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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

^Here's what you do. This video plays the blast in super slo motion around 1:30/ then 2:04. Now go to youtube and put THAT into 0.25 speed and watch it. Turn down the sound. Probably the most detailed video so far. It slows down the frames enough to study each building as it gets hit.

Right, I've watched a bunch of the other vids in slow-mo (.25x) on youtube, and they still happen fast. This is a high quality, high frame rate, that you can then watch at .25x, and even then, I find myself pausing it and rewinding it to see it better.

Originally Posted by mjohnson

Many at work are spinning their slide rules (really - get your copy of Glasstone out!) doing maths to figure out the yield - and watching these movies frame-by-frame to get the shock speed, which is a little faster than the speed of sound.

It's a rare thing to get such a view into a giant boom. Fascinating but also a tragic loss of life and damage to their economy.

It's also a sobering look into what a "limited" tactical nucular exchange would be.

This is an amazing explosion where we've got lots of angles and recordings. I've seen some historic type explosions, but most of those aren't high-def, high-frame rate recordings from all over the place with sound like this one.

The good news is that it looks like the tallest building on the right is probably still under construction, so probably not occupied. It's scary to think that just about anyone in any of those other buildings that were on the facing side may very well have been outside watching the fire.