Castle Bravo

This is a clip of the Castle Bravo nuclear test detonated February 28, 1954 (according to the DoE) at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Proving Ground or March 1, 1954. Castle Bravo at 15 Megatons (MT) was the largest nuclear test conducted by the United States. Used in "Trinity and Beyond" and "Atomic Filmmakers."
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[@nitronixus9402]

When its 1954 but your camera is from 2014.

[@JShades18]

{Xyro} Nitronixus LOL

[@benjaminrobledo5466]

That's what I thought!!!

[@TheHawk1202]

In facto back in 1954 they could make footage with exceptional quality. But if nowadays we can only see these footage with so poor quality it's because it's copies from the raw footage that have been copied and then copied again, and every time the quality is getting worse.

[@romanbattan5934]

That's the power of good correction. The guy who licenses these clips is a professional film and color guy if you read his website. He worked on Star Wars. HA

[@RibasNath]

@Valek O'Keefe Nah man, I saw film restoration videos and people can repair various kinds of damage.

[@v26t96]

“That cloud looks like an elephant , honey.” “Well , that cloud looks like a mushroo-“

[@TheShadowless]

A man of culture I see 😁

[@rohanp1026]

cyanide and happiness?

[@dailymovies3246]

You stole that from Cyanide And Happiness

[@kreignorthrup7441]

Victor26 that literally never fails to make me laugh

[@texaspatriot2038]

This is honestly beautiful. I love this bomb

[@logancleary374]

Hydrogen bomb tests are wild. They have to film it from like 85 miles away and it turns the whole sky red. Absolutely insane weapons.

[@SK-tr1wo]

It’s a nuke not a bomb…

[@Unknown-jt1jo]

@@SK-tr1wo "nuke" is short for "nuclear bomb."

[@vidsguy]

@@SK-tr1wo😂

[@protalukoriginal4560]

​@@SK-tr1woso a nuke doesn't go "boom"???? Dumbnut

[@georgehenderson6118]

Whole sky isn't red, all these cameras have extremely dark filters on in order to see the bomb which is brighter than the sun. In reality everything was white light

[@ch3rl0b11n]

This is the most terrifying atomic explosion for some reason. The way it filmed, the way it looked, everything is terrifying about this bomb.

[@Chris-pq3wp]

It's almost apocalyptic

[@humbleascanbe2159]

There was one bigger than this ! It call the Tsar Bomba

[@hgyuuuuhj098]

A freaking hydrogen WMD. Of course it is terrifying

[@Huobaojiqi]

Yep and to think that this isn’t even close to the most powerful nuclear bomb to have been detonated..

[@IdealUser]

@@humbleascanbe2159 Bigger yes but the film quality of the explosion isn't as good as Castle Bravo's.

[@Drxp.]

0% nudity 0% swearing 100% bomb.

[@JonatasMonte]

Truth Bomb

[@M3d10cr3g4mer]

Love home or hate him he’s spitting straight fa- *BOOOM*

[@dangerzone4572]

0.2% plane noise

[@astrowind2873]

Best action movie I’ve ever seen

[@justicewarrior9187]

10000% CUM

[@Xander8260]

"That cloud looks like a cat." "That cloud looks like a carrot." "That cloud looks like a mushro-"

[@roquefortfiles]

Looks like the diseased brain of a mad scientist.

[@adenmitchell7633]

Booo unfunny comment

[@roquefortfiles]

@@adenmitchell7633 Really? it was said by a scientist who watched the bomb go off.

[@heavydancer387]

@@roquefortfiles dude, its from a cyanide and happiness short

[@roquefortfiles]

@@heavydancer387 Sorry, what?

[@kostyabenson4308]

The most mind blowing thing to me has always been that the *core* of the Sun itself is actually relatively cool in comparison to the epicenter of that explosion.

[@jaypaint4855]

@@k1osmait’s true. The temperature of the average hydrogen bomb is around 100 million at detonation for a timespan so small it is insignificant. The core of the Sun is estimated to hold a temperature of around 27 million.

[@k1osma]

@@jaypaint4855 i'm agree with you.

[@user-kz5jm8tn3w]

180000000 °F at it's center. @@joel-981

[@FSAPOJake]

Only for the first microsecond or so of the explosion. By the time the fireball is where you see in this film, it's "only" several thousand degrees in there.

[@johnherbst88]

I could discuss this shit for hours. It's fascinating from mining to enrichment to assembly to detonation. So many gigantic brains Involved. And to think all at a period in time with none or very little computer assistance.

[@goatmeal5779]

The guy recording this must have felt so many different emotions at once, imagine being there..

[@rustywilson7966]

Unprecedented existential terror

[@Staxx0]

I don’t think you would even be able to put it into words either. You would just have to be there.

[@IndoPhazrVX]

Nuke: * destroys entire island * Cameraman: /gamemode1

[@tiga9620]

Wait this is not minecraft

[@jeffreychandra912]

@@tiga9620 /give TowerDS_C R/whoooosh 1

[@SaltySilver]

@@jeffreychandra912 shut up redditor

[@jeffreychandra912]

@@SaltySilver /no_u spicy_meme

[@frazza5503]

/gamemode creative*

[@Jeff-cr9ho]

For anyone interested in the frame of reference: this footage was shot from 50 miles away. The width of the fireball is 4.5 miles in diameter

[@low_bldp4480]

50 nautical miles, maybe. At the end of this video, the mushroom cloud is more than 7 miles wide!

[@somebody4877]

@@low_bldp4480 thats insane

[@PiotrBarcz]

That's bigger than the whole town of Essex

[@DinoDudeDillon]

No no, it was 4.5 miles wide within a second of detonation. It went on to expand to nearly twice that.

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@DinoDudeDillon Really? Jeez

[@forbiddencrystalinternet6201]

The amount of time that fireball hangs in the air is terrifying, anything within 20 miles of it would be literally set on fire or burned beyond recognition. Yet somehow its so hypnotizing watching it. Truly astounding.

[@truthseeker2321]

That fireball was over 5 miles across too. Imagine how huge the Tsar bomb fireball was, at over 57 megatons.

[@scottfraser193]

I've heard the shockwave blast radius goes on for 50 miles

[@rokyhawk6753]

And people will say it is beautiful. No. Nothing about nuclear bombs are beautiful. They're destructive, and horrific. They should never be used again.

[@ShawnLamont1997]

@@truthseeker2321 Tsar was 50 Megatons but they had the capacity to build a 100 megaton bomb for propaganda but it was waaayyy to big

[@truthseeker2321]

@ShawnLamont1997 Yeah, you're right. I don't know where I got 57 from, unless it was a typo I didn't catch.

[@garethowen9219]

I think this is my favourite nuke video: well shot, high quality, and a clear view of the fireball.

[@crazycat1232]

It won't be your favorite when russia launches nuclear weapon to the united states if they continue to fuck with russia in the ukraine war.

[@ingorichter649]

But the early beginning of the event is missing. In "Trinity and Beyond" You can watch the primer explosion followed by the growth of the thermonuclear second stage fireball.

[@screennamenottaken2]

The visual along with the engine drone sound makes this a favorite of mine as well.

[@lessthan3chips642]

Everyone: *Dies* Camera man: /gamemode spectator

[@kappa6780]

True

[@ximitify]

Siet

[@groundsalt2199]

This was a test

[@petarramovpetar7509]

And creative

[@scrmecho8760]

Hha

[@charliegone1652]

When a camera from 1954 records better than the potato recordings of aliens, ghost and monsters from todays phones.

[@saltezers2242]

I wonder why hmmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmmm

[@catchavibecav1980]

bcs its edited, aliens he says, cringe.

[@amonkey4707]

@A. Null Lou Bricant dude chill its not his falt your girlfriend left you for another man

[@cancelpatrick4920]

@A. Null Lou Bricant alien? Cringe..

[@catchavibecav1980]

@A. Null Lou Bricant in life there is so much pain, why. don't u ask urself why?

[@bigsoup6240]

I feel like Castle Bravo was a moment where we were like. "What have we just made?" moment.

[@hoshyro]

The realisation came way before Castle Bravo was even a thing, as way back as Project Manhattan many of the leading scientists and engineers left the program for moral reasons, Oppenheimer himself almost committed suicide after understanding what they had just created

[@mightymac63]

Remember what Oppenheimer said after the Trinity test.."Now I have become death, the Destroyer of worlds"

[@woof7538]

Even back in the Manhattan Project, we questioned if we should have ever have made this.

[@ShawnLamont1997]

I think after 6 years of war we were looking for any desperate reason to end WW2 quick .. I don’t think this was intended to get into the hands of our enemies i believe they thought back in the day it was just a once (technically twice) thing just to get the war over with

[@PhilipTrouble]

@@woof7538Trinity was the point where the scientific community realized what a terrible mistake they have made. Castle Bravo was the point where government and military realized what a terrible mistake they have made

[@zabababa9969]

70 years from detonation of this monstrosity. I would sound like cliché guy who says i hope we never see these going off in our life times, but at this point where current situation is going on planet earth, it is like hoping someone who is suffering from cancer to recover from it. I hope reason and sanity prevails, no matter how much world has gone in opposite direction.

[@seria3416]

*How To Survive In Nuclear Explosion* Be a Camera Man

[@yuno2352]

Fridge .....

[@masterdanielm5821]

@@yuno2352 indiana jones reference?

[@comicaldays]

**Duck and Cover!**

[@MexicanBeann]

i Like Eugeo the camera man always live there basically immortal

[@od4361]

The camera man can survive anything.

[@grady879]

It's scary to think that Russia saw this and decided "we can do better" and they did.

[@PhilipReeder]

There's almost no limit to the size (power) they can detonate. The Soviet Tsar-Bomba was actually designed to be 100 MT's. But there was a problem. The blast would have been so massive, that the bomber crew sent to deliver it would have had no chance of surviving. So they scaled it back 50%. Essentially, the full yield version was undeliverable by bomber crews (suicide mission).

[@aggroknight4259]

Grady L. Appearantly the Tsar Bomb was so powerful, that some people in eastern Europe recieved burns from the heat generated. "Eastern Europe" may not be the best way to describe the distance, but my knowledge of global Geography is limited.

[@kaizov2940]

Grady L. If it makes you feel better the U.S. has the most powerful nuclear weapon in service. Not modern day Russia.

[@DreamyWoIf]

Not sure, Putin is probably hiding a Tsar somewhere :P

[@DraconX3]

The tsar was impractical. The bomber used to carry it had to be heavily modified. It was purely a proof of concept bomb. The difference between Russia and the US. One bolsters and blusters. The other thinks practically.

[@icedsmoke]

Men saw their bones appear as shadows through their living flesh. 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. The fireball was four miles in diameter and hotter than the surface of the sun. It rose at the rate of 1,000 feet per second, and created a mushroom cloud that eventually topped 130,000 feet above sea level.

[@RileyGoss]

They had to tone it down after this one.

[@kittycatcat6962]

@@RileyGoss just to add on a great comment, it was an accident because they made a mistake with the tritium, instead of evaporation it added another unstable element, the yield was supposed to to be 5 to 6 Mt, it was 2.5x larger at 15Mt a second Hiroshima irradiated 23 Japanese fisherman

[@Tenclave]

​@@kittycatcat6962this one is 15Mt not Kt

[@kittycatcat6962]

@@Tenclave yeah autocorrect is silly and still am too lazy to edit

[@ProvisionalPatrioticAlliance]

​@@kittycatcat6962only 23 this time huh?

[@hocuspocus1237]

This is the most terrifying detonation ever. Even if something like the Tsar Bomba was more powerful, the atmosphere of Castle Bravo is just something else. The hum of the plane, the shockwaves, the fireball. Horrifying

[@Firecat7409]

Look up tsar Bomba. Makea this look like a firecracker in comparison

[@flazerflint]

tsar bomba was not even recorded properly because of it's it's extreme radiation

[@Firecat7409]

@@flazerflint we at Consters museum of Godzilla are unsure whether the Russians were looking to split the atom or the earth with this one 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shadesoftime]

@@flazerflint it's probably not even that, it's probably that the recordings weren't as public as the ones in the us + it was harder to get good equipment in ussr

[@Gabe_52967]

To show you the power of Flex Tape, I sawed this atom in half!

[@randomentertainment8927]

Phil, NOO... *earth explodes*

[@xandyboi551]

thats a lotta damage

[@antagonisingbison287]

Love ur comment lmao

[@ibeatanelderlywomantodeath8295]

Phil was just following orders

[@antonioskrobo8526]

Big brain time

[@Avis_Victoriae]

>Opens window. >Sees this outside. >FeelsBadMan.jpg >Shuts window.

[@angrymanmike9285]

So that's how Edgar died.

[@ogdroke8300]

-opens window -smells air -sky turns red -big boy goes KABOOM -screams in terror -turns body to a over cooked steak -window shatters and is gone -closes ashes of window -slips on a banana -dies a slow painful death

[@sebastiansantos1471]

> Opens windows > Searches for Bobs >Gets caught by fbi > Opens Glass Windows > Watches giant mushroom cloud > Feels bad man.jpg > Gets into a fridge... > Blasts indiana jones theme in headphones...

[@bounzl4200]

True poetry by Edgar himself

[@akio5035]

PogU 666 likes

[@doomed_marine3347]

Can't believe they teased Oppenheimer 70 years before the movie, bravo Nolan

[@DieKawaiiserin]

Castle Bravo Nolan

[@pockle7718]

My favorite quote from a movie/fiction was "Castle Bravo wasn't a test, they were trying to kill something." This video makes it so much more ominous

[@coolthings_1]

Godzilla?

[@ricardoacosta2456]

Actually the quote came from KONG SKULL ISLAND when John Goodman's character Dr. Randall was trying to get congress to fund the expedition to the island; because otherwise there would be no movie. So in a way this particular quote could sum up the entirety of the Monsterverse as a whole.

[@squidwardfromua]

SCP Base after containment breach?

[@chancekull]

@@ricardoacosta2456No it didn’t, the quote came from Godzilla 2014. They may have reiterated it in Kong Skull island but that’s not where it originated.

[@ricardoacosta2456]

@HogzillaGaming Thank you for correcting me. I just seem to remember remember the quote more from KONG SKULL ISLAND than from GODZILLA 2014. So anyways, thank you for correcting me.

[@ToonandBBfan]

The sound of the aircraft turbo props is spooky.....

[@l8tbraker]

+ToonandBBfan The sound is edited in after the fact. Not to mention the planes doing the photography at that time were not turbo props.

[@ToonandBBfan]

l8tbraker Thanx, it did sound like them though

[@pagjake]

+l8tbraker yes they were prop engines. if you search hard enough you can find which aircraft were used on said tests and they were prop engined aircraft. FACT

[@l8tbraker]

jake pagent I'm not saying they weren't prop engine sounds. I'm saying the sounds were added after the fact.

[@chandlerh2]

It could have been either a B36 peacemaker which was introduced in 1949 which had 6 4000HP prop engines or a modified B29

[@GodOfVictory501]

Whoever added that artificial aircraft engine sound is an evil genius. It's fuckin' terrifying.

[@l8tbraker]

Peter Kuran.

[@MarkTheMadMan]

so the noise is fake?

[@l8tbraker]

Markyboy28 Stock recordings added later. The number of these films with actual sound recorded at the time of the explosion can be counted on one hand. Sound recording in the field was an expensive and cumbersome process. The first actual live TV broadcast to capture the sound was in 1953. It can be found on You Tube.

[@MarkTheMadMan]

Thanks for that info. Out of curiosity, how far away was the plane from the explosion in this video?

[@l8tbraker]

Markyboy28 I'm thinking something like 75 miles. Other commenters may have hazarded a guess. I do know the fireball was 7 km across, and was visible over 400 km away.

[@monolitwoods]

To think all that power, all that destructive potential in a device smaller than a car, to produce a spectacle like this, it really is a thing of beauty and ingenuity.

[@jun31d_14]

It’s also terrifying that all this destructive power was created from something as small as a human brain.

[@azariahazariah4493]

Humans are the top g that’s why

[@ShawnLamont1997]

@@jun31d_14 now that scares me

[@inigobantok1579]

Castle bravo is actually a fusion warehouse kind of bomb

[@jasonkinzie8835]

@@azariahazariah4493 Until they blow themselves up. Then Cockroaches become the top g.

[@Theriodontia4945]

The scariest thing about this footage is that it is actually shot during the day. The bomb has released so much light that the camera exposure was forced to adjust to the point that day appeared as if night. You can't see any evidence of sunlight because this bomb is so bright!

[@MrSchwabentier]

Well it was 20min before sunrise, so not dark night, but also not really in daylight

[@dxitydevil]

That’s actually fucking insane

[@jrooooooooood]

The fact that this could be the last thing any of us see is terrifying

[@mobox4410]

@BlackWatchAmbush Plus it would just be downright cool. People announcing to your relatives and friends you died in a giant 30km wide flaming ball of death that came from the sky? Not bad.

[@saas52948]

Honestly i think the view is so cute but no problem when you out of radius lol

[@crogthecreator7290]

You wouldn’t see it the insides of your eyeballs would be vaporized along with your face hair and skin

[@ThnCampr-vv4sg]

@@crogthecreator7290 everything would be vaporized the intense heat of the blast would be so powerful your shadow would be stuck to the ground even years after the explosion you can see this with the Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions too

[@animesenpai1163]

You'd be blind the moment light from it hits you if your near the explosion tho.

[@billyshears1891]

How to really kill spiders

[@bakedsalad9205]

Donald Clinton 2020 when I eat chipotle at night

[@arete4390]

...After taco bell

[@nicewater894]

Perfect masterbation.....

[@kenneth9452]

they will get vaporized

[@donm-tv8cm]

. . . or MUTATE them into something the size of a large dog!

[@TheTabascodragon]

Crazy how high above the clouds the explosion goes. Really gives you a sense of scale.

[@DomesticTerroristIRL]

my grandfather viewed this explosion from eniwetok atoll during his participation in operation castle with the air force. he saw castle romeo too and a few others i think. i showed him this video one day and he said "yeah, thats the one." hes even got the certificate of participation from the government still hanging on the wall in his name. imagine holding your hand in front of your face and seeing the bones in your hand like an xray, in real time, outside, with your own eyes... only surviving grandparent for me currently, but boy does he have some stories to tell. seems the rest of the family misunderstands him but he and i get along just fine, hes a good man at the end of the day

[@nuclear8817]

What you don't see is the scientists running for their lives once they realized it was 3x more powerful than they meant for it to be.

[@PhilipReeder]

...and saying, "OH, SHIT! OH, SHIT..."

[@emmerad]

No! OH! OH MY GOD OH! OH MY F*CKING GOD!!!!

[@Au16227]

The scariest thing to hear at a nuclear test site is “oops...”

[@PanTF]

/watch?v=sFnPmOO1SIs

[@ArrKayCee]

1987greenman oh, so not that bad? Lol

[@leonderprofie123]

To be honest the atmosphere in this video is kinda relaxing. Of course nukes aren't good, but all the light being absorbed from a massive glowing cloud is gorgeous.

[@juancit4254]

Yeah, it is

[@PretendCaleb]

Ah yes. Footage of something that is killing many innocent people. Very relaxing, yes indeed.

[@jamesunwin250]

@@PretendCaleb It killed 1 person and that was an accident, it was a test but the wind changed directions and blew towards a ship and 1 person in the crew of 23 died of acute radioactive poisoning so not "many" innocent people were killed compared to the Soviet detonation of the tsar bomba. So it can be seen as more of a very powerful firework which could potentially kill millions of people.

[@juancit4254]

pretendnotch come on man, I bet that you are the type of person who gets butthurt over a simple joke, life has it’s shitty moments. This was one of them and we can’t do anything more than watch.

[@juancit4254]

James Unwin even if it didn’t kill many people it doesn’t mean it’s not bad. There’s still probably some of that radiation there.

[@jskypercussion]

Man this footage looks better than stuff filmed today.

[@alexanderwood3465]

Watching this before Oppenheimer, its hard to imagine what seeing this in person would be like - an inferno of death, with the unearthly orange glow, serenely forming clouds, the imagery of molten skulls ablaze within the cloud itself etc. It still feels more like something a celestial being or higher power would unleash than the hand of man...

[@Desekratedd]

Well put

[@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr]

Wow great input! The fact that this kind of power is in the hands of egotistical petty people is such a scary thought. Need to settle there differences between them and leave us out of it

[@dickstryker]

I had an old friends who was personel on some of tests they dis out near Vegas. He said the fireball had every color you could imagine swirling and churning like some psychedelic nightmare.

[@CooManTunes]

"Watching this before Oppenheimer..." Youpeople are pa thet ic.

[@anonymousx6651]

You have to remember that the observation spot used by Oppenheimer would be inside that blast, if they used a hydrogen bomb like Castle Bravo instead of a fission one

[@sachidanand787]

The background sounds like Godzilla's entrance before he fights.

[@MwumpSy]

Sachidanand Sharma holy shit yes

[@hallfrir3716]

Also, the Castle Bravo bomb was detonated in 1954 in order to kill Godzilla in first place, after his first appereance, but they failed in doing so. Since then, they've kept these facts hidden by simply refering to the Castle Bravo explosion as a regular nuclear test.

[@sachidanand787]

@@hallfrir3716 I thought Godzilla's killing in the name of the bomb test was just a dialogue from the movie. I mean, was it even real that tests in the 1950's were meant to kill the dinosaur which raises the question that was Godzilla even alive in the 1950's?

[@hallfrir3716]

I think you didn't understand my comment. Everything I said was refering exactly to the plot of the 2014 movie, which takes place in the Monsterverse timeline. They use the real life event of the Castle Bravo detonation as a background for the story of the film. None of this really happened in that way

[@sachidanand787]

@@hallfrir3716 Oh! I didn't understand a simple joke.

[@toxxc.5449]

"What a beautiful sunset" "thats not a sunset Tim" "its not?" " *Disorted voice* yes....."

[@curbyour____9506]

Spoken like a true art film

[@codzilla9148]

do skydive on it nice sunset you ca fell

[@sirhuffington1512]

It's a sort of sunset for some people.

[@mammi7699]

When sun rises from the west, you gotta start running

[@backstoryww2135]

Pov: you are a japanese sailor on a boat called sea dragon

[@MuggynPuggy]

0:20 the sound of the plane, the look of the skies, the rings forming around its as if its something not from this world. Yet it is.

[@manuelasousa7268]

Horrific

[@dan7291able]

terrifying..

[@believer431]

One of the best inventions of mankind

[@livethefuture2492]

You're not far off from 'not of this world', this is the very thing that drives the sun, and the nuclear fusion inside the cores of all stars, that in turn provide light and energy to all life on earth and in the universe. Nature is often terrifying and wondrous at the same time. Such elemental power and ferocity. The very forces of the atoms and molecules that make up all matter being unleashed in an awesome display of power. Truly something to behold. Nature has a way of humbling us to reckon with the forces that make our universe work and govern all that exists, including our own lives and destiny. For the first time man's destiny is in his own hands. Truly a terrifying and humbling notion. I can understand Oppenheimer's infamous words more than ever... *_I am become death, destroyer of worlds_* The very thing that makes all life on earth possible may very well be the thing that ends it.

[@raghav1026]

@@believer431 *worst

[@thirdcoinedge]

You know what's scariest about the Castle Bravo test for me? The fact that we even decided to set it off. The US was so eager to understand the full destructive capacity of these weapons that it decided to just set several off in the Pacific throughout the 1950s. The environmental impact of these actions shows that this was not done without consequence. It always strikes me as so weird when people talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki as if the US never set off another one of those weapons ever again. And yet we did. Multiple times. Just to see what they could do.

[@bluntcabbage6042]

When in an arms race, one has to test their arms to ensure they're better than the enemy's. It sounds absurd, it probably is, but it's sound logic for the situation they were in.

[@rynobehnke8289]

I mean Castle Bravo is properly one of the best reasons why these tests were kind of important. They thought using cheaper lithium wouldn't have any consequences only for them to learn from this test that doing so doubled the bombs explosive power. This is pretty important knowledge with it comes to constructing and using such weapons.

[@calebhasty7171]

The US doing these tests likely saved us from nuclear war. The Russians would think (and we would) be way behind them in the nuclear arms race if we didn't do these tests.

[@joegauge5065]

And this particular test resulted in atmospheric ban treaty.

[@DreDrePlays]

Is no one talking about how good the quality of this video is?! It literally looks like it was filmed from a modern camera and it’s amazing!

[@buzaldrin8086]

Original film transferred to digital, then restored to HD for the movie.

[@dandonovan6867]

Ikr, not bad for 67 years ago

[@stijnwigger]

Yes the quality of this video is so great. It has better quality than almost all tv shows now.

[@CJ-nj2dm]

True it’s Great footage

[@gutsjoestar7450]

Bruh the Camera in this footage was probably one of the best and most expensive of the era.

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

Hope this doesn't give 2021 any ideas We bigfoots won't even be safe way out here in the deep woods

[@ifrazali3052]

You are back

[@enqquerthahhgut1842]

how are you on all The videos i watch

[@MMAKOTV]

Jesse Stinson not even remotely close

[@syedrakin549]

Lol

[@VaIpire]

Jesse Stinson oh this one is like 50x more powerful and bigger then that one

[@RevMikeBlack]

My father watched this shot from Kwajalein when he was a young Seabee. He's 88 now and still has very clear memories. He says it's the sort of thing you don't forget.

[@michaeljode4350]

This is still the scariest looking nuclear bomb explosion imo. Because the mushroom cloud looks like a fireball the whole way

[@JustinY.]

Vault 111 is now closing

[@MasterDavicous]

Reeeeeeeee

[@mrbongomouse7780]

Justin Y. MY GOD, YOURE EVERYWHERE

[@salutic.7544]

Justin Y. I’m concerned for your health

[@miclan386]

wtf are you doing here???

[@cloroxbleach1281]

hello there

[@kristijansusnik1297]

When I fart at home: *psss* When I fart in school:

[@exorias625]

Hella underrated comment right here🤣

[@xxxtentacls1537]

apóvlitos hella under rated comment

[@4STERIFFICvids]

True

[@kristijansusnik1297]

@Levi Bachus kid be quiet.

[@kristijansusnik1297]

@Levi Bachus yes I know you are a kid by the way you type..

[@bootymuncher6969]

I've seen this clip so many times. Even though the Tsar Bomba was quite a bit more powerful, the crispness of this video and the way it was filmed makes this look so terrifying. As the mushroom cloud rises, you can almost see faces of tormented souls in it.

[@Faezine]

Humanity’s worst creation. 😢

[@shockwave2291]

@@FaezineThat, or bioweapons (which can also end the Human species).

[@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr]

@@shockwave2291or weather modification as well. Such as hurricane Katrina for example!

[@Potatoeheadz123]

It's not any mushroom cloud - it's a TRUFFLE cloud .

[@amadistalavera2086]

The tsar bomba wasn't just "a bit" more powerful: Castle Bravo is estimated around 15 megatons of tnt, meanwhile the tsar bomba was estimated around 57 megatons of tnt, 3.8 times more... And, initially, it was supposed being 114 megatons of tnt! But they feared that it would been to powerful, so they decided to just detonate half of the bomb...

[@anonimai]

Adventure time actually did a good job portraying this type of explosion in simple drawing form

[@wraptor8294]

damn this camera from 1954 has a lot of fps, freedom per second

[@n.3352]

Haha Murica go boom

[@Jack7.]

Dam right brotherr amurica!

[@jacknguyen7004]

Bro get rid of that agario profile

[@Jack7.]

@@jacknguyen7004 Take a look at your own fucking default ass.

[@wraptor8294]

@@Jack7. lmao my guy

[@SpaceshipAwesome]

I can’t stop coming back to this for some reason. One of the most mesmerizing, powerful, tragic, and fascinating videos I’ve ever seen.

[@GuroAmbassador]

Same..

[@agsrf6479]

It's the droning sound that does it for me. Something really desolate, apocalyptic but calm about it...

[@multilukas66]

this and this one for me: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6WWe4mdr7SNsKc

[@goatmeal5779]

It's insane how one device is capable of completely stripping an area of any life in seconds

[@21LAZgoo]

this and the relatively tiny meteor which we get every 100-300 years which exploded over siberia have something in common, both exploded with the same strength of 15 megatons

[@davidleahy8770]

The Quality Of The Video From 1954 Is Freaking Unreal

[@yesdaddy345]

"NOW I HAVE BECOME DEATH THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS"

[@TommyMVSERVTI]

Understand, Yuri... *This, is only the beginning.*

[@sirshrimpy5438]

CALL OF DUTYYYY

[@Ocean918]

The Beginning of the Castle Bravo Fart

[@Okwardi]

CODslayer_YT - your name clearly represents your excitement of that call of duty reference.

[@sirshrimpy5438]

Poke Okwardi • 10 years ago Lol, yeh.

[@justacringychannelpassingb7044]

EVERYONE HANG ONNNNNNNN

[@RadagonTheRed]

This footage was taken from 50 miles away ...

[@aurelia3606]

Yeah... so? Nuclear bombs are big

[@TheFailLord72]

50 miles away, and at night. It's fucking scary what we've created.

[@TheFailLord72]

@@cereal4694 Big Smoke Go watch my most recent video posted over a year ago titled Vishnu. I meant we as in "The human race."

[@caillou4110]

You were there ?

[@spinosaurusiii7027]

@@TheFailLord72 Yeah it´s crazy how big this is. I mean, those rings of condensed air are traveling faster than sound, so probably like.. one kilometer per second, maybe a little less? -Spino

[@FrankD-fo2be]

Surreal, imagine if you saw this coming at you. You can't run or hide anywhere.

[@seth_1138]

the sound of the plane makes it so much more eerie

[@FrenchBaguette420]

The Quality of the camera is amazing for 1954 o_o

[@l8tbraker]

* 1954

[@l8tbraker]

The 35mm film format was introduced into still photography as early as 1913 but first became popular with the launch of the Leica camera in 1925. It is difficult to compare the quality of film to digital media but a good estimate would be about 20.8 million total pixels (20 megapixels) would equal one 35 millimeter high quality color frame of film.

[@FrenchBaguette420]

thx for learn me that i love that nuke

[@forrestgumball]

That's because film is way better looking than digital, at he moment

[@Trip_mania]

This is computer generated. It's not a movie....

[@xxsingularityxx7574]

“All those nuclear test in the pacific...not tests.” “They we’re trying to kill it!”

[@NoOne-wc9el]

Godzilla reference?

[@xxsingularityxx7574]

Godzilla 457 Indeed

[@xxsingularityxx7574]

Monarch Sciences ...let them fight

[@wolfvalentine9021]

"Godzilla"

[@Kageofyoutube]

Kill what?

[@sampeks]

The shaky camera + plane sounds makes this more terrifying and ominous.

[@claudianielsen7901]

by the measurements of where the video was shot from(50 miles and or 50 nautical miles) I was able to calculate how long it would take you to hear the explosion from castle bravo. and the time it would take for the shockwave to reach the camera, was 4 minutes or more specifically 240 seconds to 280 seconds. If that isn’t terrifying then I don’t know what is

[@buzaldrin8086]

Varies with air temperature.

[@IFArakash]

*Now i'm become death, the destroyer of worlds...*

[@trit2580]

only real OGs know

[@stryker9628]

Yupp

[@Theemptythroneistaken]

The creator of the first atomic bomb.

[@hrproductions796]

._. Gives me chills ever time

[@AverageAlien]

Ironically he had saved the world from god knows what world wars.

[@YawnGod]

Jesus Christ, that's fucking gorgeous photography.

[@derekwall200]

+YawnGod that fireball was just so beautiful and I think this is real time video and not slow motion. which means that fire mushroom had to be almost a few miles across. and yet we built stand off nuclear warhead that had way more power like the B41 H-bomb which had a max yield of 25 megatons

[@SimMaster]

+derek wall The fireball was about 5 miles in diameter. And the bomb was about the size of a large car. Truly insane.

[@ChakibTsouli]

ikr! I thought it's CGI in the beginning.

[@clintonscottwalsh]

YawnGod nope just everything getting vapourized

[@Drewciff]

YawnGod and especially for 1954

[@joshthetrainfan]

This blast was basically considered a second Hiroshima. That Li-7 in there was assumed to absorb neutrons to produce Li-8, but instead, it was bombarded with energy more than 2.47 MeV, and it instead went through nuclear fission and produced a lot more tritium than expected. That is what caused it to be 15mt of TNT.

[@user-mg9ne2nf9c]

This bomb was 3x the expected radius when a reactant that wasn’t supposed to react did

[@cozzy124]

“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap."

[@dieselengineman]

-Einstein i'm pretty sure it's einstein pls correct me if i am wrong

[@cozzy124]

MATRIXuser ye it's him

[@dieselengineman]

@@cozzy124 thx for clarifying

[@cozzy124]

MATRIXuser np

[@davilox07_15]

Because it doesn’t have the intelligence

[@JustSomeGuyWithNoMaidens]

Director Krennic: "Oh, it's beautiful..."

[@samirkharay3457]

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

[@detonationbeats9888]

It is actually beautiful

[@tiffanyhill-anding8891]

Bruh

[@colehebert3286]

@@detonationbeats9888 yea

[@slackingstacker]

This footage literally looks like hell

[@renekauts8323]

Castle Bravo * 28 February 1954 18.45 GMT * 70 YEARS !!!

[@qasimmir7117]

For those who don’t know, this explosion was supposed to equal to 3-5 megatons of TNT. Instead, it was 15 due underestimation of the lithium-7. It killed quite a few people, and displaced many people from their homes. Incredible though it was, Castle Bravo was a disaster.

[@dougbrowne9890]

And who did it kill? smh

[@ludicerX]

@@megamilyon6111 : The arms race didn't defeat Communism. It sure as heck didn't defeat authoritarianism in Russia. The Soviets defeated themselves, slowly but surely.

[@Andrew3455]

​​@@megamilyon6111 ​​@MegaMilyon wha?? This was being tested years after. To say testing nukes because of Communism was a good idea just makes you sound.... I will be polite. The idea that because communism was bad it justifies irradiating an entire portion of our planet. Come on..

[@megamilyon6111]

@@Andrew3455 Communism has killed about 100 million people. How many people died from these tests ? Probably around 10,000 at most

[@johnathan6642]

​@@megamilyon6111lol we never used the atom on the soviets, and if we had, far more people would have died. There is not and never will be an excuse for this power. Unfortunately we're stuck with this sword of damacles now but god this is not "good" You want to know what helped bring down the soviets? Chernobyl. Civil unrest. Their own misuse of the atom. The us did nothing to defeat them, they did it themselves.

[@surrealsupercell7217]

Man the sound of the plane is honestly the perfect soundtrack for such a gorgeous and terrifyingly perfect creation. Absolute destruction, the pinnacle of human power. Few of our next great achievements will be as "history changing" as the nuclear bomb. The computer, of course, being one of those few.

[@Hgulix62]

- The AI - Realistic Virtual Reality - Longevity - Mass automation - Space expansion There are many future achievements that will change everything.

[@dougg1075]

The way the tempo rises is perfect.

[@prakesh2904]

AI virtual reality and automation all rely on computers. Longevity and genetics work will be based off of simulations and models made on and by computer

[@menaak2736]

Castle Bravo is exciting for one reason. It is not an atomic bomb, but rather the first hydrogen bomb in history to explode in three stages. As for the Soviet Caesar and the American B41, it is an imitation of Castel Bravo, but it is full of titanium, so you do not arouse interest. You can fill the hydrogen bomb with titanium that you need.

[@tokuwriter2872]

@@Hgulix62 ah yes. Realistic Virtual Porn.... Though would any of us complain?

[@abyssdrawssomestuff]

This feels somewhat calming. It sounds so silent and the combination with the plane sound makes me feel at peace, but also terrified.

[@kingghidorah5213]

The sound of the aircraft engines just make the atmosphere reaaally terrifying and i love it

[@aaront9080]

Japanese: It's 1954 now, at least they won't nuke us again. Godzilla: *ITS TIME*

[@TitanJonkler]

(insert Pillar Man awaken theme)

[@Ocean918]

I Think you Got Addicted to Godzilla?

[@plusplusplusplusp]

You know it's a gargantuan fireball because it rises so "slowly" -- actually expanding at hundreds of feet per second and is several miles wide

[@cathughes9212]

plusplusplusplusp If I'm not mistaken this video is running at half speed, so the fireball would rise exactly twice as fast. I believe there is footage of it at regular speed. The slower speed allows you to see it in more detail as it rises..

[@telesniper2]

Or it could be a tiny "fireball" shot at high speed and slowed down. You should look up "Lookout Mountain studios"!

[@Alex-hq5ir]

Slappy Fistwad Or you could actually learn shit.

[@WaveForceful]

If the fireball was also that large in the video, I wonder how far away the plane was...

[@Alex-hq5ir]

WaveForceful 75 nautical miles at an altitude of 12,500ft.

[@2007enthusiast]

When you finally get home after holding it in for an hour:

[@lindaeasley5606]

The Mushroom cloud shot up 130,000 feet into the air. Members of the test operation could feel the heat generated from the nuke 20 miles away. Even men waiting it out in reenforced concrete bunkers could feel the walls shake and see the flash of light through the cracks. Fallout powder rained down on nearby Atolls 5 hours after the detonation and the natives played in ,and ate it This bomb was 2.5 times more powerful than was expected

[@DylanRocket]

In 1954, we awakened something. Those Nuclear Tests in the pacific... Not Tests. They were trying to kill it... We call him Gojira.

[@gojiguy2004]

nice Kong Skull Island/Godzilla 2014 reference

[@Neymarbarcelona11santos11]

FINALLY A GODZILLA FAN!!!

[@endergps1546]

Scientist: oopsies looks like we made him stronger

[@e.moonbound2420]

NOW I CAN SEE THE WHAAAAAAALES

[@monxangel]

Addicted to Godzilla You People are addicted godzilla

[@walterwhite458]

who lives in a pineapple under the sea

[@kennethhaff9032]

a mutated sponge

[@iszatso]

Godzilla does now.

[@yerboi9420]

Political Correctness nothing anymore after this shit

[@Sin526]

Political Correctness CAS - TLE BRA - VO!

[@brendanthebomber.]

SPONGEBOB IN A VAULT

[@coolguy10038]

Today is the 70th anniversary of Castle Bravo!

[@tersus4967]

To think that something so relatively small can cause such gargantuan destruction... Truly a marvel.

[@Godzilla691138MW3]

Beautiful...but yet so deadly....such power.

[@lukbar6457]

No lie

[@Cwmbran1984]

godzilla691138MW3 to think the Tsar Bomba that the USSR tested was 5 Times more powerful than this 😳

[@adityaputra3354]

But the fallout is really nasty.

[@billystrife7049]

@@Cwmbran1984 We know, we know.. but until there is more footage of the Tsar Bomba released this will always be the most spectacular.

[@phantomwraith1984]

And to think this is only a fraction of the power of the atom. When you consider our own star has millions of atomic explosions millions of times bigger that castle bravo going off ever second...

[@DanielaHernandez-pz1bi]

this is literally terrifying. Imagine it's a normal day, you're eating out with your friends and then everything turns white from a massive light source and without knowing what happened you and everything you knew was gone. That's horribly scary.

[@miguelpereira9859]

If you are going to suffer a nuclear blast the epicenter is where you wanna be for least amount of suffering

[@beans3158]

the worst part is possibly surviving it

[@joeya6795]

Nuclear explosions are scary, only if it's being used on you. It's actually quite gratifying to your enemies.

[@michac.8283]

@@joeya6795 civilians are not your enemies, and they will be the main victim in case of a nuclear war

[@viniciusdomenighi6439]

yeh, the US did this to japan....

[@carlousmagus5387]

Madness.... We should be using this knowledge to power our civilizations and explore our star system, not as a means to commit planetary suicide.

[@MyloFresh87]

the rpm-rising engine sound of the plane is so terryfying ....

[@ritzzwell]

The Tzar takes the cake for biggest detonation but bravo was the best filmed and most fall out damage.

[@azylmprior6064]

I have some speculation as to whether the Soviet Union actually made a 50MT bomb, part of me just doesn’t believe it. Mostly due to the footage for Tsar Bomba and Castle Bravo. Bravo’s fireball expands and rises so slowly in real time while Tsar Bomba’s rises relatively quicker in the real time footage of its detonation.

[@cripplehawk]

Must be because the Tsar bomb was an air detonation (2.5 miles above ground) where as Bravo was a ground detonation. Also the Tsar bomb was soo powerful that it's own shock wave prevented the fireball from hitting the ground causing it to go up quicker.

[@runswithbears3517]

That would also explain why Castle Bravo had more fallout.

[@chasm671]

Yup, the US was always better at making movies. When you can't really use your superweapons and the vast majority of people can't really go into space, what really matters is how good you make it look on their TV screens.

[@yacine8761]

But the biggest explosion on earth was a volcano explosion

[@ziongite]

If that's the sound of the plane, it's a bloody ominous sound when mixed with that giant nuke explosion. When I look at this, all I see is hell basically.

[@o_sch]

Yeah it is the engines you can even hear them slightly change rpm. Its fucking terrifying though when playing along with the video. As a musician it also gets on my nerves because each rpm makes it a different pitch so for the first part of the video my music part of my brain was waiting for it to change pitch after X beats but it just remained at the same pitch.

[@KelpyG.]

I wouldnt be surprised if a movie composer uses that low engine sound

[@dylanlavillain7173]

The person recording this definitely was shitting his pants the wholw time

[@ohhai1486]

The bomber ambiance together with the explosion gives you that scary experience

[@NEKOSAIKOU.]

True

[@beastmode599]

Beirut explosion: *happened* KZbin: wAnNa sEe sOMe BoMbS

[@mikmak3450]

😭😭

[@fifaisnotahacker851]

SKSKSKSKSSKSKSSKSKSSSS

[@candidfever3445]

So true!

[@danielperez8398]

Me: Yes.

[@choisan4166]

PFPPFPFPFPFPFPFPFP

[@plays9319]

The plane sounded like Godzilla charging up for his atomic breath.

[@jacobbaumgardner3406]

Maybe this video is what inspired it.

[@thunderjawsaiftheboss4517]

Some cursed orb is draining Godzilla's atomic breath when he tries to charge up

[@mightymac63]

@@jacobbaumgardner3406 Actually it was this that inspired the first Godzilla movie later that year in 1954

[@jacobbaumgardner3406]

@@mightymac63 this is Castle Bravo.

[@miguelpereira9859]

@@jacobbaumgardner3406 Yes the original Godzilla movie was inspired by the US atomic bombing of Japan and the Castle bravo incident

[@randehmarshgames4608]

The sheer power and destructive capabilities of these things is equally cool as it is horrifying. How something like this was even created boggles my mind

[@2ndsnake899]

The noise of the plane makes it sound like a world-ending horn call.

[@Jack7.]

_"I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds."_ _-J. Robert Oppenheimer, The creator of the atomic bomb_

[@puncheex2]

Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagadaga Vida, 12 years after Trinity.

[@brunomanriquez8697]

@@puncheex2 Bhagavad Gita* but yea, still a really devastating quote

[@puncheex2]

@@brunomanriquez8697 I would say that is was more appropriate than devastating. And don't mind the brain-fart spelling.

[@brunomanriquez8697]

@@puncheex2 yes indeed, it was really appropiate, but also imagining how oppenheimer thought about himself because of what he helped to make is incredibly sad

[@alfriansyahlukman250]

And Edward teller, the creator of the termonuklir bom or hidrogen bom

[@dontaskme76]

Me: *Laughing at WWIII memes* Also me: Wondering why the sun is coming out at 9 pm

[@PiotrBarcz]

Hahahahaha

[@garrybaldy327]

Nuclear explosions are some of the most beautiful things ever seen.

[@raghav1026]

Beautiful but horrible

[@k22_641]

The sound is either Godzilla or the TU95 bear

[@Mcfaddenskyler]

I actually love how the footage looks digitalized here. It's restoration done right.

[@squamish4244]

Castle Bravo led the American public to rethink nukes, and what they could do to civilization. Before it the idea of a 'limited nuclear war' was perceived as reasonable, as nukes were viewed as basically really powerful conventional weapons. But Castle Bravo was vastly greater anything that had been seen before, and the massive fallout was shocking. Afterwards, the spectre of global thermonuclear war became, in Khrushchev's words, one in which "the living would envy the dead."

[@sereysothe.a]

valinor100 "the living would envy the dead" is actually also a saying that has to do with the end times before the day of judgment in shia islam just saying i thought that was pretty interesting

[@jasonstrickland9245]

namn The fact that this still doesn't even come close to Tsar Bomba is scary to say the least!

[@BullsMahunny]

John Rooney And the fact that the Tsar Bomba was actually scaled down from its original 100MT.

[@BaseCu327]

valinor100 The reason it was so demoralizing wasn't because of the fallout or the actual scale, it's because Castle Bravo shouldn't have been that big. It was only supposed to be a 5 megaton bomb, but the scientists miscalculated the fuel sources, and it ended up being three times more powerful, nearly killing the test crew and tearing a hole into the Bikini Atoll.

[@squamish4244]

The Addiction 2 The yield was indeed much greater than anyone imagined. The fallout had a really big effect though. The knowledge that it could reach so far led to the idea that wiping out your enemy could end up getting you too. A few years later a sci-fi author wrote the famous book 'On the Beach' about a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere leading to huge fallout making its ways south and giving everyone in the Southern Hemisphere a few years to live. People are distributed cyanide pills, etc. The American government vigorously denied a scenario like that but it was impossible to downplay what had happened...Castle Bravo was originally supposed to be a secret!

[@kadourimdou43]

When you miscalculate a Lithium reaction rate.

[@themultiverse4108]

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