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Kitten Rapist  Registered Member #3 Joined: Mon Aug 13 2007, 01:28PMPosts: 102 | [ image disabled ] Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба, literally "Emperor Bomb") is the Western name for the RDS-220, which was the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had a yield of about 50 megatons of TNT and it was codenamed Ivan by its developers. The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961, in Novaya Zemlya, an archipelago in the Arctic Sea. The device was scaled down from its original design of 100 megatons to reduce the resulting nuclear fallout. The Tsar Bomba was flown to its test site by a specially modified Tu-95V release plane which took off from an airfield in the Kola peninsula, flown by Major Andrei E. Durnovtsev. The release plane was accompanied by a Tu-16 observer plane which took air samples and filmed the test. Both aircraft were painted with a special reflective white paint to limit heat damage. The bomb, weighing 27 tonnes, was so large (8 meters long by 2 m in diameter) that the Tu-95V had to have its bomb bay doors and fuselage fuel tanks removed. The bomb was attached to an 800 kilogram fall-retardation parachute, which gave the release and observer planes time to fly about 45 km from ground zero. (Failing such retardation, the bomb would have either reached its planned detonation altitude so fast it would have turned the test into a suicide mission, or it would have crashed into the ground at high speed, destroying the high-precision components required to produce a nuclear explosion.) The Tsar Bomba detonated at 11:32 a.m. on October 30th, 1961, located approximately at 73.85° N 54.50° E [3], over the Mityushikha Bay nuclear testing range (Sukhoy Nos Zone C), north of the Arctic Circle on Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Sea. The bomb was dropped from an altitude of 10,500 m; it was designed to detonate at a height of 4,000 m over the land surface (4,200 m over sea level) by barometric sensors. The original U.S. estimate of the yield was 57 Mt, but since 1991 all Russian sources have stated its yield as 50 Mt. Nonetheless, Khrushchev warned in a filmed speech to the Communist parliament of the existence of a 100 Mt bomb (technically the design was capable of this yield). The fireball touched the ground, reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane, and was seen and felt 1,000 km away. The heat from the explosion could have caused third degree burns 100 km away from ground zero. The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 60 km high (nearly seven times higher than Mount Everest) 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. Its Richter magnitude was about 5 to 5.25 Since 50 Mt is 2.1×1017 joules, the average power produced during the entire fission-fusion process, lasting around 39 nanoseconds, was a power of about 5.4×1024 watts or 5.4 yottawatts. This is equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun. The detonation of Tsar Bomba therefore qualifies as being the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity. By contrast, the largest weapon ever produced by the United States, the now-decommissioned B41, had a predicted maximum yield of 25 Mt, and the largest nuclear device ever tested by the U.S. (Castle Bravo) yielded 15 Mt (an accident due to a runaway reaction; the design yield was approximately 5 Mt).[5] Note the recent comparison with the asteroid impact which formed the Chicxulub Crater, an event larger than Tsar Bomba's yield by some six orders of magnitude, released an estimated 500 zettajoules (5.0×1023 joules) of energy, approximately 100 teratons of TNT, on impact. [ image disabled ] Comparative fireball radii for a selection of nuclear weapons, including the Tsar Bomba. Full blast effects extend many times beyond the fireball itself. Remember, this is just the fireball! [ Edited Thu Aug 16 2007, 03:28AM ] Want to Make $$$ with your Computer? No Risk! Simply press the "Shift" button 4 four times in a row! I should be given global mod status, not because I am unintellectual or biased. Just do it for the lulz. | ||
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 Registered Member #5 Joined: Tue Aug 14 2007, 09:07AMPosts: 158 | Novelty-sized destruction to the point of hilarity. Trev Wolf | ||
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| Kitten Rapist Registered Member #3 Joined: Mon Aug 13 2007, 01:28PMPosts: 102 | Very much. Want to Make $$$ with your Computer? No Risk! Simply press the "Shift" button 4 four times in a row! I should be given global mod status, not because I am unintellectual or biased. Just do it for the lulz. | ||
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   Registered Member #1 Joined: Tue Aug 07 2007, 05:15AMPosts: 207 | woo baby, who doesn't like big b00ms :P | ||
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 Registered Member #2 Joined: Sat Aug 11 2007, 02:44AMPosts: 106 | I like big booms, and I cannot lie. | ||
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| Registered Member #1 Joined: Tue Aug 07 2007, 05:15AMPosts: 207 | You other brothers can't deny | ||
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| Registered Member #5 Joined: Tue Aug 14 2007, 09:07AMPosts: 158 | That when a bomb drops in to your airspace And a blast radius in your face You get pwned Trev Wolf | ||
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| Registered Member #2 Joined: Sat Aug 11 2007, 02:44AMPosts: 106 | My anaconda don't want none Unless it's a megaton, hon. | ||
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| Kitten Rapist Registered Member #3 Joined: Mon Aug 13 2007, 01:28PMPosts: 102 | This is 50 megatons :O Want to Make $$$ with your Computer? No Risk! Simply press the "Shift" button 4 four times in a row! I should be given global mod status, not because I am unintellectual or biased. Just do it for the lulz. | ||
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| Registered Member #2 Joined: Sat Aug 11 2007, 02:44AMPosts: 106 | Yeah, but fifty megatons is hard to fit into the rhythm. | ||
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| Registered Member #1 Joined: Tue Aug 07 2007, 05:15AMPosts: 207 | ow no more song rhymes, it all got ruined now  sad w0r|d | ||
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| Registered Member #5 Joined: Tue Aug 14 2007, 09:07AMPosts: 158 | Fifty megaton and you ain't got none, hun. Trev Wolf | ||
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| Registered Member #2 Joined: Sat Aug 11 2007, 02:44AMPosts: 106 | Maybe for the best. Can't think of a good alternative for the chorus. Baby got flak? Time to attack? Hot off the rack? That shit is whack? I am way too white for this. | ||
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| Registered Member #1 Joined: Tue Aug 07 2007, 05:15AMPosts: 207 | yeah go out and get a tan white boy! | ||
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| Registered Member #5 Joined: Tue Aug 14 2007, 09:07AMPosts: 158 | Yeah honky! Trev Wolf | ||
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