How Powerful Are Modern Nuclear Weapons?
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On July 16th, 1945 the first ever nuclear weapon was detonated in a New Mexico desert. At the time, the Trinity test was one of the largest manmade explosions ever. Nuclear blasts are measured in TNT, and this one yielded about 20 thousand tons of TNT. That size blast would cover an estimated area of about five square miles in radioactivity. But in the 70 years since, nearly 2,000 nuclear tests have been performed, and about 125,000 nuclear bombs have been built. So we wanted to know, how powerful are modern nuclear weapons? Well, most people think of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War Two as extraordinarily powerful explosions. Combined, they yielded about 36 thousands tons of TNT. But 16 years later, the Tsar Bomba was built, des...
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On July 16th, 1945 the first ever nuclear weapon was detonated in a New Mexico desert. At the time, the Trinity test was one of the largest manmade explosions ever. Nuclear blasts are measured in TNT, and this one yielded about 20 thousand tons of TNT. That size blast would cover an estimated area of about five square miles in radioactivity. But in the 70 years since, nearly 2,000 nuclear tests have been performed, and about 125,000 nuclear bombs have been built. So we wanted to know, how powerful are modern nuclear weapons? Well, most people think of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War Two as extraordinarily powerful explosions. Combined, they yielded about 36 thousands tons of TNT. But 16 years later, the Tsar Bomba was built, des...
