This is quite the old meme. I just copied the translation of the first line from other versions. Second line is probably different and has "nuke" in it.
You've named a bomb after the person you overthrow to install glorious communism? What's with that?
the Tsar Bomba.
the most POWERFUL Nuclear bomb ever made by man. It's 50 MEGATON worth of TNT and 2 was build.... one was detonated and oh boy....
check some documentaries about the Tsar Bomba for the details about it.... the only thing I can say is that it fuking wreck things that's way far from the blast's epicenter...
the most POWERFUL Nuclear bomb ever made by man. It's 50 MEGATON worth of TNT and 2 was build.... one was detonated and oh boy....
check some documentaries about the Tsar Bomba for the details about it.... the only thing I can say is that it fuking wreck things that's way far from the blast's epicenter...
The Soviets had to build their nukes big, in order to ensure that at least part of the city they targeted is destroyed.
I’m mostly joking. Don’t quote me on this but I think Soviet nuclear ICBM doctrine was “Missiles with a few less accurate, but higher yield warheads.” while the US’s philosophy was “Missiles with several, more accurate but lower yield warheads.”
The Soviets had to build their nukes big, in order to ensure that at least part of the city they targeted is destroyed.
I’m mostly joking. Don’t quote me on this but I think Soviet nuclear ICBM doctrine was “Missiles with a few less accurate, but higher yield warheads.” while the US’s philosophy was “Missiles with several, more accurate but lower yield warheads.”
actually what you said first is the reason why they made the bomb do a massive explosion.
the Soviet, by that time, haven't mastered the guidance system for accurate nuclear missile that they compensate with the blast radius. SO even they miss the the target by a few hundred meters(or kilometers) away, they'll still do damage to the intended target area.
I don't think the Tsar bomb was ever intended to be practical. At 30 tons, it seems like it'd be reaching the limit of how big a bomb they could build and still deliver it to a target. Bigger the bomb, the bigger the delivery system.
Although I'll add that technically the Tsar bomb was a 100 megaton design. They removed or didn't add the uranium sheath for testing purposes. Otherwise it would have surely destroyed the bomber that deployed it.
With that in mind, they probably could have built a smaller bomb with similar power.
I don't think the Tsar bomb was ever intended to be practical.
It isn't. It was only ever used in experiment to verify calculation principles and multi-stage thermonuclear weapon designs. It was never mass produced; it was too big to be put in missiles, the Tu-95 bomber used for testing had to be modified to carry only a small amount of fuel to make space for the bomb, and the plane actually dropped 1 km in the air due to the shockwave (though it managed to recover and safely land).
