U.S. Nuclear Weapon Tests, Operation Redwing; Test Shots Cherokee & Tewa [Full 1080p HD @~24FPS]

All of this video footage was acquired from the Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie Blu-Ray HD disc, and all the video footage was directed and produced by Peter Kuran.

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[ChorltonBrook]

At 1:48. Having ''Explosives, Keep Dry'' written on the side of it seems a bit of a joke. Sobering doc though. Is it true that leukemia was very rare before these tests?

[HiDefTutorials]

@ChorltonBrook Also, remember the Castle Bravo test the worst radiological fallout disaster in U.S. history. After that very test 90% of the inhabitants in the Marshall islands contracted cancer from where that test occurred.

[puncheex]

@HiDefTutorials: it was a B-52 flow off of Fred Island in Eniwetak Atoll, and the reason was human error - the miss-identification of another facility for the beacon they were looking for.

[HiDefTutorials]

@puncheex Yeah that is what I was afraid of I would not really be suprised about that either I always thought that they would not be able to get a clear shot of the explosion I was suprised to know that it was 5 miles of course, and it also confuses me was the bomb dropped by a B-52, or a B-36?

[puncheex]

@HiDefTutorials: You probably have about all there is. It happened at Bikini Atoll, of course, but the drop was way off. It was expected to come down near the area that Castle Bravo carved out, but it exploded about five miles away over open ocean. It screwed up a bunch of experimental findings, and I wouldn't be surprised if it caught a lot of photographers looking in the wrong direction as well.

[puncheex]

@HiDefTutorials: Can you substantiate that claim? 90% of all Marshall Islanders?

[HiDefTutorials]

@nacarckeckia I'll see if I can try and find some extra footage of it, and see what I can do. It's times like this where I wish I had all the original film negatives of all the United States stock film footage of their nuclear test scan them in 4K resolution, and upload them to YouTube for everyone to see.

[nacarckeckia]

@HiDefTutorials yeap, that would be just perfect, there are some footage of blast in lesser resolution but to in HD it's just superb to behold

[HiDefTutorials]

@sequoia2001 You're welcome people need to know how deadly the fallot from these tests couldl be.

[HiDefTutorials]

@ChorltonBrook I believe it was the atomic energy commission detonated their first nuclear test in the continental united states at Frenchman Flats in Mercury Nevada they knew that the radioactive fission fallout products would irradiate people down south of the Nevada test site but the continued testing many people received cancer, and leukemia from these radioactive material, but they didn't care they only cared about testing bombs, the civilians were too worried about an attack from Russia.