Underwater Nuclear Testing Slow-Mo 1946 23 kilotons

Use the latest software technology to play underwater nuclear testing video at a super slower speed !

[@willharmatuk4723]

Amazing. Nothing more fascinating to watch than the power of these tests. If I could request something, could you upload some of the Operation Hardtack test films? I seem to remember some of the hydrogen bombs being tested having amazing footage, for example, Hardtack Poplar (filmed from a distance aboard a ship). I’ve been a long-time watcher of Atomic Test Channel! Thanks for everything and thanks in advance!

[@db-88-qp]

OK just WOW. amazing. i'm a fan of the baker test, and i have watched it 100's of times. this video is the first to ever show it like this, in super slow motion. NOTE: watch the beginning of the video, in 0.25 playback speed, and notice the barge suspending the device, slowly melt & spread out like dark wax. that's totally amazing to see!!!

[@johnfranborra]

Thanks for posting this slo-mo! Don't know how many times I've stopped and restarted this sequence over the years, trying to catch exactly what happens in the first second.

[@marioragucci1009]

We take for granted how much detail we see, on our present-day computers. In 1946, folks probably got to see this shot in the newspaper, and thats it. With ATC in 2023, we get to observe the barge getting rope tricked. Thank you, ATC, also, for allowing us to time travel back to this shot.

[@josephastier7421]

Rope tricks don't work underwater.

[@marioragucci1009]

@josephastier7421 thank you, I know rope trick is from the intense light at the very beginning of the detonation

[@StewieGriffin505]

I've never seen this footage of Baker. Nice to see something new.

[@tokencivilian8507]

Great stuff ATC. Wow....I'd never seen that level of detail of the Baker shot before. Those first few fractions of a second where the surface is breached.....stupendous. I watched extra commercials just for you. I'll have to go back and watch this again a few times with YT set on 1/4 speed.....great stuff.

[@Gremriel]

Can't be quite sure, but at 40 seconds in, you can see the barge it was suspended from vaporizing.

[@db-88-qp]

yeah i just made a comment above, that in the start of the video, playing it in 0.25 speed, you can literally see the barge melt like wax and spread out over the burst.

[@garysmith9818]

Ah yes, nothing like enjoying the soft tones of a piano bar while watching a slow motion nuclear explosion, lol. Nice film ATC, thanks for posting!

[@scorpionking4012]

Just beautiful and sad at the same time, the music really makes that feeling of that horrible sadness with a reminder of how fearful that bomb is.

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

And that is 'only' 23kt.....something deeply fascinating about nuclear tests. What's the average MIRV now,225kts?

[@scorpionking4012]

@dominicseanmccann6300 well let’s be honest, the day the ״bomb״ ever dropped again the size want matter anymore as humans will go to the ground…

[@Flame-Bright-Cheer]

Thank you so much for sharing

[@P-G-77]

Rare footage... very interesting !! Thanks.

[@ZMAN_420]

Great Channel 👍🏻🇺🇲

[@kevinrivera1492]

Great video! Keep em coming ❤

[@oceanhome2023]

Oh Yes ! The Baker Blast the most Iconic shot ever !

[@chrislondo2683]

I want Christopher Nolan recreate the Baker blast using miniatures filmed in IMAX.

[@SnaketheJake87]

That dude fishing over top that nuke had a rough day

[@Aislanzito]

💣☢️

[@RwingDsquad]

Test Baker.

[@HailAnts]

Well, this is neat and all, but it is not high-speed footage of the Able test. It's the regular footage with computer generated interpolated frames inserted in between the original ones. There is no high-speed film of this shot. This is a computer's best guess at it. And if this is the Able shot of Operation Crossroads there was no barge, it was dropped from an airplane (and missed the target by a few hundred yards. There was no barge for the Baker test either, it was suspended 90 feet below the water from one of the test ships.

[@HostileLemons]

It is the high speed footage. He has the raw one before restoration in the channel.

[@paulheinrich7645]

After the explosion breaks the surface you see a fireball. What’s burning?

[@StewieGriffin505]

The nuclear material and the bomb casing. It's a ball of plasma that cools on expansion.

[@user-qx4od7tt7g]

@@StewieGriffin505 No, the nuclear material and the bomb casing are only a very small part of the whole luminous matter. I think about 1% of the luminous mass or less is the mass of the bomb and the steel ball in which it was lowered to a depth of 30 meters, the other 99% is water vapor heated by the shock wave. That's what we see mostly.

[@HostileLemons]

Have you not considered its the lsm 60 itself turning to dust and light at the sheer force of the explosion?

[@user-qx4od7tt7g]

@@HostileLemons in the center of the ship, directly under the bomb is quite possible, because there the velocity and therefore the temperature of the substance flying upwards is maximum. If you take the back and front of the ship, then there the speed of water impact from below is less, which simply turns the ship into a pile of small debris, which of course do not glow. In addition, the mass of the ship above the bomb is small compared to the mass of water surrounding the bomb. For example, the mass of a ball of water with a radius of 30 meters = 112000 tons, which is much greater than the mass of the ship above it.

[@jdlane5136]

How deep was this A bomb detonated? What was the name of this Shot?

[@db-88-qp]

this was baker shot. and i can't remember exactly (and too lazy to look it up), but think the device was suspended 30m below the barge suspending it.

[@jdlane5136]

@@db-88-qpYou are correct....... "Baker" July 24, 1946 21:34:59.8 NE Lagoon, Bikini Atoll 11.59°N 165.52°E 0 - 27.5 m (90 ft deep) Underwater Weapon effect Mk III "Helen of Bikini" 23 kt

[@db-88-qp]

@@jdlane513627.5m? kinda sad i knew it was 30m by heart. i thought it was 21kt, you say 23. cool. i seriously wish they would have done 1 megaton, under the water. maybe about 1000 ft deep. maybe if we're lucky, at some point they will test status-6 underwater, with 100mt.

[@LuciusVulpes]

Is this Baker? Was this made with AI or optical flow or are they actual recordings? I've never seen them before

[@StewieGriffin505]

Looks like Rapatronic footage to me. New to me also and I've been watching these for a long time.

[@maksphoto78]

This is Baker, enhanced slow-mo footage: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYWpkIOsfs1_esk

[@oceanhome2023]

The Nuclear age made just 1 second seem like an eternity !! Perhaps we could use this Portal to travel faster than the speed of Light !!!

[@JonMartinYXD]

@@maksphoto78 "Enhanced." I'm not a fan of software fudged footage and I wish KZbin creators would clearly state what it really is in the title.

[@roadgent7921]

There is a documentary on the Lookout Mountain film unit that were formed to do the filming of the tests. One of their cameras was a million frames per second.

[@frankorobinson1540]

And the islands are still inahabitable to this day what was the point

[@trolleriffic]

They're not and the point was to develop nuclear weapons and understand exactly what they did, how to protect against their effects, and what to do after one has gone off. The habitability of Bikini Atoll isn't related to whether these tests had a point.

[@RwingDsquad]

Kinda creepy. I've never seen this one before.

[@sputnik666]

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[@matthewwagner47]

These underwater test killed thousands of ton of fish and sea life,such as dolphins and whales.

[@db-88-qp]

we are a savage species, a temporary plague to the planet. don't worry, our time here is limited, and the earth will then go back to the animals.

[@Republic9323]

38,000 fish to be precise. There’s no dolphins or whales in the Bikini Atoll lagoon as there’s not enough space for larger marine animals.

[@matthewwagner47]

@@Republic9323 was referring to other underwater test.