@@ExplosivesLaboratory it's obvious to people in the know, but since this is supposedly an educational/informational video, hold your sarcasm... as that is not at all obvious to Joe Public. They don't know how nukes work, so when they intentionally watch a video showing how this specific really big nuke worked, showing how it was very different than other very large nukes (by showing multiple secondaries) was actually a requirement here. Ooops.
@@macieg_4179It wasnt stupid in the scale of destruction. It was stupid simply because it would crush half of Soviets and Finland completely if it were to go out like that. Besides the crews who drop those bombs would never made it out. Why do you think they designed the Tsar Bomb in the first place?
let the US remind all u dumbasses that size DOESNT matter…. its how u use it. u think they were getting a 27 ton bomb across the world without getting shot down… cant be fast. cant be maneuverable
Genius? they STOLE the concept of nuclear weapons through spying on the US through british agent klaus fuchs they may have never been able to take a nuclear device without stealing the technology .. this is theft jarrod not genius
In pooptin in power, he can use this bomb just to show ruski he won the war with Ukraine. But of course, that would be the end of russia as well. And pooptin will be united with his boss Stalin in hell.
@@jonathansimpson1106 Sakharov was designer of Russia's thermonuclear bomb, later in his life he paid dearly price while arguing for peace and disarmament. I guess he shared bit of same path as Oppenheimer.
Tsar Bomba actually designed as 100 MT bomb, using 3rd stage fusion by combining 2 fusion bombs and 1 fission bomb together, the reason why it cut into 50 MT (actual explosion is 55 MT) simply because TU-95 crew definitely will get killed if the bomb was designed as 100 MT, so the 3rd phase was removed and only have 2 phases (1 fission and 1 fusion).
he Czar bomb was originally designed as a 3-stage weapon with a 100 MT power. But the designer was horrified by how much power it would have, so the 3rd stage was replaced with lead. A bigger explosion would have made no sense, because the cloud would have already flown out into outer space. Even so, he broke the windows at a distance of 900 km, the rest of the data is there in the video. The shock wave bypassed the Earth several times.
Tzar Bomba caused outrage around the world which triggered treaties with the Soviets not to make bigger weapons. The creator of it became a anti-nuclear advocate.
hey should have built a 25 megaton bomb which contained Uranium-238, FOR IT TO BECOME A 50 MEGATON BOMB. But they did the opposite which is SAD. They did build a 100 megaton and used a weaker substance than uranium 238 so it became a 50 megaton bomb. My idea would have been a cooler explosion than the Tsar bomb.
they have one each for Germ many,Israhell,the filthy little island of the crown and anybody else that wants a few---north russia is loaded to the hilt with huge underground rockets with 16 warheads for all their ex-friends...plus russia has 20,000 tact nukes spread all over euro land for the rest of the dummies
I wasnt paying to much attention to the video but he may be talking about when ppl say this video is brought to you by.... its annoying cause i paid for no types of ads
Thank you I'd never found anyone who explained the Tsar Bomba's inner working so clearly. Combined with the visual representations, you made it easy to fully understand how it works.
The Tsar Bomb was an impractical, psychological weapon. The interesting thing is that it accelerated the development of realistic missile delivery systems to take it to the West, but these systems ended up being used for space exploration instead.
It was practical in the mean that the URSS developed bigger and more powerfull warheads as a solution for their ICBM inferior precision. while US missiles could target bases and silos with aceptable precision the URSS couldnt..so their solution was use bigger warheads so even if the missile misses the target by a few miles it would still destroy it
The yield estimate of the Fat Man has been more recently been revised to 24.8kt. The Tsar bomba yield was 56.8 Mt. The primary was smaller than shown. The AF&F package did not lie between the stages. The pit was not pure plutonium, and would have been larger than 6 inches. The secondary tamper was lead, not uranium. It's deuteride, not deturide. The sparkplug was probably boosted. The interstage material was not Styrofoam. The weapon was mounted inside the bomb bay, only the doors had to be removed and it protruded outside the bay. It didn't use a 32 point initiation system. The chemical explosive did not produce a neutron burst. A separate device does that. The feedback loop described as taking place in the secondary is inaccurate.
@@WickedrWil Thought about making a video for years, but if I was going to do it, I'd do it properly. Multi-part, many hours in total, with all the maths to calculate the various parameters. Thus far I've not had the time or energy to do that. Also, is giving a detailed description of how to actually design a nuclear explosive to every rando on the Internet something I want to do? Dunno. For now, I'll stick to correcting amateur videos and anything else I find spreading misinformation and mistakes about this topic.
@@Evan_Bell Thanks for making this comment. It’s great when people like you who know what they are talking about clarify things in a more accurate manner.
Fun fact: 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man' are the *only* nuclear weapons used in combat. No other nuclear weapon developed since 1945 has been used in combat. Let's hope things stay that way.
In combat? Actually they were used in the massacre of hundreds of thousands of civilians. As the US has always done, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Panama, Grenada, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc
@AltXodo RedNovember : Get over yourself, it was a world war after 3-4 years of Japanese atrocities and we knew how they treated our PoWs by that point.
The actual yield of the Tsar-Bomb was 50MT at 97% fusion-yield and that was a derated version of a 100MT design (This was done to give the Tu-95 bomber-crew that dropped a chance to survive the blast - they nearly didn't). Also the test-device was a three-stage design not a two-stage design.
The truth is that there is no use to keep increasing nukes payload. As the energy is expanded in a sphere which is a 3 dimension shape, that means that in order to double a Nukes radius we need to increase the payload 8 times (2x2x2). So the most optimal way to increase the destruction is to just user more smaller nukes in a wider area. Tsar Bomba was just an exhibition and it is almost impossible to be successfully used in combat now days due to its size. Missiles with multiple warheads are the most dangerous weapon today
@@mrDelight777 ok that doesnt mean shit when one icbm that costs literally less than the stupid ass tsar bomba can hit up to 12 different targets instead of just one
@@masterhacker7065 You said absolutely stupid. How did you measure the cost if this bomb was not produced? Of course, this bomb is ten times cheaper than an ICBM. The fact that the delivery method is outdated is a completely different question. But it has already been rightly noted above that strategic torpedoes have appeared, for which superpower is relevant again.
@@mrDelight777 Of course it is. The Russians said so. And as we've seen for the last year when Russia says they have a wunderwaffe, and don't even show it we can totally believe them
Wow thank you so much for this very informative detailed description of how the bomb works! I’ve never seen a video on RUclips or anywhere else that explained the process this well?!
10/10 for the graphics, 6/10 for the scientific accuracy. The Soviet scientists never released any information on how the "Tsar Bomba" (which was the American nickname for it) was constructed and to this day we are left with guesses. The two best guesses are: two fission bombs with the fusion fuel between them leading to higher compression of the fusion stage and therefore more yield, or two fusion stages with the first igniting the second (again leading to more efficient use of the fusion fuel in the second fusion stage). Either way it was a highly impractical design!
Yeah I agree. I'm a 3D artist and there's all manor of bad animation and artifacting in the animations. Like the propellors of the planes.. how do you even make rotation of a propellor in 3D to look that poor! Along with all this other flickering and glitching
@@jamief.g This video looks like an advert for a free to play game and it fails to explain how the primary fission device works because it does not describe the neutron source at the centre of the sphere.
In theory, the bomb would have had a yield in excess of 100 Megatons (418 PJ) if it had included the uranium-238 fusion tamper which featured in the design, but was omitted in the test mainly due to reduce the radioactive fallout and to assure the survivability of the bomb crew.
i am wondering they had literally carried it and not loaded it inside of carrier , what happens if it somehow failed and gets dropped in route to that island , lol .there's no way stoppping it and world would have been something else by now then, lol .
Why is NK still testing bombs? If the conclusion was to show mankind how dangerous nuclear bombs are then no lessons were learnt.Countries like NK continue to spent billions making these bombs and testing them. If human beings are tired of their own life on this planet then maybe a couple of thousands of Tsar Bombas ought to be developed and dropped in each continent. Other forms of life will definitely sprout into existence in a couple of millions of years
Fun fact: the tsar bomba was known as the cleanest nuke due to its insanely low levels of radiation near its epicenter( 20 minutes after it was dropped people went into the crater and took pictures Lmao)
No, it was "Clean" not because of design, but because it was detonated higher above the surface than normal (13,000 feet). The shock wave bounced off the earth and stopped the fireball from reaching the surface.
Very worrisome to know that we have really further advanced beyond the ignorance of world control, we still face the dangers of nuclear war as we start to build up the stock worldwide! But with all that said, a really interesting video.
This video shows a Teller-Ulam design with a single fusion stage. I don't think that could be scaled up to 58mt. The tsar bomba had 2 stages 1 fission charge and the 2 fusion charges that make up the second stage.
The uranium compression cylinder in the description correctly described every thermonuclear bomb *_Except_* the actual Tsar Bomba that was dropped. Had the bomb been as described, its blast would have been 100 megatons TNT equivalent, and the bomber crew would not have survived. To cut that in half, lead was used instead of uranium, just as Ernest Jay wrote 7 days ago. I think that decision came from the bomb designers, one of whom was Andrei Sakharov. Presumably Khrushchev agreed.
i am wondering they had literally carried it and not loaded it inside of carrier , what happens if it somehow failed and gets dropped in route to that island , lol .there's no way stoppping it and world would have been something else by now then, lol .
Watching this video makes you realize there are truly some extremely intelligent people out there to even be able too build something like this.. Crazy Scientest.
Fallen angel technology bud. Just like the Bible is an extraterrestrial book per say. The author that moved the writers (the prophets, kings etc) is not of the earth, that's why most of the earth rejects the Bible even some so called Christians.
not sure why on every single youtube video about the Tsar Bomba, someone in the comments is like "Not many people know this but the tsar bomba originally was designed to be a 100 megaton bomb" literally almost everyone knows this, that isin't something rarely known.
@@stripedpants1668 Don't blame spies for everything! This applies only to "ordinary" uranium bombs. But nuclear physics was very developed in the USSR, spies simply shortened the path. But the "father" of the hydrogen bomb is Academician Sakharov. And spies have nothing to do with it
@@gaborfarago4813 because nobody can use nuclear weapons because if one is dropped they all drop it's called mutually assured destruction which means all the atomic bombs and missiles are waste of time and money that could have went to poor and sick people
What a well orchestrated marriage of story and graphics that mesh in perfect harmony. I truly learned some interesting facts that were unknown to me at the time, and your video filled in some blank areas that I had questions about. This is sound doctrine and on point. Great work! This is one of those videos I tell my friends and family that I made it.😂
Good video. The only thing I have to disagree with is the role of styrofoam... The low-z (mostly transparent to x-ray radiation) foam mostly serves to keep the radiation channel open between the primary and the secondary. While plasma pressure does provide some compression to the secondary, most of the compression that causes the secondary to ignite comes from the ablative effect on the surface of the secondary, caused by x-rays from the primary detonation (staged radiation implosion). Without the foam present to produce a low-z plasma, the ablation of the surface of the secondary would plug the radiation channel and prevent radiation transport to the secondary, and the secondary would not ignite.
@@mozzjones6943 just an enthusiast that's been researching publicly available, declassified, and FOIA information about nuclear weapons for decades... good resources would be Sublette (Nuclear Weapons Archive), Hansen (Swords of Armageddon), and any number of declassified info available. Also... somewhere I read that this design possibly had two primaries compressing the secondary from either side. But I can't be sure on that. It seems like we have more info publically available about American weapons versus other countries' weapons...
You say that the foam is mostly transparent to x-ray. But just to be clear, I don't think the particular x-rays from a nuke go through solid styrofoam, they don't even travel more than a few inches or feet in room temperature air. Only once the foam heats up enough (perhaps to the point where it is plasma and no longer foam) then it is transparent to x-rays. But the same is true of air - which also becomes transparent to the x-rays. So I can only guess why foam is specifically used. Even in Sublette's explanation the gap is called "empty, often filled with foam", which implies the foam isn't actually necessary.
@@sherry8444 thanks for the correction… the foam would definitely need to be ionized to become transparent. And yes some designs most definitely did not use foam. No idea about modern weapons. I’m glad that people are interested in this topic and can provide ideas. I’m with Sublette on almost anything. Definitely as much of an expert as they come on the subject.
@@sherry8444 I still think the foam helps keep the high-x material blowing off the inside of the radiation case and the surface of the secondary from blocking the radiation channel. But that’s just a guess (some others think so as well).
Wow thank you so much for this very informative detailed description of how the bomb works! I’ve never seen a video on RUclips or anywhere else that explained the process this well.
What scaries me most is the Tsar Bomba was tested in 1961!! Around 62 years ago. If Russia has kept studying and evolving this knowledge to make these bombs, which is not impossible. I imagine how much stronger bombs they can produce. That's crazy and scary 😣
It's not really efficient to make a big this big plus there isn't a city big enough to use this bomb on. A couple 1-2 megaton bombs will level a city just as good as a 50 megaton bomb. You need to increase the payload 8 times just to double the size of the explosion so its much more efficient to have a dozen 1-2 megaton warheads in the tip of a missle. This way one missile can destroy around 10 cities. We can easily build a huge 200 megaton bomb but multiple smaller bombs will cause the same amount of destruction, use less fuel and can be loaded in a multi-warhead missile.
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The problem is when you go over the 58megatone the explosion will lose energy into space because the air abouth has not enoth pressure to hold the explosion.
Bro, what is this at 5:08? Plutonium doesn’t undergo mitosis. The fission products don’t undergo fission because they generally aren’t fissionable isotopes. The fissionable set lives within the actinide series. The animation is showing fission products as undergoing further fission, which is misleading.
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As others have pointed out, we don't know the internals of the "Tsar Bomba" (the American nickname, it was really called the AN602). It wasn't just a fission bomb and a thermonuclear component, that wouldn't have been enough to provide the ~50MT yield. The Soviets never released the design of this bomb and so it's all guesswork. Ultimately it relied on a very efficient thermonuclear stage, either two fission bombs either side of the fusion stage or, as is more likely, two fusion stages, the fission bomb igniting the first which ignited the second. Either way, it was completely useless as a weapon as it was too big and heavy, and was just Khrushchev saber-rattling at the west. Big bomb though for sure.
The physics of AN602 described completely incorrectly. At first, AN602 was a three-stage bomb. Unstead of a primary, the triggers were the two enormous thermonuclear two-stage secondaries, vaguely resembling these bombs described here. The tertiary was a giant block of 2 tons of lithium deuteride. In addition, according to public sources, the Soviet H-bomb design never used a cylindrical secondary shape like a design pictured here. Instead, secondary capsules were spherical or ellipsoidal. This video describes a design of early Teller-Ulam hydrogen bombs.
According to public sources and photos, the AN602 tertiary was divided by six or eight ellipsoidal capsules, mounted symmetrically in the bomb case. These capsules are seen on footage of final bomb mounting as ellipsoids protruding from a big metal ring just about the case intersection.
I always thought it was facinating it takes a conventional bomb to set of a fission bomb to then set off a fusion bomb. Then if you look to the reactors you need the tritium byproduct of fission to power fusion reactors. Its just facinating.
The destructive radius of a bomb increases at the 2/3s power of the blast. It is far more destructive to do what all nuclear armed states have done: make lots of smaller bombs and use more than one on any target.
If the video was to be technically correct it would explained about the 3rd stage not being used and it would also show that in the design used in the test the second stage(fusion) was split in to 2 charges. The fission stage had 2 second stage fusion charges placed at either side of it, front and back.
It would have been interesting to see the measured size of the nuclear fireball that this bomb produced, being able to vaporize and flatten any major city in the world, is horrifying
5:08 So crazy how plutonium atoms split into three identical plutonium atoms and several neutrons (which then split the two new plutonium atoms again) when struck by a neutron. Quantum physics is nuts!
The original Tsar Bomba should have held 100.000 megatons, but for savety reasons it was scaled back to "only" 58 Megas. As a matter of fact it was one of the "cleanest" nukes ever with only 3% radiation! I bet my ass off that even Bennu and Aphophis would burst into sand!!
Cleanest in terms of ratio of fallout to yield. And the fireball barely/nearly touched the ground, with little/no long term effects there. But I wonder how much arctic wildlife was destroyed in the blast Big bombs like that are impractical, since much of their energy goes up into space, and a scattering of much smaller bombs (adding up to less total yield) could affect a larger total area. Hence the shift from megaton range single warheads to MIRVs
X unbekannt My friend, you've messed up everything you can. There was no point for the Soviet Union to save something there. The power was reduced because there was a risk of burning the earth's atmosphere.
@@ХРЕНОРЕЗ Of course there was no intention for the Soviets to save anything! It was made for War! What i ment was, that Bennu or Apophis would have a hard time with 100 Megas.
A good explanation. It’s not commonly explained that most of the energy from a hydrogen fusion bomb still comes from the neutron fission processes of uranium or plutonium.
No, most of the energy comes from fusion. Most of the energy would have come from fission if, as claimed in the video, the tamper was uranium. But they actually used lead, to decrease fallout and give the bomber crew a chance of survival.
fun fact : that was only 50% of what the actual bomb can do
yeah he just talked about a basic Teller-Ulam design - completely ignoring the fact that Tsar Bomba had _multiple_ secondaries.
@@chouseification
*Exactly.* Thank you for clarification of the _obvious._
@@ExplosivesLaboratory it's obvious to people in the know, but since this is supposedly an educational/informational video, hold your sarcasm... as that is not at all obvious to Joe Public.
They don't know how nukes work, so when they intentionally watch a video showing how this specific really big nuke worked, showing how it was very different than other very large nukes (by showing multiple secondaries) was actually a requirement here. Ooops.
Well not can
The bombs first design was 2x as powerful
But even the Soviets thought I was stupid
@@macieg_4179It wasnt stupid in the scale of destruction. It was stupid simply because it would crush half of Soviets and Finland completely if it were to go out like that. Besides the crews who drop those bombs would never made it out. Why do you think they designed the Tsar Bomb in the first place?
Nice to know that this was the SECOND Tsar Bomba. The first was twice as powerful but Krushcev decided that was OTT and ordered it be reduced by half
Imagine if they had detonated that one
@@muhacnt7988 the Poseidon submarine drone nuke is 200 megatons, 4 times the Tsar Bomb and twice the 1st nuke they wanted to test
@@muhacnt7988 it would be a kamikaze mission
They removed the fissile tamper
let the US remind all u dumbasses that size DOESNT matter…. its how u use it. u think they were getting a 27 ton bomb across the world without getting shot down… cant be fast. cant be maneuverable
As crazy as it is to say, that regardless of how destructive this bomb is, it’s truly genius
Genius? they STOLE the concept of nuclear weapons through spying on the US through british agent klaus fuchs they may have never been able to take a nuclear device without stealing the technology .. this is theft jarrod not genius
Only THE ANTICHRIST would use something like this ... the US was sick and
Should never have used them on JAPAN
Now Russia has to buy weapons from 3rd world North Korea and IRAN.
How the mighty has fallen .
yeah i cant wait to use it
In pooptin in power, he can use this bomb just to show ruski he won the war with Ukraine. But of course, that would be the end of russia as well. And pooptin will be united with his boss Stalin in hell.
The designer must be really proud of his work.
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the design was stolen from Americans thru some russian spies
@@scoashish who is he?
@@scoashishoh really 😂😂
@@jonathansimpson1106 Sakharov was designer of Russia's thermonuclear bomb, later in his life he paid dearly price while arguing for peace and disarmament. I guess he shared bit of same path as Oppenheimer.
Tsar Bomba actually designed as 100 MT bomb, using 3rd stage fusion by combining 2 fusion bombs and 1 fission bomb together, the reason why it cut into 50 MT (actual explosion is 55 MT) simply because TU-95 crew definitely will get killed if the bomb was designed as 100 MT, so the 3rd phase was removed and only have 2 phases (1 fission and 1 fusion).
And a destruction zone extending to Finland and populated Soviet territory.
@@johnbeckman492 true.
Soviet also doesn't have a place to drop the bomb, international law prohibit nuclear testing in international water.
It was a 3 stage bomb. The reflector-tamper was to be U238. Lead was used instead. Bringer the yield down to 58MT
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And they was worried it would break the ozone layer.
he Czar bomb was originally designed as a 3-stage weapon with a 100 MT power. But the designer was horrified by how much power it would have, so the 3rd stage was replaced with lead. A bigger explosion would have made no sense, because the cloud would have already flown out into outer space. Even so, he broke the windows at a distance of 900 km, the rest of the data is there in the video. The shock wave bypassed the Earth several times.
Did they test 100 Mt one?
@@adhyanverma8954No.
@@toroashe oh ty for info
@@adhyanverma8954coming soon 😂
Tzar Bomba caused outrage around the world which triggered treaties with the Soviets not to make bigger weapons. The creator of it became a anti-nuclear advocate.
If my high school and college science classes had featured this type of explanation and graphics, I would have learned a lot more science.
Your teachers weren't very good - it's not your fault. They'd probably become jaded after years of teaching.
hey should have built a 25 megaton bomb which contained Uranium-238, FOR IT TO BECOME A 50 MEGATON BOMB.
But they did the opposite which is SAD. They did build a 100 megaton and used a weaker substance than uranium 238 so it became a 50 megaton bomb. My idea would have been a cooler explosion than the Tsar bomb.
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Texans would consider it a good firecracker for the 4th of July!
This is both terrifying and amazing at the same time. . Feeling this bomb explode must be a once-in-a-lifetime experience..
yes, yes, yes... wait--
more like an end-of-lifetime experience 😂😂
@@JDurham4635
Depends on how far away you are as you're watching it
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they have one each for Germ many,Israhell,the filthy little island of the crown and anybody else that wants a few---north russia is loaded to the hilt with huge underground rockets with 16 warheads for all their ex-friends...plus russia has 20,000 tact nukes spread all over euro land for the rest of the dummies
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This is both terrifying and amazing at the same time. 😯
600th Billionth of a second !
Mind-blowing stuff..
Yeah i had to pause in that part
Thank you
I'd never found anyone who explained the Tsar Bomba's inner working so clearly. Combined with the visual representations, you made it easy to fully understand how it works.
Shame it's inaccurate
Now we only need the materials… lol. Jk fbi.
@@forfun6273 And an accurate explanation of how they work, and the mathematical description of those phenomena.
@@forfun6273
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Am get so scared after watching this😮😮
The Tsar Bomb was an impractical, psychological weapon. The interesting thing is that it accelerated the development of realistic missile delivery systems to take it to the West, but these systems ended up being used for space exploration instead.
What if Space Race was actually a distraction for USSR to focus on instead of making nukes. Ultimately bankrupting them
As always, unfortunate, real investments in since made to military researches.
It was practical in the mean that the URSS developed bigger and more powerfull warheads as a solution for their ICBM inferior precision. while US missiles could target bases and silos with aceptable precision the URSS couldnt..so their solution was use bigger warheads so even if the missile misses the target by a few miles it would still destroy it
Work smarter not harder
What an idiotic statement. What makes a nuclear weapon practical.
Great tutorial! This worked really well when I tried it myself. Instant sub.
Yeah great tutorial. wait what.
Agreed.
wait...
lol brb, heading to the workshop
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0:55 When your squad accidentally pulls and all-nighter, and someone mentions they can see the sun coming up through their window
The yield estimate of the Fat Man has been more recently been revised to 24.8kt. The Tsar bomba yield was 56.8 Mt.
The primary was smaller than shown. The AF&F package did not lie between the stages. The pit was not pure plutonium, and would have been larger than 6 inches. The secondary tamper was lead, not uranium. It's deuteride, not deturide.
The sparkplug was probably boosted. The interstage material was not Styrofoam.
The weapon was mounted inside the bomb bay, only the doors had to be removed and it protruded outside the bay. It didn't use a 32 point initiation system. The chemical explosive did not produce a neutron burst. A separate device does that.
The feedback loop described as taking place in the secondary is inaccurate.
Maybe you're the one who should've made this video 😅
wow.. lol
@@WickedrWil Thought about making a video for years, but if I was going to do it, I'd do it properly. Multi-part, many hours in total, with all the maths to calculate the various parameters.
Thus far I've not had the time or energy to do that.
Also, is giving a detailed description of how to actually design a nuclear explosive to every rando on the Internet something I want to do? Dunno.
For now, I'll stick to correcting amateur videos and anything else I find spreading misinformation and mistakes about this topic.
@@Evan_Bell
Thanks for making this comment. It’s great when people like you who know what they are talking about clarify things in a more accurate manner.
Of course everyone is free to ask questions, I'll do my best to answer.
Fun fact: 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man' are the *only* nuclear weapons used in combat. No other nuclear weapon developed since 1945 has been used in combat. Let's hope things stay that way.
It won't.
It won't. Russia is fueling up their Europe-targeted birds as we speak...
In combat? Actually they were used in the massacre of hundreds of thousands of civilians. As the US has always done, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Panama, Grenada, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc
@AltXodo RedNovember : Get over yourself, it was a world war after 3-4 years of Japanese atrocities and we knew how they treated our PoWs by that point.
@@altxodorednovember6920 There were no nukes dropped anywhere but in Japan. Don't lie.
Fat Man, Tsar Bomb... cute. Imagine if they made Yo Momma. Even Aliens on Andromeda galaxy would need sunglasses.
The actual yield of the Tsar-Bomb was 50MT at 97% fusion-yield and that was a derated version of a 100MT design (This was done to give the Tu-95 bomber-crew that dropped a chance to survive the blast - they nearly didn't). Also the test-device was a three-stage design not a two-stage design.
Predicted yield of 50Mt, actual yield of 56.8Mt.
But using a remotely controlled bomber would solve that problem as long as the operators where on the moon rip
"they nearly didn't"
*what does that mean (in this context)* ?
@@sungam69 The Tu-95 were almost killed by the bomb's blast.
@@nicholasmaude6906 What does almost mean in this context? Were they injured?
The truth is that there is no use to keep increasing nukes payload. As the energy is expanded in a sphere which is a 3 dimension shape, that means that in order to double a Nukes radius we need to increase the payload 8 times (2x2x2). So the most optimal way to increase the destruction is to just user more smaller nukes in a wider area. Tsar Bomba was just an exhibition and it is almost impossible to be successfully used in combat now days due to its size. Missiles with multiple warheads are the most dangerous weapon today
Why is it useless to use? Underwater drone "Poseidon" is just equipped with a charge of 100 megatons.
@@louisgivella5577 get a life kid 😅
@@mrDelight777 ok that doesnt mean shit when one icbm that costs literally less than the stupid ass tsar bomba can hit up to 12 different targets instead of just one
@@masterhacker7065 You said absolutely stupid. How did you measure the cost if this bomb was not produced? Of course, this bomb is ten times cheaper than an ICBM. The fact that the delivery method is outdated is a completely different question. But it has already been rightly noted above that strategic torpedoes have appeared, for which superpower is relevant again.
@@mrDelight777 Of course it is. The Russians said so.
And as we've seen for the last year when Russia says they have a wunderwaffe, and don't even show it we can totally believe them
0:28 Sir, that's the T-pose Bomba.
Wow thank you so much for this very informative detailed description of how the bomb works! I’ve never seen a video on RUclips or anywhere else that explained the process this well?!
10/10 for the graphics, 6/10 for the scientific accuracy. The Soviet scientists never released any information on how the "Tsar Bomba" (which was the American nickname for it) was constructed and to this day we are left with guesses. The two best guesses are: two fission bombs with the fusion fuel between them leading to higher compression of the fusion stage and therefore more yield, or two fusion stages with the first igniting the second (again leading to more efficient use of the fusion fuel in the second fusion stage). Either way it was a highly impractical design!
The graphics are awful doesn’t even know the difference between circumference and diameter
Yeah I agree. I'm a 3D artist and there's all manor of bad animation and artifacting in the animations. Like the propellors of the planes.. how do you even make rotation of a propellor in 3D to look that poor! Along with all this other flickering and glitching
@@jamief.g This video looks like an advert for a free to play game and it fails to explain how the primary fission device works because it does not describe the neutron source at the centre of the sphere.
@@jamief.g How about: do it yourself?
@@Simboiss What would the reason to do it myself be? I would if you paid me
thanks for the tutorial, this is gonna rock my science fair!!!
Wait
xd
This is one of the most informative video I've seen on thermost nukes
In theory, the bomb would have had a yield in excess of 100 Megatons (418 PJ) if it had included the uranium-238 fusion tamper which featured in the design, but was omitted in the test mainly due to reduce the radioactive fallout and to assure the survivability of the bomb crew.
i am wondering they had literally carried it and not loaded it inside of carrier , what happens if it somehow failed and gets dropped in route to that island , lol .there's no way stoppping it and world would have been something else by now then, lol .
The animation of fission reaction suggest that plutionium atoms multiply when split XD
I am an Iranian military scientist, and this has been very helpful and progressive- thank you
I'm sure it is.......report to your ayatollah now eh???
:)
😂😂😂
Progressive???? 😂
Why did they have to drop it on an island that looks similar to Japan 💀
Foreshadowing? 💀
😂
1. It doesn't look remotely close to Japan
2. It was a common nuclear testing site for the Soviet Union
It is called "tradition"
Cool thanks for the instructions, I'll get making one
You can learn anything on RUclips, truly awesome time to be alive.
Omg I've waited so long for this. Never actually expected you to make a vid about the tsar bomba. Amazing job!
Poor job.
I learned 2 things today
1. Tsar Bomba was '2 bombs'
2. Tsar Bomba was dangerous
Why is NK still testing bombs? If the conclusion was to show mankind how dangerous nuclear bombs are then no lessons were learnt.Countries like NK continue to spent billions making these bombs and testing them. If human beings are tired of their own life on this planet then maybe a couple of thousands of Tsar Bombas ought to be developed and dropped in each continent. Other forms of life will definitely sprout into existence in a couple of millions of years
All thermonuclear weapons are 2 bombs
@@thehusketeers4319 And all thermonuclear weapons are dangerous
@@vest2483 Not if you're 100 miles away
@@thehusketeers4319 Wait until they are.
Fun fact: the tsar bomba was known as the cleanest nuke due to its insanely low levels of radiation near its epicenter( 20 minutes after it was dropped people went into the crater and took pictures Lmao)
No, it was "Clean" not because of design, but because it was detonated higher above the surface than normal (13,000 feet). The shock wave bounced off the earth and stopped the fireball from reaching the surface.
That was quite fascinating….thanks for posting👍
Not the tutorial we wanted, but the tutorial we needed
This ain't a tutorial☠
too bad the details are sloppy at best
Overused cringe comments
@@EvilForReal16 BRO TAKE A JOKE
@@thatcringyplaneguy There's no joke present. Dude's 100% right.
Very worrisome to know that we have really further advanced beyond the ignorance of world control, we still face the dangers of nuclear war as we start to build up the stock worldwide! But with all that said, a really interesting video.
Male ego is the only reason these weapons exist.
This helped me make the beginning of my comic. Thanks a lot!
This video shows a Teller-Ulam design with a single fusion stage. I don't think that could be scaled up to 58mt. The tsar bomba had 2 stages 1 fission charge and the 2 fusion charges that make up the second stage.
This project is a modification of Sakharov -Khariton...
The uranium compression cylinder in the description correctly described every thermonuclear bomb *_Except_* the actual Tsar Bomba that was dropped. Had the bomb been as described, its blast would have been 100 megatons TNT equivalent, and the bomber crew would not have survived. To cut that in half, lead was used instead of uranium, just as Ernest Jay wrote 7 days ago. I think that decision came from the bomb designers, one of whom was Andrei Sakharov. Presumably Khrushchev agreed.
i am wondering they had literally carried it and not loaded it inside of carrier , what happens if it somehow failed and gets dropped in route to that island , lol .there's no way stoppping it and world would have been something else by now then, lol .
Watching this video makes you realize there are truly some extremely intelligent people out there to even be able too build something like this.. Crazy Scientest.
Absolutely brilliant minds, tasked with wholesale murder. All you really need to know about war.
Fallen angel technology bud. Just like the Bible is an extraterrestrial book per say. The author that moved the writers (the prophets, kings etc) is not of the earth, that's why most of the earth rejects the Bible even some so called Christians.
not sure why on every single youtube video about the Tsar Bomba, someone in the comments is like "Not many people know this but the tsar bomba originally was designed to be a 100 megaton bomb" literally almost everyone knows this, that isin't something rarely known.
Who ever invented this was damn smart
It helps that they had a spy (or was it spies?) in the actual manhattan project.
@@stripedpants1668 Don't blame spies for everything! This applies only to "ordinary" uranium bombs. But nuclear physics was very developed in the USSR, spies simply shortened the path. But the "father" of the hydrogen bomb is Academician Sakharov. And spies have nothing to do with it
@@stripedpants1668 Either way, thats some pretty solid maths.
Oppenheimer and his crew basically
I was born in 1961 now I'm 62 years old and Russia still holds the record for 62 years
Ebből is látszik milyen erősek,mér nem használnak ukránba,vagy usa ellem??
@@gaborfarago4813 RUclips is not giving me the translation which language is this
@@perkins1439 He wrote, "why russia dont use this bomb in USA or Ukraine."
@@gaborfarago4813 because nobody can use nuclear weapons because if one is dropped they all drop it's called mutually assured destruction which means all the atomic bombs and missiles are waste of time and money that could have went to poor and sick people
@@BobAb-un9pe because they are firstly targeted on your fat mom
-There are no bombs that are too powerful.
-No, comrade, there was definitely one.
What a well orchestrated marriage of story and graphics that mesh in perfect harmony. I truly learned some interesting facts that were unknown to me at the time, and your video filled in some blank areas that I had questions about. This is sound doctrine and on point. Great work! This is one of those videos I tell my friends and family that I made it.😂
What a terrifying weapon! 💣
Cool, this is like a how to.....
I know what I'm doing this weekend!!🧑🔬🚀🌋
its staggering how so many reactions can happen in such a tiny amount of time
Fascinating and terrifying at the same time it's a true Doomsday weapon.
Thank you for the very well done video
The graphics on this channel are absolutely unbelievable. Superb quality
Good video. The only thing I have to disagree with is the role of styrofoam... The low-z (mostly transparent to x-ray radiation) foam mostly serves to keep the radiation channel open between the primary and the secondary. While plasma pressure does provide some compression to the secondary, most of the compression that causes the secondary to ignite comes from the ablative effect on the surface of the secondary, caused by x-rays from the primary detonation (staged radiation implosion). Without the foam present to produce a low-z plasma, the ablation of the surface of the secondary would plug the radiation channel and prevent radiation transport to the secondary, and the secondary would not ignite.
@@mozzjones6943 just an enthusiast that's been researching publicly available, declassified, and FOIA information about nuclear weapons for decades... good resources would be Sublette (Nuclear Weapons Archive), Hansen (Swords of Armageddon), and any number of declassified info available. Also... somewhere I read that this design possibly had two primaries compressing the secondary from either side. But I can't be sure on that. It seems like we have more info publically available about American weapons versus other countries' weapons...
You say that the foam is mostly transparent to x-ray. But just to be clear, I don't think the particular x-rays from a nuke go through solid styrofoam, they don't even travel more than a few inches or feet in room temperature air. Only once the foam heats up enough (perhaps to the point where it is plasma and no longer foam) then it is transparent to x-rays. But the same is true of air - which also becomes transparent to the x-rays.
So I can only guess why foam is specifically used. Even in Sublette's explanation the gap is called "empty, often filled with foam", which implies the foam isn't actually necessary.
@@sherry8444 thanks for the correction… the foam would definitely need to be ionized to become transparent. And yes some designs most definitely did not use foam. No idea about modern weapons. I’m glad that people are interested in this topic and can provide ideas. I’m with Sublette on almost anything. Definitely as much of an expert as they come on the subject.
@@sherry8444 I still think the foam helps keep the high-x material blowing off the inside of the radiation case and the surface of the secondary from blocking the radiation channel. But that’s just a guess (some others think so as well).
That, and many other errors in this video.
"I do not know with what weapons WW 3 will be fought. But WW 4 will be fought with sticks and stones" - Albert Einstein
This video is a pretty accurate representation of my night after Taco Bell.
Wow thank you so much for this very informative detailed description of how the bomb works! I’ve never seen a video on RUclips or anywhere else that explained the process this well.
You forgot to mention that the bomb was designed for 100 megatons but was wound back to 50 megatons, so the plane could escape in time.
Great Video 👍👍
1:23 military t-pose universe
They are t-posing to assert nuclear dominance over the US
you are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselfs...
The real irony is they were gonna go for 100 mT but they were seriously concerned it may damage the atmosphere and cause too much fallout.
I bet they would have made it 100 if the plane could have carried it.
What scaries me most is the Tsar Bomba was tested in 1961!! Around 62 years ago. If Russia has kept studying and evolving this knowledge to make these bombs, which is not impossible. I imagine how much stronger bombs they can produce. That's crazy and scary 😣
It's not really efficient to make a big this big plus there isn't a city big enough to use this bomb on. A couple 1-2 megaton bombs will level a city just as good as a 50 megaton bomb. You need to increase the payload 8 times just to double the size of the explosion so its much more efficient to have a dozen 1-2 megaton warheads in the tip of a missle. This way one missile can destroy around 10 cities. We can easily build a huge 200 megaton bomb but multiple smaller bombs will cause the same amount of destruction, use less fuel and can be loaded in a multi-warhead missile.
1:16 I like how it said Fat Man...
That’s the code name for the nuke dropped on Nagasaki
Stewie Griffin
F A T M A N.
Designed to kill Sumo wrestlers
Super interested in the science!
This is my favorite for the explanation!
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Fun fact, this is the nerfed tsar bomba, they wanted to make one that's twice as powerful
The problem is when you go over the 58megatone the explosion will lose energy into space because the air abouth has not enoth pressure to hold the explosion.
They are probably giving it some buffs about now. Can't wait to see how good it is.
Well put together and informative
Misinformative.
2:40 got me there with the ad thing
I saw a display about Tsar Bomba last time I was in Russia plus an actual Tu-95. 👍
🙄when and where exactly
Museum in Russia they have a mock up Tsar Bomba and the Tupolev-95 modified plane that dropped it
@@blackmantis3130 I saw the Tu-95 at the MAKS airshow in 2017 and the display about the bomb in 2019 at the maritime museum in St. Petersburg
That's why the usa can't spread democracy in RUSSIA 😂😂😂
Bro, what is this at 5:08? Plutonium doesn’t undergo mitosis. The fission products don’t undergo fission because they generally aren’t fissionable isotopes. The fissionable set lives within the actinide series. The animation is showing fission products as undergoing further fission, which is misleading.
It's worse than mitosis, one atom turned into three of itself
Your talking speed is excellent in this video. Other similar channels could learn from yours. I don't know what it is with everyone wanting to speak so quickly these days and RUclips doesn't allow you to fine tune the speed of the audio enough to get it just right.
0:39 It was an inhumane weapons test, as we know today.
Insane how such a tinny thing can create such wide explosion
You need to be my science teacher....😅
As others have pointed out, we don't know the internals of the "Tsar Bomba" (the American nickname, it was really called the AN602). It wasn't just a fission bomb and a thermonuclear component, that wouldn't have been enough to provide the ~50MT yield. The Soviets never released the design of this bomb and so it's all guesswork. Ultimately it relied on a very efficient thermonuclear stage, either two fission bombs either side of the fusion stage or, as is more likely, two fusion stages, the fission bomb igniting the first which ignited the second. Either way, it was completely useless as a weapon as it was too big and heavy, and was just Khrushchev saber-rattling at the west. Big bomb though for sure.
thank you for the information!
4:44 raise your sword for that parachute. His sacrifice was not futile.
What software do you use to make graphics and motion pictures, please let me know. Thank
When you say "if you enjoyed this video"
LMAO😂😂😂😂
Welldone......very informative
The physics of AN602 described completely incorrectly.
At first, AN602 was a three-stage bomb. Unstead of a primary, the triggers were the two enormous thermonuclear two-stage secondaries, vaguely resembling these bombs described here. The tertiary was a giant block of 2 tons of lithium deuteride.
In addition, according to public sources, the Soviet H-bomb design never used a cylindrical secondary shape like a design pictured here. Instead, secondary capsules were spherical or ellipsoidal. This video describes a design of early Teller-Ulam hydrogen bombs.
According to public sources and photos, the AN602 tertiary was divided by six or eight ellipsoidal capsules, mounted symmetrically in the bomb case. These capsules are seen on footage of final bomb mounting as ellipsoids protruding from a big metal ring just about the case intersection.
I always thought it was facinating it takes a conventional bomb to set of a fission bomb to then set off a fusion bomb. Then if you look to the reactors you need the tritium byproduct of fission to power fusion reactors. Its just facinating.
"The weight of five elephants." - Thank god we all have pet elephants at home and have now a precise idea how heavy this bomb has been.
And America be like , yeah, lets go to war with Russia ........ crazy kids
They had only tested 50% of the tsar Bomba as 100% was too dangerous
i promise you in a few days someones gonna make a tsar bomba lore meme video
The destructive radius of a bomb increases at the 2/3s power of the blast. It is far more destructive to do what all nuclear armed states have done: make lots of smaller bombs and use more than one on any target.
Surprised, you didn't mention that the original plans were for a 100MT and that windows were shattered, I believe it was 2000km away
If the video was to be technically correct it would explained about the 3rd stage not being used and it would also show that in the design used in the test the second stage(fusion) was split in to 2 charges. The fission stage had 2 second stage fusion charges placed at either side of it, front and back.
Well you know, judging by the comments, everyone already knew
Who else is here after watching Oppenheimer?
Please stop
@@theschmedaparadox1018 big bada boom.
Really I learned a lot buddy, thank you so much. ❤
Thank you for making this video I love this video so much I really want you to make more of these videos
It would have been interesting to see the measured size of the nuclear fireball that this bomb produced, being able to vaporize and flatten any major city in the world, is horrifying
Look at 01:29
2:44 bruh . i have youtube premium
Fat man and Little boy? I think the developers of the first two were trying to send a hidden message.
***Kim Jong Un’s physicists frantically taking notes***
Анимация реакции деления плутония шедевральна. С такими пробелами в школьных знаниях, конечно, термояд не собрать.
Хорошо что сборкой бомб занимаются не ютуберы.
Ты не хочеш что бы какой либо придурок что-то собрал.
Hopefuly soon one of these things are dropped on the Kremlin
@@Roger__Wilco on Pentagon and White House. Hearts of World Evil.
5:08 So crazy how plutonium atoms split into three identical plutonium atoms and several neutrons (which then split the two new plutonium atoms again) when struck by a neutron. Quantum physics is nuts!
It really *is* crazy!
The original Tsar Bomba should have held 100.000 megatons, but for savety reasons it was scaled back to "only" 58 Megas. As a matter of fact it was one of the "cleanest" nukes ever with only 3% radiation! I bet my ass off that even Bennu and Aphophis would burst into sand!!
Cleanest in terms of ratio of fallout to yield. And the fireball barely/nearly touched the ground, with little/no long term effects there. But I wonder how much arctic wildlife was destroyed in the blast
Big bombs like that are impractical, since much of their energy goes up into space, and a scattering of much smaller bombs (adding up to less total yield) could affect a larger total area. Hence the shift from megaton range single warheads to MIRVs
@@anorthosite This monster would be necessary if Apophis or Bennu where to strike! They would be demolished so bad!!
X unbekannt My friend, you've messed up everything you can. There was no point for the Soviet Union to save something there. The power was reduced because there was a risk of burning the earth's atmosphere.
@@ХРЕНОРЕЗ Of course there was no intention for the Soviets to save anything! It was made for War! What i ment was, that Bennu or Apophis would have a hard time with 100 Megas.
These kinds of illustrations are amazing
A good explanation. It’s not commonly explained that most of the energy from a hydrogen fusion bomb still comes from the neutron fission processes of uranium or plutonium.
I think that's because sounds cooler saying that we are using hydrogen to smoke the world
No, most of the energy comes from fusion. Most of the energy would have come from fission if, as claimed in the video, the tamper was uranium. But they actually used lead, to decrease fallout and give the bomber crew a chance of survival.