The parachute that released the bomb weighed a ton on its own, and the shockwave from the airburst explosion was so intense, the bomber tumbled 3,000 feet in altitude before righting itself. TASS//Getty Images Tsar Bomba. It's difficult to truly get across how powerful RDS-220 wa...
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The biggest human-made bang of all time was the explosion in October 1961 of theTsar Bomba hydrogen bomb. The Soviet-built weapon blew up over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago off the north coast of Russia with a flash of light that was visible 1000 kilometres away. Windows were broken 900 ki...
The energy released by the meteor was equivalent to about 500,000 tons of TNT, more than 30 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Cooke said. Scientists estimated the meteor's energy from observations by infrasound stations designed to monitor compliance with the Comprehe...
we have no idea what could happen to that interest rate book. . . . It’s literally like a nuclear bomb that could go off. . . . If they can’t prevent the rapid rise, I think we will have war because that is the only way you can force the intercession you need to keep a li...