Castle Bravo

As of February 28, 1954 this was the largest nuclear device in the U.S. arsenal.

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• nuclear
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• bomb
• radiation
• war
• peace

[69salford69]

Allow me to rephrase...

Earth cannot support the human race at the current pupulation trend.

10billion people will be WAY too many

[haddock1941]

Earth CAN support the human race, and it has for hundreds of thousands of years.

Douche bags, on the other hand, not so much.

If you think people are so damned awful, you die first.

[NielsShoe]

The Russian bomb was tested at 57MT but it was a 100MT design but it was too big and heavy to transport very far so it would not of been used in anger it was just to shake a fist at NATO. Mirvs om ICBM are still bad even though they are smaller 3 - 10 would be fired at one city spread out from each missile.

[MrMoleskins]

it's a firework get over it

[pancakehiatt]

Um that's Castle Romeo. But Bravo is cut in there and I think Castle Union is in there too

[TarquinOctal]

Actually, most modern warheads are MIRVed at about 0.5-0.7 megatonnne yield? No much fun, but not the same as Castle Bravo or Tsar Bomba maybe?

[MickHartmannDK]

@smileycoyote thats actually not quite right. most modern icbms in action has a power on no more than 10 mt. but it is actually possible to deliver them by planes without killing the pilot. just watch the Tsar bomba videos. that explosion is 4 times bigger than castle bravo and deployed by plane. and they would have been used in an actual conflict. this amount of desctruction has a huge psycological value and with the correct deployment the result is . . . magnificent

[Sagebrusher07]

@69salford69

I think we could support many more and affect the enviroment even less than we do now, with the right technology and social conditions.

[CheckMyMovies]

war sucks

[NightShadeAEB]

@sib3lius lol the Russians blew one up more than three times as powerful as this one (this one was 15.4 mt, the Russian one was 50 mt) with an ordinary 1963 bomber. Of course the bomb was so huge the bombing bay's doors had to be removed - you could still see the bomb sticking out of the bottom of the plane as it took off.

But hey, today's the age of nanotechnology. I'm sure they could fit hundreds of megatons into a single ICBM nowadays; it's just such a waste when you have precision.

[poodleslayer]

I read somewhere that if Tsar Bomba had been detonated at its maximum power (100 meg, as I recall), it could've caused third-degree burns over an area the size of West Germany.