VexingEldritch
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Found this gem on the front page and as always read through the comments and found a great conversation.
Because who doesn't want to burn the atmosphere.
UnemployedReceptionist
I don't want to set the world on fire. I just want to start a flame in your heart.
MaxamillionX72
North Korea can put a nuclear bomb into orbit. 1 bomb, 200kms up, no more electronics in North America. No elec, no cars, no phones
IFarmPointsInTheCommentSectionSometimes
I saw that comment!
FleetingExplative
MrTay
Popular belief? Who the hell thinks the nukes we dropped on Japan were H-bombs?
sbringer92
https://imgur.com/vL6IhiQ And no, the first hydorgen bomb was not Castle Bravo, that was the biggest US (yield approx 15MT)
fercho0118
I study with a Ucranian professor from the nuke industry and he told us than they never create a 1961 bomb they only say it to the USA Yes
TorqueImg
This website is pretty neat, it lets you simulate the amount of damage certain nukes would do: http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
TorqueImg
2 of the presets are the Tsar Bomba cut down, and the full power Tsar Bomba
GentlemanScientist
By accident, Castle Bravo turned out to be 3 times as powerful as planned, making several islands downwind of it uninhabitable.
zzij
I tried to upvote the pic
FleetingExplative
The first hydrogen bomb detonation was code named Ivy Mike, Castle Bravo was the second.
Sakkura
Ivy Mike was a design that's not practical for deployment, but yeah it was first. The Soviets called it a thermonuclear building IIRC.
TheShitClocksTickingBubs
Why just screenshot a post?
itsnotthatbad21
This is like comment inception
JamiesEPIRB
I was about to down vote because I thought this was a repost from yesterday, but now I see what you did.
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Chikanboo
Not going my voice tried to click on the replies of the pics
TotallyNotDitto
The fist test of an H-Bomb was not Castle Bravo, in fact it was the last that the US ever tested above ground.
Borednstalkn
Hate to be that guy, but Ivy Mike was the first H bomb, not CB.
imgishallbe
and the plane is far down the line ....
GreatReferenceBro
I bet Jeff could set the atmosphere on fire if he wanted to.
OhJesus
As a Jeff. Can confirm.
garagana
who the f*** is Jeff?
BloodyCrowOfCainhurst
The guy with nukes
LumberjackPirates
There's overdoing shit, and then there's Russia
YourMomJokes
when they tried but couldn't fit op's mom on the scale https://imgur.com/ZBTPkyt
NobodyCanEnjoyNiceThings
I like how France dropped a bomb in the 70's and it still wasn't impressive
PianoMan2112
To be fair, Castle Bravo was supposed to be 5 MT (the case exploded too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), and Tsar Bpmba was just showing off.
AIComments
And then we killed a Japanese fisherman with Hep C. while curing his radiation sickness with blood transfusions. Yes, the Japanese have the
AIComments
distinction of being the first to die from a conventional a-bomb and an h-bomb.
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
If you burned the atmosphere, you could step back and yell BURN! while flipping off the universe. Quite an opportunity.
SaltyInternetPirate
Who drops a mountain on people? Doctor Doom does! Haven't you watched Spider-man cartoons when growing up?
SaltyInternetPirate
Unfortunately the only YT clip I could find is in Spanish or something. https://youtu.be/fzedEWg_SFg?t=14m39s
TheLastSonOfKrypton
If undertaker can choke slam Halfthor , he would technically be dropping a mountain .
TinyOctopus
Tiny Octopus has to wonder if people really think that Nagasaki was a hydrogen bomb. Really? Fat Man and Little Boy...H-bombs. Really?
StringVariable
I can imagine if you've never been interested in weapons, you just know of "atom bombs".
OrionRed
Nuke-u-lar...it's pronounced Nuke-u-lar.
rohanban10
A lot of people don't know the difference between an atomic bomb and a hydrogen bomb.
WhatDoesntKillYou
Where's Irma on the chart?
TheMayo16
If we nuked a hurricane, would it displace the wind? Or would it now just be an extremely radioctive hurricane
Mirroruniverse
https://what-if.xkcd.com/23/ It would just make the hurricane radioactive. Hurricanes contain far more energy than we can match with nukes.
VexingEldritch
Somewhere between Mt everest and tsar bomba
VexingEldritch
Otherwise I don't know
balmut
http://31.media.tumblr.com/3df96eb41b81259a9edd45df00fa4fc4/tumblr_mpmsxrzr7K1r415yyo4_500.gif
overboard
I actually saw the Tsar Bomba detonation site from an icebreaker offshore. Quite spooky actually.
KingKelloggTheWaffleHaggler
Hmm, did it knock you over?
IHaveAMemeForThis
Motherfucker imgur demands a story
LajesticVantrashellOfLob
What was it like
RoutemasterFlash
I love how the Wiki entry shows the effects the blast would have had on... Paris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba#Analysis
ProfessionalJalapenoWrangler
More please
TrijezniMujo
You're old then.
StillNotYouTube
Site, not the detonation. Could still be old though.
CoolGuyCoolDude
Did you die
MinBlick
You can't just write that and then be quiet for three hours.
GentlemanScientist
he says four hours ago.
overboard
sorry I told the story above...
Theverant
Splain.
overboard
okay then here's the story...I'm a teacher and I was selected to do an international research expedition aboard a russian icebreaker 1/2
overboard
we left from Murmansk, Russia then traveled all day heading east to rendezvous to secure an ice station in the Arctic Pack Ice. More...
overboard
I knew we'd be passing it as it was charted, and as we passed the cape where it detonated on the Novaya Zemla island I went topside to...
overboard
Take a look. It was foggy and cold that evening but I could still see it through the mist, and it moved me to think that the largest...
Kilahti
Tsar bomba was cut down in power because it would have destroyed the plane dropping it otherwise. If it had been used in a war then 1/
Rotmaster
That and the designer was like "look any bigger and all the energy is just going to go into space"
PutItInNeutral
The plane that dropped the Tsar bomb lost several thousand feet in elevation but was able to right itself before hitting the ground.
CheeseBelongsInTheKitten
The actual pilot free fell hundreds of metres because the air around the plane just whooshed away.
GeneralBullshit
THEN!?!?!?
Kilahti
Then losing 1 plane in exchange for blowing up a major US city would seem like a good trade to the Soviet generals.
Kilahti
Or more likely they'd lose the entire squadron escorting the bomber and still consider it a cheap price to pay.
erischilde
Which was the bomb that ended up way more powerful than they thought they were testing?
AIComments
And the amount of fallout produced by the Uranium tamper would have been immense.
RoutemasterFlash
Yes, this is the real reason. The fireball from a 100 Mt blast wouldn't have been significantly bigger than that from a 50 Mt blast.
PutItInNeutral
Part of the design scale back from 100MT was because anything more than 50MT and you would have most of the explosion happening outside...
PutItInNeutral
...of the atmosphere.
GeneralBullshit
TYPE FASTER, DON'T LEAVE ME HANGING ON THE INFO!
Kilahti
Did my other message not show or were you just in a real hurry to learn more about nukes?
GeneralBullshit
It didn't show
shhep
Thank you. I hate people mixing facts. Manhattan Project guys were afraid of burning atmosphere. Once the first bomb didn't do that
VexingEldritch
Thank you for clarification I always just love military science talk and when it is factual it makes it all the better
shhep
everyone assumed there's no such possibility and went bonkers. Nothing to do with Tzar bomba.
vowofloudness
Why didn't they just use a timer?
BaldBandit
They did for the test, in the way of a parachute. The plane put 42 km between itself and the blast. It still was affected by the blast, [+]
BaldBandit
dropping 3,000 ft after the bombs blastwave knocked the air out from under its wings.
Wastyvez
Because nuclear bombs used air bursts meaning they were detonated before they hit the ground to increase destructiveness. The Tsar Bomba 1)
Wastyvez
at 50 MT was already dropped with a parachute from high altitude and the plane crew was still only given a 50% estimate to survive. 2)
Kilahti
Bomb fall many meters. Hit ground. Timer and detonator break. No BOOM! No dead capitalists. Sad. Designer go to gulag. Bad time.
Kilahti
Bomb detonate mid fall. Big BOOM! Many graves for capitalist Americans. Great victory for mother Russia. Many medals to widows of air crew.
PianoMan2112
They also didn't want fallout to reach USSR.
vowofloudness
This reason is much more believable.
votfgz
Doubt it. USSR after all wanted to divert some of the rivers flowing north by digging channels with nuclear explosions.
votfgz
They tested it (on Pechora-Kama proposed channel route) detonating three 15kt nukes and decided it does the job but is too expensive.
Kilahti
the plane and crew would have been "acceptable casualties" when exchanged with an entire city the bomb just killed. 2/2
MFJones31
Also it's worth noting that any yield higher than about 50 MT is just excess energy dispersed into space.
webgambit
Source, please? I'd like to read more about this.
jizzyjo
So THIS is how N Korea gets it's nuclear info.
prospector
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Margatroidx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYUP7zJ0CwU Look to when they are talking about tsar bomba near the late middle
toypaj
Thanks
hughesybooze
An entire city.. And then the next 5 closest cities..
Sm9yCg
The fallout irradiated large parts of siberia. Some parts are still uninhabitable. We are taling about an area the size of 1/3rd of the US.
hughesybooze
Jesus fuuuuck