How Tsar bomba works! Worlds biggest nuclear bomb ever detonated / learn from the base

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fun fact : that was only 50% of what the actual bomb can do

Nice to know that this was the SECOND Tsar Bomba. The first was twice as powerful but Krushcev decided that was OTT and ordered it be reduced by half

The designer must be really proud of his work.

This is both terrifying and amazing at the same time. . Feeling this bomb explode must be a once-in-a-lifetime experience..

As crazy as it is to say, that regardless of how destructive this bomb is, it’s truly genius

Tsar Bomba actually designed as 100 MT bomb, using 3rd stage fusion by combining 2 fusion bombs and 1 fission bomb together, the reason why it cut into 50 MT (actual explosion is 55 MT) simply because TU-95 crew definitely will get killed if the bomb was designed as 100 MT, so the 3rd phase was removed and only have 2 phases (1 fission and 1 fusion).

If my high school and college science classes had featured this type of explanation and graphics, I would have learned a lot more science.

Fat Man, Tsar Bomb... cute. Imagine if they made Yo Momma. Even Aliens on Andromeda galaxy would need sunglasses.

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he Czar bomb was originally designed as a 3-stage weapon with a 100 MT power. But the designer was horrified by how much power it would have, so the 3rd stage was replaced with lead. A bigger explosion would have made no sense, because the cloud would have already flown out into outer space. Even so, he broke the windows at a distance of 900 km, the rest of the data is there in the video. The shock wave bypassed the Earth several times.

"The weight of five elephants." - Thank god we all have pet elephants at home and have now a precise idea how heavy this bomb has been.

Who else came here for the tutorial? Building one right now

The Tsar Bomb was an impractical, psychological weapon. The interesting thing is that it accelerated the development of realistic missile delivery systems to take it to the West, but these systems ended up being used for space exploration instead.

Thank you I'd never found anyone who explained the Tsar Bomba's inner working so clearly. Combined with the visual representations, you made it easy to fully understand how it works.

Dudes at the start was so humbled of the bomb that they stood in t-pose.

These kinds of illustrations are amazing

The yield estimate of the Fat Man has been more recently been revised to 24.8kt. The Tsar bomba yield was 56.8 Mt. The primary was smaller than shown. The AF&F package did not lie between the stages. The pit was not pure plutonium, and would have been larger than 6 inches. The secondary tamper was lead, not uranium. It's deuteride, not deturide. The sparkplug was probably boosted. The interstage material was not Styrofoam. The weapon was mounted inside the bomb bay, only the doors had to be removed and it protruded outside the bay. It didn't use a 32 point initiation system. The chemical explosive did not produce a neutron burst. A separate device does that. The feedback loop described as taking place in the secondary is inaccurate.

0:55 When your squad accidentally pulls and all-nighter, and someone mentions they can see the sun coming up through their window

Fission doesn't work the way it's shown. Plutonium doesn't split into more plutonium, it splits into fission fragments of other elements like iodine, xenon, cesium, and cobalt to name a few.