Wernher von Braun, Johnston Island and an outer space nuke
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- Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2023
- Following World War II, Wernher von Braun was secretly moved to the United States, along with about 1,600 other German scientists, engineers, and technicians, as part of Operation Paperclip. He worked for the United States Army on an intermediate-range ballistic missile program, and he developed the rockets that launched the United States' first space satellite Explorer 1 in 1958.
Here he is on Johnston Island preparing for shot TEAK and ORANGE which were multi-megaton nuclear weapons launched into space by von Braun's Redstone Missile in 1958. 
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From 1958? The footage quality is mindblowing, looks better than the 2000s .
RTX on.
U2 maybe
AI boosted :)
It’s film, brah
@@rocbolt Do you understand that tapes get terribly damaged after 70 damn years? Apollo recordings, 1-2 decades later, don't look nearly as good.
Edit: I'm not idiot, tape and film are called the same in Spanish, thus the mistake.
Of course video recording in magnetic tape didn't exist in the 60s. Still most films got terribly damaged with the years.
His Hawaiian shirt looks ridiculous against the previous german suit :D
Look where he is! How could he resist?
it looks comfortable and great. aloha.
Another fantastic crystal-clear piece of history... thanks for hard work.
Was stationed at JI from 85-86; it had grown exponentially from this time period
What was it like being so faraway from everything?
Cool
@@MS-37 intimidating; one realizes how small you are in the grand scheme of things.
is there any other footage surviving from FISHBOWL? Particularly the explosion and auroras?
there are other clips on our RUclips channel of some of the other Fishbowl shots.
Hi, i'm Wernher von Braun. Welcome to nukes in space.
Tried my darnedest to get out there when the Chemical Incinerator was operational…
"Neuer Arbeitgeber, neues Glück" findet Wernher von Braun
Die rätselhafte Wiederherstellung eines ehemaligen SS-Sturmbannführers.
Very interesting to see the control bunker from outside, and visually demonstrate how close it was.
The small, shiny rocket-shaped thing was one of the data collection instruments, called an instrument pod, attached to the base of the Redstone rocket, and jettisoned shortly before the warhead detonated.
Other buildings were dangerously close to the launch pad, in a scenario where a rocket could fall or explode with tons of fuel and oxidizer.
Most interesting is the the blue streamer along the North-South geomagnetic axis, extending from the fireball.
That glow was caused by beta electrons from the bomb, oscillating back and forth at tremendous speed, between the fireball and the southern hemisphere’s conjugate point. The high energy electrons spiral along the geomagnetic field axis, to the point where the magnetic field strengthens again enough (closer to Earth) and causes them to repel between the points until the electrons lose sufficient energy energy to the atmosphere.
The green around the fireball was atmospheric oxygen glowing from the radiation.
WOW 2 videos uploaded in one day!
Great restoration!
von braun is a real life duke nukem
Did you know anything about the nuclear magnetic pulse, NEMP for short? It is indirectly triggered by the Compton effect as a result of intense gamma radiation at an altitude of some 100 km above the Earth's atmosphere in connection with the Earth's magnetic field in the atmosphere. Such a strong transient gamma radiation source can only be produced by a nuclear weapon explosion. Could it be that you were afraid of it? Because it was not for nothing that ATLAS I existed. ATLAS-I was a facility for carrying out EMP tests on aircraft. It is still the largest metal-free wooden construction in the world in terms of its volume. The 180 m long, 65 m wide and up to 40 m high ATLAS-1 was built between 1972 and 1980 near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The electromagnetic pulse for the tests was generated with the help of a Marx generator with a momentary power of 200 GW. In order to influence the electromagnetic wave as little as possible, the entire construction was made of metal-free wood.
Johnston Atoll
The dude on the thumbnail looks like Corey Taylor
kinda looks AI enhanced
Its kind of surprising they observed the test in plainsclothes, what if there was a broken arrow incident and the rocket exploded on the pad?
Aah Von Braun, the nazi scientist who was more than happy to use concentration camp prisoners to build his rockets.
If he had been sad about it, would it have made a difference?
Could he have just sent them home?
(Duh!)
I read a book on the program written by the chief project mgr. of the V2. the whole thing is so bizarre. half a year before the end of the war, the limiting factor for rocket shots was not the number of available rockets, nor the liquid oxygen. It was the potatoe harvest. They distilled the ethanol fuel from food ! In a war winter. Crazy....
Venh zeh rahkets ahr up, hu cares vere zey come down, zis is not my department sez Wernher von Braun
It's thanks to him that I believe inventors should give some thought towards the unintended possible consequences of some of their inventions. Computer viruses, biological weapons etc. Anything with indiscriminate destructive potential should be strongly pondered.
It's sad really. They really didn't know what the h€ll what was going on and only a few of then avoided cancer or other issues cos of those explosions,
there's somthing evil about waffen ss guys and nukes
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