is this the clip from 1961? the title made me think one was just recently detonated.

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Originally posted by machines4200
is this the clip from 1961? the title made me think one was just recently detonated.

Yes as far as I know it was the only test for that version. Made me shiver the first time I saw it, especially 10 seconds into the explosion when you can hear the tremendous shockwave that makes the camera vibrate like crazy.

They told the pilots that dropped this bomb they may very well not make it. They had to modify the plane, and the bomb still didn't really fit. Also it shattered windows in Finland.

The thing is it was a show bomb. It probably nearly bankrupt their military budget at the time. It's really senseless to make a bomb like that and use it in war.

I saw a nuclear bomb video that I loved. It had some really nice ambient instrumental music and it was the footage of an army base where they had soldiers in trenches on the same plane as a nuclear bomb. The shockwave and dust hits the soldiers in the face and then it has a great shot of them walking towards the mushroom cloud. Ill try to find it.

Edit: Here is a version, but not the same one. The one I'm looking for has better music and is much longer.

What was the bomb that they used in space to try to create a sort of Van Allen belt?
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Originally posted by machines4200
is this the clip from 1961? the title made me think one was just recently detonated.

Actually nevermind, already posted, late to the party... sorry

Also note the Tsar bomb was not even loaded with
the full amount of plutonium,instead they used a lead tamper
because even the Russians did not really know the full amount
of devastation it may have caused had they stuck to the original
plans.

without checking i think it was only 60-70% of what they had
in mind but they saw sense and decided it was far to risky.

still the biggest recorded yield of a thermonuclear bomb.
crazy absolutely crazy.


listen as my post echo's albeit with some degradation in quality

Tsar bomba was only 50% yield. They used Lead instead of a uranium tamper to decrease the 50-60 megaton yeild by 50%.


This bomb would absolutely wipe out an entire state. The damage is nearly total for 60-80 miles radius, and preassure forces that shattered windows were felt hundreds of miles away.

It was originally supposed to be 100 megatons, but it was too unstable.