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Amazing Footage of an Underwater Nuke

spikedhumor.com — Some old footage of a nuclear bomb going off underwater, freakin' huge!

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  • Shenaniganz08, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41I found that to be amazing and scary at the same time :D
  • randovaro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38Just a warning. The actual video is fine, but the site features ads that are probably NSFW.
    • asif5th, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29Adblock =)
    • AimlessAbyss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I just have a spam and ad filter on Firefox, so it doesn't affect me.
  • nottidredd, on 10/12/2007, -37/+7How many tests bombs have the US detonated?
    • nottidredd, on 10/12/2007, -11/+26Wiki says there were 1100 tests. This one was called Operation Crossroads
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads
    • AlphaEta, on 10/12/2007, -4/+114Are we allowed to answer our own questions on digg?
    • AlphaEta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+95Why yes... yes we are!
    • nottidredd, on 10/12/2007, -123/+2Nice one smart ass. I looked the information up after I asked the question. Don't post of the ***** thread unless you have something helpful to say about the article.
    • ghandi69, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58Settle down nottidread

      Can't someone make a joke in this joint anymore?? I thought it was funny, and it really wasn't even very harmful.. or shouldn't have been.
    • DICKENS, on 10/12/2007, -23/+6nottidredd, you have a least half a bag of dicks left to suck.
      Stop procrastinating!!
    • dbug, on 10/12/2007, -8/+60My thumbs down avatar is better than yours.
    • ATHEISTinHELL, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2this isn't Dora the explorer stop answering your own questions.
  • Jennings, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Direct link to image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Crossroads_baker_explosion.jpg
    • rstarr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+81You sunk my battleship.
      :(
    • acdcfanbill, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36...and my destroyer, and my sub, and my aircraft carrier, and my cruiser...


      ...you bastards!
    • nutsackninja, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Imagine the ringing in your ears if you were on one of those ships. OUCH!
    • Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They look like small plastic boats...
  • airwalkery2k, on 10/12/2007, -16/+16Detonate a nuke in the ocean? Brilliant! Nuclear fallout throughout the entire Ocean.

    Environment be damned.
    • Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6They do it all the time. In fact, I think underwater tests are the only ones still allowed.
    • evilregis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Yeah, what could possibly go wrong!
    • chrisp9446, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@ tenlow
      I don't think underwater tests are allowed, but underground tests are.
    • nathanwalker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Water acts as a shield against lots of kinds of radiation. So, uh, yeah, nothing to worry about.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_shield
    • kurtu5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Actually both underground and underwater tests are allowed by the 1963 limited nuclear test ban treaty. However there is one catch, these test must not vent.

      So you can blow one up underground as long as the gases stay in the ground.

      Same for water.


      But how does one contains an underwater explosion? There is the bubble pulse. Blow one up deep enough and it will create a hot gas bubble. The pressure of the ocean will squeeze the bubble back after the reaction stops. The now hot squeezed bubble will expand cause its so ***** hot. And the cycle will repeat with the bubble expanding again. So you basicaly start with lets say a 100 meter bubble, then it gos to 60 meters, then expands to 90 meters, and is squeezed to 50, then expands to 80....

      In short, one does not contain an underwater explosion, because the radioactive gases really are not contained. They dissolve in the ocean or vent on the surface.
    • brianez21, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4And you wonder why we have cancer...
    • rdoger6424, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@tenlow
      The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_test_ban_treaty banned all nuclear tests unconditionally. Anywhere on Earth, and in Space.
    • rdoger6424, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3damn capitalization
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Test_Ban_Treaty is the link
    • goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Does nobody else get angry when they see stuff like this? There are only two places where nuclear tests should be allowed: (1) at the Congresses/Parliaments of nuclear-armed nations (while in session); and (2) at the homes of their Prime-ministers/Presidents.
  • recklessftw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that was from Trinity and Beyond I think it was called... maybe the day after trinity... it had trinity in the title anyway. It's a documentary about the US's Nuke tests. I think the number they used was 351 nuke tests so I'm not sure where the 1100 came from but that number might include the USSR's and China's tests.
  • sctechguy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Well, the guys in those ships are screwed...

    Cut to a moment in 1946: "Hey, let's go view this thing, while sitting right on top of it!"
    "Good idea, sir!"
    • Arturion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12IIRC, the ships were old, unmanned ones that they used to test the effects of the bombs on. I wouldn't like to be on one either.
    • joeyo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The ships were old, derelict and abandoned and specifically placed there to test the destructiveness of the nuke.
    • TheGuruStud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If i recall, the ships survived, barely.
    • nimrod245, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3they also had shaved sheep greased up to avoid flash burns aboard if I remember correctly
    • sctechguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, I stand corrected then.
  • bouche, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4this must be a digg newbie post since it's been posted many times before. nothing to get excited about here.
  • ezheld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6That explains the three eyed fish I had for dinner with Mr. Burns
  • AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -1/+23Damn rednecks trying new fishing methods. :(
  • Awspire, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Thought I was watching a scene from The Matrix for a moment.
    • mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1huh??! dude shut up, that's a legendary movie.
    • zeromancer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1that movie was not legendary. legendary is orange. the only colors in the movie were blue and green. not even epic!
  • snotrokit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6bad time to be a stowaway.
  • interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Aww, they didn't much the footage of the boats becoming overwhelmed. Here's an irritatingly calm guy explaining: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JvjmsU48TSc

    And here's longer footage of setup and aftermath of Able and Baker... eg. boats were setup with test animals and such: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wzXefZoZ36M
  • jrtcs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Now that's redneck fishing! Dynamite? Pfft!
  • h3ndrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks like the same footage used in that weird documentary: Trinity and Beyond.
  • snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Ummm... Not to be a prick about the specifics, but this was Operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll... Not an underwater test, but a surface test on an island that was inhabited (until the time of the test) by a tribe of appx 200-250 people, who were told that they could go back to their homes after the test was over.
    • h3ndrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There was footage for complete underwater explosion on Trinity and Beyond. Pretty wicked.
    • snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oops... my bad... the first blast there was above ground (Able), the second one was, actually, strapped under a lander, making it an underwater blast (Baker).
      I stand corrected.
  • Wargalas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4We can do better! Go America!
  • TheToecutter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where's the underwater part? I've seen this footage about 1000 times. Lame and innacurate.
  • ErrorFree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just when Atlantians thought they were safe.
  • mash8591, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1BOOOM!!
  • Shaman760, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0No wonder we see three-eyed fish being dredged up....
  • Zzone, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Why do we need these things?
  • GeorgeStone, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5Digg me down.
  • trajomoreno, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Anyone seen Godzilla? Y'know, the recent, Matthew Broderick/Jean Reno/Hank Azaria embarrassment? This footage is at the beginning. Not exactly what I expect from Digg, but I guess it's cool for anyone who hasn't seen it.
  • CroMag, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5Too bad that wasn't over the middle east.
  • LightninJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That's Crossroads Baker from June of '46. Able was a shot from a barge. Baker was suspended beneath a barge. They were both Mk. 3 "Fat Man" type plutonium implosion-insertion weapons, yield 20KT. And those aren't (all) destroyers. Among other ships are the carrier USS Saratoga, battleships USS Arkansas, Nevada, New York, and Pennsylvania and IJN Nagato, several cruisers including KGM Prinz Eugen and IJN Sakawa, and a bunch of destroyers, submarines, and auxiliaries. If you want to see some real damage caused by atoll testing, do a search for "Castle Bravo," a first-generation Teller-Ulam fusion design that exceeded its predicted yield by 250%. We'll just say there's an island or two no longer on the face of the planet.
    • rdoger6424, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Was the teller-ulam device used in the mike test? I'm a bit sloppy on my 1950s nuclear history :p
  • SHuisman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2explains the raining fish...
  • Goldkill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0All nuclear tests are now banned under the Comprenshive Test Ban Treaty.
  • zurp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tons of nuke footage here: http://www.liveleak.com/group/Nukes
  • flatpick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1IIRC, this is from The Atomic Cafe http://imdb.com/title/tt0083590/. It's a great film to check out, especially if you're too young to remember the nuclear arms race.
  • MyDigitalSin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1that was beautiful.
  • jiggeryXpokery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Eek...*looks nonchalant* I wondered what that big red button did :D In all seriousness it is pretty spectacular though :)
  • zouhair, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Humans are sooo ***** STUPID
  • blenden11, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Amazing footage of an internal "nuke": http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Amazingly_Disgusting_Photo_of_Someone_in_Mid_Vomit

    hehe
  • DroogInPhoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks like what I would expect for the ending of Lost.
  • Goldkill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This wasn't Trinity. Trinity was the name of the first nuke ever tested (hence "Trinity and Beyond").
  • CandySnatch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Does anyone know if those boats in the foreground were actually manned, or were they there to give distant observers some sense of scale...?
    • LightninJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The "boats" were unmanned There was livestock on board some ships as mentioned above. The Navy miscalculated that this test would show that a battle fleet could survive a nuclear attack. Oops. And yes, this is Crossroads Baker, not Trinity. The implosion ignition system was so radical and the testing had gone so poorly (hand-milling the explosive "lenses" of the implosion system to thousandth-inch tolerance was not easy) that it was decided to use the first available "pit" to test the system. The "Little Boy" gun-assembly system was a different situation. Achieving criticality was so certain that the only worry was that assembly (meaning insertion into criticality) be fast enough to assure "prompt critical" rather than premature ignition and a fizzle (essentially the weapon achieves partial criticality and blows itself apart before full assembly). This weapon was never tested before being dropped on Hiroshima. It was a conservative "sure thing" design that achieved a yield of only 8-16KT from 64 kilos of U-235, which in a more efficient design could yield 35KT. The U235 was 95% super-enriched uranium, far more highly enriched than that used later (84% or so). It was already obsolete by then and all effort went into plutonium implosion weapons rather than uranium gun-assembly weapons.
  • thermocline, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3More fun facts from http://www.atomicforum.org/usa/operations/crossroads/crossroads.html:

    "3,030 rats, 176 goats, 57 guinea pigs, 109 mice, and 146 pigs were also used exposed to the experiments. They were placed on 22 target ships, in positions normally occupied by ship personnel. Some of these animals were dressed in clothing of various type and covered in anti-flash lotions and creams for biomedical thermal radiation studies. The National Cancer Institute supplied white mice with predilections for or against cancer. They were exposed in order to determine whether the intense radiations would produce genetic changes. The mice were returned to the Institute immediately after Able shot to be bread and studies. For the Baker shot, only 200 white rats and 20 pigs were used on four target vessels. Animals used for the Able shot were not used in the Baker shot."
  • childprey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Somebody set up us the bomb.
  • alexkriegsmann, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3does anyone look at things like this, sigh, and think "all those tax dollars..."?
  • Grova, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The final scene of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gb0mxcpPOU
  • Smeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Coming to a water park near you!
  • ElbridgeGerry, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4http://digg.com/videos
    ^ This exists for a ***** reason.
  • phonepimpbill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That's about like how I felt taking a dump after eating Taco Bell yesterday.
    • licoricewhip, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Ya know, the way Mexico eats and drinks its a wonder the wester hemisphere isn't lit up like this.
    • tghd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Don't you ever compare Taco Bell and Mexican food again!
    • licoricewhip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The title of the place is Taco Bell. I just figured Taco implied Mexican. My bad. My very bad, actually.
  • cakestick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHwftkkLy34 - More video from that reel, with M83 goodness.
  • musntSurfatWork, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Dude! That Tsunami man was killer!
  • codye, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I blame Bush.
  • bluezinc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I wish there was a video game where you were some giant who could throw nukes at ships like that. Or maybe pick up aircraft carriers and chuck them about. And, unlike king kong, planes wouldn't do ***** to you. There wouldn't be much challenge to this game...
  • shadowhander, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Are we to perceive that as an accomplishment...?
  • dragonopolis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0wasn't this scene used in that b rated movie - Godzilla. The really bad one done in 2005 with Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off). I rented this movie because I like Godzilla and Matthew Broderick. Turned out to be a poor movie but I have knack at remembering music - especially movie soundtracks. I swear that music they were using was straight from that movie as well as most of the scenes. I don't have a copy to verify but if Anybody can verify let me know. I don't believe all the scenes were used in Godzilla but it does appear that some of those scenes were cut in. I say bury for unoriginality (they could have at least attempted to hide it better).
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