Reply to: Bye Bye B-53

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[Doggy Styles]

Yup. Flash burns at 100 miles?

Wow. I bet it smarts closer in.

[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]

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

[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.

[Spacecadet]

I wonder how many EU 'officials' one could strap to it before it loses aerodynamic efficiency?

not enough!

[Troll]

Bonus points for knowing which device (variant) Slim rode in Dr Strangelove

[tractor]

..

I wonder how many EU 'officials' one could strap to it before it loses aerodynamic efficiency?

[bless 'em all]

According to

B41 nuclear bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The B41 was rather bigger than the B53, up to 25Mt depending on configuration.

"Give me the full physics package!"

KABOOM!!

The test firing was supposed to be 5Mt but an 'unexplained' Lithium reaction scaled up it's power to 15Mt .....

[zeitghost]

Have a look at the craters created in Nevada where they tested some of the things that go bang.

Google Earth ftw.

And those weren't the big ones.

Entire islands disappeared in the Pacific.

[Churchill]

According to

B41 nuclear bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The B41 was rather bigger than the B53, up to 25Mt depending on configuration.

Have a look at the craters created in Nevada where they tested some of the things that go bang.

Google Earth ftw.

[zeitghost]

Yup.

Build me a 100Mt bomb to impress the capitalist running dog hyenas

Ok. It's not much use really, you can't weaponise it properly, it's too fecking big

Do it, or it's the gulag for you tovarich

According to

B41 nuclear bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The B41 was rather bigger than the B53, up to 25Mt depending on configuration.