The man made Big Bang.

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The man made Big Bang.

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https://news.sky.com/story/largest-ever ... o-12056911
Good video, even if it is a bit Red Hammer and Sickle flag waving patriotic including the background music, but it was always going to be filmed like that of course at the time.
As well as the rather huge explosion itself, which is very impressive, to say the least, and the sheer size of the assembled damn thing, and the plane modified to carry it, there is also some great footage of old Radio gear and equipment in use, and some nice high power cabinet RF amplifiers to appeal to the Radio Ham in us! :D
One frightening thought about it, they initially designed and planned to drop a single 100 megaton device, but sort of chickened out before final decision as the physicists were unsure if a blast that size could be safely contained to a test area where fallout was concerned, and watered it down to "just" 50 for the test! :shock:
Final scientific technical analysis suggests its yield was likely somewhere between 50 and 58 megatons.
The mind boggles.
A good watch.
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And to think the labour government wanted to scrap our nuclear deterrent.
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M0VMT wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:27 pm And to think the labour government wanted to scrap our nuclear deterrent.
Indeed, these days we all think high tech drones and not too far in the future AI robots will fight wars for us! ;)
But when some players still have that type of weapon at their disposal, plus a willingness to use one and they do, some fancy arsed drone or Robot wars mechanical foot soldier character is hardly a deterrent!
MAD, did have its purpose, "you have a bloody big one, we have a bloody big one, lets's try and do it a different way"!
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