Bye Bye B-53

[bless 'em all]

That was Castle Bravo, the first dry thermonuclear bomb.

Ivy Mike was a "wet" proof of principle device, weighed 80 tons & was 25 feet high.

I simply wanted to use the phrase "Give me the full physics package!" once, in a meaingful way, before I shuffle of this mortal coil.

Now I've used it twice.

[Doggy Styles]

50 Mt is a big bang. I bet it made people jump when it went off.

[zeitghost]

50 Mt is a big bang. I bet it made people jump when it went off.

Yup. Flash burns at 100 miles?

[Doggy Styles]

Yup. Flash burns at 100 miles?

Wow. I bet it smarts closer in.

[KentPhilip]

Wow. I bet it smarts closer in.

"The Tsar Bomba's fireball <was>, about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) in diameter"

Might singe your hair a bit.

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

Ivy Mike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[TimberWolf]

windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 kilometres

Ordinarily you'd think being 900 km away from an explosion would be a safe distance. Not if you are a windowpane.

[TimberWolf]

The TNT equivalent of the 50 Mt test could be represented by a cube of TNT 312 metres on a side

Which I estimated would be $2.5 trillion worth of TNT (at $50/kg for TNT). So in this case it looks as if nuclear works out cheaper.

[Doggy Styles]

Which I estimated would be $2.5 trillion worth of TNT (at $50/kg for TNT). So in this case it looks as if nuclear works out cheaper.

A better bang per buck.

As they say.

To say nothing of the delivery mechanism needed for the TNT.