Posted on 04/04/2002 10:30:58 AM PST by areafiftyone
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
And your right, they were so shocked and surprised by its power that they never dared try to test one again.
She sez ta me, she sez: " Why shore, honeh . Ah'll mate yew after work 'n yew kin show me where it's at ? Less say: todaye's Thursdye...mike hit 878 yares from raht naow !"
Ah mean, boy howdy ! Ye don't git an invite lak thet ever day !
Meantime, here's crossing our fingers that the Muslims and the Sheila Jackson Lee contingent of the democrat party don't achieve their goals and drag us back into the depths of the Dark Ages.
Compare and contrast with global warming, kids. If there were a way to advance the anti-capitalist agenda with this, you can be assured that problem would call for immediate, globally-coordinated action.
I'll post a note on the programmer's site asking him to drop this rock into the next version of the program.
Take a look and pass the word if you like it.
"Tsar Bomba" ("King of Bombs"): The World's Largest Bomb
Time: 30 October 1961 Location: Parachute retarded airburst, 4000 m altitude Over Novaya Zemlya Island test range (in the Arctic Sea) Yield: 50 Megatons
Shown here (NOT SHOWN) in the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum, the "Tsar Bomba" was the largest nuclear weapon ever constructed or detonated. This three stage weapon was actually a 100 megaton bomb design, but the uranium fusion tamper of the teritiary (and probably secondary) stage(s) was replaced by one made of lead to eliminate fast fission by the fusion neutrons. The result was also the cleanest weapon ever tested with 97% of the energy coming from fusion reactions.
This weapon was developed in a remarkably short time. On 10 July 1961 Nikita Khruschev met with Sakharov, then the senior weapon designer, and directed him to develop a 100 megaton bomb. This device had to be ready for a test series due to begin in September so that the series would create maximum political impact (a bomb this size is virtually useless militarily). Sakharov returned to Arzamas-16, and selcted a design team consisting of Victor Adamskii, Yuri Babaev, Yuri Trunev, and Yuri Smirnov (who later oversaw the transformation of this design into a fielded weapon). The bomb was tested only 14 weeks after the initiation of its design.
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%. The fabrication of the massive parachute disrupted the Soviet nylon hosiery industry. It weighed 27 metric tons. Some were actually stockpiled.
The bomb was air dropped by a Tu-95 strategic bomber piloted by A. E. Durnovtsev (made Hero of the Soviet Union).
I don't know if that means asteroid, but it's hard to imagine what else it could if not one. Food for thought, for those with open minds.....
An electrical car is one of the worst wastes of energy transfer known to man. But enviral whackos love it!
Go push your rural cleansing enviral nazis mantras on someone who doesn't know better! Drive your electrical car to a BK and order a Peta Peat Moss burger to finance more eco terrorism by the ALFS/ELFS from the extortion money forced from BK to Peta then Peta gives money to ALF/ELF!
The go plant some lynx hairs in a forest to go with planted spotted owl feathers for more enviral lies for more rural cleansing of America!
We better go get those protesters who were recently shot at in Israel. I'm thinking we could preserve them cryogenically for about 877 years, then wake them up and get them to stage a protest at the location where the asteroid is supposed to hit.
It was the largest yield thermonuclear bomb up to that time. It was built to be airdropped, although the bomber could carry only one it was so big. Not just an experimental device, it was deployable. However, when it was tested [what happened to the plane, anybody ever see it again?] it was so huge that the effect was much greater than anticipated.
I myself saw a barographic stripchart recording of the shockwave in New York. There was a second shockwave on the chart as the blast circled the earth and came by again, perhaps from the opposite direction. There was also a third blip on the chart as the wave passed around the planet once more. And, I think, although the scientists at the observatory said it wasn't clear enough, there was a 4th blip as the wave passed around the earth yet again. I understand the fireball itself was over 200 miles in diameter and lasted a long time. 20 minuter to an hour, there being noplace for it to go except outer space.
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.
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