A Brief History of: The Largest Man Made Explosion (Tsar Bomba)
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- The Tsar Bomba (RDS 220) is the largest ever man made explosion, and marked a very dangerous part of the cold war.
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"Yes Yuri?"
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Hahaha I noticed that too in a team of 4, 3 of them named yuri
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The doomsday weapon in Dr Strangelove is actually what is termed a salted nuke. Salted nukes are an idea that is even scarier then then the Tsar bomba. The Tsar bomba essentially was just a big explosion and produces remarkably low amounts of fallout for its size. Most of its yield was a "safe" fusion reaction and the fission reaction was one of the most efficient in history leaving little fallout. However, the idea behind a salted nuke is to wrap a bomb in some other element that although it doesn't add to the explosive yield instead it sucks up the extra neutrons and created radioactive isotopes. The original one discussed and the one that was mentioned in Dr Strangelove was a cobalt bomb that produced cobalt-60. Salted nukes are so scary because they produce ridiculous amounts of fallout that is then propelled high into the atmosphere where it will continue to rain fallout for years across an huge area of the planet. It was a real idea that people had that could have killed most life on the planet.
MegaAwesomeNick there’s even deadlier chemical mixes that could have come to realization as a salted nuke that would be even scarier
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"On the beach" by Nevil Shute comes to mind.
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Officer : do the biggest humanmade boom
God Bless America sir.
Hasn't George Carlin once said that this is why missile rockets are shaped after dicks?
Grunt: How big is ours?
Officer: Oh most certainly the biggest.
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I'm sure the pilot who dropped it probably would have gotten out and physically pushed the plane if he thought it would make it go 1/10 mph faster! XD
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I don't think the pilot was familiar with mph. Perhaps km/h.
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@@johngrey5806 nah pretty sure it was just because ur borin
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US: has intricate computers for precise nuclear strike by missile.
Soviets: still kills you 30 miles off target
Most people have nightmares about monsters and shit, this is the shit I have nightmares about.
My nightmares are more about large sperm whales capsizing my boat and eating me alive.
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Not me. If another Tsar Bomba was going to drop in my city, it'd be over before I even realized what was about to happen!
I get nightmares about some old guy in a boat telling me I have to go to Damascus
Without doubt, one of the craziest and frightening periods in the epoch of humanity - not to mention the possible end of it!
Very true!
The Orion Nuclear rocket is the peak example of it!
People watch this and are terrified of such an obscenely destructive device, and that is understandable. But they don’t worry, or even know, that one country has changed it’s position recently on the use of nuclear weapons and is planning to develop smaller, more “useable” (staggering, isn’t it?) warheads, which will make their use far more likely. Think about that. A nuclear armed country plans to make smaller nuclear warheads that is thinks are more “useable”.
THAT is what should worry people.
They will use non-nuclear warheads not smaller nuclear warheads. Look up air-blasts and thermobaric bombs.
Jesse Marshall Look up the Nuclear Posture Review 2018. Things have changed.
They existed before, look up the davy crocket, a 3 man crew deploying nuclear warheads anywere any time, hell McArthur wantes to use tactical nukes on the north korean war but was stopped by the goverment exactly because they didint want nuclear weapons to become a trivial weapon
Rageous Maximus I thought MacArthur wanted full scale nuclear war against China to knock communism out of Asia.
The bad part about nukes is the fallout. Smaller warheads don't have this fallout.
The trebuchet is the superior siege engine.
Especially if you use nuclear bombs as projectiles.
@@Deadly_Laser a 50 mega ton projectile
Low cost, easy assembly. No Native Americans mining radioactive material...
So is your mom.
What about a Trojan nuke?
Just imagine some poor bastard somewhere in Finland or Norway who just opened his window to get the fresh morning breeze or something only to get it destroyed by the blast.
Opening the window would save it from being destroyed by the blast :)
The sad story about this bomb is that it was found to have ties with the old tsarist regime hence the name Tsar Bomba. The Reds did what they did with all imperialists: exhiled to an arctic island. Ultimately, the bomb would die on that island, executed by the Russians. This is the sad story of the Tsar Bomba.
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I know he’s kidding, but the real reason it was dubbed the ‘Tsar Bomba’ by the West is because it was so big as to be impractical. There was a Tsar Cannon and even a Tsar Bell both of which were huge and useless. The Tsar Bell cracked apart during forging...
@@HailAnts And don't forget the Tsar Tank of WW1 that had those huge wheels and was also totally impractical and huge.
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The US had accurate ICBM's, which the Soviets did not.
And so they made a bomb so big, that missing a target wasn't going to be a problem.
A pragmatic way to deal with inaccuracy
Knyq Barbosa You see Ivan, when you can't hit your target
Use a bigger gun
Can't miss if you have a 40 mile lethal blast radius
*insert picture of roll safe*
If you shoot everything, you'll hit it.
Are there actual videos of ICBM tests _with_ a nuclear warhead?
You know it’s big when they don’t even call it a regular bomb, but a “Bomba”
Basechad The Real One Bomba is simply 'bomb' in Russian
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@Dylan Dog
Basically it's the greek and latin word for it.
Go even further back and the source is the ancient greek word bombos (vomvos) that means bellowing sound. Bombs got that name because when heard from a distance it perfectly fits this description.
This bomb is so big bomb needs another letter to describe how insanely huge it is
Those stats on the varying ranges of impact on surrounding areas is so scary. Just imagine them having used this thing on a heavily populated area...
I'm glad this video pays a little tribute to other Soviet scientists. Kurchatov and Sakharov often get all the credit, but without Yuli Khariton's brilliant management style, they would not have been as successful. Also,props to Lev (Levka the Dynamite Man) Altshuler for dramatically simplifying the HE lens casting process. They were able to get it to work in a similar timeframe as Manhattan but on a tenth of the budget. Credit where it's due. The Russian "A Kalyenki" engineering method produces good results. I realize they had espionage materials, but only Kurchatov knew that. He used it as a fact checker and made his own scientists learn the material the hard way. Call it cheating, but in this regard, it really wasn't. It's not like they were a bunch of kids using their TI 89's to solve algebraic functions they don't understand. They learned it through trial and error. They didn't even know Kurchatov has this material.
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I kind of wish we had access to truly worthless planets where we could have fun detonating insanely large explosions.
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I wouldn't miss Saturn.
@@jeremiahm3765 how are you going to bomb a cloud?
@@cursedcliff7562 With determination and grit
@@cursedcliff7562 well to be fair it *would* detonate after it fell far enough in, just because of the insane pressure. It would most likely crush the bomb, compacting the radioactive material and causing it to go critical. Or if lightning struck it at some point on its descent that may also cause it to go off. Although it would need to be quite a bit larger than Tsar Bomba if we wanted to completely erase Saturn. I rather like Saturn and it's rings though so, maybe don't do this. Lol
Had to watch this again...this time with my 8 year old niece. Sooooo she's really into explosions now. .. .... Smartest uncle ever right here folks
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I do wish there were some more illustrations. I have no idea how far away the bomb was from Norway, where I live coincidentally, from the bomb site from watching the video alone. I had to pay a visit to Google Maps to get a better sense of it. Otherwise though, the video was fantastic :)
*Tunguska event next!*
USA: We have the most strong bombs.
Russia: Hold my vodka
"Fun" fact, I've heard of a proposal floating around in 2013 of making a joint nuclear weapon between the US and Russia that would be built in orbit meant to be used if we're threatened by KT meteor . It's proposed yield is basically enough to instantly vaporize MT everest.
This makes me think of that one Heinlein novel where world peace is enforced by a transnational agency with nukes in orbit, whose remit is to obliterate anybody who gets out of line, no exceptions, no appeals.
One thing that always intrigued me is why was the bomb made by the communist USSR called Tsar bomb
Dylan Dog I mean.. it's not like they killed the tsar or anything
Prettys sure it means "King Bomb", so its just a literal translation. they weren't praising the Tsar's
It is a long standing tradition to call ridiculously oversized things like "Tsar-x". See: Tsar Bell, Tsar Cannon, Tsar Tank
Tsar Bomba is a Western term. It was never used by the Soviets. It was the RDS220. To everybody else in the USSR it was known as 'WhatthefuckwasthatComrade?'
Should have called it The Stalin Bomb or the Lenin Bomb.
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You know its serious when the bomb needs a parachute to slow it down just to give the plane dropping it a 50 50 chance of survival
I heard that Sakharov told the bosses it was too big at 100mt, they told him to carry on, but he quietly took 1/2 the yield out of it.
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The intended delivery vehicle for the weapon was the N1 rocket.
It was in part the failure of that program to reach fruition that ended the RDS220 program, as it left the USSR without any vehicle that could deliver the production weapon to its intended targets in the USA.
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Thankfully it's too impractical to use. Unless you build it and deliver it by truck instead of a airplane or icbm. Or boat. Ever see the documentary about what if DC was hit by a terrorist attack with a nuke? they built one state side and used a truck to deliver the bomb. But of course you'd probably need a big truck.
Not really, you could go for a smaller but easier to use suitcase nuke.
I think that's the partial plot of True Lies, haha. They evade customs in a somewhat silly way, but it's still a thoroughly enjoyable action flick. Again, just to be clear, "silly and fun".
Tsar Bomba was 27 tons. My truck can legally haul 22.5 tons. Illegally, I'm sure stuffing an extra 9000 pounds in there wouldn't be an issue. I don't know that it'd fit in the trailer though...at most an 8 foot diameter by 52 foot long device would fit, anything bigger and you'd have to stick it on a flatbed.
Russia’s new nuclear torpedo has a salted 100MT warhead. It’s salted with Cobalt-60 to make the area inhabitable for centuries to come. Its codename is Status-6 or Статус-6
Crawl out through the fallout, baby
When they drop that bomb!
Before 1988 the USA had 9 megaton hydrogen bombs atop Titan II ICBM’s on alert. One per missile. The high yield compensates for the missiles inaccuracy
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Great video. I have a couple questions. What is periferation and what the hell is a mematorium? More thermonuclear videos! It's a fascinating subject.
moratorium just means to suspend or prohibit doing something.
Loved the video as always, but that spinning background thing gave me slight motion sickness.
Nice touch with the Rimsky Korsakov!
Epicest weapon ever. Do not tell me you do not want one, deep down.
Insane.
The real question I've always had about this is what did they expect to gain by doing it? Everyone knew that the USSR was a military superpower with a very effective nuclear capability. Everybody knew that the USSR had world class scientists; it was one of the few things the regime could legitimately be proud of. What did they think this was going to change now that they had produced this giant nuclear white elephant? For the tremendous expense just in terms of fissile material and nylon it seems like an incredibly wasteful venture. More that I think about it the more it seems like part of some kind of cartoon parody than real life.
Well most of country's budget was going to military one way or another. So money wasn't the problem.
Psychological intimidation was the goal. Both sides were at it back then.
Why does the US have about 1000 5th gen fighter jets, at billions of dollars each, when Russia has 2? Talk about wasteful..
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Something interesting to add to the Soviet Atomic weapons projects is they got a relative Head Start links to the KGB being able to infiltrate nearly every level of the Manhattan Project at the time the US's most secretive project.
That goes to prove how effective the KGB was and then how capable the Soviet scientists were because once they got the basics they Advanced rapidly and caught up to the US, and in some regards surpassed them in many factors of nuclear weaponry.
Great video as always!
Any guy who says the Tsar Bomb is " too big and impractical" has been told " don't worry honey, it's not the size of the wave it's the motion of the ocean" by at least 3 girls
But it is. Or tell me a ICBM that can hold a 27t warhead...
Note that Dr. Sakharov was exiled to a resort town. It was a very stern warning: "This is not very bad. Stop saying things we do not like or next time it will be very bad."
He was important enough that quite uncharacteristically they took the ramifications of just summarily exiling him to the gulags into account and only gave him a warning. This was a privilege afforded to very few.
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Stalin would be proud
XD!
Stalin did kill a lot of his own citizens!
Nehh it did not kill any bourgeoisie.
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Fantastic Narrative!! A quick quirk with the Dr. Strangelove clip, but a fascinating topic!
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Some say the Proton rocket was developed to carry the Tsar Bomba as an ICBM. Don't know if it is just a propaganda but heck imagine the practicality
Great job on all of your post. I feel smarter because of your research! Thanks
Cool info: The zar bomba was the cleanest nuke ever deployed. Because of the 3rd stage removed, there was just a tiny amount of fallout.
Removing the 3rd stage was a good decision, not only because of the tiny fallout. It would also not have made sense, because the bigger the blast, the more energy just goes up into the sky (exponentially. Because of the decreasing density of the athmosphere).
You got a like purely for that intro.
The UR-500 rocket was envisaged to carry the Tzar Bomb. This rocket evolved into the well-known Proton rocket, still used today.
The third stage was a fission one, not fusion one (that's why it was supposed to be made of uranium in the 100 megaton version).
It's often said that the fission bomb inside a thermonuclear weapon is merely it's "detonator" (like a blastcap for regular explosives) but that is a misconception: It's true that the first fission stage is what sets off the second fusion one, but in the end the majority of the energy released by the explosion actually comes from the fission. While the fusion reaction adds its punch to the explosion its main purpose is actually increase the efficiency of fission by releasing a lot of neutrons that make the vast majority of fission fuel undergo reaction instead of only a tiny fraction of it.
So if the fission stage is the "detonator" of the fusion one then the fusion is the "catalyst" of the first (and in case of the 100MT Tsar Bomb also third) fission stage.
If that Russian drone submarine exists we might see 100MT again
florislava if not larger
@@MyLonewolf25 There's a limit. Mainly, no sane nation would go past the 100 Megaton line. Anything larger risks catastrophic collateral damage.
Tsar Bomba was 100MT. They reduced it for the test due to fears of the fallout. The new Russian torpedo has a salted warhead!!!
Scary stuff when you really think about it
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In the classic 1965 card game _Nuclear War,_ there is one and only one 100-megaton bomb card in the deck. If it's played and the dice roll for the attack outcome comes up "triple yield" (95-99 on a percentile roll), all life on Earth is wiped out and the game immediately ends with no winner.
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the russians actually looked at a dr strangelove weapon. the idea was to make a salted nuclear bomb out of a large ship (5000+ tons), the ship would then become the bomb itself. the idea of even researching it scared some in mosow, so the idea was dropped.
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The shock wave travelled 3 times round the planet. Let that sink in. 💥
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"there are no weapons with the yield" didn't know that you had access to every nuke out there
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I find it truly amazing that between nuclear weapons testing and nuclear power accidents that there is still any life left on this planet😢
Plainly difficult: this made the bomb impossible to drop from an airplane as it won’t be able to escape the zone of the blast.
Me, a former Russian citizen: 😂😂😂😂 like the death of anyone has ever stopped the Soviets..
good one.
To think there was a time when the destruction of the world could rightly be put down to fearmongering. The power we now have...
But I can't deny I am surprised and proud of humanity for our restraint so far.