RDS-37 Soviet hydrogen bomb test (1955)
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Length: 2min 31sec (151 seconds)
Published: Wed Aug 26 2015
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Wow.
Translation:
"We witnessed it from a distance of 70 kilometers. Some number of people were located closer. One soldier was engulfed and killed...
In one neighboring town, the population was evacuated from their homes...
This is how the blast looked from the city of Kurchatov, the center of the Semipolitinsk Polygon. The blinding flash and percussive wave shook the town. The windows in all the towns were blown out. This is a shot from a film taken specifically to show the leaders of the country (couldn't make out this part).
We return to the cities of the polygon. The concussive wave is now approaching the town. Do you see the group of people standing in the road? Being located far from the blast, they feel at ease. But they will pay for their complacency (shock wave hits, they fall to the ground)."
That's terrifyingly beautiful. I assume that they didn't take into account that fallout could reach towns like that?
I don't know how any of the observers walked away without thinking "What the hell did we do?"
Jesus.
Anybody else see the dog running shit scared near the end?
This is unbelievable. Do you have a date on this by chance?
And then you realise there have been like over 2000 nukes set off around the world lots having bigger shockwaves than this.
There is something absolutely fascinating about nuclear weapons; the raw power of them, especially high-yield thermonuclear warheads, is almost unimaginable on a human scale. I don't trust the human race to own these devices responsibly.
also: lol those dudes fell over