Terrifying fact: the Soviet’s “tsar bomba” was scaled down from its designed yield of 100 megatons! One reason it wasn’t fully fueled was that it would have been impossible for the air crew who dropped it to escape the deadly range of the bomb, even with a huge parachute that slowed the descent down…😮
@@DontWorryAboutIt00 No, we don't all know. This is my first time reading that. Maybe it is in every relevant video, but they're not all liked to top comment, or even near it. It's easy to miss. Google the definition of the word "sonder" and apply it.
@@rileymachelle4088Nah, LA is debatably responsible for our internet culture nowadays. Although if they cut out both California and Florida, nobody would miss them...
Wanna know the messed up part of the Tsar Bomba test? It was only at about half its potential power. The Soviets apparently had difficulty making it, and decided to just test the damn thing at half strength.
@@CMT_Crabbles This and not only that but the thing would've been so stupidly big, consider they tested this thing in the middle of fuckall nowhere north of God's forgotten village in the arctic circle, the thing still blew out windows in Finland iirc. The blast traveled three times around the earth. Twice that big, and it would have been even harder to find a way to not only have the aircrew not on a suicide mission but find anywhere to detonate it without causing damage to Russia. Beside which it did what it was supposed to: demonstrate to the West that mighty Russia wields the fist of God. It was never meant to be a practical weapon, only a show of force, mainly because it was so stupidly big and powerful first of all you couldn't really easily deploy it, it'd likely be on some shitty Tupolev that gets shot down long before arriving at the target, and it's mainly useful only to take out Cheyenne Mountain Complex, NORAD, Mount Weather or something like that because it would bore a crater so deep even some Yamantau mountain type facility can be vaporized. Problem: actually getting the bomb over there. I mean even at half strenght the thing is still literally so stupidly big you'd only need one for wiping out the tristate area or the DFW or LA metroplex or SeaTac metroplex. You can do this as easily with just three very large tactical nukes in a MIRV. So it had very low strategic value. It was more like a big boom version of a Soviet military parade, meant to demonstrate the meaning of shock and awe to the Americans, which it did do so thoroughly we remember to this very day. No Castle Bravo or Ivy Mike or anything else compared. Not that it mattered because like I said elsewhere, the problem with the power imbalance was Russian rocketry (and equipment in general, like the "machine designed to slice an apple into four pieces" joke) was rather imprecise. Could be loud, reliable, but basically whereas American equipment tended to be very precise Russian could be inaccurate, thus needing to compensate for this inaccuracy with bigger bombs so that even if you're off target by like half a km not like it's going to matter for anything anywhere near there anyway. Americans meanwhile could get away with smaller bombs due to better accuracy, and eventually, better bunker buster penetrators so you wouldn't need to incinerate a hundred square miles just to get at some hardened target way below the earth. Apparently some tiny piss ass armory out in upstate NY built the bunker busters they hit the deepest Iraqi complexes in the first invasion of Iraq, I didn't realize it wasn't til the 1990s that the Americans finally had that level of bunker buster technology, so that is likely an additional reason the biggest nuke we have left is the 1.2mt one. Beside, Tsar Bomba was likely only going to be useful in a deployment, aside propaganda purposes, as a final measure countervalue target. If you need countervalue weapons the nuclear war is already lost, even harder than it already was going to be by both sides. The Forever Winter tier desperation.
@@drek9k2 actually it was windows as far as in norway that blew out! as well as some in north sweden and finland. although only the russian property damage was compensated by the soviet state and officially counted into the final damage report.
It means you can invade other countries who don’t have nukes (like Ukraine) and no one dares to attack you directly to prevent it. It also means it is not a good idea to invade. And if Russia wins the war, it will also mean more country will want nukes as this is the only way to be sure another nation doesn’t invade.
they help avoid full scale modern conflict nato and eastern bloc today can have dozens if not hundreds of proxy wars as have they done for the last 80 years meanwhile there is more peace today compared to the past of a century or eras ago Nuclear deterrence is something to be thankful for, pray and strive for its maintenance because if it goes people like me will hurt those who oppose it first
Ya’ll should do scenes from 2016’s best television show: The Tick. E11 has a cool scene with the Super Suits retractable goggles. Also the VLM. Tons of cool effects in the show, really
Blow it closer to the surface, so that the shockwave it's the ground, and reflects back up, if it's possible to get near harmonics , it could be a blast to watch
To make a nuclear bomb you hage to gather enough Uranium 235 or plutonium together so that when it is complete the material will reach criticality. Then you assemble that so it is not quite at the critical stage. The you wrap the entire bundle in another bundle of conventional explosive and wire them with instaneous switches and detonators so they all go off a the same time. The Conventional explosives ‘compress’ the Uranium/plutonium assembly so it acheives criticality. All the explosives must go off within a thousand of a second of each other so they compress and don’t force the unranium/plutonium core one way or another. Then you take the entire assemply and add several saftey devices so it won’t go off unless you want it to. Usually two or more electronic, or magnetic safety switches. If the bomb is to be dropped, then you equip it with a parachute so the aircraft that is dropping it can escape before it goes off. Missiles are easier, but you have to have one that can carry a warhead of that size (weight). First generation nuclear weapons will often be 600 lbs or more. You have to be very good at making them smaller before you get to the 200 kiloton weapons normal today (which are mostly hydrogen bombs anyway).
2 things about tsar bomba. They had too remove all things that made the carrying plane (tu95) heavy and paint it white to reduce heat or something and with all that the crew still had a 50% of survival ALSO: it was planned to be 100mega tones but they thought it would literally end the world
In a realistic scenario, where I live, if bombs began flying, I'd likely still be going to work the next day, as I live nowhere near any realistic targets
@@therookardshow1335 It is not known why Sakharov made the decision to reduce the yield early on. The memoirs of Sakharov nor khrushchev mention why the decision test a clean version was made. One reason, aside from survivability could be fallout. The single test alone would have increased the total global fallout produced by atmospheric nuclear tests by more than 10%. But yeah, definitely wasn't out of concerns for ignition of an atmospheric nitrogen fusion burn. But I think OP is referring to "blowing out the atmosphere". Edward Teller observed that this would likely happen for weapon capable of producing a 1atm overpressure at 6 miles radius. This makes sense, because the vertical sectional density of the atmosphere is equivalent to that of 5.1 miles of air at sea level. Anything above 34Mt (Tsar bomba was 56.8Mt) would be expected to lift the atmosphere.
Did you know that if the 100 megaton variant of the tsar bomba was dropped it would have increased the worlds fission fallout by 25% in merely one nuclear explosion its absolutely crazy
We as a species have done something I didn't think was possible. We artificially created a natural disaster. And the scariest part? All it takes is the push of a button to let Armageddon loose.
Wanna know a fun fact? The Tsar bomb was never developed as a weapon. It's impractical to say the least even the event of a total annihilation. The Tsar bomb was a deterrent made to say "Ok now we have this, let's talk". And almost immediately after the test a treaty was signed to limit the nuclear arsenals, the first one ever I believe.
You're visual effects artists and that's the best explosion you could come up with? I know the point of the video wasn't to make a cool visual explosion... But it should have been.
Fun Fact: The US Military has lost 32 nuclear bombs so far, with several being lost within the states, while most were eventually recovered or found there are still 6 unaccounted for
Oppenheimer 2 gonna start using practical effects
yeah, Chris Nolan isn't the biggest fan of VFX so he does as much as he can do with practical stuff @@tarper24
@@tarper24That's the joke
@@tarper24actually, no. The real fact is that every shot included practical imagery, there was no shot 100% cgi, but there _was_ cgi in the movie.
there is no part 2
@bestchannelevermade well duh, what u expect? Bringing Einstein to life... insane
Terrifying fact: the Soviet’s “tsar bomba” was scaled down from its designed yield of 100 megatons! One reason it wasn’t fully fueled was that it would have been impossible for the air crew who dropped it to escape the deadly range of the bomb, even with a huge parachute that slowed the descent down…😮
Even then they gave him a 50% chance of survival was his estimate.
"We could've made the bomb bigger but then it might have shattered all the windows in Moscow, 4000 kilometers away."
We know. This comment is in every comment section about the tsar bomba
@@DontWorryAboutIt00
No, we don't all know. This is my first time reading that. Maybe it is in every relevant video, but they're not all liked to top comment, or even near it. It's easy to miss.
Google the definition of the word "sonder" and apply it.
@Lux_Onyx thanks for teaching me a new word. It's beautiful and really encompasses an entire concept in it's definitely
The tsar bomba could've actually been 100 if they didn't dial it back.
And considering it knocked earth off axis, i am glad they did dial it down.
@ninetenduh Lmao, no it didn't. That's not even possible🤣
Yeah you would need gigatons to push earth even a little bit.
They were apparently afraid it would ignite the atmosphere. Good thing they didn't risk it.
@@anembersarc it actually did but it was very mild
‘Here comes the Sun’ 💀
doo-doo-doo-doo
Baby shark!🎶
This is how I expect to die in the middle of the night someday. “Oh, is it already mor…”
𝔻𝕆𝕆-𝔻𝕆𝕆 𝔻𝕆𝕆-𝔻𝕆𝕆 𝔻𝕆𝕆𝕄
Nah bro, it appears you got it all wrong... @@RobotacularRoBob
"I know not with what weapons Oppenheimer 2 will be filmed, but Oppenheimer 3 will be filmed with sticks and stones"
-Michael Bay
Oppenheimer? I barely know her!
I sure hope they don't brake my bones!
This one really reminds me of what Einstein said.
@@MrYellowAndYacelloyeah it's a parody
👑
*types in 50 megatons*
Wren whispers: I'm a god
"Destroyer of Wards"
God wouldn’t even need to blink and everything would un exist
😂😂
@@sninjabeast68God ≠ a god
@@sninjabeast68Then why’d it take 6 days to make it all? That math doesn’t add up.
Imagine being that one guy on the edge of everything and be like “damn I dogged a bullet right there”
nah bro dodged a nuke.
literally.
The actual scientists: Hopefully this won't ignite the atmosphere.
Wren: I wonder what would happen if I nuked L.A.?
Oppenheimer movie really overhyped this atmosphere igniting thing. They weren't actually significantly worried
Scientists: *fears igniting the atmosphere*
Meanwhile, Edward Teller: What if.... we detonated an atomic bomb in Alaska to create a new harbor?
*Los Angeles gets nuked*
“Oh no….
Anyway”
If LA gets nuked, you can be sure 492 other major cities are getting nuked lol.
Should've been Florida
@@rileymachelle4088Nah, LA is debatably responsible for our internet culture nowadays. Although if they cut out both California and Florida, nobody would miss them...
California 😂
Would probably be an improvement
Wanna know the messed up part of the Tsar Bomba test?
It was only at about half its potential power.
The Soviets apparently had difficulty making it, and decided to just test the damn thing at half strength.
The difficulty was that the pilots would not have been able to escape a bigger blast
It would not because of any engineering difficulties in in production.
@@CMT_Crabbles and even then the survival chance for the pilot was 50/50
@@CMT_Crabbles This and not only that but the thing would've been so stupidly big, consider they tested this thing in the middle of fuckall nowhere north of God's forgotten village in the arctic circle, the thing still blew out windows in Finland iirc. The blast traveled three times around the earth. Twice that big, and it would have been even harder to find a way to not only have the aircrew not on a suicide mission but find anywhere to detonate it without causing damage to Russia. Beside which it did what it was supposed to: demonstrate to the West that mighty Russia wields the fist of God. It was never meant to be a practical weapon, only a show of force, mainly because it was so stupidly big and powerful first of all you couldn't really easily deploy it, it'd likely be on some shitty Tupolev that gets shot down long before arriving at the target, and it's mainly useful only to take out Cheyenne Mountain Complex, NORAD, Mount Weather or something like that because it would bore a crater so deep even some Yamantau mountain type facility can be vaporized. Problem: actually getting the bomb over there.
I mean even at half strenght the thing is still literally so stupidly big you'd only need one for wiping out the tristate area or the DFW or LA metroplex or SeaTac metroplex. You can do this as easily with just three very large tactical nukes in a MIRV. So it had very low strategic value. It was more like a big boom version of a Soviet military parade, meant to demonstrate the meaning of shock and awe to the Americans, which it did do so thoroughly we remember to this very day. No Castle Bravo or Ivy Mike or anything else compared. Not that it mattered because like I said elsewhere, the problem with the power imbalance was Russian rocketry (and equipment in general, like the "machine designed to slice an apple into four pieces" joke) was rather imprecise. Could be loud, reliable, but basically whereas American equipment tended to be very precise Russian could be inaccurate, thus needing to compensate for this inaccuracy with bigger bombs so that even if you're off target by like half a km not like it's going to matter for anything anywhere near there anyway. Americans meanwhile could get away with smaller bombs due to better accuracy, and eventually, better bunker buster penetrators so you wouldn't need to incinerate a hundred square miles just to get at some hardened target way below the earth. Apparently some tiny piss ass armory out in upstate NY built the bunker busters they hit the deepest Iraqi complexes in the first invasion of Iraq, I didn't realize it wasn't til the 1990s that the Americans finally had that level of bunker buster technology, so that is likely an additional reason the biggest nuke we have left is the 1.2mt one.
Beside, Tsar Bomba was likely only going to be useful in a deployment, aside propaganda purposes, as a final measure countervalue target. If you need countervalue weapons the nuclear war is already lost, even harder than it already was going to be by both sides. The Forever Winter tier desperation.
@@drek9k2 actually it was windows as far as in norway that blew out! as well as some in north sweden and finland. although only the russian property damage was compensated by the soviet state and officially counted into the final damage report.
This is actually scary knowing that there are people whiling to use these wmd instead of talking
the problem with wars was never the lack of talking, but the leaders desires
@@alefander4622tru tru
Human ego is its own downfall. Everyone believes they are doing the right thing, no matter how objectively barbaric they are in the process.
Bro really out here spelling "willing" as "whiling" how does one misspell such a simple word so hard?
These same things have brought some peace to the world
We may get an example in reality the way things are going nowadays.
Yea. Prolly not gonna happen
i fully expect it to@@SESKE_5
@@SESKE_5 I've learned in life that people who write "probably" as "prolly" are usually wrong.
Terrifying.
@@hughmungus7425 cool? Idrc lol
@@SESKE_5 You cared enough to respond.
Put down the shovel.
“Yo let’s try this Shi at LA lmao”
- Oppenheimer
This raises a good question, what good are nuclear bombs when it’s only purpose is to threaten and destroy others.
It means you can invade other countries who don’t have nukes (like Ukraine) and no one dares to attack you directly to prevent it.
It also means it is not a good idea to invade. And if Russia wins the war, it will also mean more country will want nukes as this is the only way to be sure another nation doesn’t invade.
they help avoid full scale modern conflict
nato and eastern bloc today can have dozens if not hundreds of proxy wars as have they done for the last 80 years
meanwhile there is more peace today compared to the past of a century or eras ago
Nuclear deterrence is something to be thankful for, pray and strive for its maintenance because if it goes people like me will hurt those who oppose it first
Found the 10 year old
To slow yt ppl down from completely destroying the planet cuz they can always do it later
We have to be able to threaten and destroy others so they don't have the only ability to threaten and destroy us.
Instructions unclear im on the watchlist now
"Tsar Bomba would destroy the entirety of LA"
And nothing of value was lost.
Yeah except for the people who fund the south’s welfare.
I don’t live in LA and I’m still dying from that
I'm in Canada, and I'm also probably dying from that
@@rileymachelle4088couldn't you find a sub space door to escape with?
I'm not even in the US and I'm dying from that
Mother Nature: hold my beer i can do it better
That was the tested version, the designed version was 100 megatons.
Picks the White House on the map.
“FBI OPEN UP!!”
One night I'm going to walk outside. And suddenly it'll be morning 😂
not that nukes werent scary before, but dear god this is really scary now that its visuallized
“imagine it was in LA”
YIPPEE LOWER CRIME RATE!
La going through something like this right now
this is crazy
crazy? i was crazy once they locked me in a room a rubber room a rubber room with rats and rats make me CRAZY!
Crazy? I was Crazy once,They locked me in a room a Rubber Room, a Rubber Room with rats, and rats makes me crazy, Crazy?
Ya’ll should do scenes from 2016’s best television show: The Tick. E11 has a cool scene with the Super Suits retractable goggles. Also the VLM. Tons of cool effects in the show, really
yeh no wonder they had the concerns of igniting the entire atmosphere
Blow it closer to the surface, so that the shockwave it's the ground, and reflects back up, if it's possible to get near harmonics , it could be a blast to watch
To make a nuclear bomb you hage to gather enough Uranium 235 or plutonium together so that when it is complete the material will reach criticality. Then you assemble that so it is not quite at the critical stage.
The you wrap the entire bundle in another bundle of conventional explosive and wire them with instaneous switches and detonators so they all go off a the same time. The Conventional explosives ‘compress’ the Uranium/plutonium assembly so it acheives criticality. All the explosives must go off within a thousand of a second of each other so they compress and don’t force the unranium/plutonium core one way or another.
Then you take the entire assemply and add several saftey devices so it won’t go off unless you want it to. Usually two or more electronic, or magnetic safety switches.
If the bomb is to be dropped, then you equip it with a parachute so the aircraft that is dropping it can escape before it goes off. Missiles are easier, but you have to have one that can carry a warhead of that size (weight).
First generation nuclear weapons will often be 600 lbs or more. You have to be very good at making them smaller before you get to the 200 kiloton weapons normal today (which are mostly hydrogen bombs anyway).
*ukrain taking notes*
This shit happens and I’m expected to go to work the next day…
whenever im depressed, i always think of how were nothing more than specks at the whim of a short life
it doesnt help.
Oh, daily dose of existential crisis. Thank you
"L.A. Meltdown", literally
Cali- Oh no, oh no, oh no!
Everyone else- oh yeah!
I know what we're going to do Ferb!
Multiple people write this on ever video about nuclear weapons. It's not original.
@@Evan_Bell yeah I know, just felt like doing so
Imagine if y'all tested those in IRL 💀💀💀
This is giving me megatons of anxiety
I always enjoy remembering that the soviets divided the Tsar’s yield by two because even them found it to be TOO DEVASTATING
A think those are false rumors, a 100 megaton blast radius is only 6.7 km longer than a 50 megaton blast radius. Its not twice as powerful
@@dkdid925that's an entire 6 kilometers, on a circle
@@timohara7717 and? Its not twice the distance of a 50 megaton blast
Too devastating, yeh... to the plane operator.
The B83 was also a giant beast of a weapon, I slept on a trainer before 😂
" in our arsenal " i actually feared wren for a second
I remember using nuke maps in middle school 💀
I mean the fireball part is happening right now
Originally the Tsar bomb has 100 megaton but it got modified to 50 megaton because of risk of fallout
This should be a mobile game is demonstration looks so fuckiing cool.
I feel like this is the kind of website that would get you on a list of some kind
2 things about tsar bomba.
They had too remove all things that made the carrying plane (tu95) heavy and paint it white to reduce heat or something and with all that the crew still had a 50% of survival
ALSO: it was planned to be 100mega tones but they thought it would literally end the world
Seems like they actually exploded it in Los Angeles
The fact is the tsar bomba power is reduced 50% before the flight.
Putin: "Hmm, looks like a fun experiment"
And the Tsar Bomba, was only half as powerful as they originally planned it to be
"Schools will remain open"
If you paid attention in history class you're already familiar with the first nuclear test
Dudes boutta be on a watchlist after going on that site. Lolll
I mean if they did that it’ll probably get rid of the homeless problem
In a realistic scenario, where I live, if bombs began flying, I'd likely still be going to work the next day, as I live nowhere near any realistic targets
Actually the power of tsar bomba was reduced to half because the scientist thought it might effect many layers of the atmosphere
Nothing to do with the atmosphere
Was because they wouldnt be able to escape the blast, not igniting the atmosphere.
@@therookardshow1335 It is not known why Sakharov made the decision to reduce the yield early on. The memoirs of Sakharov nor khrushchev mention why the decision test a clean version was made.
One reason, aside from survivability could be fallout.
The single test alone would have increased the total global fallout produced by atmospheric nuclear tests by more than 10%.
But yeah, definitely wasn't out of concerns for ignition of an atmospheric nitrogen fusion burn.
But I think OP is referring to "blowing out the atmosphere".
Edward Teller observed that this would likely happen for weapon capable of producing a 1atm overpressure at 6 miles radius. This makes sense, because the vertical sectional density of the atmosphere is equivalent to that of 5.1 miles of air at sea level.
Anything above 34Mt (Tsar bomba was 56.8Mt) would be expected to lift the atmosphere.
@@Evan_Bell fun fact you are smart
And I am not anyways love your life
Gee, thanks for the nightmare fuel!
There is a reason why we use the B83, larger is not needed for its purpose
My city is JUST outside the Tsar Bomba circle…
Oppenheimer is the bestest movie
Don’t forget the tzar bomb actually was way bigger and capable of destroying the atmosphere
oh lord he is on a list now i swear
And the Tsar Bomba was on half power when it was tested
Imagine instead of blowing up in a desert it blew up in Japan. Crazy stuff
Did you know that if the 100 megaton variant of the tsar bomba was dropped it would have increased the worlds fission fallout by 25% in merely one nuclear explosion its absolutely crazy
theoretical tsar bomba
Nothing of value is lost regardless of yield
Nobody bothers to build huge nukes because it's more efficient to take that material and build several smaller nukes.
Damn... that gives me an idea
Bro that’s like the county of LA lmao
Project sundial:💀
10 Gigatons is 10000 Megatons, that's a lot greater than the Tsar.
Putin smiles after watching this video......
We as a species have done something I didn't think was possible.
We artificially created a natural disaster.
And the scariest part? All it takes is the push of a button to let Armageddon loose.
The entirety of Los Angeles you say? That would just terrible….
Now that’s amazing
My little bros nickname is legitimately Tzar Bomba😂
I tested this on my city and if a 1 megaton bomb went off in the center and it was an airburst I would get 3rd degree burns, that scares me.
Wanna know a fun fact? The Tsar bomb was never developed as a weapon. It's impractical to say the least even the event of a total annihilation. The Tsar bomb was a deterrent made to say "Ok now we have this, let's talk". And almost immediately after the test a treaty was signed to limit the nuclear arsenals, the first one ever I believe.
and yet some greasy nerd refuse to believe that nukes could take down aot’s rumbling
Nobody would even be mad about that tbh
I found out my birthday was the same day as the trinity detonation.
That's not why I'm familiar with the trinity test.
I know about it because I spoke about nukes for a highschool speech
Washington DC next
Me and some friends did that as part of war prep in an MUN
Very fun but we lost
LA gets evaporated
Losses estimated at 168.42$
Why don't you imagine if it happened somewhere in Japan
Wren had a bad day in la traffic
You're visual effects artists and that's the best explosion you could come up with?
I know the point of the video wasn't to make a cool visual explosion... But it should have been.
And tsar bomba only used HALF it’s payload. Plus, it is outdated now too.
The person right out side of that area
Makes you think how useless one nuclear bomb would be.
imagine nuke map api
Fun Fact: The US Military has lost 32 nuclear bombs so far, with several being lost within the states, while most were eventually recovered or found there are still 6 unaccounted for
😲 wow 😢this is apocalyptic ☠️
it is inevitable😔
I live in LA and I wish this was reality.
0.5 grams converted to pure energy creates a 25 Kiloton explosion. For a 50 Megaton explosion, 1kg of matter converted is needed.
2.6kg.
Missed opportunity
The nuke was detonated in the air that we used for hiroshima to hold back
And now I too have a dream.
Damn, that went all the way to orange county
Where I live, the tzar bomba would only kill ~100,000 people
Ayo grip check
*shakes screwdriver*