The Russians publish a new video in 4K of the detonation of their first atomic bomb

in science •  4 years ago 

The power of artificial intelligence was used this time to refresh a very old movie.

The effect is very satisfactory, as you will see in a moment while watching the material below. Experts from the Neural Networks and Deep Learning channel on YouTube carefully refreshed the recording using the following tools: DAIN App, Topaz Video Enhance AI and DeOldify.

The film has also been upscaled to 4K, denoted and colorized, where we can see a bomb called RDS-1 detonating.


It was built at the Chelyabinsk-40 complex and detonated exactly on August 29, 1949 at the nuclear test site near Semipalatinsk.

The Russians were 4 years behind the United States in mastering nuclear technology; according to official data, RDS-1 exploded at 22,000 tons of TNT, a force similar to a Litte Boy bomb dropped from a B-29 Enola Gay bomber on Japanese Hiroshima

in 1945.

Later, the Russians built much more powerful bombs, including the famous Tsar Bomb, a three-stage thermonuclear bomb with a power of 50 megatons.

It was detonated on October 30, 1961 in the New Earth archipelago, located in the Arctic Ocean.

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