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The first ever Atomic bomb testing left the scientists not only amazed, but also apprehensive about the beast they had created.
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[@haydensmith859]

Well all the scientists specifically had three different reactions when they tested the bomb: A: We did it! B: Just stared silently in disbelief C: What have we done?

[@bodhimeme9982]

hmm probably all three

[@lewisner]

D: Has anyone got some beer ?

[@patrickmacready1779]

Two people laughed, two people cried, everyone else was silent

[@LeofromFreo]

One person didn’t realise it was a dramatised documentary.

[@preetdhillon4709]

Hayden Smith if me open a champengne mate

[@insertyourchannelnamehere8018]

Powerful Atomic bomb: * explodes* Subtitles: MUSIC

[@abdouaboud7490]

Deaf people :

[@garcsstuff6734]

It’s now entertainment

[@alexanderantonov785]

It’s Kim jung uns favourite song

[@CosmicWaffles]

That’s the music of victory

[@chrisj197438]

insert your channel name here It was music to the Marines who would have had to invade the Japanese mainland. My uncle fought on Okinawa and he knew first hand how the Japanese fought. He always said he was thankful they dropped them.

[@KGisthename]

Now I have become death the destroyer of worlds. Legendary quote

[@puncheex2]

...made in 1957, 12 years after the war.

[@airplaneplustrainguy8143]

K G because Tokyo is dense?

[@davidtheslayerrr]

K G I was just on that part of the video once I saw this quote lol

[@danilo16410]

He'd better should had killed himself since he: "... have become death...etc. etc."

[@R4Y2k]

Nah, Oppenheimer just enabled the destroyers that will at some point vaporize mankind off this planet.

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

I love how the movie “Fat Man and Little Boy” depicts Oppenheimer’s reaction to the successful detonation of the first bomb. You can see the actor’s face visibly go from “My God, I’ve done it!” to “My God, what have I done…” as the glow of nuclear fire paints his face orange in the darkness. It never fails to give me chills every time I watch that scene.

[@hristo5689]

“My God, what have I done…”? More like “My God, why did you have to send me determined European scientists to do it for me?”. Oppenheimer isn’t the one to blame here man.

[@extrm161]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aniZlmeKlq-roas ,

[@saurabhgairola9145]

He said one geeta slok

[@arinew8410]

@@saurabhgairola9145 which

[@yashwantgarud8967]

he said “i have become death the destroyer of worlds”

[@pixelfiend7292]

Can you imagine being one of the men watching, before that test you wouldn’t have ever known what an atomic bomb’s power looked like. You would have been the first to ever witness power like that, it would be unreal.

[@dafyddthomas7299]

Wouldn't be there in the first place.

[@zabdas83]

Frightening!

[@williamfrederick8345]

Be like hercule seeing goku go ultra instinct for the first time

[@SPCv4]

Depending on their emotional state at the time they would've either experienced extreme euphoria at the idea of it being capable of ending the war, or they would've experienced extreme dread as that much power can only be minimally controlled.

[@vladimirprotein3275]

Yes it's like you somewhat have the picture of what the devastation would be but it's so unreal, you wouldn't belive it in until you saw it with your own eyes..

[@adc4836]

The creation of the nuclear bomb is the literal embodiment of the phrase, “I’ve won, but at what cost?”

[@russell6075]

the cost was the people who wasn't even involved in the war had to die

[@nathanludwig5666]

Russell not only that but, if you nuke someone you lose reputation, that’s why they haven’t nuked Afghanistan. Because it makes you look bad and other countries won’t trade with you because you unleashed a weapon of mass destruction. (They also aren’t nuking Afghanistan because there are materials there.)

[@gatekeepgenshin4702]

2 Billion dollars

[@teogonzalez7957]

@@russell6075 that would’ve happened anyway.

[@SuperSparrow45]

@@russell6075 Considering the alternative was a full military invasion, that was inevitable. The Japanese were going to defend their country to the last man, woman and child. The largest estimates summed up the deaths from the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima at around 225,000 in total. Most historians agree that the death toll from an invasion would be far, FAR worse. Anywhere from 5 to 15 million deaths worse. Make no mistake, an invasion would send the entire country of Japan into a war zone and a lot more Japanese civilians would've died.

[@averageanimations.5554]

I live in Texas and you can buy this at the store for self defense purposes.

[@michaelpowell9640]

😂😂😂😂👌

[@idonttakejokes5649]

Yes

[@volitiveclover]

And mexico

[@Evanw10282]

Tf

[@ricks5088]

Nice one😂😂

[@RandomDudeOne]

2:25 They don't explain it in the documentary, but the reason Fermi drops the scraps of paper when the shock wave hits is somehow he was able to calculate the yield of the bomb by how far they were moved. Genius.

[@genox633]

yeah that’s smart

[@asparagusoffice]

and according to his stated calculation, he was only off by 88.5%

[@kiloton1920]

How could you call somebody who brought life to such evil a genius?

[@asparagusoffice]

@@kiloton1920 look, there might've been a thousand better methods of approximating the bomb's yield, but calling his estimation "evil" is a bit much? I'm sure it worked better on paper.

[@patronofsaints2062]

@@kiloton1920 he regretted helping make it the rest of his life so cut the man some slack

[@spacemanpope1805]

Dude is so casual in the thumbnail. You'd think he was at a backyard campfire.

[@br0th3rtub34]

Hey guess what he had welder goggles insane dude

[@diongzonfrenzelroan6184]

He is probably Stalin.

[@cherridwan]

He’s like “well would ya look at that”

[@rainsoundssss1]

😂

[@wmoore998]

This is supposed to be Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. He died of a heart attack in July 1970.

[@stevenp3176]

Insane to think this is a baby explosion compared to what is out there now.

[@edvenuto9614]

It was a huge explosion it destroyed Japan

[@senosroweretaked9221]

@@edvenuto9614 compared to what we have now this is like a drop of water

[@509Gman]

@@edvenuto9614 Hiroshima bomb was 15 kilotons of TNT equivalent, Nagasaki 21kt. From what I can tell from open sources, the most common devices in service now or until recently are/were about 200-500kt. The largest nuke ever detonated was 50 MEGAtons, and had a theoretical yield of 100mt if they replaced its lead shielding with uranium.

[@staleshortcake9442]

@@edvenuto9614 cities in japan, not japan

[@keith2860]

Tsar bomb, satan 2, minute man 2 all scary creations

[@krock90]

RIP John Hurt (the narrator )

[@JonatasMonte]

Did he? he.. oh I'll miss him.

[@fitton27]

Krock RIP

[@hamad-pz3rp]

Krock rip :(

[@podsmpsg1]

RIP.

[@pixel6854]

Krock so sad rip

[@ajjoeld.anguila4140]

I'm here after watching Oppenheimer (2023), such a masterpiece of movie, And this video is absolutely precise in how things happened.

[@TheJoe971]

The movie doesn't even do a better job at depicting the size the of explosion... BBC literally did it better, without all the marketing campaign about Imax, using an actual size bomb etc...

[@james64ibm]

It's hard to imagine what it must feel like to witness the very first explosion of an atomic bomb. The amount of power far beyond anything ever experienced. The mushroom. The enourmous brightness. The immediate sense that this is biggest leap forward in destruction ability that the world has ever seen, that the damage that can be inflicted in a war is no longer depending on industrial capability but rather restraint.

[@alanjm1234]

Seems funny now, but when Alfred Nobel invented dynamite he thought it so destructive nobody would wage war again because the consequences would be so great. Turned out dynamite wasn't nearly powerful enough. But atomic bombs were. Maybe.

[@anonymoususer638]

@@alanjm1234 same goes for Gatling, but I think this pattern has reached its end.

[@bigaraga]

@@alanjm1234 Atomic bombs are already over*over*kill, wiping out cities in mere seconds, killing millions in an instant. I've heard this description (not exact): "A nuclear explosion is like every natural disaster all at once, except worse. Humanity is not prepared to deal with such a disaster" from a Kurzgesagt video (check him out btw the animations and explanations are beyond amazing and have improved so much over years). Now this SHOULD be something that makes no one ever want to wage war again because the consequences would be so immense. But sadly, somehow, it isn't. No matter the scale, human corruption and the evil and natural desire to wage war and kill each other will never cease to exist. God have mercy on us all if they invent such weapons that can wipe out an entire continent, or worse. I bet we've already reached that level of advancement in nuclear technologies, but we've just never wanted to actually put it together (I think, who knows if they've already done it and they're just keeping it classified to the public). Truly unthinkable and unreal, a full-out nuclear war (most likely between the US and Russia, North Korea, or China), WWIII. Any measures must be taken to prevent that.

[@christopherlee7334]

@@bigaraga continent and planet *killers* aren't hard scientifically. We had plans for a cobalt rocket that intentionally spread as much lethal radiation as widely as possible at hypersonic speeds across vast areas, as well as ideas for simply copying the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Fortunately, they were never used.

[@bigaraga]

@@christopherlee7334 Damn

[@lovelandfrog5692]

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that one way or another.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the scientists who worked on the bomb, after the first test.

[@connorbiernat421]

I live in Texas and you can buy this at the store for self defense purposes.

[@puncheex2]

Sure he did. In 1957, having spent 10 years encouraging development, but when he finally said no to the H-bomb, Strauss had him cashiered.

[@wtfduud]

Just wanna specify that Oppenheimer was the director of the project.

[@puncheex2]

@@wtfduud Yes, he was technical director of the Manhattan Project, under General Leslie Groves who was the overall project director.

[@SteelFisher]

I like that they showed Enrico Fermi releasing he bit of paper he used to make an estimate of the energy of the blast.

[@tobythedog7478]

World biggest and most expensive firework

[@rosinavenantius6366]

Sold at amazon for 5 bucks

[@markhigginbotham3974]

The deluxe virson for 50 megatons is $20 at anmazon

[@xolitiz9662]

There are bombs bigger like the tsar bomba its the worlds biggest nuclear bomb

[@GeraudRulz]

Hmm, I didn't realise that the Tsar bomb was made before 1945... There I was thinking this was the largest explosion at the point in history but obviously you are onto some nice conspiracy there.

[@slothking6323]

Toby The Dog -firework- *nuke*

[@theminingassassin16]

I have actually held a chunk of the sand that was turned to glass by this bomb. It was brought to my high school American History class by a guest visitor, and it was in a plex glass container that he passed around. When I held it, I thought to myself "I am holding the byproduct of one of the deadliest weapons in history...". It was as bone-chillingly horrifying as it was fascinating.

[@meestirbig3083]

It was called Trinitite. Or Atomsite.

[@johnramirez7107]

2:13 when u only have 1 second to fake sleep

[@MrHistory269]

LOL

[@لينبدر-و4د]

Haha😐

[@chewinggum5550]

Lol so true. Good ol' nights of 2020 watching movies and playing video games in my room whole night and when mom had opened the room door i, already had set everything and room lights were off, just pressed the power button of ipad and acted like i was asleep and BOY WAS I NEVER CAUGHT! :)

[@yogeshasariya6700]

A mouse will never make a mouse trap for himself. Human did it.

[@joshuakimmich9536]

Great quote

[@rookeva8688]

Yogesh Asariya Because a mouse isn’t smart as humans

[@sughoshprabhu7476]

Unsoundrook Not only smart but also hungry for power.

[@topix7324]

Humans have created the atomic bomb but no mouse would ever create a mousetrap

[@hapetE]

@@topix7324 given enough time evolution will take care of that

[@evanjohnson1299]

the scene where the piece of paper blew out of Fermi's hand is a reference to the concept of Fermi estimation. Fermi used how far that paper flew to estimate the blast yield of the contraction. He was within 1 kiloton of it's true power. Fermi estimation is essentially taking rough measurements and making reasonable assumptions to arrive at a solution that is close to correct because what you overestimate is offset by what you underestimate.

[@asparagusoffice]

according to a direct quote, he guessed 10,000 tons. the bomb was 25,000 tons. this was determined by barometers measuring the same thing as Fermi, as well as a host of other instruments measuring other aspects of the blast. also it's crazy, we call Fermi Estimation something else outside of America, maybe you've heard of "educated guessing." it works because if you recognize your guess as being overestimated or underestimated, (get this right?) it doesn't become your guess. wild.

[@rmurphy440m]

John Hurt narrating. Kick ass actor. Rest in peace.

[@nedriley6991]

I thought it sounded like him 😂😂

[@krashd]

*coughs* "Excuse me, I have a xenomorph in my throat."

[@lixsajoe]

Love these documentaries!! Wish history and discovery channel went back to the basics. Stuff like this is what they need!!

[@redrose963]

Yes

[@WhattAreYouSaying]

Viasat History has a lot off WW2 documentaries, every day. I have seen this episode on Visasat History. But I don't know if that channel is available where you live? I believe Viasat History is a Scandinavian or European channel, I live in Norway.

[@lixsajoe]

@@WhattAreYouSaying I’m in the USA, we don’t get that channel here. I’m tired of these reality tv shows, but glad there’s KZbin, because I can always look at documentaries on here.

[@WhattAreYouSaying]

@@lixsajoe That's too bad, it's a good channel. I remember when History Channel was about history, and not all this "reality" and alien crap. It used to be a good channel, but not anymore.

[@jakehall4654]

The fact that the tsar bomba was over 3000x this explosion is insane

[@Cyberpuppy63]

Ya. Shows the big difference between a "atom bomb" and a Hydrogen Bomb.

[@asparagusoffice]

good thing it's more efficient to saturate a target with multiple nukes instead of one big explosion. it's a real comfort

[@cycoholic]

The Tsar Bomba was also only at half yield because even the Russians were scared of what it could do.

[@MrDwarfpitcher]

@@asparagusoffice the thing is Keeping track of multiple missiles is harder. And the brute force of one big bomb means that the rest does not need to be as refined.

[@WoWrowrin]

tsar bomba that was tested was less powerful than what it could have been. They deliberately reduced its payload to ensure that the pilots that dropped it could fly a safe distance away before detonation.

[@tankmaster1018]

The guy's eyes during the "Death, destroyer of world's" quote just looked lifeless... He's not proud, he's not bragging, he's not trying to make himself look badass in any way... he's just sitting there with the horrible realization that he is responsible for the creation of a weapon that has the potential to wipe human civilization off the map. Can you even imagine how he must have felt about it? There is obviously the excitement and celebration of succeeding with the task of creating the bomb, but I feel like that would be short lived soon after realizing what you had really done.

[@hardbumpy8400]

Most of the people on the video of that speech he made says he looked proud and smiled,but no sane man would feel proud for destroying 800,000 lives

[@helloidharbl6753]

I'd feel like a monster. Just horrified by what we have created.

[@PsycosisIncarnated]

@@hardbumpy8400 it does look like he is smiling slightly. yet his eyes are completely vacant. an insane man.

[@hristo5689]

What are you talking about? Bragging? What would he brag about? It was Europeans who created the weapon. Oppenheimer himself didn’t have even 5% of their knowledge. Look at the biggest contributors to the Manhattan Project and you’ll see they were European. Start blaming them!

[@hristo5689]

@@hardbumpy8400 It is not him who built the bomb. He hasn’t destroyed any lives.

[@jonL88]

Christopher Nolan: “Hold my plutonium”

[@samuelknox6145]

2:49 you can see on the ground where they have driven in the same way for difrent takes

[@RichARock]

Also because there's more than one vehicle

[@jakeh6342]

Good eye

[@user-qe3fg3uv5m]

2:13 your mom shouting at you really loud

[@Matthew-ww4lt]

Rafael Anunciacion you’re

[@rahmatarisyi]

@@Matthew-ww4lt your.

[@boooters]

Very strange, with the British actors.

[@abhidas1M]

boooters 1jm

[@jordanastro4694]

It was a joint effort, don't forget it was Einstein who proposed the idea in the first place (a German). Do some research.

[@himul9526]

Because the british made the bomb and the technology for fucking yanks to take the credit

[@skierdude95]

Decent Also only some of the scientists were limeys, the rest were all Americans.

[@BPJJohn]

@@skierdude95 correction yankees

[@jonL88]

“Albert… "When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world... I believe we did.” - Oppenheimer

[@kansasjayhawk8386]

"The children found the matches" is what the ETs would say to each other as they gaze upon the earth from their spacecraft.

[@detectivehobson7465]

Brilliant, I’m sure they thought the teenagers have found the blowtorch when they dropped the tsar bomba

[@staleshortcake9442]

@@detectivehobson7465 Baking soda volcano gone wrong

[@kevinhealey6540]

I was born on the year the bomb was dropped. I remember what my mother said about what people thought about, when they heard on the radio about the atomic bomb being dropped on Heroshima. She did not know one person who rejoiced. Everyone was stunned that one single bomb could cause so much destruction. However everyone did rejoice about a month later when the Japanese surrendered. People were more happy that World War 2 finally came to an end, more so than that the United States won the war. No more young men being sent off to the war. No more telegrams explaining that sons, nephews, boyfriends, husbands, brothers, close friends, the kid down the street, were killed in action.

[@sanele7427]

@blitz man boring??

[@mrbeety]

Thank you for sharing this, Kevin! It sounds horrific and like an enormous relief beyond belief.

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

Huh?

[@tp511]

Rewriting history, are we? The US did not cause Germany’s surrender nor Japan’s. The Soviets destroyed 3/4 of the German army (whilst sacrificing 27 million of their own) and Japan surrendered 6 days after the Soviets declared war against Japan. The US, on the other hand, decided to valiantly drop 2 nukes, killing more than 100,000 civilians, not merely from the detonations but also from the unimaginable suffering from the aftermath …

[@alphanerd7221]

@@tp511 The USSR didn't do crap but get rescued by the US. Us nuking Japan was heroic. You're welcome.

[@galactic4590]

3:26 When you hold in a big fart but it slips out

[@delphoxy1260]

MatthewGames2903 YT Facts

[@kadeadams2308]

Lol

[@grettelvargas844]

3:19: Speechless!!! We can read in his eyes how he felt about it! So tragic! I suppose he regretted about everything, but it was too late.

[@uncovidvaxxforthestrongand3582]

lolol earlier he was smiling and clapping at his destruction weapon.

[@domlans681]

​@@uncovidvaxxforthestrongand3582of he would because that's science and it's a hell of an achievement in human kind though it was for the wrong means but later when he realised the hostility of this weapon specially after the hirshima bomb drop, he wea devastated

[@u1zha]

​@@uncovidvaxxforthestrongand3582 The idea held by many scientists was that it would be enough to just demo the power to Japanese ambassadors, and that would end the war. Instead the US military chose to destroy civilians right away, without a demo. Please pay attention, it's too important a lesson to lol at.

[@Jake-rs9nq]

@@domlans681 In reality, this was not the case. Oppenheimer was not apologetic or dismayed that the bomb was used to end the war. In all honesty, why would he be? The alternative was an invasion that would kill millions of soldiers and civilians, or surrendering and letting Japan continue their brutal war and enslavement of East Asia.

[@mikestanovich1414]

2:30 - SO, if I can get my hands on sixty-seven MILLION sticks of dynamite, I can simulate an atomic bomb? Cool science project for the school fair,,,

[@spoon5255]

ferb i know what we're doing today

[@SumitGupta-uq8og]

Have you finished your project?

[@wilsoniothegreat6162]

@@exudosid we shall do it again

[@SumitGupta-uq8og]

@@exudosid 😂😂

[@sce2aux464]

Once.

[@manifestgtr]

1:30 Hats off to the general....doing his absolute DAMNEDEST to croak out an American accent hahaha

[@spoon5255]

british accent better than american

[@manifestgtr]

@@spoon5255 What?

[@itstimetomakelol6650]

@@manifestgtr Extreme american accent is way worse than british accent

[@manifestgtr]

@@itstimetomakelol6650 Give me an example of an “extreme” American accent. I’m not even sure I know what an “extreme” British accent would be....maybe some rural Scottish accent that barely anyone can understand... That’s a bizarre way to put it, though...extreme...

[@stephaniegormley9982]

I hope you're being sarcastic. That Brit's "American" dialect is even worse than Ben Kingsley or Liam Neeson's. Although you could fill Yankee stadium with Americans who can't do a Brit dialect.

[@AmericanIdiot7659]

America: *Uses atomic bomb* Russia: Hold my beer

[@TyRizs]

Correction vodka

[@justsomeguywithoutamustach3608]

How did u f**k that up

[@justsomeguywithoutamustach3608]

Still, russia has more nukes

[@jarreauforney8107]

@@justsomeguywithoutamustach3608 bruh if Americans wanted to continue making more nukes and waisting money we all know we can easily

[@athulchandran2737]

USA is powerful but Russia is more powerful based on weapons 💀💣...

[@Filipino2023]

2:13 and 3:27 The famous explosion never get old. 💥 My Edit: 3:28 changing into 3:27

[@w41duvernay]

Tested right down the road from where I was stantioned for most of my Air Force career. They had finally opened the test area my third year at Holloman AFB, N.M. I finally left in 1991, after getting back from Desert Storm. I expect to get a notice from the Air Force that I will glow in the dark before I die.

[@eliotasterforrest5026]

@w41duvernay I'm sorry for what you didn't know about the world back then. I wish you a long, cancer free life, and a painless peaceful death.

[@LikeWagon]

*Auto-generated Captions:* 3:25 *Deaf People:* Oh yeah it's jamming

[@nauuwgtx]

2:54 let's appreciate him for learning to drift in sand with no doubts

[@keithrobben1183]

The shot of fermi dropping the bits of paper is such a good detail when talking about the estimations

[@ahmadrifaimaulidi5578]

2:26 when Enrico Fermi dropped some paper to calculate how powerful atomic bomb base on displacement drop paper. His got value same as computer calculation. Legend

[@therealdgh13]

“Would someone stop Fermi, he’s scaring the privates!” Lol

[@puncheex2]

He said, "He is scarring the MPs."

[@Negs42]

Enrico Fermi is one of my fav scientists

[@jeremyyun1550]

2:13 when ur dad farts

[@mohammedyousof9779]

Nice one bro 👊😂

[@johnjacobastoriv688]

Nice one bro 👊😂

[@sladeison9404]

Nice one bro 👊😂

[@leffe8727]

Nice one bro👊😂

[@heghinenoel3133]

😂😆

[@ubernate860]

I cant imagine what the scientists who created such destruction must have felt in that moment it was witnessed for the first time.... absolutely horrifying

[@mujtabaganie1905]

I'm sure these assholes must be partying that they helped their country build something that will make them dominate other countries and make them live in fear... I wish humans were better....

[@ubernate860]

@@mujtabaganie1905 well they're all dead now so they likely are not partying lol

[@stargazer7644]

They all knew exactly what would happen. That was their job.

[@csick11]

Einstein help created it

[@puncheex2]

Neither the tower nor the shot cab was stainless steel. They were a minimum of 5.7 miles (10,000 yards) from the blast. The blast wave out there was about 5 mph for 5 seconds. Oppenheimer's pitch about the Bagahvad Gita was 15 years later. He no doubt felt the weight of responsibility at the time, but few regrets. He quashed such a protest from Leo Szilard a week after the test. "Cracking the Earth's crust" was never even considered a threat. The threat studied to death was igniting the atmosphere (or even the Earth itself) in a nuclear chain reaction.

[@alanwatts8239]

i was wondering too.. shockwaves don't work like that

[@utkarshv3110]

These weapons of mass destruction were used 5000+ years ago by Indian vedic samurai (yodhas) traces of such can be found in Mahabharata and the indus valley civilization. There usage and knowledge was abolished by the GOD himself and the learnings were forbidden

[@stargazer7644]

I was wondering why in the world they'd use stainless for the tower.

[@MikehMike01]

@@utkarshv3110 no

[@TheMarcusNyberg]

@@utkarshv3110 they lived in stone huts without proper roads or water system (compared to the romans, never mind modern) yet could build wepons of mass destruction? Far less technological then the egytians during the same period. heck even Mesopotamia 1000 years earlier build far more impresive monuments showing signs of advanced engineering. What they are know for are the urban planing. Also Mahabharata was written over 2000 years after the fall of the indus valley civilization.

[@elphaba4674]

I could listen to John Hurt talk about grass growing! Rest in Peace you incredible man! 👌

[@thesenate6671]

3:23 His expression: "Look upon my works, ye mighty...and despair...."

[@Erwin_Von_Heidenheim]

Nice ozymandius quote

[@NitpickingNerd]

Is that what inspired you to build the death star

[@sumitkumarroy8645]

anyone here after watching 'oppenheimer'

[@growinggoldfish5682]

This is the, "How to overclock the i9" tutorial correct?

[@HarrisonScottHisoandso]

I9 wouldn't be this cold

[@metaljewelgaming]

Correct.

[@tuanizzah4449]

2:49 the driver actually can just drive straight ahead but he follow the line on the sand.. what an actor

[@SecondQuantisation]

2:24 Fermi dropped pieces of paper to, through dimensional analysis, estimate the power of the bomb - he'd worked out a rough equation that related distance they flew backwards to the power of the bomb. He was pretty close to right. Jesus they knew their stuff back then.

[@nickpn23]

I like that OOWAAA music when the jeep drives off and when the glare obscures everything. It makes me laugh for some reason. This is a great clip.

[@Fermifire]

1:24 lol Enrico Fermi being a clown. I love it!

[@CosmicWaffles]

1:57 me and the boys testing nukes

[@whatisitcalled2337]

kosmiske vafler you don’t have any boys

[@charanteja_]

"Now I became death, the destroyer of the worlds". A spine-chilling line from the spiritual book of 'Bhagavad Gita', written thousands of years ago. Oppenheimer quoting this after the atom bomb says a lot about us as a civilization.

[@paulleverton9569]

Is that the unparalleled John Hurt narrating this? He's one of the very few actors who will never be adequately replaced. A unique talent. A few hours ago I watched a very amateur bootleg copy of OPPENHEIMER. Despite the poor sound, unsteady camera (hidden from staff whilst secretly filming the screen in a cinema?) unwanted internet gambling site ads and French subtitles, I was still _absolutely_ engrossed for its full three hour runtime. It's restored my faith in movies - studios still finance mega-budget films for adult audiences with complex themes and nuanced protagonists. It's a masterpiece that I _must_ see on the cinema screen with professional theater sound.

[@paulleverton9569]

THE CAST is stellar. Even characters who appear in only one or two scenes, with maybe two lines of dialogue, have hugely successful actors cast in the roles. Although appearing for a relatively short time the character of Colonel Boris Pash really grabbed by attention, to such an extent that I spent an hour 'researching' him (googling) as soon as the film ended. Played by the increasingly impressive Casey Affleck [possible replacement for hugely missed Daniel Day Lewis?] as an enigmatic yet deeply sinister U.S military security expert of Tsarist Russian heritage, with a fanatical vocation to anti-communism. His performance proves the Stanslavski quote: 'There are no small parts, only small actors'.

[@archonsouthpaw8690]

1:15 that entire exchange was amazing "someone shut Fermi up he's frightening the MPs"

[@xxboonisbadfortnitexx1549]

Yelp

[@xxboonisbadfortnitexx1549]

Lol

[@bhslfdhe]

Oppenheimer was amazing

[@deewanapotta7]

FRR

[@sandyreivlogs1427]

Who's here after watching Oppenheimer? 😅

[@Warkingist]

Honestly, if I had a Time machine, and could go to 10 different historical moments, this would be one of the top 5 on my list to see.

[@princesammy7712]

2:14: When drill sergeant caught you cheating

[@buddyrevell4329]

Omaha beach got all the attention via the film Saving Private Ryan. The Marines that stormed Guadalcanal and other islands in the Pacific ran into similar circumstances, if not worse. The Japanese were so gun ho that the survivors swam out to sea to drown rather than be captured.

[@christopherdech8545]

I think The Thin Red Line depicts Guadalcanal

[@likilikiki]

John Hurt was such a great narrator and actor. R.I.P.

[@trespire]

@1:27 Love how the "nerds" ( world class top physicists ) just trolled the millitary brass.

[@Hollyclown]

“Some people laughed, others cried. Most were silent.”

[@vajmong]

VR porn goggles are getting very advanced now. 2:05

[@wrinkleneckbass]

0:50 They spelled Alamogordo wrong. I grew up there in the 70's and left in 1985. Between Holloman AFB and White Sands Missile Range, there's always something weird being tested in that area that creates shock waves loud enough to shake the entire house.

[@TheDolefish]

Knowing how many of these are lost keeps me up at night.

[@buckhorncortez]

Then maybe you should start trying to find them...

[@TheDolefish]

@@buckhorncortez where do I start?

[@buckhorncortez]

@@TheDolefish Research "Broken Arrows" and then knock yourself out... there's still one stuck in the mud at the bottom of the ocean somewhere off of the coast of North Carolina...all of the others have been retrieved.

[@your_averageboi9083]

@@TheDolefish You don’t realize the amount of lives that were saved by Nukes.

[@MrJumpStars]

I’m ready for the Oppenheimer movie!!

[@MrSliwa125]

Here after Openhimer film club

[@50srefugee]

2:26 "The force of the explosion was estimated--"by Enrico Fermi, shown here dropping shreds of paper to estimate the wind speed of the blast. He was famous for that sort of ad hoc estimation. He estimated 10,000 kilotons, about half the actual value, but with the right order of magnitude, good enough for government work. To this day, physics texts still offer "Fermi Problems", which you are supposed to answer by crude approximation to show your grasp of the fundamentals, not to obtain exact answers by detailed calculation. Another that I've seen: A tire loses 3/16" of tread after 10,000 miles. How much tread wears away at each revolution of the tire? (Notice you have to guess the diameter of the tire.)

[@smokeypillow]

cool stuff!

[@smokeypillow]

@Sadeeq Hasan • 10 years ago Ok

[@steve5616]

Half inch?

[@asparagusoffice]

"but within an order of magnitude, that's good enough for government work" if only he actually said that, that line's a nobel prize in itself

[@thedarklord6130]

Imagine seeing a nuclear detonation in real life. Even from a safe distance, it would be awesome and terrifying

[@maxmckay4793]

from a "safe distance" you wouldn't be able to see it. The shock wave goes for miles and miles, bursting everyone's ear drums.

[@DavidEllis94]

@@maxmckay4793 That's not true at all. It depends a lot on the yield of the weapon, and it most certainly is possible to view from a safe distance.

[@JamoZNL]

@Sadeeq Hasan • 10 years ago Yes Alot of tests were observed from a "safe" distance.

[@flagmichael]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4DaeWhrodN0bq8 is misnamed "First British nuclear bomb." It is actually an atmospheric test of Britain's first H bomb. Great footage of the troops and some interviews. "Gosh, that was loud!"

[@bmw530]

im glad this video was suggested during this time, and im from baltic country

[@ihavethehighground3624]

This man who talked first is literally crazy. If he destroys the whole world where do he gonna live?

[@flymaya_1236]

Wissam Ibrahim he didn’t literally mean the whole earth

[@ihavethehighground3624]

Ok

[@object4452]

Now this bomb is equivalent to a hand grenade. Same thing with the explosion. Just a cute pop.

[@lewiscooper446]

1:46 my ps4 after updating read dead redemption 2

[@Eugene0513Lim]

More like Downloading GTA 6

[@mygetawayart]

i love the guys just chillaxing and nukebathing

[@dacypher22]

Obviously Oppenheimer was a very smart man, so I know there is a pretty good chance that he is being misrepresented here that he hadn't thought through what these bombs would be used for. But if it is true, and it didn't hit him until he was told of their target.....what the hell else did you think they would be used for? Why would you be making a weapon out of such immense power?

[@asparagusoffice]

The timing of his revelation was misrepresented here, yeah. It's pretty silly. But he did have a moment, by his own admission. I can kinda see why. For his job, the short term task was a unique and speculative project whose development outlived the front it was meant for, and the long term consequence was the since-unquestioned survival of the species. I'm sure the former overshadowed the latter at times. I'm also sure he understood the bombs were an existential threat. But there's a reason poets never shut up about how surreal it is to confront your own death. But yeah, that "moment" of sorts happened right after the test succeeded. He wasn't clapping or cheering like the doc shows, apparently only a few people reacted at all. And a celebratory attitude like that toward some grim new weapon would be very naive of them anyway. The hilarious thing about this weird assumption is that even if some idiot didn't know they were bombing Japan, absolutely no one would have cared. It was Japan in WW2, America barely had to do anything to demonize them.

[@buckhorncortez]

Oppenheimer was part of the Targeting Committee that chose the targets.

[@dacypher22]

@@buckhorncortez Okay makes sense. So this is just a fabrication for drama here that he wasn't aware what it was going to be used for until after the successful test

[@buckhorncortez]

@@dacypher22 Every scientist that worked on the Manhattan Project knew exactly that the bombs would be used in WW II. Originally, they were trying to beat the Germans to the bomb because Nazis in control of an atomic bomb meant they could potentially conquer the entire world. When the Germans surrendered May 7, 1945, the scientists knew the next use would be in Japan. Let's put this in perspective. In January 1939, Luis Alvarez learned of Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman's fission experiment and told Oppenheimer about it. Within a week, Phillip Morrison remembered walking into Oppenheimer’s office and seeing on the blackboard, “a drawing - a very bad drawing an execrable drawing - of a bomb.” So, any idea that the scientists were somehow pawns of the government is a total fabrication.

[@daybix2524]

It's pretty cool how the bomb works. Not cool how we use them.

[@_Andrew2002]

Nuclear bombs are one of the greatest inventions by humans. They are one of the most beautiful things ever. We shouldn't use them because we are scared of Soviets winning the Japan war. We should use them if we are threatened. Nuclear bombs are the reasons we haven't had a 3rd world war. They are peace keeping weapons

[@ct92404]

Dayosza yeah, the science to it is fascinating, but it's just a shame that it's so horrible and destructive.

[@silenx764]

Won't work

[@senorhace4746]

Anomely *RUSSIA IS THE BEST AMERICAN STATE!IN UKRAINE*

[@will-dt4bj]

Andrew nuclear energy is the best thing

[@hera7884]

Idk why, but every single time someone mentions the heat of a nuclear bomb I can hear Edna Mode say “It can withstand temperatures of up to 8000 degrees 😎”

[@flagmichael]

When I worked for an electric utility, I had to wear (in many locations) clothing that was rated not to catch fire with 2 seconds of exposure to the temperature of the surface of the sun... more accurately, 10,000F. We semi-joked about it as being so they could see where we had been standing.

[@richard-hawley]

My late father-in-law, who did get to meet Dr Oppenheimer at a conference years later, was in the outskirts of Hiroshima the morning the bomb was dropped. I got to ask him about the event, what he told me was unexpected; he recalled thinking it was the most "beautiful thing he ever saw". That was the reaction. He reminded me, that he had no idea what it was, it was secret, the world did not know about such weapons. To him, for a few seconds, it was simply a beautiful radiant light. After the war, US research scientists came to studying the aftermath, one of which sponsored him to become a US citizen where eventually he became a scientist himself. In his career he helped found the NOAA ships of opportunity program, helped create models of deep-sea ocean currents and eventually introduced to Dr Oppenheimer at a conference. I'm not confident about what was said precisely, this came directly from him, at that time he was a practicing Quaker, but he claimed it was a simple "thank you". I have a hard time reconciling that.

[@Rodpod]

1:30 damn, homie ain't had to hittem with the lifetime of testifying in front of congressional investigation committees roast 😵

[@fernandorodriguez876]

Lmfao

[@markhigginbotham3974]

2:12 when you ahve a ton of home work and finish it all

[@erikeriks]

Tf

[@sphee4149]

Relaxing?

[@Chicken_Nugget1]

Dropping dead with exhaustion instantly is what they are getting at, ya'll can now laugh away.

[@findnuralisah]

i don't care you watch this after OPPENHEIMER or NOT

[@jcdenton3806]

I read this after OPPENHEIMER

[@jcee2259]

My parent helped test Hydrogen Bombs. I saw his photography and remember his descriptions. I've also was SCUBA certified by the US Army Corps of Engineers and afterward trod upon a capsized German-made warship that survived WMD effects. I swam down to view the submerged portions. As a child my parent drove me to Nevada to experience the effects of exploding Atomic Bombs . All of which has been exploded underground. Then, we went back to the nearest ice cream outlet for a banana-split serving.

[@User_kal95]

Congratulations

[@Anzac1]

Wow!

[@JoeHarkinsHimself]

as usual, the dropping of these two bombs brings on the kneejerk reactions of many with good, humane intentions, but totally lacking in knowledge of the facts of the matter. The most common fallacy is to suggest that an offshore demonstration would have stopped the war. It's an understandably mistaken assumption that is exposed as uninformed. The USA dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima, followed by widespread dropping of millions of leaflets all across Japan, that it would be repeated until japan surrendered. So what was Japan's reaction to this real world "demonstration?" It was surely much more convincing and absolute than any offshore demonstration that might have been challenged as a rigged explosion of otherwise conventional explosives. They refused to surrender. The cabinet representative of the Japanese Army said that he would accept the deaths of 20 Million women and children. Even after the bombing of Nagasaki offered a second "demonstration" the military refused to surrender. When the Emperor spoke out to stop it, there was an armed battle inside the palace to capture his recorded announcement of surrender. Men on both sides died in the hallways and chambers. Had not that battle inside the Imperial Palace been won by loyal bodyguards, the war would have continued.

[@jesseshea9698]

Joe Harkins Very true. Are you a history teacher?

[@waahaah861]

They needed a proper use of the bomb on them because even the Napalm bombing on Tokyo which killed 120,000 people didn't stop the Japanese .

[@MrLittlelawyer]

That last paragraph basically says "in other words it had nothing to do with the bomb but rather the japanese stubborn military controlling the country". Seriously, you shot yourself in the foot on that one, because it literally proves the point - the bombs weren't necessary, Japan and its people, its emperor, were willing to surrender. It was the stubborn military leaders who didn't want to be tried for their war crimes that held out and would have continued to hold out regardless of the bombs.

[@puncheex2]

MrLittleLawyer - the emperor certainly showed no indications of desiring peace before the Hiroshima bomb.

[@aidanc4719]

i didn't now about that last part, very interesting :)

[@orbitalpotato9940]

3:02 Oppenheimer: *Wait what?*

[@NitpickingNerd]

Was it really a surprise to him lol

[@francishunt562]

@@NitpickingNerd no

[@Anonymous-pm7jf]

It would be cool if we could get a side by side comparison of a convention bomb detonated at the same distance as that nuke just to full appreciate how powerful nukes are.

[@blackwoodsecurity531]

Nukemap is a website that shows the radius of destruction of various payloads. Interestingly, we have conventional warheads both smaller and more powerful than both nuclear bombs dropped in Japan.

[@bananamontana3956]

Beirut was precisely 1kt if not a little more. Times that by hundreds

[@alexbowman7582]

A day which will live in got you back.

[@prabhdeepdhahan1147]

I just watched Oppenheimer (2023)

[@RadagonTheRed]

1:30 - Who the HELL hired that actor to do an American accent? I am British, but I can tell that isn't real.

[@ct92404]

The Beast yeah, it's awful. It's like he wasn't even trying. And I've seen plenty of British actors who can sound American. That guy didn't even try to change his accent at all.

[@lewisner]

Jolly good show old chap !

[@imliterally.nothim]

Than again, the detonation of the bomb is real...

[@BPJJohn]

Southern state accent.

[@raflaughter3474]

American actors - Oversexed, overpaid and over here! Haven't you heard that saying before?

[@earthsorneo]

This documentary showing on my feeds just now. I better watch Oppenheimer 🤯🤯🤯

[@jcdenton3806]

You better watch it now

[@atomf9143]

Fun fact: In 1954, the US had several military contingencies for war against the Soviet Union, many of which were nuclear. At one point, an internal critic pointed out that they intended to drop two 1.1 megaton bombs (or one 4.5 megaton bomb in a similar plan) onto a Soviet city roughly the size of Hiroshima in 1945. If this plan had gone through, that city (which was not publicly named) would have experienced *600*x the amount of explosive force unleashed on Japan. Thank whatever god is out there that we've made it this far.

[@stargazer7644]

It isn't a huge difference. The difference between this 20 kiloton blast and a 1 megaton blast is 2.2km vs 7.7km of blast radius. That's 3.5 times increase in blast radius compared to 50 times increase in yield. 50 megatons (the largest weapon ever detonated) gets you a 28km blast radius - 13 times the blast radius for 2500 times the yield.

[@user-is3yn7xr4c]

So you're saying they made 4 bombs... 1 was tested, 2 were dropped, and the remaining 1 in arsenal?

[@Balnazzardi]

Well after the bomb were succesfully tested and 2 dropped, they could have rather quickly built more if necessary.. So doesnt really matter how many bombs their built initially.

[@221b-l3t]

They made one gun type bomb (Hiroshima) and three implosion type bombs (Nagasaki and Trinity). One implosion bomb was tested because the design is complex and at the time was thought unlikely to succeed by many. The gun type weapon is very simple and they knew it would work, with a small chance of not working (10%). The main reason it was never tested was that it took 64 kg of U235. The implosion design only took 12 kg of Plutonium. It took the US three years to make the fission fuel for the bombs, that was the really hard part. Also the expensive part. It employed more people than the auto industry at the time. The third implosion bomb was tested at Operation Crossroads, destroying many of the warships of WWII. The fourth core was the demon core. It was made some time after Nagasaki. It killed several scientists in tests and was finally melted down and distributed among several nuclear weapons.

[@G4rr0.]

Its worse than just remaining in arsenal, the scientists knew the risks of radiation (Marie Curie had shown them that fifty odd years before - her notebooks are still radioactive by the way) The spare bomb was left in the hands of the inept and the downright stupid, they took unnecessary risks and seemed to delight in abusing radioactive materials for entertainment. Many would die prematurely because of bad safety techniques. Things like not having to sign a form to say you were walking around with a spare brick of plutonium, or deciding to run electricity through it "to see how it reacted" without any consent or authorisation needed. Its a miracle they didn't blow themselves and everyone around them to Kingdom come.

[@221b-l3t]

@@G4rr0. I'm sorry you don't know what you're talking about. The demon core caused deaths in criticality experiments, that where very much necessary. They knew what they where doing, Slotin and the others where all physicists.

[@ishworshrestha3559]

Ol

[@mohdharish2538]

HUMANS MADE ATOM BOMB BUT NO MOUSE WILL EVER MAKE A MOUSETRAP Alberta Einstein

[@poofan5086]

Alberta?

[@chillaxiostorm3891]

Oh yea Modern Warfare Quotes

[@francishunt562]

Lot's of quotes attributed to Einstein that were shown to be false. The one above is such an example.

[@lewiscooper446]

1:46 School computers when you tap on internet explorer 5 times but it won't load

[@jeffinphilip3876]

Oppenheimer hits different

[@JohnJohansen2]

2:02 Sure it was stainless?

[@sphee4149]

Can't have stain if it's not there anymore

[@adex_smith]

Who’s here after the lebanon 🇱🇧 explosion 💥

[@ironwolfsdad3485]

Stfu

[@Memberilaiks]

@@ironwolfsdad3485 tangpe odo eh

[@arnabnath6601]

Me

[@GoodnightFromHim]

Me

[@zammalfatima8971]

Israel did in lebnon using f35.

[@duckboii]

Can youtube please stop with these type of recommendations...it's getting outta hand

[@oui2611]

son, we have oppenheimer at home!