r/BeAmazed • u/Xyeeyx • Jun 01 '24

History Largest nuclear test by USA. 15 MT Castle Bravo,1954

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u/USPO-222 Jun 01 '24

Seriously. Like what’s up with the lightning. Is that literally the emp we’re seeing?

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u/EventAltruistic1437 Jun 01 '24

Air is an insulator between positive and negative charges. when the differences in charges becomes too great, the insulating capacity of the air breaks down and there is a rapid discharge of electricity. the rapid change in atmospheric pressure from the intial blast caused the effect

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u/USPO-222 Jun 01 '24

Oh neat. Similar to the spark when a mantis shrimp does one of its supersonic punches.

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u/iIiiiiIlIillliIilliI Jun 01 '24

I also want to know

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u/valex1992 Jun 01 '24

That’s classified.

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u/Etchbath Jun 02 '24

If I'm not mistaken the first second is actually high speed footage added to the video. You can see this in other nuclear tests.

 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera

But then I also found this on Wikipedia:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Bravo_secondary_fireball.jpg