Tsar Bomba: The Largest and Greenest Nuclear Bomb Ever Tested
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Why the Soviets built such a massive bomb to begin with, and how it became one of the cleanest nuclear bombs ever detonated, why the inventor of the largest nuclear bomb received a peace prize from the inventor of dynamite, how manufacturing the bomb allegedly caused a shortage of women’s stocking in the Soviet Union, and why the yield of the bomb was cut in half in a last minute decision, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #long
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Fun fact: thanks to the Tsar Bomba, the human race was technically a type one civilization on the Kardashev scale, at least very briefly, as during the fraction of a second the bomb was exploding it was producing more energy than the Earth recieved from the Sun in the same time interval.
The fact that the airplane’s survival is a concern is crazy to think about.
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"And of course no more homeless people in San Francisco" and "Solve the housing crisis" killed me
Maybe you could talk about the small "tactical nuclear weapons" developed to replace normal explosive loads in missles, rockets, and bombs during the cold war. Great vids by the way.
They said "Bombs are dropped for war, but the biggest of the bombs are dropped for peace."
Bruh this guy is amazing he takes factual stuff and puts his own spin on it and that’s why he’s amazing
The Soviets really got some great quality footage of the whole process. And it's great that they shared it with the world, but I guess it was in their interest to share
By the time the Tsar Bomba was built it was already clear that thermonuclear explosives could be built practically as large as one wanted. There were also plans to use them, not as weapons, but to drag lakes, canals and bays. Of course the radioactive fallout, small as it could be made would still pose a problem. From the ethical point of view it certainly posed a problem if they were used as weapons. Sakharov was right to call a stop to the madness.
I've talked to two old dudes that was stationed on an airbase in Northern Norway when this happened and they were not told that it would happen naturally
Sakharov had huge Bomba-sized balls to defy the soviets and get away with it and even promote human rights. If they had listened to him earlier the soviets might even still be here.
"Inventor of the largest nuclear bomb received a peace prize from the inventor of Dynamite". That basically sums up the Nobel Prize, specially the peace prize.
"-No more homeless people in San Francisco". I had to think about that one for a second. I came to the conclusion, that those that live there, but were on vacation when this happened, indeed would've been pretty much homeless after an event like that. Not overthinking or anything, just a brief observation is all.
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Interesting how both Khrushchev and Oppenheimer, despite being the lead scientists in developing their respective "deadliest" weapon of mass destruction for their time, both eventually advocated against the further development of nuclear weapons. Ironic but noble nonetheless.
You gotta love the soviets💀
"They refrained from making the bomb explode to it's full potential, partly for the sake of the aircrew who would not get out in time..." [paraphrasing]
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I see Andrei Sakharov as the 'Oppenheimer' of the Soviet Union except he received the Nobel prize. They both have almost similar lives and similar views on the development of Nuclear weapons. Even passed away in their 60's of aged (Oppenheimer 62, Sakharow 68)