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Chillingly beautiful underwater nuclear bomb

submitted by arvana

1 decade 7 years 1 month ago

The Baker event was the fifth-ever nuclear bomb, detonated 90 feet (27 m) underwater on 25 July 1946. Over 90 ships were arranged around the explosion to test its effects.

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This footage was also used in the Massive Attack video submitted by the lovely and talented plastiquemonkey.

Upvoting for the perfect audio and video combination.

Anyone know where that music originates from?

videosiftbannedme

Crawlius: I was about to say the same. Great score; I don't recognize it.

It sounds like a film score to me -- at first I was thinking 2001 Space Odyssey, but it's not.... something like Fifth Element? John Williams?

At the time, I thought it reminded me of the Outcast soundtrack. I guess that's for good reason. The composer is Lennie Moore, the track is Deus Vult from "Trinity and Beyond" and you can get it at http://www.lenniemoore.com/sounds.html .

William Stromberg and Moscow Symphony Orchestra.
That clip is from Visual Concept Entertainment's documentary Trinity and Beyond, aka The Atomic Bomb Movie. They have also couple other documentaries around same subject.
http://www.vce.com/about.html

Here's some more clips from those documentaries.
Cannikin with resulting "6.8 Richter shaking":
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OCb34tmX4UI
Redwing Cherokee:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvzpqecuB-M
Operation Dominic shots:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=joupmq4e2eM
Ivy Mike, first real two stage thermonuclear bomb:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xEFXfMQ-vzQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=asAkcbI2nt4
Castle Bravo, "little miscalculation". Non-inert Lithium-7 rised yield to 2.5 times greater than estimated making it largest nuclear device ever detonated by US:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fd1IFjBNNVo
Sedan excavation test:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VplPn52Lbm4
Nuclear artillery shell, Upshot-Knothole Grable:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oBIYLG8XMOc

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Adding video to channels (Water) - requested by EDD.

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