Posted on 01/23/2021 7:34:29 AM PST by Onthebrink
I remember the Sovs saying they were going to make it 100 MT, but it was Sahkarov (I think) who suggested that was too big and that they scale it down by half.
I don’t think anyone makes them that big anymore. I know that the biggest we made was 15MT (Castle Bravo), and that was by accident.
We set off a few which were equivalent or bigger. Bikini H-bomb was 54 MT!
Wrong
Grossly wrong.
Go over to Facebook.
The limiting factor is the delivery system.
100kt seems to be the optimum size.
A 100MT bomb would need a SpaceX super-heavy to lift it.
Thought Castle Bravo ~15 MTs was the largest we ever detonated?
I remember that back then(1961). The US response was the bomb was too big and several smaller bombs hitting different targets could do more damage.
One of the bomb’s designers was Andrei Sakharov who would later become one of the leading Soviet dissidents.
There were hundreds if not thousands of above ground nuclear tests. And we’re still here. Nuclear war is survivable and winnable. Just ask the Chicoms.
BIG APOLOGIES. My mistake.
Facebook and other public sources don’t know squat.
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Now that FR is over 20 years old, we have a rare ability to view events from multiple points in time.
We had warheads and bombs that were 46 MT and higher in the 50s and 60s. Today’s weapons yields are classified.
True....but we only detonated one that was 15 MT and that was by accident. Right?
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Why would you feed the enemy crocodile?
And a single solar flare, if timed right, would unleash the destruction of MILLIONS of h-bombs if it struck the Earth directly.
How’s that for fear-mongering?
I distinctly remember this. It was even a source of a couple of test questions in civics class back in my high school days (yes, I am that old).
The only caveat that I have with the article is that while this was purported to be the largest yield hydrogen bomb ever tested, I doubt is was the largest bomb ever built. Just my $.02.
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