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Nice to know that this was the SECOND Tsar Bomba. The first was twice as powerful but Krushcev decided that was OTT and ordered it be reduced by half

fun fact : that was only 50% of what the actual bomb can do

This is both terrifying and amazing at the same time. . Feeling this bomb explode must be a once-in-a-lifetime experience..

The designer must be really proud of his work.

As crazy as it is to say, that regardless of how destructive this bomb is, it’s truly genius

Tsar Bomba actually designed as 100 MT bomb, using 3rd stage fusion by combining 2 fusion bombs and 1 fission bomb together, the reason why it cut into 50 MT (actual explosion is 55 MT) simply because TU-95 crew definitely will get killed if the bomb was designed as 100 MT, so the 3rd phase was removed and only have 2 phases (1 fission and 1 fusion).

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If my high school and college science classes had featured this type of explanation and graphics, I would have learned a lot more science.

he Czar bomb was originally designed as a 3-stage weapon with a 100 MT power. But the designer was horrified by how much power it would have, so the 3rd stage was replaced with lead. A bigger explosion would have made no sense, because the cloud would have already flown out into outer space. Even so, he broke the windows at a distance of 900 km, the rest of the data is there in the video. The shock wave bypassed the Earth several times.

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Who else came here for the tutorial? Building one right now

Wow thank you so much for this very informative detailed description of how the bomb works! I’ve never seen a video on KZfaq or anywhere else that explained the process this well?!

Thank you I'd never found anyone who explained the Tsar Bomba's inner working so clearly. Combined with the visual representations, you made it easy to fully understand how it works.

The Tsar Bomb was an impractical, psychological weapon. The interesting thing is that it accelerated the development of realistic missile delivery systems to take it to the West, but these systems ended up being used for space exploration instead.

This is one of the most informative video I've seen on thermost nukes

What a well orchestrated marriage of story and graphics that mesh in perfect harmony. I truly learned some interesting facts that were unknown to me at the time, and your video filled in some blank areas that I had questions about. This is sound doctrine and on point. Great work! This is one of those videos I tell my friends and family that I made it.😂

The yield estimate of the Fat Man has been more recently been revised to 24.8kt. The Tsar bomba yield was 56.8 Mt. The primary was smaller than shown. The AF&F package did not lie between the stages. The pit was not pure plutonium, and would have been larger than 6 inches. The secondary tamper was lead, not uranium. It's deuteride, not deturide. The sparkplug was probably boosted. The interstage material was not Styrofoam. The weapon was mounted inside the bomb bay, only the doors had to be removed and it protruded outside the bay. It didn't use a 32 point initiation system. The chemical explosive did not produce a neutron burst. A separate device does that. The feedback loop described as taking place in the secondary is inaccurate.

0:55 When your squad accidentally pulls and all-nighter, and someone mentions they can see the sun coming up through their window

thanks for the tutorial, this is gonna rock my science fair!!!

You need to be my science teacher....😅

The actual yield of the Tsar-Bomb was 50MT at 97% fusion-yield and that was a derated version of a 100MT design (This was done to give the Tu-95 bomber-crew that dropped a chance to survive the blast - they nearly didn't). Also the test-device was a three-stage design not a two-stage design.

This is both terrifying and amazing at the same time. 😯

These kinds of illustrations are amazing

Perfectly made. Thanks a lot

0:28 Sir, that's the T-pose Bomba.

Fun fact: 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man' are the *only* nuclear weapons used in combat. No other nuclear weapon developed since 1945 has been used in combat. Let's hope things stay that way.

1:16 I like how it said Fat Man...

This helped me make the beginning of my comic. Thanks a lot!

Great tutorial! This worked really well when I tried it myself. Instant sub.

The truth is that there is no use to keep increasing nukes payload. As the energy is expanded in a sphere which is a 3 dimension shape, that means that in order to double a Nukes radius we need to increase the payload 8 times (2x2x2). So the most optimal way to increase the destruction is to just user more smaller nukes in a wider area. Tsar Bomba was just an exhibition and it is almost impossible to be successfully used in combat now days due to its size. Missiles with multiple warheads are the most dangerous weapon today

Dudes at the start was so humbled of the bomb that they stood in t-pose.

Great tutorial. Thanks a lot

Not the tutorial we wanted, but the tutorial we needed

these animations are the light of my life

Subscribed!

I always thought it was facinating it takes a conventional bomb to set of a fission bomb to then set off a fusion bomb. Then if you look to the reactors you need the tritium byproduct of fission to power fusion reactors. Its just facinating.

The animation of fission reaction suggest that plutionium atoms multiply when split XD

“We can build a weapon that mimics the furnace of our sun and the winds of Neptune but yet we cant predict the weather more than a few minutes ahead of it’s time” -vsauce

As others have pointed out, we don't know the internals of the "Tsar Bomba" (the American nickname, it was really called the AN602). It wasn't just a fission bomb and a thermonuclear component, that wouldn't have been enough to provide the ~50MT yield. The Soviets never released the design of this bomb and so it's all guesswork. Ultimately it relied on a very efficient thermonuclear stage, either two fission bombs either side of the fusion stage or, as is more likely, two fusion stages, the fission bomb igniting the first which ignited the second. Either way, it was completely useless as a weapon as it was too big and heavy, and was just Khrushchev saber-rattling at the west. Big bomb though for sure.

That was quite fascinating….thanks for posting👍

In theory, the bomb would have had a yield in excess of 100 Megatons (418 PJ) if it had included the uranium-238 fusion tamper which featured in the design, but was omitted in the test mainly due to reduce the radioactive fallout and to assure the survivability of the bomb crew.

I appreciate your detailed explanation,thank you.

The destructive radius of a bomb increases at the 2/3s power of the blast. It is far more destructive to do what all nuclear armed states have done: make lots of smaller bombs and use more than one on any target.

The uranium compression cylinder in the description correctly described every thermonuclear bomb *_Except_* the actual Tsar Bomba that was dropped. Had the bomb been as described, its blast would have been 100 megatons TNT equivalent, and the bomber crew would not have survived. To cut that in half, lead was used instead of uranium, just as Ernest Jay wrote 7 days ago. I think that decision came from the bomb designers, one of whom was Andrei Sakharov. Presumably Khrushchev agreed.

10/10 for the graphics, 6/10 for the scientific accuracy. The Soviet scientists never released any information on how the "Tsar Bomba" (which was the American nickname for it) was constructed and to this day we are left with guesses. The two best guesses are: two fission bombs with the fusion fuel between them leading to higher compression of the fusion stage and therefore more yield, or two fusion stages with the first igniting the second (again leading to more efficient use of the fusion fuel in the second fusion stage). Either way it was a highly impractical design!

imagine going back in time with this video and making a paradox and creating an explosion that wipes the known universe

Thank you for give us professional knowledge ❤❤❤

"I do not know with what weapons WW 3 will be fought. But WW 4 will be fought with sticks and stones" - Albert Einstein

Omg I've waited so long for this. Never actually expected you to make a vid about the tsar bomba. Amazing job!

This video is a pretty accurate representation of my night after Taco Bell.

Fascinating who knew just showing people what a nuke can do allowed them to study it and have other countries equip it and also learn how to make a nuke splitting atoms is pretty interesting

1:23 military t-pose universe

Thanks for the tutorial btw. I just finished the fusion part.

Your talking speed is excellent in this video. Other similar channels could learn from yours. I don't know what it is with everyone wanting to speak so quickly these days and KZfaq doesn't allow you to fine tune the speed of the audio enough to get it just right.

Arguably the most beautiful thing mankind has ever produced.

I learned 2 things today 1. Tsar Bomba was '2 bombs' 2. Tsar Bomba was dangerous

Insane how such a tinny thing can create such wide explosion

Rip all the animals on the island

Fun Fact: Swedish heavy metal band AVATAR did a song called Tsar Bomba

Very worrisome to know that we have really further advanced beyond the ignorance of world control, we still face the dangers of nuclear war as we start to build up the stock worldwide! But with all that said, a really interesting video.

You forgot to mention that the bomb was designed for 100 megatons but was wound back to 50 megatons, so the plane could escape in time.

Nice Explanation

thx for the tutorial gotta try it

This video shows a Teller-Ulam design with a single fusion stage. I don't think that could be scaled up to 58mt. The tsar bomba had 2 stages 1 fission charge and the 2 fusion charges that make up the second stage.

What a terrifying weapon! 💣

its staggering how so many reactions can happen in such a tiny amount of time

Fun fact: the tsar bomba was known as the cleanest nuke due to its insanely low levels of radiation near its epicenter( 20 minutes after it was dropped people went into the crater and took pictures Lmao)

This is both educational but at the same time, very terrifying. A bomb this powerful was only used once and and the original concept was the bomb to have its 100% power toned down for the safety of the pilots who were going to drop it. Terrifying very, very, terrifying.

Who ever invented this was damn smart

Watching this video makes you realize there are truly some extremely intelligent people out there to even be able too build something like this.. Crazy Scientest.

Interesting fact: the uranium tamper was replaced by a lead one for Tsar Bomba in order to reduce radioactive fallout from the blast. This also reduced the bomb's yield from ~100 Mt to 58 Mt, because a large part of the explosive force of these "Teller-Ulam" type bombs comes from fission in the uranium tamper.

Very useful tutorial!

Good video. The only thing I have to disagree with is the role of styrofoam... The low-z (mostly transparent to x-ray radiation) foam mostly serves to keep the radiation channel open between the primary and the secondary. While plasma pressure does provide some compression to the secondary, most of the compression that causes the secondary to ignite comes from the ablative effect on the surface of the secondary, caused by x-rays from the primary detonation (staged radiation implosion). Without the foam present to produce a low-z plasma, the ablation of the surface of the secondary would plug the radiation channel and prevent radiation transport to the secondary, and the secondary would not ignite.

"The weight of five elephants." - Thank god we all have pet elephants at home and have now a precise idea how heavy this bomb has been.

I just came from a footage of the detonation of the Tsar Bomba, the thing was MASSIVE

Fascinating and terrifying at the same time it's a true Doomsday weapon. Thank you for the very well done video

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Informative

Cool thanks for the instructions, I'll get making one

i promise you in a few days someones gonna make a tsar bomba lore meme video

Seismograph detection devices were able to record a shockwave that traveled around the earth three times before it had dissipated past a recordable threshold. Insane.

Thanks! Now I know how to build one

Really I learned a lot buddy, thank you so much. ❤

Should drop one again just to shake things up !

Aliens: "That's cute"

I have always wondered why the early bombs were so heavy, weighing several tons each.

Well put together and informative

What kind of science can discover something like this .. damn!

it's pretty cool from the Tsar Bomba that it didn't set the atmosphere on fire

I was born in 1961 now I'm 62 years old and Russia still holds the record for 62 years

Bro, what is this at 5:08? Plutonium doesn’t undergo mitosis. The fission products don’t undergo fission because they generally aren’t fissionable isotopes. The fissionable set lives within the actinide series. The animation is showing fission products as undergoing further fission, which is misleading.

Fat Man, Tsar Bomb... cute. Imagine if they made Yo Momma. Even Aliens on Andromeda galaxy would need sunglasses.

watching this video after oppenehiermer and the music playing in my head ,next level gossebumps

Who else is here after watching Oppenheimer?

-There are no bombs that are too powerful. -No, comrade, there was definitely one.

you are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselfs...

Thank you for making this video I love this video so much I really want you to make more of these videos

Welldone......very informative

The TsarBomba was actually incomplete. It was a 58 megaton detonation but it was designed to detonate 100 megatons. Fission-fusion (97% clean). There was a third stage of fission planned. A Uranium-238 jacket sleeved over the entire bomb which was supposed to boost it to 100 megatons. The Soviets left it off to prevent too much radioactive fallout.