Baker Test

[puncheex]

For lots and lots of fun trivia or enraging facts, depending on your outlook, see the wiki article on "Crossroads Baker". Among others, some 10 lbs of Plutonium was the chief contaminant, but it's radiation can't be detected by a Geiger counter. Adm. Blandy called off decontam efforts after ten days when PU was detected in his own cabin. Radio-sodium was the largest gamma ray emitter. Traditional naval cleaning was found to be ineffective for decontamination.

[mistycusa1]

song name?

[Antinationalism]

Wow, and according to the bible it's going to be worser times than this in the future! nationalism is doomed haha

[retepvosnul]

That weird old book ? Nah, it is a ancient silly story.

[Kriegerdammerung]

Desarme nuclear mundial ya!

Unarmed nuclear weapons in entire world now!

[adamperedo]

I wonder if they could create tsunamis with underwater bombs like that.

Maybe all the recent tidal waves killing thousands of people have been government tests?

[Horse125]

No, not substantial ones anyway. Earthquakes large enough to produce tsunamis of significant sizes release energy many times the amount of energy that any nuclear weapon releases.

[PabloakaChuck360]

Tsar bomb created a 5 degree ritcher scale earthquake and that bomb was detonated in mid air. They said that if they detonated it on the ground, they would have got a huge earthquake, capable of causing destructive tremors in Europe, all the way from Russia....

[MultiStellato]

@PabloakaChuck360

[puncheex]

@PabloakaChuck360: "They" shouldn't be listened to. If it had detonated under ground, so all the energy went into shaking rock, it would have been equivalent to a 7.1 Richter earthquake, which happen about two per month normally. In fact, without the atmospheric effects it would have been less destructive than it was, breaking windows 900 km away.

[PabloakaChuck360]

Haven't thought of that....

[puncheex]

@adamperedo: No. Tsunamis are created by great masses of water (measured in cubic km of water) being displaced permanently. This caused just a quick wave which extended outward perhaps ten miles before dissipating completely. Blasts like this create what is known by engineers as an "impedance mis-match" with the ocean, and little of the total energy is transferred. Better would be to raise or lower the floor of the ocean 15 feet over tens of square km. Also, this happened inside a lagoon.

[10percentCharlie]

isnt this the begining of godzilla?

[Joaquin602001]

They used this as stock footage for the opening of Godzilla.

Fun fact: if you know what to look for, you can see the aircraft carrier Saratoga getting blasted. ;)

[puncheex]

@Joaquin602001: More spectacular is, in the footage above, there is a dark streak on the right side of the vertical water column. that's believed to be the battleship Arkansas, upended. It sank immediately. The Saratoga was lifted 30 feet vertically but survived, only to sink eight hours later.

[treehugs56]

big wave... good 4 surfing probably

[MrAnderson1985]

I wonder, with the amount of bombs we've tested globally, what adverse effects they might have had on the planet.

[Moredread25]

That black line in the explosion at 18 seconds on the right - thats a battleship.

[adlmgs]

beautiful..... i hope u just mean beautiful = spectacular

u should never forget that this is a weapon of mass destruction

[silentfighter2]

holy bacon!!!!

Want to see an ATOM BOMB CANON?? than watch my vid...

[mochomo007]

woow, that was amazing

[alaingoldman]

it hurts

[BogTrotter101]

best nuke ever

[harhainen]

whoa! NICE :D

[ADHDtweaker]

ahahh yea USA USA .. don fuck with us or we'll nuke ya bitch ASS!!!

[spassty]

ohh men!!!

[chosen1one87]

y do we need big bomb

[dolmadakia]

good job... time to die now...

[mjayjay]

This is why global warming is goin down bitches

[amirlenas]

bapak ahh...cool but destroying

[ruladrise]

u know wut happened wid these guuys after explosing ? they had genetic problems they died within 24h

[chrislawless]

does that mean they never got to see the premier

[marauderrt10]

Do you realise that no one was aboard those ships. Honestly people, We didnt invent the Atom bomb, THe germans did, but that god they didnt listen to that Woman scientist or we would all be enslaved by that pig. Nuclear fission is the way of the future. One nitrogen atom is capible of 1,606,608,000,000 Joules of energy, put it this way, 1 stick of dynamite is 1000 joules so you can get the idea of how immense this is.

[puncheex]

@marauderrt10: Oh, man, what book did you read?  Germany tried to start a bomb effort, but it was undermined by Hitler and Speer, who wanted something NOW. They never got beyond a subcritical heavy water reactor.

The woman scientist was, I assume, Lise Meitner, a Jewish Austrian, who left Germany right after the Anschluss. She did great work but never spoke out.

A single nitrogen atom, completely converted to energy, would be .00000014 joule. You're 19 orders of magnitude off.

[SzodaMester]

best explosion ever !

[slayer4445]

ahhh i watched that show it was called trinity or something

[track000]

incredible

[terminajeu]

omg!!!!