AN-602. RDS-202. Царь-бомба Tsar Bomb test (Archive Footage)

1961 October 30 Novaya Zemlya Russian arctic.
50 Megaton Soviet H bomb test.( the biggest explosion in mankind)
code name : AN602. RDS-220. IVAN. TSAR.
The theoretical version 100 megaton.
The camera is 90km from the epicenter.

[@SpedSukuna]

The sound of the explosion's shockwave was just utterly terrifying, it sounded like a monster but I guess that perfectly describes these weapons and their nature to destroy everything.

[@rigel8755]

Any sound >194 dB sounds like this, which are already shockwaves, distorted sounds.

[@cme98]

I estimated the video was 4.5 miles away from the explosion

[@dylanwilliger]

Godzilla

[@blitzen9849]

@@cme98 The camera is 90km from the epicenter.

[@NorbertKasko]

​@@cme98The distance is at least 11 kilometres or about 7 miles. But it could be a lot more if the video is sped up.

[@yellowsweet5748]

This video is gold, I remember when I was a kid and I was obsessed with this bomb, there was so little information about it ...

[@cme98]

@@toddboyce3599 there was no Russian Federation back then. There was USSR. The film was released after the Soviet collapse in 1991.

[@opiist1350]

I remember being fascinated by nuclear weapons when I was a kid. I had even written a little poem about this bomb. "On October the thirtieth, Year nineteen sixty one, Far away in the U.S.S.R., A nuclear test was done. What a glorious bomb they were testing! It was called AN-602. What a blast! What a big cloud of ashes and dust! I just can't describe that to you..." ☢️💥👍

[@robertcrist5747]

The fact that man can make something like this just scares the hell out of me.

[@crapisnice]

its nuclear fusion, it doesnt have anything to do with hominids

[@maskedgamer7565]

We always say Einstein was such a great mind but he started all of this. Wish he had kept it secret.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@maskedgamer7565 Sure, better if Hitler's scientists figured it out first.

[@doctorsocrates4413]

@@crapisnice Incorrect..this bomb was in 3 stages comprising of fission-fusion-fission....

[@luisillo3511]

@@doctorsocrates4413 Actually it had only two stages. The original desing had a final fission stage that would take the bomb up to 100 Mt, but it would have produced a lot of fallout, like what happenned in Ivy Mike. The final bomb had only two stages, fission-fusion, and 50 Mt of power. Edit: some grammar, I sometimes suck at english

[@jabberwolf7348]

Generals and scientists... "we wanna be the biggest and best !!" After explosion.... "Yeah lets not do that again"

[@Eddie42023]

You do know about Sakharov, right?

[@kaylabrownell1268]

The true definition of, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."

[@mattedaking6384]

Ukraine joining NATO is another good example ;=X

[@Valeij221]

I miss the days when Taco Bell made me do this.

[@aceedcath]

Обсеря

[@rb7818]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Nezukotwo.]

Алло кот

[@renansilva8317]

😂

[@Nullerror779]

Nah man i just did this 1 hour ago💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@cme98]

Brings a whole new understanding of “duck & cover”.

[@anonydun82fgoog35]

A school desk will protect you don't worry!

[@ivymike3459]

I wish there were blast and pressure measurements taken from this shot. I’d be curious how far out the overpressures were from GZ. 2-3 PSI can destroy lightly reinforced structures. That would likely be 100’s KM from this blast. It’s almost incomprehensible since the shockwave circled the earth 3x, reportedly.

[@rigel8755]

The reports also say that the sockwave could be perfectly heard from 900 miles away, if I'm not mistaken.

[@TimMik135]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba and scroll down to Test Results

[@thetruth7633]

In less than 12 years from RDS-1 22Kt to RDS-220 50000Kt (2272 times stronger) and that is just because the were scared of using 100Mt. Now that is some serious jump, and quite the effort put in the development. No I need one in briefcase size.

[@geoffreyfowler9198]

I thought (and could be mistaken) that the reason they didn’t go bigger than 50 was that was the most the atmosphere could support. A 100 Mt. blast would be so high it would just kind of go into outer space.

[@LordZontar]

Too wasteful of material for little better effect than what they were already getting from 10 and 20MT devices, which made such a powerful bomb tactically useless and impractical to manufacture.

[@ZmarRidez]

@@geoffreyfowler9198 it was so the pilots could get away un harmed I believe. That’s what most people said

[@dartmaster501]

@@ZmarRidez You are correct.

[@tusse67]

@@ZmarRidez And 100 Mt would kick up a lot more material making it a much dirtier explosion.

[@rickbase833]

If anyone wants to see how much damage this would cause....use the web based nukemap explosion calculator to see what happens to your city.

[@glaprince]

Dude thats amazing thx for the tip😎…I just pulverized my exs hometown, hope she felt it

[@Mr.mysterious76]

@@glaprince nice

[@RollerCoasterLineProductions]

Sweet pro tip

[@rickbase833]

@@glaprince Bummer thing is that when I set the blast calculator to the projected yields and where in my city which has a large Navy base....my home is right on the cusp of surviving the blasts and also in the radiation hot zone according to wind patterns.

[@mikedee8876]

Kruschev banged his shoe on a table at the UN and people laughed.....then they dropped this hammer....hard to ignore.

[@vampiresday6347]

Maybe You'll think of me, when you are all alone Maybe, the one who is waiting for you Will prove untrue Then what will you do? Maybe, you'll sit and sigh Wishing that I were near Then, maybe you'll ask me to come back again And maybe I'll say, "maybe." Maybe You'll think of me, when you are all alone Maybe, the one who is waiting for you Will prove untrue Then, what will I do? Maybe, you'll sit and sigh Wishing that I were near Then, maybe you'll ask me to come back again And maybe I'll say, "maybe."

[@Warkingist]

The Tsar-Bomb. The worlds most powerful nuclear weapon ever produced in history (even by todays standards). the weapon was so powerful that they cut its payload by half (100 to 50 Megatron) and still was the most powerful nuclear detonation in history (dwarfing the U.S. most powerful nuclear explosion Castle Bravo). Only one Tsar bomb (with full power) was made since the test (and is said to still exist today), and not long after its production was made obsolete by ICBMs.

[@gr0und_ii_zer080]

50 Megatons! Thats 50.000 Kiloton!

[@Ciipher51]

What's icbms

[@Warkingist]

@@Ciipher51 Intercontinental ballistic missiles

[@Ciipher51]

@@Warkingist thanks for replying so soon!

[@Warkingist]

@@Ciipher51 you're welcome

[@themerlynn]

But did it kill the spider it was sent after?

[@euphoricnicholas3487]

Reuters released a video of this and in that video there are black dots/shadows that come in and out of focus at the top limit of the screen at certain parts what is that.

[@umu8934]

Beautiful 😻

[@SomeRandom6uy]

need more of tsar bomba to adjust the misaligned earth axis lately. (detonated at arctic)

[@robhavock9434]

I observed 3 flashes in other footage of the test, the internal design of the bomb may be different from the American design, maybe three spherical implosion devices with a neutron mirror between to slow down the fission proses.

[@renzoallemand3768]

TSAR was a three-stage device: the only one detonated. There are other 2/3 soviet tests (unfortunately without video recording) with 20/25 Mt yields, but I think they should be simple two-stage devices

[@robhavock9434]

@@renzoallemand3768 Hello thank you for your reply, very little film exist of the bomb but I am guessing it was constructed in a spherical design far more powerful than the American design, the posidon torpedo is one hundred megatons and it can be deployed a great distance from it's target I'm assuming it's a similar design to the Tasar bomb with a yeald of 100 million tons.

[@robertmontgomery3892]

@@robhavock9434 And given recent world events I expect posidon is parked somewhere just off our eastern coast primed and ready. It will surely be a real treat for the neocons who are behind US funded aggression in Ukraine.

[@terrencekelly1256]

It's so beautiful I wanna see it

[@seanr4631]

Use that technology for cure baldness

[@TimMik135]

Only man figured out how to create hell on earth.

[@dom1350]

I have never seen that footage from .04 to .14

[@ArcturianLessons]

This is utterly terrifying! Im convinced this techology is not our creation.

[@bigal3055]

The technology itself is relatively simple. It's the execution of the science through the use of that technology that's a bit tricky.

[@spinback72]

Hellish.

[@g.w.7893]

Scary.

[@tieradlerch.217]

This is like intro to a movie

[@nealamesbury1480]

What country is responsible for tsar ?

[@razony]

If this was around 1000 feet. It would have been 1000 times worse on those on the ground. They figured this out later on, didn't they.

[@LIONTAMER3D]

What did that thing yield, energy-wise?

[@gabrielc6252]

50MT

[@user-bb8yj7gr1q]

некоторых моментов не видел раньше

[@agustinhidalgo405]

What's crazy is that we have waaaayy strong bombs!!!

[@boxedorloose1454]

The Tsar bomb you see here was at least 40 times more powerful than today's most powerful bomb.

[@agustinhidalgo405]

@@boxedorloose1454 oh my bad

[@ActiveAussie2024]

If there is a real nuclear war it will be 90 to 150 KT ( kiloton) warheads that will be used. Two or three used on the largest cities. That's more than enough to finish them off. Tsar Bomba is not practical for warfare use and is obviously overkill anyway.

[@rundata]

Beautiful

[@jackaromorrison1249]

Scary

[@kaleabspica8437]

how far was the camera from the explosion?

[@anarchy6037]

@@tilosbelepni7930 sure the camera and microSD would’ve been shredded?

[@Arthur-jx8bm]

@@anarchy6037 Aha this was in the 1950s, no microSD's back then! No doubt this camera would of been put in a concreate bunker with a very small slit window it was pointing out of. Also, you can see in the video, it's distance from the explosion meant it was relatively safe, but it was likely damaged by the shockwave and immense brightness, hence why the footage is very grainy and shaky.

[@anarchy6037]

@@Arthur-jx8bm oh ok thank you so much for letting me know I was very confused by this 🙂

[@Arthur-jx8bm]

@@anarchy6037 No problem!

[@ptyxmvm]

Around 15 km

[@Viperlover-cw2qx]

Is this slowed down or real-time?

[@horntail-wyvern2803]

The fireball shots are sped up by about 2x. The rest is real time i believe.

[@tra-viskaiser8737]

The videos I want to see are of the soviet "salvo" atomic and hydrogen detonations... multiple at once...

[@LyslScentedLife]

Love it!

[@yotinpimohktiw7766]

That’s cool how you see it hit the firmament and the firmament just disperses the energy with no problem at all lol. They shall never shatter that glass ceiling lol

[@edgardopaladino4502]

distance camera to explosion ? EDIT 90KM OK. my dios

[@tonybigalow3236]

2022 ladies and gentlemen...

[@bigal3055]

Relax. It'll be fine.

[@SewingMink160]

Uhhhhhh......... Kinda true.

[@hahahahaha7237]

@@SewingMink160 nah

[@alanprior7650]

To think it was the original idea to for 100 megatons! The only limit for mankind is imagination.

[@doctorsocrates4413]

100mt yield if uranium tamper had been employed..sakharov insisted on lead tamper..this was a relatively clean explosion.

[@olympia5758]

God of destruction

[@TheSamir202]

Le song met 35 seconde pour arrivee jusqua la camera , donc 35×340m = 11km900 . Es que c'est possible de etre aussi proche ????

[@gabrielc6252]

camera was 90km away

[@TheSamir202]

@@gabrielc6252 comment tu sais ?? ou à tu trouver cette information ??

[@gabrielc6252]

@@TheSamir202 says in the description. It's also on wikipedia. Shockwave took 5 minutes to reach the camera

[@Yippiia]

Everyone uses this test footage saying it’s the tsar bomba.

[@shadowlink2000000009]

So this is not the tsar bomb?

[@diafam3662]

@@shadowlink2000000009 don’t think so. I don’t think they’d be able to record it that close. There’s real ones out there though.. looks like a sunrise

[@ActiveAussie2024]

I m pretty sure that's the Tsar Bomb but from a different angle. It would need to be a very sturdy remote mounted camera. No way any human or any living thing would survive only 90 kilometres away from that.

[@3niknicholson]

Fuck me, I just wired up two more speaker systems into my sound system today.... and then that BOOM...

[@George.Coleman]

And just think what they have now

[@user-mh9vn6zm1k]

On a the Washington...

[@wavecamp]

how sick are the humans?😪

[@samexoldx]

Aliens watching this go off from space 😲

[@hikakin_mania440]

😱

[@user-uz7px3kf2h]

День обещал быть солнечным...))))

[@Dagestanidude]

Типичный север

[@kaystephan2610]

One day mankind will be able to produce Antimatter and it will be used to create bombs many times more powerful than this one. 1336g of antimater would be enough to replicate this detonation. If we ever manage to produce large quantities of Antimatter it'll 1st of all be done in space and the antimater will also be stored in space because here you already got a vacuum. A bomb using 26.72Kg of antimater would create an explosion with 1 Gigaton.

[@bobvidoni5898]

How does one store antimatter since anything made of antimatter will violently annihilate regular matter?

[@kaystephan2610]

@@bobvidoni5898 You could only store it in some fancy magnet storages in space. Sounds really difficult and costly but look how much effort we put into weapons and destruction. If it's possible and you can have bombs of unprecendented power, humans will do it

[@gabingston3430]

@@kaystephan2610 How much antimatter would it take to destroy the earth?

[@kaystephan2610]

@@gabingston3430 Bruh I don't think there's any specific value for that but I think 26,700,000,000,000 Tons should do the job. Sounds like a lot until you realize that earth's mass is 5,972,200,000,000,000,000,000 Tons. So 0.000000447% of earths mass being anti matter could blow it up. OR in other words: a person weighing 80Kg could get blown up by 0.000357g of matter. 🤷‍♂️ Not that this calculation has no scientific value whatsoever.

[@NorbertKasko]

​@@gabingston3430A lot.

[@theinterfaithshepherd9075]

Terrifying. Terrifying that humans are capable of creating such evil things...and weapons like this are indeed evil.

[@YukiseiSei-he5ut]

Bomba átômica de 800megatons de átômos

[@miguelburgueno4891]

"Don´t mess with The Bear..!" ;)

[@kriztlumburt714]

“UNLESS YOU’RE A HUNTER..!” 😑

[@anonydun82fgoog35]

And this was a misfire. The 50MTs released was actually supposed to be twice as powerful at 100MT but something went wrong.

[@waserdert6259]

No it was made purposefully, Soviets knew that 100 mt would level the area, spectators, flight crew and many other reasons including fallout, so they cut the load in half in order to escape the bad endings

[@yukisei5138]

U Bomba átomica 90megatons

[@user-qe2oc4mz4y]

Бедная планета

[@TwinkieTerror]

I could take it

[@davidtaliaferro]

I remember this; it was the day Putin ran out of toilet paper;

[@wantsome-zs5sq]

If nuclear war happens those that survive will wish they hadn't.

[@BlueSkyCountry]

Like fire, nuclear fusion is a process that occurs in nature. We just discovered it. The H-bombs are merely us being able to strike some sparks so far with ome rocks and tinder. We haven't been able to sustain and master it yet like we had done with chemical fire.

[@charlesrivaitanjung5544]

Just 8.000 x hiroshima bomb

[@maherbahjet6543]

0:34

[@Edushkas]

Может бахнем? (c)

[@rcekonho5795]

Попробуй, ПДР🖕🏿

[@blazgrum4601]

Atomic bomb

[@user-wu2kx9vc6j]

Если кто-то сомневается. Ухнем.

[@user-tk7mb6yx2e]

Ее вроде всю утилизировали

[@romanmendicant6864]

Мать твою ухнем

[@rcekonho5795]

Иван голубпедиков , попробуй ПДР БАХНУТЬ, ВЕСЬ МИР ТЕБЯ РАКОМ ПОСТАВИТЬ

[@indrakurniawa8421]

This is going to happen in europe in near future

[@user-wu2kx9vc6j]

Дебаты. Новости. . есть нечего? Зима? Не дай Бох. Как. Этот не замёрз. , С 14 года. М иное Населения давно ушли. царь Бомба

[@therooster6104]

Let’s just build bigger ones for more human fun and ---〽️-------------------☠️🥀

[@antistopham777]

бритам пойдет и гааге

[@sdfghgtrew]

💩🇷🇺💩

[@dmitriy.5929]

Перевести на русский)

[@dronrasskazowiskanderII]

Чкдовішной сошності інфовзрыв😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@blazgrum4601]

What

[@YukiseiSei-he5ut]

átômo

[@Varganator]

Climate change

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

USSR: Look what I can do! Be scared of me! Become communist or else! Hahaha!

[@Rohan-rd8ru]

gc me entry

[@janspan100]

Kranke Scheisse ...

[@philstuddert6853]

America Shudders...

[@miquelcortega]

You don't think america can make this? ;)

[@bigal3055]

@@miquelcortega Theoretically, North Korea could knock one of these babies up. Now there's an interesting prospect.

[@anarchy6037]

@@bigal3055 North Korea already has 5 of these

[@StemLG]

@@anarchy6037 it's been more than 60 years since this footage current modern technology is far more powerful than this

[@Jake42O]

@@anarchy6037 cap

[@bethowin]

На Вашингтон!!!

[@tmarinelic]

Russian propaganda..right

[@user-yx3pq6mp4t]

Russia🇷🇺💥💪

[@romanmendicant6864]

You pidor

[@user-yx3pq6mp4t]

@@romanmendicant6864 you prostitutka

[@tardigradopereirainotchvic2969]

Humanidade foi destruída pelas armas que ela mesma fabricou!! Exterminador do futuro 3 John Connor.

[@AlphaNumeric123]

Russian bomb technology--excellent. Russian video recording--not so much.

[@guillermocontreras4271]

Drop one off in New York. And see what happen. 🤣🤣🤣🤣