NEW Redwing Tewa 4K UHD Restoration

This is a newly restored version of Redwing Tewa

[@drlogic1978]

Jaysus. That footage is so clear I got sunburned watching it.

[@borntoclimb7116]

True

[@truthseeker2321]

My teeth and hair fell out just watching this.

[@azut8534]

wear sunscreen next time

[@WalterEKurtz-kp2jf]

Mup outta tha

[@brianv1988]

I know it look so clear I even got crabs oh wait

[@Scopper81]

Redwing Tewa is a favorite. I love how the condensation clouds just got higher and higher and higher. And then the stem was so visibly moving. How fast it had to be moving!

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

The fireball looks like it's slowly rising from this distance, but in reality it's tearing skywards close to the speed of a jetliner. Extreme level convection.

[@SuperpowerBroadcasting]

It was sooo dirty

[@goodbye8995]

It's just a chemical explosion filmed in high speed then slowed down. They used kilotons of TNT bricks built into giant spheres or cubes. You can find the TNT piles in some photos of the tests. Nuclear weapons don't exist.

[@Scopper81]

@@goodbye8995 The Russians? The British? The French? The Chinese? The Indians? The Pakistanis? It's all a bluff? To what end?

[@Scopper81]

@Smithy18 So how does that work? Everyone is bluffing but they still assume that everyone else isn't bluffing?

[@jack1701e]

It has an odd beauty to it, so slow, so quiet... but inside is literal hell, the core of a star on Earth. A Pandora's Box we can never close.

[@tk423b]

Looks great. I can almost feel my retina vaporizing.

[@Filthy_Larry]

I want to see a few nukes go off. They are beautiful

[@theschmedaparadox1018]

Tewa was a 5 Megaton blast. Great footage

[@kevinhammond2361]

5 megatons is said to currently be the standard size of Chinese ICBMs. Purely as a “Countervalue” weapon - they’re not targeted at foreign militaries but rather their cities, as a deterrent.

[@Chris2745100]

@@kevinhammond2361 Do you know how big the Russian yields are? I have heard 800kt up to 20mt. All ICBM deliverable.

[@bigbasil1908]

@@Chris2745100 Yeah the Ruski's have the best nukes by a long stretch lol

[@jmck5930]

@@bigbasil1908 they probably don’t even work due to lack of maintenance

[@bigbasil1908]

@@jmck5930 You're joking. It's the US that don't know if their nukes even work, because all of their warheads are over 35 years old. Russia has a lot of modern made nukes and they have been tested too.

[@Uaarkson]

WOW. This is easily the sharpest nuclear test footage restoration in YEARS.

[@maksphoto78]

I guess you haven't seen this kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpfPfXl8j8iNZtk

[@HorizonDrifterDj]

@Daniel Langer link it or it didn’t happen

[@miku_hoshino]

Watch the restoration of the castle romeo one

[@jadapinkett1656]

Beautiful. I can't wait to experience it up close!

[@jimkenealy6448]

take a selfie!

[@andrewgibson7610]

You won't !

[@zeemazm]

hahahahaha funny sia!!

[@SunnyBlam]

Wait a minute--

[@147-HH]

cant wait

[@evilferris]

That’s one of the most beautiful shots I’ve ever seen. Thank you! It blows me away that the nuclear event and gamma/x-ray emission is over within milliseconds and most of what we’re watching is just the thermal incandescence of matter in our atmosphere and what was stirred up at ground level. I imagine there’s not an insignificant amount of heat generated from the immediate decay of short-lived daughter products.

[@SuperpowerBroadcasting]

Beautiful explosion but very dirty. 87% FISSION

[@Jeffery_Saulter]

@@SuperpowerBroadcasting that’s what your mum said last night

[@SuperpowerBroadcasting]

@@Jeffery_Saulter How mature.

[@rain7659]

@@SuperpowerBroadcasting What did he say?

[@Jeffery_Saulter]

@@SuperpowerBroadcasting thanks for replying

[@peteparker7396]

My mom tells a story when she was a little girl living in Pleasant Grove Utah, and they were conduction above ground Tests in Nevada. One night they set one off. PG is several hundred miles away, and she says it lit the sky like it was day light for several minutes.

[@bigbasil1908]

The USA governments are crazy man lol

[@PizzaChet]

So, you were born to "Downwinders". Look it up! You might be entitled to a monetary settlement.

[@Boundlessness]

Jesus

[@Lazlo.]

That's insane

[@nealkelly9757]

She's misremembering then, that's ridiculous

[@Sniepje]

Wow, that looks beautiful yet so frightening.

[@a-a-ron4679]

Absolutely devastatingly beautiful

[@Thwarptide]

Holy smoke on the water! Thats a big dam kaboom!

[@effortlessproductions]

I’m amazed at how great this footage looks!

[@nickkoelle9674]

Please make a video about how you restore these so well. I've never seen old videos from the 1950s look this clear

[@deildegast]

I would be interested in that too, especially because Mr. Kuran (who is behind Atomcentral) won an Oscar in 2002 for his work in the engineering progress in the restoration of old film.

[@ChattyCinnamon]

There are very clever neural network* restoration methods

[@ChattyCinnamon]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5u5q52uns16rLc

[@KatyaAbc575]

I would assume there is very specialised propiatery software for these restoration projects.

[@deildegast]

​@@KatyaAbc575 Maybe now, but I seem to recall an interview with Mr. Kuran that at the time of Trinity and Beyond, they used Photoshop picture for picture because such software and the scanning times of today just weren't a thing. Either way, I would like to see what they do to the original physical film material to restore or prepare it for scanning.

[@patrickodonnell2194]

I am not old enough to have been present at any of the tests, which is why I am so thankful for atomcentral. Releasing most if not all of the shot footage as is was incredible and a real labor of love. Now they are restoring the footage? This is beyond my comprehension. Thank you for your efforts. Thank you for your time. I for one am grateful to have these shots available. My father was at shot Ivy Mike. He said it was beautiful but frightening. You have my gratitude.

[@railgap]

If you had been old enough, how do you think you'd have gotten to watch a test?!?

[@TJTurnage]

I was watching the surrounding clouds (cumulus and towering cumulus) and how they were barely affected by the blast wave. Reminds me of how the smoke trails in other tests hold their general form too.

[@deildegast]

So beautiful, both the film and the restauration.

[@garysmith9818]

Nice restoration. Thanks for posting.

[@Spelter]

Really great work, it's like watching it live !

[@arp1247]

Looking like it scorched all five atmospheric layers

[@HiAdrian]

Absolutely gorgeous, good lord what a recording!

[@Isgonesomewhere]

Only just seen this one.... Incredible footage.

[@technologic21]

Stunning 1956 experiment. 5MT barge-mounted, Mk-41 device, similar in composition to Zuni, all of the tests during this period had Native American designations, following the Castle experiments. Unbelievable amount of fallout, death and destruction, that yielded 30 miles of complete annihilation.

[@15junio97]

why did the US do so many surface burst tests

[@technologic21]

@@15junio97 Surface testing allowed scientists to better understand the destructive power of these weapons, as well as the chemical and atmospheric effects they would have on the environment. They studied everything from the medical effects of fallout and radiation on living organisms (animals and microscopic creatures in the lagoon) all the way up to structural damage for engineering, battle defense purposes. Air-bursts produced their own set of data to the topics listed above. One notable one: a precursor wave, a unique blast effect which travels faster than the initial blast wave. When detonated in the air, the weapon has an absolutely devastating affect on drag-sensitive targets.

[@swankles3877]

@@technologic21 thanks for the explanation 😊

[@bc3350]

I agree with Junio. They shouldn't have done so many ground bursts regardless of the reasons behind it. The fallout is just too dangerous... and honestly these are weapons, who's going to do groundbursts when airbursts are far more destructive...@@technologic21

[@T11235]

Love your work, keep it up!

[@adambarbosa4179]

I've seen so many bomb videos but the 4k ones really are terrifying. It's like you're really there and they're suddenly a lot more real

[@johnduncan6379]

I dreamed before I seen the mushroom cloud at 1:05 in the distance. There’s no feeling to describe the terror of that dream.

[@ruddymolina7044]

Finally after reading a comment in the comment section of Navajo's video I can see the difference between a more fission weapon than a fussion one.

[@P-G-77]

AMAZING FOOTAGE, Thanks.

[@ritchieblackmore2711]

That footage is beautiful...deadly but beautiful

[@borntoclimb7116]

Awesome footage

[@TheDirtbiker715]

The swaying of camera made everything surreal

[@dziban303]

Wow Peter, that's amazing

[@baianofedido9251]

omg amazing quality keep sharing more pls

[@rohkofantti8673]

Nice outdoor field experiment.

[@maxpower78-15]

Great footage

[@nicholasmaude6906]

That is fucking stunning, even better than the restored shots I've seen of the Castle Bravo shot.

[@EK14MeV]

Three RB-50 aircraft (Nos. 7120, 7131, and 7135) at altitudes from 18,000 to 30,000 feet (5.5 to 9.2 km) and ranges of 40 to 125 nmi (75 to 222 km) from ground zero photographed the clouds at times to 17 minutes postshot. Shots: LACROSSE, MORAWK, APACHE (Enewetak); CHEROKEE, ZUNI. FLATHEAD, DAKOTA, NAVAJO, TEWA (Bikini).

[@mehdibellahcene5461]

Merci beaucoup pour ces informations

[@EK14MeV]

@@mehdibellahcene5461 De rien.

[@marciocamilo1722]

@@EK14MeV How cute you translated into French, deserve the gay medal of the month.

[@EK14MeV]

@@marciocamilo1722 🙄

[@joergmaass]

@@marciocamilo1722 How cute you made this idiotic remark! Now put on your tutu and continue to dance for us...

[@cow_tools_]

Stunning.

[@marekkowalowski2442]

Amazing quality. Thanks. Please consider adding yield of the devices in movies description.

[@lawtongore7053]

That restoration is fantastic.... Do you plan on showing more of these restored films???

[@bentancourtsantiago]

This is what it would look like in 2022.

[@somnuswaltz5586]

It is gorgeous

[@StellarFPV]

Beautiful

[@Tomcatters]

Whoa, nice!

[@user-rc8bb7yb1e]

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

[@rickbase833]

With some of the earlier shots in Nevada in the late 40s that were 15-20Kt...the cameras were so close and you could see in slow motion how the blast wave is so destructive....with these 5Mt and above shots in the south pacific the aircraft taking the footage is really far away so it's really freaking crazy what a 5Mt weapon would do to a large city like New York or Los Angeles.

[@nicholasmaude6906]

This was the test of the three=stage BASSOON PRIME device which yielded 5MT with 87.5% of its yield from fission mostly fast-fission of U-238, this test-device was ultimately developed into the B41 three-stage TN-bomb with two yields - 25MT and 10MT.

[@scorpionking4012]

Wow those last films quality is unbelievable, like it’s done in Hollywood basement…:)

[@logitech4873]

You can bring high-quality cameras outside of studios. Big shock, I know.

[@olegadodasguerras3795]

I Love this channel

[@thealchemist2792]

Who knew that something so terrifying could be so beautiful.

[@MooseMeus]

BEAUTIFUL

[@RevMikeBlack]

Amazing!

[@TheWhitde]

now... imagine 1000's of these going off minutes apart or even 5 MIRV's in the MT range spread over a single city. Madness.

[@flatearth4934]

This is the sun rising up in the dome

[@MelonHead887]

Sweet Jesus just incredible!

[@mwm48]

The clouds at 0:30 actually look like the Sun.

[@Nawabid]

*Loved it, should mention it's in Slow Motion.*

[@JamesRussller]

@atomcentral are you able to please refrain from using the end of video tiles? Or possibly just add some black screen to the end of the videos to then overlay these on? Sucks to have the view obscured by unremovable ads. Thanks for all your work.

[@my3dprintedlife]

The first three stage device the US ever used

[@Notimexforever]

Looks like a really powerful nuke

[@A_piece_of_broccoli]

What a beautiful sunset.... oh wait....

[@Red-rl1xx]

Awesome!

[@dougbrowne9890]

What a spectacular and dirty bomb explosion.

[@TheTRexPaddock]

Fried my retinas like the Alamosaurus that saw the Chicxulub impact on the Yucatán before being vaporized.

[@ramon_noodles9627]

Reminds me of that castle bravo footage a few years ago

[@RichardNixonsHippieRemoval]

Top 5 list of comments for nuke videos. 5. Asking what the rocket trails are. 4. This is coming soon because of Putin. 3. Quotes by Einstein. 2. "War...war never changes" 1. Oppenheimer's "become death".

[@frimodig]

Spot on. Another one that is popular is "This bomb is nothing compared to the Tsar Bomba! 50 Megatons!"

[@EdmontonRails]

Beautiful atomic sunrise

[@dragonofhatefulretribution9041]

*The mighty, proud Saiyan prince hovers in the upper stratosphere holding one hand out in front of himself in an upwards open-palm gripping posture in line with the blast-zone and his eyes…calmly chuckling to himself…* “…Legendary...”

[@daz51173]

So much power

[@14reasons58]

Remarkable

[@hampopper3150]

That's a big ass bomb going above the clouds.

[@Muonium1]

I'm struggling to understand the reason for the premature shock breakaway at the apex of the expanding fireball clearly evident in the first second of the video. It is plainly visible on the previous video here of Castle Romeo and VERY plainly visible on the LLNL video of Tewa uploaded a few years ago to their channel. It is also seen on shot Apache and on Castle Bravo and Hardtack Poplar, but is *notably absent* from Ivy Mike and the air dropped Dominic Housatonic. If it is due to ground proximity it should be visible on Mike, but if it's due to radiation case asymmetry and LiD fuel it should be present on Housatonic. What is the common factor causing this anomalous behavior of the early fireball??

[@ehtikhet]

Interesting!!! Pronounced lensing effects of casing and configuration?

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

It's probably an artefact? Maybe an effect of pressure differentials in the atmosphere, between the base and top of the fireball? A product of less atmosphere impinging outgoing radiation? It's far too early to be reflected shock-front.

[@uwantsun]

Gentlemen, gentlemen, I disagree. In chroma and in changing out the opacity of the ball, it's neither a lensing effect nor a film artefact. As Muo discusses, it is on the other vides, shot differently, and under different circumstances. I believe he is correct; it is an element that rapidly climbs to the perpendicular much faster than explosion beneath. Also, if it were a lense effect, it would match per camera rotation the speed of opposing direction of the light in the cloud, not rise with it.

[@immortaltaxevader8785]

Could be the camera angle, the only videos of mike and housatonic are below the point in which it could be viewed and in most large tests you can see it take place in other parts of the fireball. On mike you can see the effect proceed horizontally as the fireball 'eats' the instrumentation lines fed into the shot cab. I think it's similar the rope trick effect photographed in the first infinitesimal moments of a lower yield detonation. Just as the thermal maxima of a multimegaton explosion comes after 2 seconds and gradually wanes the rope trick effect could be greatly slowed to what we can detect from unaided observation. Could be atmospheric factors, barometric boundaries at varying altitudes of which the fireball inhabits. Reminds me of RDS-37 where an inversion layer redirected a substantial portion of the blast wave towards the ground though it was a gargantuan explosion. Even megaton scale nuclear weapons are tiny compared to the everyday forces in the atmosphere.

[@maksphoto78]

What about this: there was somehow a gap at the top of the blast wave, allowing the original X-ray-generated plasma ball to "leak out". Or it might have had to do with the fact that the device was a 3-stage bomb - with a fission primary exploding a fusion secondary, when then exploded another fusion secondary.

[@mehnameehjeff6325]

Oh they got a aerial shot of my first chipotle experience, I like spicy, but damn.

[@BlackLukeS]

Little white spots are visible after the explosion, meaning that radiation is hitting the camera sensor, even at that distance. Scary the power that humans have with their hands, something so dark and hominous yet fascinating.

[@logitech4873]

There's no camera sensor.

[@benjamindeforest9363]

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”

[@andrewgibson7610]

An inert star born upon the earth with the agent of man acting as creater, Carl Sagan !

[@wackostvshow1509]

MADNESS

[@CenobiteBeldar]

What’s the difference between a dirty bomb and a clean one? Also, we’re the fissure elements the same between Tsar and Castle Bravo?

[@Ender1337otron]

This is how we get nice things.

[@Moneynis]

This is now my favorite video in your catalog! Where do you find these near perfect restorations?

[@vestrel2530]

They restore the videos themselves

[@T0asty-]

I'd imagine they use AI upscaling.

[@vestrel2530]

@@T0asty- nope, done mostly by hand I believe

[@PenguinDT]

Atom Central does it themselves. The dude who runs Atom Central is Peter Kuran - an optical special effects guru who worked on the original Star Wars trilogy (among many other legendary films). Since optical effects lost their importance thanks to CGI, he moved into restoring documenting this test footage (and directed the amazing "Trinity and Beyond" and other related documentaries). Fun fact; If you see atomic test footage in a film, at the end of the end credits you'll find it was licensed from Atom Central (including but not limited to the Monsterverse Godzillas and Fury Road).

[@Moneynis]

@@PenguinDT whoa

[@milkweed5089]

1:00 reminds me of my homeland

[@kennethwatson4489]

My kingdom for a stabilized version

[@lightbearer.94]

a colossal fireball.

[@petef.4361]

At one point, it looks like a tall stack of delicious pancakes ready to be eaten.

[@shanecolechannel]

If you play the intro song from the Shining in the background to this it's quite fitting.

[@Mohamad-nx3jl]

Look at that mushroom cloud, ain't that beautiful! and the amazing thing to me is that something so magnificent, colourful could just melt your face right off!

[@XxChozzuxX]

Its so weird to know that humans once was only with sticks and stones, created something like this

[@yellow01umrella]

Created or discovered?

[@92kosta]

It's so beautiful!

[@YorkPlays_]

Need the old aviators to watch this one 😮

[@mirllewist3086]

In the first second or two, there is a small sphere that pops up vertically - - is that the primary getting blown out by the force of the secondary?

[@megatop412]

I think this is the shot they used for the introduction to the old movie "Endgame" from 1983? Looks the same to me. Been wondering what test they were showing there

[@Justinjoemon]

It looks like a sunrise

[@mientusmien7594]

im concerned about recently higher activity of this channel

[@lunacracy]

The mushroom cloud of that kind of looks like a mottled pizza if the cheese glowed.

[@phj223]

It really is a man made sunrise.. o.O

[@Sebrumatic]

This is so horrifying with how clear it is and to just fathom how massive this is. It almost looks like the sun is being dropped down on the earth.

[@NielsMF]

Was waiting for the clouds to evaporate

[@W1se0ldg33zer]

Fission yield of 87%. Which is the highest 'officially' ever attained. That's why it's burning so brightly.

[@petegrizwald2666]

ALL Units to their stations, we have an EVANGELION!

[@Deisel-ok6lc]

The sun on earth.