Tsar Bomba: The Largest and Greenest Nuclear Bomb Ever Tested

[@NotWhatYouThink]

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[@nikhilajmera6631]

Can you make a video on how Artificial intelligence can play a major role in future wars please.

[@coltyt9529]

Can you make a video on why we could rarely see any military issue their ground troops with the juggernaut armor (just like in Call of Duty games)

[@dirtysouthvideos9720]

In the explosion clip with the house there is a car that just pops up Why did the camera survive

[@entidy]

Can you block the phrase “can you” so i don't have to read these these stupid comments

[@karantikoo9302]

​@@coltyt9529invincible armour concept.... It's not a dream anymore... But then there are those ultra penetration projectiles too😂... And in the race of armor and Amory (weapons)... The latter mostly wins😢...

[@battlesheep2552]

Fun fact: thanks to the Tsar Bomba, the human race was technically a type one civilization on the Kardashev scale, at least very briefly, as during the fraction of a second the bomb was exploding it was producing more energy than the Earth recieved from the Sun in the same time interval.

[@AFT_05G]

Underrated

[@worldoftancraft]

2023 And we're still cannot catch this tier of Kardašev scale

[@wanhl2440]

the fireball of Tsar bomba was even bright enought to be visible on orbit of mars with naked eye.

[@plumebrise4801]

Human species*

[@manbruh2]

@@wanhl2440 where did you get this?

[@minussoup9183]

The fact that the airplane’s survival is a concern is crazy to think about.

[@NoahSpurrier]

Yeah, if they hadn’t dialed back the yield the bomber that dropped it would never have survived.

[@gregm8116]

Doesn't seem right that the shock could "speed up" the airplane by 60mph, WITH a loss of altitude ... More like instantaneous loss of 60 mph of indicated airspeed, the response and recovery causing a loss of altitude as reported...

[@alexmcdermott3849]

@@gregm8116with a huge tailwind gusting from behind the wing would produce much less lift until the aircraft accelerated to back to the initial indicated speed. If the aircraft was propelled forward at 60 extra knots by the blast im sure airflow over the wing produced little if any lift

[@themutatednut]

@@NoahSpurrier 100MT to 50MT imagin the problems it would cause if it was 100MT ungodly

[@owo1744]

@@gregm8116 The shock could've just simply made the aircraft tild downwards.....

[@Nuggetenjoyer]

Maybe you could talk about the small "tactical nuclear weapons" developed to replace normal explosive loads in missles, rockets, and bombs during the cold war. Great vids by the way.

[@krzysiekniemiec6854]

do you know how small are “tactical” nukes?

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

@@krzysiekniemiec6854 smallest ones i believe are 2% of what was dropped on hiroshima, but most would probably be several kilotons. the max size for it to be considered a tactical nuke is 50 kilotons. After that, it is known as a strategic nuke/city killer

[@cat637d]

@@krzysiekniemiec6854 The Americans were 10 tons to 10 kilotons!

[@RandomBrit-p2y]

@@GamerGod-fp1tjsmallest ever was American, it was called the Davy Crockett

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

@@RandomBrit-p2y yes

[@fatseadoggo1017]

"And of course no more homeless people in San Francisco" and "Solve the housing crisis" killed me Nukes decrease homelessness, unemployment and enough of them solve global warming.

[@michaelkevinmirasol8256]

Nukes don't prolong human agony. Nukes preserve world peace. Nukes are friend, not foe.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Nuclear winter was a scientific fraud pushed in the interest of peace.

[@xandraxie3183]

@@michaelkevinmirasol8256not wrong but in a deadly way

[@gaveintothedarkness]

I dont know, solving the housing crisis in Toronto sounds pretty appealing. Pretty sure the owners of this channel are likely also from Toronto judging by off hand comments in other videos.

[@azab0b]

@@michaelkevinmirasol8256 nah ill take the prolong human agony

[@jonathan_careless]

0:49 More impressive to say, "The combined energy of all the explosives ever used in all of human history. In one bomb."

[@ddopson]

You probably need to qualify with "all explosives used in all the wars in human history", as the mining industry consumes large quantities of cheap explosives like ANFO. I did a quick search and found some USGS PDFs that suggest the scale of mining explosives sales is on the order of a few megatons per year. Of course you can also add the phrase "including both of the WW2 atomic bombings", as including that particular +0.040 MT seems to blow people's minds for some reason.

[@noahway13]

Or equal to all my dad's farts

[@dfmayes]

Depends what "used" means. Pre-1961 atomic tests totaled far more than Tsar Bomba. You could say it was more than all explosives used in all wars. But does the Cold War count? 😄

[@Evan_Bell]

Only those used in warfare. It did not match all the other nuclear tests combined.

[@LECJuwels]

doenst work fool

[@bredsheeran2897]

Bruh this guy is amazing he takes factual stuff and puts his own spin on it and that’s why he’s amazing

[@gerolfvanoudshoorn4359]

He also adds humor here and there and his narration is really high quality, easy to understand for non native english speakers.

[@djtormentt]

he just reads wikipedia pages

[@taunteratwill1787]

@@djtormentt Which why it is old news for those of us who actually read. 😂

[@bogdanthe1]

​@@gerolfvanoudshoorn4359Yeah, like "Trunno" (I guss that's how he read Toronto).

[@NotWhatYouThink]

That’s how people who live in Toronto pronounce it, and I happen to live there.

[@jjeherrera]

By the time the Tsar Bomba was built it was already clear that thermonuclear explosives could be built practically as large as one wanted. There were also plans to use them, not as weapons, but to drag lakes, canals and bays. Of course the radioactive fallout, small as it could be made would still pose a problem. From the ethical point of view it certainly posed a problem if they were used as weapons. Sakharov was right to call a stop to the madness.

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

"Inventor of the largest nuclear bomb received a peace prize from the inventor of Dynamite". That basically sums up the Nobel Prize, specially the peace prize.

[@lansfriszt7767]

Oh come on, it's not like they would give it to someone who started wars.

[@ShshankBhawar]

Ohh and a a person who dropped 26000 tons of bomb also got noble peace prize. Barkat Hussain Obama. 😂

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

@@ShshankBhawar Yeah, a merchant of death giving prize to his homies.

[@plumebrise4801]

@@lansfriszt7767 Obama

[@alanjenkins1508]

Dynamite was invented for mining.

[@yvindwestersund9720]

I've talked to two old dudes that was stationed on an airbase in Northern Norway when this happened and they were not told that it would happen naturally So both of them were sure that the third world war was coming They were scared shit less for a while but the commanding officer assured them after some time that it was a Russian test After hearing about this from them i can imagine that you would think like that when it was in the middle of the cold war Crazy times if you ask me incredible that we didn't blow ourselves out of existence

[@XenonArcher]

yeah... i wouldnt have liked to be them... must have been insanely scary at first

[@Iv4Bez]

at least in past nuclears were feared. Now they aren't although they're still there.

[@yvindwestersund9720]

@@Iv4Bez we fear what we don't understand Now we think we understand what the bombs will do and what the implications will be Therfore we don't fear them like we used to and that may be our downfall If we don't fear what in essence is death in a small steal container we will sooner or later use them and that my friend will be our complete and utter destruction Bø more dinner at five no more internet no more clean water or food In essence THE END GAME OVER And as it stands this madman in Russia is more and more inclined to use them The further in to a corner we push him the higher the risk of him using first tactical nuks and then if that doesn't work He'll push the button and there will be raining down death from the sky all over the world And as I said that's THE END GAME OVER Just saying 🇧🇻

[@edgarkrattiger9185]

Those times are returning...

[@yvindwestersund9720]

@@edgarkrattiger9185 yeah whit a madman in the Kremlin and an idiot in the white house We're fucked

[@leechristy]

The Soviets really got some great quality footage of the whole process. And it's great that they shared it with the world, but I guess it was in their interest to share

[@crististefanescu8169]

They released it in like 2019.

[@jimcady9309]

@@crististefanescu8169 yeah, declassified much later. Maybe the Donald told his buddy Vlad that a head of state can magically declassify stuff by will alone. Triumph of the Will anyone?

[@F1ve-seveN]

They said "Bombs are dropped for war, but the biggest of the bombs are dropped for peace." I guess they were right. Tsar Bomba is such bombs.

[@The1976spirit]

50.000 years ago the giants from Halut used HHe-bombs to smash the Lemurian Tamanium, the empire of the 1st mankind. Lucky me Sacharow never read Perry Rhodan paperback novels. With a helium-Hydrogen fusion device Sacharow would have been decleared a saint by the Pope, Nobel prizes aren´t respected in the galaxy as we might think.

[@cleanerben9636]

Sakharov had huge Bomba-sized balls to defy the soviets and get away with it and even promote human rights. If they had listened to him earlier the soviets might even still be here.

[@HRM.H]

Soviets are still here. Russia still exists. China still exists. North korea still exists.

[@worldoftancraft]

Keep promoting your little puppet Sacharov. Since you neglect to learn that he was proposing to saw the country into 15 pieces, and then saw the remaining RSFSR into many 4 pieces of mainland and make all republics and autonomous regions to be on their own. Good job, kamarada lživyj uêban.

[@elusive6119]

You overestimate the influence of the totalitarianism of the USSR, in fact, much was decided collectively within the framework of interested collectives. For example, a simple worker could speak out about anything (except politics) and he would be listened to, the trade unions had the power. In the end, the T-15 project was implemented. "Status-6" is its continuation. Also, people like Sakharov have a different type of thinking. "Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds." In his memoirs, Academician Sakharov wrote about his own idea of a nuclear torpedo, which arose much later than the development of the T-15, after successful tests in 1961 of the 50 (100)-megaton AN602 aerial bomb: I decided that such a carrier could be a large torpedo launched from a submarine. I fantasized that it was possible to develop a ramjet water-steam atomic jet engine for such a torpedo. The enemy's ports should be the target of an attack from a distance of several hundred kilometers. The body of such a torpedo can be made very strong, it is not afraid of mines and barrage nets. Of course, the destruction of ports - both by a surface explosion of a torpedo with a 100-megaton charge that "jumped out" of the water, and by an underwater explosion - is inevitably associated with very large human casualties. One of the first people I discussed this project with was Rear Admiral Fomin... He was shocked by the "cannibalistic nature" of the project and noticed in a conversation with me that sailors were used to fighting an armed enemy in open combat and that the very idea of such a mass murder was disgusting to him. I was ashamed and never discussed this project with anyone else. For reasons of secrecy, the T-15 torpedo was first developed without the participation of the Navy. This type of torpedo in the fleet became known only in December 1953 after the approval of the tactical and technical data of the draft design 627.

[@jcriley7695]

@@elusive6119is this Chat-GPT talking??…….. I mean typing

[@elusive6119]

@@jcriley7695 Partly. I used a learning translator algorithm to watch this video and translate my comment into English, so there may be translation errors)

[@FabledGentleman]

"-No more homeless people in San Francisco". I had to think about that one for a second. I came to the conclusion, that those that live there, but were on vacation when this happened, indeed would've been pretty much homeless after an event like that. Not overthinking or anything, just a brief observation is all.

[@fidjeenjanrjsnsfh]

You know what they say, when the Death Star blew up Alderaan, poverty and unemployment rate dropped to 0%.

[@dragutintheslav-veliki790]

Who would've known nukes solve such problems!

[@sudonim7552]

Ah but those people won't be in San Francisco

[@jacobeastham9505]

Those people won’t be returning to San Francisco 😂

[@FabledGentleman]

@@jacobeastham9505 I'm not exactly sure about the rules and everything, but since this bomb had very little fallout, there might a sale on some properties.

[@Lightning_Mike]

2:33 that's an _actual_ S-75 Volhov screen. Alright, the level of attention to detail is absolutely insane!

[@damesurina2629]

Interesting how both Khrushchev and Oppenheimer, despite being the lead scientists in developing their respective "deadliest" weapon of mass destruction for their time, both eventually advocated against the further development of nuclear weapons. Ironic but noble nonetheless.

[@Guy65006]

Kurushchev was the leader not the scientist

[@Quicksilver1936]

​@@Guy65006yup OP is an idiot.

[@tranquoccuong890-its-orge]

*sakharov & oppenheimer

[@ShortArmOfGod]

That is not an example of irony.

[@worldoftancraft]

You talk about Sacharov. And one fact that differ them, is that Oppenheimer wasn't a cuckold that desired to see his homeland being sawed, let me extrapolate his methodology, into 50 pieces.

[@kieranb7582]

"They refrained from making the bomb explode to it's full potential, partly for the sake of the aircrew who would not get out in time..." [paraphrasing] Must be the only time in history where the Soviets actually cared for their servicemen.

[@maomaomaimaimao]

They cared more about their servicemen then than now

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

​@@maomaomaimaimaoweren't at war then, they are now

[@masoodjalal1152]

They did care a lot actually. Its just the western media has painted a negative picture of the Soviet Union. Not saying there werent any bad things happening, but that doesnt mean everything was bad.

[@Charles500-yz9eb]

There isnt a huge difference between the blast size of a 50-57 megatons bomb and a 100 megatons one

[@shirlyamri]

Andrei Sakharov definitely deserves his own movie like Oppenheimer

[@msb3235]

I see Andrei Sakharov as the 'Oppenheimer' of the Soviet Union except he received the Nobel prize. They both have almost similar lives and similar views on the development of Nuclear weapons. Even passed away in their 60's of aged (Oppenheimer 62, Sakharow 68)

[@worldoftancraft]

Oppenheimer at least wasn't a cuckold who wanted to dismember his homeland into, accordingly to his methodology on the future of !RSFSR!, 50 "independent" countries"

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

Because Sakharov was anti Soviet in later stages of his life. Obama also received a Nobel Peace Prize, I assume for destruction of Libya and bombing of Syria... These western awards are pointless because they are politicized.

[@eclipseslayer98]

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[@yulyeong9220]

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[@jimtsats5057]

You gotta love the soviets💀

[@Brochten]

I simp for the Soviet Union

[@Sherman77777]

@@Brochtencommieboo

[@A.MM661]

Bro fr they always so wild 💀

[@christianfaux736]

Because if you don't you get sent to a gulag in siberia

[@theelectricgamer9889]

No they have killed many people. They are not someone to look up to.

[@PetersPianoShoppe]

I'm pretty sure the footage at 7:45 is from the RDS-37 test, which was Russia's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, not the Tsar bomba. (Still, that was only a 1.6 megaton bomb, and you can imagine the effects of a bomb 30 times stronger based on that footage and the distance from detonation.)

[@XenonArcher]

it was but there wasnt much footage of what actually happened around the world after tsar bomba was detonated. still, it helps get the point across.

[@_Azur]

​@@XenonArcherthere's a whole Russian documentary about it what do you mean ???

[@Raz.C]

26 tons of bomb!!! And yet, the detonator would have been just a few kilos of plutonium and regular explosives, and the fusion bits would have been a few grams of tritium. The remaining 26 tons of material is... complicated stuff...

[@superskullmaster]

No the fusion portion was certainly much heavier than that. Probably more like 50lb.

[@levd4685]

Damn that prononciation of Sakharov at 11:05 was perfect 😳

[@fantomfreedom3194]

Real😮я русский,реально идеально произнёс по-русски)

[@JuliusBepunkt]

There is a mistake in the beginning of the video. You said, the soviets were planning a bomb 3000 times as powerful as the little boy bomb, but made it only half as powerful in the end. The Hiroshima bomb hat an equivalent of 18 kilotons of TNT, the planned Tsar bomba would have had 100 megatons, which is not 3000 but almost 6000 times as much energy.

[@NotWhatYouThink]

We said 3000 times more powerful than the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So that’s little boy + fat man.

[@ddopson]

@@NotWhatYouThink Oh you meant "combined".

[@pathos48]

From what I knew, Sakharov decided to halve the bomb yield because a 100 Mt one would have pierced the atmosphere, therefore wasting most of its energy.

[@Ripa-Moramee]

That's not true.

[@NorbertKasko]

The 50 megatons already "pierced the atmosphere" and wasted energy. For 100 megatons the bomb should've been a 3 stage weapon thus 50 megatons+ would've come from fission. That would result in too much residual radiation.

[@jcriley7695]

Andrei Sakharov was not only brilliant, he was an amazing human in general who felt a calling bigger than himself, and used his pull as a high figure to better humanity. Selfless and dedicated to improving the life for humanity in his country and abroad, which was recognized world wide, and respected. It’s pretty awesome that the crucial people ( and there was 1000’s) but the ones leading these technologies were the ones who immediately saw them for what they we’re….. pointless and insane and totally suicidal. MAD It’s almost impossible to be on his level for his contribution, enormous tasks.

[@juliap.5375]

No. At late ages he became ill and proposed misc strange stupid things (more strange than shaking hand with void), lost ability to filter information and repeat everything what heard, this of course used by US propaganda. And of course US propaganda not told to anyone that he also proposed to explode whole American continent 😮 When we studied him in colledge and read what he proposed, laugh whole group, so mad he was 😂 He had minor role in thermonuclear weapon. Proposed to use layers, but all rest works, computer modeling, math to construction did another people. Main is Yulii Khariton.

[@Sherman77777]

Babe, wake up, Notwhatyouthink just uploaded another banger again.

[@BilTheGalacticHero]

The Partial Test Ban Treaty is no longer in force and has been superseded by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Signatories are prohibited from testing fission or fusion weapons in any manner.

[@politicsuncensored5617]

I mainly signed up to the channel because of the narrator's voice and excellent humor. Also because of the great content-stories that they tell. Shalom

[@just_kos99]

If you like science & humor combined, I'd recommend the channel of "ze frank", too. Very informative, but funny AF as well. I'm glad KZbin recommended this channel to me!

[@42468]

What's scary is that American scientists came to the conclusion that they could keep adding stages to the Teller-Ulam design, potentially reaching 10,000 MT -- SUNDIAL.

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

With 10,000 MT you don't even have to aim that much.. I think it is useful to have a few of those

[@caav56]

@@JamesSmith-ix5jd Hence why Teller called it a "backyard bomb"

[@kaydenchan7093]

As a San Francisco resident, I see this as an absolute win.

[@samhdxl]

“besides solving the housing crisis there” made me lose it 💀💀💀

[@muha0644]

5:45 Actually, that's not true. The pilots were just asked if they want to continue the mission even if the odds were 50/50, and they said yes. At no point did the scientists and the people in charge ever consider sending pilots into a one-way nuclear test. This is commonly parroted anti-soviet propaganda.

[@AnupomAG]

0:40 The tsar was 100MT capable they modified it to be only half that cause they considered it to be too dangerous for test site

[@user-bs5qr5ie4s]

Is it easy to build nuclear bomb? Can a developing country build a nuclear bomb

[@AnupomAG]

@@user-bs5qr5ie4s Building a nuclear bomb is a complex and highly regulated process. It involves advanced technology, resources, and expertise. While it's not impossible, it's important to note that the development of nuclear weapons is subject to international treaties and agreements, such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Countries pursuing nuclear weapons often face significant diplomatic, economic, and political consequences. The international community closely monitors and discourages such efforts to maintain global security.

[@PicklePro]

i swear this channel has taught me more than school times 10

[@JnManuelAG]

For real

[@LoisoPondohva]

I lived the first 16 years of my life in a house across from the one Sakharov died in. Don't think this counts as bragging, just pretty cool I guess.

[@hridhantnaik2009]

US's 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty: No testing of Nuclear weapons in the air, land, sea or space India: Gotta go underground then 😅

[@alexanderstone9463]

France (never ratified the treaty): "Maybe I look a beet arrogahnt, but uh, how you say, f%ck your laws, and your pooblic saff-ty."

[@gorethegreat]

I love this guy’s voice! It’s like a Simpson’s construct of a far Eastern Charles Bronson. Superb.

[@MattWeser]

"Detonating the most powerful nuclear bomb in the world comes with its own challenges." Definition of understatement here 😂

[@globalautobahn1132]

0:08 As the crow flies (in a straight line) - The straight-line distance between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Los Angeles, California, is approximately **230 miles** (370 kilometers). - The straight-line distance between Las Vegas, Nevada, and San Francisco, California, is approximately **420 miles** (676 kilometers). So, San Francisco is significantly farther from Las Vegas than Los Angeles is.

[@johntrottier1162]

Well Done It's nice to see that there is still a lighter side to the most powerful weapons man has ever developed.

[@galashery7264]

This Sakharov guy is a street I go through few times a week. Now I know who it’s named after

[@michealdoor7035]

All the fire power of ww2 x 10. That's insane

[@strozombie.01]

*EDIT Incorrection @ **10:28* " ...since the explosion was caused by Thermonuclear -Fusion- Fission Reaction."

[@nigeldepledge3790]

This is fascinating stuff, and well presented. One thing puzzles me, though. You don't explain why the need to modify an aircraft to carry Tsar Bomba causes the weapon to be unusable in war. After all, the allies in WWII modified Lancasters to carry Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs, and the Upkeep mine; and modified B-29s to carry Little Boy and Fat Man. So why could the same principle not be applied to the Tsar Bomba?

[@stuarthamilton5112]

Fun fact: The more efficient a nuclear weapon, the less fallout it creates in an air burst.

[@whatscookingresearch]

The radioactive fallout was so small because nuke bombs are not powered by uranium or plutonium. Just an large amount of high explosives. Sakarov knew this. But showing you can build a big bomb from conventional explosives was helpful to stop the expensive and useless above ground testing.

[@sergioeduardol.carneiro8198]

the most surprising thing about all of this is that ,sometimes, the Nobel Prize do recognize people who trully work to make the world a better place.

[@miraspi]

Can someone explain what are the vertical smoke like lines in 8:28 - 8:36, I'm oblivious since I was a kid?

[@Sashazur]

I just looked it up. They are rockets shot into the air just before the nuke goes off. Their smoke trails make it easy to measure the shape, size, and timing of the shock waves from the explosion.

[@goldenfloof5469]

Because it was a 3 stage bomb that used a pair of two stage hydrogen bombs to ignite the third stage. Plus it didn't have a U238 tamper which would've undergone fast fission and doubled the total yield.

[@justarandomsovietofficerwi2023]

The Tsar Bomb literally scared whole tribes into shamanism, that's how menacing it was just from witnessing it.

[@novemberdawn8145]

Ayy don't think we'd miss that Yarnhub footage at 2:35! 😝

[@CatDad01]

I love how they give us reference points like Nagasaki as if we were there and were like Ohhhh ok gotcha. 3,000 times larger than the thing we cant already scale. 👌

[@diegoalvarado1771]

Your channel is amazing. You’re a great storyteller with a nack for picking the best footage. Some of the other KZbinrs covering these topics have huge personalities and I find their presentation of the content annoying at times. Dark docs comes to mind.

[@tiffanyshanley1419]

Bomb guy: I just made the biggest bomb on record that could kill millions of living things. Other guy: Thank you here is your peace prize.

[@daxmasterflex3494]

That Toronto housing crisis part hit hard....😅

[@louisrobitaille5810]

Video idea: "The impact that dwarfed the Tsar Bomba": a video about the Chicxulub asteroid 👀. There're dozens of myths and wrong informations related to it, like how it eradicated the dinosaurs (which it didn't) 🤓.

[@alexsetterington3142]

At least it tried. What did you ever do to help get rid of dinosaurs?

[@amansharmabhau]

That Siberian tribe story is wild AF 💀💀

[@brianschneider39bs]

The footage of the U2 getting shot down looks like it is from a movie. Does anyone know what film it is from?

[@munavvarulmillath]

Bridge of Spies, i think

[@alexsetterington3142]

Nope that's real

[@am4deuss]

The most iconic part of the modern history would be the inventor of the biggest detonated bomb getting a "peace" price in the name of the inventor of dynamite

[@masoodjalal1152]

and Nobel Price are named after a man who invented Dynamite. So it is ironic to begin with.

[@NobbsAndVagene]

At first glance I read the title as "The Dwarf that Bombed Hiroshima"

[@crimson8584]

My day when NWYT publishes a new video

[@christopherleubner6633]

You can see the soviet video of the nuke and its test. It had 6 thermonuclear subassemblies inside, the final stage would have gone in the center. It would have been a DU can with Li6D inside and a rod of Pu or HEU in the middle. Based on the size of it, this nuke would have had a yeld of 120 to 140Mt rather than the expected 100Mr.

[@eastafrika728]

And to think, Andrei Sakharov, the father of the Tsar Bomba already had the hydrogen bomb design by the time the Hiroshima Bomb was dropped, meaning, if America attacked Russia that time, Washington would have been flattened. The shooting down of the U2 spy plane was the most advanced anti aircraft technology in the world and the first smart bomb. It's no surprise that to Europeans, peace is equated with violence and destruction.

[@94462]

What’s terrifying is that this was 50-70 years ago, so imagine what they have now ffs 🤦‍♂️

[@psackett1000]

Smaller bombs on more accurate missles. Missles are now equipt with multiple reentry vehicles which are armed with 10 individual warheads and 4 dummys that can be independently targeted

[@АндрейБережанский-с3п]

А зачем нам такое мощное оружие, когда в одну ракету можно упаковать штук 10 боеголовок меньшей мощьности.

[@greyfox8310]

Not fear the nation that exploded the biggest bomb but fear the nation that pioneered the technology

[@richardbeckenbaugh1805]

The bombers that dropped the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs also had to take precautions to ensure that they wouldn’t be destroyed as well. When they dropped their bombs, the pilots did a wingover and flew back the way they came while the bombs continued with their forward momentum. This ensured maximum separation from the aircraft so the aircraft wouldn’t be destroyed.

[@Odysseus753BC]

Does anyone have a source for the claim made at 0:49?

[@NilsonNeo4]

According to Wikipedia about 2,7 MT were dropped on Europe. IT you include other theaters like the pacific, 10 times seems not that far off.

[@jamesmills4097]

wasn't it recently discovered that the mock up of the czar bomb wasn't actually a mock up

[@allgood6760]

Amazing the fact this weapon even existed! ✈️💣

[@jonwicker3142]

I'm going to likely have to call Bupkis on the whole "if it was dropped in San francisco it would have blown out the glass in the buildings in las vegas" bit... The sierra mountains would have dissipated virtually all of the bombs destructive energy.

[@Krolmir96]

Notice the guys in the middle of the road. 7:46

[@alexlevinson8629]

The craziest thing to me is the time it took for the shock wave to catch up to the plane

[@Evan_Bell]

The Tsar bomba was not the "greenest" nuclear weapon test. It had a fusion fraction of 97%, with a 1.7Mt fission yield producing 95kg of fission products. The Ripple II device tested in the Dominic Housatonic shot had a fusion fraction of over 99.9%, with an 8kt fission yield producing 438 grams of fission products. The decision to reduce the yield from a predicted 100Mt to 50Mt was not "last minute". The decision was made no later than a quarter of the way through the development period, between the decision to produce a very high yield test device, to the date of the test.

[@kolbola]

Even the pure fusion could cause a "dirty" effect by the high energy neutron flux which activates the stable elements of the environmental materials to isotopes.

[@Evan_Bell]

@@kolbola Sure, but the most significant neutron activation products all have short half lives.

[@venkteshchalwadi7931]

Very good news 💡

[@byronbaybarrels]

yeah i second a comment below i would love to see you do an episode on tactical nukes i don't know enough about them

[@The-Master-Chief]

Wait a second, it’s not what you think? How the navies helicopter’s land in rough seas and rocky weather is not what you think.

[@manueldavid7369]

Is it organic too? I only buy if organic...

[@MaciusSzwed]

This is NOT the most destructive weapon ever built! Not even close, there are weapons magnitudes stronger, thousand times stronger than the Tsar bomba!

[@johnwi-l_l-iamsf3763]

Where, at your house ? 😂

[@johnwi-l_l-iamsf3763]

Russia itself has poseidon

[@d.olivergutierrez8690]

Honestly I’m not a fan of the tsar footage, yeah it was huge and all but I feel like for a test that was basically a show of force they could have displayed it a lot better, for starters dropping it from a bomber and limiting its power, doing the test during day and in the most foggy and least visible angle possible, not to mention the camera work it, simply doesn’t feel the sense of scale, all I see is this thin line of smoke that isn’t even completely shown (I know that the “tiny” column of smoke was bigger than the island of Manhattan but like I said, perspective) the castle tests are simply better in the spectacle department, they take place at night so there is nothing to eclipse the detonation own light, BETTER position of camera both at surface and sky level so you can see this monster of a second sun engulfing the horizon as it grows bigger and bigger or being seen dozens of miles away in the plane footage, not to mention that it was a surface test so they could take advantage of pre-set camera angles without the whole bomber bs, these things were never going to be practically drop from a plane anyway so just drop the nonsense and better do a full shown pre-set ground level test.

[@BierzeItboxer]

Good Idea. They reduced the yield by 50% for unacceptable radiation levels for airburst and you suggest groundbursting it. You are right, for show of force better camerawork, more cameras and better weather conditions, but ground burst is utterly stupid.

[@d.olivergutierrez8690]

@@BierzeItboxer the whole thing was already utterly stupid to begin with, and the main reason for the reduction in power was for fear that the bomber wouldn’t survive it’s own bomb, and I’m pretty sure the soviets will give two sh*ts about some irradiated Siberian villages in a ground explosion, so better go full stupid and make this vanity project have some actually terrifying footage instead of some foggy mess with the words 50 megatons sticked over.

[@JohnSmith-lf4be]

Finally we'll have affordable land in Toronto.

[@brokentombot]

How peaceful in the end.... Turns out alien demons heard the explosion and are incoming to consume our souls.

[@eashasharker5171]

1:13 why the hydrogen section is empty

[@shantanusapru]

Your videos are always interesting, entertaining & highly informative!!

[@OfentseMwaseFilms]

A Bomb so powerful it might knock Earth of its axis. Lord🥹

[@elusive6119]

The Status-6 has a warhead from 100 to 400 Mt. Depending on the bottom relief, this is comparable to the eruption of a supervolcano. The last one killed 8/10 of the planet's biosphere, the rest survived in the depths of the ocean, life forms have completely changed.

[@ct6502c]

​@@ualreadyknoitsyaboiNo one cares about your nutty flat Earth conspiracy theories.

[@just_kos99]

The mushroom cloud from Tsar Bomba was miniscule when compared to the volcanic ash-cloud of Honga Tonga-Honga Ha'apai as captured by satellite! Mama Nature is still the ultimate bad-ass.

[@jimcady9309]

Okay, so the Tu-95V was the only plane that could accomplish this. That's because the Tu-95V was a Tu-95 specially modified for this task (e. g., with the removal of the bombay doors).

[@k7ufo819]

Truly necessary video to make ignorant people understand the dangers of encouraging the use of nuclear weapons.

[@MissesWitch]

I always can't help but wonder what it'd be like with maximum yield

[@BobbytheSpongeBob]

We need to use Tsat Bomba in war, it's so clean

[@ABW777]

So the guy who invented the nuclear bomb won a noble peace prize 🤔

[@agustaharting21]

I was on a small sailing vessel in the North Atlantic this night We saw a HUGE, red ball in the sky!! Nobody knew what it was, but we knew something horrible happened 😱😩

[@Ama-hi5kn]

7:47 I wish people would stop trying to pass off RDS-37 as Tsar Bomba/RDS-220...

[@dansands8140]

It's all exactly what I think. But I'll listen to it again from this channel.

[@CrimsonAlchemist]

The Siberian tribes reverting back to Shamanism is cool. The Russians forced convert them to Orthodox Christianity years ago. Glad they are still practicing Shamanism to this day

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

'Years ago', well technically you are correct, but you must mention how many years to be precise 😂

[@rubenoteiza9261]

There is a British movie about about the Earth breaking out of its orbit and start falling towards the Sun as the result of nuclear tests by the US and the USSR. The Day The Earth Caught Fire, Maybe it was inspired by the Tsar Bomb.

[@RonyOnline]

what is the movie name 😐

[@rubenoteiza9261]

@@RonyOnline that one.

[@mohammadsab4478]

Literally watched a 40 min documentary today, then NWYT posted

[@thom0243]

the fact that British V-Bombers were all painted flash white from the get go and the russians didn’t paint one of their bomber types until then further shows the difference between western and russian standards even this far back

[@stevenlewisking1982]

that looks like what I caught on video the other night. HOLY CRAP I hope not. But yeah thats it. glowing red on the front.