scientists at los alamos national laboratory are reporting that computers have successfully simulated the beginning of a hydrogen bomb blast in full-scale 3d. this is the first time that a computer has succeeded in creating this simulation and marks a major step toward replacing underground nuclear test blasts. the simulations took 42 days to run using super-fast computers at the los alamos labs in new mexico.
read more at fairfax.com.
it's great to see computers being put to such good use. computers today have become a major part of most people's lives and nearly everyone has contact with a computer at some time during their day.
i hope people see this news and realize that computers are a powerful tool that can be used for practical purposes. after all, even before the latest computer simulations, scientists created two dimensional computer simulations and then tested their theories with real underground tests. every bomb that doesn't go off in the world today is a good thing, and it is great that computers can prevent the need for such actions.
the computer used was apparently capable of performing “1.6 trillion” calculations per second, according to the article. with computing power like that, what other useful applications do you think they will be put to use for?
user comments (444 comments)
mixed feelings (9:13am est fri jul 21 2000)
i'm of two minds on this article. i mean, i agree with chris that this is an example of “computers being put to good use”, as “every bomb less that goes off in the world today is a good thing”. however, at the same time, i would be much happier if they simply weren't doing any bomb test of any kind, real or simulated. but, if they feel the strange macho need to blow things up to prove their national penis size, i suppose i'd rather have it done in computer simulations than in reality.
– by rary
common sense (9:28am est fri jul 21 2000)
they needed a computer to figure out that a hydrogen bomb blows stuff up? duhh, i thought that was pretty aparent. – by mortdoggg
boot me up !! (10:29am est fri jul 21 2000)
i agree with everyone. it sucks, but if you're gonna do it, simulate it.
can someone show me where the quake3.exe file is?
but seriously… other simulations might involve the stock market and still this comp seems a little too heavy weight. perhaps with some really specific and complicated instructions they can run projections of the earth's eco/biosystem in 200 years. they could solve space system problems. the advancement of genetic engineering and furthur studies of dna.
or there could be some eccentric connoseuir with a clown's smile installing quake right now… – by eddy
just another day around the way… (10:31am est fri jul 21 2000)
wow, not only do computers launch these bombs but now we can actually look at the mass destruction they cause over and over again before the real killing starts. all this is going to do is advance the creation and of even worse killing machines. but i guess if bombs have to be tested i'd rather have it on some computer rather than underground or water like the french did off the coast of australia. – by soothsayer
you're all pesimistic… (10:40am est fri jul 21 2000)
is everything negative for you folks? take a chill pill… it's not about bombs, it's about energy. supposedly the world's supply of fossil fuels (or is it petroleum – or is that the same thing) will be used up by about 2050… what happens then? back to the flinstone-mobile i guess…. or maybe (here's a crazy thought) we use technology to make other very useful technological advances (you have to take the good with the bad). – by god™
re: you're all pesimistic… (11:18am est fri jul 21 2000)
i think i'll agree with god here because you do have to take the good with the bad. hydrogen bomb powered cars;) it could happen.
oh yeah i will install q3 on it – by joker
bombs are good (11:33am est fri jul 21 2000)
bombs allow us to terminate people that oppose our country's freedom instead of citizens. kaboomie
would you rather have a bomb kill or you kill? – by saper
emmm…. unreal tourny. (11:52am est fri jul 21 2000)
1.6 calculations per second?
run ut or quake3 in software rendering mode, and compare it to some benchmarks of an athlon tbird 1ghz, oc'd to 1.1ghz, with a geforce2 or radeon oc'd, 1gg of ddr sdram, and evil-fast uw-scsi hds at low resolution, low detail.
as far as bombs are concerned- instead of being pessimistic, let's be realists. people are going to continue making better and more efficient ways of killing each other – computer simulations or not.
first we had a rock.. then we had a club.. then we had clubs with spikes… it just goes on..
– by quakesucksdude
emmm…. unreal tourny. (11:53am est fri jul 21 2000)
1.6 calculations per second?
run ut or quake3 in software rendering mode, and compare it to some benchmarks of an athlon tbird 1ghz, oc'd to 1.1ghz, with a geforce2 or radeon oc'd, 1gg of ddr sdram, and evil-fast uw-scsi hds at low resolution, low detail.
as far as bombs are concerned- instead of being pessimistic, let's be realists. people are going to continue making better and more efficient ways of killing each other – computer simulations or not. so why don't we run bleem in the background while playing gran turismo 2.. ;-)
– by quakesucksdude
strange man walking (12:15pm est fri jul 21 2000)
i say that every country should buila a virtual city… then whoever develops the most powerful weapon tests it out virtually. the winner gets to use more people in the second wave (which is foot soldiers (controlled by people using their comps at home) than the other country… we the put the sides against each other in unreal tourney using that nice little system up there as the server….
just for fun, afterwards, said weapon can be developped and used to completely obliterate the people in said losing country so the invasion can take place… this is good for soooo many reasons:
puts fast computers to use
gives gamers something to do
less money has to be put into the military since the “recruits” would use their home pc
lowers the over population problem
who's with me?! :) – by not really the nerd
why are we will testing nuclear bombs (12:44pm est fri jul 21 2000)
i think everyone knows that nuclear bombs blow up, and can kill lots of people. why do we still need tests? they going to keep testing until 1 bomb can blow up the whole world. if a nuclear war breaks our we are all f***ed, there isn't going to be a winner. there has got a better use for that computer, just think how many seti units that thing could process :) – by www.iamnotageek.com
testing of nuclear weapons (1:28pm est fri jul 21 2000)
nuclear weapons tests are necessary because bomb grade material degrades over time. we may have bombs that are decades old. if no one tests them, how will we know if they will work? how do we know that they are still safe to store? i like the idea of simulated testing. live testing seems to have been a sticking point in many arms control agreements. this way we can ban live testing, but still be able to determine whether or not our nations stockpile of nuclear weapons is safe.
one thing that struck me is that the computer used was capable of 1.6 trillion calculations per second, yet it took 46 days to run the simulation. there must be a massive amount of data being processed here. – by porsche
remember (2:36pm est fri jul 21 2000)
a comment above reminded me of a star trek (original series) episode where wars are fought by computer simulation. then the computer reports the number of people killed and each side agrees to kill that many real people on their side. this way all the culture (buildings, art, etc.) are preserved. when will we devise such a sophisticated system? i don't care about millions dying, but ruin the met? that's outrageous! – by john
umm? (3:06pm est fri jul 21 2000)
degrading bombs can't be simulated. too many random elements 99% of which we don't even know about cause hell, we haven't had these materials (this refined) to study until early 20th century.
using these simulations to develop better ways to split an atom (more controlled) gives us the ability to develop cleaner/more efficient/cheaper/and more importantly less dangerous methods for creating energy. hell, we will one day be able to buy a nuclear explosion in a small glass container (as a gift in your local mall). even if the glass were to break the radiation would be so controlled, it would simply degrade before you could do any harm to yourself. this would be dope imo.
so, that said, the future is dependent on these studies.
– by -rit
forget nukes (4:39pm est fri jul 21 2000)
i say we just forget the nukes, and have the leader of each country have it out in the ring. that way millions of lives will be saved, and we dont have to deal with the threat of mass destruction. just a thought….. – by adam
bfg errrr bfb i guess (5:33pm est fri jul 21 2000)
i say, if they're gonna do it. it's better done on a computer, underground… :-) who knows what happens when they're blowin up those things underground…. glow in the dark ground water? teenage mutant pocket gophers? who knows…
sure, you could install q3 on that box… but, i bet they got a 28.8 in there.. haha, at least it probably can't be a winmodem…*shudders* – by the_tonto
look at yourselves people… (5:33pm est fri jul 21 2000)
it's funny to look at this thread and see the pattern of thought among the 'general public' (not that any of you are general in any way ;). we're all just animals with a very hungry appetite for blood. very few people care to think about the positive… it's all about destruction and war (and boxing?)… whatever happened to cleaner fuel, flying cars, science…
ah well… i still like to play my unreal tourney… looks like i'll still be an animal for quite some time… (i like to set the gibbs (body parts) on max on my system! yay bloodlust! wooo hoooo!!) – by god™
god… (5:35pm est fri jul 21 2000)
god, why do did you create lag?
why did you create newbies?
why did you create macs?
why haven't you smoted billy boy yet?
– by the_tonto
nukes (12:20pm est sat jul 22 2000)
we know a lot more about the fine structure of the atom than what, apparently, the people that post here do. degradation of the education system over time perhaps? someone posted the comment that they could be studying the reaction for future energy needs. probably. a more general expanation would be that they are studying for scientific needs. for instance, the reaction is our sun is a controlled nuclear fusion reaction. that reaction going to someday cease. not to worry though. the earth, for that matter the solar system, and everything in it will be roasted to a cinder long before the lights go out. wouldn't be nice if they figured out a way to prolong the demise of the sun? by the way, it's estimated that the sun will continue like it is for a billion or so years.
i say that any use of a computer by researchers is a good thing. – by ice
the end is near my brothers (7:22pm est sat jul 22 2000)
this is one of the sign of the world passing away,
i have seen the rise of computers and the beginning of the anticrist i have see the wicked nations and the porno i have seen satan and his powerful wicked powers with his demons and i have seen how powerful god's power is.
i have seen the gangs and i am a good computer technican and this world is passing away! – by yahweh servant warns
pictures (8:50am est mon jul 24 2000)
where's the fuckin' piccies? those useless cunts at fairfax didn't give us any. cunts!!! – by jim
mediation (8:53am est mon jul 24 2000)
the standard of mediation on this site is fucking awful………… – by jims mum
yeah pictures (9:00am est mon jul 24 2000)
1.6 trillion” calculations per second, whoppie dooo, but where are the fucking pictures? bloody useless if you ask me. – by concerned friend
thanks yahweh servant… (3:32pm est mon jul 24 2000)
“i have seen how powerful god's power is”
i'm glad someone appreciates me for what i am capable of… :) – by god™
bomb making must continue. (3:44pm est mon jul 24 2000)
i support the construction of ever larger and more powerful bombs. i think that future development of hydrogen bombs should be an international effort to develop an h-bomb with well over 100 megatons in yield, and the more the better. the reason for this has nothing at all to do with political power – it's about survival. a day will come before our sun goes out when some giant space rock, 20+ miles in diameter, will come hurling out of deep space at us. such an encounter will obliterate the earth the way mars was snuffed out eons ago. when that day comes, it will be the greatest irony in all of history that the weapons we conceived for mass murder were the only things that could save us. because fusion is the only force of nature we can employ practically that has the energy necessary to deflect an object of such incredible mass and momentum. – by my2cents
bomb the asteroid… (7:22pm est mon jul 24 2000)
wouldn't that size of a bomb blow the whole thing up into 'little' bits, and eventually shower us with space rocks? i'm thinking they'd use a very powerful rocket(s) to push the whole thing over past us… of course, i'm sure the rocket will be nuclear powered in some way, so you're still right… the bomb testing must go on… – by god™
|too little too late. (5:32pm est tue jul 25 2000)
yes, the asteroid would most likely be blown to bits – many of them reaching us and causing mass destruction, this is agreed. as for using rockets to push an asteroid away, that is only an option if we have sufficient time to use such a system. ideally, we would have a few years lead time to make the attempt, but the current fear concerns these very dark cabonatious (sp?) comets and asteroids, which are black as coal. because they reflect so little light, and because of the inadequacy of our early warning system, it is possible that we would not have more than a few months or weeks of warning. in this worst case scenario, there would not be enough time for the “one mousepower” technique to work. now i grant you that blowing up a 20 mile rock is going to create (literally) tons of debris that will undoubtedly cause mass destruction and loss of life – but the alternative is the end of all life forever. what world governments should do (imho) is to deploy an array of satellite bots that do nothing but scan the sky for incoming comets and rocks, and that this system should be backed up by a moon orbiting emergency response interceptor rocket equipped with an h-bomb the size of the qe2. it may sound outlandish, but remember during the cold war the soviets had a mad scheme to build a fission bomb out of an oil freighter to be kept at sea – ready to irradiate the earth in case they lost an atomic war (fortunately they had the good sense not to build this!). having such a device flying in space is not a pleasant prospect. however, in view of the threat, a gigantic fusion bomb is a relatively small and weak force as such things are measured – on the scale of planets, stars, and whatnot. and, in the end even a giant bomb may not be enough… – by my2cents
|burning up (6:26pm est tue jul 25 2000)
if we blow up a 20 mile wide asteroid into small enough chunks, won't those smaller chunks burn up in the atmosphere? just send up a few cluster bombs to make sure it's cut into lots of pieces and we could be in decent shape. – by tobo gang
|manchester (10:42am est wed jul 26 2000)
why not just test them on manchester (england)? – by die manc die
|hydrogen love (2:39pm est wed jul 26 2000)
maybe we could jump start jupiter into a baby sun?
develope a blackhole or two as well.
we are pissants in the big picture, and have a very good chance of pissing ourselves out.
my guess is a %.000001 chance of survival as a species in the long run. – by show me the big one
|celebrities nuking asteroids (8:10pm est wed jul 26 2000)
in the event we do have blow up an asteroid with a 900 gigazillion-ton warhead, could we collectively compile a list of celebrities that would be sacrificed for the rest of humanity? (of course the cast of our last two comet movies would be on the list by default).
– by heywangnooffense
|bombs (11:34am est sat jul 29 2000)
in case you didn't know, the russians built a 100 megaton bomb back in '61. the lil' dude's name happened to be “tsar bomba” (“king of bombs”). strategically, the bomb was useless, but khruschev wanted it to scare us. fortunately, the thing was tested to yeild “only” 50 megatons. more info can be found at http://www.enviroweb.org/issues/nuketesting/hew/russia/sovwarhead.html
perhaps you haven't realized that these bombs are miniature stars. they do exactly what a star does, combine 2 hydrogen atoms into 1 helium. the tiny amount of mass lost is convered to energy (and lots of it). if this technology pans out, you could (simplistically) see entire cities powered by one power plant whose only intake is water and whose only waste is heluim and oxygen. sounds friggin' amazing to me. – by fusionrxn
|computer simulated atomic bomb blast's (5:23am est mon jul 31 2000)
this string gets pretty far out, but getting back to the real reason, it's called science if we don't explore what would happen to the human race the way we are raping this planet and all it's resources.we must explor any new possibility's. – by cyberinfusion
|my giant hydrogen ass (1:28pm est fri sep 22 2000)
sukkit trebek!!!! – by turd ferguson
|…and the categories are: die!!! (1:31pm est fri sep 22 2000)
no you sukkit!!! – by alex trebek
|info (1:43pm est fri sep 22 2000)
for more info on hydrogen bombs, go to: www.furnitureporn.com don't let the name fool you. – by mr.brown
|hed (1:50pm est fri sep 22 2000)
i whooped batman's ass! – by fu
|pot!!!!!!!! (8:37pm est mon oct 30 2000)
you people are smokeing way too much grass,please just say no!!!!!!!! – by jimmyc
|bloody gore (11:18pm est sat nov 04 2000)
i want to see some gorry pictures damn it!!!!!!! – by whofuckin'cares
|me (2:07pm est fri nov 10 2000)
im with o-boy .i think if your going to test it, simulate it.damm it – by because i said so
|modeling (3:06am est thu nov 30 2000)
ucangetgoodanswers with a pc
they should be burning stars with that code
not nukes – by ttoyiefflm
|hey (1:16pm est tue jan 02 2001)
do you have pictures of – by yy
|kill them before they kill us (11:37pm est fri jan 12 2001)
the chinesse are coming the chinesse are coming the bible predicts the end and it involves the chinesse. right now they are stealing our nuclear secrets and enhancing their own nuclear programs while we are dismantiling our nukes. we should stop all nuclear proliferation and we should threaten nuclear attack to anyone that tries to produce or buy nuclear weapons. almost every country on the planet is against the united states and we must be strong to combat the emerging threats. we must develope nuclear weapons that we will not be afraid to use ex. .1-1 kiloton devices that we can use on the battlefield to deter our enemies from starting anything with us. we should also develope larger more powerfull weapons so that we wont need a whole bunch of them and only a few 100 mt devices would be able to deter any enemy from attacking us for fear of complete destruction and the end of the entire human race. i know none of this makes any since to yall but it is true and it is a real problem and we must be able to deter and defend our country in the times ahead. – by curtis lemay
|morons (10:46pm est fri jan 19 2001)
take it from someone who knows a little about nuclear fusion. it's a waste of time, we shouldn't even have bombs. we don't need nuclear powered things, hydrogen maybe, but we don't need to test them by making bombs. if we would stop making them (publically), then other countries wouldn't feel so threatened, and make them too.
plus, i don't like the fact that my tax money is going towards killing people. – by steven e. woolard
|youre gay (11:07am est mon apr 23 2001)
you fuckin suck(geeks) – by you are gay
|hydrogen bombs (8:22pm est tue may 22 2001)
well if they can simulate it on a computer thats excellent.i would hate to see this technology be used by fools in out government or other governments to start a war and destroy our planet. but these bombs are good in stoping huge asteroids from impacting on our planet so we do need them. – by may 22,2001
|thermonuclear devices (4:49pm est mon jun 04 2001)
hmm, maybe we could drop these weapons on the people who spell chinese “chinesse” (what's that, a vaginal deodorant?) and people for whom “gay” is the worst insult they can think up – then wouldn't the world be a better place for us all? – by mad mick
|what a bunch of lunatics! (8:57am est fri jun 22 2001)
all right, first things first. being able to simulate the beginning of a hydrogen bomb blast in 3d is to say the least, very cool. to be able to freeze-frame the thing and examine it from any angle will provide more information than any test possibly could.
while this info could help build a better bomb, it could provide so much information about energy, nuclear reactions, and behavior of atoms. the benefits in the fields of energy, medicine, science, etc are endless.
it is only a simulation, folks! and a simulation of the reaction, at that. not a simulation of nuclear warfare. nobody is blowing up the world today. get over it. we already have technology to build thermonuclear weapons that will destroy the world many times over. whether or not we simulate a detonation on a computer certainly isn't going to change that.
btw-since this thread has been going for nearly a year, maybe some of these people have had a little time to grow up since they made their posts. – by realist
|atomic, hydrogen and any other kind is awesome (6:16pm est sun sep 09 2001)
as previous people said…we need nucleur weapons not only for the united states but for the world. when an asteroid comes hurling toward earth just like the one 65 million years ago then we need some kind of protection. sure debris would fall from the sky but who cares i would rather have a whole country get showered with debris rather then have the human race completely wiped out..do you want us to end up liek the dinosaurs did..dead?…another good use for the hydrogen bomb or bigger nucleur weapon is just so we can freakin kill anyone in aqny country in the world…since russia and china formed an alliance against us they need to pay if they do anything to us…i think other countries fail to realize we are bigger better and stronger then them..japan felt it and that is only a small fraction pof what we can do…i'm sure the governemnt still has a few atomicc bombs laying around…and i hink they're still building hydrogen and even bigger bombs secretly..so russia, china, and any other country who wants to fuckin mess with us just try it..we'll show youy who's boss. – by jesus christ
|please! (3:56pm est thu nov 08 2001)
hey jesus, according to the tales it will be you! the one who comes to erase human kind form the earth, so why worry about an asteroid??
– by wordbitch
|insane (4:40pm est thu dec 06 2001)
hydrogen powerd vehicles have been around for about 30 or so years the oil companys bought the rights and hide the info its hard to make big bucks if all you have to do is pull up at the local lake and fill up
“asteroids” to much tv or vidio games you dont blow them to peices you deflect them “change there path” bombs in any type are of no real value to humanity or to any creature on our planet – by ama bloke
|question (6:23pm est fri dec 21 2001)
why atom ,dynamite and other things are not located in correct meaning. – by server
|question (6:28pm est fri dec 21 2001)
and our minds – by server
|bombs (3:21am est fri jan 18 2002)
i dont give a fuck about the fuck you all think! but i do believe that we need to nuke the talibans and let their race be extinct… i hate my kind! – by abu sayyaf
|fockets (6:58pm est mon jan 28 2002)
tell me about a rocet is powerd – by jamma
|bombs (1:15pm est tue feb 19 2002)
im cool – by bob
|coo daddy (1:16pm est tue feb 19 2002)
i like to fuck – by joe
|fagget geeks (9:55am est wed mar 06 2002)
u guys are stupid as hell – by jo momma
|kaboom!!! (3:03am est fri aug 23 2002)
so where's he pics??? – by happydumbperson
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (4:59am est sun sep 22 2002)
where are the pictures? – by thepoodlelover
|propane bomb (9:57pm est mon sep 23 2002)
i need lots of info about propane bombs cuz im doing a report on them so somone pleese send me info on them so email me at firstname.lastname@example.org thanx – by justin
|tsar bomba (11:20am est sun nov 24 2002)
i wish they still tested nuclear weapons above ground. can you imagine the tsar bomba (ussr) 50 mega tonne at the end of the 60s what a sight. a 10 mile wide fire ball 50 mile high plume. from the mid 40s yeild was 15kt (killo tonne) in horoshima, 15 years later 50mt (mega tonne)tsar bomba thats 100% improvment on yeild in 15 years. so from 1960 the last above ground detenation till now average yeild must be 2000mt (mega tonne) what a sight that would be safe distance would be 130 miles.
why do people want nuclear weapons banned. without them where would we be today at war with russia, china who knows
dose anyone have any pictures of the tsar bomba detonation mail to email@example.com thanx – by antisocial
|hydrogen bomb (11:49am est tue nov 26 2002)
i think that the hydrogen bomb was a bad thing to build, if it got in the wrong ands there could bea huge list of casualties. i am not sure about the astroind thing but it is a very good point. is that really going to happen? do you think that that could be a possible sinario? i hope that we never have to use the h-bomb. do you huys have any idea how many innocent peoplewould die? too many to count on my fingers and toes.think about it ok? – by kelcie.m.w.
|oops (11:53am est tue nov 26 2002)
*hands – by kelcie.m.w.
|hydrogens? why not neutrons. (8:39pm est sat jan 25 2003)
ok instead of hydrogen bombs for war we should just use neutron bombs. since we wont be messin up the planet (doesnt include animals) nor whould we deystroy buildings. hydrogen bombs should be used for threats we cant kill with bullets or neutron bombs. like, asteroids or etc. also if we absolutley need a bomb to kill people and buildings we should just use nuclear cannons….if we did go to war with another country with nuclear weapons we would be screwed any way. also i wanta see somthing with that damn tsar bomba instead of the plane that dropped it and the ppl buildin it. – by ](avu ''|''ank
|blow up (8:20pm est sat feb 08 2003)
i say we blow iraq hell!!!!!! w00t! whooooo…well im done ok….w00t!…ok hahahahahh….ok im done this time……lmao..lol…ok im done – by sick gerbil
|forget hydrogen . . . lets get neutrons (9:35pm est mon feb 10 2003)
ok. . . im going to definalty agree w/ avu”ank” man. hell if we're going to kill everyone there why dont we just set off the bomb at altitude so we dont destroy the building w/ it. that way in about 5.3 billions years, after the radiation is withstandable we can use the building for ourselves. – by neutron ned
|tsar bomba (7:05pm est wed feb 12 2003)
why in god's name are there no pictures of the largest manmade explosion on the planet earth!!!!!!!!
it's killing me, imagine the picture of a bomb 10 to eleven times the size of our own bravo bomb which was only 9 mt. i mean this thing was huuuuugggeee, it was thousands of times larger than hiroshima. if it would have been any larger it could have caused harsh global problems, thats why they had to scale it down and cut its' power in half. if anyone on this entire planet can find some pics of the tsar bomba detonation please post them or reply back to this site, something, anything. i've got to see those pictures!!!!!!!!! – by manhattan
|hello (5:15pm est thu feb 13 2003)
yall are alll ignorant except for the people talking about the tsar bomba.!!!!!!!!!!!!
ha ha yall suck – by zebinshikiya
|tsar bomba (1:14pm est mon feb 24 2003)
apparently there is footage of the tsar bomba explosion in the documentary “trinity and beyond”. if anyone knows where you can find pics of the explosion on the net spill thy beens as i also want to know. – by fat man
|tsar bomba (7:19am est wed mar 12 2003)
as far as i know there is some video of the tsar bomba detonation. i'm not sure if i've seen it in the “trinity and beyond” video or in a documentary on dutch television (some years ago) but i can tell you it's *ucking cool! you see images of the assembling, the bear dropping the bomb, the opening of the parachute and the first 6 seconds of the explosion. awesome. but…i'm also looking for the pics…someone has to know!!! – by de max
|anti matter (6:05pm est mon mar 31 2003)
in the near future we will annihilate matter with
then even a huge meteorite will seem small…
tsar bomba is only 50 mt
the meteorite that supposed to kill the dinosaurs was 100 million mt….that starts to look like it !
antimatter is better, absolute annihilation !
– by marco
|h-bomb footage (6:34pm est mon mar 31 2003)
hey y'all….look on kazaa for h-bomb movies…
i even found tsar bomba footage…wow !!
you need the newest kazaa light version,
cause this one can search on forever, and you need that, cause it took kazaa 2 hours to find
the tsar bomba movie….good luck !
– by red plague
|nuclear test (7:52pm est fri apr 25 2003)
the reason they test nuclear bomb is to ensure the the new made nuclear bombs are functional and that also gives the new scientist a experience of building nuclear bomb, the purpose of the test is not that is blows up,,, i got this from somewhere,,,, that wired magazine,,, last year – by mama
|pics and vids (8:16pm est mon apr 28 2003)
i cant believe i cant find one pic or video download of the explosion.
i want to see some death and destruction, as a tax paying westerner i demand it.
also want some pics of moabs going off over taliban out door toilets and markets please.
|hydroen bomb (10:56pm est tue jul 15 2003)
if any of you ever read genius book of world records, you would no that russia tested a 90 megaton hydorgen bomb the shockwave went around the world three times before ever coming to a stop. now i can tell you that what ever russia has came up with, the power hungry united states has already made a bomb that would make russia's tsar bomba look like a boyscoutts campfire. these type of bombs the us has, but cannot test because of fear of how powerful they really are. but in the same russia has already developed bombs alost a strong or just as strong. but when it all comes down to it,it only takes 1000 nuclear bombs to make this planet no longer habitable for a thousand years, but the us government has already counted more than a 100,000 world wide. they say they past bills to destroy nuclear stockkpiles but only in reality they only destroy the weaker ones an replace them with stronger more technologically advanced nukes.just think about it the first atomic bomb was big, not exploding wise, but big an wayed alot. now we have nuclear warheads a millions of times more powerful, an a thousand times smaller.when it comes down to nuclear war, it will come down to first trike capability. wether we can hit them before they can launch, or they hit us before we can launch. that will deside the outcome. but in any case the us dies we will take the rest of the world with us. now for all you geeks out there, do more research before you atempt to grow a brain an realize, what a has really been going on in the world of nuclear weapons. – by lee
|lee's “comments” (8:36am est fri jul 25 2003)
you're full of sh#t. the '90 megaton hydrogen bomb'you are talking about is in fact the tsar bomba and it was 60+ mt. i don't want to pay any more attention to your silly comments. you don't know sh#t about what's really been going on in the world of nuclear weapons, i can tell that from the stupid thing you wrote.
you suck lee ah ah ah ah
greetings to zebinshikiya – by de max
|poor lee (8:14am est sun aug 10 2003)
shame lee someone has been misleading you badly, either that or you are clueless !! the only explosion that could be more powerful than a nuclear one is a “matter anti-matter” one (pure theory only) and we are a long way from that. the u.s. has moved away from massive bombs to smaller tacticle nukes which in number do greater damage over a greater area using the same amount of “nuclear material.”
does anybody know about the devolpment of “bunker buster” nukes (a very dangerous move by the u.s. in my opinion). – by fat man
|gsgs (10:47am est wed aug 13 2003)
you mean weapons built to produce much radiation but with little explosive power? this was actual in the '70's and '80's. i don't believe the us military has them anymore – by ab
|matter on atomic bombs (12:43pm est sat oct 18 2003)
dumb – by xyz
|bombs (12:54am est sun nov 09 2003)
just blow the whole dam world up and call it a day – by matthew tate
|liar (1:45am est sun nov 09 2003)
the bravo bomb was 15 megatons, not nine you stupid @$$hole. get your fax straight. and where are those
tsar bomba explosion pics? someone tell me! – by expofreak
|feed my addiction (5:18pm est sun nov 09 2003)
i need pictures or footage of the 1961 60 megaton hydrogen booster bomb tested by russia. pleeeeeaaase help me i need it now!!!!!
firstname.lastname@example.org – by phil barker
|bombs (11:59am est fri nov 14 2003)
or we could just blow up all the other states, so we dont have to worry about them trying to blow us up ya know. sometimes the goverment has got to stop thinking about other countries ya know. who think this is right say ok to toddy kuten. now who the fuck is with me. post your sayings. – by toddy kuten
|bombs (12:01pm est fri nov 14 2003)
when i mean states i mean countries like russia or iraq. – by toddy kuten
|liar ii (9:35pm est sun dec 07 2003)
i stand by my opinion that manhattan is one stupif motherf*cker… he should get his b*tch-@$$ stories straight quick… what an @$$hole! – by expofreak
|de max sux (9:37pm est sun dec 07 2003)
and another thing… de max, you dumb@$$!!! the tsar bomba was only 50 megatons. it was origonally 100 mt, but russia cut its potential yeild by 50%, hence the 50 mt. you suck! get your fax straight! – by expofreak
|the society that this planet harbors is pure evil (12:24am est sat dec 13 2003)
i beleive that every leader aka ruler on this planet are all in cahuets with each other. i also believe that everyone of them are devil worshipers. . every thing that is wrong in this world hasbeen orcistrated by the rulers of this planet from day one.there prime goal is world wide tyranny. these bastards have to not just be stoped, but butcherd like the animals that they are. were is the good or justification in building weapons of catatrophic destruction.the only way to beat them is to take over and slaughter every last one of them.but that will never happen,all we can do is hope that it will all come to an end very soon before all lose faith. – by gabriel
|peanut (9:37pm est tue dec 16 2003)
bombs go boom – by nile
|bombs away (9:44pm est tue dec 16 2003)
iraq sucks i'm sitting here in my tent wondering when i can go home, knowing we could of just dropped a h-bomb or a a-bomb. a year in the desert is like where people go if they fuck up,or a hell on earth. – by i wanna go home
|responding to you all (2:05am est thu dec 25 2003)
i hope you all get raped by an ape with “the clap”! – by an asshole
|tired of waiting (8:55am est thu dec 25 2003)
where the fuck are those tsar-bomba pics – by mike
|expofreak sux (12:16pm est sat dec 27 2003)
“shortly after the 30 october test the us estimated the yield at 57 megatons. this value then circulated for 30 years as the actual yield of this device, quoted by western sources and by the soviet government. in his 1974 memoirs khrushchev recollects: “our scientists calculated in advance that the force of the bomb would equal 50 million tons of tnt. that was in theory. in actual fact, the explosion turned out to be equivalent to 57 million tons” [khrushchev 1974 pg. 71]. however, all russian sources since 1991 have consistently used a figure of 50 megatons, not 57. this includes the official russian listing of all nuclear tests ([rfnc-vniief 1996]), the personal account of the arzamas-16's accomplishments by its long-time director yuli khariton ([khariton 1993] ), and the account of this device given by its developers viktor adamsky and yuri smirnov [adamsky and smirnov 1994].
this discrepancy may be explained if the test were actually 50 megatons, as designed, but was quickly declared by the us to be 57 megatons after the test based on its own measurements and calculations. this 14% difference would not be an unusual deviation between actual and estimated yield. for example authoritative estimates of the yield of the hiroshima bomb have varied from 12 to 16 kt, a 25% (or 33%) difference, despite us advantages in knowing the detailed device design, and having conducted exhaustive studies of its effects on the ground. in the case of the 50 megaton test, the only source of information the us had was the analysis of fallout collected at great distances”
|expofreak (12:23pm est sat dec 27 2003)
you stupid @sshole…get your fax straight!!! you suck – by de max
|part one (2:15am est mon jan 05 2004)
i dont know who anyone here is, but its obvious that most of you guys dont know what you are talking about. but for the people who do know what they are talking about (i.e. me, and people like by de max) should tell others what they are worng about in a nice way. theres no need for shit talking. it just makes people mad. let me get a few thing straight. the bomba's yield was infact disputed for many years between 50-57 mt (50,000-57,000 kt for comparison). it was meant to be a demonstration of the soviets superior technology. the bomb is also sometimes refered to as a 100 mt bomb because the original design included a natural uranium tamper around the second or third stage (i forget which). the extra ~50 mt would have come from the fast fussion of the uranium in the tamper due to the fast neutron release of the fusion fuel (lithium deuteride or something like that, haha, pardon my lapse of memory). but in the test device the uranium tamper was left out. good thing too. without the tamper, the bomb became the most efficient fusion bomb ever detonated (97% of the yield from fusion, therefore it had little fallout) if the tamper was included the fallout would have been disasterous and would have raised the total radiated material ever put into the atmosphere by 25% or so. so its a good thing.
i recently uncovered some facts on the actual detonation of the bomb.
-even though the bast height was at 4000m or 12,900 ft (if im off by a bit please excuse me, its 130am and im doing everyhitng in my head), the fireball was so large it licked the ground. thats 26,000 ft in diameter! just under 5 miles.
– by phil
|part two (2:16am est mon jan 05 2004)
– the pressure at surface zero was ~300 psi. an overpressure of just 12psi will do major damage to buildings and bodies.
-one with a clear line of site to the bomb of that size on a clear day can expierience 3rd degree burns from up to 100km, or 61.(something, 61.7 i think. again its 134am) miles!
-the mushroom cloud from this thing topped out at 64 km (220,000 ft? someone correct me if im wrong) highest any nuclear cloud has ever reached.
-it causes severe structual damage out to 35 km or 22 miles. compete damage up to 25 km, or 17 miles.
-the fullscale version has the capability of destorying an area slightly smaller than former west germany. how big is that you ask? ok lets see, lets guess that the radius of complete destruction is 25 miles for the 100 mt. so the area of complete destruction would equal 2(25 x 3.14)^2 miles. 25 x 3.14 = about 77.7 so we'll say 75 to be conservative on the rest. that times 2 = 150, and that squared is 25,000. let me double check. oops. its 22500. sorry. its 150am now and im watching a dvd. haha. last day of christmas break too, damn. well anyways. 22,500 square miles. holy crap. rhode island is 1500 or something like that. wow that seems way to big. let me look over what i did. ohh see what late night work does to you? i made a simple error of thinking the circle area formula was two pi r squared. infact its just pi r squared. im surprised i forgot that haha. so 25 x 3.14 = about 75. so 75 squared is about 5600, 5625 i guess. so the area of complete destruction would be 5600 square miles. wow. still thats impressive. thats as big as the whole los angeles area, or a state like new jersey. wow.( heres a lesson, always double check your work becaise look how my brain far resulted in an answer that was a factor of 4 larger than the actual one.
– by phil
|part 3 (2:18am est mon jan 05 2004)
but anyways. that brings me to what i guess is my last point. whats the point of a 100 mt bomb? 57 mt is already pushing the limits of practicallity. think about it. it can only be carried by one plane (t-95 i think) and it is very vulnerable because it would have to fly over north america for multipul hours and would surely be spotted. plus there are only a few select areas that at the time were big enough to be hit without it being overkill. oh well i guess thats why the didnt build the full scale one, or put the 57 mt one into their arsonal.
ok see, i bet that was very informative, and i didnt put anyone down or talk any shit. let me clear one thing up, i am only 18 and a highschool senior and i knew all this stuff as common sense. ask me how pretty much anyhitng works and i can tell you. ask me about the m-theory. ask me about tectonic plate actions. ask me about evolution. ask me about anything science and i can give you a good answer. just goes to show you what a little bit of reading and a smart father can get you. but do not think i am a nerd. i am most definitly not. i have many friends, including many cute girls, i am not in any afterschool clubs (there are non i like). i ahve a new fast car that is the envy of most of my friends. i dress conservativly, but i hear im hot. my dad is a millionaire, a doctor who owns his own practice, i give people at school rides in his porsche 911 4s. i like the red hot chili peppers and rush. i am the best 4 string electric bass play in my school. so dont think you have to be a nerd to know what oyur talking about.
peace everyone – by phil
|so what? (12:10am est wed jan 07 2004)
allright, smart boy, but where are the f:):):)ing
pictures or a vid, a official website or whatever. i mean, goverments have a lot of storys to make us believe they need more money for bigger nukes, sdi or whatever shit. the story is 40 years old. why are you so shure it is not a myth spread by the russians to intimidate the world. and the us-government confirms the myth to justify their own war games. as a convinced communist, would you name your strongest argument of power “tzar” ? – by aca
|gg (8:13am est wed jan 07 2004)
because the blast caused an earthshock that was measured by instruments in the uk for instance. fact is that there was a multi-megaton explosion.
also the western governments didn't need any more arguments for making bigger nukes. and “tsar bomba” wasn't the original designation given by the communist government.
anyway, maybe a littlebit hopefull for all you nuclear psychos (like me), i ordered a copy of trinity and beyond on dvd. think i will receive it this month (because i'm from the netherlands and i ordered it in the us). once i have it i will rip the fragment with the tsar bomba detonation and put it online.
i think most of us (who are really interested in nuclear weapons)think they were born too late. i mean, the chance for all of us that we'll ever witness a live nuclear explosion is very small.
phil, that was a lot of information, but very impressive, an explosion of this size would destroy an area more than three times the size of the netherlands, wow -) – by de max
|dvd (8:16am est wed jan 07 2004)
or you could also order a copy yourself -) – by de max
|few comments (3:18pm est wed jan 07 2004)
allright has one “l”
shure has no “h”
i like de max he knows what he is talking about. i was going to comment on the measurements of shocks, both air and seismic (? haha sorry) to verifiy an explosion, byt he got to it first.
oh and i read my comment over again and i want to make clear that i was only joking about being all arrogent at the end. haha i was just pissed at all the shit talkers like aca.
ive always thought, geez i was born too late to see any above ground explosions. man, my dad and i agreed that we would pay a hefty amount of money to see one happen….iiiin a safe place of course, not a terrorist explosion.
trinity and beyond is a great movie. so are its other counterparts, nukes in space, atomic journies, and atomic filmmakers. also the official government briefing vidoes have been released on dvd. though not as good quality, or as much footage as tab, they provide many technical aspects of the different tests conducted with each shot of the plumbbob and hardtack series. you should check it out.
peace guys – by phil
|nukeheads, check this! (10:04pm est wed jan 07 2004)
and get the 5 dvd set for 100 bucks from vce (some are region code 1 !!!! )
and phil, dont take the things so serious, shit
|aca (10:16am est thu jan 08 2004)
the nickname tsar bomba is a reference to the russian proclivity for making gigantic but useless artifacts for show. the world's largest bell (the tsar kolokol) and cannon (the tsar pushka), neither of which are actually useful for anything, are on display at the kremlin [kalinin 1994 pg. 33]. during its development, the bomb was actually nicknamed ivan.
got this from
– by de max
|want some fun at the beach? (3:08pm est thu jan 08 2004)
some pictures really hurt and some of the people still are suffering. so far to my opinion about governments, militarys and radioactive shit.
|?! (5:44pm est thu jan 08 2004)
hmmm well you've stumped me! haha – by phil
|i wont stop (2:38pm est fri jan 09 2004)
de max and manhattan need to get their stories straight. it is obvious that none of them know a f*cking thing about any f*cking thing. those stupid b*tch @$$es need to shut the f*ck up. – by expofreak
|ugh (4:14pm est fri jan 09 2004)
good one expofreak. i mean common, de max knows his stuff. manhattan doesnt really though. but also if youre going to be like that, at least have the guts to say the actual word instead of @$$. just say it, say like, expofuck. – by phil
|tsar pictures (6:20pm est fri jan 09 2004)
doesn't anyone have any tsar pictures
– by ****
|expocock (12:31pm est sat jan 10 2004)
expocock, did it take you so long to come up with nothing more than b*tch@ss blablabla? it must be very frustrating, supposing that you know quite something about nuclear weapons and suddenly coming to the conclusion you know nothing more than the yield of the bravo bomb. it's a shame i live in europe, otherwise i would like to meet you sometimes, take a dump in your face and teach you some things about nuclear weapons.
i might have made some spelling errors (because i'm not american and my language is dutch) but unlike you, expocock, i know how to spell the words that you just can't spell correcly (@ instead of a, * instead of u)
anyway, i'm not impressed by you saying b*tch@ss f*ck etc, maybe you imaginary girlfriend is.
come up with some tsar boba pics, or shut up. – by de max
|expocock (12:35pm est sat jan 10 2004)
hey phil, you're right about saying there's no need for shittalking, but some people don't understand any other language like the above mentioned person. – by de max
|expofax (12:39pm est sat jan 10 2004)
and…expofrog, how's your fax, already got it straight?
excuse me for not understanding (as i said before, i'm not american) but what the hell does this moron mean by “get your fax straight”??? – by de max
|de macts (12:44pm est sat jan 10 2004)
maybe he means facts??? – by de max
|weird (5:53pm est sun jan 11 2004)
how has this been going on for three years now? – by phil
|your right phil (1:37am est sun jan 18 2004)
you know what phil… your right. they all do know their stuff. it was just when de max said that the tsar bomba was 60+ megatons, and i haven't seen, read, or heard anything anywhere that supports that.
it was also when manhattan said that the castle bravo test was only 9 megatons, when i haven't seen, read, or heard anything anywhere that supports that “fact” anywhere, either. but ya know, i could be wrong. i guess i just went off the deep end about it. didn't mean to offend anyone.
my bad – by expofreak
|oh, by the way… (1:42am est sun jan 18 2004)
de max, i am looking for the tsar bomba pics. i have been for about 3 years now. and i still haven't found anything. so if you or anyone knows where to find it, just end it all and tell us!
– by expofreak
|hahaha (1:45am est sun jan 18 2004)
hi im manhattan and i'm a piece of shit. i don't know any better, because like i said before, i am a piece of shit. expofreak rules!!!! – by manhattan
|peace at last (8:54pm est tue jan 20 2004)
ahh well everyone seems to be at peace now. i like it. but… im pretty sure there arent a whole lot of pics of the bomba. theres only of a few minutes of video, mainly the scientists working on it, but it shows the dropping of the bomb and about 5 seconds of footage of the fireball exansion. this can be found on the trinity and beyond movie. excellent, excellent movie. i highly recommend it. show it too your friends, but so you're not deemed a dork, act like you watch it for the parts with the poor innocent lambs and pigs. – by phil
|bollocks (12:13am est fri jan 23 2004)
tell me.what would happen if u detonated several nuclear devices underwater offshore.there would 1 fuck off tidal wave,wouldnt there?instead of burning every living thing u'd drown everything.or do both,air detotnation,burning everything,then cool them off with underwater xplosions!!!! u would certianly end up with a few deepfried cod and haddock!! – by digweed fozzlepot
|bollocks (12:16am est fri jan 23 2004)
tell me.what would happen if u detonated several nuclear devices underwater offshore.there would 1 fuck off tidal wave,wouldnt there?instead of burning every living thing u'd drown everything.or do both,air detotnation,burning everything,then cool them off with underwater xplosions!!!! u would certianly end up with a few deepfried cod and haddock!! – by digweed
|goatboy (9:52am est sat jan 24 2004)
wtf i'm i doing here.
– by nile
|this might be it (7:10pm est wed feb 04 2004)
hey everybode… i might have found a tsar bomba photo, but i'm not so sure about it. i think that, if its is in fact not the tsar bomba, it is a photo of one of the “grapple” tests that took place around australia. let me know what you think.
even if it isn't, it is still a cool pic – by expofreak
|i'm sorry (4:29am est thu feb 05 2004)
i'm sorry expofreak, this is a picture of the truckee 1 test, part of operation dominic, christmas island. but it sure is a cool pic.
i've been busy to try to rip the fragment of the trinity and beyond dvd but this dolby 5.1 is giving me serious headache, i'm not sure it's gonna work. and, a friend of mine downloaden this fragment on kazaa, so i guess somebody else already did the trick, maybe on of you guys??? search on kazaa for “the monster bomb” don't expect too much, i was a bit dissapointed by the fragment, you only see blinding light and the first few seconds of the detonation. this fragment is part of a larger soviet-film of the tsar bomba but nobody seems to have it. pics or footage of the tsar bomba detonation are nowhere to be found on the internet! it's frustrating and it's killing me but it's a fact. aybe we can start a workgroup for “frustrated nuclear psycho's”
greetings to all of you nuclear freaks, keep the faith, one day we will find tsar bomba footage!!! – by de max
|i agree (5:51pm est thu feb 05 2004)
i agree with de max. i think that we just have to face the music and accept the fact that there might not be any tsar bomba pics on the net. i will continue to search for them, nontheless. and to all who will also search for them, i say good luck. – by expofreak
|i found a pic of tsar bomba (8:38pm est fri feb 06 2004)
its small but better then nothing – by tsar
|geez (4:56pm est sat feb 07 2004)
i can't believe that the largest bomb detonated is so difficult to find. i have been keeping up with everyones posts, conducted my own searches, and ended up in the same places. i cant believe that the only tsar pic, is the size of a dime. and just shows the fireball with nothing to use for perspective. were i the russians, i would have pumped pictures of tsar everywhere…not only does the bomb boast impressive numbers, but it also looks like a cock, complete with the pee hole…the 'ol throbbing one eyed hammer of love… i would have called it “russiansky cocksy americana vaginasky”. – by platypus
|lets see it (1:15am est sun feb 08 2004)
ok platypus… if finding pictures of the tsar bomba test is so easy to find, you find them and then tell us where they are. so either do that or shut up. – by expofreak
|this may be it (2:22am est sun feb 08 2004)
i am sorry that this picture is so small, but i believe that this may be the tsar bomba. check it out:
any objections? – by expofreak
|sorry again (5:42am est sun feb 08 2004)
sorry again expofreak, this is a pic of a french nuclear test in 1974 on the mururoa atoll. looking at the size and shape of the fireball and the condensation dome it's not more than 1 megaton. cool pic again but not the tsar bomba. i wonder if it's possible anyway to make recognizable images of a 57 megaton explosion. think of the bravo detonation (15 mt) but then almost 4 times as big. and then having a soviet 1960 made camera -) – by de max
|i dont know (6:52pm est sun feb 08 2004)
in that picture that expofreak sent in last, what was all of that gassy stuff at the top of the explosion? i really don't know – by frogjip
|frogjip (2:37am est mon feb 09 2004)
hi frogjip. this is mostly seen when an a-bom or a h-bomb detonates in or close to water (or in a humid atmosphere), but it is also seen by larger (1 mt+) detonations. the shortly (several milliseconds) after the detonation extremely heated air is 'pushed' away by the overpressure of the explosion with a speed of more than 2500 ft/sec. because of the rapid expansion temperature goes down and this causes instant condensation which can be seen as a white dome above or even surrounding (baker shot, operation crossroads) the fireball. it dissapears after several seconds. nice examples can been seen by a lot of large us h-bomb test which were shot from a barge on the ocean.nding the rapidly expafor instance, a lot of us large h-bombs were shot from a barge. a lot of information can be found on the internet. you americans have really great websites with huuuge amounts of information. just type -condensation dome fireball- and search with yahoo. enjoy. greetings from a h-bomb free (that sucks) holland – by de max
|info (6:56am est mon feb 09 2004)
see previous and next pages – by de max
|another link (7:00am est mon feb 09 2004)
this is the one – by demax
|omfg expofreak (10:34am est mon feb 09 2004)
hmmm a wee bit touchy are we? i wasnt directing anything in my previous statement at you expofreak. i was making an observation on the difficulty of finding tsar bomba pics. im afraid you suffer from “internet paranoia” – a common condition for people with small brains, who think the world revolves around them. you shut up, and yes ill continue to search for bigger and better pics you funny, funny man. – by platypus
|thanks (7:10pm est mon feb 09 2004)
thanks de max. in fact, you even helped me settle a bet and i won $50. thanks again – by frogjip
|yankee (9:56pm est mon feb 09 2004)
another harder to find test is the yankee test in the castle operation.
here is one i could find…
it looks like the mike test, but it's not. anyway, nothing to do with tsar bomba, this is just a cool picture
9.5 mts – by tsar
|tsar bomba? (6:59pm est wed feb 11 2004)
i was searching personal websites for possible tsar bomba leads and came across this one, the title is bomba3. i replaced 3 with 2 and came across another impressive photo. i then replaced 2 with 1 and pulled up the operation crossroads baker explosion. so who knows, it may be mike. whatever it is, its one big ass fire cracker! – by platypus
|oops, the link is… (7:13pm est wed feb 11 2004)
ummm yeah, a link would kelp :)
just copy & paste in browser. – by platypus
|some links (2:28am est thu feb 12 2004)
bomba3 is the mohawk test, 350 kilotons 2 july 1956, eniwetok
bomba2 is the dog3 test, 19 kilotons 1 may 1956, nevada.
not anywhere near 57 mt
here are some links to a few of the many, many image galleries. there's another one which i think has the best images, can't find it now.
– by de max
|here it is (2:34am est thu feb 12 2004)
found it, enjoy
– by de max
|need a second opinion (9:42pm est thu feb 12 2004)
those last 2 picture in the first set of pics, take a look at them… is that the explosion or just added orange coloring? – by tsar
|thanks (1:20am est fri feb 13 2004)
cool thanks man. the pics are awesome, personally i think the fireball cloud of castle bravo is by far the creepiest. it just looks so un-real its bewildering. btw the tsar was 50 mt right? it was believed to be 57, until ussr released the docs, showing a yield of 50 mt. also, were you the one who has seen the footage on trinity and beyond? if so, does it actually show the detonation in its entirety, or is it just the bomb falling with the parachute? curious before i buy it. – by platypus
|second opinion (4:32am est fri feb 13 2004)
these are just some images from
click on “detonate” – by de max
|responding to platypus 1 (4:35am est fri feb 13 2004)
quote:”shortly after the 30 october test the us estimated the yield at 57 megatons. this value then circulated for 30 years as the actual yield of this device, quoted by western sources and by the soviet government. in his 1974 memoirs khrushchev recollects: “our scientists calculated in advance that the force of the bomb would equal 50 million tons of tnt. that was in theory. in actual fact, the explosion turned out to be equivalent to 57 million tons” [khrushchev 1974 pg. 71]. however, all russian sources since 1991 have consistently used a figure of 50 megatons, not 57. this includes the official russian listing of all nuclear tests ([rfnc-vniief 1996]), the personal account of the arzamas-16's accomplishments by its long-time director yuli khariton ([khariton 1993] ), and the account of this device given by its developers viktor adamsky and yuri smirnov [adamsky and smirnov 1994].
this discrepancy may be explained if the test were actually 50 megatons, as designed, but was quickly declared by the us to be 57 megatons after the test based on its own measurements and calculations. this 14% difference would not be an unusual deviation between actual and estimated yield. for example authoritative estimates of the yield of the hiroshima bomb have varied from 12 to 16 kt, a 25% (or 33%) difference, despite us advantages in knowing the detailed device design, and having conducted exhaustive studies of its effects on the ground. in the case of the 50 megaton test, the only source of information the us had was the analysis of fallout collected at great distances” – by de max
|responding to platypus 2 (4:42am est fri feb 13 2004)
to be honest, i was a little dissapointed by the tsar bomba fragment in trinity and beyond. you see the most of the assembly and the dropping of the bomb, you see the parachute that deploys and the pilots putting on their anti flash goggles (and thinking let's get the f*ck outta here), followed by only the flash of the explosion, seen from the cockpit and the first second of the explosion (a due to the extreme light hardly recognizable fireball), to put it another way, you only see light. don't expect too much of it. – by de max
|thanks de max (10:39am est tue feb 17 2004)
wow, wee you certainly know how to back up your claims. i too shall now associate 57mt with the tsar. :) i wonder if the bulk of the tsar bomba footage and data remain under lock and key. maybe the russians discovered something about a 57mt bomb that they may not want the rest of the world knowing. not for weapons purposes, but i wonder if like something went wrong, or wasnt expected. i wont go speculate on “what” might have happened, but with an explosion that size (over 3 times castle bravo yield)who knows what could have happened. another possibility: i did read that the russian president at the time was very hard on himself, felt very guilty for being the one responsible for such an envorionmental killer. i wonder if he ordered all the footage and documents (not only of the explosion but of the after math)classified or destroyed. – by platypus
|i agree (6:57pm est tue feb 17 2004)
that's a pretty good idea, platypus. maybe the russian government did have all photos and footage and stuff like that destroyed (except of course, the fragment in trinity and beyond). and if they didn't, i don't know why the test pics aren't all over the web. thats what i would do if i conducted the largest nuclear test ever. that's just me – by expofreak
|heer is sum cool stuff (8:50pm est wed feb 18 2004)
go to it has sum neat pics – by nukefreak
|if u like it reply plz (8:54pm est wed feb 18 2004)
it has a few cool thing unnder nuclear in the top right cornor – by nukefreak2
|check this out (7:16pm est fri feb 20 2004)
some of you may have seen these before, but for those who havent, here is some actual video footage of nuclear tests such as: bravo, romeo, baker, able, and more.
enjoy – by expofreak
|oops (7:18pm est fri feb 20 2004)
sorry guys, forgot to put on the adress. here it is:
now enjoy – by expofreak
|dammit (7:19pm est fri feb 20 2004)
sorry once again. here is the real address:
– by expofreak
|nagasaki (7:28pm est fri feb 20 2004)
here guys… here is some footage of the nagasaki explosion from an observation plane
– by frogjip
|nuclear test films (4:07am est sun feb 22 2004)
take a look at this
– by de max
|i have a question (7:41pm est thu feb 26 2004)
hey does anybody know how the ivy mike hbomb test started out looking like this in one photo:
i mean, it doesn't even look like the same test! if someone out there could tell me, i'd like to know – by hbomber
|??? (10:08pm est sun feb 29 2004)
what test is this? mike? – by tsar
|hmmm tsar (2:40am est mon mar 01 2004)
i think that was a bomb at the christmas islands. it has a unique shape that i recognize. check film number 0800064 at the bad ass web site demax found by the department of energy. i believe this is the cloud seen at the end of the short film.
|oops here is the link again… (2:42am est mon mar 01 2004)
– by platypus
|responding to tsar/platypus (6:09am est mon mar 01 2004)
this one of the uk grapple tests (grapple y?). this is the largest h-bomb ever detonated by the british, dropped by a valliant bomber over christmas island. – by de max
|responding to h-bomber (6:16am est mon mar 01 2004)
these are just two stages of the huge mushroom cloud photographed from the ground and from an airplane. the second link in your post (you say “it ended up looking like this”) is in fact an earlier stage of the mushroom cloud. the bright white color is caused by the forming of ice crystals due to rapid condensation on high altitude (this means very low temperatures). the form of the cloud is influenced by the strong winds at high altitude. this explains the difference in shape of the cloud. so you're absolutely right when you say these two clouds don't look the same at all. however, it's one and the same explosion. – by de max
|smaller bomb (7:06pm est mon mar 01 2004)
you know how in the hiroshima, gun-triggered fission bomb “little boy”, how an explosive sent one slab of u-235 down a barrel into a sphere of more u-235, and thats what triggered the fission reaction?
well if you only took just a little bit of the uranium and placed it on, say, the tip of a hammer, and slammed it down with enough force onto a smaller sphere of uranium, shouldn't there be (in theory) an incredibly scaled down version of the hiroshima explosion? – by expofreak
|tsar bomba (9:01am est tue mar 02 2004)
if anyone has/seen the documentary “secrets of war – bio & nuclear warfare (1998)” there are the best pictures of the tsar bomba explosion, better then in trinity and beyond, at least what i heard. you can see the mushroom cloud from a few hundred miles away…
anyway. if anyone has this, or even seen it, can u elaborate? its only 10$ on amazon, maybe i'll try to by it and rip the photos off the dvd and try to post them if i can.. – by tsar
|smaller bomb response (10:25am est tue mar 02 2004)
i dont know, but isnt the element of intense heat also necessary? either way, i would wear eye protection. – by platypus
|response to tsar bomba (10:30am est tue mar 02 2004)
dude thats cool. you found another lead for all of us bomb fanatics. im gonna look into buying it. also, has anyone seen the “atomic cafe”? i saw it years ago late at night on discovery channel and finally bought it a week ago. it is a narrorator-less documentary full of nukes, govt. propaghanda, and the general insanity of the atomic era from hiroshima to the cold war. check it out. – by platypus
|something cool (6:43pm est tue mar 02 2004)
to platypus – i believe (im not 100% sure about this), but i believe that the intense heat comes from the initial impact of the u-235 slab into the u-235 sphere at the end of the barrel.
to everyone – i found a cool thing on howstuffworks.com about how nuclear weapons work. the video clips are not accurate (you will see what i mean), but i still learned a lot from this site.
here is the link:
– by expofreak
|check this out (3:33pm est wed mar 03 2004)
russian superbomb = tsar bomba – by tsar
|oh yea (3:39pm est wed mar 03 2004)
the image on the site , it doesn't work (red x) but it says nuclear explosion.jpg does that pic work for anyone??? is it the infamous tsar bomba? – by tsar
|tsar (6:33pm est wed mar 03 2004)
hey tsar, if the russian superbomb that you are talking about is this one:
then i am sorry, but it is not the tsar bomba. according to the web site that i found it on, it is the russian rds-37 nuclear test that is only 1600 kilotons (nowhere near 50 megatons). but i cant look at the pic that you posted because it didn't work on the computer that i was on. but nonetheless, it is still a cool pic.
|nope (10:43pm est wed mar 03 2004)
i know that pic is not of the bomba…
the link i posted before i cant see the pic thats why i asked if anyone else could see it
|finally (3:34pm est thu mar 04 2004)
okay, i ordered both “secrets of war” and the “trinity and beyond” dvds. as soon as i get them i'll try to rip the tsar bomba footage from them. – by tsar
|tsar not the biggest (12:41am est fri mar 05 2004)
hi, everyone havent been here in awhile. ya'll are chasing the wrong bomb if your wanting the biggest. russia tested a 90 megaton hydorgen bomb the shockwave went around the world three times before ever coming to a stop. now i can tell you that what ever russia has came up with, the power hungry united states has already made a bomb that would make russia's tsar bomba look like a boyscoutts campfire. these type of bombs the us has, but cannot test because of fear of how powerful they really are. but in the same russia has already developed bombs alost a strong or just as strong. but when it all comes down to it,it only takes 1000 nuclear bombs to make this planet no longer habitable for a thousand years, but the us government has already counted more than a 100,000 world wide. they say they past bills to destroy nuclear stockkpiles but only in reality they only destroy the weaker ones an replace them with stronger more technologically advanced nukes.just think about it the first atomic bomb was big, not exploding wise, but big an wayed alot. now we have nuclear warheads a millions of times more powerful, an a thousand times smaller.when it comes down to nuclear war, it will come down to first trike capability. wether we can hit them before they can launch, or they hit us before we can launch. that will deside the outcome. but in any case the us dies we will take the rest of the world with us. now for all you geeks out there, do more research before you atempt to grow a brain an realize, what a has really been going on in the world of nuclear weapons. – by lee
|oh really? (3:15pm est fri mar 05 2004)
give me proof (link, book, article)of a 90 mt bomb that was detonated and then i'll beleive you – by tsar
|dumbass (6:52pm est fri mar 05 2004)
we all know (at least, i hope we do) that the tsar bomba is not the biggest bomb ever created, but it was the biggest bomb ever detonated. and because it was the biggest bomb ever detonated, that is why we are trying to find pics or footage of the test. i know that the usa has made bombs that make the tsar bomba look like a firecracker, but they havent tested them (just as lee said) because of how powerful they are. but since they haven't tested the more powerful ones, there are no mushroom cloud pics… and that's the whole point of us being here! we are trying to find pictures of the largest test ever conducted! you stupid moron! obviously you havent been paying attention for the last 2 months or so! i, for one, dont care about bombs that make the tsar bomba look so small because, the fact of the matter is, we will never even detonate them (testing or in a war!) if we ever do use nukes in a war again, they wont be huge, they will be smaller, more tactical nukes. bombs as big as you were talking about (as well as the tsar bomba) are militaricaly useless. and russia did not test a 90 megaton bomb… it was only approximately 50 megatons. now i will search all over the net for this supposed “90 megaton russian bomb”, but i can guarantee you right now that there will be no result. – by expofreak
|lol don't bother (7:46pm est fri mar 05 2004)
don't even bother searching expofreak, i already searched google and other engines for “90 megaton mt bomb test russian etc” and absolutley nothing remotely close to even hinting at a possiblity of a 90 mt test. the fact is lee probably searched for russian superbombs, and saw the 100 mt tsar bomba and before reading that it was scaled down to 50+ mts he posted here to make himself look smart that the russians tested a 90 mt weapon. lol dumass
p.s. lee- the comment u just made is basically the same post u made earlier, about half way up the page. jesus, i thought we established the fact tsar was the largest weeks ago. lol, get with the times lee :rolleyes: i don't think guiness book of records is such a reliable source
anyway, amazon shipped the 2 dvds, as soon as i get them i'll get the photos for anyone that wants them. i don't think i'll post them on the internet, instead i'll just email them to who ever wants them. i think the lack of photos of this test on the interent is what makes the tsar bomba so fasinating, i think i'll leave it like that. :)
also, is there anyway to contact peter kuran (director of trinity and beyond)? i inquired to a website about obtaining a copy of the 20 minutes film made for the soviet goverment about the tsar bomba, and they said to try to contact kuran directly. anyone interested in helping me out?? – by tsar
|responding to lee (5:35am est sun mar 07 2004)
shut up lee, you dumbass! you already posted the same text earlier, then it made me laugh and now you're annoying me. don't say “now for all you geeks out there, do more research before you atempt to grow a brain an realize, what a has really been going on in the world of nuclear weapons”, that really pisses me off. these “geeks” you are talking about really know their stuff and you don't! – by de max
|check this out (8:42pm est sun mar 07 2004)
i found a website with, quite literally, a ton of links to other sites concerning a- and h-bomb tests and stuff like that. here it is:
enjoy… this should keep all of you out there busy for a while :-) – by expofreak
|here (9:46pm est sun mar 07 2004)
check this out… one of my friends emailed it to me saying that it's a picture of the tsar bomba from outer space. but im not so sure…
the picture looks real enough, but it could be computer generated. tell me what you guys think! – by expofreak
|nah (12:00am est mon mar 08 2004)
i dont think nasa or the soviets had cameras with that resolution and color in 1961, much less a satelite in orbit over the artic circle at the presise moment of the detonation – by tsar
|agreed (12:06pm est mon mar 08 2004)
yah, thats what i was thinking…too pretty, too perfect. as for the lee post, that was actually me, i was reading the posts that were made before i got here, thought that one was so absurd and silly i would post it again (slightly re-worded for effect). sorry, all in good fun guys. :) – by platypus
|pic (9:04pm est mon mar 08 2004)
here is a cool picture of the chinese nuclear testing site at lop nor. this picture was taken 4 days after the nuclear test in china who's raditation cloud circled the globe
|weee (9:14pm est mon mar 08 2004)
– by jim
|hii everybody (9:41pm est mon mar 08 2004)
i would like to say that a cool place is the one i suggested so look at it!:) it has a oicture of how many pentagons(the bouilding) could fit in mikes crater it pretty cool it is at my other entry a lttle further up do looook at it!!!!!!
but heer it is and some of those replys r funny – by nukefreak enrty2
|ooops (2:07am est tue mar 09 2004)
ooops – by de max
|okay guys (8:21pm est wed mar 10 2004)
the dvds came in
i watched the tsar bomba part on trinity and beyond first. yes it showed some of the construction of the bomb and the bomb being released. and also the pilots putting on the gogles. and about 4-5 seconds of the fireball. not too impressive.
but the “secrets of war” dvd was absolutley amazing!!!!
it had a whole part on just the tsar bomba. here is what they showed…
color footage of the bomb's assembly. showing scenes of the making not shown in trinity and beyond. and all in color!
also, the dvd shows the t-65(?) bear bomber being spray-coated with the special white paint to protect it from the fireball. then it shows the huge bomb being loaded up into the plane and showes nice images of the bomb secured underneath the plane. then it shows the plane taking off with the huge bomb suspended under it.
then it shows the plane dropping the bomb and the pilots putting on the gogles. keep in mind all of this is in color, unlike in trinity and beyond.
then it shows footage taken 60 miles from the huge fireball. and then the pilots looking out the windows at the light. then it shows the huge leg of the mushroom cloud which was 6 miles wide rising up and the enormous condensation cloud. also an amazing shot of the fireball rising 40 miles above the surface of the earth taken who knows how far from ground zero.
– by tsar
|and … (8:22pm est wed mar 10 2004)
then it shows quite possibly the most amazing shot of a mushroom cloud i have ever seen. footage of the huge mushroom cloud 500 miles taken from a plane are just spectacular. the mushroom cloud looks amazing, much more specacular then the famous shots of the ivy-mike test, grable test and bravo test which are the most famous nuclear test photos.
during all this heston is narating about the bomb and different aspects of the test. there is also an intereview with a russian scientist that worked on the bomb and he talks about it.
the trinity and beyond segment about the bomb was crap, if you want tsar bomba, get “secrets of war : the strangelove factor” it was 10$ on amazon and it was worth every penny just to see the largest explosion every made. everything is in color, the assemby, the plane dropping the bomb, the fireball,and mushroomcloud
i'll try somehow to rip the stills off the dvd but no garentees. if anyone knows any programs that can rip dvd still post them up. finally i can rest in peace seeing the largest man made explosion ever made. get this dvd, even if just for the tsar bomba segment – by tsar
|allright (9:48pm est wed mar 10 2004)
ok, i managed to rip a still of the mushroomcloud off the dvd. post you email address and i'll send u a photo of the tsar bomba mushroomcloud. – by tsar
|you're great (1:51am est thu mar 11 2004)
thanks tsar! – by de max
|yes (1:53am est thu mar 11 2004)
and i'm gonna buy me a copy of secrets of war right away! – by de max
|you suck (10:24am est thu mar 11 2004)
your all fucking losers for wasting your time
fuckin dumasses – by kdog
|email address (11:13am est thu mar 11 2004)
thanks tsar – by platypus
|oh no! kdog doesn't like us! (11:18am est thu mar 11 2004)
oh my sweet lord in heaven!
whatever shall i do.
kdog doesnt like me!
he thinks im a loser, and a dumbass
i think im going to cry!
i know im going to lose sleep over this!
because i am not liked,
by the only person on the planet
concieved through anal sex! – by kdogs mom's lover
|more pics (10:09pm est thu mar 11 2004)
i sent both of u guys some more pics, check them out – by tsar
|dude your the man! (1:35am est fri mar 12 2004)
i have to thank & congratulate you tsar. you came through in an area where the internet …the whole freaking world wide web, couldnt. . i know i have spent many many hours trying to find tsar pics, all to no avail. if you ever come through dallas tx let me know and ill buy you a beer. btw, out of curiosity, from what i have gathered off the 'net, its my understanding that the fireball was 10 miles across. this makes since to me since castle bravo was like 3 or 4 miles. also, did the film give any info on how far the camera was from the blast? – by platypus
|no problem (7:52am est fri mar 12 2004)
it was my pleasure, we are all tsar bomba freaks…
the pics of the mushroomcloud from the plane was take 500 miles from ground zero. 500!!! miles and look how huge that thing is…
the first pics of the fireball were take about 60 miles from ground zero.
there is still more footage on the dvd of the fireball that i couldn't rip. it shows the fireball i think from the same distance of the pics of the mushroomcloud and from the same altitude, but im not sure. anyway, if you do the math…
tsar bomba was detonated at an altidue of 15,000 feet and it said in the dvd that the fireball reached an altitude of 40 miles above the earth's surface. so what u got there is the altiude of the center of the fireball and the height of which the firball reached from the earth's surface. if u convert 40 miles into feet and subtract 15,000 from it, it should give u the radius of the fireball. mulitplay the radius by 2 and that should be diameter of the fireball.atleast i think that's how u do it :p
the way i ripped the dvd was i downloaded a dvd to mpeg converter and converted it to an mpeg file. then, using windows movie make, it alows u to take stills of mpeg files. and thats how i got the stills. for some reason, the dvd to mpeg ripper only ripped about 25 minutes of the 50 minute program, and unfortuantly the peice about the tsar bomba started around the 15 or 20 minute mark, so i only got about half of the footage shown on the dvd.
i would still suggest to buy a copy of the secrets of war dvd, as u can see, it has some oustanding footage of the tsar bomba. for only $10 bucks, it's well worth it, esspecially for tsar bomba freaks. just imagine those pics i sent to u guys dvd quality. – by tsar
|question about secrets of war (12:07pm est fri mar 12 2004)
i am looking for the dvd, and noticed there are several secret of war editions. is it the nuclear and biological weapons dvd? – by platypus
|yes (3:14pm est fri mar 12 2004)
here is the link..
the nuclear and biological warfare dvd comes with 2 programs. “ww1: germany's secret gambles” and “cold war: the strangelove factor”. the strangerlove factor is the program with the tsar bomba – by tsar
|thanx (6:42pm est fri mar 12 2004)
you are awesome! thanks a lot!
next stop… post them on the net – by expofreak
|acctually (7:31pm est fri mar 12 2004)
acctually, i'm planning on making a website devoted to the tsar bomba in my spare time. also, i still wanna see if i can get that 20 minute film about the tsar bomba made for the soviet goverment. :p – by tsar
|holy crap (3:57pm est sat mar 13 2004)
hmm, ok i did the calculations based on “no problem” post. accoring to the figures i got a fireball over 70 miles wide. bravo's fire ball 4 seconds after detonation was 4 miles according to a govt video i found. bravo had a yield of 17 megatons. tsar at 57 mt, is 3.35 times the power of bravo. so im guessing it was probably around 12 miles in diameter. however, high altitude bursts seem to have much larger fireballs than low altitude bursts. so who knows, no matter what though, the numbers are very impressive. – by platypus
|lol yep (5:04pm est sat mar 13 2004)
yea, those numbers can't be right
40 miles = 211,200 feet. the burst height being at 15,000 feet, that would give it a radius of 196,200 feet, and a diameter of 392,400 feet or approx 74 miles!?not
tsar bomba was designed to explode at 15,000 feet, but infact it detoned at 13,000 feet. at 13,000 feet, the fireball touched the ground, but at 15,000 it would not. so lets say that the radius of the fireball was 13,000 feet w/ a diameter of 26,000 (4.9 miles). given the 2,000 foot difference between the esimated burst height and acctual burst height, it's safe to say the fireball was anywhere between 4.9 miles wide to 5.6 miles wide. the plane released the bomb at a height of 33,600 feet and it says the fireball reached almost as high as the plane. that is the best estimation i can come up with, still is one big ball of fire though. – by tsar
|those pics are nice (8:18pm est sat mar 13 2004)
thanks a lot tsar. my three years of searching has finally come to an end. now that i have the pics, though, i dont know what to do on the internet now :-). i cant believe that those pics were from 500 miles away!!!!! i am definitely going to try and buy that dvd real soon. – by expofreak
|tsar bomb (1:37am est sun mar 14 2004)
please send some pics of the tsar bomb. – by pyromaniac
|longest thread (1:39am est sun mar 14 2004)
you stupid motherf^#@!s. this is the longest thread ever!!!
but i like it. more bombs. use them on the french!! – by peirre
|dvd (3:28am est sun mar 14 2004)
i ordered the dvd yesterday, thanks for the link tsar. it'll be in sometime this week, cant wait to see it!
– by platypus
|lol (2:43pm est sun mar 14 2004)
you guys want another project?
find a photo of a 24 megaton test conducted by the soviets a year after tsar bomba, december 24 1962 over novaya zemlya. – by tsar
|b-52 (9:17pm est sun mar 14 2004)
a b-52 carrying 2 24 megaton nuclear weapons?? this was in 1961. how come they were never tested?? – by pyromaniac
|yep (10:17pm est sun mar 14 2004)
24 january 1961
a b-52 with nuclear bombs fell apart in mid-air over north carolina, killing three of the eight crewmen and releasing two 24-megaton nuclear bombs. one bomb parachuted to the ground and was recovered the other fell free and landed in waterlogged farmland, never to be found. when the recovered bomb was studied, it was found that five of its six safety devices had failed.
scarey isn't it? a 24 megaton atomic device lost and never found on our own soil????!!!?!??!! imagine if the 6th safety device had failed on the other bomb??!!?? a 24 megaton explosion in north carolina!!! wow, thats some sick sh*t
to date, there are 6 nuclear weapons lost that were never recovered.
anyway, i highly doubt anyone will find a photo of a 24 megaton bomb that was acctually tested by the russians in '62… – by tsar
|hydrogen bombs (12:29pm est thu mar 18 2004)
the hydrogen bomb is the best way of dealing with the islamic millitants nuke the oil fields and take away their funding i expect that'll stop them in their tracks.(or start ww3) the neutron bomb is another great way to spoil their day. seiously though has anyone got any decent pictures of the tzar bomba explosion as i'd be greatfull for any info as the information on it was broadcast on channel 4 but i havent got it taped ta send polite replies to email@example.com – by james
|hydrogen bomb (10:09pm est thu mar 18 2004)
the hydrogen bomb is not enough, an explosion that can only have an effect up to 80 miles is merely a firecracker compared to what i would invent if i had the power – by fourthhorseman
|titan bomb (10:21pm est thu mar 18 2004)
the titan bomb does not excist, but if it were to excist it would completly obliterate the entire universe 10x's over, more or less it would be the wrath of god – by fourthhorseman
|hey tsar (11:13pm est thu mar 18 2004)
hey tsar, i got the video, excellent footage. ok the guy says that the foot of the tsar bomba cloud was 6 miles across. to me that means that the cloud would have to be significantly larger. just guessing i would say the cloud is 3 to 4 times the area of the foot (if not more). possibly around 20+ miles. in sense of scale this estimate would agree with castle bravos 5 mile round cloud at 17 mt. your thoughts? – by platypus
|the titan bomb eh? (11:18pm est thu mar 18 2004)
oh yeah, well my bomb would be named “titan x infinity”, and it would blow up the universe 100 billion trillion times per second for an hour. more or less, it would be the wrath of your gods gods gods gods gods gods gods gods gods gods x infinity to infinity god. – by platypus
|titan bomb (8:50pm est fri mar 19 2004)
give me a break you must think logicly, god has no power over man if he let us create something that could destroy the world 10x's over, so for all of you stupid son of bitches out there who think that you have experinced the wrath of god, think again, and get a life – by fourthhorseman
|platypus (2:26pm est sat mar 20 2004)
i'm guessing 20 miles the absolute minium. as you see with the photo of the mushroomcloud taken 500 miles away still looks big ass hell. we are only guessing here the size of the cloud using photos and the vage information given to us.
considering that the bravo fireball was 5 miles wide at 17mt, using proportions, it's safe to assume that a 57mt bomb would produce a fireball over 16 miles wide!
but keep in mide bravo exceeded it's predicted yield by 2x and was a rather dirty bomb, while tsar was the cleanest bomb every detonated, (97% effiecency) and was alot closer to the predicted yield. i don't know if those aspects have anything to do with the size of a fireball. – by tsar
|to james (2:30pm est sat mar 20 2004)
i tried to send you some photos twice but i got the emails returned with an error. is the email address u gave me valid? do u have another i can try? – by tsar
|titan bomb (3:50pm est sun mar 21 2004)
ok fourthhorseman. wow, powerful words there! you have told me two things about you by your posts, one you are probably 12 or 13, using your parents computer. the other, you are ignorant, which may have a lot to do with your age. all forgivable, except for the fact that you are talking shit. please dont post anymore silly garbage about your “dork bombs”. also, quit using “god” to qualify yourself, it just makes you look that much more ignorant. – by 4thhorseyman
|titan (9:18pm est sun mar 21 2004)
my bomb would kick your bombs as$. sulpher salted cobalt bomb!!!! – by pyromaniac
|doomsday device (9:39pm est sun mar 21 2004)
does anyone think that a doomsday device exists or is even possible. and i dont mean bologically, i mean one big freakin explosion that destroys all life, not an asteroid, im talking man-made. i would guess something like that would require at least 50,000 megatons. – by pyromaniac
|pyromaniac (10:10pm est sun mar 21 2004)
if you're serious about that doomsday device question i advice you to check out the secrets of war dvd about one planned by the soviets during the cold war
– by tsar
|doomsday (10:56pm est sun mar 21 2004)
i agree. it was an entire ship, filled with fissionable material that had the capacity to end life on earth. fortunately, it was never built…….(or was it) :) – by platypus
|hmmmm (7:39am est mon mar 22 2004)
what's the next classification in tons after megaton? gigaton? hexaton? :p – by tsar
|tivia (4:42pm est mon mar 22 2004)
not that this has anything to do with nukes, but does anybody know the approximate yield equivalent of the meteor that killed the dinosaurs? – by frogjip
|oops (4:43pm est mon mar 22 2004)
i ment for that last title to be “trivia”
:-) – by frogjip
|really big (4:51pm est mon mar 22 2004)
“the impact that is thought to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs (and many other species) occurred at the cretaceous-
tertiary (kt) boundary, approximately 65 million years ago. the impacting object is estimated to have been 6 to 10 kilometers (~3.75
– 6.25 miles) in diameter if it were a stony asteroid, or somewhat larger if it were a comet. the resulting crater (named chicxulub) is
somewhere between 145 – 180 kilometers (91 – 113 miles) in diameter and is located on mexico’s yucatan peninsula. the energy given off by this impact is estimated to be 100 million (100,000,000) megatons of tnt.”
hope that answers your question. – by expofreak
|my goodness (4:59pm est mon mar 22 2004)
thats a lot of megatons!! do you know the amount of megatons equal to the mt. st. helens blast? i tried to find the answer on the 'net but had difficulty. – by platypus
|df hgue (5:08pm est mon mar 22 2004)
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjyouaregay – by rayn
|tsar pic (5:27pm est mon mar 22 2004)
could you please send a pic to firstname.lastname@example.org
thanks! – by 800hpsupra
|rayn (8:30pm est mon mar 22 2004)
rayn, this is your mother. look son, i know you are mad that daddy and i are seperated, and i know it hurts to realize that you came out of my ass. but really son, leave these nice boys alone and lets talk. – by rayns loving mom
|respond to platypus (1:52am est tue mar 23 2004)
thats a good question. im not sure on the actual yield in say kilotons or megatons, but the approximate size of the mt st helens explosion was 500 times the hiroshima explosion. thats pretty big! – by expofreak
|bomba (7:46am est tue mar 23 2004)
wasn't tsar bomba over 2500 times the hiroshima explosion? – by tsar
|bomba (5:27pm est tue mar 23 2004)
im not sure… the bravo bomb was a 100% improvement over the hiroshima explosion (or so i heard), and the tsar bomba was 3.35 times the power, so im not sure exactly. maybe someone out there can crunch these numbers and see what comes up. – by expofreak
|check this out (6:15pm est tue mar 23 2004)
here are some interesting pics of a hbomb detonation
(actually, they are just pics of the fireball) but they are still cool
– by frogjip
|yields (6:49pm est tue mar 23 2004)
tsar bomba = 50,000,000 tons of tnt (50 megatons)
hiroshima = 15,000 tons of tnt (15 kilotons)
15,000 goes into 50,000,000 about 3,333 times
i dunno if my math is right there or not. also, most agree that tsar bomba was 57 megatons. – by tsar
|true, true (7:11pm est tue mar 23 2004)
i think the swow video was definately in-acurate with the yield of the tsar. i cant remember where i found the source, but i remember reading at a nuclear website that tsar was around 3400 times hiroshima. thats is much closer to your math than swow. btw, i have a cool comparison chart of the major nuclear bombs, puts things into perspective. give me your email and ill send it to you if you like. – by platypus
|send it 2 me (7:37pm est tue mar 23 2004)
i wanna see it – by frogjip
|tzar bomba (8:33pm est tue mar 23 2004)
is it really the biggest bomb in the world? – by fourthhorseman
|skizomynizo (5:02am est wed mar 24 2004)
oh fucka ludy dody day – by purelife
|no (6:01pm est wed mar 24 2004)
no, the tsar bomba is not the biggest bomb in the world, it is only the biggest bomb ever tested. im sure that there have been bigger bombs invented, they just weren't tested. – by expofreak
|such as… (7:00pm est wed mar 24 2004)
the titan bomb for example. – by platypus
|jesus (2:30am est thu mar 25 2004)
jesus was crusified by the pharisses who knew that he was the son of god but put him to-death because of what might happen between palistine and roman empire, he always spoke of the future when they asked him questions and he replied speaking of the truth about man and their beliefs etc. and they thought that he was speaking as unto a man that had been taken with satan and as he spoke to them they became very angry and jesus scurried away. – by purelife
|purelife (4:08am est thu mar 25 2004)
congratulations! – by de max
|purelife (9:01am est thu mar 25 2004)
“-they became very angry and jesus scurried away”. only to launch a counter attack using thermo nuclear weapons. these weapons however, were vastly improved by using the same “retardo energy” found in purelifes posts. with such a limitless power to draw from, jesus was able to re-negotiate. psalms 6:15 – by platypus
|good one (2:59pm est thu mar 25 2004)
that was really good ryans mom…i actually laughed out loud – by pyromaniac
|??? (3:05pm est thu mar 25 2004)
can anybody explain the reason for purelife's posting. dont get me wrong, i believe that it's true, but it was out of nowhere. – by pyromaniac
|raising (7:57pm est thu mar 25 2004)
since a child i was raised on first baptist church interpretation of this truth spoken of him, and recently i came into the knowledge that sometimes what is said is misunderstood or there own ambitions in the past according to the law of moses would become apparent. he sometimes speaks of the first sentence: but then the sentence changes as the speaker goes on – by anybody
|bomb (8:38pm est thu mar 25 2004)
tzar bomba was 57 megatons when the fussion went critical, that's a big bomb and they recently been looking at a hydrogen bomb that would peirce tera ferma with a wide variation of explosive yield and deepth. mainly for political targets and sublevel bunkers. the commission wanted a weapon that was changed such as design but in order to do this the bomb would undergo drastic changes in creation of a new bomb anyways. – by purelife
|its sad (11:31pm est thu mar 25 2004)
this message board was a great place to obtain real information about nuclear weapons for the past few months. but now it seems to be losing its focus, muddled with ignorant babble and nonsense. i hope it gets back on track. tsar, expofreak, de max, and frogjip thanks for all the information, contributions and keeping it real. – by platypus
|thanks (3:19am est fri mar 26 2004)
too bad this message board is abused by these morons, i would also thank tsar, expofreak, frogjip, platypus and of course rayn's loving mom and kdog mom's lover for their information. the good thing is we have found tsar bomba footage and we have now learned that people concieved through anal sex are stupid.
thanks again and greetings! – by de max
|responding to purelife (5:55am est fri mar 26 2004)
can you please shut up? – by jesus
|no kidding (4:28pm est fri mar 26 2004)
i totally agree with you on this one, de max and platypus. for the last few months, as platypus said, there really hasnt been anything but cool info about not just the tsar bomba, but nukes in general and that has been great :-). but recently, i believe that it all started with kdog a couple of weeks ago. then a whole bunch of fucking dumbasses started to come on here and talk about absolutely nothing. which makes one wonder: how could they have stumbled on to this exact site from geek.com if they were not searching for tsar bomba pics in the first place?
i mean, they look for tsar bomba pics, maybe they find the post by tsar that says just post up your email and you'll get a photo of the tsar bomba. but then they fell compelled to put some sonsensical bullshit on this site that has nothing to do with nothing!!! it pisses me off!!!
so heres a little message to all of you idiots out there (and i believe that most of the guys here will agree with me):
get a fucking life! if you dont know anything about tsar bomba, nukes, or anything else that we've talked about here for the last few months,
|focus (1:07am est sat mar 27 2004)
here's some reading to bring things into focus. a doomsday device is possible. but not in the sense that fasinates us. it is possible, but it's not an explosion. just got through watching deep impact. it was just like titanic, it was cool when everyone started dying.
the comment at the bottom is amusing. – by pyromaniac
|tests (9:37am est sat mar 27 2004)
i don't know how many of you have read the report on the tsar bomba by viktor adamsky and yuri smirnovso so here is the link..
also, i've been reading articles that russia plans to resume full-scale underground nuclear testing in the next couple of years to study how their aging stockpile erodes over time. maybe the age of nuclear testing isn't over.:) there have been subcritical nuclear tests going on in novaya zemlya for some time now, as recent as 2003 i believe. – by tsar
|heres a change (6:50pm est tue mar 30 2004)
now that we've found pics of the largest nuclear weapon tested, how about the smallest? – by frogjip
|antimatter bomb (6:53pm est tue mar 30 2004)
the cobalt bomb isn't the only doomsday weapon that could be constructed:
just a few pounds of antimatter, when mixed with matter, can yeild massive amounts of energy. there is this site that i found that you enter in the number of pounds of antimatter and then it will give you a theoretical guess of the explosion (in megatons!)
|here (6:59pm est tue mar 30 2004)
this picture was far more easily found…
you have to scroll down a ways, but after a little bit you will see a small mushroom cloud. this is the test of the smallest confirmed nuclear bomb (called the “davy crockett” bomb). the yield of the explostion was approximately .022 kilotons (or 22 tons) of tnt. – by expofreak
|yeah (6:53pm est thu apr 01 2004)
um… im sure that an antimatter bomb would have a much bigger yield than normal nuclear bombs. im not trying to sound like a jerk or anything, but the only problem with antimatter bombs (like you mentioned) is that it is, to my knowledge, impossible to create antimatter. and if we did, another problem would be that the antimatter would destroy the matter that it comes in contact with (in theory). but if we did somehow create an antimatter bomb, im sure that it would be very destructive. – by expofreak
|whoa!!!! (6:58pm est thu apr 01 2004)
im sure that many of you have been to this website before, as i have, but i just noticed something new. they added some pictures of the tsar bomba (ones that tsar didnt send us)
scroll down, and you will see a group that says “tzar bomba” and there are three pics of it (they must have been added recently) including a new mushroom cloud pic and a color picture of the leg! enjoy! – by expofreak
|yeah (7:07pm est thu apr 01 2004)
you're right about it exploding with anything it came in contact with. i am assuming that they have a way of storing it, because i have looked at some sites and they said that they have found a way of storing it (think it has to do with magnets). anyway, if any of you are interested, here's a site that takes the number of lbs, and converts it into the yield of energy:
– by lordsteel
|wow (10:49pm est thu apr 01 2004)
wow, great find expo!!!
i found a picture of a test on kazza lite and i have no idea what test it could be. it's name was “1st hydrogen bomb” but it's definitely not ivy mike. and one top of the picture seems to be something writtin in russian.
is this the tsar bomba mushroom cloud in it's early stage of development? anyway, i posted the photo on webshots…
check it out
|hi there (1:44am est fri apr 02 2004)
congratulations expofreak, apparently tsar wasn't the only one to rip the dvd! this is great! and tsar, this is a rare pic but it's not the tsar bomba detonation. t could be the first russian h-bomb, i don't know.
regards, de max – by de max
|bomb pic (7:20am est fri apr 02 2004)
lol, i don't think that photo of the tzar bomba mushroomcloud was on the dvd…hmmmmm
– by tsar
|demax (9:37am est fri apr 02 2004)
de max, how do you know that isnt a tsar bomba pic? – by platypus
|tsar (9:39am est fri apr 02 2004)
i agree, i dont think those pics came from the dvd footage either. – by platypus
|responses (1:11am est sat apr 03 2004)
i also agree with platypus & tsar. i dont think that pic of the tsar bomba was on the dvd. in fact, i dont even think that it is a pic of the tsar bomba. i compared it to other photos of it and it didn't match up. although it could be an earlier or later stage of it.
my theory is that it is not the tsar bomba, but it is an h-bomb that was tested on novaya zemlya the next day. i read somewhere that there was another hbomb tested around the same time of day on the next day… correct me if im wrong – by expofreak
|expofreak response (1:14am est sat apr 03 2004)
hey, a few years ago i think that i saw some special on nuclear weapons on pbs that showed the tsar bomba footage. i deduced this after i saw the color photo of the tsar bomba's leg that expofreak posted.
too bad that i didn't know that it was the tsar bomba then… i wasn't really paying much attention :-). but i remember it was awesome
|loosers (12:00pm est sat apr 03 2004)
your all dumb – by la la
|pic (2:53pm est sat apr 03 2004)
well, i think that's definetly a photo of the tzar bomba (on the website), just earlier in the development of the cloud – by tsar
|la la. this is your father… (9:24pm est sat apr 03 2004)
why hello la la!. man i have been looking all over for you! i know i left you and your mother when you were 3, but i want things to change. its amazing son, when i asked your mother how i could find you, she said “look for down syndrome level posts, that accuse people of being losers…and be sure losers is mispelled, thats when you'll know you've found our retarded son”. im happy to find you son, but more importantly, i like banging your mother again. with luck, maybe our next baby will normal… but then again, they say inbreeding will always produce little la la's! – by daddy
|hey, hey! (9:33pm est sat apr 03 2004)
nice site – by jt hendricks
|responding to platypus (12:28pm est sun apr 04 2004)
i'm sure it isn t the tsar bomba for a number of reasons. first of all, look at the environment, the ground is flat, not like the low mountains on novaya zemlya. second, the sunny weather conditions, durng the tsar bomvba test there were much more clouds. and last but not least the size of the mushroom cloud, i think this detonation is 1 – 3 megatons, anyway not near 57 megatons.
regards, de max – by de max
|hahaha (7:33pm est sun apr 04 2004)
lol nice one “daddy”
here is a little atomic humor for all of you nuke fanatics out there:
enjoy – by frogjip
|hmmm… (7:36pm est sun apr 04 2004)
does anybody out there know what kind of bomb design was used to build the tsar bomba? – by hbomber
|hbomber (11:41pm est sun apr 04 2004)
the tsar bomba (referred to as the big bomb by sakharov in his memoirs [sakharov 1990]) was the largest nuclear weapon ever constructed or detonated. this three stage weapon was actually a 100 megaton bomb design, but the uranium fusion stage tamper of the tertiary (and possibly the secondary) stage(s) was replaced by one(s) made of lead. this reduced the yield by 50% by eliminating the fast fissioning of the uranium tamper by the fusion neutrons, and eliminated 97% of the fallout (1.5 megatons of fission, instead of 51.5), yet still proved the full yield design. the result was the “cleanest” weapon ever tested with 97% of the energy coming from fusion reactions. the effect of this bomb at full yield on global fallout would have been tremendous. it would have increased the world's total fission fallout since the invention of the atomic bomb by 25%.
three stage radiation implosion system
i dunno if any of that answers ur question – by tsar
|okay (6:41pm est mon apr 05 2004)
let me help out here. based on that information (i have also read similar info in other sites on the web) i have come to the conclusion that the tsar bomba was a modified version of the teller-ulam fission-fusion-fission bomb:
to get to the bomb's design, click the links “remove shell” until it says “detonate” then just read the info.
only that the tampers (shown in red in the diagram) that are originally made out of uranium-239 were replaced with non-fissionable lead ones, hereby reducing the yield by 50%.
anybody out there feel free to correct me if i'm wrong – by expofreak
|ok (3:54am est tue apr 06 2004)
i think this message board is going the right way again.
thanks daddy :-) – by de max
|responding to platypus ii (6:47am est tue apr 06 2004)
i took another look at the picture. i think you could be right. the base of the cloud (i'm not sure if i say this correct in english) is not visible. this means that this picture is taken form a very large distance and that this cloud is huge. and the flat surface could also mean that this is sea, so the coastline of novaya zemlya. i've never seen this picture before, it could be the tsar bomba cloud. – by de max
|first hbomb (6:54pm est tue apr 06 2004)
yeah, when they said “1st hydrogen bomb”, maybe they meant “1st most powerful hydrogen bomb” or something. – by frogjip
|some trivia (7:23pm est tue apr 06 2004)
i just read that a megaton is estimated to about one million tons (or two billion pounds) of tnt.
so let me break it down:
ivy mike – 10.4 megatons
wow! i hope that this really puts things into perspective.
by the way, nice “atomic humor”, frogjip :) – by expofreak
|does anyone have a pic of the powerfulest non-atomic bomb (8:25pm est tue apr 06 2004)
well does anyone – by nuker54322
|largest non-nuclear explosion (11:02pm est tue apr 06 2004)
“with 1,375 tons of explosives packed into the peaks, april 5, 1958 was the date set for detonation . on that day, at 9:31 a.m., dr. victor dolmage, consulting engineer for the ministry of public works, pushed the plunger that set off the largest non-nuclear explosion ever. the blast pulverized 370,000 tons of rock and displaced 320,000 tons of water. rock and debris rocketed 1,000 feet into the air. the explosion also created a 25-foot tidal wave which quickly dissipated and caused no damage.”
hope this helps u out nuker54322 – by tsar
|not the only one (6:50pm est wed apr 07 2004)
that is a big explosion! however, i also searched for the largest non-nuclear explosion ever, and i found even more things.
1) i found about a terrorist attack in beirut on october 23rd, 1983:
– by expofreak
|french tests (8:06pm est wed apr 07 2004)
does anyone have any rare/cool photos of the french tests at moruroa atoll? – by tsar
|interesting article (11:25pm est wed apr 07 2004)
i stumbled on this article while searching for some info. it's a fairly recent article the talks about the ever increasing interets in the us goverment to resume full scale nuclear testing. – by tsar
|french test (3:15am est thu apr 08 2004)
yes, if you want i can send them to you by e-mail. – by de max
|sure (10:52am est thu apr 08 2004)
if u can de max, just reply to the email i sent to you of the tsar bomba pics… thanks – by tsar
|pics (11:57am est thu apr 08 2004)
can i see these pictures as well? also, i looked at the halifax incident expofreak left. interesting stuff. there was also a ship called the grandscamp that exploded off a texas port in the 50's (i believe). this ship was loaded with ammonium nitrate and caught on fire. much like the halifax incident, large crowds assembled at the shore to watch the burning ship. he ship exploded, vaporizing the vessel. the end result was near total destruction of the entire town. – by platypus
|wow (12:37pm est thu apr 08 2004)
“the scene of one of the most devastating peacetime explosions in the united states, grandcamp was originally named benjamin r. curtis, for an associate justice of the u.s. supreme court who resigned over the court's handling of the dred scott case. sold to the french government in 1946, she entered general trade between europe and gulf coast and caribbean ports. on april 11, 1947, she arrived at texas city, a city of 15,000 people located eleven miles from the gulf of mexico between galveston and houston. five days later, the ship was loading ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertilizer that is also used for making explosives. bags were being lowered into the cargo hatch when a fire was discovered at about 0800. the crew attempted to extinguish the blaze, but half an hour later they were ordered off the ship. as spectators crowded the docks, grandcamp exploded at 0919, sending up a 4,000-foot-high fireball that knocked a plane out of the sky. burning debris ignited secondary fires at the nearby monsanto chemical plant, which made styrene, a highly flammable component of plastic, and in grain elevators and oil refineries up to two miles away. at 0110 the next morning, the ammunition-laden freighter high flyer exploded nearby, destroying the liberty ship william b. keene. fires raged through texas city for three days and the death toll was put at 308, with another 3,000 injured.”
that's a big boom – by tsar
|pic (12:41pm est thu apr 08 2004)
i think that is a picture of the grandcamp scene – by tsar
|test (5:29pm est fri apr 09 2004)
is this mike? oak?
also, de max, i still didnt get ur email of the french test pics – by tsar
|??? (6:21pm est fri apr 09 2004)
bad quality, obviously scanned from a photo but interesting – by tsar
|tsar (4:57am est sun apr 11 2004)
i emailed the pics, tsar. let me know if you received them. link 1) is an image from the movie “the day after”. link 3) looks like a bad quality castle-series test. – by de max
|re: test (5:01am est sun apr 11 2004)
tsar, i also saw this picture in a book. it says this is the first explosion of a french h-bomb in 1968 on the moruroa-atoll. – by de max
|thanks! (10:19am est sun apr 11 2004)
i got the emails de max, thanks alot for the pictures. some of them i saw allready but most i've never seen before. all the black and white “tir” pics are really spectacular. thanks alot!
also, i have some more pics of the french tests on mururoa atoll that you didn't send me. i dunno if u seen them before but i posted them on my webshots website under the “french tests” album. 5 pics total
also, i confirmed that the other photo i posted of the unknown russian test is infact the first soviet hydrogen bomb. i found a picture of the 1st ussr h-bomb and you can clearly see they are the same test. i posted the picture also on my webshots website in the “test” album
finally, there is one pic i posted in the “unknown” album which i can not confirm. i believe it is another french test but i'm not sure
all of the photos can be found in this link:
– by tsar
|more pics (2:03pm est sun apr 11 2004)
i added 3 more pics to the “french tests” album. 1 is a rather spectacular yet small photo of a test on mururoa, the other 2 are french tests in algeria – by tsar
|more pics (4:21pm est sun apr 11 2004)
cool pics, three of them i've never seen before – by de max
|the tungusta event (12:56pm est tue apr 13 2004)
some time in the 1920's a small astroid blew up in earths atmossphere over siberia the blast flattened thousand of miles of forests the blast could be seen a a bright flash in britain and ricter scales picked it up also earthquakes fallowed for a few hours this might be the most powerful non nuclear explosion of the 20th century – by crazy123
|gsdgfysadgf (1:39pm est tue apr 13 2004)
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|gsdgfysadgf (11:30pm est tue apr 13 2004)
hi guys, look im sorry about the post i just made. the fact is, i never get laid, mommy and daddy never gave me any attention when i was growing up….all because i am terribly ugly, and not very smart. so here i am, condemned to myself, too afraid to commit suicide, and too afraid to act like an adult. i am a waste. forgive me – by pisser
|:( (12:21pm est wed apr 14 2004)
this board lost it again :( platypus, expo and the others no where to be found…adios – by tsar
|dont go (4:14pm est wed apr 14 2004)
sorry i havent been here for a while… been kinda busy
i will try and maintain order to this web site by posting up info about not just the tsar bomba, but other nukes as well…
ttfn – by expofreak
|tsar (12:28am est thu apr 15 2004)
sorry i havent been posting much.i have also been busy, but i still check here often. i will post more often. btw the pics you added are very cool, thanks a lot! dont go! – by platypus
|whoa (12:55am est fri apr 16 2004)
hey dont go man – you are the one who supplied us with the tsar bomba pictures in the first place! this site would suck if you were gone…
in other news, the way that i got onto this site in the first place, was i went to google and typed in “tsar bomba test pics”. this thread used to be the top link, but now its like the 5th or 6th one down! isnt that insane?
i will also keep posting up new info in the future… – by frogjip
|video (3:22pm est fri apr 16 2004)
i found a video on kazaa that has a collage of multiple nuclear bomb footage, put to a sinister sounding operah. the title is “mythos kubrick – atomic bomb explosions”. some of the recognizable tests are baker, bravo, sedan, and many many more. it is a very cool mix – get it! – by platypus
|video (3:52pm est fri apr 16 2004)
yea i downloaded that before but it never worked. all i hear is the music but no video :-( – by tsar
|video ii (6:34pm est fri apr 16 2004)
do you have div x? if not thats your problem. you can download it for free at
– by platypus
|thanks platypus (9:16am est sat apr 17 2004)
ok, i downloaded it and it worked. very spectacular video.
the tests i've been able to recognize: mike, baker, trinity, sedan , cherokee, yeso?
– by tsar
|video (2:58pm est sun apr 18 2004)
do you know what the very last bomb is in the video? that sucker is huge, it looks like the sun. – by platypus
|yep (4:15pm est sun apr 18 2004)
thats the cherokee test.
|hold on (5:19pm est sun apr 18 2004)
i tried to watch that movie, and when it didn't work, i downloaded that “divx” thingy, and when it was finished, i went to watch the movie. but while it was playing, it didn't show any nuclear explosions at all! it only showed these little dash things all across the screen. how disappointing… – by expofreak
|expo (10:59pm est sun apr 18 2004)
try downloading another file. some of them don't work while others do. some even say something like “this one works”. also, if u downloaded divx, it should work with other media players (ie realplayer, windows media) try using one of those. – by tsar
|dr strangelove (12:09am est mon apr 19 2004)
watching the movie now. peter sellers is the greatest. – by pyromaniac
|strangelove (8:44am est tue apr 20 2004)
i am going to get it, i have heard its a great movie. – by platypus
|as king about articol (5:01pm est tue apr 20 2004)
how did they come up with the ideal of making the computer test for the h-bomb and how were the resalts related to real under ground testing? what is so diffrent betwen the two? and why did i tack so long to do – by psycho
|hi (7:08pm est tue apr 20 2004)
|computer test answer to psycho (11:20pm est tue apr 20 2004)
hmm, well my guess would be that they put a uranium enriched cd into the cd rom, then burned it using a high intensity photon ray interlaced within the computers magnetic bubble memory. once fission was achieved, they entered the data onto the nucleosis ventilator shaft which pipelined the raioactive information to the hard drive (and when i say hard, i mean this thing withstands thermonuclear shock). once there, they re-booted because it was a fucking windows operating system. then repeated the process again. dont quote me on this, its just a hunch. and to answer your last question…one blows up and destroys shit, the other one is on a computer. – by platypus
|hi (2:54am est wed apr 21 2004)
sorry guys about the post i just made, i just finished fingering my ass so i wasn't able to use my hands normally while i was typing. – by dfsdfweeeeeeeeeeeeee
|dfsdfweeeeeeeeeeeeee's mom speaks about her son (10:18am est wed apr 21 2004)
it wasnt long after is father and i had him, that we began to realize he was indeed “special”. he had an uncanny ability to make people around him “dumber” when he spoke. never a hot topic with the laides, he found sexual pleasure from his butt. i remember one day -after his father and i just finished anal sex (he was the bitch)- we found our son connecting electrodes to a spoon handle that he had shoved up his ass. it was from that point on, that we started referring to him affectionately as “dfsdfweeeeeeeeeeeeee”, which is the sound his ass made when we pulled the spoon out. – by mommy
|reply back to platypus (4:27pm est thu apr 22 2004)
thanks for your in put and is there any one els out there that would like to add theres and try not to mack it to dumb but no anser is realy dumb so just say what you wont to. oh my put is they just recorded a video and put it on the computer and just say it took some odd days so theres my openyon how about otheres like mommy's or dfsdfweeeeeeeeeeeeee? – by psycho
|psycho (7:13pm est thu apr 22 2004)
i don't know how they came up with the idea of a computer simulated h-bomb but it was probably born out of necessity cause some stupid enviromental hippies didn't want anymore atmosphereic tests. i have absolutely no idea how they could simulate something and y it took so many days but i read that all the chain reactions and elements breaking down and fussing and all of that took up all the calculations. u photos of all those long equations written by scientists in the 1940s when they were developing trinity, now think of those equations thousands of times longer being calcuated 1.4 trillion times in a second.
and it's amazing that it takes like a week to calculate something that happens in real life in only a few thousands of a second…. wow – by tsar
|question (12:46pm est fri apr 23 2004)
i wonder what would happen if two identical nukes were detonated at the exact same place at the exact same time… would the resulting explosion be twice as powerful? – by frogjip
|tsar (2:21pm est fri apr 23 2004)
thank you for your imput on that and that is a real bogol to think of thos calkulations all ot ones in just a few seconds so ill just lev it up to the real testers and natueristical freaks – by psycho
|ratynahta (2:50pm est fri apr 23 2004)
agir0t840-q3r7u9q-e – by 66y7u33r fft6y77
|frogjip (5:12pm est fri apr 23 2004)
hmmm i've never thought of something like that. since the initial fireball is created in the first thousands of a second, the bombs would have to be sincrenized to that amount of time. if one detonated before the other one, even if by only a few thousands of a second, i think the other bomb would just be incinerated instantly and no explosion would occur cause the plutonium core would be vaporized. i don't think a chain reaction would start in the later bomb cause there wouldn't be enough time for an implosion to occur. but then again, what the hell do i know…:p – by tsar
|strangelove (8:24am est mon apr 26 2004)
is a truly top and amazing film, hard as i would find it to believe that anyone sittin in here or interested in nukes in any way would not have seen this film i still need to stress that
you should all go and see this film at once!
“gentlemen you cant fight in here, this is a war room!”
pure class:) – by easyandy
|frogjip (12:16pm est mon apr 26 2004)
is it possible that, if the second bomb is incinerated before it could detonate, that the extra plutonium or uranium could add to the explosion?
but, if the two bombs were detonated at the exact same time (to the millisecond), then the two fireballs would be created at the same time. i believe then that the two initial chain reactions would feed into each other and it would double the size of the explosion.
it would look pretty cool to see two atom/hydrogen bombs detonated at the same time… – by expofreak
|yoy y (8:07pm est mon apr 26 2004)
hi folks im a hik form outqa town and i founbd your website on my windows 89 tarnashon wha tis a atom bomb is the a tyrp of condom? can anyone answer my question.s ad.sorry had an oragasm – by lil bill
|question to expo or tsar, or frogjip (11:13pm est mon apr 26 2004)
hi guys, im doing a short essay about the largeest nuclear bombs ever detonated. im using castle bravo and of course the tzar bomba for examples. ok, while researching, i went to for info about castle. it says that at its full dimensions, the cloud reached a diameter of 100 kilometers. convert that to miles and you have around 62.5 miles across. to me that doesnt sound right, but i dont know, the site seems pretty legit. it also said that the test created an exclusion zone that was equal to 1% of the entire earth's land area. hmm i dont know, the secret weapons of war movie shows the tsar bomba cloud from 500 miles away, and it takes up the entire screen. imagine the tzars cloud if these bravo stats are accurate. wow, these bombs are much grander in scale than i thought. – by platypus
|66y7u33r fft6y77 and lil bill (2:21am est tue apr 27 2004)
you guys have a great sense of tumor
hahahahahahah – by your mom
|question to expo or tsar, or frogjip (2:50am est tue apr 27 2004)
hi guys, im doing a short essay about the largeest nuclear bombs ever detonated. im using castle bravo and of course the tzar bomba for examples. ok, while researching, i went to
/tests/castle.html for info about castle. it says that at its full dimensions, the cloud reached a diameter of 100 kilometers. convert that to miles and you have around 62.5 miles across. to me that doesnt sound right, but i dont know, the site seems pretty legit. it also said that the test created an exclusion zone that was equal to 1% of the entire earth's land area. hmm i dont know, the secret weapons of war movie shows the tsar bomba cloud from 500 miles away, and it takes up the entire screen. imagine the tzars cloud if these bravo stats are accurate. wow, these bombs are much grander in scale than i thought. – by platypus
|plat (11:03pm est tue apr 27 2004)
information does seem rather sketchy from atomic tests. maybe the wind or atmosphereic conditions were different between bravo and tsar and that's why bravo produced such a big cloud. tsar's cloud should have been a few hundred miles across. yet, maybe the footage was taken alot closer then 500 miles away? or maybe the cloud on the footage did not fully develop? i really don't have an answer. but if u read all the eyewitness accounts of the tsar explosion u know it was on big sucker so i wouldn't be surprised if the cloud circled the earth atleast once before it complete disapated. a chinese test at lop nor had a mushroom cloud which was detected over the usa. – by tsar
|footage question (4:25pm est wed apr 28 2004)
i'm going to use the george test as an example. if u saw “trinity and beyond”, it shows the george fireball. but it looks like the test is at night but it was really in the morning so there should be sunlight.
my question is.. did they purposely tint the camera lens so it would show the fireball and not just light? this appears on a few tests, like the bravo test which was conducted in the morning but it appears to be in the middle of the night? is this just a camera trick?
hmmm – by tsar
|hmmm (7:18pm est thu apr 29 2004)
this is odd… i cant believe that i didn't notice this before just now…
is it just me, or does it look like this photo:
are taken not only at different times of the day, but at completely different locations? i realize that they are all pictures of the same test, but still… – by expofreak
|sorry (7:20pm est thu apr 29 2004)
that first link didnt work… here it is again:
– by expofreak
|yo dawg wat up (9:17pm est thu apr 29 2004)
yo cruisin in nmy cadilac i found this webdysite on my laptop this is a funky site yo to scerasdassd ddamn that orgasm sorry gotaa go my hoes awaits – by pimpledo
|esample (10:39pm est thu apr 29 2004)
here is a great example of what i'm talking about…
click on those 2 pictures. they are of the exact same test, fizeau. the 1st pic looks like a night pic, while the second is in clear day light. can anyone explain how/why this is like that? is it the type of camera used? – by tsar
|same exact thing (1:00am est fri apr 30 2004)
yeah, it was like that with my 3 ivy mike pictures that i posted… maybe that they messed around with them with computers or something. that raises yet another question. why would they do that anyways? – by expofreak
|expo (7:18am est fri apr 30 2004)
my guess is that with a regular camera, like the second fizeau test picture during the day, you cannot see the fire ball until it has cooled down enough cause of the bright light. much like u can't see the sun spots on the sun cause it's so bright and u can only see them with special cameras. my guess is that they tinted the cameras so u can see the early stages of the fireball. also, maybe it was how they developed the film which makes it look like different times of day like with the ivy mike pics – by tsar
|good guess (12:04pm est fri apr 30 2004)
that's a good theory… and probably what happened. good one, tsar. oh, and i think that the first fizeau test pic was cooler. – by expofreak
|test? (9:48pm est fri apr 30 2004)
what test is this?
– by tsar
|tsar bomba (8:26am est sat may 01 2004)
i found some cool pics of the tsar bomba again. these are of the replica in the atomic museum in russia. they give a good idea of the scale and components of the largest nuclear device ever built.
– by tsar
|beast computer (1:13pm est mon may 03 2004)
we the people of ibm and microsoft are inventing a super computers that will put
special tatoos on people. the system wouldn't be
invented until 2008 the system will cost $7,000.
if this system comes through there will be no
people running the machine any more. – by randy smith
|question (3:36pm est mon may 03 2004)
if you could go back in time to any nuclear detonation, which one would you like to witness?
of course my 1st choice would be the tsar bomba. i could only imagine the physcological and moral impact witnessing such a large explosion would have on the soul…
my other choices would be baker, graple (atomic cannon), the french h-bomb test on mururoa, ivy mike, umbrella shallow water shot, one of the nameless 20 megaton soviet tests, bravo just to name a few p
– by tsar
|yakkity yak yak yak (9:20pm est mon may 03 2004)
you geeks-sorry, i mean guys, you sure can talk alot! people get brainwashed to quickly. just remember, dying is sad but killing is worst.its gotta end somewhere.where's da love…..turtles rock!!!!! – by gandhi
|question (12:13pm est tue may 04 2004)
i would witness any nuclear explosion as long as it is in megaton range or underwater. i think an underwater detonation is as impressive as a detonation in megaton range, my choice would be crossroads baker, castle romeo (such a creepy, mean cloud), tsar bomba or one of these b52 dropped megaton dominic shots. – by de max
|question (6:21pm est tue may 04 2004)
i would go with the castle bravo shot, tsar bomba, the sedan event and baker. the sedan because its hard to fathom that much ground moving 250 feet up before the exlposion vented. looking at the test video, the earth that bomb lifted must have been at least 1/4 of a mile. awesome!
– by platypus
|does anyone read russian?!?! (6:40pm est tue may 04 2004)
i've found another tsar bomba link…
the website is all in russian but i used a russian-english translator and got this…
“film narrates about events of the newest history. about creation and test of the most terrible weapon of 20 centuries – russian ” tsar of a bomb “.
the site shows images of the tsar bomba, what looks like the tu-96 bomber that dropped it, and some other images i can't identify. i think they are stills from a film about the tsar bomba. if anyone can decode the site maybe u can order the film??
here is the link
enjoy – by tsar
|camera shots (12:01am est fri may 07 2004)
i do belive that they use tinting on the shots in order to get a better picture of the fireball. if you watch the atomic bomb movie there is one explosion where they slowly remove some of the filter as the fireball dims. – by pyromaniac
|witness (12:07am est fri may 07 2004)
i would want to go see the first h-bomb, ivy mike. 10 megatons is plenty. i would problably punch the guy doing the video of the whole event. “for the sake of all of us, i know you'll join me in wishing this expedition well.” god!!!! i love my country and all, but that was so cheesy….im even glad they tested as much as they did. but that man was a propoganda machine. :-) – by pyromaniac
|tsar bomba (8:55pm est fri may 07 2004)
holy crap!!! tsar is the bomb, literally. it takes a certain amount of appretiation to even think of the destructive force of such a thing. god help us all if korea gets one of the bitches. – by red rider
|let them (9:01am est sat may 08 2004)
let korea get one of those.. a bomb that size can't be put on an icbm so the bomber will be an easy kill.. p
i got aquestion concerning trinity and beyond..
during the bravo segment, some shots are acctually of the romeo test,including the burning palm trees and various mushroom cloud shots. now, did peter kuran know that these where 2 different tests and decided to combine them? if not then that's a pretty big mix up.. – by tsar
|why? (10:30pm est sat may 08 2004)
i think it is much cooler if they would just use real bombs instead of simulations it just brings a tear to my eye to something as beatifull as a nuclear bomb go off its awesome – by cory
|question (11:51pm est sat may 08 2004)
if i could see any nuclear tests, i would see first and foremost the trinity explosion. then i would only go up from there. i would then watch baker, ivy mike, then romeo, bravo, and of course, the tsar bomba.
i would see other ones too, those are just ones off the top of my head =)
|tsar (2:08pm est sun may 09 2004)
i finally found pics of tsar bomba. there's only two of the actual cloud, but it's more than i've found anywhere else.
enjoy! – by red rider
|late (3:55pm est sun may 09 2004)
a little late red rider – by tsar
|tsar (10:30pm est mon may 10 2004)
i might be wrong…but i do not believe those pictures are from 500 miles….
in trinity and beyond, the pictures of castle bravo were from 50 miles and the pics looked a lot smaller.
someone will have to show me on a web site where they claim 500 miles….. – by pyromaniac
|500 miles (12:33pm est tue may 11 2004)
the middle pic, the one that shows the entire cloud – is featured on the secret weapons of war video. it is taken from an aircraft that is so far away you cant tell any movement from the cloud. the narrarator (charleton heston) says that “this video was taken 500 miles away from the epicenter”. looking at the pics again, i kinda think it is acurate, the altitude is pretty high, and it is evident that its from an incredible distance, plus the fact that the cloud rose 40 miles into the earths atmosphere. to add perspective, this bomb was over 3400 times the hiroshima blast. when you look at the hiroshima bomb pics, the aerial photos show the cloud at high altitude. if you look past the cloud, ill bet you can see at least 50 miles of hiroshimas surroundings. – by platypus
|“late” by tsar (12:35pm est tue may 11 2004)
roflmao – by platypus
|500 miles (5:23pm est tue may 11 2004)
the ivy mike cloud at it's max was 100 miles across, at 10 megatons. tsar is 5 times as big, so lets say 400-500 miles. the footage was taken 500 miles away and it fills about 25% of the screen. so lets say about 200 mile wide cloud, keep in mind the cloud still looks in it's early stage of development. ivy mike at it's max 100 miles across looked basically like a thunderstorm cloud and not really a recognizable mushroom cloud. i say that 500 miles from the epicenter is quite accurate. i mean give or take about 50 miles in distance, still pretty far away.
if any of you guys see the book “100 suns” pick it up. it is a great book showing rare pics of different tests. including absolutley dramatic shots of bravo, mike, yankee, oak just to name a few. photos that u can't see online. about 45$ in barnes and noble. u can also get it via amazon.com – by tsar
|500 miles (6:18pm est tue may 11 2004)
im still looking for anything on a site. i saw a video of castle bravo from the department of energy's site. and it said the video was shot from a plane at a distance of 50 miles. the cloud was no where near the plane. – by pyromaniac
|found the clip (11:55pm est sun may 16 2004)
this is a cool site…lot's of explosions..the clips of castle bravo were from a plane at 50 miles. – by pyromaniac
|hey (12:00pm est mon may 17 2004)
i posted that link up way earlier… did anyone look at it then?
yeah, that website is pretty cool. it was the first time that i had ever seen any video clips of h-bombs… – by expofreak
|??? (12:54am est thu may 20 2004)
is anyone out there? – by expofreak
|hi (7:41am est thu may 20 2004)
yea i saw that's site, great archive of bits and peices of the atomic videos made by the goverment – by tsar
|hey guys (2:31pm est sat may 22 2004)
sorry i haven't posted in a while….
i found 2 rare photos of soviets tests. one is an underwater test conducted near novaya zemlya. the other is some type of atmospheric test, looks pretty large in yield, my guess it was conducted at semplitansk test range.
here are the links…
i found them by typing in russian words into google. it's amazing the stuff u can find when u type in “nuclear tests” in russian.
anyway, any feedback?
– by tsar
|tsar (10:44pm est sat may 22 2004)
hey that was pretty cool. do you know what the yield of the 2nd pic was in say mega- or kilo-tons? it looked pretty neat. – by expofreak
|expofreak (10:27am est sun may 23 2004)
okay, this is what i have come up with expo…
the name of the 2nd pic is altai.jpg. altai is infact a location for several soviet atomic tests. it is acctually part of the semipalatinsk test site(sts) that goes across the (now kazakstan) border into the russian federation.
also, looking at the photo, the landscape is pretty flat unlike the mountainous novaya zemlya. allthought there is a site in novaya zemlya that was selected specifically for it's flat landscape, that site was used only for large underground tests in the 2-3 megaton range and only for 2 years. so it's safe to say that the picture is from the sts site in the altai region.
now, all the larger soviet tests in megaton range were conducted in novaya zemlya, the smaller tests were conducted at sts, just like larger us tests were held at enewetok atoll and smaller tests at nts. the most powerful bomb detonated at the sts site was 180 kilotons.
so to answer you question expo. that test is anywhere between 1 to 180 kiltons :p. that's the best i can do.
– by tsar
|correction (11:14am est sun may 23 2004)
i said the most powerful bomb detonated at sts was 180 kts. acctually the ussr detonated on august 12, 1953 at the semipalatinsk test range a 400 kt bomb which was acctually the 1st russian h-bomb and the first deliverable h-bomb.
also there was the rds-37 “superbomb” test that was 1.6 megatons at sts.
the soviets needed a more secluded location for larger tests so they opened up the novaya zemlya test site during the mide 1950s. after the zemlya test site was opened, every test at the sts was under 180 kts. but considering how sketchy soviet info is on atomic tests, i bet even that information is wrong. >:(
so expo, i really don't know how large that test is. maybe it's the rds-37 test but i dont know if that was conducted in the altai region
here is the english version of that site…
not too much info regarding the pictures. only confirming that the 2nd pic was at altai. atleast i got that right p – by tsar
|thanks (12:16am est mon may 24 2004)
yeah it might be the rds-37 test at a different stage than what most people see it at…. i dont know though.
i agree. russian info is really sketchy on those sort of details. and it did look bigger than 180 kt, but you're never really sure on these things. like when i first saw this smoky test:
that i could've sworn that it was at least one megaton, when in reality it is actually 44 kt.
|yea (7:33am est mon may 24 2004)
yea that smokey test is awsome. it was detonated atop a 700ft steel tower! wow, 700 feet! that's about 200 more feet then the washington monument. i think it was the tallest steel tower of it's kind ever to be built – by tsar
|smokey tower, i was there. (5:03pm est mon may 24 2004)
well boys, i knew that sooner or later this chat room would end up on the topic of “smokey”. let me tell you what really happened…..
i was born in 1943, named ignathio mandrake, and basically associated with towers all my life. why, when i came out of momma's womb, the nurse said, “mildrid, i believe you have a 'tower builder' on your hands”. she was right, at the unbelievable age of .5 years of age, i built my first 1300 ft guyed mast tower. at 3, i revolutionized the industry by incorporating a hot dip galvanizing technique which has become a standard in international sfs-en iso 1461a, code. i also was among the 1st to include 52 mm2 up to 107 mm2 guy wires on each tower (sometimes even thicker in icing conditions.)
at the age of 6, i was contracted by the us government to begin construction on a tower code named “smokey”. being in school at the time, my g.t.t.t. kindergarten teacher (gifted & talented towards towers) had been on the topic of forest conservation, and discussed how towers play a key role in detracting people who use matches from forestry. so, i automatically assumed the top secret tower was basically a monument to the forest preservation icon, “smokey the bear”. you can imagine my surprise to find out that the tower was to be built in the middle of a desert! but i figured the government was using the bleak scenery as a reminder to all of what could happen if forest fires went rampant. i agreed to the task, and finished in a few hours. pleased, the us government invited me to control a crane that hoisted a 1.5 ton “forest fire beacon of hope” to crown the 700 foot tower. (to be continued – by ignathio mandrake
|smokey tower, i was there part 2 (5:04pm est mon may 24 2004)
i did joyfully. as i was driving off, i saw in the rear view mirror what appeared to be two suns in the sunset, followed by a mighty boom, and intense radioactive fallout. i turned my a/c off to lessen the contamination, but then turned it on again because it was very hot!. i tried to turn on the radio to see what the weather forecast was, but it was dead…as a matter of fact, the car wasn’t even running anymore!
often times, barracudas travel in large packs of over 1000.
| (9:22pm est mon may 24 2004)
funny – by tsar
|i ate a pie (6:31pm est tue may 25 2004)
if you want dirt go to badgerbadgerbadger.com scroll down and check the rest o fhte site it funnnny:-)(-: – by mr.b
|what? (7:57pm est tue may 25 2004)
– by expofreak
| (7:57pm est tue may 25 2004)
what? – by expofreak
|how-dee! (8:00pm est tue may 25 2004)
hello all, the platypus is back. i see we still have the idiots like mr b still hanging around here. actually one can tell that “mr. b” is actually one of many names this guy goes under. its easy to decipher his limited mentality. anyways, ignathio…brilliant story, and i cant believe you were actually there!! good to see everyone again, keep the nukes alive! – by platypus
|forum (8:45pm est tue may 25 2004)
we should find a real forum to post under isntead of this place. so everyone has their own screenames they have to register for and stuff, but i don't think one exsists for nuclear weapons – by tsar
|yeah (1:33am est wed may 26 2004)
that's a good idea, tsar… i mean, in this site, anybody can create any message that they want to and sign in as any name… and nobody would know it. maybe somebody who is a computer gee… specialist should create a forum for this. that would be awesome! – by expofreak
|hi (3:35am est wed may 26 2004)
hi guys, i'm still there. good to see so many useful posts. sorry i haven't been posting for a while but i read everything. we have eachother's e-mail address in case this site goes offline.
regards, – by de max
|forum (7:27am est wed may 26 2004)
guess what guys, i registered a nuclear weapons forum lol so we can finally post somewhere else…
sign up! it's free!!!! i'm the moderator for now, maybe if i figure it out i can make some of u guys moderators too – by tsar
|forum (11:01pm est wed may 26 2004)
yes it is true. we have all relocated to the sight that tsar posted up. we will continue this convo there. fyi: you can't post up any info unless you sign up for an account, hahahaha! – by expofreak
|tsar bomba (3:27am est sun jun 20 2004)
how can i download the movie of tsar bomba and from which site?
could anybody help me in this regard?
– by curious guy
|h-bomb (3:59am est sun jun 20 2004)
i would like to know, what happens exactly when a h-bomb explosion took place?
and also iam curious to know about the h-bombs and specially about the “tsar bomba”
i'll be thankful if somebody can help me in this matter – by curious guy
|curious guy (12:49pm est sun jun 20 2004)
we all moved to this website – by tsar
|oops (6:48pm est mon jun 21 2004)
it's all one link
|the website!!!!!!! (2:33am est mon aug 02 2004)
hey! where is everybody?!?!?!? if you are reading this, head over to that website! come on, all you nuke fans!! – by expofreak
|a bomb (6:18am est sat aug 07 2004)
were are the vids and pics – by ian bell
|tsar bomba stuff (8:49pm est mon aug 30 2004)
for tsar bomba pictures footage pics photos stills tzar bomb go to the website
coming soon – by tsarbomba
|jupiter blast (11:56pm est tue sep 21 2004)
so what would happen if we hit jupiter with a nuke? would it be possible to ignite the atmosphere? i know it wouldn't work until deep inside the atmosphere at least, otherwise the hydrogen surrounding the blast wouldn't get close enough to the center of the heat from the blast. – by dan
|wmd (2:41pm est fri oct 08 2004)
why don't some of you talk about this in real time? i found an empty chat site that runs pretty darn fast.
– by anti-net
|relative realizations (11:59pm est sat oct 16 2004)
this is on an old topic but so be it. i do not consider the human race to be a sufficient carrier in evolution. the fact that we are testing nuclear weapons, and, have used them in war to kill hundreds of thousands of people, should be proof enough that too great of mistakes have been made. the violence and chaos that covers the world cannot be stopped by mere peace forces, politics, and such. although this may seem deathly ignorant for suggesting, i believe that we need to start over, taking the few people that have stayed to paths of peace and equality, and keeping them safe, but as for the rest of the worlds' population, they should be destroyed. by means of nuclear holocaust or not, the world needs to have its “refresh” button hit in simple terms. the human race is contaminated and will only spread its virus even more over the next few years. i am not a violent person, nor am i one that would randomly just start killing people, i am only a thinker that wishes for the human race to have a second chance. – by anonymous
|its already set (9:49pm est sun oct 17 2004)
don't worry about thrying to create that sorta of environment, it'll play out if the industrilized nations go to war, most likely the northern hemisphere would be ruined, the southern portion isn't involved in many major conflicts as long as brazil keeps quiet, isn't that calming..?..
we seem to take it for granted that we have survived over 60 years of the “mutually assured destruction” era,
but as a christian, not just a church-goer, i'm going for the least pessimistic view, well, except for the one where people get “raptured” off the earth. post-trib. is the technical term: but that can be saved for later discussions. – by dan
|resonance (10:01pm est sun oct 17 2004)
can't resonance devices work with hydrogen-deuterium fusion?
possibly a sphere filled with liquid/ metallic(possible?) hydrogen- occilating waves steadily gaining energy bounce back and force until the center begins…
…oh wait, i just thought about heat distribution, that would fry the whole thing,
just thinking outloud – by dan
|nukes (6:23am est fri dec 03 2004)
i too am a so-called “nuclear-freak.” i have always been fascinated by nuclear weapons and ever since i saw trinity and beyond i just had to find the tsar footage.
many people cry about the dangers. the fact is that without them the us would never be free. without them asteroids could hit with impunity. besides, i love seeing the images and video of the weapons going off. i would sure like to see more of not only tsar bomba but other russian tests (russian test images and footage is extremely rare. not just tsar bomba). – by hellfire
|respond to hellfire (1:50am est fri dec 31 2004)
hey if you want pics of nukes and stuff, go to
i'm the moderator there… there's lots of cool stuff there for you all to enjoy. – by expofreak
|what you need is the novaya zemlya video (1:54pm est sun jan 09 2005)
i was watching tv the other night and it was a show on the 10 biggest explosions of all time. the russian 50 mt thermonuclear bomb dropped on the island novaya zemlya took the top spot. i watched it and was shocked. it was so big and powerful. f&ck…if you havent seen it then i strongly suggest you watch that show. it was detonated a few miles above the ground and it seared the permafrost ground to ash. and you all already know the shockwave was detectable on its third wave around the earth. the scary thing is that the russians didn't know if the bomb would spread to the surrounding matter and explode the entire earth. it apparently scared the sh!t out of them. i don't think it's available on the internet cuz i've tried so long to find it but it is on tv. all you need to do is spend more time watching tv and less time on the net. try tlc or the discovery channel. – by ontario
|nuclear (10:37am est mon jan 17 2005)
i ate a nuke and now i glow so how can i make it stop? i have already tried to eat cow sh!t – by glow man
|i have the cure (10:43am est mon jan 17 2005)
hehy glow man i had the same problem, the way you stop glowing is by eating fried goat testes, gross, i know, but it works. – by fear factor man
|hydrogen powerd cars (10:47am est wed jan 26 2005)
yfbcbvvfgff – by brad
|why spend on death? (7:26am est mon feb 21 2005)
why dose the governmant try to spend less on harvesting electricity, by building coal powere plants and causing deaths to hundreds of people (not to mention themselves), whaen they don't think twice about buying a brandnew luxury car with the exess money???
this crap just pisses me off!! – by the kid is a girl
|no simulation? (1:41pm est thu mar 03 2005)
i was kind of hoping that i could do the simulation on my computer. it kind of sucks that i can't do that. i think that it would be fun to see something like that. (on the computer of course. it would suck in real life.) – by fat tony
|sim sim sim (1:52pm est thu mar 03 2005)
i'm with fat tony on this one. i wanted to do the simulation also. i mean, on the link it said h-bomb simulation. i honestly thought that we could do a simulation on our computers. – by h-bomb geek
|bomb (3:19pm est wed mar 09 2005)
bombs are sweet. – by joojo
|bomb (3:25pm est wed mar 09 2005)
bomb – by clarek
|hydrogen bombs (8:05pm est wed mar 23 2005)
your all geeks get a life – by hydrogen man
|geek man (8:06pm est wed mar 23 2005)
no where not, were good little geeks. you should leave us alone. its not my fault i always get rejeted. go geeks we rule the world – by geek man
|hydrogen (8:08pm est wed mar 23 2005)
u all have tic tac dicks – by hydrogen man
|tic tacs (5:45am est thu mar 24 2005)
tic tacs are nice hydo man – by tics tacs
|tic tacs (5:45am est thu mar 24 2005)
tic tacs are nice hydro man – by tics tacs
|hgjugb (5:50am est thu mar 24 2005)
ur a doofus hydro man – by jack frost
|jack frost (9:48pm est mon apr 18 2005)
be quiet frosty ill make u an icecel pop – by jack burnt
|jack frost (9:50pm est mon apr 18 2005)
i hate jack frost i hate jack frost i hate jack frost free oj kill pigeons – by hydrogen man
|……. (7:03am est mon may 09 2005)
your all so freaky.u do u live????????????i hate u all so much u weirdos – by dumass
|hi (7:07am est mon may 09 2005)
im a wierdo.i like myself very much.i stroke myself a lot – by hello
|your safety (3:28pm est fri may 20 2005)
to all you people condeming the government for making weapons and the like they are doing it to protect you and if we disarmed it wouldnt influence others to do likewise it would just leave us defensless against our enemies – by @!$&
|oooh please… (6:17pm est wed jun 08 2005)
your joking right?
defensless against our enemies my rear…
our governments are pitting each other against each other. they're making enemies then blowing 'em up “for safety reasons”… kinda cliché.
i support the making of the atomic bombs like the tzar… just don't store them in my neightbourhood and don't drop them on anyone you wouldn't expect to lauch a few back… so what if a good million people dies? it's not like our population isn't increasing that much yearly…
why don't you go donate some money to 3rd world countries and try to help.. instead of defending them from nuclear warfair… – by the devils advocate
|im sad (7:35am est sat jun 11 2005)
my mum died of a heroine over dose – by woody
|cobalt bomb (11:30am est tue jun 14 2005)
my god you people are the worst spellers. anyway, the cobalt laced “doomsday” bomb could wipe out life on the planet. why doesn't the retarded populace commenting on this site stay on topic. i'll give you a clue. nuclear virtual testing. – by shut up!!!!!!!
|i just read this whole thread (5:30pm est sun jun 26 2005)
and i think it was the worst waste of 2 hours of my life time – by timetraveller
|paving the way to fusion. (9:44am est fri jul 08 2005)
the goal is to make a nuclear power plant that doesnt produce material that can be readily used in a dirty bomb/ or processed for an honest to god nuke. they modeled a hydrogen bomb because hydrogen bombs (like the sun) are fusion and not fission (like little/fat man/boy). if they can model it then they can start geeking with the model, and perhaps one day we will have some insanely mobile and clean power sources.
– by seankubin
|nukes (5:34pm est wed jul 20 2005)
you might say that nuclear war is “insane.” applying a psychiatric label doesn't change the fact that nuclear weapons have been developed, built, tested and deployed.
the destruction of cities, the extermination of tens of millions of human beings is now possible in a matter of hours.,and it's 2 minutes to midnight. – by the pick
|your mom (7:05pm est thu aug 04 2005)
you guys are such freaking nerds so fucking get a life then nuke urself. – by homers exual
|your mom (7:09pm est thu aug 04 2005)
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|re: your mom (7:12pm est thu aug 04 2005)
i agree with your message. it is very desciptive and i believe in the power of your mom.
ps platypus' mom was good last night please listen to my song
pus' mom has got it going on etc etc. – by homers exual
|your mum (12:45am est tue aug 16 2005)
u suck mre – by us uckp ussy
|nerds (9:02pm est sun sep 04 2005)
you are all fukin nerd burgers and you ll deserve to die in hell you mother fuckers geeks geeks geeks – by matt torre
|crackers (9:17pm est sun sep 04 2005)
i love eating crackers because i am a fat loser who has down syndrome. i can't get it up anymore – by sam torre
|crackers (9:17pm est sun sep 04 2005)
i love eating crackers because i am a fat loser who has down syndrome. i can't get it up anymore. – by sam torre
|wired (9:24pm est sun sep 04 2005)
sam u r fukn fat – by usa boy
|i dig nerd holes (9:31pm est sun sep 04 2005)
bui is a fiilthy asian – by 585
|sammy (6:16pm est wed sep 07 2005)
i wanna met this sammy where do u live call me on 598372634 do u live in america – by hor_chick
|hydrogen bmb rocks (2:23am est sat oct 22 2005)
since you gyes (americans)devloped hydrogen bomb you wore on top of the world .you does not like the idea of devlping of hydrogen bomb by any othr country . but my country has now became a new clear power and your country had to saport this forcefully .you had already anounced us as a walied nuclear power of the world .we have just a few nuclear bombs less then you – by the new wrld power
|5y (12:50pm est mon dec 12 2005)
56hethethdgbgfgftbtbhh caculaton – by r7uyj
|wtf (9:58pm est wed jan 18 2006)
what are u fuckin muslim that feels like blowing them selves up for allah?? you guys started a war with the americans with your dumb ass plane trick. they have already got saddam and almost everyone sept osama *freakin cave man now* and every allied country out there is gonna smack you down if u try anything agian. so dont think u somekind of world power i meen come on even france has nukes…. france….o and china is next on the list of kick the shit out of… unless they leave tiawan alone… then no problems – by realistic one
|lol…. (2:45pm est fri jan 27 2006)
its funny to see it but there are alot of morons on here.
i was just thinking, what if u detenated a nuclear torpedo (or a sub) off the coast of ny and dc it would be like the killer blow to goverment in america.
and if that isnt good enough just detonate another in the gulf of mexico.
america would be in deep crap. neway the h-bomb is the coolest thing ive seen in a while.
p.s. i would just h-bomb all the friggin dumbass morons that attacked the us. i mean cmon who would really be all that mad? (and what could they do?!?!……..nothing much)
die \ // (*whistles*)
(boom) – by capt. fu ragtops
|h-bomb osama (2:49pm est fri jan 27 2006)
m) – by capt. fu ragtops
|yes lets all go kill everyone (12:03pm est wed feb 15 2006)
bye the way nuclear weopons arent so kool as u might think yes they are awsomelt powerful and they amke pretty pictures which i do have a sizeable collection of , but at the end of the day droppind one of these things on n e country with malevolent intent is going to kill and no person or collection has the right or the ability to justify killing hundreds of people and making a desolate wasteground, bombs of n e kind are designed to kill and if u no the difference between right and wrong then killing is definatly weong – by deathstalker
|huh (8:55pm est sun feb 19 2006)
killing in time of war is not wrong. tell that that to an enemy soldier on a battlefield while he's charging you..
i cant believe this thread is still active. i have not posted on it in 2 years or more. and there are still people visiting??
|sdf (6:55pm est wed feb 22 2006)
– by asd
|stan (7:01pm est wed feb 22 2006)
so im pretty sure that “stan” is eminem's best song
|bomb (2:40pm est mon apr 10 2006)
go bombs – by skittlez
|“go for it” (12:54pm est fri apr 14 2006)
well see if we get rid of the h bomb we would be the only country that wouldnt have it and if other countries start a nuclear attact like wat are we going to use a fire cracker. yah im sure that will teach them a lesson – by john(o_22)
|looking for information (4:38pm est wed jul 05 2006)
can i share some resources with you? – by leon
|boooooriong old bomb (8:13am est sat jul 22 2006)
fucking shitty. no pictures you silly slappers. – by luke holbrook
|hope (11:43am est mon jul 31 2006)
jesus loves you all! trust in him today. for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. john 3:16
we all have sinned and fallen short of god's standards(refer ro 10 commandments). because of it we are destined to be separated from god for eternity! whether it be a big sin or the smallest sin, we all are guilty before god. jesus is the sacrifice for you all, and those that choose to accept him will be saved. listen to your conscience….you never know when it is too late.(death often comes when we least expect it)….god bless you! – by truth