Newly declassified An atomic bomb testing open for public live videos with sound 1955 Remastered

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Remastered video of an atomic bomb explosion at NTS for public watching ,guess which test is it's ID??
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@MagellanAEIndustries 11 ай бұрын

0:31 blast 01:28 shockwave but minus 0:47-0:57 (ten seconds) so 47 seconds between blast and shokwave = (343m/s) x 47s = 16121m 16km was the test from spectators

@Aelleor 11 ай бұрын

Or, in keeping with US measurements, within a couple hundred meters of exactly ten miles, a nice round number that probably sounded like a safe and reasonable distance for observers in 1955. Thanks for the calculation!

@NorbertKasko 11 ай бұрын

At 0:48 they repeated the the flash when they shown the crowd up close. I would say they were 40 seconds away or about 8.5 miles.

@frederiquerijsdijk 10 ай бұрын

And we hear the EMP as well!

@Ominousheat 6 ай бұрын

@@frederiquerijsdijk I think that was just the soundtrack being sliced together. All electrical equipment would have been shielded from EMP.

@ericanderson2987 11 ай бұрын

Great to hear the sound of Detonation as just one loud Bang, NOT the continuou Hollywood type Rumble.

@DanielFCutter 11 ай бұрын

Your right. Hollywood STILL thinks sound travels at light speed also.

@ericanderson2987 11 ай бұрын

...and, the British were TERRIBLE with their Propaganda Films of H-Bomb Tests. Those Films had Sound as initial Flash happened!

@aaroncarr5725 11 ай бұрын

Like a big thunder clap

@BigSmartArmed 10 ай бұрын

That was a very small 1 kiloton yield device, not a megaton range thermonuclear device. Small yield devices do create claps, while thermonuclear megaton-bombs create a super heated column that keeps sucking air from the bottom into the rising stack. That's where the roaring comes from. So much air is sucked up in a such a period of time that there is range where people and animals will suffocate and lose consciousness from lack of oxygen. From there, it only gets worse.

@Jonhobbs64 7 ай бұрын

That's exactly why people hear gunshots at the mall or something, and say they thought it was fireworks. Almost all guns in Hollywood films sound like cannons!

@EK14MeV 11 ай бұрын

Looks like Wasp Prime over Yucca Flat. That flat peak of Oak Spring Butte to distant NNE valley corner, to left of detonation, was iconic of Yucca Flat. Those were military observers, not the public. “Public” meant Civil Defense and press corps, not anyone else.

@garysmith9818 11 ай бұрын

Interesting to get some actual sound with a test video, they are usually just silent film. Good find ATC, thanks for posting!

@Mamo878 11 ай бұрын

I hate it when they pan away from the crowd when we're waiting to see the crowd reaction to the shock wave.

@__________Anonymous__________ 10 ай бұрын

They obviously did that because the sound is of course fake. The few people we can still see at the bottom show absolutely ZERO reaction whatsoever to the sound - because there was no sound at that moment. If the camera hadn't panned up, it would've been even more obvious the audio was fake. The reason the camera didn't pan up higher than it did is because the lower portion wasn't meant to be seen later, either intended to cropped away in the final editing of the tape or simply expected to not be visible on a TV (a bit of the image is lost on a CRT) or a film projector (which can limit the area that's projected/viewable). The 100% full frame area of a film tape is almost never intended to be shown later. So while it may look like the guy filming (who had been told to pan up - so the fake audio could later be applied when the people weren't in view) didn't pan up quite enough, from his perspective he actually had panned up enough because _within the area of the frame which he was focused on_ the people were no longer in view.

@Cmunic8 10 ай бұрын

@@__________Anonymous__________why would they fake the sound? Is it easier for you to think it’s some conspiracy?

@R.Oates7902 10 ай бұрын

@@Cmunic8 Fake the sound?

@Uncle_Neil 11 ай бұрын

Looks like Teapot Test Wasp - Feb 18, 1955 12:00 PM local time at NTS, Area 7 (1.2 Kt) notice the air burst distance at 762 feet altitude

@Red-rl1xx 11 ай бұрын

1:27 Sound of explosion.

@keithallver2450 11 ай бұрын

It looked like it was fairly low-yield. Any idea of the kilotonage?

@Cherry-bq4oh 11 ай бұрын

aparrently 1.2

@cjhxc4946 11 ай бұрын

@@Cherry-bq4ohthey must have been far away because that is almost the same as the Beirut explosion and that thing was huge!

@TheVanillatech 11 ай бұрын

@@cjhxc4946 Around 10 miles away. The Beirut explosion looked huge because all the footage of it was basically anywhere from a couple of miles, to just hundreds of meters away. Anyone a hundred of meters away from this nuclear bomb would basically be vaporized, and anyone a mile away would be set on fire and their clothes and skin ripped from their bodies.

@herrunbekannt7556 11 ай бұрын

Some guys guess this was "Teapot Wasp" and that shot had a yield of 1 kt. Yeah, it looks small.

@iitzfizz 11 ай бұрын

They were around 16km away@@cjhxc4946 They were around 16km away @cjhxc4946

@jameswalker3973 11 ай бұрын

You see the flash over the crowd then hear the crackling of gamma radiation on the speakers...

@truthseeker2321 11 ай бұрын

That's electromagnetic pulse causing feedback.

@tbn22 10 ай бұрын

All witnesses accounts of nuclear explosions, that I have read, describe the sound being more of a short sharp "Pow", than a fat loud "booom". Two videos now seem to confirm this.

@Strike_Raid 10 ай бұрын

I like how the EMP from the fission is picked up on the wire recorder.

@juslitor 7 ай бұрын

probably because of the EMP getting amplified in the sound circuitry

@lunacracy 3 ай бұрын

The EMP comes from ionization of the electrons in the air.

@williamstearns7490 11 ай бұрын

Every recording I’ve ever heard of a nuclear detonation always sounds like a heavy sheet of plywood fell over onto concrete.

@williamstearns7490 11 ай бұрын

@@tripplefives1402 rare indeed. There are 4 audio films I’ve heard so far that weren’t obviously adulterated. To be honest I suspect that, like most high order detonations, they are just painfully loud claps rather than any hellish doom sounds. The only explosions I’ve heard that come close to the heavy rolling base notes of Hollywood nuke sounds are BLEVE’s. Though I was a young firefighter at the time and my memory of it may itself be adulterated by the fact that I damn near wet my pants. 😋

@robroskey6515 11 ай бұрын

I've seen 3 including this one and they all definitely have that initial Bang like a really loud gun which overwhelms any reverberation you'd probably hear if you were there in person especailly due to their crappy audio recording quality back then. This one is the least impressive, it's quite far away and seems relativley low yield. There's another black and white one from the 50s, can't remember the series or test name, its pretty good compared to this. And the other one that sure seems to have real audio is a short documentary of the British grapple x test, (their first h bomb). It's on here somewhere and it's the best example of the sound that I've found if it's real, it even show crowds of dudes all duck at the same time when the wave comes through

@williamstearns7490 11 ай бұрын

@@robroskey6515 ha ha! Yeah, I remember the British one. I can’t remember if the Brit’s had any warning like I heard them give during the American tests. You may be right about the three because now I can’t remember if the view of the Tsar bomb from that village where the guys in the street got knocked over had sound or if the bang was added in.

@truthseeker2321 11 ай бұрын

@@tripplefives1402That's exactly what I was told by an army instructor years ago. He was present when the atomic cannon was tested. He said it was almost disappointing that it sounded just like any other bomb, even though that particular weapon was the same yield as the Hiroshima bomb.

@ranchoth 11 ай бұрын

Well, if it's from 1955, it _looks_ like Teapot Wasp. The yield would be right, and the mushroom cloud not only looks generally similar (with the large gap between the cloud and the stem), but the glowing spot in the lower-left corner of the cloud at about 0:37 looks very close to a spot I'm seeing in another film clip of the Wasp test that I've found online. (Which is much zoomed in, in color, in better quality, and a slightly different angle)

@Gremriel 11 ай бұрын

If it was in 1955, this shot would have been part of Operation Teapot. But I can't find any info about any shots open for public viewing.

@Thwarptide 7 ай бұрын

Beyond the sound, it’s nice to see things happen in real time too.

@sid2112 11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah sure, but I let off one little stick of dynamite for the 4th of July and I'm arrested!

@bluecordprecisiongrading2504 10 ай бұрын

I'd say Ranger Able as this looks like a very small airburst

@emilkarpo 11 ай бұрын

That was pretty much New Years at Shawmut AZ with the Combat Railfans back in about 1996 and 2020.

@Timesend 10 ай бұрын

I’m shocked with how long the sound took to travel

@__________Anonymous__________ 10 ай бұрын

The sound obviously isn't real. The recording of the sound may very well be real, or the sound we hear may at least be a recording of a real explosion of some sort, but the sound was obviously added on later. Hence why the cameraman was instructed to pan up so the audience watching the later wouldn't see the total lack of reaction amongst the crowd.

@suppylarue220 10 ай бұрын

@@__________Anonymous__________ depending on the distance and the way the wind is blowing, sound travels slower than seeing the actual explosion. just like a fireworks show, you see the flash first, then hear the bang.

@oliverheaviside2539 10 ай бұрын

@@__________Anonymous__________ Right. And the earth is flat.

@k.chriscaldwell4141 18 күн бұрын

_Hey captain! Private Smith’s still out there!_

@ZombieJesus1987 Ай бұрын

It's always funny when you see nuclear test footage where they edit in the explosion noise to make it sound more dramatic than it actually is. it just sounds like an explosion. no roaring wind or anything like that. just a big boom.

@madmaxmckinnes5862 11 ай бұрын

Not much of a 'bang' though, considering it was a nuke, huh? Sounded more like a door getting slammed shut!!!!!!

@BaughJames-fg2wy 11 ай бұрын

Let's go 1min

@buzaldrin8086 11 ай бұрын

First live broadcast of a nuclear test by a local TV KTLA station in LA in 1951.

@BaughJames-fg2wy 11 ай бұрын

About to go live

@tykobes4132 10 ай бұрын

This looks like a fizzle rather then a sustainable reaction

@P-G-77 11 ай бұрын

I remember part of this video... but i view years ago and the duration... about 1 minute... if i remember correctly this was an open shot, people from all cities, vip's, media etc... years i search the full content of this... all reels.

@sul923 11 ай бұрын

The dust cloud drifting towards the men is pretty eerie. Why would they send the bomb off upstream from them?

@mikewallace8087 10 ай бұрын

Why are we all standing here as observers ? You are test subjects that will be observed for the rest of your lives.

@lassitc 11 ай бұрын

The audio needs to be cleaned up... However, good video of the explosion sound.

@michaelp772 10 ай бұрын

Tiny little firecracker of a bomb.

@CreativeWarrior- 11 ай бұрын

Teapot? 1 kiloton.

@vtgamehendge 3 ай бұрын

I would be like, "That's it?"

@midnightgmail 11 ай бұрын

По кадрам заряд очень скромный. Буквально 1+ килотонн

@breakalegfpv9532 11 ай бұрын

they just started testing above ground again in Nevada!!

@buckhorncortez 11 ай бұрын

Using conventional explosives with radiation sources to simulate nuclear explosions. This was done in the 1980s at White Sands Permanent High Explosive Test Site (PHETS) and the Misty Castle series of tests.

@davidgriffiths7696 10 ай бұрын

Looks like it’s a walk in the park.

@MarkFarrington-hb2ne 10 ай бұрын

Wonder if all those soldiers volunteered to be exposed to radiation in that great democracy

@JayRexus1337 2 ай бұрын

Yes

@johnadm3479 11 ай бұрын

Why put crowds nearby the test location is still to had Radiation effects?

@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 11 ай бұрын

1955

@GoldenRakerRock 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@chanvalentine8283 11 ай бұрын

How many miles from ground zero on this one?

@Red-rl1xx 11 ай бұрын

It looked like a rather small explosion so, probably a couple of miles?

@Mr.Fox.92 11 ай бұрын

@@Red-rl1xxDefinitely more than a couple miles, just look at how long the shockwave took to reach them.

@Digi20 11 ай бұрын

it took 58seconds for the sound to reach the camera (at 1:24), thats 58 times 343m = around 20km/12.4 miles.

@Red-rl1xx 11 ай бұрын

@@Mr.Fox.92 I thought about that. It did seem to take a while for the sound to arrive.

@Red-rl1xx 11 ай бұрын

@@Digi20 Wow! 12 miles! It's hard to tell without any reference points. You know, just flat desert.

@650nelson 10 ай бұрын

was this the one that turned Glen Manning into The Amazing Colossal Man?

@suppylarue220 10 ай бұрын

no, it was for his girlfriend.

@Mamalotty0725 7 ай бұрын

Teapot wasp prime, 3.5 kilotons

@noelht1 11 ай бұрын

Bless. It’s only a baby nuke.

@bulgingbattery2050 10 ай бұрын

Davy crockett?

@Eye_Exist 11 ай бұрын

only time in the human history those were used in war they were used against innocent civilians, and not by stalin or hirohito or hitler, but by us, twice. let that sink in.

@JayRexus1337 2 ай бұрын

Neither Hirohito nor Hitler ever had access to nuclear weapons, and if they had they certainly would have used them. They did have access to other weapons, though, and used those with horrifying effect. Japan used biological weapons in China from weapons made by Unit 731, and Germany used V1 and V2 flying bombs against hundreds of thousands of people, in addition to regular unguided bombs dropped from airplanes. Because the US used atomic weapons does not make us more or less evil than the axis powers. It's only a different method of taking human life.

@SteelSmoker 11 ай бұрын

Hate to say this... Seen ammo dumps with more KA-BOOM than that. Still scary.

@robroskey6515 11 ай бұрын

To be fair the ammo dumps probably weren't 10-12 miles away and it wasnt recorded with crappy 50s audio technology. But yeah I agree your point. There's a couple others I've heard that are much more impressive than this one even with the old crappy audio

@oliverheaviside2539 10 ай бұрын

Ammo dump won’t fit in a 155mm howitzer shell.

@jeffreycampbell-rl3gc 5 ай бұрын

Size of the bomb?

@Draxindustries1 11 ай бұрын

That looks like a Davey Crokett M28/ M29 explosion. Low yield to use on the battle field..

@buzaldrin8086 11 ай бұрын

* Davy Crockett.

@Draxindustries1 11 ай бұрын

@@buzaldrin8086 Thanks for pointing out my typo..

@adi63 11 ай бұрын

Why don't we "hear" the EM pulse in the sound?

@paulmichaelfreedman8334 11 ай бұрын

Because there is no large EMP when a nuke goes off at low altitude. It's when a nuke is detonated in the ionosphere that an amplified EMP is produced. Air blast nukes do not radiate a debilitating EMP.

@adi63 11 ай бұрын

@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 I can think of no reason why you would need the ionosphere to be involved. For example, in this test, clearly at low altitude, there is an EM pulse: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaulg4eGltR2g5Y (see 1:40-1:47). Maybe the camera was somehow shielded?

@paulmichaelfreedman8334 11 ай бұрын

@@adi63There is a pulse but it fades with the distance squared, so the camera is out of reach of it being harmful. A directed EMP, much much more powerful, has to be detonated in the ionosphere so the particles already present there are accelerated and amplify the EMP. Just ask any nuclear expert.

@___-vz7mp 8 ай бұрын

Neutron bombs are the ones that produce a real EMP.

@theschmedaparadox1018 11 ай бұрын

That's a city killer

@robroskey6515 11 ай бұрын

Neighborhood killer

@michaelstanich70 11 ай бұрын

looks like everyone was at news knob hill.

@ericvonp 10 ай бұрын

M-80…modified of course

@BaughJames-fg2wy 11 ай бұрын

Really

@Mr.mysterious76 11 ай бұрын

0:30 That's just too bright

@greatestytcommentator 11 ай бұрын

There was, prior to this... one other.

@JakeStar-oe9ev 11 ай бұрын

Obviously very low kilotonnage

@martychamplin7793 11 ай бұрын

Are nuclear weapons good?

@jamoR72 11 ай бұрын

They are god

@santhoshsprings 11 ай бұрын

No , bad 😮😢😮😢😮😢

@soccerpaintball6881 11 ай бұрын

I suppose it would depend on who you ask. There are people in this world that believe that nuclear weapons are not real. That being said, nuclear weapons put an end to a World War. Prevented the invasion of Japan. which would have probably cost millions of lives. I can imagine the threat of nuclear weapons has kept several countries at Bay from doing wild things throughout our history. But I can imagine at some point these weapons will be used to kill millions, if not billions. A nuclear weapon in my opinion is neither good nor bad. It is the people that are in control, that you must question whether. they are evil or not.

@budgiefriend 11 ай бұрын

What do you think my friend ?

@wanderinghistorian 11 ай бұрын

No weapon is good, the question is: are they necessary? I would also say no they are not necessary, since they have only been used twice in war and they weren't even needed those times.