What is the real size of a hydrogen bomb explosion?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Famous tallest buildings VS hydrogen bomb tests.
We all know that the nuclear explosion is enormous, but it's hard for us to grasp the real size of it. This video compares three explosions of hydrogen bombs of different yields to the 146 m tall Great Pyramide of Giza, the 330 m Eiffel Tower, the 443 m Empire State Building, the 540 m Ostankino Tower and the 829 m Burj Khalifa - the world's tallest structure. I used archival films of Soviet nuclear tests, digitized in high resolution. The video is made for educational purposes.
2719 ft structure in comparison to a nuclear bomb seems quite small.
It is
No it's not. That size is half a mile, work out the pictures. That means the fireball itself is already a mile wide
I love these videos. They give me so much perspective that i was hungry for as a kid wondering how huge these vaguely huge these nuclear tests were. Please make more
See that’s honestly a scary sight, cause imagine one moment you’re chilling at your house, then next moment you’ve suddenly combusted into flames, you’re blinded by light, and once you get your vision back all you see are the Heavens splitting apart right before your eyes.
With devices THIS big, Once you are "you’re blinded by light", You'd have been dead already!
@@jamesslick4790 Very true actually
Respectfully one would t even know it happened
Unless farther from the site
Might get a second to think about what you’re looking at.
As many video's as I've seen of footage, this really helped me realize the true enormity of the explosive yields.
> comrade, can we have another sun?
> we have sun on the testing ground
> the sun on the testing ground:
according to nukemap the buildings should be smaller
True
It's because of the distance between the buildings AND the que bomb detonation itself
The buildings look larger than they actually are because the brain has a built-in Photoshop. The scale is correct based on the different fireball formulae (and stuff like explosion height) out there.
Soviet tests always looked so menacing.
I think it's because they filmed them closer than Americans would. Most American footage is taken from a "minimal safe distance", but Soviet camera angles are like, "Nyet, Comrade. We film as if you're actually walking on sidewalk and hydrogen bomb hits next town over."
worse than any simulation that I've ever seen on the internet
Love that Soviet footage - captures the triple flash on the second one.
Is that really a true depiction of the size? Which test is the first example? I'm sure it would be a large, few megaton bomb at least - and the second one is the tsar bomba, 50 megatons; completely unrealistic. How about doing a proper simulation of a standard 150 kiloton bomb rather than the ones you've displayed? That would give a truer picture I feel.
The first test is RDS-6, which was 400 kilotons, how do I know this? Well, it's because it literally says that in the video, and the second one isn't Tsar bomba, the last one is
Soviet tests are documented by such lousy cameras.
finally someone did a Size comparison of nukes...maybe do also of the US nukes
This was only 1 megaton??!!! It really gives a greater perspective on how gigantic the Tsar bomba was with 50 megatons!!
The CN Tower in Toronto Canada is 543m. Second tallest.
Pretty impressive, nice comparsion with the buildings
After all the wars...and all the bombs ever made have been detonated...the Pyramids shall still stand. 💪😎
Nope, will be erased in some nuclear blast
@@So_Viet8032not really, unless they are extremely fortified or something, there would be no reason to nuke the pyramids, in or around them. They would be pretty safe really
Why cut short the last one?
Tsar's fireball was 8 kilometers in diameter
You're off by an order of magnitude, the tsar Bomba explosion fireball mushroom was about 60 miles: (96 km) wide. Even the stalk of it was about 25 miles: (40 km) wide, and 40 miles: (64 km) high.
that video only showed the very beginning of the fireball, the full original video shows it getting much larger and its scale
@@aarongreenfield9038 He's referring to the fireball, not the mushroom cloud, and he's correct.
@@aarongreenfield9038what is a fireball mushroom? Do you mean the mushroom cloud? This video is about the fireball.
Imagine being a pitch man for nuclear weapons:
"Those pesky urbanites got you down? Tired of inner-city decay? Well fret no more, friend! Just look at this video! One bomb and the city's gone!"
Amazing that so much power comes from such a small device. The Tsar bomb could fit inside a old soviet bomber.
I want more nuke size comparisons
If you want to see the best footage IMO, it's from Operation Buster, with a 31KT blast. It's on this channel: th-cam.com/video/B7KS2wPDn5A/w-d-xo.html. The reason is because of how it was filmed and the awesome, scaled perspective we can visualize thanks to the elevation of the camera and the 400m (1/4 mile) diameter ring we have for a size reference. So before this blast goes off, remember the size of that 1/4 mile diameter circle. For me, this really helped give me a greater appreciation for the sheer power of these bombs. And to think this was a low yield, 31KT atomic bomb and not something like the 100X 400KT nuclear blast seen here. Now imagine a modern 1MT thermonuclear bomb or (1) Russian ICBM, loaded with up to (10) 750KT thermonuclear warheads headed to (10) different targets at the same time! That's a scary thought!
The only building I saw myself was the Ostankino tower. he is huge. but nothing against these fireballs.This video is a very special work, thank you!
Vous auriez dû comparer avec le Mont Blanc ou L'Everest
My first hunch was that the scale is slightly wrong. However I measured it and it seems correct. It seems like my brain has a visual distortion where recognizable objects seem bigger than they are. Like the Trinity cloud is over 800 meters wide yet it doesn't look twice as wide as the skyscraper is tall. Only thing which is a bit wrong is that the footage of Tsar is not Tsar but a much smaller unknown bomb at maybe 2 megatons. Though the scale appears correct for a bomb which produces a fireball that at thermal minimum is 4.2 km wide.
I suspect some of the figures may not be completely accurate. The footage of the first Soviet nuclear test seems to indicate a bigger cloud than Trinity. I have maybe seen slight tendencies for Soviet bombs to be making bigger clouds for the same (claimed) yield. A lot of the American footage is of course high-speed footage whereas it appears normal speed for Soviet most of the time.
My farts felt as big as this last night after I had a chicken vindaloo with pilau rice and several naan breads. All washed down with ice cold cider…..
The tsar Bomba obliterated this camera in seconds
I don't have to watch the video to answer that question. Simply put, it depends on the hydrogen bomb in question. The hydrogen bomb detonated in July 1962 during Storax-Sedan yielded 104 kilotons. The Tsar Bomba detonated the year prior yielded 50+ megatons. That's a marked difference. The average strategic thermonuke has a yield ranging from 150 kilotons to maybe 1 megaton, again depending on the specific warhead in question. This ambiguity with the reference of "hydrogen bomb," or "nuclear bomb," or "atomic bomb" is sheer ignorance. Granted, it mostly has been pushed by entertainment media, spreading their own ignorance of nuclear science to the common masses. Just calling it by the popular names does not say anything about its power; different hydrogen (or to be precise, *thermonuclear* ) weapons have different powers.
Eso no de ocurrir nunca más porque sería el fin de la humanidad.
l'atmosfera rischiò di scomparire, eppure il Pianeta Terra è sopravvissuto!
I refuse to believe that's real
I find it ironic that Tzar was used in the name, Was not the point of Communism is to get rid of Imperialism/Capitalism?.
Two thoughts I'd like to share:
1) If that asteroid that flew near us on June 29th (2024) had made contact, the impact would've been far more dramatic than any of these
2) We may not see anything like Tsar Bomba again. It was unwieldy. And, gigantic nukes are inefficient. They just build them smaller, nowadays.
@atomicarchive Absolutely fantastic idea for a video, by the way. Really put a smile on my face (on a day when I didn't think that'd be extremely easy)
So, how does the sound and light arrive at the same time?
It doesn't. The sound must have been added in.
Why does it matter how high it is?
That's sick man!
Bloody Hell.
based
Wholly….. hell…😮
Oh yeah!
I think I can handle it
So where is tsra bombe right now in Russia 😢
The second explosion American icbms carry five of those warheads in one. Like 3,000 of that size. And the main icbms are around 8 megatons at about 1,500 of those. Not including the taticals one. Basically no country wins
Come see me Wednesday morning after taco Tuesday
Размер просто поражает
That’s what she said
To think the Russian Tsar bomba was originally designed as 100MT but downscale to 57MT because they couldn't guarantee the safety of the Su-57 bomber pilots to fly away far enough after the drop. They managed to fly 27miles after the drop and still felt shockwave of explosion.
Tsar bomba was not only the largest man made bomb but the cleanest explosive device so zero fallout.
Great size comparison
I just wonder these bombs are made from sun power the wrong way to use sun power hydro gen Heli um power of the sun 🌞
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Вова жми мы готовы 😅
Somaliland and kenya
Poorly done, disproportionate
Nosso lado estúpido .
As simple as a copy and paste and funnying video play
A Tsar bomb estava sem a jaqueta de retenção, por isso produziu 50 megatons. Com a jaqueta seria 100.
I’m surprised they haven’t ignited the damn atmosphere some how
It’s not dense enough to ignite
🙏🏻🇺🇸
Tsar bomb~ 10 mtons . Tunguska antimatter engine exlopsion 35 mtons.
It's so frightening how humanity is persistently working towards destroying itself. At some point he succeeded. It's already written in the Bible.
Repeated video.
changed a little. intro.
Why would you only show 3 seconds of the Tsar Bomba explosion?
Because only such a small fragment is available in good HD quality. The video from the declassified Tsar Bomba film is of insufficient quality to create a "Size Comparison" video.
@@atomicarchive got it, thanks.
@@atomicarchive can you make more of these size comparison like on 50 kiloton, 100 kiloton, 200 kiloton , 300 kiloton, since these yields are more likely going to be used in nuclear war
Just think of all that global warming produced . . .
Gross
I feel dumber for watching this crappy video
wait why
The stupid sound effects aren’t needed
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