I think it should be mentioned that soviets put out fire in Urta-Bulak gas field in 1966. As far as I know its the only time a nuclear bomb used successfully to resolve a problem in peace.
@@mael1515 10x background for some stuff is fine Reservoirs for power generation, clearing a mountain for roads In a few decades most of the radiation is gone. Besides I'm sure these days they can make even cleaner bombs. Would rule for digging out another planet. Imagine how good it would be for trade if the panama canal was the Panama straight instead. And the ocean already is filled with radioactive waste. The solution to pollution is dilution
@@kapytanhook I agree that it would be useful to have a very clean bomb as a replacement for dynamite. But I don't agree with "the solution for pollution is dilution". We should not pollute to begin with. Also "a few decades" is too long.
Couple of corrections for the nuke nerds: It is uranium 235 used in bombs not 238, which is the common isotope. Also tritium isn't actually very common, its efficiency means only a tiny amount is used and for the most part not tritium directly, but created during the fission explosion through the bombardment of lithium by radiation.
Yeah, Tritium has 0.02% of abundance and U-235 is 0.72%, but as a light element is is easily produced, as Lithium has a big cross section that is independent of neutron energy, even if the Lithium sample is not isotopically pure it is easy to separate of the sample used, this makes the process very efficient as long you have a nuclear reactor of a primary core. But It is used in the form of Lithium Deuteride as Lithium is highly reagent with water and other things exploding the same with deuterium (that is basically Hydrogen), using a molecule composed by the two is a very smart solution for a more stable, safe and manageable material.
@@agranero6U-238 is used in a 4th generation device, in order to create Plutonium during the 2nd phase, which in turn will also detonate during the 4th phase, this type of tamper is commonly used in 4th generation thermonuclear devices.
6:42 i'm glad you chose a work of titular art such as "I'm A High School Boy And A Best-Selling Light Novel Author Strangled By My Female Junior Who's A Voice Actress"
One of the underground explosions in 1984 happened 40 kilometres from my home on the Kola Peninsula. It felt like a small earthquake, and the dishes in the kitchen cupboards rattled.
I also look forward to that. In the meantime you can readily find information on the three times that nuclear fracking was done by the American Project Plowshare.
I didn't know "peace nukes" were a thing. Now I learn the idiots used nukes to frack? Seriously, WTF? That sounds like the definition of the word "stupid."
Confusing U 235 and U 238 is fairly easy, but only the first is useful in bombs. Most hydrogen bombs in the early tests had a natural uranium jacket, which acted both as a tamper and fissioned by the neutrons from the fusion reaction. The Soviet “100 megaton” Tsar Bomba had a lead jacket to detune it to 62 megatons.
One of my favorite facts about this crazy period of history where we were blowing up everything we could get away with using nukes is that Kodak suffered loss of film from there storage facilities from stray radioactive particles traveling hundreds or thousands of kilometers to zip right through the boxes and rolls of new film.
They didn't zip right through anything. Radioactive fallout contaminated the paper mill that produced sheets of papers used as packaging separators for their x-ray film.
it was radioactive fallout, their customers kept returning fogged film which Kodak had to replace per their warranty and their reputation. they kept driving around the country trying to figure it out
@@Gameboygenius yeah, that's the worst part. Wast swathes of land and soil were contaminated, and now as a result moder homo sapiens is more radioactive than people who lived before 1945. In that sense, first nuclear testing was a start of new geological era, where every part of the world will be slightly radioactive.
@@KlodFather Good news! Last I heard, this isn't as much as an issue anymore (as of very recently). Current steel is no longer radioactive much above background, and can be used for most more sensitive applications. The really touchy stuff DOES still need the pre-war steel, but thankfully the demand is much lower given the obviously limited supply!
Dude, your videos are so well done. Education and funny with a semi serious overtone, i love watching them and learn at the same time. If you ever come to the uk let me know, I'll buy you a coffee. Keep up the fantastic work.
Nuclear explosions were also used to create deep underground reservoirs for chemical waste. Such as Kama-1 project, where 2000 m deep explosion took place to store hydrozine byproducts.
There was talk about nuking a spot along a mountain range surrounding the Los Angeles basin. The resultant gap created by the explosion would allow constant air flow to help ventilate out the city's serious smog conditions.
@@AJWRAJWR The question should be "Is it net-positive?". If more people die from lung cancer due to smog than would die from slight increase in radioactivity - it's net-positive.
The use of atomic bombs for peaceful applications was a common talk around the 50s and 60s, not only by the Russians but in USA too, for one reason was to advertise atomic bombs as not so nasty on public perception good look trying that) and for the others it was what I call hammer syndrome: if you only have atomic bombs all looks like a target, Teller wanted to explode a staged device on the Moon...just...because, there was Project Orion and several other things. But the Sovietic programs is far bigger than I was aware, thanks.
6:42 I was so sleepy at work while I was listening to this on my phone, and I immediately went "wait what?" at that joke. That was unexpected but way too apt a description.
In Australian the British tested their nukes on indigenous land occupied by indigenous people. As well as some Australian military personnel. France executed nuclear weapons tests in the areas of Reggane and In Ekker in Algeria and the Mururoa and Fangataufa Atolls in French Polynesia, from 13 February 1960 through 27 January 1996. These totaled 210 tests with 210 device explosions, 50 in the atmosphere. The US? Most of the tests took place at the Nevada Test Site (NNSS/NTS) and the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands and off Kiritimati Island in the Pacific, plus three in the Atlantic Ocean.. (it's probably worse than that)
1:26 "... this was certainly propaganda (the peaceful use of atomic energy)" - if this was a propaganda, how would you describe Ursula von der Leyen's speech in which she implied that the Russian bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
think of how many generic videos about nukes get like 5 million views in the first week even when it's a boring topic everyone has heard over and over, while this masterpiece still only has 122k views after almost a year.
How is tritium more common than uranium. Tritium is very difficult to make and requires uranium to create a neutron field to turn deuterium into Tritium. And the process of refining the deuterium from water is monstrous.
You forgot that the americans very seriously proposed under operation plowshare was to use hundreds of nuclear detonations to dig canals thru the sinai peninsula to give israel a way to bypass the suaz canal. Honestly using any nuclear bomb in the middle east was super controversial by itself much less hundreds lol
@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 I'm not a historian but it's true that the USSR said they nuke or send rockets to the UK, France & Israel if those countries didn't leave.
Nuclear Demolition anyone? Demolition of high rise structures were also on the list of use for peaceful nuclear explosions... Many systems put in place during construction of such structures during their construction... Some of you might have recognized three (3) of such systems being deployed at a particular date, 20-something years ago, thus completely pulverizing most of the structures into microscopic dust. Yes. It was a nuclear demolition. You are welcome
"Peaceful Nuclear Explosions" - Please tell me I'm not the only one to find this phrase hilariously contradictory and ironic to the point of utter absurdity!
Tritium is not far more commun than uranium. Actually, it's much much more rare than Uranium, even U235, in nature. Tritium is usually produced by fission of activated Lithium atoms. Still it is fairly difficult to collect and store.
Nuclear Nadal ruined me 1:38 every time I heard this sentence I chuckle -_- thanks Wadiyan movie. and fun fact, the craters of Storax Sedan and Chagan had the same width and depth
The Irish Sea (between Ireland and Britain) is apparently the most radioactive sea in the world due to the Sellafield nuclear waste processing plant in the UK.
Vishinsky in '49, we use nuclear power for peaceful reasons digging canals and moving mountains. Putin 2022: this is not war it is a military special operation
"On the need to launch work to study the possibilities of using atomic and thermonuclear explosions for technical and scientific purposes." -a Japanese Yuri.
Trying to understand....Higher salinity will cause the sea water to freeze at a tenp below normal. Fair enough. But that tenp is lower, not higher. So how could it cause sea ice to melt if it is even lower than the sea ice melting point ? Although the water still remains fluid, it is still colder than what froze the ice in the first place. @20:05.
It is easy to exaggerate radiation and fallout risks. That negatively impacts energy policy. High natural background radiation is not associated with any negative health outcomes. Fallout is usually really low acute dose. Your channel is great.
Prompt fallout from a ground detonation can easily be lethal... but only for about a week. These "remnant" higher dose rates years later are, as you say, completely meaningless and have no negative health impacts. There are populations living at around 100x average background all their live with no statistically measurable effects at all, it has been tried.
Can someone please tell him to make video on solid state battery🔋. Where it stand today. Is it even real if it is then when it will arrive. Because there is lots of misinformation about this topic on internet...
There is a lake in the former USSR that was and maybe still is used to store nuclear fuel. THe Teka river flows out of it and there is farm land along that river. THe soviets fenced off that river so that the farmers and other people would not use or get near the water due to its high radioactivity. People in that region are also radioactive to varying degrees. I knew a girl from that region and I felt bad for her growing up there drinking that water. I was often curious what my geiger counter would read if I turned it on. The death rate for cancer is many times higher than normal in that area. 😥😥😪😪😢😢
@@delusionalcat5067 it's kinda hard to find large enough bread so you would need a nuclear bomb to cut it. Most of explosions were megaprojects without real purpose, only to test if such thing could be done.
Minor correction their hydrogen bonds, or the super has its called sometimes requires a fission device which uses plutonium or uranium in order to initiate the thermal nuclear reaction of the hydrogen bomb. You just can't get away from the radioactive stuff.
Does this mean Russia is asian country ? And I dont mean it in insulting way. They been shifting to asia from europe for while Your analysis on it is just as deep as japan indo
@@Yj-Fj to say that something is stupid is actually saying that you dont understand it or dont even bother to understand it. it is easier just to say its stupid. why is this comparison stupid?
@@bagavondo2477 - uhhh… you can’t even see the actual historical comparison, instead of putting yourself in some pedestal and thinking you’d do better then??? Seriously??? You need an adult to point it out line by line for you?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Yj-Fji would very much like from you to educate me. i kinda doubt that you are an adult but that doesnt mean that you cannot teach me something. please, stick to the subject, try to be objective and explain to me why was the comparison stupid? line by line
@@bagavondo2477 - soooo… you’re seriously thinking that the first atom bomb shouldn’t have ever been used because there are tons of other ways that you have in your mind and no one else has ever thought about it, if only. Every Asian in the APAC region were relieved when the war ended so quickly, right after the two bombs dropped.
Really I shouldn’t be surprised. Moscow probably looked at everything East of the Urals the way Washington looked at Nevada, but fuck that’s depressing. As always , great information. Thank you.
Pretty sure any decent seismometer would register these large explosions. The ban was more linked to accident like Daiguo Fukuriryu Maru and the simple fact that by testing in the air, you cannot avoid spewing radioactive stuff over the whole planet. Even if it's trace amounts, other countries, specially non-nuclear ones, might see issues with that.
Why do this in clear sky days? I imagine that in a rainy day the rwin and heavy water concentration around would prevent at least some of the radiantion from going away. The downside it that more of the radiantion wont go away, making the bomb site more radioactive, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It has to do with whether it penetrates the ground or is an air burst. Blasting out a lot of dirt and dust makes for lots of fallout. An air burst does not have much fallout. That is the only tuning. Neutron bombs have smaller blast but emit large amounts of gamma and neutron radiation to sterilize the landscape in an air burst. In a few years the place is habitable with all of the former pinheads gone.
There aren't any nuclear warheads "designed for fallout". It's an entirely neglected aspect, it doesn't contribute in a meaningful way to any potential use of a nuclear weapon.
imagine the luck we have! Like in every conflict in history, the good guys won, Like in EVERY SINGLE WAR in history the good guys won. What are the chances of this? Crazy funfact lol
Awesome content! Kind of odd how many of these used very large yield bombs. I wonders why they didn't design micro nukes like 1-10 kt to use more strategically. I assume a mini nuke almost negligible fallout, and would have a much larger variety of applications.
I think it should be mentioned that soviets put out fire in Urta-Bulak gas field in 1966. As far as I know its the only time a nuclear bomb used successfully to resolve a problem in peace.
And those other hundreds of times to clear land and mountains
@@kapytanhookI wouldn't call these attempts successful, since the radioactive results were too much of a downside. 🤔
They did that multiple times
@@mael1515 10x background for some stuff is fine
Reservoirs for power generation, clearing a mountain for roads
In a few decades most of the radiation is gone. Besides I'm sure these days they can make even cleaner bombs. Would rule for digging out another planet.
Imagine how good it would be for trade if the panama canal was the Panama straight instead. And the ocean already is filled with radioactive waste. The solution to pollution is dilution
@@kapytanhook I agree that it would be useful to have a very clean bomb as a replacement for dynamite.
But I don't agree with "the solution for pollution is dilution". We should not pollute to begin with. Also "a few decades" is too long.
Couple of corrections for the nuke nerds: It is uranium 235 used in bombs not 238, which is the common isotope.
Also tritium isn't actually very common, its efficiency means only a tiny amount is used and for the most part not tritium directly, but created during the fission explosion through the bombardment of lithium by radiation.
Yeah, Tritium has 0.02% of abundance and U-235 is 0.72%, but as a light element is is easily produced, as Lithium has a big cross section that is independent of neutron energy, even if the Lithium sample is not isotopically pure it is easy to separate of the sample used, this makes the process very efficient as long you have a nuclear reactor of a primary core. But It is used in the form of Lithium Deuteride as Lithium is highly reagent with water and other things exploding the same with deuterium (that is basically Hydrogen), using a molecule composed by the two is a very smart solution for a more stable, safe and manageable material.
Shut it, nerd 😂
@@agranero6U-238 is used in a 4th generation device, in order to create Plutonium during the 2nd phase, which in turn will also detonate during the 4th phase, this type of tamper is commonly used in 4th generation thermonuclear devices.
So what made GODZILLA ⁉️⁉️
6:42 i'm glad you chose a work of titular art such as "I'm A High School Boy And A Best-Selling Light Novel Author Strangled By My Female Junior Who's A Voice Actress"
This was honestly when I stopped watching the video.
@@osakanone to go read the light novel right?
One of the underground explosions in 1984 happened 40 kilometres from my home on the Kola Peninsula. It felt like a small earthquake, and the dishes in the kitchen cupboards rattled.
I cant wait to hear about nuclear fracking
It works quite well!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Rulison
ruclips.net/video/4fzsk6it-ns/видео.htmlsi=zThyIdwMza1lqcQy&t=842
It does not exist.
I also look forward to that. In the meantime you can readily find information on the three times that nuclear fracking was done by the American Project Plowshare.
@@KlodFather WTF. It does.
I didn't know "peace nukes" were a thing. Now I learn the idiots used nukes to frack? Seriously, WTF? That sounds like the definition of the word "stupid."
Confusing U 235 and U 238 is fairly easy, but only the first is useful in bombs. Most hydrogen bombs in the early tests had a natural uranium jacket, which acted both as a tamper and fissioned by the neutrons from the fusion reaction. The Soviet “100 megaton” Tsar Bomba had a lead jacket to detune it to 62 megatons.
And no-one knows about U-233 outside the actual physics fraternity…
@@allangibson8494 Those working on the thorium fuel cycle are very aware of U-233.
@@grahamstevenson1740 As I said - physicists…(and the occasional nuclear engineer…).
@@allangibson8494 Well US and India made atomic bombs using U-233 so it is not so obscure now that all that was declassified.
So it turns out it IS useful in a bomb.
Too bad they didnt build an Orion drive.
They could have escaped to the one place not corrupted by capitalism
Or a crude fusion reactor, look up Project Pacer
@@LostieTrekieTechiecapitalism was the mechanism that brought nuclear energy 🤔
Onion rings are delicious
One of my favorite facts about this crazy period of history where we were blowing up everything we could get away with using nukes is that Kodak suffered loss of film from there storage facilities from stray radioactive particles traveling hundreds or thousands of kilometers to zip right through the boxes and rolls of new film.
They didn't zip right through anything. Radioactive fallout contaminated the paper mill that produced sheets of papers used as packaging separators for their x-ray film.
@@Gameboygenius - It also contaminated all the post ww2 steel. Takes a lot of air to make steel.
it was radioactive fallout, their customers kept returning fogged film which Kodak had to replace per their warranty and their reputation. they kept driving around the country trying to figure it out
@@Gameboygenius yeah, that's the worst part. Wast swathes of land and soil were contaminated, and now as a result moder homo sapiens is more radioactive than people who lived before 1945. In that sense, first nuclear testing was a start of new geological era, where every part of the world will be slightly radioactive.
@@KlodFather Good news! Last I heard, this isn't as much as an issue anymore (as of very recently). Current steel is no longer radioactive much above background, and can be used for most more sensitive applications. The really touchy stuff DOES still need the pre-war steel, but thankfully the demand is much lower given the obviously limited supply!
"nuclear fracking" is such a badass and terrifying phrase
Sounds like something from the Battlestar Galactica
And an environmental disaster.
6:38 I didn't see that joke coming
Keep it up
Dude, your videos are so well done. Education and funny with a semi serious overtone, i love watching them and learn at the same time. If you ever come to the uk let me know, I'll buy you a coffee. Keep up the fantastic work.
Nuclear explosions were also used to create deep underground reservoirs for chemical waste. Such as Kama-1 project, where 2000 m deep explosion took place to store hydrozine byproducts.
There was talk about nuking a spot along a mountain range surrounding the Los Angeles basin. The resultant gap created by the explosion would allow constant air flow to help ventilate out the city's serious smog conditions.
Given the decades of health problems with the smog and pollution, it likely would’ve been a massive net positive.
Let’s bring it up again 😊
Replacing smog with radioactive winds. Very innovative.
Lmao, a nuclear venthole. Sounds insane.
@@AJWRAJWR The question should be "Is it net-positive?". If more people die from lung cancer due to smog than would die from slight increase in radioactivity - it's net-positive.
@@ImperativeGames Sure. Do we evacuate LA before we nuke it? Or do we stage it like the War on Terror and blame it on the Iranians?
One nuke was even used to put out a oil well fire
🤣 the title of the scientific paper
At least it's a title leaves little to the imagination of what it's about lol
I still think a lot of the 'testing" just for military types to look at; they could NOT believe how powerful it was.
Took some getting used to.
Your content is very enjoyable. I love your channel. I think of you as a trustworthy source.
hear... hear...
Well, this was an unexpectedly wholesome take on soviet nuclear bombs
USSR tried to build a better future. It failed and now we live in *this...*
But one must not give up ^^
You overlooked the time they closed a out of control natural gas well with a nuke.
The use of atomic bombs for peaceful applications was a common talk around the 50s and 60s, not only by the Russians but in USA too, for one reason was to advertise atomic bombs as not so nasty on public perception good look trying that) and for the others it was what I call hammer syndrome: if you only have atomic bombs all looks like a target, Teller wanted to explode a staged device on the Moon...just...because, there was Project Orion and several other things. But the Sovietic programs is far bigger than I was aware, thanks.
Could crack a mountain for ore extraction
6:42 I was so sleepy at work while I was listening to this on my phone, and I immediately went "wait what?" at that joke. That was unexpected but way too apt a description.
Gotta love those radioactive water reservoirs.
"Boom! Reservoir!" but in Russian by a soviet scientist wearing sunglasses and pointing fingerguns.
Both the french and Geiger counters agree " Oouuiiii "
That they then use the water for irrigation 😮
In Australian the British tested their nukes on indigenous land occupied by indigenous people. As well as some Australian military personnel.
France executed nuclear weapons tests in the areas of Reggane and In Ekker in Algeria and the Mururoa and Fangataufa Atolls in French Polynesia, from 13 February 1960 through 27 January 1996. These totaled 210 tests with 210 device explosions, 50 in the atmosphere.
The US?
Most of the tests took place at the Nevada Test Site (NNSS/NTS) and the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands and off Kiritimati Island in the Pacific, plus three in the Atlantic Ocean.. (it's probably worse than that)
Holy hell that’s a long time France was doing that for 😮 but as you said it’s probably worse 😢
I'm glad you watched Oppenheimer, this is a gem
Nah, this movie is a coal and Nolan is a hack.
I’d call them “mostly peaceful” nukes.
Cant wait for the fracturing episode
1:26 "... this was certainly propaganda (the peaceful use of atomic energy)" - if this was a propaganda, how would you describe Ursula von der Leyen's speech in which she implied that the Russian bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
think of how many generic videos about nukes get like 5 million views in the first week even when it's a boring topic everyone has heard over and over, while this masterpiece still only has 122k views after almost a year.
The nuclear age was wild.
Is far from over.
How is tritium more common than uranium. Tritium is very difficult to make and requires uranium to create a neutron field to turn deuterium into
Tritium. And the process of refining the deuterium from water is monstrous.
Crazy that this all mostly happened before the Beatles first hit America.
You forgot that the americans very seriously proposed under operation plowshare was to use hundreds of nuclear detonations to dig canals thru the sinai peninsula to give israel a way to bypass the suaz canal.
Honestly using any nuclear bomb in the middle east was super controversial by itself much less hundreds lol
Well remember the USSR threatened the Suez Canal perpetrators with nukes so imagine if the US went ahead......
Would have made a better canal
@@yymediaprod what are you talking about?
@@kapytanhook yeah sure buddy. All your goods would have been laced with radioactive material 🤣
@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 I'm not a historian but it's true that the USSR said they nuke or send rockets to the UK, France & Israel if those countries didn't leave.
@Asianometry Have you considered posting your videos as podcasts? It's a perfect format for a port!
Yeeeeeesssss! Russo-Soviet docs, always love waiting for these 🙌
Nuclear Demolition anyone?
Demolition of high rise structures were also on the list of use for peaceful nuclear explosions...
Many systems put in place during construction of such structures during their construction...
Some of you might have recognized three (3) of such systems being deployed at a particular date, 20-something years ago, thus completely pulverizing most of the structures into microscopic dust.
Yes. It was a nuclear demolition.
You are welcome
"Peaceful Nuclear Explosions" - Please tell me I'm not the only one to find this phrase hilariously contradictory and ironic to the point of utter absurdity!
I would love to see the footage of 3 nukes going off ive always wanted to see at least 2 exploding at once to aee what that would look like
Tritium is not far more commun than uranium. Actually, it's much much more rare than Uranium, even U235, in nature. Tritium is usually produced by fission of activated Lithium atoms. Still it is fairly difficult to collect and store.
Great video as usual.
Tritium isn't a common isotope though, it is generated during fusion.
E prime
i believe they had the idea of trying them on the oilsands up here as a thermal extraction method
Nuclear Nadal ruined me 1:38 every time I heard this sentence I chuckle -_- thanks Wadiyan movie.
and fun fact, the craters of Storax Sedan and Chagan had the same width and depth
the bomb was placed 200m down but the crater was only 100m deep???
Soviet Union: when in doubt nuke it out.
Utterly fascinating. Thank you!
Very interesting and well researched. Thank you. 😁
Good morning from southeast asia
i mean aside from the radioactivity this is actually a great idea
Yeah. Imagine they could simply blow up the great garbage patch in the Pacific with a nuke.
@@the-quintessenzthere’s been progress made there. Interesting read
@@the-quintessenz - You mean the one that China and India made? Yep... That has those numb-skulls written all over it.
@@the-quintessenz Contrary to the name, the Great Garbage Patch isn't just one great patch of garbage.
I grew up about 25 miles from the Gasbuggy nuclear fracking site in New Mexico.
At 12:11, you say people can't fish on Lake Chagan, but it seems fishing there is common practice.
Probably what he meant is that it is legally prohibited for some reason; but if there's nobody to enforce it, it doesn't matter.
Thermonuclear, but mostly peaceful test
Automatic lake sounds sick, what about the newly created atomic sea ?
The Irish Sea (between Ireland and Britain) is apparently the most radioactive sea in the world due to the Sellafield nuclear waste processing plant in the UK.
Vishinsky in '49, we use nuclear power for peaceful reasons digging canals and moving mountains. Putin 2022: this is not war it is a military special operation
Another fascinating video. I couldn’t stop watching giving me answers to questions I never had 😉! Thx!
Hello asianometry
How about that nuclear fracking video essay?
this is so fucking crazy
"On the need to launch work to study the possibilities of using atomic and thermonuclear explosions for technical and scientific purposes."
-a Japanese Yuri.
The retro futurists dream, is to casually use nukes on D.I.Y. projects around the house & garden.
Trying to understand....Higher salinity will cause the sea water to freeze at a tenp below normal. Fair enough. But that tenp is lower, not higher. So how could it cause sea ice to melt if it is even lower than the sea ice melting point ? Although the water still remains fluid, it is still colder than what froze the ice in the first place. @20:05.
Show hard to watch due to RUclips ads every 2 minutes.
..who invented this had to have a nuclear meltdown himself 👻
Soviet peace-dukes
There, I fixed it for you
Some made craters to...store... *gulp* water...
It is easy to exaggerate radiation and fallout risks. That negatively impacts energy policy. High natural background radiation is not associated with any negative health outcomes. Fallout is usually really low acute dose. Your channel is great.
Prompt fallout from a ground detonation can easily be lethal... but only for about a week. These "remnant" higher dose rates years later are, as you say, completely meaningless and have no negative health impacts. There are populations living at around 100x average background all their live with no statistically measurable effects at all, it has been tried.
The last one is fucking wild
@6:29 Are we sure those two "Yuri's" aren't the same person?
Can someone please tell him to make video on solid state battery🔋. Where it stand today. Is it even real if it is then when it will arrive. Because there is lots of misinformation about this topic on internet...
There is a lake in the former USSR that was and maybe still is used to store nuclear fuel. THe Teka river flows out of it and there is farm land along that river. THe soviets fenced off that river so that the farmers and other people would not use or get near the water due to its high radioactivity. People in that region are also radioactive to varying degrees. I knew a girl from that region and I felt bad for her growing up there drinking that water. I was often curious what my geiger counter would read if I turned it on. The death rate for cancer is many times higher than normal in that area. 😥😥😪😪😢😢
nuclear bombs for smashing Icebergs
...why that light novel in particular, if I may ask...?
Words "peaceful nuclear explosions" never cease to amaze me. Perfect oxymoron.
uhhh, no it isn't
You can cut bread with a knife. Or stab someone.
@@delusionalcat5067 UK government: scuse me, did you say knife? You got a loicense for that?
@@delusionalcat5067 it's kinda hard to find large enough bread so you would need a nuclear bomb to cut it. Most of explosions were megaprojects without real purpose, only to test if such thing could be done.
"mostly peaceful nukes"
And then.... UFO's started showing up 😅
Bunker tests basically
Wouldn't it be a good idea if ...?
No. It would not be a good idea.
What about ...?
Not a good idea either.
Minor correction their hydrogen bonds, or the super has its called sometimes requires a fission device which uses plutonium or uranium in order to initiate the thermal nuclear reaction of the hydrogen bomb. You just can't get away from the radioactive stuff.
Isn't that what laser fusion is intended for? To have a fusion trigger which is safer, easier to maintain and non-radioactive?
Just as peaceful as every other nations nukes.
Does this mean Russia is asian country ? And I dont mean it in insulting way. They been shifting to asia from europe for while
Your analysis on it is just as deep as japan indo
Explosion are never peaceful.
I was thinking of digging a new basement. You think Putin is selling?
if only it had worked well, we could have the aral back
Crazy stuff
one could almost compare soviet peaceful nuclear explosions to USA's "not so" peaceful nuclear explosions in hiroshima and nagasaki
That’s such a stupid comparison if there ever was one. 😂😂😂😂😂
@@Yj-Fj to say that something is stupid is actually saying that you dont understand it or dont even bother to understand it. it is easier just to say its stupid. why is this comparison stupid?
@@bagavondo2477 - uhhh… you can’t even see the actual historical comparison, instead of putting yourself in some pedestal and thinking you’d do better then???
Seriously??? You need an adult to point it out line by line for you??
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@@Yj-Fji would very much like from you to educate me. i kinda doubt that you are an adult but that doesnt mean that you cannot teach me something. please, stick to the subject, try to be objective and explain to me why was the comparison stupid? line by line
@@bagavondo2477 - soooo… you’re seriously thinking that the first atom bomb shouldn’t have ever been used because there are tons of other ways that you have in your mind and no one else has ever thought about it, if only.
Every Asian in the APAC region were relieved when the war ended so quickly, right after the two bombs dropped.
Really I shouldn’t be surprised.
Moscow probably looked at everything East of the Urals the way Washington looked at Nevada, but fuck that’s depressing.
As always , great information.
Thank you.
And i thought "nukes for Peace" where a particularly American folly. Silly me.
Thanks.. because this might happen again, due to the ongoing conflicts. The warning or knock.. an attempt to send a strong wake up and negotiate call.
So we can survive a nuclear war?
Kazak i stan??
Terraforming before it was cool
nuclear fracking, what could go wrong
Quick reminder that the USA was the only country ever to use it against civilians.
kim used nuke bomb for mining ?
10:00 weren't underground tests still allowed because there was no method, at the time, to detect them?
Pretty sure any decent seismometer would register these large explosions.
The ban was more linked to accident like Daiguo Fukuriryu Maru and the simple fact that by testing in the air, you cannot avoid spewing radioactive stuff over the whole planet. Even if it's trace amounts, other countries, specially non-nuclear ones, might see issues with that.
Why do this in clear sky days? I imagine that in a rainy day the rwin and heavy water concentration around would prevent at least some of the radiantion from going away. The downside it that more of the radiantion wont go away, making the bomb site more radioactive, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
NOO-clee-arrrr, not New-Q-lar.
Nuclear bombs can easily be tuned to have negligible fallout. Fallout is a desired by offensive nuclear devices.
It has to do with whether it penetrates the ground or is an air burst. Blasting out a lot of dirt and dust makes for lots of fallout. An air burst does not have much fallout. That is the only tuning. Neutron bombs have smaller blast but emit large amounts of gamma and neutron radiation to sterilize the landscape in an air burst. In a few years the place is habitable with all of the former pinheads gone.
Cobalt bombs hell yeah 😎💪🏻
There aren't any nuclear warheads "designed for fallout". It's an entirely neglected aspect, it doesn't contribute in a meaningful way to any potential use of a nuclear weapon.
imagine the luck we have!
Like in every conflict in history, the good guys won, Like in EVERY SINGLE WAR in history the good guys won.
What are the chances of this? Crazy funfact lol
Awesome content! Kind of odd how many of these used very large yield bombs. I wonders why they didn't design micro nukes like 1-10 kt to use more strategically. I assume a mini nuke almost negligible fallout, and would have a much larger variety of applications.
Smaller nuclear warheads can be optimised for emp pulse effects and detonated in the atmosphere to cripple integrated circuits I read
I didn't know swords to plowshares was a Bible reference
It's in the bible.
Swords into plowshares spears into pruning hooks.,
Book of Isaiah, Joel, Micah😅
It's not Kazakh-i-stan, it's Kazakhstan