little further out when the bomb went off those not in the immediate blast suffered all kinds of nasty maladies like burns internal injuries and blindness and many succumbed to them emperor hirohito seeing such destruction finally announced the country's surrender at the cost of over NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN innocent lives the allies had won the war perhaps unsurprisingly the newly formed united nations made one of their first acts to call for the elimination of atomic weapons and even less unsurprisingly this was completely ignored in the years following the war the us continued testing atomic bombs in the soviet union under communist rule and firmly against the american way of life accelerated their own nuclear program in NUMBER_TOKEN the soviet union became the second nation to successfully detonate a nuclear bomb the cold war had officially begun two nations with wildly conflicting belief systems both harboring the most powerful weapons mankind had ever seen what could possibly go wrong you know where you can't go wrong though hitting those like and subscribe buttons down below so you get amazing recommendations and content like this delivered to your home page almost every single day anyway back to blowing stuff up in NUMBER_TOKEN three years after the soviet union's first successful nuclear test and with cold war tensions rising ever higher the us took nuclear weaponry to a whole new level by detonating the first ever hydrogen bomb can you guess how much more powerful this hydrogen bomb was than the og atom bombs NUMBER_TOKEN times NUMBER_TOKEN times nope it was NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN times more powerful than the bomb dropped on hiroshima or when obliterating an entire city just isn't enough when the bomb exploded over a remote pacific island it did so with the monumental force of NUMBER_TOKEN megatons of tnt that's over NUMBER_TOKEN million tons of the stuff the colossal blast made a fireball at least four miles wide that by expert estimates shown brighter than a thousand suns and the heat was felt by observers standing as far as NUMBER_TOKEN miles away but the soviets were hot on the us's tail and if you thought what you just saw was big strap yourselves in because you've seen nothing yet let's put things into perspective for a moment the bomb dropped on hiroshima was NUMBER_TOKEN kilotons the first hydrogen bomb was NUMBER_TOKEN megatons but nine years later in NUMBER_TOKEN the soviets tested a hydrogen bomb that was an unbelievable NUMBER_TOKEN megatons that's NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN times the power of the bomb that destroyed hiroshima the absolute behemoth of a weapon was called the tsar bomba and measured in at NUMBER_TOKEN feet long as well as weighing NUMBER_TOKEN metric tons about six times the weight of little boy and over twice the length the monstrous super weapon was so big that it didn't even fit inside a plane and had to be carried underneath instead you've got a feel for the poor pilot he and his crew were only given a NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN chance of surviving the test on october NUMBER_TOKENth NUMBER_TOKEN the plane carrying the bomb took off and flew towards the test site an island in the arctic ocean named novia zemlia once over the island the crew released the payload and got the hell out of there as fast as they could to give them more time the enormous explosive had been fitted with a parachute to slow its descent even so when it detonated the blast was so powerful that its shock wave slammed into the plane sending it plummeting
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