Top 5 Powerful and Horrible Nuclear Bombs
Modern science has both blessing and curse. In August 6 and 9, 1945 U.S detonated two nuclear bombs ( Little Boy and Fat Man) in two japanese cities ( Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
This two bombings killed over 226000 people in japan during world war 2.This is a great shame of Science which did this curse. But, in this modern civilization there're many powerful nuclear bombs than Little Boy and Fat man. In below, we're showing 5 Powerful nuclear bombs ever created.
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Tsar Hydrogen Bomb
The bomb was built in 1961 by a group of Soviet physicist. Ment to be a show of Soviet strength, the three stage Bomb was unparalleled in power. It had a 100 megaton capacity through the resulting fallout from such a blast was considered too dangerous for a test situation. It was modified to yield 50 megatons which was estimated to be 3,800 times the strength of the U.S bomb dropped on Hiroshima during world war 2. Although a success Tsar bomb was never considered to operational use.
The Hydrogen bomb was air dropped by a Tu -95 bomber using huge fall retardation parachute.The destination occurred 4 km above the ground producing a yield of 50 Mt.
Mk - 41 Nuclear Bomb
The Mk-41 with a yield of 25Mt is the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever fielded by the United states.The development of Mk-41 commenced in 1955 to fulfil the US Air Force’s requirements for a Class B (10,000lb), high yield thermonuclear weapon. The prototypes were test fired during Operation Hardtack Phase I in 1958.
The three-stage thermonuclear weapon was primarily boosted by deuterium-tritium and believed to have used Lithium-6 (95% enrichment) deuteride fuel for fusion stages.
Mk - 17 Hydrogen Bomb
The Mk-17, weighing over 18t, was the heaviest thermonuclear nuclear weapon ever made by the US. It was also the first operational hydrogen bomb of the US Air Force. The Mk-17 had an estimated yield of 10Mt to 15 Mt.
200 Mk-17 bombs were produced by 1955 and the bomb was retired from the USAF service in 1957. The large and heavy bomb had a loaded weight of 41,400lb.
4.B-24 Nuclear Bomb
The B-24 and B-17 thermonuclear bomb, which was one of the most powerful nuclear weapons built by the US, was designed based on the Yankee test device. Yankee was one of the six detonations in the Castle nuclear detonation test series. The B-24 was produced in a number of configurations with explosive force ranging from 10Mt to 15 Mt.
Ivy Mike Hydrogen Bomb
The Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb was based on the thermonuclear device demonstrated during the Test George conducted by the US on 9 May 1951 as part of Operation Greenhouse series of four nuclear device detonation tests. The Ivy Mike test yielded an explosion of 10.4Mt, 700 times the explosive force of the weapon dropped on Hiroshima.
The device had a length of 6m and diameter of 2m and weighed 82t. It was not a deliverable weapon and was only used to validate the concepts of nuclear weapons. A simplified and lighter variant, known as the EC-16, was developed later.
The nuclear weapon employed an implosion device similar to that of “Fat Man” bomb, which exploded over Nagasaki, to activate the cooled liquid deuterium.
These kinds of bombs are huge terrible than others. These bombs have the ability to destroy a medium country within a minutes.
So, these kinds of bombs are more powerful bombs ever created by human.
Written by : Montasir Karim
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