I’m not sure if this is the right forum to be asking this kind of question, but here goes anyways.
I was looking up pictures of nuclear explosions (probably best not to ask why) and I found out that the largest nuke ever was the so-called “Tsar Bomb” of 50-58 megatons, exploded in 1961 in Novaya Zemyla, USSR. I’ve found oodles of photos of the bomb itself (it’s HUUGE) and I was hoping that someone could point me towards any photos/videos/books with images of the explosion itself…
I think that this is the explosion that I see from time to time on TV. Mainly what is shown in the force of the shock waves (I think) as they hit a forest and all of the trees go down at exactly the same instant. But if you ever see it yourself, perhaps you will recognize it. Surely there is a clip on the net somewhere.
I’ve checked most of the search engines on the net, and I can’t find hide nor hair of this explosion.
Odd that a 58 megaton nuke can hide so easily…
I think I saw it on “People’s Century” a few years a go, but not on anything else. Maybe there’s a Discovery doco I should watch out for… Thanks for the advice Zoe, I’ll keep up my search.
Well, I found this, but it’s an underwater test, and I don’t see a megaton specified.
I also found this (down at the bottom of the page). Again, I don’t know if it’s the right one.
You might check the spelling of “Novaya Zemyla”. Google gave me no results with that, but did give the option of “Novaya Zemlya”. When I add Tsar or Czar or Csar to the search, I’m getting no results.
I don’t know of any pics either. I would assume that the Soviet obsession with secrecy would have kept them out of circulation until recently, though given the propaganda focus of the whole project, perhaps not.
