Nuclear Tests to the 1812 Overature - New Remastered

Updated version of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo48YpNOesQ

When I first uploaded this video, Youtube only supported QVGA resolution videos (320x240) so I down-sized the video to that resolution. Now that Youtube allows for higher quality videos here it is at a higher resolution and remixed with some new, better quality footage.




Note: people are taking this video way too seriously and reading way more into it than they need to. This is just a video of some enormous explosions - the largest mankind has ever produced. Everyone loves explosions, right? They're eyecandy and pretty damn impressive.

These were tests, nobody was hurt directly by these. Yes, we can have a long debate about what the long term concequences of the fallout are and we can turn this into a big argument over the United States' place in the world, the Soviet Union, the Cold War, Hiroshima, the ethics of having nuclear weapons at all, the enviornmental impact of tests, the validity of nuclear weapons as a deterrent, Hiroshima, Nagasaki etc etc etc...

DON'T BE THAT GUY! Just enjoy the goddamned explosions.


You may have seen the 1812 overture done with fireworks before, but here are some REALLY big fireworks. The movie does not account for the fact that it takes time for the sound to get from the explosion to the observer, because it wouldn't look as cool then.

And yes..those troops are very close to the explosions. It was not completely understood at the time the consequences of longterm exposure to fallout. Most of them were okay in the long run, but a few had problems. Too bad...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• bomb
• NTS
• Nevada Test Site
• Bikini Atol
• Enowetok
• Johnston Island
• Teller
• Trinity
• Blast
• Mushroom cloud

[lesorciercalifornien]

Is that Tsar Bomba at 1:02-1:04?

[DrBuzz0]

no. I think that's one of the redwing tests

[jesuslives57]

A testament to mans stupidity but amazing never the less.

[DrBuzz0]

Not sure I would really call it "stupidity," because some of the greatest minds in the history of science were required to produce these things.

I'd say it's more like a testiment to man's inability to get along with his common man. These weapons were built and tested as the result of two basic ideologies, both of which saw being armed to the teeth as the best way of preventing the other from destroying them.

It worked - although it is a shame that it had to come to that.

[Hawaiifive01]

No more calls please: we have our winner.

[willowrhayne]

@wcharles19 some speculate that it does, the other ancient texts speak of a war between the floating cities using arrows of fire that destroyed at least three ancent cities in one blow.

[wcharles19]

@willowrhayne "If the radiance of a thousand suns

Were to burst at once into the sky

That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --

I am become Death,

The shatterer of Worlds."

This was a quote from Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna is explaining to Arjuna what it would be like to see the almighty god (Krishna) in his true form. How eerily perfect this quote can describe nuclear weapons.

[blutus11]

i don't know why i can't stop laughing when i'm watching this.

[willowrhayne]

@DrBuzz0 Oppenheimer, and i apologize for i lack the ability to spell, declared after its first test that he had been reminded of a line, i have become death. i know thats not the whole quote, but it is interesting for me anyway

[NumberZeroZeroSix]

Thanks a lot. I enjoyed the first one and now the better remastered one. * I actually met Dr.Teller, who is shown in this, the charicter on whom Dr. Strangelove is based.

[TheWizardTrembyle]

@DrBuzz0 It's worked so far. As long as there are nukes the threat of thermonuclear Armageddon remains.

[jdhorn123]

I enjoyed all the goddamn explosions as you origionally intended me to do . I also got a boner.

[PrivateRyan798]

i laughed a lot haha, awesome vid