Posted on 01/23/2021 7:34:29 AM PST by Onthebrink
The 20th century saw the development of many weapons that could have ended civilization as we know it, but nothing compares to the potentially devastating power of the Soviet Union‘s epic “Tsar Bomba.” It will be remembered as the most powerful nuclear bomb ever built, and it had a blast that was more powerful than 50 million tons of TNT.
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Why exactly are you posting this again? You posted this yesterday as well. I know because I did a search and 2 came up, both posted by you yesterday, and again today.
One might be able to survive a nuclear war, but not all the nuclear power plants melting down. That would be a real killer and I doubt very many in the US would survive that.
One might be able to survive a nuclear war, but not all the nuclear power plants melting down. That would be a real killer and I doubt very many in the US would survive that.
Opps, sorry
The Tsar Bomba was designed as a three stage fission-fusion-fission device. The final stage was a depleted uranium tamper and casing. This was replaced with lead to decrease the amount of radioactive fallout. As it turned out, the Tsar Bomba was very "clean."
Removing the third stage reduced the yield from an expected 100 MT to 50 MT. The bomb was an act of political intimidation against the US. It was never meant to be deployed.
I noticed it had a cameo in the latest episode of The Stand (EP6)
The largest in the world, it's said.
When I was taking my first oral exam when I was getting my Senior Reactor Operator's license (after submarine nuclear navy), we got into a question about a single fuel assembly standing on the ground in Charleston, SC and I started driving toward it from Columbia, SC.
He liked the answer that I would NEVER get to Charleston alive due to the intense radiation from spent fuel rods in the air. But of course you could go out to the spent fuel pool and look at numerous spent fuel assemblies under water and that was perfectly safe.
We set some serious big ones off under ground. There is lots they will not tell you. Variable yield and new technology has done amazing things for N weps technology.
The actual yield was higher than estimated because there was a cross-section in one of the components (lithium or deuterium, I can’t recall which) which either was unknown at the time or had a larger value than measured (estimated). The fallout blanket contaminated the one Japanese fishing vessel which resulted a few fatalities. The blast also trapped some of our people in an observation bunker in a nearby island.
How many times do we need this crappy, old-news, click-bait-generator article posted on FR?
You are right about the nuclear power plants. Even absent a nuclear war natural disasters can make nuclear power dangerous. When scientists tried to figure out where all the nuclear fuel from the Fukaskima power plant was they determined it was scattered all over Japan and in the sea.
Which series and which shot?
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