Atomic Journeys: Faultless 1 Megaton Nuclear Test
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- The Faultless test was a nuclear calibration test conducted in a mine cavity 3,200 feet beneath the Hot Creek Valley near Tonopah, Nevada, with a yield of around 1 megaton. This test was conducted to see if the land was fit for testing a 5 megaton thermonuclear warhead for the Spartan missile. The test failed because of the large degree of faulting that resulted in the area around the test. It was decided that the land was unfit for multi-megaton nuclear tests, so a similar calibration test was conducted at Amchitka Island, Alaska, in the fall of 1969 during Operation Mandrel.
There's pinups taped to the crane! I need to remember that detail for my scale model crane. Thanks for the idea!
Good eye!👍 A crane with "nose art"🤣
@@thunderamu9543 Love it! 😂
Maybe there are more pictures of this crane somewhere on the internet? Might help with a few different angles & smaller details?
The good old days before everyone got offended by everything. Damn I hate the future.
@@Varangian_af_Scaniae And still nothing works!! 😂
Thank you for the video. I wish the footage was not so cut up so we can see how the ground moves in total. Having it cut like that is cool looking, but I would like to see the full clips without the cuts if possible. Have a good day.
First time I’ve seen buildings looking like a trophy truck going thru a whoop section.
I didn't know H-Bombs sounded like trombones!
Hahaha
Oh yes
And the approaching of JAWS
😂
H-bombs are Happy bombs…
@@doogleticker5183Tonight you win the Internet! LOL
Now we need to visit Mr. House.
Thanks for this quick video. I’ve been traveling around seeing these parts of out Atomic history and this is now on the list!
Gives new meaning to "bounce house".
Why is it that nuclear bombs and Captain Kirk's voice go so well together?
I wish I was alive and worked on that stuff back then. I would have loved to been there.
My relatives worked on some tests in Project Plowshare
When it rains and the water seeps through the ground ... where does all the radiation go?
Who asked you?
There's a lot of radioactive water down there, but fortunately the contamination is moving very slowly, between 3ft and 100ft per year. But yes when it gets to near a river or well, there will be trouble.
@@Iamrightyouarewrong I dunno
it's too deep to seep up to the ground level
"The weather didnt follow our predictions!" - Lewis Strauss
Amazing video
I did not know they tested 1 megaton in Nevada underground ....wow!!
I watched the 5 megaton video in Alaska ....this was incredible
Thank you !!!
More please
Can any geologists comment on why the surface shock for underground blasts usually appears to CONVERGE upon rather than diverge away from the epicenter point on the surface directly above the detonation? It's visible here and in many other underground shots. For any air bursts the shock always reaches the hypocenter first then diverges away for obvious reason. Here and on underground shots below atolls it appears to do the reverse.
I think it's not so much the initial shock you're seeing but the rebound of the ground after the shockwave has already passed. So the shockwave lifts everything up/expands it a bit and gravity pulls it back/compresses it down, once everything is settled back is when you see the dust escape so that would go from least energy to highest energy, hence converging back to the point of detonation. But I'd love to see an actual scientific answer to this as well.
@@bami2 Yes, most likely the massive weight outweighs (ahem) the energy from the blast.
Thank you for the knowledge.
Was this test in “Trinity and Beyond”? The music sounds similar but it’s been a couple decades since I’ve seen the movie.
This is a clip from Atomic Journeys, a followup documentary also directed by Peter Kuran and narrated by William Shatner like Trinity and Beyond. It has a particular emphasis on underground nuclear testing following the banning of atmospheric tests that was not covered by Trinity and Beyond.
@@CannikinX thanks
Looks like an average day in San Francisco.
My dad would hang a plumbob from our chandelier and listen to the countdown,it took about 90 seconds for it to start moving
Makes me smile that people think that complex weapons made over 40 years ago would still work if tried today
The last three UK nuclear weapons tests over the past 8 years of submarine launched missiles all failed, the most recent being a few months ago
Very interesting old footage. I wish there was more.
Check out the footage of underground tests in Alaska.
@@matthewerwin4677 yes
Peter's costume is exquisite
Which documentary is this from? I know its the same narrator as Trinity and Beyond.
Atomic Journeys
William Shatner!
I realize this is a segment from "Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero," but the clip begins on the Las Vegas Strip circa 1974. What's the significance? At 00:18 what are the guys setting up for on the rooftop of the Dunes hotel?
My guess would be seismometers
It looks like they're measuring radiation levels from the nuclear tests being performed in Nevada. Obviously, they didn't blow up anything next to Vegas lol. They're filming the current conditions of the area to correspond with the radiation readings. The whole thing looks a lot scarier then what it is.
Dang! Did anything inside that trailer survive? Even with the springs on it that was quite a bit of bouncing up and down.
Are we just going to ignore that moustache?
He’s an atomic archeologist. I think that means he can go back in time and probably found it while exploring the 1950s.
The Sands still standing, and The Flamingo tower wasn’t even built yet!
Is this a part of a documentary? Does anyone know? Man, I really want to know more since i watched Oppenheimer movie and Chernobyl in max.
This is from the Atomic Journeys documentary but you should look up "Trinity and Beyond" which documents the history of nuclear weapons, also made by Peter Kuran/AtomCentral
@bami2 thanks!!! I'll look both
@@chuleta284 I recommend watching Trinity and Beyond first, Nukes in Space (the rainbow bombs) second and then the other documentaries if you're still interested, but the first two are the most spectacular/entertaining/informative.
@bami2 found trinity and beyond, but its on Amazon prime, and I don't have a subscription, but Atomic Journeys was free in dailymotion, amazing documentary!!! Thanks again!!!
John Travolta: Hold my Broken Arrow.☢️
Interestingly, that movie should have been named Empty Quiver, but I guess that didn't have the same ring to it.
Is that Captain James T. Kirk narrating?? 😮
yes
I think we should stick to space testing
most nuclear countries abide by the test ban treaty. Testing in space was banned even earlier. new designs can now be tested by computer modelling.
The soundtrack music is very distracting and annoying.
I bet there were a few new faults afterwards.
Wish I had been standing at Ground Zero. Pipe dream.
Wow, great video! Good job editing and the music! All killer, no filler!
There was no H-bomb, they were just testing big bucking bronco machines!
What doc is this from?
Atomic Journeys
Faultless? No, FaultMORE.
I wonder what a 1 teraton nuke would be like
That would be about 1/30th of the Chicxulub Impact energy or about the same as the total amount of sunlight that hits the Earth in one day.
Badically HUGE!!!
@filonin2 you know the math, what would be a petaton? a exaton? a zettaton? Just Curious 😅
To put things into perspective, Beyond a certain Yield, an Atomic Explosion becomes Less effective, because Most of it would go into the edge of Space.
If the Soviet Tsar Bomba had been 100Mt as initially designed, it would have suffered the same loss of effectiveness.
The Higher and therefore Hotter Yield, produces a proportional Accelerated *Lift* to the Fireball too, resulting in the fireball going up a lot quicker than sub Megaton
@@jayc2469 yeah but not if they place the bomb underground.
the tsar bomba was lit up in multiple miles of altitude.
so a ground to ground bomb or even underground bomb of that size would be devestating.
i guess a 1 teraton underground bomb would destroy whole Las Vegas and whole america would feel a strong earth quake
I guess they got lucky they didn’t cause an interruption at Yellowstone.
They had Fallout: New Vegas before Fallout: New Vegas
Nuclear powered bouncy house. Merica!🇺🇸
Watch it at 2x speed for realistic depiction.
Poor Mother Earth...what human crap she must be swallowing :(
DID THEY DIED?!
Faultless....... 👍
How deep was that bomb?
1km
@@gabrielc6252 ok thanks
Mega equals million.
strange how every industry has to come up with their own slang.. .
mega is the metric prefix for million. Nuclear scientists didn't invent it.
Mega equals million everywhere
@@gabrielc6252 incorrect!!
In engineering ones, tens, hundreds,thousands, ten thousands,hundred thousands& million are used! AlsoLike in the banking industry!
NOT -Mega,Milli,kilo,centi,deci
Example- medical industry uses metrics.. .
@@bobadingo sure, all of those are used, but mega still means million everywhere it is used
@@gabrielc6252 incorrect again! suggestion stay off the drugs and get yourself an education sir'.. .
blimey human made Graben...
For some kind of a reason, I though to myself, what a time, what a place. That must have been great to live in USA back in that time.
Edit: I had terrible diarrhea 3 days ago, took some pills to suppress it and I couldn’t shit since I took em and been worried if my internals will explode. After seeing this video I was still imagining what it would be to live in Las Vegas in 1980s and all of the sudden I had the most peaceful toilet time ever and I feel great again👍 thanks for this video
And this is exactly another reason we do not deserve this planet. Not a tree hugger at all but we deserve the moon...about it.
This is quite clearly AI upscaled, and the artifacts are pretty terrible, maybe just upload the original footage next time
the clips at the beginning of Vegas were crappy to begin with and I tried multiple times to improve before giving up
Could you have a LARGER water mark??? Jfc. It's not even your content you feel compelled to slap your channel name over a 3rd of the picture. I stopped watching 20 seconds in because it was so obnoxious and distracting.