The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About

Summary by Krater

This video explores the history and theoretical design of Project Sundial, a hypothetical Cold War era nuclear weapon proposed by Edward Teller that would have possessed the explosive equivalent of ten billion tons of TNT.

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Answers: What was Project Sundial, the ultimate Cold War nuclear weapon?

• Project Sundial
• Nuclear arms race
• Hydrogen bomb development
• Cold War history
• Edward Teller

What it concludes

• Project Sundial was a theoretical Cold War nuclear weapon designed by Edward Teller with an explosive yield of 10 billion tons of TNT.
• The nuclear arms race escalated rapidly from 9 nuclear bombs in 1946 to 20,000 in 1960, and over 70,000 at the peak of the Cold War.
• Project Sundial was never built because military planners and scientists concluded that a single weapon with that level of destruction was excessive and terrifying.
• Even though Sundial was never built, superpowers accumulated tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, maintaining the ongoing threat of human annihilation.