What's your favorite nuclear weapon test?

Frigate Bird is really cool.

It was the only test of a SLBM with a live warhead, ever. Done in 1962 as part of Operation Dominic. Can't remember what sub launched it, I think it was the Ethan Allen. It was a Polaris missile, 600 kilotons.

Interestingly, when the test was shown in the doc Trinity and Beyond the yield was still classified since the Polaris was still in service at that time.

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This

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It's a good way to improve intercept probability.

They tested a Genie rocket during shot "John" of operation Plumbbob in Nevada. To show the press it was safe they had some AF officers and reporters stand below the detonation. It was only 2 kilotons at 18,000ft so they were fine.

People don't understand that fallout is barely a hazard with airbursts at sufficient altitude.

Nike Herc blocks your path

Nuclear ground to air missiles ftw

youtube.com/watch?v=x5LhIfAN1-Y

The duffel bag sized suicide bomber ones
armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/01/14/the-horrifying-purpose-of-special-atomic-demolition-munition-units-we-all-knew-it-was-a-one-way-mission-a-suicide-mission/
Sorry dont know how to link correctly

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Does anyone have a Webm of the explosion in the ocean and there is a B-57 in the foreground?

youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ezhvCzWCM

Ivy Mike with the most aesthetic countdown

That Chinese test is pure Kino

Do you happen to have sauce of that video? I remember seeing something like that you described and the excitement of the officers was funny.

>Hey kid, wanna /ss/?

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Gonna slightly risk self-dox, but Project Rulison youtu.be/QfAvX1Qjriw
And Project Rio Blanco
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Rio_Blanco
Are some of my faves.

Why Operation Upshot–Knothole of course :3

Starfish Prime of Operation Fishbowl. It was the first successful high altitude nuclear test and the electromagnetic pulse took out some electronics in Hawaii some 900 miles away.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fishbowl

OwO

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*notices atomic howitzer*

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I don't have a webm of it but the test you're referring to is Operation Hardtack shot "Poplar"

>detonation causes lightning to briefly appear
In the words of /tv/ "kino"

Also, what's interesting about Ivy Mike was that they had a Hollywood actor Reed Hadley narrate and present in the classified government film about it. That film is on youtube and it's a good watch if you're interested.

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The internet has ruined everything, that sounds so filthy now. I love it.

Nuclear sunrise.

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>lightning
Do you mean the pre-emptively created smoke pillars used to visually study air displacement?

I've been using this as a wallpaper forever.

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How would you be doxing yourself? Do you live near the sites or something?

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UNGUIDED NUCLEAR ROCKETS

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Not a nuke test but the delivery system is close enough.

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I'm fairly certain I read somewhere that Mike caused electrical discharges in the surrounding atmosphere. It's possible those are smoke trail rockets I'm seeing though.

That's your favorite nuclear weapon, not a specific test. my favorite nuclear weapon is the sprint anti-ballistic missile.

>Sprint accelerated at 100 g, reaching a speed of Mach 10 in 5 seconds. Such a high velocity at relatively low altitudes created skin temperatures up to 6,200 °F (3,430 °C), requiring an ablative shield to dissipate the heat.[1][2] The high temperature caused a plasma to form around the missile, requiring extremely powerful radio signals to reach it for guidance. The missile glowed bright white as it flew.

If you watch videos of the launches, you can see the missile suddenly start glowing like a light bulb when the plasma forms

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Redwing had some great ones.

youtube.com/watch?v=Xn8lvMkySmc

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There is a lightning bolt visible on the left side at 0:34, within the fireball. The big ones from the clouds visible earlier are smoke trails I think

"the way the morning broke was quite unusual.."

This is a comfy thread

Is that a lightning bolt? It looks like a flaming piece of something falling.

That reminds me, I remember a long long time ago seeing a comment on some nuclear detonation, which probably was Mike, where someone commented that there was a visible smaller fireball next to the larger one because there were as an extra tank (he called it a "bottle") of liquid deuterium left on the island next to the shot cab.

I'm not sure if that comment is even true, especially because liquid deuterium isn't something you just leave around, it has to be supercooled with a lot special equipment. He might have been talking about that flame though, or the larger fireball on the ground. In my research i haven't found any causes attributed to either phenomenon.

>Is that a lightning bolt?
I'm not quite sure, but it moves a lot like one viewed in ultra-slow motion. Not sure about the time scale of the footage. I think something falling would move a hell of a lot slower though.

I would not be able to keep a straight face if I heard it in a scholarly context

youtube.com/watch?v=kvZGaMt7UgQ
Sprint missile launch. Plasma forms around 0:25

I mean, the gamma flash from the initial burst still elevates your cancer risk by a measurable amount

Isn't that the missiles that essentially gets kicked out of its silo by a TNT charge?

Plumbbob "Hood" is an interesting one, although good, verified pictures of the mushroom cloud are hard to come by. So many test clouds have been mislabelled as other tests so it's hard to be sure.

But anyway, Hood was interesting because it was the largest atmospheric test on the continental US, 74 kilotons. It was also the largest of the Plumbbob series.

The device was suspended from a balloon which allowed it to be burst at 1500 ft to reduce fallout. Mind you, that's over twice the height of the tallest tower mounted test ever conducted (Plumbbob Smokey, 700 ft tower).

After it was detonated the defense dept had marines do maneuvers around the mushroom cloud in helicopters and amtracks.

Images of Hood's balloon rig are VERY hard to come by, in fact it's very hard to find images of any of the balloon suspended tests (there were like 25).

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I highly doubt the ejection is a detonation rather than a deflagration, but yeah there's violence and fire before the rocket even turns on.

Better than that. The first stge is literally just smokless gunpowder and fake diamonds
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)
>The first stage's Hercules X-265 engine is believed to have contained alternating layers ofzirconium"staples" embedded innitrocellulosepowder, followed by gelatinizing with nitroglycerine, thus forming a higher thrustdouble-base powder.[7][8]

>nukes on balloons
I know these things are command detonated but it still seems silly. Image the fuckery of a nuke floating away in the wind.

They would probably be able to have a fighter shoot it down before it drifted too far from the test range.

And then, on the other end of the spectrum, there was Hardtack's "Yucca".

Yucca was unique in 2 ways. It was the first stratospheric test at 86,000ft, about 4 times as high as the Plumbbob John shot, but with a slightly smaller yield of 1.7 kt. It was also the highest balloon suspended test.

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The first Chinese atomic bomb test just for how utterly stupid it looks.
youtube.com/watch?v=CzRX06Xqu80
>have a singular firetruck there to put it out or something
>tfw when the firemen at chernobyl had more firefighting equipment & engines than mister chang & his gang

Also obligatory vaporwave mix but same video.
youtube.com/watch?v=ax4V2yc4l_M

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Actually most of the balloon tests, with the exception of Yucca which was high over the Pacific, they had them moored with a cable attached to a winch. The whole idea was to be able to control the altitude of the air bust without using towers, which actually made fallout worse because of debris. The increased altitude also helped reducing local fallout too.

Nice trips though

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The clip with the guy shooting full auto from the back of a galloping horse in a desert with both rider and steed wearing gasmasks was pretty dope desu

>goddamn Mongorians

I didn't even feel the need to mention it because it was the damned cool looking. I knew someone like you would share that sentiment.

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The future looked so promising. Where did we go so wrong?

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I like them all

youtube.com/watch?v=I9lquok4Pdk

The first one were they put gigantic manhole cover into orbit.
The Genie air to air one.
The one in the upper atmosphere which destroyed like a third of all satellites in orbit.

Bump with Operation Wigwam.

The navy was very interested in nuclear depth charges. But after the Crossroads Baker contamination debacle they weren't able to do the deep underwater test they originally planned.

9 years later they had another chance with a new and improved design. This was the Mark 90 device of about 30 kilotons. Unlike the planned Crossroads Charlie test, this was a dedicated depth charge design and not a Fat Man in a watertight case.

Wigwam was conducted in May 1955 about 500 miles southwest of San Diego in the pacific, 2000ft underwater. This area was chosen because it was sufficiently deep and lifeless and away from shipping lanes, with optimal sea floor conditions to gather shockwave data. It was also in good distance of the Naval Electronics Laboratory.

But the most interesting part of the Wigwam test was the "squaws" which were 3 specially built four-fifths scale model submarines designed to gauge the shockwave effects on full size subs. These subs were towed in an array several thousand yards behind a navy ship and were submerged with remote controlled pumps.

Also interesting about Wigwam was the use of drone ships to test wash-down decontamination systems, and the shockwave being reverberated around the Pacific, bouncing off Hawaii and such. Also, a nearby Greek merchant ship thought San Francisco got hit with an earthquake and radioed to offer assistance.

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Great clip from Trinity and Beyond on it

youtube.com/watch?v=6BDAz2bLh40

Starfish Prime(time)

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>based France nukes Africa

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that's not special. every nuclear armed country apart from the UK has nuked itself before.

I just finished watching interviews with Atomic Veterans and how incredibly fucked the whole thing was. Imagine getting drafted in the 50’s and then you get a fucking nuclear weapon detonated a mile from you. Then being told it’s treason to discuss this with anyone.

cringe

>implying magdumping all fissile material in sub-Saharan Africa wouldn't make the world a better place

sub-saharan africans magdump all their fissile material in your mum's better place

Dunno the name but the Hawaii test was the most interesting since they detonated it [intentionally] near a city and were able to see how much power and communications infrastructure was knocked out from antenna effect.

Where did you hear they detonated it intentionally?

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Upshot knothole because it was cool and also has a funny name that sounds like furry porn

This one, because it meant shit was on between the West and the Soviet Bloc.

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Ah, the good ole Polygon.

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really? a mom joke?

>they aren't sending their best

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IIRC the smaller fireball was from the light pipes leading to a remote test area, used to measure the timing of the stages.

>I mean, the gamma flash from the initial burst still elevates your cancer risk by a measurable amount

No it doesn't. The range of the gamma burst is a tiny fraction of the total range of the other effects - in other words, if you are close enough to get hit with the gamma burst, you are already being killed by the heat and blast.

Worrying about being irradiated by the gamma burst of a nuclear detonation is like being worried about getting lung cancer from smoke inhalation while being trapped in a burning building.

That’s not Bravo, that’s a French test actually.

Sky Fungi

Operation Plumbbob, Pascal B test. Put a manhole cover in space two months before Sputnik was launched.

That shot right at about 3:20 of the cavalryman shooting his AK at full gallop has to be one of the coolest things ever

What would happen if a nuke just went off out of no where in DC or Moscow or Beijing? Would there be an immediate strike back response to the USA or Russia? How would that work?

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>What would happen if a nuke just went off out of no where in DC or Moscow or Beijing? Would there be an immediate strike back response to the USA or Russia? How would that work?
It wouldn’t. For one, you can’t just sneak a nuke into a major population center, you’ll be setting off sensors all over the place
If you mean launched? For DC, nothing. The Israelis have iron dome, we likely have an analogue
Moscow and Beijing aren’t worth it, one will be destroyed be AIDs more thoroughly than any nuke could, the other is destined to fall as the bugs are getting too ballsy

there's no chance in hell Iron Dome could catch a re-entry vehicle on terminal phase.

>can't sneak a nuke
Doubt

I feel like this thread would appreciate this.
youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY

>USS Arkansas being thrown vertically by the explosion

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atomic annie

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the demon core. i mean, both incidents were attempts to take the core to sub-critical, but they were testing it as well.
i like the particulars of the story, makes radiation seem really creepy to me.

Yeah? Well, I caught your mom on terminal entry in my vehicle, fag

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IMAGINE

>>Nuclear boy scouts radiation emitting ball.
kek, It was a home made demon core. Best way to anhero imo
I agree, Bikini atoll was one of the best series of nuclear tests that we've done.

Bump

Pascal B

Because fuck the commies.