Britain's hydrogen bomb, operation grapple

My dad Ray whitehead was there 1957-58 for all of Grapple 💔

wonder how many of these men died from cancer and what's with the sound track which certainly distorts the real thing by making it sound "beautiful".

Grapple Y - the most powerful britain thermonuclear detonation.

I like how peaceful and profound sounding the music track is, considering the showcasing of a WMD.

Thats a city killer

Why the hell spend so much energy on destroying our planet? You crazy ignorant selfish bastards. Since I could conceive this at 8 yo I thought how dare you without my permission do this. I realized I’m young after a few years and it was set in motion before me but it still pisses me off to no end because we all have to live here assholes.. fuck!!

Grapple X The first Hydrogen Bomb . No protective clothing. Blinded sea birds. Dead and rotting sea life. Not a pretty sight.

That particular aircraft on this footage is the XD818 tailcoded Vickers Valiant, exhibited in the museum of RAF Cosford. When I was there, I touched this element of the history.

From a historical perspective - it was important for Britain to maintain its status as a 'great power' as one of the big three after World War Two (with the USA and Russia) and as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations security council. At this point in 1958 only the USA and Russia were nuclear powers with both fission and fusion devices - atomic and hydrogen bombs. The testing of such devices was then followed by France and China in the 1960s.
For sure such archive footage is both beautiful and awe-inspiring to watch; however, you can only wonder at the damage inflicted on the earth's stratosphere by nuclear tests like these - which probably explains why they were partially banned in 1963. Let's hope such weapons are never used in anger by ANY state.

Even Britain's Hydrogen bombs are neat and proper like wtf 😂

Even their mushroom clouds look British

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Freaky looking shit, I bet a few fish got boiled that day below the explosion.....

These videos can’t give us any idea of the scale, even Trinity you’re seeing a video from 10 miles away

Not sure if with IMAX or something it’s possible to give us an idea of the true scale of these things but probably not

Peacefull music

Imagine seeing THAT cloud above London.
I might even visit.

I can't think of a reason thermonukes should ever be deployed on earth, but I suppose they might become useful in the future to deflect asteroids or terra forming other planets and moons, so we can't eliminate them completely.

Здоровый шампиньён.

This was evidently the test known as Grapple Y, carried out on 28 April 1958. 3 megatons.

Hey Democrats this is what Joe Biden and your party are bringing to the American people soon maybe before the nov election these weapons don't know blue from red get it!

Where is the "human" race going? 🌎

They should be arrested

In all probability, a boosted fission fusion fission bomb about 3 megatons max, not a true hydrogen bomb.

Creepy ass footage

That's like the only mushroom cloud I've seen that looks like the perfect illustrations of one

I wonder what happened to the original sound if there was any?

Aello mate, I'm At'm Bombb.. sounds likeh Bob, bu'a it's no'ah...
I liekh white, ju ya know wh'aah it's mean? I'm British 😂😂😂

What we have done

لن يستطيعوا الاختراق ابدا

Have you received his posthumous medal yet? I received my father's late last year.

3 megatons. Current strategic bombs have a yield of up to 100 megatons. The mushroom cloud would reach space.

At the nuclear explosion core temperatures reach 100,000,000° F
Causing any solid material to vaporize and rapidly expand and contributes to the immense shockwave that can be felt and heard hundreds of miles. Tsar bomba largest thermo nuclear explosion at 50 megatons tnt equivalent sent shockwaves around the earth 3 times

Does anyone know which test of the "grapple" series this is? I'm thinking this is the Y test ( 3 Mt) , but I'm not sure.

I keep rewatching this to find all of the faces the cloud makes.

The flash is almost blinding to watch! In reality, it must be like being engulfed in light and intense heat. Let me be right underneath the damn thing so I don't know about it! 😂

Horrific Beauty.

UK Had Done Its Job !

Hotter Than 100, 000 Suns ! Amazing !

soon visible from our windows, gents

"That was a glorious thermonuclear explosion old chap."
"Ye it was a real jolly event old fellow."
"Oh -it's tea time."

its tragic that a lot of service got sick and died from these tests.

When you think about that it were only a few gramm of hydrogen

That looked like a near perfect thermonuclear reaction.

Con oltre 3000 tests nucleari condotti da USA,UK, Russia,china,india, Francia ecc. Sulla terra,sotto terra, nell' atmosfera e nei mari,come possiamo stare bene noi umani,come possiamo difenderci dalle malattie degenerative. Quelle particelle contaminanti,fanno il giro del mondo. L' uomo è la creatura più folle

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