The Scale of Mushroom Clouds

This ain't your 8 year old's explosion size comparison video

In this installment of "putting big things into perspective with a lot of talking: the show", we take a look at nuclear mushroom clouds, those friendly faces that your own friendly face will be too busy burning away to see. I've always been fascinated by just how giant clouds can be, and none are bigger than these. So, let's take a trip through the history of nuclear bombs and their atmospheric tests to find out just how big they come.

Operation Greenhouse cloud studies: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA374...

0:00 Introduction
4:52 Mushroom Cloud Anatomy
7:44 Bells, Skirts, and Rings
10:18 Baker
11:53 Trinity
14:29 Nagasaki and Hiroshima
15:56 King
17:59 The H Bomb
19:06 Bikini Atoll
20:43 Bravo
22:43 Mike
28:53 Grapple and Canopus
31:06 Joe-111
37:54 Starfish Prime
39:54 Credits