Nuclear weapons are the most terrible and majestic invention of mankind. The strength of the destructive nuclear wave is so great that it can erase not only all living things, but even the most reliable structures and structures from the face of the earth. Only one nuclear stockpile in Russia is enough to completely destroy our planet. And it is not surprising, since the country has the richest stockpile of atomic weapons, after the United States. The Soviet "Kuzkina mother" or "Tsar-bomb", tested in 1961 became the most powerful atomic weapon of all time.
The top-10 includes 's most powerful nuclear bombs in the world .Many of them were used for testing purposes, but brought irreparable harm to the environment. Others have become weapons in resolving military conflicts.
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Little boy Power 18 kilotons
Little boy ( "Baby") - the first nuclear bomb that was used not for testing purposes. It was she who helped end the war between Japan and the United States. Little boy with a capacity of 18 kilotons caused the death of 140 thousand inhabitants of Hiroshima. The device of 3 meters in length and 70 cm in diameter created a nuclear column with a height of more than 6 kilometers."Baby" and "followed" "Fat Man" followed him a lot of damage to two Japanese cities, which to this day remain uninhabited.
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Fat Man Capacity 21 kilotons
Fat Man ( Fat Man) is the second nuclear bomb that the US has applied to Japan. Victims of nuclear weapons were residents of the city of Nagasaki. The explosion of 21 kilotons, killed 80,000 people at once, and another 35,000 died from radiation. This is the most powerful weapon for the entire existence of mankind, which was used for military purposes.
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Trinity Capacity 21 kilotons
Trinity ( Piece) - the first bomb that initiated the testing of nuclear weapons. The shock wave explosion was 21 kilotons and climbed skyward 11 kilometers. The first nuclear explosion in the history of mankind made a stunning impression on scientists. White clouds of smoke almost two kilometers in diameter swiftly rose upward and formed the shape of a fungus.
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Baker Capacity 21 kilotons
Baker ( Baker) - one of the three atomic bombs that participated in the operation Crossroads( "Crossroads") in 1946.Tests were carried out to determine the impact of atomic bombs on marine vessels and experimental animals. At a depth of 27 meters, an explosion of 23 kilotons was produced, which displaced about two million tons of water to the surface and formed a column more than half a kilometer in height."Baker" carried a "first nuclear disaster in the world."The radioactive island of Bikini, where it was tested, became unsuitable for life and was considered uninhabited until 2010.
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Rhea Power 955 kilotons
" Rhea " - the most powerful atomic bomb, tested by France in 1971.A shell with a capacity of 955 kilotons of TNT was destroyed at Mururoa Atoll, which is a testing ground for nuclear explosions. There passed a test of more than 200 nuclear weapons, until 1998.
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Castle Romeo Power 11 megaton
Castle Romeo - one of the most powerful explosions produced by the United States. The operation was accepted for execution on March 27, 1954.The explosion was carried out on a barge in the open ocean, as they were careful that the bomb could destroy the nearby island. The explosion power was 11 megatons, instead of the expected 4 megatons. This is due to the fact that cheap material was used as a thermonuclear fuel.
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Device Mike Power 12 megaton
The device Mike ( Ivey Mike) was initially of no value and was used as an experimental bomb. The height of the nuclear cloud was estimated at 37 km, and the diameter of the cloud cap was about 161 km. The strength of the Mike nuclear wave was estimated at 12 megatons of TNT.The capacity of the projectile was sufficient to erase small islets of Elugelab from the face of the earth, where the test was conducted. In their place remained only a funnel with a diameter of 2 kilometers and a depth of 50 meters. Radioactively contaminated fragments from the reefs flew 50 km from the epicenter of the explosion.
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Castle Yankee Power 13.5 megatons
Castle Yankee is the second largest nuclear explosion produced by American testers. It was expected that the initial capacity of the device would be no more than 10 megatons in TNT equivalent. As it turned out, the nuclear explosion was of great strength and was estimated at 13.5 megatons. The height of the stem of the nuclear fungus was 40 km, and the cap was 16 km. The radiation cloud within four days reached Mexico City, which is located 11,000 km from the site of the operation.
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Castle Bravo Power 15 megaton
Castle Bravo ( Shrimp TX -21) is the most powerful atomic bomb ever tested in the US.The operation was carried out in March 1954 and suffered irreversible consequences. The explosion with a capacity of 15 megatons was the cause of the strongest radiation contamination. Hundreds of people who lived on the Marshall Islands received irradiation. The foot of the nuclear fungus exceeded 40 km, and the diameter of the cap was estimated at 100 km. The explosion caused the formation of a huge funnel on the sea bottom, which is 2 km in diameter. The consequences of the tests led to the limitation of operations conducted with nuclear weapons.
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King-bomb Power 58 megaton
Tsar-bomb ( АН602) - the most powerful Soviet nuclear bomb in the world for all time. An eight-meter projectile with a diameter of two meters was used as a test in 1961 on the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago. Initially it was planned that the AH602 would have a capacity of 100 megatons, but fearing the global destructive force of the weapon, agreed that the force of the explosion would not exceed 58 megatons. At an altitude of 4 km, the Tsar-Bomba was activated and gave stunning results. The diameter of the fiery cloud reached about 10 km. The nuclear column was about 67 km in height, and the diameter of the pillar cap reached 97 km. Even finding a distance of 400 km from the epicenter of the explosion was extremely dangerous for life. A powerful sound wave spread almost a thousand kilometers. On the island where the test took place, there were no traces of life and no buildings, everything was equal to the surface of the earth. The seismic wave of the explosion rounded the entire planet three times, and every inhabitant of the planet was able to feel the full power of nuclear weapons. After this test, more than a hundred countries signed an agreement to terminate this type of operations both in the atmosphere, and under water and on land.
