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From Wired News:

 

All That Is Alive Merely Evaporates

By Bruce Sterling September 15, 2007 | 12:02:36 PM

 

 

 

RUSSIA SAYS IT TESTED THE 'FATHER OF ALL BOMBS.' Colonel General Aleksandr Rukshin, the deputy chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, said in Moscow on September 11 that Russia has created the world's most powerful vacuum bomb, as lethal as a nuclear weapon, Russian state-run television reported.

Rukshin said the bomb causes widespread devastation but does not contaminate the environment. He described it as "environmentally friendly, compared to a nuclear bomb." (((It's the newer, greener armageddon.))) Rukshin said the new bomb has "no match in the world" and is currently being tested at an unspecified military site by being dropped from a Tu-160 (White Swan or Blackjack) strategic bomber. He added that its introduction does not violate any international agreement to which Russia is a signatory, and that "Russia is not starting a new arms race."

The television report noted that the bomb's main destructive effects are inflicted by a second stage after the initial explosion, which ultimately results in "an ultrasonic shockwave and incredibly high temperatures. All that is alive merely evaporates."

Rukshin said that the bomb will enable Russia "to safeguard our state's security and fight international terrorism in any circumstances and in any part of the world." On September 12, RIA Novosti quoted unnamed NATO officials in Brussels as saying that the Atlantic alliance does not comment on such developments, and that new military technologies are constantly being developed around the world. An official told the news agency that NATO learned about the test from the media. The United States has used similar "thermobaric" bombs in eastern Afghanistan. In 2002-03, Washington developed its current Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or "Mother Of All Bombs," as the successor to the BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter." PM

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Relax guys. It ain't that huge:

 

Although its effect has been compared to that of a nuclear weapon, it amounts to only about 0.3 percent of the power of the atomic bomb used against Hiroshima: the equivalent of around 44 tons of TNT, whereas the Hiroshima blast was equivalent to 13,000 tons of TNT while Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device deployed was equivalent to 50,000,000 tons of TNT. The M-388 Davy Crockett, one of the smallest nuclear devices ever deployed, has a selectable lower yield equivalent to 20 tons of TNT, though that energy is released mostly as radiation rather than a blast wave.

 

Now that Tsar Bomba is something else entirely. I remember seeing that graph with all the mushroom cloud comparisons and it was absolutely ridiculous just how huge it was:

 

The original U.S. estimate of the yield was 57 Mt, but since 1991 all Russian sources have stated its yield as 50 Mt. Nonetheless, Khrushchev warned in a filmed speech to the Communist parliament of the existence of a 100 Mt bomb (technically the design was capable of this yield). The fireball touched the ground, reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane, and was seen and felt 1,000 km away. The heat from the explosion could have caused third degree burns 100 km away from ground zero. The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 60 km high (nearly seven times higher than Mount Everest) and 30–40 km wide. The explosion could be seen and felt in Finland, even breaking windows there [4]. Atmospheric focusing caused blast damage up to 1,000 km away. The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the Earth. Its Richter magnitude was about 5 to 5.25.

 

Since 50 Mt is 2.1×1017 joules, the average power produced during the entire fission-fusion process, lasting around 39 nanoseconds [citation needed], was a power of about 5.4×1024 watts or 5.4 yottawatts. This is equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun. The detonation of Tsar Bomba therefore qualifies as being the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity. By contrast, the largest weapon ever produced by the United States, the now-decommissioned B41, had a predicted maximum yield of 25 Mt, and the largest nuclear device ever tested by the U.S. (Castle Bravo) yielded 15 Mt (an accident due to a runaway reaction; the design yield was approximately 5 Mt).[5] Note the recent comparison with the asteroid impact which formed the Chicxulub Crater, an event larger than Tsar Bomba's yield by some six orders of magnitude, released an estimated 500 zettajoules (5.0×1023 joules) of energy, approximately 100 teratons of TNT, on impact.

 

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