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The Tsar Bomba is the single most physically powerful device ever deployed on Earth, the most powerful nuclear bomb tested and the largest human-made explosion in history. [64] For comparison, the largest weapon ever produced by the US, the now-decommissioned B41 , had a predicted maximum yield of 25 Mt (100 PJ).
Ivy King was the largest pure-fission nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States. [1] The bomb was tested during the Truman administration as part of Operation Ivy.This series of tests involved the development of very powerful nuclear weapons in response to the nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union.
The first one was Butterfly Bomb: Germany: General-purpose bomb: Glide bomb: Guided bomb: Improvised explosive device: Land mine: Explodes when pressure is applied to the bomb. Outlawed in 164 nations. 1832 Ming Dynasty: Laser guided bomb: Molotov cocktail: Improvised incendiary grenade often made in a beer bottle Nail bomb: 1970 Pipe bomb ...
The M-388, a W54 nuclear warhead variant, weighed less than 60 pounds (27 kg). At the projectile's lowest yield setting of 10 tons, roughly equivalent to a single MOAB, its explosive force was only 1/144,000th (0.0007%) that of the Air Force's 1.44-megaton W49 warhead, a nuclear weapon commonly found on American ICBMs from the early 1960s.
Castle Bravo is the sixth largest nuclear explosion in history, exceeded by the Soviet tests of Tsar Bomba at approximately 50 Mt, Test 219 at 24.2 Mt, and three other (Test 147, Test 173 and Test 174) ≈20 Mt Soviet tests in 1962 at Novaya Zemlya.
Fat Man Replica of the original Fat Man bomb Type Nuclear fission gravity bomb Place of origin United States Production history Designer Los Alamos Laboratory Produced 1945–1949 No. built 120 Specifications Mass 10,300 pounds (4,670 kg) Length 128 inches (3.3 m) Diameter 60 inches (1.5 m) Filling Plutonium Filling weight 6.2 kg Blast yield 21 kt (88 TJ) "Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) was ...
Mark 41 thermonuclear bomb casing at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The B-41 (also known as Mk-41) was a thermonuclear weapon deployed by the United States Strategic Air Command in the early 1960s. It was the most powerful nuclear bomb ever developed by the United States, with a maximum yield of 25 megatons of TNT (100 ...
Orange Herald fireball and subsequent mushroom cloud, film reel captured from a trailing aircraft. Orange Herald was a British nuclear weapon, tested on 31 May 1957.At the time it was reported as an H-bomb, although in fact it was a large boosted fission weapon and remains to date, the largest fission device ever detonated.