Interesting Videos Thread

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I found this bio on Oppenheimer to be fascinating...

 

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The Day After Trinity

The Criterion Channel

This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the dangers of nuclear warfare via the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist and all-around Renaissance man who led the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb that America unleashed on Japan in the final days of World War II. Through extensive interviews and archival footage, THE DAY AFTER TRINITY traces Oppenheimer’s evolution, from architect of one of the most consequential endeavors of the twentieth century to an outspoken opponent of nuclear proliferation who came to deeply regret his role in ushering in the perils of the atomic age.

https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-day-after-trinity/videos/the-day-after-trinity

 

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The Castle Bravo Disaster - A "Second Hiroshima"

On March 1st, 1954, the United States detonated the country’s first thermonuclear or fusion bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a small coral reef and 23 islands almost equidistant from Australia, Japan, and Hawaii. In the days and weeks following the blast, the United States would pay out millions of dollars in settlements, thousands of islanders would be evacuated and re-evacuated, and the Japanese public would deem the test “a second Hiroshima,” a comparison no citizen would dare make lightly.



Joseph Rotblat -

Sir Joseph Rotblat KCMG CBE FRS (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on grounds of conscience after it became clear to him in 1944 that Germany had ceased development of an atomic bomb.

His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution toward the ratification of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the 1955 Russell–Einstein Manifesto, he was secretary-general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from their founding until 1973 and shared, with the Pugwash Conferences, the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize "for efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international affairs and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms."

Rotblat felt betrayed by the use of atomic weapons against Japan, and gave a series of public lectures in which he called for a three-year moratorium on all atomic research. Rotblat was determined that his research should have only peaceful ends, and so became interested in the medical and biological uses of radiation. In 1949, he became Professor of Physics at St Bartholomew's Hospital ("Barts"), London, a teaching hospital associated with the University of London. He remained there for the rest of his career, becoming a professor emeritus in 1976.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat

Kyle Hill's whole Half-Life Series is an excellent watch.

 

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Great Explanation/Animation Video
The animation is made in Blender 3.1 (EEVEE)

What's Inside the Atomic Bomb? | Insane Engineering of the Atomic Weapons | CURISM

 

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The Extraordinary End to the **** Nuclear Program

Gen. Groves put together a Task Force known as the ALSOS Mission.

Lt. Col. Boris Pash was appointed to lead the task force as they searched in occupied Europe for Nuclear sites and Nuclear scientists.

 

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4K

 

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The Sky Continues To Attack China Without Mercy! Super Typhoon Doksuri Sinks Beijing

 

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The first 15 minutes with Edward Teller are revealing...

 

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Rare Star Trek video

 

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I enjoyed watching this PBS program, in the light of the movie Chinatown:

Flood in the Desert (full documentary) | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, one of the biggest dams in the country blew apart, releasing a wall of water 20 stories high. Ten thousand people lived downstream. FLOOD IN THE DESERT tells the story of the St. Francis Dam disaster, which not only destroyed hundreds of lives and millions of dollars’ worth of property; it also washed away the reputation of William Mulholland, the father of modern Los Angeles, and jeopardized larger plans to transform the West. A self-taught engineer, the 72-year-old Mulholland had launched the city’s remarkable growth by building both an aqueduct to pipe water 233 miles from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the St. Francis Dam, to hold a full year’s supply of water for Los Angeles.

 

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Land of the Giants(unaired pilot episode)

 

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star Wars bloopers

 

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My recent dive at Catalina Island. (Well, I think it was interesting.)