Atomic Bomb Testing After World War II (Part 1)

[Stormclouds777]

War...War never changes...



[MrHEC381991]

..THIS is man making the earth bleed.

[cme98]

"it's radioactive cloud rolls high & drifted harmlessly away leaving the target area free from contamination & safe to enter" (at 6:32) ---it drifted over Utah & dumped its fallout there. Narrator forgot to mention that little detail.

[jen7677]

@cme98 ya i was like ya umm w/e mr narrator, no contamination my ass! and i bet those soldiers were affected later on in life!

[considerthesources]

this is epic

[stuntweasel27]

wow,scary stuff

[mauricio55633]

ok that is kind of wired s5787

[s5787]

dont you just love walking out the door a mushroom cloud in the sky the smell of radiation in the air and the crying of people ah good times

[heartlessvietboy]

That's an awful lot of smoke for just 5 square miles. Very inefficient to me. Like an American automobile.

[mkl62]

July 17, 1962; the day that I made my entrance into the world.

[BooyaaPwned]

why are we destroying our world?

[heukiez]

@BooyaaPwned your right...save the world

[orlandofanofsoccer]

@BooyaaPwned we arent the world will go on without us.

[HoLOLcaust]

@BooyaaPwned for teh lulz

[Doodlebuggie95]

I would have crapped me pants if I was there !

[Tuberinio1949]

I bet half those guys are dead from cancer. Dumb asses.

[ShutTheDown]

@Tuberinio1949 they were randomly chosen. only 3 of about 2,800 survived

[StrangeDeimos]

@ShutTheDown

in the end no one survives, i agree they were misinformed, but the death toll is supposed to be something close to 100% from a test this long ago. if you want to make your point you should make clear in what time period the 2797 people died. otherwise its completely useless info.

[mindrapeart]

@Tuberinio1949 the fallout is still hitting us.they still do tests.that's why the cancer rates are so high.but that's a good thing because there are too many people.hahahaha....just kidding.

[lollazers]

@mindrapeart Yes, fallout persists for at least 60 years, which is why Hiroshima and Nagasaki are highly radioactive craters barren and devoid of all life today.

Oh wait. They're actually big cities, and fallout disperses quickly and the dangerous isotopes have short half-lives.

[mindrapeart]

@lollazers Well you have to consider the different weapons that have been tested. The bombs used in Japan are nothing compared to other nuclear weapons that have been tested.

[lollazers]

@mindrapeart Actually, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated (Tsar Bomba, 50mt) was considered a very "clean" weapon, as it derived 98% of its yield from fusion. A U-238 tamper instead of Pb would be 2x the yield but also a lot of fallout. Earlier designs also were very inefficient, and only fissioned maybe 2% of the U-235/Pu-239. Efficient designs convert more mass into energy. (ex: Little Boy had 64kg of U-235, but only 600mg of it fissioned... ~0.0009%, quite dirty)

[mindrapeart]

@lollazers interesting. Thanks for the info.

[mindrapeart]

@lollazers google Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests and Cancer Risks