My father was the communications officer on this mission. He was executive officer on the Norton Sound and was responsible for relaying the countdown from the USS Ethan Allen to the rest of the fleet. This is a big deal. This is the first and only time since Hiroshima and Nagsaki that a deployable nuclear weapon was tested or deployed. All other atomic tests were of warheads not deployable weapons.
Very spectacular effects; the ASROC in particular was very aesthetically pleasing. These weapons, although deadly, produced some unbelievably amazing sights, a "deadly beauty" indeed.
@Spionsilver Cancer is a collective term used to describe a bunch unrelated diseases. I hope you don't think that the nuclear age is/was in any way related to the origins of diseases we call cancer... Cancers of all types existed long before a bomb ever went off, whether we knew it or not. So has radiation.
Well lets see...The system was designed to destroy a submarine carrying 12 to 20 nuclear missiles targeted on American cities before it could launch those missiles. Hmmm...Prevent nuclear destruction of American cities or nuclear blackmail of the nation...Does that qualify as vital? Gee, I'm just not sure if potentially millions of American lives or the nations continued independence really qualifies a weapon to be called "vital" or not... Certainly not "vital" from the Soviet perspective...
space time! What the fuck.. there was an element of uncertainty about oxygen in the atmosphere would catch fire.. hø hø.. but no thoughts of space or time..
Goddamn US fucking military, what if the first nuke bomb had ripped a hole in space time, they could of ended all of humanity. There's a lot of shit science even now just does not know.
@cobrachoppergirl The first nuclear explosion was in 1945. The science was good - the very best minds in the world worked on that thing. The energy in a nuclear bomb is a tiny fraction of what happens in the sun every nanosecond, so if spacetime was going to get ripped by that the universe wouldn't exist. There's a lot of shit talked by people who nothing about science.
One aspect of the test not shown in this film were the 3 or 4 submarine simulators placed at various depths and distances from the blast. The duplicated then current submarine construction and were intended to represent potential damage to a sub, and ways to improve survivability. Hung from rafts, they contained cameras and instruments. There is a brief segment of film from inside one of these in the movie Trinity And Beyond.
when i know the position of the sub why use a nuke and if i dont know why waste a nuke? nuke are realy expensiv! what are nukes good for? make a giant mist?
there was a stategic to destroy subs by nuking the hole see. the both states try to build enugh nukes for this use, but together the had only 80000, (one nuke clear 20 squaremiles) whitch was enugh for the golf of mexico;))) the american stop this program closly to this tests. the russian... want tell.
Yeah.. and at 3:28 you can clearly see the best encryption protocol meant sending a freakin note on a string.. That's like replacing your iPhone with a can/string link comms system. YET we were messing with nukes.. Nice..
Just imagine the world today if all that science had went into something more productive..
@texNoz All that science DID go to something more productive. How do you think that you got microwave ovens, computers, mobile phones, electronic ignition in your car, optical fiber, etc, etc, etc. The most important thing that all military projects do is to pay for and develop new technologies that are then transfered to private industry for practical more purposes.
@dougmahone it amazes me how ignorant people are. they really have no clue how the world today has benefited from all the defense spending of the last 70 yrs. all of the electronic devices today owe its existence to defense spending. its what made integrated circuits possible. i can't imagine someone walking around with a vacuum tube ipod. i know....what is a vacuum tube?? no its not an attachment to your vacuum cleaner! geezzzzzzzzzzz
@sw8741 Of course there would have been no other way it could have been produced, all of man's achievements are the fruits of war, we should all blow up the world with the latest weapons so that we might advance as a race. Any more doomsday worship you might be able to drum up for us?
@lovinit19791 well it would stop the spill, I don't think that is the next option but the last. At that point we would need to weigh which option is worse, and i believe the Nuclear option has less worse consequences.
@Forrestman69 You'd have a radioactive ocean shore inhabitable to most life at sea and land. But you'd have a really big cloud to stop global warming.
the world isnt scared of americans simply becuse america has made alliances with many other countries to help in the two wars that we are in, afghanistan and iraq
The world is not scared of the US anymore, they have forgotten the level of destruction that the US is capable of. The people who are our enemies now do not remember what this country did in WWII, but I think that the US could still do total war again if it becomes necessary.
I suppose you think the Russians never did any damage to the environment in the arms race? Because think again. They've caused far more devastation and disease than the US did. And besides, both sides were trying to defend themselves against the threat of extinction. Let's also not forget that France is the one still testing nuclear weapons today, while the US hasn't for decades. Might want to actually use your brain when you post next time. :)
My father was the communications officer on this mission. He was executive officer on the Norton Sound and was responsible for relaying the countdown from the USS Ethan Allen to the rest of the fleet. This is a big deal. This is the first and only time since Hiroshima and Nagsaki that a deployable nuclear weapon was tested or deployed. All other atomic tests were of warheads not deployable weapons.
watermelonbeast 2 hours ago
Better we nuked ourselves then, today world would be a much better place ...
fuck4freei 9 hours ago
Teenagers playing with explosives, young and stupid, at least we have passed that and haven't killed ourselves.
saultube44 1 month ago
Very spectacular effects; the ASROC in particular was very aesthetically pleasing. These weapons, although deadly, produced some unbelievably amazing sights, a "deadly beauty" indeed.
ralucagymnast 1 month ago
Possibly it could drip a hole into space/time? :-)
Ooops. No, that's my coffee percolator.
daveeyes 4 months ago
"Impossible"
JetMechMA 5 months ago
anybody wonders where lung breast vaginal prostate stomach skin blood or any other sort of cancer is coming from..
Spionsilver 5 months ago
@Spionsilver Cancer is a collective term used to describe a bunch unrelated diseases. I hope you don't think that the nuclear age is/was in any way related to the origins of diseases we call cancer... Cancers of all types existed long before a bomb ever went off, whether we knew it or not. So has radiation.
dantheman9758 4 months ago
0:42 epic propellerhead
vanvalldrey 6 months ago 8
@vanvalldrey Haha... I lol'd
mechanizmz 5 months ago
Well lets see...The system was designed to destroy a submarine carrying 12 to 20 nuclear missiles targeted on American cities before it could launch those missiles. Hmmm...Prevent nuclear destruction of American cities or nuclear blackmail of the nation...Does that qualify as vital? Gee, I'm just not sure if potentially millions of American lives or the nations continued independence really qualifies a weapon to be called "vital" or not... Certainly not "vital" from the Soviet perspective...
Howard12T 6 months ago
we may be clever enought to design it , but i dont think we are clever enough not to use it --- Steven Hawkings
kon007nic 6 months ago
I wonder why we have a huge hole in our ozone layer!!!!
tango5five1 6 months ago
successful from the bla bla bla view... ram it into your ass...
greatestdirector 7 months ago
Why is the narrator drowning? :o
zwilliamsdev 7 months ago 2
A "VITAL" anti-submarine weapon??? To call a weapon "vital" is sick...
paulrandig 8 months ago
The intro music at the beginning reminds me of some old fashion Disney cartoon lol
dnlcast2 9 months ago
Asroc was epic
Aspire198 9 months ago
That could rip hole in space time.Better be careful.....
2bullitt 10 months ago
I love the happy music at the beginning.
SchmittyRKD 11 months ago
space time! What the fuck.. there was an element of uncertainty about oxygen in the atmosphere would catch fire.. hø hø.. but no thoughts of space or time..
olesensteffan 1 year ago 2
Goddamn US fucking military, what if the first nuke bomb had ripped a hole in space time, they could of ended all of humanity. There's a lot of shit science even now just does not know.
cobrachoppergirl 1 year ago
@cobrachoppergirl The first nuclear explosion was in 1945. The science was good - the very best minds in the world worked on that thing. The energy in a nuclear bomb is a tiny fraction of what happens in the sun every nanosecond, so if spacetime was going to get ripped by that the universe wouldn't exist. There's a lot of shit talked by people who nothing about science.
GRAHAMAUS 1 year ago 8
@GRAHAMAUS NOOOOOO!!!!!! THE FIRST TIME IT WAS USED IN WAR WAS in 1945 THE MANHATTON PROJECT WAS BEFORE THAT!!!!!!!
dafrickinchicken 5 months ago
@cobrachoppergirl
Rip a hole in space-time?
You know NOTHING about science of any kind do you?
Our sun undergoes fusion and fission at energies FARRRRR lower then we've achieved with weapons. and the sun is a small star to boot.
Damn kids thinking they can just say whatever they want without having any clue
mdma4life 11 months ago 25
@cobrachoppergirl It would have done as intended, end the war.
supressorgrid 8 months ago
americans live to kill anybody
marsL001 1 year ago
One aspect of the test not shown in this film were the 3 or 4 submarine simulators placed at various depths and distances from the blast. The duplicated then current submarine construction and were intended to represent potential damage to a sub, and ways to improve survivability. Hung from rafts, they contained cameras and instruments. There is a brief segment of film from inside one of these in the movie Trinity And Beyond.
orangelion03 1 year ago
when i know the position of the sub why use a nuke and if i dont know why waste a nuke? nuke are realy expensiv! what are nukes good for? make a giant mist?
there was a stategic to destroy subs by nuking the hole see. the both states try to build enugh nukes for this use, but together the had only 80000, (one nuke clear 20 squaremiles) whitch was enugh for the golf of mexico;))) the american stop this program closly to this tests. the russian... want tell.
its not only an american way! if ken
hansballaballa 1 year ago
Yeah.. and at 3:28 you can clearly see the best encryption protocol meant sending a freakin note on a string.. That's like replacing your iPhone with a can/string link comms system. YET we were messing with nukes.. Nice..
Just imagine the world today if all that science had went into something more productive..
texNoz 1 year ago
@texNoz All that science DID go to something more productive. How do you think that you got microwave ovens, computers, mobile phones, electronic ignition in your car, optical fiber, etc, etc, etc. The most important thing that all military projects do is to pay for and develop new technologies that are then transfered to private industry for practical more purposes.
dougmahone 5 months ago
@dougmahone it amazes me how ignorant people are. they really have no clue how the world today has benefited from all the defense spending of the last 70 yrs. all of the electronic devices today owe its existence to defense spending. its what made integrated circuits possible. i can't imagine someone walking around with a vacuum tube ipod. i know....what is a vacuum tube?? no its not an attachment to your vacuum cleaner! geezzzzzzzzzzz
sw8741 3 months ago
@sw8741 Of course there would have been no other way it could have been produced, all of man's achievements are the fruits of war, we should all blow up the world with the latest weapons so that we might advance as a race. Any more doomsday worship you might be able to drum up for us?
fudgetone 1 month ago
Back then people had their heads on right!
browneyes4 1 year ago
Anti-submarine weapon test. Foe subs we really really don't like.
orange70383 1 year ago
Let's Nuke the Site from Orbit."
rangeclerk 1 year ago
@rangeclerk 'Just to be sure...'
wwwunitednuclear 1 year ago
This is the Anti-HD
gavinjny 1 year ago
@gavinjny Back in the day they were just glad to have technicolor
cassius969 1 year ago 2
If they were real men, they'd surf that burst surge in the ASROC test. Thanks for posting! Amazing film.
TalksWithDirt 1 year ago
Im sure oppenheimer is still turning in his grave after developing this disgrace of a weapon.
Lets hope they dont use one of these on the oil spill eh ;p
lovinit19791 1 year ago
@lovinit19791 well it would stop the spill, I don't think that is the next option but the last. At that point we would need to weigh which option is worse, and i believe the Nuclear option has less worse consequences.
Forrestman69 1 year ago
@Forrestman69 You'd have a radioactive ocean shore inhabitable to most life at sea and land. But you'd have a really big cloud to stop global warming.
EmperorOfMars 1 year ago
i have always wondered what the world would be like if weapons one day suddenly stopped working.
purovenezolano14 2 years ago
Weapons like what? Since even our own hands and feet can be used as weapons to defend threat.
lfstweak420 2 years ago 4
Fists and teeth.
fiscornioman 1 year ago
@purovenezolano14
There'd be a lot more street crime for starters.
ChristophDollis 1 year ago
the world isnt scared of americans simply becuse america has made alliances with many other countries to help in the two wars that we are in, afghanistan and iraq
jayboogie146 2 years ago
The world is not scared of the US anymore, they have forgotten the level of destruction that the US is capable of. The people who are our enemies now do not remember what this country did in WWII, but I think that the US could still do total war again if it becomes necessary.
monkeyboy4746 2 years ago
Cancer Cancer
bluenail90 2 years ago 2
Thousands of man-days work for destroying the environment.. Americans = idiots.
nikos4free 2 years ago
I suppose you think the Russians never did any damage to the environment in the arms race? Because think again. They've caused far more devastation and disease than the US did. And besides, both sides were trying to defend themselves against the threat of extinction. Let's also not forget that France is the one still testing nuclear weapons today, while the US hasn't for decades. Might want to actually use your brain when you post next time. :)
RoninOtter 2 years ago 3
These guys are so cocksure,hanks"talkingstick"
stuartthegrant 3 years ago
= Enterprise, this is Za Atet
- Spock here
= Beam me up Spock.. I've had enough of these idiots!
ZaAtet 3 years ago