The world's largest nuclear weapon ever constructed and detonated was the Soviet's [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_bomb"]Tsar Bomba[/a]. Click the pic to play the video. Awesome.
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[/a][/p] [blockquote][em]The fireball touched the ground, reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane, and was seen 1,000 km away. The heat could have caused third degree burns at a distance of 100km (60 miles). The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 60 km high and 30–40 km wide. The explosion could be seen and felt in Finland, even breaking windows there. Atmospheric focusing caused blast damage up to 1,000 km away. The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the earth.[/em][/p] [em]Since 50 Mt is 2.1×1017 joules, the average power produced during the entire fission-fusion process, lasting around 3.9×10-8 seconds or 39 nanoseconds, was a power of about 5.3×1024 watts or 5.3 yottawatts. This is equivalent to approximately 1% of the energy output of the Sun during the same fraction of a second. The detonation of Tsar Bomba therefore qualifies, even to this day, as being the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity.[/em][/p] [/blockquote] [a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16cewjeqNdw"]Link[/a]
simply amazing but truly scary.
video was revealing.
imagine a couple of those lighting up the southern plains of afghanistan or the deep underground nuclear facilities of iran.
imagine.
soapbox wrote:
simply amazing but truly scary.
video was revealing.
imagine a couple of those lighting up the southern plains of afghanistan or the deep underground nuclear facilities of iran.
imagine.[/DIV]
that is positivly frighting , i shudder to think of such things
but i would love to find the documentery on this ... in full not the 3 min clip
"imagine a couple of those lighting up the southern plains of afghanistan or the deep underground nuclear facilities of iran.
imagine."
...you may say that I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.[/DIV]
Orik wrote:
but i would love to find the documentery on this ... in full not the 3 min clip
Try these links:
[a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba[/a]
[a href="http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html"]http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html[/a]
[a href="http://www.vce.com/tsar.html"]http://www.vce.com/tsar.html[/a]