Atomic Cannon Sequence in HD

[hayden50]

wow, super quality footage..

[DCfreak87]

Nuclear weapons are for pussies. I blame Albert Einstein for even coming up with this shit for mixing plutonium and all this other shit to make nuclear bombs

[TheRinzl3r]

@DCfreak87 Einstein actually discouraged usage of the A-bombs.

[DCfreak87]

Ok let me ask this, how the fuck is this real? There's no fuckin way those cameras can stand that nuclear blast

[atomcentral]

@DCfreak87 The cameras are protected and the film is resistant to the nuclear radiation. Detailed explanations are given in my book "How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb." The copies are almost sold out and there isn't going to be another printing.

[DCfreak87]

@atomcentral Oh ok thanks man i was watching this is american history today and I was asking myself how can these stand the blast lol

[geonerd]

@DCfreak87 Why do you say that? The pressure required to overturn a boxcar is roughly equivalent to a ~100 MPH wind. Buildings survive that level of stress all the time.

[aNuclearfilms]

How is this such good quality?!

[TheRinzl3r]

@aNuclearfilms It's film. Film has very high resolution, even by today's standards. It's equivalent to 20 megapixels. This is because it uses silver halide crystals, which are very small.

[SlipKNoTHnS]

OMFG Just imagine a war between U.S.A , Japan and Russia :O OMG This would really be the Apocalypse

ta dadada dam dadada dam :)

[CL137626]

What causes the big flash?

[deiu9999]

what`s at 1:12?

[CL137626]

@deiu9999 Pigs. 

[deiu9999]

@CL137626 oh I thought it was an animal but not sure.. now I`m sure :D

[Sagebrusher07]

@ikaCanadian

I bet they had armored vehicles there, footage is probably still classified

[lforlight]

This is totally bullshit. This cannon isn't in the size of an atom! That's a misleading title!

[xxmicah864xx]

i want tree house now if there ever is a nuclear war

[ASSHOLELA]

0:57 CnC generals nuke cannon pic.

[Waltham1892]

Red Leg, drop 50 and fire for effect...

[focista6]

is this real footage?

[berenbotje1934]

@MrAwesomesauceNate they didnt feel a thing thankfully

[ciclone6969]

Terrível!

[AboDi22lalala]

yes nuke all those trees mustache man

[RIZZFTW]

0:56 LOL its the picture for the Nuclear Cannon in Command and Conquer Generals china side

[Wassamattawityou]

What's the point of an artillery type nuclear weapon if you can't possibly fire it far enough to avoid being killed by the blast?

[AutoPsychotic]

@Wassamattawityou You can though. In this instance, the target was about 7 miles from the cannon. The blast only kills (immediately) everything within about a 2 mile radius.

[catsnorkel]

@neurel111 it must have been added on in editing. the sound was probably also recorded from much further away, or from a different explosion, otherwise the microphone would have peaked.

[atomcentral]

The cameras are mounted on 17ft high tripods which are designed to withstand the force of the shockwave (at 5-10 psi).

[DrugsNmetal666]

@atomcentral you seem to be a professional on these things... but how the hell this camera can stand that nice little heat...?

[Timeworncobra]

WHY IS THE CAMERA NOT FLYING AROUND? FAKE AND GAY

[LorenStevens]

We need to destroy the Shagohod!

[Jerbod2]

Amazing but... jesus.

[juaxox]

It's just beautiful and sad!

[neurel111]

I like it how we hear the sound of the bomb going off at the SAME time we see the flash... is this fake footage?

[gatorboy530]

@neurel111 no, back then the camera and the microphone werent in the same device. They were probably just a few seconds off when aligning the two

[mckseal]

@neurel111

These cameras are generally not set up to record sound, so the audio is faked. The footage in this case is legitimate.

[AutoPsychotic]

@neurel111 I imagine they 'corrected' the sync of audio and video afterward to make it match up.

[Sumosak]

@neurel111 re-edited the sound...

[berenbotje1934]

@neurel111 Yea first the description said: sound effect added..

[SongOfTheEveningSun]

@neurel111 You actually think that the footage is fake, and not that dumb sound effect instead?? ...come on! 

[CL137626]

@neurel111 No, they just added sound effects.

[TheRazorbackpilot]

@neurel111 No, it's real alright. The sound is added in because back then movie film cameras did not come with sound. You wanted sound you brought a separate recorder.

[TheRazorbackpilot]

@neurel111 To clarify this sound is added in by the editors of the film. Quite common.

[TheDataHero99]

why wont stop these bomb it so dangers

[Lecturne]

How did the cameras capturing this not get destroyed?

[TeamCTKVideos]

@Lecturne the cameras were encased in lead and steel cases that could withstand the blast and radiation

[svennieboyxd]

is it real

[drrichfield]

What is that 1:12?

[Nerwik]

@drrichfield

piggies I believe :D

bacon !

[drrichfield]

@Nerwik very sad.

[armageddin112]

and so.. chuck norris was born.

[Gr8The]

would be very great if call of duty makes a game with a scene like this

[Sagebrusher07]

@Gr8The

Opponents from 7 miles away drop this on you...Game Over unless you're in a serious bunker

[F0ulimm]

pls hit Justin Bieber

[Gamma287]

Don't drop it Jim, it'll blow off your hand...

[234111Colocha]

WTF BOOOM

[KayFrankThomas]

In Soviet Russia, this tank has wheels and can accelerate and launch in the same time, allowing super extended detonation range. LOL JK I PLAY MGS SNAKE EATER

[zuzisa1999]

0:47

[TtopMusic]

That's straight up the scariest fucking thing I've ever seen

[revorocks123]

Before the shockwave, I saw a load of brown dust come off everything, the house, the bus etc. Is that the paint vapourising?

[ToothpickMcBrainy]

@revorocks123

Yup. The flash is so intense it can spot-vaporize paint. Think of what it would do to your skin.

[puncheex]

@revorocks123: The thermal front considerably outruns the shock wave; in fact, it accelerates to the speed of light as it gets away from the x-rays in the fireball, while the shock wave slows down from supersonic to the speed of sound.

[ThisIsntMyTaco]

is there anywhere i can get this without a watermark or text for cinematic purposes?

[atomcentral]

@ThisIsntMyTaco this is from "Trinity and Beyond" and can be purchased on blu ray on atomcentralstore or Amazon or purchased for download on itunes, netflix etc.

[puncheex]

@ThisIsntMyTaco: The original official film, which is slightly different, is available on this video: watch?v=acCSuBgewJk , starting about 9:10.

[morganiothegamer]

"Atomic cannon sequence in HD"

Thats a title that attracts me!

[gunzcontrol]

I wish we had this weapon back in 1941 in the time when germans attacked us, many lives could have been spared.

[crossbredfenix360]

mini nuke.....

[StrangeDeimos]

question: Before the cannon fires the shell there is already a dustcloud/smoke present to the right of the intended point of impact. (Like there has been an explosion prior)

What is that?

[atomcentral]

@StrangeDeimos there are rocket trails and a smoke screen experiment going on at the intended burst point. The smoke rocket trails make the shockwave more visible.

[StrangeDeimos]

@atomcentral thnx, I knew about the the rocket trails. What was the purpose of the smokescreen? Also some sort of shockwave analysis?

[Sagebrusher07]

@StrangeDeimos

i just found it explained here...

watch?v=acCSuBgewJk

[puncheex]

@StrangeDeimos: That's a smudge pot to show the prevailing winds in the area.

[mu3safi]

Which idiot will use a canon to launch atomic attack? It will land only on the land that the canon is in. That's why missiles were invented.

[puncheex]

@mu3safi: It is, of course, a tactical, not a strategic, weapon. You must remember this is 1953, when most rockets are considerably less accurate than artillery. You don't want to trust a nuke to a Katusha.

[1thenice]

there were at least 20 of the cannons manufactured at Watervliet and Watertown Arsenals, at a cost of $800,000 each.

[uranbanan]

0:47 i farted

[MsWilderman]

that aint no smoke rocket that is a nuclear shell...

[dboy11368]

i never realized until now that this could have been fired from battleships and aircraft carriers.

[puncheex]

@dboy11368: That's kind of funny; as far as I know, there was never any attempt to create such a shell for surface ship warfare. Torpedoes, bombs and depth charges, and ASROC, for sure.

[TheGoodChap]

The only thing I that bothers me is the pig on the right that is wriggling from the radiation burns :( I have a weak spot for animals. But this is timid compared to a lot of experimentation considering they lived.

[t3subde]

0:58

[0815tdl]

What have we done?

[StrangeDeimos]

This stuff gave John Wayne cancer.

[puncheex]

@StrangeDeimos: John Wayne provided his own cancer sticks. He admitted it himself, and never tried to lay the blame on anything or anyone else. Why should you?

[SundjerTV]

I didn't know that this clip has been used for making the beginning of music video Dunja Ilić - Šefica podzemlja o.O

[Gangway1111]

The Terrans need this for Starcraft 3

[sassari1996]

the hiroshima bomb was 10 kilotons this is 15

[Myusernamerulez]

@sassari1996

hiroshima was 15

[buddhapotpie]

BUNNIES IN CAGES GETTING NUKED?! Dumbasses. You cant kill bunnies like that.... You have to sever their head with a nail from the original crucifix, stuff their chest cavities with wolves bane, and have hillary clinton pee upon them while reading the bible backwards. Amateurs.

[jimjam3442]

@buddhapotpie top comment fail. derp..

[buddhapotpie]

@jimjam3442 Attention walmart shoppers: jimjam is moving the skin flap on his face up and down - marvel at the sounds that come out. Glad ole jimjams around to remind us of why they still allow abortions. Hey man - where do I cash in my jimjam points I get for owning on you: I want to get the jimjam hot cousins of 2011 calender. Anyways Im going to let you get back to your hi-score at the game of epic life fail, you freakin neck bearded mouth breather.

[jimjam3442]

@buddhapotpie i love yuu

[buddhapotpie]

@jimjam3442 friends again? hugs! i missed u

[jimjam3442]

@buddhapotpie a fat bich just ate a twinkee

[vasilikosolov]

brighter than the sun...

[Fourteen88SoCal]

Fucking awesome!

Who knew something so devastating would be so beautiful!

[FR3DisGAY]

we could use this in world of tanks

[AnimeFanatic5602]

@IxSYNCHRONISITYxI They were placed in steel balls on top of towers. Try looking up "Photographing the Atomic Bomb" here on Youtube.

[VulcanofWar]

O shit that's a monster imagine if we fired that at Mars... and they are like WTF IS IT???

[bbphnix]

Disgusting weapon......

[DarkStar23961]

That shell is actually Chuck Norris sperm and the cannon his dick

[GuitarzMyThing]

.... 0:44 MOM!! I KNOW WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS!!

[prjerry7]

70's arms build up was scary. The soviets made a huge terrestrial military complex, USA's was also pretty large. Both made small nuclear wepons in the masses, both made military equipment resistant to radiation and electromagnetism, basically if they nuked it out the military would be the least prone to harm in a war.

[LJGB1]

The tall columns of smoke are there to measure the effect of the blast on the air. They bend and sway due to the blastwave and are a good visual indicator of how the air behaves.

[kemard3981370]

WAW, how can something so destructive be so beautiful?? only superman could survive that balst.

[kemard3981370]

WAW, how can something so destructive be so beautiful??

[iBlackz]

This destroying our earth and living beings...dem u scientist!

[TheSpySapper]

Fallout 3?

[dikkekak2]

@TheSpySapper Dude, i have to experience this. Time to blow megatron away!

[GMdark11]

how did the cameraman survive? lmao

[jerryhello100]

This is what we should to to china so we don't have to pay back the debt. And other shitty countries that don't like it. I think that's what it's coming to.

[aqr20197]

so this is where C&C generals got the idea from....

[skiIler]

Well I know what ill be asking santa this year :D!

[frymish]

VSAUCE!!



[BeRealistik]

Where can I buy this?

[Alanss27]

@UrNorsk1987 Idiot, don't speak crap, you don't know nothing about cannons go read a book child.

[Alanss27]

This is fake... This is a german cannon called Gustav Dora something did't remember the name, is a super cannon but not nuclear/atomic.

Search in Google about that.

[4evermarching]

i was just waiting for chuck norris to be standing in the middle at the end

[su43berkut17]

i wonder hoy many innocent american animals died in that explosion

[Feonalilly]

@su43berkut17 who gives a fuck

[ScarletGhost4356]

@Feonalilly Imagine it being humans.

[Feonalilly]

@ScarletGhost4356

that'd be worse than animals

[MrAndreasDuck]

Imagine how the effects on that stuff would've been if that was the Tsar Bomba!

[olirulz111]

and that was only 15 kilotons... 

[freestyle9697]

the only thing i would truly be scared of is a mushroom cloud ,.....and devils

[freestyle9697]

CHUCK NORRIS SNEZZED



[delavalmilker]

Cheesy, melodramatic music ruins the sequence.

[Eduardsal]

At 1:20... what was in there?? animals?

[thomasford]

@Eduardsal

Pigs I believe. I saw on a documentary a long time ago.

[ericR98]

@Eduardsal Bunnies if I remember correctly...

[Kastelvani]

nice its the area

[atomcentral]

they are smoke rockets. you can read about them on my website:

atomcentral. Look up History, then Atomic Smoke Trails. Sorry I can't give you a direct link but YouTube doesn't like links in correspondences.

[DizzyKayKay]

What are the smoky streams on the right side of the mushroom cloud after the flash clears up? Rocks? Shrapnel?

[Stripdancer100]

It produced the most beautiful mushroom cloud in history, the one that inspired a lot of artists to put it into Starcraft game, album covers, etc.

[iClubNights]

did chuck norris just fart?

[mrlevrot]

@iClubNights no he didn't you unoriginal faggot

[iClubNights]

@mrlevrot lol internet tough guy....get a life loser

[Ra84]

You could have deleted the roasted-skinned-pigs scene... ¬¬ Yeah, yeah, "if you don't like it don't watch it"... but still disgusting...

[atomcentral]

The Chuck Norris comments never seem to stop

[R41NCH1LD85]

@atomcentral

i think he will not give up until everybody noticed him...

chuck, it's enough !

[MrOlekul]

how to get highest comment rate on youtube:

make chucknorris-jokes

make sovjet russia-jokes

make justinbeaber-jokes

make your own jokes :D

enjoy getting commentrates :S hihihi

[xKriizpy]

And thus, Chuck Norris was born.

[ArgentDawn55]

is this real

[treguard1982]

1:10 They were testing pigs there I believe weren't they?

[atomcentral]

if a nuke was fired onto the side of the moon facing the earth, everyone would see it. If it was fired on the side of the moon away from the earth, no one would see it, including the people who launched it. What would be learned?

[Kaeralho]

@atomcentral if it was fired on the dark side of the moon, it would be detectable for we have instruments on the moon to keep it's orbit. even if it's a small nuclear device, it would sound the alarms. if it were around 1 MT, I really think it could knock the moon out of it's orbit. and if it were on the dark side... well... the moon probably would be thrown towards the earth and we would be in deep trouble =D

[metalraider187]

@Kaeralho most celestial objects the moon is hit by every day hit harder than a nuke would, yet its orbit has not been affected by them in a major way since the moon itself was being created. either way to protect the equipment ON the moon they would make it an atmospheric burst above ground, or whatever "atmosphere" the moon has.

[Kaeralho]

@atomcentral line 2 "keep track* of it's orbit". and as for the nuke... we would probably see it alright

[Deterdalek2]

@atomcentral that humans are retarded for screwing around with something we have no control over -.-'?

[xTheIDudex]

everybody says the tsar bomb was the biggest but i do not believe it the us has launched many nukes not on record the biggest were launched behind the moon

[rasszist]

idiot



[twinkstance]

can some1 tell me why the flash is at the same time of the explosion? is it edited? i do have to admit it sounds so awsome! but it would be cooler to see the flash, wait a few secs and then hear the boom :)

[puncheex]

@twinkstance: The sound was heavily edited.

[Djan89xXx]

such a bomb they should have used for osama

[kwajarox]

@Djan89xXx yea killing Asians and Arabs is always the first solution for westerners... too bad the rest of us are human too, right?

[Djan89xXx]

@kwajarox

osama was the biggst terrorist in world so whats the problem , if he would have been european same !

[yaricksgym]

and.... they all have cancer

[atomcentral]

the cut before the bang is basically cutting out the time it takes for the shell to reach its destination before it explodes or you would be sitting there for a long time waiting for the explosion. It takes time for the shell to travel about 8 miles.

[MultiJerkku]

@atomcentral Well the time between firing and detonation is about 19 seconds so thats not too long time.

[RGMadSimon]

there's a cut right before it bangs, and what are those columns of smoke at the right of the explosion? they weren't there before...? Seems they cut something...?

[Sagebrusher07]

@RGMadSimon

There's a few seconds cut because it takes awhile for the shell to travel 8 miles. The columns are small rockets for testing purposes.

[MrSambaboy]

...And Chuck Norris was born.

[adventururer]

That's one way to win a war

[syrus1029384756]

Haha yep. This what we do. Invent barbaric weapons, but we all know, some day this shit will be deployed against us. Fuck, us americans are retarded.

[marlino321]

@syrus1029384756 :s fucking weapons!!

[marlino321]

THIS CANNON VIDEO IS FAKE, AN NUCLEAR WARHEAD CANNOT BE LAUNCHED BY A CANNON, NOTICE HOW TE VIDEO SPLITS JUST BEFORE THE DETONATION, THE BOMB IS UNSTABLE FOR THAT, THE DETONATION IS REAL, BUT NOT DE LAUNCH BY THIS PATHETIC CANNON. THEY WAS ONLY TRYING TO INTIMIDATE THE WORLD WITH A DIFERENT WAY TO USE THIS BOMBS

[spartandbz]

@marlino321 YOU are a dumbass u peace of shit garbage ass mother fucker, go back to sucking your dads dick. THIS IS AMERICA! WE DO SHIT THE RIGHT WAY, AND WHEN WE WANT TO SCARE THE LIVING SHIT OUTA SOME OTHER PEACE 'O SHIT NATION, WE DO IT PROUDLY, BALLS HANGING OUT AND GUN TO THIER TEMPLE! I guess some people just have'nt learned that yet...

@spartandbz hahahahaha take it easy pretty white boy, I am sure that your nation can do anything!!! like detect and stop 2 planes that crashed in the same place and same time, wait a minute, that was from a shit nation,So dude, forgive me if i dont beleve all y