EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS PART "THE GROUND BURST"

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11 ай бұрын

This film explains the formula for scaleing blasts , and for thermal and radiation effects of nuclear ground bursts of varying depths and yields
color 35mm film

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@vibrolax Ай бұрын

The narrator was Reed Hadley, a television and movie actor. He has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.

@muzzmatrix 11 ай бұрын

Finally, decades later; a face to the voice.

@Atomic_Tests_Channel 11 ай бұрын

YES! YOU ARE RIGHT!

@Indrid__Cold 4 ай бұрын

Kinda doofy looking if you ask me.

@gavinelster3168 Ай бұрын

I do adr for a living and was convinced at the beginning that this was replaced dialogue. That was my brain not able to process that I’m actually seeing a face emit the voice I have heard for decades.

@garysmith9818 11 ай бұрын

Another interesting old movie showing what was, and was not, known back "in the day". Thanks for posting ATC!

@paranoiia8 11 ай бұрын

I love those old movies, simple, informative, and even if sometimes biased, as its mostly government production, they cover most of topics.

@mmeiselph7234 11 ай бұрын

Who is the narrator? His voice is very familiar.

@RichardNixonsHippieRemoval 11 ай бұрын

He's done a number of these presentations with only voice-over. Only cut I know of where he's visible is this one.

@FipsiUndEdwinr 10 ай бұрын

The company that made this films is Lookout Mountain. Maybe you can find some information

@JeffMTX 4 ай бұрын

He’s the well known Boredon Boringham

@rapman5791 2 ай бұрын

@@FipsiUndEdwinrlookout mountain was the U.S. military’s own film production center. It was just outside of Hollywood and took advantage of its proximity to the movie making capital of the world. The center produced thousands of movies/presentations for distribution to Congress, the general public, the President etc……

@LaPabst 2 ай бұрын

I don't think he is actually a military officer, he may be an actor/professional narrator. Many of these films do that. The Castle Bravo series films use an actor.

@skendermakota2381 11 ай бұрын

1/ Awesome narration, this is how scientific facts need to be explained to both, other scientists and/or amateurs, it does not add unnecessary info, it does not add jokes, or othere mechanisms so as to make the info "more appealing"- it only adds confusion when doing do 2/ Love the slide panel thingy, gonna make one myself, cause 21st century facebook/twatter/gasm morons I'm surrounded with can only be shown something through this useful and simple contraption. No laptops, slide programs, clickers, graphics blabla. Just a board, with a ability to slide left/right so as to reveal another one beneath. Board on which you can use the: (brings me to point 3) 3/ Chalk - love the way it sounds, the way it feels and love the way he added the "bold" setting by turning the chalk sideways I sometimes wonder why the world changed to what it is now, communication-wise, and why so little had been done to preserve this kind of narration when people are shown/taught etc important info - at least in the science/scholar world. I know military tries to, but let's be real, soldiers themselves are not imune to social media trash, and many will absorb and embrace the poison sooner or later - cause it's all over the place... Anyway, glad I'm a a musician and I can just go sit at my piano and play Bill Evans or noodle around myself and not have to "work" with brainwashed people obsessed with likes, shares etc, who of course, value their opinion as much as that of someone far more superior then themselves in the same subject matter, just because, you know, they can, they are taught they could and should and eventually they believe be important and sheet... whgen they're not.. once they hit hte 40's depression will eventually make them realize how deep they got played

@HaggardPillockHD 10 ай бұрын

Yes but you're comparing apples and oranges. This is a lecture, not a documentary for the unwashed masses. I'd be extremely surprised if this film was broadcast on TV back then. It's comparable with any modern lecture. The modern documentaries you are also describing specifically refer to an American style documentaries which are dumbed down enough so as to 'engage' the audience. Try watching documentaries made by the BBC to appreciate a different style.

@trolleriffic 7 ай бұрын

@@HaggardPillockHD BBC documentaries are terrible these days. They're an embarrassment compared to what they and the other British TV channels were producing up to the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately in the 90s the BBC had a governor who decided that everything needed to be dumbed down to make it accessible to the masses - typical elitist thinking ordinary people couldn't understand this stuff. The last really good documentaries were right at the end of the 90s and the difference is stark compared to modern ones or the garbage they call news coverage.

@paulglawson2866 3 ай бұрын

Well, that’s a very negative way of thinking of things. But I enjoyed your particular style of writing and your indignation. I too am a musician and because I’m old and did well in life I get to sit back and watch the Show. But I’ll admit it’s difficult not to get all excited about something and they begin smacking keys to dazzle us with their brilliance or baffle us with their B**ls**t. Science is hard. Took these military gentlemen years to develop the best ways of destroying Cities and killing Millions of people. We should appreciate their efforts because it’s equally true that Nuclear deterrence has kept us alive all these years. Slava Ukraine, Hermit.

@jacobcastro1885 11 ай бұрын

This remains extremely relevant today... yet those who are responsible for it being relevant, aren't concerned with keeping us informed or prepared.

@docbailey3265 19 күн бұрын

No shit.

@gregoryroncoli217 11 ай бұрын

The first time I have seen this "presenter / Narator"'s face. He has narrated ALOT of "A"bomb movies.

@_EDCstuff 11 ай бұрын

Same! Was wondering who it is

@GetOutsideYourself Ай бұрын

Fascinating. Seems a curious choice to make this film however. Who was it for? The targeters would know this information and not need a film, one would hope. Could it be for ground commanders to understand effects on troops and infrastructure?

@robinwells8879 13 күн бұрын

That’s my guess. Help them make informed decisions for use of tactical battlefield nukes to hamper massive mobilised invasion forces from the east.

@joshjones3408 11 ай бұрын

Thank for the videos they great stuff 👍👍👍

@patwiggins6969 11 ай бұрын

Required vault-tech reading

@silverbladeTE 11 ай бұрын

Note the way they carefully play down the actual fallout risks.... Neutron activation does occur and even air bursts do create fallout not just via rain (fallout risks do vary enormously though, due to local conditions and weapon size) And thermonuclear weapons, while technically "clean" in the fusion side, rely on a fission tamper which often is 30% or more of yield and so adds a huge degree of fallout and neutron activation, like...Castle Bravo, and that's part of why most countries scaled back from megaton sized warheads

@buckhorncortez 11 ай бұрын

@@puckay X-rays are absorbed in the air and don't propagate very far. Fallout is interesting because it depends upon where the bomb is detonated - low, high, or buried. All create different amounts and types of fallout. A lot of fallout travel depends upon particle size and wind currents. The book "The Effects of Atomic Weapons," produced by Los Alamos National Laboratory (Samuel Glasstone, Executive Editor) goes into great detail on both blast and radiation effects. The bomb used throughout the book as the reference point is the "model bomb" which is a 20-kiloton fission device.

@buckhorncortez 11 ай бұрын

The reason most countries no longer use megaton devices is that the damage doesn't double if a bomb yield is doubled. It's far more effective to use smaller devices that are precision-targeted.

@silverbladeTE 11 ай бұрын

@@buckhorncortez As I said "that's part of why most countries scaled back from megaton sized warheads" :) Yes, increased precision and reliability are also part of the thinking, but so is reducing global fallout, and safety risks of just having large nukes

@buckhorncortez 11 ай бұрын

@@silverbladeTE Oh...I get it, they're into environmentalism as part of war. Novel concept. Blowing things up in an environmentally friendly way. The size of the device has nothing to do with reliability. There's no military advantage to megaton plus nuclear devices. You'll have to explain "safety risks." I live about seven miles from 2500 nuclear weapons. If only one goes off, it won't matter to me what the size is. The device is either safe or not size doesn't matter.

@ihavethedocuments2580 11 ай бұрын

What's wrong Silverblade; dont you like milk fortified with strontium 90?

@haydnpaull5447 10 ай бұрын

22:10 was insightful. Shielding from the upper and lower concrete slabs. Makes so much sense. Dust, generally settles on the rooftops and the ground. Being several stories up has great advantages

@robinwells8879 13 күн бұрын

I hadn’t considered the tactical use of the pyroclastic flow element of a ground or lower burst of the debris plume. Excellent for blocking mobile infantry invasions. A wide No man’s zone through which it would be rapidly lethal to traverse outside of an armoured personnel vehicle and dangerous even in one. Thank goodness that we never had to do it to the plains of Europe….yet. 😢

@ianwalton284 11 ай бұрын

can we drop one of these on the dope house down the street?

@ChildovGhad 11 ай бұрын

You want that meth cloud base surge that badly?

@nicholasmaude6906 11 ай бұрын

I assume the as yet unposted part II deals with airbursts?

@mehdibellahcene5461 11 ай бұрын

I am living in a farmer coal mines zone, which have been closed since 1989. I have always been wondering what if a A bomb would have been placed in the mine 600 m under the ground and had exploded. I am sur that all the towns build in this area would seek underground

@coltfathwell6185 11 ай бұрын

I live about 3 miles from a huge coal mine here in west Virginia and that's a good question. Would you be able to just scoop the coal up? But would it be to radiated to even mess with? How long would it be useless?

@mehdibellahcene5461 11 ай бұрын

@@coltfathwell6185peace from France

@dir5155 11 ай бұрын

Такие испытания уже проводили,есть видео на этом канале.

@ZMAN_420 11 ай бұрын

@@dir5155 This video does have content I've seen before but some new content I've never seen. 👍🏻

@buzaldrin8086 11 ай бұрын

> A bomb would have been placed in the mine 600 m under the ground It's been done. In fact, most nuclear tests have been underground. The deepest and most powerful was in Alaska.

@vibrolax Ай бұрын

No, these are much earlier. Sedan was 100 kT test from project plowshare in 1962.