Operation Buster air burst nuclear weapons tesing 31 kilotons

[@greatestytcommentator]

It's crazy how the smaller tests look so massive. I guess the reason for it is that the cameras can get closer to see relative scale.

[@trashcanman6649]

Everytime I see a nuclear test I honestly think to myself: Everyone should get a bunch of those things. Some people think of nukes or WMDs in general as nothing more than superweapons. I see them as something beautiful. They represent the human spirit and dedication to making something possible that would otherwise be absolutely impossible.

[@8beef4u]

@@trashcanman6649 The sun does a pretty good job at being a giant nuclear bomb without us lol

[@trashcanman6649]

@@8beef4u Except that the sun can't be put on top of a missile xD

[@michaelangelonousagi5419]

Certainly looks bigger than the firecracker in Oppenheimer.

[@checktheskies5040]

Don't give them any ideas😂​@@trashcanman6649

[@thorild69]

It does not matter how long it's been or how right it was or was not. I was stunned by the unusual ground view and realizing "There is no way there can by anything left on the ground." It is one thing to know it, and another thing to see it for the first time in this view. Thank you.

[@dmystify1381]

🙄

[@seymoorepoone9512]

Crazy how they made a bomb that plays piano music upon detonation.

[@eeriejig1522]

Dumb joke, try again

[@greatestytcommentator]

@eeriejig1522 It is a good point though, there are possibly only 2 tests recorded with the actual audio on them. Weird considering the fact that the audio is essential to a vast array of the tests conducted....

[@kamcashman]

I like how the sound delay is precisely accurate to the inverse Square law, - just as Mozart predicted hundreds of years before the invention of the bomb. Air burst for the -win

[@kamcashman]

55kms away from the camera and it still sounds extremely stereoscopically clear all things considered...., quite a feat

[@WalterEKurtz-kp2jf]

Wrong​@@eeriejig1522

[@Foxxorz]

It's crazy how much the area is affected by heat alone immediately after the blast.

[@iitzfizz]

right, enough to fuse sand into glass

[@JoelPerez-tn4yw]

Beautiful ! ❤ one my favorite tests to watch ! Thanks for such a clear video !

[@jojolafrite90]

Oh, I recognize this place. It's just behind that "homey" AF base in A51. Behind those mountains, there remains gigantic craters, a whole landscape of craters. This one included. I know because it's actually soi well rendered in MSFS. That so well known AF base is just behind those mountains in the background. The place even in flight simulator is like a different planet.

[@VitGPT]

What is diameter of circle on ground on first second of video!?

[@82ndVet]

Notice the “cap” of the mushroom cloud is clearly in a electrostatic/electromagnetic standing wave in the form of the magnetic field created by the cumulative static electricity from the sucked up particles rubbing together. Notice the reiterative pattern of the ribbed sections and equidistance (frequency) of space between each section and rib to rib. There is an insane amount of ionic electricity created.

[@htos1av]

That's a fancy way of saying infinity engine! :)

[@82ndVet]

@@htos1av 🫵🏼🤣😂🤣🫵🏼

[@camatrusaca]

Clearly!

[@killtroy811]

What if uh c.a.t. really spelled dog.

[@usefulidiom]

That’s a fancy way of saying KABOOM!!! 💥

[@joeditski4589]

One of the best looking shots ever. Beautiful and deadly.

[@garysmith9818]

Impressive video. It is so clear it must have been upgraded, which makes it even more impressive. Thanks for sharing ATC!

[@ianwalton284]

the correct term is video up-scaling.

[@ZMAN_420]

​@@ianwalton284Nobody cares teacher? The video is BETTER THAN IT WAS. I'm a mechanic have you changed the oil on your engine lately or maybe your motor?

[@SteveSmith-ze5mw]

The video was not upscaled. Film is incredibly high resolution. Something crazy like 16k. They just didn't have the playback technology to take advantage of the resolution until recently. If the film was stored properly and is in good condition it will look like it was shot yesterday.

[@ct6502c]

​@@SteveSmith-ze5mwYou just can't beat silver halide 😀

[@Veegs.]

Wow, amazing clear footage. thanks for uploading

[@pac1fic055]

I feel my DNA getting damaged just by watching this.

[@p.istaker8862]

So glad that you do not add the fake rumbling sound, that also happens to travel at the speed of light to your videos.

[@OllyO-gt8pg]

men and their marvelous fireworks.

[@idkidk8278]

Looks like one of the fun mushrooms you can eat

[@alpinecenter]

Like they say, "Melts in your mind, not in your mouth."

[@derekderek2570]

Crazy the beauty in a world ending weapon

[@buzaldrin8086]

This was the first test of a bomb small enough to be carried by fighter jets.

[@prsearls]

That would have been the Mark 7 atomic bomb.

[@buoazej]

I’m not sure they exist in the first place. Vids like this can be made with a lot of conventional essplosives. Deep topic, very controversial. We might have been deceived.

[@M3atP0psicl35]

​@@buoazejYou are deceiving yourself. Visit Hiroshima. I did. This is a very real technology.

[@totallylegityoutubeperson4170]

​@@buoazejyou are we tod did

[@SteveSmith-ze5mw]

@@buoazej You're a moron

[@iamnotamushroom2880]

Terrifyingly beautiful

[@stephenreid1128]

It's the flash... Brighter than a thousand suns

[@sirgromith]

So much details on that fire ball, it almost doesn't look real.

[@slimj091]

The thing these tests never show is the firestorm that would be happening after the blast wave if detonated over a city. A lot of people think that pictures of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing was mostly done from the blast where a large part of the desolate landscape came from the firestorm that burned everything that was blown apart, survived the blast, or was constructed from a material more resistant to heat and fire.

[@Barabel22]

The firestorm in a modern city wouldn’t be as bad(or even really occur) due to the materials modern cities are built with. Japanese cities of the time were something like 90% wood, much easier to catch fire.

[@Deutritium93]

Homes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki had thin paper walls framed with wood. For this reason, a lot of images showing the aftermath in both cities show a lot of reinforced concrete buildings still standing in the middle of what looks to be a ruined wasteland.

[@buoazej]

@@Deutritium93Right. And there was no epicentre of essplosion anywhere to be found. Strange. Also why it wasn’t used against Germany at any point? Also strange.

[@RobertCraft-re5sf]

What? Are you one of those "nukes are fake" people like some of my dumb friends are? Is the Earth flat, too? 😂 There is irrefutable evidence that Hiroshima was destroyed by that one bomb. There's a two hour film made weeks after the disaster thay shows the damage. ​@buoazej

[@buoazej]

@@RobertCraft-re5sf Myth of the nukes was essential to stabilize the world order after ww2, where people of the West would be afraid to attack Communist Bloc due to the potential catastrophic retaliation. Communism, being entirely a creation of the West from the very beginning, was effectively a huge forced labor camp whose goods were exported to the West at a fraction of a free market price. That's why it was in the interest of the Western elites to secure its existence through the nuke propaganda. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were carped bombed just like the rest of Japan, as stated by dr Michael Palmer. World is a stage.

[@YootoobSteve123]

Interesting read on the history of the B-45

[@hoangminh7493]

I can't believe this nuke is even stronger than the one in hiroshima

[@am74343]

Woman: “Well, as I was saying, I wouldn’t worry nearly as much about the atom bomb if it were to kill you right out. What scares me is that awful gas that deforms ya!" Man: "Yeah, that would be bad."

[@Sonofwill]

31kilotons, the size of these weapons is always difficult to scale using the background and large areas of land, the footage rarely does these shots the justice of the majesty of them!

[@TroyRubert]

Am I the only one who thinks that doesn't look like an air burst?

[@jmanner2562]

Mounted on a tower so technically not on the ground? I wondered that too

[@ianwalton284]

@@jmanner2562 Easy - November 5, 1951 1,280 m (4,200 ft) + 400 m (1,300 ft) free air drop,

[@JakeStarAstrella]

Tower shot

[@fadednono]

@@JakeStarAstrellawe got airburst and surface burst… now we have tower shot!

[@P-G-77]

Awesome, thanks, nice material !!!

[@justincase4812]

Insane power. Tsar Bomba well over 1000 times this yield! Just hard to imagine.

[@chillipompom5263]

Tsar bomb gives me the bullshit communistic propaganda vibe

[@user-ki4llalm6kr]

​@@chillipompom5263 'Tsar' king bomba is the biggest amount of tnt equivalent detonated in the history of mankind period. Communist propaganda is literally the western governments in 2020s period.

[@jamallabarge2665]

Anything over 10 megatons is a waste of time and material. The US and Russians both went with between 100 kilotons and 600 kilotons.

[@justincase4812]

The point you two numnutz missed, was considering how powerful THIS blast is, another tsar bomba or heck even castle bravo were orders of magnitude larger. That is just hard to fathom. Your BS assessment about anything over 10MT is a waste is enormously far away from that 600 kiloton ceiling you pulled out your ass.

[@angrydragon4574]

​@@chillipompom5263It actually did happen. All of Europe knew it when the Tsar Bomba went off. Finland saw the flash, all of Europe detected its seismic waves and the sound wave traveled the globe. There's even footage of the explosion released a few years ago.

[@jaymac7203]

Aliens - 👁👄👁 "These idiots"

[@MathewTaylor-m6y]

Now can you put the atom back together ag😢⚡🪽✨

[@iOANHRISTOSSTEF]

Harmfull and Spectacular!

[@treytrey637]

At :38 it looks like a huge black rose of pure death and chaos blooming.

[@lostmarsh4451]

Sold😍 Where can I buy one?

[@ianwalton284]

If you are American, you already payed for these with your taxes and money diverted from social programs. Enjoy your purchase. Now you can re-gift it to some communist tyrants.

[@JeffMTX]

The FBI would question you, but they’re too busy setting up the next hoax to get Trump

[@ct6502c]

​@@JeffMTX

[@ct6502c]

​@@ianwalton284our GDP is way more than enough to pay for both.

[@Rick-qf5de]

Similar to a 500 lb earthquake bomb , But bigger.... Much bigger... 😮

[@bogipepper]

How many open air "tests" have been detonated in total?

[@buckhorncortez]

About 500 bombs have been exploded in the atmosphere. Two hundred and ten by the United States, over 200 by the Soviet Union, about 20 by Britain, about 50 by France, and over 20 by China.

[@buzaldrin8086]

World wide it was 500 total for all countries. This includes in the ocean and outer space.

[@penguin44ca]

It's crazy anyone who wanted to do this at all. Sure let's irradiate the planet.

[@rickyspanish3668]

Big bada boom.

[@totallylegityoutubeperson4170]

Multipass!

[@SteveSmith-ze5mw]

@@totallylegityoutubeperson4170 You have....No points left on you license....

[@nothinghere1996]

an "a bomb in a nation"

[@angeloavanti2538]

Wasn't that Moscow under that blast?

[@ianwalton284]

It seems they edited out the impact of the shock wave on the observation aircraft. I wonder if it was so our enemies could not gauge the effect of the blast on their own aircraft.

[@Marvin-dg8vj]

I was disappointed because I couldn't clearly see any of the blast wave .

[@nicholasmaude6906]

I'd ha ve to check however I think this was Mk-7 that was dropped.

[@Deutritium93]

Yep, you’d be correct on that! 👍 The “Thor”

[@kamata066]

This is insane. I guess to die in WW3 evaporated by a nuke is way better than what the soldiers had to deal with during WW1. Spending 2 years in a trench just to die from a pneumonia or some infection

[@flyingtigerline]

Sublime.

[@georgenada4671]

Pure devastation, but yet such beauty when you see and understand what's happening at the atom and sub-atom level. God is Majestic.

[@JJ-eo6nd]

did they have troops near to test the effects?

[@joeb3300]

Operation Buster-Jangle was a series of seven (six atmospheric, one cratering) nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States in late 1951 at the Nevada Test Site. Buster-Jangle was the first joint test program between the DOD (Operation Buster) and Los Alamos National Laboratories (Operation Jangle). As part of Operation Buster, 6,500 troops were involved in the Operation Desert Rock I, II, and III exercises in conjunction with the tests.[1] The last two tests, Operation Jangle, evaluated the cratering effects of low-yield nuclear devices. ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buster%E2%80%93Jangle

[@James-hy8gu]

I wonder how long it took to dissipate

[@mrbrain3339]

Could you upload Buster-Able shot (fissile). It was tower shot less than 0,1 kt. I have seen it on your Chanel some years ago, but you deleted it.

[@a8anasios666]

Wow. Beautiful and scary❤❤

[@erickanter]

31 kilotons is a bit large for a tactical nuke.

[@AreaThirteenThirteen]

Looks like a skull @ 0.53 - 0.56

[@Blakelikesfood]

And we're all eating the fallout.

[@brandstradamus]

We need some fresh test of these.

[@teIezet]

No. Fuck no. The aliens are coming to put a stop to this.

[@michaelstanich70]

a whole lot of rads with these bombs.

[@duaneschwartz7780]

This was an air dropped MK7 bomb with a plutonium core.

[@Joshatwa]

Crazy to think each one of the MIRV missles from there ICBM or MRBM whatever that russia demonstrated on Ukraine today which was about 6×6=36 can carry a nuke that can airburst like this. Imagine 36 of these on one city overwhelming defense at 30,000 MPH or 36 of these aimed from space each towards a different city.

[@jackfishcampbell6745]

Why use music ?

[@bcshelby4926]

...at about the 38 - 42 second mark it appears to have two sinister glowing eyes.

[@zlq_4]

actually

[@teIezet]

thats because it is sinister humanity's biggest mistake driven by nothing else but war

[@derickdavis7537]

Smaller yields at lower altitudes do more damage than higher yields!

[@buckhorncortez]

As the yield doubles, the damage goes up by a factor of 1.6. From, "The Effects of Atomic Weapons," - Los Alamos National Laboratory (Samuel Glasstone, Executive Editor).

[@geoffmcnew5863]

Uh, that wasn't an air-burst

[@henrysanchez4810]

Incredible.

[@russchadwell]

Our future looks bright

[@fast_harmonic_psychedelic]

that cone.. if 31 kilotons is a 'tactical nuclear weapon' than does that make little boy and fat man and trinity also tactical nuclear weapons? I dont see how this is tactical, this destroys an entire city.. tactical should be defined as under 5 kilotons

[@TrọngNghĩaĐặng-i6q]

What would happen if a nuclear device were detonated on top of the surrounding mountains? Why doesn't the US government try to do that?

[@unknownrider3071]

Because all nuclear testing has to be done underground these days.

[@buckhorncortez]

The test ban treaty prohibits atmospheric testing.

[@eLSkilo]

this look very similar to toropets explosion gaddam

[@nickman002]

The reason i didnt have kids. I wont bring one up in a world where nuclear weapons are considered normal

[@Thanhtunaung-h7k]

So dope what happen exprosite

[@kummer45]

Props to the cameraman who survived this. I don’t know how can he play piano and survive this. He’s the goat.

[@M0T0M451]

As much as I understand why we don't do these tests anymore, how good would it be to have fresh footage, maybe a small one, on an abandoned city. Just once, for science.

[@angrydragon4574]

NO.

[@ct6502c]

Maybe a VERY small one, like the "Davy Crocket." I think it was maybe 1 kiloton at most, maybe even smaller. It was pretty much the same as a big conventional explosion, just a lot brighter for a split second.

[@MrSistermaryelephant]

A bit bigger than the one that took hiroshima

[@neilgriffiths6427]

Get lost with your SAF "Plinkle, Plinkle" on the piano - where's the "Kaboom!"

[@CharlieWielowski]

The Nevada Desert must be full of tonnes of radiation

[@ct6502c]

Not anymore. Atomic blasts emit a tremendous amount of radiation at first, but it dissipates pretty fast. Hiroshima was relatively safe in about a month. It's not the same as nuclear fuel from power plants which have a very long half life.

[@CharlieWielowski]

@@ct6502c Thank you for sharing, I love to learn about these kinds of things 🙂

[@ct6502c]

@@CharlieWielowski As horrible as these weapons are, the science behind nuclear energy is pretty fascinating. It's a shame, there could be a lot more peaceful uses for it if we focused on that more.

[@serzhfilin6715]

Красиво. ))

[@luis303]

45s it's flower of destruction.

[@blackpoolbootz2790]

Be great to see IRL

[@dylanseder009]

very beautiful

[@SynthRockViking]

Kilotons, cute 😂 I was about to say

[@engchoontan8483]

Air strike ordered against electrical saboteurs.

[@engchoontan8483]

These sorts of clouds and explosion. Do not waste newspaper space. We know because we do it.

[@alpinecenter]

The NRA says that I have a 2nd Amendment right to have one of these.

[@jamesadams893]

If a nuclear bomb is considered an " arms " than the NRA is correct

[@labbeaj]

I think they were trying to create another sun.....

[@Anonymous-pm7jf]

.......No...... They were trying to build a nuclear bomb....

[@labbeaj]

@@Anonymous-pm7jf Why did they try over and over? Wasn't the first explosion a success?

[@ct6502c]

Well, the Sun is *fusion*

[@labbeaj]

@ct92404 A lil similar... Lol

[@donaldhamilton5345]

So anyway , we just started blasting ...

[@anthonyvanderley3570]

Asteroid impact.

[@jmanner2562]

I wanted a Bud Light... lol

[@controlledchaos7808]

Shall we call you Mulvaney?😂

[@martinheretics2645]

Kampań Francúzko, blitzkrieg, autorom bol Erwin Rommel

[@enchanted7076]

ahh look what mankind has achieved to end mankind

[@EllaiSivan]

imagine if ninja got a low taper fade

[@amurray9029]

crazy

[@tedhansen3846]

Lord have mercy on us

[@Anonymous-pm7jf]

Chillax

[@anthawks9374]

HULK SMASH

[@chetpomeroy1399]

That's a *beautiful* mushroom cloud! In those days, we weren't afraid to use them in response to a first-strike from a potential aggressor.

[@Polkem1]

and i doubt they still arent afraid.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@Polkem1 _Si vis pacem, para bellum._ If you want peace, prepare for war.

[@teIezet]

a disguisting sentence from a human

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@teIezet It's a primal human instinct to fear death. These very weapons deterred World War III during the Cold War. Any potential adversary would *think twice* about attacking with conventional forces or using nuclear weapons in a first strike.

[@jamallabarge2665]

"In those days, we weren't afraid to use them in response to a first-strike from a potential aggressor." We never found out for sure. The Soviets and Chinese had a "no first use" policy.

[@jeffweinerjeffweiner4885]

Sampai bila benda ni terjadi kepada kita.

[@forwardomni1355]

Stop the music

[@ryanquintana3739]

Turn you speakers off

[@RaptorMocha]

so pretty

[@lavapop1900]

such devastation

[@lindajesse8250]

A FIST

[@musaalami84]

Amazing how the film can survive the radiation. That's the true innovation here

[@montylc2001]

And here is the irony. If nukes like this were just used on armies in a limited exchange, like in WW2, a war would be over quickly, with limited damage to the environment. However the danger is that a war with nukes would escalate to a full exchange with thousands used.

[@ct6502c]

True. If both sides agreed to only use very small tactical nukes (like "Davy Crocket" which might have been less than a kiloton) then it wouldn't have been so bad. But we all know militaries don't do that. They will of course keep escalating to bigger weapons once that line has been crossed.

[@MrSeshy]

If you hold your hand up to your monitor at the initial point of explosion - You can clearly see your finger bones through the skin! Fooled ya - how many put their hand up? 😏😝

[@ZMAN_420]

👍🏻🇺🇲

[@Nick-sk2oy]

Squidward

[@controlledchaos7808]

Get rid of the stupid music please!!!

[@roncaruso931]

Why must all of these atomic bomb videos have dramatic music? It is getting boring.