The synchronization of the video and audio is striking; I especially like the part beginning right around 2m 34s where the slow motion underground explosion heaves the earth and "burps through."
BTW, these are not "atomic" bombs but rather H-bombs.
Monday, October 28, 2013
Welcome To My Nightmare
This video used to be quite popular on YouTube until White Zombie stepped in to enforce copyrights. I remember the YouTube thread by the original maker and his story of having to take it down. Here it is, back somehow:
The synchronization of the video and audio is striking; I especially like the part beginning right around 2m 34s where the slow motion underground explosion heaves the earth and "burps through."
BTW, these are not "atomic" bombs but rather H-bombs.
The synchronization of the video and audio is striking; I especially like the part beginning right around 2m 34s where the slow motion underground explosion heaves the earth and "burps through."
BTW, these are not "atomic" bombs but rather H-bombs.
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"With Obama as our president, we don't have anything to worry about".
What would Inga say if she were here.
Sorry, Chickenman, but that is a compilation of both H-Bomb AND atomic bomb tests. All the ones that are shown taking place on land (Nevada) are atomic; the Pacific Ocean tests were the H-Bomb tests. I viewed many of those cuts (sans music, of course) in my freshman HS General Science class in 1958. (My instructor was the Head of the town Civil Defense Agency and had access to all the films. It being the height of the cold war and given his position, we had a unit on atomic weapons and radiation/decontamination, etc.)
That would also be good runway fashion show music.
J Robert Oppenheimer quoted words from an old text:"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."[Bhagavad Gita] upon the success of the Manhattan Project. The look in Oppenheimer's eyes in photos (here shown with Von Newman) from the project all seem eerily vacant and yet aware of the horrible power they had unleashed.
When ever I view the photos and contemplate them I ask myself: What the fuck is next? Will death return me to the darkness before the bang? I asked it as an aspiring chemist in the 60's and now again, as an old man.
I have encountered death face to face, but we've never met. I've seen it but never felt it. I suspect it really is a faint whimper.
Virgil's correct, some of those explosions were definitely A-bombs. I don't believe they made any fusion bombs for artillery pieces, for example.
Good to see some footage of the upper atmospheric tests from the South Atlantic. And I'm not sure, but the stuff around the 3:00 mark may have been the Tsar bomba, the largest device ever detonated. Shockingly, they only detonated the half-power version. The full scale version (which I believe was never built) would have hit at around 100 megatons, an astounding figure.
And if you want to see something really crazy, you should see the footage from China's tests, including the part where they have horse-mounted cavalry charging AT the mushroom cloud! Amazing stuff!
I do love a good mushroom cloud, so long as me and mine aren't underneath it.
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