The Atomic Cannon

[delavalmilker]

godawful music



[PRlMEHUNTER]

Chuck norris's Side arm

[bliesberg]

NOT THE JEEPSTER! NOOO!!!!!!

[MrSomeidiot13]

What's that thing at :54

[manuiavazzo]

the song?????please

[ih8suvz]

I guess that's one way to strip paint off of a car.

[PS3gamerguide]

0:12

[ProChoiceJesus]

So, I'm curious, and I see this in many nuclear explosion videos. There's several, straight lines of smoke next to, and some distance from, the blast. Are they part of the explosion or something seperate, like an aiming point for the shell (which would've been a big "miss."). They just look odd and they beg the question in me; "why?" Many nuclear blasts have unusual, random-looking patterns of smoke in the strangest places. I guess nuclear explosions are just incredibly different in character?!

[plateshutoverlock]

The way the paint burns off is very creepy!. It reminds me of a dream I had where there was this weird brown cloud outside which suddenly went for my window, made a fwwwwp noise, and caused it to be coated in solid plastic with a cheap window shade texture on it.

[Bewzbucket]

Hm, I wonder how the cameras survived the explosion

[dhbiza]

And WHY is this thing NOT doing service in Afghanistan or Iraq!!!!! As a taxpayer I want to know!! Load her up and let her fly!!!!

[mickystormont]

SOUND AT 14.16 SECONDS MAKES ME CUM

[jeathat]

my dad was part of that nuclear testing in Nevada and were surprised he lived to be 60

[CL137626]

mmmmm..... extra crispy bacon.....

[WakeTheBeast666]

who needs a fucking nuclear artillery gun???

[Dwarf2009]

So pigs are heavier than cars now? :o

[yourmajezty]

@Dwarf2009 so are the cameras. its fake. LOL

[richintalent]

The original 'WTF BOOOOM!!!'

[Brk40]

Anyone know what those long lines of white smoke are that appear next to the explosion?

[FUCKyouANDyourDOG]

This happened in my toilet the day after i visited El Rancho Mexican Bar and Grill.

[BlazinProStyle]

how can the cameras still work?

[ninyae]

@BlazinProStyle Zoom lens maybe?

[8423MusicGenius]

Humans have always tried to find better ways to kill each other. Pretty soon someone will make a weapon that can vaprize the Earth.

[Lucassandro25]

reminds me of Crysis :D

[Krisg9994]

0:21 Wouldn't you see the flash before you hear the roar? Instead of simaltaneously?

[CruelestChris]

@Krisg9994

It's been re-dubbed to conform to the audience's expectations. There's also a slight edit to cut out some of the shell's flight time. Thanks to Hollywood, we tend to expect to hear and see explosions at the same time even though the world doesn't actually work that way.

[Krisg9994]

@CruelestChris Thanks for the info! I was like pretty sure light travelled like 100 times faster than sound lol.

[hitachi088]

@Krisg9994

depends on the distance.

[cvyazov]

Это всё пиздёжь чистой воды.Невозможно было поместить атомный заряд в такой маленький снаряд. Да и при выстреле заряд мог с детонировать в стволе.Вспышку и грохот взрыва мы наблюдаем одновременно,хотя сам грохот должны были услышать через несколько секунд после вспышки пока докатиться ударная волна.В общем то взрыв конечно настоящий,но породила его не эта пушка.

[Alex93russs]

@cvyazov : The American 280-mm the nuclear gun M65 developed in 50th years of the last century for shooting by nuclear shell W-9 in weight about 360 kg

[bass0129]

this is a demonstation of what happens when chuck norris beats off, the cannon is a scaled down version of his penis

[MrMarket24]

That's how Chuck Norris gets the in GTL done!

[zambus50]

☢☢☢☢

[atomcentral]

the heat is causing the paint on the vehicles to burn off.

[OGKUUSH]

@atomcentral what do you think the temperature is on that?

[darkbeetlebot]

@OGKUUSH as hot as the surface of the sun.

[pianokd11]

What is all the black stuff coming off of the buildings before the shockwave?

[Thesupermachine2000]

@pianokd11 Smoke. Things like paint or fabrics with a relatively low ignition point literally eveporate because of the extreme heat from the explosion . Sick :P

[snursmumrik]

the fastest way to clean surroundings:)

[riceicles123]

@rhetrozenberg the rocket trails are visible if you look carefully seconds before the blast. They are more visible when the weapons explosion causes them to reflect the explosions light.

[SCASM7]

i havent seen this about 232345234 times

[killingamps]

That is one nasty toy!

[DarkMedievalTimes1]

There's something not right about this movie, it looks completley fake...

[CruelestChris]

@DarkMedievalTimes1

What you mean is it doesn't look like it does in movies. Reality has a habit of doing that.

[ridewave444]

Amazing

[wille201]

ouch! it hit me in the face!

[alexjudah]

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

[g1234538]

How did they do that shots when it looked as if there was somehow a camera on a pole facing towards objects?

[RedHeadRadulf83]

Watch at 0:31. The heat of the blast just tears the finish off the bus!

[pollanno]

this is a montage, the videos not just one explosion. mostly upshot-knothole grable

[atomcentral]

@pollanno The footage is mostly from Grable (shot 10). The explosion is from Grable, the vehicles are from Grable. The shockwave toward camera and the trees are from Encore (shot 9). They are both Upshot Knothole 1953. Shot 9 and 10 are often studied together because of the damage assessment. Grable was smaller and exploded closer to the ground but developed a precursor and was more damaging.

[atomcentral]

the music is called "The Atomic Cannon" from the soundtrack of the movie "Trinity and Beyond" where the images are from. Its available on Amazon or atomcentral

[Jebotito]

anyone knows the name of soundtrack / backgroundmusic?

[RevolutionRebellion]

I want one

[SecretService80]

Duck 'n Cover, kiddies.

[DavePeller]

Now,whe you see the black smoke from the hopuse from the bottom up,the house is burning right??

[RedHeadRadulf83]

@DavePeller I think so, yes. I saw flames coming from it

[douwethaman]

that shit is sick!

[AsdTbH]

Burn Baby Burn..

[mr0x1]

looks a bit like the dora/schwerer gustav gun from nazi-germany in ww2

[CruelestChris]

@mr0x1

It was based on Dora's smaller brother Leopold, the K5 280mm railway gun. 25 of those were built.

[35FILMPROJECTION11]

Scorcher would say "who left the oven on" it's getting hot in here?"

[Pugzilla69]

morning glory

[laliux32]

why the blast looks like is making a vacuum before touch the buildings etc? and sorry for my english

[LowStuff]

in the original material you can see a 19 Second delay between firiing and impact.

[WarriorTrtle1]

Wow, That's some intense HEAT 4 some1's ass

[Ehund]

disgusting war shit

[Balowin]

its like a 3-7 seconds pause cause you can see the smoke has only moved a few feet

[RhXz47rc]

at 20 seconds in, the video is edited... you can see that the camera is in a different position.

seconds, hours, days or months may have passed inbetween.

i'm not saying nukes dont exist.

just saying that the video looks totally messed up.

[BenHutchinson1]

The gun maker is trying to sell their gun to the army. They don't want the generals to have to wait the entire time the shell is in the air, so they cut the 1 minute shell travel time to less than a minute, so their customers (the army generals) won't walk out and say "borring video". They have a product to sell remember, their gun. So they want the generals to stay long enough to see the video and buy the gun. What I can tell you though is that this gun and it's nuke shot is VERY real! NO FAKE!

[RhXz47rc]

oh yeah, that makes sense.

i wonder what the 10 or so vertical lines of smoke are though, that appear to the right, after the explosion.

would be nice if we could see all these nuke testing videos unedited without the music and and stuff, in their original versions.

[Minnexyz]

The vertical lines of smoke were created by rockets launched just before the blast. You don't see them until they are lit up by light from the fireball.

They did this during many A-bomb tests in Nevada so they could see the shockwave created by the explosion as it moved through the air.

[philritter21]

@BenHutchinson1

Well, you are sort of right. It is edited, but it is edited by the director of this documentary for the view's sake. The actual flight time of the shell was nearly 30 seconds. The canon was made by the Department of Defense. No one is trying to sell it to anybody. It was created for the military by the military. The original declassified footage of this included the full flight time.

[FEFETHIL]

@RhXz47rc the smoke from the shot is still there though.

[Geochron]

I'm proud to have served at Ft. Sill.... home of Atomic Annie.

[MrDoomshroom]

where can i buy one ?

XD

[RhXz47rc]

try eBay

[winfriedstar]

why the camaras did´nt destroyed

[thirdclass2006]

The cameras were in protective, thick steel containers.

Another documentry by Mr. Kuran talks about the methods used to film these events.

[AbelMagwitch73]

First off, this is **FAKE** Atomic weapons are not launched like this.

Secondly, are you serious that you could not work out how the cameras were kept running?

[denavictor]

Ahh, Abel, you can't be blamed for your benign ignorance. You are only partly right. 1) This is not fake, it actually occurred. Atomic cannons were built in the 1950s (20 of them) but were obsolete by 1963. This test was the FIRST and ONLY time an actual nuclear shell was fired from the cannon, with the detonation occurring 7 miles away (I know it LOOKS close, but it really isn't). So atomic weapons are NOT launched like this...ANYMORE! But at one time, Abel, they were...

[AbelMagwitch73]

Ok, I was half wrong. The firing of the gun and the distant mushroom cloud are real and I have confirmed it. However, the films of the trucks flipping over etc do not belong to this video. For a MUCH BETTER video, check my favourites list on my channel. I found the best of the bunch.

[philritter21]

@AbelMagwitch73

The video of the bus, truck, trees, traincars, pigs, and tents are all completely relevant because they were all parts of this test.

[AbelMagwitch73]

@philritter21 I retracted what I said when someone told me about the atomic cannon. However, this video shows footage of several experiments mixed together to give a false impression.

[dayknowsalchemy]

Hmmm...atomic weapons fired from short range cannons seems a little counter-intuitive to me. Then again...it WAS the 50s.

[TheJomogogo]

If that surprises you, wiki the Davy Crockett, it was an atomic warhead from a mortar.

[kr8or]

2 see to what extent the human race would go just 2 create more destruction is just disgusting, so now we need to worry about small portable Cannons in our back yards , who ever facilitated this need 2 be executed.. instead of spending money 2 fight hunger, disease or help shelter the unfortunate , they go spend it on more and more easier to destroy equipment , what a shame

[CruelestChris]

@kr8or

Yes, a small, portable, 84-foot, 83-ton cannon requiring two prime movers to get it anywhere. I can really see those appearing all over the place.

[HellFire0123]

the camera with godmode

[sirplayboy3]

Lol c&c Generals, ahh the memories.

[KSIDINGLExBERRY]

i want one

[stoopidoooo]

HOLY SHIT!

[rhetrozenberg]

There is an edit at 0:21 that cuts out several seconds from the original film. Before 0:21 it can be observed that the rockets hadn't been fired, but after the blast, the rockets trails are clearly visible one second later at 0:22.

[rseferino]

Yes, time of flight in 18 seg. Edit for Trinity and Beyond documental.

[nairda55555]

if the guy who was carying the shell to the cannon accidently dropped it, everyone around would shit bricks even if it didnt detonate.

[dhl1986]

ive always wondered how all the busses and trees and buildings get blown to hell, but the camera filming it all doesnt shake or break in and out not even for a second.... must be using a canon

[roflcopteratweebly]

lol

[rseferino]

see Atomic Filmmakers docuemntal, to see the assembly of special cameras.

[ASmokingFly]

Notice how, before the wind impact hits the objects, it burns off any paint that was once on there, and then blows it to hell.

[pivotyboy]

why dose the wind go forard to the target andthen go back in

[sickler4201]

Low-pressure area behind the initial shockwave. Air flows back into this area to equalize the pressure.

[sanalbey]

did they hit the target or missed?

[SyncThird]

its a test

[sanalbey]

so?

[SyncThird]

ah, turkish ..i got nothing to say to you

[sanalbey]

ha ha haa...swidish...zero sense of humor

[SyncThird]

i am not "swedish"

im from UAE, Dubai ..

you believe everything you see little man

[sanalbey]

it seems you are believing everything you see and everything you read...not me

read all previous treads

[SyncThird]

hm ok

[Attadogga]

A test implies there is no target, they are just witnessing/ recording the possible destruction this weapon can cause.

[NaturesInstinct]

DUCK AND COVER!!!!

[DarkShark190]

Beautiful.

[livaoo]

FAKE!!!!!

[888g5speeddialkid]

what animals were in those cages?

[eatpie345]

Chickens! i think or some other smal animals like a small pig.

[stprimeflyer]

pigs

[vidiii]

I think bunny

[stprimeflyer]

no pigs because they have similar skin and organs than humans

[haloislife08]

Pigs got screwed.

[stprimeflyer]

delicious radio active pigs

[PSNDonutDude]

actually most of them survived until the radiation kicked in

[eventide925]

You are right. Until recently they used pigs in military wound labs due to the simularity to human physiology.

[fruchttragend]

Little pigs, chickens, goats and regular size pigs.

(the pigs is bastly use because his anatomy resemble in many cases our anatomy.)

So they proved in pigs to correlated what would happens to an human being.

Sad think to even write.

[vidviewer401]

I don't think firing a nuke out of a cannon is a very smart thing to do. Certainly not one of U.S.A's shining moments:P

[samasoku]

zoom??? idk...

[pretty619boi]

i have no clue

[Jasike5417]

how did they get tht footage? wouldn't the blast blow up the cameras?

[DaftKnightXBL]

They had an underground camera filming it.

[jckgoldness]

yeah this invention was a total fail seeing as it couldn't even shoot the bomb far enough to where the soldiers wouldn't be injured do to nuclear fallout

[Jasike5417]

r u retarded?!? nuclear fall out spreads everywhere from the blast. it goes around the world but as it gets further, the amount of radiation decreases. so no matter what type of detonating plan, everyone would get radiation.

[thepunisher2]

looks to me like the shell was 105mm.maybe bigger I'm not too sure without actually seeing the shell itself.

[thordoggie]

I think it was a 6 inch (152mm), possibly 155mm. the "little david" warhead could be launched from a 105 mm recoilless rifle i believe.

[thepunisher2]

I believe you are right.I don't know as much about the explosives the military used or still uses as I'd like to be,so thanks for the info.

[thepunisher2]

The biggest cannon the US military used in Korea was the 105mm howitzer if I'm not mistaken,I wonder what the size of the shell the atomic cannon used was.

[thepunisher2]

I wonder what happened to the cannon once testing was completed ? probably got melted down and turned into a paperweight for some 4 star general.

[whoijacket]

@thepunisher2

Actually, I think it's on display at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. They built 20 of these back in the 50s, but this test was the sole time one was ever fired.

[goddesslush]

I think you should know your history more in future before you speak. Much more to it then that. USA developed it first the rest you can educate yourself about.

[bosunbilly]

Actually, the cannon was developed for use in the Korean theater.

[thepunisher2]

Thanks for the info,I was under the impression the US developed the cannon as a weapon against the Russians during the Cold War,I almost forgot about the nuclear research during the Korean conflict.Thanks

[bosunbilly]

And if you think about it, it would have been perfectly suited for that conflict as it was pretty much an field gun war.

But the war ended in 1953, when the cannon was sucessfully tested.

Little known fact: the US military had held privately great enthusiasm for use of atomic weapons in Korea, but the rest of the world wasn't going to go for that.

[koji8123]

Of We wanted to nuke them. Look how quickly the Japanese gave up after the first two? The Koreans wouldn't stand a chance.

However the first two caused great controversy and that's what stopped us. Course we didn't care about the Koreans, we cared that we might be the start of WWIII since the UN would look down upon us,

[bosunbilly]

I take exception to that remark.

As a serviceman serving in the Republic of Korea, we do VERY MUCH care about South Korea and the South Koreans.

[S0vereignty]

I believe he's talking about North Korea.

[bosunbilly]

Then he needs to be a tad more specific.

For the record, I do very much care for the people of North Korea, but their government and Kim Jong Il need to go.

[daddydog97]

So this is where Nicholas Meyer got some of his footage for "The Day After."

[C0ldhead]

Wow, that be sweet to have one of those cannons :D

Johnny I can get the Can opened!

Dont worry, just place it 40 miles from here and ill open it, sure it will even warm the beans inside for you too :D

[goddesslush]

hahaha.. i doubt there be any beans or tin left...

[Floriswar3]

that where 2 diferent bombs

[cvn62]

beautiful

[marf7245]

i think that this cannon can shoot a bom 40 miles

[Vinkun]

es gab immer eine bessere Waffe doch mit den Atombomben ist das limit ereicht

[bosunbilly]

They were shielded.

[UberVulf]

Sheilded how?

[bosunbilly]

Placed in a thick lead box with even thicker lenses.

[UberVulf]

oh i see

[bosunbilly]

They set the camera back substantially from the initial blast because, even encased in a thick box, the heat from the bomb would have reduced it to slag.

But at a relative "safe" distance (for the camera, not you or me) it could beautifully capture the devistating shockwave from the blast.

[gregliam]

0:55 i think those are animals.

[PSI19rox]

Why they dont use this in Iraq?? If they use, they could stop the conflict a few years ago.

[cris92faur]

it inflicts too much colateral damage and the war in iraq isnt faught how they were..when two countries go at it...its indvidual bastards who are responsible...alqueida not iraq. its like trying to burn a match inside a haystack without lighting the hay on fire...its not possible.

[ImRufus]

Tactical nukes that are used on the battlefield such as this, and the davy crockett, were fairly useless as the fallout would likely kill or injure the soldiers for the aggressing side. Like cris92faur says it would also cause considerable collateral damage, not to mention the extreem political implications that would result.

[stuka33]

looks like a german railroad gun

[gregliam]

lol ya

[jannulik]

long-range cannon 280 mm

[mortenchristian]

OMG!!!!!!! if i was trapped in that bus. i couldn't write this message today.

[ImRufus]

Probably not. Well done.

[huntpivot2]

Look at what it did to that bus.....

Yea, like ducking in cover is gonna save you from that!!!

[ricochet188]

don't forget to cover your eyes!

[youloser432]

34 seconds in, when was that test conducted? Was it the Grable test? I've been dieing to know.

[Crashsilumator26343]

Yep it is Grable made in 1953 in the desert of Nevada, USA

[Holi64]

how did the camera's survive? was there actual humans there taping?

[Crashsilumator26343]

Yeah that was my little sister filming

[Lusth0g]

Guys, this vid is NO fake: the US built nukes even for large artillery guns like this one. But if you like, check on Wiki the so called "Davy Crocket" micro nuke. This was a small RPG, shot from a recoilless rifle. It had a yield about 0,5 kilotons.

Trust me, the Vid is definately NO fake!!

[ChrisGS1982]

I believe you, in the 1950's they wanted to use nuclear weapons in the battlefield but they arent suited really. That bomb would flatten my city of York in UK.

[Lusth0g]

I´m german, that means, the US and the USSR would have flatten the whole fuckin country... Damn commies ^^

[DUMB1220]

wasnt it shot from an airplane??

[shaochiavang]

i think this video is fake, the bomb wasn't even that big....i mean, the camera people were right there to take it

[atomcentral]

atomic bombs, even the small ones, are pretty big. Yes, the cameramen were right there, but this wasn't a spur of the moment thing, it was planned, so of course there were cameramen there with lots of cameras. The explosion is actually 8 miles away, the sound was put in almost immediately after the blast because it would have been delayed by about 30 sec and there was slight artistic license. See the extra feature on "Trinity and Beyond" DVD to see an actual delay of the sound.