Today I Found Out

The Biggest Nuclear Bomb in History (2015x15)

Air date: Jun 03, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear “” as the Soviets nicknamed it, is the single most powerful man-made explosive device in human history. But why was such a device even made? Well, for similar reasons as to why the U.S. once thought it would be fun to nuke the moon- basically, the bomb was little more than the Soviet Union demonstrating its military might and ingenuity; it was simply too massive to be easily deployed in regular warfare, particularly nearly impossible for the Soviets to effectively deploy against the U.S. The bomb itself was so powerful that the survival rate for the pilot and crew aboard the plane that dropped it was estimated at 50%, and they were 10 km (about six miles) in the sky and 45 km (28 miles) away when the parachuted bomb detonated at an elevation of about 4 km (2.5 miles). And this is after they reduced the total yield of the bomb by half. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/07/the-story-of-the-tsar-bomba/ Resources/Further Reading: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html http://web.archive.org/web/20070104094347/http://www.atomicforum.org/russia/tsarbomba.html http://www.ctbto.org/specials/infamous-anniversaries/30-october-1961-the-tsar-bomba/ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MMHotlT6R8UC&pg=PA258&dq=Tsar+bomba+10th+July&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WCvcUerUEoWa0QXf7IHQDw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Tsar%20bomba%2010th%20July&f=false Image Credit (thank you) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsar_Bomba_Revised.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operation_Crossroads_Baker_Edit.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nikita_Khrushchev_1960.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparisons_of_other_mushroom_clouds.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Khrushchev_and_Kennedy_Shaking_Hands_-_NARA_-_193204.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrei_Sakharov_1989.jpg http://commons.wikimedi