50 Year ago Mankind biggest KRA-BOOM

[Michel Van]

yes, 50 year agon Khrushchev show he had the biggest of them all
I mean the biggest hydrogen bomb of all time: AN602 aka the Tsar Bomb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba


it was biggest man made explosion with equivalent of 50 Mega tons of TNT

 

[sublight]

Here in Texas its "Ka Boom" or more lovingly called "McNuke-ification". W told me that was his favorite term.

 

[major-1]

"Test clean hydrogen bomb power of 50 million tons"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbC7BxXtOlo

 

[Archibald]

...and that evening, in Nova Zemlya, a rabbit poked his head out of his hole and thought "haven't seen any bear, human, wolf predators for some days now... life is pretty quiet those days. Good.
...
(see Tu-95 above, and the thing under a parachute)

"Hey, what's that thing upward ? a bird ?"

(Tsar bomba explodes)

 

[Archibald]

"Test clean hydrogen bomb power of 50 million tons"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbC7BxXtOlo

The commentary neutrality is... how to say it ? insane ? the guy could read about fireworks, for frack sake.

Oh well... "largest dick showing contest in human history..."

 

[Pixelbrick]

"Clean" is a bit misleading when the design yield was 100+ megatons with the U238 tamper/casing. Had they not substituted lead it would've generated a fair proportion of all the fallout from atmospheric testing to date in one go.

 

[Dilandu]

"Clean" is a bit misleading when the design yield was 100+ megatons with the U238 tamper/casing. Had they not substituted lead it would've generated a fair proportion of all the fallout from atmospheric testing to date in one go.

Well, she was tested in "clean" configuration, isn't it?