Severny: Where the USSR Tested the Biggest Nuke in History 

Be your own barber and you don't have to worry about finding one! And it is waaay cheaper..

Simon im waiting to see you give us a show using that shaving equipment on that crome dome. Lol. (im bald too btw.)

Lol gotta correct the last seconds of the video!

Been waiting for the newest Geographics. What took so long?

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It’s really a negative thing, this warhead was EXTREMELY heavy. America’s biggest thermos were 10 - 20 times lighter in weight and didn’t have to be dropped from a plane. In fact the only reason the Russians beat us into outer space is because in order for the Russians to put this warhead on a icmb, they needed a huge rocket (largest at the time). In doing this they realized by removing the heavy warhead from the rocket and putting on a much lighter cabin for personnel, they would be able to achieve terminal velocity and put a man in outer space, you need to be going roughly 16000 mph to break out of the atmosphere, and that rocket helped them do it. So the reason the Russians went to space before the US, is because of the US. Oh 1 more thing, tsar bomba was just Russians being Russians. Trying to 1 up the US and world. I’d rather be attacked by tsar bombas 50 megatons rather than 10 10 megaton nukes, which is the direction the US went. Smaller, faster, better

@@breakink9396 you realize that your comment is basically just a way to "1 up russia and world".

@ArmchairWarrior correct. I think this is the one thing I dislike about the US the most. This guy would probably say Im jealous or something😂 if he had the brain cells to actually respond logically

@@med4nel russia bad, us best. Clear summary of the US.

johnathan pety ... you mean escape velocity.

well, France wasn't part of the nuclear club at that time so they maybe didn't received the memo

China and Israel made there own and nobody thinks about them

@@kalzhae "memo" from french scientific in manathan project ?

@Welp Welp "chinas overpopulation is worse than their nuclear arsenal" stupidity and racisme are worse... nuclear arsenal are not used on friendly guy...

05EVORS China and Israel didn’t make first Nuclear ☢️ bomb by themselves totally.They both have major scientific researches break through helped.China by the Russian and Israel by the American.Both for their first invention of for their Nuke tests.

Lol. Best comment on here

Yeah, God wouldn't even notice the blast. The smallest supernovae are utterly enormous in comparison.

Oh come on it's just a metaphor and hyperbole

Sun farts? Is that the technical term? :)

@Gregory Hagen Solar Flatulence is the proper terminology lol

Now imagine over so MANY years passed that now RUSSIA might have 300 megatons Bomb?

@@omarwilliams6729 they do they have a 100 megaton torpedo and if that wasn't bad enough it's a salted cobalt bomb

Kruschev wanted it 100 but his scientists managed to convince him to cut it in half.

Like the other claimed weapons they have ?

@@lokomike2911 yes! Have doomsday device. Putin get 'sniffles' or piles or similars, west go bang....😆

I hear the walrus men are willing to trade during the summer months

Walrus miner

@@jessicaraye1119 yes and we are not being serious aswell so ?

@@jessicaraye1119 OK Karen

See - what a great effect it had on evolution. But Americans banned that subject from schools.

Europe especially knowing that there’s old soviets living in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone

You just rephrased a joke that was already made in the video. Thank you I guess.

You spelled *Australian wrong

There was about a minute of talking between those two moments

Capital!

Glow in the dark milk!

I did not know that its effects were so far-ranging. I grew up in Minnesota as well.

@@bluegregory6239 It was not widely publicized, probably due to fear. My father was a dairy farmer. The isotope had a short half life but could be dangerous to infants, so we needed to feed old hay at the time of year when we would normally have highest production from fresh pasture and newly cut premium hay. Likely only producers knew. I am not aware of any of the local farmer's milk being tested and rejected.

Luckily it wasn't 100MT.

Cottage cheese

Twats

There is a mission of America trying to blow the ozone layer away as well lol an they tried it.

The same warning came up from the US by the H-Bomb at the Bikini atoll

Because they're trash

Edward Teller thought the Trinity test might cause the hydrogen in the atmosphere to go into some sort of catastrophic fusion reaction.

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Inserting Washington D.C

I wouldn’t say that, that’s what they would’ve wanted to hear

There new Nukes that were released just after Trump was president are way worse. They fly into space, and the video they show is it dropping onto Florida. Which with CoVid19 idiots might be a good idea! Lmfao America, the land of undereducated idiots!

Where are you from genius.

Now there Is our sound R a y s, HE ATR AY a** and a number of other rays that equal or surpass N u k e s

Correction, Now there are

Yeah, the Russians have always been known for their inability to follow theough with great ideas, its a shame.

@@smoooth7429 I think, could be wrong obvi, but he may have been being sarcastic and knew this, which is why he said that lol

@@DDPTV-gm4ct "Shame" really? Maybe America needs to learn how to even create a better missile than Russians

I can't stop thinking about that. I'm gen-x and the millennials and zoomers I work with have no concept of the fear we grew up with.

Bye bye planet earth 🌎

I've seen papers that claim if the initial estimate of 100 Megatons was reached, the explosion could have set off earthquakes and volcanoes all over Asia. Literally it could have ripped the planet apart

@@cmd31220 no? We have a lot of volcanoes with eruptions multiple times the size of the tsar bombas explosion. Nuclear bombs are nothing compared to mother nature. No way its gonna rip the planet apart thats just dumb.

@@ifalm4274 oh obviously I'm not saying the bomb itself would have torn the planet apart. I'm saying the resulting seismic activity would. A blast that size would trigger all these much larger events that, you correctly point out, are orders of magnitude more powerful

@@cmd31220 again, how? 100 megatons is nothing compared to eruptions that are scaled vei 7 or more. Like the 1815 tambora eruption was equal to around 800 megatons. And the worst that it did was triggering tsunamis on the surrounding islands and dropped the global temperature by 3 degrees celcius. A mere 100 megatons nuclear bomb wouldnt set off volcanoes and earthquakes all over the continent. Or even rip the whole planet apart.

@@ifalm4274 it's a domino effect. Put a puppy in front of a moving car, and the puppy's just gonna get run over. But make that puppy knock over a trash can, that falls into a car, and the lid knocks the gearshift into neutral final destination style, and that car rolls into the road in front of the moving car......well that's a different story. 100 Megatons dropped on the right location could start a chain reaction, especially when you consider the seismic makeup of eastern Russia

Then you realise there is no limit to how big they could build this. You wouldnt need to deliver such a bomb anywhere. 1000 megatonne bomb underground in your own country, and anyone who attacks you is signing thier own death sentence, along with the whole worlds.

what was?

Are you not the creator of the Far Cry 3 music? If so, I love your work.

no the next thing is the coming major earthquake of June 2020. Over 8.0 check the date on this after the fact and be like whoah how did he know? Oh and covid is not done yet either expect a 1918 level event this fall.

@@Morristown337 expect covid to piss off like SARS did instead of coming back like the Spanish Flu. It's much more like the former than the latter.

@@jaspersen219 Tell that to the Millions infected. Lol

@@ninjabiatch101 you mean the millions of infected who have recovered? 99% survival rate 'lol'

@@Morristown337 how exactly does anyone, you in particular, accurately PREDICT a possible future earthquake, especially almost 2 months in advance? Your world altering earthquake prediction ability, while hard to take seriously on it's own, becomes substantially less credible/believable with the addition of your "2nd, extremely deadly, world ending wave of killer covid-19 infections" prediction. Covid-19 is mostly hype, and has been blown WAYYYYY out of proportion by lots of people who actually have little to no knowledge of the subject material on which they speak, but because their words get blasted around the world by the equally as ignorant media giants, people assume that the words are coming from credible, intelligent people. This is simply not the case, and is the complete opposite of the truth, more times than not. I don't watch/read ANY main stream news/media for this very reason, and I live a much more enjoyable and stress free life because of it. There's so much more value in putting in the time/effort to educate yourself with a variety of subjects (with FACTUAL material and research, not politically correct pseudo science) and forcing yourself to make logical assessments of people/situations/problems by using the knowledge that you have gained to come to your own conclusions. Stop letting OTHER people think for YOU and decide what actions YOU should take. That's a horrible choice of how to live your life, because trust me, NOBODY has your best interest in mind, that's your job to do. But it's harder than just letting other people, such as the media, tell you what to think and do, and takes time away from focusing on stupid shit like facebook/twitter/celebrities/shopping/etc.. so very few people are willing to take responsibility for themselves these days. I say fuck that noise, I'll think for MYSELF, and I'm so glad my family instilled that mentality into me, and I'm doing the same with my son!

"let's retry" Btw the original recordings were published a not long time ago in the original not transmitted at the time documentary

His whole family and everyone he ever talked to would be executed

They would tie him to the bomb next time for better life like footage 🤣

Load up another one we got to get this video boys

More than likely.

I mean, dogs and foxes are from the same family.

Haaaahhaaa

Not funny

@@josephstalin8072 You must be fun at parties.

Hahaha! Oh, sh!t. We really did almost cook ourselves, didn't we?

And krakatoa caused another year that we can call the worst year beside 2020... the year without summer

But this is so small compared to krakatoa. Just make it 5 it will be 1/4 more megatons than Krakatoa.

And to think that the Russians were planning on making a 100 mega-ton yielding nuke...

The funny thing is, Russia has now nuclear torpedos with yields of 200 megatons called Poseidon, they have several.

Thank God it was only the milk

I go there on DayZ for supplies lol

There's a photograph of Soviet soldiers alongside a tank sharing a can of condensed milk to a polar bear back in the day. The creatures must've gotten acquired to the taste of it.

@@raywollesenfortes7014 You know, I always wondered how that bear knew to go for the can, it's not like she could smell it. Makes sense now:)

@@tiadiad the bear absolutely smelled it

'History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man' Blue Oyster Cult, 'Godzilla'

i love mid roll adds

Underrated comment!

instead, we should create some awesome vehicles that could break free from the atmosphere. U.S.A.: Truce? U.S.S.R.: Truce. Thus the space race was born

Except its unlikely, in the extreme, that the Soviets chose to stop for any reason other than running out of money and resources.

From what I have seen, the last US Bikini blast was a mistake in yield. They where using Lithium [ (I think) it and only had about 1/3 reactive isotope in the material rather than being fully enriched] instead of hydrogen but a nuclear reaction feature they did not know about, was during the reaction the blast stripped off the outer electron making more of the material fusionable. So the bomb had three times more explosive power than they expected. In that situation their bombproof shelters were not as bombproof as they expected. Everyone had a very large "Oh Sh%^" moment. Later large underground tests in Alaska caused so much seismic events they quit trying for bigger.

Yes but according to the movie, Castle Bravo was used to try and stop Godzilla. :-)

oh, I've heard so many times that term 'tsar bomba' when growing up in USSR and never knew what it actually was, well, now I know)

That's a bit reductionist don't you think?

That's great.

@@Chobaca "Reductionist"? Poetry is reducing prose to its most impactful words. I think @Jeremiah Guy's words were poetic.

While ignoring the mousetraps we haven't designed

@@miyojewoltsnasonth2159 thank you!

What more details did he bring in?

That's the most mind-blowing thing. That scientist might have saved the Earth.

@@xenos_n. The Earth has survived asteroids KMs long, supervolcanos, etc, it can survive a small, human-made poot. And yes, this is small compared to those..

@@cortster12 ikr asteroids have hit with more force than all the nuclear arsenal combines

@@8Maduce50 And caused extinction events in the process or have you forgotten what's in your car's gas tank right now ?

@@clothar23 have we forgotten GRBs?

Then why did they put the lithium into the bomb?

​@@klauskarpfen9039 you can't just fill a bomb hull with compressed hydrogen, so the alternative way is to use lithium deuteride, that breaks down into fusion fuel

@@TrueMechTech This is not what Scribbling said.

They put li7 in because it came with the li6 they wanted

So, that must have been when lithium batteries were invented. But took a long time to reach the ordinary consumer.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah, the videos on this channel seem to contain a lot of mistakes like that. "Layer cake" went out in 1953, precisely because it _couldn't_ scale. You can't just add more layers to get a bigger bomb whereas, in principal, you can add arbitrarily many stages to a Teller-Ulam design.

I guess sakharov independently came up with the teller-ulam design too. But yes, his first solution was the sloika.

@@narujohn6984 Unclear whether Sakharov came up with it independently or the GRU :cough: borrowed it from somewhere :cough:

what you even talking about lol

Go on.......

You had me at portal

KGB sekret Dokuments Komrade, how do you know this?

Bf109 G-4 EXCUSE ME ??!

@Loosen yes

He was just following orders.

Because he killed two of his OWN people.

@@monkeyman321 "Just following orders" has been the so-called justification behind untold atrocities. It's not a good excuse.

@@Lambzalot He didn't kill anyone. He developed an object. It was their military that had the responsibility for clearing the people before they pressed the button, or perhaps not pressing it at all.

Might be a fun fact for you, but the rest of us really don't care...

@@buckhorncortez I found it a lil interesting actually.

PMW3 underrated comment

"We call him... *Gojira*

It failed.

R.I.P Dr. Serazawa

@elite13 there's actually a creepypasta about the mysterious nuke tests at the pacific and it really shows the human element and not just monsterkaiju terror.

Maddox Clay mmmmmm medovik. 🤤

Idk...I would have gone with "Matryoshka Bomb"

I mean yellow cake uranium is a nuclear material used in nuclear weapons

Teller's first H-Bomb design (not the one ultimately produced) was called The Alarm Clock

Yes, but it was a deliverable weapon from the start, unlike the first U.S. hydrogen bomb.

Yeah this is how you do advertizing. Guy with an immaculate beard: *So anyways, when faced with an imminent nuclear holocaust of unimaginable proportions, I'd make sure I have my favorite razor*

@Destroy the child concur !!#;?

Yup

Yeh what?

@@Alygoola I was just pointing out that it was odd.... nothing more.

Kingggg crimson!

That one made me laugh with a mouthful of rice. I had rice coming out my nose! Thanks, Simon.

Can I get the source on the "cleanest nuke" claim? With my knowledge of how a nuke works, I don't see that as possible.

​@jlinn543 thermonuclear fusions produce much less . 97% of its yield was thermonuclear, so it produced far less fallout than it would have if it were like the first nukes, just with a bigger yield. They had to do that to prevent ruining the USSR. It still poisoned countless lifeforms and a ridiculous area of earth. The result of such a high yield. Impossible to split atoms like that without enormous radiation and fallout, regardless of the method used.

It didn't end all life though

@@tonyrichards4141 unfortunately not

Nature will live on, far after humans. We are another extinction event. Earth has endured many cataclysmic events.

@@charelpeffer52 what do you mean , ' unfortunately ' , huh ?

@@sannidhyabalkote9536 unfortunately it didn't end all of those ridiculous, useless lives

It actually made Castle Bravo look like a queef. A dry, fish smelling queef.

@@Biden_is_demented can't believe nobody responded to this. This is actual internet gold lmao

There all too busy arguing over trivia and minutiae in the replies to the top comments. People that argue for weeks in the comments section are so numerous and humorless.

Sounds like a direct quote from Kruschev 🤔 he wasn't a subtle man

The Norwegians call it "Gåselandet" - "The Goose land" (if it be of any interest).

Isn’t North Macedonia also known as Severna Macedonia?

da

So the Test Site is the North End of the New Earth/Land?

_In Russian, "Zombie" means, Zombie._

As the video points out, the bomb's yield was halved by eliminating the final stage of fissionable uranium. This was done to drastically reduce the radioactive fallout, an effect the Soviet physicists were well aware of, thanks to the US experience with the Castle Bravo shot.

It’s quite literally how it happened. In 16th century there was a great expedition to the east, where army was just marching across the land and was saying “join or get bonked”. Some joined, some got bonked, the result you can see on the map.

and so much of it is uninhabited its truly mind boggling

Well, many did want and some attempted to take it from Russia but failed miserably.

@@timekeeper2738 it was inhabited, but forgotten genocides and modern day oppression took care of that problem

@@TheJcrist do you mean take back their lands? Cuz yes

I would assume this is due to radioactive decay or an elements half-life

Don't feel overly reassured, the "stripping down and remade" is akin to changing the oil filter and a flat tire on an car for those whom have the knowledge.

yeah man after like 50/60 years any explosive that has been sitting is for sure no longer safe to use. Bump into it wrong and it blows up or you try to use it and its non functional. At least thats what i assume

Bionicle Jackson it's the "those who have the knowledge" bit that's key. Very specialist and not as simple as you might imagine thankfully.

@@robinwells8879 I don't have to imagine, it was my job for the USAF.

Simon doesn't write the scripts, nor is he a historian. He just reads them. Now I do agree with you. However, the blame is not on totally on Simon.

If he was to check out all the facts small details you wouldn't be seeing a 25 minute RU-vid video, but having a 2 hours History Class... And there are actually places for that... It's just a informative "broad stroke" about what lead to the creation of the Tsar bomb and where it happened.

Ww2 is a myth perpetrated by the toy company's to sell GI joes

Hm. If not for Russia, there would be no Finland after all. And Finland volunteered into the war, although taking only the land it decided was theirs. And Finland instituted mass cleansings Hitler was shocked by, for example, killing half of population of Vyborg in one day.

@@nathanhowlett8893 That might wash if WW2 hadn't been going long before America joined.

No, not really. The highest pusher for fallout is the amount of fission done in the bomb - fission of the primary core, it's tamper, the secondary sparkplug and it's tamper; the radioactive materials in fallout is 95% the fission products. The only "stuff" left to make fallout was the neutron activated vaporized bomb case, spread to hell and gone. The fallout was simply bomb materials still close enough together to condense into dust grains. Serious fallout comes when the mushroom is able to suck up dirt and coral and whatever else from the surface to mix with the fission products - that dilutes the radioactive materials but also makes it much more plentiful. The difference between a dirty weapon and a clean one is the presence of the final uranium tamper in the design

@@puncheex2 Late but great comment!

71.633612, 52.264547 A suspicious amount of off-road traffic for there to be nothing there :P

Rusty Gold that’s the thing though, they are just as real today. Take the presidential football for example, it is supposed to give the impression that only the president can launch a nuclear attack, it’s not true, it makes absolutely no strategic sense to have a nations capability of retaliation based on the continued health of one man. In the case of the United States and Russia, there is a certain amount of automation involved, so if systems believe an attack is happening wheels will be set in motion automatically, likewise there are plenty of people who can initiate an attack who aren’t the leaders of The country in case they are taken out. That’s why it’s called mutually assured destruction, because it is set up to destroy your enemy no matter what you do pre-emptively. And that’s not even taking into account the United Kingdom, France, Israel, India, Pakistan , China and North Korea. It’s a matter of when, whether it’s an accident or intentional, it will likely set off a chain reaction of retaliation from countries who can’t take the chance that it wasn’t intentional. And then we all die

@@conors4430 Only the president can do so if he is well and alive, just with all the things he can do. Same goes for the russian "Dead hand" system, it will only be in charge if no one is left to give orders. MAD is ment as deterrent, and if you are in charge of what you believe to be the 2nd strike arsenal, which is in any case well protected, you have time to verify if an attack has taken place or not.

That’s the job of the media, keeping people cowering and complacent

Me too. They were talking about atomic bombs on tv and mum had nightmares about them and told me (a child with an anxious mind already). I had a very real nightmare inspired by On The Beach series (about effects of nuclear war when people were going to die of radiation) later in life.

@@conors4430 theatre commanders have launch authority, 4 star colonel generals/vice admirals who are directly empowered by the president. HOWEVER the Corporation is who actually design n build them. SO the heads of the Corporate have the codes also, altho you'll never hear them admit it. It always amazes me when people actually think "the government" runs US foreign policy

Sometimes Google Translator likes to translate it's name into a New Zealand

It's roughly ⅔ of Italy

I'm no scientist but I thought it would be like hitting the earth with a hammer. However somebody else in the comments who sounds like they know it better than me, said most of the extra load would probably go upward and there would be more radiation but not so much more of an explosion.

@@jamescarter3196 Sounds about right. It would indeed be like hitting the Earth with a hammer, but that is usually the case with any significantly large bomb or impact. - the rigidity of the crust will help those seismic waves along. However, earthquakes can regularly output more power than the world's entire nuclear arsenal combined and hurricanes are pretty up there too. I'd think the worry about detonating that many nukes in one place would be more the pressure wave and intense heat upsetting weather systems and wildlife for weeks to years - ignoring the obvious radiation hazard from ejecta scattered on the jet stream and other cross-planet winds.

knock the earths orbit out of its route

@@cucumber623 Nah mate, that requires much more extreme mesuares, not even the detonation off the Worlds entire nuclear arsanal blown up in one point, would be able to do that. Not even the largest astoroid can do it. Remeber the Earth is massive and have a lot of momentum through Space, so you would have to lob another planet at it, to change it's orbit.

The Judas Priest Ram it down album cover would have happened

Did you have it Muted, Jody? If forced labor, transplantation of indigenous people and thermonuclear annihilation don't ruffle your feathers, what does?

Lewd. >_>

God: Hold my Quazar and Gamma Ray Bursts.

This comment is severely underrated

You can't hold a black hole.

@@r.girouard5886 youre so stupid, created yet doubt a creator

I didnt even have time to put one on

@@phillipcasyey7313 same

Probably wasn't wearing pants either.

"biggest bomb in history, burned faces and set animals on fire a hundred miles away BUT OH SHIT THE FINGERPRINT ON HIS GLASSES IS SO HORRIBLE"

@@jamescarter3196 Shows how in affected a guy who has read the information on every crazy/biarrare thing that mankind and nature has give a try. :-)

Your probably terrible. I’m sure I’d like you🙂

how bout the wet fart

i smoke ghosts there’s dry farts?

@ Rachel S - "Это не было бы здорово, но это не было бы ужасно..." _"It wouldn't be great, but it wouldn't be terrible..."_

Have you seen the documentaries on the tsar bomba? There a couple on youtube, a bit older but that just means it has more authentic interviews with people involved

True hbo should but keep Netflix away from it

Write it, then. Send it into HBO. Add as much sex as you like, HBO loves that. I bet you could make a lot of money.

There is an eco documentary called brotherhood if the bomb, its about the development of nuclear weapons and it o cludes the tsar bomb

us certainly had their calculations wrong DONT TELL THE RUSSIANS

Your horrible side seems very much like my fun side

Agreed, although it very well could've destroyed the entire planet. Incredible power.

Would've been interesting for sure, assuming it didn't kill everybody.

@@CrazyDiamnd76 No, it would not. Its a very minor power compared to asteroids and volcanic eruptions. 'could very well destroy the entire planet".. LOL. Perhaps a little country, but nothing more than that.

@@nagjrcjasonbower Why even use the word Communist in this comment? What an odd thing to Fascist.

There are some beautiful tarantulas from there.

Brett Hazelton dude who pressed you buttons in the wrong way? Socotra is an intresting place, in Quaran folklore they say that the “false prophet” lives there... i dont believe that stuff but that tells me there is not even a small sign of SJW idiots over there

How dare you all be diverse enough to think about cool things! Everything should be black and white!

Thank you for this comment. I didn’t know about this magnificent place, and I’ve really enjoyed researching and seeing the unique animals and plant life❤️

Makes sense to do it after... another place we van eliminate! Geez