That Time We Nuked a Mini Town With Mannequins

[@SwegleStudios]

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[@Officalaccountofnewjayland]

I have an idea you should play Roblox tornado games and see how realistic they are I have done it before but it is not as accurate then someone who knows like tons of stuff about tornados

[@kennonricheson2298]

Ngl you are so similar to me 😭

[@endorstick1569]

i saw this post and I was like. ITS THAT GUY YEAH!

[@cbsGD]

@@Officalaccountofnewjayland you a fan of roblox twisted? 🙏

[@Officalaccountofnewjayland]

@@cbsGDyes

[@longlakeshore]

Lots of fridges in the 50s & 60s had latches on their doors which could not be unlatched from within. Many children playing on old fridges were trapped inside and died from suffocation. Doors of old fridges had to be removed before tossing them in dumps & recycling yards to protect kids. Unless the door was blown off his fridge Indiana Jones would have died inside his.

[@lynxbelow6922]

How tough were these fridges? In life-or-death situations people may unlock their hysterical strength, I'm curious if they still could have been forced open.

[@longlakeshore]

@@lynxbelow6922 Even adults trapped inside died of suffocation. Eventually those fridges were outlawed.

[@AdamsOlympia]

My mom is lucky to have survived hide and seek games in the 50s.

[@grahamfisher5436]

​@lynxbelow6922 No You could kick an scream But your not getting out

[@brianc9642]

50’s?!? I had a “latcher” in my kitchen into the mid 90’s!

[@Chiberia]

14:00 - spot on about that footage, the stuff horrors are made of. could you imagine if we could film it with the tech we have today? you'd see everything flash burn, instantly start smoking, until the pressure wave comes and obliterates it, only, for a vacuum to start slowly pulling the smoking remains back toward the rising mushroom cloud. absolute nightmare fuel.

[@sski]

Thing is, humanity has seen first-hand what nukes can do. Yet we still let them hang over us, let governments use them as bargaining chips, as well as our lives. Something is wrong with that.

[@WormholeJim]

In one episode, while trying to escape some villains, Indiana Jones hides inside house with mannequins instead of people. Completely weirded out by this he starts investigating when suddenly a boomin voice starts counting down. Indy, with his keen sense of imminent doom, dives into a refrigerator and is blown clear out of the movie and into Fallout: New Vegas. You can find his skeleton and wear his hat👍

[@Burakidiosu]

Ahhh that's my favorite Wild Wasteland encounter

[@Boomcattt]

“The propane tanks were A-ok” shed 10 ft away: erased

[@antifragile5688]

Hank Hill would be proud. He will provide propane in a nuclear apocalypse.

[@skunkjobb]

@@antifragile5688 Don't forget propane accessories.

[@steveroman3729]

Nukes don't exist.

[@infinidominion]

They don't make'em like they used to, I'll tell ya Hwhat"

[@KERMIT_WX]

YOU NUKED WHAT

[@EventingMustangs_official]

Sbg fan?? 🤭

[@retribusion]

Yeah, him, sweegle himself nukedtown

[@sirenlover100]

I nuked popcorn in the microwave does that count?

[@KERMIT_WX]

@@EventingMustangs_official Yea

[@SepticEmpire]

My test

[@tarotreadingsbysteven8545]

Wow watching the wall of that house scorch then catch fire just prior to the impact from the blast was eerie enough as is but to find out the home was treated with fire retardant materials makes it even more so because that means normal materials would have been vaporized

[@TornadoExplorerWX]

7:10 Even today, a lot of people who grew up in St. George, Utah often have thyroid problems from the downwind of these nuclear bomb tests.

[@buntline1873]

Reparations?

[@darksu6947]

​@@buntline1873Those are for black folk! It would be unfortunate if you came down with a case of herpes that wouldn't stop flaring up 😂

[@wowplayer160]

Hills have eyes.

[@hipchicagal2111]

Oh yeahhhh... I can still hear the Emergency Alert tests coming on the TV. We had Emergency Drills at school during the 1960's. I remember either crouching under my little wooden school desk, or crouching down in the main hallway with our heads up against the wall! Like ANY of those maneuvers would protect us??? 😅

[@judywein3282]

Me, too. "Duck, and Cover". Yeah, that would have kept us safe. 😄

[@macwyll]

@@judywein3282 It wasn't to keep you safe, it was to have all of the bodies in the same place. Also, it was to give a false sense of survival. I grew up in the 60's and remember seeing the fallout shelter signs in the basements of the apartment complex I lived in.

[@funnyusername8635]

Well, that depends. Did you live close to a potential target? Then maybe not. Did you live far from a potential target? Maybe yes, depends on how far. He actually shows this in the video.

[@abbynormal4740]

Our grade school tornado drills in the early 70's were essentially "duck and cover" drills, without any mention of nuclear bombs. I still remember many buildings having fallout shelters. The public health lab I worked at until 2014 was originally built as a 1950's Air Force base hospital, which had a fallout shelter in the basement, including a tunnel to the maintenance building.

[@surprisedchar2458]

Better than nothing at all. If you were at ground zero it wouldn’t matter. But a few miles away? At least you can avoid some glass and debris adding injuries before hauling your butt out of the crater that used to be your town.

[@ldog19077]

It still amazes me the cameras, especially for that time survived not even moving...

[@Gorette66]

Here's some background info about the cameras used to film the tests: "They used arrangements of quartz windows and periscopes, with the actual cameras being buried deep underground. Unfortunately, some of those first tests were more energetic than they expected and those bunkers were destroyed, along with the cameras, but later tests proved more successful. Then of course, using long lenses, heavy filters and photographing at great distances was always a part of the system used. There also used a Rapatronic Shutter, which gave them a single photo of the explosion. By using many of those Rapatronic Shutters, all sequenced to go off one after another, they could get a sequence of photos." "The cameras were specially designed to both survive the blasts and protect the film from radiation. The cameras themselves were typically constructed from lead and steel. Very high-speed cameras, ones that did not require a "slow" mechanical shutter, were also developed specifically for filming nuclear explosions, allowing the film to only be exposed for nanoseconds for each frame. But to further ensure the film was not overexposed, many close-up cameras were built with a mirror facing the explosion. The film was then exposed only to the reflected light of the mirror, and was otherwise fully encased in lead throughout the camera apparatus. This setup was used, for example, in the Trinity tests, where the camera was only ~700 meters from the explosion."

[@lsdzheeusi]

I know you were joking, but TBF the design and implementation of the rapatronic cameras and other optical camera designs is an entire episode on its own. Not to mention the sensors designed to send their data at light speed just barely ahead of the nuclear effects that would destroy them. BONUS ROUND: Krause-Ogle box.

[@sarahmayp.779]

Do you have any videos to recommend I could watch about that? or at least key words to search and find them myself?

[@lsdzheeusi]

@@sarahmayp.779 "rapatronic" should do the trick. Also check out the film "atomic filmmakers"

[@buddyblris3094]

Also I think some cameras are place very far away with long zoom lengths outside of the blast zone.

[@crossroads198x]

you missed a really good "don't try ANY of this at home" joke in the beginning

[@SunriseLAW]

"Preppers" probably re-create the scene all the time. Imagine having dinner at a Prepper's house. You notice the other guests are mannequins. Run and do not look back.

[@harukih2772]

In Japan, there's steel/support poles in every building because there was an earthquake so that make the building stronger and bit stronger then other building in other place

[@RT-qd8yl]

Japan has done a lot of research and development on building strength and safety which the whole world has benefitted from. 🙏

[@JudahCordell]

"hey... psst! wake up" "why?" "swegle studios uploaded" *immediately gets up*

[@floridaalabamaedits]

X PFP MENTIONED

[@BFBwyvern]

X!!

[@DisheveledSuccess]

*quietly chews bbq rib*

[@EpicgamerGTG]

BFB FAN SPOTTED NO WAY

[@SilkyTrains]

average bfdi glazers

[@cascadianrangers728]

I I heard on a tour at the Nevada test site that the dummies were too radioactive to do much with and decon would be too expensive so they use them as targets for small arms

[@harryparsons2750]

I’d rather be immediately vaporized than slowly die from radiation sickness

[@andylee5759]

Forreal

[@funnyusername8635]

The closest fallout shelter to me is at an AT&T underground facility. It's hardened to attacks because of it's importance in communications along the east coast. Anything bad happens, that's where I'm heading.

[@petedandrea8463]

Yeah I'm sure they'll say 'c'mon in kid, did you have supper yet?'

[@funnyusername8635]

@@petedandrea8463 It's literally where the town has instructed people to go. The fire department would be running it. Be more humble.

[@What-lt3lj]

The closest fallout shelter to me is a bar that makes amazing burgers.

[@Gic424_YT]

My town is fine, the closest major city woukd be either Baltimore or Wilmington (Delaware), with Baltimore being 102 miles away from me and Wilmington being 109 miles from me

[@funnyusername8635]

@@What-lt3lj Okay you win. That's the best fallout shelter. LOL

[@Dustin2112]

I had no idea that a mannequin could contain a nuclear payload. Utterly amazin, I tell you!

[@Kelso2003]

Guess you could say, it was a Nuke Town!

[@Redgamingtv191]

HA love the call of duty joke

[@EvilNeuro_IITPP]

Lol

[@borntoclimb7116]

Many Tests like this

[@Kelso2003]

@@Redgamingtv191 thanks :]

[@Redgamingtv191]

@@Kelso2003 your welcome and thank you for making that COD joke

[@borntoclimb7116]

Duck and Cover is good if the distance is pretty big. The USA and the UdSSR have done many tests like this, the Chinese government too. The Greenhouse footage before the test is stunning, i watch so many Videos about nuke tests on yt and many tv documentarys but never saw this. Imagine all the tests with todays camera tec.

[@emmanuelquezeda]

“Yup definitely some damage. EF-3 if you ask me” 😭😭😭

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Maybe ef-4

[@jus10lewissr]

I've always found it incredible that the cameras were able to survive the blast. 14:00 And yes, that is -- and probably always will be -- one of the coolest and most insane pieces of footage in all of history.

[@raeraebadfingers]

Those old refrigerators were unable to get opened from the inside if I am not mistaken

[@scottthomason4288]

Yeah they didn’t cover that safety risk during any Charlie Brown episodes.

[@TKRVideoCentral]

Even when you don't have a tornado video, you still get tornadoes into the topic, I love it! But seriously, Jake - I wouldn't chance having one of those mannequins in the house - even now, they could have residual radioactivity, and that wouldn't be good on you or your family....food for thought...love the piece as always, dude, keep up the great work!

[@Emily-ty9ox]

Classic footage, I heard that once nobody knows what happened to the mannequins post-tests.

[@SixonQQ]

i live in Switzerland, every house i had, we had a fallout shelter in the cellar. mostly used as washing room-

[@Techno_Idioto]

Y'all are just a fortress nation. If any nation is going to escape a Nuclear War with only a few bumps and cuts, it's y'all Swiss folks.

[@kingkoopa5997]

Our Museum institution recived the archives from the Dukane Corporation which includes images from the teapot test. In the companys file description they list it as "Operation Q", which was actually "Operation Cue" which was the video portion released by the GOV. They had their speakers and PA systems installed in the cement block building to see how they would hold up. The building survived and so did Dukanes equipment (despite being banged up)!

[@CatuDil_Ace]

15:14 HER WIG GOT SNATCHED 😭😭

[@zach2382]

I believe that’s where they got the idea for Indiana Jones, where he survived a nuclear bombing in a refrigerator

[@cameroncampbell6635]

Indiana Jones kinda cheated the test by drinking from the Holy Grail

[@tomchidwick]

@@cameroncampbell6635 He chose.... wisely.

[@Cyberzilla2011-zz1sw]

It is

[@theChain120]

​@@cameroncampbell6635 that's not how the grail worked in the movie. One sip doesn't make anyone immortal, you gotta keep drinking. It cures diseases, heals wounds, and therefore also stops your aging process, but only momentarily. And since the grail was lost, by the time of the cold war the effects would have worn off completely over a decade ago.

[@EJDoe]

You talk about everything in interested in AND I LOVE IT! I love your channel

[@mindulle21]

Been interested on the history of US nuclear testing for quite a long time, it's nice to see someone finally giving Operation Teapot the spotlight, loved the narration AND inclusion of previous nuclear operations and even less known footage, thats REALLY nice to include, keep it up dude! What is most eerie is the fact that Teapot wasn't the only one to feature such experiments, Crossroads, Plumbbob and the whole Japanese type-town in the NTS did too. If you continue making videos abt nuclear tests id suggest looking at Plowshare, Castle or Crossroads.

[@undercooked_spaghettios]

15:15 WIG SNATCHED 💀

[@ItalianCountryball11]

😂

[@Azureecosse]

Here in Northern Europe we were issued with Pamphlets on how to protect yourself and your family in the event of a nuclear strike the plan was to pull a mattress over you and go at low down as you can or hide in a bathtub preferable if you have cellar use it, I later found out that the most concerning thing to the Authorities after a strike was disease from all the decomposing bodies, they want you to bury yourself so that in the event of your 60 tonne home collapsing you effectively buried yourself underground to reduce airborne diseases . I thought that was extremely sinister. My Father was an Engineer he went a bit crazy over the thought of a nuclear strike he and his brother dug by hand and with an earth mover a 20 ft deep by 7 ft wide trench in the field at the bottom of our garden he lined it with wood gravel and granite blocks I remember it cost him a lot of money that we did not really have he built in a basic air purifying system and a water irrigation system it was not very sophisticated by today's standards but he believed it would keep us safe. They were scary times during the cold war I remember it well even at school we had lesson on it and drills it put the fear of god into me that has stuck with me to this day, my Father is long gone now and I believe the shelter he built is still there with owners of the house it was sold to, as it was on the day he completed it many years ago.

[@kathyroux7386]

Even if the manikin “survives “ the nuclear blast, what about the effects of the radiation? I am so curious.

[@funnyusername8635]

The part he skips over is all the stuff that's you're supposed to keep in the shelter (like potassium iodide) and all the steps you were meant to take to keep fallout out of the shelter. They knew they could get sick from the radiation and civil defense films warn people of that and give them every tool an average person would be able to use to mitigate the risk or keep them alive until medical professionals helped.

[@DrDeuteron]

prompt radiation is only a factor for smaller weapons (since it is trumped by blast, and for the biggies, thermal radiation reaches out the farthest). Regarding fall-out: just GTFO and be done with it. The prompt radiation (neutrons) really lasts milliseconds, the gamma's last microseconds, but any range where gamma's are lethal you're cooked and splattered anyway.

[@SunriseLAW]

The mannequins might survive but, they definitely cannot have children due to the risk of birth defects.

[@ChariotFighter]

The smoke coming off of the structures or cars before the shockwave annihilates them isn’t actually smoke or fire. It’s the paint vaporizing from the initial gamma ray blast. 😬

[@KRAMITDFROG]

You say these mannequins made it out alive, but what about overpressure? Hard to live when you can't breathe.

[@DoNotBlink.]

And wouldn’t there be organ damage through the pressure wave (hope this is the right term, english is not my native language)

[@MattH-wg7ou]

Yea organ damage, especially lungs, starts around 15psi of overpressure from the blast wave.

[@abhinavmj1613]

I will forever associate this with Harrison Ford surviving in a fridge scene from indy 4 lol.

[@JackVice]

Indy 4? They only made a trilogy

[@solorhypercane5041]

I’ll forever associate this with call of duty black ops

[@funnyusername8635]

I know a lot about Operation Cue and that scene almost killed me. My husband was laughing at me the whole time because I was choking back my protests in the theater.

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

@@solorhypercane5041”Five minutes to zero hour.”

[@Tackletuesdayfishing]

@@JackViceway more than 3 movies

[@pacmon5285]

You forgot about the Fallout series of video games (and now TV show). It has major influence from these events and the global political situation at the time.

[@TitaniumTurbine]

As a Fallout fan too, I get it but I’m not sure what the series has to do with this particular event. I wouldn’t say he forgot about it, it just wasn’t really relevant to this real world testing.

[@Alliewolf-nk1wi]

Babe, wake up, Swegle uploaded

[@markrix]

You know those engineers where goofing off dancing around with the manicanas sharing drinks before the test 😂

[@denverdubois5835]

But...even if your house survived the blast, wouldn't you die of radiation poisoning? Maybe not if your fallout shelter was lead lined but...yikes.I really want to know where those (irradiated?) mannequins are! Also: actually, an EF4 or EF5 tornado will do MORE damage than those old nukes. If one of those hits your wood frame house, it will tear it completely apart and spread the wreckage around. Some of them will even tear up concrete foundation pads and scour the earth underneath, as well as stripping bark from felled trees and (if a human is unlucky enough to be out in it) tear the flesh from his or her bones. I am still more scared of atom bombs. It's the radiation.

[@RT-qd8yl]

And if you _did_ survive, would it be a world worth living in? 😲

[@dragonfire2371]

No way a tornado can do more damage than a nuke. Maybe if the nuke is at a great distance or very very low yield like the Davy Crockett. I'm no expert on either nukes or tornadoes tho so it's open for debate I guess.

[@theredsalmon612]

Tornadoes aren’t even close to the destructive power of nukes. I wanna know what you are smoking

[@noobguy57]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki is evidence that a nuke is far more powerful than the strongest tornado

[@DrDeuteron]

neutrons don't care about lead.

[@kellyblack4897]

Absolutely one of my favorite KZbin creators.

[@D3cepti0ns]

Thank you, this was very informative and I learned so much more about those tests than I thought I knew. Also, thank you for saying those duck and cover tests aren't useless, I feel like everyone just keeps repeating they were useless because nukes, but I always tried to argue that they weren't and you could survive, depending on distance of course, but still it was something useful to do in an attack. Anyway, love your videos, in depth information and personal investigations you do. And I love your buttery smooth voice, idk if it's the mic or you or both but it's perfect to my ears. Oh and the retro style you are going for is perfect as well for the content. Love it!

[@cameroncampbell6635]

16:51 Unless you drink from the Holy Grail

[@kat_dumb]

crazy to see the growth from this channel. From history of Tornado footage to here. Wow

[@fiverats1]

Love your content, dunno how I first stumbled upon it but I'm loving the variety! Also congrats on the sponsor!

[@Blackngold901]

The building test cameraman needs a raise

[@jackstone8074]

6:27 I think that was indeed the Naval building. All that twisted steel rebar could only come from VERY thick reinforced concrete. Not sure if the fireball reached it but the heat from the x-rays at that distance is enough to incinerate even concrete. It doesn't look like it held up very well to the overpressure either. I believe what we're seeing is that the roof was blown apart and then collapsed onto the walls.

[@sleeplessstudios7626]

Swegle entering his nuclear fallout disaster era

[@tHebUm18]

This video got me thinking about Mythbusters and the pressure sensors they used to determine if it'd be fatal to humans. Gonna guess the mannequins didn't have that and were otherwise more robust than an actual human. Mannequins also don't get radiation poisoning that even if you survived it may just be for a few miserable days. I hope they deep cleaned them before throwing them in a JCPenney.

[@AmyraCarter]

"That Time We Nuked a Mini Town With Mannequins...For Science" ~if this were a Kyle Hill vid ... I used to reside in an apartment complex that was both NOT tornado-safe, nor nuclear threat safe; I now reside in an apartment complex that offers basements, which is an improvement, but given where I currently reside is not far from an AFB...the question still remains... #HowScrewedAmI? ... Addendum: the test mannequins are likely contained inside an anti-rad storage container, something that needs to be implemented for the hunk of irradiated scrap that is the failed reactor of Chernobyl. Yes, that's a lot of material to contain and even more necessary to contain it. I'm not stupid.

[@lainey6474]

There is a very cool site called Nukemap that will allow you to test anywhere from Davy Crockett to Tsar Bomba in terms of nuke size to your location/city of choice. It demonstrates the radius of the fireball, initial blast, thermal radiation, light blast, and the fallout. While you might survive the blast in shelter, the fallout is another story, particularly if you're in a rad heavy area. It can take up to three to five weeks for most areas to be safe to travel.

[@ecocodex4431]

That Perfect Dark music is BUSSIN

[@cgooch_]

Still holds up today, in its own way.

[@Darkpixies]

Yeah the magic cameras didn't even get wiped from the radiation! They must have used these same camera for NASA, 9:25 you can clearly see the car was cut and pasted in 2 frames.

[@Lendarry]

Fun fact. Soviets waited the same. That's where those brutalist building come. And, BTW, wind in between those things is crazy, and that was planned too, so the fallout will be flown away. There were a weird times

[@mikesuch9021]

I like driving through nuclear testing areas back in the days. So quiet and warm.

[@Aphexm1ke]

Always love when you go with the GoldenEye 007 OST for tracks. Choice. 🎶

[@kirklandwhatley]

that Perfect Dark music *and Goldeneye 😎

[@aquaatem1]

Back in the day my city had a place where you could buy bomb shelters. Another concern for the surviving mannequins would be radiation and fire, maybe that is why the mannequins were lost was due to radiation, yeah they survived but the clothes could've been irradiated.

[@leo.909]

It's all sad, and scary. And then: 15:16 "I think that mannequin lost her wig there"

[@DongBags9319]

I think the family in the second house would have died. Even though the mannequins seemed to be fine, just thrown around, but one would assume the blast force would have ruptured their insides if they were real people. In the basement, yeah they'd survive. But not upstairs. Edit: I love the Perfect Dark background music.

[@Gabriel_OGDC]

This is very interesting. However I personally don't know if I'd even want to survive if it were to happen... Once one country fires a nuclear missile, other countries will soon follow and essentially if you do survive it would be a difficult, isolated, and overall incredibly depressing existence. Sorry for the morbid rant, but interesting video nonetheless

[@rjlupin.variant]

almost started crying when the mannequin lost its wig that was so funny

[@Vile_Entity_3545]

I want to see the nuclear powers get together for two tests of 750kt nukes (one airburst and one groundburst) so we can all see it in its beautiful glory filmed with the latest cameras. No live animals involved but different buildings built at varying distances. All done in a place where no danger of fallout to civilians can occur. All we have is old footage so why not? At least it will reawaken the people into how powerful these things are. Today the world has become complacent and needs to be shown this destructive force in all its glory.

[@bur_n_t]

is there anywhere on earth where this wouldnt harm live animals? testing grounds dont grow on trees

[@eyetukafatshet6246]

That sounds like a horrible idea lmfao

[@Vile_Entity_3545]

@@eyetukafatshet6246 It won’t hurt you.

[@Vile_Entity_3545]

@@bur_n_t The Atacama desert. Are you one of those people that walk around with a broom sweeping ants out of the way? If not you are killing thousands of animals every year.

[@poilus]

And put a bunch of ballistic dummies in the buildings so that it’s more realistic than mannequins

[@calebpalmer9317]

I'm concerned about imminent thermonuclear war but what really keeps me up at night is the threat of mean Tweets

[@Doctor1297]

Great video. The tension was palpable when the Goldeneye Bunker music started up. Then, wait for it... wait for it... wait for iiiiit.... *BEAT DROP* 🤘😎💃🎶 Also whenever you casually inserted a tornado damage comparison mention, my ears would perk up like a patient doggie tempted with a treat from his overly excited high-pitched-voice-using owner.

[@alexishitcher9712]

Imagine what the footage would’ve looked like in color…

[@SunriseLAW]

By now, it is most likely colorized. I found a colorized version of the "Grabel Shot", part of Operation Upshot Knothole.

[@acleanpairofsocks]

What an eerie landscape. Walking through there both before and after must’ve felt unsettling.

[@Sacto1654]

Only one thing: the _Apple-2_ test still used a relatively low yield bomb. I'm surprised that the AEC didn't build a similar "city" out in the Pacific to test the blast effects of megaton-yield nuclear explosion. (One wonders did the Russians tried to build a simulated city next to the site of RDS-37 thermonuclear bomb test in 1955. Because that bomb had a yield of 1.6 MT, the heat and blast effects would have been much stronger than the _Apple-2_ test, and the equivalent of the test structures built for the American test would likely been completely destroyed.)

[@Galaxxi]

the half life soundtrack at 15:16 😭

[@Derpy1969]

The mannequins were/are likely radioactive. And I’d bury that if I was in charge.

[@iitzfizz]

Bear in mind that test was 17 kilotons...Many of you have probably seen the crazy video of the Beirut blast in 2020. That was estimated at ~0.8 kilotons, even round it up to 1 kiloton for the highest estimates, put's into perspective how hugely destructive these weapons would be exploded over a city. In the cold war they were fielding bombs up to 25 MEGATONS, 25 million tons of TNT. There really wasn't any chance of fighting and 'winning' an atomic war any more like they thought _might_ have been possible with a limited atomic (fission) bomb exchange. Even today most weapons are around 150 kilotons and I'm sure there are still weapons fielded with megaton yields, not the cold war monsters but devastating nonetheless. They realised that because the damage doesn't scale linearly then building these huge bombs was pointless...Ten 150kt warheads do more damage than one single 1.5 megaton warhead.

[@Techno_Idioto]

The U.S still fields a gravity bomb capable of a megaton yield. IIRC, China has ICBMs with megaton warheads.

[@chancehicks2839]

J Robert Swegleheimer

[@djmapj8489]

We need more random disaster or world end type videos😭 I love these vids

[@macwyll]

Weren't the mannequins contaminated? If not, how?

[@CXYE3M]

I got home from a long day and see a swegle studios video! Yay! 😁

[@LilyUnknown-]

WHO IS WE?!

[@ryancrummy4114]

Absolutely love the 007 OST in the background lol

[@itsoundzgood]

I like how he played the Bunker level music while talking about bunkers lol

[@ryancrummy4114]

@itsoundzgood absolutely incredible sound design lol Edit: spelling

[@Ben-en1uu]

You need to talk about the tornado that happened in Burke, South Dakota

[@tledge2723]

"Benson is going to be so mad..."

[@macwyll]

I really enjoyed this video! Great job!!!

[@elduderino1]

Wasnt expecting the nostalgia, immediately recognized the GoldenEye soundtrack lol

[@R0291-l1l]

If we ever do have full nuclear war, I'm not hiding. I'm hoping I can override my survival instincts and go out to meet it. The world left after nuclear war is not somewhere I want to live.

[@SoCal780]

Fascinating footage in this one!

[@CrabJelly5225]

I would like to vote to bring back tornado sirens everywhere. I miss the comfort of knowing I’ll definitely know when a tornado is happening due to an actual siren. Wheeling WV has an actual siren still. They test it every Saturday morning. I remember waking up to it at my grandparents house and feeling safe for the rest of the week knowing that if there was a tornado in my sleep, I’d know about it. I lived in Detroit and we didn’t have that. I had some trauma around tornados due to watching the sky turn green when I was 4, and it’s one of the first things I look for when I suspect there’s going to be one. And I remember my mom screaming at us to get away from the window before shoving us out the door, down the steps, (it was an apartment) and down into the basement where we huddled with neighbors. I remember being terrified. The second incident I was in a trailer at my cousin’s 4th birthday (I would’ve been 5) the EAS system sounded and the lights started flashing, and we left in a hurry, all of us, to a local gas station where we were all put in the back, again, with strangers. The station lost power and I remember really thought we were gonna die. The room had no windows, so it was pitch black. When we left to go back to the trailer park, there were a lot of downed trees and power lines. I don’t think anyone died. When I say “the lights started flashing” I mean, like, literally. The ceiling lights started going in and out but not flickering more like fading in and out very fast. It was terrifying. That’s how close it was, it was affecting the very power circulation we were on. I remember the hail stinging really bad and my dad yelling at my aunt because she left my cousin (ON HIS BIRTHDAY) behind at the trailer. My dad grabbed my cousin himself. She grabbed her twin daughters, and her husband, and left her youngest child alone. She didn’t even make sure he got into someone else’s car and everyone else there had kids of their own to deal with. My father was the last to leave (my dad is very big into storms and wanted to see if he could see the tornado in person, he didn’t) and left early because my cousin came out of the trailer crying, because his mother had literally left him alone. I seriously believe it was on purpose. My cousins (the twins not the boy) were a year older than me (making them 6 and perfectly capable of getting into the car on their own (we know this because I could do it at 5)). So, if they got into the car on their own, and their parents did as well, but they leave the only child *not* capable of getting into the car alone at the house, what does that look like? That looks like they intentionally left my younger cousin to die. Which I believe is true. My uncle isn’t thoughtful, so he may seriously have not noticed. I can’t blame the twins, they were 6. My AUNT, however, has a long and serious history of being abusive and putting children into harms way. She broke my nose. She stood on me in a swimming pool and I almost drowned. She did this several times. She did the same to my sister. I truly believe she was trying to kill my cousin. And I have to question if it was because she didn’t want another kid, if she wanted sympathy (Y’know, “oh I lost my niece!” Then she gets sympathy for it even though she caused the death) or if she genuinely wanted to see how far she could push it. How far would our family go to put up with it and keep her out of prison? She genuinely strikes me as the type of person to kill someone, zero empathy, and then tell everyone about her loss as a route of getting attention. She has a LOT of attention seeking behaviors, and I don’t know how else to describe it. She’s loud, she throws temper tantrums, she’s delusional a lot, too. She gets these manic states where she just makes massive messes, then she just lets the house rot or screams and throws fits and hits her kids until they clean up her mess for her (they’re all adults now) and she’s fucked up her twins bad enough that they won’t leave the house anymore. It’s bad. Anyway yeah tornado sirens are cool

[@indygeo4267]

I'd much rather live in those "Cookie-Cutter" homes than those tall "Brutalist" apartment buildings. Those vintage homes still had a bit of charm and character to them compared to those soulless concrete monstrosities. As always, thanks for the video! I'm extremely fascinated with atomic bombs and nuclear engineering/physics. Also, I too am interested in building my own bomb shelter. I just think it would be pretty cool to have one.

[@KnightOfThe_Onion]

Who's up Sweegling?

[@Nurichiri]

I see a Swegle upload, I click.

[@brettwheelis8263]

Love❤ the Carrington Institute music from Perfect Dark. And I heard it slightly in the background and was thinking this guy is now my friend😂

[@Wulfjager]

Was definitely not expecting to hear OST from Perfect Dark from the N64 at 7:00

[@AricBolf]

Willing to bet the effects of that explosion in Beruit in 2020 was heavily studied

[@BrentWest-x4e]

Please cover the two EF4s that struck Jackson TN in 1999 and 2003. 20 total deaths and the 2003 tornado destroyed the oldest standing church in Tennessee, St.Luke Episcopal church, which was built in 1844. The 2nd tornado destroyed the monument for the tornado victims from 1999 as well.

[@Ccyawn123]

I felt a period of deep depression coming on but then i saw that Swegle had uploaded and life is good again!

[@pidge2629]

Man props to the camera man for filming all of that

[@pericoparakeet6104]

I'm in theater rehearsals right now 👍🏼

[@3p1kduck]

WOOO SWEGLE'S NUKING MANNEQUINS WOO

[@elenazuiderveen7461]

This is the earliest I've ever been in a video. One minute

[@elenazuiderveen7461]

Or two. I dont know

[@SSCBurner.]

14:17 ya some damage there, ef3 to me

[@nopamineLevel100]

I've always found those nuclear test houses and manikins so terrifying. When I was a kid, I used to worry about being trapped there whrn theu tested the bomb....even though I was born in 84 and live in Australia 😅🙄

[@cac_deadlyrang]

15:19 I love the Half-Life music here.

[@spookyfrogs1874]

bruh the war thunder ad directly before talking about hiroshima 😭