Bye Bye B-53

[zeitghost]

Phooar! Wot a wopper!

US dismantles last big Cold War nuclear bomb - Telegraph


On 5 this evening, there's a programme all about the Tsar Bomba.

The one that was throttled back to a mere 57Mt by using a lead tamper instead of the du one.

[northernladuk]

Doesn't look very cool

[Spacecadet]

On 5 this evening, there's a programme all about the Tsar Bomba.

The one that was throttled back to a mere 57Mt by using a lead tamper instead of the du one.

Biggest nuclear weapon ever made and tested right?

[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.

[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]

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.

[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 .....

[tractor]

..

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

[Troll]

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

[Spacecadet]

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

not enough!