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Nuclear Explosions (And Pseudo-Nukes Too!)
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Internet used to be an escape from the real world.
Now the real world is an escape from internet.
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Seriously impressive visualisation and commentary.
A vote for Trump, a third party candidate, or no vote at all, is a vote for a dystopian future.
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An Unearthly Spectacle
by Alex Wellerstein
October 21, 2021
https://thebulletin.org/2021/10/the-unt ... lear-bomb/
Introduction:
A still frame from a once-secret Soviet documentary of the Tsar Bomba nuclear test, released by Rosatom in August 2020. (See the last post on the previous page of this thread for an untranslated You Tube version of this documentary).
by Alex Wellerstein
October 21, 2021
https://thebulletin.org/2021/10/the-unt ... lear-bomb/
Introduction:
[1] Vladimir Afanasyev, quoted in Vladimir Suvorov, Strana Limoniya (Soviet Russia Press, 1989), 124-125.(Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) In the early hours of October 30, 1961, a bomber took off from an airstrip in northern Russia and began its flight through cloudy skies over the frigid Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya. Slung below the plane’s belly was a nuclear bomb the size of a small school bus—the largest and most powerful bomb ever created.
At 11:32 a.m., the bombardier released the weapon. As the bomb fell, an enormous parachute unfurled to slow its descent, giving the pilot time to retreat to a safe distance. A minute or so later, the bomb detonated. A cameraman watching from the island recalled:
The flash alone lasted more than a minute. The fireball expanded to nearly six miles in diameter—large enough to include the entire urban core of Washington or San Francisco, or all of midtown and downtown Manhattan. Over several minutes it rose and mushroomed into a massive cloud. Within ten minutes, it had reached a height of 42 miles and a diameter of some 60 miles. One civilian witness remarked that it was “as if the Earth was killed.” Decades later, the weapon would be given the name it is most commonly known by today: Tsar Bomba, meaning “emperor bomb.”
- A fire-red ball of enormous size rose and grew. It grew larger and larger, and when it reached enormous size, it went up. Behind it, like a funnel, the whole earth seemed to be drawn in. The sight was fantastic, unreal, and the fireball looked like some other planet. It was an unearthly spectacle![1]
Designed to have a maximum explosive yield of 100 million tons (or 100 megatons) of TNT equivalent, the 60,000-pound monster bomb was detonated at only half its strength. Still, at 50 megatons, it was more than 3,300 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that killed at least 70,000 people in Hiroshima, and more than 40 times as powerful as the largest nuclear bomb in the US arsenal today. Its single test represents about one tenth of the total yield of all nuclear weapons ever tested by all nations.
A still frame from a once-secret Soviet documentary of the Tsar Bomba nuclear test, released by Rosatom in August 2020. (See the last post on the previous page of this thread for an untranslated You Tube version of this documentary).
Don't mourn, organize.
-Joe Hill
-Joe Hill
Re: Nuclear Explosions (And Pseudo-Nukes Too!)
A vote for Trump, a third party candidate, or no vote at all, is a vote for a dystopian future.
Re: Nuclear Explosions (And Pseudo-Nukes Too!)
A vote for Trump, a third party candidate, or no vote at all, is a vote for a dystopian future.
Re: Nuclear Explosions (And Pseudo-Nukes Too!)
Pseudo-nuke, because obviously if it was the real thing, we'd have heard about it by now, but this is pretty much how I imagine a strike in Kyiv to go— some strange flash that's remarked upon, followed by another explosion.
And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
Re: Nuclear Explosions (And Pseudo-Nukes Too!)
And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
Re: Nuclear Explosions (And Pseudo-Nukes Too!)
And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
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To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
Re: Nuclear Explosions (And Pseudo-Nukes Too!)
Though not as effective as Threads, The Day After is still a fantastic and horrifying film
And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future