Buckwheat

Here's some interesting - and frightening - footage of the biggest nuclear weapon ever tested. Detonated by the Soviet Union in 1962, it's yield was estimated by the Americans to be 58 megatons. This was about four times bigger than the Castle Bravo test the US carried out in the fifties, itself a huge explosion.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...93742348211186

stevie_c

Bloody hell! Thats scary!!

Jamo

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J4CKO

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A fine example of Cold War ***** waving that !

scooby_matt

I'm safe, I live more than 110 miles from London

Clarebabes

I don't!

Buckwheat

What's even more scary is that the Soviets originally planned to explode a 100 megaton weapon! The picture below kind of puts things into perspective.

scooby_matt

They're a bunch of nutters. That's what you get from years of Lada driving

Luke C

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And vodka Drinking!

Hmmm maybe good to detonate over Skegness? Hmmm

theotherphil

Hmmm, what is scary is that I've recently been given a personal radiation dosimeter for use at work. I'm an NHS paramedic btw . Hope they're not expecting trouble....I think I'd rather not know I was f***ed!

Apparition

Scooby Matt : I'm safe, I live more than 110 miles from London

The last time I inserted that info into a similar thread I got blown out of the water for being smug. Be careful......
Yve

New_scooby_04

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Oooooo, so that's what happens when your MAF fails!!!!

Buckwheat

And this is what happens when one goes off underwater.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...ip+%2F+Eneweta.

New_scooby_04

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Can anyone else hear Celine Dion?????

Captain of ship: "Sunshine, low winds, good visibility, is there a better day to be on the ocean"

*takes sip of Dr Pepper*

"awwwww ****e!!!!"

Leslie

If the heat doesn't get you, the blast will, and also the radioactive bit of course!

Buckets of sunshine are best kept out of any conflict believe me.

Les

Brendan Hughes

Hello, here's one nuclear weapons expert: just need to wait for the other, and let fission commence

New_scooby_04

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AND worst of all, the EMP will kill your scooby's ECU.....................................and probably your MAF too!!

Ns04

hades

If you go near an x-ray machine regularly, you need the dosemeter a lot more than people working in the nuclear industry. A bit late now, but you'd also get your dosimetry people really upset if you took the dosimeter on Concorde.

Please tell me this thread isn't going to degenerate into talk about re-entry angles. Brendan - you know exactly what he'd say, so let's just pretend he's said it and get on with ignoring him pre-emptively.

Buckwheat

Regarding the boat in the link above, someone on another site said, without a hint of irony, "did the crew survive?"

LMFAO

Leslie

The only expertise I had was to throw them at anyone who was silly enough to try it on us first!

Just very glad I never had to do it.

Les

hades

Of course, they did, they just got a bit damp . . .

The fact that they'd left the boat a long while beforehand did help them in that respect, admittedly.

Edcase

are the links broken??

Edcase

in fact is google broken full stop?!

Buckwheat

Links are working OK for me now.