What was the largest underwater nuke?

The largest explosion was set off 90 feet underwater: nicknamed "Castle Bravo," the bomb blasted a crater 2 kilometers (more than 1.2 miles) wide in the coral reef and obliterated ocean life in the area.

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What was the biggest nuke ever recorded?

Tsar Bomba, (Russian: “King of Bombs”) , byname of RDS-220, also called Big Ivan, Soviet thermonuclear bomb that was detonated in a test over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean on October 30, 1961. The largest nuclear weapon ever set off, it produced the most powerful human-made explosion ever recorded.

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Is there a nuke at the bottom of the ocean?

At 53 megatons, the Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, and at 11 kilometers, the Mariana(s) Trench is the deepest part of the ocean. No underwater test has involved bombs anywhere near that size, nor depths anywhere near that deep.

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How many nukes are lost at sea?

FARO, Wayne County — United States military leaders have admitted to losing six nuclear weapons since 1950. Unsealed documents show one is in the Mediterranean Sea, two are in the Pacific Ocean, two in the Atlantic Ocean and one is in Eastern North Carolina.

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Would an underwater nuke cause a tsunami?

Conceivably tsunami waves can also be generated from very large nuclear explosions. However, no tsunami of any significance has ever resulted from the testing of nuclear weapons in the past.

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Does Tsar Bomba still exist?

As only one bomb was built to completion, that capability has never been demonstrated. The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum in Sarov and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Of Technical Physics, in Snezhinsk.

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Can Tsar Bomba destroy Earth?

But assuming every warhead had a megatonne rating, the energy released by their simultaneous detonation wouldn't destroy the Earth. It would, however, make a crater around 10km across and 2km deep. The huge volume of debris injected into the atmosphere would have far more widespread effects.

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Which bomb can destroy the whole world?

Russia's Tsar bomba: World's most powerful nuclear weapon of mass destruction - World News.

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What is Russia's doomsday device?

A lot of great technology was developed during the Cold War. Things like GPS, the internet and microchips were all developed as part of the arms-race tech boom. Unfortunately, so was the Novichok nerve agent, the world's largest nuclear weapon and Russia's doomsday device, just to name a few.

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How many tsar bombs can destroy Earth?

A new video simulates the explosion of thermal nuclear weapons in the Challenger Deep. Tsar Bomba is the most powerful nuclear bomb ever made. One bomb would be stanched, but a million could easily destroy the Earth.

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What happens if you nuke a volcano?

If you dropped a nuclear bomb into the crater of an extinct volcano, you would flatten the mountain out a bit but you wouldn't set the volcano off because there wouldn't be any pre-existing upwelling of magma.

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How many nukes would end the world?

As of 2019, there are 15,000 nuclear weapons on planet Earth. It would take just three nuclear warheads to destroy one of the 4,500 cities on Earth, meaning 13,500 bombs in total, which would leave 1,500 left.

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Can 1 nuke destroy the world?

A single nuclear weapon can destroy a city and kill most of its people. Several nuclear explosions over modern cities would kill tens of millions of people. Casualties from a major nuclear war between the US and Russia would reach hundreds of millions.

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Is there a nuke bigger than the Tsar Bomba?

It's theoretically possible to build a nuclear bomb more than 100 times as powerful as Tsar Bomba, but it wouldn't at all be practical. Thanks to bans on nuclear testing and an enlightened realization that nuclear weapons existentially endanger all life on Earth, it's unlikely that we would ever see such a thing.

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What is deadlier than the Tsar Bomba?

The UR-500 ICBM was successfully tested but never deployed, with it being further developed into the famous Proton rocket. Therefore, Russia has a weapon that is almost twice as deadly as the Tsar Bomba, as well as an ICBM to use it.

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What is the most powerful nuke today?

In the United States' current nuclear arsenal, the most powerful bomb is the B83, which has a maximum yield of 1.2 megatons, making it 60 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. According to the Nuclear Weapon Archive, 650 B83s are in “active service.”

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Is nuclear war likely?

Is nuclear war likely? No. No matter the chances of nuclear war breaking out between the United States and Russia, there's a “0.0% chance” that Russia would survive the attack, according to Schwartz. This makes the actual possibility of nuclear war look pretty slim, no matter what Putin says.

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What countries would survive a nuclear war?

The study published in the journal Risk Analysis describes Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu as the island countries most capable of producing enough food for their populations after an “abrupt sunlight‐reducing catastrophe” such as a nuclear war, super volcano or asteroid strike.

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What is a super nuke?

A weapon whose destructive power comes from nuclear energy; an atomic bomb or a hydrogen bomb. Also called thermonuclear weapon. The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Edition.

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Can you nuke a tornado?

These large and severe storms are capable of containing quite a bit of energy over a small distance. While setting off some type of explosion - a bomb or something similar - may temporarily disrupt a tornado that's in progress, it wouldn't stop the storm from rotating or even producing another tornado nearby.

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What if you put ice in a volcano?

When lava meets ice, the resulting mess can cause flooding, destroy valuable resources and even produce explosions. The research found that lava didn't always just melt through the ice, and flow under the surface.

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What if a nuke hit Yellowstone?

Ultimately, detonating one of America's most powerful nuclear weapons in the middle of Yellowstone National Park will simply ruin the beautiful landscape, which we can all agree would be a rather terrible thing to do.

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How many nukes would it take to make Earth uninhabitable?

A declassified document shared by nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein gives the verdict that scientists at the Los Alamos laboratory and test site reached in 1945. They found that "it would require only in the neighborhood of 10 to 100 Supers of this type" to put the human race in peril.

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Does the neutron bomb exist?

Neutron bombs, or more precisely, enhanced [neutron] radiation weapons were also to find use as strategic anti-ballistic missile weapons, and in this role, they are believed to remain in active service within Russia's Gazelle missile.

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