@@josephpacchetti5997 Jesus Christ your correct I just heard them say 1 megaton is 1,000,000 lbs of 1 Megaton which there first test was with 100,000 lbs of TNT. So he did do his math correct. From what they say on what a megaton vs a kiloton.
@@CSHPTV Anyway, the Russian scientists at the time were scared to go above 50 megaton yield. They could not predict what would happen at the time. The Tsar Bomba have a max. yield of 150 megaton. So if the American leftis are seriously smart, they would call off their dreamed third world war against Russia today rather then tomorrow. This bomb does not destroy cities, with it's fall out in calculation, it destroy entire states....
Somewhat, but mostly because of the graphic nature. RU-vid would almost definitely age restrict the video if we had shown it. We had a few sources we could have licensed footage from, and trust me we would have preferred to show it, but I knew the risk was too high :/
I live right outside of Texas City. I had heard that it was pretty literally wiped off of the map, but I don't know why I never thought to look up what went wrong. Partly it's due to my age. The internet didn't exist when I first heard of it. It's awesome to see the footage and know what really occurred! Thanks much!
This probably isn't in the spirit of this video but the biggest explosion ever caught on camera was the Shoemaker levy 9 comet fragment G impact on Jupiter, a 6000 GIGAton (6 million megaton) explosion that created a fireball bigger than the Earth.
The really scary part? The Tsar Bomba had been modified to reduce its blast yield before its detonation. Originally, the blast yield was supposed to be about 100 megatons, but it was reduced by half under fears of widespread radioactive fallout.
Top quality content as usual, especially loved the extra tidbits of info, i wasnt aware that nitrate was stored in Beruit for 6 years, wow. Thanks guys!
Well, they skipped a few between #1 and #4 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have made the list. They are trying to make a channel, but skip facts and truth.
@@BobbySacamano Well, it's mega-TON. Not mega-POUND. So 50 mega-TONS of TNT would be 50 million TONS of TNT. It's easy to make the mistake; the numbers just boggle the mind...
It was the Halifax Incident where scientists learned about the more devastating „Mach-Stamm-Effect“. The Explosion was worse because the ship floated in water, and the shockwave was reflected by the Ground. So they detonated Little Boy and Fat Man ABOVE Ground.
No, 1/3th. They tested a yield of 50 megatons, the bomb can de loaded to 150 megatons. But somehow (i read 25 years ago so info can be outdated by now due to new insight and knowledge) that is not 3 times the destruction but about 5 times. It seems to more your stack in a nuclear explosion, the wilder it goes. So a double yield will be more then a double explosion.
At BASF…..we don’t make a lot of products you buy , we make a lot of the products you buy………well, more toxic, deadly and explosive. But hey , nobody’s perfect.
The one in Beirut was pretty nasty. I saw a video of a poor couple getting their wedding photos done when that went off. Fortunately they only had minor injuries, but what a day to do your wedding photos.
Those who use it for explosives use "ANFO" (Ammonium Nitrate + Fuel Oil)... Those of us who us it as fertilizer handle so much of it so often, we rarely even think about it. AND almost any nitrate makes for an effective oxydizer, which helps make it a good fertilizer, but similarly adds value as a CONSTITUENT of explosives, including Potassium Nitrate (aka Salt Peter) which is one of the 3 "ingredients" to old-fashioned Black Powder, among the world's first manufactured explosives... ;o)
I think Operation Crossroads Baker should have been on the list. The explosion looked massive, and stock footage of the explosion has been used in media, notably SpongeBob, which has used it 3 times within the show
The 2020 Beirut explosion, probably the most filmed explosion in history with literally hundreds of different videos taken....And how many do you put in your video? ZERO. Smooth guys. Real smooth. 🙄
Fun fact the Tsar bomba was originally supposed to go off with the force of 100 Megatons of tnt but they decided the explosive yield in half because they thought 100 megatons was a bit excessive.
@@kingMT514 The Tsar Bomba never contacted the ground. What you see in the video is atmospheric convection in response to the heat of the nuclear fusion reaction.
The Tsar Bomba was indeed intended to be a 100 megaton weapon. But the Russians scaled it down to roughly 54 megatons, as they were concerned with "setting the Earth's atmosphere on fire". It is by far the largest man-made explosion to this date. The pressure wave from the blast (both above and below ground) could be felt circling the globe three times. A similar sized event took place last year, when the Hunga Tonga volcano exploded. The explosive yield from that blast is estimated to be at around 61 megatons (or roughly 13% larger than the Tsar Bomba). The Tsar Bomba's mushroom cloud rose to around 67 kilometers into the atmosphere, while Hunga Tonga's highest point was 58 kilometers. Though the Russians has since developed a "doomsday" nuke that is calculated to be at around 100 megatons, meant to create a radioactive tsunami, capable of wiping entire island nations (like the UK) off the map, in theory that is.
“Kilotons of energy” doesn’t make sense. A kiloton is a measurement of mass, equal to one million kilograms or one billion grams. A 5 kiloton blast releases energy equivalent to what would be released from 5 kilotons of TNT detonating, but the energy itself is measured in units of energy, like joules Other than that nitpicky thing, excellent video, informative and interesting!
While you're right, kiloton/megaton is a commonly used/accepted measurement for explosions, and to be fair, it makes just as much sense as any other measurement. 1 kiloton of "energy" is equal to that amount of TNT. Noone would understand x megajoule of explosion. (although I'm not sure many more could relate to how big of an explosion 1 kg of TNT makes)
My Grandfather survived the sinking of the Lexington I in the battle of Midway which I now know why he was deaf most of his life! He was a gunner and the 4th Kamikaze pilot hit the artillery chamber which there is actual footage of the Lexington 1 blowing up. I really wish the movie about the Battle of Midway would have shown the destruction of the Aircraft Carrier Lexington 1 my Grandfathers name was John Milton Falcon. Which is super ironic because I died racing motocross in Milton Florida and come back from the dead after stabbing the face of another tabletop jump 140 feet away on 1/20/01. It’s also awesome that SpaceX named the Falcon 9 after me because I got into flying rc helicopters while I was stuck in a wheelchair for a year and stood for the 1st day of 9/11/01 in which my uncle who retired as a general flying the F-16 Fighting Falcon survived the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11/01 in which he was attending a pilot banquet in the Pentagon on 9/11/01. ❤️
16:10, Check your math. 1 megaton equals 2 BILLION pounds of TNT. So, 50MT equals 100 BILLION pounds of TNT. I can't believe I'm the only one who caught this error.
until we get a few crazy enough leaders (at the same time). I mean 1 could start it, but if the other leaders have a common sense, they won't answer with a bigger, better nuclear weapon. Sure, in terms of revenge it makes sense, but if you risk your very own species, probably not so much.
I'm sorry, did I hear that right? "-the explosion was caused by bombs that workers removed from storage, ARMED, and then put back with LIVE DETONATORS"?! ...I am at a complete loss for words, how on Earth could ANYONE be that incompetent with such extremely dangerous items? That RAF incident has to have been the result of some sort of miscommunication or deliberate sabotage, as I genuinely cannot think of any other reason for anyone to misuse bombs like that.
A minor mistake by the narrator. The Tsar Bomba had a blast yield of 50 - 58 megatons of TNT, not a meager 15 megatons. The original design was 100 megatons, but the scientists didn't think the pilots could survive the blast, and reduced the power of the bomb.
Just to add on how bad Halifax had it all but one firefighter survived the explosion so houses and buildings burned to the ground. To add on to the misfortune rescue crews couldn't get into the town since a blizzard blew through the following day.
tzar bomba was huge even prior to explosion but it was even bigger once exploded they even used a parachute in order to lower it so the pilot could get out and even then he could have easily downed his plane, it was also so heavy that the bomb had to be lifted via plane/bomber.
Why isn't Castle Bravo here? Or the even more powerful Soviet nuclear explosions? For that matter, why are you comparing chemical with nuclear explosions? It seems Tsar Bomba was just an afterthought.
In the words of my second (ever) "Boss" on my second summer working for him, "God... I LOVE it when stuff goes kablooey... BUT NOT WHEN IT'S MINE G** D***IT!!!" ;o)
Wrong because you're only counting humanity's efforts. #1: the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. Rated at 200 megatons, quadruple the Tsar Bomba, mother nature easily humbles humanity's best efforts. The sound was heard 2000 miles away a few hours later... when the sound got there. The shockwave circled the planet several times. Most of the island that the eruption happened on was simply gone. There was land, and after the eruption it was open ocean. Honorable mention to the Tunguska Event, a bollide that exploded over Siberia in 1908 with 12 megatons of force, flattening 900 square miles of forest. Obviously these are just history. If you go into PREhistoric explosions, things get much crazier. The Chicxulub impactor, the asteroid that wiped out the (non-avian) dinosaurs hit with 130 not megatons, not even gigatons, but teratons of force. And then there's the time 4.5 billion years ago when proto-Earth and a planet called Theia in the young solar system hit head on, both moving at 70,000~ MPH. No estimates for that boom. It's just beyond us. The ruined wreckage of the two planets reformed into one, modern Earth, by way of gravity while the remnants that were too far out formed into their own, our moon. No matter how powerful we get, nature will humble you.
and even these are immeasurably small numbers on a cosmic scale, just imagine a supernova, or even better, a hypernova explosion. fun fact: The Krakatoa explosion also caused a mini ice age, the following years were noticeably colder, and caused famine in some areas. fun fact #2: If Yellowstone ever decides to go boom, it could be much bigger the Krakatoa one, wiping most of the US.
And why are there no videos of the content itself? The explosion in Beirut is caught on thousands of cameras. But there is used non of it. Only pictures in the whole video. Thumbs down…useless. All issues can be seen on RU-vid, I don’t need to watch this video for aftermath pictures and. 80% free stock footage.
They already explained in a comment below as to why they don't show the actual content. The purpose of the video is seemingly just to cover all the details, personally, I wouldn't consider that useless.
Mind if you explain how? I doubt you'd see this reply after 5 months, but when it comes to facts to events, I never know who to truly believe or where they get their information from, so I like to understand other people's points of view.
