Nuclear Bombs and The Pacific Proving Grounds

[@JAB6322]

A sad effect of such nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific is that it destroyed the Marshall Islander's major food source which is seafood that they had to rely on imports of processed foods, hence their high obesity rate.

[@padawanmage71]

One of those nuclear tests led to the Lucky Dragon fishing boat getting irradiated by fallout, affecting many of its crew. This incident eventually led to the Godzilla movies starting in 1954.

[@MM22966]

"Did you invent the bikini?" "No, the French did." "...god bless the French."

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Gotta love Ripper and Mandrake's surprisingly affable interactions.

[@R3TR0J4N]

God blessed it is

[@MM22966]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Actually that was from a small short/easter egg from Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. (Howard Stark and Dum-Dum Dugan)

[@andrewmontgomery5621]

And thus the beginning of many single men's desires.

[@akumaking1]

@@MM22966which episode?

[@DavidMarcus1525]

The nuclear test site has created two of the most iconic characters; Godzilla and SpongeBob

[@tomarmadiyer2698]

They went to school together

[@Chiller11]

Both are frightening.

[@PitFriend1]

You should do the story of the Australian Atomic Tank. It’s a Centurion tank that was used in a British atomic test in Australia. It was 500 yards from the detonation site and survived in a drivable state. In fact the Australians fueled it back up and drove it back to the depot before decontaminating the thing. It was even put back into service and was sent to Vietnam with the Australian contingent. It still exists today as a gate guard.

[@TheArchemman]

The citizens of Bikini Bottom are irradiated, mutated sea creatures. Examples a lot about the show.

[@keithmoore5306]

and magic mushrooms explain the creators!!!

[@ThommyofThenn]

After watching stuff like this, it's enough to be happy we weren't born with two heads! But really, with how irresponsibly nukes have been used/threatened to be used, we're lucky there haven't been even more nuclear disasters

[@sboianimate]

Wasn't this outright denied by the creator?

[@AlexSaysHi2013]

You're laughin, Bikini Bottom is irradiated and you're laughin

[@aaronjohn6586]

Just a brilliant explanation of the insanity of the times. Along with the insightful history of how the nuclear bomb changed human history.

[@grizwoldphantasia5005]

Not insanity, at least not at first. Just ignorance. They knew about the radiation, but even then were ignorant of its effects. Shoe stores used to have little X-ray machines so people could see their foot bones inside shoes. As for fallout, that was completely unexpected. The later tests were closer to insane. They knew better by then.

[@bursegsardaukar]

Well, a lead lined fridge is definitely not a good bomb shelter...

[@michaelandreipalon359]

I swear, the Fate of Atlantis video game should be the true Indiana Jones 4, not Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

[@junibug6790]

@@michaelandreipalon359 As much as I love FoA, it is just as wacky as the Crystal Skull, what with ancient ghost-gods being revealed within the first 20 minutes.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@junibug6790 Not that I mind the suspected Atlantean aliens. At least they felt right in the original trilogy setting, but I can't exactly describe how.

[@Will-sq3ip]

This many nuclear bomb testings reminds of a quote from “Star Trek: Deep Space 9” where Quark and his family accidentally traveled back in the mid-20th Century Earth. Quark: “They irradiated their own planet?”

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

ah man, literally one of my favorite DS9 episodes. I really should have added it.

[@pyeitme508]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq SO TRUE!

[@chardaskie]

​@@JohnnyJohnsonEsqNot surprised to hear you're a Trek fan. What's your favorite series? I have a soft spot for next generation.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

@chardaskie DS9 forsure. Followed by TNG.

[@kellychuang8373]

That's one also heard there was an Star Trek episode based on a real life event known as the Goiania Accident. anyway have a Google and YT about it as well.

[@Stonewielder]

Knowing that bit of sly commentary on atomic weapons from SpongeBob makes the show that much better. I really feel for the native peoples both there and in Kazakhstan/Russia (and probably Australia).

[@jasonstarks3796]

Don't forget West Africa, the French proving grounds

[@ChrisLeeW00]

I’ve heard people say “nukes have only been used twice” but that completely misses how weve decimated entire landscapes in our testing. Some right in our back yards.

[@wiseguy3696]

Not to mention, until recently, old ships from world war II had to be dredged out from the ocean because all steel produced after 1945 contain trace amounts of radiation that made them unsuitable for precision medical devices and scientific equipment.

[@GunnerHeatFire]

I always love and hate seeing that absolutely badass clip at the beginning of the B-57 flying in-front of a mushroom cloud. Anyways, Great video johhny!

[@av_oid]

British nuclear tests in Australia were not just on the Montebello Islands off WA, but mostly in central Australia at Emu Field and Maralinga in South Australia. Aboriginal peoples were displaced for these tests to happen. And as another commenter has said, the story of the irradiated Centurion tank is an interesting and tragic one, but there are a number of videos about it already.

[@MinofDeath]

My Dad was a MP in the Army. He was assigned to guard the nuclear bombs for testing in the late 1950’s Operation Hardtack I believe. He said they were told not to eat the coconuts on the island because of the radiation. He observed the detonation.

[@GunnerHeatFire]

Thats awesome! but i do wonder what would happen if one ate an irradiated coconut, super-powers?

[@NikoCigoj]

GunnerHeatFire He would probably start vomiting blood or something

[@fisk0]

Rita Hayworth actually appears in a very interesting 1947 movie by Orson Welles, "The Lady from Shanghai", probably the first American movie to depict the anxiety of the atomic age. The Soviet Union didn't have nukes yet, but it was evident it was just a matter of time. Unlike "Kiss me Deadly" no attempt is made to depict the strange new world of atomic horrors, but it is discussed in the dialogue.

[@horatiohuffnagel7978]

Biggest nation in the world at the time and the Soviets pretty much irradiated Kazakhstan. That's awfully nice of them.

[@zwalada]

It's crazy to think ww2 German ships were sunk by a nuclear bomb on the other side of the world where they originally served.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Not only that, one of the vessels was the Prinz Eugen, fateful escort to the battleship Bismarck.

[@bananajoe3669]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Untill today in Germany we have a hering who is called the "Bismarck hering..."

[@yuurichito1439]

​@@michaelandreipalon359 such a waste of a beautiful ship

[@Swan_Ronson_]

One of you best vids Johnny, great work

[@whiskeysk]

The eerily green painted Bikini Atoll Town Hall is on Majuro Atoll, the capital of RMI. It is actually possible albeit rather costly (even compared to other Pacific wreck dive sites like e.g. Truk) to dive the shipwrecks at Bikini, also the diving itself is pretty technical. The United Airlines Island Hopper service also stops at Kwajalein between Kosrae and Majuro where (should you hold a US passport and/or meet some other entry requirements) you can still see a sizeable chunk of Prinz Eugen.

[@AlexandrMilo1129]

I was about to got to bed,but now I got this

[@microwavegommmm916]

Great vids Johnny, always informative and well spoken

[@kellychuang8373]

Also can say thanks for that as well and also may want to look into parts on B-52 bomber or the Goiania incident Brazil's Chernobyl. among many others.

[@ives3572]

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." - Albert Einstein

[@heracliteanflux1]

Thanks for posting. It's a subject we all need to know more about.

[@technogeek9659]

Let's gooo new JJ vid ❤

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

You have the right icon for this video ;)

[@Sargeantunknownww2]

Bikini buttom lore:

[@harrykrebs]

"No Bikini Atoll": the Benny and Cecil cartoon show, 1960's.

[@YuriDoesStrikeball]

you surely need (if not already done) to watch 'Trinity and Beyond: the atomic bomb movie'. I think it's a pretty complete and entertaining documentary!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Timely, this releasing a few days after me rewatching Dr. Strangelove. Surprisingly still ages well, even without too much stakes and action as was hyped back then. Also, the original Godzilla 1954 a month or so back. 1:15: The more we know. Hmm, I wonder if this movie too has aged well. 1:51: In an inverse, the tank top wasn't actually named for it being used by tank crews in WW2. No, they were named for being used as swimwear for swimming tanks, an old name for swimming pools and places. Gonna need a lotta apologies to those islanders' descendants in our lifetimes and beyond. Wouldn't be as easy as Akira Kurosawa doing a veiled "I'm sorry for my nation's actions" message in his film Seven Samurai, where a certain character made deep condolences to the villagers involved. (As of this writing, it seems the description doesn't have a fiction list yet.)

[@kellychuang8373]

Really can say good movie choices there and also speaking of Dr. Strangelove could tell JJ of doing a video about the bomber the pilots were flying in the B-52 or even how an ICBM works is also another idea he can look into doing.

[@the_macbeth_6147]

You can still see the craters on Google Earth if you search for it. Just crazy ..

[@danjohnston3422]

Ms. Hayworth was horrified to be associated with atomic bombs. There was no stigma for most folks, but there was sure as hell quite a lot in her mind.

[@Clipgatherer]

“Dave’s Dream” was Gilda. 😊

[@billyponsonby]

I had a Romanian girlfriend who was new to 🇬🇧 UK. I took her to the beach and a he asked me if it was okay in England to wear only her bikini. I told her of course it was. However, I and everyone else around us was surprised when she stripped off topless with only her bikini bottoms on. She looked great so didn’t say anything. Apparently a ‘bikini’ in Romania is just the bottoms. Cool❤

[@waverly2468]

Between 1950 and 1980 there were 30 "broken arrow" incidents of lost nuclear devices. (watch "Broken arrows and incidents" on youtube narrated by Adam West). There was that 1961 broken arrow in Goldsboro NC where the bomb almost went nuclear and that 1980 Titan missile explosion in Arkansas. Our nuclear devices were just as dangerous to us as to the enemy. That 1982 documentary "The Atomic Cafe" is on you-tube.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Hold up, THE Adam West?

[@AdamantLightLP]

They weren’t though because they never went off.

[@Idahoguy10157]

The Pacific tests are part of the plots of every Godzilla movie

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I have no real excuse as to why I didn't explore that fun movie theme. I really should have.

[@Idahoguy10157]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq … It deserved a mention. You don’t review Godzilla movies on your channel

[@sergeantmarcusstackerM1903]

These tests always make me sad USS Nevada wasn’t preserved as a museum ship

[@LukeBunyip]

The post war treatment of the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands by the USA beggars belief. Also, the UK detonated a device at Maralinga in the middle of Australia. Bit of a sore point down here still.

[@jamesbednar8625]

Awesome/interesting video!! Can remember the anti-Nuke protests while growing up during the 1970s.

[@rolfagten857]

The 1989 "Nightbreaker" movie depicts US army Ground tests. American soldiers to radiation in the proving grounds in Nevada in the 1950s after he is approached by a man who is dying of cancer due to the tests. It's a TV movie with Emilio Estevez & Martin Sheen.

[@dun0790]

I was always fascinated by these tests and growing up when google maps came out a few years later i looked at one of the islands and its a thin strip with enormous craters all along it lol its wonder some of those islands weren't just wiped away

[@xxGravyBabyxx]

I always wonder how many marine life was killed or destroyed from the H-bomb tests. It must have done extreme damage that we dont know is affecting our lives today.

[@axnyslie]

Castle Bravo was horrific. Many military observers suffered from PTSD just from witnessing nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll and other proving grounds.

[@RockinDbop1]

6:30 bars Also it’s insane how the mushroom cloud maintains its fireball cap that high in the air

[@xiphoid2011]

Have to admit, those underwater explosions look strangely beautiful. I initially thought they were shown in slow motion, but then the birds flew into view at full speed. It's as if the water became white clouds that rose and collapse in a strange dream state.

[@oberstul1941]

I knew it that this is the perfect place to get my Spongebob deep lore fix. Cheers!

[@sidneysun5217]

couldn't they have just tested the bombs on those other islands that "are not able to sustain life" in the first place?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

True, but you know how covert military ops go, they need unscripted organic tests.

[@keithmoore5306]

not really they had to live on them while getting ready for the tests!!!

[@AdamantLightLP]

They didn’t really understand radiation at the time. They didn’t know just how and it would be.

[@andrewmontgomery5621]

"This war would end if they blew everything up." Solo Wing Pixy.

[@patriotenfield3276]

Hello Johnny . India has Pokhran Underground Nuclear Testing Site in our State of Rajasthan where both in 1974 & 1998 we conducted Two Nuclear Tests under codename Operation Smiling Buddha for the former & Operation Shakti / Pokhran-II were done around the Month of May , The Results being Grand Success . India has officially stood against NPT along with Pakistan & North Korea because of their deemed discriminatory stance . Also India along with PR China are the Only Two Nations that have a No-First policy regarding Nuclear Weapons . Currently AGNI-V is the only ICBM with a coverage of 5000Km + & more . Agni VI when after it's completion of development , will become the 1st Indian ICBM with above 10,000Km Range.

[@pyeitme508]

Please make video about the M1941 Johnson machine gun please 🥺?

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I am getting overdue for this one...

[@pyeitme508]

Oh ​@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq

[@Tekisasubakani]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Honestly surprised it wasn't one of your first videos, given the name and all. :D

[@bananajoe3669]

The thumbnail is a french test at Mururoa... 06:13 high altitude test "starfish prime". 06:22 also a high altitude test... 08:23 Hardtack Wahoo, 9 Kt...

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Yes, correct. Not trying to fool anyone here just made the better thumbnail. Or do we feel this is misleading?

[@MrK1kk3r]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq it's fine, just leave it in. A test is a test and it makes a great thumbnail

[@sidneysun5217]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq i didn't even know the difference. its fine

[@bananajoe3669]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Nope, not directly missleading, but I as a nuclear test addicted know the difference... 😔 We need new atmospheric tests in the future. Maybe in the baltic sea? The baltic sea is not so far from my home, so I can easily watch them... 😆 Just kidding... A little...

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Well you got a keen eye! Just don't stare directly for too long at any future tests! I may want to make another video on the subject again and could use your eyes.

[@kellychuang8373]

Can also can say it was good too still waiting on MIG Jets and MAMIPAD Missiles maybe the MI-24 Hind or Tupolev TU-95 can be good there among many others.

[@kellychuang8373]

Thanks for the like JJ and for MANIPAD's there are many but 2 in particular is SA-7 and Stinger among all those others and could look into the F-86 Sabre Jet of the Korean War.

[@diquadhumungersaur492]

ever wonder why cancer rates are so high??

[@alltat]

The invention of the bikini has probably increased it very, very slightly.

[@AdamantLightLP]

Realistically, those mules have not contributed that much to the overall cancer rate. There are far more significant causes.

[@sijul6483]

It's more likely the high fructose corn syrup, aspartame and ungodly amounts of sugar in nearly everything. I would even argue some of it a result of everyone and their mother using radium like a child eats sweets when it was discovered. You can make specific cases for the servicemen involved in the tests and perhaps the leakage of radioactive material in a few, isolated incidents.

[@traumgeist]

The creators of SpongeBob deny left and right that Bikini Bottom is Bikini Atoll. The sea creatures are anthropomorphized and can talk due to Neptune’s spell or something like that.

[@alfredmarcos1761]

OOOOOOOHHHH!!!! WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA?!

[@Nyx571]

Bikini atoll, a place in the pacific ocean where the air is spicy.

[@Mag_Aoidh]

Rita was definitely a bombshell.

[@Daniel4646]

And there went another of Earth's sight-for-the-sore-eyes paradises.

[@DaneBüchner-f7v]

Would kill for a vid of F-35 in movies and Pop culture

[@buddyboy7276]

What is the name of the footage of the plane with the explosion in the background or where can I find it.

[@bananajoe3669]

@@buddyboy7276 As I know was that Operation Redwing, the plane is a B-57, but actually I don't know the exact shot...

[@buddyboy7276]

@@bananajoe3669 Thank you.

[@thebritishgamerandstuff8328]

Do a video on Strichtarn

[@ethanjolley2150]

What Coincidence Iast night? I just finished a book. Where the nuclear rational sent a nuclear submarine back in time to ww2

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

Boudewijn Buch visited in 1997.

[@AKlover]

Canned Sunshine!

[@shangrilainxanadu]

What you mean to say is "Each fusion reaction increases the efficiency of the fission". You said it backwards. Modern thermonukes use fusion reactions to produce neutrons to accelerate the fission reaction which produces the heat that people actually care about.

[@wiktorberski9272]

Three explosions arę, or were loking beatiful, and menacing at the same time

[@banzaibobA7V]

Every cloud has a silver lining (except for the mushroom shaped ones, which have a lining of Iridium 191 and Strontium 90).

[@worsel555]

Scientists: We should test our new weapons somewhere where people don't live and is barren of life, maybe go back to New Mexico? US Gov: Tropical islands. Find the most beautiful locations in the world, remove the peaceful people and do your tests. When you're done, tell them they can go home. Scientists:....Whatever, I'm getting paid for a free tropical vacation.

[@bobmetcalfe9640]

The people of the Pacific were hardly ecstatic at this.

[@jonathanpanlaqui1855]

This atoll was used for nuclear bomb tests during Cold War. This place became the basis of bikini swimsuit and Bikini Bottom, the home of SpongeBob, Patrick and others in SpongeBob SquarePants.

[@fortis3686]

Ah yes Godzilla’s origin story.

[@FIVEBASKET]

Nice

[@ives3572]

"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

[@JayjayElon]

And that how Zilla is born

[@keithwalker3460]

there is even a song by the throwing muses white bikini sands

[@VincitOmniaVeritas7]

The evacuation due to fallout was a cover up history. The real reason they evacuated is that the local iguanas turned into Godzilla.

[@Hogan231]

This is the place where Godzilla is born.

[@pyeitme508]

Yep Bikini 👙 & Bikini Bottom origin!😂

[@Countryballgod23]

Interesting

[@neilcook4686]

Under an orange coloured sky... 😊

[@JGCR59]

The US Army Air Force managed to miss the USS Nevada, even if it had been painted brightly red. :P

[@klipsfilmsmelbourne]

Now this is your fault Everything is a problem There was a poison in the air despair is an eternal blight You’re losing it all You’ve been blinded by stardom You think that you’re alone but we are waiting for you every night You’re mine (FNAF SB song This comes from inside)

[@joanromba6972]

Much better nuclear bomb footage than that awful Oppenheimer movie

[@jianbruce6774]

Finally someone i agree with

[@michaelandreipalon359]

I don't think the movie is *that* bad, but man, do I have the feeling that its foil, Godzilla: Minus One, will be the more talked about, and thus immortally positively received, movie as the years go by.

[@TallDude73]

It's tough to make a joke at the end of a video like this. 😐 We appreciate the attempt. 🙂

[@allanalopez1756]

This reminds me of an old song it is called atom bomb baby bye the fve stars ❤❤❤❤❤

[@jakem19116]

Good vid

[@GNOLXOEKIM]

“GoOd viD” 40 seconds after it was uploaded ya clown

[@tetsujinyamamoto2219]

So this is how Godzilla was born

[@itsjohndell]

Madness sheer madness..

[@youngmasterzhi]

And that’s how you blow up an ocean!

[@KodFxTMMotion]

What movie is the first scene?

[@ajmaloleary3553]

The puns at the end are the best bit. I only watch the rest of the videos to give context to the fantastic puns at the end Keep up the good work!

[@BBC42618]

The movie Godzilla was based on these nuclear tests.

[@WhatIsSanity]

Those nuclear tests in Australia also irradiated a lot of people! I had the privilege of listening to first hand accounts from those detonations, all but one of those people are now dead. Cancer. An entire Aboriginal tribe was wiped out by one of those British Nuclear tests on the mainland. A literal nuclear genocide. The problem with nuclear weapon testing is nowhere on Earth is completely uninhabited, each detonation reaps a massive harvest of death that continues to claim victims for generations to come.

[@isaacrodriguez4773]

WHAT THE FU-[Explosion] *Evil Laugh*

[@zhicaofang2354]

Godzilla: ahhhh buffet time 😂

[@markusdee6136]

4:52. US soldier showing his false teeth make the girls laugh.

[@filipeamaral216]

Bakini Atoll.

[@grrlpurpleable]

What a species we are... completely undeserving of this beautiful world.

[@belialofeden]

The toilet when you eat chipotle

[@dimitristripakis7364]

These people lived a simple beautiful life in a remote paradise, but still somehow we managed to screw it up for them.

[@sh-ig9fm]

All hail atom and his blessed glow.

[@graemespeed4285]

It’s scary that these horrific weapons are at the hands of old men in the US, Russia and the rest of the