A Brief History of: The Totskoye Nuclear Exercise
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The Totskoye exercise did the unthinkable, setting off a Atomic device next to your own army.
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My father was one of the Marines in the trenches during 1951. He was in charge of decontaminating the Marines and their equipment following the test. In the 1980's he was called to testify to Congress a the last surviving member of his company as all the others had passed, mostly from the effects of radiation exposure.
Wow, that puts it into perspective.
Holy shit which tests? I know quite a lot of the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had lasted to their 90s (although loads died much earlier) so the bombs tested must have been worse. What happened to your father?
Thank you for sharing.
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@@themadplotter ...?
My girlfriend entered the room and asked...
*"Why is Private from the penguins of Madagascar talking about nuclear weapons."*
@@dogcrucifixion4622 How does that have anything to do with nuclear weapons or the penguins of Madagascar?
I Like Terrains hes trolling, badly.
dog crucifixion nice try being edgy
It's an old Reddit thing.
Smile and wave at the mushroom cloud boys, smile and wave...
I had a teacher that was telling us about this guy he knew who was there in the trenches and he said that the guy believed at the time that the government would never do anything that'd put him in real danger. When he put his arm up to shield his eyes from the explosion and saw through his arm as if he was taking an x-ray, he realized that they probably did put him in real danger.
That's...that's really sad. 😭
"Government would not do anything that put him in danger" while dude is literally in the military. A government institution in which the common soldier is by definition an expendable resource... That is peak statism there. To the point of religion. Well. I nominate the person for a posthumous Darwin Award.
@@456puff Its tragic but I think they learned a lesson here, which, I don't find sad at all... Some people require to face harder attrition then others to understand they're wrong and have made a poor choice. Many, never have this capacity to learn and thus are a danger to themselves and others... He at least was able to change his mind when faced with incontrovertible evidence to the contrary of his current disposition and undoubtedly changed his behaviour accordingly.
My grandfather took part in one (possibly more than one) of these sorts of tests in Wimmera, Australia. He didn't speak a word about it until he was on his deathbed, at a relatively young age. He was dying of an ultra rare cancer which, as it happens, is more common after exposure to such things as nuclear fallout.
It sickens me the we have/had governments that could be so cruel as to expose people and nature to such horrors, let alone their own citizens.
Like is happening right now . A attack of viruses was launched in Wuhan China ( created in a laboratory ) Coronavirus , Delta , etc etc . against humanity , together with Obama administration that gave funds 💰to do all kind of investigations and to create viruses . It shows how sanguinary China government can be , together with other powerful government countries like USA , England , Canada , North Korea , Russia , ETC ETC .
@@Moonlightmoonlight39 Sorry mate but there is no evidence to support your claims. Try watching Potholer54 if you want an evaluation of the evidence
No joke, I knew a guy who was a US soldier who witnessed from up close a remarkable number of US nuclear tests in Nevada in the late 50’s. He would describe them as incredibly beautiful with astonishing colors. Granted, at the time I met him in ‘87 his body was incredibly riddled with cancer and aggressive tumors. The worst and most widespread cancers his oncologist had ever seen. It was somewhat haunting to hear him talking about the beauty of those tests.
The goggles do nothing!
I love that you threw that in!
**I don't know dude, goggles saved me from a drive by shooting. You see, I was walking down the sidewalk one day, when a car came barreling down the street. The car windows suddenly opened, as an occupant of the car started yelling at 2 people who happened to be walking down the street in the opposite direction I was travelling. The yelling began right as those 2 guys were passing by me, then the otherwise calm urban atmosphere suddenly erupted in gunfire, as 5 people in the car began spraying the 2 guys with automatic submachine gun fire! I was hemmed in with the 2 human targets, as hundreds of bullets flew directly at me. Then it ended, as the car screeched away! Each of the 2 guys were shredded by dozens of bullets. I too was hit all over my body, but I had been wearing goggles. So the bullets were rejected, as they ricocheted off of me! It was the goggles that saved my life!**
I know another guy who was hit directly with a 203mm high explosive artillery round in Iraq, but it glanced right off of his forehead with no injury whatsoever, thanks to his goggles!
They look cool. So yeah... Just as important. 😥
@@patrickmcleod111 Highly underrated shitpost tbh.
No..but the air filters would hopefully stop the little bits of uranium from going into your lungs. THAT'S a death sentence.
@@dennissvitak148 angry sand
Seriously, the more you discover about the cavalier attitude countries had to nuclear power and weapons, and the appalling disregard for the safety of their own people, the more you have to wonder just how much worse things could easily have turned out - it just boggles the mind. Excellent vid chap!
why worry about the possibility of cancer that will kill you in ten years time when there is a gander about to kill you in 2 seconds time. That's not thinking about the lead paint assnic asbestosis in every day life or smoking drink driving. The list goes on. Put soldiers in dangerous please what a crazy idea that would be.
fact is nobody really knew about all the risks of radiation exposure back then. the aftermath of cold war tests like this was how we learned about that stuff.
@Bill L Google Lake Karachay The US doesn't even hold a candle to Russia when it comes to the haphazard way they deallt with radioactive waste.
Can still get ugly fast. The nuclear age never ended, it just got old.
@@-yeme- That is not true. The health effects of radiation were known ever since they started playing with radioactive materials in the late 1800s (and a bunch of people died from it). They just didn't give a shit because the "little people" are expendable and the State must be protected.
Imagine being kicked out of your homes, told you’ll be able to return, and then watch from 30 miles away as your home burns
Still more enjoyable then Fallout 76.
I believe that the name "Operation Snowball" is mistranslated. Operation name was "Снежок" ("Snezhok"), which literary translates to "Small snow", or more correctly, a light snow/dusting of snow...kinda similar to a dusting of ashes after fallout. Giving it a cute name like that was definitively a new twist on term "Dark Humor". Also, the wind changed the direction so instead blowing the fallout cloud toward mostly un-inhabited steppe, it carried it out East, towards more populated areas. Interesting fact was that inhabitants of near-by villages reported that crops have ripened overnight after the "exercise".
raspucin70 снежок can mean snowball. Throwing snowballs is «играть в снежки»
Thank you for sharing. 🖖
What do you mean by "ripened overnight"? Like, does radiation and ash make stuff look ready to eat? Sorry if this is a stupid question, btw.
@@456puff Correct. The crops ripened overnight from the nuclear energy released from the explosion (not the ash, per say). Those were anecdotal reports from local farmers, so take that with a grain of salt
@@raspucin70 Wow, that's weird. I'm now wondering if that could be safely harnessed to help food shortages and stuff. Do you know? Either way, thanks!
America tested what happens to a jet fighter IN FLIGHT when struck by the shockwave of an atomic bomb. Luckily, they were remote controlled jets, but still fully sized. I think one of them actually landed reasonably safely and a few others crashed but data and footage was recovered. Fascinating stuff!
Great uncle of mine was one of the guys in a helicopter at bikini atoll, and remembers the shockwave hitting his helicopter and denting the metal siding on it.
You should cover the failure behind Castle Bravo's expected yield and the aftermath of the test.
Thanks for the suggestion!
It wasn't a failure... it was a happy accident. The hydrogen part of this "Hydrogen" bomb was being supplied by lithium. In a fission reaction, Li6 gives off a Tritium nucleus (Hydrogen and Deuterium, which adds the *fusion* element that supercharges the bomb... Tritium is literally "heavy Hydrogen"). Natural lithium is about 7% Li6 and 93% Li7. They enriched the Lithium up to 40% Li6 and did the math on how big a yield they would get from it (assuming that the 40% of Li6 would supply 100% of the expected Hydrogen/Fusion effect). They assumed the remaining Li7 would be relatively inert... boy were they wrong. As well as supplying the exact same tritium, it also releases a free neutron (it's those free neutrons which cause all the fission to occur in the first place). So, they ended up with an even bigger, runaway neutron effect (making the bomb far more efficient) along with roughly 130% more fusion fuel than they expected. They turned a 5 Megaton bomb into a 15 Megaton bomb and instantly rendered all other Hydrogen Bombs obsolete.
Caste High Rock elevated over the tenth floor of level high altitude not to cause more accidental damage on the descent fall .
@@thebonesaw..4634 Not so happy an accident for those Japanese fishermen, but you are right otherwise!
I’m gonna see if he did this. It’s something that needs covering by someone decent, which this RUclipsr is. Totally subbed.
The idea that Soviet command did not expect negative health effects is questionable. The effects of radiation from nuclear blasts were established in publicly available surveys after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What was truly not recognized (until the 80s) by the Soviets and Americans, though, was the concept of nuclear winter.
It's more likely that the government(s) involved in nuclear tests just didn't care that much about the people nearby - compared to the all-important imperative of national security. Even letting farmers return is useful to the government, because it allows for data to emerge regarding how effective agriculture might be in a post-nuclear world.
However, it is certainly the case - as this video claims - that they did not understand the full scope of the health effects of radiation.
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@@brettwalker2723 Absolutely true. The U.S. miscalculated the yield at Bikini Atoll. I'm not arguing that scientists knew what they were doing. But they were absolutely aware of the effects of radiation.
They didn't understand the long term health effect of radiation.
They thought "So yeah... If the dose is X then the subjects die in a couple of days... If is only the much lower Y they just feel sick for a day or so and then recover completely... So Y is a completely acceptable dose of radiation for our soldiers... Probably no radiation exposure at all would be preferable but war is war...", they didn't knew that those exposed to Y level of radiation would die of cancer a dacade later or so.
I joined the US Army in 1979. My platoon sergeant at the time had been at operation Plumbob in 1957. I lost track of him when he retired, and have often wondered what became of him.
What was his name?
Did you check behind the couch?
But Comrade Commissar, you said nuke would only be of Simulation!
-Yes, simulation of you marching towards nuke, and now go. Before we send family to Gulag!
The generals really earned those medals hiding in a bunker.
To be fair most of them were in ww2
Since my wife is from the same region as this exercise took place in, I thought it might be useful to point out that, at the time the exercise took place, the region was known as the Chkalov Oblast.
Really have no idea why this channel doesn't have tons more subscribers
It would be great to have more subs but it's still nice having the community we do so far!
@@PlainlyDifficult give it time
Fantastic video with solid editing about a topic I didn't know much about. You've got yourself a new sub!
Have you considered making a video on miscellaneous strange nuclear weapon delivery systems? Torpedoes, air to air missiles, mines, all that jazz? Seeing the Davey Crocket mentioned reminded me of them.
Thanks for the sub and thanks for the suggestion!
The US did the same thing.. can't remember the name of the operation though..
Edit: Ahh desert rock. I should have waited lol
there were multiple operations, including one at night. The Atlantic has a mini-doc where they interviewed a bunch of the soldiers who took part in one of the tests. It's horrifying listening to their descriptions of it, talking about how they could see their bones through their arms when the bomb went off even while in their trenches.
Castle bravo I believe
The brits also did something similar on Christmas Island.
Yeah its funny how the Soviets have this bad rep and turns out our govt is not much different
ryan.m granted, it was the 50s and 60s, and we didn’t send civies to go live in the blast zones.
But it IS somewhat true that explosion poses the main danger.
In fact almost nobody under 1 Sv radiation dose in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not suffering any significant long-time effect connected with radiation. And 1 Sv is pretty high dose (2 times higher than onset of ARS).
The situation can be different with yields above several tens of kilotons or with thermonuclear weapons (or ground level explosions), but ordinary low yield nukes are relatively "harmless".
Moreover, many of long-time effects from the internal contamination can be prevented.
I don’t understand how this channel only has 33k subscribers
Now u have one sub
Sparetime 247 thank you I will post a mission Accomplished video very soon
I can. The narrator should work on his narration skills. But for native English speakers, it may be OK.
Jews control the trending tab
My grandma lived 40km from epicenter and 10km away from radioactive cloud.
With enough luck still kicking in her 80s, no cancers so far.
The blast did shatter all windows back in the day though.
My wife and her family are from Orenburg and they told me that on the day of the exercise when the nuke went off, it was like the sun at its brightest.
amazing channel/content. i could see it blowing up very soon.
I... I see what you did there.
All of your videos are a blast to watch, you’ve got a new sub!
I still cannot understand why you don’t have many more subscribers!! You put out really interesting and entertaining videos
You could do an episode on broken arrows, (I believe there has been 33 by USA to date...which is a disturbingly high number) I wold be curious who else in the "nuclear community" have lost them. Cuban missile crisis, or you could cover the USA using depleted uranium bullets and tank shells and labeling armor piercing.
They are armor piercing, the high density DU punches through armor rather easily
TRIPPLE G 915 didn’t certain tanks get DU armor plate too?
"Disturbingly high numbers", BULLSHIT, given the sheer number of flights of bombers and nuclear capable fighter aircraft carrying nuclear weapons both on alert, and on training exercises, the strategic nuclear missile forces that were, and remain, on alert, the ships and submarines that carried, and still carry nuclear weapons (SLBMs), the nuclear artillery shells, the IRBMs the special weapons manufacturing, storage, test sites, and deactivation facilities, 33 is a minuscule number of incidents over a 75 year period, made even more so that there has NEVER been a detonation other than that of the high explosives that initiate the nuclear explosion.
@@miatafan yes, the newer abrams tanks and certain russian tanks use it, again, for its high density, which works both ways in terms of armor protection and DU shells
Depleted uranium is more dangerous due to its heavy metal poisoning than the radioactivity. When it impacts the metal sheds pieces that turn to dust. The US was supposed to replace DU by tungsten but it was found that the tungsten is also cancerinogenic.
That music at the beginning was quite nice, and while I enjoyed this video a lot it would’ve been interesting to see how the tone of the video could be changed if it was kept quietly playing in the back while the real video began. Still a great video though!
Do you know the name of that song.
@@danielkrysh3435 what is the name... Now rlly
What's the song name?
You could change this channel to "Nuclear Explosions are Plainly Difficult" and I'd watch all the same. If its about mass destruction.. Well inevitably watch. Aren't we humans great?
Well, humans are curious. Depends on if you click purely because "Ooh, explosions!" or if you just want to know how the fuck that happened. I'm (usually) the latter. :P
I absolutely love this channel. Great work as always
*sees title* Oh boy!Another video by P.D about a topic that I've never heard of that is probably about something obscure that is probably something had to do with some wacky exercise regime in Russia or something that caused a death of an old lady or something. *sees the intro* Oh.....it-it's Atomically Difficult back at it again with THAT kind of exercise.
The next video I’m working on is about a little known homeless community in London during the 1980s, maybe more up your alley? Cheers for the comment man!
Nah man,I enjoy the Cold War/radioactive/atomic topics that you talk about on this channel,it's just that you make so much of them I'am not surprise that there probably is going to be a milestone on how many videos you make on that topic(which you kinda mentioned in 0:19) & that some people may remember you as that guy who makes a lot of videos on nuclear disasters & atomic bomb destructions.But hey,can't wait to see what the next vid is about anyways since I got 0 info(as always)as what is about!
Yea I don't want to be known as just the nuclear channel, its great you enjoy the more obscure video subjects, I've got next week off on holiday so will be traveling up to London to get some shots of where the community lived. thanks again for the comment and as always thanks for your support Muhammad!
I checked the distance of this exercise after reading it on wikipedia yesterday. I checked my local area (on Google) The distance the soldiers went from the epicenter and how close the closest Hiroshima survivor was. I’m 5 mins approx from my town hall and the closest Hiroshima survivor was 300m which is over half way down the street. It really put it in perspective for me. Have a go yourselves with your local area. You’ll realize how close that is. 400m your average running track stretched out for example.
Some locals decided not to return or stay and were given new fully furnished houses or they were financially compensated.
But yeah, the USSR, USA and other countries didn’t need wars, they just screwed up either their own troops, people and any other cultures/people nearby other than actual warfare (Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
A video history within the channel had 2 videos with history attached on them? Outrageous.
Oh my God! When I saw your 'arm' pull down the map all I could think of was Monty Python animation, and the scene from 'The Meaning of Life', "Dont stand there gawping! Like you've never seen the hand o' God before!". Thanks, Plainly Diffucult! Great video, as always.
Do the bhopal disaster mate, it's pretty unknown I think don't think Ive seen many channels (if any) talk about it
TEPMARMY There are many, many documentaries about it... just search.
That's one of my earliest memories of the news.
this channel deserves 50 million subs
One day maybe!
Hello, first I rarely comment but I watch all your videos and I love them!
Second, a video suggestion is the battle of Los Angeles during ww2, I’m sure you heard of it and I know it’s more of a conspiracy type thing but there are real accounts and real facts, people getting injured and legitimate photographs, I think a quality video with accurate facts instead of some guy trying to convince people aliens exist would be an amazing addition to your channel.
This is the only way a gentle breeze can become a serious threat (that I can think of)
Best under subscribed channel on RUclips after Stephan Tries
A sentence taken directly from a 1950s Soviet manual for infantry: "At first sight of a nuclear blast, soldiers should hold their automatic rifles in front of them with their hands fully extended, so that droplets of molten metal do not fall on the government-provided footwear."
Not funny, didn't laugh.
The real manual says- Lay on the ground on your belly, legs towards blast and count seconds till blast wave hits. Then you supposed to calculate how far the blast was, and inform you commander.
Your vidios are great qaulty you desurve at least 500k subs and 1million views each vidio. One day you will get one of the huge veiws on a small channel
I have read some witness accounts of soldiers and scientists about nuclear testing
TL:DR - our bomb is so powerful that we all shat ourselves
The prospect of a nuke going off nearby is a scary one lmao.
🎶just duck....and cover🎶 hahahaha who really ever thought that would work?!
It was never suppose to work. None of the civil defense stuff was suppose to really work. ...nothing to do now but wait for orders from the authorities and relax.
Would have worked well for a short while in the late 1940s. Not for the people directly at ground zero, but a kilometer or so away, the direct effect of a Little Boy-sized nuclear bomb would mostly be that of roofs falling down. You would have a few seconds to seek shelter if a bomb struck on the other side of town, and you could climb out of it rather safely a few minutes later. The first nuclear bombs weren't that powerful, so for a few years, the duck-and-cover strategy would actually have been viable.
Of course, nuclear bombs rapidly became powerful enough that this strategy wouldn't be viable anymore. But there was a brief period during which nuclear bombs were small enough to only take out a few city blocks. For instance, the famous Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima stood only 150 meters away from ground zero (and 600 meters below it, so there was ~620 meters of open air between it and the bomb when it exploded). People inside solid buildings survived the blast as close as 170 meters (horizontal distance). Of course, you would probably have a firestorm to deal with afterwards, but ducking behind something solid would have kept you moderately safe from a blast at a distance of only a few hundred meters. During that period, before megaton-weapons were built, the duck-and-cover videos were made. They were mostly abandoned later.
Them general need some more medals. Kinda like cow bells
I've gotta fever....and the only cure is MORE COWBELL!
This is simultaneously one of my favorite RUclips channels as well as the most depressing channel on RUclips.
I’ll save ya some time: Everything is contaminated and irradiated and the corporations and governments never paid for it or fixed it.
The nuke accidentally dropped on South Carolina.
If it had exploded, none of would be here because it would've been taken as a attack. So be glad that the trigger wasn't armed.
@@tacklecentralfishing1051 Actually, the firing sequence started, and three of the four fail-safes failed. They were very lucky it didn't detonate.
@@swilliams937 I think you're confusing the SC incident for the NC incident. The accident you're describing is the one in NC. The SC one actually detonated, but without the nuclear core.
@@swilliams937 I don't think you understand just how delicate a nuke is, by the time the high explosive detonates and chain reacts around the whole sphere it would not create a complete implosion meaning it would not detonate. Also the impact force would most likely crumple the sphere before the explosives detonate again causing the resulting explosions to be off centred meaning it would not implode correctly even if all the high explosive detonated correctly. This is where movies get it so wrong because all you need to do to stop nukes from going off is to attack it with a hammer and start pulling wires out or explode a conventional bomb next to it.
@@noname-wo9yy only plutonium ones uranium designs are much more simple and robust
Good video, like usual. I'd like to hear your opinion about the "lost cosmonauts" in video form. Or even the "star wars" plan.
Roentgen: rent-guh n, -juh n, ruhnt-. So, I suppose it would be pronounced rentgun, rentjun or roontjen, I think. Come on, you know I'm not the only one.
Ip sissimus - Definitely not the only one. If he's going to make such informative and interesting videos on subjects related to nuclear physics, he really should learn how to pronounce "roentgen". It sure isn't "rotter-jen". This is not the only video in which he butchers the word.
Röntgen- google translate says it perfectly
I struggle with hearing but I looked it up on google and listened. Apparently it’s a bit like “rent-gn” (or a little close to rent-gen or rent-gun), but yeah I’m dyslexic so reading it is a struggle and also struggle to hear pronunciations properly, so anyone cant correct me if I’m wrong.
You realize that "Сука" literally means "bitch/female dog" in Russian, right? This is not some kind of a code word that we paste into foreign-language sentences to indicate that they are spoken by a Russian person.
Wish you made a video about the first Soviet nuclear reactor, too. The entire early nuclear program with its stick-poking methods of finding out about what later will be assumed the most potent and dangerous form of energy is a story so surreal it actually comes around as almost comedic, although yielding a truly preposterous death toll.
Talk about the nuclear weapon dropped in a guy's back yard somewhere in the Carolinas
Have you done a video on SL-1? It was an amazing accident in Idaho.
Do "battle" at wounded knee, it was really more of a massacre, or hoovervilles
Great Video! I'd love to see one on the Castle Bravo nuclear explosion, which was a disaster in that a miscalculation lead to an explosion three times larger than predicted.
**Someone recently asked me how to pronounce the name of the primary Russian propaganda "news" organization, known as 'Pravda'. I informed him that there are several accepted English pronunciations for 'Pravda', such as "NewYorkTimes", "WashingtonPost", "BostonGlobe", LosAngelesTimes", "BaltimoreSun", "USAToday", and many other 'acceptable pronunciations'.**
I don't know if you'd be interested in doing anything on this, but there was an accident at a uranium recovery center in Wood River Junction. They used to pull uranium and plutonium out of liquids for re-use and to render the liquid less toxic in the process. There is a white paper I read years ago that was pretty darn fascinating on just how this accident took place and the aspects of some of the descriptions sounded like a video should have been made for it, particularly on TV at the time, but they didn't want to let the public know too much about these things, so even today it's quiet regarding this. The white paper is still available, and there are a couple of articles in small, local papers, but this could be made into something interesting.
Homer Simpson would be proud
In rod we trust.
McBain!!!!!
Radiation: the gift that keeps on giving.
Making my early morning bearable! You're the best PD!
One of the best Simpsons scenes of all time. Also great video ☢️
Take a look at remediation efforts on the Hanford site in NE Washington state. Many billions of dollars and decades of work, the glassification plant is like a slower and more expensive version of ITER and SLS.
You have produced so many videos I get google eyed going through them but I do enjoy their content. I don't know if you have featured the Pepcom Nevada explosion.
Video is just over 10 minutes REEE. But I'm all seriousness very good video
A video on the Vela incident of 1979 would be cool.
Oh those Russians...
Hey, what’s the song in the intro? I can’t find the name in any video I find it in...
You ever find out? Been having the same problem for a while.
"Dropped from a Tu-4"
HEY WAIT A MINUTE
THATS JUST A B-29 WITH RUSSIAN MARKINGS
THE Tu-4 HAD A DIFFERENT TAIL!!!
Do you mean the one at 4:33?
It's missing the deicing boots. I think its a photo of a model plane.
the russians created a copy of the b-29 right at the end of ww2
I worked near the old atomic/nuclear test sites in the state of South Australia.
Bahahahaha 'Come back to your house now'
'It's on fire'
'It's fine.'
'My yard is on fire...'
'Have a nice day'
*drives off*
What is the classical piece from your intro? I can't find it.
Stfu Man u killed CAT... again ... 😐 wtf man .
I love how in the thumbnail they still have their sidecaps on
Great work as usual!
The snowball is for the remnant flakes of extreme nuclear deceleration to unified matter theory .
More great content keep up the great work
Just saying the usa tested 1,054 on american soil and 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests.
Stalin was a fallout fan
fallout new Moscow!!!!
There is no significant fallout when using small nuke (let's said under 100 kt - approximate number), with small neutron yield (i.e. NOT thermonuclear device) and explosion in the atmosphere, with fireball not touching the ground.
The description from wikipedia, although criticised here, is pretty realistic and in line with the data from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In such way how the excercise was designed there is no risk of getting ARS symptoms. As for long time effects, any of them in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are linked to the doses above 1 Sv (i.e. ARS symptoms present) with the fact that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't even evacuated. In this case, the troops were withdrawn immediately.
1:15 You know that Škoda Spartak is not a Russian car at all, do you?
Are there GPS coordinates of where it detonated? Is there any visible evidence of the blast from satellite map imagery? This is one of my favorite things to examine.
Excellent video.
Nice vid and: artillery only!!!!
What's the name of the piece of music at the beginning?
From Russia with love Huma - Huma
I have a friend who's grandfather died of liver cancer after working at the Nevada Test Site in the 50s. Killed John Wayne as well.
The song in the beginning, where can I find it? I know it's in the Atomic Heart trailer, but I can't seem to find a "pure" version of the song anywhere...
It's called "From Russia with Love" by Huma Huma
Try to do one on Nedelin disaster please.
Great video. I liked the use of the russian word "Cyka" (pronounced "SOOkah")at :52. FUNNY! (Cyka translates to "bitch"). Minor correction here for 7:23 in the video: Roentgen is pronounced "RENTgen" with a hard-G like "Guppy". It's just two syllables. It is hard to pronounce because it is named after the physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who, in 1895 invented a way to produce and detect X-rays: a feat which earned him the 1901 Nobel prize in Physics. Since we don't have the ö character in our alphabet, the typical transliteration is oe, pronounced like a short e (the "e" in "rent"). This is in no way a criticism of a fine video. Just trying to help going forward. I have subscribed. All good wishes!
Thank you for your comment! Sorry My pronunciation can be a little ropey sometimes. Thanks for subbing 😬
Was the 270th rifle division the Russian equivalent of F Troop?
Great stuff man
Plainly can you do the bear revolt of California territory
The name "Snowball" seems appropriate, as in "A snowball in hell's chance."
I would like you to do every nuclear incident that has ever been from every country including every nuclear test. Thanks 🙏
what is the royalty free music called at the start of the video
Prokofiev, "waltz of the knights"
1:11 Škoda Octavia (which production started in 1959) in 1954? Julius Fučík was right and Soviet Union was "country where tomorrow already means yesterday".
I guess you could do a video on broken arrows if you haven't yet...
Subbed watched several videos, content is captivating. Wheres the t shirts?
So the commander at 9:00 is obviously overcompensating for something. Seriously, though long does it take to put all that back on after dry cleaning?
It's quite a chestful. Actually typical for Russian generals, just that Zhukov had more than the next general down the line. The top generals actually had orderlies that did nothing but get the uniforms cleaned and pressed and put the medals on whatever dress uniform the general would be wearing if it was some formal occasion. Generals didn't haul around that chestful of decorations every day. For soldiers with the amount of medals and awards Zhukov received in his long career, that was a four or five hour job. It wasn't just a matter of pinning them back on, they had to be arranged in a precise order and lined up with the most important medals and awards first. The orderlies were chosen because they had an eye for detail, had learned the Soviet medals and awards system, and, presumably, because they had strong fingers.
Zhukov had also actually earned those medals, he did a lot during the second world war.
Although the Soviets did like to have their officers look more decorated than the western officers.
please, make a video on the Palomares nuclear incident
Interesting!
Solid vid mate
I hit the like within the first 30 seconds🍻
What about the BOMARC explosion in NY state.
Thanks for the suggestion
It's supposed to be pronounced a bit like 'rent-gun'
Can you please do the Goania incident.
Yep, a very sad story