re: Feds declassify hundreds of nuclear weapons movies

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DirtyMikeandtheBoys

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That burst was the same height as the ones we dropped in WWII if I recall correctly.

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This might be a stupid question, but how did these tests out in the middle of the pacific not cause huge tidal waves?

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sorry, but that part was NOT declassified

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This might be a stupid question, but how did these tests out in the middle of the pacific not cause huge tidal waves?

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1. That's a stupid question

2. I don't know

There is your 'global warming'.

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teapot

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Yeah, trippy.


The airborne tests are wild looking, too.


Question for someone smarter than I. Vertical contrails like the ones below show up in a lot of this footage. Warning flares? Some weird byproduct of the blast?


ETA: Looks they they're used to measure the shock front.

LINK

Should have went to Netflix. Could have profited.

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The best one

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HOLY

shite

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ow did these tests out in the middle of the pacific not cause huge tidal waves?

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They might be powerful, but not that powerful. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake for comparison:

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However, the total work done MW (and thus energy) by this quake was 4.0×1022 joules (4.0×1029 ergs),[31] the vast majority underground. This is over 360,000 times more than its ME, equivalent to 9,600 gigatons of TNT equivalent (550 million times that of Hiroshima)

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WTF is going on here

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A thermonuclear device detonating.

When developing new hardware, they'd usually just build a tower to set the device on top of before they'd detonate it. The tower, like any tower, had guy wires to stabilize it. What you're looking at in that video is an ultra high speed (I mean ULTRA) slow-mo. The spherical front you're seeing is the actual shock wave from the blast that's visible and defines the boundary of the fireball. Now, that fireball is EXTREMELY bright because thermonuclear detonation. The shock wave is travelling outward and shining bright enough to vaporize material in front of it. So, that finger you see coming out of the fireball is the fireball's light explosively ablating the guy wire from the tower before the fireball even reaches it. Essentially, the light from the fireball is intense enough to heat the surface of the guy wire so quickly that it violently expands and is blown outward from the center because the metal can't transmit the heat to the center as fast as the fireball pumps heat into it; the outermost layer just gets hotter and hotter and essentially explodes. On the far right of the video, you can see the tower doing the same thing beneath the shot.

That whole video spans about a millisecond, give or take.

Nuclear Bomb Wiki


Here's the wiki page with the basic concepts. It isn't exactly hidden knowledge that you can get in trouble for having. I'm certainly no expert, but the general idea isn't that hard to get your head around.