Poll of the Day > New Declassified Video Shows Largest Hydrogen Bomb Ever Exploded

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https://youtu.be/XJhZ3i-HXS0?t=1355

skipped to when the bomb goes off

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Pics

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Damn

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Am I crazy or does that ticking sound very similar to the sound when you take damage in minecraft?

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Is this actual new footage?

Still beautiful.

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Explosions of life

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Rotpar posted...

Is this actual new footage?

Still beautiful.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/science/tsar-bomba-nuclear-test.html

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Weird that they put some production value (background music) for something that was classified.

FourthDimension posted...

Weird that they put some production value (background music) for something that was classified.

maybe they planned to use it as propoganda that the USSR was ahead of the USA, but never released it.

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50 Megatons, though the bomb design could theoretically have exceed 100 Mt with a U-238 fusion tamper instead of the lead tamper that was installed.

All the buildings in a village 55 km away were obliterated, and wooden houses over 100 km away were destroyed. The heat from the explosion would have caused third-degree burns to exposed flesh 100 km away. Windows were broken as far as Norway and Finland. The fireball was visible from 1000 km away. The mushroom cloud reached 67 km in height, past the stratosphere and into the mesosphere. Despite being detonated 4 km above the ground, it still created a magnitude 5.0 earthquake.

Here's what the bomb would have done if it had detonated over the city of Paris. The yellow circle is the size of the fireball and the red circle is the area of total destruction.


The bomb was highly impractical, however, as it was 8 meters long and weighed 27,000 kg. It was far too large for a missile, and the only aircraft capable of carrying it was a heavily modified bomber that had its bomb bay doors and most of its fuel tanks removed so its range was extremely limited. Even with a parachute to slow the bomb's decent, the bomber was only given a 50% chance of surviving.

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I don't really know how big Paris is but 100km is pretty crazy

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now that i think about it, bombs carried by planes could easily shot down because it would be slower vs. a warhead missile

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Found this looking for pics on it.

"Last week, the Russian nuclear energy agency, Rosatom, released a 30-minute, formerly secret documentary video about the worlds largest hydrogen bomb detonation. The explosive force of the device nicknamed Tsar Bomba, or the Tsars bomb, and set off on Oct. 30, 1961 was 50 megatons, or the equivalent of 50 million tons of conventional explosive. That made it 3,333 times as destructive as the weapon used on Hiroshima, Japan, and also far more powerful than the 15 megaton weapon set off by the United States in 1954 in its largest hydrogen bomb blast."

Holy shit.

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https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

You can use this to drop in on a city of your choice.

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All I can see is like a lotta light lol

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Big Badda Boom

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Does Ned have it in his guide?

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SirPikachu posted...

Am I crazy or does that ticking sound very similar to the sound when you take damage in minecraft?

Sounds like a failed hard drive.

The Tsar Bomba is terrifying, but what always bothered me was the fact that we made an air-to-air nuclear missile.

What did we know about that was flying that would require a nuclear missile to knock it out of the air?

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

The Tsar Bomba is terrifying, but what always bothered me was the fact that we made an air-to-air nuclear missile.

What did we know about that was flying that would require a nuclear missile to knock it out of the air?

The AIR-2 Genie unguided rocket was equipped with a very small 1.5 kt warhead. It was designed to be fired into middle of a formation of Soviet strategic bombers.

There was also the AIM-26 Falcon, which was a guided air-to-air missile. It carried the same warhead as the Davy Crockett recoilless rifle, with a yield of only 250 tons. Guided missiles were extremely inaccurate at the time, and using a nuclear warhead ensured a high kill probability against Soviet bombers.

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FatalAccident posted...

All I can see is like a lotta light lol

FatalAccident posted...

All I can see is like a lotta light lol

it lloked like some of the snow didn't melt,curious to know how far away that camera was.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

The Tsar Bomba is terrifying, but what always bothered me was the fact that we made an air-to-air nuclear missile.

What did we know about that was flying that would require a nuclear missile to knock it out of the air?

Aliens

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Aliens

like in the movie independence day (with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones)

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