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Title: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: trax1 on January 06, 2009, 08:07:00 PM
Found video of this online, it was the largest explosive device to ever be detonated on Earth(October 30, 1961), the video of it is really good.

I'm sure others have seen this before but I had never seen it.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e02_1214687720 (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e02_1214687720)
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Treize69 on January 06, 2009, 08:18:15 PM
LoL, type in those coordinates on Google Earth and take a look.

BIG badda-boom.
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: oakranger on January 06, 2009, 08:21:04 PM
that looks like fake video.
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: trax1 on January 06, 2009, 08:28:08 PM
Look at this chart that compares the size of this bomb to other atomic bombs like Hiroshima & Trinity.

(http://www.eatliver.com/img/2007/1999.jpg)
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Treize69 on January 06, 2009, 08:30:29 PM
Look at this chart that compares the size of this bomb to other atomic bombs like Hiroshima & Trinity.

(http://www.eatliver.com/img/2007/1999.jpg)

Its made of liver?  :confused:
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Masherbrum on January 06, 2009, 08:31:45 PM
that looks like fake video.

How?   Indulge us.
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: trax1 on January 06, 2009, 08:34:26 PM
Its made of liver?  :confused:
Is the picture not showing up?
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Treize69 on January 06, 2009, 08:35:48 PM
Nope, says "Visit Eatliver.com to see this picture."
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Masherbrum on January 06, 2009, 08:36:54 PM
Works for me.    <shrug>

Nice sound too. 
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: zuii on January 06, 2009, 08:44:53 PM
Liver bomb is the worst. <shiver>



(whats left of)----> zuii
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: oakranger on January 06, 2009, 08:51:42 PM
so, it is not real?
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Gwjr2 on January 06, 2009, 08:52:30 PM
onion fallout could render lands around uninhabitable for many generations  :pray
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: splitatom on January 06, 2009, 08:58:19 PM
 :lol there is a lake at those exact quordonites and nothing else around but dirt
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Masherbrum on January 06, 2009, 09:01:06 PM
This particular 50 megaton yield Hydrogen Bomb detonated 2.5 miles above "said lake".   Now if you really wanna have some fun, google this:

"Tybee Island, 1958".   
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: oakranger on January 06, 2009, 09:07:08 PM
This particular 50 megaton yield Hydrogen Bomb detonated 2.5 miles above "said lake".   Now if you really wanna have some fun, google this:

"Tybee Island, 1958".   

lol, they cant find it.  it would be a cold day in hell if it blow up. 
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: rogwar on January 06, 2009, 09:50:24 PM
Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Furball on January 06, 2009, 10:13:12 PM
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!
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: oakranger on January 07, 2009, 12:49:06 AM
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?
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: allaire on January 07, 2009, 07:58:59 AM
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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9AMtUeyDP0)
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: CyranoAH on January 07, 2009, 08:30:05 AM
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
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Rich46yo on January 07, 2009, 08:48:49 AM
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".
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: oakranger on January 07, 2009, 09:28:47 AM
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.
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Phaser11 on January 07, 2009, 09:29:15 AM
It was real. Big bad bomb!

Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Bodhi on January 07, 2009, 10:41:41 AM
"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.
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Rich46yo on January 07, 2009, 10:54:07 AM
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.
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: indy007 on January 07, 2009, 11:06:17 AM
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.
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Masherbrum on January 07, 2009, 03:59:55 PM
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.   
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Bodhi on January 07, 2009, 04:18:11 PM
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:

Quote
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.

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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


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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tybee_Bomb
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: trax1 on January 07, 2009, 04:22:11 PM
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.
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: oakranger on January 07, 2009, 04:31:27 PM
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.
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Masherbrum on January 07, 2009, 07:54:39 PM
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.

lol.    I'm glad I live nowhere near it.
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: allaire on January 08, 2009, 08:59:09 AM
I can see it now. "Hi welcome to the neighborhood. We're the welcome wagon with an assortment of cheeses and crackers. Now just some stuff you should be aware of you must keep your property neat and well maintained, don't have any junked cars on your lawn, and there is a nuclear bomb that was dropped back in '58, but it wasn't armed for a nuclear explosion, so be careful where you locate your garden."
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: Angus on January 08, 2009, 09:57:31 AM
There's one in the Greenland Glacier as well. It will return to the sea eventually, probably in pieces..
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: JimBear on January 08, 2009, 02:31:23 PM
non sequitur
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: AAJagerX on January 08, 2009, 06:43:25 PM
I caught a vid on the Hist channel about this thing....  WTG Russia, now turn europe's gas back on.
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: 1Boner on January 08, 2009, 06:51:23 PM
Its made of liver?  :confused:


Lmao!!

You owe me half a beer and a roll of paper towels to clean off my monitor!!
Title: Re: Soviet Emperor Bomb
Post by: bcadoo on January 08, 2009, 11:05:31 PM
Here is a photo of it on the way to the drop....




(http://www.damninteresting.com/wp-content/tsar_bomba_bomber.jpg)




And some video.....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2046393742348211186