Making the World's Navies Obsolete, Oppenheimer, and Half Naked Women
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2024
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Until 1946, very few people had ever heard of Bikini Atoll. Located in the Marshall Islands chain 3,000 kilometres southwest of Hawaii, the atoll consists of 23 coral islands surrounding a central lagoon 30 kilometres wide. For thousands of years Bikini was home to a few hundred Marshallese islanders, who sustained themselves by fishing and cultivating coconuts. In 1885 the atoll was annexed by the German Empire, who used it as a production hub for coconut oil. Then, in 1914, the Empire of Japan - at that time part of the Entente Powers - captured the Marshall Islands from the Germans and in 1920 was awarded the chain by the League of Nations as part of their South Seas Mandate. In 1941, following the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific, Japanese troops occupied Bikini in order to protect the nearby - and strategically vital - Kwajalein Atoll. Bikini remained in Japanese hands until February 1944 when, after fierce fighting, American forces recaptured Kwajalein. By this time, the garrison on Bikini consisted of only five men, who all chose to commit suicide by hand grenade rather than surrender.
And there the story might have ended, with Bikini remaining just another coral speck among hundreds in the gruelling American island-hopping campaign. But in December 1945, less than four months after the Japanese surrender, a decision was made that would catapult this once-obscure ring of islands into the global spotlight. While it was clear to all that the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 had forever changed modern warfare, what was less clear was how exactly it had changed. As the Second World War gave way to the Cold War, military strategists began to wonder how best to use this awesome new weapon. Could it be deployed tactically on the battlefield, or was it only good for destroying civilian centres? And what kinds of targets was it most effective against? Particularly concerned about its role in the nascent atomic age was the U.S. Navy, which resented the Army Air Force’s monopoly on the delivery of nuclear weapons. The Air Force, meanwhile, argued that naval ships were extremely vulnerable to nuclear attack, and that the advent of such weapons had effectively made navies obsolete.
Author: Gilles Messier
Host: Simon Whistler
Producer: Samuel Avila
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You coaxed me in with bikinis and tricked me in to watching something educational!🤨😂
Our evil plan is working. 😋 -Daven
Doesn't it just give you a raging brainer?
The bikini atomic explosion also inspired that great classic SpongeBob SquarePants
We meet again men of culture.
I read this as we meet aging men of culture...
Such a simple, yet accurate post. 👌
No culture, no happiness
Men?😂
People of culture
5:56 Brasseries indeed. Simon, you need to read the autocue, the word is brassieres! 😂
We once had a restaurant here called "The Brasserie" that was so consistently pronounced "The Brassiere" it was renamed (weirdly enough) "Features."
Lumen sounds like something that would be debunked on Decoding the Unknown... 🤔
They are also an appallingly bad telecom provider in the US lol
Surely not. This wonderful gadget tells you to eat more veggies, I'm sure no-one has ever heard that before 😂
Spongebob lore is truly fascinating.
lol this reminds me of shorts. in the 1950’s my grandma and her friend were in the newspaper (maybe the hartford courant) for wearing shorts in public. in the summer. by the beach. they were considering making it illegal in the town she was in 😂. she clipped out the article and we still have it today
Australia had beach inspectors who measured the length of the bikini.
Tough job….😬😬😬
“The bikini had debuted at a Paris poolside a few months before - it was named after the Bikini Atoll, which had been used for nuclear testing by the French - and for the next twenty years, it provoked clashes between the Beach Inspectors and young female beach goers.
According to Aub Laidlaw, the first woman who wore a bikini at Bondi in October 1946 was mobbed by a crowd of wolf-whistling and cat-calling boys who tried to undo the tie string of her bikini top. She was escorted out the back of the pavilion and onto a tram.
Laidlaw was a regular on the beach over the next twenty years, patrolling the beach with a tape measure, making sure the swimming costumes met regulations.”
"the past is the worst" ugh feel so bad for them cattle basically.
I lived in Portland when Jantzen was going full throttle. There was even a swim park named Jantzen Beach they had in north Portland near the Columbia River. Wearing a Jantzen item was a status thing. I used to love going thru the racks of their swim suits looking at the designs and looking for the coolest one. Jantzen was a leader in current designs. They went further than just plain one color prudish attire. Thanks for the memories.
I recently realized that Naturalist and Naturist are not the same thing lololol
That was actually done on purpose by naturists to try and make it seem not weird that entire families were involved in the practice.
And here I've been thinking "naturalists are some weird nekkid goofs", but turns out instead I'm one of them and I'm fully clothed! - Well, mostly, I'm missing a sock. And I'm probably a bit of a weird goof too. Not a nekkid one tho.
@@pr0xZen nekkid 😂
My grandpa was drafted into the U.S. Navy within a month of the bombs being dropped on Japan, and he was present at the Bikini Atoll in the first test there, in 1946 (operation crossroads). He said he skinned his inner thighs sliding down a coconut tree he climbed, and he also told me about how he helped the scientists set up the cameras and the animals in cages, before the atom bomb test. Apparently, the boys in the navy got 2 beer tickets back then, but my grandpa didn’t drink at the time (he was born in 1927).
I’m surprised, but watching you go into detail about all these things he recounted to me when I was a little boy, I almost feel as though I’ll cry. He was a very good man, my grandfather, and I still miss him.
My dad was also at Bikini while in the navy (1yr in). His ship was the last one turned away from Hawaii and sunk about 100mi away. He told me about them having to sit heads in laps "until the bright flash was gone", scrubbing the ships down, and having to help start the engines. He passed from several cancers in 1980.
My grandfather served on the New York during the war, but they let him go after VE Day, as he was born in 1910 and had two kids at home.
You can irradiate all the animals, people, ships and oceans you want, just don't show your belly button.
If you watch the final years of Majuro documentary by wendover productions where they interview people from Bikni atoll and and a number of Polynesians who have lived in the marshal islands there entire life them saying “it’s in the hands of god” is actually them saying the exact opposite of what you said they meant. They actually were very against the tests and them giving up there land for it
I'm furious every time there is any mention of that Tuskegee experiment!!!!
Tip for a Brain Blaze: the wierd s... RUclipsrs try to sell....
What a tie in .
😂
20:26 Did I just hear Simon mention a channel I was unaware of?
Not sure
Higher learning doesn’t look it had Simon
Weird - must be owned by whomever owns TIFO these days 🤷🏻♀️ I couldn’t find a video with Simon presenting there.
The arguments between the navy and air force sound like the dialog of George C Scott in Dr Strangelove
Essentially, bikini bans try to suggest that belly buttons are, somehow, obscene. People are weird.
sick jacket
We need to do another test and film it with expensive phantom slowmo cameras and best HD cameras available now
No
No, we don't. These trigger happy war mongers acted like children with enormous fire crackers, and poisoned the entire planet. Dont think so? Scientists can tell what wood was harvested before 1946. Wood carvings, and other things like furniture have trace amounts of radio active isotopes if they were alive after the late 40s and early 1950s. Every tree in the world has them now.
Closest we'll likely get is CGI due to treaties etc., or what they did in Oppenheimer, which surprisingly, didn't use any CGI.
🙄
Another kind of bombshell 😂😂😂
You got that right!
Akin to the word "tantalize", most people are ignorant of it's dark and horrific origin. Beware, it is not for the faint of heart
G'day,
Teenage Boys being
Flashed
By their
Tante...;
Nae doubt about it.
And,
To fully understand the meaning of
"Disgruntlement" ; one has but to recall that
"Grumble-And-Grunt" is
Cockney
Rhyming-Slang for
Vagina...
And when a person is
Gruntling away happily,
And they find themselves becoming
Disgruntled...;
'Tis nae great wonder that they be
Extremely very
Unhappy,
Eh - Chappie (?) !
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
The Ancient Greeks enjoyed a little creativity in these matters! 😂
Wow.. .are you going to post this also as a Megaproject?
Soap and Water? Yea, lets get some Dawn and hot water, we'll scrub this radiation right off!
The past. Shew. But thanks Simon, awesome video as usual.
It's actually recommended to wash off the radiated dust off you as soon as possible.
🤣🎶"she wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini"🎶
That she wore for the first time....
32:50 💜 😂😂😂😂
@@HarisHuskic-gp1ni "That she wore for the [VERY] first time...."
@@johnmekus9430 nope, there is no "very" in that line
@@bunyipdragon9499 After I posted that I thought 'maybe it was the first time TODAY' (It is... mea culpa).
Ah...so that is why when you cross the Columbia River from Vancouver, Washington to Portland, Oregon on Intetstate 5 the first exit is to an island in the river and the industrial area of Jantzen Beach.
We men love bikinis ❤❤❤❤
Ok, I expect you to wear one the next time you go to the beach!🤣
Y.E.S.
No
@@tynj4173 Maybe
@@user-jt7bx3ek8wmayhaps
Yall oughta *link* all these videos you keep referring to having previously released. Put em right in the description or a pinned post.
Who knew a movie about ancient humans would push swimwear 😁
Oh, Simon is wearing a different jacket!
If this is in any way related to SpongeBob’s Bikini Bottom it somehow explains a lot…
It is,😊.
From what I understand from the lore of the show.
Bikini bottom is at the bottom of Bikini attol. The reason all our beloved sea creatures are the way they are is due to radiation in the water after the tests.
Maybe its actually just a theory, a film theory. But I remember that as the reason.
why would the Reverend think that priest of the middle ages had more authority? Lol
The Lumen device is a scam. It’s been debunked multiple times. You may want to revisit them being a sponsor.
And then a brain blaze on it
Most products sold on RUclips are. That's why I use sponsor block.
Imagine being a fish just outside the death zone on the tests... That's how nemo was made.
Just casually finding another one of this dudes channels omg…
There are 2 great things about bikini. Just how good a women looks wearing one; and much more importantly how it taught humanity to FEAR NUCLEAR WEAPONS. That fear keeps us alive. Quite ironically, how women look in a bikini, gave us a reason to live.
GOD, as it where, has a sense of humor 😉😋🇺🇸.
3:55 I didn’t inhale 😂😂😂
Perfect. I was just wondering about the origin of Bikinis
32:44 Are you trying to say "Raquel Welch"?
Wait... you're telling me the atom bomb is older than the bikini...?
Whistlers bald head amazes me
He is a smoothie!
Interesting!
there was a Japanese fishing boat near the coast of Japan whose entire crew was irradiated and slowly died off one by one then, finally received a huge settlement from the US after this, as well
I think that was a later test at a different atol. The one where they had to build a concrete tomb to contain the radioactive waste from the test. The first hydrogen bomb if I'm not mistaken. It's in one of Simon's other videos from a few months ago.
The echo in this video is distracting and quite unusual for the channel.
Named for our most insane nuclear test.Lol.
Wait, "higher learning" your telling me this man made ANOTHER channel?
Higher Learning is hosted by Daven, but is part of the Whistlerverse.
@@aceundead4750Marvel is jealous of the size of the Whistlerverse.
Not a day goes by... 😂
Met with "stiff" resistance 😉
The truth is a nuclear weapon would annhilate a surface fleet. At least the personel on them. And likely the ships themselves would be unsuitable for use afterwards.
But the aircraft carrier negated most surface fleets anyway, save destroyers and submarines.
Destroyer of tan lines??? Quite the opposite
I would love your content even more if I could drop the sponsorship content. I already pay for RUclips premium to not see adverts.
I blame that beautiful bikini on our 50's- 60's baby boom!
Got its name from the Bikini Atoll. The atom bomb gave us some good after all.
Ooooooh who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
@@aceundead4750 some girl who wears a bikini
@@aceundead4750 Please don't bring up the Krusty Krab at bikini bottom, in this context.
Pfft western society made women cover their breasts in the first place. I for one will never forgive them. 😂
I'd say a thus far complete lack of WW 3 is a pretty dope biproduct of nuclear weapons. Maybe you disagree.
V-Sauce??!!
navies will be obsolete when there is no sea
I knew the bikini atoll was a thing, and the tests there, and figured the bikini was named after the area... i didn't know it was because of the TESTING. that's... disgusting, honestly. the past was the worst.
The bikini of the past are tame compared to the ones you find today. The ones of today barely cover the essentials.
And now for the ubiquitous current-day quip about Sydney Sweeney: Lord have mercy! She’s sporting a bikini!
Damn that thumbnail took a while to figure out. Ai?
Raquel Welch had a bikini in 1 Million BC. That's how far it goes back 😜😜😜
My biological father grew up at the Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
Yep. It's difficult, if not impossible, to get rid of the last vestiges of the Lizard Overlords.
Came for the bikini pics, stayed for the brutal radiation!
I thought this was a video about women's fashions.
Does this guy ever take a day off?
How/why did women put up with that subjugation for so long ???
If only the horrible background noise would stop.
I thought it went back to one million years BC.
We men, with our mental imagery can see right thru that bikini 😇
I've heard it said that bikini bathing suits are not so much designed as engineered to do one important job; *stay put!*
You're pronouncing Kwajalein, wrong.
You pronounced it like Google does.
The last part is not line, but sounds like linen... Kwaj-a-linen
Most common way to say it is "kwaj ah layn" (like a two "lane" road)
BCE = Before CHRISTIAN Era
CE = CHRISTIAN ERA
No
I’m so glad they started covering up, too much skin is gross. 😂
Wonder if any of the military men exposed to the blasts or irradiation were told the explosions were going to be "safe and effective"?
2:53 She had a body on her!!
185th
Be very careful of sponsors! A channel got taken over and the owner had a very difficult time getting back control of his channel.
bet there were alot of sweaty smelly blerts back in the day
You are pronounceing Nevada wrong.
Its NOT "Navoda".
the correct pronunciation is "Neh-VA-duh"
You're new here aren't you. 😂
@@mcmoose64 what makes you think that?
Simon lookin old 😟
Trump invented the bikini too. Time for another lawsuit 😅
👙 🙏
What is this title and click bait?
In the 40's it was against a man to go nude in public. Meaning showing your nipples.
It was so risque it went on for 4 years. Then it became a norm for men to walk around nude.
0:14 This shot could have been done with just two ladies and not the five that we have here.
Ah, fat shaming. How sweet. Time was, though, not that long ago, that the pale lady on the right wouldnt have shown that much of herself on a public beach. I know, my skin is almost that psle and doesn't tan. Tans were everything A few decades ago.
I only see 3 equally beautiful, strong, independent women right there. What could you possibly be talking about??
@@sheikyerbouti39 Don't worry about it.
It's a guy thing.
@@Manospondylus Yeah. I was being sarcastic....
@@sheikyerbouti39 oh. Lmao. It's hard to tell these days.
God made bikinis because He loves us.
0:08 Perhaps not show a child next time?!
It's time to touch grass.
"i HAVE become" and not "i AM become"
Grammatically, in modern English, yes, but that is not the quote. Oppenheimers words were taken from a Hindu text translated as “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
@@davidmonk4949 nevertheless, someone forgot to use " "
@@davidmonk4949 this is the correct answer
“I am become destroyer”??? Uhmm no. Just no. How about “I became a destroyer”? Or “ I am a destroyer”?
It's parodying a quote from the Bhagavad Gita, which Oppenheimer thought of when he witnessed the Trinity test. In the English translation he knew, it is indeed "Now I am become."
In addition to what David_K_Booth said there's video of Oppie saying the quote in which he says, "now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds." When translating one language to another grammar can become distorted or even be lost completely, and it's not just from one language into English but also English into other languages.
Needing to have this historic phrase explained as (almost deliberate) bad English is a sad report on the History classes being taught.
Take your concern up with the English translators of the Bhagavad Gita
@@aceundead4750
Agrees with you, Yoda, does! 😅
Show how oppressive religion is and has been
Lumen is BS.
Stop using made up garbage like bce ( before Christian era) and ce ( Christ's era). Just use bc ad
It’s Before Common Era and Common Era, nothing to do with religious prejudice.
@@davidmonk4949 what event happened at 0 to reset the clock
@@whiteandnerdytubathe alleged birth of Jesus, which was later found to have happened in 7 CE.
the one time I want to click through to a video mentioned, it isn't linked anywhere 🥲
The bikini is several thousand years old...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pompeii_bikini_girls.jpg
You should try watching the video before making a comment 0:43