50 Megaton Tsar Bomba Declassified • Ivan RDS-220 Hydrogen Bomb
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22:40 Countdown and detonation
Credit: Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation rosatom.ru
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
The Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name Ivan or Vanya), also known as Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бо́мба, tr. Tsar'-bómba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. 'Tsar bomb'), was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. Tested on 30 October 1961 as an experimental verification of calculation principles and multi-stage thermonuclear weapon designs, it also remains the most powerful human-made explosive ever detonated.
The bomb was detonated 4000 m above the Sukhoy Nos ("Dry Nose") cape of Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, 15 km (9.3 mi) from Mityushikha Bay, north of Matochkin Strait. The detonation was secret but was detected by US Intelligence agencies. The US apparently had an instrumented KC-135R aircraft (Operation SpeedLight) in the area of the test - close enough to have been scorched by the blast.
The bhangmeter results and other data suggested the bomb yielded about 58 megatons of TNT [Mt] (240 PJ), and that was the accepted yield in technical literature until 1991 when Soviet scientists revealed that their instruments indicated a yield of 50 Mt (210 PJ). As they had the instrumental data and access to the test site, their yield figure has been accepted as more accurate. In theory, the bomb would have had a yield in excess of 100 Mt (420 PJ) if it had included a uranium-238 fusion tamper but, because only one bomb was built to completion, that capability has never been demonstrated.
The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum in Sarov and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, at Snezhinsk.
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The quality of the film is amazing considering when it was made
To me it just seems like a 1960s film in color
That's the magic of film. It has no resolution limit, it's limited by the optics and the size of it's Cristal structure, which can be far smaller than any man made pixel.
Old film colorized is just so crisp I prefer it to now tbh
Fake
Quality matters when you only get one chance to make a last impression.
i love how the music and narrator is like watching a 50s documentary about how to make pancakes.
the music is all warped and distorted, lol!!
@@bindlepig8064 the pancakes too
Why are my pancakes burning & radioative?
step 1 : mix egg and sugar step 2 : add some oil step 3 : mix flour and some fermenting agent (I use beer), then add to your preparation step 4 : detonate the largest atomic bomb made on Earth on top of it step 5 : enjoy the sight of the atoms of your pancake preparation fly by for the short amount of time before you get vaporized. Still not as good as the vintage french crepe recipe ( kzhead.info/sun/jMaxh7F8m4iJg5E/bejne.html ) But close.
@@mickaeldelatre3320 Pancakes: A Fallout Recipe
I have always been a big fan of Russian aircraft.The TU-95 just looks tough as hell to me.
Soviet
Me too - their aircraft spells beauty elegant and same time brutally violent - work of war art still looks great as ever after 60 years
But the sound in this film is not of a Tu-95 (I see it every day as my summer house is near an airfield)
Unión Soviética,espiando a USA , Rusia sola simplemente piojosos y pulgas.
@@paruhblgen4222 most sounds in this are for the cinematography
Remember, this test was conducted in 1961. Imagine what we have over 60 years later, if you can.
Exactly, our good governments have only developed the best for all earthlings 👍 Otherwise we have Tesla in space, Nestlé on Mars 😂 Lying and cheating from dawn to dusk, some days I wish I could see some of these new bombs to put an end to it all. Otherwise the effort of science and all tax money was for nothing. what are we waiting for ????
well, its probably classified, but i think we didn't move any further as we don't need to
@@Caliper_Click Yea sure. Nope. If we can do it. We have. Or we have figured out how to. Laws, rules, treaties, regulations, and anything else doesn't really matter. We have done things that would blow your mind. And would melt it. Unfortunately we have figured out ways to destroy this planet. I'm pretty sure we have conducted tests that wouldn't even be able to be conducted on this planet. They had to be conducted in space.
ни чего более мощного вы не имеете и ни кто не имеет !
@@mitya8181 there is no doubt that any nation can make a stronger nuke, but why would they
The fact that it was detonated with only 50% Yield makes it more scary.
@Hmm... the guy in the video says it.
@Hmm... they originally made it to be 100 megatons but reduced it to 50 megatons more so for the pilot to escape safely ... otherwise he wouldn't eith the full thing
Hmm... For several reasons they did reduce the yield from 100 megatons to 50 megatons. They did this by filling part of the bomb with lead. The purpose was 1: Most of the blast would vent uselessly into space if the yield was any greater. 2: The head science behind the project didn’t have a clue over the effects or need for such a weapon and did not want a catastrophe for fear of the power. This was still by far the most powerful detonation of any device nuclear or not by humans in history.
If it went 100MT, it would probably destroy the Earth.
@@LITTLE1994 it could just destroy the 25% of land from a country of the size of france.
This is a gizmo that's gonna end the world one day. Anyway, here's some tom and jerry music
Would you want to die to any other kind of music.
😂😂😂😂
@@OneNationUnderPug something by SOAD would be cool
This is better!......good enough for Wile E.Coyote..........good enough for everyone! kzhead.info/sun/Y86NeLJ6gpyDdY0/bejne.html
Absolutely u are a memes maker 🤣😂🤣😂
The reality is if constructed properly there is no upper limit to how big a yield a thermonuclear weapon can produce.
But when you no longer can drop it on the enemy it become moot...
How many stages would a 1 gigaton hydrogen device need? 6? Maybe 8 or 12?
@@iamarizonaball2642still 2 stages. Just add more layers of lithium deuteride to the second stage.
@@DynamicSeqIf an exchange takes place with hundreds of devices, still moot.
@@DynamicSeq if the radius of this bomb is no larger than 40 60 or even 100 km, technically you can drop it on your enemy and destory the whole country and unfortunate the innocent civilians. if US did the first time, I wont be surprised if they do it again!
This was only half it's actual pay load. It was designed ti handle 100MT. But they only tested a 50MT bomb for a few different reasons. Little note Within seconds, the five-mile-wide fireball incinerated the ground below the blast and created a flare that could be seen from Alaska, Greenland and Norway. The seismic shockwave circled the globe three times, shattering glass windows in buildings more than 400 miles away
Good to see some facts I can relate to rather than metric nonsense. I guess 400 miles is kinda worrying.
@keithnaylor1981 "metric nonsense" 😂
@@keithnaylor1981könnte man so sagen...
@@keithnaylor1981Why American burgers like you cant handle metric system like rest of the world? Your Imperial system makes less sense...
It’s incredible how mankind went from clubs and spears to this monstrosity.
a good example of what is possible within a century ai scares me more than the nukes, I think certain forms "technology" can be considered the blackest of magic
Then... after it’s use... back to clubs and spears.
Spartacus you shouldn’t be scare of ai. It’s not more dangerous than some human
True.. but to develop interstellar travel we need to harness this evil for good. Any maybe even use it to stop asteroids
Just wait until the anti matter bombs roll out in the next decade
Finally, the real footage of Tsar Bomba explosion *Edit : if the footage of castle bravo can be claimed as a real one, a year or two before this emperor without a doubt, then i don't have excuse to reject this as a legit one. Several clips that occurred 5 or 6 years ago about this explosion not exactly the same with this. The pilots, the mushroom, . . I don't qualified to judge this from military POV anyway.
this footage is no secret...saw it years ago
WELL it's something
I prefer the fake footage
Yes official hai
@Orching Russia themselves declassified the footage a few days ago.
23:34 the calmimg music while theres a huge mushroom cloud is terrifying
Now, we all know the military always tells us about its toys 20 years later after they invent it. Imagine what they have now. This was 60+ years ago. Imagine what kind of unhuman terrors have been developed.
Nothing of this caliber! AA is better now so its nuclear shells and smaller and faster ICBM
@@user-hj8oh9kh7vfacts and this bomb was the bomb that made the world realise you don't need something bigger and the fact that this was reduced from 100 MT to 50MT is insane and if they had something bigger its been stored away for an emergency but hasn't been tested
I wish you were correct!
Twitter. Instagram. Tik Tok. All weapons of mass murder. They murder people's intellect.
22:30 thank me later
Thanks
Thanks
you're a good guy, thank you.
I'm here because i want to watch the whole film not just the explosion
Thank you comrade
When you fear of dying in nuclear apocalypse, but know that at least there’s gonna be fancy orchestra playing on the background
I would give a like...but I'm superstitious
Orchestra is the heritage of all pre-tv era, until 70th
Waltzing on the tulip tops, eh ? Alls good 😁
Вот это бомбануло!😮😮😮
The pilot of this bomber was awarded the medal of the hero of the soviet union, a gold star. It was the highest level medal in the country back then. Other crew members have also received other relatively lower-level medals.
I don't think the pilot made it home
@@mi2-c035 Он вернулся, для безопасности снизили мощность бомбы в 2 раза, использовали парашют, но определённый ущерб здоровью думаю был нанесён, они были слишком близко от точки взрыва такой мощной бомбы.
@@user-cb2df9zy6d yes, the bomb was 100 megaton before they made it 50
@@mi2-c035 he did how would he awarded
@@mi2-c035 He did, his plane was briefly stalled by the air blast however he recovered
Funfact, the bomber's chances of survival were rated at 50%.
Where from do you have this statistic? The plane was 250km far away.
@@emptysoul6743 it was THAT strong
Russia, can’t build a watch or a car worth a shit; but builds bombs
@@rgsxyz1105 they made the core of the current Space Station. LOL
@@CrazyChemistPL, thanks for the link which in turn led to the story of the Russian jet pilot who defected with a MIG that did mach.3.
3:47 Pavel forgets to secure it and it falls off the back of the truck.. 😂😂
This footage is incredible, start to finish
This makes the Beirut Explosion look like a goddamn matchstick
fep_ ptcp it wasn’t that big of an explosion in the great scheme of things, equivalent of about 200-300 tonnes of tnt. This bomb was the equivalent of 50 000 000 tonnes of tnt....
@@barnabyg6808 I know, but it devastated blocks in Beirut causing damages in the order of billions of dollars, killing hundreds and displacing thousands of people. And it was a matchstick. I can't imagine what a bomb like this would do to a populated area, not to mention what would happen in the event of a real nuclear exchange...
fep_ ptcp oh yes, I wouldn’t want to play down the explosion in Beirut, of course it was utterly devastating put as you said, a matchstick compared to if one of these were dropped. Here is a very good and informative video that may help you imagine the scale of destruction: kzhead.info/sun/bNGHpN1lf394g6M/bejne.html
@@barnabyg6808 thanks for the video, really interesting to see this information in a more comprehensible perspective. What a beast of a bomb! I now feel the need to share with you a chilling video (you might not know) which shows every single atomic explosion on Earth. It is like a timelapse of a month every second over a world map and it shows who detonated a nuclear device, where and when: kzhead.info/sun/f7B8dpuuh5OkpZE/bejne.html
fep_ ptcp wow, makes you wonder how many more could have been in circulation if they hadn’t been expended in testing
Только в советском документальном в фильме про опаснейшее оружие может звучать мелодичная музыка под восторженную речь диктора ))
@@dmitrijsuur8341 жаль тебя чмо!!!
@@pcpower2388 А мне тебя не жаль, ты живёшь во лжи и тебе это нравится
@Spendit Это ты про Хиросиму и Нагасаки или про Ирак и еще десятки стран?
@@dmitrijsuur8341 Та ты чО? А в деРЬмократических сша светлоликих Эльфов такое не снимали? Ой, или это другое.. Им можно, им можно было и первыми применить ЯО и никто ничего, особенно такие дмитрии сууры, но если бы Совдепия такое применила бы, то всёёё.. чтооо тыыы.. до скончания веков бы припоминали это все, начиная с сша светлоликих Эльфов и заканчивая такими дмитриями
@@MrTorgud Ну ты что хоть пишешь, не понимаешь что ли - это другое. Понимать надо, а ты тут..
The music in this is sublime af
They should have tested it on New York.
Согласен полностью
@@andreyborchev1882burn a-live Russian r-at
@@MuchCow9000cry abt it, ur gonna burn if the war between Russia and Ukraine will continue and US will start nuclear war
Thank you to whoever captioned this video in English. You're a gentleman and a scholar.
..and an acrobat. he's in the pink the pink panther...
Hell you're a gentleman and a scholar I didn't realize it was captioned in English until you said that thank you
Actually Rosatom posted it originally with subtitles, but then deleted it. Admin of Nuclear Vault just reposted that thing again.
Для вас специально перевели фильм😁. Англосаксы, смотрите и запоминайте😆
I didn't even realize there were captions? intermediate in Russian
Respect to the composer of these old films. Excellent quality!
...nothing like dramatic Russian music! One of their greatest contributions to the world!!
No joke though, soviet composers like Shostakovich were also mere mortals under the regime. If commies told them to make music for something they didn't have much choice.
@@wokewokerman5280 all oldest music are very Good but the american and soviet union songs are the Best for me
@@joemarkfrederick1778 They both make me sick, as do both countries.
@@cattymajivYou must be fun at parties
Я думаю такую чистую нужно уже подарить Британии, заслужили!☝️💯🙌
Да 😂😂
The fact that this was the biggest bomb ever detonated you can almost imagine what three of those can do if they were ever used
Например на ухраину.
they would explode.
@@user-rw9zz9im7z It would be so much better to see it happen to YOU. Violent idiots who post violent comments against other people have their accounts deleted. I will be so happy to see yours gone.
25:58 the most effective snow removal device in history
Expensive though. The Japanese use flamethrowers.
RoseLuneFleur Shield it takes a lot of money to make the best for most things lol
@@munkieznmoar1268 Quite cheap actually
and ice kzhead.info/sun/la-ahsyQpWZvq5E/bejne.html - polar sea way
Melts snow in seconds!, Buy NOW
15:10 "The last ships leave the dangerous area." cameraman: oh ship
“The last ships leave the dangerous area.” Yes.
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Pretty cool to see all that old equipment
Despite its purpose, that Tupolev with the glass nose and solid white paint is super clean
When you want to destroy an enemy airbase, 3 nearby cities including suburbs, army barracks and naval port, seat of government and flatten some hills all at once but only have 1 plane.
When you care enough to send the very best...
@@oldvet7547 Oh, give me a break!
so.. connecticut
Russian methods are more economical
@@omkr0122 cause communism made them poor
I've read the memoirs of one of those scientists. After 60 seconds of plasma ball didn't fade out, they really thought they had just ignited the atmosphere.
oof but for what they just unleashed, i wouldn't be surprised tbh
I wonder how big the fireball was because they said it was being recorded at 200kms away.
It's pretty much what made them stop atmosphere detonation. These people are nuts! No regard for life. Just power. All sides.
@@billystrife7049 it told you
@@mikeyp0131 ...it was speaking Russian.
What a well engineered bomb and all process 60 years back. Really appreciate russian scientists.✌️😆
Sure, if you believe all the Russian propaganda bullshit. Most if us are not that dumb.
Блин. Это же просто прекрасно!
Imagine being the rail yard workers lifting that monster off the rail wagon. Oops, we dropped it. 😂
The scariest part is, it was origally planed to be 100 megatons. I can only imagine the damage that could cause. The destruction of small states
Heck, the Tsar Bomba at 50 megatons could probably still wipe an entire island nation out of existence. Pretty sobering to think 3-5 countries have the power to wipe whole national peoples off the face of the earth.
Yeah they said the only reason they didn't go through with this is because the pilot wouldn't be able to get away
Scariest fact, the design of bomb is saved in moscow archive and can be modernized for rocket missle launcher.
@@Enzer_Scarlet 'это не страшно .это прекрасно !!! моя страна(Россия) даст отпор вам -западным натовским агрессорам.
@@dark12ain I thought it was also because they were concerned about geologic instability caused by such a large blast?
The music makes it complete
Any one knows the ending music?
@@thetrialshot it's probably made specifically for this film
This bomb had a capacity of 50 megatons, but the USSR also had a bomb with a capacity of 100 or more megatons in its arsenal.
I believe this was the same bomb. They cut it back before the test.
And with no reliable means of delivery. It was created for one reason: a response to the perceived US nuclear blackmail, and near monopoly of nuclear technology and raw materials.
When designing this bomb, they realized it's yield originally planned at 100 megatons would put fallout (radioactive particles) at such a high altitude it would have dusted the entire planet. So between layers of radioactive material were layers of lead reducing the yield to 50 megatons.
I can imagine couple of aliens just chilling in their ship, while watching Earth from space, when suddenly they see this huge explosion, and are like "Damn, what these morons did this time?!"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Well, abandon the invasion plan then!"
and what did the aliens think when the Americans destroyed 2 cities-Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants ?
@@Zeusetck in fact, there are documentaries of the consequences of the use of us nuclear weapons against Japan and chemical weapons against Vietnam, I have heard about them, but I have not watched them myself, all this monstrosity is not for my psyche
@@Zeusetck eyyyyyyy....... star wars....
All I can say is wow. I was in the US Army during the cold war in the late 70s and early 80s. I'm so glad we didn't go to war.
America would go down because russia would take any damage
@@kidpog3d101 lol you drinking too much vodka dude!!! No country can take damage of nuclear weapons. They will all be annihilated and that’s for sure!! Or you think that America can’t make an even bigger bomb?? You must be out of your goddamn mind. If Russia attack us we will wipe out the entire estern hemisphere and the nuclear winter will take care of the rest. In other words:No one will fucking survive!!!!
Really?
@@soulbysoski91 Yes but you forgot about the communist fanatic cannibals in hidden bunkers who hide for 50 years
@@subratamurmu3367 Yes.
What a cozy background music track they've chosen for this ..ehhm.. lovely documentary at the countryside. 🕊
4:49 I think you can see the neutron tubes for directing neutrons from the primary towards the secondary in the bomb here. 26:26 I'm surprised there is any snow/ice left on the ground after that.
Since the snow is white it reflected most of the thermal radiation
9:44 Soviet hair cuts from 60 years ago better than most places around me today
yes
...because Fashion World is only halfway toward its goal of getting us all in Mohawks.
Fr those fades looking crisp asf no lie 🚫🧢
Dude is faded up okayyy 😂😂
It's all in the layers
I’ll be back when this is recommended in 10 years from now.
After next 60 years man. Last time it was recommended in 1961
@@HitHard1008 KZhead didn't exist then tho Lol 😂
I remember a subreddit for this situation. But Nevermind.
@@komalkuku it was a joke btw
@@anexxiontime9200 i know let me add a "lol" in there 😂
the Tupolev TU- 95 is a gorgeous plane.
Respect to the camera man who teleported everywhere
У диктора потрясающая дикция и интонации.Таких уже больше нет.У документальных фильмов СССР 50-х особая аура.Музыка удачно подобрана.
Так это, скорее всего, сам Левитан.
@@Tekymce А может Балашов? хотя не похоже ни на того ни на другого.А в титрах не указано.
@@magentovod возможно. Но голос очень похож на Левитановский. Если смотреть какую-нибудь озвученную им хронику 50-х годов, то обертоны и интонации прям один в один.
@@Tekymce Это Хмара, знатоки сразу определили.
Ага
Gotta have deep admiration for the bomber crew, knowing it could jolly well become a one-way trip.
drop bomb, or deportation
@@criztu Stalin is already dead, deportation is not much of a thing with Nikkita The punishment would be more like losing your job, driven out your home and being publicly humiliated
Don’t think they had a choice really.
@@entropy7888 did American military personnel (those who tested U.S. thermonuclear bombs on Pacific islands) have a choice?
Absolutely. Whether they did it out of patriotism, or because as military personnel they had no choice, they still did it, knowing full well they may not come back. It's not like the soldier charging the beach in war time, or being under enemy fire.
50 million tons of TNT, it is just insanely hard for a human mind to fathom that kind of destructive energy. The core of the sun is 15 million degrees celsius. Bombs like this create an explosive temperature of 100 million degrees celsius!! Infinitely hot.
Rockets were, and still are, and getting bigger and more powerful. So far as I know there is no upper limit to the size of a fusion bomb. If you have enough fuel, tritium, depleted uranium etc you can quite easily build something that makes a mere 50Mt look insignificant.
Good bombs get 5 Mt per ton of bomb mass. So the thus largest rocket, Saturn V could launch a 750 Mt weapon. Teller proposed one like that. It was a Gigaton. It was called the Sundial. Teller jokingly said it would light all of France on fire. Probably ingite the atmosphere, who knows lol.
@@user-lv7ph7hs7litd be more efficient to have 75 10 mt bombs though.
why would you use Depleted Uranium to make a nuclear bomb? somone wasnt thinking................
Or the world in little bite sized pieces.
I came for the explosion and stayed for the cinematography. Props to the Soviet film crew.
They just copied American production style and added some first act Hitchcock movie music. The whole film is completely ridiculous. So is your mindset, obviously ...
@@RonaldKethers Another cringe Yankee, chill.
@@RonaldKethers you should keep your pig mouth shut. We're coming for ya
@@RonaldKethers ?
@@RonaldKethers Your Western lack of tolerance of others opinions shines through with that comment
And of course it's declassified in 2020 as if we where lacking in massive explosion footages. I'm not even surprised anymore.
this year is perfect.
Russia: oh look, perfect time for footage of largest nuke on the planet
Most of the footage have been released before. What's new is the length and detailed narration of it.
This is just a polygon. And tell me freaks how do you live with the fact that you are the ONLY one who used the damned nuclear weapon against living people and killed thousands !!! do not want to repent! you damn bastards !!!
@@sleepmnan22sleepman50 Who asked
this documentary is pristine. great soundtrack
yeah great soundtrack
Wow, cuantas palabras parecidas a nuestro idioma español... Son geniales hermanos rusos... Altos, serios, rubios, fuertes...
Beirut explosion was just around 1.5 kilotons , whers as Tsar Bomba was around 50 Mega Tons
let that sink in
The Tsar Bomba is also the biggest man-made explosion in all of human history. And there's a good chance it's the biggest explosion a human has seen.
@samyajyoti de This was a thermonuclear bomb. They just use atomic bombs as a "starter" bomb to get it going, lol.
Well there would not be a stone left of Beirut, if this thing would go off there. Complete destruction within the radius of 35 km!
@@user-qv4nb6tu6t and they dumbed it down to half its power
Oh, how nice. The music is so sweet, the narrator is speaking in a gentle way like he is saying a tale to little kids. Ah, the good old USSR, people's paradise.
50 mega tons of tnt,i can't even imagine how terrifying it was eventhough i know how terrifying just a ton of tnt can do.
"nukes" or "atomic bombs" are a hoax. They don´t even exist. The "footages" look like very bad special effects, the most laughable are the small scale building models being destroyed. It´s just fearmongering to control people. There are some good videos on youtube debunking atomic bombs (the explosions you see are just huge TNT explosions). But the best material on this is a book written by a japanese. The book is called "Death Object: Exploding The Nuclear Weapons Hoax" by Akio Nakatani. Highly recommend this read.
@@agauerm And the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were paid actors i guess. So you just put 20.000 tonns of TNT to convense people that you builded a huge bomb. I don't know even if it's feasible to gather so much material in the first place, if it is it must be outrageous expensive and of course totally idiotic to do it. I know the new religion is the challenge to everything sciense says. It fits to stupid people.
@@agauerm it's not the hoax man,look how radiation had done to the dead people.
@@lanchanoinguyen2914 dirty bombs (regular bombs mixed with radioactive waste). It´s all detailed in the book. It shows using the atomic bomb science how it wouldn´t work in the real world, it´s theoretical, ,using advanced computer simulation. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are covered in the book as well.
Респект оператору, стоял снимал. Даже взрыва не побоялся. Статус повашен 1000 баллов, 😊👍
The aircraft carrying ‘the product’ with its contra-rotating props looked phenomenal, but it was easy to tell by the jolly music that this bomb is no more worrying than a irritated wasp on a picnic.
Thank you to the absolute chad who did the subtitles
60 years later, DRS-220 is still the largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated.
And that because most probably, the new hydrogen bombs created could wipe out an entire country or at the least the half of a country in an instant. Nuclear bombs are not the right toys to play with.
Thank God
Creators of the bomb were terrified. They didn't expect such results
It was atomic not hydrogen
@@mosoni3437 Nope, it was hydrogen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
28:27 I never heard the audio before that sounded insane
34:35 nuclear bomb is like a mini sun, incredible
LOL WHAT 💀
Rád ho uvidím vycházet nad Berlín-Brusel. Říkejme mu BRIGIT :-) juri
The rest of the world: Nuclear Bomb = A Bomb Russia: Nuclear Bomb = A Product
Space Station to populate earth after total anarchy, priceless or who gets the job to be the last man/woman alive?>?
"product" damn capitalist commies.. People was starving, freezing and you waste trillions on warming polar bears..
@@user-ji4xs2fq1e #2
USA: хмм я думаю также.
This is just a polygon. And tell me freaks how do you live with the fact that you are the ONLY one who used the damned nuclear weapon against living people and killed thousands !!! do not want to repent! you damn bastards !!!
I love how the cameraman didn't die during the explosion
If you don't wanna die be the cameraman
Doesn't the camera man have invincibility?
Cameraman wearing netherite armor blast protection XVII
Actually its a tripod since nothing can survive a nuclear blast only cockroaches
@@datonkboiii1944 you really didn't get that?
This is literally insane.
Respect to the camera man for filming the fallout
@@DOTA2Map thx u cpt obvious
music is like Tom and jerry
I actually thought I heard my front doorbell ring. My wife looked and nobody was there. I restarted the video and heard a lot more xylophone. 😂
ArchAngel M260 lol
Wow~
...and those wonderful steam engines!
그러네 ㅎㅎㅎㅎ
The Shrimp test device was basically a scaled down version of the Runt device tested in Castle Romeo, but with partially enriched lithium as fuel. Its weight was a comparatively light 23,500 lb, and it was 179.5 in long and 53.9 in wide. The fuel consisted of 37-40% enriched lithium-6 deuteride encased in a natural uranium tamper. 10 Mt of the yield was from fast fission of the tamper. The Shrimp also tested light case design, substituting an aluminium exterior case for the steel used in the Sausage (tested in Ivy Mike). It used a RACER IV fusion boosted primary. The reason for the unexpectedly high yield was due to the "tritium bonus" provided by the lithium-7 isotope which made up most of the lithium. This isotope was expected to be essentially inert, but in fact it had a substantial reaction cross section with the high energy neutrons produced by tritium-deuterium fusion. When one of these high energy neutrons collided with a lithium-7 atom, it could fragement it into a tritium and a helium atom. Tritium was the most valuable fusion fuel, being both highly reactive and causing extremely energetic fusion, so this extra source of tritium greatly increased the weapon yield. The Bravo crater in the atoll reef had a diameter of 6510 ft, with a depth of 250 ft. Within one minute the mushroom cloud had reached 50,000 feet (15 km), breaking 100,000 feet (30 km) two minutes later. The cloud top rose and peaked at 130,000 feet (almost 40 km) after only six minutes. Eight minutes after the test the cloud had reached its full dimensions with a diameter of 100 km, a stem 7 km thick, and a cloud bottom rising above 55,000 feet (16.5 km). Castle Bravo's yield was 15 megatons of TNT, 2.5 times the predicted 6.0 megatons, due to unforeseen additional reactions involving lithium-7, which led to the unexpected radioactive contamination of areas to the east of Bikini Atoll. At the time, it was the most powerful artificial explosion in history.
SHRIMP and the castle series was US tests and has NOTHING to do with this test. Stop copy & pasting for likes.
Oooooh !! You miaow - merchant !! How do you know that this person isn't a genuine Academic researcher, or a retired member of the Armed forces with inside knowledge of nuclear weapons and their effects; or a relative or a descendant of Robert Oppenheimer - or Klaus Fuchs - or even Uncle Joe Stalin himself ? That's the beauty of the internet - it guarantees anonymity so its users can post well-informed (and, incidentally - well-written) details about nuclear test detonations from the 1950s - for comparison. It's not really a 'click-bait' comment posted by the user to garnish 'like' comments; in the same way that posting such comments about US nuclear tests from the 1950s isn't a new 'Cold War' between the Superpowers - and it shouldn't be seen as such !
Can someone explain that strange clock thing at 22:40 please. Whay is the hand like that?
Fantástico!!!
"And I think to myself What a wonderful world.."
Ahahaha no.
@@scostat ahahahahah yes KONOWA SCOSTAT DA, ORAAA
Unacknowledged intro?
@@kayaeki RIP
We'll meet again... 😉
it's pretty insane to see something historic like this. I would've never thought anyone (outside of russia) would be able to see footage like this
A show of strength, letting everyone know not to fuck with russia lol
We in Russia have seen such shots recently!
Well, no one outside of the Soviet Union would have.
Whats the fallout now then
@@robertbell8673 russia power nah they run undergrund like cowards n leave the normal People to be attacked
Such a sweet nice backround voice and music
Awesome
"Советские термоядерные бомбы, самые чистые бомбы в мире" Грета Тумберг.
пох фашик)
@@Perdasrath почему фашик? просто пошутил
Самые добрые бомбы, от которых гибли только свои солдаты
@@AndrezF17 не знаю какие там солдаты гибли и кто это говорит, но у меня был знакомый дед, который солдатом участвовал в испытаниях. Сразу после взрыва ехали к эпицентру замерять радиацию. Дожил до 70+ лет
@@Gedd84 есть на ютубе докум. советский фильм о взрыве, там и говорится что погиб солдат, но это как исключение. Жертвы в любом случае были, это же как учения
Terrifying... “Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap."
Глубоко копаешь...
Stupid to compare people with mice.
@@sale024su now someone is going to call you stupid
Unless there is little white nazi mice 😂😂
@@sale024su that phrase was by Albert Einstein so yeah your the stupid one here.. To smart for you to understand a simple phrase.
От музыки уже страшно, не то что от бомбы...
for those who are throwing out figures eg.. how far away the cameras were, from the blast turn on the CC and read the figures 🙄😑 absolutely terrifying 😳😬 also.. when you see the map at 27:52 and read the CC's information explaining the size of that "strip" of land !? and then the area the detonation effects reached !!?? Once you compare it to the size of the UK. it puts it into perspective
You should read about Sundial. Teller dreamt it up in one of his moments of madness, ego still bruised from this event, which (literally) outshined his accomplishent. I forget the yield. But it was Gigatons so 1000 Mt. He estimated it would set all of France on fire. He tried to sell it as an anti asteroid weapon as it just about would fit on a Saturn V. Luckily by then he had lost favour with the brass and was being pushed out. He already wasn't officially part of the program when Ivy Mike was detonated. That's why he was watching the seismometer. He wasn't allowed in the test area anymore. Kind of insane guy.
The sound of that explosion is insane, now I don't want to imagine how loud would sound an 5 km wide asteroid impact.
At a certain point sound no longer exists and is just a liquifying pressure wave
@@EthVortexShield How
there would be no sound, just you getting ripped apart by the vibration lol.. after a certain point, undistorted sound doesn't exist
@@user-fc8xw4fi5v why is there sound in thus video?
@@ton-un9xk it was probably added for theatrical purposes
26:22 "Even in the very centre of the site, it was insignificant" (radiations) ... 3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible, comrade.
Still one of the cleanest nucular detonating ever
from the point of view of the powders, surely, the little plutonium contained has become plasma and recombined in some other non-harmful material. however, gamma rays make steel and other dense materials radioactive. this must be considered in order to work safely on "vitrified" ground.
@@gnubbolo I think you mean neutron radiation which is not gamma as far as I know.
That's one thing that kind of kills a lot of post-apoc fiction (like Fallout): Lingering radiation comes from stuff like Chernobyl or other sources where radioactive materials are unspent and leaking into the environment. Bombs don't get you 200+ years of glowing radioactive stuff as most of the nuclear material is consumed in the detonation. Yes, you get radioactive fallout, but not craters where nothing lives due to rads for centuries.
@@ps238principal With Fallout it makes more sense, since literally everything was nuclear powered in that universe, even down to your alarm clocks. Surely those could make a spill.
Nice share ☢️thank u
That background music during the explosion scenes... Oh Discordia!
Do you know what the song is?
At 5:38 you will see the universal language of "That's not going anywhere"
Why you gotta do em like that 😂😂
старый советский анекдот докладчик: мы испытали бомбу 20-80 мегатон политбюро: 20-80? докладчик: думали 20, а она как рванёт!
ахах, нормас
Изначально,шалапутный Хрущев,хотел 100 мегатонн бомбу взорвать,учёные от говорили тк был риск что начнётся цепная реакция воды в океане и Земля взорвётся нахрен
Такая фигня на самом деле была у американцев. Кастл Браво. Проект на 5 мегатонн, взрыв 15 мегатонн. Ошибка в расчетах. Один из изотопов лития повел себя в разы активнее чем ожидалось.
@@hairytentacle3924 If Google translation worked properly for me this is mostly correct, however I believe Castle Bravo produced its greater than expected yield because scientists thought Lithium-7 would not contribute at all to the bomb's power which obviously was almost as wrong as you could possibly be. In reality Lithium-7 under the conditions created by the bomb contributed similarly to Lithium-6 which is why instead of the explosion yielding approximately 5 megatons it resulted in approximately 15 megatons. Castle Bravo was a nightmare of a test that was honestly lucky it didn't go even worse, so great job to the Soviet scientists who (as far as I know) didn't make any similar errors with this bomb and actually decided to be cautious (it feels funny that detonating a 50 megaton bomb could ever be considered cautious). Hopefully this all translates for any Russian friends out there!
@@SurfTheSkyline Scientists had ecological considerations and didn't want to pollute unique arctic biosphere with excessive fission materials. Because of that they had to muster a lie justifying their decision to create outer shell of the bomb from lead deflector and not secondary uranium layer as it was initially planned. So they made ridiculous claim that 100mt bomb could ignite Earth itself and make it a star to scare leaders of the country.
if no one knew yet but the tsar bomb was only at half its power the creator was afraid of the full power so he didn't use all of the fuel just half
awesome
In case you are wondering why there was "no radioactivity" directly below the center of the blast (4000 meters or 12,000 FT) it's because the neutron flux, although considerable...was not enough to "activate" the ground below the blast. In the case of other USA and USSR testing, with bombs on relatively short (100' or less) towers, the neutron flux was able to "activate" the materials thrown up from the ground, and loft those activated particles into the air, to be distributed over long distances ( 20 to 200 miles, depending on prevailing winds). The fallout then, and now, and forever, consists of activation products with short enough 1/2 lives, that after about 2 weeks, you are down to about 10 to 30 X's "background" which is very survivable.
😏Well, the test groups are also part of the test. They must have all died of cancer or leukemia after a short time. The Russians don't tell us that.
Your right. Read my bigger comment on my model. We use PSI to knock each city's buildings down that produce much more dust than the ground blast. I have 7/21 city building data that incorporates this and need NYC & Chicago that have balked at my request.
It's not so much neutron bombardment as it is fission products mixing with debris. The reason Tsar Bomba was so clean is due to a few factors. The designers used lead for the tamper instead of the usual U-238. They knew it would be a disaster if they stuck with U-238. The fallout would've been massive and widespread. Another reason, not so much a choice, was most of the yield came from fusion. The crazy thing about fission- you can make tea or incinerate a city. It all comes down to whether you use a generator or a moderator. Anyway, all modern thermonuclear weapons are fission-fusion-fission-fusion-fission devices. Bear with me here... A modern warhead starts life as a fission bomb. That fission sets the stage for the fusion reaction to start. U-238, which doesn't fission under any other condition, will start to fission from the heat and pressure of the fusion stage. In turn, that additional fission acts like a neutron generator and causes additional fusion reactions to occur while also providing neutrons for the original primary, so it can burn more of its fuel. This all happens before the bomb casing even starts to expand. Pretty wild stuff. The term "shake" came from the Manhattan Project since they needed a word for the time between fission events. So, the fact that they used lead instead of U-238, most of the yield was produced from fusion, and selected a HOB to keep the fireball high enough = "clean" detonation. On the subject of fallout, don't forget the 7/10 rule. Gamma radiation can really ruin a good party.
Guys, HERE is Our Savior HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH” YaH is The Heavenly Father YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins ** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER ** - Hebrew Book of Isaiah Isaiah 42:8 "I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols. Isaiah 43:11 I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me. Isaiah 45:5 I am YaH, and there is none else.
@@Praise___YaH no
27:43 Never knew that Vladimir Putin participated on the testing himself.
Putin's real name is Connor MacLeod actually.
@@ManfredRS bruh
@@thestudentofficial5483 putin is immortal
Nor my plumber euther
LOL
Very impressive to build a hydrogen bomb that powerful and make it deliverable.
Если бы это был прямой эфир по всему миру то все бы замерли на момент зрыва
Если бы это был прямой эфир, то США и всё НАТО после всего этого пошли бы все н...хуй и Холодная война закончилась бы в 60-е победой СССР.
This was only 50 Megatons, they wanted to go with 100 Megatons.
When in doubt, always go bigger!
@@romanmelikov3689 lmfao
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Love the euphemism of "Clean Hydrogen Bomb" in the title. Makes it sound like a renewable source of energy. As opposed to all those dirty TNT explosives made from fossil fuels.
Clean as in low radiation
your phone is made of the same crap, but you choose to keep it by your side day and night
Чистой ее назвали не из-за этого. Она «чистая» в плане радиационного заражения. Процент вступившего в реакцию «взрывчатого вещества» в водородных бомбах гораздо выше, чем процент в использованных американцами «малыше» и «толстяке» в Хиросиме и Нагосаки в 1945 году. Так что в случае применения такого оружия риск смерти от онкологии среди выживших будет заметно ниже 😂😂😂.
is there any chance to capture a live atom explosion.. imagin recording it with the latest digital imagery
This shockwave went around the planet 90 times in 3 seconds. Most powerful meaningless bomb ever!
29:32 this looks like it was filmed yesterday jesus that quality
Yeah, like one random man just saw the cloud and said: Omg, what is it? Where is my goddamn phone...
Now imagine the classified tech of today
@@imperialguardsman135 precisely
There are lots of high quality historic film documents. But often we just see some re-copied, TV reformatted or badly stored versions of it.
I like the calm, dispassionate, matter-of-fact narration: no dramatics, no theatrics, just the facts. I truly miss the Soviet Union and the Cold War. Damn Gorbachev and all his kind.
Look, i get how one could miss the Soviet Union, as terrible as it is sometimes, it has its good side and many people are feeling nostalgic about it. But why would you miss the Cold War, where armageddon could happen anytime with a single push of a button?
...they're now doing gender studies like the rest of the world......
@@wokewokerman5280 The poor fools.
@@hermannthefisherman2960 Exactly. All that tension living on the edge of nuclear annihilation made life interesting. The Cold War made life interesting, dammit!
here's your cold War back .. and this time .. no side is talking !!??
The music reminds me the old cartoons.
Love the background music