Cobalt Bombs: The Bombs to End the World

Us tested a salted bomb as well.

"Building a cobalt bomb is not that difficult, all you need is a whole lot of cobalt and a standard hydrogen bomb" like everyone's got one somewhere in their garage...

During my 30 year US Army career, I attended a course called "Nuclear Package Planning." It was designed to make you as a planner, aware of the vast array of US nuclear weapons and how to plan for employing them to achieve the desired effect on the battlefield. It was an eye opener to say the least. What I came away with was thermonuclear is not winnable, thermonuclear war is insanity, and global humanity is the ultimate loser, because we destroy the world as we know it.

Its so obvious someone writes this for you and you do no research yourself..

Thing is.. When you're measuring the diffusion of cobalt molecules around the planet, you can't do square anything. You've got to go cubic. The atmosphere is three dimensional, and heavy particles that land in bodies of water tend to sink to the bottom.

A standard-issue hydrogen bomb has four explosive stages: The first stage is the chemical explosive that compresses the fissile material to start stage two, the fission trigger. Radiation and explosive vaporization of a shell compresses and heats a deuterium-tritium mixture to the the fusion point, starting stage three. Some neutrons from the fusion hit lithium and produce more tritium. Some neutrons from the fusion hit a depleted uranium wrapper causing U-238 to fission, the fourth stage. H-bombs the omit the fourth stage are called neutron bombs. They have a much higher radiation/blast ratio.

And the crazy thing is the vast, vast, vast majority of us have no input on whether or not these weapons are used. There are, what, 20 people out of 8 billion people who make the decision to use these weapons that would kill us all. And we allow this. On a daily basis the 7,999, 999,980 of us allow these, let's say, 20 people to decide if we and everyone we love will live or die. That is madness. And you know what us 7,999,999,980 people are going to do about this? Nothing. We will continue to go to work, argue about pronouns and abortion and other equally meaningless things while the, let's say, 20 decide whether we and those we love live or die. I guess we deserve what we get.

Not true that we hadn't been close to the end of the world. Cuban missile crises and a couple other false alarms that we were only saved from by one person not following orders.

Cobalt 60 is so dangerous that the canisters that hold it have “Drop and run” written on them.

What I've often wondered is if the southern hemisphere would be mostly radiation free, other then Australia of course.

In the book the government gives everyone suicide pills

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People can whinge all they want, but nuclear weapons have really kept the superpowers in check. Global warfare is now a thing of the past because of the totality of destruction that nuclear weapons threaten to bring to the table. Dramatically fewer people have died to nukes than to conventional warfare. And do you honestly think antagonistic powers will get rid of their nukes out of "good will?" No. Keep them. Never use them. Speak softly and carry a massive, nuclear stick. It keeps the relative peace.

That’s it I’m moving to the moon 🌙

If Africa continues to buddy up to China and Russia I say all the rare mineral mines and rare metals mines get hit with the salt

cannot stand this guy

Salting the earth was so nothing could grow there ever again

I feel so uplifted by this video knowing a huge cobalt bomb would solve our concerns about global warming instantly. Well it would solve ALL human concerns as we would be extinct, with cockroaches laughing their feelers off.
"... would probably be used only as a last resort." "LAST resort" indeed!
*I much prefer gamma ray "Real Estate Bombs" that kill people in a large city with gamma rays but destroy little real estate. As we all know, real estate is so much more important than human lives. Occupiers, in a few months, could safely enjoy our JACUZZIS, golf courses, high rise condos, swimming pools, neat cars, etc.Thus the "attraction" of gamma ray bombs.

"The hydrogen dog and the cobalt cat
side by side in their armory sat.
Nobody thought of fusion or fission
All were concerned with their peacetime mission
The coldrogen dog and the hybalt cat..."

Another masterpiece of a video. Heil Simon!!? ✋🤨
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Well done, as always.

Ashamed Britain decided to add cobalt to a bomb even a small one.

Salting the ground makes it so you can’t fern there for a long time

So how many of these actually exist?

Great beard

seems like pretty much every story in The Philip K. Dick Reader (check how many of his stories became movies) mentions the C-Bomb.

Drop them Cobalt's 😂

My brother needs to either trim or brush down one side of his beard 😭

So are neutron bombs (which Brezhnev called "the ultimate capitalist weapon" because it was low-yield explosive to leave most of the infrastructure and property intact and high-yield radiation to kill lots of people) baby versions of this?

That "510 tons" calculation is so absurdly oversimplified, the conclusion was completely wrong. First, they based the calc on land area alone, ignoring that 70% of the fallout has to fall into the ocean, where it sinks. Second, "1 gram = 0.5 gray of ionizing radiation per minute"...yeah that's the total from a single gram that was vaporized and SPREAD EVENLY ACROSS A WHOLE SQUARE KILOMETER. But humans occupy square meters, not square kilometers. The single square meter you're standing or working in is only radiating at 1/1,000,000 that level.

They calculated the dose assuming you vacuumed up the surface dust from an entire square kilometer, then crawled into the vacuum cleaner bag with it. A bit unrealistic, by a factor of a million or so.

Ok i admit to being a total rookie when it comes to nuclear physics but.......I'm convinced that it comes to energy convertion in the end.......At classical A bomb (nuclear fission) total energy convertion is probably less then 0.5 %........But when we talk about hydrogen bomb (nuclear fusion) it is quite different.......Total energy convertion comes near 25 % !.......That's almost 2,5 kilograms of deuterium converted through neutrons being separated from nucleus.....No wonder that it's equievalent to 10 and above megatons of TNT........It's all about converting mass to pure energy........And that's why classic A bomb leaves ground zero with way too much radiation.....Because in the H-Bomb total energy release is almost all pure energy instead of scattered radiant material throughout the surface of ground zero........I'm total lame when it comes to nuclear science and many scientists will laugh at my thoughts......But i will appreciate every comment regarding my theory (I know it's lame)

... you said that salting the earth was a common practice at one point. I don't know why or how that could be true. It certainly happened a few times, but common seems... Wrong.

That was used in lots wife

He literally looks like vsauce at home

SImon got the starting material and end radioactive products mixed up.
Cobalt-60 etc. are dangerously radioactive, you wouldn't install them on a nuke. You would install Cobalt-59.

Well this didn't age well.....

Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

still waiting for the Balthorium G bomb discussion.

Word ending. Should be banned.

The original Status-6 Poseidon design includes 200 Megaton cobalt-60 warheads. Submarine-launched prototypes and models have reduced warheads of 2 megatons. Atomic big torpedoes that can be launched from any port or commercial ship in disguise will surely have full power because the weapon was designed for the final Armageddon.

I love how politely he tells us we're all fucked.

So if each person has roughly 1mg of cobalt 60, then 1000 people in an auditorium would be the equivalent of 1g of cobalt 60 in the small contained room. Yet, if 1 additional gram was spread out over 1km, we’d be screwed somehow? When you could fit tens of thousands of people in a professional sports arena, with no issues?

Of all 4 nuclear bombs that I know about, cobalt bombs are the only ones which have made me sick to learn about.

wouldnt be difficult, all you need is a 'standard hydrogen bomb'. sure Simon let me just go grab one at the store, need some milk while i am out? :D

"Blowing up your house to fry an egg..." 🤣