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-- Tsar Bomba... The largest human made explosion... EVER!
Tsar Bomba... The largest human made explosion... EVER!
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The bomb was designed as a 100 Megaton device, not a 50 Megaton device. This was due to its 3 stage design: fission-fusion-fusion. There is fission initiator that when detonated, begins a fusion reaction. Then there is a further fast-fission detonation (With neutrons from the second stage) of a Uranium-238 tamper which boosts the yield by 50 Megatons. For the test, the Tsar had its Uranium tamper replaced with lead to reduce the maximum yield by half (To 50 Megatons).
The blast yield was equal to that of a blast of 57,000,000 Tonnes of TNT....or to put that into context: The weight of 270 Empire State Buildings worth of TNT. This makes the Tsar the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated in history. Think of the destruction at Hiroshima. The Tsar was 3800 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
The bomb's weight was 27 tonnes, and its dimensions were: 8 meters (26ft) in length, and 2 meters (6.5ft) in diameter.
It was air-dropped, from a modified Tupolev Tu-95 Bear, and it used a nylon parachute to slow its decent to give the crew time to escape.
The bomb was dropped from an altitude of 34,500 feet AGL (10,500 meters), and it detonated a little over three minutes later at an altitude of 13,100 feet AGL (4,000 meters). In this time: The Tu-95, travelling at a ground speed of 480kts (552mph, 864kph), travelled into the safe zone (about 45km from ground zero) and was therefore 79km away from the blast.
When the bomb detonated, immediately the temperature directly below and surrounding the detonation would have risen to millions of degrees. The pressure below the blast was 300 pounds per square inch, ten times the pressure in a car tyre. The light energy released was so powerful that it was visible even at 1000km (621 miles), with cloudy skies. The shockwave was powerful enough to break windows at even up to 900 kilometres (560 miles) from the blast. The shockwave was recorded orbiting the earth 3 times. The mushroom cloud rose to an altitude of 64,000 meters (210,000 feet) before levelling out. The thermal energy from the blast was powerful that it could cause 3rd degree burns to a human standing 100 km (62 miles) away from the blast.
The radius of the fireball was 2.3 kilometres (1.4 miles). The blast radius (area in which total destruction ensured) was 13km (8 miles).
The most important thing to note is that this bomb was designed as a 100 Megaton device (Yield equivalent of 0.1 billion tonnes of TNT). If detonated, everything within a 48 kilometer (30 mile) diameter would be vaporised. Everything within a 195 kilometer (120 mile) diameter would be incinerated in a fireball. This would ensure total destruction of a large city like New York, Paris or London, as well as devastation on its outskirts.
Soviet technology fascinates me to no end, especially the Tu-95 and other silly Russian aircraft.
Here's one of our own CF-18s escorting a Bear away from our airspace.
I don't understand Francis...
This happened in 1961...
Why are you starting a thread about it now???
And now that I've said that...
As terrible as a nuclear/atomic blast is, it is incredible to watch..
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| Originally posted by VDub ... As terrible as a nuclear/atomic blast is, it is incredible to watch.. |
I don't think that device is very envioermentaly friendly 
it saddens me that countries have to come up wish such deadly things 
one day someone will press a wrong button and we all are gonna be toast
And yet the explosion at Krakatoa was over 4 times more powerful.
Its a little humbling, try as we might we still can't get even close to nature.
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| Originally posted by Trance Nutter Its a little humbling, try as we might we still can't get even close to nature. |
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| Originally posted by Trance Nutter Its a little humbling, try as we might we still can't get even close to nature. |
This shows me more of what we can achieve when we put our minds together, than what we shouldn't.
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| Originally posted by VERTiG0 Soviet technology fascinates me to no end, especially the Tu-95 and other silly Russian aircraft. Here's one of our own CF-18s escorting a Bear away from our airspace. |
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| Originally posted by Djsketchbag I don't think that device is very envioermentaly friendly |
I couldn't believe my eyes when I was reading/listening this thing.
If that was like 50 years ago, how would today's nuclear bombs look like? 
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| Originally posted by OkiDokie I couldn't believe my eyes when I was reading/listening this thing. If that was like 50 years ago, how would today's nuclear bombs look like? |
�I know what this is. This is an espresso machine. No, no wait. It�s a snow cone maker. Is it a water heater?�
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| Originally posted by love_child �I know what this is. This is an espresso machine. No, no wait. It�s a snow cone maker. Is it a water heater?� |
If you want a good movie about atom bombs I suggest "Trinity and Beyond" its the history of the A-Bomb and is narrated by William Shatner.
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| Originally posted by Brennen If you want a good movie about atom bombs I suggest "Trinity and Beyond" its the history of the A-Bomb and is narrated by William Shatner. |
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