Atomic Cannon B-Roll Trinity and Beyond

Footage of the Atomic Cannon loading and detonation. When I made "Trinity and Beyond," I made film copies of films from government archives. So when I put the movie together, I had to physically cut the films I had collected. These are clips of the "outs" or "b-roll" of unused footage from "Trinity and Beyond."

[@fallinginthed33p]

When there's an enemy formation out there you really, really don't like.

[@RobertCraft-re5sf]

Israel 😅

[@gerryjames9720]

Or a mob of pro palestinian demonstrators.

[@Lancer_0010]

@@RobertCraft-re5sf Palestine 😅

[@alpharobloxplayer1]

​@@Lancer_0010Israel, you know I'm including Russia also because why not

[@willip66]

My favourite test shot, and some great views / angles of the blast.

[@RobertCraft-re5sf]

Yeah, a really cool looking one. The camera pan up from the ground really gives a sense of the scale. And this is a relatively weak nuke.

[@vorox7658]

1:15 that is a good ass representation of how big that mushroom cloud was
Also got videos of the audio for the nukes?

[@P-G-77]

Exactly a perfect image to represent the reality of thing.

[@EK14MeV]

Lots of footage breaks of the opening scene.
I see AEC (now DoE) Albuquerque operations office chief, Carroll Tyler (with the pipe, in khakis and military ball cap), disappear in frames gap.
Tyler smoking as nearly always. He probably coughed up oysters every morning.
You also see Alvin Graves, Los Alamos testing division boss, in his bomber jacket and white pants, closer to the cannon breech.
These cannons were assigned to primarily the Fulda Valley region along East and West Germany, where a likely mass onslaught of Soviet armor would roll through.
It’s highly likely these cannon sites would be attacked by Soviet air power before the Soviet armor would rush through.
Yet the posturing seemed to have worked. Just one cannon getting off a Mk9 15 kt shell would have been devastating.

[@ksztyrix]

For a division, sure. But in grand scheme of all out war I don't think they would make an impact. They would be sitting duck glass cannons (pun intended)

[@EK14MeV]

@@ksztyrix The radioactive cloud would drift toward the Soviet territory, totally against the interests of the Soviet side.

[@buzaldrin8086]

W9.

[@EK14MeV]

@@buzaldrin8086 Here we go, another Got’cha Guy. 🤣
The 280 mm atomic shell was _interchangeably_ called the Mk 9 and W9.
Here you see the military call it the Mark 9.
ruclips.net/video/B9F-l_3eLcE/видео.html#t=7m6s

[@RobertCraft-re5sf]

NICE! Ive never seen this. Thanks for always posting all the rare footage.

[@P-G-77]

Double Mushroom cloud... extreme successful shot.

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

FORE!!! 💥

[@CannikinX]

I remember the shot at 1:15 being in the original cut of Trinity and Beyond on VHS (and I think the first DVD edition as well) at the end of the Grable sequence. It was subsequently replaced with a shot of the top of the growing mushroom cloud in later editions.
Honestly I prefer the original cut here, as it really gives a sense of the massive scale, even on a relatively low yield test like Grable.

[@LuciFeric137]

Generals: ok good job boys, we're outta here...

[@pschroeter1]

The thing that amazes me is smallish size of the artillery shell and bomb itself has to fit inside the metal casing, plus it had the yield of the Hiroshima bomb. I heard the Atomic Cannon was deemed impractical because it is large and distinctive and the Russians would just follow it around and keep track of its location constantly.

[@ThatsNotFunnyThatsSick]

It is called, "we have more money than we could ever spend." "Let's try atomic hand grenades next."

[@pschroeter1]

Actually you aren't that far off. Having nukes in the early 50s was a status symbol for your branch of the service, so if you could think up uses you went for it. The only limitations were how small they could get and whether you could stay out of their blast radius. @@ThatsNotFunnyThatsSick

[@horlos7175]

Et puis après c'est propre

[@danielvieira4587]

Será que ainda existem estes projéteis de artilharia nuclear?ou foram todos desmantelados pelos Estados Unidos?

[@Icu-812-me2]

Why does it look like its in direct fire mode

[@buzaldrin8086]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_fire
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect_fire

[@midnightgmail]

Пушка же для 1+ килотонного снаряда. И выстрел снимали , хроника есть.

[@caerulipes]

Blarg

[@longlakeshore]

15kt - that's Hiroshima equivalent

[@michaelstanich70]

this video would have been better with sound.

[@rocbolt]

It would have to be fake, no sound was recorded

[@buzaldrin8086]

Fake audio was added to the finished movie.