10 Biggest Explosions in All History 

How many Pound make 1 Megaton? 1 Megaton [Mt] = 2 204 622 621.848 lbs ....not Mt = 1,000,000 lbs

Maybe we should be more careful with ammonium nitrate?

#8 - There's a TON of footage from that event, why wasn't it shown? Copyright BS?

At 16:09 , One megaton is 1 million TONS, not 1 million Pounds! That's a lot of difference.

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.

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!

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.

These videos are really helpful as I'm aware of what's happening in the world

Teacher: So, what did we learn about ammonium nitrate everybody? Me: It brings the boom.

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.

I am surprised the Pepcon disaster didn't make it on to the list. Fantastic and informative vid though, thanks. Subbed 🙂

I maked my list of top 11 most poweful non nuclear explosions 11) PEPCON disaster, 0,25 kilotons 10) Operation Sailor Hat, 0,5 kilotons 9) Ripple Rock explosion, 1 kiloton 8) Beirut explosions, 0,5-1,5 kilotons 7) Oppau explosion, 2 kilotons 6) Texas-city explosion, 2,7 kilotons 5) Halifax explosion, 2,9 kilotons 4) British Bang, 3,2 kilotons 3) Misty Picture, 3,9 kilotons 2) Minor Scale, 4 kilotons 1) N-1 explosion, 1-6,93, (7) kilotons

16:06 50 megatons = 50 million tons of TNT, not 50 million pounds. 50 million pounds of TNT = 25 Kilotons

Number 5 hurt my heart, all those lives could’ve been spared if they weren’t put in that position

That moment when you realize only one half of the Tsar Bomba was actually used for this test...

Genuinely amazed the pilots could even fly considering their balls weighed more then Tsar Bomba. Impressive.

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

not to be that guy, but I would’ve liked to see the tianjin china port explosion. That was one of the biggest explosions in the past 5 years

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.

TLDR.. ammonium nitrate is dangerous and we don't seem to understand that

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why does mishandling of ammonium nitrate happen so often??!!! we should've already learned our lesson like 5 times by now

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.

1:20 That's not SS Highflyer. That's the protected cruiser HMS Highflyer, which was in Halifax at the time of the explosion of the Mont Blanc.

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I'm a little bit late to the party and I really love your videos! But... If you are talking about countries, islands and regions where things havae happened, you should REALLY add a map and show exactly where it happened. I know most places by heart, but a lot of people struggle with geography and you would help a lot, by pinpointing those spots. But everything else, is spot on!

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. 🙄

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. ❤️

“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!

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.

whenever I see videos on the biggest explosions I never see the Halifax explosion covered it's great to see somebody recognize it as a canadian.

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.

314th viewer :P I really liked your voice in all your videos that I've seen. Great job on every video!! Cheers!

What about the Tianjin China explosion?

Wasnt the Tian jin explosion bigger then the one in beirut? why is it missing?

Since the trinity test in 1945 a countdown to the end of humanity by nuclear war started I hate to think how long it is until the countdown hits 0....

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It's a pity that the footage doesn't have a higher resolution.

Booms are scary

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.

Why didn't you talk about Explosion in Bombay during World War2? I mean Fort Staikin ship explosion. Very powerful and deadly disaster.

I love your content, but, please, use the international metric system too =(

@Underworld 1 Megaton = 1 Million pounds?? You do mean 1 million tons!

You forgot about the PepCon Explosion in Henderson, Nevada

The Tsar Bomba Shocked Me😱

Blowing up islands for science lol

Guys just love destroying no matter who or what they kill. People, animals, plants, bearly blips on their radar.

CORRECTION: @7:50, they're called MINUTE man ICBM'S, not MIDGET man. You almost get a pass b/c that's kind've funny!! 😂👍✌️

It says this video came out 10 hours ago but I SWAER I saw it up on yt a few weeks ago?! Weird

Incorrect, 1 Megaton is equal to 1 million tons of TNT, 50 Megatons is equal to 100 Billion Pounds.

We are a bizzare species for sure.

What about the Mount St. Helens eruption? I've heard that it is or was the biggest explosion to occur inside the United States.

How many common products can explode? Grain silos, sugar, other powdered stuff?

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.

All OF history

I live less than a mile from port Chicago.

How are you not even gonna show the Beirut explosion? It's one of the few that we have videos from multiple angles.

Texas City got lit! laoaoao

Actually, the beruit explosion was the #1 biggest Accidental non-nuclear explosion.

Actually, the Beirut explosion was around 1 kiloton

A megaton nuclear blast is a blast equivalent of one million TONS -- not pounds -- of TNT going off all at once.

I love every nuke on the planet.

Sweet

I can’t picture myself as Winston Churchill I don’t like tea

Beirut was because of sparks by welders

does anyone notice ammonia incidences are not uncommon?

You forgot about Mount St. Helens & "The Big Bang" that created the universe

i dont see any explosion in this video...

its always the sodium nitrate

....when in doubt....C4!!!

ah yes, when a youtuber tell things in the imperial system that mostly the US are using :) nevermind the people from other countries watching .3.

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.

its kindda sad

Why didn’t you show the actual explosion in Beirut?

Why not show the Beirut explosion?

many explosions have caused due to ammonium nitrate, others are firecrackers and non-nuclear and nuclear bombs and human activities

All these explosions couldn't of helped the earth.

USA & Rus ...Shocking

There were only 4 attempts on the N1, not 5.

TLDR: Ammonium nitrate BAD

A megaton is 1 million tons of t.n.t

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)

On a few of these you didn't show the entire video.

More cowbell

Dad can you get me some ammonium nitrate

that would be on the john last night after eating mexican food loaded w jalapenos

yea all good until you said one million POUNDS of tnt... Its one million TONS of TNT...

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.

im from halifax

50% lol

You meant 10 biggest _human-made_ explosions in history.

It's tons not pounds.

50Mt are in kilograms... Not pounds bru

And to think Russia has bombs 2 to 3+ times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba!

Can we please stop playing soldier now?

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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.

Why are stupid humans 🤬our planet