Newly declassified nuke videos

[Charmonium]

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-nuclear-explosion-youtube-videos-llnl-2017-3

Thousands of films of such blasts, made from 1945 through 1962, were analyzed and locked away in high-security vaults. It's likely no one has seen the footage for decades.

But on March 14, after more than 55 years of collecting dust, the US declassified 750 of the high-speed films — and released dozens of the digital scans on YouTube. We first heard about the movies from the writer Sarah Zhang on Twitter.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5

 

[KMFJD]

some of those explosions are insane

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Wow Hardtack-1 Redwood 52538 litterally blacked out the sky.

Operation Teapot - Turk 28112 is freaky too thinking about something like that coming at you.

 

[zinfamous]

mfl

 

[Charmonium]

The slo-mo ones are pretty amazing. It's just a shame that most are in black and white. The color ones give you a better sense of how huge these things were.

 

[SketchMaster]

I can only imagine how terrifying it must have been to see one of these in person.

 

[Ruptga]

Operation Teapot - Turk 28112 is freaky too thinking about something like that coming at you.

It's even freakier when you realize that Michael Bay is probably fapping to it right now.

 

[Humpy]

Those bombs must be stupid easy to build since they were able to accomplish it at a time when good video was apparently very difficult. It could be we're just really good at building bombs though. God gave us a gift, better not squander it.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Those bombs must be stupid easy to build since they were able to accomplish it at a time when good video was apparently very difficult. It could be we're just really good at building bombs though. God gave us a gift, better not squander it.

Have you seen NBA clips from like 2000-2007. They were all horrible quality.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Those bombs must be stupid easy to build since they were able to accomplish it at a time when good video was apparently very difficult. It could be we're just really good at building bombs though. God gave us a gift, better not squander it.

Bomb building had hundreds of years of innovation behind it by the time the atomic bomb was created. Pictures and video are still significantly less than 200 years old. The amount of time something has been known and developed often plays a huge role in its level of advancement.

 

[Anubis]

The slo-mo ones are pretty amazing. It's just a shame that most are in black and white. The color ones give you a better sense of how huge these things were.

 

[OutHouse]

yea crazy stuff.

in one attack, most major us cities were targeted to be hit 30+ times by the russians and visa versa.

 

[Paladin]

Yeah the timing for me is a little cool. 3 nights ago I was bored, browsing Google Maps, Hawaii, Johnston Atoll, Marshall Islands, Kwajalein (yeah, WTF is that isle doing there, workmate stationed there 15 yrs ago. look at it) and led to Bikini. Looking at the map there you can see the crater left by Castle Bravo (15 MT blast)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/1...!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d11.696954!4d165.272995?hl=en
Map marker shows Castle Koon test site, when led me to look up what a Castle Koon was - Part of Operation Castle, and a Krause-Ogle Box.

 

[Paladin]

And neighboring Enewetak, just west of Bikini. Where the first Hydrogen Bomb tests were done - Ivy Mike crater
https://www.google.com/maps/place/1...!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d11.666351!4d162.189082?hl=en

 

[RichUK]

Awesome

 

[John Connor]

Like another sun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jFQw78uzo&index=14&list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5

 

[John Connor]

Que the Terminator intro music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYbNlgQyz84&index=64&list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5