Top 5 Biggest Nuclear Weapons Tests

These Are The 5 Largest Nuclear Detonations in History.
Since the first nuclear test on 15 July 1945, there have been over 2,051 other nuclear weapons tests around the world. Within 20 years, the US and USSR tested nuclear weapons larger than 10 megatons, or 10 million tons of TNT. For scale, these weapons were at least 500 times as strong as the first atomic bomb. To put the size of history's largest nuclear blasts to scale, we have used Alex Wellerstein's Nukemap, a tool for visualizing the terrifying real-world impact of a nuclear explosion.

[MrKenHiggins]

Don’t know why, but the background music is giving more chills than those blasts

[stratogustav]

Lightning strikes are so tiny and you know how loud they sound when they are close. Imagine the sound of these.

[kiranshaw]

Camera could make deadly weapons look so beautiful

[schneetiger]

Misleading title. We see some of the largest US tests and the so-called Tsar-Bomb-Test. But this video doesn’t show at all the 5 largest tests of which ALL 5 were in the former USSR! Castle Bravo was the sixth largest.

[danijeljenko]

Sad to see so much damage done to our only planet! :(

[bradleyj.fortner]

You know you're a badass when the sun has to shield it's eyes from you.

[ayounglivelysoulinanoldtir]

the weird thing about mushroom clouds is that they are terrifying, yet beautiful, at the same time!!!

[astrathetic]

Jeez... those are some huge explosions right there!

[SHADOWNINE]

Would love to know the statistics on cancer rates before the first bomb was dropped and compare it to the present day statistics

[brunopussfeller]

Ivy Mike wasn't a bomb - which is deliverable. It was a test device. It still packed a punch. Shame about the destruction of the Pacific ecosystem !

[nabinpathak]

Can someone imagine the last one has so much sound that human can't hear

[vardhen.s]

Bomb blasts keep appearing like this in my dreams also.

[Lala-eomb]

If that was in the 50s-60s I can't imagine now in 2023 with this technology

[krabybatys]

It's 26 Feb 2022, came here to see how bad it would be in case of ww3

[ReekeMoyel]

1:50 The music plus what appears to be a twisted face in the bottom left of the mushroom cloud, makes for a chilling segment.

[Emmabruceofficial]

This ended WWII but is about to start WWIII

[ericv]

I never understood the point of all these nuclear tests. I mean, we already knew how the damn thing worked!

[chuckandrews]

I would hate to be the guy that lit the fuse..

[eracer]

I had always seen the term 'fusion bomb' used for weapons like Castle Bravo. In fact, the Teller-Ulam design is more properly called a 'fission-fusion-fission' bomb.
The technology is actually quite fascinating. Wiki has a very detailed article on 'Castle Bravo' that explains it (although I had a hard time understanding all of it.)
One takeaway was that 70% of the energy released was from the third stage of uranium fission. I'd always thought it was the second stage (hydrogen fusion) that was the biggest contributor.
Another amazing statistic is that the energy released in the Hiroshima bomb can be calculated with the E=mc^2 equation, where the total mass converted to energy was less than 1g of U-235.

[adrianlovic]

Im convinced they did these tests for same reason we blew up letter boxes as kids with firecrackers.