Nuclear Sideshows: The Most Powerful Atomic Bombs

Helluva fun intro

The alogrithim is starting to know what I like, glad this got recommended, subbed :)

Rojofern where did you go 😭😭

I love these videos so much and I’ve monitoring your channel ever since this video came out, but left disappointed by no new uploads 😔🙏
I can’t wait for the next video, even if it’s about something niche and different 👍

Honestly Hoping this channel grows more, because you deserve it SO MUCH 🙏🙏👍 keep working hard bro

Def some fine work in everything. The BG music is just cheesy enough but subtle enough, it doesnt distract.

i like the causal spongebob music <3

Dude your videos are the only videos I can watch **repeatedly**. Keep it up.

Sources? ;)

Well put together. Never saw a 39 or a 15 for that matter. Wonder what's the latest on Tybee?

My 2 cents:
Put up Unity (instrumental, w/ horns) song from Operation Ivy on the OST next time.

That was fascinating, ta. Also your musical selection is exquisite.

How to tell an "atomic" nuclear explosion apart from thermonuclear explosion without any access to the device or its design aka in a black box case ?
This is the only issue I can find to apply my criticism.

While you may entertain an idea of the formal atomic vs thermonuclear boundary drawn somewhere between 14% and 20% fusion yield,
I would suggest to look at the explosion products instead

and try to estimate the neutron flux by the amount of trans-uranic elements synthesized
and fusion temperature by the amount of unburned He-3.

Can you talk about plumbob, and other weird tests with weird results

VERY UNDERRATED CHANNEL

Squidward head is the shape of the mushroom cloud

More like this please 🥺
Such a good video I love the graphics and music used too

As my dad often said, "There's no such thing as a 'small' nuke."

I would love to see earth-based thermonuclear energy become practical for making electricity instead of war.

Talk about tsar Bomba plzz

My favourite part of your videos is all the cool music i end up adding to my spotify playlists

AVGN jumpscare

Great video other than the fact your pauses annoy the fuck out of me, makes me think your reading from a page, you overuse the dramatic pause making it useless and irritating

The most powerful bomb ever built was mine after 16 truck stop tacos drenched in hot sause😂

Oh look, an older video of an overall similar type and its not loaded with performative stutters and pregro pausing's. Thank Satan.

This was captivating. Thanks for taking the effort

Great presentation. A fascinating and terrifying subject made, dare I say it.....fun!

Wonder how the boffin's at AWRE felt when three week's after Hurricane's 25kt; the perfidious 'septics' let off the Ivy Mike 10.4mt? Blimey,even King was a half a megaton. Still, the brit's stick & string approach get's tesult's. Eventually.....

A great, Informative and FUNNY Nuclear Weapons Video!

Although we may NEVER know, I believe I Read/Saw that the USSR had a NASTY 100 MT H-bomb that Used 2 750 KT Primaries. The Device was Shelved, but Components were Re-used for Tsar Bomba and its "only" 50-7 MT Yield.

Audio mixing is unbearable

Thanks!, it just so happens, I have an overwhelming need to know as much detailed information about nuclear explosions as possible before my/our inevitable and most likely near vaporization.

Was this made using google earth? It’s pretty Dubois like. Looks very nice and fitting

I keep coming back for the Orange Herald footage just for the vibes

All that money spent by all the nations on earth not to make it a better place but to destroy it.

When I heard Boards of Canada on a video like this I legit teared up. Man you have exquisite choice.

"yeah, implosions are ugly."
The Titan Submarine learned that the hard way.

Amazing production mate.
Great info, cuts, graphics and music 👌👌👌👌

Only us brits would call a nuclear bomb "yellow sun" 😂

Even under the environment, of a technical presentation, therefore assumed to be apolitcal and fact based, the author never hesitated to discredit Sakharov while completely forgetting the immense help the British and European scientists gave the Manhatten Project.
Without Leo Szilard ( no letter from Einstein to FDR).
Without Rudolph Pearles( german refugee in the UK), there are no critical mass calculations to prove the feasibility of a bomb. Without Enrico Fermi and Szilard, there is no test of an atomic reactor. Fermi and Szilard both had joint patents for the nuclear reactor. Claus Fuchs had nothing to do with Sakharov.
And even if Fuchs managed to get significant data to Kurchatov, his team had to have the technical training to make sense of the data in case the intent was to to mislead
Them.
Great video, but it's a source of irritation when you don't credit fairly.
It's like reading a book on DDay, and its author claims that DDay was the " turning point " of WW2.
PS: Ivy Mike was not a practical bomb. It looked like a house with a maze of plumbing. Couldn't be moved let alone put in a bomber.
The first practical hydrogen bomb was the RDS-6 ( 1953).

Gotta playlist of all ya music or what music you us?

Gotta vibe to it

I can’t believe these all still have under a million views. Get this channel some eyes!

Im kind of surprised. No offence intended, upon viewing the other stuff you made compared to this, the quality level is shocking.( I get it different idea intended). Where did you learn to structure your videos so well?

And to think I intended this to be a 10 minute video...

But yeah, this video really became something else. What was originally just supposed to be a short look at some big fission bombs turned into an analysis of the muddled and murky world of nuclear weapons terminology, for better or for worse. With that in mind, there are a couple things I feel could use some clarification, and instead of trying to shove it all into an already fairly long (and overdue at this point) video, let this comment serve as a little addendum to it.

1. I know there are going to be those of you who take issue with how often and seemingly loosely I throw around the term "thermonuclear". I use it on three separate weapon designs, when typically only one of them is associated with it. Sloika can really only loosely be considered thermonuclear, and under the traditional definition of the word, the Ulam fission-fission concept is nonsense (since thermonuclear implies fusion reactions taking place). My reasoning for using the term with the latter is that, while not initiating reactions that require thermonuclear conditions to take place (since fission can be sustained under any conditions as long as a critical mass is achieved), the fission-fission design nonetheless generates thermonuclear conditions that sustain far more fission reactions than conventional explosives otherwise would have been able to. Perhaps this is stretching it too far? I don't know, I'll let you judge me on that...

2. TX-15, it's a doozy. I suppose I should first put it out there that the majority of sources and people I've talked to (people that know a whole lot more about nuclear weapons than I do) do consider the TX-15 to be an H-bomb. I think notably Chuck Hansen (who if you don't know is basically the Thomas Grazulis or David Fletcher of American nuclear weapons, if you happen to be a tornado and/or armored vehicle enthusiast respectively) directly references the TX-15 as offering "the prospect of a family of lightweight hydrogen weapons" in The Secret History. My inclusion of the TX-15 in the video really boils down to presenting the potential that its fusion fuel was merely for boosting (which is a possibility), having a spring board to talk about the Ulam fission-fission design, and mostly just wanting to talk about the TX-15 and Castle Nectar, considering how much the other Castle tests dominate the conversation. Even if it is a hydrogen bomb, it's still a damn interesting and unique concept that at the very least differed from the traditional Teller-Ulam design and was intended primarily to be a fission bomb.

Alright, that's enough extra rambling. As always, if you find any goofs, gaffes, or screw ups leave a reply so others and myself know about it.