My father was at six tests. Each sailor was supposedly to be at only one. Given sunglasses, or tuck head beneath arm. My father passed away from cancer...the Navy and government won't own up to the Atomic veteran families, so he signed off on Meslothelioma, as the old ships had asbestos. That way my mother would be taken care of...after he was gone. He said that after one test, the sailors held up their hands and could see the bones, like an Xray. I myself am a Navy DAV...100%...miss U dad
my dad was part of operation castle..he told me the scientist expected a 5 megaton explosion but they got a 8 megaton explosion putting the task force he was in too close to the bomb..he told me the USS Bairoko listed 45 degrees away from the bomb and stayed there for 15 secs..Bairoko is an escort carrier that was the flag shit of the operation..people got radiated really bad but you never here about it..
Thanks very much for posting this and other related videos! There's an large amount of useful historical info in these vids. But this is being quickly forgotten in today's world. You're helping to keep history alive!
thank you, as always for posting this rare material.
It is frightening to think that we performed so many atmospheric tests, as did the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom, and China.
To think that tons of radioactive fallout that have been released into our planet from 1945 to 1961 is frightening. Our biology is so fragile-something to think about.
I really feel for our atomic veterans. They really got the shaft.
@GloryOfItAll lmao i know thank god i grad in early 2012 :) im going to HEAL COLLEGE 'get in get out get ahead' but after im thinking of transferring to a 4 year
Thanks for uploading this. I needed more information and you delivered. Also, the Tsar Bomba was the most serious one of all. That part of the arctic circle is still contaminated on Novoya Zemlya (And parts of Kazahstan from the "First Lightning" or Joe-1 atomic bomb. Andrei Sakharov reported that L. Beria did not bother to evacuate all of the villagers surrounding the area of that shot).
fuck the bullshit i HAtE the us government for fucking up bikini and because of the wind went to my islands of RONGELAP(rongieboy nan mej!) dont get me wrong im a us citizen but i hate how this set off a chain reaction in the marshall islands..espicially hurting my other lands of KWAJAlEiN!! ugh i jus wanna do sum but what can i do?
@liberaltrash FUCK YOU U DONT KNOW ME YOU FUCKING IGNORANT ASSHOLE YOU GO TO HELL AND GET A REAL JOB?! HAHA THATS ON MY TO DO LIST WHEN IM OUT OF COLLEGE WHICH OH BTW I GET OUT IN JANUARY OF 2012!! I VACATION IN HELL!! IN FACT I JUST GOT BACK WANNA SEE MY ALBUM?! HAHAHA!!! YOU THINK YOUR FUCKING CRAZY?! COME AND STEP UP AND STOP BITCHING AND MOANING ON YOUTUBE TRAILER TRASH CRACKER!! FUCK WHAT YOU GOTTA SAY NOW BITCH?! MARSHALLESE FOR LIFE NO DAMAGE
@cubanboy740 haha thanks for backing me up..but im not worried about him HE AINT SHIT CAUSE THATS ALL HE CAN TALK...SHIT!! HE OBVIOUSLY HAS NEVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION "TALK SHIT GET HIT"
@liberaltrash ur a dumb ass u think is right to do this to this people
????? THIS IS THE SAME REASON WHY COUNTRYS CLOSE UP TO USA LIKE MINE CUBA WE HATE USA AND WE DONT WANT U WHITE ASS THERE!! AND NEATHER DOES CHINA OR N KOREA OR VENESUELA WE HATE YOUR INPERIALIST KIND IT;S OUR COUNTRY GET UR WHITE ASSS OUT!!
its sad that even now, Bikini Atoll is impossible for living. And recently, the U.S. has dropped their assistance in getting the island unradiated. They have also dropped compensation money to the people of the atoll. Hypocrits!
Lets NOT forget the military guys who were told they were in NO danger, though now are either dead from some bizarre cancer, like my father, or are still slowly dying and being told by our Government that it's not because of their exposure to this test or ones like it.
@1CelticWitch In the 1950s I was taught that A-Bombs and H-Bombs were a good thing, but they still scared me. I never knew when the nuclear war would break out. It was dangerous then but I agree with Oleg Nechiporenko that we live in a far more dangerous time today than during the cold war years.
@1CelticWitch CelticWitch, If you read up on the previous nuclear test, operation crossroads, it is now know that the site of this test was still unsafe for humans due to high levels of radioactive plutonium. The underwater explosion code named "Baker" has been called the worse nuclear fallout of all time. That happend in 1952. Anyone going anywhere near bikini for any period of time would be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
My father was at six tests. Each sailor was supposedly to be at only one. Given sunglasses, or tuck head beneath arm. My father passed away from cancer...the Navy and government won't own up to the Atomic veteran families, so he signed off on Meslothelioma, as the old ships had asbestos. That way my mother would be taken care of...after he was gone. He said that after one test, the sailors held up their hands and could see the bones, like an Xray. I myself am a Navy DAV...100%...miss U dad
outdoorpainter 3 months ago
My dad was in bikini in 1946 when he died he had mental issues they found all these little fissures and tumors in his brain i wonder
alanjay35 3 months ago
The video is so nonchalant about the native population getting bombed and relocated.
Jim1971a 5 months ago
my dad was part of operation castle..he told me the scientist expected a 5 megaton explosion but they got a 8 megaton explosion putting the task force he was in too close to the bomb..he told me the USS Bairoko listed 45 degrees away from the bomb and stayed there for 15 secs..Bairoko is an escort carrier that was the flag shit of the operation..people got radiated really bad but you never here about it..
HamTheDog 5 months ago
this is intresting cuz im learnin bout this in history XD
codybebz 9 months ago
Thanks very much for posting this and other related videos! There's an large amount of useful historical info in these vids. But this is being quickly forgotten in today's world. You're helping to keep history alive!
swizzletik 11 months ago
imagine if they had astronauts watching this in space back then, then we could really see how big this was..
xDJCRUZZZx 1 year ago
@xDJCRUZZZx
yes it would have been quite impressive...
hans1066 9 months ago
It's a big world, it handled a lil' bit of radiation, with no prob...
hibypass 1 year ago
thank you, as always for posting this rare material.
It is frightening to think that we performed so many atmospheric tests, as did the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom, and China.
To think that tons of radioactive fallout that have been released into our planet from 1945 to 1961 is frightening. Our biology is so fragile-something to think about.
I really feel for our atomic veterans. They really got the shaft.
johnbarleycornmd 1 year ago
@iTRES4teen:... 2012? hahaha end of the world... lol sarcasm. and what college are you attending?
GloryOfItAll 1 year ago
@GloryOfItAll lmao i know thank god i grad in early 2012 :) im going to HEAL COLLEGE 'get in get out get ahead' but after im thinking of transferring to a 4 year
iTRES4teen 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this. I needed more information and you delivered. Also, the Tsar Bomba was the most serious one of all. That part of the arctic circle is still contaminated on Novoya Zemlya (And parts of Kazahstan from the "First Lightning" or Joe-1 atomic bomb. Andrei Sakharov reported that L. Beria did not bother to evacuate all of the villagers surrounding the area of that shot).
Nguli34689 1 year ago
fuck the bullshit i HAtE the us government for fucking up bikini and because of the wind went to my islands of RONGELAP(rongieboy nan mej!) dont get me wrong im a us citizen but i hate how this set off a chain reaction in the marshall islands..espicially hurting my other lands of KWAJAlEiN!! ugh i jus wanna do sum but what can i do?
iTRES4teen 2 years ago
@iTRES4teen You are a sack of s h i t!
If not for the U.S., YOU would be a boy-bitch of your Japanese master.
GO TO HELL, GET A REAL JOB, AND STFU!!!111
liberaltrash 1 year ago
@liberaltrash FUCK YOU U DONT KNOW ME YOU FUCKING IGNORANT ASSHOLE YOU GO TO HELL AND GET A REAL JOB?! HAHA THATS ON MY TO DO LIST WHEN IM OUT OF COLLEGE WHICH OH BTW I GET OUT IN JANUARY OF 2012!! I VACATION IN HELL!! IN FACT I JUST GOT BACK WANNA SEE MY ALBUM?! HAHAHA!!! YOU THINK YOUR FUCKING CRAZY?! COME AND STEP UP AND STOP BITCHING AND MOANING ON YOUTUBE TRAILER TRASH CRACKER!! FUCK WHAT YOU GOTTA SAY NOW BITCH?! MARSHALLESE FOR LIFE NO DAMAGE
iTRES4teen 1 year ago
@iTRES4teen Dont worry about taht white bitch man.
cubanboy740 1 year ago
@cubanboy740 haha thanks for backing me up..but im not worried about him HE AINT SHIT CAUSE THATS ALL HE CAN TALK...SHIT!! HE OBVIOUSLY HAS NEVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION "TALK SHIT GET HIT"
iTRES4teen 1 year ago
@iTRES4teen :D
cubanboy740 1 year ago
@liberaltrash ur a dumb ass u think is right to do this to this people
????? THIS IS THE SAME REASON WHY COUNTRYS CLOSE UP TO USA LIKE MINE CUBA WE HATE USA AND WE DONT WANT U WHITE ASS THERE!! AND NEATHER DOES CHINA OR N KOREA OR VENESUELA WE HATE YOUR INPERIALIST KIND IT;S OUR COUNTRY GET UR WHITE ASSS OUT!!
cubanboy740 1 year ago
Hence the result of war.
AtomicStarBurst 2 years ago
how fucked up is that? being tested on nuclear fallout by the same guys that dropped the bombs
xHpDjXavi 2 years ago
screw that im moving there
Wesker65 2 years ago
its sad that even now, Bikini Atoll is impossible for living. And recently, the U.S. has dropped their assistance in getting the island unradiated. They have also dropped compensation money to the people of the atoll. Hypocrits!
BoT17 2 years ago
Lets NOT forget the military guys who were told they were in NO danger, though now are either dead from some bizarre cancer, like my father, or are still slowly dying and being told by our Government that it's not because of their exposure to this test or ones like it.
1CelticWitch 2 years ago
@1CelticWitch In the 1950s I was taught that A-Bombs and H-Bombs were a good thing, but they still scared me. I never knew when the nuclear war would break out. It was dangerous then but I agree with Oleg Nechiporenko that we live in a far more dangerous time today than during the cold war years.
Nguli34689 1 year ago
@1CelticWitch CelticWitch, If you read up on the previous nuclear test, operation crossroads, it is now know that the site of this test was still unsafe for humans due to high levels of radioactive plutonium. The underwater explosion code named "Baker" has been called the worse nuclear fallout of all time. That happend in 1952. Anyone going anywhere near bikini for any period of time would be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
5inthehole 1 year ago
Here Here, it's totally unacceptable.
LegendaryKenneth 2 years ago