What If The Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Explodes In Space
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2018
- During the Cold War, the US government launched a 1.4 megaton bomb into space. Starfish Prime, as the test was called, was the highest-altitude nuclear test in history. But what would happen if we tried the same experiment with a 50 megaton bomb, like the record-setting Tsar Bomba?
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Imagine if we detonated a nuclear bomb in space? Actually, you don’t have to.
You can see it for yourself. That was Starfish Prime - the highest-altitude nuclear test in history. In 1962, the US government launched a 1.4 megaton bomb from Johnston Island. And detonated it 400 km above the Pacific - about as high as where the International Space Station orbits today.
The detonation generated a giant fireball and created a burst of energy called an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that expanded for over 1,000 kilometers.
EMPs can cause a power surge, damaging electronic equipment in the process. And this one was no different. Across Hawaii, street lights went dark, telephones went down, and navigation and radar systems went out, not to mention the six, or so, satellites that failed.
And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that has ever been detonated, was 50 megatons.
So what would happen if we detonated that above the United States?
For starters, there's no atmosphere in space. So, there would be no mushroom-shaped cloud and no subsequent blast wave or mass destruction. Instead, you’d get a blinding fireball 4 times the size of Starfish Prime’s. And if you looked directly at it within the first 10 seconds, you could permanently damage your eyes.
Satellites wouldn’t be safe either. Radiation from the explosion would fry the circuits of hundreds of instruments in low-earth orbit. Including communication satellites, military spy satellites, and even science telescopes like the Hubble.
Plus, astronauts on board the International Space Station might be at risk of radiation poisoning.
On the ground, however, you’d probably be fine. The detonation point would be far enough away that the high-energy radiation wouldn’t reach you.
But don’t get too comfortable. Remember Starfish Prime’s EMP? This time, the EMP would cover ⅓ of the entire United States, bringing down regional power grids and electronics like a lightning strike.
But it’s not all doom and gloom. The radiation would also interact with oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere and create a spectacular aurora near the detonation site, that would last for days.
Now, let’s be clear. This will probably never happen. Super-thermonuclear devices like the Tsar Bomba no longer exist. And even if they did, the Tsar Bomba weighed around 27,000 kilograms. There are only a couple of operational rockets in the world that could manage to lift something that heavy into space in the first place.
So we're probably safe from that, anyway. This video was made in large part thanks to the calculations from physicists at Los Alamos National Lab. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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It’s 5 in the morning and I randomly thought to myself “What would happen if an atomic bomb went off in space?” Thanks for answering my question lol
Same thing but 4am
Me rn
From which country?
Me right now lol
😂😂 same
Stop giving North Korea ideas
나는 미국에 대해 어떻게 생각하는지 아이디어를 주신 비디오 제작자에게 감사 드린다.
King John Un
You think they don't know this already? Don't be stupid. Only lack of resources and technical expertise prevented them from experimenting with this. NK has been dreaming up all sorts of nuclear attack for DECADES.
Never.
Oh mother of God Kim Jong un is here oh sh*t
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I was an Air Training Corps cadet in Nelson, New Zealand. We had gone outside after sunset to do star navigation fieldwork. We saw an amazing aurora display resulting from the Starfish explosion. It was far more intense than anything I ever saw during 3 years of hunting and hiking in northern Alberta in Canada a decade later.
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@@kimjongun650 well hello there didn't think I'd see you here.
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WTF? 2 Kim's and Trump was here? 😂😂
But one advantage tho .
No school for the day :)
:')
*World dies*
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Tht is not funny...
@@sophiaaryanna9485 r/wooosh ?
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2:30
An Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country?
nice simpsons reference
Localized entirely within your kitchen
Can I see it?
no.
this videos about to double in views
Exactly. His predictions are sounding a bit hollow right now
Flashbacks of Captain Price destroying the ISS
Roach: CODE BLACK! I REPEAT CODE BLACK! MISSILES HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED TO THE SPACE!
Price: Good :D
Nogi Sonoko u mean Ghost. Roach never talked
@@blinqa5238 what
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You forgot one significant thing: ALL computers and any other devices based on microchips would be permanently damaged without possibility of fixing. The microchips would have their structure physically destroyed. Only tube-based electronics would survive. I wouldn't dare to say that electricity returns within hours or days - all control devices in the grid would be irreversibly destroyed and the outage will last much much more than days... I won't mention all the systems like: cash machines, banking system, the WHOLE Internet, mobile networks - everything permanently destroyed by the EMP.
@@mogamatamI would for sure say the chaos of nature which are doing by us could definitely use one explode
i was thinking this would be a good way to destroy a country. say we were at war idk hypothetically some war and we decide to try and demobilize everything. someome would calculate the distance and power of the bomb to where it could only damage that certain area. almost everything "important" nowadays has to do with microchips that the militaries rely on. we could do anything we want to that country if they dont take it out before it reaches the destination in space
And the same thing can happen when a giant solar flare and mass corona ejection hits the Earth and/or tiny particles from outer space bombards the planet as well.
the ammount of induction of electricity in ALL metal parts will make everythign electic hazard. big surfaces will disperse their charge, but cables wont, their shielding protects them from loosing charge, not from receiving ionizing radiation. even if you ahve EMP shielded computer in a faraday cage, the electric spike on the grid might be too big even for formidable protection against electrical surge
Well, my amplifiers would still be able to rock... once electricity is re-established. Haha
FYI it was NOT a fireball. Fire is combustion and without Oxygen there can be no Fire. It was photon being emitted by the nuclear reaction.
Like a lighting strike, wrong again.
That's what I was thinking - for there to be a fireball there would need to be a source of oxygen,but then again the Sun is a big ball of fire,which is why I stated to get curious in the first place - leading me to this video! 😂
Anyone here after the “russian nuke in space” news story?
Yep
Yeah.
This video: "Now, let's be clear this will probably never happen." at 2:44
Russia 5 years later: "I got new idea comrades its very good! Nukes in space yes?"
Tsar Bomba was very inefficient (and old), which is why it was so heavy, nowadays you could probably make a bomb like that much lighter.
yeap it was 1961 technology.
Antimatter.
Didn’t want to know that but thanks 😑
Not really. The Tsar bomba, in its full yield configuration with a fissionable tamper had a yield to weight ratio higher than any weapon in active service today.
We don't know how efficient it was, because we don't know any of the fuel masses.
@@Evan_Bell We do know that it actually was 100MT, though. They dialed it back a little for the test, lulz. Probably good that they did that, or the aircraft that dropped it would've certainly been blown out of the sky, if not vaporized. As it was, it just barely escaped.
Would the ozone layer dissolve just like spiderman?
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Fun fact :
Tsar bombs's full capacity was 100MT but it was exploded with half power
That's not even a fun fact they couldn't even det at 100 because they would have killed their own pilots. It's a fact and nothing fun about that.
@@FujinWater Ain't Stalin killed his own russian people by Millions?
@@Jimmy-lm2eg yeah but pilots are important cause training takes too long
it was designed with a depleted uranium tamper,, to reduce the yield they used a lead one
@@FujinWater True. The bomb they dropped exploded like 2 mins 20 secs after they dropped it. Got like 30 km away and it dried and chipped the paint on the planes as they flew away. Insane. One pilot was promoted to L. Colonel and given the Hero of the Soviet Union award.
Well there's always ICBMs. Just redirect it to higher altitudes. And with current tech. Megatons isn't the issue, it's the radiation intensity and amount that counts. Also with the countless missile silos and nuclear subs that carry the nukes? It's likely it can happen. Sometimes, destruction isn't always a kaboom. It's the silence.
Starfish Prime *WAS* an ICBM! What else would it have been?!?
Of course it could happen! Who said it couldn't happen?
Nuclear weapons detonated at lower altitudes still do the EMP thing, it's what a lot of nuclear war strategy is based on (knock out the electrical grid to destroy the enemy's ability to organize etc.) While nuclear war is utterly catastrophic reaching on downright apocalyptic, people often forget that virtually all serious simulations and plans for nuclear exchanges from multiple nations plan for a fairly extended conflict (weeks to months) even if nuclear exchange occurs, so much of the use is to devastate any possible response, not just win on the first volley.
Insane stuff, don't get me wrong. Borderline inhuman with a lot of the planners for this having to embody some of the most psychotic logic that states have ever used. Still. it's a pretty "useful" side effect of nuclear weapons.
well iron man already did it 😆
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Son of a gun
In far away space tho cause portal
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In Theory, a potential 20 Megaton Bomb could be lifted that high and detonated in the upper atmosphere. Then if you can imagine two to five of these bombs exploding across the US mainland, it would wipe out the electrical grid of the nation and communications and probably lots of aircraft would probably shut down and crash.
I'm pretty sure most aircraft can be flown mechanically. Who knows about any sparks or whatever to start the engines, etc, though. They don't just "shut down" like a computer!
@@bsadewitz In vain you think so. The vast majority of modern aircraft have a fly-by-wire control system without mechanical reserved. But this is not the point, if the connection is broken, they simply will not know where to sit, and the weather is unlikely to remain indifferent to such disturbances - hurricanes, thunderstorms and typhoons will multiply many times over. A successful landing under such conditions would be tantamount to winning one in a million.
@@bsadewitzmodern aircraft, even military, rely heavy on electronic components. Nothing is mechanical anymore
I wouldn't doubt that it could never happen. I personally think there could be huge strategic value in doing this.
The purpose of this would be to jam GPS and radar on the mainland
For $100 what is space junk?
For $200 what is EMP that can be mistaken for CME?
FOR $300 why not also blame the sun & cut power to mid America before primaries!
If anything, this would be the final option to stop a self-sustaining robotic apocalypse. The collateral damage would be far too bad for anything less than to prevent extinction
Unless your strategy is to destroy global communications and disable entire continents, the destruction of satellites possibly causing a Kessler effect that permanently cuts us off from space
Captain Price did it during Russian invasion in US soil.
Ah, a fellow Modern Warfare 2 fanboy I see! Appreciated!
So it would be pretty strategic to do this over an enemy country before attacking
Man TH-cam really kicking it up a notch with these recommendations.
Nuke: Explodes in space and blinds me
Mom: *You're still going to school*
Now imagine all the aeroplanes that get affected by the EMP.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Battle of New York. Once EMP blew up, you will see all lights off, all electronic no longer working, followed by planes and apaches fell on top of buildings and streets.
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I believe, although an incredibly high altitude, that's scientifically not "space" as it is still in the Earths atmosphere.
Karman line is 100km
While the exact boundary where the atmosphere ends is up for debate, it's probably as high as you'd need to go for a test environment to be representative of space. There doesn't simply stop being gas, just the amount in a given area falls so low that you might as well forget there was any.
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If we’re going to have nuclear war, then probably the safest place would be in space since it won’t affect us human beings.
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this would probably be the opening shot of WWIII. Hope our strategists are actually thinking of this.
Most nukes today are between 500 kt and 3mt so the scenario in the video is pretty much impossible today. Also most modern power grids are surge resistant. Ordinary devices would still fail, including vehicles, but critical infrastructure would likely keep operating.
no way foreign plane can get above middle of the US carrying a nuke my man
@@MatthewMcRowanever heard of ICBMs?
July hearing **probably**
July: Write that Down! Write that down!
How stupid can human get?
Level: Detonate a 1.4 megaton nuke in the sky.
Seems like the perfect response to sanctions.... no deaths, but a stark warning with major financial costs
@@aaronely759 First I lold but then ....
This clip proves it wasn't stupid. We learned what kind of problems it can create.
Step 1, be a dictators and conquer when you feel your military is up to date.
Imagine if an alien bomb 30 times as large as that 50megaton bomb gets lost in space and finds it way into earth
nice video man love your work
Ngl if they made a viable rocket that could launch a bomb like this into space it would be a smart idea if a war or something happened the EMP Field would prevent any tech from the enemy country thus giving the country who launched a huge advantage
This sounds like a promotion for Donald trumps space force
Kay Kay HAHAHA
Kay Kay you must be fun at parties.........
Kay Kay, take a joke.
;)
This kind of thing might be why the PRESIDENT wants a presents in space for Americas continued safety.
There already was one before Trumps suggestion, United States Space Command.
This is a re-opening.
Good thing it'll happen above the USA...
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I agree Zucc
That what saved Sergeant Foley squad in Washington DC
"Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely in Manhattan?"
Well, that's put my mind at ease!!
it's a good thing that all the nations with the ability to do this also have assets in space that they would not be willing to jeopardize.
Not all. Pakistan and Korea has nuclear bomb and missiles but they do not possess any significant satellites.
@@bharata101 The entire world would stop trading with them and bring them to their knees. And Pakistan would never do that. Pakistan has national communications satellites in orbit.
@@bsadewitzNorth Korea doesn't trade with anyone anyways maybe except China
being too heavy to take up in one piece just means you take it up in several pieces.
People forget that the reason explosives work is because of the atmosphere around them when they go off. If they go off in space they just explode without the destructive blast wave.
have to disagree. strongly suspect that a thermonuclear device exploding in true space would cause a cascade with the loose hydrogen atoms. A cascade that might not ever stop.
Cameraman: ugh that’s strong but I can handle
Godzilla: *hold my atomics*
2:58 Elon musk: hold my car
Wuselmann yeah Elon will never be able to achieve such a feat if he had 10 lives.
In Space no one can hear you BOOM!!!
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In space no one can hear you fart
Random guy In space no could hear your moaning.
They can with they really close to it
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Now that gives you a real sense of Outlook doesn't it?
Tsar bomba was originally 100mega tons but was dampened for the test they removed 2 stages I believe. So the one you are using isnt the strongest
Yeo in tsar they use 3 stage
First nuclear fission , nuclear fusion and again nuclear fission
so can the energy from the blast change the route of asteroid? imagine an asteroid heading to earth and we nuke it
What about the one they exploded in the stratosphere over the South Pole and blew a hole in the ozone layer in the 50’s?
and climate activists blame us who use AC for everyday use while these mofo who plays nuke tests are doing suicidal move to humanity
This is perfect weapon against evil aliens.
In other words, nukes in space are just really expensive fireworks that can stimulate a birth spike in a few countries at once.
Let’s not forget that all this will happen if it blows up in space, not if it blew up on earth 😂😅
Thanks for teaching us how to EMP US :)
dude had i known my nukes would have worked as emps this whole time...... i would have took off all power in the galaxy by now. nukes you can buy down at the store but standalone EMPS are hard to come by
CoD Players after hearing the EMP: Easy Explaining AF
"Don't worry, those weapons are too heavy to be shot into space. They can strike on ground instead. We're safe"
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the EMP would either disable electronics like phones, TVs, 2 way radios, and cause a power surge sufficient enough to cause transformers to explode and power lines to melt if it were detonated low enough to maximize the effect of the EMP while staying high enough to where the blast energy can't reach the earth
2:50 And that sir, is where you are wrong.
The path to this video a) watched a random video saying aliens dont allow nukes in space due to a previous nuke b) youtibe search : nukes is space
Space is awesome
27k kg object can't be lifted by a rocket
*But Old Proppeler plane can*
It can't be delivered to space... know the difference
Try a Saturn V.
Falcon heavy can loft 64 tonnes to low earth orbit and the Delta could manage over 30 tonnes.
I was hoping he was going to show the scene with the astronaut from the MW2 campaign as an example of an EMP (even if it was a bit exaggerated)
Nice idea to disable guided missiles or rockets before a war begins
“Kim Jong un” *lets do it bois”*
the us literraly did this but the sheeple in the comment section
THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE SPACE FORCE
Good classroom video, Worked around Sandia National Lads Livermore Ca about 28 years with Electron Laser beams, I would think the technology is mush more advanced now, but loved the video ...... 🇺🇸
Least of our worries. Any decent sized space object, like the one that cleared out the dinosaurs, is multiple times more devastating. This is much more likely to happen at some point.
even if you decided to do that you need to make sure that rocket is not gonna fail otherwise you'll need a lot of body bags
They don't detonate by accident like that. A very specific sequence of things has to happen. It's not like conventional explosives. A number of nukes have fallen out of planes and landed in fields and underwater and never have exploded.
Imagine if the rocket would've failed in the middle and would've fallen back to the earth with the bomb
bomb will not explode in that case.
@@sourabhgupta1577 wow
@@charless4.3 yes it won't explode...
A chain of fission or fusion (as the case may be) must be triggered in order to detonate...
The lack of having no Internet Access would affect most people.
Just to see the Auroras it's worth trying this out. And you can save weight throwing off the useless tail fins.
I know the probably planned to detonate the bomb when the ISS is Away from the location, but hypothetically what if the bombs "emp" radiation thingy, hit the ISS causing it to shut down.
That was detonated long before the ISS existed.
was anyone else thinking of The Iron Giant
tq for the idea
Kim Jong-Un: *"write that down. Write that down!"*
What if we detonated the most powerful nuclear bomb in Uranus?
Uranus would be fractured but whole. 🤣🤣
Cardo Richard I try that every week when I go to Taco Bell. The end result is worse than the Czar Bomba.
I thought fire can't exist in space. Why was there a fire ball?
The Sun, a star, is one giant fireball in space.
Fire is technically plasma. The nuclear material and the parts of the bomb itself would turn into plasma, and be expelled so quickly that its atoms become radiation
@@amazanjauhariamazan7844 no its not the sun is made out of mostly helium and hydrogen which hit each other really hard in its core the process is called nuclear fusion. Its a gas that glows really hot but its not burning or on fire.
Ask the SUN
@@swatgod5888 the sun isn't made of fire
I fully expect this to happen now that you have given our enemies the idea.
Space is a vacuum, a nuclear bomb is like a fire cracker in space, it dissipates quickly
Tsar bomb would be in compact size at present time . That could be fitted any icbm. And ready to spread emp.😑
Not true.
Umm, you know that matter is still, umm, matter, right? That was a three-stage thermonuclear bomb. Ain't no 100 megaton ICBM.
@@Evan_Bell Like WTF is up with all these comments? I swear ...
Thank you for the video. I was a bit disappointed. No explanation of the Compton cascade where the high energy electromagnetic radiation (gamma rays) are absorbed by atmospheric molecules then emitted at longer wavelengths, which overwhelms anything acting like an antenna, and in principle could surround the planet. There was no mention of Starfish Prime's affect on Hawaii 600 miles away. A 40 times more powerful blast was dismissed, with no mention of how much more it would affect electrical and electronic systems. Do we have enough supplies on hand to rebuild? How would it have affected GPS, which affects navigation? Did the Czar Bomba emit more gamma rays? You lost the opportunity to discuss the rarely mentioned Soviet "K" electromagnetic pulse test just before the Cuban Missile Crisis. In short there was no real mention how the stronger source of gamma rays would affect things. We got the politician's comments that we are aware of the problem, we have everything under control, and rest assured nothing will happen.
@Kay Kay
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probably they don't want to make a documentary but a short video bruh.
@@jay-rathod-01 kurzgasagt make short videos but do not skimp on important details
It's nice to hear that at least the end of the world is going to look pretty. Can't wait.
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i actually saw the actual video when they did it back in the 60's... freaking scary look like God made a appreance
I'm sure the tsar Bomba still exists they're just trying to cover it up
Obviously.
They surely make a bigger one
There's no viable delivery system for it.
No. It does not. There is no point in using such a weapon. They did that just for show. The aircraft that delivered it was almost blown out of the sky--and they detonated it at HALF POWER.
It did... US DOD determined early on that anything over 15 megatons blast into space. So the 50+ meg USSR bomb blew upwards of 35+ meg into space.
And now I realized how Sombra's ult work!
Russia still has nukes capable of this explosive yield. Not to mention technology modernization allows them to make these bombs smaller, while keeping that explosive yield. Russia showed a presentation of new super weapons, "Status-6", also dubbed "Poseidon" being one of them. It is an underwater nuclear-powered "submarine"/drone that acts as a long-range torpedo, while also being able to carry a nuclear payload. It has a nickname of Tsunami-Maker/Tsunami Bomb, which have a blast yield of 50mt/100mt/200mt. It was given this nickname due to these warheads exploding on the ocean floor, causing estimated waves up to 125m/250m/500m respectively. And there has been speculation that it may also be a "Cobalt Bomb", which would cause extremely radioactive waves, that would cause the radioactivity in the area to last for decades/centuries.
The Poseidon warhead is 2Mt.
No, they most certainly do not! No one does. A cobalt bomb would be pointless in space.
@@bsadewitz I don't understand what you mean by "would be pointless in space" - I never mentioned anything about space, so I'm a bit confused.
Yup but it's safe to assume that the US/Nato have similar weapons. Not all available weapons are public info
@@Milo19970 - They might, but Russia wanted to clearly be the "biggest" when it came to live-testing the highest yield nuclear bomb to date.
While the US goes for more conventional methods that can actually be used in war.
Thank you. I'm trying to write a story and I am trying to see the consequences of something like this. Very informative and interesting video
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America, the kinda country to detonate a nuclear bomb in space, because it can
Smita Srivastava maga
Will it cause atmospheric damage?
No.
Why blast it near earth?
Bomb goes off in space, oh you're fine, power goes out, RUN
Wow nukes of that magnitude can't reach the space above us but can reach us itself. What a relief.
Any ICBMs we have today could reach space. They're not Tsar Bomba, but they're megatons.
@@bsadewitz And even then we're assuming that there's any advantage to making one big bomb instead of making lots of smaller ones that can spread out to cover a wider region on re-entry (Exemplified by the Multiple Impact Re-entry Vehicle or MIRV).
I’m here because of Russia.
Where
Only because of the Aurora it would be worth it!
If a tsar bomba exploted in space there will be some cheeki breeki in dat space
Oooooooh blin its boris
This could happen unintentionally. As most of ICBM travels in space mid-course and if there is wrong calibration of detonation of bomb. It could blast in mid-course .
ICBM warheads have environmental sensing devices that only arm the weapon during reentry.