Aug 31, 2020 21:00:00

Russia's state-owned nuclear power company publishes documentary footage of 'Tsar Bomba', the largest hydrogen bomb in history that was classified

Russia's state-owned nuclear power company,

Los Atom, has released on YouTube a documentary video of the largest hydrogen bomb in the human race history, the Tsar Bomba, which was also called the 'Bomb Emperor' that exploded in the 1961 experiment.

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The following is a video showing the Tsar Bomba explosion experiment released by Ross Atom. It is a documentary video of more than 40 minutes, and the video records the moment of the largest bomb explosion in history. In the video, the moment of the explosion of Tsar Bomba is captured from various angles, and it is difficult to fit the entire view of the mushroom cloud that occurs during the explosion in the frame, so the size of the explosion is large. You can see. Of course, it is said that the released video is edited so that the technical details of Tsar Bomba are not revealed.

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The Tsar Bomba, the largest hydrogen bomb in human history developed by the Soviet Union at the time, was officially named РДС-202 (RDS-220), a bomb designed to have a power of about 100 megatons in terms of TNT. is. It was not used as a weapon in actual warfare, but was used only in nuclear tests, and its power was limited to 50 megatons during the test. Still, it seems that it had about 3000 times the power of the Little Boy dropped in Hiroshima.

The Tsar Bomba was dropped during the test by a specially modified

Tu-95 strategic bomber. Tu-95 seems to have a special paint applied to minimize the effects of heat rays from the explosion. The Tsar Bomba attached to the center of the bottom of the aircraft was a huge hydrogen bomb with a total length of 26 feet (about 7.9 meters) and a height of 7 feet (about 2.1 meters), so the Tu-95 has some doors and some It was said that he succeeded in attaching the tsar bomba by removing the fuel tank.

The moment of the drop. Tsar Bomba was dropped above the Soviet territory Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean.

The Tsar Bomba is fitted with a parachute that allows the bomb-dropping Tu-95 more time to evacuate to the safe zone of the explosion. In addition, it seems that the deceleration parachute weighed 800 kg.

The count shows zero……

explosion

The entire area is dazzling with the dazzling light of the explosion.

A video of the Tu-95 cockpit that dropped the Tsar Bomba. At the moment of the explosion, the cockpit was filled with intense light.

State of hypocenter

The entire view of the explosion is not beautifully contained, only wrapped in intense light.

Seen from another angle, a powerful explosion rises above the clouds.

The moment of the explosion taken from above the clouds in the sky. This intense light was also able to be seen by a border guard in the mountain called Jafjorden in Troms-Ofinmark in northern Norway. In addition, it is said that the light at the moment of the explosion of Tsar Bomba could be confirmed even at a place about 620 miles (about 1000 km) away.

The bulk of the mushroom cloud spreads over the clouds.

Seen from another angle, it forms a wonderful mushroom cloud.

It seems that the height of this mushroom cloud reached 42 miles (about 68 km), which is about 7 times higher than Everest. Mushroom clouds are what form when an explosion produces bubbles of very hot gas. In the case of a nuclear explosion, the bomb emits X-rays, ionizing and heating the surrounding air. The fireball from the nuclear bomb rises high, hits the

tropopause interface , cannot expand upward, and spreads flat to form a mushroom shape.

However, it seems that the mushroom cloud formed by Tsar Bomba has passed through the stratosphere and expanded, and has reached the

mesosphere of the atmosphere above it.

Mushroom cloud printed out as a monochrome photograph.

The Tsar Bomba is a hydrogen bomb developed during the Cold War . Historian Robert S. Norris said in the New York Times , 'There was a fierce competition between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Both were trying to get bigger bombs and the Soviet Union. Has won the race.' Tsar Bomba was born in the race to develop a hydrogen bomb with the United States.

However, the United States gradually loses interest in the development of a huge hydrogen bomb. ``The value of the huge hydrogen bomb as a weapon is so questionable that the U.S. government decided it wasn't worth developing,'' said Roswell Kilpatrick, who was then Deputy Secretary of Defense in 1961. I am. In fact, since then, nuclear development in the United States has become smaller, and as a result, nuclear weapons can be transported by trucks and submarines.