This left me crying a little bit. In college, my Japanese film history professor said to us, "it's something to think about that exposure to radiation creates superheroes in America and monsters in Japan."
@@wizzerd229 it’s interesting to wonder why any one person or group of individuals would ever think that it would be a good idea to kill innocent people in such a terrifying way, just to send fear into a country and it’s government. Edit: Especially considering those not killed by the initial blast suffer from a slow killer they can’t even see.
Today, it was reported that Mr. Oishi, a former crew member of the Lucky Dragon No. 5, died on March 7. Many Japanese are grateful for the videos you made. thank you, Mr. Hill. from tokyo.
@@bIeaq He has been fighting illness for over 50 years and died on March 7, 2021 at the age of 87. He was a nu-bomb survivor. on the bed, He writes his own story "THE DAY THE SUN ROSE IN THE WEST"
@@thigh.enjoyer. he said, its not the responsibility of the US. theres responsibility to all countries equal participating in the nu-weapons competition. our generations made up of the US productive innovations, thank you!
My grandfather was present at the Bikini Atoll during this testing. He was on a destroyer. He had documents and everything. He described seeing the bones of his hands through closed eyes when the blast detonated.
My father was there and is still living, although he’s had all kinds of cancerous skin lesions. He suffers from dementia, but did get to speak of this before he got really sick. He told we kids once at a holiday gathering, and said he didn’t want to speak of it or hear about it again. He meant what he said, so nobody raised the matter in his presence. Our mother didn’t learn of it for years after it was declassified. I suspect he’s taking a lot of still classified information with him to his grave.
Revisiting this playlist after watching Oppenheimer. Kyle's videos fills you with such unimaginable eerie feeling that i almost feel numb for good 15 minutes after. Absolute Masterpiece.
interesting fact: Godzilla's skin or scales were inspired by radiation burns from Hiroshima and the victims of the Castle Bravo test. And the opening scene of the 1954 film with the fishing boat is a reference to this incident.
Tbh I'm a bit disgusted that Americans made godzilla a hero in the newest godzilla trilogy Edit: The original comment was based on a lack of information on my part, pls stop upvoting it
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@@-cookiezila-461 The Japanese did during the appeal to kids cheesy as hell era, also he was an anti hero in several films that came after that era. So it wasn't just the Americans who did it, hell Legendary Godzilla is about the same as the Heisei era Japan Godzilla.
Imagine trying to build the most inconceivably powerful bomb imaginable... only to react to its detonation with, "Holy shit, that was way too damn powerful."
It puts it in a different perspective seeing how it is then how one thinks. like your eyes are more hungry then your stomach. You get to the point “oh shit i think this is too much”
Yes, it was a wonderful surprise, it made thermonuclear devices practical. That has saved us from multiple repeats of WW II and all the lives it would have cost.
My grandfather was a heavy equipment operator on Bikini Atoll during Castle Bravo. He said he could feel the heat and light going though his body. Like the light was going through him. He died in 2001 due to cancer related to radiation exposure.
@@co2_os think of it like this even if its not true in your case your grandpa died in some sort of accident and a popular youtuber makes a video about it you find the video by one day searching for articles and videos about accident on the internet maybe watch it and share your story about it
Much respect to your grandfather. I’m sorry for his passing. I appreciate that he was willing to serve the United States during that very trying war time.
@@co2_os There were a lot of people in the military back then or working for them. And these tests were carried out by crews manning multiple observation vessels both air and sea. Teams of scientists, etc.. It's not unreasonable for a handful of people in these comments to have had family there.
@@Rebecca-oz9fu The bomb was detonated in 1954. There was no war time yet although the US then started a new war that same year. In any case this bomb had nothing to do with the Vietnam war. Please don’t try to make excuses for what the USA did by calling it a „war time“.
It's the middle of the night here. Quiet, not the slightest sound anywhere aside of my table clock ticking. In this environment, this video felt like a therapy for calling my mind also kinda creepy. Huge thanks to Kyle Hill. I absolutely loved it.
Fascinating! My dad was stationed on Eniwetok during the Castle Bravo test (and others). While years later he was concerned about what radiation exposure he might have received, this year (2023) he turns 91 and looks and acts like he is 10 years younger.
@@matmul4850well it was a fission bomb not a fusion bomb. Fission bombs are much cleaner in regards to fallout as more of the fissable material converts to energy
He was blessed by God to have survived the denotation, I feel my Dad did not, he was 41 when he passed from colon cancer, but then so was my brother who died from the same cause, of course we all will face death as it is a part of life!!!
My Grandpa witnessed this test along with operation Ivy. He was a radarman on the USS Curtiss from 1951-1954. When the bombs dropped (edit: I know now it was a remote detonation, nothing was dropped) he said his vision was completely white, even when turned around with his face shielded. He recounted seeing palm trees, dirt, water, etc being flung into the air. Unfortunately he died in 1979 from stomach cancer, I never met him. Many of the people who witnessed these tests had cancer later in life, the casualties from this test were not all immediate. Anyway this video made me think, he got a double dose of nuclear bomb radiation over the course of 2 years. Crazy.
my grandpa was also a radar man there during that same period and he died of cancer 6 years ago. i wonder if they knew eachother. i have his lighter that is engraved with the island and atomic energy symbol and it says he was joint task force 7.
It's just like the current state we're in, hearing literal communist freemasons in the UN telling us, "Welcome to 2030, you own nothing, you have no privacy, but you've never been happier" and being like, "Yeah, let's keep watching vids."
@@lisaw150 Yeah, capitalists ganged up against us. Looks like you knew this already. Now look at what all comments here are about, people are like let's just keep watching videos. zero concern, or am I the only one seeing this?
It is triggered by chemical detonators which could be set off by a cigarette. But given the super precise timing needed for igniting all the detonators, you'd probably just cause a nuclear fizzle (but still cause a chemical explosion which would kill you and everyone else nearby, within feet but not miles).
@@emilysmith6897The nuclear fusion would only be possible by arming the internal components, so I believe it would take actual arming and no way a cigarette would trigger nuclear fusion.
@@amberb.5964 I binge watched all of the Perry Mason show last year. You should already have your lighter out to light my cigarette. How rude! Kinda funny, my Dad said that the show had everyone driving a convertible because the car companies couldn't get the public to buy enough of them. I remember in the 80's how they talked about companies paying big money to get their products in scenes on TV and movies. Looks like that was going on in the 50's too.🤑
Fun fact: one of the larger, if not the largest, displaced groups of Marshallese ended up in Springdale, AR. About the furthest thing from a pacific island chain you could imagine.
Imagine being those fisherman minding your own business then all of a sudden BAM you’re a blind, feel like you’re on fire, and hear the loudest sound of your life all in a few seconds
Yeah, there's definitely something disturbing about how often people who are capable of designing these things from first principles just get something *completely* wrong. Like...imagine if the guy trusted with the calculations for whether or not the Trinity test would set the atmosphere on fire and kill everything on earth fucked up to this degree? There definitely would no longer be a Los Alamos.
The father of the soviet hydrogen bomb program and chief designer of the 50 megaton "Tsar bomb", Andrei Sakharov changed his attitude towards nuclear weapons right after witnessing the test of his Tsar bomb. He openly called for total worldwide nuclear disarmament and even suggested the Soviet Union should make a start in reducing its nuclear arsenal even if the USA does not agree to disarm at the same time. Of course that did not go down well with the communist leadership in Moscow and he was suspended from his position. He also made other controversial political propositions like democratic reforms and boosting ethnic minority rights within the Soviet Union which led to him being declared persona non grata and put under house arrest in the end. The EU later named its human rights prize after him, the Sakharov prize. Imagine that. One of the fathers of the hydrogen bomb and chief physicist of the entire soviet nuclear weapons program, turned into a political idol and greatest figurehead of nuclear disarmament later in his life.
They didn’t that’s why the french chose to test in the pacific and kill all the locals..They should test in France 🇫🇷...I’m against nuclear ☢️ anything....
"Every effort was made to assure the comfort and well-being of the natives." Months earlier... "Sir, it may not be comforting nor good for the well being of the natives to detonate the bomb near their island. Should we make an effort to choose a different location?" "No."
@@johnviera3884 not everything is black and white though, especially governments. Yes, Russia and the US fought the Nazis in WWII. But that doesn't make them the good guys in everything else.
Actually you also shouldn't lick snow. It's polluted af. But then in contrast to that stuff you mentioned you will probably survive if you slick snow, lol.
I’d like to propose that we expand “snow” to include anything 🤣 anyone hear the story of the meat falling from the sky? A bunch of vultures puking for like 5 straight minutes (or something like that) was the eventual explanation but really. Rotten meat falling from the sky. Don’t eat sky food, it’s gross.
My father was one of the lucky sailors there. He died in 2019. He had had many surgeries to remove cancer. They removed the right side of his thyroid glands and about a year later the left side. He had a tumor removed from behind his right eye. He was 22 when he was at the test. In the 50s they gave Potassium Iodide to the soldiers at the Nevada tests. The Iodide would fill their thyroid glands to prevent absorption of radiation. They didn't give it to the sailors at this test because they thought that they were far enough away. I said my father was one of the lucky ones and he was. He lived to be 87. Most of the people there didn't live to a very old age. My father loved America and his home state of North Carolina. He held no hard feelings about all these issues with his health and cancer. He was made aware (by his doctors) that the test was the likely cause of the cancers. He served in the Navy for 24 years and retired as a Chief Petty officer. I don't care if anyone believes this or not. I just want people to understand that there were people who lived a long time and went through a lot of surgeries, treatments and chemotherapy because of this 'Test'. Yall Take Care and be safe, John
Did he describe to you what they saw, and how the heatwave felt? I"m supposing he's one of those who watched the explosion with naked eyes. I heard that that the gov lied to them, told them it was no big deal while in reality they needed a lot of shielding, and looking directly at the X-rays was a terrible idea.
The footage of the explosion and subsequent fireball/mushroom cloud is jaw droppingly beautiful but viciously deadly at the same time. It's a weird feeling, a beautiful juxtaposition when you see a nuclear explosion, incredible awe in one hand, visceral shock in the other hand.
I explained to my students that a thermonuclear bomb is effectively like creating a small star on the planet Earth for a few seconds. Hydrogen to Helium, just like the Sun. Of course the reaction is unstable and unsustainable...which is for the best honestly.
@@buckhorncortez Because a stable fusion reaction is the holy grail of energy production but for 60+ years we have been unable to produce a controlled fusion reactions that produces more energy than it takes to sustain.
My father saw this while in the Navy. He never said much about it, but Mom said it affected him badly, especially as it was classified for decades. He started developing skin cancers, not melanoma, but all sorts of odd growths, on his arms and hands.
I knew about the intensity of the blast but I always assumed that it was intentional. I never knew that it was an accident. I also never learned about the people that had lived there. It’s absolutely sick.
Well, stranger things are known to have happened with no explanation. If the weather hadn't shifted there wouldn't have been any evidence outside of hearsay that could be relatively easily handwaved away.
I never wondered that. I actually wondered if the fireball was visible from the top of the Texas panhandle to brownsville. In other words, one Texas away.
I grew up on the east COAST of Australia and as a kid I cried and had nightmares about this explosion, about the Marshallese and the 'jelly' babies they gave birth to, without bones, and the horror that they would never go home. It was my greatest nightmare for many years.
Starting to understand what it meant by, "The luckiest are those who turn immediately into plasma after the initial blast. The remaining "survivor" are residence of Hell on Earth." Crazy to think that we are still sitting on these ultimate by-products of human madness.
Admittedly, Ivy Mike was really a proof-of-concept test, given that it used liquid deuterium as the fusion fuel. Castle Bravo was the first US test of lithium deuteride as the fusion fuel, which, being a solid at room temperature, is much easier to build a bomb out of. There were plans to make a deliverable bomb using liquid deuterium, but it was quickly canceled once Castle Bravo demonstrated lithium deuteride's viability as a fusion fuel.
True, although Ivy Mike was not a "deliverable" bomb since it used hydrogen isotopes as fuel, so the fuel had to be supercooled to condense it from gaseous to liquid phase, and that required industrial scale cooling equipment.
@@unlisted9429 SOME EARLIER HISTORY " THE GEORGE EXPERIMENT FEB 1951. CONCLUDE THAT FUSION COULD TAKE PLACE :: 225 KT. 1/4. MT, SIMILAR TO RUSSIA LAYER CAKE 2 1/2 YEARS AFTER AMERICA - SIMILAR SET UP A HYBRID BOOSTED FISION. YIELD WAS 335 KT.---- WAS AIRCRAFT DELIVERABLE. #####
so - at 6 minute mark - the commander had ample time to postpone the test and wait for favorable winds.....and he chose to continue, costing the US millions and the lives and health of the natives. Nice work, Congrats.
It would have cost human lives even with ideal winds and only the originally intended size of the explosion. They dropped a nuclear bomb into a populated area and they did it again and again. Nothing can justify that insanity.
Given how they talked about it and the era in question, I'd guess that "acceptable fallout" probably wasn't meant to indicate that the collateral damage was unintended but "acceptable". It meant they were part of the study. And it wasn't the first (or the last) case of human experimentation without consent in those decades.
@@henryptung some were foreigners, some were our own citizens. Many were our own soldiers and some were even just young children, often orphans. All were just people trying to survive in the world.
I am a Radiation Protection Technologist and have worked in US Nuclear plants since 1974. The man who gave me my first training at that time was in charge of radiation protection for the Navy during this test (not the bomb, but the measurement and control of the exposure from the blast and fallout on the naval vessels in the area.) I heard this story back then along with some interesting descriptions of what happened on the navy ships that were in the area. Needless to say, no one was prepared for what really happened. We learned a lot from this and other tests that went...better. This was a pop gun compared to some devices that have been developed since. Please don't make the foolish mistake of comparing nuclear bombs to nuclear power. They have very little to do with each other. We could not make one of our nuclear plants explode like that if we were desperate to do so.
Thank you for your comment. I'm a big proponent of nuclear power. There's a lot of slander against it. Ironically, Germany had to wake up a bunch of coal plants recently, after they deactivated their nuclear reactors for some odd reason. This life is one of constant visible irony and contradiction.
It is true that u can't compare the explosions of nuclear plants with thermonuclear bombs. However, the issue of spent fuel pools is quite serious. In 2016, the journal Science estimated that a spent fuel pool fire in Pennsylvania would contaminate approx. 100,000 square kilometers and require the evacuation of around 20 million residents.
@@TheReapersSon The decision to extend operation time of German nuclear plants has not been made yet, although it is not unlikely in the current world situation. Renewables are the much better option imo, as the spent fuel final storage is still unresolvef and unattainable in one of the most populated European countries
@@wolfgg00 containing the very small amount of waste from nuclear plants has had a safe solution for actual decades. It is extremely safe especially in comparison to how we produce energy from other sources. Kyle has done a video on it and it’s an eye opener. Certainly worth watching.
You know, the statistic "as much energy as all the bombs the Allies dropped in WW2 combined" is supposed to make the Castle Bravo explosion look huge (and it does), but it really gives a scale of strategic bombing. They dropped nuclear levels of explosive one dumb iron bomb at a time using prop driven bombers. Insane.
Many people forget the firebombing raids on Tokyo, Dresden, and other cities that killed many more people than nuclear weapons did. Of course the logistical ease of "One plane, one bomb, thousands dead" can't be ignored. Nor can the Damocle's Sword that is the tremendous arsenal of deliverable nuclear weapons that exist in the world today. The most sobering statistic to me is knowing that a single Ohio-class submarine carries up to 20 missiles, each having 12 independently-targetable warheads with a combined yield 5,700 times that of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
100,000 died overnight from fireworks over Tokyo 5 months before Hiroshima. And 300,000 in several days in target cities of Japan. Mostly civilian, women and children. Certainly there was a high tolerance for civilian casualties compared to now.
@@eracer1111Dresden wasn't actually as bad as it was portrade. The official death count is high because most people died of suffercation so there was lots of body's that could be identified and weren't buried under rubble. The Nazis also turned it into properganda. Even the author of slaughter house five said he regretted how he portrade the bombing in his book saying that he was "the only person to profit from the Dresden bombings".
I had a family member that was a soldier who was affected by Castle Bravo. He had brain tumors within 8 years of the detonation. He developed rare diseases and finally succumbed to cancer in his early 50’s. Such a wonderful man taken away by our government.
My uncle (or rather, the man who would've been my uncle) was one of the many British soldiers that was present for the nuclear bomb detonations in the Pacific. I never got to meet him and ask him about it as apparently he died young of a cancer caused by the radiation he was exposed to.
I believe for at least one of those tests, British soldiers were sat on a beach relatively close to the blast (or closer than most observers generally were to ground zero during shots) and that many experienced profound adverse psychological effects as a result immediately afterwards.
@@almamorrissey8594 Not really. For my family it’s an awful thing that happened but the best thing is to move on and keep going forward. Though since Russia invaded Ukraine and started threatening to use nuclear weapons, it’s been on my mind a lot more.
Generational trauma isn't a real thing. The very concept is the reason horrific aspects of our shared histories aren't left in the past where they should be. Yes we should learn from events that were terrible from history simply in order to prevent future occurances however to appropriate the very real harm and pain felt by those who lived through these things does nothing but diminish the nature of the suffering for those affected. Its the same as casually throwing out the epithet nazi at those you disagree with. It doesn't make the accusation more serious, it downplays the horror that many suffered under the regime.
@@qualicumjack3906Braindead comment. Nuclear bombs in reality have prevented millions of deaths of the last 70ish years because of the concept of Mutually assured destruction. Many scientists knew once the arms race started that despite the terrible potential of nuclear weapons, they could be the catalyst to allow the civilized world to play nice (in terms of not engaging in hot wars). And the only way a smaller nation gets enough nuclear weapons to participate in mutually assured destruction, is to develop enough as a nation where they will be mature enough to handle that many weapons appropriately. If Iran were to drop a nuke today, the response would be conventional not nuclear, but Iran would conventionally be wiped off the face of the earth. There’s a unique balance to it that has saved countless lives, as well as created a modern global society that relies on cooperation over immediate war like it used to be
@@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze Ever consider the societal effects of everybody knowing the only reasons our so-called civilizations play nice is for fear of being murdered at scale?
It turned out to be very lucky, as it caused the US and the Soviet Union to start pumping the brakes on mutually assured destruction. It just wasn't terribly lucky for the crew.
Listening to you describe the sailors touching the ash and licking it had my skin crawling. I just kept saying “no no no” Very well done story telling and pacing. It’s sad what happened to these people.
Watched the story about chernobyl.... When it showed the people standing outside watching the plant burning off in the distance, and then start playing in the falling ash from the explosion and fire like children playing in a summer snowfall.... I had the same reaction. I felt so sick, I was going "No, no, no !" and I had to leave the room.
World: What was that big boom? USA: Weather baloon World: What is that big mushroom cloud?! USA: Weather baloon World: And that ratiation?! USA: Weather. Baloon. World: Is it tho? USA. Yes. But actually no.
It was the KIND of bomb that was supposed to be a secret. But because the detonation was much larger than expected, it gave away the secret that it had to be a new kind of bomb, a fusion bomb.
People are resistant to radiation. The US exposed some unwilling test subjects to low doses of radiation for long periods of time and no health effects were seen. The body can heal low doses, but if the damage passes an threshold it causes too much damage for the body to repair.
That's amazing. I really would interview him while he's still with us. It would be very interesting to hear an in depth account from sombody who was there.
Yes, I absolutely love how serious this was. It felt like it had more of the gravitas needed for a subject like this than the Because Science videos would have been able to supply.
I can’t believe Godzilla and SpongeBob have something in common. That is bonkers. The disaster terrifies me greatly but it’s an important story to tell. Assumptions lead to foolish decisions. Don’t underestimate nuclear power.
This feels like a case of something going horribly "right." They got the results they wanted, then got too much of the results they wanted. Far too much.
@@d0rkl0rd92Well, the most powerful nuke would have to be the russian Tsar bomb, I think, even though nowadays there might be something even more destructive...
@@admirable_kon5083nothing has been made that's bigger, though both Russia and America dreamt of larger bombs. There's a weapon called Sundial which would've left a crater the size of texas
Castle Bravo was the US's first "Deliverable" thermonuclear bomb. the first one was a 2 story silo that contained "Ivy Mike" but was only used for test of theory and was wildly impractical as being small enough to deliver as an actual bomb
“Deliverable” in that it could be dumped from a bomber aircraft. That bomb and others were huge and weighed a lot. Like todays MOAB (non nuke) bomb. With megaton bombs even craft dropping them from 40k+ feet wasn’t guaranteed to make it out
@@Wildasd because he said it was the first hydrogen bomb test by the US which is false. It was Ivy Mike as many of us have pointed out here. Castle bravo was the first usable hydrogen weapon tested
Although the castle bravo experimental bomb itself was a casing suspended in a housing... The US had at that point planned on carrying the Teller/Ulam design two stage wet bomb in a B-52H. It was 19 feet long, and weighed 40,000 lbs. It was like carrying a loaded semi-truck in the bomb bay of the B-52. Within two years they had cut the weight and size of a megaton size bomb significantly. As of now... a fighter jet can carry a 1.8 megaton bomb. Tomahawk cruise missiles are designed to carry warheads in the megaton range. We have a tactical warhead in our aresenal now that is 750 lbs and could fit in the trunk of an average size car. Los Alamos is still actively designing nuclear watheads. You can take college courses in nuclear weapons design. You must first become an accredited physicist. There is good reason for the US to continue having presence in Nigeria. The best uranium comes out of mines in that region. But I digress...
8:56 Actually, even though the Soviets tried their best to remove any history about it, the above ground nuclear tests in Kazakhstan caused thousands of radiation induced deaths. There are lots of photos of people with serious genetic malformations when they were born. The amount of people who got poisoned is astronomical but impossible to calculate exactly with limited information. Undoubtedly worse than the Chernobyl disaster, and even that poisoned tens of thousands of people. The Soviets would quite literally use Kazakh as a nuclear playground with no regard for civilian fatalities, most likely gathering data on how it affected them... Also even disregarding this, the Chernobyl disaster had far deadlier nuclear fallout on it's own compared to Castle Bravo in terms of total fatalities and diseases. This is due to the fact it was over a much larger and more populated region and the reaction and nuclear fallout was being sustained for over 10 days rather than one instantaneous bomb. Which was allowed to happen because they didn't make a containment building like the rest of the world, to save *money.*
When I was a child in the mid 90's I lived in Russia. We visited a museum in St. Petersburg that displayed thousands of preserved malformed baby's and fetuses. Was such a horrific experience that I actively tried to forget that visit. I wouldn't be surprised if some were from the effects of radiation.
@@lofthouse23 well it reminds me of all the nukes the russians and Americans lost tho there are a lot classified ones that we don't know yet so the number can be in the 100s
I studied this my whole senior year at university of Washington, with holly barker, these people have not recovered, their genetics have changed and their way of life will never be the same.
Castle Bravo was not the first thermonuclear weapon detonated by the US. That was Ivy Mike, but Ivy Mike was built in a way that it could never be delivered via aircraft, so they developed a device code-named "shrimp", using Lithium deuteride (a solid) instead of deuterium (a gas that has to be super-cooled). Ivy Mike, tested before Castle Bravo, was the size of a house. Bravo was the size of a really big propane tank, which is why it could be used, and has been armed with, USAF bombers. Don't remember the actual device name (Mark-21??) but thank god we never had to use it.
Indeed, the "Shrimp" design was the first _deliverable_ thermonuclear weapon tested. There was a bomb design that used liquid deuterium, though this was canceled after the lithium deuteride weapon was proven to work.
@Frank Harris They confusingly used a range of values, 5-6 Mt. Therefore the range of success was 250% of 6 Mt to 300% of 5 Mt. But 250% makes more sense because the 60% Li-7 added to 40% Li-6 is 250% of Li-6 alone whether it would have been 5 or 6 Mt. 15 Mt comes in at the high end. The only way to get more than 250% of Li-6 alone is if the fast neutrons from fusion succeeded in causing more fission in the present Uranium (235 & 238) in a third stage.
It's impressive how by studying history one can learn just how much government lies about anything. It is the only constant, yet, none believes it is happening when history is current day...
The government does lie but not about things of this scale, if a nuke was detonated in an oopsie daisy moment there would be vastly more media coverage than before the internet. The government simply can't lie as much anymore. Conspiracy theorists have only been right like 3 times. There is no reason to belive the government is lying.
Real big fan of these videos with a more laidback storytelling. And the way you present the information is phenomenal. I hope you make more videos like this.
@@SeraphFemboy It was shit. 2 out of 5. An interesting initial concept, if not particularly original, that was completely squandered by the end. The story was a total mess with multiple plot holes and even the action was pretty boring. Like when the US robots end up fighting the Russian robots in the street, I thought at least this bit of action would be entertaining, but no. Another missed opportunity.
I used to work with a security guard who told me about being onboard a US Navy ship and witnessing this blast. He told me about how it was so much more powerful than they expected. He did not know how much more powerful it was but seeing this made me realize how much he understated it. This was about 20 years ago he told me about it, and he was going through one of his many bouts of cancer treatments that finally took his life.
These videos are honestly scary af and hard to watch but are so important. Many governments try and hide the atrocities they've committed while shaming others for what they've done, it's disgraceful.
The US is pretty bad at telling you when they're reading your mail ...... But if the US government frankly murdered you, they usually admit it and show up to the funeral to expose themselves to criticism with at least a little bit of honorable shame so to speak. We try not to lie about dead bodies. If nobody died though we'll lie our asses off that's true.
so happy i found your channel been binge watching your videos the past few nights been looking forward to bed time so i can prop up the phone and listen to these awesome story’s
@@scalpingsnake i dont believe most Americans know the true scale of truth to much things, i still get told America won ww2, that Vietnam war was justified and needed to be fought by the US blah blah.
@@falcongamingproductions9938 nowadays it teaches the difference between the 30 different human sexes🙃. No time for math or sciences or history to be taught
Hiroshima was the FIRST TIME a nuclear device (at that time a FISSION BOMB) was used and people died. Calling it the SECOND Hiroshima, meant that it was another 'FIRST", aka a FUSION bomb, much bigger than Fission bombs, and it also took human lives. I figure THAT is the reasoning behind the NAME.
@@ovni2295 lucky dragon no. 1 and no. 2 sank due to poor construction when holes started to develop after the heavy loads of fish they got. Lucky Dragon No.3 was taken by the IJN during peace time as costal defence. Lucky Dragon No.4 collided with an Ocean Liner and sank
"The Lucky Dragon and her crew" in the end brought about dangers of not properly understanding the theory of Nuclear Weapons and the effects. In essence, "The Lucky Dragon" finally showed her true colours to the world.
@@elkmeatenjoyer3409 Its a famous quote of J. Robert Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita. The video can be found on youtube, its only a short clip, but it is quite powerful imo.
The only thing they will do is turn the world into glass. Nuclear weapons are dumb. There are only 2 uses. To end a uber deadly war. And turn an level-4 NIH lab to dust.
As a kid I lived on Kwajalein in the late 60s watching weekly missile tests and not really realizing what we were doing. My dad was a missile engineer and he never told us anything. We certainly weren’t told anything about this test except that Bikini Atoll was radioactive. I’m so glad to know the story now. Thank you.
As serious and terrifying as this is, its even more terrifying that there are countries in the world who don't take these sort of lessons and incidents seriously.
Even the country responsible for this (the USA) only stopped because of the international pressure, they dont give two shits about some island of "natives" far away, they would do it all again in a heartbeat given the chance to get away with it.
Yes, and not only that, how quickly and even eagerly humanity seems to forget the lessons of the past. Such as saying we should not allow genocide to be perpetrated _again_ only to allow it to be perpetrated again and again and again as it is currently being perpetrated by the CCP. Heck, some will even thank them for allowing them to film in the area. Or that unlike every attempt in the past ending in failure and needless suffering, we can make socialism work this time. Or that we can borrow or print our way out of economic problems in spite of eight centuries of disastrous proof to the contrary {This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly - Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff}. Sadly, humanity has proven to be very good at forgetting and ignoring the lessons of the past because it is easier in the short term to do so.
Yes. It's easy to do documentaries exposing anything dangerous or mistaken that the American military does to keep up and ahead of enemies that would exploit any weakness. However, we might notice that Wikileaks and all the other so-called lovers of freedom and "transparency" never have anything to tell about the Russians or Chinese. Either they cannot or will not get the information to expose their misdeeds. I have confidence this guy is sincere, and certainly this is the kind of thing that NEEDS to come to light. However, I am still convinced that the man behind Wikileaks is a Russian stooge or agent.
@@user-vo2eo4cg3r Just because the US does something bad doesn’t mean the Soviets didn’t do any bad things. Because the Soviets indeed did quite a few bad things. In the end, that doesn’t matter. Because Russia and the US deciding to create nuclear weaponry was a shared mistake to begin with.
Castle bravo wasn't the first thermonuclear bomb detonated that was actually ivy mike but castle bravo was the first to use lithium deuteride as the main bomb fuel
@@christycullen2355 It demonstrated technology that could later be developed into a practical, deliverable weapon. The shrimp device used in Castle Bravo was not itself deliverable.
Ive Mike was the first 'true' three stage thermonuclear device built upon the Teller-Ulam principles of staged radiation implosion (but only two stages were used). It was basically a scaled down version of the Runt device tested in Castle Romeo, but with partially enriched lithium as fuel and also used a RACER IV fusion boosted primary. The reason for the unexpectedly high yield was due to the "tritium bonus" provided by the lithium-7 isotope which made up most of the lithium. This isotope was expected to be essentially inert, but in fact it had a substantial reaction cross section with the high energy neutrons produced by tritium-deuterium fusion. When one of these high energy neutrons collided with a lithium-7 atom, it could fragment it into a tritium and a helium atom. Tritium was the most valuable fusion fuel, being both highly reactive and causing extremely energetic fusion, so this extra source of tritium greatly increased the weapon yield
@@freddythecat3203 You’ve confused Ivy Mike and Castle Bravo. Mike was not based on the RUNT device. RUNT was part of the Castle series in 1954, while Ivy Mike occurred in 1952, 16 months before Castle Bravo.
Correct. Ivy Mike was the first true fusion bomb, and wasn't that much smaller than Castle Bravo at 10 megatons. However, Ivy Mike was expected to be 10 megatons, so that wasn't a problem. Ivy Mike also used a fusion fuel setup that basically made it the size of a building, so it was a great proof of concept, but absolutely not usable as a weapon. Castle Bravo was the first test of a (hypothetically) nearly deliverable device, with far less supporting equipment required than Ivy Mike. It was also expected to be smaller, around 5MT, but obviously that part didn't work out so well...
@@kylehill HELLO!!! I want to spend time with celebrities. Just kidding. GAGAGAGAGA! I only want to spend time with my two girlfriends and record RUclips videos for with the 3 of us. OH YEAH. Don't hate me for living the best life, dear jyle
I had the pleasure of meeting professor sir Joseph Rotblatt at Liverpool university while I was an undergraduate. He was in his 90s by then but still enthralling to listen to. An inspiration to all
Fun fact: The Battleships blown up in the Bikini Atoll were towed to the Hunters Point Naval shipyards in San Francisco right behind Candlestick Park. There they were chopped up and the blast effects studied. The land in that area of the city is POISIONED to this day.
@@bigdanbilzan castle bravo was hundreds of times stronger than little boy or fatman Edit: about a thousand times stronger than little boy and 750 times stronger than fatman.
@@ledichang9708 yes, but we are talking about contaminated steel(which was moved off location after a short period of time) compaired to cities that were directly hit
My grandfather was in the US Navy and was present at this. He has photos of him and his crew and old videos. He has skin cancer because of this but somehow he's still kicking. He's 94 and last year asked me to paint him a picture of the mushroom cloud he saw.
Though I don't know if "won" is the right word... I'm sure more powerful bombs could be made and tested today. More just that that particular bomb was at the right point in a fiery game of leap frog where even the military had to step back and go "Hmmm... Should we keep doing this?"
@@Raven1024 Wasn't there this whole 'setting the atmosphere itself on fire' that made them ponder about wether they should go on... So yes. I don't see an engineering problem to make a bigger bomb... But... you know a complete pyrolytic self cleaning of the planet might be considered a bit overkill for even the worst warmongers...
@@robertnett9793 you are correct. Before the first detonation of the first atomic bomb, the threat of the entire atmosphere being lit on fire was a legitimate concern. As for bigger bombs, yes there are no engineering problems, only moral and mortal ones. The Tsar Bomba could have been larger, but they limited its size to allow enough time for the bomber and her crew to escape the blast. They even attached a parachute to the bomb to increase the amount of time the crew had. Unfortunately for us, there is no such thing as overkill. The total amount of nuclear warheads the world currently has, is enough to destroy every city in the world and still have around 1500 left (assuming every city requires 3 nuclear warheads each to be utterly destroyed)
@@Raven1024 One cannot help but think that conceivably the high incidence of cancers in the 20th century might possibly be from all those radioactive particles that were(and continue to be) carried around the world after this and Russia's own test.
Important detail: The atoll of Rongelap was particularly affected. Jeton Anjain, Minister of Health and Senator in the Marshallese parliament, later testified, “Approximately five hours after the detonation, it began to rain radioactive fallout at Rongelap. Within hours, the atoll was covered with a fine, white, powder-like substance. No one knew it was radioactive fallout. The children played in the ‘snow.’ They ate it.”
Worth mentioning, Linus Pauling was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his work against nuclear testing. Ava, his wife, should've gotten half the prize IMO. Joseph Rotblat was awarded the prize in 1995 (not '55). We need more brave scientists like these now more than ever. Great piece!
Scientists "Oh damn we got the math wrong" frowning and being concerned. High ranking Military guys "Oh no, you guys got the math juuuust right." massive grins on their faces.
How about trying to find "India" only to discover the Americas and commit mass genocide and oppression? Did a bit more damage than that silly little nuke considering the damage has lasted what, 400 years or so?
@@voshadxgathic if Europe had not colonized America it would now be poorer and less developed than Africa, and the killings of the natives was mostly unintentional through disease. They would have died no matter what because discovery of the Americas was bound to happen
@@observer4916 you could just set it up with some generic drama before you get to the spicy part. You know, show normal life of the people like they did in Chernobyl to fool you into safety and create suspense of "something is going to happen, but when?" before the disaster strikes
Probably will, they will want to keep such staged events fresh in the public mind for what's to happen in the future. They didn't remember Chernobyl a M/\sonic 33 years afterwards for nothing, a most unusual anniversary date. Chernobyl, Castle Bravo, the Tzar Bomb which probably never really happened, were staged events for the Elite's hoax alien threat to create a new order. The deception will involve creating the belief in fictional agenda 21 misanthropic god aliens who are angered by "Warlike man". Which is why so many of the events have been staged on or near nuclear sites. For this deception many catastrophes and events have already been staged over a long time period, as it makes for credulous sheep who don't believe conspiracies last that long . Events large and small, created with black project weapons tech that they'll eventually blame on asteroids large and small, directed to earth by these imaginary God Aliens. For now all of these events will have convenient readily available alternative explanations, as they need to portray this as "covered up truth", a common theme in the Alien deception that always convinces the sheep the illusion is real. The staged events include Tsunamis such as Fukushima, blasts like Tianjin and Beirut, Chernobyl, Lockerbie, "mysterious" fires, wildfires the media never stops telling us are increasing, and the "mysterious" smoke rings events like the recent one in California City. Small to medium blasts are probably staged with momentum weapons. In the controlled media's coverage of the events, in order to create mystery and suspicion, they'll emphasise either sonic booms, crater size, explosions, unnatural fire intensity such as with Bonhomme Richard, quakes / ground shaking. Saying the event was caused by a quake or that it "felt like an earthquake", such as with the Hokkaido restaurant blast. As later they'll claim it was a hypersonic impact/ Airburst.
@@andrehof7876 Keever, Beverly Deepe (February 25, 2004). "Shot in the Dark". Honolulu Weekly. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-30. The Japanese government and people dubbed it “a second Hiroshima” and it nearly led to severing diplomatic relations.
@@adamnixon2886 Keever, Beverly Deepe (February 25, 2004). "Shot in the Dark". Honolulu Weekly. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-30. The Japanese government and people dubbed it “a second Hiroshima” and it nearly led to severing diplomatic relations. theres a reason second hiroshima is in quotations in the title, see above.
Why are there so many misspelled words these days?? “Acceptible” ... it is not. I grew up hating grammar Nazis. But all over RUclips are misspelled words like this. They spend all these hours putting together lovely documentaries but can’t double check their spelling?? It drives me nuts!
@@KT-ed1dk in the video it's written onscreen as "acceptible" at 5:55 and again at 6:26. I agree with Douglas Schmidt. It's one thing to see misspelled words when your cousin's neighbor's idiot brother posts his conspiracy theories on Facebook, but when people put a lot of effort into an informative video like this on RUclips, you'd think they would check the basics, like spelling. It leaves literate viewers wondering how reliable the rest of the info in the video is. Added irony here because this video is about "some of the smartest people on the planet" (9:26) making a mistake.
@@ZatClaire One scientist discovered no less than 9 lethal elements that way. He is not officially credited with those discoveries, as he always worked with colleagues and grad students and always deferred credit to them...but he literally ate all 9 elements just to see what it would do to him.
Since I used to work at Hanford, I appreciate the work you put into these. I learn stuff that I didn't know, even with my access to DOE Hanford files. One thing, though, about the 6Li and 7Li, is that they didn't include 7Li because the 6 isotope is so expensive, it was because the isotopes are chemically inseparable, and cannot even be separated the way U235 and U238 can, by mass differential, since there is only a single neutron difference between the two. So they had no choice but to include 7Li. The error they made was in not knowing 7Li can be transmuted into free 3H which is fusible, something you very well explained.
There must be at least some way for scientists or the creators of this bomb to increase or decrease the concentration of 6Li, right? And even if a clean separation is not possible, the situation could be improved by more 6Li, less 7Li and less Li material in general? Or is the 60/40 split how Lithium appears in nature?
@@Caesim9 Yep, that the natural isotope mixture. Unfortunately, at least with the technology of the time, that was impossible since the mass of a single neutron makes it so difficult they couldn't accumulate any usable amount, even if they could figure out how to make the separation.
Thanks for watching the latest “Half-Life History.” As usual, let me know what you think of the new format - more of these to come!
I like the more serious tone. Nice change
I adore this series so far. I'd love to see a video like this about David Hahn, the Nuclear Boyscout.
Thor compare Tsar Bombs?
Quite interesting, i enjoy the time and style of presentation. At 5:03 Lithium 6 has 3 neutrons.
I love science n history above all else, so these videos are perfect for me. Keep em coming!
This left me crying a little bit. In college, my Japanese film history professor said to us, "it's something to think about that exposure to radiation creates superheroes in America and monsters in Japan."
@@eggstu the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki were war crimes and not needed
@@monauralsnail0669 the japanese govt was attempting to surrender before the nukes were dropped
@@eggstu Multiple things can be terrible at the same time.
@@eggstu this reads like you're trying to justify war crimes by saying "well everyone else is doing it!" stop it.
@@wizzerd229 it’s interesting to wonder why any one person or group of individuals would ever think that it would be a good idea to kill innocent people in such a terrifying way, just to send fear into a country and it’s government.
Edit: Especially considering those not killed by the initial blast suffer from a slow killer they can’t even see.
"As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell." - Bob Hope
That speaks volumes.
Damn
@@fumeril damn indeed... 🥺
Sorry but it was very unfortunately necessary
Bob Hope was soooooo right.
My former landlord was AT this test. His body was riddled with cancer for years. He's still alive by some miracle.
No way!
Wow!!
Liar.
@@Dr.Mantis-Toboggan-M.D. does it make you feel better inside when you act childish?
That's insane!
6:26 "Acceptible fallout" Whoever made that call should have gone to prison.
I agree.
No shit I agree totally
for warcrimes yeah
Um, that would be hard for you to prove intent. I believe your case would simply be tossed.
when you're dealing with a topic like this, "until next time" is a horrifying phrase to end on.
Well I’m not sleeping tonight, thanks to your comment. Really good comment
Well, there is the Tsar Bomba...!
Just be happy that we can say that.
One day there won't be a "next time"
yikes
The more you know.
Today, it was reported that Mr. Oishi, a former crew member of the Lucky Dragon No. 5, died on March 7. Many Japanese are grateful for the videos you made. thank you, Mr. Hill. from tokyo.
holy shit, one of them survived until this year? RIP
Man that guy was a trooper.....respect from Texas....
thats badass that he was alive so long
@@bIeaq
He has been fighting illness for over 50 years and died on March 7, 2021 at the age of 87. He was a nu-bomb survivor. on the bed, He writes his own story "THE DAY THE SUN ROSE IN THE WEST"
@@thigh.enjoyer.
he said, its not the responsibility of the US. theres responsibility to all countries equal participating in the nu-weapons competition. our generations made up of the US productive innovations, thank you!
My grandfather was present at the Bikini Atoll during this testing. He was on a destroyer. He had documents and everything. He described seeing the bones of his hands through closed eyes when the blast detonated.
Whoa thats insane to even imagine
That sounds extremely terrifying
Holy moly
Whoa, imagine an explosion so bright that it becomes a huge flashlight on it’s own
My father was there and is still living, although he’s had all kinds of cancerous skin lesions. He suffers from dementia, but did get to speak of this before he got really sick. He told we kids once at a holiday gathering, and said he didn’t want to speak of it or hear about it again. He meant what he said, so nobody raised the matter in his presence. Our mother didn’t learn of it for years after it was declassified. I suspect he’s taking a lot of still classified information with him to his grave.
Revisiting this playlist after watching Oppenheimer. Kyle's videos fills you with such unimaginable eerie feeling that i almost feel numb for good 15 minutes after. Absolute Masterpiece.
These stories are honestly scarier than most horror films.
Most modern era horror films aren’t scary anyway, just one shitty ass jump scare after the other.
I like this comment but you're at 69
Yup
Because it’s REAL
Honestly check out horror stories real life stories.
interesting fact: Godzilla's skin or scales were inspired by radiation burns from Hiroshima and the victims of the Castle Bravo test. And the opening scene of the 1954 film with the fishing boat is a reference to this incident.
“Fun” fact
@@peterboris3765 Ima be honest, I was thinking the same before I hit send
Godzilla was the result of nuclear testing
Tbh I'm a bit disgusted that Americans made godzilla a hero in the newest godzilla trilogy
Edit: The original comment was based on a lack of information on my part, pls stop upvoting it
@@-cookiezila-461 The Japanese did during the appeal to kids cheesy as hell era, also he was an anti hero in several films that came after that era.
So it wasn't just the Americans who did it, hell Legendary Godzilla is about the same as the Heisei era Japan Godzilla.
I really like these kind of “mini documentary’s” keep up the great content Kyle
its amazing
Agreed, love these videos
Gotta love a good video essay.
I guess he's calling them "Half-Life Histories"? But yeah they are amazing, i send all of them to a large group of people every time lol
These are the best! Please keep them coming!
Imagine trying to build the most inconceivably powerful bomb imaginable... only to react to its detonation with, "Holy shit, that was way too damn powerful."
It puts it in a different perspective seeing how it is then how one thinks. like your eyes are more hungry then your stomach. You get to the point “oh shit i think this is too much”
Yes, it was a wonderful surprise, it made thermonuclear devices practical. That has saved us from multiple repeats of WW II and all the lives it would have cost.
"Jesus, Larry, did you carry the three?"
"Wait, were we doing this in metric or imperial?"
we often like to think so hard about what we could do that we fail to take pause & consider what we _should_ do
The Great Kazoo made a button like that.
Two words that should never _ever_ be said together: "acceptable fallout"
That only applies if followed by the words New Vegas, otherwise no... just no
acceptable fallout = 0 fallout unless you a country that has nukes :(
COUGHFallout 76COUGH
there is no such thing as acceptab;le fallout
Well he says acceptible not acceptable so maybe you're reading into it.
My grandfather was a heavy equipment operator on Bikini Atoll during Castle Bravo. He said he could feel the heat and light going though his body. Like the light was going through him. He died in 2001 due to cancer related to radiation exposure.
How many people were present during that test, half of the comment section is filled with their grandchildren.
P.s may your grandpa rip
@@co2_os think of it like this even if its not true in your case
your grandpa died in some sort of accident and a popular youtuber makes a video about it
you find the video by one day searching for articles and videos about accident on the internet
maybe watch it and share your story about it
Much respect to your grandfather. I’m sorry for his passing. I appreciate that he was willing to serve the United States during that very trying war time.
@@co2_os There were a lot of people in the military back then or working for them. And these tests were carried out by crews manning multiple observation vessels both air and sea. Teams of scientists, etc.. It's not unreasonable for a handful of people in these comments to have had family there.
@@Rebecca-oz9fu The bomb was detonated in 1954. There was no war time yet although the US then started a new war that same year. In any case this bomb had nothing to do with the Vietnam war.
Please don’t try to make excuses for what the USA did by calling it a „war time“.
It's the middle of the night here. Quiet, not the slightest sound anywhere aside of my table clock ticking. In this environment, this video felt like a therapy for calling my mind also kinda creepy. Huge thanks to Kyle Hill. I absolutely loved it.
Wow that sounds *imersive*
@@rianantony sounds peaceful
@@joshuaschritz8151 sounds fucking sick to me
@@BernieHollandMusicit is f… sick
Fascinating! My dad was stationed on Eniwetok during the Castle Bravo test (and others). While years later he was concerned about what radiation exposure he might have received, this year (2023) he turns 91 and looks and acts like he is 10 years younger.
Great genes, bodes well for you
@@mamavswildIt’s luck, not great genes.
@@matmul4850well it was a fission bomb not a fusion bomb. Fission bombs are much cleaner in regards to fallout as more of the fissable material converts to energy
I like reading comments like that! Blessings to you and your father!
He was blessed by God to have survived the denotation, I feel my Dad did not, he was 41 when he passed from colon cancer, but then so was my brother who died from the same cause, of course we all will face death as it is a part of life!!!
hard to tell this is the same guy that makes all those funny, lighthearted and cheery science videos. very solemn and respectful, i applaud that
I was sure he must've hired a narrator because there is just no way this voice belongs to that same man
His voice definitely rang bells; very thankful he gives these stories the calm and respect they truly deserve.
Yeah, I first discovered this channel trough this video and was completely surpised with just how different his normal videos are to these ones.
My Grandpa witnessed this test along with operation Ivy. He was a radarman on the USS Curtiss from 1951-1954. When the bombs dropped (edit: I know now it was a remote detonation, nothing was dropped) he said his vision was completely white, even when turned around with his face shielded. He recounted seeing palm trees, dirt, water, etc being flung into the air. Unfortunately he died in 1979 from stomach cancer, I never met him. Many of the people who witnessed these tests had cancer later in life, the casualties from this test were not all immediate.
Anyway this video made me think, he got a double dose of nuclear bomb radiation over the course of 2 years. Crazy.
Wow
my grandpa was also a radar man there during that same period and he died of cancer 6 years ago. i wonder if they knew eachother. i have his lighter that is engraved with the island and atomic energy symbol and it says he was joint task force 7.
What was his name btw
They weren’t dropped, they were ground based. Look it up!
@@rwisswell oh thanks I forgot it was remote detonation
Imagine seeing a second sun rise on the horizon and hearing literal doom and being like, “yeah let’s keep fishing.”
It's just like the current state we're in, hearing literal communist freemasons in the UN telling us, "Welcome to 2030, you own nothing, you have no privacy, but you've never been happier" and being like, "Yeah, let's keep watching vids."
@@davemwangi05 struck me back to reality
@@davemwangi05 what?
@@davemwangi05 yes, the world economic forum... all of them communists. They're top capitalists, you do realise that?
@@lisaw150 Yeah, capitalists ganged up against us. Looks like you knew this already. Now look at what all comments here are about, people are like let's just keep watching videos. zero concern, or am I the only one seeing this?
That "Danger, No Smoking" sign next to a nuclear device must be some kind of an internal joke.
It is triggered by chemical detonators which could be set off by a cigarette. But given the super precise timing needed for igniting all the detonators, you'd probably just cause a nuclear fizzle (but still cause a chemical explosion which would kill you and everyone else nearby, within feet but not miles).
Nope, back then people smoked everywhere.
@@emilysmith6897The nuclear fusion would only be possible by arming the internal components, so I believe it would take actual arming and no way a cigarette would trigger nuclear fusion.
Yeah it’s like, “Wouldn’t want you to get cancer, right? Right?”
@@amberb.5964 I binge watched all of the Perry Mason show last year. You should already have your lighter out to light my cigarette. How rude! Kinda funny, my Dad said that the show had everyone driving a convertible because the car companies couldn't get the public to buy enough of them. I remember in the 80's how they talked about companies paying big money to get their products in scenes on TV and movies. Looks like that was going on in the 50's too.🤑
Fun fact: one of the larger, if not the largest, displaced groups of Marshallese ended up in Springdale, AR. About the furthest thing from a pacific island chain you could imagine.
Must have felt like being dropped on an alien planet.
And just in time for and only 111 miles away from the Damascus Titan missile explosion. What are the odds on that?
Wait really? I drive through there all the time, I guess I have to stop sometime and see if I can talk to someone about it
@@matthewparker5277same
Whats so fun about that fact?
Imagine being those fisherman minding your own business then all of a sudden BAM you’re a blind, feel like you’re on fire, and hear the loudest sound of your life all in a few seconds
I’d have knew I was dead, wth would be running through your head
@Nate Mogs - and then just keep fishing business as usual immediate to the blast lol.
Blind on fire and deaf
And imagine thinking $53,000 is enough for completely fucking over someone's existence
@@spicycaco2061 At that time, it was a lot of money. You are not taking inflation into account.
It's fascinating how nuclear bombs have so often been underestimated in intensity by the very people who built them.
Almost as fascinating as when you get vaporised by one. . . . .
Yeah, there's definitely something disturbing about how often people who are capable of designing these things from first principles just get something *completely* wrong. Like...imagine if the guy trusted with the calculations for whether or not the Trinity test would set the atmosphere on fire and kill everything on earth fucked up to this degree? There definitely would no longer be a Los Alamos.
The father of the soviet hydrogen bomb program and chief designer of the 50 megaton "Tsar bomb", Andrei Sakharov changed his attitude towards nuclear weapons right after witnessing the test of his Tsar bomb. He openly called for total worldwide nuclear disarmament and even suggested the Soviet Union should make a start in reducing its nuclear arsenal even if the USA does not agree to disarm at the same time. Of course that did not go down well with the communist leadership in Moscow and he was suspended from his position. He also made other controversial political propositions like democratic reforms and boosting ethnic minority rights within the Soviet Union which led to him being declared persona non grata and put under house arrest in the end. The EU later named its human rights prize after him, the Sakharov prize. Imagine that. One of the fathers of the hydrogen bomb and chief physicist of the entire soviet nuclear weapons program, turned into a political idol and greatest figurehead of nuclear disarmament later in his life.
They didn’t that’s why the french chose to test in the pacific and kill all the locals..They should test in France 🇫🇷...I’m against nuclear ☢️ anything....
Yeah, one minute you have a funny rock that makes a machine go static-y and the next you have something hotter than the core of the earth
Crazy how Castle Bravo instantly turned a paradise into a living hell.
Forever
More like, dead hell.
That's what nuclear weapons are designed for, so no wonder really...
@@GTI1dasOriginal radiation doesnt kast that long lol
The Onion parodied it in the way only they can: "US Army Finds Last Place on Earth Untouched by War, Blows it to Hell." Hilariously unfunny.
"Every effort was made to assure the comfort and well-being of the natives."
Months earlier...
"Sir, it may not be comforting nor good for the well being of the natives to detonate the bomb near their island. Should we make an effort to choose a different location?"
"No."
Hello can you see my comment a little further up??
I cannot see it-I scrolled for a bit but there are 8,476 comments to look through. What did it say?
Yeah, that sounds like America. Russia would also do that too.
@@notdoppler83 Russia and USA
Also the reason we’re not speaking German
@@johnviera3884 not everything is black and white though, especially governments. Yes, Russia and the US fought the Nazis in WWII. But that doesn't make them the good guys in everything else.
Note: If white stuff starts to fall from the sky in a place where it usually doesn't snow, *_DO NOT PICK IT UP AND LICK IT._*
I read that literally the second he said that.
Trying to find this comment lol
Actually you also shouldn't lick snow. It's polluted af. But then in contrast to that stuff you mentioned you will probably survive if you slick snow, lol.
Don’t you tell me what to do... *you’re not my real dad!!*
😆
I’d like to propose that we expand “snow” to include anything 🤣 anyone hear the story of the meat falling from the sky? A bunch of vultures puking for like 5 straight minutes (or something like that) was the eventual explanation but really. Rotten meat falling from the sky. Don’t eat sky food, it’s gross.
My father was one of the lucky sailors there. He died in 2019. He had had many surgeries to remove cancer. They removed the right side of his thyroid glands and about a year later the left side. He had a tumor removed from behind his right eye. He was 22 when he was at the test. In the 50s they gave Potassium Iodide to the soldiers at the Nevada tests. The Iodide would fill their thyroid glands to prevent absorption of radiation. They didn't give it to the sailors at this test because they thought that they were far enough away.
I said my father was one of the lucky ones and he was. He lived to be 87. Most of the people there didn't live to a very old age.
My father loved America and his home state of North Carolina. He held no hard feelings about all these issues with his health and cancer. He was made aware (by his doctors) that the test was the likely cause of the cancers. He served in the Navy for 24 years and retired as a Chief Petty officer.
I don't care if anyone believes this or not. I just want people to understand that there were people who lived a long time and went through a lot of surgeries, treatments and chemotherapy because of this 'Test'.
Yall Take Care and be safe, John
Absolute legend. I'm sorry he had to go through that
Did he describe to you what they saw, and how the heatwave felt? I"m supposing he's one of those who watched the explosion with naked eyes. I heard that that the gov lied to them, told them it was no big deal while in reality they needed a lot of shielding, and looking directly at the X-rays was a terrible idea.
It’s sad a legend like this and many many many others are forgotten by this so called democratic and “patriotic” government.
@@RegionalRadioShackManager Remind me again what Trump and the ultra-right did for these men?
@@RegionalRadioShackManager
More like Pathetic government
The footage of the explosion and subsequent fireball/mushroom cloud is jaw droppingly beautiful but viciously deadly at the same time. It's a weird feeling, a beautiful juxtaposition when you see a nuclear explosion, incredible awe in one hand, visceral shock in the other hand.
I explained to my students that a thermonuclear bomb is effectively like creating a small star on the planet Earth for a few seconds. Hydrogen to Helium, just like the Sun. Of course the reaction is unstable and unsustainable...which is for the best honestly.
Then why have various people been pursuing controlled fusion reactions for 60+ years?
@@buckhorncortez Because a stable fusion reaction is the holy grail of energy production but for 60+ years we have been unable to produce a controlled fusion reactions that produces more energy than it takes to sustain.
Yeah, nowhere near enough pressure to sustain a fusion reaction. Imagine if the flash could last longer than a fraction of a second...
@@buckhorncortez because if you manage to stabilize it, you’ve got the most efficient energy source ever.
@@CStone-xn4oy had the first fusion reaction that generated more energy than what we put into it. 8 months after you said this
My father saw this while in the Navy. He never said much about it, but Mom said it affected him badly, especially as it was classified for decades. He started developing skin cancers, not melanoma, but all sorts of odd growths, on his arms and hands.
"Castle Bravo is such a cool name for anythi-oh...oh now I'm sad"
I knew about the intensity of the blast but I always assumed that it was intentional. I never knew that it was an accident. I also never learned about the people that had lived there. It’s absolutely sick.
"oh that's so cool! My name is Bravo and- oh it's super sad".
There's a city named Castle Danger in Northern Minnesota if that makes you feel any better.
I'm claiming "Tritium Bonus" for the hardcore punk band I always wanted to start!
@@brandonlink6568 that is the single best city name other than the real city named Batman, no really. Change my mind
I like how they tried to keep Castle Bravo a secret, as if you could hide a 15 Megaton Blast from anyone 💀
just put a silencer on it. ez fix 👍
It's just mist...
Well, stranger things are known to have happened with no explanation. If the weather hadn't shifted there wouldn't have been any evidence outside of hearsay that could be relatively easily handwaved away.
@@Flesh_Wizard Yeah like a pillow
No one tried to keep Castle Bravo a secret.
For those wondering, the fireball could be seen from almost exactly one Ohio away
For the Americans
Dang that's like a half a Texas, impressive!
I never wondered that. I actually wondered if the fireball was visible from the top of the Texas panhandle to brownsville. In other words, one Texas away.
One what? What's an ohio?
@@makilaetkencun9358 Ohio has been eliminated.
“It was the worst atomic disaster in American history”
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Brooo it switches up the mood so fast😂
I got an Old Spice one
I got a happy febreze ad. RUclips algorithms should figure the mood of a video before thrusting that in.
Too much yield in your fusion bomb? Clean up that mess with Bounty, the quicker picker upper.
Yeah. I got Febreeze.
Can you say, "Mood Whiplash?"
I grew up on the east COAST of Australia and as a kid I cried and had nightmares about this explosion, about the Marshallese and the 'jelly' babies they gave birth to, without bones, and the horror that they would never go home. It was my greatest nightmare for many years.
Pobrecito...
I'm sure
My god…
@@ScreenMasters369nice profile photo
Starting to understand what it meant by, "The luckiest are those who turn immediately into plasma after the initial blast. The remaining "survivor" are residence of Hell on Earth."
Crazy to think that we are still sitting on these ultimate by-products of human madness.
Castle Bravo was not the first thermonuclear explosion. The first was Ivy Mike on November 1, 1952.
Admittedly, Ivy Mike was really a proof-of-concept test, given that it used liquid deuterium as the fusion fuel. Castle Bravo was the first US test of lithium deuteride as the fusion fuel, which, being a solid at room temperature, is much easier to build a bomb out of.
There were plans to make a deliverable bomb using liquid deuterium, but it was quickly canceled once Castle Bravo demonstrated lithium deuteride's viability as a fusion fuel.
True, although Ivy Mike was not a "deliverable" bomb since it used hydrogen isotopes as fuel, so the fuel had to be supercooled to condense it from gaseous to liquid phase, and that required industrial scale cooling equipment.
@@unlisted9429 SCOLAR RIGHT 10M. MIKE HUGE NOT AIRCRAFT DELIVERABLE. :: CASTLE BRAVO MARCH 1954. -Z☆ 15 MEGATONS WAS AIRCRAFT DELIVERABLE......
@@unlisted9429 SOME EARLIER HISTORY " THE GEORGE EXPERIMENT FEB 1951. CONCLUDE THAT FUSION COULD TAKE PLACE :: 225 KT. 1/4. MT, SIMILAR TO RUSSIA LAYER CAKE
2 1/2 YEARS AFTER AMERICA - SIMILAR SET UP A HYBRID BOOSTED FISION. YIELD WAS 335 KT.---- WAS AIRCRAFT DELIVERABLE. #####
Glad I didn't go into the military. Not a guinea pig.
so - at 6 minute mark - the commander had ample time to postpone the test and wait for favorable winds.....and he chose to continue, costing the US millions and the lives and health of the natives. Nice work, Congrats.
It would have cost human lives even with ideal winds and only the originally intended size of the explosion. They dropped a nuclear bomb into a populated area and they did it again and again. Nothing can justify that insanity.
Given how they talked about it and the era in question, I'd guess that "acceptable fallout" probably wasn't meant to indicate that the collateral damage was unintended but "acceptable".
It meant they were part of the study. And it wasn't the first (or the last) case of human experimentation without consent in those decades.
You don’t know many Navy admirals do you...they are all stupid..
6:00
@@henryptung some were foreigners, some were our own citizens. Many were our own soldiers and some were even just young children, often orphans. All were just people trying to survive in the world.
I am a Radiation Protection Technologist and have worked in US Nuclear plants since 1974. The man who gave me my first training at that time was in charge of radiation protection for the Navy during this test (not the bomb, but the measurement and control of the exposure from the blast and fallout on the naval vessels in the area.) I heard this story back then along with some interesting descriptions of what happened on the navy ships that were in the area. Needless to say, no one was prepared for what really happened. We learned a lot from this and other tests that went...better. This was a pop gun compared to some devices that have been developed since.
Please don't make the foolish mistake of comparing nuclear bombs to nuclear power. They have very little to do with each other. We could not make one of our nuclear plants explode like that if we were desperate to do so.
Thank you for your comment. I'm a big proponent of nuclear power. There's a lot of slander against it. Ironically, Germany had to wake up a bunch of coal plants recently, after they deactivated their nuclear reactors for some odd reason. This life is one of constant visible irony and contradiction.
It is true that u can't compare the explosions of nuclear plants with thermonuclear bombs. However, the issue of spent fuel pools is quite serious. In 2016, the journal Science estimated that a spent fuel pool fire in Pennsylvania would contaminate approx. 100,000 square kilometers and require the evacuation of around 20 million residents.
@@TheReapersSon The decision to extend operation time of German nuclear plants has not been made yet, although it is not unlikely in the current world situation.
Renewables are the much better option imo, as the spent fuel final storage is still unresolvef and unattainable in one of the most populated European countries
@@wolfgg00 containing the very small amount of waste from nuclear plants has had a safe solution for actual decades. It is extremely safe especially in comparison to how we produce energy from other sources. Kyle has done a video on it and it’s an eye opener. Certainly worth watching.
Are you still working or close to retirement?
You know, the statistic "as much energy as all the bombs the Allies dropped in WW2 combined" is supposed to make the Castle Bravo explosion look huge (and it does), but it really gives a scale of strategic bombing. They dropped nuclear levels of explosive one dumb iron bomb at a time using prop driven bombers. Insane.
Many people forget the firebombing raids on Tokyo, Dresden, and other cities that killed many more people than nuclear weapons did. Of course the logistical ease of "One plane, one bomb, thousands dead" can't be ignored. Nor can the Damocle's Sword that is the tremendous arsenal of deliverable nuclear weapons that exist in the world today.
The most sobering statistic to me is knowing that a single Ohio-class submarine carries up to 20 missiles, each having 12 independently-targetable warheads with a combined yield 5,700 times that of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
100,000 died overnight from fireworks over Tokyo 5 months before Hiroshima. And 300,000 in several days in target cities of Japan. Mostly civilian, women and children. Certainly there was a high tolerance for civilian casualties compared to now.
@@richbarrows3922So using this logic you'd been ok with vaporizing Jews in nazi Germany to end a war
@@eracer1111Dresden wasn't actually as bad as it was portrade. The official death count is high because most people died of suffercation so there was lots of body's that could be identified and weren't buried under rubble. The Nazis also turned it into properganda. Even the author of slaughter house five said he regretted how he portrade the bombing in his book saying that he was "the only person to profit from the Dresden bombings".
You mean in comparison, they dropped tiny, insignificant levels of explosives. Not nuclear levels!
I had a family member that was a soldier who was affected by Castle Bravo. He had brain tumors within 8 years of the detonation. He developed rare diseases and finally succumbed to cancer in his early 50’s. Such a wonderful man taken away by our government.
My uncle (or rather, the man who would've been my uncle) was one of the many British soldiers that was present for the nuclear bomb detonations in the Pacific. I never got to meet him and ask him about it as apparently he died young of a cancer caused by the radiation he was exposed to.
I believe for at least one of those tests, British soldiers were sat on a beach relatively close to the blast (or closer than most observers generally were to ground zero during shots) and that many experienced profound adverse psychological effects as a result immediately afterwards.
Do you ever feel dreams or generational trauma related to the nuclear blast?
@@almamorrissey8594 Not really. For my family it’s an awful thing that happened but the best thing is to move on and keep going forward. Though since Russia invaded Ukraine and started threatening to use nuclear weapons, it’s been on my mind a lot more.
@@almamorrissey8594 Generational trauma isn't a real thing
Generational trauma isn't a real thing. The very concept is the reason horrific aspects of our shared histories aren't left in the past where they should be. Yes we should learn from events that were terrible from history simply in order to prevent future occurances however to appropriate the very real harm and pain felt by those who lived through these things does nothing but diminish the nature of the suffering for those affected. Its the same as casually throwing out the epithet nazi at those you disagree with. It doesn't make the accusation more serious, it downplays the horror that many suffered under the regime.
My uncle (my dad's brother) was a scientist that was exposed to radiation during the test. He died in 1960 of leukemia caused from that exposure.
Bullshit
@ralphmacchiato3761🤦
So he was helping make a bomb to kill foreigners and ended up getting killed by that very bomb.
Sounds like poetic justice
@@qualicumjack3906Braindead comment. Nuclear bombs in reality have prevented millions of deaths of the last 70ish years because of the concept of Mutually assured destruction. Many scientists knew once the arms race started that despite the terrible potential of nuclear weapons, they could be the catalyst to allow the civilized world to play nice (in terms of not engaging in hot wars). And the only way a smaller nation gets enough nuclear weapons to participate in mutually assured destruction, is to develop enough as a nation where they will be mature enough to handle that many weapons appropriately. If Iran were to drop a nuke today, the response would be conventional not nuclear, but Iran would conventionally be wiped off the face of the earth. There’s a unique balance to it that has saved countless lives, as well as created a modern global society that relies on cooperation over immediate war like it used to be
@@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze
Ever consider the societal effects of everybody knowing the only reasons our so-called civilizations play nice is for fear of being murdered at scale?
In light of the whole ordeal, "The Lucky Dragon" has to be the most ironic name for a ship I've ever heard.
Well it sure wasn't lucky
Oh it was lucky alright. Though that luck turned out to be bad.
Tickling the dragon tale. And getting struck by a random wind. Well
It turned out to be very lucky, as it caused the US and the Soviet Union to start pumping the brakes on mutually assured destruction. It just wasn't terribly lucky for the crew.
They were caught up in a nuke - look at at these poor people who colided with sufracing submarine, probably only one within 1000km....
Listening to you describe the sailors touching the ash and licking it had my skin crawling. I just kept saying “no no no”
Very well done story telling and pacing. It’s sad what happened to these people.
Sad my aunt Fanny, so called civilization treating Marshall Island like lab rats, so glad your good with that.
Watched the story about chernobyl.... When it showed the people standing outside watching the plant burning off in the distance, and then start playing in the falling ash from the explosion and fire like children playing in a summer snowfall.... I had the same reaction. I felt so sick, I was going "No, no, no !" and I had to leave the room.
“The test was supposed to be a secret”
Ah yes, the VERY SECRET *15 MEGATON NUCLEAR BOMB EXPLOSION*
Well it wasn't like they intended it to be 15 megatons. They were only shooting for four.
World: What was that big boom?
USA: Weather baloon
World: What is that big mushroom cloud?!
USA: Weather baloon
World: And that ratiation?!
USA: Weather. Baloon.
World: Is it tho?
USA. Yes. But actually no.
It was the KIND of bomb that was supposed to be a secret. But because the detonation was much larger than expected, it gave away the secret that it had to be a new kind of bomb, a fusion bomb.
Yea who would notice A NUCLEAR BOMB
This was 15 megaton the tsar bomba was 50 just imagine seeing that
My grandpa was there and saw it. His name is Ron Yoxsimer, and is still alive surprisingly, and still is very healthy at 89 years old.
If he's willing, set up a camera and interview him....before his story is lost. Kudos to him for being one tough SOB.
Maybe radiation gave him superpowers
People are resistant to radiation. The US exposed some unwilling test subjects to low doses of radiation for long periods of time and no health effects were seen.
The body can heal low doses, but if the damage passes an threshold it causes too much damage for the body to repair.
@@agentepolaris4914 Haha...
That's amazing.
I really would interview him while he's still with us. It would be very interesting to hear an in depth account from sombody who was there.
I really like this format, Kyle. It reminds me of the Original History and Discovery channels. More educational and less fluff. Good job!
Ryan Skaarud you might check out Fall of Civilizations if you like real history. Absolutely incredible quality.
@@geoffreycannon2197 thanks I'll take a loom
Yes, I absolutely love how serious this was. It felt like it had more of the gravitas needed for a subject like this than the Because Science videos would have been able to supply.
I can’t believe Godzilla and SpongeBob have something in common. That is bonkers.
The disaster terrifies me greatly but it’s an important story to tell. Assumptions lead to foolish decisions. Don’t underestimate nuclear power.
"Lucky" Dragon. Man, people need to stop naming stuff that gives the Universe an excuse to be ironic.
So, if a boat is named the Unfortunate Weasel, it's pretty safe?!?
@@anhedonianepiphany5588 You're safe. Can't guarantee people won't laugh out loud at your boat's name like I did :-)
@@anhedonianepiphany5588 Well now your inviting bad fortune to come inside your house and eat your spagetti
Better than being named the "Angry Dragon." 😂🤣😂🤣
This feels like a case of something going horribly "right." They got the results they wanted, then got too much of the results they wanted. Far too much.
They went too far and had to deal with the consequences of it
we dreamt of makimg the worlds most powerful nuclear weapon... and we succeded.
@@d0rkl0rd92Well, the most powerful nuke would have to be the russian Tsar bomb, I think, even though nowadays there might be something even more destructive...
Nope, it's America. They knew what they were doing
@@admirable_kon5083nothing has been made that's bigger, though both Russia and America dreamt of larger bombs. There's a weapon called Sundial which would've left a crater the size of texas
“The test, was supposed to remain a secret.” How the fuck do you keep a nuclear explosion a secret?
the ocean is a huge place
Use a suppressor so it dosent make boom boom
@@sonicman7697 What kind?
@@randomstuff6790 the one where it no boom boom
The islanders probably thought it was a giant orange cock rising above the horizon.
Ivy Mike was the first thermonuclear bomb test nov 1st 1952.
Castle Bravo march 1 1954
Thanks. This comment has way to little likes.
"The test was supposed to be a secret." If this wasn't so serious, this would be uproariously funny.
Those idiots... How the hell can you drop a 15 megaton bomb without anyone knowing LOL
@@chrism6904 they didnt think it was gonna be 15 mt.
@@bwab9051 They thought it'd be 6, would that still be unnoticed by anyone?
@@chrism6904 stop analysing mid 50 's with your 2020 knowledge at that time scientists tinkered nuclear cores with screwdrivers...
@@calgar42k Even back then many knew that particular experiment was incredibly stupid the way they were conducting it
Castle Bravo was the US's first "Deliverable" thermonuclear bomb. the first one was a 2 story silo that contained "Ivy Mike" but was only used for test of theory and was wildly impractical as being small enough to deliver as an actual bomb
I was wondering when someone was going to say this
He said it in the video too, so I don't really get the comment.
“Deliverable” in that it could be dumped from a bomber aircraft. That bomb and others were huge and weighed a lot. Like todays MOAB (non nuke) bomb. With megaton bombs even craft dropping them from 40k+ feet wasn’t guaranteed to make it out
@@Wildasd because he said it was the first hydrogen bomb test by the US which is false. It was Ivy Mike as many of us have pointed out here. Castle bravo was the first usable hydrogen weapon tested
Although the castle bravo experimental bomb itself was a casing suspended in a housing...
The US had at that point planned on carrying the Teller/Ulam design two stage wet bomb in a B-52H.
It was 19 feet long, and weighed 40,000 lbs.
It was like carrying a loaded semi-truck in the bomb bay of the B-52.
Within two years they had cut the weight and size of a megaton size bomb significantly.
As of now... a fighter jet can carry a 1.8 megaton bomb.
Tomahawk cruise missiles are designed to carry warheads in the megaton range.
We have a tactical warhead in our aresenal now that is 750 lbs and could fit in the trunk of an average size car.
Los Alamos is still actively designing nuclear watheads.
You can take college courses in nuclear weapons design.
You must first become an accredited physicist.
There is good reason for the US to continue having presence in Nigeria.
The best uranium comes out of mines in that region.
But I digress...
8:56 Actually, even though the Soviets tried their best to remove any history about it, the above ground nuclear tests in Kazakhstan caused thousands of radiation induced deaths. There are lots of photos of people with serious genetic malformations when they were born. The amount of people who got poisoned is astronomical but impossible to calculate exactly with limited information. Undoubtedly worse than the Chernobyl disaster, and even that poisoned tens of thousands of people. The Soviets would quite literally use Kazakh as a nuclear playground with no regard for civilian fatalities, most likely gathering data on how it affected them...
Also even disregarding this, the Chernobyl disaster had far deadlier nuclear fallout on it's own compared to Castle Bravo in terms of total fatalities and diseases. This is due to the fact it was over a much larger and more populated region and the reaction and nuclear fallout was being sustained for over 10 days rather than one instantaneous bomb. Which was allowed to happen because they didn't make a containment building like the rest of the world, to save *money.*
You can be sure that the 'secret' tests on any side would not be known of at all, if they could get away with it. They nearly did get away with it.
When I was a child in the mid 90's I lived in Russia. We visited a museum in St. Petersburg that displayed thousands of preserved malformed baby's and fetuses. Was such a horrific experience that I actively tried to forget that visit. I wouldn't be surprised if some were from the effects of radiation.
Very nice, high five
Ah Soviet Secrecy strikes again. Reminds of another similar nuclear Soviet incident.
@@lofthouse23 well it reminds me of all the nukes the russians and Americans lost tho there are a lot classified ones that we don't know yet so the number can be in the 100s
I studied this my whole senior year at university of Washington, with holly barker, these people have not recovered, their genetics have changed and their way of life will never be the same.
Like anyone one on here cares. The callousness displayed is unbelievable ☹️
Castle Bravo was not the first thermonuclear weapon detonated by the US. That was Ivy Mike, but Ivy Mike was built in a way that it could never be delivered via aircraft, so they developed a device code-named "shrimp", using Lithium deuteride (a solid) instead of deuterium (a gas that has to be super-cooled). Ivy Mike, tested before Castle Bravo, was the size of a house. Bravo was the size of a really big propane tank, which is why it could be used, and has been armed with, USAF bombers. Don't remember the actual device name (Mark-21??) but thank god we never had to use it.
Indeed, the "Shrimp" design was the first _deliverable_ thermonuclear weapon tested. There was a bomb design that used liquid deuterium, though this was canceled after the lithium deuteride weapon was proven to work.
A lot of the footage and description was Ivy Mike too, the thermo nuclear installation
“We never use it”. Those nukes are on stand by 24/7/365 though.
Merci 😉
Yep. Noticed that right away. First fusion device was Mike Ivey, a liquid experiment, to Castle Bravo, first solid phase fusion device.
Mr. President, we're proud to announce that Castle Bravo was a 250% success.
@Frank Harris we are in a RUclips comment section not a science article. It's okay to not be exact when making a colloqial comment.
@Frank Harris While you display amazing math skills, your spelling sucks. It's Los Alamos.
Always underpromise and overdeliver? :-)
@Frank Harris They confusingly used a range of values, 5-6 Mt. Therefore the range of success was 250% of 6 Mt to 300% of 5 Mt. But 250% makes more sense because the 60% Li-7 added to 40% Li-6 is 250% of Li-6 alone whether it would have been 5 or 6 Mt. 15 Mt comes in at the high end. The only way to get more than 250% of Li-6 alone is if the fast neutrons from fusion succeeded in causing more fission in the present Uranium (235 & 238) in a third stage.
@Stinky Piece of Cheese excuse me brother I was in the ICU last week in septic shock. Sorry for not being bang on with my tertiary level English
It's impressive how by studying history one can learn just how much government lies about anything. It is the only constant, yet, none believes it is happening when history is current day...
Truer words have never been said. There’s very little truth in what we’re being told.
Like Biden. Classic example
The government does lie but not about things of this scale, if a nuke was detonated in an oopsie daisy moment there would be vastly more media coverage than before the internet. The government simply can't lie as much anymore. Conspiracy theorists have only been right like 3 times. There is no reason to belive the government is lying.
@@betterthanyesterday3912 Biden is as much of an example as any of your average politicians, if anything he lies less than trump.
Lying is SOMETIMES necessary (for military ops, diplomatic missions, etc) , but lying about a NUKE is just....
Real big fan of these videos with a more laidback storytelling. And the way you present the information is phenomenal. I hope you make more videos like this.
Outside the Wire makes even more sense now, "it's just collateral"
Was a pretty good movie ngl
Where just collateral hug ur kid n be glad thats possiable that day
@@SeraphFemboy It was shit. 2 out of 5. An interesting initial concept, if not particularly original, that was completely squandered by the end. The story was a total mess with multiple plot holes and even the action was pretty boring. Like when the US robots end up fighting the Russian robots in the street, I thought at least this bit of action would be entertaining, but no. Another missed opportunity.
@@oldnelson4298 k
Old Nelson not a single person in the entire universe asked for your opinion
I used to work with a security guard who told me about being onboard a US Navy ship and witnessing this blast. He told me about how it was so much more powerful than they expected. He did not know how much more powerful it was but seeing this made me realize how much he understated it. This was about 20 years ago he told me about it, and he was going through one of his many bouts of cancer treatments that finally took his life.
That had to be horrifying to see that
These videos are honestly scary af and hard to watch but are so important. Many governments try and hide the atrocities they've committed while shaming others for what they've done, it's disgraceful.
The US is pretty bad at telling you when they're reading your mail ......
But if the US government frankly murdered you, they usually admit it and show up to the funeral to expose themselves to criticism with at least a little bit of honorable shame so to speak.
We try not to lie about dead bodies.
If nobody died though we'll lie our asses off that's true.
You would lie, too.
> are honestly scary af and hard to watch but are so important
Hysteria alert!
so happy i found your channel been binge watching your videos the past few nights been looking forward to bed time so i can prop up the phone and listen to these awesome story’s
Kyle Hill... I think these special videos on serious topics are really good ❤️🔥
Yeah agreed. I assume Americans are more likely to learn this but a lot of this is new to me. I really enjoy how it's presented.
scalpingsnake They don’t teach us this stuff in school here in America sadly
@@falcongamingproductions9938 I learnt about this from a book in my school library
@@scalpingsnake i dont believe most Americans know the true scale of truth to much things, i still get told America won ww2, that Vietnam war was justified and needed to be fought by the US blah blah.
@@falcongamingproductions9938 nowadays it teaches the difference between the 30 different human sexes🙃. No time for math or sciences or history to be taught
The “Second Hiroshima”
Isnt that just Nagasaki?
To be honest it really doesn't matter what they call it but if they wanted to be historically accurate they could have called it the third Hiroshima
You can't discount Nagasaki by saying it's only a second Hiroshima.
That's what I said . people with intelligence are running thin
Hiroshima was the FIRST TIME a nuclear device (at that time a FISSION BOMB) was used and people died. Calling it the SECOND Hiroshima, meant that it was another 'FIRST", aka a FUSION bomb, much bigger than Fission bombs, and it also took human lives. I figure THAT is the reasoning behind the NAME.
I clicked on this video SPECIFICALLY TO COMMENT THIS
Love the 'NO SMOKING' sign next to the thermonuclear bomb,
You weren't allowed to hump it either.
@@480JD Allowed? How you doin 😜
I just had to rewatch this with my wife. Your videos age better than the finest wine.
The tragic irony of that ship being called “the lucky dragon“ is just baffling.
Dark humor here, but it wasn't just The Lucky Dragon. It was The Lucky Dragon No. 5
What happened to the first four?
@@ovni2295 lucky dragon no. 1 and no. 2 sank due to poor construction when holes started to develop after the heavy loads of fish they got. Lucky Dragon No.3 was taken by the IJN during peace time as costal defence. Lucky Dragon No.4 collided with an Ocean Liner and sank
@@fivenightsofrandomness9224 It's like they cursed the boats with that name.
@@fivenightsofrandomness9224 Yikes
"The Lucky Dragon and her crew" in the end brought about dangers of not properly understanding the theory of Nuclear Weapons and the effects. In essence, "The Lucky Dragon" finally showed her true colours to the world.
"Now I am become death the destroyer of worlds." ... gives me chills every time I hear the audio-clip.
Was he drunk when he said that?
@@elkmeatenjoyer3409 Its a famous quote of J. Robert Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita. The video can be found on youtube, its only a short clip, but it is quite powerful imo.
@@noneofyourbusiness3288 yeah I know I just imagined him being drunk when he said that with all the guilt that he was carrying.
If you were in part responsible for a weapon like that and saw it’s effects for the first time... You’d probably drink too
This quote was actually about machine guns during WW I... which was bad enough.
When you're using an Atomic Bomb as a "fuse"... Things are going to get _interesting_ to say the least.
Less of a fuse and more of a detonator, but yeah your point is very very true.
@@Atlessa "blasting cap"
The only thing they will do is turn the world into glass. Nuclear weapons are dumb. There are only 2 uses. To end a uber deadly war. And turn an level-4 NIH lab to dust.
More of a primer than a fuse
@@AlechiaTheWitch agreed. I am still scared of the possibility they could be used in a future war
17:50...imagine seeing that outside your plane's window.
As a kid I lived on Kwajalein in the late 60s watching weekly missile tests and not really realizing what we were doing. My dad was a missile engineer and he never told us anything. We certainly weren’t told anything about this test except that Bikini Atoll was radioactive. I’m so glad to know the story now. Thank you.
As serious and terrifying as this is, its even more terrifying that there are countries in the world who don't take these sort of lessons and incidents seriously.
The only nation that dropped nukes on children and women is the biggest terrorist state ever.
Even the country responsible for this (the USA) only stopped because of the international pressure, they dont give two shits about some island of "natives" far away, they would do it all again in a heartbeat given the chance to get away with it.
Nobody is going to revolt against a government anymore these days. Too busy getting triggered online.
Yes, and not only that, how quickly and even eagerly humanity seems to forget the lessons of the past. Such as saying we should not allow genocide to be perpetrated _again_ only to allow it to be perpetrated again and again and again as it is currently being perpetrated by the CCP. Heck, some will even thank them for allowing them to film in the area. Or that unlike every attempt in the past ending in failure and needless suffering, we can make socialism work this time. Or that we can borrow or print our way out of economic problems in spite of eight centuries of disastrous proof to the contrary {This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly - Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff}.
Sadly, humanity has proven to be very good at forgetting and ignoring the lessons of the past because it is easier in the short term to do so.
@@Mike-LitorisSoBig If you honestly believe that, you should read more history.
Imagine being a fish chillin on the coral reef then just being evaporated
At least it's painless. The survivors are the ones who suffer the most.
Good thing fish dont really have any memory I guess.
Lol aerosoled, irradiated, and swept with the winds
@@bigpjohnson That's a myth
Fish stick
The starter for the bomb was like that at Nagasaki, the Hiroshima device was a uranium bullet, which was a compression device.
You should do one on the victims of "The Polygon" soviet test site next.
Has Russia released info on that?
@@thehusketeers4319 probably not, knowing russia
@@user-vo2eo4cg3r doesn't matter if it still effects the land around it and wildlife
Yes. It's easy to do documentaries exposing anything dangerous or mistaken that the American military does to keep up and ahead of enemies that would exploit any weakness. However, we might notice that Wikileaks and all the other so-called lovers of freedom and "transparency" never have anything to tell about the Russians or Chinese. Either they cannot or will not get the information to expose their misdeeds. I have confidence this guy is sincere, and certainly this is the kind of thing that NEEDS to come to light. However, I am still convinced that the man behind Wikileaks is a Russian stooge or agent.
@@user-vo2eo4cg3r Just because the US does something bad doesn’t mean the Soviets didn’t do any bad things. Because the Soviets indeed did quite a few bad things. In the end, that doesn’t matter. Because Russia and the US deciding to create nuclear weaponry was a shared mistake to begin with.
Castle bravo wasn't the first thermonuclear bomb detonated that was actually ivy mike but castle bravo was the first to use lithium deuteride as the main bomb fuel
It was the first to be deliverable by the US as well. Ivy Mike was basically a building
@@christycullen2355 It demonstrated technology that could later be developed into a practical, deliverable weapon. The shrimp device used in Castle Bravo was not itself deliverable.
Ive Mike was the first 'true' three stage thermonuclear device built upon the Teller-Ulam principles of staged radiation implosion (but only two stages were used). It was basically a scaled down version of the Runt device tested in Castle Romeo, but with partially enriched lithium as fuel and also used a RACER IV fusion boosted primary. The reason for the unexpectedly high yield was due to the "tritium bonus" provided by the lithium-7 isotope which made up most of the lithium. This isotope was expected to be essentially inert, but in fact it had a substantial reaction cross section with the high energy neutrons produced by tritium-deuterium fusion. When one of these high energy neutrons collided with a lithium-7 atom, it could fragment it into a tritium and a helium atom. Tritium was the most valuable fusion fuel, being both highly reactive and causing extremely energetic fusion, so this extra source of tritium greatly increased the weapon yield
@@freddythecat3203 You’ve confused Ivy Mike and Castle Bravo. Mike was not based on the RUNT device. RUNT was part of the Castle series in 1954, while Ivy Mike occurred in 1952, 16 months before Castle Bravo.
Correct. Ivy Mike was the first true fusion bomb, and wasn't that much smaller than Castle Bravo at 10 megatons. However, Ivy Mike was expected to be 10 megatons, so that wasn't a problem. Ivy Mike also used a fusion fuel setup that basically made it the size of a building, so it was a great proof of concept, but absolutely not usable as a weapon.
Castle Bravo was the first test of a (hypothetically) nearly deliverable device, with far less supporting equipment required than Ivy Mike. It was also expected to be smaller, around 5MT, but obviously that part didn't work out so well...
there is something about a "no smoking" sign next to a 15 megaton bomb........
Fantastic narration and well done documentary. I learned quite a bit.
"The second Hiroshima"
Nagasaki: Excuse me?
A direct quote, not my interpretation
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I had the pleasure of meeting professor sir Joseph Rotblatt at Liverpool university while I was an undergraduate. He was in his 90s by then but still enthralling to listen to. An inspiration to all
Fun fact: The Battleships blown up in the Bikini Atoll were towed to the Hunters Point Naval shipyards in San Francisco right behind Candlestick Park. There they were chopped up and the blast effects studied. The land in that area of the city is POISIONED to this day.
Most of San Francisco is poisonous, tbf
Uh, sir, how would a area where irradiated steel was located still be dangeous today, when, hirroshima and nagasaki have fully recovered?
@@bigdanbilzan castle bravo was hundreds of times stronger than little boy or fatman
Edit: about a thousand times stronger than little boy and 750 times stronger than fatman.
@@ledichang9708 yes, but we are talking about contaminated steel(which was moved off location after a short period of time) compaired to cities that were directly hit
And thus Hunter's Point because an area for housing for the poor and minorities, until that "available" land was taken for the baseball park.
Thermonuclear device "Ivy Mike" - 1 November 1952.
Thermonuclear device "Castle Bravo (SHRIMP)" - 1 March 1954
My grandfather was in the US Navy and was present at this. He has photos of him and his crew and old videos. He has skin cancer because of this but somehow he's still kicking. He's 94 and last year asked me to paint him a picture of the mushroom cloud he saw.
The problem was that when the Soviets heard of this they basically said challenge accepted.
and they won the final battle of baddest bomb ever made with the Tsar bomb. After that the U.S. and Russia agreed no more nuclear tests.
Though I don't know if "won" is the right word... I'm sure more powerful bombs could be made and tested today.
More just that that particular bomb was at the right point in a fiery game of leap frog where even the military had to step back and go "Hmmm... Should we keep doing this?"
@@Raven1024 Wasn't there this whole 'setting the atmosphere itself on fire' that made them ponder about wether they should go on... So yes. I don't see an engineering problem to make a bigger bomb... But... you know a complete pyrolytic self cleaning of the planet might be considered a bit overkill for even the worst warmongers...
@@robertnett9793 you are correct. Before the first detonation of the first atomic bomb, the threat of the entire atmosphere being lit on fire was a legitimate concern. As for bigger bombs, yes there are no engineering problems, only moral and mortal ones.
The Tsar Bomba could have been larger, but they limited its size to allow enough time for the bomber and her crew to escape the blast. They even attached a parachute to the bomb to increase the amount of time the crew had.
Unfortunately for us, there is no such thing as overkill. The total amount of nuclear warheads the world currently has, is enough to destroy every city in the world and still have around 1500 left (assuming every city requires 3 nuclear warheads each to be utterly destroyed)
@@Raven1024 One cannot help but think that conceivably the high incidence of cancers in the 20th century might possibly be from all those radioactive particles that were(and continue to be) carried around the world after this and Russia's own test.
Important detail:
The atoll of Rongelap was particularly affected. Jeton Anjain, Minister of Health and Senator in the Marshallese parliament, later testified, “Approximately five hours after the detonation, it began to rain radioactive fallout at Rongelap. Within hours, the atoll was covered with a fine, white, powder-like substance. No one knew it was radioactive fallout. The children played in the ‘snow.’ They ate it.”
Worth mentioning, Linus Pauling was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his work against nuclear testing. Ava, his wife, should've gotten half the prize IMO.
Joseph Rotblat was awarded the prize in 1995 (not '55).
We need more brave scientists like these now more than ever. Great piece!
So, Castle Bravo was the most terrifying "Task failed successfully" ever?
More like the most terrifying case of "oops, got my math wrong."
Or "gone horribly right."
Scientists "Oh damn we got the math wrong" frowning and being concerned.
High ranking Military guys "Oh no, you guys got the math juuuust right." massive grins on their faces.
How about trying to find "India" only to discover the Americas and commit mass genocide and oppression? Did a bit more damage than that silly little nuke considering the damage has lasted what, 400 years or so?
@@voshadxgathic if Europe had not colonized America it would now be poorer and less developed than Africa, and the killings of the natives was mostly unintentional through disease. They would have died no matter what because discovery of the Americas was bound to happen
The creators of the Chernobyl mini-series should consider making this whole story into a mini-series as well!
5 rotgen not great but not terrible
Maybe a single 1-hour special but there's not enough content for a miniserious, IMO.
@@observer4916 you could just set it up with some generic drama before you get to the spicy part. You know, show normal life of the people like they did in Chernobyl to fool you into safety and create suspense of "something is going to happen, but when?" before the disaster strikes
@@Jon_EL 15 megatons, not great, not terrible
Probably will, they will want to keep such staged events fresh in the public mind for what's to happen in the future. They didn't remember Chernobyl a M/\sonic 33 years afterwards for nothing, a most unusual anniversary date. Chernobyl, Castle Bravo, the Tzar Bomb which probably never really happened, were staged events for the Elite's hoax alien threat to create a new order. The deception will involve creating the belief in fictional agenda 21 misanthropic god aliens who are angered by "Warlike man". Which is why so many of the events have been staged on or near nuclear sites. For this deception many catastrophes and events have already been staged over a long time period, as it makes for credulous sheep who don't believe conspiracies last that long . Events large and small, created with black project weapons tech that they'll eventually blame on asteroids large and small, directed to earth by these imaginary God Aliens. For now all of these events will have convenient readily available alternative explanations, as they need to portray this as "covered up truth", a common theme in the Alien deception that always convinces the sheep the illusion is real.
The staged events include Tsunamis such as Fukushima, blasts like Tianjin and Beirut, Chernobyl, Lockerbie, "mysterious" fires, wildfires the media never stops telling us are increasing, and the "mysterious" smoke rings events like the recent one in California City. Small to medium blasts are probably staged with momentum weapons. In the controlled media's coverage of the events, in order to create mystery and suspicion, they'll emphasise either sonic booms, crater size, explosions, unnatural fire intensity such as with Bonhomme Richard, quakes / ground shaking. Saying the event was caused by a quake or that it "felt like an earthquake", such as with the Hokkaido restaurant blast. As later they'll claim it was a hypersonic impact/ Airburst.
When you said "Took a lick of what to have seemed to be powdered snow" shivers went down my spine😳
Well not to sound too pedantic and tone deaf but isn't Nagasaki already a 'second Hiroshima'
Japan: castle bravo was like a second Hiroshima
People of Nagasaki: ....
if it weren't that sad...laughable title indeed
Oh ffs, the title hurt your feelings. you know what the hell they mean.
@@andrehof7876 Keever, Beverly Deepe (February 25, 2004). "Shot in the Dark". Honolulu Weekly. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-30. The Japanese government and people dubbed it “a second Hiroshima” and it nearly led to severing diplomatic relations.
Nagasaki be like "Am I a joke to you?"
@@adamnixon2886 Keever, Beverly Deepe (February 25, 2004). "Shot in the Dark". Honolulu Weekly. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-30. The Japanese government and people dubbed it “a second Hiroshima” and it nearly led to severing diplomatic relations.
theres a reason second hiroshima is in quotations in the title, see above.
“A second Hiroshima”
Nagasaki: Am I a joke to you?
@Kenzie Kenaz Situmorang oh hello, please? Not Ok, ok?
Lmao
lmao bots be fighting
Not ok enough, very funny
I was wondering the same thing...in what way was it actually the second?
Most evil oxymoron ever: "acceptable fallout"
Acceptable Fallout is not an oxymoron, it is a catastrophic contradiction.
@@areyouready22 I like that too 😄 the alliteration is nice!
Why are there so many misspelled words these days?? “Acceptible” ... it is not. I grew up hating grammar Nazis. But all over RUclips are misspelled words like this. They spend all these hours putting together lovely documentaries but can’t double check their spelling?? It drives me nuts!
@@douglasschmidt2869 Who are you talking to exactly? I didn't misspell acceptable. I'm old enough that I was actually taught to spell things properly.
@@KT-ed1dk in the video it's written onscreen as "acceptible" at 5:55 and again at 6:26. I agree with Douglas Schmidt. It's one thing to see misspelled words when your cousin's neighbor's idiot brother posts his conspiracy theories on Facebook, but when people put a lot of effort into an informative video like this on RUclips, you'd think they would check the basics, like spelling. It leaves literate viewers wondering how reliable the rest of the info in the video is.
Added irony here because this video is about "some of the smartest people on the planet" (9:26) making a mistake.
Kyle, the first test of a thermonuclear device was Ivy-Mike, yielding 10 megatons. Castle-Bravo came after it.
Correct! Ivy Mike was the first and produced 10.4 MT, using cryogenic liquid deuterium.
“It was dry and had no taste”
NO TASTE, THEY ATE IT?!
With no context, I think it's more likely that they just put their tongue on it. Scientists do that to get comprehensive reports
Okay so I just got to the part in the video and honestly it still makes sense. He interpreted it as snow, from what I understand
Gritty, not dry.
@@ZatClaire One scientist discovered no less than 9 lethal elements that way. He is not officially credited with those discoveries, as he always worked with colleagues and grad students and always deferred credit to them...but he literally ate all 9 elements just to see what it would do to him.
Yeah. He said it looked like snow
As one fisherman wrote in his journal: "HOLY SHIT!"
(I'm not making light of this, just thinking what my reaction would be if I saw the described fireball)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I just blasted one huge fart. I was laughing so loud. Almost sharded actually
Since I used to work at Hanford, I appreciate the work you put into these. I learn stuff that I didn't know, even with my access to DOE Hanford files. One thing, though, about the 6Li and 7Li, is that they didn't include 7Li because the 6 isotope is so expensive, it was because the isotopes are chemically inseparable, and cannot even be separated the way U235 and U238 can, by mass differential, since there is only a single neutron difference between the two. So they had no choice but to include 7Li. The error they made was in not knowing 7Li can be transmuted into free 3H which is fusible, something you very well explained.
aaah the old 'what could go wrong?" routine.....
There must be at least some way for scientists or the creators of this bomb to increase or decrease the concentration of 6Li, right? And even if a clean separation is not possible, the situation could be improved by more 6Li, less 7Li and less Li material in general?
Or is the 60/40 split how Lithium appears in nature?
Go bombers
@@Caesim9 Yep, that the natural isotope mixture. Unfortunately, at least with the technology of the time, that was impossible since the mass of a single neutron makes it so difficult they couldn't accumulate any usable amount, even if they could figure out how to make the separation.