How Tsar bomba works! Worlds biggest nuclear bomb ever detonated / learn from the base 

Compare news coverage from diverse sources around the world on a transparent platform driven by data. Try Ground News today and get 30% off your subscription: ground.news/learnfromthebase

fun fact : that was only 50% of what the actual bomb can do

Nice to know that this was the SECOND Tsar Bomba. The first was twice as powerful but Krushcev decided that was OTT and ordered it be reduced by half

The designer must be really proud of his work.

This is both terrifying and amazing at the same time. . Feeling this bomb explode must be a once-in-a-lifetime experience..

As crazy as it is to say, that regardless of how destructive this bomb is, it’s truly genius

Tsar Bomba actually designed as 100 MT bomb, using 3rd stage fusion by combining 2 fusion bombs and 1 fission bomb together, the reason why it cut into 50 MT (actual explosion is 55 MT) simply because TU-95 crew definitely will get killed if the bomb was designed as 100 MT, so the 3rd phase was removed and only have 2 phases (1 fission and 1 fusion).

If my high school and college science classes had featured this type of explanation and graphics, I would have learned a lot more science.

This video is a pretty accurate representation of my night after Taco Bell.

he Czar bomb was originally designed as a 3-stage weapon with a 100 MT power. But the designer was horrified by how much power it would have, so the 3rd stage was replaced with lead. A bigger explosion would have made no sense, because the cloud would have already flown out into outer space. Even so, he broke the windows at a distance of 900 km, the rest of the data is there in the video. The shock wave bypassed the Earth several times.

Imagine paying for RU-vid Premium to have no ads and you still get ads

With markets tumbling, inflation soaring, the Fed imposing large interest-rate hike, while treasury yields are rising rapidly-which means more red ink for portfolios this quarter. How can I profit from the current volatile market, I'm still at a crossroads deciding if to liquidate my $125k bond/stocck portfoli0

thanks for the tutorial, this is gonna rock my science fair!!!

Thank you I'd never found anyone who explained the Tsar Bomba's inner working so clearly. Combined with the visual representations, you made it easy to fully understand how it works.

The Tsar Bomb was an impractical, psychological weapon. The interesting thing is that it accelerated the development of realistic missile delivery systems to take it to the West, but these systems ended up being used for space exploration instead.

you are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselfs...

Wow thank you so much for this very informative detailed description of how the bomb works! I’ve never seen a video on RU-vid or anywhere else that explained the process this well?!

Great tutorial! This worked really well when I tried it myself. Instant sub.

0:55 When your squad accidentally pulls and all-nighter, and someone mentions they can see the sun coming up through their window

Who else came here for the tutorial? Building one right now

Fission doesn't work the way it's shown. Plutonium doesn't split into more plutonium, it splits into fission fragments of other elements like iodine, xenon, cesium, and cobalt to name a few.

Fun fact: 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man' are the *only* nuclear weapons used in combat. No other nuclear weapon developed since 1945 has been used in combat. Let's hope things stay that way.

This is both terrifying and amazing at the same time. 😯

These kinds of illustrations are amazing

Interesting fact: the uranium tamper was replaced by a lead one for Tsar Bomba in order to reduce radioactive fallout from the blast. This also reduced the bomb's yield from ~100 Mt to 58 Mt, because a large part of the explosive force of these "Teller-Ulam" type bombs comes from fission in the uranium tamper.

The yield estimate of the Fat Man has been more recently been revised to 24.8kt. The Tsar bomba yield was 56.8 Mt. The primary was smaller than shown. The AF&F package did not lie between the stages. The pit was not pure plutonium, and would have been larger than 6 inches. The secondary tamper was lead, not uranium. It's deuteride, not deturide. The sparkplug was probably boosted. The interstage material was not Styrofoam. The weapon was mounted inside the bomb bay, only the doors had to be removed and it protruded outside the bay. It didn't use a 32 point initiation system. The chemical explosive did not produce a neutron burst. A separate device does that. The feedback loop described as taking place in the secondary is inaccurate.

0:28 Sir, that's the T-pose Bomba.

This helped me make the beginning of my comic. Thanks a lot!

The actual yield of the Tsar-Bomb was 50MT at 97% fusion-yield and that was a derated version of a 100MT design (This was done to give the Tu-95 bomber-crew that dropped a chance to survive the blast - they nearly didn't). Also the test-device was a three-stage design not a two-stage design.

The truth is that there is no use to keep increasing nukes payload. As the energy is expanded in a sphere which is a 3 dimension shape, that means that in order to double a Nukes radius we need to increase the payload 8 times (2x2x2). So the most optimal way to increase the destruction is to just user more smaller nukes in a wider area. Tsar Bomba was just an exhibition and it is almost impossible to be successfully used in combat now days due to its size. Missiles with multiple warheads are the most dangerous weapon today

What a well orchestrated marriage of story and graphics that mesh in perfect harmony. I truly learned some interesting facts that were unknown to me at the time, and your video filled in some blank areas that I had questions about. This is sound doctrine and on point. Great work! This is one of those videos I tell my friends and family that I made it.😂

Your talking speed is excellent in this video. Other similar channels could learn from yours. I don't know what it is with everyone wanting to speak so quickly these days and RU-vid doesn't allow you to fine tune the speed of the audio enough to get it just right.

That was quite fascinating….thanks for posting👍

You need to be my science teacher....😅

Dudes at the start was so humbled of the bomb that they stood in t-pose.

Not the tutorial we wanted, but the tutorial we needed

The animation of fission reaction suggest that plutionium atoms multiply when split XD

"The weight of five elephants." - Thank god we all have pet elephants at home and have now a precise idea how heavy this bomb has been.

This is one of the most informative video I've seen on thermost nukes

"I do not know with what weapons WW 3 will be fought. But WW 4 will be fought with sticks and stones" - Albert Einstein

10/10 for the graphics, 6/10 for the scientific accuracy. The Soviet scientists never released any information on how the "Tsar Bomba" (which was the American nickname for it) was constructed and to this day we are left with guesses. The two best guesses are: two fission bombs with the fusion fuel between them leading to higher compression of the fusion stage and therefore more yield, or two fusion stages with the first igniting the second (again leading to more efficient use of the fusion fuel in the second fusion stage). Either way it was a highly impractical design!

“We can build a weapon that mimics the furnace of our sun and the winds of Neptune but yet we cant predict the weather more than a few minutes ahead of it’s time” -vsauce

Perfectly made. Thanks a lot

Omg I've waited so long for this. Never actually expected you to make a vid about the tsar bomba. Amazing job!

Thanks for the tutorial btw. I just finished the fusion part.

imagine going back in time with this video and making a paradox and creating an explosion that wipes the known universe

"Tsar" Bomba absolutely doesn't mean it's the bomb of the emperor. Tsar means "Great" in this sense.

I always thought it was facinating it takes a conventional bomb to set of a fission bomb to then set off a fusion bomb. Then if you look to the reactors you need the tritium byproduct of fission to power fusion reactors. Its just facinating.

Very worrisome to know that we have really further advanced beyond the ignorance of world control, we still face the dangers of nuclear war as we start to build up the stock worldwide! But with all that said, a really interesting video.

Fascinating who knew just showing people what a nuke can do allowed them to study it and have other countries equip it and also learn how to make a nuke splitting atoms is pretty interesting

Thank you for give us professional knowledge ❤❤❤

Fascinating and terrifying at the same time it's a true Doomsday weapon. Thank you for the very well done video

In theory, the bomb would have had a yield in excess of 100 Megatons (418 PJ) if it had included the uranium-238 fusion tamper which featured in the design, but was omitted in the test mainly due to reduce the radioactive fallout and to assure the survivability of the bomb crew.

Great tutorial. Thanks a lot

in other words: Shooting down atomic bombs doesnt make them explode. It requires a perfect series of events to explode which is easily disturbed with a missile...if you can hit it

This channel feels like it's made by an AI.

Who ever invented this was damn smart

Watching this video makes you realize there are truly some extremely intelligent people out there to even be able too build something like this.. Crazy Scientest.

1:16 I like how it said Fat Man...

50 million tons of TNT. And it was a 100 million ton TNT bomb they reduced 50%. Apparently they were afraid it might blow a hole through the atmosphere, ( or worse).

I am an Iranian military scientist, and this has been very helpful and progressive- thank you

The physics of AN602 described completely incorrectly. At first, AN602 was a three-stage bomb. Unstead of a primary, the triggers were the two enormous thermonuclear two-stage secondaries, vaguely resembling these bombs described here. The tertiary was a giant block of 2 tons of lithium deuteride. In addition, according to public sources, the Soviet H-bomb design never used a cylindrical secondary shape like a design pictured here. Instead, secondary capsules were spherical or ellipsoidal. This video describes a design of early Teller-Ulam hydrogen bombs.

Arguably the most beautiful thing mankind has ever produced.

Who else is here after watching Oppenheimer?

The uranium compression cylinder in the description correctly described every thermonuclear bomb *_Except_* the actual Tsar Bomba that was dropped. Had the bomb been as described, its blast would have been 100 megatons TNT equivalent, and the bomber crew would not have survived. To cut that in half, lead was used instead of uranium, just as Ernest Jay wrote 7 days ago. I think that decision came from the bomb designers, one of whom was Andrei Sakharov. Presumably Khrushchev agreed.

its staggering how so many reactions can happen in such a tiny amount of time

thx for the tutorial gotta try it

Aliens: "That's cute"

Really I learned a lot buddy, thank you so much. ❤

Cool, this is like a how to..... I know what I'm doing this weekend!!🧑‍🔬🚀🌋

When you realize that swapping lead acid batteries or alkaline batteries out for lithium, dopes the bomb up!

What a terrifying weapon! 💣

1:23 military t-pose universe

0:39 It was an inhumane weapons test, as we know today.

Fun fact: the bomb was detonated by two scientists on the ground. They never had the tech to actually detonate the war head as a bomb/missile nor had a functioning plane to actually do the original task.

What software do you use to make graphics and motion pictures, please let me know. Thank

Good video. The only thing I have to disagree with is the role of styrofoam... The low-z (mostly transparent to x-ray radiation) foam mostly serves to keep the radiation channel open between the primary and the secondary. While plasma pressure does provide some compression to the secondary, most of the compression that causes the secondary to ignite comes from the ablative effect on the surface of the secondary, caused by x-rays from the primary detonation (staged radiation implosion). Without the foam present to produce a low-z plasma, the ablation of the surface of the secondary would plug the radiation channel and prevent radiation transport to the secondary, and the secondary would not ignite.

Weapon designer decided to reduce it by half because he had a conscious. Weapon designer later went on to go against all nuclear weapons.

The ending though 🤣☠️☠️🤦🏻‍♂️ jes I enjoyed watching the world almost come to an end! 😝🤷🏻‍♂️

This video shows a Teller-Ulam design with a single fusion stage. I don't think that could be scaled up to 58mt. The tsar bomba had 2 stages 1 fission charge and the 2 fusion charges that make up the second stage.

Cool thanks for the instructions, I'll get making one

In Richard Rhodes book, "Dark Sun, The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb", he reports that at 100 megatons, plus or minus, the radius of damage ceases to increase. The bomb will merely lift a wedge of our atmosphere into space. So there's that. However, I've treated styrofoam with the utmost respect ever since.

You forgot to mention that the bomb was designed for 100 megatons but was wound back to 50 megatons, so the plane could escape in time.

I learned 2 things today 1. Tsar Bomba was '2 bombs' 2. Tsar Bomba was dangerous

I appreciate your detailed explanation,thank you.

Thank you for making this video I love this video so much I really want you to make more of these videos

2:44 bruh . i have youtube premium

Insane how such a tinny thing can create such wide explosion

Fat Man, Tsar Bomb... cute. Imagine if they made Yo Momma. Even Aliens on Andromeda galaxy would need sunglasses.

They could've made a 100 megaton bomb but the pilot wouldn't have been able to get away.

Bro, what is this at 5:08? Plutonium doesn’t undergo mitosis. The fission products don’t undergo fission because they generally aren’t fissionable isotopes. The fissionable set lives within the actinide series. The animation is showing fission products as undergoing further fission, which is misleading.

it's pretty cool from the Tsar Bomba that it didn't set the atmosphere on fire

I'd be cool to see a timeline break out of the reactions I mean there is not much to explain but trying to imagine 600 billionth of a second is kind of hard, also how much of the material does actually react? 🤔

Well put together and informative

i promise you in a few days someones gonna make a tsar bomba lore meme video

thx bro now i can make this at home!

Very useful tutorial!

I saw a display about Tsar Bomba last time I was in Russia plus an actual Tu-95. 👍

I love your other atomic bomb videos, glad to see this one covered

not sure why on every single youtube video about the Tsar Bomba, someone in the comments is like "Not many people know this but the tsar bomba originally was designed to be a 100 megaton bomb" literally almost everyone knows this, that isin't something rarely known.