White House press release on Tsar Bomba, 53 years ago today: "There is no mystery about producing a 50 megaton bomb."pic.twitter.com/dzMTS9UW0G
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@wellerstein technical question: did tsar bomba actually produce more fallout? I seem to remember hearing it was actually pretty clean.
@gbrumfiel It produced no local fallout because of its height of burst. It contributed about 1.5 Mt of fission products to global fallout.
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@wellerstein@gbrumfiel Wow, good stuff. How does that global fallout compare to other tests? How does it scale? -
@StephenUCS@wellerstein@gbrumfiel 57% of all megatonnage expended in nuclear tests (244 MT) was used between Sept. '61 and Dec. '62. -
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@StephenUCS@gbrumfiel To put it another way, Castle Bravo's total fission yield was ~7X that of Tsar Bomba.
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