Plumbbob Hood Atomic Bomb test footage

Here are a couple of shots from HOOD, part of the Plumbbob series in 1957 of atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site. Hood was the largest atmospheric test conducted at the Nevada Test Site.
Some people look on at the Hood cloud from atop Mt Angel outside the Nevada Test Site.

[@cow_tools_]

That's the most mushroomy mushroom cloud that there ever was.

[@therockisland]

The only two that I recall seeing that could possibly top it are shots Bluestone and Truckee from operation Dominic.

[@ChrisZoomER]

I think Buster Jangle’s “Easy” test might have it beat.

[@user-yo8ab1ys9e]

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to appreciate the size of these weapons.

[@grendizergo4193]

looking at the current situation in world I thing we might have very real opportunity to "appreciate" the size of these weapons lmao

[@Filthy_Larry]

@@grendizergo4193 lmao. That’s actually funny in a morbid way.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@grendizergo4193 Not the world situation. The Putin situation.

[@brucesmith484]

Remarkable imagery, that’s for sure….

[@clutchkick0056]

Not if you value yourself at all 😂

[@DinoDudeDillon]

One of the soldiers there described night descending on the regions out in the distance, "like the aperture of a camera," while closer to ground zero remained in apparent daylight even as the mushroom cloud began to cool down and dim. You can see what he meant in the first shot of this footage.

[@macicoinc9363]

The way the desert is illuminated with deep red light is hauntingly beautiful.

[@West_Coast_Gang]

@@macicoinc9363 it’s like a mini sun

[@SuspenseESCAPEremastered]

I was a kid during the Cuban missile crises. I remember my mom hauling groceries into the basement.

[@EK14MeV]

Great to see true colors of a test: the bluish-white initial fireball dissipating to the weapon debris plasma torus in the mushroom head. The only colors not visible were in the purply-indigo to blue fission halo around the head, which was understandable for the very slow (low ASA) color reel films available at that time. I like how the older woman chickened out from watching the fireball directly through the almost opaque green, plastic-lensed flash goggles. She looked away, like the child next to her. Nuclear fireballs are nearly 50 times the luminance intensity of the Sun’s photosphere, per unit area. I have observer report on the 1962 Bluegill Triple Prime fireball was nearly intolerable to watch through flash goggles. I’ve see through surplus goggles used at the test site, the noon hour Sun on blue sky day looks almost unobservable dark green through the goggles. You couldn’t look for large sunspots through them. A 100 W bulb filament is also very dark through them. Was that observer point at Mt. Charleston? Locals commonly gathered with press to watch and film shots from there. It’s about the same distance away from the site.

[@missprimrose4132]

Wow! So you were there during one of those tests? Any cancer ever develop?

[@EK14MeV]

@@missprimrose4132 I’d be a really old guy if I were there during testing.😀 During a day bus tour of the NNSS (earlier called Nevada Test Site), they sold some old goggles used in tests there, in a super lucky moment in time. A guy I knew for years, Paul, grabbed one. I wish I had such a goggle. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Collectibles offered like that could cause a serious scuffle among those who truly value the huge history associated with them.

[@EK14MeV]

@@missprimrose4132 The ONLY way to prove that fallout was the cause of later cancers would be to take bone marrow samples. Bone marrow is where heavy metals including uranium and (especially) plutonium collect in the body-since plutonium does not occur naturally. It’s very troubling that most of the people seen in this propaganda film died of cancers not long after it was produced. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3qod2Nni9CMorM The communities near the site, especially St. George, UT suffered terribly, not the troops. Their stories were incredible, with the ability to taste the fallout in the air, and children left outside to play at school during fallout passing over. It’s outrageously irresponsible that nobody was confined inside during the tests. On the other hand, testing needed to be done, to produce competent nuclear policies in military science. This tells details of the greatest US government blood money payout in our history. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGO7iZ-FZ5ljl8U Norris Bradbury’s response was awful, in typical technocratic style, basically dismissing the victims as reasonable sacrifices. Yet he was also implicated in the legal issues as a many years leader of Los Alamos during atmospheric testing, following the firing of Oppenheimer.

[@chaos-kun7310]

@@EK14MeV Wow thanks for the history lesson, my friend. Atomic history/science is truly one of the most interesting and (especially now) important fields of study.

[@MattH-wg7ou]

I would LOVE to see a Time vs Spectrum (X vs Y axes) graph of a nuclear explosion. Doesnt even have to be all visible. Honestly a Gamma to Radio, with maybe an expansion in the visible so it could be interpreted, would be awesome.

[@LuciusVulpes]

Outstanding footage, as always.

[@clqudy4750]

Would really like to see continued 'testing' of these weapons. Preferably air bursts over all the major population centers on the planet. Imagine the great footage now that we have HD 4K cameras!

[@Red-rl1xx]

Cool! I don't think I've ever seen this footage.

[@bami2]

@@TURIECFOTO yeah, nuclear fireballs are pretty hot

[@missprimrose4132]

Children shouldn't play with fire

[@Red-rl1xx]

@@TURIECFOTO No, I just think it's interesting.

[@linkin543210]

Looking forward for 4k resolution version coming soon

[@SovereignTroll]

That is subtle....

[@dragon6414]

Footage looks beautiful

[@armandobronka9975]

At 39 seconds you can see what looks to me like a demon or some evil shit that comes out of the fireball

[@MAT3RO1]

What playlist did you add this too? I love sleeping to these videos!! Awesome video btw thanks for uploading!

[@atomcentral]

kzbin.info/aero/PLWsJYU_bx7VshcbUTin7HaeIQxK0Jl_zO

[@chaos-kun7310]

Lol you probably have the same kind of dreams I have. I'm always dreaming about nukes.

[@generaljackripper666]

It's so beautiful.

[@Filthy_Larry]

Hopefully one day we will get to see one.

[@deletdis6173]

​​@luisruiz7729 one can pray

[@marcbrown7135]

The checkerboard dot thing in this footage is quite the eyesore. It's like taking what used to be pristine film footage and giving it the composite dot crawl of a VHS passthrough. I can only assume that this is caused by some kind of upscaler.

[@lemffranklin3207]

Seeing YT notifications on my phone looking like this is just doomsday click bait.

[@Linbleou]

Beautiful picture

[@Whateverintheworld]

My father was at Hood. He was 18 years old and in the Air Force. He went in at age 17. His friends were in 12th grade while he was witnessing the largest detonation of a nuclear weapon (74 kilotons) on the North American continent (Hood). He was just a teenager from Murray, Utah. He saw one more detonation as part of the Plumbbob Series at the Nevada Test Site. He was the State Commander for the state of Utah for Atomic Veterans for a long time. He spent most of his adult life helping other atomic veterans get their benefits. He had nightmares after witnessing this detonation for the rest of his life. Although he was a G.I. guinea pig, he was always patriotic and proud to be an American. 🇺🇸 He’s definitely in a better place now.

[@vanillarpgsoundtracks]

My god... I can't imagine what was going through his mind witnessing this. As horrifying as it is I would kill to see one tested. But thank god that isn't happening anymore.

[@markae0]

@@vanillarpgsoundtracks Billions of dollars wasted ( explosion with no useful outcome) and radioactive waste dispersed (increasing cancer rates)? You want to see that? A special kind of monkey you are.

[@journeystarr]

Beautiful

[@SuperpowerBroadcasting]

Hood was huge

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Maybe we might get some 2022 explosions soon

[@TheGrouch2000]

I love the wholesome USA family at the end just watching nuclear devastation ever so casually....

[@xx7secondsxx]

Sooooo INSANE!!! @1:30 certain parts of the explosion has light as bright and the same TRUE color of the sun!!🤯🤯🤯

[@SovereignTroll]

Unlike regular munitions, the flood of x-rays impact nitrogen and oxygen and ionize all surrounding air hence the brightness max is about 1/2 second after detonation. The chemistry also turns Nitrogen into Nitrogen Oxides and the brown colors surrounding immediate area. Now find a slowed chemical explosive explosion and compare.

[@JakeStar-oe9ev]

Actually waaaaay brighter

[@MattH-wg7ou]

Small feedback: give a couple seconds...just a couple, of filler before showing the detonation, so that the play buttons and all the KZbin overlays have time to minimize. A tiny intro or just text even, like a slide of 3 seconds of text before just "Play -> 0.001sec later explosion" would be my humble recommendation to slightly improve this awesome channel!

[@arnorothkegel9731]

😂😂😙

[@restotime392]

Holy s$&@, those small bumps too the right of the mushroom cloud are mountains!! 😮

[@AdamBorseti]

Damn it Bob!

[@MrTaylorTexas]

I think they used to sell these at Spencer's Gifts next to the black light posters.

[@Cherry-bq4oh]

There were some soldiers in trenches only a mile away from this thing..

[@Skidoo22]

0:13 teapot ridge mountain at the back, right.

[@He_Who_Can_Not_Be_Named]

I love it!

[@WildRapier]

Quite the unique name!

[@KenLittleton]

1/100,000th @ f128 plus 32ND? Damn, still overexposed…

[@lifemeetsreality]

So beautiful

[@sickofthestupid1067]

Beautiful but deadly

[@karilaskrapula]

Some of you guys are cool, dont raid woods tonight.

[@scottmcleish9896]

When we set off nukes like this, there aint mushroom left for birds to fly in the sky.

[@zAlaska]

I am watching another video, Atomic Veterans, they had American Service members underneath this test and he's saying he can't get over it, too terrifying, so I came to see what bomb he was talking about this one.

[@alanconroy7929]

Wow. looks like the near future.

[@iamonthecan12]

When you realize there's a mountain in the background

[@ppproductions4770]

Hood atomic test: damn, jit fission

[@a.y.t.a.s.494]

I’m watching these so I won’t feel the need to watch one irl

[@piromorfito]

Increíble la luz azul de la reacción de fisión. En la segunda parte del vídeo 😍

[@arnorothkegel9731]

😂😂😂😮😅

[@Styfalled]

Were do you get access to these?

[@keyscook]

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has done most of the film restoration - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pojTonqBiqxor7s

[@GickelsGaming]

Tarkov sent me here

[@Muonium1]

there's a weird sort of mosaicing or halftone pattern going on in some of this. processing artifact? anyway, rope trick effects in the first 5 frames....

[@wyatt7426]

seems the uploader is just AI upscaling these now

[@TheWizardGamez]

I had no idea that people actually put themelves in the face of serious radiation. WHOLLY SHIT, AND THEY BROUGHT A KID!!! A KID!!, i get it was the 50s, but damn

[@ccffire6666]

this test is the one that shot down area15 for a wile

[@ego4551]

It's always funny that it seems like the footage was taken during the night. In reality Plumbob Hood was detonated at noon.

[@-danR]

Welp, it _was_ rather night-ish. If this looks like night 2:04 it's because it was well before dawn. Most of the Plumbob series are timed for UT = GMT = "Zulu time" . Thus 8 hours must be subtracted from what we'd think was noon. This is more consistent with post-shot 2:10 scene of onlookers. The camera must have been loaded with a fast film to catch the early pre-dawn light. Or perhaps their fast movements were due to the shutter-speed and frame-rate being slowed down to catch as much light as possible (or maybe Atom Central just wanted to move things right along...)

[@ego4551]

@@-danR thanks for the explanation. I got a bit confused. I thought the exposure time was way down to not blow out the images completely during the early stages for some cameras on some H-bomb tests.

[@nghiadang2518]

No matter how powerful the nuclear explosion is , the mountain is always immortal

[@Kuba_K]

we kill mountains already en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham_Canyon_Mine

[@nghiadang2518]

The tremendous heat and destructive shock waves of the nuclear explosion burned and wiped the surface of the mountain, but the overall shape of the mountain remained intact.

[@Kuba_K]

@@nghiadang2518 there are ways to destroy mountains using conventional explosives people do it already it is called open cast mining, only reason nuclear bombs arent used for digging is radiation, even then there is some historical uses for ground shaping with nukes notably Urta-Bulak gas leak sealing. In conclusion, well placed bomb can in fact obliterate mountain

[@nghiadang2518]

@@Kuba_K lf the nuclear explosion is strong enough in the mountain, the solid mountain will also explode

[@doxielain2231]

Plate tectonics and erosion laugh at you

[@LordZontar]

We were making the best mushroom clouds back in the 1950s.

[@lvckyflash]

Lightkeeper MonkaW

[@_dezxx-9590]

death is in the air

[@aloneinthedark9320]

Millions and Billions of dollars spent on how to kill each other. We can only speculate how amazing this world would have been if this money were spent on children, the planet and peace.

[@infinite_hyperspace]

Don't be an idealist...be a realist instead

[@rickd6880]

What was the yield of this blast?

[@Red-rl1xx]

74 kilotons

[@rickd6880]

@@Red-rl1xx Do you know the date of this test? Was it the U.S. or the Soviets?

[@rickd6880]

@@Red-rl1xx Duh…The answer’s in the title…Stay safe and thanks for your channel…

[@greatestytcommentator]

I name this... The Smiling Emu Face Shot!

[@gb-jg1ud]

Frighteningly small device at 400lb

[@hansroy6410]

My dumbass actually tried to spot the manhole cover

[@SolathPrime]

How wonderful

[@Y2Kvids]

About TIme we get new Footages , in 8K

[@MichaelCasey1988]

If the time ever comes where all nations come together and decide to eliminate these from the planet. I think they should do one last atmospheric test so it can be shot in 70mm IMAX film. From diffent angles and with different cameras like VR for instance

[@unrealengine5-storm713]

This was 74 kilotons

[@scorpionking4012]

All done guys let’s go back to the black Jack table…

[@thesciencefurry]

It kinda sucks that it's not possible to see an atomic test with your own eyes anymore.

[@marko4041]

Don't worry you'll see it sooner or later 😉

[@thesciencefurry]

@@marko4041 I expected such a comment, that's why I said atomic TEST.

[@M1DA5_]

You won't need to see a test soon enough.

[@marko4041]

@@thesciencefurry oh my bad

[@sickofthestupid1067]

@@thesciencefurry Hiroshima and Nagasaki where tests too ........................

[@metalfingerz4203]

Why it did become blue? Neutrons?

[@atomcentral]

the bomb goes through the whole electromagnetic spectrum as it explodes. First UV, then blue, then green, then red

[@ZEUSDAZ]

One SERIOUS curry!

[@michaelstanich70]

72-74 kt if i remember right

[@The_ZeroLine]

This video doesn’t capture the magnitude or size of this thing at all. Even the color is wrong. It was purple. You need to listen to their stories about how even w/their eyes closed and arms over their faces they could see their bones and blood vessels. All the soldiers used as guinea pigs who were closed to the blast said the color was purple pulsing into lavender, dark purple, blue-purple with the top being completely white because it was a sheet of ice.

[@arnorothkegel9731]

😂😂😂

[@The_ZeroLine]

@@arnorothkegel9731 ?

[@Narcrate140]

Who names a nuke “PlumBob

[@sickofthestupid1067]

Platric was the name of the next one ......Plumbob and Platric.

[@Red-rl1xx]

I'd say it was called that because it was hung from a balloon. You know, like a plumb bob? The tool used to find a vertical line?

[@doodlethenoodle8635]

they named the MiG-15 “Fagot” so honestly I don’t even know anymore

[@dziban303]

If we're lucky, we'll all get a chance to see some with our own eyes real soon now.

[@masterdevoe2519]

Lucky?

[@afonline2004]

Yes! What a relief it'll be.

[@darkcomet1607]

You will be lucky if you are in the epicenter of blast

[@Filthy_Larry]

Lmao.

[@abhijeetjagtap6199]

Cobra

[@erixon2012]

more like Plumbus

[@TheParabolik]

Horor:(

[@filipskater]

wow, Kyiv looks beautiful this time of year

[@mrbrain3339]

😂

[@MosesYouTubePage]

joke from hell..

[@Waffles4903]

I don't want to laugh at that, but I did.

[@ct92404]

Looks like Moscow to me.

[@glauciafm6]

🙄

[@totalmikie]

What was with these asinine names of tests ??

[@ColonelAceman]

At 0:36 you can spot Satan himself arms open on the top.

[@arnorothkegel9731]

😂😂😂

[@MikeHunt-rw4gf]

Algorithm.

[@adrianpreece943]

Wish they didn’t exist with the dictators we got in different countries.

[@themvsthemvsus]

If you had ever been around when my great aunt June farted after a big Sunday lunch these weapons would not seem so devastating

[@RobertKelly-it8wm]

MY god, the sheer horror if it ever happened? Trump would be OK he would go the chayenne mountain with his family with enough food to last for years probably.

[@xxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You!

[@JB-vt5sz]

Where are their mask? 🤬

[@SolathPrime]

Hmmmmmm

[@habibi28135]

cute

[@pnwsnewton]

At 2:09 it just looks like they're watching a sunrise.

[@bryannicholas2130]

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@SnaketheJake87]

Hopefully these clouds will be coming to a Chinese and Soviet town near you!!

[@missprimrose4132]

Gawd, & Biden has the key...scary times we live in.

[@deildegast]

That key, in any of the nuclear countries, isn't in safe hands as long as a single person has the command right to start a nuclear war. Your petty political opinion pales in comparison to the destructive power you are talking about.