it the same guy who done every single narration on every piece of film from 1940s to 1960s? 🤣

[@TheTGOAC]

The Prototype for La Fontaine

[@majestik_potato5713]

How did they record it so close and without the cameras getting messed up?

[@KumaFall]

They said highly protected cameras

[@majestik_potato5713]

@@KumaFall kinda unbelievable lol

[@tonnhawchannel3789]

​@@majestik_potato5713 they manage to create nuke bro...

[@ct92404]

​@@majestik_potato5713dumb Millennial

[@ty88]

They're miniatures.

[@AsymmetricalCrimes]

1:32 You can literally see the paint burn off the wood before the shockwave hits.

[@bujolchris]

Good thing the camera Caught all the footage…. Because video cameras were The only thing that survive the nuclear blast.

[@juicebox9465]

@Justin M The camera is in a bunker underground filming through a series of mirrors.

[@ZenMasterFilms]

@@juicebox9465 Even the one inside the fake house with the mannequin?

[@Seedavis397]

Hahaha this is so fake y’all keep being scared

[@ct92404]

@Justin M flat Earther nut

[@FrankFromTheLegion]

I love how there's just suspenseful 50s cartoon music going on in the background as a Mushroom cloud as big as mount everest is on camera

[@LukeMunnell]

Genuinely curious about these cameras, too. I've read claims that they were "5 km away, in a bunker" but the elevation the cameras show in relation to the landscape would have them about 2-5 km in the sky at that distance, if not on top of multiple nearby mountain ranges. And heat shimmer at that distance would've rendered the images a total blur. Not to mention that the distortion of the structures shown in the images does not fit with the compression of extreme telephoto lenses. The images appear to have been taken relatively close to the structures, elevated as if in towers, with mid- or wide-angle lenses. So, solid cement or steel structures must've been built, with leaded glass protection in front of the lenses. Surely images or documentation of this exists. Has anyone here seen it? BACKGROUND: I'm a photographer by trade and a huge rare/vintage camera nerd.

[@PsiloCyan95]

This is fascinating. I was hoping someone else would notice that the vantage point of the cameras doesn’t make sense. Also how do the cameras inside the building, not simply melt? The scale of the buildings and smoke make the videos seem like set recreations rather than an actual video. Could these videos be actually faked?

[@AGenericFool]

Just look up trinity test camera bunkers

[@InternalSisyphus]

I Saw footage of their setup of the caméras some years ago, you surely could find them. All the sensitive parts where buried and behind concrète, while the caméra would, through a nice game of mirrors, get back image from the surface. Behind tempered glass of course. The exact same principale of tank optics cupola. For the other comment, just look how cheap and Fake the best spécial effects look at the Time in cinéma, even car scene landscape or War scene looks Silly. If it was Fake , even to this day the best CGI couldn't make as good depiction of a nuclear explosion. And it was 80 years ago.

[@realDonaldTrump420]

​@@InternalSisyphusSmoke mirrors and coincidence, you got moon landing on my nuke test

[@AnkhAnanku]

@@PsiloCyan95 I think footage of the bomb itself had to have been taken from very far away, perhaps as far as the spectators. Footage of its effects were close up and required the cameras to be buried in special bunkers facing away from the blast.

[@peppinospeghetti]

there's an animated movie based off a comic by the same name called "when the wind blows" you halve these elderly couple who survive an a bomb and while the blast is going through the house, you can hear her scream "oh the cake is on fire" then it blacks. genius

[@peachtree2579]

Such a sad movie, they even show radiation induced psychosis when he's imagining the war effort

[@scottishwarrior8014]

How does the camera not move or shake when the blast hits the houses ? It stays perfectly still ?? Strange

[@arok6688]

Hollywood is in the United States, which produces realistic films. is the building like a miniature?

[@thebeanbandit8259]

Ok so I have not looked that far into this but apparently they had super high speed cameras and a system hooked up so that would drop the camera so when the blast got to the area the camera would not be touching anything to prevent shaking, or it could have been much farther away than we realize and it could have had just a huge zoom on it not sure which is correct but both to me seem plausible

[@thebeanbandit8259]

Also one of the cameras does shake around 2:03, the one with the small porthole opening I think that one is just a normal stationary camera in like a tiny bunker so it could survive the blast

[@rom_4766]

@@thebeanbandit8259 the camera is still touching the air and the shock wave also passes through the air so the first one is false.

[@rom_4766]

Gavin Sloan, stop imaging Conspiracy theory: "wow the camera doesn't move, it's surely wrong, it's Hollywood, Hitler is not dead, Joe Biden is a reptilian and he will conquer the whole world !!!!" stupid boy.

[@Ninjashadowjglo]

The Era of cartoon music. Haven't watched Oppenheimer yet, but I hope this isn't playing when the big boom goes off.

[@Grannyfranny.4]

On one end. Witnessing this is an visceral and amazing wonder. But it is also dangerous and most be known that nuclear explosives must not be made or tested [thankfully they were banned]

[@bess7408]

Even though they were banned only war can tell what will happen if they break agreements

[@florisvanklaveren5156]

they are dangerous indeed. but because of MUD, a war is further away than ever. nuclear weapons also made sure that no wars between big nations will happen. of course, when a war happens between big nations it would be devastating. my point is nuclear weapons are the biggest threat and the biggest safety for humanity

[@heatherphillips5983]

Tell that to Russia and China, both still do underground illegal testing. Oh yeah, you think if Iran is allowed to expand their nuclear program, , they won't have tested above ground on their people.

[@anomalo.]

They weren’t banned persay but no country can make more

[@DenzelLN936]

Please explain. There are literally 10’s of thousands of these around now

[@Elfnetdesigns]

Dont worry you all will get to experience this in full HD complete with sound and feeling soon

[@jaredboards6371]

nukes r fake

[@trippyracks6837]

Damn, I’m reading this a few days after Russia starts invading Ukraine. You know something we don’t know time traveler?

[@rom_4766]

thanks putin

[@k.sudharto2425]

and the recent circumstances may confirmed your prophecy though i'm not looking forward to experienced it

[@Domziiee]

I wonder if they had made a building the same as the one that didn’t blow over without windows how that would affect the inside

[@Guillermoamartinez]

1:56 Pobre Pegasus, quería escapar de la bomba atómica. 🐴🔥🐎😭 (?)

[@Dylan-the_doggo]

Yo, realmente se parece a Pegasus. Lo siento ingles americano

[@artz50]

Cool vid I wanted to see some old footage on this and it was very informative;):)

[@hiusverkkoherkko]

Watching this after Putin reputedly moved his "family" into a secret nuclear war proof shelter

[@TonyEnglandUK]

Soon, you will start noticing that certain products in your shops and stores are _"out of stock"_ Next, you'll notice that almost all your regular travel is _"delayed"_ or closed. By my calculations, we're 8 months away from World War Three.

[@machans372]

"Very small fallout!" just a little bit of birth defects

[@vpmvda]

After this, watch the plane hitting the pentagon again… explain that.

[@TomasTitan08]

I would’ve hid in a fridge

[@notmenotme614]

0:37 Doomtown is the lesbian capital of the USA

[@realDonaldTrump420]

Gomer Pyle and the Magic Christmas Sweater. That's literally Jim Neighbors

[@molleyholliday]

It’s kinda fake tho. Change my. Mind

[@AGenericFool]

Imagine being able to enjoy this marvel of human achievement without braindead conspiracy theorists in the comments making extremely obvious points that have been debunked a trillion times over. The scientists involved had to think of everything, but some teenager listens to Joe Rogan and some conspiracy head once and believes them without thinking once about it. Or looking up what a trinity test camera bunker is. Or what blast proof cameras are. Or what zoom is. Or how it was film and not video which avoid many problems of potential radiation damage. Or how relativly little radiation nuclear blasts of this scale truly produce compared to for example a reactor meltdow. But yes yes whats the work of generations of scientists working towards a goal in the face of an uneducated teenager saying "this looks so fake bro". Have a good one and good luck, to us all

[@realDonaldTrump420]

​@@AGenericFoolImagine being you. Imagine being the government monetizing lies.

[@molleyholliday]

@@realDonaldTrump420exactly lying about how we landed on the moon or this nuclear bomb

[@heckensteiner4713]

Those poor people inspecting the radiation in the blast zone right after the explosion. And without any safety gear as well just a couple shots later. They claim minimal fall out, but many communities were affected downwind including the crew of the John Wayne film The Conqueror. 91 out of 220 crew members died from cancer.

[@ParadoxRein]

Nuclear bombs intrigue and petrify me. I don’t wanna know how it’d feel to be near a blast and hopefully, I never WILL know…

[@francisdec1615]

If you're close to ground zero, you'll be painlessly evaporated. The really horrible thing would be to be at such a distance that you survived but were burned horribly, poisoned by radiation etc.

[@Itme]

what is with the happy music? How times change. As a person of the USA, I have NO JOY knowing what the Japanese suffered from the A-bomb. Makes me sick. War sucks. Yet, we just keep it going and going and going and going .....

[@Michigan_pK]

Amazing that all the cameras come away fine

[@adrenalinesession4237]

It’s a miniature lol 😂

[@Frau.Kanzlerin]

In most nuclear tests, they had the cameras underground and used a really strong periscope to capture the footage. The film became unusable when exposed to radiation, so they had to keep the cameras underground and use mirrors to relay the image to the camera.

[@spicketspaghet7773]

They don't. They lose several cameras. If you look at other footage, you can notice cuts before the shockwaves hit. In addition, these are not cameras just sitting on tripods. These are cameras placed in inches thick steel cubes with bulletproof glass for openings. They are very much designed to attempt to survive this sort of effect. Notice how few are actually pointed at the blast itself? Also take note of the sky during the blast shots. Pitch-black. They've got massive uv radiation filters and such on any opening that might see light. Indeed the normal looking scene, minus the black background, is actually far greater than your eyes would be able to distinguish. A human viewing the side of a house in a nuclear blast would see nothing but white.

[@squasholantern6343]

@@Frau.Kanzlerin feel free to explain then how bikini atoll is supposedly still irradiated today and uninhabitable, yet Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rehabitated almost immediately after supposed nuke bombing.

[@Frau.Kanzlerin]

@@squasholantern6343 seems like it would have been easier to start that comment with "WeLL iF YoUrE sO sMaRt" but okay, I'll play. I'm not an expert on this, but this is what I've learned from my hobbyist level interest in this topic: The tests at Bikini Atoll featured an underwater surface burst whereas Hiroshima and Nagasaki were air bursts (dropped from planes and detonated at a set altitude). Surface bursts are known to cause more lasting contamination and have a higher propensity for fallout. Surface bursts stir up more water/ground and more of it gets sucked up into the mushroom cloud and rained down on the land below. The groundwater became contaminated at Bikini Atoll making it uninhabitable. To live there, you'd have to have all your food and water brought in. It's not that you can't set foot on the island, it's that the resources there were contaminated.

[@simonassarskog9600]

My mind gets kinda fcked when I'm witnessing the ulitimate destructive powers of humanity, but also hearing Tom and Jerry music

[@systemfailure2039]

This makes me think that adults are children, it is a matter of time before some capricious child cast "the first stone"

[@tdizzle1981]

"soldiers in protective equipment scan the area...." 2 frames later people walking around breathing the fresh air. What a joke.

[@ct92404]

Why am I not surprised you have "flat Earth" videos in your playlists? 😂

[@andrexadoh]

Millions and Billions of dollars spent on how to kill each other. We can only speculate how amazing this world would have been if this money were spent on children, the planet and peace.

[@tink6365]

The smoke coming off the guy wire at 1:57 looks like a horse.

[@Tombom1234]

2:03 this is probably best shot. Good demonstration of real power with real scale.

[@aphex_twin_enjoyer]

average gender reveal party

[@elite_lurker7589]

Yeah this isn’t real.

[@michaeltenn983]

Yes it is lol

[@elite_lurker7589]

@@michaeltenn983 no its not this is straight Hollywood stuff

[@LongBeach88]

@@elite_lurker7589 lmao how stupid are you really? You realize American dropped two of these over Japan right? America used the threat of a nuke to get them to give up and end the war and when they didn’t two of these were dropped killing over 200 thousand people.

[@ct92404]

​@@elite_lurker7589an air-headed Millennial believes in nutty conspiracy theories...why am I not surprised?

[@ct92404]

​@@LongBeach88He's a typical air-headed Millennial, of course he doesn't understand anything about history.

[@ARD.R.N]

Someone who creates this nuclear, he will regret his actions

[@lexennexel1679]

Every day that passes just confirms more and more that humanity will be it's own downfall eventually.

[@shadowsciencesssf4717]

Camera in the 1950s better than the gas station camera down the road

[@dirkdarwin2571]

"International observers come by invitation to join scientists, military and civil defense authorities, for a buttload of nuclear radiation right in the face"

[@googlebad3540]

fake, how does camera not even shake

[@jimfay5567]

Wait a minute: the "mayor" of NYC is telling us that, during an nuke attack, we should all run inside and stand in the "middle of the building" to save our lives! For some reason, and after seeing this video, I don't think standing anywhere will have too much of a positive effect.

[@user-fh9vh6hr7w]

That training is to maintain order. If you survive the blast you're in potentially a safe place. Untill the fallout comes. Then you're probably done anyways

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

Probably best to listen to that advice, I’ve heard second floor is safest, get away from windows to a center of the building (preferably a closet or something) so there is less chance of a third degree burn and more separation between you and the blast, then wait for the shock wave and hope you survive. The fallout lands on the first floor most often so just hope you live through it I guess. But hopefully there won’t be a nuclear attack in the US

[@francisdec1615]

The bomb in this video is tiny - about 20 kilotons. Russia's military has failed pretty bad in Ukraine, but some of their nuclear weapons might actually work, and the most powerful ones in use are probably at least 800 kilotons. If the war really does go global and nuclear, and if at least 10-20% of the Russian nuclear bombs work, you won't be safe anywhere in the major cities in Europe or North America. Better to be close to ground zero and be vaporized in an instant.

[@fenrirunshackled4319]

@@user-fh9vh6hr7w The more central in the building you are the more walls between you and the radiation. The more mass between you and the radiation source the better. So getting to the middle of a building would also help with radiation poisoning in the fallout

[@sushildon2.0]

Is this the same event Christopher Nolan re-created in Oppenheimer?

[@fjordbear3050]

How did the cameras stay and not the houses?

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

Not only that, but how did the film even survive?

[@fjordbear3050]

@xXLogicXx right on the money! Its all claymation.

[@Yabuddy53]

They’re are encased in bunkers with super thick lead lining and glass

[@Yabuddy53]

@xXLogicXx nah you can see the heat vaporize everything it touches before the shockwave comes. It was real

[@MCygni]

@xXLogicXx Tell that to all the soldiers that died from cancers and complications from being that close to the bomb.

[@aloneinthedark9320]

Millions and Billions of dollars spent on how to kill each other. We can only speculate how amazing this world would have been if this money were spent on children, the planet and peace.

[@wizzlemane7308]

The guys in the trenches said they could see through their skin like an X-ray when the bomb went off because of the intense light and whatever else.

[@JohnJames_23]

Heard this left your shadow imprinted on the ground too

[@dikraneg]

Because they did not wear protective goggles. Makes total sense.

[@loiuhuiygny7guyguiygk]

how are the cameras not even moving from the explosion and the houses are obliterated ? hmm

[@erubairtkai]

I was shocked to see the power poles and lines somehow sprung back up, when clearly the blast footage shows they were blown away completely. Also palm trees still had srouted palm leaves, what an amazing plant. I'm definitely hiding behind the palm trees if we were threaten with such an event. Oh, and let's not forget how tough and durable the camera rolls were back then, totally unaffected by the radiation. 🤔😭

[@Sandwich13455]

And the car that appears like magic just before the blast with the leaf blower 😅

[@marcv2648]

You're safe in a concrete basement too. If you have a clean supply of food and water you're in good shape. Most fallout is gone within a month. Almost completely gone within a year.

[@RBweb24]

​@@Sandwich13455what car? Can you give a time in the video?

[@Sandwich13455]

@@RBweb24 JR Highlights "did they fake the nuclear bomb tests".

[@RBweb24]

@@Sandwich13455 I watched this video because I heard about the car and wanted to see it, it wasn't in this unless I missed something

[@Jivey-Knight]

Just get into a fridge and you will be safe

[@maxrobotattack9050]

why is there only 2 comments

[@ProjectOverseer]

The cameras are encased in thick concrete with inch thick filters.not all the cameras survived. The blast zone is actually a mile away.

[@qdontae6]

The way the power lines flew back 😱

[@SLYFOX-GAMING]

Suction of pressure back

[@Lynxspirit59]

I remember watching these just before we did duck and cover drills. In kindergarten I knew getting under my desk and putting my head between my knees was pointless.

[@Livechill777]

And now them hills have eyes

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

"It's just a prank bro" The prank:

[@otronplus]

Me: I didn't think it would explode if I eat the Twenty-fifth Big Mac... * *I take a bite* * Me: 1:33

[@Алексей-л5э3и]

Что вы всем своим стадом там не собрались каким нибудь гей порадом......

[@Алексей-л5э3и]

Да🖕

[@stellarsideconference2973]

Wait, so what is the camera made of to withstand a nuclear bomb? Everything else was incinerated 😂

[@orazin4555]

The camera is inside a tower made of reinforced concrete and steel

[@Robdobalina]

@@orazin4555ok mate 🤣

[@ct92404]

​@@RobdobalinaLet me guess, you think the Earth is flat 🙄

[@jonahsmedley3266]

Wild that they're bragging about how close they put guys to it 😂

[@hussainalfadly2432]

Nuke town

[@renoafrido7637]

Why the video backsound like Tom & Jerry backsound

[@austinnohrer1477]

What's crazy is everything got destroyed or peeled apart but not the cameras what the f***😂😭😂😂🧐

[@austinnohrer1477]

Must be nuclear cameras 😭😂😂😂😂😂😂🥸

[@TheTGOAC]

Big metal boxes they was sitting in govna

[@Machiave11i]

Looks like a bunch of hooey to me.

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

You know it's real, because it looks so fake!

[@PartnershipsForYou]

Jesus the schizos are in full swing today

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

@@PartnershipsForYou Oh look, it's an unqualified internet psychiatrist! Just what we needed!

[@davidcipolla4036]

@@Michael-Archonaeus qualified, unqualified what does any of that matter anyway really? That guy can claim whatever he wants, could it be that it takes one to know one, therefore he's really the so-called schizophrenic? 🤷‍♂️ keep the questions and critical thinking coming brothers & sisters! 💯

[@ct92404]

@@davidcipolla4036 And the Earth is flat, and lizard people are taking over the world, right? 😂

[@funny_guy0]

I know if there were citizens living in that area that they were evacuated, but imagine if they werent "Mommy, whats that" "Son get down."

[@firebird5288]

Protective clothing? They're wearing gloves. 😉

[@wednesday5175]

And at about 3:12 they're not even wearing the gas masks anymore. Guess the radiation right after the blast isn't as bad as we thought? 🤔

[@Medi_us]

They all died from cancer. Even those who lived no where near the site was effected (my grandpa) they told them it was fine to play in the ashes

[@wednesday5175]

@@Medi_us that's so horrible. I'm sorry that happened to your grandfather.

[@zobenny8290]

人类这种物种存在的意义是啥 ？如果相互毁灭是人类的归宿的话...

[@battlebuddy4517]

Humans are humans we do harmful acts to each other

[@ohhtherinegan2805]

But all cameras still survive😂😂😂😂

[@andrekirk2166]

Was Superman recording this with his super camera from Krypton

[@topgracz76battlefield33]

Fake.

[@korbenbutterworth3479]

It isn’t this is a real nuclear test that occurred in nevada

[@paulanderson7796]

@@korbenbutterworth3479 It's a nuclear test but I do not believe it to be a fusion bomb.

[@puppiesarepower3682]

Why did this show up under wimmin? 😂

[@King_mctony]

I don't think there's gonna be peace as long as weapons of mass destruction exist for there's always gonna be that one guy who wants to test it on human beings or others who wanna rule over others. But otherwise I liked the video.

[@tjguy7169]

They dont exist.

[@trooper1793]

@xXLogicXx critical thinking? Or little to no thinking at all.

[@davy3085]

Shut up

[@BeatlesMike007]

On the contrary the only reason WW3 hasn’t happened is because of these weapons. Mutually Assured Destruction has its pros and cons.

[@xavierzlotorowiez316]

this was extremly deep

[@MrDetroit1701]

1:31 please pull around to the next window!

[@TheECuse]

The footage from 2:02 is amazing, you can see the blast and shockwave. Would like to see the complete footage from that angle

[@AnkhAnanku]

It’s unique! But it goes white at the end. I have to assume camera didn’t survive…

[@eightball6553]

“We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says ‘now I am become death. The destroyer of worlds’” Robert Oppenheimer

[@bujolchris]

cameras were made tough back then, Nuclear explosion doesn’t even affect them.

[@thebeanbandit8259]

Of course they probably also had like a foot or more of concrete and steel plus probably lead lining to protect them but yea they were built very well

[@thebeanbandit8259]

@@dantesparda7719 make it thick enough plus specifically design it to be less affected by the shockwave and it could survive the blast

[@idot3331]

@@dantesparda7719 Jesus Christ, the mental asylum security is really lacking recently. What's with all the schizos in the comments?

[@Medi_us]

@@dantesparda7719 you do realize, with the force of the blast being as fast as it is, the heat wouldn’t have enough time to truly harm the metal that the camera was most likely surrounded in. Unlike the roofing which stayed, the wood of the house which is a compostable material complete disintegrated.

[@ct92404]

@@dantesparda7719

[@Graz-00]

1:53 skibbity bop mm dada

[@cakfarm7816]

True story: People still believe this crap today. 😶

[@paulanderson7796]

Sadly, many do. Fusion type bombs are pure fantasy. Fissile ones are entirely plausible. Even if H bombs were possible, there is no way this footage is genuine.

[@ct92404]

Let me guess, you think the Earth is flat, you believe in "chemtrails", and you're an anti-vaxxer...

[@paulanderson7796]

Let's firstly dispel the notion of belief, for it is not relevant in a scientific context. Earth flat? There's no way the sun could rise and set and different times of day, at different times of the year, at different locations around the planet if the Earth was flat. Chemtrails? Anyone in a position of power who wants to poison us and authorises the use of airborne toxins would also be poisoning themselves. Vaccines. I'm not an anti-vaxxer in general,. though I have outright declined the so-called "COVID" "vaccines". They are un-tested and in my opinion, unnecessary.

[@Thunderhead357]

After WW3 those unlucky enough survive the blast of a nuclear bomb will fight WW4 with sticks and stones. Hell on earth these bombs don't just kill they annihilate