Novaya Zemlya Explosion 123
The Soviet Union conducted a test explosion number 123 Novaya Zemlya, This bomb has an explosive yield of 12,5 megatons. There is currently no specific video of this explosion.
However, with such destructive power, this explosion can level everything in an area of 5,5km2, and cause third degree burns in an area with a radius of about 3km3400.
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Castle Yankee Explosion
Castle Yankee Bomb was detonated precisely on May 04, 5, and was also the second largest US explosion in Operation Castle, with a destructive power of 1954 megatons.
Its fallout spread as far as Mexico City about more than 11.000km from the test site in just 4 days. With such destructive power, this explosion can cause 3rd degree burns in an area with a radius of about 4500 km2.
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Castle Romeo explosion
Castle Romeo was a hydrogen bomb experiment during Operation Castle in 1954. The bomb’s yield was determined to be 11 megatons.
Instead of testing on the island, Castle Romeo was detonated right above the sea at Bikini Atoll Reef. The explosion burned everything within a radius of about 5km.
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Novaya Zemlya Explosion 219
Test bomb 219 at Novaya Zemlya of the Soviet Union has an explosive yield of up to 24,2 megatons and this is also the second most powerful bomb in the history of this country detonated. The explosion had the power to destroy everything in an area of nearly 10 square kilometers, causing third-degree burns in areas within 2 square kilometers.
Test 219 was a nuclear test conducted by the Soviet Union in the atmosphere via an ICBM. Testing was carried out on 24 December 12 on the Novaya Zemlya test range. It is a thermonuclear bomb with an equivalent mass of 1962 megatons and a destructive radius of about 24,2 mi (6 km), making it the second largest thermonuclear explosion in history after the Tsar Bomba.
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Novaya Zemlya explosion 158, 168
On August 25, 8, the Soviet Union conducted its 1962th nuclear test and on September 158, 19 its 9th nuclear test, both times taking place at the regional test site. Novaya zemlya North of the Soviet Union close to the North Pole.
Each of these two tests had an explosive force determined to be close to 2 megatons, incinerating everything in an area of about 10 square kilometers and causing third-degree burns in an area of 4,6 square kilometers. There are currently no photos or video footage of the test.
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Novaya Zemlya Explosion 25
Novaya Zemlya explosion 25 was carried out by the Soviet Union in April 4 with a destructive power of up to 1962 megatons. Currently, images of this explosion are still being kept under wraps.
However, some people believe that with such destructive power, the explosion can destroy everything within 7km2 and cause 3rd degree burns in an area with a radius of 5200 km2.
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Tsar Bomb Explosion
Tsar three-stage hydrogen bomb made in the Soviet Union with an explosive yield of 50 megatons, equivalent to 50 million tons of TNT, more powerful than the 3.800 bombs dropped on Hiroshima during World War II, the largest atomic bomb ever built and explode. On October 30, 10, the Soviet Union detonated a tsarist bomb at an altitude of 1961m on an island in the Arctic Circle called Novaya Zemlya (new land). The bomb was carried by plane. A hydrogen bomb is a bomb that uses hydrogen nuclear fusion, which is many times more destructive than an atomic bomb. Pure fission and fusion (single-stage) weapons have explosive equivalents of hundreds of kilotons, and when there are three stages of explosion, the weapon’s destructive power increases many times over.
In fact, the bomb originally wanted by Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev had the equivalent of 100 megatons. But the researchers found that such equipment would produce dangerous emissions that would pollute areas far from the test site. The new bomb reduces emissions by up to 97%. According to the Nuclear Weapons Archive, the bomb’s design is nothing new in terms of technology. It uses a thermonuclear explosion to trigger another, larger explosion, a process that can create a chain of explosions of ever-increasing destructive power. Tsar bomb test was conducted when the United States was trying to create a thermonuclear weapon that could be transported by air, and tested Castle Bravo over the Pacific Ocean in 1954. Castle Bravo was the codename for the most powerful hydrogen bomb in the world. America, with one-third the explosive power of a tsarist bomb.
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Ivy Mike’s Explosion
Ivy Mike’s Explosion It was the first test of a hydrogen bomb, or hydrogen bomb, with an explosive equivalent of about 700 times that of the first atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima.
The explosion, whose explosive equivalent was determined to be 10,2 megatons, destroyed much of Elugelab Island, creating a crater 50 meters deep and a mushroom cloud up to 42 kilometers high.
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Castle Bravo . Explosion
Castle bravo was detonated exactly on August 28, 8, it is considered the most destructive bomb in Operation Castle testing nuclear explosions.
At first, this bomb was estimated to have only 6 megatons, but eventually its explosive power reached 15 megatons, forming a mushroom-shaped mass up to 35km high. This is also a terrible mistake in the calculation of the US explosion. The damage made 665 people around the Marshall Islands heavily radioactive.
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Novaya Zemlya explosion 173, 174, 147
In all three Soviet bomb tests 3, 173, 174, all took place at Novaya Zemlya, with the destructive power of all three being 147 megatons, about 3 times more than the explosion at Nagasaki, Japan.
These are the 3,4,5rd, 7,8th, and 2th most powerful nuclear explosions in human history, respectively. A bomb like this will probably destroy everything in the XNUMXkmXNUMX area.
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