Castle bravo 15 Mt 1954

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[@maksphoto78]

It was designed to have around 5mt yield, but due to an unexpected reaction with a Lithium isotope, it was 3 times that. A huge miscalculation, and a very bad radioactive fallout.

[@nicholasmaude6906]

Actually the design yield was 6MT.

[@kennethhill613]

Wasn't Tsar Bomba really 58.6 megatons?

[@maksphoto78]

@@kennethhill613 This is not Tsar Bomba.

[@nicholasmaude6906]

@@kennethhill613 The Soviets designed it as a 50MT device (Derated from its original 100MT design yield) and the US detected it later on from airborne samples with the resulting large margin of error giving them the 58MT result. But this was the Cold War and if the US publicly said it was 58MT then why quibble?

[@kennethhill613]

@@maksphoto78 I know it's Castle Bravo.

[@TheADzioba]

When you ask for 6 megatons, but you instead get 15.

[@fbi6389]

Real

[@freetrade8830]

"Ooops."

[@gitpicker9933]

They knew damn well it was 15 MT. They just had to abide on paper.

[@Glostahdude]

The worlds first real nuclear accident….. they were totally unprepared for a blast of this size. Luckily prudent planning kept most out of harms way

[@johngeiger3770]

In other words, when "safe viewing distance" suddenly downgrades to "danger close". Oopsie daisies!

[@jaypers232]

This must have been insane to see in person. You can’t fathom scale like that.

[@Netravick]

not to mention the sound and heat.

[@geomcc39]

I'm sure many of the scientist felt Terror !

[@hazzard77]

The video has been slowed down for dramatic effect. Look at the vibration of the wingtip.

[@thedarkflowkiller]

@@Netravick Actually, unlike what you know about explosions, the sounds would be very very very underwhelming. Just a loud clapping boom, but not a deep one like with traditionnal explosives. Then a very low rumble. But nothing like what you would expect.

[@timwatley4793]

@@hazzard77 I don't think it's slowed and I don't think the view is from a plane.

[@strikeleather6503]

I watched a documentary on this. The men in the nearest underground bunkers on the nearest island monitoring stuff said it felt like the earth was coming apart. The explosion actually caused cracks in the concrete even though the bunkers were deepl underground.

[@strikeleather6503]

I can't remember now. It was screened here in the UK a while ago. But I do remember them interviewing the men in the nearest bunker and they said how completely terrifying it was to see the cracks appearing in the concrete and thinking they might not be safe.

[@alexyo2440]

Crazy how none of them got irradiated. Science of nukes sure is interesting. Regular splodies wouldn't do this, only an isotope reaction that can be done in a special lab and not by anybody else. That's science!

[@bailey2517]

​@@strikeleather6503 That's absolutely WILD. I love this type of stuff because it's just so insane that everything about it blows my mind.

[@strikeleather6503]

I think we forget just how powerful these weapons are. We really wouldn't want to be within any distance where we are not incinerated instantly! ​@bailey2517

[@Rgskgbgerboydcxbkgh]

@@bailey2517same here,

[@garethmurtagh2814]

That music goes so well with it and emphasises the “obscene beauty” of the film!

[@aktchungrabanio6467]

Please allow yourself to explain why

[@MattH-wg7ou]

​@@aktchungrabanio6467 because thats his opinion. Tf is your problem with it?

[@dan_hitchman007]

Emphasis on "obscene."

[@AugustusRex-nk8ze]

Afraid so.

[@sfsarj6877]

There is something darkly compelling about thermo nuclear weapons and yes an 'obscene beauty' The deeply depraved nature of human beings has only sunk this low in less than 100 yrs We managed to exist on this plant for thousands of years without annihilating each other in one moment of madness Before the 2nd world War we couldn't destroy the whole world in half an hour Now we can This is one day going to happen as the people who remember the cold war and how scary it all was dies I was born in the 60s and was terrified of all out nuclear war in the 80s Luckily Reagan and Gorbachev came to their senses and peace between the 2 superpowers reigned For 30 yrs - until now 😢

[@trixxite]

The music really gives the feeling of "what have we unleashed on this world?"

[@IkKorp]

it also resembles parts of oppenheimer ost

[@JebDMan]

I think it's from the soundtrack from the game Defcon

[@Moneynis]

I still can’t believe that there were scientists on that island, deep inside a bunker who barely survived with no life threatening radiation sickness.

[@oldfatbastad6053]

it was a chain of islands and they were on the furthest away

[@maxwellgriffith]

And they evacuated on a helicopter

[@oldfatbastad6053]

@@maxwellgriffith i think they did that as it exploded 😁

[@RichardNixonsHippieRemoval]

@@oldfatbastad6053 Nah. They were down in that bunker for a while. Possibly a few days. There's a video on it; told by the guys who were on the ships and in the bunker.

[@Gumshrud1]

they were in the 'firing bunker' approx 25 miles SE from Ground Zero. It got hot [radioactive] inside but they were able to escape with a little REM, Roengten Equivalent Man.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/moqtZn2cp7Bqgac

[@straywolf77]

Too bad we didn't have satellites during that time to be able to see what it would have looked like from low orbit. Must've been one heck of a show.

[@EarthChampion_TophBeifong]

Have you seen the plane footage? Incredible

[@roquefortfiles]

Watch the ending of Dr Strangelove. This was photographed from a circling aircraft about 50 miles away.

[@codyhaar1966]

How have I not seen this before? This is some of the most amazing footage ever. Literally. We essentially created a star on the Earth for a split second.

[@nuntana2]

Sort of, although our 'little' sun burns through something like 4 million tons of hydrogen every second to shine, converting 600 million tons of hydrogen to 596 million tons of helium. Castle Bravo core was something like 400kg. lol

[@adriandalton82]

And stars are fusion. The bomb is fission.

[@codyhaar1966]

@@adriandalton82 Hydrogen Bombs like Castle Bravo are also known as Fusion Bombs.

[@sighfly2928]

Yes it looked indistinguishable from a sunrise/sunset for a good few frames

[@adriandalton82]

@@codyhaar1966 yes I do stand corrected. I’ve been listening to hours and hours on fusion tech for power rather than weapons development and had that stuck in my head.

[@SurfTheSkyline]

Hearing about how the fireball just kept growing and trying to visualize that and then actually seeing it demonstrates how hard to comprehend the magnitude of this stuff really is. It is crazy to think about how this footage is analogous to me sitting in the town I went to college and seeing the explosion detonated over my hometown. What I wouldn't give to have witnessed something on this scale as it happened and what I wouldn't give to ensure nobody ever has to moving forward.

[@0heck]

How far away was this from the detonation sight? Read the fireball when detonated was just over 4 miles wide, and doubled as it rose.

[@newq]

Yeah, that's the thing, isn't it? I'd love to see an atomic detonation if I could be completely assured of my own safety and the safety of others and if there was some way to know the environmental harm would be negligible etc etc. I want to see an atom bomb go off, but I don't want one to ever go off ever again on this planet.

[@borntoclimb7116]

And the camera was more than 30 kilometers away

[@Casperdghost618]

They are at least 50 miles away​@@borntoclimb7116

[@1992jamo]

It was just so hot in that millisecond of reaction, that ~60 cubic miles of air got white hot and looked like hellfire. Truly something I hope is never used against people.

[@Gumshrud1]

My dad was there as a contractor for Holmes and Narver, Inc building infrastructure he was a civilian and an expert carpenter. At the time of the blast all contractors and others were relocated on a ship, I've forgotten the name, about 40 nautical miles from ground zero. He told me even where he was the fallout came out of the sky like snow. He said the colors were unbelievable in magnificent irradiant purples, blues, reds, greens, you name it, glowing in the growing mushroom. Gosh, I have his Castle Bravo badge, probably radioactive.

[@JesseReinosa]

He must've gotten ARS as well as everyone else 😢

[@carltabor6612]

Bless your father for his service to our country how was his health the rest of his life? I'm sure your aware you can be compensated.

[@torimig2151]

Thanks for your service sir

[@Gumshrud1]

Nasty. created the fictional Gojira [Godzilla} 1954. A Japanese fisherman on a small trowller 'the lucky dragon' was outside the US exclusion zone but got doused with lots of fallout, not knowing what, some tasted it, said it "(had)no taste and gritty),. of the 10+ ppl onboard, one died, the rest suffered the rest of their lives. Japan called it 'the 2nd Hiroshima'

[@Gumshrud1]

@@carltabor6612 EEOCOIPA, money doesn't matter. The hospital he was operated on threw away records they are required to keep [by law] for 7 years. I thought that's strange, anyhow. No records,, I don't bother with scams. Thanks for your kindness though. It is heartbreaking for everyone whom lose a parent.

[@BassMeister17]

Just to give a sense of the scale we're looking at here, the blast wave didn't become visible on the surface of the water until around 2:25. In a 1 megaton detonation, the blast wave travels at an initial velocity of around 450 meters per second (about 1000 mph/1600 kph/Mach 1.3), so with a 15 megaton bomb we can safely assume a higher initial velocity that slows down gradually. With all of that in mind, this camera is likely positioned somewhere around 60 miles/97 km away from the blast. TL;DR For the U.S. - detonated in New York City, this camera is in the vicinity of Trenton, NJ. For the U.K. - detonated in London, this camera is in the vicinity of Portsmouth For Japan - detonated in Nagoya, this camera is in the vicinity of Kyoto

[@TheKain202]

This is slowed down and played at around half speed. Easy to tell by the way water moves. Looking at the scale of the thing, and comparing it to recordings made from 50 nautical miles away, at attitudes of 12.000ft from monitoring aircraft, this seems to be recorded from around 15 miles away. For one thing, at 60 miles, as observed from ground level - the fireball would be below the horizon.

[@user-dq5xx9hi4q]

"Bravo’s thermal radiation was far more intense than expected. More than 30 miles away from Ground Zero on Bikini Atoll, sailors on board Navy ships said the heat was like having a blowtorch applied to their bodies."

[@user-dq5xx9hi4q]

@@TheKain202 Not slowed down. The water appears to move slow because (as you mentioned) the camera is in an airplane flying at 12,000 feet, over 2 miles above the ocean. At that altitude one can see over the horizon for a much greater distance.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

I don't think Japan needs a scale

[@callmeshaggy5166]

This is not from a plane at 10k or 12k feet, as you wouldn't be able to see ripples on the water. You'd also be able to distinguish the curvature of the earth from such heights with this landscape framing. Sorry flatearthers, this is clearly from a ship.

[@donm-tv8cm]

I can't imagine that profound feeling of "OOOPS!!!" that must have gone through the minds of the project organizers when they realized what they had done. 15 MT when expecting "only" 6 MT!

[@nathansullivan4433]

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds…”

[@Maxfr8]

Now, I am become gas, the destroyer of colons.

[@TheEnlightenedMalignancy]

Oy vey

[@Admiral_Dunt]

Imagine being one of the scientists looking at this and thinking "oh god my calculations were wrong"

[@info_fox]

Then when it didn't ignite the atmosphere being like... "Yeah, I meant for that to happen, surprise!"

[@stringercorrales6627]

Imagine not soy facing in front of it for TikTok clout. YOLO

[@neogenmatrix6162]

When you didn't realize Lithium-6 would make extra Tritium.

[@gruntabro1]

To much lithium-7

[@robinpage2730]

Actually the problematic isotope was lithium-7. It creates 2 neutrons instead of only 1 extra from lithium-6. The reaction of Li-7 is endothermic, so they thought it wouldn't contribute to the overall yield, but the extra neutrons accelerated the fission reaction, generating for more energy than was absorbed by the endothermic reaction. Massively increased neutron flux means massively increased yield.

[@neogenmatrix6162]

@@robinpage2730 yes, I just realized I typed a 6 and not a 7

[@info_fox]

@@robinpage2730 AKA More F'IN BIG BADA BOOM BABY!

[@robinpage2730]

@@info_fox a bunch of Japanese fishermen died from the radiation. That's no bueno, amigo

[@maxwellgriffith]

It would have been quite a sight to witness in person on the observation ships.

[@declandougan7243]

My grandfather was lucky (or unlucky) enough to experience it.

[@zae2193]

@@declandougan7243 Both. Lucky to see. Unlucky to experience.

[@Gumshrud1]

dad told me it was beyond belief an explosion could be so huge. tinkering with the fabric of the universe.

[@torimig2151]

That had to be extremely loud like thuder

[@zaneoosthuizen8613]

"In mere seconds sailors sensed that something unspeakably wrong was occurring...Battle hardened men who served in world war 2 went to thier knees and prayed.." This was one hell of a disaster

[@elysiumdevice]

The Hindenburg is like nothing anymore.

[@alexbozzi6393]

That music definitely has that 'end of the world' vibe, that "oh, hell, what did I just do?" feeling.

[@danielcadwell9812]

I find it strange that there's people out there who think nukes aren't even real.

[@charleskendall6401]

And some think the earth is flat to

[@coryboy345]

Well certainly not anyone from Hiroshima or Nagasaki

[@trap4dafu2k0fit]

The earth is flat and nukes are fake. Space and neutral destruction are both used to instill fear, to control people.

[@aktchungrabanio6467]

@@charleskendall6401 Some others think celebrities are role models

[@charleskendall6401]

@@aktchungrabanio6467 yup!!!

[@samuelg3586]

Most people have no comprehension of how powerful these weapons truly are.

[@hristohristov7491]

How many people you think have? Hopefully will remain so.

[@jcriley7695]

absolutely frightning

[@mtheory85]

Music by Brian Eno Special effects by Edward Teller

[@sammycool4049]

Castle bravo was expected to detonate with a yield of about 5 Megatons of TNT, but due to an unexpected reaction among the thought to be inert Lithium-7, ended up exploding with a yield of 14.8 Megatons. As a result, the soldiers and sailors that were there to witness the test, many of whom where veterans of Korea and WW2, were far too close to ground zero. These men, hardened veterans who had stared down death a dozen times, dropped to their knees and prayed.

[@Gallagherfreak100]

An unforeseen reaction converted the Lithium 7, to Lithium 6, which was able to "join in" the fusion reaction.

[@jasonkinzie8835]

Watching this made me feel profoundly sad. It feels like I'm watching the end of the world.

[@tomthebomb557]

A line from an old poem comes to mind watching this.." My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look upon my works ye Mighty and dispair!"

[@frednone]

The second part of that is even more appropriate for this "... and nothing else remained."

[@DTWX]

And after that, "Behold, I have become Death. Destroyer of Worlds." 💥

[@charaicommenternotalt]

b734k1ng b4d

[@terrodar19]

Thats what Wayland’s android ‘david’ said before unleashing the ‘black goo’ in alien:covenant

[@richardluce775]

The biggest “Oh Sh*t” moment in the US nuclear test program.

[@SynchronizorVideos]

"Uhhh... Hey Bob, you remembered to carry the one, right?"

[@elysiumdevice]

Uh maybe it was exponent of 3 instead of 2. Oh well. Lol

[@hibahprice6887]

For what!

[@sferrin2]

All that from something smaller than a car.

[@newq]

If you pause it about 13 seconds in, it just looks like a beautiful sunrise. :(

[@w.w77]

The mushroom cloud reached a height of 47,000 feet (14,000 m) and a diameter of 7 miles (11 km) in about a minute, a height of 130,000 feet (40 km) and 62 mi (100 km) in diameter in less than 10 minutes and was expanding at more than 100 meters per second (360 km/h; 220 mph)

[@masteroforion7450]

Thats unbelievable such a power

[@technologic21]

Yup. On par with the power of a Phreatic eruption from a supervolcano.

[@killaronjones3933]

are we going to ignore the sick ass lightning that appears around the blast in the first second

[@Arch3an]

What part of the screen?

[@FuckYou8495]

@@Arch3anare you blind

[@Arch3an]

@@FuckYou8495 I couldn't see it on my phone.

[@MetroCop2077]

Wtf is that 😮😮😮

[@Arch3an]

@@FuckYou8495 I couldn't see it on my phone 😆

[@HNukewinterAgency]

Did anyone also see the "rays" at the beginning of 0:00 ?? Can anyone explain this phenomenon to me?

[@liden77]

Lightning discharges, in part due to gamma radiation ionizing the surrounding atmosphere

[@Foxxorz]

Could also be lint on the film.

[@topsmondongo]

I think it can be the camera trying to adapt to the new light

[@ShawnLamont1997]

First comment legit explains it 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@mcfeddle]

​@@topsmondongoCameras didn't work like that back then, especially ones used for nuclear test footage.

[@KhalifahLeader]

very beautiful ambient

[@w.w77]

Even though the Russian Tszar Bomba was 50my and had a massive perfectly shaped mushroom cloud, castle bravo was more frightening just by the sheer size of the fireball that was created. It was also beautiful to look at but absolutely leathal.

[@michaelblankenau6598]

Are you sure it wax lethal ?

[@VeraBrightfeather]

Yes. A man on a fishing boat from Japan died of radiation sickness, and residents of the Marshall Islands are still dying from radiation-induced cancers.

[@mcfeddle]

​@@michaelblankenau6598did you just ask if a megaton-scale thermonuclear bomb was lethal? Nay, any nuclear device, fission or fusion?

[@user-ys7ab2fg3s]

Magnificent.

[@KING-ZEAL]

I don't think people can conceive how big even a single megaton can be.

[@NeoMullen]

Is this footage in real time? Incredible how you see the explosion growing by the minute and the shockwave didn't even hit the camera by the end of the video. To think that the Tsar Bomba was almost 4 (FOUR!!) times larger than this monster...

[@triasmmxiii2869]

I think it's almost half speed

[@TheKain202]

Around 30% bigger actually. Yield's relation to size of the explosion isn't a linear one, there's huge diminishing returns involved. To put it in perspective, Castle Bravo had a thousand times greater yield than Little Boy, yet it sure as hell didn't produce an explosion a thousand times bigger. Just like 1 ton of TNT doesn't produce a blast a thousand times greater than 1kg.

[@NeoMullen]

@@TheKain202 thanks for the clarification!

[@justindixon7441]

Tsar was also airburst. This was ground burst.

[@eddietat95]

The slow movement of the ocean waves gives it away as slow mo

[@jimsanders4412]

Scary stuff for sure! I was born in’53, so I grew up in the “Duck and Cover” mentality, and drills in elementary school. I also remember the Civil Defense fallout shelters at different locations around town.

[@bigmoose7]

It just keeps getting brighter and brighter

[@TIRFemcel]

beautiful

[@scottsmith491]

Absolutely incredible!!😱🤯

[@ConnorwithanO]

Did anyone else notice the lightning surrounding the fireball in the first second?

[@PansiusiakPiotr]

Yes I see this too

[@lj5190]

Those are smoke trails from rockets fired off before the blast. They are used to measure the size of the explosion.

[@8beef4u]

@@lj5190 No this is arcing in the atmosphere from the ionization of the air, just like lightning, except from the gamma rays emitted from the bomb.

[@chriswilson9331]

The music and video are haunting. Well done!

[@eric9095]

Imagine working on a ship, your backside turned away as you are working ontop of the deck, you are cold in the morning sunrise and the heat warms your skin suddenly, light all around appears as you turn expecting to see the sun peaking over the horizon, instead this is your view.

[@alan1jthomas]

Based on other footage of Bravo, this appears to be 0.5X speed.

[@TD_JR]

Holy shit... I never realized there were multiple lightning bolts to the left and right of the initial blast... before one second even elapses.

[@toolivan]

Un espectáculo hipnótico y mortal 😮

[@clandeszipp4564]

Imagine this falling some 30 km (20 miles) upwind from you. RIP

[@007Xmaster]

The terrifying beauty of atomic explosions

[@fathanfachri]

And so, we've awakened something

[@DanielDaniel1]

Do you think you could upload some real-time speed videos?

[@AllisterCaine]

Thats what i always asked myself. Is this real time? But i guess so. An asteroid moves 40km/second. But from space it would look like it slowly tumbles into earth. Viewing this from far away gives perspective to how immense this was. It was moving hundreds of meters per second. But you have to realize the fireball rose up to 14km and more into the stratosphere.

[@duomaxwell6523]

It looked gorgeous.

[@Badassest]

Let this be a warning for anyone that wants to eat spicy food and light their farts.

[@ManicPixie15]

I've been looking at nuclear test footage for 20 years (ever since I was 13). And yet, I've never seen this footage. I guess more keeps coming out as time goes on?

[@isoSw1fty]

I think so. Ive always been obsessed with nuclear footage and have also never seen this footage. Newly declassified or found forgotten footage is my bet.

[@jimihendrix731]

The lightning in the very first frame is quite interesting.

[@fjellgutten1603]

Thats the EMP removing all current from the clouds

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

'Hey Dave, is it supposed to be that big?'

[@thesrndude6588]

"Ah yes its just 5mt, nothing can go wrong" Ended up being the most biggest "oof" moment in existence of mankind

[@Toxic2T]

the soundtrack/music holy shit.

[@b1lleman]

I'd like to know at what speed this has been recorded. It doesn't look like real time maybe 50% or so ?

[@GMC79]

Possibly yeah because the waves look more normal speed when played at 1.5x

[@b1lleman]

@@GMC79 Yes maybe I would guess 2.0x would to be right but your guess is as good as mine ;-)

[@Sped55]

i saw another version of this footage and it was going like 4x faster

[@infernoreviews2529]

It just keeps on glowing...

[@b1lleman]

This is some scary stuff 😱

[@funkydozer]

No more internet, no more cell phones, no more health, comfort or security. The lucky ones will already be gone. The majority will suffer. It’s coming. None are ready for it.

[@bogenbrunsson2141]

Fingers crossed

[@jasonahdjfhsdfg]

They won’t be lucky as they are then to be judged on where they will spend eternity.

[@bogenbrunsson2141]

@@jasonahdjfhsdfg in Burundi

[@bogenbrunsson2141]

@@markdaugherty5222 how do u know this??

[@markdaugherty5222]

@@bogenbrunsson2141 what do you think, the baltimore bridge disaster was an accident? You saw the movie The Sum of all Fears? They snuck a nuclear weapon into America through the Port of Baltimore in that movie the same place that bridge disaster happened you think that's a coincidence? They tried to get america and russia to fight each other in that movie. Who do you think they are going to blame it on? Putin's dumb ass is bragging about how stealthy his missiles are.

[@Hubieee]

Just look at the very first frame… stunning.

[@QwadLuzr]

Bravo was so beautiful.

[@briangman3]

This was a great value they paid for 6Mtons and got 15Mtons, steal of a deal

[@justincase01]

That's like ordering the value meal cheeseburger and they accidentally tossed in a BigMac and large Fries.

[@davidweyer79]

Lesson: careful with the amount of charcoal lighter fluid you apply before lighting!

[@cv507]

is that a pröpelläir left ? so b36?? this was pröbäbblie över 30 maybe 70 km öFF ^^

[@silentstreamr]

"here come's the sun."

[@SirPeekALot_]

what is the lightning in the very first second of the video? how does it happen?

[@maksphoto78]

Ionisation of air by the intense radiation from the blast.

[@SirPeekALot_]

@@maksphoto78 okay thank you

[@michaellynes3540]

And thus, Godzilla, the King of the Monsters, was born.

[@mrgvin2003]

It looks like this is the colored version (manipulated later on) of the original video that was in monochrome...as had read somewhere like the original footage was in monochrome...

[@Nomadnetic]

Beautiful and absolutely horrifying.

[@geomcc39]

Imagine the Terror the scientist had when it exceeded the 5mt yield. I wonder how many of the builders & scientist of the Bombs were thinking this is the end of man !

[@christophermyers4487]

Wish they occasionally still did these, just for the awe factor. Just do it in the desert once every 5 years

[@Bizzmark11]

Where did you get this footage?

[@studentloans2488]

For reference, the diameter of the fireball/mushroom cloud @ about 1 minute is is ~15km wide. At the end of the video, about ~30km. 10 minutes after detonation the mushroom cloud was about 100km in diameter.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

That's kinda big

[@tonybigalow3236]

Probably the most beautiful nucleare explosion ever recorded

[@aktchungrabanio6467]

There is no beauty in death, only PASSION

[@andreasschmidt2739]

You´re so sick....🤮 There so no beaty in it only horror and madness...

[@princesymenouh2949]

The great Britain HBomb test is visually beautiful as well

[@andreasschmidt2739]

@@princesymenouh2949 Why is something that could kill 100,000 people at once beatiful ??

[@TIRFemcel]

@@andreasschmidt2739 that's why it's beautiful

[@richardwatts4660]

70 years ago today (1st March), and the incredible details / footage of this explosion still continue to be talked about. The sheer scale of the test is just astounding, especially when you realise that what you are seeing here is effectively a thermonuclear sun, growing way beyond the scale of its original predicted yield, out of control due to human error.

[@babayagaslobbedaknobba]

*Soooo beautiful.....*

[@nicolaslabra2225]

is this regular speed, or is it slowed down ?

[@mcfeddle]

It's slowed by 50%. Play it at 2x speed and you will see an accurate display of the detonation. The might of it is unfathomable.

[@purplehazeadam]

the fact that this is real footage is frightening. i cant even imagine using this on a country. hell, even using the b83 on anyone would mean the us would receive a nuke as well and from there its pretty much ggs

[@elysiumdevice]

Exactly, those yields are not practical whatsoever for real war and practical military combat tactics. The dial-a-yield feature on the B-61 makes it much more practical, and way more likely it will ever see any use, and to justify the extreme cost and regular maintenance to taxpayers. I personally would consider nuclear weapon use to neutralize far worse biological weapons, where the radiation is ideal to sterilize anything and everything around. The emp wave from space detonations via high altitude missile, which accelerates the particles of the fission/fusion fuel to near the speed of light relative to mass, and the 20 -30 seconds of electromagnetic interferance which results on the ground actually fmay be enough to neutralize some pathogens environmentally, like a UVC germicidal lamp, but more research is needed

[@elysiumdevice]

There should not be any diseases lingering in the environment after all that nuclear testing in 50s and 60s. I can wish.

[@Line_Horizon]

This is wonderful!

[@florin-titusniculescu5871]

now that i found out nukes release music as well , i say we should do that regularly

[@sebieffer8595]

This is like a supernova, amazing to see, dangerous for feel

[@AryanneHoofler]

Im left wondering what is happening to the ocean around the device. Some is turned into plasma with the island I'd say. But how far out does the water stop being vaporized? Is the sea floor left bare and molten? When the water tries to wash back, is it a boiling mess for several minutes?

[@AllisterCaine]

Pretty sure your assumptions are spot on. The energy released is unfathomable. It is like lighting up a little sun.

[@user-if2oj1jt6n]

Солнышко встает...

[@curvedvector]

As children we underestimated the explosive potential of making our own M-80. We combined enough firecracker powder to fill an aluminum 35mm film can. Placed a fuse in a tiny predrilled hole, lit it and ran. We were shocked that it actually exploded and more shocked at its report. Our guardian angels were with us. Undisciplined curiosity can be dangerous.

[@heatison11]

Every time I eat Taco Bell....

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

First came the gas, then the flash, the Earth rumples.

[@dwizzleusa4202]

60 miles in diameter....scary

[@rjv6390able]

Does anyone know approximately how many miles out this video was taken from?

[@Spankerdig1]

Beautiful

[@OperationRedSaturn1984]

Here before Castle Bravo Season 2 comes out... Or down

[@Brick8954]

Oh my god. I hope humanity never uses nuclear weapons offensively again.

[@antoniodavirbrito]

The World is the brink to use.Russia can do it against Ukraine.

[@angrydragon4574]

It's because of mutually assured destruction that we likely will never see that happen. I don't think any sane person high up in military will allow it.

[@YootoobSteve123]

I cannot wrap my head around the scale of this thing. I just can't.

[@michaelhooper6227]

U know their heart dropped when it kept growing beyond what they expected

[@MrBurgerphone1014]

An accidental 3-stage bomb.

[@gavinperch9413]

Accidental 3 stage???

[@exactbanksy9901]

@@gavinperch9413an unexpected reaction cause the megaton yield to be about 3-4x times bigger than it was originally intended so the fallout was higher than expected and so was the blast

[@gavinperch9413]

@@exactbanksy9901 right, but that's not what a three stage bomb means. Three stage bombs use a fission primary, a fusion secondary, and another fusion tertiary. That's not happening on accident.

[@eracer1111]

@@gavinperch9413 I thought it was a fission tertiary? 1. A (relatively) small fission bomb known as the "primary" explodes. 2. Energy released in the primary is transferred to the secondary (or fusion) stage. This energy compresses the fusion fuel and sparkplug; the compressed sparkplug becomes supercritical and undergoes a fission chain reaction, further heating the compressed fusion fuel to a high enough temperature to induce fusion. 3. Energy released by the fusion events continues heating the fuel, keeping the reaction going. 4. The fusion fuel of the secondary stage may be surrounded by a layer of additional fuel that undergoes fission when hit by the neutrons from the reactions within. These fission events account for about half of the total energy released in typical designs.

[@gavinperch9413]

@@eracer1111 It sounds like what you are describing is a "dirty" variant of a two stage bomb. The secondary may or may not include fission as the final process (dirty vs clean) however it would still be two stages.

[@danielbrstak5730]

Name of the music please.

[@mcfeddle]

"At The Foot Of The Sphinx" by Twin Musicom A part of a free music library, likely the reason why it's featured in this video.

[@alangrant5684]

How would that look from space?

[@borntoclimb7116]

1:14 what a moment, pure horror

[@BansheeRiderNL]

The big one....