RDS 37 nuclear test 1955

On 22 November 1955 the USSR conducted its first test of a multi-stage thermonuclear device. The device, the RDS-37, was designed as a nuclear gravity bomb with a full yield of about 3 megatons. The test version was modified to reduce the yield to an expected 1.45 megatons, to reduce the risk to the local population. It was airdropped from a Tupolev-95 bomber over Technical Area Sh ("Ground Zero") at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. It detonated with a yield of 1.6 megatons at altitude of 1,550 meters. Civilians in nearby villages had been warned as a precaution, but one child who ran back into a house immediately after the detonation was killed when the blast wave arrived and caused the roof to collapse.

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[RubinCostatic]

Thumbs up you you wanted a camera filming from inside the explosion

[hans1066]

and you can see particles hitting the film...

[zackworrell]

stupid humans will die by the hand of their self made God called technology!

[aardvark9100]

American Experience Race for the Superbomb has more footage from this test where the shockwave hits these buildings. Everyone observing it on the roadway hits the deck twice. Once for the initial concussion, then for the reverberation. It must have been extremely loud.

[8900609]

wow 0:20 blinding!

[erkeler1986]

oristardi hargis atsin!!!