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The MOAB is the most powerful conventional bomb ever used in combat as measured by the weight of its explosive material. [29] [30] The explosive yield is comparable to that of the smallest tactical nuclear weapons, such as the Cold War-era American M-388 projectile fired by the portable Davy Crockett recoilless gun.
Some defense analysts question both the yield of the bomb and whether it could be deployed by a Tupolev Tu-160 bomber. A report by Wired [7] says photos and the video of the event suggest that it is designed to be deployed from the rear of a slow moving cargo plane, and they note that the bomb-test video released by the Russians never shows both the bomb and the bomber in the same camera shot.
Devices with un-known yield Peace-ful use tests Non-PTBT tests [Summ 2] Yield range [Summ 3] Total yield (kilotons) [Summ 4] Notes Trinity: 1945 1: 1: 1: 21 21: First nuclear weapons test, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project. Tested the Mark 3 Fat Man design. Crossroads: 1946 2: 2: 2: 21 42: First postwar test series. Sandstone: 1948 3 ...
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Log–log plot comparing the yield (in kilotonnes) and mass (in kilograms) of various nuclear weapons developed by the United States.. The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated, usually expressed as a TNT equivalent (the standardized equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene ...
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Test site Country Max yield (pounds) Shots Explosive Type HOB (feet) Notes Trinity (100-ton Test on tower) Trinity 7 May 1945 White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico United States 216,000 1 TNT, Composition B. Airburst/Tower 20 Calibration test preceding the first nuclear explosion Dahlgren NOL 22 Sept-18 Nov 1952 Dahlgren, Virginia United States
The bombs Shamsud-Din Jabbar built with the explosive known as RDX would have had devastating effects were it not for an amateurish blunder. New Orleans attacker's bombs were designed to cause ...