America's Unhinged Nuclear Testing - Operation Plumbob

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  @the_fat_electrician · 2 years ago · pinned

  Whats the next video?

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  @JacobYoshitake · 2 years ago (edited)

  My grandfather, George Yoshitake, was the cameraman for that test.  He did grab a baseball cap since it was better than nothing.  He was not allowed to be on the film because he was a Japanese American and people were still a bit apprehensive about Japanese working close to nukes.  Thank you for covering this story!

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  @drewgilbertson · 2 years ago (edited)

  My head canon is that during America's nuclear testing, there was a cloaked alien ship up there watching the hot new reality show "Monkeys with Nukes". Then they got smacked with that flying man hole cover, putting the mother of all dents in their nose cone. So they got pissed and went home. And that's why aliens refuse to answer our calls.

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  @Larry-gs8gb · 2 years ago

  So basically they made the world's most powerful firearm with a nuclear weapon as propellant , and a 2000 lb steel bullet. Murica !

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  @greatmartini1 · 7 months ago

  I worked with a guy in the early 90s who was one of the soldiers in those tests. He had radiation burns and was not a happy old guy. We would go to breakfast after plowing snow in the winter (Sun Valley Idaho area) and he ordered blueberry pancakes. Then 10 minutes later threw them up. He was forced to retire and was put on oxygen. He followed the city crews around and one day let his oxygen run out and died in his truck. Work was the only thing he lived to do. I can't imagine what he went through or suffered for the rest of his life.

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• MI

  @michaelscott6022 · 2 years ago

  Ah yes, the time-honored military tradition of &apos;volunteering&apos;:<br>&quot;I need five volunteers!&quot;<br>&quot;What for, Sarge?&quot;<br>&quot;Good question, Private! Because I need <i>four</i> more volunteers!&quot;

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  @rogeraldrich2533 · 2 years ago

  In the early 2000&apos;s I met an elderly man at my local dog park. &nbsp;Over time I learned he was in the army in Nevada for one of the nuclear tests where, as he described it, &quot;We hid in trenches as the bomb went off then they marched us forward until the desert turned to glass.&quot;<br><br>Bad enough? &nbsp;After that he was sent to Bikini Island where he got to watch 24 more go off. &nbsp;They&apos;d camp on the atoll at night then board ships during the day when a bomb would be tested.<br><br>When I met him he had the very rare privilege of &nbsp;getting extremely detailed care from the VA. &nbsp;The reason being they were trying to figure out why in the hell he was cancer free fifty years later.

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  @paparich7813 · 2 years ago

  Funnily enough, the manhole cover had not just enough energy to leave earth&apos;s orbit it had enough energy to leave the solar system. So potentially, the first man made extra solar object is the nuclear equivalent of a potato cannon.

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  @long_jontaro_silver · 1 year ago

  Assuming the minimum speed possible between about 5 minutes ago and the time it was launched, it has traveled approximately 90.8 billion miles into space, putting it about 5x further than Voyager 1 currently is.

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  @matthewlentz2894 · 2 years ago

  Nic: &quot;The government had five volunteers stand directly under a nuclear explosion.&quot;<br>Me: &quot;At least they had the decency to pick officers...&quot;<br>Nic: &quot;And then they exposed eighteen thousand soldiers to multiple nuclear explosions.&quot;<br>Me: &quot;Son of a...!&quot;

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  @tonyheath626 · 2 years ago

  In the great words of Adam Savage, &quot;Remeber kids, the only difference between science and screwing around is writing things down!&quot;

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  @2410jrod · 2 years ago

  And us veterans will nod unanimously that the VA will say it’s not service connected.

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