UK Grapple Z1 balloon Nuclear Weapon testing 24KT 1958

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  • Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
  • 22 August 1958 18:00
    Kiritimati (Christmas Island), Kiribat
    24KT

Комментарии • 81

  • @garysmith9818
    @garysmith9818 7 месяцев назад +20

    Ah yes, a sunny day, a floating balloon, piano music, some amazing science, and a nuclear explosion. so relaxing, lol. Good video, and nice restoration, thank you for posting. 😊

    • @alreaud
      @alreaud 3 месяца назад +1

      You get a good tan. With the quickness...

  • @Ganiscol
    @Ganiscol 7 месяцев назад +32

    The second and third shots were fascinating for making the reflection of the shockwave from the ground visible on the fireball and what looked to me like the separation of the transient condensation cloud rising like a clear slit upwards!

    • @jmanner2562
      @jmanner2562 7 месяцев назад +2

      That is awesome. For a millisecond all appears quiet at ground level, then not. 🎉

    • @realnerd9
      @realnerd9 5 месяцев назад +1

      Why was the explosion teal in the other two slow-mo shots?

    • @alreaud
      @alreaud 3 месяца назад

      @@realnerd9
      The colors that we see in such old archival films depend on the film, the filters, exposures, and how it was scanned into digital format. At 1/4 speed view, the physics is breathtaking. And as shots went back in the day in the South Pacific, this one was tiny... I wonder what science package they were testing.

  • @buckhorncortez
    @buckhorncortez 7 месяцев назад +17

    Grapple Z was interesting because it tested an external initiator. The bomb assembly was too large to fit into an airplane which is why balloons were used to raise it to the desired detonation height.

  • @Gremriel
    @Gremriel 7 месяцев назад +33

    I know these things are bad for just about anything, but there is beauty in these detonations.

    • @daffidavit
      @daffidavit 7 месяцев назад +5

      They are awesome, in the truest sense of the word.

    • @timharnans
      @timharnans 7 месяцев назад +2

      I love watching smoke billow. There’s a natural gas plant in a city not far from me, and in -5° weather it looks beautiful with the smoke clearly visible and as white as snow.

    • @proosee
      @proosee 7 месяцев назад +5

      There are actually multiple things that are beautiful and bad at the same time: drugs, women...

    • @iitzfizz
      @iitzfizz 7 месяцев назад +4

      They amaze me.
      I would have loved to have seen a test back in the day.

    • @Dickusification
      @Dickusification 6 месяцев назад

      Afterall it's just nature. How man uses it is on his conscience

  • @iitzfizz
    @iitzfizz 7 месяцев назад +3

    This is a good one, you can see the scale of it because there is a sign and what look like wooden light/telegraph poles or something in the foreground

  • @horntail-wyvern2803
    @horntail-wyvern2803 7 месяцев назад +8

    I reckon this is the closest, most realistic view of what the Nagasaki bomb blast would have looked like from ground view minus the buildings. It was an airburst close to 20 kilotons, and exploded on a cloudy day. Crazy.

    • @The_Fat_Controller.
      @The_Fat_Controller. 7 месяцев назад +5

      I was thinking the same thing! The Nagasaki detonation was a couple hundred feet higher and a few kilotons less in yield, but the impression is the same.

    • @Deutritium93
      @Deutritium93 7 месяцев назад

      @@The_Fat_Controller. Yeah if you consider scaling factors with the yield/height of burst for both these explosions, then it is undoubtedly what the Nagasaki blast would have looked like. Even the subsequent mushroom cloud and stem look similar.

  • @turbogato1
    @turbogato1 3 месяца назад +2

    That was beautiful, They sure don't make fireworks like that anymore.

  • @djsmileyoflasvegas
    @djsmileyoflasvegas 7 месяцев назад +6

    Ive never seen this one..great video and quality was good clarity

  • @petehafner3844
    @petehafner3844 7 месяцев назад +4

    Pretty cool nice restoration thanks for posting

  • @aidanbrophy9947
    @aidanbrophy9947 7 месяцев назад +1

    A less common but super valuable piece of test footage where u can so clearly see the pure spherical fire all transform into the mushroom cloud

  • @04mach1speed
    @04mach1speed 7 месяцев назад +2

    Whoa! I’ve watched a lot of nuclear test videos but have never seen this one. So cool!

  • @The_Fat_Controller.
    @The_Fat_Controller. 7 месяцев назад +3

    There is something haunting about watching these videos. Watched from a distance, decades later, it is mesmerizing. Especially with the tranquil music playing. But if you were directly under that detonation, you would be dead long before your brain could even begin to register that you were dying. I get roughly the same feeling watching videos of strong, violent tornadoes.

  • @Flame-Bright-Cheer
    @Flame-Bright-Cheer 7 месяцев назад +6

    Has anyone else noticed in the first and second test what looks like birds flying across the screen about Midway from the top to the bottom what are those crazy silly Atomic Birds doing out there

    • @dominicseanmccann6300
      @dominicseanmccann6300 3 месяца назад +1

      Finger licking good not long after; secret blend of strontium, iodine & other herbs & spices...

  • @marcocarraro6669
    @marcocarraro6669 7 месяцев назад +4

    Great footage!

  • @P-G-77
    @P-G-77 7 месяцев назад +3

    Amazing... fantastic... never seen before, thanks.

  • @AlcharynMusic
    @AlcharynMusic 7 месяцев назад +3

    Wonderful

  • @globalvillage423
    @globalvillage423 7 месяцев назад +3

    ... or even better with Ultra Spectral, or Full Spectral camera.

  • @annaoaulinovna
    @annaoaulinovna 7 месяцев назад +2

    i hope this movies can be enough. so no one will spend expensive materials for nothing.

  • @globalvillage423
    @globalvillage423 7 месяцев назад +2

    Hyper spectral camera would reveal hidden details and insights that cannot be seen with normal human vision.

  • @clicheguevara5282
    @clicheguevara5282 7 месяцев назад +2

    We can split the atom but we can't solve hunger.

    • @captaincapitalism264
      @captaincapitalism264 7 месяцев назад

      Well, in a sense...some of the Soviet people were starving by the end of that regime, and the threat of M.A.D. by these weapons solved that. Not that they were for that goal specifically, I get it, but still...much of military R&D filters down to the private sector eventually. Laser eye surgery for example, is a direct fringe benefit from Reagan's 'Star Wars' program.

  • @globalvillage423
    @globalvillage423 7 месяцев назад +2

    Imagine if they record this explosion with hyper spectral camera.

  • @sid2112
    @sid2112 7 месяцев назад +3

    The scientists, having calculated the stresses, did indeed create an atomic hot air balloon.

  • @josephastier7421
    @josephastier7421 7 месяцев назад +1

    I don't understand how the birds didn't fall from the sky, blinded by the light and disoriented from the shock. There is one of these tests out at the Nevada test site where someone is giving a speech right after the blast and a small bird falls to the ground in front of him.

  • @Deutritium93
    @Deutritium93 7 месяцев назад +1

    @1:08 the plume created by the vaporization of the helium barrage balloons.

  • @Flame-Bright-Cheer
    @Flame-Bright-Cheer 7 месяцев назад +1

    I watch all of your videos and enjoy them if you know what I mean but this one is A Cut Above the Rest the dramatic shadows and the way the Shockwave ran across the ground like an animal of Unstoppable ability I love your channel thank you man

  • @davida.p.9911
    @davida.p.9911 7 месяцев назад +1

    Fascinating footage! ☢️

  • @andyf4292
    @andyf4292 7 месяцев назад +2

    would that have been after the yanks broke their word and didnt give us the bomb we'd done so much work on?

  • @daffidavit
    @daffidavit 7 месяцев назад +2

    There is a famous photo of the French Island blast, if you can find it. The island sounds like Murial or something like that. If you can post that particular famous picture, I will point something out something very interesting. I can't tell you what it is yet because it will spoil what I want to show. There is also a video of that special blast. The island was used by the French for many tests, but this one particular picture is pretty famous. If I have to search for it, I will try but I think the author of this channel is way more advanced in this stuff than I. Thanks.

    • @indigohammer5732
      @indigohammer5732 7 месяцев назад +1

      Mururoa Atoll.

    • @daffidavit
      @daffidavit 7 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, thank you. If I can find the photo and the video, I'll post it in a later video and show you what I'm talking about. @@indigohammer5732

  • @kh40yr
    @kh40yr 4 месяца назад

    Excellent shot of the hard xrays consuming/dissolving the balloon tethers. One of the most interesting effects to me of the slow speed atomic fireball progression vids. Hard sleeting neutron radiation, right at the break, for miles around, in all directions imaginable. Only savior is that it is short lived. Even if the thermal effect or shock wave doesn't get to you, the screaming Neutrons will find you if close enough and unshielded. God help if they ever test a clean Neutron-only bomb.

  • @sosigakaweinerman869
    @sosigakaweinerman869 6 месяцев назад +1

    You're telling me they attached a nuclear weapon to a balloon? Holy shmow

  • @ScipioAfricanusTauricum
    @ScipioAfricanusTauricum 7 месяцев назад +1

    Relaxing music 😁

  • @Truth-Justice-Freedom
    @Truth-Justice-Freedom 6 месяцев назад +2

    Were there 2 or 3 birds flying in the scene?!😮

  • @johnhamilton2923
    @johnhamilton2923 7 месяцев назад +1

    Christmas Island.

  • @emtee40
    @emtee40 7 месяцев назад

    Just beautiful!

  • @bremnersghost948
    @bremnersghost948 7 месяцев назад +1

    Looks bigger than 24kt

  • @tphilipson9991
    @tphilipson9991 7 месяцев назад

    Such gentle music for such
    POWER
    Fangs fur sssharing

  • @sense90125
    @sense90125 4 месяца назад

    Funny to think my Dad was there and saw that.

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 7 месяцев назад +1

    Maralinga? Or Christmas Islands?

  • @itsthatbutter
    @itsthatbutter 6 месяцев назад

    When your wife asks what you did today "oh I blew up some s****"

  • @user-ow8tc7jf1h
    @user-ow8tc7jf1h 7 месяцев назад

    Christmas Island,was there.

  • @michaelstanich70
    @michaelstanich70 7 месяцев назад

    interesting shot.

  • @PabloA64
    @PabloA64 Месяц назад

    Is there a bird coming from the left at 0:35?

  • @josephharper1838
    @josephharper1838 Месяц назад

    We still here 2024❤😊

  • @HoneyBerighthere-Saysarath
    @HoneyBerighthere-Saysarath 7 месяцев назад +1

    Hydrogen balloons.

  • @marciobadin1892
    @marciobadin1892 7 месяцев назад +1

    You should put specifications of the blast, type height of the blast, etc.

  • @abraao44292
    @abraao44292 6 месяцев назад +1

    0:05

  • @moistmike4150
    @moistmike4150 7 месяцев назад

    Why am I getting a real bad feeling about 2024?

  • @ZIGZAGBureauofInvestigation
    @ZIGZAGBureauofInvestigation 7 месяцев назад +2

    These Poor Birds and Other Living Things near and far from the Effects.

  • @tonybigalow3236
    @tonybigalow3236 7 месяцев назад

    Imagine Putin palyng the piano while one of these on Moscow

  • @1776-or-die
    @1776-or-die 6 месяцев назад

    Love how the radiation ate into the film,little white specks…….there good for ya

  • @thongdonghanoi
    @thongdonghanoi 6 месяцев назад

    holly shittt

  • @julietaloreto9476
    @julietaloreto9476 5 месяцев назад

    Name: BURGEE 2 or Z

  • @blazezxt10d57
    @blazezxt10d57 6 месяцев назад

    66年の実験(テスト)は終わった。
    今年、66.6年目に最後が訪れる。

    • @blazezxt10d57
      @blazezxt10d57 6 месяцев назад

      私は、全ての消滅を以てこの実験結果を受け入れる。

  • @Celticsamuraiblue
    @Celticsamuraiblue 12 дней назад

    👎🏻🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☮️🇪🇺😎

  • @AxisArborCare
    @AxisArborCare 7 месяцев назад

    Sorry but that footage is using layered film and old hollywood tricks. It looks as fake as it is. Back in the day it was good special effects, but now it looks like the Apollo 11 LEM docking hahahahaha.

    • @BlobB-kn9ww
      @BlobB-kn9ww 6 месяцев назад

      Do you think the internet is a hoax too?

  • @C25isBadUserC27Spamminin
    @C25isBadUserC27Spamminin 4 месяца назад

    Hotpot grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  • @abraao44292
    @abraao44292 6 месяцев назад

    0:04