When We Dropped The Atomic Bombs On Japan?

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(07-16-2022, 07:44 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Well me for one.

I knew they were a lot more powerful, but I figured maybe 50 to 100 times.  I have studied a bit on the damage caused by the atomic bombs.  I honestly can't imagine an explosion 1000 time more powerful.  It seems like it would crack the crust of the earth.

And there are hundreds of them all over the world.

"The detonation was astronomically powerful—over 1,570 times more powerful, in fact, than the combined two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Tsar Bomba’s yield was 50 megatons: ten times more powerful than all of the ordnance exploded during the whole of World War II. The mushroom cloud was 25 miles wide at its base and almost 60 miles wide at its top. At 40 miles high, it penetrated the stratosphere."


"A Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bomber was designated to deliver the device from 34,000 feet. The bomb would be attached to a parachute to slow its descent to detonation at 13,000 feet, giving the bomber and its escort additional time to escape at least thirty miles away before detonation. Even so, the crewmen were told that they only had a 50 percent chance of survival (they barely made it.)"



Tsar Bomba
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/tsar-bomba-largest-atomic-test-world-history

Crazy Russians...