1st Hydrogen Bomb Test by USA (Operation Ivy - Mike) 1952

[Chittebengo]

Robert, what have you done?

[spiritwalker2011]

JUST ANOTHER WAY TO DIE

[armadillodelta21]

that was just chuck norris closing his door.

[kirbyroxy]

@armadillodelta21 fag ur trying to get alot of likes

[armadillodelta21]

@kirbyroxy no i'm not i was just putting a comment that i thought was funny and that i thought others might think so as well i'm sorry that you took it the wrong way.

[jordanmayrocksyah]

An early hydrogen test bomb wiped the island of Elugelab off the face of the Earth in 1952.

[spartansareawesome]

This! Is! how sucky our race is

[taimurhamayoun]

I DONT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ATOMIC - NUCLEAR AND KNOW HYDROGEN o_O

[ELEMENTSFAN666]

@taimurhamayoun a hydrogen bomb uses a process called nuclear fusion for its explosive power and an atomic bomb uses fission for its explosive power

[taimurhamayoun]

@ELEMENTSFAN666 thanks for the info MAN APRRECIATE IT

[armadillodelta21]

@taimurhamayoun and another way to say is that a nuclear bomb explodes and a hydrogen bomb implodes.

[rlax106]

@kyhzer thought this one looked cooler queer and i could care less how the war on terror is going were just fighting a bunch of stupid muslims who are killing innocent people either way were probably fucking them up. Oh and how are those earthquakes going?

[tanster141]

sandy's house from spongebob at 0:10

[HamSandwich09]

Goodbye Elugelab.

[Aaronthegreatest]

I just don't understand the point of this.

[MrSiagon]

@Aaronthegreatest

Deterrent, basically. 

[rlax106]

this is why the us kicks ass

[kyhzer]

@rlax106 look up the TSAR BOMBA and you'll see why the Soviets kick ass

[rlax106]

@kyhzer i just did and i wasn't impressed fucking commie

[kyhzer]

@rlax106 wasnt impressed? it is 57 Megatons, nearly 3 times as more powerful than any American bomb yanky doodle, how's you're war or terror going?

[rlax106]

@kyhzer and you don't sound smart for knowing how many megatons are in a TSAR BOMBA they couldn't even spell bomber right and they're a communist country so why should I even believe those are the real calculations, and on top of all of that you live in fucking australia= 0 nukes so your country could be blown off the map in a matter of seconds using American MISSILES so I don't see why you're talking shit on The USA in the first place..

[kyhzer]

@rlax106 if America attacked Australia the whole world would be glad to declare WAR against the U.S., America cannot take on the whole world

[WhiteSunGroupoff]

@rlax106 USA is a weak country, stop being so patriotic.

[rlax106]

@WhiteSunGroupoff lol usa is a weak country thats why every country sucks our dick and we dont even pay china back and they dont say shit because they know better than to fuck with a country with the most advanced military in the world.. but yea go on with ur dumb comment

[Seminoles215]

@rlax106 hahahaha that dude is a fucking commie! Soviets, WTF bro i thought u fucks were called Russians now

[RDParteeBro]

atleast we can kill people with it .

[skateboardingkid96]

witch riding broom stick at 1:11

[grrlogin]

@skateboardingkid96 crack me up!

[JAckasstylenicos]

woW ! 

[mypoodlebites]

There is no upper limit to the yield of a fusion device. Once ignited, it will burn until it runs out of fuel. For the Mike test, the estimated yield was 10.4-12 Megatons. But 77% of the final yield came from fast fission of the uranium tamper [1].

1. Wikapedia, Ivy Mike

[ronniery1]

U.S just created the powerfull weapon not the humanity..Soon U.S will be destroyed by their proud themselves..believe me..

[ericunderscores]

@ronniery1 Canada, Britain co-developed. Try getting your facts right before you make a fool of yourself.

[letremende7]

yes fuck america latin america against all u.s.a... jajaja

[007bountyhunter]

lame first Hydrogen Bomb was created ir Rusia fuck america

[guitarguy1067]

hey guys

want to see me make an island disappear?

[Eagle1Fox5]

Do not mess with the U.S.

[rjfdube]

I would like to see a modern day version of the Hydrogen Bomb Tested. Only it should be tested on an enemy!! Sorry to say this the US is tired of being treated as a second or third world power; I for one want us to stand again with our fist closed and walk tall.

[jamescobler]

@rjfdube troll more? US is the biggest super power in the world lol

[Bullit366]

i dont know if u know, but the first Hydrogen Bomb was 10 times stronger than the first Nuclear bomb on hiroshima, thats why the U.S.A stopeed the production of the Hydrogen bomb. :D

[IShotLazer]

@Bullit366

The first hydrogen bomb was 750 times stronger.

[minimaarten]

the bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki where 15 and 22 kt This one is about 10mt, thats 10 000 kt!

[rerevisionist]

It's obviously faked, isn't it. Look at my videos.

[geinman1287]

FYI, the natives returned to live on Enewetak some years ago.

[thechatterboxman]

The power of the atomic (fission) bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was measured in KILOtons. The power of Hydrogen (Fusion) bombs is measured in MEGAtons.

[tamenga88]

Nope

Enewetak Atoll is still on the map.

Though it kinda resembles swiss cheese.

[puncheex]

@tamenga88: The particular island the shed was on, Eulegulab, did indeed disappear, as did another island, Irioj, in Bikini Atoll.

[ImperatorDerGalaxis]

Absolutely terrifying...and the Tsar Bomba makes Ivy Mike look puny.

[tamenga88]

Tsar Bomba was ironically also one of the cleanest Nuke ever detonated for it's size.

The Uranium tamper was swapped for a non fissionable Lead to reduce Fallout.

The real weapon would have been 100 Megatons or 10 times Ivy Mike shown here.

[clockwork421]

@tamenga88

So this one is only 10 megatons?

The original 2 dropped on japan were 10 mt and I believe 15 mt?

Can that be right? The hydrogen bomb was less powerful?

[kalametz]

The Japanese bombs were 10 and 15 kt (kilotons).

[VzakpreVemekr]

@clockwork421

little boy (hiroshima) was 14 kt

[MrINEEDNAME]

@clockwork421 no that is not true the little boy and fat man atomic bombs were 14 and 18 kilotons a thermonuclear bomb has way different technology

[stuckinthecities]

@clockwork421

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were actually in the kiloton range, not like Mike which was in the megaton range. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 10 and 15 kilotons respectively, very small by today's standards.

[shav12]

i think the hydrogen bomb is more powerful though.

[4radiator]

whats with the tower and the house at the beginning?

[ThyEndlessDoomX]

the tower was used to suspend the bomb before the explosion, and they used the house for planing.

[fightingtemeraire]

I think they possibly used the house for planning rather than planing, although it wouldnt be a very safe location for either.

[tamenga88]

Ivy Mike was never suspended.

It wasn't even a deployable bomb.

It's just a Gigantic cryogenic thermos bottle of 54 tons they set off to see if a 2 stage nuke is practical.

Fat chance to lift 54 tons onto a tower.

The tower is just a radio antenna to detonate Mike by radio waves.

The bomb is inside the building.

[creedownes]

its pretty funny to know that where the bomb hit, it was 10 times hotter than the surface of the sun :P

[01379444666]

Yeah, pretty funny! Till you stand there! lol

[vve1vve1]

i just shit on my pants.

[ThyEndlessDoomX]

Why were you pants off?

[gorillazfan4192]

we have unleashed the power of the death star

[tacojo13]

i have to poopa on my foofa

[Adenfrrr]

so we are pissed @ NK for nuclear bombs? What the fuck are we doing with these? No wonder America doesnt mind banning nukes seeing as they have fucking better now!

[skitsapALONZO]

This was tested in '52 we;ve had these for awhile and russia has had them since like '55 or somethin... even if we have a NUKE war it would be completly devastating. If we used an H Bomb on china it would pry push the chineese to the brink, especially if we hit their area where they are keeping their nukes. The H Bomb is a last resort tactic like if china or NK attacked LA or NY.

[trojan675]

well this was 50 years ago....things have changed

for instance

NO ONE TESTS BOMBS IN THE OPEN

when was the last time you saw a video like this ?

never because you cant test like this

and korea is too poor to afford proper materials and test sites

[Adenfrrr]

probably coz they know they have them working now?

[TheJomogogo]

Very naive question, almost child-like. North Korea is not a legitimate country, it's run by a nutjob. It's command and control of a nuke would be questionable and it's likely they would give one to the first terrorist organization that comes along with a plan to use it that would please Kim Jong. Try to think a bit more next time.

[vve1vve1]

lol cuz norht korea happen to support terrorism and it is in US (and her allies) interest to not let them gett it. I mean we let china have it because china doesnt support terrorism and same with india.

[josef331]

its true it did

[Lightning997]

imagine that 50 billion times over the entire earth's surface, that would suck

[lallen18]

as a matter of fact, fusion takes so much energy to occur. That in order to set off the bomb they have to split an atom with fission just to cause enough heat and energy to enable the fusion to occur. Fusion itself does not cause radiation. But the reason the "H" bomb gives off radiation is the Nuclear Fission that is needed to cause the fusion.

[tamenga88]

Not to mention the tamper lined around the lithium-deuteride fuel is made of depleted uranium.

The tamper mass is used to squeeze the Lithium deuteride as long as possible to make the reaction last as long as possible before the reaction blasts the tamper outward.

The Neutrons created by the Fusion reaction is so high in energy that it'll even make the Depleted Uranium fission.

(3rd stage)

A large portion of Radioactivity from an H-Bomb is also caused by the fission of the Uranium tamper.

[puncheex]

@lallen18: Oh, come. An H bomb gives off radiation, most particularly neutrons and tritium. It's relatively clean compared to ab equivalent yield of a fission device, but it still has radiation. A fission device's worst fallout problem is in the fission products, the pieces of atoms left over when uranium splits. Fusion doesn't have an equivalent to that, but fusion weapons do need a fission "primary" to start their burn.

[lallen18]

yes because a hydrogen bomb is caused from nuclear fusion, where as your run of the mill "nuke" is nuclear fission. Fusion causes much more damage

[ManicTheManic]

so are hydrogen bombs just incredibly more powerful than normal nukes....?

[BennMackay]

*BOOT*

[rubber4532]

This is madness!

[BennMackay]

Madness?

[TnextS]

this! is! SPARTA!

[DustyTheTiger]

This! Is! Jeopardy!

[Milosck]

LMAOO!!!

[creep3k]

lol i didnt saw ur comment and i wanted to say that :D

[jjrruu91]

@TnextS THIS IS... Operation Ivy Mike

[blinkwin]

and you are also the fattest country in the world, GO PLAY WITH YOUR SELF FAT B1TCHES

[rhd507]

lol steriotyping ass hole, u dont know what the hell we are, The usa is not only one of the most fucking advanced, but can pretty much kick any countries ass. shut the hell up arrogant little fag. I can bet you money that most likely you "BUY" american clothes etc.. lol

[JunglyGirl]

bwahaha. For a second I felt kinda dissed by rhd, until I see your reply.....so fucking ace.

[khemtaproduction]

why the hell they are making this kind of bomb? are they psycho?

[tstrongmets20]

there makin them because every1 else has them so if you dont have 1 n u get bombed how r u going 2 protect ur self

[SilentNoise92]

If you have one you get bombed, you cant protect yourself. They're making one because the whole fucking world's nation is under the attitude "If i'm goin down, i'm takin you with me."

Peace is idealistic, humans not getting along is realistic.

[tstrongmets20]

people arent goin 2 bomb u if u have nuclear weapons cause they kno they'll get bombed back. so every1 has bombs to prevent themselves from getting bombed

[halo3ownsu]

Wow you're all idiots, it doesn't matter how big your fucking bomb is. The Hydrogen Bomb uses fusion. Once activated, the Hydrogen Bomb, I'm pretty damn sure, splits a mole of Hydrogen atoms. Thus, starting off as any regular atomic bomb, with fission. Then, it fuses those atoms back together, and from then on, it is UNSTOPPABLE. Once activated, it is IMPOSSIBLE to stop as of now. It generates it's own energy after the inital split of the Hydrogen. It;s the same thing that goes on in the sun.

[NielsShoe]

Tsar bomb at 57MT was the largest ever tested but it was a show off piece that was too heavy to transport all the way to the USA it was a 100MT design diluted with lead to produce aless radiation producing 57MT bomb it would of set everything on fire as far as 30 mines in every direction.

[DKingTaco2188]

shock waves can travel around the earth if it's powerful enough. I need to prove this to somone

[ahkjdh13]

whats the strongest bomb ever made?

[SilentNoise92]

H Bomb..

[nowayjose470]

BTW: Tsar was certainly an event that ruffled politcal feathers. What was the reaction like in the Soviet Union? Was it publicized? Was it a real propaganda coup for Kruschev in the Soviet government and public?

[SnAKeoMan]

Tsar is bigger and kill more people. BUT WHEN YOU WANT DESTROY A COUNTRY THEN USE HYDROGEN BOMBS  WHEN YOU DROP IT THEN IN 3 KM IS NOTHINGH ONLY STONE!!

[nowayjose470]

Tsar was useless. It was nothing more than propaganda. Effective propaganda, but militarily useless.

[MarshallJukov]

In fact Tzar was TRANSPORTABLE

while USA hydrogen bomb was a BUILDING those times

And still USA never succeed in exploding something more powerfull than 25 mt

[nowayjose470]

And I agree with you. Indeed Mike was not a weapon. I have never said otherwise. Castle Bravo was.

We didn't succeed because we never tried. In fact, we were so confident in the 25 megaton weapon we did deploy we didn't even bother testing it. It was pointless. Once again, making a big bomb was no great technical achievement. Delivery systems that are pinpoint accurate at intercontinental range are truly astonishing technical achievements that both sides succeeded in.

[nowayjose470]

Tsar was transportable only by a retrofitted bomber Tu-95V bomber with the fuselage and cargo doors removed.  The range was terribly limited and at full yield would likely have destroyed the bomber.

Tsar was a weapon, but it was a militarily useless weapon. There's a reason why Russia has SS-18s rather than thousands of Tsar Bombs.

Tsar was nothing more than chest thumping: A propaganda ploy.

[MarshallJukov]

SS-18 is quite another story

and modern H-bomb are miniaturised to about 200kg so it even can be used in light cruise missiles and torpedoes

In fact to build a big H-bomb is not so easy task because it is not about increasing radioactivities mass but about squeeze more energy from equal mass

Tsar revealed 97% of H mass to energy and that was an achievemnet - not simple power of explosion

We used "pie" configuration of charge introduced by Sakharov

USA adopted that scheme later as most efficient

[nowayjose470]

Actually that 97% was simply the energy output from fusion. And Tsar was a one hundred megaton design. Without the uranium tamper, it achieved 97% but even so it still increased total global fallout by 25%. The efficiency was incidental. We could've achieved that had we removed the tampers from our tests.

Given the short range and fallout potential of the 100 megaton design, it was useless to you.

I think you understate the techincal challenges of delivery and miniaturization.

[MarshallJukov]

In fact not many info was in USSR - just "we exploded most powerful bomb ever"

that is all

And efficiency of fusion is most complicated task - it is difficult to ignite it in hyprogen isotopes

And i`m aware about miniaturisation)) Tzar was more powerful and light that any USA H-bomb those times, however it was not a effective weapon

And folowing more smaller versions of that desight of exploding device was able to be delivered by R-7 Korolev`s space rocket

[nowayjose470]

Well that's surprising. I figured that since Kruschev was under pressure to take a bolder stance with the Americans that he would've played some cards to boost public propaganda and his support in the Soviet government.

It certainly had a psychological impact on the international scene though. Tsar may not have been an effective weapon, but it was an effective statement on the international scene. I look at Tsar as more of a statement rather than a technical feat I guess.

[MarshallJukov]

In fact it was not a "BOMB"

it was an stationary exploding device that had scale of a building

Russian Hydrogen BOMB was portable device with 57 megatons power

[nowayjose470]

Tsar? Useless in a military fashion. A SS-18 Mod 5 with 10 750KT warheads? Deadly accurate at intercontinental range and would do the same damage, if not more, than Tsar could. Less energy directed into outer space.

[MarshallJukov]

No. SS-18 is VOEVODA

10 warheads with 800Kt each

but i`m talking about THIS:

watch?v=LxD44HO8dNQ

[nowayjose470]

I knew you were talking about Tsar Bomba and the bomb had little use. I won't argue 50 kilotons with you because those SS-18s with 10 warheads are far more of a threat to us than Tsar could ever be. They are militarily versatile. Accurate enough to bust silos and be a first strike weapon, enough warheads and yield to cause widespread damage to any large American metro area. Intercontintental range and pinpoint accuracy is a truly amazing technical feat IMHO. Not building a big bomb.

[Asstard006]

this is epic testicles

[BetterAtStuffThanYou]

boom!

[Kaefermicha]

It wasn't a small nuke. This was the first ever hydrogen bomb test with several megatons yield. Still one of the most powerful bombs ever built. Although bomb is wrong, this was a device, not useful for military service.

But it was not weak. In fact they grossly underestimated the power, because a third fission stage occurred which was unexpected.

[NeoPHILiyac]

what is 3rd Fission stage ? which is unexpected

[Kaefermicha]

I can only cite the german Wikipedia, which, while certainly not the most reliable source, has an interesting article on Ivy Mike. The whole fusion material of Ivy Mike was surrounded by a Urane-238 block, which was intended to shield the Bomb. 77% of the power came from this block.

Altogether, Ivy Mike had a yield of 10,4 Megatons, which IS a lot. Actually it was the forth strongest nuke ever built by the US.

[Avataryoutuification]

@NeoPHILiyac EMP?

[skubischta]

@Kaefermicha Interestingly enough - the nature of the facility-style detonation makes it the only true "Hydrogen bomb" ever detonated. It could never be delivered to a target.

Teller-Ulam design changed this - resulting in a hydrogen isotope (Tritium) being invoked instead of hydrogen...thus - no hydrogen bombs technically exist. The Tritium is created as a portion of the reaction, eliminating the need for the facility and it's onerous cooling requirements.

[Kaefermicha]

@skubischta Thank you for your insights. What scares me is the fact how much they underestimated the yield in this test.

[skubischta]

@Kaefermicha If the yeild on this scares you, have a look at the "Castle Bravo" test. They used an "inert" material on that one, which, as it turns out, was not inert. Yeild was at least 2.5 times higher than anticipated and was the US's largest test... accidentally so.

This one was a stunning moment in history - the one at which mankind clumsily entered the nuclear age.

Thanks for the video!

[PASCHDigiMedia]

@skubischta There was a device called the E(mergency)C(apability)-16 "Jughead" which was a liquid deuterium fueled physics package in a deliverable form in late 1953. The Shrimp device using enriched isotope six lithium deuteride fusion fuel. The success of the Shrimp package made the EC-16 obsolete.

[Tsingkong911]

thats just a small nuke but it looks so big

[soberauzzie]

no retard, its a big nuke that looks small, fuck head!

[a0rab]

ha!

[dumbasspimpster]

actually, it's the second biggest bomb the human race has ever detonated lol

[Tsingkong911]

Ok I was wrong but Castle bravo takes the second place