Russian Hydrogen Tsar Bomba Most Powerful Bomb Ever Tested
Tested October 31, 1961…
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Looked like an airburst.
August 24th, 2008 at 3:08 amIt looked like CG to me.
The russians barely had color film back then, and it was of such low resolution, that you almost couldn’t read a streetsign from more than 10 feet away.
August 24th, 2008 at 7:13 amIt was supposed to be about 50 megatons.
August 24th, 2008 at 7:32 amIs that for real?? It just looks to perfect…..

August 24th, 2008 at 8:24 amTwo years later the test ban treaty was signed by JFK. That meant that atomic R&D went digital and supercomputing became extremely important to the government. For a while there was a calculator gap between the US and USSR, we had desk top calculators and they had slide rulers. Thats pretty important when it comes to missile trajectories and atomic physics, so the USSR was very eager to buy American calculators and reverse engineer them. I can only imagine what our most powerful weapon designed on supercomputers would be capable of.
August 24th, 2008 at 10:38 amThat was Perrrty.
August 24th, 2008 at 12:05 pmThat’s the most beautiful thin I’ve ever seen . . .
August 24th, 2008 at 12:26 pmThat’s CGI. The real 50-megaton bomb was aircraft-deliverable, and the film footage of the drop was included in “Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie.”
August 24th, 2008 at 12:38 pmWell, if you have to go, I want to go that way.
August 24th, 2008 at 1:12 pm@18 sec. does anyone else see the face of a human skull on the right side of the mushroom cap?
August 24th, 2008 at 5:21 pmKinda looked like Elvis to me
August 24th, 2008 at 6:26 pmLooks like the gates of hell truely openend for a moment in time just to be shut back again. May none of us ever have to see such a thing in reality.
August 24th, 2008 at 6:42 pmCG. Got fooled on that one bud.
August 24th, 2008 at 7:40 pmThe actual blast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxD44HO8dNQ
August 25th, 2008 at 5:01 am