Operation castle : Romeo 11 Mt

[facubichosrojos]

assholes, why these tests? just to show your enemy you have nuclear power, you do deserve to be burned for a massive bomb like these one, just bumps me out, absolutely disrespectful to these beautiful gift nature give us, and just bombing all islands you face, not minding the animals, the vegetal life, as I said, they diserve this explosion up their asses, motherfuckers pieces of shit

[CamiloSanchez1979]

Be ready we will be seeing at least 24 castle romeos on 2012

[skifresh007]

the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 20 to 25 kiltons of TNT Castle romeo was 11 Megatons

kilo=1000

mega=100000

the castle tests were the first multistage thermonuclear weapons

[Nuker1337]

@skifresh007 mega is 1 000 000 not 100 000

[skifresh007]

@Nuker1337 sorry... thxs :D

[hans1066]

14 by 18 miles film size... can you imagine what the fireball must be?!

[MVrockersPS3]

There so pretty. If I could just watch one... at a controlled safe distance of course

[meecenator25]

@MVrockersPS3: My grandfather told me about several of the tests he was in on. He could not emphasize how large the explosions these tests really are.

I know he was there for Castle Bravo, Ivy King and Mike and several others. Plus several tests at the Nevada Test Site.

We think he got cancer that way.

[theawesomone]

even with the video, you get only an inkling of the scale of one of these "events"

[sprengmeister00]

die fiert stärkste bombe die je gezündet wurde

[adamiuszgg]

at end movie is one men and stay in center position

[thecrackmaster]

looks like a hole to hell

[NielsShoe]

Nukes prevented wars between super powers and maybe one day stop an asteroide collision with them.

[xunit94]

@NielsShoe Or possibly crack the earth in half.

[NANOFORGE]

@xunit94 It would take teratons to petatons to crack even a small shuck out of the Earth. The combined yeild of every nuke on earth combined equals about 5,000 megatons, not even close as powerful enough to crack a planet up.

[xunit94]

@NANOFORGE I was exaggerating.. 

[NANOFORGE]

@xunit94 Did'nt know that.

[xunit94]

@NANOFORGE But thanks for the info, really interesting. :)

[monmarfori]

this test picture is overused.

[igrowweedfromaseed]

All youtube needs now is a bomb seen from space :)

[bottomfeeder73]

People are hell-bent on destruction. Idiots.

[MrZulusniper]

Yuu go soviet russia URA

[wadad17]

I would shit my pants and throw up if i looked out into the ocean and saw that. Then i would gather as much of my dignity i had left and run away from a huge as wave.

[RhysETF]

Holy fuck

[viagemixtlan]

man, we could be saving lives with our knowledge ...

[DieserBenuterIstCool]

@DroidNoid

I am detecting sarcasm in your words...if not, you are truly dumb.

[john6102169]

i wonder at the 50 miles away like the narrator was saying if you would feel the heat from this thing or worse burns, radiation or death?

[johnbarleycornmd]

Terrible.

[GloryOfItAll]

and he was an american. boo commies

[GloryOfItAll]

My great grandfather died in Russia went they were experimenting with the Nuclear power.

[xshalludiex]

XX 33 Romeo right?

[TheRenaiged]

@xshalludiex that looks like Bravo

[xshalludiex]

@TheRenaiged Thats what i thought. But when you look at it it does look like Castle Romeo. Bravo was a much larger fireball with a more round looking mushroom cloud

[TheRenaiged]

@xshalludiex that is true but i think the palm trees in the video are from bravo

[xshalludiex]

@TheRenaiged yeah. they are. The bravo millitary test footage (raw) shows those exact same trees.

[RottSimba]

OMFG THATS A HUGE BOMB.they should call this the "Behemoth Bomb"

[MrBoneStripper98]

@RottSimba

na that title goes to the Tsar Bomba.

now that was a HUGE bomb

[NielsShoe]

Mirvs have a small yield compared to the tests but around 5x more powerfull than Hiroshina. With agreement with Russa they reduced ICBMsto 3x mirvs each.

[TheNp42]

The thing to remember is:

Today, we have Minutemen missiles that contain at least 6 warheads, all of them 25mt and upwards. That's 6 cities destroyed. Now multiply 6 by 300 nukes. That's 1800 cities destroyed.

[nehorlavazapalka]

@TheNp42 lol, are you on trip or something? Minuteman misslies carry one appx. 400 kt warhead

[TheNp42]

@nehorlavazapalka

Most modern day ICBMS carry multiple warheads in a single missile.

[nehorlavazapalka]

@TheNp42 That was in the 80s, only MIRVed misslies now are SLBMs

[ZXLNT]

@TheNp42 None of the Minuteman wareheads are in the Mt range. All in the medium to high Kt ranges. W62, W78 or W87 warheads..

[Adramelk]

sad thing is that sucker was detonated right in the crater that Bravo made, making it even Bigger

[PHISHjohnsonPHISH]

awesome

[roquefortfiles]

I read somewhere that if this were dropped on New York it would obliterate all five Burroughs. You'd want to be on Long Island to survive this FAAAAAAUCK.

[Xaio30]

FUUUUUUUUUUCK!!! O_O

[FR3DisGAY]

if you see castle romeo at anotehr angle it will look demonic

[john6102169]

did he say 50 miles? if he did thats nuts and still have a birds eye view thats insane if its 50 miles for 11 mt then i wonder how far u would have to be away from tsar bomb? anyways i would crap my pants look like it opened portal to hell at top

[PanterAmetal100]

Horrible experiments... Nothing to say more...

[seans63lemansSD]

@PanterAmetal100 Its called science. While its terrible that they are weapons, we can't ignore them.

[gnrcr]

Were these tests at night??

[tamenga88]

Daytime.

They used really thick dark filters to get a good view of the Mushroom cloud.

That's how much light the explosion emits.

[BobShuthead]

@gnrcr Like Bravo it was dropped around noon.. with an altemeter set to go off around 500 feet... And like Bravo, our proud (wrong) scientists made an error, assuming that Lithium-7 was inert.. without expert testing... (Idiots) Yeilding a blast more than 2 time what was planned, Which, in expert military terms is DISASTOROUS.. COMPLETELY HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[magnum4magnets82]

@gnrcr

yes

[UnseenCaller]

@gnrcr No they were not at night. Extremely heavy filtering is needed because of the fantastic brightness of the explosion.

[dutchgoing]

@UnseenCaller It isn't filtering so much as starting with the diaphram of the camera lens closed as far as possible to begin with, then opening it up as the detonation goes on past the flash. The normal surroundings look black as night in the early part of this detonation, later on they look more normal.

[Sanders83]

@gnrcr They're not, they're viewed through a lense similar to what you'd use to look at the sun. Without it you wouldn't be able to see a thing cos it'd be too bright.

[charlieiriarte]

@gnrcr actually the test were at day, but the cameras used special filters that obscured the image so that the fireball can be seen.

[kriklan49]

@gnrcr No, it seems so, but they weren´t partly because of the aircrafts taking movies. They had to have visual contact with the ground zero, to be sure they are far enough. And partly because of the scientists taking their measures. ( For example: when dropping the Cherokee, the bomber crew aimed at another island than it was intended and all data was lost. )

[gaguy1967]

@gnrcr Like 4-5am

[nucleartactician]

@gnrcr No. Those are just filters so they can differentiate the flash much more clearly from the background.

[blindandwatching]

The former residents of Bikini sued the government over the test and won. The islands were quite beautiful. Now its a radioactive dump. There is a large pile of radioactive waste that was bulldozed in to a large pile and covered with cement. Its a rather large mound with several vents on it to let the heat out. The radioactivity is starting to decline and the islands should be inhabitable in another 6000 years.

[GATTY22]

is the same film of "castle bravo"?

[Nuker1337]

It says castle romeo in the title...

[MasterChiefNewb]

0:24 wow

i would hate to see what bombs look like now.

[tamenga88]

All retired and scrapped.

Now you have sub Megaton ICBM warheads that can strike with surgical precision.

Bombs in those days needed to be large due to lack of guidance.

If your bomb missed the massive yield might make up for the lack of accuracy.

Now in the 21st century this is no longer a requirement.

Plus large bombs are expensive to stockpile.

[geoffreyah]

radiation sickness. This test was a land test and they completely underestimated the yield which was 15 megatons, sixty or more times the blast of the first atom bomb.

[TheDoctor342]

No that was Castle Bravo, Romeo had been revised already. Romeo had 750 times the destructive power of Trinity.

[tamenga88]

Interesting that Romeo's Mushroom is somewhat larger that Bravo's.

Something to do with detonating it on water?

[geoffreyah]

This test made those beautiful tropical islands bikini completely unlivable and contaminated the other islands forcing all natives to leave them. Some died of ration sickness

[joshuademoraes]

the weight of the picture is 18 miles?....that means, if you were there at 18 miles from the explosion you would be instantly incenareted and the fireball is about 6 miles of weight.That is fantastic

[unb3D6G]

absolutely great.

one celebrated moment in human scientific achievement.

[MrBoneStripper98]

@unb3D6G

a shame something so beautiful hase to be so destructive.....or.....is it...

MUA HA HA ha hu HA-HA-HA

[Janspeed69]

@unb3D6G

Really?

[Quorthon86]

@unb3D6G You stupid faggot what's wrong with you and with the 9 morons that gave your comment thumbs up?

[Silencerof]

@unb3D6G would u say that, if china blast u away with this shit??

[levogiro]

@unb3D6G I agree... the sadness lies in the fact of this power having been unleashed with the purpouse of mass murder...

[joran95]

@unb3D6G Seriously? What has society gained from this?

[xunit94]

@unb3D6G Idiot..

[Nuker1337]

Romeo was 12 MT. It's interesting that both yankee and romeo created larger clouds than bravo, which was 15 MT.

[sabrescupin06]

It depends on where they detonated. Most atmospheric tests were airbursts, to maximize the damage radius. Those that were on the ground, like Trinity leave larger craters, but their radius of destruction is smaller due to the force of the bomb being absorbed by the Earth, hence why most tests were airburts.

[Nuker1337]

Yes, I know that. All of the detonations in the castle series were detonated at ground level, either on barges or small islands. Bravo was detonated near a lot of solid matter (the lagoon and islands were vaporised, forming a crater with a 2 km diameter) and yankee and romeo were in barges I think. This may be the reason bravo created a smaller cloud, since water is more easily vaporised than rock.

[destroyed14MCfly]

@Nuker1337 bravo was a fail detonation

at wikipedia it says that bravo should have detonated with 15 mt but it detonated with 7...Yankee and romeo ware all 12 and 13

now u know better

[Nuker1337]

@destroyed14MCfly No, bravo detonated with 15 megatons, but should have detonated with 6, so it was 2.5x as powerful as it should have been.

[destroyed14MCfly]

@Nuker1337 oh yes ur right sry ^^

[commandersqwigly]

wooooooahhhh

[Bboeing787]

é o peido da minha tia¬¬

[newgeneral01]

sweet