What is the biggest possible bomb?
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What is the biggest possible bomb?
Tsar Bomba
| Tsar Bomba | |
|---|---|
| Mass | 27,000 kg (60,000 lb) |
| Length | 8 m (26 ft) |
| Diameter | 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) |
| Detonation mechanism | barometric sensor |
How much land can a bomb destroy?
The volume the weapon’s energy spreads into varies as the cube of the distance, but the destroyed area varies at the square of the distance. Thus 1 bomb with a yield of 1 megaton would destroy 80 square miles. While 8 bombs, each with a yield of 125 kilotons, would destroy 160 square miles.
How big would a nuke have to be to destroy the world?
A declassified document shared by nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein gives the verdict that scientists at the Los Alamos laboratory and test site reached in 1945. They found that “it would require only in the neighborhood of 10 to 100 Supers of this type” to put the human race in peril.
Could a massive bomb really block out the Sun?
Another popular film trope is that nuclear warfare leads to what is called a nuclear winter. That’s the idea of nuclear blasts injecting soot into the stratosphere and blocking out the sun. Could a massive bomb do that all by itself? According to Toon, the answer is no.
How many megatons would it take to destroy a city?
They are considered the most destructive weapons in the world – their explosions are so powerful, just one nuclear bomb could destroy an entire city. How many megatons would it take to destroy Earth? A megaton TNT is about 4E15 J. You need about 2E32 J to completely obliterate the planet.
Will we ever create a 100-million-megaton nuclear bomb?
The energy that was released by that collision was equivalent to a 100-million-megaton blast. Toon says the chance we’ll ever create a nuclear bomb that powerful is practically zero. How can he be so sure? Well, the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, the Soviet Union’s Tsar Bomba, had a yield of just 50 megatons.
What was the cleanest nuclear bomb ever made?
Interestingly enough, Tsar Bomba was one of the “cleanest” nuclear weapons ever detonated, because the bomb’s design eliminated 97 percent of the possible fallout. Even its size was monstrous.