Since there have never been two atomic bombs dropped at the same time (LAME!) you never really get a side by side look at what the different size thingers are... uh, what are those called... comparisons! So yeah, since some crybabies decided that it's not okay to drop more than one atomic bomb at a time we need a chart to show us how awesome it would be were people to drop more than one bomb at a single time.
And since there are no pictures of simultaneous nuclear weapon explosions we don't really get to see the difference in explosion size, all we see are really pretty mushroom clouds, but we don't really know what each one means.
This handy little chart shows us what the different size bombs look like.
The explosion that's labeled as "1" on the graph is the size of the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima which was in the range of 15 - 18 kilotons (that means the equivalent of 15 - 18,000 tons of TNT), an explosion which killed roughly 70,000 in a tenth of a second... and look how tiny that little guy is on the graph--just a little guy!
The explosion labeled as "2" on the graph is the largest bomb ever detonated by the U.S., the Castle Bravo test which was 15 Megatons (the equivalent of 15 MILLION tons of TNT!), which was a miscalculation because someone forgot to carry a one or something as the original payload was supposed to be between 4 - 6 Megatons (our bad!) leading to one of the greatest nuclear fallout disasters in history (it was supposed to be a "secret" test, "Shhhhhh, be vewwy, vewwy quiet, I'm only detonating atomic weaponry in the middle of the ocean...").
But wait! There's more! That's not even the biggest bomb ever. The biggest nuclear weapon ever detonated was the Tsar Bomba (King Bomb, duh), by the (you guessed it!) Soviet Union on Oct. 30, 1961. It was supposed to be 100 Megatons (!!!) but some weiner decided there would be too much "fallout" from such "weapon" and the payload was reduced to a measly 50 Megatons (womp).
Watch this rad video with rad creepy music and be glad for treaties and signatures and things.

Recent Comments