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  • The fact it was so destructive with a 15 kT warhead going off at only 500 feet off the ground shows how enormously destructive a Soviet attack on SAC headquarters at Bellevue, NE could have been.

    Imagine a 25 MT nuclear warhead from an R-36M (SS-18) missile over Offutt AFB at 500 feet off the ground (essentially zero altitude detonation). The blast and heat would probably have vaporized and flattened all of Omaha, NE and Council Bluffs, IA--and there would be very, very few survivors.

  • name of this documentary??

  • @funnymanseven Trinity And Beyond-The Atomic Bomb Movie. It's available on DVD.

  • thats how i cum.

  • How did they keep the cameras safe?

  • @Xxpaul516xX: yes, many of the top scientists involved in the Manhattan project were jewish refugees who had fled nazi germany and occupied countries. so you are technically correct.

  • @Xxpaul516xX: Actually, you're thinking about those two powers' space programs, to which German scientists *did* very much contribute.

    Some Germans might have helped the Soviets get "the bomb" by '49, but espionage is the more likely culprit. As it is, the U.S. nuclear weapons program had everything figured out well before Germany surrendered. The first device tested, Trinity, came about two months after V-E Day.

  • This was the second of only two gunbarrel type bombs ever detonated. The first was Little Boy, and they had roughly the same yield.

  • What a terrible thing to do to a few pigs... need proof that this will kill you 1km from the explosion? Pffff, scientists from the 60s huh.......

  • Hmmm, there's a noticeable frame break, or whatever you'd call it, just before the explosion. Methinks this was a big phony, just to pretend they had an atomic cannon.

  • @0CrazyIvan0 shut the fuck up

  • @joltzkrieg Suck my dick biatch

  • @0CrazyIvan0 That was done in the film this clip comes from. There's something like 20 seconds of silence before detonation in the real clip, due to the the travel time of the shell. All they did was edit out the time period where nothing happens from the firing of the shell to right before the detonation. As contrary to popular belief, neither bullets nor shells move at the speed of light. They still take time to travel. All they did was edit out the travel time.

  • @halo07guy2 There's nothing in the edited clip that would suggest "bullets or shells move at the speed of light", and I'm not scientifically illiterate, thank you very much. :p I just assumed the time up until the detonation was an estimate and the detonation was added when that time passed. Can you honestly tell me you would know better without seeing the original clip? Granted, I could have supposed there was an edit. I'm just cynical that way...

  • @halo07guy2

    popular believe? bullets or shells move at the speed of light?? wtf, who believes that?

  • What is the soundtrack playing in the background?

  • please, I want to know how far the vehicles and trees were the center of the explosion

  • What are those 3 things at 1:10? Are they holding live animals in there? The one on the left looks like a guinea pig.

  • @azertu2u2 i was thinking pigs, since they are so much like humans when it comes to bodily structure

  • @joltzkrieg and you actually think like one, probably smell like one too...

  • Imagine in there were tanks with these =0

  • If you want to learn about Nuclear Weapons watch "Trinity and Beyond" & "Nuclear 911"(the sequel). Adam West and William Shatner narrate them.

    History channel is fail.

    I was a big fan until they started pandering to the majority(idiots), and lost all credibility.

  • no one said it already?

    TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING!!!!!!!

  • Um... you would die....

  • @newfrankferger No shit sherlock?

  • I wanna stand next to a nuclear explosion, and see what it's like

  • yeah but put a sunblocker with light protectfactor 900 million on your body ... this will sure help O_o

    have fun being fried riped apart and turn tu dust O_O

    must be fun....

  • @MrTBSC It was a JOKE, dude.

  • @Fuhgawzzz dude .... i know -_-

  • @Fuhgawzzz No you didn't : )

  • @Fuhgawzzz Hahaa.. yes id like to see that. If your very close you would vanish leaving only a shadow behind. If further away your hope that the thermal heat will kill or if lucky the shockwave will by flying bits. If your unlucky your die a slow very slow and painful death which is similar to the advanced stages of AIDS. Mainly due to radioactivity doing away with your immune system.

  • @Fuhgawzzz oh its fun, u feel all warm and fuzy, then u feel like ur flying and then god shows up and pulls a 45 on u and puts 1 between ur eyes.

  • @funnyfella55 Oh.. Yeah, I figured it would be something like that. 45? Pussy caliber...

  • put one of those on an AC-130 :P

  • Nice, a tactical nuke instead of a strategic one.

  • what's next a automatic firing hydrogen bomb gun?

  • Yes.

  • This wouldn't work beecause the gun itself would get irradiated.

  • It would because its designed to be unmanned controlled remotely.

  • @goddesslush Thats an excellent point of how this nuke cannon could work, but then youd still have to retrieve an 8ton irradiated cannon.

  • The cannon im sure is expendable.

  • Irradiated from what?

  • Try real hard to think what might be radioactive in this film. It starts with nuclear and ends with motherfucking explosion.

  • Yeah, but they were careful not to let the shell explode *near* the cannon, did they? What do you think this is, a 10 m air rifle shooting discipline? This baby was supposed to shoot at targets twenty miles away.

  • What is the song playing in this video?

  • ive always wondered what those vertical streaks of clouds seen in 0:50. anyone know?

  • Test rockets fired at the moment of detonation to measure the cloud formation and other statistics.

  • (0:50) 

    Ow! My eyes!

  • Hm, if the VERY VERY extreme heat dint kill you. The pressure wave will kill you then.

  • Not to mention the fall out...

  • Too much freetime talking shit.

  • @freeetime

    You're an idiot, plain and simple.

  • Why the terrain where the bomb exploded right above it´s so flat? I ask this because the area in this region of the country is almost made by mountains or very irregular terrain.

    But really, is this terrain natural or was it made to be flat, by humans?

  • There's a lot of terrain like that around the testing grounds (New Mexico, IIRC). I think that one was a salt flat. It's probably a pane of glass now.

  • @BrazilBomb  The area is "Frenchman flats" ans I believe it is a dried up lake.

  • Thats one big bad ass mushroom cloud laying mother fucker...lol!

    Thats 1953, wtf have they now......

  • asi hay que bombardear a chile

  • Using such weapons of mass destruction was no war crime. It was legit and righteous. Same goes for dropping tons of firebombs on Dresden and Hamburg. It's lovely, isn't it?

  • The yield of this weapon is the same as the bomb that obliterated Hiroshima.

  • thats pretty epic!!!

  • that is a big boom.that's why a-bomb is dangerous

  • 0:38 saw the a-bomb!

  • On a long enough time-scale the survival rate for everyone drop to zero

  • Fucking Americans

  • one of mans greatest and most terrifying achievements, harnessing the power of a star and putting it into a weapon.

  • Except technically this isn't the power of a star. The shell in the 1953 test used fission, not fusion. Thought your point is taken...I'm just that odd person out there that nit-picks everything. Feel free to ignore me, if you like.

  • People who are thick as shit and do not understand anything are annoying.

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  • Excuse me. You made no mistake you were making a comment. you did not want to hear mine thinking it referred to you. Deal with it, dumb shit.

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  • Really? wow whoopee shit!

  • Not sure why this got thumbed down so much. I wasn't following the rest of the conversation, and since it's been removed, I don't know what happened, but from the comment about people like me being "annoying"...well, it's an opinion. No reason to hate on someone for having an opinion.

  • So are people who talk out of their ass (even if it is slightly)

  • 0:52

    what are those stripes?

  • They are rockets fired at the moment of detonation to help them measure the fireball and other variables.

  • Well, youre almost right; the smoke rockets were fired to observe and calibrate the direction and velocity of the shockwave and how it travels.

  • Hmmm thankyou.

  • I want one

  • I used to have one of these when I was a kid. We'd play with it out back with the other kids in the neighbourhood. That was, until the day of the accident.

    We'll never forget you Timmy.

  • a somewhat scary "toy"...

  • We are all insane...

  • When it comes down to it, everyone's insane...

  • What the fuck is this man ??

    i'm very scare

  • Lol dont worry the shit we have these days is nothing compared to this, so if some1 were to accidentally hit that big red botton and u were to die you wouldnt have the chance to blink before it was all over

  • assuming your with in the hypo-centre. Fall out is not a nice way to die.

  • Actually, tactical nuclear weapons still exist you know. Not all weapons are strategic.

  • nuclear artillary just shows how ready our country was to use nukes en masse

  • Pigs !! You bastards :((

  • Im glad this video cause you upset. As for pigs they were the only closest thing for study with burn damage to human tissue.

  • Lol dont like well done bacon XD?

  • lol, radioactive bacon

  • Very awesome. But what are the eight or so vertical columns of smoke to the right of the mushroom cloud caused by?

  • it is the nuclear head exploding just before impact to the ground

  • Pressure wave? The blast pushing against the air molecules. Sounds reasonable anyway.

  • smoke trails from measuring device (the smoke allows them to measure the blast wave)

  • in between 1.15 and 1.20, I swore I could see what looked like a human skull or a face in a billowing cloud of ash before the shockwave blew it apart.

    It's creepy. It'd be even creepier if I was the only one who saw it. I'm not, am I?

  • i think U are i tried to see it.about how big was it?

  • Is that the M65 atomic cannon??

  • You don't want that thing to misfire!

  • i want an atomic cannon for my frontyard

  • 1:48-1:52 Is a great shot. It shows what a sight it would have been to stand there and see that explosion. Notice how it lights up the horizon with an orange colored aura.

  • I want one

  • hey atomic annie i saw this when i went to school at APG

  • ur retarded...

  • One thing to say. Wherever you are, if you see an atomic bomb falling, mostly if you're at a safe distance from it, cover your eyes. If you don't, your eyes will be permanently burnt, and you'll be blind until you get a transplantation or something... If you're in the bomb's explosion range, well... Start praying...

  • Most bombs aren't big enough to see when they are falling. ICBMs dont leave smoke trails because they fly into the outer atmosphere then just fall. If you can see it your screwed.

  • 怖い怖い怖い・・・

  • holy shit pray theyre never needed

  • I have seen one of these in person, At Fort Riley KS. There is also one at Fort Sill, and Aberdeen

  • 1:17  are these animals?

  • I thought it looked kinda like some small animal too, I dunno though

  • never hold your farts in.

  • SPIRITOFODIN u fukin dipshit wot the hell do u think his heavy water program was all about we had 2 destroy it havnt u ever herd of the heros of telimark ??? good vid by the way

  • He never rejected it, HE was pursuing the ida which is why Einstein went to the US which was working on it anyway. Support Hitler on your own time SPIRITOFODIN. dont piss on everyone else's realities.

  • I find it so interesting you were called a Hitler supporter just for stating that about Hitler's ideas of winning the war. interesting world

  • seen the pictures,never knew there was a video. Amazing footage.

  • 1:00 to 1:02 is a great way to get the paint off your car in no time at all with limited radiation

  • wow never seen pictures

  • how do they get the footage inside the blast radius without the camera getting blown up?

  • whatbrains: That's a very good question. There's footage of trucks and forests being destroyed...How did they manage to get a camera so protected that a nuclear blast wouldn't damage it or the film inside? If anyone has any information on this, I'm curious to know.

  • The cameras are in hardened shelters, they are the balsr radius but not that close, for really close stuff the camera is destroyed so it sends out a TV signal until it cannot.

  • The cameras are in hardened lead cases mounted to sleds like the ones at 1:09, there are cables running from 4 connected support points to cement blocks that are buried at least 30 ft down.

  • and they all face away from the blast.  just adding that in.

  • This is my favorite nuclear video, thanks for that

  • what's this music?

  • That high yield of the warhead and the destruction it caused was when nuclear warheads started to become available to artillery crews in the 1960's the yield ended up being much lower--more like 1 to 2 kT. At that much lower yield, it could mean they could use the standard 155 mm howitzer as the cannon instead of the dedicated 280 mm cannon with its unwieldy transport system.

  • you must be prepaired when the zombies are coming

  • humans ivented many good things but bad things this is a exemple of bad things that humains creaded

  • its scary to think that we could wipe ourselves out completely just by hitting that button

  • christ, is that real. It's like the thing in command and conquer generals, i thought it was made up

  • No.. America Dropped 2 of them on Japan in WW2

  • those were big nukes that had to be dropped by a plane like the enola gay, this is one of them wee tactical nukes that ye just wheel up on a big tractor

  • I Know. Little Boy and Big daddy or some shit.. I was just replying because it sounded like that guy didnt have a clue that Nuclear bombs existed

  • ahha, awrite

  • Seeing this and videos of a real rail gun here on Youtube... Things like Metal Gear Solid become less and less sci-fi. We have a nice warhead of 15 kilotons and put it into a railgun big enough to fire it away... Sure thing we have one part of Metal Gear "REX" All we need now is the walking chassis and a power generator strong enough to power the thing. Oh but wait... Aren't they doing this already too?

  • What's to say they dont already have similar things, who is to know. Rail guns are old hat anyway. it be more impressive if they had hundreds of them mounted on to a satellite in space that can shoot nuke warheads at high speeds and a counter missile option too. 3 of them in space would be ideal for a nice containment.

  • long-range cannon 280 mm

  • That has to be the most careful loading of

    a cannon ever.

    I guess i woud been pretty careful my self.

    "Shit, i drop`t it, Run like hell boys"

  • hehe there be no where to run too if that went off that close..

  • cool

  • i wanna see a nuclear bomb from 2008

  • Not gonna happen as all nuclear testing is now done under ground. for a nuclear bomb. watch this space with iran, then possibly India and pakistan, or israel. Us and russia understand the risk with nukes and stay sensible apart from russia being immature and threatening poland. Must be paranoia i thought we were all past the cold war days.

  • You need to watch NUCLEAR 911 movie

    And you'll know the truth

  • If anyone likes me, they'd get me this for my birthday and three working active shells, would me ever so delightful.

  • What a waste for such a beautiful security patrol SUV from the 5Os

  • cheers for putting this up was look for it for awhile my sis need to do a project on war and this is a perfect example of how stupidly violent it is

  • Amazingly stupid comments from jaded nitwits. Every piece of the footage is real. Cameras were well-placed and in hardened stands. Nuclear weapons of this size do not

    evaporate everything. The point of this "shot" was to see just what was needed for civil defense shelters.

  • Your right I agree this was the time when nuclear bombs were getting more properly observed. This was about as powerful as Hiroshima and remeber that not everything there evaporated (the Hiroshima Peace Memorial). Also in other videos it shows US soldiers running to a mushroom cloud.

  • Not fake. They were transplanted for the experiment, to see the effects of the bomb.

  • atomic annie, go girl. grow me a mushroom. turn all to dust..

  • hm..how and from where did they record such clear footage of the objects in the blast?

  • Hmm, that's a good question, and with technology in 1953, I dunno...perplexing.

  • Note the live pigs (in cages) @ the 1:10 mark. This wa to test the effect of burns to troops on the ground.

  • And they survived that?

  • of course they didn't.. lol.

  • oww

  • thats cool :P

  • fuck. thats scary.

  • I know those dudes at the 1:54 minute mark, they work at a sushi bar in Dallas called FujiYama

  • I love how history channel re-rendered everything in HD

  • i love nuclearbomb's!!!!!!!!!!!

  • How did they get those camera angles? O_o

  • dont you just want to ride the bomb

  • HELL NO

  • Hell yea!

  • sure...

    until it blows up

  • Did they even have color recording this clear in 1953?

  • Yes, in fact, colour recordings were made of some of the later battles of WW2.

  • Have you ever seen THE WIZARD OF OZ?

    TECHNICOLOR, man.

  • follow the yellow brick road!

  • Thats just sad, technology can either be our salvation or our complete destruction.