It's hard to get a good mental image of what a 1km+ fireball actually looks like relative to things on the ground, so this video was really eye-opening!

@masteroforion7450

Жыл бұрын

Ja. Wie sich diese Unmengen aus freigegebener Energie in Bruchteilen einer Sekunde zu Kilometergroßen Plasmabällen ausdehnt ist schwer zu begreifen.

@mishXY

Жыл бұрын

Fireball? In the case of tsar-bomb you can call it a small sun already

@wapangozukum9245

Жыл бұрын

​@@masteroforion7450 😂😂😂🎉😂😂😢😂😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😅🎉😢😢😢

@raoulduke7668

Жыл бұрын

@@masteroforion7450 guten tag kamerad

@carbonc6065

11 ай бұрын

No ... The building means nothing to me ... I wish some video would display MULTIPLE landmarks--to give us more of an idea.

Seeing the city superimposed on real footage is frightening.

@NINacide

Жыл бұрын

Atom bombs dont kill navies, armies, or air forces. They kill cities, always have right from the start.

@JabrinkTheStink

Жыл бұрын

@@NINacide depends on the situation. They are very capable of both.

@NINacide

Жыл бұрын

@@JabrinkTheStink i can make either an efficient choice, or an inefficient choice. I should prefer the choice that maximizes progress towards my objective.

@JabrinkTheStink

Жыл бұрын

@@NINacide um ok

@NINacide

Жыл бұрын

@@JabrinkTheStink play dumb if you like but you know flattening an enemy city will end a war in your favor faster than sinking their fleet. Example, pearl harbor made us angry, hiroshima made them capitulate. An honest person cant argue with the facts.

I'm so impressed that the empire state building survived 3 nukes

@Johnyshmit

4 ай бұрын

Yes, and gives us some hope

It's madness to think the Soviets initially built Tsar Bomba to yield 100 megatons of TNT, nearly twice what the final explosion yields here. At the last minute Sakharov slipped in some lead. He was afraid 100 megatons would set the atmosphere on fire or irradiate the whole world. Good call, Sakharov. RIP

@zacsavage8890

11 ай бұрын

Well the main reason was he thought the pilot would not survive as the plane would not have been able to escape the blast. Even at 50mt they gave the pilot a 50 50 chance of survival.

@pbdye1607

11 ай бұрын

@@zacsavage8890 They also found out that 100 megaton weapons were horrendously inefficient. Too much of the explosion's energy is "lost" into low earth orbit at yields that high - which is why MIRVs became a thing. You can spread out more efficient death and devastation with 10 "smaller" explosions (per ICBM) than with one big one. ~25 megatons was found to be the "sweet spot" for deliver-ability and "practical impracticality."

@pyropulseIXXI

11 ай бұрын

He didn't 'slip in some lead.' They changed the uranium tamper to a lead tamper. And he most certainly didn't think it would set the atmosphere on fire or irradiate the 'whole world.' The issue was their bomber pilot wouldn't make it out in time and would've be caught in the explosion

@pyropulseIXXI

11 ай бұрын

@@pbdye1607 They already knew this, you oaf. And 25 megatons is still way too big. We have precision guided munitions, which is why a lot of them are in the 4 MT to 16 MT range. They knew about the inefficiencies, because it is a very simple physics problem. The reason they made the yield so large is due to their munitions not being that precise at first. It also has nothing to do with 'low Earth orbit.' It has to do with an explosion being three dimensional and intersecting with the ground, which is 2 dimensional. Hence, more energy is wasted as you scale up; has nothing to do with 'going into space.' Only a very small portion of the blast energy actually intersects with the ground.

@DianaDeLuna

11 ай бұрын

@pyropulse I see you're trying to "win" KZread Comments today by correcting everyone on technicalities. The guys involved in The Manhattan Project a few years before certainly took the fear of "igniting the atmosphere" quite seriously. Carry on, you bore. P.S. Sakharov was a genius & a hero. (As was Oppenheimer)

The music was spot on with the introduction of the Tsar Bomba. Added an appropriate amount of dramatic flare to the enormity of that explosion. Let us not forget it was initially designed with a 100 Megaton payload.

@bryanff1227

Жыл бұрын

This is true. I can't even begin to imagine the scale of the explosion, let alone the mushroom cloud. Utterly insane.

@xaiano794

Жыл бұрын

It was a pointlessly big bomb. The reason Russia's largest weapons on missiles were about 20MT is that after that you simply lose energy into space because the blast escapes the atmosphere. You're going to cause far more destruction with 5 smaller bombs than one giant one.

@catherineharris4746

11 ай бұрын

Wow just imagine if they had gone along and blew the 100mgt, that may have blown a permanent hole in our atmosphere!😖

@xaiano794

11 ай бұрын

@@catherineharris4746 no, most of the energy would just be wasted into space - that's why 20Mt is the largest practical size It's more practical to build several smaller bombs with the same material, that's where the MIRV missiles came from with up to 12 warheads in a single missile

@catherineharris4746

11 ай бұрын

@@xaiano794 💡Now what does smaller practical bombs have to do with possibly blowing a hole through the atmosphere/ozone😂😂 I said imagine if there were a hole blown😂

Fair play to the architect who designed the Empire State Building . It can stand up to a lot can’t it?

@Verdeniza

11 ай бұрын

in ww2 a bomber crashed into it and the building survived. 😂 true story

@noelht1

11 ай бұрын

@@Verdeniza It did for sure mate

@rprince418

11 ай бұрын

@@noelht1 Let's not forget that giant gorilla that climbed it back in '33.

@LyslScentedLife

11 ай бұрын

Great comment

@jonzi8877

11 ай бұрын

@@noelht1 B25 Mitchell in 1945.

Trinity= Empire State Building Ivy Mike = New York City Tsar Bomba = New York State

@specialforcesguy

10 ай бұрын

Castle Bravo☠☠

@letsplay1097

9 ай бұрын

@@specialforcesguy tsar bomba is actually more catastrophic

@specialforcesguy

9 ай бұрын

@@letsplay1097 Are u aware that Castle Bravo destroys 3 times more than TSAR bomba in first minute of 20 miles? LMAO....☠🥶

@ugandanknuckles464

9 ай бұрын

@@specialforcesguy bravo is smaller lol

@bnrid8086

9 ай бұрын

​@@specialforcesguyBravo is 15 megaton while tsar is 50

This is the first video that made me actually realise just how huge these explosions are. I'm terrified of what we as humans have done.

@svetchannel2998

10 ай бұрын

Самое ужасное что это оружие оказалось у злобного клерка ФСБ и питерского таксиста

@rockysworld7775

9 ай бұрын

Come as no surprise as humans are straight trash.

@joshuam.6027

9 ай бұрын

and the fact that these explosions look nothing compared to what Mother Nature can do is...weirdly comforting???

@paulmusyk4lyfe51

9 ай бұрын

@@joshuam.6027Great point! What happens in space is way worse 😂

@jameswilkes451

9 ай бұрын

The Chicxulub asteroid that killed the dinosaurs makes the Tsar Bomba look like a pea shooter XD

Also by comparison: the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption blew the entire top and core of a mountain off and cast it into the atmosphere and surrounding countryside, casting part of the country in night-like darkness. It was estimated to be less than half of the Tsar Bomba in energy.

@jmwoods190

5 ай бұрын

The St Helens eruption was about the same as the most powerful operational H-bomb the US ever made, though that bomb was never tested in full scale.

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Oppenheimer really wasn’t kidding

@jebes909090

9 ай бұрын

he was a drama queen

@Dead25m

4 ай бұрын

@@jebes909090 Really wasn't

@jesusofbullets

4 ай бұрын

@@jebes909090 Imagine you had just created a superweapon who's use is now in the hands of the greediest and most self serving of all people. Politicians. The potential if scaled up, that could wipe out humanity as we know it. Knowing not only did you finally accomplish it, but now you don't know what your weapon of utter annihilation will be used for. Or on whom. Most of the scientists believed it would be used for intimidation, not as a serious weapon to be used or threatened, unless the need was extremely dire.

@squirtrussell5558

2 ай бұрын

He released the beast

It’s terrifyingly beautiful to see the true scale of the explosion, it’s so easy for the sheer magnitude of the explanation to get lost on people because of how empty most of these environments are… to see trinity next to a skyscraper really put it into perspective… to see tsars explosion is unfathomable

One of, if not the best depictions of scale that I've seen of these monsters.

As a Cold-War "Warrior"....... I was Certain that we would face this .... one-day. So, Far...... I am GLAD I'm incorrect, I hope...... 5/2023 USN Veteran 84 - 05

0:55 note there are 2 fireball phases. The second one is a massive thing of really hot air, whose thermal X-ray radiation is hidden by a cooler (but really hot and radiant) shockwave. The one shown at the timestamp is the 1st one: the nuclear reaction is over and is so hot that it's all X-rays, just a staggering number of them, and they heat the bomb case, which the radiates X-rays, which heat the opaque (to X-rays) air. That then radiates and heats more air. So it's X-rays just randomly scattering around and diffusing outwards, because: diffusion. (and you can see structure from the bomb parts). It's really fast, and as it cools and slows down, then the shockwave can outpace it and your onto the 2nd fireball. ofc in space detonations, there's no air so you get to see the hot bomb X-rays, and nuclear reaction gamma rays directly, and when they hit the atmosphere, it knocks electron off the molecules, generating a giant sky covering current, and boom: EMP.

@Shaker626

9 ай бұрын

Makes me wonder if there are designs being fielded that have enhanced EMP capabilities somehow.

@DrDeuteron

9 ай бұрын

@@Shaker626 on further review, I think it's just the gamma rays that do it, the X-rays aren't energetic enough. The only way to get more gamma rays is more nuclei, so: bigger. But I don't even know when the effect saturates...eventually you run out of molecules to ionize, or the atmosphere gets too dense.

@JC130676

3 ай бұрын

@@Shaker626 Yes, EMP weapons are being / have been developed but they are non-nuclear. For example, it has been discovered that if you run a strong electrical current through a coil which is inside explosives and then detonate the explosives, the coil will be crushed inwards. The magnetic field collapses along with it and gives off a really strong electromagnetic pulse in a narrow area. The problem is that it can't be aimed very well - at least that's the official story...

Awesome perspective! Was a readiness flight chief for the Air Force and I learned a lot from this single piece.

@archlich4489

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service!

@pennywise5095

11 ай бұрын

What did you learn? Hopefully that military is a road to nowhere but i am curious

This channel is cool because your videos add meaningful perspective to the conversation. Each video is an excellent addition to the public nuclear Canon.

25kT to 10.4MT ... big jump!

RDS-37 would be a good example to use with this too, I feel. Plenty of frame size, and the yield it was detonated at is much closer to todays modern nuclear weapons.

@prashantsinghsisodia6709

Жыл бұрын

Ya absolutely

@florinivan6907

Жыл бұрын

I think RDS-6 is the best for todays nukes. 400 kt and a pretty good top to base film. 37 was 1.6 megatons only China is thought to still have weapons with thay yield or higher today. The US retired the last multimegaton nukes well over a decade ago.

@mishXY

Жыл бұрын

​@Auschwitz Soccer Ref. > Skyline of Israel IQ lower than pi

@user-me7hx8zf9y

11 ай бұрын

@Auschwitz Soccer Ref. yeah

@tobiaszpasterski481

11 ай бұрын

@@florinivan6907 RDS wasn't true, two stage thermonuclear bomb used deuterium and radiation of implosion. RDS-37 was true thermonuclear bomb reduced from 3 MT to 1.6 MT. RDS-37, RDS-220 and more H-bombs tested on New Earth were one of cleanest bombs. UK also tested clean H-bombs in Grapple Operation. 3MT was cleanest. China also conducted a few 3-4 MT tests

even the trinity bomb is super impressive when you think about the size... the rest is just mindblowing (literally)

This is such a great comparative video. Thank you.

This video really shows the power and size of the Tsar Bomba. It makes Trinity look like a firecracker!

Tsar Bomba's mushroom cloud was 40 miles tall, well into the mesosphere.

As horrific as the tsar bomba footage is the castle bravo footage is also very disturbing.

@screennamenottaken2

10 ай бұрын

Castle Bravo looked to be a beast.

@garmen-

9 ай бұрын

castle bravo was just about small enough to comprehend so it j feels more real, whereas the tsar bomba is just too massive to even think about

@depebehwuha3510

5 ай бұрын

замок браво не был бомбой лол .был наземным обьектом в виде цилиндра.

thanks for putting into this scale, it really shows the actual capacity of these weapons. it actually made me feel sick. insane

Nice John Carpenterish synth sounds. The Tsar Bomba was something else, the scale is just extraordinary when you quickly flash back to Trinity. Be cool to see the clouds overlaid for comparison.

That tsar mushroom cloud comparasion is nuts. If you where to use that in combat i thibk the whole world would be like "wtf is wrong with you?" And be exiled to the moon.

Moral of the story: don't let Russia start a nuclear war 💀💀

@jaymorgenthal9479

9 ай бұрын

Keep NATO strong. getting Finland and Sweden in was vital.Keeping Trump who wants to destroy NATO out of the White house is also vital.

@mckappe

8 ай бұрын

​@@jaymorgenthal9479ma anche no.

@prosto_Ilysha

7 ай бұрын

​@@jaymorgenthal9479наивный человек 😂. Даже жаль тебя.

the increase in the power of the nuclear bomb is not proportional to the size of the destruction. a 2 megaton nuclear bomb will not destroy twice the area of ​​a one megaton bomb.

This is the first video I have seen that doesn’t just compare mushroom cloud height like that matters a hill of beans

Thanks for your efforts. It would be fantastic if you could share some detailed Soviet bomb designs in future. That would be really interessting!

Okay the music change when Tsar Bomba comes in was damn cool.

It's worth noting that the lead scientist on Tsar Bomba secretly dialed down its strength by at LEAST half because he was afraid of the shear magnitude of its actual yeild.

Tsar Bomba one of the cleanest nuclear detonation ! Very little radiation it was almost entirely Fusion it used the smallest Fission starter . They were way ahead of us in Fusion nukes

It is hard to believe that we as humans have not destroyed ourselves as of yet.

The human race has advanced to throwing suns at each other.

Wow, i wonder when the NY skyline is gonna show up on the czar bomba footage- oh… ohhhhh

That final image of the Tsar Bomba explosion is fucking horrifying.

@2148aa

9 ай бұрын

That is what Putin is holding over our heads in the Ukraine. Mutual assured destruction is suppose to keep everyone in check.

@millabasset1710

9 ай бұрын

Yellow Stone's eruption would be 10 times bigger.

Yep, we definitely needed thousands of these.

@Johnyshmit

4 ай бұрын

They are not reusable, so yes

And to think the Tsar Bomba was initially planned to be almost twice as powerful at 100 mega tons.

Seeing this, knowing the Tsar Bomba was created in the sixties, we could 'easily' blow up an entire planet thanks to an even bigger and more powerful bomb with today's knowledge. Pointless but still feasable with human's mind. Somehow terrifying.

Just the actual footages plus Empire State png and the video does it job as a size comparison, nice.

I’m always amused with videos that show the explosion then the sound immediately. It takes a little time for sound to reach observers. Especially when your watching from several miles away.

@robroskey6515

5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately true sound recordings from nukes of any size are extremly rare. There's a few out there that seem to be real and they don't have that long drawn out roar like the fake ones, they sound just like any other explosion relatively speaking at a safe distance a way. The initial high DB bang followed by resonance echoing off the surrounding area. But yeah I wish there were more audio recordings of them

Hauntingly beautiful

thanks for making this, I've seen eery declassified test shot but theres never been anything for scale, most of the scales in the camera lens for original test shots have been censored

Holy Tsar Bomba! Great Video my nuklear Pal!

A supernova somewhere in our galaxy: This is cute.

@QuantumNova

Сағат бұрын

10 octillion megatons. Only the Hypernova can say 'that's cute' to the Supernova.

Aliens looking at us through their telescopes: “tf they doin down there?”

What a simple and effective channel name.

Wow, that really does a fantastic job of illustrating the scale of these explosions. I would think in combat Trinity and Ivy Mike would be detonated higher up in the air. I'd like to see you do Hiroshima and Nagasaki, though I'm aware actual detonation footage doesn't exist.

Trinity = first bomb Tsar = biggest yet Ivy Mike.... Which that one stands for? Never heard of it

@amain325

8 ай бұрын

First H-bomb test explosion, by USA

Ok, the h bomb literally scared me shitless. To see these many empire state buildings on top of each other... makes it feel like sheer lovecraftian horror

@avernikas

4 ай бұрын

Power Beyond Comprehension

because of the atmosphere rarifying upwards, and inescapability of gases/residues due to firmament, the radicals produced in humongous amounts stays and causes chain radical formation reactions.

Thank you!

Just for comparison, trinity's mushroom cloud would raise up to 3000m into the sky (3 km), Tsar bomba would raise up to 60.000m (60km)

Is a tsar bomba good for home defense?

@dramangupta8204

9 ай бұрын

Hahaha 😂😂😂

Excellent video. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Very cool video !

@nukesblog

11 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊

This idea of superposing cities with real nuke explosion footages is something genius !

Great music choice, it send chills

This makes the scale so much clearer than comparing tsar bomba strictly to other nukes. First my reaction would be like OPM “Okay”, but now I actually understand how fucking massive 50MT is

You know that you need to outran/evade or fight something when the score music you are given deals in 7/4

Most powerful thing in this video is for sure that music,that shit got intense..

Any idea what is going on to the left of centre at 0:37. Looks like lightning 'feelers'

The Empire State acting gansta till your dad sneezes

The sheer scale of the Tsar bomba is so ridiculous

ive never seen ivy mike. it just looks like a star growing

There's footage of a Sovjet H-bomb test where people on the streets get knocked over by the shockwave. Made a calculation of the distance on Google Maps and the test waa about 75km from the village of the footage and still the fireball could be seen. That's like detonating such a device in Amsterdam andyou would be able to see the fireball in Rotterdam. Real idiotic devices as no target is large enough for such an amount of destruction but they kept a nice balance between super powers nevertheless.

With the great music make tsar bomba more scary

Wow this was some wicked amazing comparisons. Definately got a more better perspective on how large these things are!!!! THANKYOU

the explosion on the tsar bomba was so big that the footage you saw of it was around 250km away from the actual detonation

Wasn't Trinity fireball about 700m in diameter? if yes, then the ESB is too big there

The Tsar Bomba was ridiculous though as it was not deployable in any form (even in 1961), unless of course the US/NATO would allow a big slow heavy plane fly high over target areas. The Ivy Mike had a similar yield to the biggest deployed bombs/warheads of the Cold War, though with greater precision, the largest warheads are now only about 1 Mt.

@edga7999

Жыл бұрын

Dude, this bomb was dropped from a TU-95 Medved strategic bomber. Who prevented him at that time from taking off from the territory of Cuba, flying across the ocean to New York, Washington, doing his job at a speed of 900 km / h and washed away? In addition, the T-15 project was developed for a super-powerful torpedo with a capacity of 50-100 megatons to undermine off the coast of the United States. Then this project was rejected, but now these torpedoes called "Poseidon" are already on alert. They can move underwater at a speed of 150-200 km/h. True, they are not so powerful, but the charge is enough to cause a deadly tsunami. It is clear that with the development of missiles, bombs ceased to be important as strategic weapons. In any case, it was an experimental bomb and was of great importance for scientific research, and also showed the whole world the power and horror of a thermonuclear explosion. Only the USSR showed this at a deserted training ground, while the United States conducted its experiments on unarmed civilians in Japan and believe that Japan capitulated because of the bombs. It's Funny. And the defeat of the Kwantung Army by the Red Army did not seem to have happened. And half of the youth in Japan don't even know they were once bombed by the Americans.

@isekaiexpress9450

Жыл бұрын

It's already in service. Also Belgorod-class subs have sortied.

@believer431

11 ай бұрын

If I'm not wrong, China has 5 MT missiles

@Ilaunchnukes

11 ай бұрын

​@@believer431 Dongfeng 5: 5 megatons

@johnbean9797

9 ай бұрын

@@edga7999 Vatnik radar is going off, also, Cuba was under constant surveillance, and the means to down a TU-95 were more than prevalent at that time. The nuclear torpedoes you are talking about would cause a tsunami that would do significantly less damage than a regular detonation on land, they are pointless and considering Russian subs are being shadowed virtually 24/7, I don't think they are a threat to anybody.

When Hydrogen Bomb was invented, Oppenheimer shit his pants

Great video. Given human nature, it's amazing we haven't blown ourselves off the planet.

@terencem8795

Жыл бұрын

Only a matter of time. Unless of course nature does it for us first.

@dkelban

Жыл бұрын

@@terencem8795 either way, no loss. The earth will be a kinder gentler place without us. As Carl Sagan said " mankind doesn't have the moral development be be the stewards off the earth."

@VladimirDemetrovIlyushin

Жыл бұрын

Human nature is WHY we haven't blown ourselves off the planet.

@geo3106

Жыл бұрын

@@dkelban The idea that we have to be the "stewards" of the Earth is an idea that we humans have made for ourselves. There is no meaning towards it otherwise, we oblige ourselves to do it and get upset at those who don't. I'm not saying it's a good or bad thing, just saying.

@mamelukok

11 ай бұрын

​@@VladimirDemetrovIlyushin I honestly hope you are right.

Well that's insane.

The 250 megaton hydrogen bomb plus is the most powerful nuclear bomb available where lithium-6 deuteride is replaced with metallic hydrogen.

Aliens: what the f$&ck are Earthlings up to now!

I kinda wish I could’ve seen one of these as a test. Footage just doesn’t do it justice.

Tsar bomb gave image of what supernova explosion look like if it happens nearby .

@robroskey6515

5 ай бұрын

Except about a trillion times smaller

This video comes at the right time ... 😮

@robben896

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean right time?

@larsjune2345

Жыл бұрын

@@robben896 I mean, because of the ukraine war and a possible world wide nuclear escalation.

"I have become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"

the zar bomb exploded at 4000 meters altitude. that is the radius. the fireball reached the ground. that is 8000 meters in diameter. there is even a video of it.

@insideoutsideupsidedown2218

10 ай бұрын

Where

And this all stems from microscopic nucleai. Amazing.

Scary stuff bro

"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

Briliiant video. The music when the Tsar exploded, so much worse than watch a horror movie. The scale is mind-blowing.

It's hard to get a good mental image of what a 1km+ fireball actually looks like relative to things on the ground, so this video was really eye-opening! NO NOT REALLY!

"And, lo, he rode a pale horse. And his name was Death."

Just makes you so damn feightened to think what they have today

Mr. House be like "Yeah no problem, shot them down with my laser gun" THE FUCK YOU DID! Not even close to NV would have fried it crisp.

*Tsar Bomba = God*

Atomic size comparison... Priceless revealed Truth. 😊

Beautiful!!

I would love to see some cleaned up footage of the Tsar Bomba.

My god.. thats insane..We are all fu..ed if a therrmonuclear war goes off.

@Heyovv

Жыл бұрын

i think more warhead currently in service are like 300 kt

@geoffreyrenemoiens3089

Жыл бұрын

@@Heyovv Yes, ofc.. but still..its crazy the amount of energy it releases.

@vishensivparsad

Жыл бұрын

​@@Heyovv I wouldn't be surprised if there's a massive 80+Mt warhead hiding somewhere unreported waiting for the right political shitshow

@borntoclimb7116

Жыл бұрын

True

@believer431

11 ай бұрын

​@@HeyovvRussia and China have 500kt+ weapons

So what you're telling me is I gotta get me more drywall 😮

Tsar bomba is powerful indeed, but too expensive for mass production.

@southtexasprepper1837

11 ай бұрын

Another problem is that it's too heavy (even with Modern Day Nuclear Bombers or Missiles) to carry towards its target. Nuclear Weapons have no real use in War.

@seymoorepoone9512

11 ай бұрын

Total destruction of enemy bases, harbors, railways and rail yards, population centers (no more replacement troops) power stations. Etc. Although capturing those things would serve greater purpose than total destruction.

Rasa penasaran ku selama ini dijawab dengan algoritma youtube. Ini kali pertama melihat visual perbandingan yang mudah dipahami

Cool music

"Kids, quickly get under a table"