What would happen if Tsar Bomba was 100 megatons?
What if the Tsar Bomba was detonated at its designed yield of 100 megatons? So in terms of the explosion, it would have just been larger. You can see exactly how much larger here (I had to use the Classic version, none of my browsers liked the current one).
How much damage can a 100-megaton bomb do?
So a 10-megaton bomb detonated at an optimal altitude might do medium damage to a distance of 9.4 miles (15 kilometers) from ground zero, but a 100-megaton bomb “only” does the same amount of damage to 20.3 miles (33 kilometers).
How much damage does a megaton bomb do?
Summary of the effects
| Effects | Explosive yield / height of burst | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 kt / 200 m | 1 Mt / 2.0 km | |
| Urban areas completely levelled (20 psi or 140 kPa) | 0.2 | 2.4 |
| Destruction of most civilian buildings (5 psi or 34 kPa) | 0.6 | 6.2 |
| Moderate damage to civilian buildings (1 psi or 6.9 kPa) | 1.7 | 17 |
How many megatons would it take to destroy the earth?
How many tons would it take to destroy Earth? It basically boils away the whole Earth. The gravitational binding energy of Earth is about 2.2*1032 J, corresponding to 5*1022 tons of TNT. The largest weapon tested so far (Tsar bomba) had 50 megatons, we would need 1015 or 1 quadrillion of them.
Is there a nuke bigger than the Tsar Bomba?
However, the Soviet Union developed three AN602 physics packages at 101.5 megatons (Mt) and these are more powerful than the Tsar Bomba, which was downscaled to 51 Mt before being used RDS-220 Vanya.
What was the Tsar 100 megaton nuclear bomb?
At 100 megatons, TSAR would have covered much of Russia with radioactive fallout, though tested in far Novaya Zemlya beyond the Arctic Circle. TSAR was a three-stage thermonuclear weapon.
How powerful is a 50-megaton nuclear bomb?
Still, at 50 megatons, it was more than 3,300 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that killed at least 70,000 people in Hiroshima, and more than 40 times as powerful as the largest nuclear bomb in the US arsenal today. Its single test represents about one tenth of the total yield of all nuclear weapons ever tested by all nations.
Is Russia’s 100-megaton Doomsday Bomb real?
These machines really exist.” Unfortunately, Russia’s 100-megaton doomsday bomb is real. Moscow built a 100-megaton bomb called the TSAR BOMBA (“King of Bombs” officially the RDS-220), tested the day before Halloween, on October 30, 1961. TSAR was deliberately tested to only half strength, 50-60 megatons, by removing the third stage.
How much damage does A 100-megaton bomb actually do?
So a 10-megaton bomb detonated at an optimal altitude might do medium damage to a distance of 9.4 miles (15 kilometers) from ground zero, but a 100-megaton bomb “only” does the same amount of damage to 20.3 miles (33 kilometers). In other words, a 100-megaton explosion is only a little more than twice as damaging as a 10-megaton bomb.