Russia just declassified this test footage of the world's largest nuclear bomb

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/26/russia-just-declassified-this.html

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Reboing?

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Big Ba-da-boom.

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I did enjoy the colours in this film so many more tones available.

And was that Robert Stack (17:30)?

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To put it in late cold war terms, it’s the explosive force of 99 billion luftballons.

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Well, blast damage scales with yield to the 1/3, so blast radius would be ~14x therefore the area would be ~200x more. Thermal effects are closer to Y^1/2 so in that manner it’d be bigger, roughly 800x the area.

Still nothing like the giant asteroid we all have campaign signs for in our yards…

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The best part was the music – nice beat, but a little hard to dance to.

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Yesss I thought I was the only person who loved Fluke

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Well, blast damage scales with yield to the 1/3

IIRC the team scaled back the yield so that it wouldn’t just punch a hole straight up through the atmosphere and into space, which (aside from numerous other considerations) is a “waste”.

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OH man - I fucking LOVE Fluke. I have all their albums and several singles!

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