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T-15 - Soviet giant project torpedo carrying a thermonuclear charge to the shores of America.

With the explosion of the water to form a tsunami wave height of 300 meters, which would have washed away all the coastal cities and skyscrapers. The idea was approved by Stalin himself. In 1954, Khrushchev had abandoned the project. A charge of 100 megatons, it was decided to use for other purposes. In October 1961, at the site "New Land" was detonated "Tsar Bomb" with a torpedo warhead half-power T-15 (58 Mt).

RDC-202 ("Tsar Bomba", "Ivan" and "gruel") - a thermonuclear device designed in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s, a group of physicists headed by Academician Igor Kurchatov. The most powerful bomb in the history of mankind.

The bomb was constructed under orders of Nikita Khrushchev in record time - the entire development and manufacturing took 112 days. The bomb has a three-stage structure: a nuclear warhead triggers thermonuclear reaction of the second stage, it is, in turn, activates the thermonuclear reaction of the third stage. The capsule shells with thermonuclear fuel made of uranium by neutron irradiation at the time of the explosion they had to start a nuclear chain reaction, which also increases the energy power of the bomb.

The initial version of a bomb weighing 40 tons (100 megatonnes) was rejected by the designers of OKB-156 (developers bomber Tu-95) as too heavy. Then, nuclear physicists have promised to reduce its weight up to 20 tons (with one charge of the uranium shells replaced the lead, and explosive power is reduced by half - to 50 megatons).

October 30, 1961 in the Novaya Zemlya bomb was dropped from a plane and exploded.

The results of the explosion of the charge:
1) Nuclear mushroom explosion rose to a height of 65 kilometers; the diameter of its "cap" has reached 40 kilometers.
2) Fireball gap reached the surface of the earth, and almost reached the height of drop bombs (ie, the radius of the fireball explosion was about 4, 6 kilometers).
3) The radiation caused third-degree burns at a distance of 100 kilometers.
4) The shock wave that arose as a result of the explosion, three times circled the globe.
5) The ionization of the atmosphere caused interference to the radio, even hundreds of kilometers away from the test site within one hour.
6) Witnesses felt shock and were able to describe the explosion at a distance of thousands of kilometers from its center. Also, the shock wave to some extent preserved the destructive power of thousands of kilometers away from the blast site.
7) Acoustic wave has come to Dickson Island where the blast blew out windows in homes (a distance of about 800 kilometers).
8) Emerged from the blast fungus can be considered the largest artificial material object ever created by man.

From the story of an eyewitness: "From tanks, buildings and other equipment, for the sake of the experiment left close to 30 kilometers, there was nothing left. Since that there were many more, towers, and they are littered with wrecked buildings, overturned the blast. »

The consequences of the test:
The main purpose of which was put and was achieved by this test was to demonstrate the Soviet Union ownership of unlimited power of weapons of mass destruction - the maximum megatonnazh bomb of the tested by the time the US was four times less than that of "Tsar-bomb", the USSR had a finished product , the US test object is a 2-storey building. The bomb has become a very important political trump card during the confrontation in the Cold War. It has also been proved experimentally that the maximum power of thermonuclear charge, in principle, not limited by anything. Even in the instance of a bomb tested lifting power of the explosion was sufficient to perform a half shell of the second stage of a uranium bomb, as originally planned.





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