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Bombs have
probably defined your life more than you know. They’ve also probably
been around longer than you think. In fact, bombs have been around ever
since people realized they could use gunpowder to blow things up. Modern
bombs of course are much bigger than anything that our ancestors would
have come up with. That much was made clear when Fat Man and Little Boy
were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What you probably didn’t realize
is that the bombs of today are almost incomprehensibly more powerful. In
fact, they are thousands of times more powerful. They are so powerful
that if all of the nuclear weapons in the world were launched right now,
the entire Earth would be engulfed in flames. Not a single inch of
ocean, glacier, or desert would be left that wasn’t scorched, radiated,
burned, and altogether blown to smithereens. Furthermore, this means
that there would quite literally be nowhere to hide. Why is this
important? Because the only thing keeping everybody from launching all
of their missiles is the fact that the enemy would launch all of their
missiles right back. At any rate, you can see why this might have a
significant effect on politics! These are some Impressive Bomb Facts
That Are Fairly Explosive!
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Following the World Wars, millions of bombs and warheads are lying at
the bottoms of the oceans because authorities have not found a way to
dispose of them.
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In 1769, the city of Brescia, Italy was
hit by lightning. Unfortunately the strike hit an area that was storing
gunpowder. The resulting blast killed nearly 3,000 people.
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In 1958, when engineers were doing construction near the entrance to the
Royal Air Force, they had to move a replica of the biggest bomb used in
WWII. The crazy part? They realized it wasn't a replica.
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The United States and Russia account for 93% of the world's nuclear
weapons.
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In 1968, a US bomber crashed in Greenland, and the 4 nuclear bombs it
was carrying were recovered by the US government. At least that is what
everyone thought. In 2008, it was revealed that one of the bombs was
still stuck in the ice.
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In the past 60 years, there have been over 2,000 nuclear test
explosions. Only one of them came from an unknown nationality. This
unknown explosion has been called the Vela Incident, and it occurred in
1979 when a 3 kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the Indian Ocean.
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The largest bomb ever detonated was the Tsar Bomba. It was tested by the
Soviet Union and had a yield of 50 megatons. That is 1,570 times the
power of both nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
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One modern US stealth bomber is capable of carrying 16 nukes (B83). Each
one of those bombs is 75 times as powerful as the one dropped on
Hiroshima.
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Lazy dogs are small, unguided, and nonexplosive bombs
that are dropped on enemy battlefields from airplanes. Basically, they
are bullets that reign down from above.
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According to some estimates, it would take Vietnam almost 300 years to
clear its territory of bombs and mines. It would also cost nearly $10
billion.
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During World War II, the US developed something called bat bombs. These
bombs would open above cities and release bats that held even smaller
time bombs. Those small time bombs were actually incendiary, which means
they were meant to start fires. |