Tsar Bomba is the big one.
The movie Trinity and Beyond is a good history of the nukes.
Narrated by William Shatner...
Not bad for a 60 year old bomb.
My father was on Enewetak for that one. Cancer eventuallu got him but it was years later and probably unrelated. I remember stories of the “Lucky Dragon” fishing boat.
Thank You for posting Beaversmom :)
Yeah that was suppose to be a 6 ton but it ended up being a 15 ton.
Check it out what the scientist that were observing it said.
The crazy part is that was in 1954, and it is still terrifying to this day. I am sure we have way better technology today.
Recreation, but always makes my hair stand up:
https://youtu.be/3wxWNAM8Cso
Oops, that sheath wasn’t inert after all.
She blowed up good!
Gives a person a great respect for the atom
Castle Bravo is what would result if a few cubic centimeters of the deep interior of the sun could be magically transported to a point on Earth’s surface.
That was the Ed Teller design. It was so big, the DoD called for a million+ pound thrust rocket engine to deliver it. That led to Von Braun's F1 engine, which led to the Moon landings. Take that, Commies.
US Army backpack/paratrooper little nukes intended for use tactically against Warsaw Pact. Everyone knows about the Davy Crockett small tripod nuke missile- same core weapon. These backpack ones were called Mark-54 SADMs, and developed by Sandia. Special Atomic Demolition Munition.
18’’ tall by maybe 12 or 14 cylinder with operator set timer (note: “Do not turn timer beyond 35 hours”- no reset button). Fit in a can inside a ballistic nylon case strapped/linked to a US Army paratrooper with HALO chute. So they insert para/glide to target (no gps back then), set the nuke (hard targets or widest dispersion against approaching mass troops) and depart the area— rapidly. Someone said, on the devices they were trained on-— it went “whirrrr, click” and the timer went “ding” like a toaster to zero (so, they inferred— “toast is ready, and it’s you”- it was a suicide mission if so tasked, and included, remove to a safe distance, and if device is being endangered- a rifle shot to a red steel plate target on the device would blow it, override the timer). Point being- even if one got away— the remaining populace
This, or something like it— should be, and, in view of “lost” former Soviet “backpacks” (that certainly were sold)— are out there somewhere. For our NEST teams- among the many things, to be concerned about crossing our Mex border. The various already discovered Pakis, cameroonian muslims, and many other possible— iranians without a doubt from Quds. Crazed 4th Century types, and the russian buddies obamaumao courted cash from— the “nuke deal”. Truly insane.
I hope we kept one of those back for the Mullahs . . .
Some of that footage (for certain the “triumphant mushroom cloud” scenes) is actually from the subsequent test of the Castle Romeo device, which was fired from a barge out in the lagoon, and subsequently turned into the Mark 17 bomb.