Talk:RDS-37

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Someone replaced Image:Soviet super test.jpg with Image:Rsd_37_nuclear_test.JPG. This may be good and wonderful, but I put an unsourced tag on Image:Rsd_37_nuclear_test.JPG, as it has no source (insert usual wikipedia blather about unsourced images). Any help here before we scream "delete!"?

dino 18:38, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I added the source where I got the RDS-37 image. -Tzar

Uh, yeah... that's a picture of Tsar Bomba, not RDS-37. 99.247.26.159 17:42, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

what does "real" (staged) mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.94.13.57 (talk) 23:46, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

The article states "but was more similar to a "boosted" fission bomb than a megaton range hydrogen bomb.", while this test was infact in the megaton range, i think it was 1.45m, while the full deployed weapon was supposed to yield 3mton. This particular line needs to be rewritten, as this was infact a megaton range weapon, it just didnt use a staged design. Wims (talk) 19:26, 29 September 2010 (UTC)


 * You need to re-read the passage more carefully. The "more similar to boosted fission" bomb was RDS-27, the one with the "sloika" design. It yields, at best, about 325 MT. The RDS-37 was indeed, a radiation-implosion secondary, such as was used with Ivy/Mike and every other fusion weapon since, and yields range up into the megatons, as indeed it did.  The "real" staged design uses the soft x-ray radiation of the primary to compress the secondary rather than to simply heat it, as the sloika does. Both processes will allow for fusion, but heating take too long, allowing for the exploding primary to scatter the fusion elements before they can really get started.  That is the innovation which Urey, Teller and Sakharov came to more-or-less simultaneously (give or take about 10 years, depending on how much you believe Teller's bombast about having known about it for years).

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Initiation?!
This sounds as though it was a Russian translation issue. Standard English wording is "explosion" or "detonation" and it should be changed throughout.Cancun (talk) 15:37, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Awful journalistic drafting
I've tried to make some improvements to the EN in the "Important Results" section, but the third para is very badly drafted in a journalistic style. Much of it doesn't say anything useful, and sometimes it is almost comical. I suggest deletion. "The thermonuclear weapons race between the United States and the Soviet Union exceeded all expectations set out before the scientists who took part. Two countries creating thermonuclear weapons with such energy yields from two different design methods proved to be the crowning achievement for science in the 1950s" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theeurocrat (talk • contribs) 19:02, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Fatalities
I now learned from a video that the test lead to 2 fatalities, a soldier and a little girl. I didn't see it mentioned here. --Slow Phil (talk) 14:20, 6 August 2023 (UTC)