operation ivy king

[FailHazard]

Fun Fact: It uses bad-quality music to annihilate the enemy.

[sprengmeister00]

500kt?

[migkillertwo]

Ivy King was a large fusion-boosted nuclear bomb. It wasn't quite a "pure fission" device, the small amount of tritium gas in the core created more neutrons, which increased the efficiency of the fission material.

[hitlersucks101]

lots of radiation...

[aVoXchannel]

what kinda creepy propaganda music is this?

[GalliumNitride]

Dramatic.

[wadad17]

Damn....thats is some scary stuff.

[CrazedNovaProduction]

Scary that you can fit that into each MIRV.8 mirv = 1 ICBM.

[catra195]

Does anyone think this is a good thing?

[ZsaZsaGaborFanatic]

@catra195 yup

[catra195]

@ZsaZsaGaborFanatic

u need to be in a cage deep deep underground and all of the remaining members of your family tree needs to be under close watch

[thatkid0000able]

0:51 , sends shivers down my spine

[billythekiller]

it was a 500kt device... but think about it.. USA has the w88 tecnology, wich is something like 475kt in a 980~~kg bomb... thats not good.

[dasfsadg]

doees anyone listen to operation ivy

[maoniceo]

fai se fude seu noob

[ohyes245]

Pretty Big FireBall For Water Detonation.^_-

[PikPobedy]

Most powerful fission weapon.

It probably was boosted with a lithium deuteride tritide capsule to enhance neutrons and increase the Pu 239 fission yield.

[PikPobedy]

Ivy King was enriched U. Not Pu. I stand corrected if that is true.

[bigscottlarock]

How long have you been waiting to squeeze that into a conversation?

[riceicles123]

this is the most powerful atom bomb but not the most powerful bomb

[fjelly0]

Looks a bit skinny..

[zkool5]

whoa!

[feeblezak]

500 Kilotons is impressive for an atomic bomb. although it is not the most powerful tested

the most powerful pure-fission bomb was the orange herald built by the uk. it was 700 KT

[Sweetthang9]

The Orange Herald was a fusion boosted weapon. Ivy King was pure fission.

[airraideagle]

that's AWESOME for a NON-hydrogen, fission weapon.

it's as powerful or more powerful than some of the low-yield H-bombs

(i.e. the 300-350kt thermonuclear weapons)

Ivy King at 500kt is pretty incredible for an atomic bomb.

[savagesteve13]

The King shot was successful, but it was proof that there's an upper limit to fission weapons. past that point the bomb itself becomes unsafe and prone to unintended detonation.

[sidewalkere]

Ivy King was NOT an hydrogen bomb. It was an highly enriched uraniun based bomb. Ivy King was the most powerfull fission bomb, ever detonated, and wasn't a failure. H-bomb's are fusion, not fission, devices.

The 2nd hydrogen bomb to be detonated after Ivy Mike was Castle Bravo.

[PikPobedy]

@sidewalkere

The fusion reaction is ignited by a fission reaction. The fusion reaction then ignites a fission reaction in the bomb jacket. Fission-fusion-fission.

[sidewalkere]

@PikPobedy

Yes, that happens in most fusion bombs. Which this was not. This was a pure fission device.

[PikPobedy]

@sidewalkere

Correct. Ivy King was entirely fission. I don`t recall what was on my mind when I got into the fision-fusion-finish thing as a response to you.

[marct33]

whoa is right but they called it a failure compared to mike but it was still 25 times larger than hiroshima

[dmarti91]

Whoa!

[peeldown]

meh...

[OrigProdigy]

whoa!

[RaoulDuke74]

whoa!

[StrykEagle]

whoa!

[rickyukon]

whoa!

[Bearcloud]

whoa!