Declassified nuke test films

[Sam1]

Stumbled upon this, looks like the .gov is starting to declassify some of the old films from nuke tests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWpqGKUG5yY&list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5

This is one of them - Called Turk, wikipedia says it was a 43kt (micro by today's standards) which would be about 3 times bigger than the one dropped on Hiroshima... Could you even imagine being on the receiving side of one of these things?

 

[E4 No More]

That swelling ball of energy is cool looking!

[Lumber_Jack]

imagine this with 2017 film technology.  Could be even more spectacular.  

[Sam1]

1 hour ago, SWJewellTN said:

That swelling ball of energy is cool looking!

Yeah, and to get an idea of the size, that was detonated 4,500 feet above the ground.  That shockwave looks like a freaking bulldozer on the left side.

[TrickyNicky]

Freakin 'Merica!

[MP5_Rizzo]

Sure was nice of them to issue this chessy certificate to those that participated in the Operation Teapot test.

[Jamie Jackson]

And for this they taught us to "Duck & Cover"?   Good Grief!  

 

 

[BigPoppa]

That certificate of participation is a thing of beauty.

[A.J. Holst]

Was watching some stuff on the cold war, I like how the space race and new age of exploration was simply a cover for missile launch and delivery development.

If we can safely (with 60s tech) get man out and back, how much harder for an atomic warhead...

Edited March 26, 2017 by Gotthegoods

[Sam1]

5 hours ago, Gotthegoods said:

 

If we can safely (with 60s tech) get man out and back, how much harder for an atomic warhead...

Spoke to a rocket scientist once in Denver, he worked on the maintenance systems for the Jupiter probe... Asked him why they still used that technology in space.  He said it was simple, it costs so much money to do anything in space, that NASA is not willing to risk anything just to have an upgraded capability on a device.  He said they know 100% the old stuff works, not risking $200,000,000 on a mission just to get a single 20 megapixel image instead of taking a bunch of small ones and stitching them together with a camera that has already been proven.

Make sense

[monkeylizard]

23 hours ago, Gotthegoods said:

Was watching some stuff on the cold war, I like how the space race and new age of exploration was simply a cover for missile launch and delivery development.

If we can safely (with 60s tech) get man out and back, how much harder for an atomic warhead...

That was definitely true of the early stuff, like Sputnik, Ranger, and the Mercury 7. Developing those rocket platforms perfected the ICBM and the ability to put spy sats in orbit.

After that, I really do think it was more about discovery and living/working in space. Gemini was just a test bed for the techniques and equipment needed for Apollo. There was limited military value in going to the moon. That's one reason the USSR never really went for it. No sense in sending a nuke to the moon. But the politics of the day had Americans running scared into backyard bunkers, so JFK saw the space race as a way to instill pride and hope in the American people and simultaneously beat (or at least match) the Soviets at the ICBM game. He could have said "We're going to build missiles that can deliver our nuclear bombs to Moscow before this decade is out, not because it is easy, but because it is hard." Instead, he kick started a scientific boom that gave us that capability without the dark cloud of calling that particular spade a spade.

Edited March 27, 2017 by monkeylizard