Trinity and Beyond 100 Ton Test Sequence with new explosion footage
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
- I've added a newly discovered piece of footage of the 100 Ton Test and added it to the end of the sequence in Trinity and Beyond for context. This was the trial run test for Trinity to calibrate the recording equipment including cameras.
This newly discovered shot of the 100 Ton test had been mislabeled as Trinity and therefore was not catalogued in the right place. 
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"Hey Bob, we need you to go up there and smack those boxes with this mallet, they aren't quite aligned straight." "Sure thing, boss."
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Right? Isn't TNT shock sensitive?
@@toddribnek6660 No.
There's no danger to him doing that. It takes an immensely strong shock wave to detonate that explosive (it's actually Composition B, a mixture of RDX and TNT).
@@toddribnek6660 No, it is very much NOT shock sensitive.
The William Shatner commentary is ''the icing on the cake'' on one of the best documentaries i've ever seen! i must have seen this documentary at least 50 times and i still love it!
Second best is the "Atomic Filmmakers - Hollywoods Secret Studio" documentary
Is this newly released footage? Or not? I'm confused.
I used to put this documentary on regularly and fall asleep to it. I can't even guess how many times i've watched it. (just edited to say the 75th anniversary edition rocks!)
@@gustavgnoettgen Maybe a short piece of it, not sure either.
Amazing find of the true blast footage.
That test was critical for calibration of instruments, including Dr. Heinz "Henry" Barschall's sound wave device to estimate the yield from the Trinity test.
Barschall's main work was on the implosion core.
I had a highly interesting discussion of his Los Alamos work while he was still alive many years ago.
His carefully preserved color slides of inside Los Alamos the day the war ended were jaw-dropping in the 1990s.
I hope to the dear Lord that someone responsible and competent took control of those photos for historical preservation.
Actual new footage. Thank you. The amount of times i have seen someone say new footage and i have seen it ages ago.
well i saw this footage ten years ago, you obviously wasn't interested enough to search it out
@@user_unknown1488 Yo when the hell am i have meant to have become psychic. You can only search for something if you know it exists. Why don't you go find the treasure you know nothing about. Same deal.
i saw it when it first came out in 1995 nothing new
I wasn't even aware there was a 100 ton explosion test.
It was even in the movie “Oppenheimer”
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 In the movie looks like a small firecracker
My cousin worked in Oak Ridge, TN and worked at purifying uranium for the Trinity test. He was a Canadian astrophysicist and later would become the Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto.
csb, so ?
One of the best documentaries I ever saw. Well worth the money.
That new explosion footage is really impressive, even more so than the footage originally used in the documentary. I have this documentary and the three that followed on old-fashioned video tape.
A tip of the hat to the driver of the semi hauling explosives.....
The scientists put radioactive tracers in the pile so they could follow the blast pattern and if possible, duplicate it during TRINITY. It was the first time ever that a conventional explosion was mapped at the atomic level. The test results were used in future explosive compositions and configurations.
World's first dirty bomb 😬
This is the first time I've seen this particular footage.
Finally! I’ve been dying to see this blast
I like how they show all the people around the explosives and then the next scene is the explosives doing what explosives do best.
I hope an 80th anniversary version of this movie will be released next year with new footage like this added. I’d like a 4K copy please.
Make that two 4k copies please and I'll gladly pick up the tab for both
That Is Funny.
Just seeing the words "100 Ton Test".
The voice in my head wasn't mine, but sounded really familiar 😂
... still the best captain
Nothing scratches my history itch like original color footage from the '30s & '40s.
Thanks for this! I have a copy of the movie I bought after seeing it on (I believe) the History Channel many years ago.
I’m just as impressed that wooden platform held up 100 tons of tnt plus the men
Interesting how the TNT explosion looks so different from the atomic ones.
I love new videos on these devices!
Thank you
It wasn't even really that big.
In Russia we call these "Tiny peace balloons."
The most important history of our time. Thank You.
Much better footage than the far away view of a "tiny" poof shown on the DVD i have of TAB
100 tons may seem extremely small as compared to the actual Trinity test (explosive energy release estimated to be 25 kilotons of equivalent TNT, or 250 times more than the rehearsal test).
But the effects of any explosion, at a given distance away from ground zero, vary as the square root of the explosive energy.
So the effects were just about 16 times more powerful on the actual Trinity test than on the rehearsal. Still a big difference, but reasonably significant as a rehearsal.
This notion is essential to understand how nuclear weapons power relates to their effects.
During the Cold War, tactical nuclear weapons existed with power as low as 0.1kt (nuclear artillery shells e. g.), which is actually equal to the rehearsal test. Nowadays, tactical nukes are more in the 10 to 50 kilotons range.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, strategic nuclear bombs in the bombers era were up to around 20 megatons. Nowadays, though, MIRVed ballistic missile reentry vehicles or cruise missiles warheads don’t usually go much beyond 300kt to 1Mt.
This huge range of power magnitude becomes way less important when you know that the significant effects radii evolve as the square root of the explosive energy.
From 10kt to 1Mt, e. g., the explosive energy increases 100 times, but the distance to which a given intensity effect is produced varies by only ten times. That’s the actual difference between a modern tactical and strategic nuclear weapon.
As a reminder, the Beirut, Lebanon chemical storage accident explosion a few years ago is estimated to have been about 3000 tons of explosive energy. Hence a blast effect damage radius equivalent to about 2.2 times less than Hiroshima. That’s a huge explosion.
Nice I was always wondering if there was any other footage out there of the 100 ton test!!
Well if you want to see what 20 of these combined look like, just look at some of the footage of the Beirut blast. Which was equal to about 1.5 to 2 kilotons.
Happy 79th anniversary everyone!
Bold move smacking the piss out of those TNT boxes 😮
Don't worry you can bang it with hammer you won't feel anything.
Amazing that this has just turned up. Thank you so much for posting.
Was this the largest conventional explosion done up to this point?
this is old, you are being lied to
They're referring to the fireball sequence at the end. It's different from what it shows on my Trinity and Beyond DVD from some years ago. @user_unknown1488
*Guy spends 40 hours stacking boxes of high explosives in desert heat*
“Let’s see what a pile of high explosives looks like.”
*Pile detonates*
“Yup, that’s what I thought.”
Nice new footage. Too bad it's ruined by the AI interpolation, I'd much rather see the original film.
exactly!
Why do they always add such clearly fake sound effects to footage like this?
That or silence.
Imagine if that guy smacking the TNT with the hammer screwed up.
TNT is one of the least sensitive explosives known.
It takes a powerful and hot explosion to set it off.
Blasting cap detonates a 'booster charge' that initiates the TNT.
This is why it's loaded into artillery shells...it's hard to 'ignite' on accident.
You can shoot a block of TNT all day and never cause it to explode.
1:04 Danger, highly explosive.
Hits with hammer...
...wow.
How did they ignite that stack of 100 tons of tnt so they all detonate in the same instant? Had tobe blasting caps involved all wired to a single switch.
Is there any possibility of making this film available in the UK again? I bought it via Google Play some years ago and then suddenly found it wasn't available for me to view anymore.
I'd be more than happy to pay for it again for a version in HD, or better still, a blu-ray release. 🙏🏻
it is theoretically available in UK on Amazon OTT, or Vimeo otherwise we do sell it in a Region 0 blu ray from our website www.atomcentral.com, go to the store link.
@@atomcentral Appreciate that, and grateful that the BRD isn't region locked. That'll probably be my choice. Trinity And Beyond is one of my favourite documentaries and I'd love to legitimately own it again.
My gratitude in getting back to me.
It should be worrying that the ruling class of 'Merica Jr. don't want their people to see this film.
These weapons are how your ruling elite, like ours here in 'Merica, plan to get whoever remains into their "15 Minute" cities eating "zee bugs" that Schwab and Gates have envisioned for us all.
1:03 Good thing that's not Nitro Glycerin.
Yeah.
“We were going to have 100 ton test, but now it is just 25 tons”
Well if he did detonate it, he would never even know, So there's that.
@@aarongreenfield9038neither would we since no way that would've been declassified
I love how basic it actually was. So that’s a hundred tons. Ok do the math. How far away do we need to be and to set the cameras?
I actually have a copy of this on dvd. Narrated by Shatner himself. Excellent collection of footage, and Shatner narrates it beautifully. I think i found it in some $1 used bin somewhere years ago
Peter Kuran directed that and he runs this channel.
Newly discovered narrative by captain kirk.
شكرا لهذا المحتوى المتميز والنادر واتمنى لكم الاستمرار في تقديم ما هو جيد وممتع للسامع والمشاهد متابع ومشجع لكم من المملكه العربيه السعوديه هناك خاصيه جديده تم تفعيلها في منصه يوتيوب وهي عباره عن خاصيه الدبلجه المباشره من اللغه الانجليزيه الى اي لغه في العالم بحيث يتسنى للمتابع والمشاهد لقنوات المرئي والمسموع سماع ما تقولون باللغه التي يفضلونها سواء العربيه الالمانيه الفرنسيه الى اخره مره اخرى شكرا جزيلا واتمنى لكم الدوام والتوفيق
Do us a favor: Don't try to build your own. It'll just get messy, nasty and kill us all.
@@Nighthawke70
No need to build their own...just buy one
why were sound effects added to this film?
What's Comp B? TNT and Rdx
"True blast footage"
How do you know it's true from this short video?
Whats this from, hope it's a hr long and can I get a name of the video
The Atomic bomb movie is the title.
A period of time when scientific experimentation led man to the brink of madness, the end result being an existence of perpetual paranoia.
This comment is ridiculous pacifist propaganda.
Are you living in permanent paranoia 24/7/365 ???
Well, you should, since Russia, the US and soon China have the capability to nuke the world several times over.
That never prevented me from sleeping. Actually, knowing that Western nuclear powers have the means to deter the Russian and Chinese dictatorships, is a very reassuring thought.
Pacifists should rather go to Moscow and Beijing to demonstrate for political, journalism and opinion freedoms. That’s a little more risky, though.
1:05 😱😱😱😱
To put into perspective, the Beirut explosion was equal to about 20 of these.
only 6× bigger and maybe only 5× bigger if we're talking air blast
@@nehorlavazapalka Beirut explosion was equivalent to 1.5 to 2 kiloton.
Yes. 20 times more explosive energy, but damage radii vary with the square root of the energy. So that’s about 4.4 times more distance to which a given blast effect was felt, as compared to the Trinity rehearsal test.
ohhhhh nice new shot wow!
1:07 stoppp 😳
Bones! See what you can do for him.
Would this be the largest non nuclear explosion in history ?
Oh no, by very, very far.
Accidental man made explosions went up to the 10 kilotons TNT equivalent range. The Beirut port explosion e. g. was about 2kt TNT equivalent.
Natural phenomena went waaaay beyond any nuclear explosion, though. The Yucatán asteroid impact is probably among the biggest ones ever felt on Earth.
100 tonnes of TNT is less effective than 30 or so KG of precisely squished Plutonium. I love nuclear weapons😂
I was honored to put a chainsaw chain on a saw for the man who built Los Alamos from scratch. I believe his name was Mr. Abrahms? He was very tall and his wonderful wife had a distinct forgien accent with a beautiful laugh. He has to be in that footage toward the end. It's an awesome story he told just in the amount of time to fix his saw. THANKS SO MUCH THEY WERE SUCH SWEET PEOPLE AND FROM WHAT MRS. ABRAHMS SAID I BELIEVE SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE SCIENTIST.
Billy Shatner