The Aftermath of the largest nuclear detonation in history.
History of this excerpt: At the beginning of this excerpt, the explosion that you see is the ‘Tsar Bomba’ or ‘Emperor Bomb’ in English and it was detonated by the soviets on October 31st, 1961, on an island in the arctic sea to the north of Russia. The weapon packed a yield of 57 Megatons on detonation, meaning that it was equal to the explosive force of 57000000 Tons of TNT, or 3800 times larger than the Hiroshima explosion. This monster bomb is famous for being the largest nuclear detonation on the face of this planet. 112 days earler the project to build the weapon, codenamed Ivan, was initiated by the soviet premier of the time Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev. 3 years before the Tsar Bomba was detonated, Khrushchev was enstated as the Premier of the Soviet Union in March 1958, and shortly after his enstatment the Soviet Union issued a statement in which it planned to suspend nuclear weapons testing. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the United States President until at the time, and he issued this statement shortly after the Soviet Union’s announcement: “The United States is prepared, unless testing is resumed by the Soviet Union, to withhold further testing on its part of atomic and hydrogen weapons for a period of one year from the beginning of the negotiations.” There was a nuclear weapons moratorium in effect from late 1958, the last nuclear weapon detonated by the United States being ‘Titania’, a small sub-kiloton device detonated on October the 30th 1958 in Nevada, the …
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“HIStory World Tour” Start Date: September 7, 1996. End Date: October 15, 1997. “Live in Munich: HIStory Germany Tour” Recorded: “Olympic Stadium” Munich, Germany (July 4 & 6, 1997) Produced & Sponsored by: MJJ & “HRH” Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. Record Labels: MJJ Productions Inc. & Epic Records. Niceties by: www.youtube.com Synopsis! The HIStory World Tour was the third and final world concert tour by Michael Jackson as a solo artist, covering Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Hawaii from September 7, 1996 to October 15, 1997. The tour, which grossed a total of 3.5 million, included a total of 82 concerts with a record-breaking attendance of 4500000 fans. “Live in Munich: HIStory Germany Tour” Jackson planned upon filming this concert for a DVD release by Christmas time, so more camera angles (including individual crowd shots) were used, and the audio was later remastered heavily to emphasize the percussion and audience sounds. This concert was also an early experiment by Jackson with High Definition cameras. The release was ultimately cancelled; due to Jackson’s dissatisfaction of the behind-the-scenes filming . However, the performance was televised extensively in many different countries, making it one of the most readily available concerts. The most common version is the one aired by Sat.1 and most other channels, but other versions, such as the one that aired in South Africa (with a small segment from a concert at Johannesburg), and a Japanese version also …
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