Operation Argus - The Secret Atmospheric Nuclear Tests to Create a Man-Made Radiation Belt

[@misterjag]

Four years later, the U.S. conducted a high altitude nuclear test that was a 1,000 times more powerful. Starfish Prime resulted in an EMP so large that it was impossible for scientific instruments to take accurate measurements. Also it damaged several satellites including Telstar.

[@fromthefire4176]

Yeah but at least it succeeded in looking like a starfish resulting in many oohs and ahhs by the observing brass. Some say it birthed a monstrous starfish transformer hybrid known as starfish prime, which is said to remain in orbit to this day, the ISS would have crashed into it last year, except it didn’t... or did it? I have it on google authority this is the subject of dark5’s next documentary.

[@tzisme]

@@fromthefire4176 This test also disabled my flying saucer, stranding me here on your puny planet.

[@dougball328]

It also caused blackouts and disrupted communications in Hawaii, over 1000 miles from the test site.

[@misterjag]

Imagine what it would do today.

[@shakesperezen6078]

@@tzisme Me too👍👽..and it bust my kick arse stereo as well as cracking one of my lateral tinted windows..Always Forever with the Great Big Damn Flashy Splosions..Grrrrrr!! 👾..Dang Earthlings!!..Uurrrrrrg!!!!.. (/-\)..

[@BoostedPastime]

I often wonder how much projects like these have lead to cancer, birth defects and other horrors around the world.

[@johnbergamini3567]

If u were born, as I was, in the 1950s, you have trace but measurable strontium in your bones from these tests...

[@BoostedPastime]

@@johnbergamini3567 That sucks, I am from the 90s. I think all generations are effected eventually in different ways but yeah the 50s was a dangerous time.

[@TheMajkla]

The thing is that generations of fifties or sixties exposed to radiation might have been okay, and the effects showed up on their children or grandchildren generations.

[@Declan-pg8cg]

@Stool Posts As nukes go the Tsar bomb (or big Ivan), was one of the cleanest, due to it's high test altitude and the prevailing winds. I don't know where you got that from.

[@virgilio6349]

@A D Shock wave /= radiation. He's right, the Tsar Bomb was one of the cleanest because it used most of its fissle material upon detonation. Normal nukes only use like a 3rd maybe half of their fissle material when detonating.

[@KENKENNIFF]

Ahhh, the days of innocuous sounding military operations, nowadays it would be called Operation Firebrand Bearing Eagle Riding a Unicorn. I exagerate of course

[@peterzingler6221]

Operation Humping Core. That would have been a great one

[@g550ted5]

" Firebrand Bearing Eagle Riding a Unicorn". Sounds like something Joe the Pervert would call someone at one of his lonely rallies. Is there an echo in this gymnasium? Why am I here?

[@puremaga17]

How do you know about that op? 😄

[@nicknavarrete2838]

@@g550ted5 and Donald would try to inject disinfectant

[@HustleMuscleGhias]

How about "Operation this can only end in disaster?"

[@P2J3M4]

The only detail wrong there is that the scientist was not Greek American, but a Greek Engineer who tried to publish his work, but since he used a different mathematical model they mostly ignored his first attempts. There is a great book on the topic named " Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Test in Outer Space" by Mark Wolverton.

[@magicelkiller]

This channel is underrated i love the fact they use actual footage

[@jonnoMoto]

Actual footage of vaguely related scenes of the period.

[@jcramond73]

And no robotic voice over.

[@cnfuzz]

Hmm , just reading passages out of books around the subject and stuffing them with random images

[@gregniel]

The track that starts at 2:30 is OUTSTANDING. . . . really pops the content!

[@1Klooch]

Agreed! This long time subscriber would like to know what it was.

[@figram]

Would be Really great to know what it is!!!

[@samuelkorger3567]

Any idea what the last song is?

[@MarkTheMorose]

@@1Klooch That information is classified. We remain in the dark.

[@ExperimentIV]

i wanna know what that track that starts at 2:30 is too, so, posting in the hopes that someone knows

[@MrChronicpayne]

I keep coming back... the music fits so well.

[@josh2232]

No it doesn’t

[@simonlarrondo5295]

@@josh2232 yes it does...

[@wt1370]

Once again a high quality short documentary at no cost . As a YT documentary junkie, I believe yours is one of the best. Thank you for your hard work

[@pfx245]

Background music is nice. Gives a nice feel to the video.

[@Allen-eq5uf]

Somehow he always has entertaining music.

[@samuelkorger3567]

The last song toward the end, any idea what that is?

[@thefightisalwaysfixed8890]

@@samuelkorger3567 darude... sandstorm

[@dr.ratatoskr6233]

And the song in the middle?

[@michaeldelany2214]

I know the first song. It’s from Transformers: War For Cybertron, and it was the multiplayer menu theme

[@markusdaxamouli5196]

It is amazing how bold and wreckless the Nuke testing got. There was like a fever craze to find any use for the atomic fusions and fission toys. Just glad everyone chilled out. Take a look at that animation timeline of every nuke explosion over time...we obliterated nevada over several hu ndred times before france, russia, china et al began their own addictions.

[@kbtechandmedia]

I made reference to the same timeline that you have. This is good.

[@Balthorium]

They actually found out that they could knock out radar at the other end of the magnetic line in the northern hemisphere by detonating a nuke in the South. Auroras were created at the opposite ends of magnetic lines as well. Theoretically a series of detonated nukes above the southern Indian Ocean would disable Soviet radar in the north.

[@lestatangel]

Crazy Determined.

[@davidriley7149]

Climate change debate aside. We live on a rock, in a bubble. HOW MUCH OF THE ATMOSPHERE DID THEY FRY?.

[@projectmanagement2356]

Let's just say at minimum 20,000,000 Americans and countless more around the world have died of cancers directly related to these tests.

[@granddukeofmecklenburg]

@@projectmanagement2356 um...no

[@CoercedJab]

@@granddukeofmecklenburg yeah we can’t forget Monsanto

[@g__wizz]

if man could change the climate through emissions, we already would have with our nuclear testing alone, never mind the amount of fossil fuels we burn during times of war "historically speaking" anyways. the real push against fossil fuels is so we can have a reserve of them for war, not to save the environment.

[@joeblow9657]

Best Dark Docs vid yet

[@dougball328]

The book "Burning the Sky" by Mark Wolverton is a great treatise on the subject of the Christofilos effect and the Argus experiments.

[@Falconguygaming]

My great-grandfather was on the albemalre during some of the tests. Not sure if he was still in on this one.

[@TheRibbonRed]

Depending on his position, he might not have known he has been in this one.

[@kmcgovern2012]

My dad was on the Norton Sound

[@RatBrain]

My grandfather was on the Norton Sound. That's what lead me to this video. My dad had no idea since my grandfather passed when my dad was young.

[@azazzelx]

well, experiments have to be done....because we are by nature curious...some long lasting effect might happen but we do learn much from it....anyway, we got simulations that could be easily utilized instead today.

[@josephmc5049]

Simulations are rarely even close to accurate.

[@zerointv6304]

Favorite KZbin channel

[@tylerfoss3346]

Fabulous job once again, Dark Docs! Keep them coming!

[@eamonwright7488]

These missiles were launched in the South Atlantic Ocean in an area called the "South Atlantic Anomaly" where the Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the Earth's surface, coming within 200 km.

[@Crysis441]

Love the channel!

[@MonkeyWrenching]

Chase Arsenault - same, the amount I’ve learned from this channel is ridiculous and I love it!!!

[@Edwardmodos]

Over the last few months you've been hitting the ball hard, son, good job.

[@allgood6760]

Thanks for this 👍

[@garethjones1]

Like the background music.

[@lucbog33]

Yes, but much to loud. Speech becomes dificult to understand is your narive language is not English.

[@abdullahshawl3784]

This channel is so good that it sucks he doesn't upload daily.

[@STAROMEGA54]

But he does upload a lot of great stuff.

[@futurunnerxiii6618]

If u want accurete info...

[@jamescarter3196]

It would suck if he uploaded daily. Good stuff requires time.

[@BrokebackBob]

Absolutely over the top INSANE!!

[@TheblueTraxxasRustler]

This is a great history channel

[@andrewb8698]

I was talking to a friend about your channel, she would still watch if you had dedicated subtitles as the auto cc KZbin has isn't great. She is hearing impaired so loved your channel before it changed.

[@roberthill3207]

Absolutely love your channel and style have an excellent day thumbs up stay awesome

[@skippy6703]

I love your videos and I often would like to read more about it, could you maybe put the sources you use in the video or description. Or would that be a lot of extra work ?

[@Balthorium]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZS3o4J9iJiHr6c

[@USA0312]

Good lord I absolutely love these videos, thanks for being such a darn good content creator

[@billhart3728]

Well done

[@videocrowsnest5251]

It's probably easier to at this point make a list of things the US/USSR *haven't* tried to weaponize in their global slap down/staring contest that nearly ended in nuclear Armageddon on several occasions.

[@Randall1001]

Would someone PLEASE tell me what the HELL it is that guy is wearing at 5:50 minutes/seconds into the video? I saw this same character in "Trinity and Beyond," only it was a more full view, and it looks as though the guy is wearing a black skull mask--with white teeth. It's freaking terrifyingly bizarre. I'm sure it must be some kind of protective suit... but someone tell me why the hell it LOOKS like that.

[@brianm545]

Great video .

[@constantinusaugustus8980]

Great, informative video, as always! Would not know if not the Dark Docs. Thanks.

[@thetreblerebel]

Theres a great documentary of these test programs called The Rainbow Missles. Its great

[@tannerswartz853]

Thought the intro song was the metal gear sold 2 menu theme at first, I was like NICE !

[@AZJYouCantAfford]

There's already the van Allen radiation belts over earth. We don't need more lol

[@roberthill3207]

Have a good day everyone

[@tmyersadk]

Is there someplace we can vote and demand that you be the new voice of all documentaries on all subjects, everywhere for the foreseeable future?

[@MarkTheMorose]

7:23 Military bloke: yep, we got your Christofilos effect right here.

[@titaniumdiveknife]

2:48 ooh yes

[@gitanoespana7694]

"...He will bring to ruin those ruining the earth..."

[@Declan-pg8cg]

That's very vague. Is "He" some kind of eco assassin?

[@tabcreedence6553]

@@Declan-pg8cg It's a Bible verse and it's pretty specific

[@ShMDavies]

God, I love these videos!!

[@teddy.d174]

You should do a vid on them wanting to nuke the moon as a show of power to the Soviet Union.

[@mcsquared8315]

Dang that was a good circle drawing at 1:35

[@willowpitts6539]

WOW good job keep it up, good job

[@gambleviso7726]

5:48 look like the character of Kroenen in the movie hellboy (2004) lol

[@tofusrvng]

what I thought too damn

[@MrChronicpayne]

Whats the track at 2:31??! So good... really get into the content.

[@samuelkorger3567]

MrChronicpayne any idea what the track at the end is?

[@johncipriano3627]

This is pure Monstrous 😆😢😢😢🤯🤯🤯🤯.

[@somerando4354]

Handsome bald man, oh, Hanson Baldwin? lol! Anyway, I'm going to have to watch this twice, I've never heard of it and I can't believe they did this, thank you!

[@willowpitts6539]

One of your best, top 10 :)

[@electronicsplendor]

You should do a video about the lost US bomber that crashed into a river in Pittsburgh and was ‘never recovered’.

[@leefithian3704]

Aliens don’t like that , it’s a planetary shield 🤣

[@darkalienzeta6713]

It can also stop space travel and false radiation readings

[@AdamosDad]

I know there were treaties but I also know I saw a midday launch in I think 1970 of a Terrier missile, almost straight up and saw for a brief instant a second sun in the sky. That was somewhere in the tropical Atlantic.

[@deepbludude4697]

Interesting!

[@Psychol-Snooper]

How much coffee do you drink?

[@zerointv6304]

Your awesome

[@roberthill3207]

So are you.

[@enclave2k1]

[Citation Needed]

[@RedcoatsReturn]

Fascinating and...alarming...nuclear fallout shot into orbit around the Earth. Fortunately, on a small scale.

[@peterzingler6221]

Cobalt bombs are even worse

[@zachhan5038]

Utterly sick human minds, what else to say?!

[@olengagallardo8551]

The greatest experiment in history is the Michaelson-Morley experiment

[@user-qj7fp9ug7j]

The us like to mess the world up don't they

[@kingofburgundy6323]

Del Lawrence nah man you don’t own the sky, therefore you have no say in what happens up there

[@robertwilson3914]

No, they just want to rule you...power, position, and money..?.sad.

[@kbtechandmedia]

Eh. Not really. That would have been a cool time to see as far as development, communication and capability. In my 33 years of existence, the US is more defensive to allies and its own territory than anything. We've tried to fix things as people. It pisses me off how in 2020 that the color of someone's skin bothers someone. But me, eh, I have better things to worry about. I'll be friends and support anyone that wants to do the same with me.

[@asymptoticsingularity9281]

The Soviet Union was so nice. The USSR never did anything wrong.

[@shaider1982]

I hope you can do a video on the British operatives that provided intel during Deset Storm.

[@nandankumar8930]

How can first satelite launch be called crisis and a nuclear test a response.

[@randomradon]

because it showed that the soviet union had the capability of putting weapons in orbit. how scared would you be if you knew that the enemies of your country had nuclear weapons ready to drop on your home at a moments notice. this was the us trying to find a way to disable those possible weapons without just "shooting it" after all how would you find it in space? if there was a weapon system that could intercept a satellite (within a reasonable time to prevent a bomb dropping), it would be extremely costly to develop, build and operate. so why not go for the option of a radiation belt? they already had all the materials to do the test.

[@captjamus]

Because "bad guys" did first satellite and "good guys" needed to respond. In the end it was really a point of view as to which side was actually "bad"or "good". The winners always write the history.

[@nandankumar8930]

@@randomradon It's just the power of controlling prospective.

[@nandankumar8930]

@@captjamus Good guys needed another reason to show thier nuclear advancement.

[@ankitmagar35]

@@captjamus good n bad guys are both assholes. Just to dominate over the world and put sanctions on different nations.

[@SagaciousDjinn]

Where was that hole in the ozone that has recovered back to health?

[@mred8002]

Arctic

[@denby-r7208]

There was an ozone hole over the south Atlantic / Falkland Islands area but I challenge people to find images of it through Google, it is like someone has ordered it sanitised encase the link to Argus is questioned.

[@mannyamato3421]

The poles were open for a bit, just recently maybe a month or 2 another reopened above the north pole.

[@uksurfer2505]

Because we live in a ‘closed system’ this kind of behaviour is going to have huge health implications. Wake up people x

[@crankychris2]

In fact, millions of man made debris has stopped further space exploration for our lifetimes.

[@notyourbusiness7368]

The us is like the kid in the comment section that comments “first” or the annoying classmate that would disturb everyone just to get a reaction.

[@jamescarter3196]

Did you have any fact-based criticisms to cite or just this analogy which is valid for Russia and a lot of other countries too? The whole world doesn't really pay as much attention to the US as we think they do. Pretending the whole world is beholden to the US is another piece of American arrogance and here you are doing it while trying to criticize it! Few things are more American than that.

[@ebonwestbrook5580]

This is why the ozone layer is screwed up and weather is off

[@windowsxseven]

nope, it's not

[@AzatothAUS]

Ever wonder why the hole in the ozone layer in in the southern hemisphere, yet the majority of CFC's where released in the northern hemisphere?

[@windowsxseven]

@@AzatothAUS natural wind currents

[@jamescarter3196]

@@AzatothAUS Instead of a rhetorical question, try explaining what you mean and provide links to scientific facts instead of wild guesses.

[@skikarno739]

First thing anything does once it knows it is trapped... tries to break out of the cage..🤔

[@kimothyhimmler3921]

For science they said...... It will be fine they said....

[@chrissinclair4442]

I wish he would cover things like Air America.

[@Edwardmodos]

I hear they made a movie about that once. And he has done a separate CIA doc on "Air America" as I recall.

[@ViceCoin]

Warheads are hardened against EMP, not civilian electronics. Cruise missiles and Poseidon nuclear torpedoes are not affected.

[@TheHelghast1138]

You can't make an omelette without breaking an egg

[@colemarie9262]

Idk if you're aware, but there's always an add to start and end each video- so when you put four adds in a ten min video, the viewer ends up sitting through six of them. I think you deserve pay for your work, no doubt about that, but the way the adds are set up kinda seem like a lot when watching. Maybe grouping them at either end of the video would be better, or one on each end and two together in the middle? It works out to like an add every two minutes..... which is a big reason why I don't watch tv lol

[@justme-ij2qy]

To remove the ads without paying for a blocker or premium just advance the video all the way to the end and then press the replay arrow.

[@Ann-sj4pt]

I think the ad placement maybe yts choice rather than Dark 5s

[@digitaltroublemaker4851]

FYI Sputnik is pronounced spoot-nick not spot-nick

[@theogdirkdiggler]

Sounds alot like the van allen belts....

[@dyveira]

Oh god, don't start. I come to this channel to get away from the conspiracy theorists.

[@Willyfanta]

I saw Captain Price do this once

[@n3onkatman]

So SpaceX is continuing this mission with their satellites?

[@dellawrence4323]

Yep.

[@jmchaser]

N3ONKATMAN 117 nope. very foolish comment 👎. Anyone with any intelligence will understand the krypton boosters on the StarLink satellites could never emit anywhere NEAR the levels of ionizing (harmful) radiation that an actual nuclear bomb would. You’re literally comparing a small, boring firecracker to an atom bomb. A kitten to a starved tiger... which one are you gonna run from?

[@peterzingler6221]

@@jmchaser you dont know whats on this satelite. They could even run rods of god and you. Will never know

[@n3onkatman]

@@jmchaser my sleep paralysis demon

[@noahhradek5426]

Nuking SpongeBob wasn't enough they had to nuke the aliens too. 👽

[@wonnelzoldilock]

Human the only animal that can destroys himself to extinctions

[@kingrocito2866]

Ahh just like operation fish bowl which came right after operation high jump....kinda like when somebody finds themselves in a doorless room they try to find a way out by any means necessary.. The massive drill holes to go down. Operation high jump for the walls. Operation fish bowl for the ceiling. Operation paperclip for the lies. Ah good times.

[@papinkelman7695]

Illidan will be proude.

[@imcrazyforwar]

Until I watched this channel, I did not know that they did so many risky and dumb test with nuclear weapons... But I guess they didn't know any better then?

[@AtroposLeshesis]

Sounds like an early HARP system

[@igorwojtyna2158]

Meanwhile in Soviet Union We can not allow a radiation belt gap!!

[@mike45blue]

So did this operation lead to the creation of the Van Allen Radiation Belt or did it simplely reinforced it, as in making stronger?

[@Declan-pg8cg]

The Van Allen belts were always there, these tests just pumped a lot of temporary enrgy into them.

[@houseofsolomon2440]

Rad thumbnail

[@2.7petabytes]

Military: there’s gotta be a way to use nukes on the kids Corn Flakes!!! No?! Well dammit, let’s make a radioactive shell around the earth!! Atom tans for everyone! Sheesh

[@hoponasu2471]

Is Harp still operational ? Scope is close or kind of follow up

[@peterzingler6221]

It is. But without the chemtrails its not effective

[@ironconvoy3831]

quick question is that War for Cybertron music

[@nigeldepledge3790]

So, I guess this screwed up all the other experiments measuring stuff in the LEO environment in International Geophysical Year...

[@supa88]

Great video as always Dark team, These types of videos need to be more available, and maybe shown in classes worldwide to stop the same mistakes being made. As we become more informed of the amount and scale of nuclear testing/disasters done by the countries of the world i feel that there should be some accountability for those that were directly involved in allowing such reckless damage to the quality of life of all living creatures, and the on-going effects to the planet. with the amount of research and intelligent people working on these projects, I find it hard to think they were not aware of the scale of damage that would come from it.

[@user-qs1mh4on3z]

Screw that, we should restart nuclear testing. I want to see a nuclear fireball in 4k.

[@samuelkorger3567]

What is the last song?

[@UpToSpeedOnJaguar]

So it's basically a permanent EMP field around a lateral diameter of earth? I couldn't follow the video very well on how it actually worked. I can't really see how this would be a good idea if (and if my assumptions on how it functions are correct) it would fuck with basically any electronic device in orbit.

[@Balthorium]

kenthed45 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZS3o4J9iJiHr6c

[@thedramallama69]

Van allen radiation belts.... 🤔

[@Mr--_--M]

They really did all this then left us with the baggage AND on top of that said something along the lines of “you’re welcome”🤯🤥