http://gregsbraincontents.com/2009/07/backyard-delivery/ A Brain Full of Ideas Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:19:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://gregsbraincontents.com/2009/07/backyard-delivery/comment-page-1/#comment-407 Getheren Moon Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:19:48 +0000 http://gregsbraincontents.com/?p=10#comment-407 True fact: The Soviets' Tsar Bomba (tested in 1962) created the largest manmade explosion ever: 50 Mt or 56 Mt, depending on who you believe -- not that the extra 6 Mt would mean much to anything within, say, 100 km. The Soviets had originally designed the bomb for a yield of 100 Mt, but decided that this couldn't be tested without spreading unacceptable levels of fallout throughout the Northern Hemisphere -- and so they scaled it *down* to 50 Mt. According to some sources, the USSR also had an alternate design for the 100 MT version, salted with cobalt-60 and sodium-23 specifically to produce a globally effective enhanced-fallout weapon (this was the inspiration for the "doomsday bomb" in "Dr. Strangelove"). True fact: The Soviets’ Tsar Bomba (tested in 1962) created the largest manmade explosion ever: 50 Mt or 56 Mt, depending on who you believe — not that the extra 6 Mt would mean much to anything within, say, 100 km. The Soviets had originally designed the bomb for a yield of 100 Mt, but decided that this couldn’t be tested without spreading unacceptable levels of fallout throughout the Northern Hemisphere — and so they scaled it *down* to 50 Mt. According to some sources, the USSR also had an alternate design for the 100 MT version, salted with cobalt-60 and sodium-23 specifically to produce a globally effective enhanced-fallout weapon (this was the inspiration for the “doomsday bomb” in “Dr. Strangelove”).

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