Check this out.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/753410/the_k...explosion_ever/

I love watching this video, I don't know why though. I just love explosions. It might be because it lets me know just how much humans have advanced (so advanced we are destroying ourselves, but in other ways as well). Good thing this bomb was never used against another nation. This lets you know just how incredibly powerful this bomb was:



Makes hiroshima look like childs play.

Thanks for the Illustration Comparison 'exeller' The next World War could wipe out Civilization as we know it.Scary when one thinks about it.

tell that to the japanese who experienced it.

I'm not saying hiroshima wasn't bad. I'm saying this bomb could do worse.

The video won't start for me. ;_;

From what I saw in the picture. All I have to say is dang.

I can't watch the video; I can't see the bomb. I love to watch bombs. SOMEBODY PLEASE SHOW ME THE DAMN BOMB! *cries a little*

I think that made me a little 'excited', is that wrong?

Considering the vast amount of resources, time, effort and money that was involved in creating these weapons just imagine what we could achieve if we dedicated the same expenditures to other causes.

"the blast wave could still be measured on its 3RD time around the world"!!!!!! WOW!

So the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 had a blast yield of about 15kt, then just sixteen years later the Tsar bomb was produced, which was almost 3½ thousand times larger.

I don't want to know how large they might be now.

wheres the button to start it off,

The very last part of the video is what got me; when they showed what the blast radius would be in comparison to London. 30 miles in diameter would be dust, out from that to 110 mile radius would be burned and destroyed...pretty much all of London and the outskirts would be flattened. Hard to fathom. I saw some gbu-84's go off and those seemed incredible.

110 mile wide destruction...that is just mind boggling. I am glad I live out in the middle of nowhere...the only targets that we have around here is the salmon in the river...that can't be a very good tactical target.

I grew up in a time when we had bomb drills at school every week where would would have to get under our desks. As if a little wooden desk is going to have much effect against something like the video above...So, how many of those multi megaton bombs have gone missing since USSR collapsed? There have to be some that have just been "misplaced" when the different military factions started to go broke...

wow.

The largest Bomb

Here is a YouTube Link for those who cant get the other link to work. And it's another interesting vid about the bomb.


The worlds largest Non-Nuclear Bomb - MOAB

Here is a long and detailed Vid about the Tsar Bomba

Thanks, Blue Sphere for the first link.

To bad I can't hear it.

imagine if the scientist today perfected on making the anti-matter bomb. it could remove a country like japan, my country the philippines, and other small countries right of the map and the face of the earth.

Well, at any rate there's been no evidence that any larger nuclear weapons have been developed, in terms of either physical size or explosive yield. A bomb the size of the Tsar was simply impractical and in many people's opinion just a Soviet scare tactic. The Tupolev Tu-95 used to drop the bomb is absolutely mammoth, comparable to the B-52, and even then the bomb had to hang halfway out of the bomb bay.

As was mentioned in the OP video, the focus of nuclear weapons has shifted to missiles, and even though the nuclear warheads on modern American ICBMs may not have yields anywhere near the Tsar, they'd simply be much more useful from a tactical standpoint, being able to destroy enemy country's missile silos, airstrips, military bases, and cities in very short order, effectively neutralizing or at the very least crippling the unlucky country that got hit. There was a great article in Atlantic magazine a month or two ago about the fears people have over China's nuclear IRBMs when the reality is the USA could destroy their silos and render them harmless within a matter of minutes if the Americans decided to strike first to avert an attack on Taiwan.

I see a lot of people talking about how scary this thing is, when the fact is, the nuclear weapons of today are much more frightening, namely since if you pissed off the wrong person they could send one down right through your roof from halfway around the world.

Any British people remember this.......................................................http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/main.htm

its worth typing in for a laugh, its the old "Protect & Survive" leaflet, distributed by our government of the day, to advise
us what to do in the event of a nuclear attack (whilst the G"ment are in their specially prepared (with tax payers money) underground bunkers).
Read it n weep, or LAUGH!!!!!

Who remembers BBC DOCUMENTARY "THREADS" now that was scary

Threads Part 1. Part2 and more is on YouTube

Wow. Interesting. Thanks for that Chemical-Licker

MOAB!!!

This reminds me of Planet of the Apes Doomsday bomb.

I didn't catch it the first time, but I just noticed that the video was in the "Howto & DIY " catagory.

Let's hope not. Howto & DIY should be left to birdhouses and topiaries, not the largest nuclear bombs on earth...

I still don't understand why we (as a race) put so much time and effort into detroying life. Shouldn't we be doing just the opposite?What does that mean?

The Mother Of All Bombs!!

With the Know how - Money - and resources it would be possible - Imagine making a nuclear weapon in your basement. I imagine Plutonium and Uranium could be purchased if you had enough money. I for one wouldn't even know where to begin looking for the nuclear elements required.

A couple of interestngs things about, or related to, the Tsar Bomba. It was originally fueled with enough material to be about twice as powerful. Having second thoughts, probably because of the U.S. Mike & Bravo devices having "ran away" to a total yield almost 3 times their intended design, much of the U238 material was replaced with lead. This actually made the biggest bomb in the world, one of the safest, as far as radioactive fallout was concerned.

And then about biger bombs, there's the legendary??? "Dr. Strangelove" project. Many think this was just a name in a fictional movie, but there is actually alot of evidence that the defunct U.S.S.R. at least had a nuclear "doomsday" device in planning stages, although it is generally believed to have never actually made it off the drawing board.

The 2 main theorys are of a large ship permanently anchored in the sea near Novaya Zemlya (spelling???) completely filled with fissionable material....i.e. Uranium 238. If the fuse was lit on this, the vast amount of fallout would have at least poisoned a great deal of Europe...possibly more.

The other one is of having several "cobalt-salted" H-Bombs available for launch/delivery to major population centers. These would have been large devices, but nothing like the Tsar Bomba or the ship idea, maybe somewhere around 2-4 megaton. The inclusion of cobalt would have made a VERY high amount of persistent radioactive fallout, effectively poisoning hundreds of square miles around each round-zero site for a thousand years.

We are doing the opposite, in my opinion. One could argue that the human race is being some what iressponcible and greedy, being so anal about the preservation of life of it's own kind.


From the sounds of things this is a large reason why people believe nuclear power should be kept away from the developing world. As in the first world uranium (and similar substances) are very tightly controlled, which apparently isn't the case in much of the developing world.

wow... that's insanely larger than hiroshima

i can't even imagine that!

TZAR BOMBA VIDEO!
HYDROGEN BOMB AKA HBOMB

haha.. Great Bombs! but i like Hbomb better..
AND look at how high the tzar mushroom cloud rose..