At 11:32 am Moscow time the Tu-95N released its weapon then climbed and banked sharply. The US claimed in 1963 that it could produce a 35 Mt fusion bomb, and put it on a Titan II (3,700 kg [8,200 lb] payload), almost doubling the yield-to-weight ratio of the B-41. It was the most powerful nuclear bomb ever developed by the United States, with a maximum yield of 25 megatons. An enormous mushroom cloud climbed over 20 miles up through the hole blown in the Earth's atmosphere. Setting aside its declared political purpose, the Tu-95N bomber—the USSR's only way of delivering the Tsar Bomb—was not a practical delivery platform: NATO fighters would shoot the lumbering plane out of the sky long before it had a chance to drop its huge bomb. Like Russia's gigantic Tsar Bell and Tsar Cannon, this would be the Tsar Bomb. During its operational lifetime, the B-41 was the most efficient known thermonuclear weapon in terms of yield to actual weight, with a 5.2 Megaton/tonne ratio (based on a 25 Mt yield). Fallout Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. The gigantic weapon—over 26 feet long, nearly seven feet in diameter and 27 tons mass—was designed, engineered and fabricated all at once. It remains the highest yield-to-weight ratio of any weapon created. The Megaton atomic bomb only appears in Fallout 3. The B-41 was progressively phased out of service beginning in 1963, superseded by the B53 nuclear bomb. On July 10, 1961 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev summoned the USSR's top nuclear weaponeers and told them to promptly resume nuclear testing. The members of the Church of the Children of Atom worship Megaton's atomic bomb. "Fat Man" was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, although the bomb in-game is much larger than the real one. After roughing up America's young new President Kennedy at a Vienna summit in June, Khrushchev was in a mood, according to Andrei Sakharov, to “show the imperialists what we can do.”. After an interaction with Mr. At the center or Megaton's crater sits an undetonated atomic bomb, a remnant of the great conflict that destroyed the world. One Tsar Bomb alone could burn down West Germany—if it could get there. The Communist Party's 22nd Congress in October 1961 required something special. Most probably not. On August 31 the Premier announced the giant new bomb and the abrupt end to the USSR's voluntary moratorium; a Soviet atmospheric nuclear test followed the day after. The Church of the Children of Atom believe the war of 2077 was actually a great holy event perpetuated by their god, Atom. The Megaton bomb is modeled after the "Fat Man" bomb, one of the world's first three functional nuclear weapons. Its own shockwave reflected off Novaya Zemlya's surface bounced the five-mile-wide incandescent sphere skywards. The Y1 version, the third ("tertiary") stage was enclosed in a uranium tamper.[1]. NUKEMAP is a mapping mash-up that calculates the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb. Steve Weintz, a frequent contributor to many publications such as WarIsBoring, is a writer, filmmaker, artist, animator. The EMP pulse blacked out radio communications for hundreds of miles for over an hour. It isn't clear who proposed a 100-megaton bomb—Khrushchev or the weaponeers—but at the premier's command the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built had to be ready in only four months. For two years while their country joined the United States and the United Kingdom in a voluntary moratorium on nuclear tests, Soviet nuclear scientists, including Andrei Sakharov, the “father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb,” developed and refined new weapon concepts and designs. Curiously enough, at about the same time American nuclear weaponeers had, according to Alex Wallerstein, arrived at breakthrough high-yield bomb designs. It was carried only by the B-52 Stratofortress and B-47 Stratojet. NUKEMAP 2.7 : FAQ. The resulting weapon was enormous, an unsophisticated kludge but a robust one. And yet it could have been even more powerful—a full 100 megatons. For the delivery aircraft to get away from the blast safely the bomb's fall had to be slowed; slowing a boxcar-sized object full of uranium and steel from aviation speeds required a parachute of imperial scale. Finally, there was a fission jacket. The fate of the bomb and the whole settlement is determined in one of the adventures of the Lone Wanderer. What Would Happen if a 20 Megaton Nuclear Explosion on a City of 3 Million? The last B-41s were retired in July 1976. I can only find figures for a 1 megaton bomb. During its operational lifetime, the B-41 was the most efficient known thermonuclear weapon in terms of yield to actual weight, with a 5.2 Megaton/tonne ratio (based on a 25 Mt yield). US agencies rated the Tsar Bomba's yield at 57 million tons of TNT equivalent—far and away a world's record that still stands. The biggest concern would be whether or not the weapon would destroy, shatter, or break up the moon. Its military utility was questionable. https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Megaton_atomic_bomb?oldid=3117118. It had a deuterium-tritium boosted primary, probably with lithium-6-enriched deuteride fuel for the fusion reaction in the secondary stage. After taking part of the Ritual of the Mother Seed inside Point Lookout's Sacred Bog, the Lone Wanderer sees the bomb sitting next to Mister Break during the punga-infused hallucination. With the Cold War escalating no time was spared. By ganging together eight or more smaller H-bombs and mating them to clusters of thermonuclear fuel capsules, a really big bomb could be built without any new technology. Assembly and component testing took place inside a workshop constructed over a railroad flatcar. Megaton's sheriff Lucas Simms offers a reward for disarming the bomb. High-profile indeed. It was the highest-yield nuclear weapon ever fielded by the United States, with a maximum yield of 25 megatons (Mt), and weight of 4,850 kg (10,690 lb). As Carey Sublette of the Nuclear Weapons Archive website explains, “It is safe to assume that the 100 Mt bomb was a very conservative design - one that pushed no technical envelopes save for size. The Megaton atomic bomb (called Atom by the Church of the Children of Atom and also the Apostles of the Holy Light) is the undetonated C-23 Megaton[1] nuclear weapon sitting at the center of Megaton. For scenario, we're referring to an attack using a long range tactical nuclear ballistic missile with the intentions of destroy an enemy occupied mining and military base on the lunar surface. Would would be the effects of a 20-30 megaton tactical nuclear weapon blast on the surface of the moon? The two principal reasons for thinking this are the extremely compressed development schedule, and the very high profile of the test.”. The last B-41s were retired in July 1976. Soviet scientists arrived at a 50-megaton yield but for decades their nation was happy to accept the higher American figure. Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. The development of the B-41 began in 1955 with a USAF requirement for a Class B (high-yield, over 10,000 lb or 4,500 kg) weapon. “The ground surface of the island has been levelled, swept and licked so that it looks like a skating rink,” a witness reported. The nuclear fusion warhead was of the Teller-Ulam type and used a 40–100 kiloton implosion type nuclear fission primary (reportedly based on the Smokey TX-41 shot of Operation Plumbbob)[2] Key Point: The Tsar Bomb was not really a functional weapon. The B-41 was progressively phased out of service beginning in 1963, superseded by the B53 nuclear bomb. Such a huge bomb came about only because Soviet scientists had a good idea about how to proceed. The B-41 was the only three-stage thermonuclear weapon fielded by the U.S.[1]. The flash was visible at 600 miles and the thermal pulse felt over 165 miles away. The weapon was 12 ft 4 in (3.76 m) long, with a body diameter of 4 ft 4 in (1.32 m). Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. It even looked like a bomb was supposed to—just much, much bigger. Seismometers recorded a an impact equal to a magnitude 5 earthquake. It was based on the "Bassoon" test device first fired in the Redwing Zuni test of 27 May 1956. A third stage can be added by cladding the second stage in weapons-grade uranium metal—the fusion reaction induces nuclear fission in the uranium cladding and adds many megatons of yield. The Soviet Union had no practical way of delivering its Tsar Bomb. Now they had to deliver big results in very short order. The Megaton atomic bomb (called Atom by the Church of the Children of Atom and also the Apostles of the Holy Light) is the undetonated C-23 Megaton nuclear weapon sitting at the center of Megaton. Andrei Sakharov's team at Arzamas-16, the "USSR's Los Alamos," skipped the careful mathematical analysis require for H-bomb design and worked out "Big Ivan" on the fly using approximations. Carey Sublette, "Operation Plumbbob," Nuclear Weapon Archive, Learn how and when to remove this template message, National Museum of the United States Air Force, http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Plumbob.html, http://www.ieri.be/fr/publications/ierinews/2011/juillet/fission-fusion-and-staging, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=B41_nuclear_bomb&oldid=963936221, Cold War aerial bombs of the United States, Articles needing additional references from October 2011, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 22 June 2020, at 17:05.

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