10 times the explosive power of all explosives used in WWII
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10 times the explosive power of all explosives used in WWII
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#2It created a fireball 5 miles in diameter, destroyed all buildings up to 34 miles away, and could give 3rd degree burns to people 62 miles away. I can't even comprehend how one bomb could do so much damage.
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#3HN or Digg?
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#4It created a fireball 5 miles in diameter, destroyed all buildings up to 34 miles away, and could give 3rd degree burns to people 62 miles away. I can't even comprehend how one bomb could do so much damage.
Keep in mind that they dumbed it down quite a bit! It was 100 Megatons initially but they reduced it to only 50 Megatons "to reduce nuclear fallout (and also to prevent the blast from destroying the drop aircraft)".
It was more that 50 years ago. Now...
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#5I just hope that the work that resulted in this device will produce many benefits to nonweaponary nuclear science.
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#6It created a fireball 5 miles in diameter, destroyed all buildings up to 34 miles away, and could give 3rd degree burns to people 62 miles away. I can't even comprehend how one bomb could do so much damage.
Keep in mind that they dumbed it down quite a bit! It was 100 Megatons initially but they reduced it to only 50 Megatons "to reduce nuclear fallout (and also to prevent the blast from destroying the drop aircraft)". It was more that 50 years ago. Now...
Actually there is also an atmospheric limitation. I think the Limit is somewhere in-between 50 megatons and 100.
Basically if the explosion was any bigger it would leave the atmosphere into outer space so there is no point in making it any bigger.
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#7It created a fireball 5 miles in diameter, destroyed all buildings up to 34 miles away, and could give 3rd degree burns to people 62 miles away. I can't even comprehend how one bomb could do so much damage.
its ground zero is readily findable by sight on Google Maps:
Notice the scale by zooming out ever so slightly. Also, time scale, because it happened decades ago.
This has to be the only man-made destruction that can bee seen with the naked eye from space.
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#8"10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used in WWII, or one quarter of the estimated yield of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa."
Looks like we still have a way to go.
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#9I just hope that the work that resulted in this device will produce many benefits to nonweaponary nuclear science.
Main designer became firm opponent of weaponized nuclear energy and advocate/researcher for peaceful use of nuclear power
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#10"10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used in WWII, or one quarter of the estimated yield of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa." Looks like we still have a way to go.
Well, that's the most powerful ever detonated, not necessarily the most powerful ever designed or built. Also I assume the current best is classified. We've probably surpassed that by a margin, given that FIFTY years have passed. The time between the first nuke and Tsar Bomba was 15 years. Now we have better science, more money, computers, and a 50 year lead.