Oh, Snap.

atoombommen

The Apocalypse has never looked so sexy.

What they don't mention is it was supposed to be twice as powerful. They scaled it back to 50 MT.

Tiff Needell should narrate everything.

super fact: with an extra fission layer this design would be >100mt

Someday soon Iran and North Korea will have bombs like that. Call the U.N.!

Noo-kew-ler. It's pronounced "noo-kew-ler"

I think we should be thankful that the quest for ever-bigger bombs ended in the first place.

You know, I bet if they went full-on with the 100+ Megaton version of this bomb, you probably COULD get away with those original plans from the 90's to blow up an incoming meteor, and not have to worry too much about smaller chunks hitting us. None of this pussy gravity-tractor shit, or pushing it around with lasers or landing a rocket engine on it.