Super Blast 1

[StevenShields29]

More like "ka-boink!"

[fuzgi]

That was around 18 tons (or around 40'000 pounds) TNT-equivalent. Shot in september 2001 in the former Nevada Test Site, at BEEF. Search for "watusi experiment" if you want to know more.

[billiondollardan]

3000 kt = 6 billion pounds lol. So yeah as everyone has said and the original poster acknowledged, that's not correct. So, how much is it really? no idea

[DJ3G3T5]

was this in area 51 ?

[riceicles123]

300 tons is 0.3 kilotons not 3

[superskullmaster]

300 tons is not a 3 kiloton's. You need to look up the definition of kilo you fucking idiot. KILO=1000!!!!!!!!!!

[oXFalconXo]

Did you get hit by the shockwave in the heli? (might be an obvious question, I'm just curious)

[calgaryfox]

300 tons is NOT 3 KILO (1000) tons...

[Spartan117JMC]

ZOMGWTFSPLOSION... Thats what happens if you put a PC disk in a MAC...

[SvenTviking]

I am trying to find footage of the Minor Scale test. Over 4000 tons of ANFO blown on the white sands missile range.

[HadeanAgent]

That, almost certainly, is less than 3 kilotons.

[cassetteman1]

on vois bien l'onde de choque!! c styler!!^^

[TheTvRadioDude]

ok, where is the mini nuke explosion ? behind the smoke ?

[darkdjo]

@TheTvRadioDude don't you see the shockwave dude?

[TheTvRadioDude]

@darkdjo yes so what ? is it special or something ?

[darkdjo]

that true there is a lot of vids like it but I think it's cool :) No?

[TheTvRadioDude]

yeah, i think its fine, not very special but still impressive

[Hritzness]

Technically speaking it's not a "mini-nuclear" explosion as there's no fission reaction. Hell of a blast, though.

[garyhstorms09]

I am sure that was heard for miles away

[eevyion]

Dude thats not in any remote desert thats out over by Area 51, near one of the launch pads..

[sebby1235]

The Tsar Bomb is better. Its a 50Mega TOn explosion, absolutely huge. look it up on youtube :)

[ceejaybro]

the bomb that was dropped on hiroshima was around 13 kilotons, so imagine a bomb 43 times as powerful as this one. A normal nuke now can be as much as 2-3 megatons (or 10000 times this one)

[Daaab89]

300 tons = 0,3 kilo tons

[DwarfVaderRus]

lol youre right! lol

[1DecayingPlatapus]

watch at the top of the screen as soon as the intro ends, you cansee something fallout of the sky before it explodes. I think that was a missle explosion.

[420hih]

Thats not a missile thats light from the blast.

[BinaryComa]

i took a shit this morning that was more impressive

[HelmutVillam]

How can it be 'mini-nuclear' when there isn't even a smidge of nuclear fission going on in that explosion?

[EvaUpfold]

... Obviously ... the point was that it was on a scale up there with small nuclear bombs : / that there was no fission is not the point; it's rare to see conventional explosives detonated on such a scale.

[betrekwoman]

I've seen better

[chrisy909]

hes saying that the blast yeild was equivilent to a small nuke

[iceman21yrs]

That would be trinitrotoluene more commonly known as TNT......

[RomanianUser]

lol its tnt

[Djenbazoff]

bill damn ....

[atom2009]

"Mini- Nuclear explosion" the text says even though its not nuclear

[cag3171a]

The credits were longer than the video

[Jackpot807]

wheres the sound of the boom (a few miles away)

[BensCrazyVideos]

i dont understand why all of these amazing videos arnt all 5 stars solid

[Snowboarder3195]

reminds me of Fallout 3

[clappyslapper]

KA-BLAMMO

[silentquartet]

haha REALLY big boom

[Agentoxedo07]

holy-terrorist:> mm col for explosing the vehicle, and im the progression explosif, and pub the info explosif *=*

[c2c2p1]

thats no way 3000 tonnes of TNT

[shotfirer1972]

and tnt? maybe ammonium nitrate or emulsion of some type, but tnt it aint. nice shot though. And yep im a thinkin about 30. I have prepared and initiated my fair share of large production shots in an underground enviroment, and above ground, and it doesnt look like 300 ton. more like 30 of low grade explosive, as i said, ANFO or Emulsion. have a look at 100 tons of hi ex ordnace that was destroyed in Iraq.(100 ton explosion) if you want a pseudo mini nuke explosion, check that out. as i said 30.

[ROKR77]

it looks like ants are having nuclear war .

[420tenke420]

lmfao

[Billete37]

no flash

[highwireman]

This is nothing like a nuclear explosion. It's just a big explosion. A nuclear explosion has Hydrogen, Uranium or Plutonium in it? Atleast something that can be usedto creaTE FISSION.

tHIS IS JUST A BIG @SS BANG....

[Gazzy1500]

read the description, it says: over 300 tonnes of TNT.

in the video stands "mini nuclear explosion" because of the mushroom cloud and maybe the shockwave.

[koevis]

still nothing nucleair

[ClintLock1]

this is really cool

mini-nuclear explosion? im sorry, but you can say that any explosion is technically a mini-nuclear explosion if your criteria doesnt include the actual NUCLEAR components of the bomb...lol

[thad209sk]

it almost formed a mushroom cloud lol.. but the russians tested one that was equivilant to 50 kilotons of tnt up on their northern island i forget what it was called

[Nuker1337]

Mushroom cloud forming is a sign of inefficient explosives. That's a reason gasoline explosions make mushroom clouds. Nuclear bombs are however so big that the air surrounding the cloud can't cool the explosion down thus making it stay hot long enough to form a mushroom cloud.

[jlasud]

50 kilotons? then it's ok that u forget it's name ,we all can forget it's name :P

[deadheadkid92]

50 Megatons. referring to the Tsar Bomba

[Yomommalinkmugen]

srry thats cool but thats definetatly not a nuke sim

[Fakie85]

well maybe

[Fakie85]

sry but this doesnt looks like 3000 tons at all

maybe 300

[AngerPersonified]

I love how people use the word "nuclear blast" so much. Fact is this is either 300tons or 3000tons (both are stated) of tnt and a 1megaton nuke is 1,000,000 tons of tnt. Come on...your three 0's off even if you expect me to believe it's a 5kiloton blast. I guess you could argue that some nuclear weapon have been far less then a megaton but that was next to nothing compared to any good sized blast.

[alanaldasucks]

i had an m80 that looked like that

[segregator236]

lol cool.

[MagicJigPipe]

@alanaldasucks Yes, this is nowhere near even the weakest nuclear weapons.

[MagicJigPipe]

@alanaldasucks Yes, this is nowhere near even the weakest nuclear weapons (if it's really 300 tons and not 3000). 3000 would be an extremely weak "backpack type" nuclear weapon.

[csengeri]

Wooooow!

You can hear the shockwave even on the helicopter!

[segregator236]

Yeah. The explosion must have been loud.

[brendonmilligan07]

It was actualy a 36,000 pound explosion to simulate a small underground nuclear blast.

[Ilrond]

the explosion is too small to be 3kt..

[tornadomad]

it was UNDERGROUND!... for not knowing that, ur an idiot

[segregator236]

Thanks, but please stop spamming people.

[tewkewl]

this is definately not 3000 KT of tnt. the largest tnt test was done in the south pacific to simulate the effect of a nuclear explosion on naval forces. the shockwave frome even 500 tons was astounding. 3000 kts of tnt would cost more than building a low 15kt hiroshima bomb! and the shockwave from a 3 kt bomb would have to be filmed from farther away.

[segregator236]

It was probably a 300-ton bomb, I'm sorry...

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

@tewkewl No my friend, you need to do more research. Look up "Minor Scale" and "Misty Picture."

[corruptcrew]

look up minor scale, that's an awesome looking simulation

[segregator236]

Yeah, lol

[Uberownager]

Ehh... This does not look like anything near 3000 tons. More like a couple hundred at best

[segregator236]

This was shot from far away...

[Uberownager]

That doesn't matter. Also the largest amount of TNT detonated is 500 metric tons. Actually this doesn't even look like TNT. I've seen a lot of these videos with the same red underlined writing, all of them are wrong in dofferent ways. One stated that what we saw was around a 100 megaton nuke ;)

[segregator236]

Or maybe it was 300 tonnes...

[whaib87]

3kt is HUGE today most of nukes are sub kiloton because they are the most beneficial weapons for modern warfare (insurgent). As well as a 3kt explosion is almost as powerful as the Little Boy (Due to the "10Mt does NOT produce 10 times more blast area than 1Mt, its more like 1.8-2.1 times more..." rule, in the Kt range its even less) Its still hard to believe that this is 3000T after all even the Trinity TNT experiment was made with 108T/0.1Kt and that was government sponsored.

[segregator236]

The world's largest man-made explosion was a Russian hydrogen bomb at the yield of 50 megatonnes. That equalled 50 million tonnes of TNT!

[Shifts]

For the sake of accuracy, it was 57 MT. And yes very amazing. Shockwave went around the world 3 times. Too bad I wasn't around to notice that

[segregator236]

Yeah same here...

[goingbust]

You = Stupid. 3kt is not huge today. Most deployed warheads are in the multiple hundred-kt range. For example, the warheads used on the Minuteman III are the W78 (350kt yield) or the W78 (475 kt). Nuclear weapons aren't going to be used on "insurgents". They are used for strategic deterrence.

[flyboy172r]

A great explosion...but sorry to burst your bubble...the hiroshima bomb 'little boy' was 15 Kilotons, this (as described) was only 3 Kilotons.

[segregator236]

Yes. I didn't say this explosion was larger than a normal nuclear blast.

[flyboy172r]

I know...its not the type or characteristics of the blast, its the magnitude...15Kt (Hiroshima) was 15,000 Tonnes of TNT (equal)...this was only 3000 Tonnes. Still very photogenic!

[segregator236]

I'm not exactly sure, but this was done several years ago...more than 5 years ago...