UNDERWATER NUKE - "POSEIDON" IN REAL LIFE

If you ever watched the amazing movie "Poseidon", you will know the power of water and the weakness of a ship.
In an underwater nuclear explosion, it gets WORSE.

A 2-kilometer wave of boiling water from the atomic explosion can easily capsize and engulf cruise ships and aircraft carriers.

THIS VIDEO shows what would happen if a ship like the "Poseidon" was a victim of a naval nuclear attack.

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Operation Hardtack - 1958
Underwater at 7 kilotons

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Science & Technology

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• atomic
• atom
• nuclear
• nuke
• poseidon
• explosion
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• bang
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• burst
• cloud
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• ship
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• capsize
• sink
• army

[brainburrito]

@lilbro209 Its a tricky issue. I myself have flip-flopped a few times on the did-we-know-it-was-coming thing (I can't even get started, I could talk for days on it lol). I recommend watching the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" to get a basic idea of the events. Its probably the most historically accurate Pearl Harbor movie and is very responsibly non-biased (it was jointly produced by the US and Japan). Also, much of the intel of the time has long been declassified and can easily be found online.

[brainburrito]

@lilbro209 I totally agree. Those who briefly survived the blast suffered disfiguring burns inside and outside their bodies.And the high radiation dose kills white bloodcells so they had no way to resist infection and literally rotted to death.Some wandered around with their skin hanging off like shredded rags.Years later, some women were sterile, many had stillbirths and many more had children who died of leukemia. AND when the Japanese tried to document all this, the US confiscated their film!

[ToonandBBfan]

If I didnt know this was a nuke test I would thought that a blue whale had farted!

[MakavelliMac11]

Poor fishies :(

[sanjoris]

@aCGoDZz acdc - thunderstruck

[aCGoDZz]

Song ??

[101kidkool]

90 people got pwned by the real life poseidon!

[Catsscratchfever]

SURFFFSSS UP...MOFO

[Pryoge1]

good bye boat what where they thinking



[brainburrito]

@marmaladekamikaze My bad! I skipped "#4". Sorry. Each of these excerpts are from different papers (no paper was quoted twice) on pubmed, a search engine will find it for you. There were many more but I thought hey, its like this guy is making me do homework or something :)

Anyway, I obviously HAVE to be wrong about this. You cannot possibly be incorrect. I bet if you said the holocaust or the moon landing never happened, you would be right about that too.

Good luck with life.

[brainburrito]

@marmaladekamikaze

EX #6:

"Thyroid adenomas and cancer commenced appearance ten years after exposure and became a major long-term medical problem."

#7:

"no one agency or person in the U.S. Government was willing to take the responsibility for care of the Marshallese and its financing. The exposed and nonexposed Marshallese had their lifestyle changed, some of their homelands made uninhabitable for several years and could aptly be called "nuclear nomads," an expression coined by others."