The Barents Observer: Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test
Photos and short video clips have previously been available, but this unseen 40 minutes declassified footage of the Soviet Union’s monster nuclear bomb give a whole new insight into what happened on Novaya Zemlya on October 30, 1961.
The documentary film was released and posted on August 20 on the YouTube channel of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation in connection with the celebration of 75 years of nuclear industry.
The film, edited in classic Soviet-style propaganda, shows all preparation procedures. First the transportation of the giant bomb by rail to the Olenya airbase near Olenegorsk on the Kola Peninsula. The Tu-95 aircraft take-off and flight across the Barents Sea to the detonation site near the Matochkin Strait at Novaya Zemlya. Then the release of the bomb attached to a parachute to slow the fall so the plane could get in safer distance from the blast. Videos from several directions and distances show the apocalypse looking detonation and following mushroom cloud.
The bomb, officially named RDS-220 and later nick-named Tsar Bomba, was the largest nuclear weapon ever constructed.
With a yield of 50 megatons (50 million tons), equal to around 3,800 Hiroshima bombs, the weapon was set off over Novaya Zemlya on October 30, 1961.
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WNU Editor: It is a shame that most of my readers do not understand Russian. This documentary provides an excellent presentation on how this bomb was developed, assembled, and tested.
2 comments:
The video has English subtitle on its full length.
Only 3,800 Hiroshima bombs?
Meh. If it had been 4,000x I'd have been impressed.. but this way..uhh not gonna watch a documentary of a bomb that is not even 4K Hiroshima. Hurts my eyes!
But Russians have a serious complex going on with things always being bigger. That's also why they dope so much at sports, for this "Russian Tsar Bomba people win all the gold medals!!", unless they check the pee pee of course, then it's "put your track suit back on and take the bus back home, you cheat "
I can connect anything to Russian doping and Russian Napoleanic complex. Even Tsar bomba
;)
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