This is certainly the prettiest mushroom cloud ever.
@zippymax1
6 жыл бұрын
Fission? Or Fusion? FYI: This video shows the Soviet RDS-6s, a hybrid bomb where the core is a U-235 fission trigger surrounded by a "layer cake" of alternating layers of lithium-6 deuteride (the fusion component) and U-238 (the secondary fission component.) This is a bit complex, but not impossible to follow. The U-235 core detonates, releasing heat and neutrons, among other things. Neutrons from the core can be captured by the lithium in the outer layers, producing tritium. The heat of the core also fuses this new tritium with the deuterium in the same layer, which releases even more heat, and a _super_ fast 14 MeV neutron. This high-energy neutron is sufficient to cause fission of the U-238 which is layered with the lithium deuteride. Approximations: 10% of the energy of the bomb was from U-235 fusion at the core, 20% was from D + T fusion, and 70% of the 400 kt energy was from the boosted fission of the U-238 in the "layer cake." Hence, it is arguably more accurate to call this a boosted fission bomb than a fusion bomb, but the point is moot. This design was immediately abandoned for better techniques. I.e. it really doesn't matter what the fuck we call it. Regardless, it's one of the prettier nuclear detonations in my opinion. I wonder if it's the biggest fission bomb (90% of the 400 kiloton yield was fission, and that's a monstrously huge fission component.)
@bami2
4 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure Ivy King with a yield of around 0.5Mt was the biggest boosted "pure fission" weapon, as that was like 4 critical masses of HEU stuffed into a very thin walled sphere, but with the layer cake design since the boosting is accounting for a such a large part of the neutron activation of the rest of the uranium, at which point where do we draw the line (hence the first Fission? Or Fusion? line) for a fission weapon being boosted or a fusion weapon having a large natural uranium tamper as tertiary? Many of the high-yield weapons got their yields primarily from the fusion releasing fast neutrons triggering fission in the tamper. The RDS-202 device (or Tsar Bomba) produced nearly 98% of energy from the fusion reaction, but if it included a natural uranium tamper instead of the lead used in the test bomb, it could have doubled its yield at the expense of much more fallout, producing 50 megatons from fast fissioning the uranium alone. Nevertheless, the "Sloika" (or layer cake) design of the Russians was also independently investigated by the Americans (to be more specific: Teller) in the mid to late 40s, calling it the "alarm clock", as this was the alarm that large fusion (boosted) devices in small enough form factor to made into bombs were indeed possible and put a clock on the development of a true "super", a proper two-stage thermonuclear weapon where the radiation pressure of the primary bomb is used to ignite a fusion secondary, which the Americans pursued instead of the alarm clock idea resulting in the Ivy Mike test, which happened around 9 months before the RDS-6s test.
@iitzfizz
2 жыл бұрын
boosted fission
@zippymax1
2 жыл бұрын
@@iitzfizz I wrote that four years ago. Interesting to reread myself lol.
@julietaloreto5609
Жыл бұрын
Woah
@hermediaht.morgan4735
6 жыл бұрын
This is me after a great meal with lots of fresh garlic.
@SlapStyleAnims
4 жыл бұрын
Now “don’t ask who joe is” memes have a whole new way to be used.
@danielvuong
4 ай бұрын
Fun fact, this footage has been used in SpongeBob
@imtoostonedtocomeupwithaus5976
6 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't mind seeing something like this in person however I do not want to get 3rd degree burns or go blind or die LOL
@DuDu-xx7zr
4 жыл бұрын
You won't get anything if you are far enough
@mikecurran468
6 жыл бұрын
Does the white feature under the mushroom cap that looks like a wedding dress have a name?
@palelights
6 жыл бұрын
Partial veil, at that point in a mushrooms life
@astonishing-a
6 жыл бұрын
Only just noticed that phenomena now.. Possible some condensation that is created at a certain altitude (due to air pressure and moisture level) that is caught in the cold air updraft that runs up the steam..? My guess at least. -Here is a good example of one: blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Licorne-test-sequence.jpg -Cold air updraft: www.abomb1.org/images/enw77b2.gif
@mikecurran468
6 жыл бұрын
Your guess about moisture and air pressure sounds good. I also noticed that the "bell" or "veil" is stationary compared to the background clouds.
@astonishing-a
6 жыл бұрын
Also, the "bell" or "veil" starts close to the pre explosion ambient cloud level too (maybe coincidence). Thinking that the cool air updraft might be being pulled in from the sides and running up the steam in the clear area under the "bell" or "veil" thus the air is moving too much there and the condensation can not form/be sustained in the turbulent air? Tried some Googling but couldn't find much on it, sadly.
@imtoostonedtocomeupwithaus5976
6 жыл бұрын
I want to set up camp inside the bell.
@believer431
Жыл бұрын
It's weirdly hilarious that a Soviet atomic bomb is named "Joe"
@oscarin13
Жыл бұрын
the U.S. named them after Joseph Stalin
@Kittycatboi69
6 жыл бұрын
Stunning..
@tylersmith4282
5 жыл бұрын
June 15 1958
@luckyvlad4530
5 жыл бұрын
Красиво, но страшно...
@pauliswood
5 жыл бұрын
согласен
@xxapple_e.official6226
2 жыл бұрын
Wow😍
@2ndLakeProductions
6 жыл бұрын
These are sped up, right? By how much?
@terratec1001
6 жыл бұрын
What makes you say that?
@2ndLakeProductions
6 жыл бұрын
A lot of footage seems slower, but maybe I'm confusing it with mature mushroom clouds that've stagnated.
@djonZvolta
6 жыл бұрын
Ядерные взрывы самые красивые 💥👍😁
@gurpreetmann6629
2 жыл бұрын
1953, I guess, 400 KT. Could be dropped from Tu 16. Terrifying 😳
@aprilmullins36
5 жыл бұрын
May 5 1958
@idenemmy
2 жыл бұрын
Soviet, not Russian!
@StellarFPV
11 ай бұрын
Joe mama
@hammerheadshark5321
6 жыл бұрын
This is a hydrogen bomb not an atomic bomb.
@zippymax1
6 жыл бұрын
Dakota Drone: yeah...a sort of hybrid, google says.
@upublic
6 жыл бұрын
h-bombs are a sub category of a-bomb. all h-bombs are a-bombs, not all a-bombs are h-bombs.
@zippymax1
6 жыл бұрын
upublic: fission vs. fusion, to be more precise. All fusion bombs (to this point) require a fission trigger. This video shows a hybrid bomb where the core is a U-235 fission trigger surrounded by a "layer cake" of alternating layers of lithium-6 deuteride (the fusion component) and U-238 (the secondary fission component.) This is a bit complex, but not impossible to follow. The U-235 core detonates, releasing heat and neutrons, among other things. Neutrons from the core can be captured by the lithium in the outer layers, producing tritium. The heat of the core also fuses this new tritium with the deuterium in the same layer, which releases even more heat, and a _super_ fast 14 MeV neutron. This high-energy neutron is sufficient to cause fission of the U-238 which is layered with the lithium deuteride. Approximations: 10% of the energy of the bomb was from U-235 fusion at the core, 20% was from D + T fusion, and 70% of the 400 kt energy was from the boosted fission of the U-238 in the "layer cake." Hence, it is arguably more accurate to call this a boosted fission bomb than a fusion bomb, but the point is moot. This design was immediately abandoned for better techniques. I.e. it really doesn't matter what the fuck we call it. Regardless, it's one of the prettier nuclear detonations in my opinion.
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