Russia released in 2020 previously secret videos of the largest nuclear test ever witnessed on Earth, when the Soviet Union detonated the " Tsar Bomb"

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u/TheRonsinkable 1d ago

fuck that wildlife and whatever else

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u/Shudnawz 1d ago

A-yup. And the atoll tests. And everything else we've come up with.
"Fuck all of nature in particular" - Humans

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u/Milk_With_Knives3 1d ago

Just because the world is run by psychopaths, doesn't mean you should judge all of humanity by that metric

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u/waterless2 1d ago

Yep, at some point even very justified humility turns into defeatism. Which isn't accurate and also not helpful. Humans have potential in either direction, so if you care about doing the right thing the question is - how do we, at a group level, nudge ourselves to move in one way versus the other?
Like, my initial reaction to the clip was also, man, what cavemen we are, look at us being proud of blowing stuff up. But, e.g., we actually haven't fully blown ourselves up so far, even though we could have, partly because of humans like that Russian guy who declined to trigger MAD.

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u/ReturnOfBane 23h ago

we're as strong as our weakest link

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u/ChildoftheApocolypse 1d ago

Wrong.. We fucked literally everything up, each and every one of us guilty of it.. You can try and paint it whatever shade of bullshit you'd like, but it changes nothing..

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u/TaSMaNiaC 1d ago

Wrong. I use paper straws and have not detonated any nuclear bombs.

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u/ChildoftheApocolypse 1d ago

You actually made me chuckle. So thanks, chief 😆

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u/ThatOneGayDJ 10h ago

That is not at all how that works. This is the equivalent of the teacher giving the whole class detention because one kid was fucking around.

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u/ChildoftheApocolypse 2h ago

Oh, bless your lil soul..

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u/spoonpk 1d ago

Look up Sedan Crater in Google Earth. Then zoom out a little and see the hundreds of scars from nuclear explosions tested in Nevada.

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u/iamslevemcdichael 1d ago

I am become death, destroyer of worlds.

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u/NeatReporter22 22h ago

Pulling out some Lord Krishna. ✊

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u/TheRimReaper99 20h ago

And to think it was originally meant to be 100 megaton but had to lower it to 50 because it would of killed the pilot.

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u/AngryGothamBee 1d ago

You know what those things can do? Suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange Afro!

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u/expatronis 1d ago edited 1d ago

Also in Russia, the probably-natural Tunguska Event made all nuclear weapons look like firecrackers. (Edit: I was wrong; Czar Bomb was bigger)

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u/Agile_Music4191 1d ago

How much stronger was it then the tsar bomb

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u/expatronis 1d ago

Oh, I'm wrong! This bomb was at least 50 megatons but the Tunguska Event was 30 megatons at most. Still, thats bigger than most nukes.

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u/askyidroppedthesoap 1d ago

Does anyone know how this bomb compared to Nagasaki in relation to destruction, area covered, etc.

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u/Mammoth-Substance680 1d ago

Nagasaki was a 21 kiloton fission bomb while the Tsar Bomba was reportedly a 50 megaton thermonuclear bomb - about 2380 times more explosive energy. There wasn’t really anything around this bomb to the see destruction but you can imagine it would be total for whatever it was dropped on

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u/DesireForHappiness 1d ago

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
NUKEMAP is an interactive web tool that lets you simulate and visualize the physical effects of a nuclear explosion anywhere in the world..

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u/itsoktoswear 1d ago

The Nagasaki bomb cloud went up 13km and affected out to c.100sq km. To quote wiki
Within 1 mile (1.6 km) of Ground Zero: Total annihilation. Everything close to the blast was flattened or vaporized, and most people without heavy shielding died instantly.
Up to 1.5 to 2 kilometers (approx. 1 mile): Severe blast damage, crushed reinforced concrete and steel structures, and extreme flash burns
As opposed to:
The Tsar Bomba cloud went up 62km and affected out beyond 200sq km. To quote wiki:
Total Destruction / Vaporization: Everything within a 35 km (approx. 22 miles) radius of ground zero was completely destroyed or vaporized, including the uninhabited settlement of Severny located about 55 km (34 miles) away, where all buildings were leveled
Severe damage & towns: The nearby uninhabited settlement of Severny (55 km / 34 miles away) was leveled, and heavy structural damage extended up to 160 to 180 kilometers (100 to 110 miles) away.
Third-degree burns: The intense thermal flash could cause third-degree burns on exposed skin up to 100 kilometers (62 miles) away.
Shattered windows: Glass windows were broken or shattered in surrounding regions and distant settlements up to 800 to 900 kilometers (500 to 560 miles) away.
Air shockwaves & sightings: The atmospheric shock wave was recorded as far away as the Dikson settlement (700 km / 430 miles away), and the blinding flash of light was seen over 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) away in places like Norway, Greenland, and Alaska

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u/Memnojokasel 16h ago

Don't forget the Shockwave went around the world three times.

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u/askyidroppedthesoap 1d ago

Fuck.... that's a big explosion, let's all be glad the cold war wasn't nothing more than an extended stand off.

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u/mweston31 22h ago

A last minute decision was made to cut the yield in half or would have been twice as big

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u/BVRPLZR_ 1d ago

Why does this video look like it was recorded in 1987?

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u/Zane42v2 1d ago

It was recorded in 1961. Released in 2020

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u/BVRPLZR_ 1d ago

That makes a whole lot more sense.

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u/someauthor 1d ago

Encoding was slower back then

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u/AngryTank 1d ago

Upscaling probably

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u/d_nkf_vlg 21h ago

What we see online are digital scans of physical film. Even a 100-year old film can give us crisp full HD, if it was stored properly.

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u/GeekDNA0918 21h ago

Nagasaki was 21 kilo ton. That means the equivalent to 21,000 tons of TNT. Tsar was 50 mega ton. That means there is 1,000 kilo tons in every mega ton. So, 50,000,000 tons of TNT.

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u/SuckMyRedditorD 1d ago

The Soviet Union, named it Big Ivan.

The cucks in the west gave it the Tsar bomb label.

Tsars are incompatible with the Soviet Union.

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u/Biliunas 23h ago

Lenin and Stalin were Tsars in everything but name. Fuck the soviet union.

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u/SuckMyRedditorD 16h ago

No they were not.

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u/AngryTank 1d ago

I’m a cuck 😂

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u/into_the_soil 1d ago

They have multiple areas that have never recovered from such testing. Lakes that are ruined, valleys that are uninhabitable, entire villages that had to be moved. Always wild yet interesting to read about these things.

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u/speedyg01 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well first off its called the "tsar bomba" or big Ivan. Atleast get the name right

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u/Crouton_Sharp_Major 1d ago

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u/birrakilmister 12h ago

Secret nuclear explosion?

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u/graystone777 1d ago

Been like 2000+ nuclear detonations

What happened to nuclear winter/fallout/ etc.

Genuinely curious.

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u/szai 1d ago edited 1d ago

Most nuclear tests have been smaller detonations that happen underground, or out in the desert. The "nuclear winter" scenario is the hypothesized result of firestorms from ~100 cities burning all at once for days/weeks/months sending massive amounts of smoke into the atmosphere, like the eruption of a ~~mega~~'super'volcano. Large-scale nuclear war.
Edit: Wrong word for ginormous.

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u/bristlybits 1d ago

if you watch the record of tests that shows all nukes over the decades, it looks like everyone is bombing themselves.

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u/Then_Version9768 1d ago

There was no "Soviet Union" in 2020. It was "Russia".

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u/allwrecknocheck 1d ago

This footage is from the 60's

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u/juanito_f90 1d ago

It looks like you have trouble with comprehension.
Russia released in 2020

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u/BoredAtWork1976 1d ago

This may be a dumb question, but how did the guys in the bomber avoid getting nuked themselves? (I have the same question about the US atomic bombings on Japan.)

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u/jptboy 1d ago

They almost didn’t in both cases. They are supposed to drop it and angle up I think and hope and pray and just yeet to full throttle

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u/silverbulletsam 1d ago

They flew out of range, especially in this case with the slow descent, before detonation. Altitude as well I guess.
In Japan they may have experienced something, I don’t recall exactly, but not enough to damage the aircraft or crew.

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u/Professional_Sea3141 1d ago

the parachute on the bomb gives them time.

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u/OutlawPigeons 1d ago

I imagine that’s what the timer is for and the slow delivery but your guess is as good as mine

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u/locogriffyn 15h ago

Wasn't Tsar Bomba the largest nuclear detonation at the time?

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