Size Comparison of Nuclear Bombs [PIC]

[CaliforniabOY5 10+ year member]

doubt it.
It was pointless and never intended to be used in actual warfare.

We were more pragmatic and didn't need the propaganda victory.. we just actually wanted to win the war.

you would know.

 

[Platestacker45 10+ year member]

then you got to ask... are any nuclear weapons really 'meant' for actual warfare, besides the ones used on japan. (including the bunker buster)

I would say so, the missles are all aimed at hundreds of pre-determed points in the world. And they are ready to launch at any second.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

then you got to ask... are any nuclear weapons really 'meant' for actual warfare, besides the ones used on japan. (including the bunker buster)

yes.

Codenamed "Ivan" during its development, the Tsar Bomba was not intended for use in warfare but was an instance of the Cold War-era saber-rattling indulged in by the USSR and the US. Khrushchev gave the go-ahead at a time of grave tension: the first Berlin wall was erected one month later in August 1961.

The Tsar Bomba was flown to its test site by a specially modified Tu-95 release plane which took off from an airfield in the Kola peninsula, flown by Major Andrei E. Durnovtsev. The release plane was accompanied by a Tu-16 observer plane which took air samples and filmed the test. Both aircraft were painted with a special reflective white paint to limit heat damage.The bomb, weighing 27 tonnes, was so large (8 meters long by 2 m in diameter) that the Tu-95 had to have its bomb bay doors and fuselage fuel tanks removed. The bomb was attached to an 800 kilogram fall retardation parachute, which gave the release and observer planes time to fly about 45 km from ground zero. (Failing such retardation, the bomb would have either reached its planned detonation altitude so fast it would have turned the test into a ******* mission, or it would have crashed into the ground at high speed, destroying the high-precision components required to produce a nuclear explosion.) The U.S. has fitted a few of its nuclear bombs with parachute retardation for the same reason.

By contrast, the largest weapon ever produced by the United States, the now-decommissioned B41, had a predicted maximum yield of 25 Mt, and the largest nuclear device ever tested by the U.S. (Castle Bravo) yielded 15 Mt (an accident due to a runaway reaction; the design yield was approximately 5 Mt).

The weight and size of the Tsar Bomba limited the range and speed of the specially modified bomber carrying it and ruled out its delivery by an ICBM

Subsequent nuclear weapon design in the 1960s and 1970s focused primarily on increased accuracy, miniaturization, and safety. The standard practice for many years has been to employ multiple smaller warheads (MIRVs) to "carpet" an area. This is believed to result in greater ground damage.

indeed.

 

[tEh koRnDog 5,000+ posts]

I would say so, the missles are all aimed at hundreds of pre-determed points in the world. And they are ready to launch at any second.

hey thanks captain obvious.

 

[docutech 10+ year member]

doubt it.
It was pointless and never intended to be used in actual warfare.

We were more pragmatic and didn't need the propaganda victory.. we just actually wanted to win the war.

Or stop the progression of global warming...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

One of these days some stupid bastard is going to get a hold of one of those guys....

 

[Jep772 10+ year member]

man they need to quit before they crack the planet or someshit, that cant be good.

the train has nice paint though..

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

takes all the fun out of war.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

man they need to quit before they crack the planet or someshit, that cant be good.
the train has nice paint though..

It's been a long time since they tested a warhead like that....

takes all the fun out of war.

Indeed...

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

One of these days some stupid bastard is going to get a hold of one of those guys....

Who's to say they haven't already..........

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[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Well atleast it will be over sort of quickly...

 

[BassAddictJ 5,000+ posts]

boom