Big bada boom.

ᐞ In case the Russians (or someone) did a bigger one that they haven't told us about.

Project Cannikin - 5⅞000foot underground.

The following are the same video but each set to start just before the event indicated in the annotation.

#####1ᐟ40ᐥ — View from Just off the Coast

#####2ᐟ41ᐥ — View from Inland

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#####this post .

There's a shock frankly visible @ 0ᐟ24ᐟᐟ & another one shown really close-in @ 1ᐟ11ᐟᐟ , where it crosses the path of a model aeroplane.

I don't know which specific test of the series this is of: it's not necessarily the exactly the same particular test as in that previous post … but I'd venture that it's pretty obvious it's from the same series.

I can't honestly say the shockwave is discernible in the usual sense … but the footage is so awesome it scarcely matters, ImO.

This explosion is often held to be absolutely the most powerful non-nuclear artificial explosion that's ever been brought about, being, so it's said, of about 4kT (or 4teracalorie) energy content.

It's also said here-&-there that the purpose of it was to assess the blastwave of a nuclear device of approximately 8 kT . This makes sense, ImO, if we recall that nuclear bombs don't detonate, whence a higher proportion of their yield is in sheer heat .

… or that's how I resolve the possibly-seeming paradox, anyway: maybe someone else can propose something else.

Much information about the series of tests of which this one was one - & the greatest - instance is given @

#####White Sands Missile Range Museum — Misty Castle: High-Explosive Nuclear Effects Simulations at White Sands Missile Range .

According to Youtube dateage this footage has been out for between 2year & 3year. I didn't find it last time I looked-up anything about this test, & was well -chuffed to find it now !

#😁

But over 2year is still a while, & it might-well already've been posted @ this Channel. But if it has, then it may still be new to a fair-few folk browsing it now.

Video source: PhilippineStar