This picture from “Popular Mechanics” graphically illustrates the differences in explosive force of various nuclear weapons. At the far left of the scale are “bunker buster” bombs designed to destroy underground bunkers. Bunker busters vary in yield from less than a kiloton to just over a megaton. At the other end of the scale is the 50 megaton monster “tzar bomba” tested by the Soviet Union in 1961. The tzar bomba is the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated and was originally designed to be a 100 megaton bomb but was scaled back to reduce the resulting nuclear fallout.

 

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