Nuclear Weapons: Everything You Need to Know

1:47:51 Beg your pardon? 😂

It was long but I enjoyed every minute. You are very good at what you do.. thank you for all the info that you share...

People like to glaze the soviets for the tsar bomb as if they were the only ones capable of that size yield. Keep in mind the tsar was 8 years after the 15 megaton castle bravo. Only a fool would believe the US didn't have viable designs for bombs that big and long before Russia did. The US scaled back their tests after bravo irradiated the south Pacific but teller had the multistage design in the early 50s. The US focused on quality, accuracy and multi war head devices all of which they were far ahead of Russia on. 50+ megaton bombs are literal over kill and completely unnecessary beyond "mutually assured destruction" and wiping the human race out. Russia broke nuclear agreements to test the tsar too.

Castle bravo is the most "beautiful" test of all time as far as it's films go. There's not a better scarier h bomb film out there and I've watched all of them. Even the much larger tsar bomb, it's film isn't anywhere near as high quality and theres no real reference for its size like bravo. Some of the pictures and films of bravo were from planes like 75 miles away and it's just mind boggling what it looks like from above the clouds. 75 miles and it looks like it could be down the street. There's other photogenic h bomb tests like hardtack- oak 1:15:09, and hardtack- poplar which were around 10 megatons but they just don't have the same presence as bravo. 1:08:28

Nothing much doin' some magic..

E=mc^2 does not say that mass can be converted to energy. It says mass and energy are the same thing. Nor does it just apply to nuclear reactions, it applies to all reactions of any kind. Lift a ball up hill, increasing the potential energy, the mass of the earth-ball system slightly increases, charge a battery, it gets slightly heavier, discharge it, it gets lighter.

A Tesla weighs 11 nanograms heavier when fully charged compared to discharged

"Don't worry, we swapped in some Lead to tame its fury somewhat down to maybe 60ish megatons. Safety, we're about safety around here."

You know what is rather scary...
The basics of what you explained was well explained in my Junior High School Science class back in 1975.

I hate this channel because of the presenter’s intonation. This vid specifically is also confusing and disorganized to someone who works as a nuclear physicist.

1:34:25 the BUFF will live forever

4:05 It's basically a game of spicy billiards

1:21:25 oh c’mon Simon, we know exactly how Israel got their nuclear weapons.

Interesting that Simon omitted how Israel got its nuclear weapons.

There's no way the Tube Alloys plant in Wales was producing 51kg of U-235 per day. Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, contained 64kg of 80% U-235, which is roughly 51kg of U-235 and 13Kg of U-238.
If the plant in Wales could produce one bomb's worth of U-235 per day, no one would have bothered with fat man plutonium implosion weapons, which were only pursued because plutonium could be made in quantity far more quickly than U-235 could be separated from natural uranium.

For anyone who thinks we shouldn't have nukes the Japanese ! Look up imperial Japan their action and treatments of others . Especially what they did in Asia . If the US was forced to invade the Japanese homeland many more soilders on both sides would but 10x more civilians would have died . Look up tge rape od Nanking. Also it's not anything Japan for the lost 80 yrs . They completely changed , to a strictly defensive nation . That recently changed because want parts of the Philippines, Taiwan, parts of Idnia , parts of Japan and basically every other nieghbor .

How youtube channels do you have 😂

Like the video but because the ads are 1/1 in length this becomes an extremely long piece of junk.

Looking for sleep , and doing a poor job because of course I start to think the following:

Let's say I went back in time with a couple of nukes. Assuming I've not brought with me planes or rockets (trying to keep this realistic, you know ?)

Could I launch a nuke with a trebuchet? What would be the ratio (nuclear blast radius versus the farthest I could launch a nuke with a trebuchet versus the weight of the bomb) needed to make it happen without getting myself nuked?

Everything you need to know about nuclear weapons "Nuke bad"

Teller was a weasel. As a malignant personality,
he manipulated Truman to sabotage Oppenheimer's security clearances as lead scientist of fusion project. Professional jealousy, personal gain, and unsubstantiated ideological mistrust were responsible.

Great vid, and highly detailed... One correction though - Uranium 238 will undergo fission when it is hit by fast neutrons. It is used in thermonuclear weapons, not only to increase the power of the device, but also for its density (it is also used as a tamper to hold the core of the bomb together for a few dozen extra nanoseconds while the chain reaction is taking place). It can also be used in thermonuclear weapons as a radiation mirror, to focus the X rays of the first stage towards the Lithium Deuteride fusion component of the bomb.

Another point - the implosion weapons that have a plutonium core do not compress 2 subcritical masses together into one supercritical mass. They compress a single hollow sphere of plutonium that is subcritical. The increase in density is what causes it to become supercritical. The weapons that force two sub-critical masses together are the 'gun type' uranium weapons such as the Little Boy device that was dropped on Hiroshima.

This gun type technique does not work with plutonium because as two subcritical masses of plutonium draw closer to each other, the neutrons emitted will start a nuclear chain reaction before the two pieces of plutonium collide with each other. The bomb will blow itself apart too quickly, and the majority of the potential yield will be wasted.

I watched the Trinity movie.

For I wept at such beauty. A singular flash and and the greatest pinnacle of human Ingenuity to total war is made manifest.

This is one of the best creations that mankind has ever made. A weapon that can erase cities from the earth and demonstrate that static defenses mean fuck all.

I live next to a airforce base. I know I will be amongst the first casualties in such an exchange. I will watch from above as humanity gets back to what we're good at.

Killing each other.

A beard enthusiast to be sure, and it's at critical mass. 😂😂

Quick question here!
Where did you find the footage of the implosion at 5:55?

Nice video, however you rather quickly brushed over the distinction of Ionising radiation, stating "we will just say Radiation from now on". This is understandable but in this world where people make inappropriate links and a little knowledge is dangerous, there are viewers out there that will just take the statement that Radiation equals death when in fact, light is radiation, radio is radiation, microwave ovens are a radiation device. My point is that not all radiation is bad and if you're educating you should be more specific.
I actually look forward to your videos so keep up the good work.

Let the nukes fly bumanity deserves it ❤

Unfortunate , the war ended a week later..wish it never happened but the war was over a week later.. I agree we arevthe only country to dobtgus but let's no to it ever again.. tragic!!!!

It bothers me how rational and unfeeling the comment section was. Although the video is indeed made with the idea to be informative and less more on the emotional effects of the nuclear weapon, I see the effects more and feel the tragedy rather than saw the complexity of how the nuclear weapon was made. No matter how complicated and hard it was to be made, the fact that it killed so many and that it was used just to prove a point was heartless in my own honest view and opinion. It was unjustifiable to be used and tested on living creatures whether human or animals just to instill fear or stop certain events. I never saw and understood if it did any good at all. It just killed on a massive and quick scale. That's all I see out of it.

Simon left out the craziest part about the biggest H bomb ever detonated. The explosion was so big that the plane that dropped it almost crashed because of the shock wave, and the after seeing how powerful the bomb was the Soviets immedietly canceled the project and vowed to never use it in war because of how big the explosion had the potential to be and because everyone agreed that that kind of explosion was way too big and would cause too much destruction.

Yeah you know when the Soviets are worried about safety it’s serious…!! LOL

1:15:58
Definitely one of Stalin,s body doubles

Your whole beginning is wrong. Oppenheimer is hardly a butcher. It's commonly understood that more people were killed in a single night of Tokyo bombing then either atomic bombings.
It's less commonly understood that communism and socialism in the 20th century killed tens of millions of people and they did it without going to war.
To Oppenheimer does not go down in history as a great butcher.
But it helps get clicks.

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Australian scientist Marcus Oliphant ! ..........one should read about his career in helping to develop the cavity magnetron to enable radars to be small enough to fit into an aircraft.

Also he was on the MAUD committee as a nuclear physicist and it was he who informed the Americans (Lawrence and Oppenheimer ect) about the possibility to create a atomic bomb through the Tizard mission.

He had to fly to the USA twice!!!! because on the first mission the American chairman of the Uranium Committee Lyman James Briggs didn't think it was possible!!!!....Oliphant had a low opinion of him.

Yet in all the movies and documentaries nothing is mention of this person.

It was he who informed the Americans about the development of the Atomic bomb unto which later became the famous letter from Einstein to the President that an atomic bomb could be practically made.

If it was for Marcus Oliphant short wave radars on aircraft, anti aircraft artillery, ships surface radars and the atomic bomb would have taken years later to develop.

You missed one HUGE aspect: the Franco-Belgian research.

In April 1939, Pierre Joliot-Curie of the Collège de France patented the atomic bomb, the nuclear reactor, and the plutonium production method using heavy water. The French government immediately placed on gag order on these patents. The Belgian company Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK, present day Umicore) had already patented the uranium enrichment method using gaseous diffusion as early as 1922.


On 6 May 1939, a secret agreement was made between France (most research), Belgium (uranium ore and financial support), the Netherlands (financial support) and Norway (heavy water) to construct atomic bombs and nuclear reactors. The first nuclear reactor would be completed in Norway and that same month the UMHK shipped uranium ore to Norway in anticipation of a proper reactor design. It was also agreed the first nuclear test would take place in the Algerian desert.

By July 1939, a complete nuclear research laboratory was up and running at Ivry-sur-Seine. The Norwegians gave their heavy water to the French.

In June 1940, the Franco-Belgian research was given to Henry Tizard by Edgar Sengier, the director of the UMHK and the heavy water was shipped to Britain.

Britain upheld the French gag order on the patents and all this was kept secret for decades..

Wow.. sir , you are smooth..I Enjoyed this video , evenly throughout... Great job..

Is Simon A.I.? I don't think he's breathing in between words, sentences or paragraphs.

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The "urchin" neutron initiator does NOT produce "NEUTRINOS" to detonate the bomb. It produces "NEUTRONS". It may possibly produce some neutrinos as a byproduct of it's function but they have nothing to do with detonating the bomb. There is a huge difference between neutrons and neutrinos. Neutrons are the heaviest of subatomic particles and neutrinos have almost zero mass.

These videos wiould be super-interesting and compelling if I didn't already know how much of it wss inaccurate or outright wrong. It's an ongoing theme with this narrator. Please take this garbage down.

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