Soviet Emperor Bomb

[rogwar]

Thanks for sharing!

[Furball]

Looks fake to me too.  The guy that made its site is here i think: http://kuroiso.org/

This is the real footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQsZa8F1c

Very well done tho!

[oakranger]

Looks fake to me too.  The guy that made its site is here i think: http://kuroiso.org/

This is the real footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQsZa8F1c

Very well done tho!

Thats better.  WOW, that is masive.  what is the radios on that blast zone?

[allaire]

When the Tsar Bomba was tested it was set for a 50MT yield, it had a max yield of 100MT, had a small runaway reaction and topped out at 55MT.
Here's a good video of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9AMtUeyDP0

[CyranoAH]

The video is a computer generated recreation of the explosion. This is the actual footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQsZa8F1c&NR=1

Daniel

[Rich46yo]

From one of my favorite sights.http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html

We made some big badabooms too. We actually had 25 mt free fall bombs deployed and many in the 10 mt class as well.http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Allbombs.html

Even still, in 2009, we aren't exactly helpless.http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Wpngall.html Look at the "total yield" numbers of the US enduring stockpile. Even our little cruise missiles can be dialed to blow at 150 kt, "almost 10x the yield of Hiroshima". We have 14 Ohio class SSBNs, down from 18, each one capable of launching 24 Trident D-5. Each D-5 missile capable of delivering up to 10 MIRVed warheads. Each warhead with a yield of 475 kt, "30x Hiroshima". And we can put each warhead into a ballpark from over 4,000 miles away, launched from a platform so silent even we cant find them.

We probably now have about 1/3 of the special weapons that we had in my day. Back then, '70s, it was the height of the Cold War and we had them, and delivery systems, all over the place. Most at a very high state of readiness and it would have taken only seconds and/or minutes for the entire thing to launch once we got the "go".

[oakranger]

From one of my favorite sights.http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html

We made some big badabooms too. We actually had 25 mt free fall bombs deployed and many in the 10 mt class as well.http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Allbombs.html

Even still, in 2009, we aren't exactly helpless.http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Wpngall.html Look at the "total yield" numbers of the US enduring stockpile. Even our little cruise missiles can be dialed to blow at 150 kt, "almost 10x the yield of Hiroshima". We have 14 Ohio class SSBNs, down from 18, each one capable of launching 24 Trident D-5. Each D-5 missile capable of delivering up to 10 MIRVed warheads. Each warhead with a yield of 475 kt, "30x Hiroshima". And we can put each warhead into a ballpark from over 4,000 miles away, launched from a platform so silent even we cant find them.

We probably now have about 1/3 of the special weapons that we had in my day. Back then, '70s, it was the height of the Cold War and we had them, and delivery systems, all over the place. Most at a very high state of readiness and it would have taken only seconds and/or minutes for the entire thing to launch once we got the "go".

Hope that we will never have to used them, excet for space program.

[Phaser11]

It was real. Big bad bomb!

[Bodhi]

"Tybee Island, 1958".   

It doesn't have the "nuclear capsule" in it and instead only contains a lead core simulator along with 400 pounds of HE and enriched uranium.  Going to be hard to get a reaction going with that. 

Leave it the hell alone.

[Rich46yo]

Hope that we will never have to used them, excet for space program.

I wish there was a way we could get rid of every WMD on the planet. And keep it free of them.

But I guess I'm just wishing.

[indy007]

I wish there was a way we could get rid of every WMD on the planet. And keep it free of them.

But I guess I'm just wishing.

A bunch of nuts with AKs have proven to be far more dangerous than countries with WMDs.

[Masherbrum]

It doesn't have the "nuclear capsule" in it and instead only contains a lead core simulator along with 400 pounds of HE and enriched uranium.  Going to be hard to get a reaction going with that. 

Leave it the hell alone.

Not according to the Pilot who jettisoned it after the collision.   IF this was the case than the USAF would have long, told the public, or at least the inhabitants of the area.

But I agree, leave it the hell alone.   

[Bodhi]

Not according to the Pilot who jettisoned it after the collision.   IF this was the case than the USAF would have long, told the public, or at least the inhabitants of the area.

But I agree, leave it the hell alone.   

I disagree, read the following:

The Mk15 bomb type utilized a removable nuclear capsule, which was required for a nuclear explosion, but was not present in this transportation-configured bomb.

An Atomic Energy Agency (AEC) to Air Force “Transfer of Custody” receipt, dated 4 February 1958, confirms no nuclear capsule was present, therefore no nuclear yield was possible.

http://www.af.mil/library/posture/savannah.pdf

The bomber pilot maintains that the weapon did not have the nuclear capsule when he took off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tybee_Bomb

[trax1]

I think the only real threat posed from the bomb is it could be a dirty bomb, but that thing is probably under so much mud by now it will never be found, or pose a threat.

[oakranger]

Thats better.  WOW, that is masive.  what is the radios on that blast zone?

I got it.

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.