Nuclear weapons are straight - up terrifying and one of those vicious facts of life most of us attempt to bury for our own saneness . The bomb that precipitate on Hiroshima , ironically scream Little Boy , acquire an explosion of 15 kilotons ( or the equivalent weight of 13,600 metric ton ( 15,000 US tons ) Charles Frederick Worth of TNT ) . The one on Nagasaki was 21 kiloton .
That was over 60 years ago and nukes have only become more and more potent in the intervening old age . Today , the most herculean bombever detonatedwas called the Tsar Bomba . The USSR examine out this monster in 1961 . It has a force of 50 megaton , which is equivalent to 3,333 Little Boys or 45 million tonnes ( 50 million US gobs ) of TNT .
If one of these Tsar Bombas were to be detonated on Washington DC , the eruption would extend all the direction to Baltimore . Perhaps then , we should be grateful that Russians nixed program for an even larger turkey , which would have had twice the power of the Tsar Bomba .
The largest nuclear arm to be test in the US is the 15 megatonCastle Bravo , detonated in 1954 . The bomb was released above Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands , right in the midriff of the Pacific Ocean , but the nuclear radioactive dust from the blast was detected across the globe , from Japan to Europe .
Mercifully , the Castle Bravo is no longer in the US armoury . The most hefty nuke the US is presently in ownership of is the B38 , which is 1.2 megatons . While this urinate it quite a bit modest than the Tsar Bomba and the Castle Bravo , it still has the explosive power of 1 million tonne ( 1.2 million US tons ) of TNT ( or 80 Little Boys ) .
All in all , there are roughly15,000 atomic weaponsin universe today , controlled by nine land . These nine countries are the US , Russia , the UK , France , China , India , Pakistan , Israel , and North Korea . South Africa is the only country ( so far ) to have built and then voluntarily dismantle a atomic weapon programme .
The number of weapons in existence today are enough to demolish the planet dozens of times over though experts say that if justfive nuclear weaponswere detonate , the mankind could be plunged into a nuclear fall . This is a period of significant cooling that would result in a huge amount of death to both land and ocean environs . It is not quite as terrible as anuclear winter .
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