Do you have any idea how far away the camera was?

I find this video almost beautiful in a way.

Let's all hope that this video is the only time that it is seen...

Originally posted by Scooby Doo
This is truly a scary example of what nuclear warfare may look like in the future.

There really is no point in using a bomb that big unless of course it is just as a demonstration of a flipping big bomb (as the tsar bomb was).

Funnily enough they are too powerful! You can only destroy something so much!! The power of a blast falls off to the inverse spuare - simply put it is a waste to have 50 odd megatonnes set off in one place when you could cause much more destruction over a massively increased area by having 5 x's 10 MT devices, or 10 x's 5MT devices and overlapping the blast radius. 50 MT's was simply showing off by the Ruskies!

Hahahaha this bomb is aboslutely NOTHING compared to what they'll really use when the time comes, this bomb is like a cute adorable little child compared to the beast they want to unleash.

It is actually quite beautiful in a scary sorta way.

Its a crazy Nuclear Test Video

This looks like it was made on 3DS Max. It all seems to happen a bit to quickly to me and the scale seems wrong. If i remember correctly the tsar bomb didnt produce the effect everyone was expecting as most of the force rebounded off the earth and went into outer space.

[edit on 1-9-2009 by VitalOverdose]

Originally posted by VitalOverdose
This looks like it was made on 3DS Max. It all seems to happen a bit to quickly to me and the scale seems wrong. If i remember correctly the tsar bomb didnt produce the effect everyone was expecting as most of the force rebounded off the earth and went into outer space.

[edit on 1-9-2009 by VitalOverdose]

To me this seemed quite obvious from the start. It could have been because I've seen the Tsar Bomb videos before. Also the tags said it was all CG.

The real Tsar Bomb was very very scary. But it's unlikely they would ever use a bomb that size again. Not unless they actually wanted total destruction. Smaller nukes do the job perfectly well. Although they should all be destroyed in my opinion.

Anyone considered the ONE thing that is scarier than the video of the detonation of Big Ivan? The date, 1961.

That was 48 years ago, we could only dream to wonder how much progress has secretly been made on this and even 'greater' weapons.

It's always good to demonstrate that kind of fire power...it's existence has definately changed how wars are fought. Since the birth of the nuclear weapon, the great/super-power on great/super-power wars which flourished in the past are non-existent and the wars that are fought are of a much smaller scale and rely more heavily on the diplomatic and legal issues than military issues.

Because politicians, industrial, social and cultural aspects are the main forces behind wars its good that the military can say look here, this is something we've been working on...the enemy has these also, if YOU sissy's who have probably never been in a fist fight want to send us out in the field to die...most likely they'll hit our cities with these things and we can hit them back twice as hard...

The metro-sexual book worms will stop sending real men to die in wars.

People need to tremble and need to be afraid...they'll stop thinking so much. It just gets you into trouble and bomb's like that make it quite clear the consequences of your perverse thoughts.