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Tsar Bomba documentary
schmitt trigger:
I'm almost certain that most if not all forum members know about the Tsar Bomba, the largest thermonuclear device ever exploded.
There are a few video snippets here and there, but this 40 minute documentary is the best I've seen.
There is a lot of Soviet-era electronics instrumentation porn. That in itself makes the documentary worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2386&v=nbC7BxXtOlo&feature=emb_logo
cdev:
This makes me feel a little ill to watch..
They made a technical mistake and the yield turned out to be much higher than they had expected.
High enough to eject air into space at higher than the escape velocity of Earth's gravity, Ive read elsewhere.
I am seeing some footage was recently declassified by Russia. Is this it, do you know?
We made a similar mistake at one of our test detomations in the South Pacific. The calculations were off and the bomb yield turned out to be much stronger than expected.
Two little warnings to humanity from Nature.
We should heed them!
Benta:
--- Quote from: cdev on August 26, 2020, 05:53:10 pm ---This makes me feel a little ill to watch..
They made a technical mistake and the yield turned out to be much higher than they had expected.
High enough to eject air into space at higher than the escape velocity of Earth's gravity, Ive read elsewhere.
I am seeing some footage was recently declassified by Russia. Is this it, do you know?
We made a similar mistake at one of our test detomations in the South Pacific. The calculations were off and the bomb yield turned out to be much stronger than expected.
Two little warnings to humanity from Nature.
We should heed them!
--- End quote ---
Actually, the so-called "Tsar Bomba" was designed for a yield of 100 MT, but "dialled back" for the test to 50 MT.
The US test you refer to is Castle Bravo, which yielded 2.5 times the predicted due to unforeseen interactions in the dry fuel. It was unchartered territory back then. The fallout was so bad that it made thousands of square miles uninhabitable.
Horrid stuff.
schmitt trigger:
That and the poor sailors of the Lucky Dragon fishing boat.
Or shall we call it the Unlucky Dragon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukury%C5%AB_Maru
cdev:
If youre exposed to a lot of gamma radiation, the effect is to make your cells just fall apart, people's skin liquefies and sloughs off, their hair all falls out.
it must be really horrible. The stories of atom bomb survivors are truly heartbreaking. At least one person actually survived both atomic explosions.
A number of antioxidants significantly improve the chances of lab animals surviving of a given dose of gamma radiation. But the direct physical effects of the blast probably kill far more people.
We now realize that allmost nobody in major cities would survive because of the firestorm.
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