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  • Man, did any one NOT smoke back then???

  • @repairdrive Nope, it was heaven...

  • @OzzyFan87 lol

  • What is the exact type of jet used? Like the one at 7:42?

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  • some stupid idiots, and i am sure they are just a handful...will blow up this planet someday

  • What are these stripes next to the cloud?

  • Guy at 43:35 clearly says 'awesome' very funny. I was wondering, does anyone know if there have been medical followups of these men? and did any get compensation?

  • My Uncle was at the Nevada Test Site in the early 50's. He would have been 76 now if he didn't die of cancer at age 41. Most of his troop has died!

  • My uncle would be 76 if he didn't die at age 41 of cancer from being stationed at the Nevada Site in the early 50's. It's so sad to watch the troops walking towards the bomb!

  • My uncle would be 76 if he didn't die at age 41 of cancer from being stationed at the Nevada Site in the early 50's. It's so sad to watch the troops walking towards the bomb!

  • 24:40 bit left out?

  • why is any of this classified? does it talk about how to gain plutonium?

    just wondering?

  • My Grandfather was TDY'd to a test range there back in the 50's. He made it all the way to age 56 before dying of lung cancer :(. Those poor soldiers ...

  • Was tritium used for boosting this early on? Interesting history thanks!!

  • It seems the tests were two fold. 1. Design and yield prediction for these bombs. 2. What a tactical environment would be for field units following a nuke being dropped. Can anybody be combat effective in close proximity of an atomic blast? Developing a doctrine for tactical nuking to defend ground forces is way-out-there kind of thinking. In this post modern world; with the US taking a pro-active offensive stance... we seriously have to revisit these vaults for planning?

  • Order of the Mushroom Initiatory Rituals.

  • wow that was the longest cigarette advert ive ever seen

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  • "Ein wichtiges Zeitdokument" - es gab vermutlich "1952" noch keine Strahlen Messgeräte.. welche Sorglosigkeit den Menschen, Soldaten gegenüber.. die Bomben waren ja zu dieser Anfangszeit "A -Bomb" noch sehr stark Plutonium haltig.

    Ja, es werden viele, dieser im Film zu sehenden Menschen schon relativ jung gestorben sein... primär an dem "Plutonium Fallout" secundär an der direkten sehr nahen "Gammastrahlung" sich befindend... open end.

  • @richard6183

    Der Geigerzähler wurde 1928 von den Physikern Hans Geiger und Walther Müller in Kiel erfunden.

    Allerdings wurde die Gefahr natürlich krass unterschätzt^^

  • This is saddening.

  • awesome footage, love it

  • Jesus 8 bombs?!? Did they ever test in Utah?

  • @TheZepmeister: No, Utah didn't get to share in the spoils.

  • Everything had a soundtrack in the 50's.Lol

  • Jesus it makes it look like just another day in the park.

  • Wow. Every nuclear power did this. I saw one of an airburst and the Brit soldiers saying they could see the bones in their hands while covering their eyes. That was a mile or so away with their backs to the explosion! How much was left out of this video? It, specifically, states that it was "sanitized".

  • thats an urban legend based on a misinterpretation of physics

  • @cosmictyger A lot of guys that were at Operation Plumbob in Nevada said they could see their bones too. Quite a few at that test suffered effects afterwards.

  • @TheZepmeister Lot of bull. I was there for the May 1, 1952 air drop and participated. The so-called aftereffects are the product of some one's mind. Didn't happen. See your bones. With what an x-ray. Get serious and think beofre you write.

  • @navydoctrinidad

    Could you describe your experience? and please express yourself about claims of ''seeing your own bones'', from my thinking I believe any 'I saw my bones' experience probably came from soldiers covering their eyes with their hands and the intense visible light, that for the most part, would have been blocked by bone but Skin and muscle would not have blocked the visible intense light. I find it hard to believe but they may have been telling the truth, What are your thoughts?

  • @marmaladekamikaze On May 1, 1952 I was in the trench, kneeling and looking down as ordered. The air burst was the brightest light I have ever seen. The desert floor was brilliantly white. I saw no "bones" or "x-ray" type scenes. No one else did either. That is marlarkey. The burst was followed by the sound, the loudest bang I have ever heard, then came the blast wind (Shock wave) , going and coming. Awesome experience. I no of one who has ever had any after effects. Best to you. Charlie

  • @navydoctrinidad Did the explosion have a strange sound?

  • @SupremeAmerican No. Just the loudest "Bang" I have ever heard. It was pointed out to us by the Staff that most of the sound we had ever heard was the result of "slow motion film." Evidently the slow motion was made to show the explosion drawn out over a period of time. Well it is an instantaneous hugh, loud, bright, awesome thing to behold. By the time we were told to stand up in the trenchs the mushroom cloud was well up in the sky. No slow rolling effect as we had all seen in the movies.

  • @navydoctrinidad i watched a program about castle bravo and a guy in it on a ship near it said he could see his bones in his hands, could it be because it was so much more powerful than this one?

  • @jm357m Don't know. I suppose if one could interject their hand between the intense light from the explosion and their own eyes, they might see some sort of outline of their hand or arm. However, I don't think they could look at it because of the intense light, several times the brillance of the sun, instantly. You would close your eyes by reflex. Remember all the shipboard tests from Bikini the folks all wore heavy goggles.. In all, I don't believe folks have been given x-ray vision. Charlie

  • @marmaladekamikaze This is another follow up. The narrative beneath the above video says that the Marine Corps mission was aborted after the blast on May 1, 1952. That is not true. We went to ground zero after the blast and was shown all the devastation to buiildings, armored vehicles, regular homes, entrenched troops, airplanes, all sorts of things. After this we were measured for radiation and we went back to Camp Desert Rock. Charlie

  • @navydoctrinidad

    You should contact NuclearVault about that he'd be interested in annotating the video! and write a blog of your experience, I think a Cold War and Nuclear testing archive is in the works akin to the BBC 'Blitz' archive

  • @cosmictyger

    I don't think it is really sanitized - the film itself is unclassified, which is different from declassified (with deletions), as happens for many of the other DoE films. In other words, i think the "sanitized" disclaimer is put only as a standard, even if no actual editing of the film has took place. Indeed around 1998 they changed disclaimer (see the more recently declassified films for comparison)

  • I have to correct myself, there IS indeed something which has been blocked out: the soundtrack between 24:38 - 24:48 and between 25:13 - 25:24. That's all, for what I can see - the length, according to the motion picture catalogs of this formerly secret films (avaiable from OSTI Opennet and other sources), is the same (about 47 minutes; some sources say 45 minutes, but keep in mind that they always reported the approximate duration).

  • I have to correct myself, there IS indeed something which has been blocked out: the soundtrack between 24:38 - 24:48 and between 25:13 - 25:24. That's all, for what I can see - the length is coherent with the one reported on various motion picture catalogs of formerly secret films (avaiable from OSTI Opennet and other sources).

    My apologies for the error, seems that my memory is a bit rusty :-)

    (It still puzzles me a bit: it is unclassified, yet it lacks 20 seconds of dialogue...who knows!)

  • @Pirlinetor: In the middle there are a couple of blank spots in the audio track; that is likely where it was sanitized.

  • Great vid!

    Incredible in our current digital day and age to envision this level of scientific research and achievement done with slide rules, pencils, and chalkboards.

  • Why would we even consider doing this on our home planet? 8 times? I bet the extraterrestrials thought "Oh no, the kids found the matches" Its a matter of time until they teach us a lesson in biology and the benifits of free energy We have the initiative to try our hand at destruction...wheres the initiative to create a living symbiot capable of transporting us from point A to point B. We had all this technology 50 years ago and we are still using ballistics to eliminate a threat? Come on nowUSA

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  • Nuclear weapon is a key factor of self-defenсe of a country.

  • All you ppl post things about how bad americaans are for having this power are just scared. And also think of this, ppl from France and Sweden UK and so on benefit from theses test since your countrys make more nuclear electrical power then any other country. so without the americans you all would be in the dark right now so go get fucked.

  • @brianhilligoss Afraid? Yes, I am afraid of what people with too much power do to the rest of us! Yes, I am scared of the excess amount of cancer deaths, birth defects, mutated sea life and mass amounts of siesmic activity. I blame EVERY country testing these damn things. Get fucked you say? They've already fucked us! Enjoy your cancer!

  • Until 2009 United States was the only country to have passed a legislative act concerning the compensation of victims, civilian and military, suffering from the effects of nuclear testing and has paid more than $1 billion to said victims. In 2009 France began drawing up legislation to compensate victims of their nuclear testing programs, almost 20 years after America.

  • why do you watch this if it makes you so sick?

  • You Argentinians are weak. How about those Falkland Islands? Got your ass kicked out in a hurry!! By a bunch of limeys,no less!!

  • let me guess you are from the uk, atleast our goverment didn;t put armed forces personel under a bomb your gov did you dirt back.

  • This is SO sick to watch. The US gov. KNEW about the radiation levels and yet they sent troops so they can collect data from each individ.

    This is so sick to watch...AND YOU AMERICANS BLAME TERRORISTS and why they take they'r lives in explosions. Here you got the answer: They dont want to be a part of your gov (period)

    Just wonder what kind of test they ran in the latest wars?

  • Cause no other govt ever did anything even close to that, right...

  • Right and nobody learned anything from that era and thats why the United States wantonly uses nuclear weapons to this day? I mean America nukes other countries all the time don't they? Also they're the only ones who participated in nuclear tests like this, right?

  • yea its called accepted loss risk, every thing the military does is associated with a risk of loss, the results were accepted in gathering info from the test site and every soldier there knew the risk and accepted them you dumb fuck ass wipe. i wish i was alive back then i would of been more then happy to help my gov grow in atomic resource.

  • @brianhilligoss Wow you again? Anger much? Lay off the steroids and read a book! Take your balls off of your collar and look deeper at the effects STILL being caused by this stupidity. I'm not attacking the US, I live here. The point in the matter is the people we pay to protect us used us a guinea pigs and that is NOT their job. Screwing with power they can't control or forsee the lasting damage.

  • also you faggit country also did under ground test and the radiation got into your ground water you fag.

  • Hello folks, it was I that commented on this video (used a friend's login name northernkentuckydiva ) saying my father was in this operation and always love hearing him describe the bomb going off, all the preperation up to it and all the aftermath after it. I mentioned to him in passing some time ago that people are interested in hearing his side of the story. I will try to pursuade him into making a video. Currently he is lovin life in Tennessee and Florida for the winter months. Thanks!

  • Good, want to hear it too!

  • Can we say thyroid, liver, bone, lung, and brain cancer. The govt. knew this was a death sentance. Openheimer warned them and they lied to the troops. Cancer rates were declassified about 20 yrs. ago. The men behind this should have been put in prison in Nv. at ground zero.

  • My father was in this. He is 77 and is one of the only ones left alive from this operation. I will never get tired of hearing him talk about this.

  • Videotape him talking about it and post on Youtube!

  • @northernkentuckydiva I saw that the comment was directed at you but not actually to you so I thought I would send you a comment. It has been said that we would enjoy hearing your father talk about this, myself included. So as another has stated and others have voted up. Maybe you could video him talking of this and post it for those interested in hearing his story. Thanks, Peace to you AND him.

  • @northernkentuckydiva Glad he's still with you. Look at the cast of the John Wayne movie "The Conqueror" and the people of St George, Utah, which were downwind from a test

  • @northernkentuckydiva He is lucky to be alive. I have to wonder how he avoided the cancer cluster formed by this use of men as guinea pigs.

  • @northernkentuckydiva You are so lucky. I would love to here what he had to say about this

  • @northernkentuckydiva This is a blatantly untrue statement. I was there at DropDog on May 1, 1952. This kind of talk is very harmful. I am sure the veteran referred to in this clip never told the writer that most of participants died. If they did it sure wasn't from the Nuclear Exercise. It was from loose talk.

  • @northernkentuckydiva I am 80 and I have never heard of anyone having a problem from this exercise. Charlie

  • bastard

  • Priceless - "The order of the mushroom"

  • If you watch this and do the math you will realize that these ill informed technicians are out there digging in the ground over which Nukes had been blasted. No PPE,

  • and how most of them died from cancer...

  • Yeah this footage sure was censored obviously. "They" the Govt . cut out the unfortunate incident where many of the soldiers who participated were killed by the rampaging giant mutated Ants, Tarantulas and Scorpions!

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