A Very Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space

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1. Why shouldn't the entire world be outraged that their home -- the Earth -- is being contaminated by fallout from an H bomb intentionally detonated by a nation's government? And for what? What of value was learned by exploding such a threatening bomb in space?
2. "1,000 times more powerful than...Hiroshima?" The Hiroshima atom bomb was perhaps 12-16 kilo-tons. The Starfish Prime Shot was <2Megatons. This math simply does not work.
3. I watched this in Honolulu at the age of 8. Well, I didn't see the initial explosion because I was asleep, but I did get woken up to see the various colors. The existence of the E.M.P. (electromagnetic pulse) was confirmed when it affected various electrical devices in the Hawaiian Islands from this test.
4. The most disgusting thing in all of this is that the whores in the US administration invaded Iraq (also were about to invade Syria) and the cause every time was Weapons of mass destruction.
5. And maybe. Perhaps, this is where global warming started.... Just saying.
6. Aliens saw first-hand the destructive nature of humans and never came to earth after 1962.
7. The Operation FISHBOWL test referred to was called Starfish Prime. It was 1.45MT yield, not "1000 times more powerful than the bomb that hit Hiroshima."
   
   The Hiroshima bomb was closer to 12 kt.
   
   There are also other problems with misinformation in this. The actual "white flash" lasted microseconds, and what you see here were the later auroral effects. It was too high up to support a fireball. Yet few microseconds of direct flash could burn the retina and macula of an eye. It was reported that an unprotected observer had eye damage from the reflection off of his watch face during the Bluegill Triple Prime test at much lower altitude.
   
   The closeup, central white blob was the ionized debris field from the warhead materials. The white bubble with blue at 1:10 was the D layer of the atmosphere glowing far below the detonation's prompt radiation.
   
   Also, the energy that drives continental drift, molten rock, and volcanoes is overwhelmingly from natural uranium and thorium radioactivity. Our world (and universe) would be very different without it. Radioactivity must be understood and respected, not irrationally feared. You would be amazed at the gamma radiation from household concrete, gypsum, and even food like bananas, from the potassium 40 therein.
8. And then wonder why so many have cancer.
9. Hmmmmm very disconcerting. 
10. I think these tests are part of project orion. which was cancelled in the end because the research couldn't be completed, The ban on testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere prevented it. Hard to believe we had the technology to go to the outer solar system in the 1950's.     
11. I kind of wish this video went into the consequences of this decision.
12. another video stated that the radiation only comes from the fallout of what was blown out of the earth that was under there???  so radioactive particles from where Hydrogen? no ,    space?  I wonder if they were right.
13. fucking dumb america 
14. I thought it was only 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima, not 1,000.
15. Americans are so stupid , risking the earth like that just to see what would happen ?!!!! 
16. I actually like the colours #notsorry 
17. I actually like the colours #notsorry 
18. We humans will seem terrifying to any alien species should they come across us! Hahaha 
19. nuclear fuck
20. Kudos, NPR. Very well done short video.