@eric1967 I don't think Israel have tested any. It's a pretty guarded secret whether they have the capability or not, the ambiguity is a deterrent in itself. I would think they have the means to lauch some kind of small scale attack. I can't imagine they would have the space to test a large scale weapon safely though.
although many perceive The Cold War as a bad era, I find it brilliant, it strives the two superpowers to excellence in almost any field, from space exploration, economy, military strength, technological superiority etc... to the tiniest details like "which country can earn the most medals at the Olympics?"
notice how during the cold war, our world advanced far faster than ever before? we sent a man to space, to the moon! we invented the internet and improved the standard of living vastly!
No wonder the incidence of cancer has increased so much since the 1960s !
Imagine a space ferring culture approaching planet earth for the first time. They would see a beautiful, but small and delicate blue ocean world in the vastness of space. Upon closer approach, they would see a fantastic diversity of life forms.
But even more impressive?
Thousands of crude satellite weapons from the planet, aimed AT the planet itself!
This merits a quarantine and warning buoys around the sector.
@apparition2 me and my stepdad argued about that, I said it was because of longer life of humans, absorbing more radiation and dying of cancer rather famine and war like humans before us, he said this may also contribute to higher cancer rates, I still think it's mostly age but this certainly contributed to it
i was being sarcastic... disarm the world we should... a waste of brilliant minds, imagine all that time, money and effort spent on developing these weapons was spent on education and sustainable living... such a different world it would be
@benatssu well actually most break throughs in technology are perpetuated by war, those scientists wouldn't have had the funding to do what the later did in education and sustainable living with out government help which they got by working on nukes...just saying
wow very powerful video project. The insane lunatics who created nuclear bombs and laid waste large swaths of land now permanently contaminated in US, Russia, China, Pacific islands both by exploding the bombs and by the messy process of creating them. What a crazy world we live in where we built bombs to "destroy" the enemy and ended up poisoning our own people. People should research what the insane military did. The people suffer terrible cancers and unwell children in these lands today.
Okay thats scary, was just wondering where the heck the second and third bombs were and then I realized thats Japan and it was during Hiroshima and Nagasaki -.- Which makes sense cause they tested it in New Mexico first with Robert Oppenheimer and then they used them on Japan?
@CrackCommando5654@CrackCommando5654 It's because of sentiments like that , that we have war at all. Surely if your foreign policy is to go around meddling in other folks business, you will be a target. Can you tell me why nuclear weapons are ok for Israel (the 51st state by the way) but not for Iran? Surely the fact that the USA acts as a Jewish money laudering scheme & over 60% of the US government comprises Jews, is too simple an explanation. I'm just an idiot.
@CrackCommando5654 You sound like a very peaceful person by the way. Can you tell me why the US deserves to hold such power after all the attrocities they have committed? Don't get me wrong, I feel exactly the same about British foreign policy. Were just as bad so don't get too upset. Peace man.
@frostyjuice thank you, and I meant no offence. It is just that Iran is far more unstable and has threatened to wipe out Israel several times, whereby Israel holds nukes just to demonstrate that they hold the bigger stick so no one should mess with them. Israel is in fact very threatened by the surrounding countries, Iraq fired missiles at Tel Aviv during the gulf war and by US's request, Israel did not get involved.
No country should have nukes, but you can't stand helpless either.
@frostyjuice thing is, if one country has nukes, you need to match it, if you match it, the country feels threatened so it makes a bigger nuke.
this is how things work, everyone tries to 1up the other, and eventually we get things like the Tsar bomb which could wipe out millions in a blink of an eye.
@CrackCommando5654 Well I'm glad that we are managing to settle our differences without the need for those kind of weapons. It just really offends me that one country can have the power & another cannot. I need to be able to understand why countries (particularly in the West) are always messing around with innocent people's lives & claiming it is for humanities sake. So far no one has been able to offer me up a satisfactory explaination. So...are you in the forces?
@frostyjuice well I live in Israel so army is mandatory, we're not on the offense but the defense. Israel Defense Force.
and glad we've settled this in a polite and mature way, no need for the stupid internet fights.
Anyway I just want to tell you, that as a kid I had to learn in underground shelters, I remember carrying a gas mask to school, I remember playing video games made by the army that teach you how to make a shelter in your house against biochemical missiles.
@CrackCommando5654 I still stand by my first comment though. The US do seem to have a disproportionate number of conflicts going on in comparison to the rest of us! Never with anyone of substantial military might though, funnily. Nice talking to you.
@frostyjuice nationalism sets us apart, just like racism, it's no different. Israeli, German, Iranian, Australian etc.. are all labels made to set us apart, sure it has advantages, securing the residents of country X, giving us education etc... but this is what a country is for, bashing someone just because he is from X and you're from Y has no excuse and in fact I've met quite a few Iranians online and when you don't bash them, they're really nice guys...
@CrackCommando5654 Quite right, individuals seem to be much more level headed than simple mob mentality but if Iranians are such nice guys you should be careful about writing things like this! "Iran does not deserve to hold such power, fucking terrorist state. the world should launch a war against Iran to disarm it." Don't worry, I should watch my mouth too but I never accused anyone of being terrorists, just war mongering bastards! Hahahaha. Cheers.
@CrackCommando5654 I agree entirely on the religion point of view. I chucked my faith in a few years ago & have never looked back. Nationalism is good if you support your country, but as with everything, fundamentalists spoil it for everyone. At least we have some common ground. I'm not entirely sure that what Israel is doing to Palestine is a good thing though. I don't live there so perhaps I shouldn't comment, & don't be offended but you may be biased when answering me.
@CrackCommando5654 capitalism is the problem... The corporations tell us what to do, how to think, what to eat... and how to have sex... everything...
I am ashamed. We do not live in a free country and never have. We are forced to go along with the corporate media's view on things. Presently, it seems nuclear remains popular never mind the gross and extremely long term damage to earth, living things including humans. Dwight Eisenhower was right on the mark when he warned us of military industrial complex. Is there any hope? The regular people of this country have no say in these matters just as we
1032 nuclear tests, did the USA really need to test that many? You'd think they would get it right before then. I also noticed that of the 45 British tests, none of them were anywhere near the British Isles. They used Australia (my backyard) instead, and didn't even clean it up properly. I'm sure you've heard of Maralinga...
@Timmoux: Liverpool was available, but then the Beatles struck it big...
Did the US need so many? Well, the field is a lot more complicated than jujst developing and testing weapons. Perhaps they didn't really need to so the safety tests. What do you think? Maybe you prefer the 1968 15 MT dirty bombs rather than the more modern 1 MT clean ones that are up on missiles today.
@marcusuzilevsky politicians are paid by weapons manufacturers and defence contractors through lobbyists to expand military spending, you will see many many cuts in the USA over the next ten years but comparatively little reduction in military costs. The USA spends 42% of all world military spending, those lobbyists do their job well. you can not justify the incremental costs, however you can cite the reason - your politicians are corrupt and no longer represent you.
@marcusuzilevsky: I don't want to seem bitter, but perhaps if you're really curious and not just piqued, you could look up some of the reasons? The info is out there. About 5-10% of the testing was classed as safety testing - did you want that the US should have skimped on that? Or not developed the methods of testing verification? Oh, no doubt a lot of it was sabre rattling, but that was what the cold war was all about.
12:39 is France using the Earth to play drums or something? Using Sahara as the bass drum and the Pacific as hanging toms, France manages to produce quite a beat.
Not to belittle the whole "mankind blowing Earth to smithereens" thing, of course. Just something I noticed.
@Khashsba Nobody knows for sure who was responsible for the "Vela Incident" so he can't put it on the map. It was probably Israel and South Africa but they won't admit it.
@wewd Thanx for the Info Man, Just the Whole World Knows they Got it, Anyways "El Naqeb Desert inside Israel Tested many Nuclear Explosions which made the Earth Crust in this Parameter (Sinai - Palestine - Jordan - Israel) So weak, and ready 4 Earthquaks
@mrsticky005 and how much time and R&D went in to them, we may have a vaccine for AIDS, or a cure for cancer had we dedicated the inordinate amount of resources we poured in to weapons development in to healthcare. shame
He forgot the Japanese test on the Korean peninsula in the closing days of WWII. The U.S. weren't the only ones testing, and the Japanese were only days away from making their own.
@puncheex Oh, sure. You're right. They had no access to diesel fuel or lead bullets, after all, neither appear in great deposits in Japan. Also, they didn't really try for nuclear technology. After all, those two programs in WWII were just hobbies by amateurs.
@kleptordemagnifico: According to Rhoades in The Making of the Atomic Bomb, the Japanese Army and the Navy had separate programs. The key meeting was held in Tokyo in July 1942. The attendees agreed that the bomb was possible and the US was probably working on one (this was the year before Los Alamos was established), but it would take 10 years and 10% of Japan's industrial base to do it. The Navy dissolved their group in March 43 in favor of radar. ...
... The Army kept on at a low level; another Navy committee pursued the possibility of a thermonuclear bomb. The U of Kyoto built a cyclotron with Navy funds. Research on separation continued, hitting all the snags that the US had hit, particularly leakage and difficulty creating UF6, and lack of support for completing the cyclotron, held up by lack of electronics parts. They tried thermal diffusion to separate out U235, which the US had abandoned. ...
... (part 3/3) The military liaison was ignorant of physics; he suggested using regular explosives in place of U235. Finally in April 44 the lab holding the leaky gas diff apparatus was bombed and burned to the ground, ending the effort without any U235, any pile for creating Pu, and just half of a cyclotron required for the bomb engineering research. They were, indeed, 10 years away.
@ebonyhippo Unfortunately, the fallout is carried on the wind...the jet-stream would have carried literally tonnes of radioactive particles around the world.
If anyone is wondering why it all slows down in the 90's, in 1989 the Soviet Union dissolved. With Soviet Russia out of the map the US government probably saw fit to stop wasting tax dollars flexing it's muscles.
@PoIaris: Well, no. Actually it was because the the UN's Comprehensive Test Ban treaty, and SALT and START and a raft of treaties, plus domestic and international anger. The USSR didn't dissolve until 1991.
@arjenf the definition is quite simple mate - detonating a nuclear bomb. Varying sizes of course, from kilotonnes all the way up to megatonnes (tnt equiv) This doesn't list the many nuclear reactor meltdowns and resulting explosions spewing radioactive death around the entire world either...the definition of a nuclear reactor meltdown explosion = very bad news for organic lifeforms and the environment for centuries to come.
@spikeychops A nuclear meltdown is entirely different to a nuclear bomb. the mechanics are completely different. In most cases any "explosion" from a nuclear reactor is caused by the build up of gasses NOT! a direct result of a nuclear explosion.
@lynxus What gave you the impression i imagined a nuclear reactor meltdown and resulting explosion, was similar to a nuclear bomb detonation, apart from the commonalities in spreading deadly and persistent radioactive fallout and contamination far and wide?
I mention reactor meltdowns "spewing radioactive death around the entire world" as this is exactly what happens, and is not a triffling consideration. The more damaging effects of bombs or otherwise, is radiactive contamination.
@spikeychops: Sometimes. Bombs are specifically designed to destroy through blast and thermal damage; I don't think that, with the exception of a neutron bomb concept never tested AFAIK, radiation has never been a goal of anyone's weapons program. BTW, the second detonation at Chernobyl was suspected of having been assisted by a prompt nuclear event on the 1-10 ton equivalent level. To the best of my knowledge there is no real difference between a nuke test and a "nuclear event".
@spikeychops: You are correct. In fact, the list includes some tests that didn't generate any nuclear energy - safety tests, for example, which succeed when the only explosive is the initiating charge which proves that bomb won't do a nuke thing if burned in a fire, for example. Some of teh test were of 50 lb nukes in the 10s of tons equivalent range.
And of course, as if all these 1000's of detonation tests, nuclear accidents were not enough to unleash upon the world...now we're lobbing our own versions of radioactive 'dirty bombs' around the M.E. and have done for years...of course the term dirty bomb is reserved for fearmongering about terrorists, they simply call their version 'Depleted Uranium tipped weapons'. Posh name for essentially the same thing.
@camillelemouellic You'll notice Israel isn't on the list, despite possessing unknown hundreds of nuclear WMD's ('unknown' as they continue to refuse UN weapons inspections of their nuclear weapons). Although horrifying as this video is in itself, there's been a lot more nuclear detonations and reactor explosions than this horrifying video even shows...certainly more than 1 since 89 mate.
1 second per month. This means you'll see 5 years per minute.
This is absolutely amazing! I watched it full screen with sound at mid volume.
I find it somewhat amusing/disturbing that each country's gov't has decided to test in desert and water pretty much as far away from their capitol cities as possible. Not willing to risk your own health, eh?
@roxyndra: well, there has to be a reason why they don't test artillery in the ellipse. Mayors tend to complain when targets drawn in the dirt by bulldozers center on their offices. If you'd like to volunteer, I'm sure the pentagon would like to have your address.
Ok, let me get this straight. We are willing to drop bombs on our own countries? We have never even used them in war and we already have covered most of the surface!
@stinkyninja81 April 2011 - Part of Grand Elder of Maya Address to The World:
Our recommendation to avoid more suffering is this: No more nuclear testing, no more wars, no more mining and other explorations, no more use of chemicals. This is the only way the human race, the animals and the ancient trees could survive and see the new Sun*. If we do not change, few will be the ones to survive and see the arrival of the 6th Sun.
Said 6 Sun is within 10,20, maybe 50 yrs, super close
Smart Americans! They did some of the nuclear test explosions FAR AWAY from their country and NEAR my country in Pacific Ocean......... Well but lots of the other tests are in still West Coast tough.
Great!!! I don't care about global warming anymore. I will probably sell that eco-friendly car I just bought and may be I'll never recycle anything again in my life...
I'm just thinking how much different this vid would be if the flashes were proportionate (even logarithmically) to the yields. Ivy Mike, Castle Bravo, and Tsar Bomba would probably make people jump.
@aftercolumbia if they were proportionate you probably couldnt even see them at this scale ;) besides, its not the initial damage that is the problem...were do people think all of the radiation went from these 2053 explosions? most likly, into our bodies giving us lots of cancer an stuff. isnt science brilliant!
@MvPxBlackHawk I meant proportionate to each other, not realistic (besides, they can be easily seen from space. Vela satellites designed to detect them were in supersynchronous orbits, and got more than they bargained for: They discovered extragalactic gamma ray bursts.) Example: Castle-Bravo was almost exactly 1000x the yield of Crossroads-Baker. I proposed making it three times as bright on a vid like this.
@nextonnaruto not how many they have, how many they have detonated. only 2 have been dropped on targets, the over 2051 were tests in the middle of nowhere, but still...im sure all that radiation is creating alot of problems around the planet. people wonder why there is so much cancer??? we have detonated over 200 nuclear bombs!!! were still such a primitive species really... :/ anyway, ill stop ranting haha
Powers of the world they call themselfs. I call them the most idiotic beings ever walked the earth.
It is time people all over the world take away the power of all governments. And destroy all these weapons of mass destruction. Time to wake up people. Guns don't bring friends, they bring enemy' s. Ban all weapons. Everywhere.
Chicago and New York City have nukes too.....we have airborne ebola in dixie, don't mess with us.....
synergetic4d 6 hours ago
Damn, USA itself is responsible for half of nuclear explosions on this planet. I don't think humanity has ever faced a threat bigger than USA!!!
Heybat 7 hours ago
fuck.
misscolorfuldreams 16 hours ago
...and now they worry about global warming???
Maybe, just maybe....it's global radiation.
BrightStaroftheDawn 1 day ago 3
No wonder why nobody ever feels good....
thealestar 1 day ago
verify the coordinates off the tests then talk to me
333crypta 1 day ago
Where was South Africa? Israel did not develop their own weapons they bought South
Africa's prior to South Africa change to a black ruled country.
S.A. was in a problem with the U.N. and the USA and had trade restrictions imposed.
They made a deal with Israel and Israel bought all their weapons and the facilities to make their own.
I know this first hand from a S.A. military member who went to Israel with the weapons and stayed there.
tmr3513 1 day ago 2
fuck...we wonder why cancer rates are so high...
onlyrock1 1 day ago 2
Where is Israel and South Africa ?
impkap 2 days ago
where was Israel?
eric1967 2 days ago
@eric1967 I don't think Israel have tested any. It's a pretty guarded secret whether they have the capability or not, the ambiguity is a deterrent in itself. I would think they have the means to lauch some kind of small scale attack. I can't imagine they would have the space to test a large scale weapon safely though.
manicbabyshambles123 2 days ago
Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?
JonasPlanck 3 days ago 2
@AlexSaysHi2013 lol thanks bro. I politically corrected myself, before you told me, posting on facebook.
shivatecs 3 days ago
ever wonder why everything causes cancer in California
buzzer91111 3 days ago
WHERE'S DC? WHERE'S THE CAPITOL WASTELAND?
tatertots3231 3 days ago
although many perceive The Cold War as a bad era, I find it brilliant, it strives the two superpowers to excellence in almost any field, from space exploration, economy, military strength, technological superiority etc... to the tiniest details like "which country can earn the most medals at the Olympics?"
notice how during the cold war, our world advanced far faster than ever before? we sent a man to space, to the moon! we invented the internet and improved the standard of living vastly!
CrackCommando5654 4 days ago
What is the point of testing so much? Don't they pretty much do the same thing each time??
5spdRacer1 5 days ago
@5spdRacer1 show of power, and new kinds of nukes, like H-Bombs
AlexSaysHi2013 5 days ago
The scariest music I've ever heard.
somebodysnothere 5 days ago
No wonder the incidence of cancer has increased so much since the 1960s !
Imagine a space ferring culture approaching planet earth for the first time. They would see a beautiful, but small and delicate blue ocean world in the vastness of space. Upon closer approach, they would see a fantastic diversity of life forms.
But even more impressive?
Thousands of crude satellite weapons from the planet, aimed AT the planet itself!
This merits a quarantine and warning buoys around the sector.
apparition2 5 days ago
@apparition2 me and my stepdad argued about that, I said it was because of longer life of humans, absorbing more radiation and dying of cancer rather famine and war like humans before us, he said this may also contribute to higher cancer rates, I still think it's mostly age but this certainly contributed to it
AlexSaysHi2013 5 days ago
The only legitimate reason to believe that humans cause global warming.
shivatecs 5 days ago
@shivatecs *climate change
AlexSaysHi2013 5 days ago
Rewrite history with all these warheads detonating in Beijing and Israel.
akirafactor 6 days ago
Japan now has 46 (lucky Cuba)
c25c2 6 days ago
10:53 He forgot to mark where I was born.
TheRedbikemaster 6 days ago 8
gee we better not let iran get a hold of any nukes, they might do something fucked up like detonate more than a thousand for the next 50 years!!
benatssu 6 days ago 2
@benatssu We should disarm Israel.. they are stupid people.. they might attack some country for the fun of it...
samimaryan 6 days ago
@samimaryan
i was being sarcastic... disarm the world we should... a waste of brilliant minds, imagine all that time, money and effort spent on developing these weapons was spent on education and sustainable living... such a different world it would be
benatssu 6 days ago
@benatssu well actually most break throughs in technology are perpetuated by war, those scientists wouldn't have had the funding to do what the later did in education and sustainable living with out government help which they got by working on nukes...just saying
AlexSaysHi2013 5 days ago
USA! USA! USA!
djhazyjewfro 6 days ago
wow very powerful video project. The insane lunatics who created nuclear bombs and laid waste large swaths of land now permanently contaminated in US, Russia, China, Pacific islands both by exploding the bombs and by the messy process of creating them. What a crazy world we live in where we built bombs to "destroy" the enemy and ended up poisoning our own people. People should research what the insane military did. The people suffer terrible cancers and unwell children in these lands today.
suehobartutube 6 days ago
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Only south america has peace..
dedexter88 6 days ago
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dedexter88 6 days ago
Too slow.
brantc 6 days ago
Lots and lots of radiation is GOOD for us!
Just like mercury and melamine and fluoride!
electronfun 6 days ago
Okay thats scary, was just wondering where the heck the second and third bombs were and then I realized thats Japan and it was during Hiroshima and Nagasaki -.- Which makes sense cause they tested it in New Mexico first with Robert Oppenheimer and then they used them on Japan?
JakeOfAllTrades17 1 week ago
Politics, what a fucking joke...
michiel2047 1 week ago
and the moral of the story is, the world is a screwed up place.
And also, south america looks very inviting without any of those nukes going off... but Ill stick to moving to mainland europe ;)
I mean, why does france need to test so many nukes lol, what the devil is france gonna do lol? Surprised uk and china had so little lol
jflintham45 1 week ago
And this is why no one likes white people..
jz1308 1 week ago
This really is scary, but it sure as hell makes a good backdrop for an evil villain.
straightAswag 1 week ago
And USA has got the audacity to have a go at Iran for an alleged nuclear weapons program. Disgusting war mongering idiots.
frostyjuice 1 week ago
@frostyjuice idiot, it's not about hailing war, it's about peace, if you want peace, prepare for war.
Iran does not deserve to hold such power, fucking terrorist state. the world should launch a war against Iran to disarm it
CrackCommando5654 1 week ago
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frostyjuice 1 week ago
@CrackCommando5654 @CrackCommando5654 It's because of sentiments like that , that we have war at all. Surely if your foreign policy is to go around meddling in other folks business, you will be a target. Can you tell me why nuclear weapons are ok for Israel (the 51st state by the way) but not for Iran? Surely the fact that the USA acts as a Jewish money laudering scheme & over 60% of the US government comprises Jews, is too simple an explanation. I'm just an idiot.
frostyjuice 1 week ago
@CrackCommando5654 You sound like a very peaceful person by the way. Can you tell me why the US deserves to hold such power after all the attrocities they have committed? Don't get me wrong, I feel exactly the same about British foreign policy. Were just as bad so don't get too upset. Peace man.
frostyjuice 1 week ago
@frostyjuice thank you, and I meant no offence. It is just that Iran is far more unstable and has threatened to wipe out Israel several times, whereby Israel holds nukes just to demonstrate that they hold the bigger stick so no one should mess with them. Israel is in fact very threatened by the surrounding countries, Iraq fired missiles at Tel Aviv during the gulf war and by US's request, Israel did not get involved.
No country should have nukes, but you can't stand helpless either.
CrackCommando5654 1 week ago
@frostyjuice thing is, if one country has nukes, you need to match it, if you match it, the country feels threatened so it makes a bigger nuke.
this is how things work, everyone tries to 1up the other, and eventually we get things like the Tsar bomb which could wipe out millions in a blink of an eye.
CrackCommando5654 1 week ago
@CrackCommando5654 Well I'm glad that we are managing to settle our differences without the need for those kind of weapons. It just really offends me that one country can have the power & another cannot. I need to be able to understand why countries (particularly in the West) are always messing around with innocent people's lives & claiming it is for humanities sake. So far no one has been able to offer me up a satisfactory explaination. So...are you in the forces?
frostyjuice 1 week ago
@frostyjuice well I live in Israel so army is mandatory, we're not on the offense but the defense. Israel Defense Force.
and glad we've settled this in a polite and mature way, no need for the stupid internet fights.
Anyway I just want to tell you, that as a kid I had to learn in underground shelters, I remember carrying a gas mask to school, I remember playing video games made by the army that teach you how to make a shelter in your house against biochemical missiles.
no one deserves this.
CrackCommando5654 1 week ago
@CrackCommando5654 I still stand by my first comment though. The US do seem to have a disproportionate number of conflicts going on in comparison to the rest of us! Never with anyone of substantial military might though, funnily. Nice talking to you.
frostyjuice 1 week ago
@frostyjuice and I stand by mine.
The US does shove its nose in other country's business, Libya for example, what the fuck do they care? oh right... OIL
Iran does not deserve to hold such power.
have a good day sir.
CrackCommando5654 1 week ago
@frostyjuice nationalism sets us apart, just like racism, it's no different. Israeli, German, Iranian, Australian etc.. are all labels made to set us apart, sure it has advantages, securing the residents of country X, giving us education etc... but this is what a country is for, bashing someone just because he is from X and you're from Y has no excuse and in fact I've met quite a few Iranians online and when you don't bash them, they're really nice guys...
CrackCommando5654 1 week ago
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@CrackCommando5654 Quite right, individuals seem to be much more level headed than simple mob mentality but if Iranians are such nice guys you should be careful about writing things like this! "Iran does not deserve to hold such power, fucking terrorist state. the world should launch a war against Iran to disarm it." Don't worry, I should watch my mouth too but I never accused anyone of being terrorists, just war mongering bastards! Hahahaha. Cheers.
frostyjuice 1 week ago
@frostyjuice also nationalism sucks, I believe if there was no religion and no nationalism, we'd live in a better world.
CrackCommando5654 1 week ago 21
@CrackCommando5654 I agree entirely on the religion point of view. I chucked my faith in a few years ago & have never looked back. Nationalism is good if you support your country, but as with everything, fundamentalists spoil it for everyone. At least we have some common ground. I'm not entirely sure that what Israel is doing to Palestine is a good thing though. I don't live there so perhaps I shouldn't comment, & don't be offended but you may be biased when answering me.
frostyjuice 1 week ago
@CrackCommando5654 capitalism is the problem... The corporations tell us what to do, how to think, what to eat... and how to have sex... everything...
samimaryan 6 days ago
@CrackCommando5654 That's one of the stupidest things I have ever heard in my entire life.
clamchowder138 5 days ago
@CrackCommando5654 alright, calm down lennon
GTH8991 5 days ago
I am ashamed. We do not live in a free country and never have. We are forced to go along with the corporate media's view on things. Presently, it seems nuclear remains popular never mind the gross and extremely long term damage to earth, living things including humans. Dwight Eisenhower was right on the mark when he warned us of military industrial complex. Is there any hope? The regular people of this country have no say in these matters just as we
have no say in a new 9-11 investigation.
freidarulz 1 week ago
USA! USA! USA!
rjthom5 1 week ago
what the hell russia! you bombed your alise (russia says'' face palm'')
YoNoComplet 1 week ago
did anyone else hear "Seasons of Love" around 1956?
4ptHarmonyOuttaDaWay 1 week ago
Sooooooooooooooooooo slow ... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ... don't be so in love with yourself and speed up the animation 6x and you'd have something here.
McNoviwan 1 week ago
Remember people, by the late 60's, most of these tests were done underground.
Moggy4000 1 week ago
And those are only the ones that have been recorded or can be traced. Think about what governments do without our knowledge... Scary
dragonkiller63729 1 week ago
Well, I think the USA won that contest.
ToozeTheBard 1 week ago
1032 nuclear tests, did the USA really need to test that many? You'd think they would get it right before then. I also noticed that of the 45 British tests, none of them were anywhere near the British Isles. They used Australia (my backyard) instead, and didn't even clean it up properly. I'm sure you've heard of Maralinga...
Timmoux 1 week ago
@Timmoux: Liverpool was available, but then the Beatles struck it big...
Did the US need so many? Well, the field is a lot more complicated than jujst developing and testing weapons. Perhaps they didn't really need to so the safety tests. What do you think? Maybe you prefer the 1968 15 MT dirty bombs rather than the more modern 1 MT clean ones that are up on missiles today.
puncheex 1 week ago
An ever increasing worry with other nations racing to have their very own weapon of mass destruction!
TrendyTechnoGeek 1 week ago
South America mankind are proud of you
karlschwaltz89 1 week ago
Such childish behavior with powerful tools of destruction !
WTF did the US learn from nuke explosion #1032 that we could
not learn from nuclear explosion #1031 !! ?
How did we justify the incremental costs of each test ?
45 Chinese explosions vs. 1032 US explosions !
Are the Chinese such better scientists that they only needed
a tiny fraction of our tests to learn what took us more than 20X more tests ?
With such macho bonehead hands on the trigger, we are all lucky to be alive !
marcusuzilevsky 2 weeks ago
@marcusuzilevsky politicians are paid by weapons manufacturers and defence contractors through lobbyists to expand military spending, you will see many many cuts in the USA over the next ten years but comparatively little reduction in military costs. The USA spends 42% of all world military spending, those lobbyists do their job well. you can not justify the incremental costs, however you can cite the reason - your politicians are corrupt and no longer represent you.
CHEESYhairyGASH 1 week ago
@marcusuzilevsky: I don't want to seem bitter, but perhaps if you're really curious and not just piqued, you could look up some of the reasons? The info is out there. About 5-10% of the testing was classed as safety testing - did you want that the US should have skimped on that? Or not developed the methods of testing verification? Oh, no doubt a lot of it was sabre rattling, but that was what the cold war was all about.
puncheex 1 week ago
WTF did the US learn from nuke explosion #1032 that we could not learn from nuclear explosion #1031 !! ?
How did we justify the incremental costs of each test ?
45 Chinese explosions vs. 1032 US explosions ! Are the Chinese such better scientists
that they only needed a tiny fraction of our tests to learn what took us more than 20X
more tests ?
Such childish behavior with powerful tools of destruction !
With macho boneheads hands on the trigger, we are all lucky to be alive !
marcusuzilevsky 2 weeks ago
12:39 is France using the Earth to play drums or something? Using Sahara as the bass drum and the Pacific as hanging toms, France manages to produce quite a beat.
Not to belittle the whole "mankind blowing Earth to smithereens" thing, of course. Just something I noticed.
konayasai 2 weeks ago
@nickiscooldog this is only till '98
mrmackintoshr 2 weeks ago
eeuu= killers of the world
tataso 2 weeks ago
Where are Israel and South Africa ?!!!!!
Khashsba 2 weeks ago
@Khashsba Nobody knows for sure who was responsible for the "Vela Incident" so he can't put it on the map. It was probably Israel and South Africa but they won't admit it.
wewd 2 weeks ago
@wewd Thanx for the Info Man, Just the Whole World Knows they Got it, Anyways "El Naqeb Desert inside Israel Tested many Nuclear Explosions which made the Earth Crust in this Parameter (Sinai - Palestine - Jordan - Israel) So weak, and ready 4 Earthquaks
Khashsba 1 week ago
America wins! Fuck yeah! :D
But really...I wonder how much all this nukes cost?
mrsticky005 2 weeks ago
@mrsticky005 and how much time and R&D went in to them, we may have a vaccine for AIDS, or a cure for cancer had we dedicated the inordinate amount of resources we poured in to weapons development in to healthcare. shame
CHEESYhairyGASH 1 week ago
@CHEESYhairyGASH True. Well you know how it works, there's always more than enough resources available for us to blast each other to smithereens.
Of course even if America stops with nukes doesn't mean others won't.
And even if America didn't drop the A-Bomb doesn't mean someone else
wouldn't have. The issue isn't even nukes. Nukes are just a tool.
It's hatred, evil and paranoid fear in the world that is the problem.
mrsticky005 1 week ago
All I can see here is a big prick waving dick fight. Everyone wants to have the bigger dick. It's sad.
legitimatemind 2 weeks ago
Forgot one. North Korea tested an underground nuclear bomb a few years ago in 2009 or 2010.
nickiscooldog 2 weeks ago
Clearly a show of force, USA drops then USSR drops, and the other way around.
Blakey478 2 weeks ago
Gee, I wonder why the cancer rates have increased?
itsALLartVideos 2 weeks ago
05:20 to 05:26 actually sounds a bit beautiful.
JohnMaxibillion 2 weeks ago
It's okay, America! Your nukes are still working! Give the tests a bit of break now and again!
JohnMaxibillion 2 weeks ago 8
He forgot the Japanese test on the Korean peninsula in the closing days of WWII. The U.S. weren't the only ones testing, and the Japanese were only days away from making their own.
kleptordemagnifico 2 weeks ago
@kleptordemagnifico: No, afraid not. The Japanese had no access to enough uranium. Sorry, your history looses.
puncheex 1 week ago
@puncheex Oh, sure. You're right. They had no access to diesel fuel or lead bullets, after all, neither appear in great deposits in Japan. Also, they didn't really try for nuclear technology. After all, those two programs in WWII were just hobbies by amateurs.
kleptordemagnifico 1 week ago
@kleptordemagnifico: According to Rhoades in The Making of the Atomic Bomb, the Japanese Army and the Navy had separate programs. The key meeting was held in Tokyo in July 1942. The attendees agreed that the bomb was possible and the US was probably working on one (this was the year before Los Alamos was established), but it would take 10 years and 10% of Japan's industrial base to do it. The Navy dissolved their group in March 43 in favor of radar. ...
puncheex 1 week ago
... The Army kept on at a low level; another Navy committee pursued the possibility of a thermonuclear bomb. The U of Kyoto built a cyclotron with Navy funds. Research on separation continued, hitting all the snags that the US had hit, particularly leakage and difficulty creating UF6, and lack of support for completing the cyclotron, held up by lack of electronics parts. They tried thermal diffusion to separate out U235, which the US had abandoned. ...
puncheex 1 week ago
... (part 3/3) The military liaison was ignorant of physics; he suggested using regular explosives in place of U235. Finally in April 44 the lab holding the leaky gas diff apparatus was bombed and burned to the ground, ending the effort without any U235, any pile for creating Pu, and just half of a cyclotron required for the bomb engineering research. They were, indeed, 10 years away.
puncheex 1 week ago
Thanks for everything Mother Earth, here is your reward. Wtf?...
sativasymbiosis 2 weeks ago
i think america had nothing better to do so they just blew whatever spare bombs we had just for the lawls.
Oogleporf 2 weeks ago
Probably the most horrifying musical arrangement my eyes have heard O.O
gdibble 2 weeks ago
Ah, so this is the argument to move to South America.
ebonyhippo 2 weeks ago
@ebonyhippo Unfortunately, the fallout is carried on the wind...the jet-stream would have carried literally tonnes of radioactive particles around the world.
spikeychops 1 week ago
If anyone is wondering why it all slows down in the 90's, in 1989 the Soviet Union dissolved. With Soviet Russia out of the map the US government probably saw fit to stop wasting tax dollars flexing it's muscles.
PoIaris 2 weeks ago
@PoIaris: Well, no. Actually it was because the the UN's Comprehensive Test Ban treaty, and SALT and START and a raft of treaties, plus domestic and international anger. The USSR didn't dissolve until 1991.
puncheex 1 week ago
USA victorious again!
1skeeta4u 2 weeks ago
what did they do in the 90's that reduced the explosion
Hayeshacker0NE 2 weeks ago
This is quite interesting however I'd like to hear this definition of a nuclear explosion to put it into context.
arjenf 2 weeks ago
@arjenf the definition is quite simple mate - detonating a nuclear bomb. Varying sizes of course, from kilotonnes all the way up to megatonnes (tnt equiv) This doesn't list the many nuclear reactor meltdowns and resulting explosions spewing radioactive death around the entire world either...the definition of a nuclear reactor meltdown explosion = very bad news for organic lifeforms and the environment for centuries to come.
spikeychops 2 weeks ago
@spikeychops A nuclear meltdown is entirely different to a nuclear bomb. the mechanics are completely different. In most cases any "explosion" from a nuclear reactor is caused by the build up of gasses NOT! a direct result of a nuclear explosion.
lynxus 2 weeks ago
@lynxus What gave you the impression i imagined a nuclear reactor meltdown and resulting explosion, was similar to a nuclear bomb detonation, apart from the commonalities in spreading deadly and persistent radioactive fallout and contamination far and wide?
I mention reactor meltdowns "spewing radioactive death around the entire world" as this is exactly what happens, and is not a triffling consideration. The more damaging effects of bombs or otherwise, is radiactive contamination.
spikeychops 2 weeks ago
@spikeychops: Sometimes. Bombs are specifically designed to destroy through blast and thermal damage; I don't think that, with the exception of a neutron bomb concept never tested AFAIK, radiation has never been a goal of anyone's weapons program. BTW, the second detonation at Chernobyl was suspected of having been assisted by a prompt nuclear event on the 1-10 ton equivalent level. To the best of my knowledge there is no real difference between a nuke test and a "nuclear event".
puncheex 1 week ago
@spikeychops: You are correct. In fact, the list includes some tests that didn't generate any nuclear energy - safety tests, for example, which succeed when the only explosive is the initiating charge which proves that bomb won't do a nuke thing if burned in a fire, for example. Some of teh test were of 50 lb nukes in the 10s of tons equivalent range.
puncheex 1 week ago
@puncheex Thanks for your posts puncheex.
And of course, as if all these 1000's of detonation tests, nuclear accidents were not enough to unleash upon the world...now we're lobbing our own versions of radioactive 'dirty bombs' around the M.E. and have done for years...of course the term dirty bomb is reserved for fearmongering about terrorists, they simply call their version 'Depleted Uranium tipped weapons'. Posh name for essentially the same thing.
spikeychops 1 week ago
This is very well done and what a cool perspective. Thanks for taking the time to do this. Well done!
greenmonkey5791 2 weeks ago 9
...this explains why a lot about the west coast.
552Industries 2 weeks ago 2
russian/american dick measuring much?
slavko321 2 weeks ago 2
@slavko321 Clearly, it was the cold war, and if you start counting Russian tests after 1989, there's only 1.
camillelemouellic 2 weeks ago
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spikeychops 2 weeks ago
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@camillelemouellic You'll notice Israel isn't on the list, despite possessing unknown hundreds of nuclear WMD's ('unknown' as they continue to refuse UN weapons inspections of their nuclear weapons). Although horrifying as this video is in itself, there's been a lot more nuclear detonations and reactor explosions than this horrifying video even shows...certainly more than 1 since 89 mate.
spikeychops 2 weeks ago
This does cook up to a pretty cool song. Also not over 9000 yet.
Ahseyo 2 weeks ago 2
1 second per month. This means you'll see 5 years per minute.
This is absolutely amazing! I watched it full screen with sound at mid volume.
I find it somewhat amusing/disturbing that each country's gov't has decided to test in desert and water pretty much as far away from their capitol cities as possible. Not willing to risk your own health, eh?
roxyndra 2 weeks ago 2
@roxyndra: well, there has to be a reason why they don't test artillery in the ellipse. Mayors tend to complain when targets drawn in the dirt by bulldozers center on their offices. If you'd like to volunteer, I'm sure the pentagon would like to have your address.
puncheex 1 week ago
Ok, let me get this straight. We are willing to drop bombs on our own countries? We have never even used them in war and we already have covered most of the surface!
merolb 2 weeks ago 6
I mean, we just used two in war. Everything else, is to showoff.
merolb 2 weeks ago
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@merolb "We have never even used them in war". Nigga please. Ask the japanese...
SamaelStone 1 week ago
We almost made it on 1993!
eduardazo 2 weeks ago
Reminds me of close encoutners lol
LtVictor1 2 weeks ago
Oh my gosh, when I see the words "time lapse" I expect fast. I'm not going to wait here for 14 minutes
AJCEntertainment 2 weeks ago
@AJCEntertainment It IS fast. A year lasts for about 10 seconds. It starts a bit slow, just like the nuclear tests did.
Seriously, people these days... no patience at all.
TheNeekerirotta 2 weeks ago
LOL @USA
lilleborik 2 weeks ago
Ande we wonder where all that cancer is coming from ?
elmuerteyu 2 weeks ago
Also, did anyone else feel the soundtrack to this wouldn't be entirely off the experimental dance scene?
AT1st 2 weeks ago
@AT1st I was hoping for the DEFCON soundtrack to be playing.
JarfJam 2 weeks ago
@3:12 - I dare you to blink.
AT1st 2 weeks ago
Watch it in 2x speed. Much better.
Hamtosss 2 weeks ago
2048 nuclear explosions! environmental pollution my ass, it's these nuclear weapons testing that has screwed up the weather across the world.
stinkyninja81 2 weeks ago 21
@stinkyninja81 omg, do you think that all these nuclear blast could have anything to do with the global warming????>
these irresponsible assholes!!!
cruellalovely 2 weeks ago
@stinkyninja81 April 2011 - Part of Grand Elder of Maya Address to The World:
Our recommendation to avoid more suffering is this: No more nuclear testing, no more wars, no more mining and other explorations, no more use of chemicals. This is the only way the human race, the animals and the ancient trees could survive and see the new Sun*. If we do not change, few will be the ones to survive and see the arrival of the 6th Sun.
Said 6 Sun is within 10,20, maybe 50 yrs, super close
sativasymbiosis 2 weeks ago
@stinkyninja81
with what?
each nuclear bomb produces such a minute ammount of actual enviromentaly harmful products it's like a spit in the ocean...
every major factory has a bigger impact on the enviroment each year than all these nukes had...
ChaplainDMK 1 week ago
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How the heaven are the Kazakhs and West Coast people still alive with that doses of radiation? ?
FukutenshiYoufan 2 weeks ago
@FukutenshiYoufan: Hmmmmm.... Perhaps you don't know everything you think you know about radiation?
puncheex 1 week ago
Russia nuked every part of their country... no wonder noone wants to live there.
havabighed 2 weeks ago 2
@havabighed yet another stupid kid...
NV30Over 2 weeks ago
Note to self... never move to the west coast unless you want to die of cancer.
havabighed 2 weeks ago
@havabighed: I'm sure that works fine for those who live there. They don't need you there either.
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FukutenshiYoufan 2 weeks ago
Smart Americans! They did some of the nuclear test explosions FAR AWAY from their country and NEAR my country in Pacific Ocean......... Well but lots of the other tests are in still West Coast tough.
FukutenshiYoufan 2 weeks ago
USA!! US...wait.....oh dear.
cameronevensen 2 weeks ago
Great!!! I don't care about global warming anymore. I will probably sell that eco-friendly car I just bought and may be I'll never recycle anything again in my life...
horizonTranscended 2 weeks ago
Most were underground explosions to get rid of them
wardraketank 2 weeks ago
How is there still a west coast?
flanipani 3 weeks ago 60
@flanipani I agree, and with all that radiation, I'm surprised life as we know it still exists!
coacocoke123 2 weeks ago
see... tecno is destoying the world
TheMrNickP 3 weeks ago
weird how almost all of the USA nukes were IN the USA hahahaahahahahahahahahahaha fail
Gewarty 3 weeks ago
@Gewarty tests dipshit
TheMrNickP 3 weeks ago
@TheMrNickP then "test" in the ocean like all the others
Gewarty 3 weeks ago
@Gewarty It's the Los Alamos proving grounds. A lot of those are underground.
SaturnVII 2 weeks ago
@SaturnVII: Uhhhhh, no. All the tests, except for a few Plowshare experiments, were at the Nevada Proving Grounds north of Las Vegas.
puncheex 1 week ago
Congrats BASTARDS !!!!
realself888 3 weeks ago
At 4:34 it gets crazy
OoNBSoO 3 weeks ago
It's truly unbelievable how much man kind has invested in destruction. I wonder how all this will work out... hmmm..
cdickwrite 3 weeks ago
@cdickwrite you know what they say, you get in what you put out.
JesseDegenerate 2 weeks ago
I'm just thinking how much different this vid would be if the flashes were proportionate (even logarithmically) to the yields. Ivy Mike, Castle Bravo, and Tsar Bomba would probably make people jump.
aftercolumbia 3 weeks ago
@aftercolumbia if they were proportionate you probably couldnt even see them at this scale ;) besides, its not the initial damage that is the problem...were do people think all of the radiation went from these 2053 explosions? most likly, into our bodies giving us lots of cancer an stuff. isnt science brilliant!
MvPxBlackHawk 3 weeks ago
@MvPxBlackHawk I meant proportionate to each other, not realistic (besides, they can be easily seen from space. Vela satellites designed to detect them were in supersynchronous orbits, and got more than they bargained for: They discovered extragalactic gamma ray bursts.) Example: Castle-Bravo was almost exactly 1000x the yield of Crossroads-Baker. I proposed making it three times as bright on a vid like this.
aftercolumbia 3 weeks ago
@MvPxBlackHawk: Well, no. Most of it has decayed. Some long lived, mildly radioactive isotopes are buried in the soil and oceans beds.
puncheex 1 week ago
i don't get it. at @10:54 is that how many nuclear bombs each country has`?
nextonnaruto 3 weeks ago
@nextonnaruto not how many they have, how many they have detonated. only 2 have been dropped on targets, the over 2051 were tests in the middle of nowhere, but still...im sure all that radiation is creating alot of problems around the planet. people wonder why there is so much cancer??? we have detonated over 200 nuclear bombs!!! were still such a primitive species really... :/ anyway, ill stop ranting haha
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nochillarickroller 3 weeks ago
Powers of the world they call themselfs. I call them the most idiotic beings ever walked the earth.
It is time people all over the world take away the power of all governments. And destroy all these weapons of mass destruction. Time to wake up people. Guns don't bring friends, they bring enemy' s. Ban all weapons. Everywhere.
emc4u2 3 weeks ago