VFX Artist Reveals the TRUE Scale of NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS

Its called sarcastic humor

😂 lol our man didn’t blink at the thought of instantly incinerating millions of people… just had a problem with cost haha

i was about to say that! 😂

In Los Santos huh

Trevor wouldn’t hesitate

West coast would be gone

Well, if worst comes to worst, it has been predicted that it can cause damage similar to The Rock™ that perma banned the dinosaurs.

@Sigma_Wolf minus the Yellowstone region and every state directly around it, the East Coast would arguably fare worse

We could just use a bunch of helicopters to pour water, dry ice, and stuff inside fire extinguishers all over the volcano. The volcano wouldn’t last more than 2 hours.

​@Black Iron TarkusI don't think that you know what Yellowstone really is...

I was silenced after reading "Hiroshima Diary." Good, sobering book.

The photographer: “Okay… that’s good, wait no, a little to the left please. Never mind, here let me just…. ah. That’s perfect, this will show them.”

it doesn't matter what people personally think of Japan regarding their warcrimes in Nanjing. The fact that civilians had to deal with the most of the conflict is really sad. Entire cities got destroyed, even if its only a 100 thousand deaths, that's still millions more in grief and pain of their loved ones passing.

I know its not exactly the Hiroshima explosion, but that photo just reminds me of Grave of the Fireflies, which for your emotional sake, you shouldn't watch without a bunch of tissues and a bottle of water.
For an actual rendition of a nuclear explosion, I suggest Barefoot Gen :)

They should of bombed unit 731 instead.

lol 650 B83 is not nearly enough ! actually you d need triple that amount to insure total destruction of both China and Russia if you want to minimize counterfire casualties you use two of them to destroy a single russian silo !
The video was kinda meh !

@calgar you are the reason we got war, dont forget that in history only the u.s actually used nukes.
Oh and in u.s war doctrine you can you nukes preemptively unlike russia and china that use it as last resort for defense, yea let it sink in.
And before you blame me for rusbot etc, im Ukranian.

We need more nukes not less :)

@calgarnukes of love you mean

@geno nono good modern thermonuclear warheads ,the kind that vaporize your carbon content on the wall behind you before it blows up !

@calgar nooo no.. no more plz no more. No lemon fresh

Wow i recognize that name anywhere, your site really made me realize how powerful nukes are many years ago

Great work! Me and my son have used it to try to visualize the consequences of nuclear war, and it really put it into context for us. It's certainly a great tool that I hope more people take a look at.

Nope, I was the one who created NukeMap...stop trying to steal my credit.

It’s a great piece of software! I live in NYC and have used to determine how survivable my home’s location is if the city was hit.

Agreed! Love the way Wren explains stuff

it’s literally the reason im subbed to this channel

hell its my fav channel on youtube

on youtube!

It’s like education done right.

Totally. I don't think he even realizes how good is on camera.

Really channeling his inner bill nye !

I agree. But falling in love with people on random videos is not the way.

@Avi Stryfe falling in love? What are you on about? 🤣 Can't appreciate his hardwork anymore? Cmon bro

@Nii Amart appreciation and most people just being generally creepy to strangers these days online are 2 different things. Dont worry tho, its not just you.

If putin further loses his marbles and knows he is dying.. Oh yah... It's gonna go down

Duck! and Cover! [[abd kiss your butt Goodby]] Even in the Diesr Grade I knew crawling under my desk wasn't gonna work.

It has become very real again since the war in Europe started

Ok boomer

@MindofMadness if you are far enough to not get most your skin instantly burned off and your eyes aren't blind and have enough time to duck and cover, it will probably help

That's the difference between the younger and older generations many of the younger generation see nukes and know we have not even reached a fraction of how powerful they can get simply because we stopped testing. Where you feel fear and existential dread we feel happiness and jubilation. Look at the power humanity wields and we haven't even started colonizing other worlds yet. Makes me feel like humanity can fight god and win.
Makes me feel bored of human vs human wars we need to find something new and challenging to kill.

Oppenheimer? Oppenheimer just loved this stuff...he wanted to Nuke Germany as well as Japan.. Lise Meitner was an admirable scientist...Oppenheimer a ghoul

@David Macmillan I was referring to his famous quote "Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" and to put in context this was said after witnessing the first nuclear explosion. I didn't know the man so I don't feel comfortable assuming his intensions. I would imagine it would have weighed heavily on anyone in his shoes. As for bombing Germany, if you think about the slaughter that took place at the hands of Hitler and the fact that Oppenheimer's family was of Jewish decent, it would make sense he would think that.

What really shook me as a history student was learning that the Japanese were already trying to negotiate a surrender prior to the bombings. One of the only conditions they had was the emperor remain alive and in power. The US refused, saying unconditional surrender only. Yet in the end we let the emperor remain in power anyway.. However it's actually worse than that..
Even if no nuclear weapons were invented at all Japan was never going to be the massive bloodbath for the American military the way it was played up to be. The Soviet Union was already preparing a invasion of the main islands from the north and just prior to the bombs had steamrolled through Manchuria with some elite Soviet divisions. So it's pretty widely debated today that the real reason for the bombings were to demonstrate to the Soviets and the world that we were the pre emanate global power while also forcing the issue with Japan, preventing a north south split of Japan like just happened in east/west Germany. With those facts considered the bombing of civilian cities was one of the greatest crimes in history, and wasn't just a means to a end played off as saving lives and forcing the "fanatical" Japanese to surrender.
People of my parents generation completely bought in to the taught narrative, that while it was terrible potentially many more people would have died in a grueling terrible ground war in Japan. Of course this is what was taught in grade school, and it's the narrative every TV news station broadcast (what few TV and radio stations there were back then) and coming from a atmosphere of celebration at defeating Germany it's a hard pill to swallow that we would do something fundamentally wrong, immoral, a massive war crime. We were the good guys after all right? Any debate of the issue was taboo, it was for decades a settled matter, but unfortunately history isn't so simple, and often has a very dark underbelly that is ignored. “History is Written by Victors.” after all.

@Zevin This is the absolute best/worst example of history being written by the victors and I can well believe it. After all, that is exactly what we have learned Vietnam was about as well.
I don't mind admitting that my parents, who lived through WW2 in the UK (one as a child who lived in London through the Blitz and my father who was a navigator on Lancaster Bombers in the Air Force), brought me up with the understanding that "The Japanese were horrific to people during WW2", and being a young child, I accepted this as a fact until I got old enough to question things and motivations. Had I not rejected this stuff at face value and built my own opinions on what I have researched and learned about, I would probably have grown up in ignorance and developed the exact same institutionalized racist ideology that they and a vast portion of our society have today. Thats the scary bit right there....

@Jeff Barber do you know nanjing massacre?

Which is about 40% TNT, and the rest RDX and a little wax (according to Wikipedia).

Comp B contains TnT

Unless 1 single building stands between you and the bomb.

Dude how are you this cool?

@ScoutiverTTV The Wisdom Tree has a clear view of downtown LA and a warhead comes in at 17,000mph, then air-bursts around 2,000 feet. The kinetic blast of the shockwave *might* make me go deaf or blow my flesh off my skeleton six miles away, even if I’m not instantly burned.

@TayZondaywhat if you were in a building??

​@anrealnubyou would become a pancake a very messy one

Reminds of watching Bill Nye the science guy in elementary school!

Except that detonating a ground burst nuclear weapon like he did in a city would do way less than his did as loads of the energy is eaten by the ground as well as a good amount of the energy is straight up absorbed by the concrete and steel buildings.

@master hackeralthough ground bursts create much worse nuclear fallout, that’s why Japan was able to rebuild so fast after they were nuked because it was an air burst, meanwhile Chernobyl will be uninhabitable for an estimated 20,000 years or something like that

@Ramenyeah but chernobyl wasnt a nuke it was a nuclear meltdown which releases more radiation then a nuke would

@Isaiah yah your right, but still, a ground explosion is still at least worse nuclear fallout wise

I´m literally waiting for WW3 to start, just so i can unleash my interpretation of Charlton Heston´s "Planet of the Apes" ending line: "Oh you maniacs!! You blew it up!! Damn you... Damn you all to hell!"
And we´re not too far from it. Sleepy Joe wants to go out with a bang. So i fart in his general direction! And sometimes what comes out is not gas, but he can have all of it!

Another 80s kid here. It is hard to explain what what living during that time was like to younger people. It wasn't something you ever forgot about but tried your best to do. To this day I hope that I'm underneath one of these bombs if a nuclear exchange happens so I don't have to live through the aftermath.

⁠@art's truthI’m not sure but I’m guessing the camera was far enough away from the explosion with a huge zoom lens and fixed on a tripod or something, at least for the bus shot that could be an option. The following shot of the buildings could be vfx based on the other shots.

The footage shows the effect of the light hitting paint. The cameras would obviously be shielded from behind and are recording away from the direction of the light. They would not be directly affected. They were most likely inside some sort of fortified container to withstand the shockwave after.

​@art's truthhe literally explained that the effect u see happens when the light from the blast directly touches something. By setting up a camera behind a shield of some kind, it would not be directly affected by this heat.

They’re buried underground in containers and use mirrors to capture the footage. The camera is a rapatronic camera that is pretty amazing.

When his face went dull from calculating the casualties from the bomb simulator, 3mil dead at the push of one button, n there r 650 of them in the US alone. Has Science gone too far?

I dunno, it felt like a bit of an afterthought given that the video then ends on "hey, you found those explosions _cool?_ Wanna explode your own cities?"

Yep. Obligatory sad face.@Penny Lane

@Penny Lane Agreed. There's no real benefit to 'pretending' that nukes are fun imo

Thousands of tsar Bomba hitting everywhere on earth

Simply the thought of complete annihilation to California itself sent chills through my spine

@Hun1on CA is a huge piece of land, it's unfathomable what the destruction of just the publicly known US arsenal is capable of. If nuclear winter is no longer the consensus of a believed scientific concept, then what we face may be far worse in terms of living organic matter in the region. Entire ecosystems glassed, creating a chain-reaction of falling ecosystems int he surrounding areas.

LA being ended would be a good thing

another horrific thing about the bombs.
for the people close enough to the fireball... it was instant, at the temp and speed of the nuclear blast, their entire body was reduced to atoms, leaving nothing but a shadow behind, because with the sheer power of this type of explosion you aren't even dead, you just become physics and carbon

@Joshie K The words "you just become physics and carbon" hit me way harder than it should

@Fae Griffin its just disturbing, the knowledge that you can just be alive one second and a fraction of a moment just not exist anymore as a human, your very atomic makeup stripped apart leaving you as nothing but soot

This was not the worst part of history. Not even close, compared to what japan did all around Asia

perhaps you should google what the japanese did to the korean comfort girls, what they did at nanjing and unit 731. It might make you reconsider about those nukes. And when you are done with that realize that the japanese have not once apologized (let alone pay reparations) and the extend of ww2 in their schools is something like "and then the americans attacked us"

@john doe pointing out that one horrific act was indeed horrific does not excuse others from also being horrific. A war crime or crime against humanity is exactly that. Japan has a long and violent history, much of which they still have yet to truly address in meaningful ways. And the same is very true of the United States, both domestically and internationally. By the time the US dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's navy and air power had already been decimated. In Operation Meetinghouse six months prior, the US firebombed Tokyo in what remains today to be the most destructive bombing raid in human history (yes, more than Dresden) killing estimates that range from 100-200 thousand mostly civilians and displacing over a million (although, some historians claim the death toll was severely underreported as the numbers didn't reflect the real world population density at the time). My point is that we should NEVER separate the science, the strategy, the politics, etc. from the death tolls, no matter the actors involved. Japan must come to terms with its history. I'm an American, and I think it's important that we stop perpetuating our own myths to justify our actions. It's debatable whether or not dropping the bombs was actually necessary. The excuse we use to justify it was a hypothetical about the costs of conducting a land invasion of the main Island. An objective truth is that the act was absolutely a geopolitical show of force establishing the first world superpower in the face of potential Soviet expansionism, who we knew was also developing the same technology at the time. In geopolitics, it's never just as simple as "It'll save Americans lives". That's just the propaganda campaign delivered to the public to justify mass killings.

@JesseArt It's hard to ponder the consequences of my ancestors actions while the victims deny theirs

@john doe you're speaking as though you were on the committee of generals who decided that the bombing would go ahead. You're speaking as though you had to pick up a rifle and go to war. You weren't. You didn't. You're an ordinary person, just like the tens of thousands of ordinary people who were in Hiroshima. If you cannot separate ordinary people from armed forces and war criminals, I'm worried for you. If you are unable to do that, it must also mean that you hold every single person in the United States personally responsible for every single one of its own war crimes, its own human rights violations.

With whats currently happening in Europe, this just sounds like wishful thinking to me. 🙁

If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus Is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:9

I wish I could agree with feeling like that. Sadly I don't 😢

It is scary to think though that we have the tools to destroy ourselves though and all it would take is a few individuals okay with that amount of distruction. I mean yeah it's not a path we want to go down, but the fact that the path is there at all is a scary prospect.

Oh man Vsauce/Veritasium with VFX 🤤

Maybe with vsauce, that'd be cool

They keep looking because while this has some research to make a good video (which is nice!), this is by no means a science channel.

6:15 and after is not real test footage, those are miniatures. please tell me what happened to the cameras.

@Álvaro A. Lorite VFX is art AND science!

@EVOLICIOUS no, it's not, if anything it is a technology (applied science), more akin to engineering.

Haha can you imagine him as a high school science teacher? He'd be the most badass teacher in school. At least right up until one of his students went home and answered their parent's "what did you do at school today?" with "we detonated a nuke in downtown LA!" 😆🤣

Few of you had teachers like Wren because your government is spending all your money on nukes instead of education :D

@aalever and now they're sending it all to Ukraine.

I had a lot of great science teachers. Though that may be becasue I was in a very wealthy public school district. Our public education sector in general, sucks. Thanks, republicans.

Sadly our human history only got immensely better when we were able to individually empathy and visual all the horrors in the world. For better or worth of modern society if we didn't share all these realities we will continue to get people denying them. Hopefully we continue to keep the ability to cause pain out of reach out others (I know this is a stupidly wrong statement but one can aspire)

yes

The catastrophic Beirut explosion is enough to increase human awareness of nuclear dangers. Even though it's tiny compared to little boy

Nope, it doesn't work, but yes it helps to deter from capture. Iran would be like Iraq, Syria or Libia if haven't nuces.