Undersea Nuclear Explosion

Well, we bombed the Moon, so I don't know why anyone would be surprised that we'd nuke the ocean too.  Although I imagine it was a rather unpleasant experience for the passengers and crew of the ship that got swallowed up by the massive tidal wave that ensued in the aftermath of the atomic explosion.


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Regarding the moon: NASA deliberately crashed a space craft into one of the craters of the moon. Not sure if that qualifies as a "bomb", or even remotely comes in the same category as a nuclear bomb.
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Like Biker ray said, it was a spacecraft, not a bomb. Also, the ship was almost certainly there for the purpose of the test. You do not find it odd that the camera filming this was focused on that ship the entire time?

BikerRay-I do agree, the sealife likely suffered
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We did not bomb the moon. Nuclear tests were conducted in space, in the atmosphere, underwater, and underground. There were fears that tests could be done behind the moon after the test ban treaty to break it, but it does not look like anyone ever did this.

By saying we bombed the moon, it sounds like the mission was just a crazy stunt rather than a scientific mission. But this reflects the almost complete lack of knowledge that the average person has about space or space exploration.
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Depending on the test - goats were put in various locations on and inside the vessels to determine survivability from close-in nuclear explosions. Check wikipedia's article on 'Operation Crossroads' under the section headed 'Radiation'
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They matched the audio to the video so that the sound was in time with the bomb when in reality there would have been a delay due to the speed of sound. Because the audio finishes 18 seconds early and the speed of sound is 343.2m/s, that tells us the camera was positioned approximately 6.2 milometers or 3.9 miles away from the site of the explosion, assuming that the end of the video corresponds with the end of the audio track in time.
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Why? Seems like the government likes to talk about environmental awareness a lot for doing stuff like this. "Hmm...what needs more pollution....the ocean! Yes, the ocean needs more radioactivity! We will make super fish-people!"
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