Atomic Bomb test with soldiers close by

[talisman]

For your consideration, The Atomic Cannon. That's right.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

For your consideration, The Atomic Cannon. That's right.

That thing is sitting on Ft Sill, had an opportunity to see it when I graduated basic. Pretty damned cool piece of artillery.

[talisman]

Badass!

[Darren M]

Saw that artillery on Military channel the other day. Freak'n scary!

[Pokulski-Blatz]

[Pokulski-Blatz]

[jw33]

Amazing we did this shit in the 1950's.

Atoms and math....

[Pokulski-Blatz]

[talisman]

Tsar Bomba supposedly affected the earths rotation on its axis. Crazy as shit.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

Tsar Bomba supposedly affected the earths rotation on its axis. Crazy as shit.

As I understand, the yield of that test was half was the bomb was designed to do.

[ram57ta]

As I understand, the yield of that test was half was the bomb was designed to do.

It was planned to be a 100mt with I believe 3 stages. Right before the firing one of the stages was disabled because they were afraid the bomber and the filming plane wouldn't be able to escape the fireball. It was 50mt when detonated. The heat from it would cause 3rd degree burns 62 miles from ground zero. Windows were blown out in Norway and Finland (over 500 miles from ground zero).

[Baba Ganoush]

We've detonated quite a few, and we're not alone....

[cobrajet69]

Quick fact: All those little squiggly smoke trails that appear in a lot of the test footage next to the mushroom clouds are put there on purpose. Right before they detonate a device they launch rockets that are evenly spaced so that the smoke trails can be used to help gauge the size of the explosion.

Also they actually piled up 1Kt of tnt and set it off so that they could have a baseline explosion in order to calculate the yeild of future weapons 1Kt and above.

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David

[quikag]

Yes, and this technology is over 50 years old. Imagine what we will see (or won't see) if North Korea does something very stupid with a nuclear device. Due to fallout area of conventional nukes and close proximity to South Korea, Japan, etc., I think it's quite possible some device triggers and half of NK ceases to exist and there is no residual effect to contaminate SK, Japan, et al. Crazy to try to comprehend.

[ceyko]

I cannot comprehend how powerful an explosion is when its blast wave goes around the world 3 times.