Tsar bomba

Wikimedia Commons A recreation of the Tsar Bomba. The idea was a simple one: create a nuclear bomb that could place the Soviet Union ahead of the United States in the nuclear arms race. The goal was to scare the rest of the world into submission, to make them fear the might of the Soviet Union. But the reality of Tsar Bomba was much more devastating than anyone imagined. Tsar Bomba was over 25 feet long and weighed almost 30 metric tons. It was similar in shape to the ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ bombs that the United States had used to devastate Hiroshima and Nagasaki fifteen years prior, but that was as far as the similarities went. It was too big to fit inside even the largest of Soviet aircraft and would need to be specially mounted to one to be taken to its drop site. The Tupolev, a large military aircraft designed to transport explosives, was selected to carry Tsar Bomba to its destination: the sparsely populated island of Novaya Zemlya, in the Barents Sea, north of Scandinavia and north-west of the USSR. A modified Tu-16 bomber would fly beside the Tupolev, ready to monitor air samples and film the blast. To give the planes a chance to survive, the Tsar Bomba would be dropped from a parachute, which would drift down to a predetermined height before detonating. Hopefully, by then, the two planes would be almost 30 miles away, at which their chance of survival would be at its highest — a mere 50 percent. All went according to plan until the bomb was dropped. Wikimedia C...

This was made clear on Feb. 27, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country's nuclear forces had been placed on "high alert," the Associated Press reported. The current situation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is a "nightmare scenario" brought to life. So, when Putin said his country's nuclear weapons were on high alert, what did he mean? Also, how many nuclear weapons exist, who has them, and how powerful are they? Nuclear weapons analysts estimate that the world's nine nuclear states — China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States — have around 13,000 nuclear warheads in total, according to the Arms Control Association. However, this estimate is based only on publicly available information; there could be many more that states have not disclosed. "We know which countries have nuclear weapons, but we don't necessarily know how many nuclear weapons they have; Israel, for instance, does not publicly acknowledge its program," Anne Harrington, a senior lecturer in international relations at Cardiff University in the U.K., told Live Science. "The number of nuclear weapons China has is also a major subject of debate." How many nuclear weapons are out there? Since the end of the Cold War, both the U.S. and Russia have reduced their respective nuclear arsenals, and their nuclear stockpiles are far smaller than they were at their height. In 1967, the United States had 31,225 nuclear ...

A screenshot of the NUKEMAP tool created by Alex Wellerstein showing the impacts of a hypothetical nuclear detonation of the "Tsar Bomba" weapon on New York City and the surrounding areas. NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ / Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox The simulation estimates the potential number of deaths and injuries resulting from any given blast, as well as a rough model of where any nuclear fallout will spread and the dimensions of the mushroom cloud. In the simulator description, Wellerstein said the aim of the educational tool was to help people visualize the impact of nuclear weapons in simple terms in order to help them gain an understanding of the scale of these blasts. "We live in a world where nuclear weapons issues are on the front pages of our newspapers on a regular basis, yet most people still have a very bad sense of what an exploding nuclear weapon can actually do," Wellerstein said in a statement on the simulator website. "Some people think they destroy everything in the world all that once, some people think they are not very different from conventional bombs. The reality is somewhere in between: nuclear weapons can cause immense destruction and huge losses of life, but the effects are still comprehendible on a human scale." Stock image showing a U.S. Navy nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The NUKEMAP simulator shows what would happen if a nuclear bomb detonated near you....

The Tsar Bomba Type Place of origin Production history Designer Julii Borisovich Khariton, Andrei Sakharov, Victor Adamsky, Yuri Babayev, Yuri Smirnov, and Yuri Trutnev No. built 1 (plus one mock bomb) Specifications Mass 27,000 kilograms (60,000 lb) Length 8 metres (26 ft) Diameter 2.1 metres (6.9 ft) Blast yield 50 to 58 megatons of TNT (210 to 240 PJ) Coordinates: 73°48′26″N 54°58′54″E / 73.80722°N 54.98167°E / 73.80722; 54.98167 Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба; "Tsar Bomb") is the nickname for the AN602 Kuz'kina Mat' (Russian: Кузькина мать, Kuzka's mother), The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum, Sarov (Arzamas-16), and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, Many names are attributed to the Tsar Bomba in the literature: Project 7000; product code 202 (Izdeliye 202); article designations RDS-220 (РДС-220), RDS-202 (РДС-202), RN202 (PH202), AN602 (AH602); codename Vanya; nicknames Big Ivan, Tsar Bomba, Kuz'kina Mat'. The term "Tsar Bomba" was coined in an analogy with two other massive Russian objects: the Tsar Kolokol (Tsar Bell) and the Contents • 1 Design • 2 Test • 3 Analysis • 4 Films • 5 See also • 6 References • 7 External links Design [ ] Site of the detonation A Tsar Bomba-type casing on display at Sarov The Tsar Bomba was a three-stage 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, and 10% of the combined yield of all nuclear tests to date. A three-stage H-bomb uses a The initial three-stage design w...

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" " Tsar Bomba, the largest and most powerful nuclear bomb ever created, shown here in a photo from the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum in Sarov, was detonated in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in October 1961. TASS/Getty Images On Oct. 30, 1961, a specially equipped Soviet Tu-95 bomber flew toward Novaya Zemlya, a remote chain of islands in the But this wasn't just a routine nuclear test. Attached to the underside of the plane was a thermonuclear bomb that was so big it wouldn't fit inside the normal interior bomb bay. The cylindrical device was 26 feet (8 meters) long and weighed nearly 59,525 pounds (27 metric tons). The nuclear bomb had the prosaic official name of izdeliye 602 ("item 602"), but it's gone down in history with the nickname of Tsar Bomba — the Russian way of calling it the emperor of nuclear bombs. That name was no exaggeration. Tsar Bomba's yield is estimated to have been roughly 57 megatons, about On that day in 1961, it was released on a parachute in order to slow its descent and give the bomber and its crew and observer planes time to escape. When the giant bomb In Soviet towns 100 miles (160 kilometers) from ground zero, wooden houses were After being largely forgotten for many years, Tsar Bomba was back in the news in August 2020, when Russian state nuclear power company A Soviet cameraman who recorded the event Tsar Bomba's test was symbolic of the escalating tensions between the Soviets and the U.S. at the height of the Cold War. After a June 1961 su...

Hydrogen bombs are so destructive, their impact has been described The 40-minute documentary, which was posted on The Soviet Union tested the 50-million-ton hydrogen bomb, officially named RDS-220 and nicknamed Tsar Bomba, in late October 1961, Matthew Gault reports for “There was a megatonnage race — who was going to have a bigger bomb,” atomic age historian Robert S. Norris tells the The bomb was 26 feet long and almost seven feet tall. It was so large that engineers had to modify the bomber aircraft used to carry it by removing the plane’s bomb bay doors and some of its fuel tanks, according to Vice. The documentary adds to other information that Russia has declassified, but nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein tells the New York Times that the video carefully avoids revealing technical details “despite appearing to show the innards.” The bombers used a parachute to slow Tsar Bomba’s descent to Earth so that they could detonate it relatively high in the atmosphere and reduce its impact on the ground, according to the video. But the blast created a mushroom cloud 42 miles high, about seven times the height of Mount Everest. "A mushroom cloud forms when an explosion creates a very hot bubble of gas. In the case of a nuclear detonation, the bomb emits a blast of x-rays, which ionize and heat the surrounding air; that hot bubble of gas is known as a fireball,” Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist David Dearborn told “The fireball from an H-bomb rises so high that ...