This is a 5 megaton bomb, which is a baby compared to some of the other bombs that have been tested. Rather scary.

You all are right to call BS on this video. Its trash.

The earthquake that caused the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra released a total of 9 600 000 megatons of energy....that's a bit more than 50 megatons. I don't know though, I'm not a math major.

This earthquake didn't make new continents, nor did it cause an ice age by pushing earth a significant distance away from the sun. So I'm going to guess that neither would this bomb.

The portion of the 2004 earthquake's total energy that was released on the surface of the sea floor was only 26 megatons and it was released a lot less quickly than the detonation of the Tsar bomba, I'll give ya that.

Probably generate a Tsunami, but not a large one. Large natural tsunamis, like those in 2004 and 2011, are generated by very sudden movement of the ocean floor over a large area; the 2004 Sumatra quake lifted the sea floor several meters, very rapidly, along a 1600 km long section of fault, displacing a total of 30 cubic kilometers of water. Google "what does a cubic kilometer look like". Its a lot of water.

Not sure if the bomb can move that much water at a single site; I don't think it replicates the right "mechanics" of large scale tsunami generation....

Incredible that those yields are paltry in comparison to modern capabilities. Just one example being the US fleet of ~15 Ohio class subs, each capable of carrying 20 Trident missiles, with up to 14 475kt warheads per.

And that's just part of the mobile capability, let alone ICBM's over the megaton range.

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I enjoyed it well enough. It was nice to see an alien/current-day-human confrontation end the way it would in reality. I'm sure I'll enjoy the sequel too.

That was clearly a multi-megaton device though - so the American government had already written off LA.

Keep in mind how impressive (or terrifying) this is, and consider that UMBRELLA and WAHOO were "merely" 8 and 9 kiloton tests.
A couple of months later, TEAK demonstrated a 3.8 megaton yield.

>> ^harpom:

As a Canadian, I can not fathom how this woman is getting any media attention what so ever.
She is bat shit crazy and her views are myopic at best.
It really scares me sometimes being so close to a Country that has such a willingness to go to war, and to imagine a person as stupid as this in charge of the United States.


Being close doesn't put you any more at risk...our military-industrial complex can deliver multiple megatons of destruction anywhere on the globe. All for the low, low price of just a few billion dollars a week.

From wiki:

The reaction of 1 kg of antimatter with 1 kg of matter would produce 1.8×10^17 J (180 petajoules) of energy (by the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc²), or the rough equivalent of 43 megatons of TNT.

This is one of those, "Say one thing but do another," situations.

http://www.brookings.edu/projects/archive/nucweapons/50.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States#Accidents

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W87

The one consider that one Minuteman III missile can carry up to 12 of those W87 warheads, which were originally meant for the Peacekeeper Missile system. The W87 does about 400 KT of damage. According to the Ground Zero Map http://www.carloslabs.com/projects/200712B/GroundZero.html that can be, roughly, a radius of 6.5 miles of damage in all directions from the epicenter. Now the Minuteman can carry 12 400 KT warheads. Math? Heh, that's a 4800 Kilotons per Minuteman or 4.8 Megatons. How many Minutemen does the US have in stockpile, after SORT? 1,050 land based ICBMs. More math?

1,050 Land Base Nuclear Devices
12 Warheads per device
400 KT per Warhead

Total warheads per weapon 12,600. Did I mention that those warheads can be guided to different targets? That's, roughly, 5.04 Gigatons of TNT. Those are just the land based missile systems. That's not counting the Airborne nukes, or the Ohio Class Nuclear subs.

5.04 Giga, fuck, tons of TNT. When they say they are getting rid of their nukes, I chortle.

My numbers may be off I'm by no means an expert, also note that I would assume all 1,050 Minuteman ICBMs cannot be launched at the same time. I just really like large numbers and who gets to write Giga fuck tons of TNT every day?

I heard a couple of these from my butler Wadsworth at my villa in Megaton, just before I shot him.

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The world will cheer at your demise.


Firstly there is no god, only the tyranny of evil men.

Secondly I agree with joe dirt, the Allies will always try to cover their asses for such a dasterdly use of the bomb to show stalin their true power.

Which russia would take steps further to drop the worlds largest nuke called the tsar bomba - King Bomb with 50 megatons.

Lets put it into perspective.

Little boy was 13 - 18 kilotons
fat man was 21 kilotons

Tsar bomba was 50 Megatons. the two little ones don't even come close to the big one.

The bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were little compared to the monstrosities that we have stocked up today.

What was it for? Its all a waste.

Disco isn't dead it's just twisted, bitter and a tad psychotic, idling his time away in his lair, plotting, and piecing together his 200 megaton atomic disco ball...

What were we doing here again? Oh yeah congrats on 100 stars!!

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1 food calorie is really a kilo-calorie of chemistry persuasion, each of which is 4.184 joules.

An explosion equivalent to 1 megaton (a small hydrogen bomb) is equivalent to 4.184×10^15 Joules (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent )

So, 4.184×10^15 / (170 * 1000 * 4.184) = 5.8824 x 10^9 Ranchero Chicken Soft Tacos. (i.e. 6 billion, i.e. one delicious taco for everyone on Earth.)

A Tzar Bomba, at 50 megatons, would be 50 tacos for everyone on Earth. And an epidemic of scurvy.

Wikipedia notes that carbohydrates have higher energy density than TNT, so if you actually measured nuclear explosions in mega-tons of tacos, it would be a smaller number than mega-tons of TNT.

There are quite a few little things that have bothered me about Fallout 3 along the way. The crab people were certainly surprising, and not in a good way. The super mart video was pretty bleh in particular. But despite my reservations, I can see myself having a great time with the game. Megaton and the quest to nuke it were pretty killer. It's the only game I can think of that I'm actually anticipating for the rest of the year.