- The most powerful nuclear bomb produced and tested by the U.S. had provided a force of only 5 mega tonnes TNT. But due to a chain reaction which was not foreseen in the project, the explosion was 3 times more powerful .
- The first nuclear test with an atomic bomb took place on 07/16/1945, in an unpopulated area of the State of New Mexico.
- A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion.
- The nuclear bombs dropped on Japan at the beginning of the Second World War caused, directly or indirectly, the deaths of approximately 220,000 people.
- The most powerful atomic bomb detonated an explosive force of 50 mega tonnes of TNT (trinitrotoluene). That is 2,500 times greater than the bomb on Nagasaki. Called “Tsar Bomb”, the explosives were detonated by the USSR in a test conducted on 30.10.1961 in an Arctic Ocean archipelago (in northern Russia.)
- Nuclear weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction, and their use and control has been a major focus of international relations policy since their debut.
- Currently, there are eight states that have successfully detonated nuclear bombs:U.S., Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistam and North Korea.
- Bikini Atoll (who in 1946 gave the name famous female swimsuit ) was the scene of more than 20 nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958.
- In the history of warfare, only two nuclear weapons have been detonated offensively, both near the end of World War II.
- The first atomic bomb was detonated on the morning of 6 August 1945, when the United States dropped a uranium gun-type device code-named "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The second bomb was detonated three days later when the United States dropped a plutonium implosion-type device code-named "Fat Man" on the city of Nagasaki, Japan.
10 facts about the atomic bomb
