How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing

Kodak detected the first atomic bomb before anyone else figured it out. Then they made a deal not to tell anyone. Thanks to HBO Max, and their new show raised by Wolves for sponsoring this video! rb.gy/alghwn
Thanks to Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail for the opening clip: www.pbs.org/show/uranium-twis...
References:
Albuquerque Tribune Bulletin, July 16, 1945 - www.marshallfoundation.org/li...
Webb, J. H. (1949). The fogging of photographic film by radioactive contaminants in cardboard packaging materials. Physical Review, 76(3), 375.
Julian Webb at Oak Ridge - Snavely, B. B. (1989). Julian H. Webb. PhT, 42(7), 87.physicstoday.scitation.org/do...
Radium in watch dials - www.epa.gov/radtown/radioacti...
A 1958 video about how Kodak film is made, noting the careful monitoring of radioactive contaminants - • Kodak - How Film is Ma...
Radioactive fallout in 1951 - www.nytimes.com/1951/02/03/ar...
1998 senate hearing - www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/C...
Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 1999. Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests: Review of the National Cancer Institute Report and Public Health Implications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi.org/10.17226/6283. www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/c...
Baby Teeth Survey - Reiss, L. Z. (1961). Strontium-90 absorption by deciduous teeth. Science, 134(3491), 1669-1673.
Strontium 90 and Cancer rates - Gould, J. M., Sternglass, E. J., Sherman, J. D., Brown, J., McDonnell, W., & Mangano, J. J. (2000). Strontium-90 in deciduous teeth as a factor in early childhood cancer. International Journal of Health Services, 30(3), 515-539.
Wine forensics - Hubert, P., Perrot, F., Gaye, J., Médina, B., & Pravikoff, M. S. (2009). Radioactivity measurements applied to the dating and authentication of old wines. Comptes Rendus Physique, 10(7), 622-629. doi:10.1016/j.crhy.2009.08.007
Strontium 90 in forensics - Maclaughlin-Black, S. M., Herd, R. J., Willson, K., Myers, M., & West, I. E. (1992). Strontium-90 as an indicator of time since death: a pilot investigation. Forensic science international, 57(1), 51-56.
Research and Writing by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev, and Jonny Hyman
Filmed and edited by Derek Muller
Animations by Ivy Tello and Jonny Hyman
Music by Jonny Hyman
Additional Music from:
Epidemic Sound epidemicsound.com "Seaweed"
Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com "Lightless dawn"
Craig Conrad www.craigconard.com/royaltyfree "ASTRAL"

[@tyrellsawatzky3688]

I love how the map just stops at the Canadian border. As someone who grew up in Saskatchewan I'm very glad that the fallout respected the border 😬

[@land_and_air1250]

Oh course, the us would never accidentally use a weapon on an ally that would be silly

[@NichoTBE]

Just like the west coast wildfire maps today are respecting the Canadian boarder lol. Tho it would be interesting to see how far the fallout penetrated into the Canadian landscape. Also tree's absorb radioactive particles and when they burn they spread that again, i guess technically humans do too when cremated.

[@stefankral1264]

just like the maps shown on French TV after chernobyl;) apparently all the fallout rained down on the German side of the German/French border.

[@arafat9828]

These comments are so funny 😂😂

[@JosiahLuscher]

I noticed that too! So embarrassing...

[@johiahdoesstuff1614]

This is considerably more concerning than I expected it to be

[@RadDadisRad]

Lol, you’re not kidding

[@boio_]

A feeling increasingly more common

[@Salm77000]

Now go read about Teflon coating and what it does to the body... Most recently depicted in the 2019 movie "Dark Waters", based on a NYT article.

[@MrMoro25]

​@HJ R Masks (at least those we are wearing these days) are no use for radioactive material, but yes you should wear them.

[@johiahdoesstuff1614]

@HJ R ...are you ok?

[@melharness9385]

I’m a thyroid cancer survivor who was born in 1954 on a dairy farm and drank raw milk ever day. The Ozarks region is in the area of highest exposure. I’ve wondered what caused it and I believe this video has the answer. I lost half my voice box to the cancer surgery.

[@bobufo5729]

That sucks man glad you got the other half tho

[@Nachobeach]

Sue !?

[@scootergrant8683]

@@Nachobeach Whom? The testing groups are far gone.

[@user-bg7us5bv6n]

well, if it's any consolation, those tests were necessary to create some of the most terrifying weapons that man should never have, and led to horrors that man had never known before. it was extremely important work.

[@scootergrant8683]

@@user-bg7us5bv6n Well it did accelerate development on Fission energy solutions.

[@WaterlooExpat]

7:00 The US government, agreeing to provide Kodak, with advance warning of upcoming nuclear tests, answers a question that has circulated within our family for decades. My paternal grandfather worked at Kodak, in Toronto, Ontario, for over 40 years, retiring in 1967. Although the tests were officially secret, Kodak Canada somehow received notice of impending blasts. The workers were instructed to place large sheets of lead over the sheets of photographic X-ray film. The film was protected, by this means. If the lead sheets were not placed, the radiation would get trapped in the morning dew, on the roof of the Kodak factory, and then pass through six concrete floors and damage the film. If this process was not followed, the film had to be discarded.

[@Fearless_on_my_Breath]

Feels great when such questions are answered doesn't it ?

[@MathiassS73]

I think the active particles got trapped in the morning dew regardless of the lead sheets being placed over the films.

[@Kai-ou3mu]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the consistent quality in Veritasium videos?

[@veritasium]

I appreciate you took this moment. It makes me feel better when I watch the video for the umpteenth time and think: this would be better if I had a clip of a double-headed rabbit.

[@Kai-ou3mu]

Veritasium It’s just hard not to recognize the work that evidently goes into these videos. It’s one thing that the information is always interesting, but I think its charm comes from the genuine passion for these research projects more than anything. Edit: the double headed rabbit would help, obviously

[@glorytoarstotzka330]

@@veritasium make a video about double headed bunnies

[@lukeashton7085]

10 years on and still going strong 💪

[@SF-li9kh]

@@veritasium This video touched deep in the feels. I loved it much more than your previous videos

[@SlyPearTree]

"We're made of star stuff" -Carl Sagan "We're made of atomic bomb stuff" -Derek Muller

[@damouze]

Carl Sagan's statement is true, Derek Muller's is not.

[@accessgranted4177]

Both are almost true.

[@vanmyaf9119]

Pietje Puk both are true, because the Atoms had to be forged(nuclear fusion) in a stars core... the higher elements are fused when stars go Nova or Super Nova, because higher energy is needed...massive stars stop at Iron fusion cause it is the tipping point in energy produced to energy needed to fuse...(thats why the reverse is true for nuclear fission, larger elements are more unstable and thus need less energy to “split” and release energy, E=mc^2 use it for fission and fusion) then they implode in a super nova and form either a neutron star or most likely a black hole because a star of great mass is needed to fuse Iron...

[@ChadPANDA...]

@@damouze both are true lol

[@JulieWallis1963]

SlyPearTree we are all ghosts, riding a skeleton wearing a skin suit, on a rock whizzing through space, waiting to return to the stardust we first started off as!

[@georgeolson3996]

As a child in Calgary I noted an article in Time or News Week that gave a map of the radio active fallout plumes from Soviet tests in the Arctic island of Nova Zemla. It also left out any data for Canada. It interestingly showed high levels in Alaska (no surprise) and about 1/2 the level in Montana. Note this pattern flowed into the Yukon and Northwest Territories then turned south along the East front of the Rocky Mountains toward Montana while spreading out Eastwards. My conclusion as an 8 year old was infuriation that the Canadian Goverment in Ottawa was lying to us in Alberta and the milk I was drinking was contaminated. In 1960 at age 10 I moved to Brisbane Queensland so I was only further contaminated in a much much lesser way by a very few French tests in the South Pacific which had to travel around 5/6ths of the planet to reach our Queensland coastal pastures. The map from this video shows that I was also exposed to flow North along the Rocky Mountain Front of contamination from U.S. tests in the 50s Well fingers crossed -- so far -- cancer free in my 72nd winter.

[@PixelBrushArt]

Let's hope you keep it up and get to your 73rd, and many winters after that!

[@himynameis3664]

Hope you're still doing well. Stories like this make me glad to live in a country without nuclear testing. The closest thing we got was a very very small amount of fallout after the Chernobyl explosion, and that was a couple of years before I was born

[@Minerals333]

You didn’t hear that the British tested their nukes in south Australia?

[@SadisticSenpai61]

Yeah, my parents were born in Iowa in 1961 and 1963 - they're both right in that age range and fallout area to have received a lot of contamination in their water and food. No cancer for them yet either. But who knows what the future will bring as they get older. And ofc something else could always kill them first. Dad just got a warning a couple years ago that he needs to cut back on his sugar intake unless he wants diabetes.

[@chemistryphdn]

"as an 8 year old kid". Sure buddy. Lol

[@mohammedabdullah4618]

My mind is blown to realise that ‘Kodak’ helped Christopher Nolan to “film” the Oppenheimer movie about the ‘Trinity test’. The amount of irony here is literally uncanny. Thanks to YT for recommending it now!

[@dreska255]

I also want to mention the low-background steel. As modern steel is processed using atmospheric air, any steel produced after the testing has significant amount of contamination from radionuclides. However, steel made before Trinity doesn't and therefore has got an application in radiation sensitive equipments such as Geiger counters. This type of steel is usually salvaged from ships that sunk before 1945. There is a Wikipedia article about this with some references at the bottom, and you can probably find more info on the internet.

[@7chillywilly7]

Google radioactive steel for the wiki! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel#:~:text=Modern%20steel%20is%20contaminated%20with%20radionuclides%20because%20its,that%20require%20the%20highest%20sensitivity%20for%20detecting%20radionuclides.

[@Otokichi786]

This is why certain "marine graveyard" Allied ships from the early, desperate days of World War II in an around Indonesia are gone. Karma may visit the scrappers who saw such wrecks as commodities. (But as we all know, the ghosts of soldiers, sailors and marines who died violently don't haunt the "guilty parties.")

[@douglascampbell9809]

Brass and bronze as well.

[@jerickodoggo9595]

Wow, that's awesome thanks for sharing

[@feha92]

@@Otokichi786 What karma? I get that those scrappers were doing a good deed by cleaning up the ocean after the allied forces dirtied them and failed to clean after themselves, but I would argue that there is little 'karma' in that anyway, since said scrappers probably profited monetary from it. So don't go feeling a societal pressure to donate to them.

[@stealthassasin1day291]

Specialist: Advises the military where to safety conducts tests. Military: Lets do the opposite.

[@buckprivate8177]

That sums up 90% of the military right there.

[@lasarousi]

Convenience > safety

[@LiLT0Y]

@@lasarousi > OTHER people safety They take their own safety pretty seriously

[@nicotti]

If you want to lowkey test the affects and spread of fallout, it's a lot easier to do it over your own populace rather than the ocean.

[@elliefuller3667]

@@nicotti Which is a gross breach of conduct…don’t excuse stuff like this, it should be a crime to do something like this. Anyone in the government who authorizes nuclear testing on their own population should be arrested.

[@QuietStorm4964]

I remember learning about this when I was in highschool in Rochester, NY. It was super interesting to see how something that happened hundreds of miles away could affect something local.

[@djzuela]

Thank you for the exposure, no pun intended. Always very appreciative of your content. Keep up the great work.

[@casparvoncampenhausen5249]

Imagine being the guy, who was tasked with identifieing the source of the radiation and stumbling upon a national top secret nuclear bomb test

[@xtramoist9999]

That guy worked on the Manhattan Project, so he may have already known about the top secret nuclear bombs. lol

[@WayStedYou]

Epstined himself

[@revolvency]

He already work on Manhattan Project, I bet he just got mildly shock

[@sauercrowder]

@@xtramoist9999 "Oh, whaaaaaaaat? Nuclear? Noooooo waaaaaaayyy..."

[@davemwangi05]

That's when you get visited by men in black.

[@Raptor302]

"The government protected rolls of film, but not the lives of our kids. There's something wrong with this picture." I see what he did there.

[@FrostyFoxDrake]

they protected themselves, technically. A couple people complain of increased bone cancer? meh. A Corporation that makes a large percentage of the world's X-Ray film finding beta radiation exposure where it shouldn't be? That's a helluva problem

[@lowfrequencyfilms]

Rekt

[@jeremiahsmith4235]

@@FrostyFoxDrake but do you see what he did there

[@louispena5166]

@nymersic You are *way* wrong... DNA was discovered the 1860s not the 1960s. The understanding that DNA was the basis of genetic inheritance occurred in the 1940s. The understanding that radiation caused mutations was understood in the 1920s. But it is true that in the 1950s the real dangers of fallout wasn't understood.

[@jonathanleitch6176]

@@louispena5166 but Miescher did not know about the molecular nature of DNA and so the knowledge of its molecular structure, which originated with W and C does indeed matter. Mutation wasn’t linked with changes in DNA until after the heavy testing period. We didn’t really know the true nature of atoms until after Rutherford and Bohr, among others. That wasn’t until the early 1900’s.

[@markcampanelli]

Thanks for the history lesson here. (I hail from “Kodak country” in Rochester, NY, USA 🙂.) Also, thank you so much for pointing out the recklessness of the government in not protecting its population from the tests. I do think you give the US government too much credit in not understanding the danger.

[@tankiadam4967]

Its amazing how much these nuclear tests have affected so many industries, I keep learning about more problems from these test, and from the sounds of it there is probably more fallout to be discovered.

[@Sciencerely]

As a biologist and just watching the video I think we should be jealous of the organism called Deinococcus radiodurans. This bacterium is able to completely repair its shattered chromosomes after being exposed to high levels of radiation (which cause DNA breaks). While humans experience neurological damages after being exposed to radiation of roughly 30 Gy, D. radiodurans can survive over 10000 Gy, since it is able to very effectively connected fragmented DNA (I'm just making a video about human DNA repair systems). Great video so far!

[@dnmurphy48]

Sounds really fascinating.

[@ornessarhithfaeron3576]

@@dnmurphy48 Thank you, Mr Spock

[@FriedrichHerschel]

While I can appreciate this is good vs. radiation and cancer, isn't it also a hindrance to evolution?

[@duncanw9901]

Grey is a bad unit imo

[@sobreaver]

*hearing that kid's UGH meme sound* or the Tardigrades, that can resist ultimate pressures in the worst environment and conditions...

[@tompayne9813]

My dad grew up in southern New Mexico, and was up doing chores that morning. He thought the sun was coming up early since the whole eastern skyline lit up. Later he learned that it was an ammunition dump explosion... Later learned that it was the Atomic bomb.

[@siouxwarrior5396]

No joke I live only a few minutes from the site

[@siouxwarrior5396]

No joke I live only a few minutes from the site

[@GuderII]

Later he learned that his bone glowing

[@buttonasas]

@@GuderII Lacks flourescence and quantity, no glow literally, only figuratively.

[@Theinatoriinator]

shatters windows in abq, it is interesting to go there tho, went there and i realized halfway through that i was standing in a nuclear bomb crater, crazy what almost 70 years does, if fact i have picked up pieces of fallout.

[@alfadog67]

Thank you for making this video... I learned too much! Haha you had a cricket during the HBO Max portion! I got my cricket-hunting gear on before I paused the video to find it!

[@atomsmash100]

Kodak as a company is a shadow of what it once was, but in their day they were really amazing.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

How the mighty fall, lost the plot as to say

[@byufan]

Agreed. I moved to the Rochester area a couple of years ago and it’s incredible to see what an influence Kodak’s fall from grace has had on the Rochester community is honestly sad

[@carneliousjordanous4690]

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” ― Carl Sagan

[@jtc1947]

And all You need is one of the people to be insane or an idiot!

[@AsobiMedio]

@@jtc1947 The situation itself is already insane and idiotic.

[@TheSilmarillian]

There be truth in that hello from Australia we had the Marilinga test site here

[@kane4013]

Great quote from a great man.

[@0Clewi0]

@@jtc1947 not even that, we only needed to have one soviet soldier not being sceptical enough to follow common sense instead of orders.

[@maxliu6609]

Me: applying for a job Job requirements: be able to figure out nuclear state secrets using paper radiation

[@mattmarquicias4138]

well now you know it

[@maxwellsequation4887]

At least Bruh

[@kali5173]

i know i wasn't the only one who clicked expecting kodak black.

[@mscir]

LOL

[@geraldfrost4710]

You must build a computer with stone knives and bear skin rugs. By next week.

[@aaronparr7264]

I just saw this somehow but this has got to be one of the most consistently interesting and solid KZbin videos I’ve ever watched

[@AbLaV]

my favorite thing about videos like this is learning of all the horrible chemicals and particles that have ended up in my water, my food, my body, milk, etc. Love that

[@HVDynamo]

It makes you wonder about the things we aren't being told about that are happening now.

[@MrCelaneous]

A whole different reason for people born after 1945 to be called "boomers".

[@KPRMIK]

Soo... Basically what you are saying is that almost everyone who is alive is a boomer. Since what you said is that only people who were born before "1945" are not boomers ;)

[@net_Devil]

OK boomer

[@eddyk3]

​@@KPRMIK If I told you I had a relative that was was born after world war 2... would you assume them to be very young? Or quite old?

[@SerenityScratch]

eddyk well, logically it would be fair to assume you meant their birth would be close to ww2, that they were born just after ww2. But your comment is supposed to be a trick question because you’re trying to get someone to say “very old.” It’s actually quite dumb linguistically. When you mention ww2 you are referencing that time period according to your next statement as if they correlate in a similar sense. Technically, we’ve all been born after the titanic sank. But that statement is super redundant unless I’m referencing someone who was born right after the titanic sank and that is a significant part of their birth story.

[@MrCelaneous]

I really don't think the pun requires this level of analysis, but it actually is kind of funny that atmospheric nuclear testing happened from '45 to '63 and the baby boom is defined as '46 to '64. It's pretty close

[@jimmyzhao2673]

wow, that kodak scientist has better sleuthing skills than Columbo.

[@brianbarrett2487]

Dude would have made a solid spy

[@sminkycorp]

Just one more thing Mr Truman.......

[@hailgod1]

he literally worked on the project so he kind of knew what to look for

[@ehsan_kia]

American Sherlock

[@abubakrakram6208]

hailgod It’s surprising that someone who worked on the project ended up getting a job at Kodak.

[@atrayeebanerjee667]

Subscribed...you are the best content creator alive in KZbin..and dont stop and post more awesome videos..congratulations in advance.

[@MohammadAli-sg8bj]

thank yo so much for the detailed video, you sir have my upvote :)

[@ANDavis-lq6md]

"Some of you might die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make". -- The Government

[@NoxmilesDe]

"Some of you might die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make." - The Government

[@holdmybeer]

everyone dies

[@jeenius5882]

@@holdmybeerbut not today

[@aurelioramos8463]

fReEdOm isnT frEe!!

[@bobwhite137]

@@NoxmilesDe A corollary of: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help..."

[@Mindcreat0r]

I like how the US government was just like “yeah, we understand the whole ‘safety,’ ‘health,’ and ‘death’ thing, but if we put it here we can make weapon advancements faster. And that’s more important”

[@shahriarfardin777]

Wepon that's gonna protect democracy in middle east for israel

[@ruffxm]

I guess you'd rather be speaking Japanese, right? Many paid a price for your freedom - soldiers and civilians alike.

[@AwsOm3Fac3]

@@ruffxm I know I would

[@ruffxm]

Well too bad for you, we don’t. For an Asian, you certainly like a lot of Western culture. 日本に引っ越す

[@ThunderAppeal]

No one is paying attention to you. Neither on the internet nor at home. No one likes you. Stop breathing my air.

[@antbrown9066]

This is an enlightening and excellently executed presentation. Thank you Derek.

[@InventingNewWorld]

Kudos! This was extremely exciting to watch and despite my knowledge - I'm still finding some new facts fulfilling the gaps and connecting the dots. I admire people who have the strength in making loud statements. So if there is still some who believe there is no "conspiracy theory" - this video has show in details what is under the term of "American dream".

[@ricasiogaming7873]

Gov: it’s ok it was a large conventional explosion. Ppl: wait aren’t all explosions conventional? Gov: 👀

[@atomatopia1]

Just a little gov’t Freudian slip

[@B61Mod12]

that was fantastic Ricasio thank you.

[@B61Mod12]

@Uncle Nik did you not get the joke?

[@mihailmilev9909]

@Uncle Nik what did u say?

[@frankovich213]

@Uncle Nik Jeez, a couple of days go by and you're back to rude...

[@112048112048]

"How Kodak Exposed The Atomic Bomb" Well _technically_ it was the atomic bomb that exposed Kodak's film...

[@freds2150]

Well yes, but actually no.

[@KillerWhale806]

I literally clicked this video to find out how kodak filmed the atomic blasts. filming something that bright, on cameras in the 40s, and getting it right the first time has to be pretty difficult.

[@tdawg719]

@@KillerWhale806 that’s what I thought too. Like what filter they used and etc

[@eadfgergf5132]

Thi

[@czdaniel1]

@@KillerWhale806 -- Same!! i thought the video would be about how Kodak solved filming a nuclear explosion without the entire frame of film being a massively over-exposed white/black blob

[@passionfly1]

No wonder my grandpa had a thyroid problem. Very interesting video! Thank you for this information! This channel is amazing!

[@lll9416]

A very good friend of mine's father had this job of photographing nuclear explosion testing. He definitely died of cancer years later and received substantial settlement from the government. My point is he said that they wore eye "protection" of what would be the equivalent to welder's mask. I tried them on and looked directly at a noon day sun. It was barely a dim gleam in the sky. he said that when that bomb went off it was still brighter than day even when not looking at the blast!🤯

[@co9648]

7:29 "Radioactive material was blown into most of the country." Yeah, and into southern Canada. Kodak really underestimated how beneficial this lawsuit could have been.

[@liamoconnor74]

Kodak had a large plant in toronto at the time, I'm sure they were aware.

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

@@liamoconnor74 Nah, I'm sure under the radar they also got a nice settlement out of court. Unless you mean it would have been beneficial to civilian lives, in which case you're probably right, but your biggest mistake there is assuming they cared about that even back then. They were just concerned about their paper.

[@nqqbix6128]

beneficial? How so? How beneficial to KODAK would that lawsuit have been? Beneficial to the world? Sure To Kodak? Idk about that

[@mpmpm]

@@nqqbix6128 "Beneficial to the world? Sure. To Kodak? Idk about that" They could've got billions out of it, to prevent them telling the public. But of course, if they would've asked so much money, then people working at Kodak would die because they would be killed by the government, to shut them up.

[@AndreVandal]

No, no, the map in the video clearly shows that the radiation stopped abruptly at the border. Canadians are just that good. :)

[@johndc2998]

I must have watched this video 10x over the past couple years, amazing.

[@caiolinnertel8777]

Great video. Being a boomer I always wondered what happened to all that fallout. Thanks!

[@johnxsantos]

All the 2 headed rabbits Iv'e seen living in Nevada make so much sense now.

[@musicalmercy5204]

wait, really?

[@blazarchzagnatz7506]

The first Jackalopes were seen a bit after the Trinity test.

[@amrfwws4461]

Is this sarcastic or is it fact?

[@blazarchzagnatz7506]

@@amrfwws4461 Yes.

[@alantasman8273]

@@amrfwws4461 The video showed a cartoon two headed rabbit...LOL

[@thenaturesystem]

Government: where can we bomb so that people are safe? Scientists: go as far east as possible Government: west it is then! Scientists: 👁👄👁

[@AngryApple]

Yeah and the scientist still ignored what will happen to europe or other countries across the ocean. Nice job

[@tn15_]

"I went so far east that I ended up west" - US Government, probably

[@SmashhoofTheOriginal]

East? I thought you said Weast

[@insightfultoaster2965]

@@AngryApple The Atlantic ocean is pretty big.

[@UDumFck]

I get the humor but still the best option. The East is way too densely populated. Where, specifically, would you do this? Second, this was the Cold War and the US would not want Soviet "fishing trawlers" in the Atlantic to get so much data.

[@ronaryel6445]

Underground tests were left out of the 1963 Test Ban Treaty for a couple of reasons - first because the countries with nuclear deterrence did not want to completely give that up, and second because of the difficulty of detecting and characterizing underground tests, leaving a ban on underground tests unenforceable. The development of Fast Fourier Transforms for signal processing means that, today, we can detect and characterize such explosions.

[@rhythmdroid]

The graphics in this one are TOP NOTCH. Love the vibe.

[@liviousgameplay1755]

That was an agreement? Government: How about, INSTEAD of we lose money, you shut up for free and we'll tell you when you need to shut up for free. Kodak: ok o.o

[@CanariasCanariass]

Thought the same lol. They got nothing out of that "agreement" lol.

[@devendrabaskey1]

Seriously

[@A____G]

@@CanariasCanariass well they got the ability to plan their logistics around the tests. That way they wouldn't lose any more money on damaged product. On top of that, they get to help a vital government program stay secret.

[@DerLamer]

US Gov: "Here are our terms. Only a commie wouldn't agree to them. Are you a commie, Kodak?"

[@cdorcey1735]

@@DerLamer Kodak probably sold a ton of film and paper to the US Government to document its scientific research, and if the U-2 needed some special film for high altitude photo-reconnaissance, I'll be Kodak could come up with it at a profitable price point.

[@TheoWerewolf]

I like how the contamination map "ends" at the US border with Canada because hey - not the US' problem right?

[@atlas8827]

who cares about mooseland?

[@JG-mp5nb]

Seriously.

[@RuminatingWizard]

Maple America

[@robertboerwinkle8577]

Well, sending people to test for radioactive material in Canada would be kind of suspicious, but yeah, still not cool.

[@raisincaine0]

Lol

[@RickyJr46]

An excellent presentation here, thanks!

[@ChristianSkifter]

tthank you for reccommending Raised by wolves...

[@erg0centric]

9:00 very kind of the US government to stop the fallout from crossing the Canadian border

[@giggleherz]

Yes and the weather in Canada is always the same, our border even stops storms.

[@connorstohl6050]

Those Canadians and their Moose walls.

[@schmoborama]

@@connorstohl6050 we're building a much bigger one now... and you're going to pay for it, lol

[@schmoborama]

@@connorzoesch9087 you've got to be kidding me - it's the arrogance and bigotry that you've just displayed that makes us want a wall, plus the fact that you're intentionally turning into a 3rd world country as well

[@Phil8sheo]

@@schmoborama Americans wanting a wall on the Mexican border is bigotry, but you wanting a wall blocking us off is not.

[@samlachance1]

For a split second, I confess I was asking myself why they'd dismantled the tower... I need coffee...

[@coaltowking]

Don't worry. I'm right there with you.

[@davidvanderbrook3988]

It actually fused with the bomb material and formed a new element trinintie. Another nuclear test launched a manhole cover into space. Well in theory at least it most likely vaporized first.

[@salemas5]

@@davidvanderbrook3988 at those speeds it probbably burned up from friction with atmo

[@thecompanioncube4211]

It was literally evaporated in that explosion

[@davidvanderbrook3988]

it might have fused to the bomb material and made trinitite. That's what happened to the tower in the trinity test. I have a piece of it. It's really cool.

[@kayezdee]

I wish Nolan had included the content matter of this video in Oppenheimer. There is no justifying the horrors & aftermath of what Oppenheimer started, and this would've left people with a much larger & closer-to-home impact of the proceedings in the film.

[@DamienWins]

Just what I needed this morning.. Goosebumps and more conspiracy. LOVE IT!

[@historywithanaccent4967]

The worse is only knowing how many "nuclear secrets of the past" we don't know yet.

[@albertross9028]

Atomic Soldiers. Their stories are awesome and truly horrifying.

[@elevown]

not many with nuclear explosions- because its kinda hard to keep em a secret! At least since we built all the detection stations decades ago.

[@EnrichedPu]

@@elevown is right. You may want to have a look to this too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpK9aHyHe9aDr6M

[@F22onblockland]

@@elevown Israel: Allow me to not introduce myself.

[@elevown]

@@F22onblockland doesnt matter who it is or WHERE they test a nuclear bomb. for decades we have had detection stations at the north pole. they pick up the shock waves and other stuff nuclear bomsb ALL HAVE to make when detonated- just because of their power. israel or anyone else can not detonate a nuke underground without it being detected. and surface or water tests are even easier to detect.

[@SrslySylli]

"There's something wrong with this picture." Oh, snap! The US Senate making jokes in a report about nuclear fallout and Kodak film. 😂

[@nagualdesign]

Hah! I missed that one. Very good.

[@shoam2103]

Pun intended

[@CaveyMoth]

Kodak almost...EXPOSED them.

[@nagualdesign]

@@CaveyMoth _Ba-dum-bum tsshh!_

[@vanessa18f.u..e0nyic7]

🖤❣

[@charlenetrawick1647]

thank you, very interesting - and thought provoking share ;)

[@Fratananical]

Your channel is one I can recommend to any and all without hesitation. You are doing good. If there's a heaven, you're in.

[@MarkoDeMarko]

Never knew the song Radioactive was so accurate: "I feel it in my bones. Enough to make my systems blow. Welcome to the new age."

[@SahilP2648]

Holy crap 0_0

[@logancapes]

Wow, is that what that meant?

[@Dappersworth]

@@logancapes now that they mention it, probably

[@BriskkFX]

Never thought about this

[@Theinatoriinator]

@@Dappersworth probably because the Nevada tests, they would never do when the wind was blowing towards las Vegas, only when blowing toward Utah which is where i think the imagine dragons band people grew up, and there are still people affected. my grandmothers friend died due to fallout from those tests.

[@JasonDBike]

When the truth is scarier than the conspiracies.

[@RoseDingus]

tends to be yeah

[@martiddy]

Always has been

[@Par6731]

I don't see how earth being flat is scarier than conspiracies

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

It seems you don't know what the word "conspiracy" means. The misnomer, "conspiracy theory" gets (mis-)used so often, people don't even know what those words mean anymore. A conspiracy is simply two or more people agreeing to commit a crime together. There are many real conspiracies, but also many FANTASIES (not theories) about conspiracies.

[@martiddy]

@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself wtf?, where did you get that definition from?

[@user-ml4xh9fh7q]

Yup I'm from that area where the engineering school is in NYS where the scientists recorded the high level of radiation. They actually evacuated the building because they thought there was a leak somewhere. Until they got outside and got the same readings. Read that in the local paper some time ago. Very interesting story.

[@halfacyc8187]

It took me two years to realise the pun in the title. Kudos, Derek.

[@Rotem_S]

"There is something wrong with this picture" is such a great sentence

[@BAGG8BAGG]

do you reckon the pun was intended? :p

[@RC_Engineering]

Yeah that hit so hard I let out an audible WHOOOAAA.

[@Neojhun]

@@BAGG8BAGG More like a Jab at Kodak the photographic / technology juggernaut of it's time.

[@PeterSeverinRasmussen]

Must have been radiation dots on his mental film.

[@NarkarBros]

This information is deep. Thanks for making such brilliant videos.

[@marcanthonyreyes]

And now Kodak developed the film for Oppenheimer-a full circle moment.

[@1Lightx]

Oh he wasnt talkin about kodak black? ☠️

[@carlstanland5333]

“And a characteristic of the organism is altered.” Shows a bunny with two heads.

[@jangxx]

The universal sign of "nothing to worry about".

[@jannemakela8107]

Completely normal phenomona

[@H3x4r35]

_[a brahmin is mooing at you]_

[@sylv256]

not the entire organism is altered; just a few cells. ok, you can woosh me now.

[@Rouverius]

Vault Boy thumbs up!

[@drdonut2564]

Fun fact: When you perform Carbon-14 dating measurements nowadays, you still have to correct for the increased levels of radiation from these tests from the 1960s.

[@hrogarfyrninga3238]

Visited a lab a couple of years back. They said they measure negative ages on young trees before they account for radiation levels.

[@snehilkumar10]

what about countries other than US?

[@-smp-scientificmethodpersp838]

That is a fun fact indeed

[@austin523mexico]

@@snehilkumar10 I dont have a good answer but we have found radioactive isotopes in the marianas trench; the deepest point of the ocean.

[@Otgel]

@@snehilkumar10 radiation is everywhere man, when it lands it just gets swept back up and travels to the next country

[@olimpather]

I just watched Destin's video on how Kodak makes films and finished watch that amazing video. I'd recommend watching that one. And this video which the KZbin Algorithm recommended Kodak the same company that Destin talked about was involved with this Atomic Bomb stuff. Kodak's history is truly very wild.

[@mr.dikkens]

love those animations

7:29 I like how the fallout respects borders and doesn't enter Canada.

[@dingming4302]

... no data was collected from the Canada side...

[@mihirkagalkar8349]

@@dingming4302 r/whoosh

[@mangotango4529]

Mihir Kagalkar thanks for doing that so I don’t have to

[@gobblinal]

Very convenient that ....

[@eddyk3]

@@mihirkagalkar8349 You'd be surprised at how many conspiracy theorists that are on youtube. Even I can't tell if the OP is serious or joking anymore. For example conspiracy theory that I kept seeing was that the recent forest fires stopped at the Canada border... www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2020/09/15/wildfires-dont-stop-at-the-canadian-borderdebunking-the-latest-twitter-myth/

[@jeffreybobeck9809]

The chemistry and physics knowledge that Kodak had acquired over the years is phenomenal. When digital cameras arrived, I always though that the Kodak built sensors produced the best color.

[@lisamoag6548]

Kodachrome gives the nice bright colors, gives you the green of summer, makes you think a the world’s a summer day. Rhyming Simon

[@TheChipmunk2008]

@@lisamoag6548 DAMMIT EARWORM

[@lisamoag6548]

@@TheChipmunk2008 oh yah

[@Slevin-Kelevra]

The ironic thing is they invented the digital camera.

[@lisamoag6548]

@@TheChipmunk2008 “ skipping down the cobblestone, looking for love and feelin groovy”

[@AlfredoElizondoLife]

I came to revisit this video after watching Oppenheimer today. Sad thing what they unleashed for the upcoming years.

[@Iron_Monkey]

High quality video. Impressive.

[@BrokenRRT]

My grandmother was a secretary for a general in the 1940’s. She witnessed Trinity in person as well as a test in the Pacific a year later. She gave birth to my mother just over a month prior to Trinity. My grandmother died from cancer at the age 41. My mother developed cancer in her early 40s as well.

[@Illuminandi_]

RIP. They're in a better place now.

[@pahom2]

A lesson: do not work for the government

[@franciscorojas8088]

I'm sorry to hear that

[@calculator4482]

So you are next.

[@hazmatbp]

@@calculator4482 Read the room man, that's really not the right response to this

[@bobjoatmon1993]

My grandfather was a carpenter who built structures that were used to tests blast effects during the above ground tests. He witnessed multiple tests at fairly close ranges (told me his crew was 6 or 7 miles from explosions several times) and they had dust from explosions cover them too. They were close so they could go in with the scientists right after the tests and evaluate the damage and work on moving any wreckage so it could all be examined. Yet he lived to 92 and died of heart failure so the dice of radiation damage landed lucky for him.

[@pazz1038]

My grandfather did the same and he died of cancer in his 50s.

[@heh2393]

@@pazz1038 May both rest in peace

[@videogyar2]

Some people are more resistant to radiation than others. There are people who smoke a pack or two cigarettes a day for decades and they still don't get cancer.

[@skuyzy198]

@@videogyar2 No, that's utter nonsense. Nobody is more resistant to radiation. Some people are, however, less likely to get cancer.

[@jordaneggerman4734]

@@skuyzy198 I believe he meant "susceptible", as is true with everything else; some people are more *susceptible* to radiation.

[@legacygamer3234]

This is like a video you would watch at 3 am. Pretty interesting

[@drboyjoy1463]

Y r you making me so much smarter?! Bless you

[@TrabberShir]

7:30 I love how the fallout in your map respects that national border...

[@farmminer4014]

Yeah ofc Canada didn't get any of it

[@OrangeC7]

@@farmminer4014 The fallout tried crossing the border and Canada border patrol was like "Um excuse me where's you're passport?"

[@GreedPainLove]

That's why they wanted to detonate it close to the winds blowing towards mexico, because the border would've stopped it

[@AlexAegisOfficial]

They only have US data to work with

[@GreedPainLove]

@@AlexAegisOfficial Whoosh

[@KPH107]

I can just imagine the scientists. "We need baby teeth, for- uh- reasons." "Ok."

[@mapron1]

"Ok. How much of them? Two, maybe three?" "Yeah, 2-3 millions would be enough." "Wait. What."

[@puncheex2]

Thr program wasn't run by the government; it was started by an independent science panel in St Louis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Tooth_Survey

[@superdingo9741]

Do you really think it's just coincidence that The Tooth Fairy is part of the American culture? Now I suspect the fingernails4cash comercial wasn't just a joke, but there's something happening.

[@edward.doctor1892]

Operation Sunshine

[@ImFadedNoKap]

I’m over here thinkin Kodak Black interrupted some secret government plan😂💀I was like ain’t now way bruh.

[@SPIRONCRICKET]

3:26 im the cycle guy out there Im so lucky to be in the vid thnx for featuring me:)

[@Plunkcown]

to tell how old a person is you gotta cut open their bones and count the rings of strontium

[@vityamv]

or just ask them...

[@beactivebehappy9894]

It is not like dating in trees 😁😁

[@VictorKDurand]

the fact that it lies in the bones does not mean you have to cut them open to detect it, just like when we want to stop fever we're not removing your kidneys in order to achieve this goal. it can be detected because it emits specific particles (which can go through the tissues and out of the body)

[@Plunkcown]

@@vityamv no

[@joekent6576]

Oh I get it...How Kodak "exposed" the atomic bomb. Clever.

[@chriskiwi9833]

I am so thick. I didn’t get it until I read this comment…

[@CopaPianist]

I actually thought this was going to be a video about Kodak developing images of the nuclear test, but this was actually a much better video and the "exposure" was not what I thought it would be.

[@matthewcoetzee3413]

@@chriskiwi9833 me ✌🏻

[@chm1701]

@@CopaPianist. Exactly what I thought. I was thinking and wondering about who made the videos of said atomic blasts, thinking it was Kodak.

[@brycehoch2963]

It took almost a full year but a hero guided us to the correct understanding

[@dangoldbach6570]

Kodak is FAR more than a film company. They are masters of the minute details. Quality control at it's finest.

[@marypasco2213]

Have been to (reportedly) this place called ‘Ground Zero’. Early 1990’s. Absolutely nothing there, at that time, but a very tall tower, that looked like an old oil derrick, and a set of bleachers. Even though there was, basically, nothing there, I still thought it fascinating.

[@cavalrycome]

0:43 And Fermi, Feynman, Oppenheimer, and von Neumann ALL died of cancer.

[@ThePoshboy1]

For what it's worth Oppenheimer was a chain-smoker and died of throat cancer probably due to that.

[@ZeteticPhilosopher]

ThePoshBoy 1 And a lot of these guys were experimenting with radiation in ways that would seem unthinkable dangerous today. The bombs alone probably wouldn’t have had so large an impact on so few. The additional deaths caused by radiation poisoning this minute probably only appear on the scale of hundreds of thousands or millions.

[@ThePoshboy1]

@@ZeteticPhilosopher I know, I'm just being pedantic.

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

In the proud tradition of the Curies.

[@Abish_]

@@MakeMeThinkAgain 😆😂

[@ThePurestOnes]

Kodak done did it again. He finna get another 30 years

[@flwfranco2821]

😂

[@blah596]

Underrated comment

[@ThePurestOnes]

@@blah596 thank you bro, noticed no funny comments bout what everybody was thinking about (kodak). took action myself. let's get this comment to the top

[@LJG_582]

Some let him drive the boat

[@samtexsemtex6998]

Lmaoo

[@lspdfrisawesome8972]

I live in NM and have been to Trinity, it's pretty surreal.

[@Volundur9567]

Mad respect for that criticism and the sheer amount of puns used in that statement.

[@Nazareadain]

"There's something wrong with this picture." I didn't know we were in comedy court.

[@kasdjkfghalksjdhg]

Is there any other kind?

[@sleepycritical6950]

It was easy to spot the signs I guess...

[@Azerkeux]

render @aceCourtBot

[@cloudstrike97]

"Kangaroo court"

[@dikshyantyadav3923]

"Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap." - Albert Einstein

[@binsoy1995]

Aren't humans just a wonderful species?

[@777Skeptic]

I dunno, man. I bet some mice have sadistic personalities and would construct a mousetrap if they could.

[@nestoregerenio7841]

If you had a large population of mice with different factions with conflicting interests, and one of the factions knew the others were building a mouse trap able to give them total hegemony of all the other mice factions you bet they'd start building a trap too. You see the problem lies when you aren't sure that the others are building one or not: should you believe your enemy or beat them to developing the mousetrap? tldr: this analogy is pretty stupid

[@tokas-kb6rb]

Education f*%ked us all up

[@alantasman8273]

@@nestoregerenio7841 We do not want a mouse trap gap.

[@inter-linked]

Nice work.

[@incredibleprojects]

Sad to know raised by wolves was cancelled- it was such a great show

[@thanhavictus]

"There's something wrong with this picture" is such a poetic and fitting critique from the congressman. I dont know if that was intentional, but it's beautiful.

[@SacredDaturana]

Almost certainly intentional, imo.

[@anirvana]

Almost everything that is done by politicians is intentional.

[@werds1392]

Anirban Pramanick That is very wise advice, and it is so true. I will remember this. Thanks!

[@VejmR]

What minute?

[@msimon6808]

The Cong Critter was to some extent wrong. Bodies are self repairing. Film is not.

[@ColAlbSmi]

Makes me look at my Dad's odd quirks differently knowing that he was drinking radioactive milk as a kid.

[@mayn90s19]

It's still radioactive lol just a different kind

[@Ssgmfs]

u killed me

[@-danR]

Quirks. Like glowing in the dark? "My dad's brighter than your dad..."

[@JJ-iy7rk]

Mexico also hot radioactive milk contaminated from Chernobyl, lots of kids died of cancer

[@yakub3962]

@@JJ-iy7rk >mexico >Milk contaminated from Chernobyl Y'all import milk from half way across the world? Because if you caught cancer from Chernobyl then Europe would basically be a Doom2016 reenactment

[@anchalsharma]

Wow. Very informative

[@jamesmcpherson1590]

Just pointing out an apparent error. At 2:36 Derek mentions "a batch manufactured on August 06, 1945 started to cause spots to appear on the X-ray film." Since it is unlikely that the spots were cause by the Hiroshima bomb, I think he meant to say "a batch manufactured on July 16,1945".

[@evmanbutts]

Being a hobbyist photographer, I sort of expected this to be about how Kodak took a picture of an atomic bomb test. However what was presented is much more interesting.

[@benweieneth1103]

I had the same thought, assuming something about layers of lead and time-delays for sealing the exposed film with more lead until they could be handled and developed.

[@QuintBUILDs]

C'mon KZbin algorithm, I'm subscribed to Veritasium but Destin had to tell me to watch this via twitter?!!! Shameful...

[@antivanti]

Do you look in your subscriptions? I gave up a long time ago trying to keep track of subscriptions using youtube itself. I just add all the channels I care about as feeds in Feedly.com instead. Works amazingly!

[@legoNerd01245]

You must be new to KZbin

[@laurenpinschannels]

that's with the bell is for

[@darkpheonix77]

Yeah I'm super and didn't see it for 3 days.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

I have the bell enabled and still I got info about this video just today. Now is 20th day and this video was released in 16th.

[@nbtdee4615]

I don't know why I thought the title meant Kodak Black.

[@user9b2]

Most educational video 👍👍

[@strawbertie]

"There is something wrong with this picture." I see what you did there...

[@MonteCarloVA]

Hahaha nice

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

Ah, they just don't teach poetic rhetoric like that anymore.

[@fuzzyplasmacat6357]

@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself they never did, except in particularly wealthy institutions

[@ThanatoselNyx]

@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself did you see the speech in England. "Britannia rules the waves, Britannia waives the rules"

[@dryued6874]

Oh. I get it. Took me a while.