I heard something along the lines that they lowered the yield because they were afraid it would set the atmosphere on fire.

so,in conclusion,they could build 100Mt bombs? if half of it would still scatter windows in London when dropped onto Berlin,than 6 100Mt Bombs spread over europa would be enough to turn the whole EU into a wildly overbacked Cake of scattered glas and rubble. imagine they had build a hundret...

They replaced the third fission stage with a lead dummy. As designed it was a fission -> fusion-> fission device with a neutron reflector that channeled the neutron output from the second stage into plain uranium metal which would fission from the external neutron source (not weapons grade enriched uranium it was just plain uranium metal). The third stage was basically equal to the first and second stages combined because the external neutrons would fission the uranium much more completely than a criticality based atomic bomb does.

@@atomicskull6405 Correct: and 50Mt of fast fission U238 would be an unbelievable amount of fallout.

They wanted the plane that dropped it to get away in time. Probably wouldn't have with a 100 Mt explosion.

This was exactly where my brain went when minimizing the explosion and maximizing radiation was described as "best of both worlds" - Imo that's the WORST of both worlds. Sad this is the direction we as a species went first. If you can make a H-bomb level of explosion with next to no radiation, you may even be able to argue that it's a conventional weapon, morally speaking. It would harm FAR LESS innocent civilians with FAR LESS long-term environmental destruction. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Really big H bombs pretty much are like that - if you're close enough to be hurt by the radiation, you're already dead from the heat or blast.

I want a antimatter bomb.

What are you referring to?

@@Evan_Bell "pure fusion" devices, IE, they don't need the fission bomb (with its hard to make and easier to trace fissionable materials), through some process they just go to straight thermonuclear effects, thereby making any tom, dick, or islamic asshat with a high school lab able to make nukes that aren't detectable from the gamma and neutron emissions and could be made en mass. they still would leave rads, but it'd be stuff that decayed extremely quickly, weeks if not days if memory serves, hence their alternate name "Clean Nukes"

❤ for your mom. Moms are great.

Welcome to the club. I was studying in West Berlin in the 1980ies, so...

And I was smack dab in the middle of the Cold War as part of my job.

The UK has created an "Emergency Alert" text system that sends unskippable alerts to every single phone in the country, that they'll test this month. Officially they claim it's for "extreme weather events", even though the UK doesn't have "extreme weather" - one hurricane a century, at most. Anyone with common sense can infer it's nothing to do with weather, it's a modern day 4 minute warning siren. We live in very precarious times that I'd foolishly hoped had passed 30 years ago.

For God's sake, don't watch "Threads"

I am right there with you. I remember having conversations with my parents when I got older about how we were going to be driving to ground zero, not away from it. Surviving the initial blast only to die a slow death from acute radiation sickness and/or cancer doesn’t sound all that appealing to me. I’d rather be vaporized than go through that, as terrible as it sounds.

Same, but in the 80s. And recently I start wondering what happened with this technology. Nice video 😊

There is also a claim that Israel has neutron bombs as part of its nuclear arsenal, or did at one point.

@@jayburn00 They almost certainly do, for use as an area-denial weapon against any potential invasion (as in 1948, 1967, or 1973). Basically, they could deploy neutron ERWs on their border without the risk of long-term fallout to completely annihilate an incoming force. The geography surrounding them makes it impossible to avoid such a blast. Also, there were rumors a while back that they might have integrated neutron ERWs into their Jericho missiles, making a MIRV. This would be FAR scarier than a normal MIRV, as neutron ERWs are smaller, and thus a MIRV could contain far more devices (basically, they have a higher lethality:weight ratio).

@@theprogressivecynic2407 I'm somewhat familiar with Israel's missile and rocket tech, and it's impressive to be honest. They actually handicap their space program to avoid having their rockets go over other countries, being the only country that exclusively launches their satellites (at least when launched from Israel) into ?retrograde? orbit, the opposite direction of all other countries (everyone else launches in the other direction usually because the Earth's spin gives a boost of momentum, while launching in the other direction you are actually acting against it). Despite that handicap, their rockets still manage to get satellites into orbit, and the Jericho is apparently derived from those rockets. Anyway, I think a lot of the info about what weapons they actually had or have came from Mordechai Vannuu, a former employee of the Dimona facility. Interesting side note, depleted uranium armor is actually radiation activated when hit with neutrons. At one point it was believed du armor would protect against radiation in a similar manner to lead (and was considered as an element in NBC protection in armored vehicles), but that proved partially incorrect, with du emitting a burst of possibly lethal gamma rays when hit with a burst of neutrons. Depleted uranium does protect against other radiation, including ironically gamma, but is a hazard when it comes to neutron radiation.

I remember they were so worried about being overrun by massive Soviet tank columns that it started all these crazy programs. First they toyed with the idea of "backpack" nukes, burying them and employing them as "nuclear landmines". The West Germans immediately rejected that plan, then the follow up plan the neutron bomb, we will "microwave" or "cook" them in their tanks, predictably this too went over like a lead balloon. Finely they came up with a reasonable and acceptable idea, close air support and chopper gunships, which gave us the A-10 and the Apache.

I found a story about Hisashi Ouchi, a nuclear power plant technician who was exposed to the highest level of radiation of any human in history and suffered history’s worst radiation burns. He lost most of his skin and began crying blood before his agony finally ended. He was kept alive for 83 excruciating days against his will by doctors at the University of Tokyo Hospital

That fairly large explosion is still a fission nuclear bomb. They are just weak in power compared to hydrogen bombs. So yes, mushroom cloud and all

You would die very quickly as your tissues dissolve into mush. (Chernobyl on steroids).

@@durden91tyler It wasn't against his will. It was by his own wishes to try to survive and the doctors and family dedicated everything to keeping him alive. Hisashi also got along very well with the medical staff, and they constantly kept him and his family updated on his conditions. Heck, by the 81 day, the doctors finally came to the realization that his heart was only beating because of the medicine they were putting through his body, so they consoled the family as too the fact that Hisashi wouldn't be resuscitated the next time his heart stopped for his own good. Wendigoon goes into much more detail as too the whole process, and doesn't contain the stupid narratives that articles spin on what happened with Hisashi.

That's entirely why I find radiation so scary yet so fascinating

We call them strategic deterrents 😂

Lmao.

Lol Russia ain't ever living that down 🤣🤦‍♂️

This is one of the best comments ever

Mass neutralization

Yes you heard that right indeed

There's a 50/50 chance that you heard that from Simon's video on that nuke.

Yes, due to the fact that they reduced the yield from 100MT to 50 MT.

Just being a Russian make is only 50% survivable... 😬

the northern hemisphere has a 0% chance to survive now that fertility rates are down 2/3 because of those tests

Neutrons don't create radioactivity

Yeah but, I like the idea of those responsible dying a horrific, painful death in their bunkers.

@@aegaeon117 I also remember being 16 years old.

It's not a 'problem'. Neutron bombs' entire purpose is to irradiate the area where it lands. It's in the name.

Not for a long time. Radiation disappears rapidly.

me too

How about giving it a nougat-y shell of Cobalt? ☢️💥☣️🫠

@@dubuyajay9964 atta boy

One of my favorite movies!

That movie is an underrated 80s gem!

I had never heard of this device before, so thanks for your comment!

Indeed, thanks for illuminating us. ive not heard of this weapon. I call it ... the "gold bomb" 😂 ok ok it was developed and was quite effective for missile defense. Why have we not heard of it? And what would this bomb do to live tissue? 🤔

@@aurorajones8481 I see what you did there. XD

So that's how they embezzled all the gold out of Ft. Knox. 😉👍

What the heck is a xray bomb can't Find anything on it on Google

Yup, 50’s, 60 or 70s.

The chemicals (CFC refrigerants) used in your Chrysler are no longer used and the ozone holes are shrinking. So it is possible to avert environmental disaster but this will impact on the profits of the Corporations who also own the Mass Media. Hence the derision aimed at the environmentalists.

He never said they did, he said the government feared it could.

Atmospheric nuclear testing depleted the ozone in the atmosphere by less than 0.14%.

Nah, turns out the "hole" is a natural phenomenon, similar to the "eye" in a storm......

ha they where probabally trying to distract you from the oils carcinogenic toxity just like they had WMD courses for soldiers.... many people who put out them iraq oilfields (first gulf war) were fucked i mean by distracting you from the real danger we have less liability right

The Canadians said "No" when the U.S. tried to place neutron bombs in the Far North, eh?

In the first place they should have forbidden the creation of this kind of weapon because it will destroy our planet earth 🌏 ❤❤❤✌✌✌🙏🙏🙏

Water , Beryllium paraffin block neutrons . Xenon acts as a poison in fission . Shields were developed to protect against such. No more wars military industrial complex drooling over a new one.

He did. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7R5lpd_sNCah4U.html

No, that was not a test of a slated weapon. Cobalt pellets were simply used as radiochemical tracers as a method of yield estimation.

Thats a cover story it was a salted weapon designed to test the area denial concept , you do yield estimates using streak camera film and measure the the width of the initial fireball and the measurement of the fallout isotopes by prompt filter sampling by using rockets and sniffer aircraft, Co60 was only ever used in one bomb if it had been the standard method for yield calculations as you say it was it would have been repeatedly used but it wasn't and no other country employed Co60 either, and the HP team would have also known to look for it but they were kept in the dark, putting Co60 pellets in the casing would only indicate neutron flux at best also the scientist who was the chairman of the AWTSC Ernest Titterton withheld the Co60 information he only came out with the yield calculation story after word got out and it only came to light later when Health Physics accidentally stumbled across Co60 pellets while using an Alpha probe in the forward area as quoted in the book Beyond Belief by a HP chap called Doug Rickard, that claim is correct its possible to detect gamma and X Rays with an Alpha probe if the radiation levels are high enough seen it first hand, the radiation swamps the PM tube and gives you a false reading, Titterton initially claimed it was used to give the Health Physics teams a challenge later he said it was for bomb yield (see page chapter 7 Deception and ignorance page 102-103 in the Wakefield Press book Beyond Belief by Roger Cross and Avon Huddson). .That said sending people into ground zero without telling those working there shows you how little regard those higher up had for the health Physics surveyors and other working at GZ, I've worked with Co60 and it's seriously nasty stuff kicks off a very energetic Gamma ray just a small fleck of the is highly dangerous if unshielded. Penny and those running the tests kept a lot of information from the Australians the Co60 seeded weapon was one such test as were the minor trials, the UK only gained access to Maralinga on the promise it would be left in the state it was found seeding Co60 all over the desert if admitted would have caused uproar like the minor trials they thought they could get away with burning lumps of Plutonium 239 in the open air, that said the whole idea of burning Pu239 outside of any kind containment is horrific, I've also worked with both Pu239 and Pu238 as a glove box operator and just 3 Bq of Pu239 is enough to give you your ANI (Annual Limit of Intake) God only knows how many poor buggers were killed due to the minor trials, back in the mid 90's when I was in HP I put my name forward for the Brumbi 2 cleanup but Harwell's HP department didn't win the main contract so I never went looking back at it I'm glad I didn't, I'd also strongly advise anyone thinking of touring the Maralinga test site to keep well away from the minor trial sites as there's a lot of Pu239 Oxide still blowing around in the desert and a 3'rd cleanup is being mentioned I know one thing I wont be the one going.

@@mellbenham6809 very fascinating. Thank you for the insight

No problem.

If that.

@@DrDeuteron 😁

Less than a microsecond, generally.

@@Evan_Bell 😁

It was one of many plans to deal with the "Red Storm" theory of WWIII in which the Soviets sent mass waves of armor and infantry across Europe. In hindsight it can seem silly, but was considered a legitimate threat at the time.

yep and they had them to... indeed the russians they made a great many discoveries

Russian tanks had a anti radiation layer inside their tanks Yes the city would be there The population dead After 2 weeks can safely enter without NBC suits

They got everything wrong. I read a transcript from a Soviet training program for officers. Their plan was to simply wipe out NATO cities and facilities in one strike. They had set aside around 40 nukes for Hamburg alone.

Spoiler: The human body essentially begins to decompose while a person is still alive. It is said Hisashi produced an entire liter of diareah per day which was primarily composed of his own decaying intestines.

@@christopherconard2831 Those films were produced to provide the public with a false sense of security. Americans needed to feel as though there was something they could do.

Now there’s an ounce of wisdom

I think the same thing from time to time

There are a few known cases of a town missing all the people but items still there. It is a scary thought

@@Zepplin76 Like Pripyat In Chernobyl. Abandoned like a moment in time.

It would be full of diarrhea, puke, hair, and bloated reddened hairless bodies.

Those are just bat shit crazy.

nah there are many worse things

Like the one from below the planet of the apes

No Mr. Bond! Neutron bombs can make gold disappear in milliseconds never to return! Put your money in gold! And wait till I hit Ft. Knox!

Not very effective weapons. The radiative capture cross section of Co-59 is very low. At a neutron energy of 14.07 Mev, it's 540 times smaller than the fission cross section of U-238.

Yes indeed. I was (and still am) a huge fan and I used to have to put up with my brother and all sorts of schoolmates calling her that to try to taunt me. That was where I learned that not reacting to taunts diffuses them of their power. Pun absolutely intended.

Besides the nuclear blast detonated to create it.🤦🏿‍♂️

Nicknamed by the West

You better watch Repo Man and reassess your remarks

This is common knowledge. He's not revealing anything new. What harm could the dissemination of this information do?

just think, bombs are trivial now, digital weapons can make nuclear power plants melt down without all the violence

@@acedianihil8208 Melting down nuclear power plants? That's not going to replace nuclear weapons is it 🤣