American Bomber Dropped An 42,000 Pound, 10-Megaton Hydrogen Bom

 American Bomber Dropped An 42,000 Pound, 10-Megaton Hydrogen Bom

    

Twenty-nine years ago, a 42,000-pound hydrogen bomb accidentally fell from an Air Force plane, it was revealed Wednesday, but officials said there was never a chance of a nuclear explosion. Newly released government documents show that one of the most powerful hydrogen bombs ever built, the 10-megaton (MEGATON) bomb, accidentally fell from a bomber near Albuquerque 29 years ago to the Albuquerque bomber, a newspaper reported today. 

    

The plane was on its way to Kirtland Air Force Base when it suddenly fell through the door of the bomb cabinet and crashed into a field near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The bomb's explosives detonated, which the documents said was equivalent to an explosion of about 1,000 tons of TNT. It detonated when the bomb struck Mark 17 on the ground, "the documents said. The bombs were found intact and detonated in the air, not on the surface of the earth. 

    

By comparison, the little boy's bomb dropped on Hiroshima weighed 42,000 pounds, or about 1,500 tons of TNT. If the "Little Boy" bomb had the same explosive power as the 10-megaton hydrogen bomb, it would have meant an explosion of about 2.5 million pounds (1.2 million tons) of explosives. 

    

By comparison, the largest weapon ever produced by the US, the now-defunct B41, had a projected maximum yield of 2.5 million pounds (1.2 million tons) of TNT. TNT is not the be-all and end-all for conventional explosives, but they forget a lot about the boom compared to an atomic bomb. The bomb is said to be 15 megatons in size and far more powerful than any previously tested. One megaton is equivalent to about 1,500 tons of explosives, or about 10,000 tons, and the yield of the Mk-17 is about 3,200 tons (2,300 tons), which is half a megaton of Mt. This bomb was 15 megatons in size, so It's about the size of a bomb for the little boy. 

    

With the increased explosive power comes the increased weapon weight, and you can ensure that nuclear weapons have enough explosive power that no one wants to make a nuclear weapon with them. 

Although the length and weight of the bomb are certainly impressive, the true value of an atomic bomb lies in its explosive power and yield, measured in megatons of TNT. It was estimated that the TNT yield for the Oklahoma City bombing, which used a truck-based fertilizer bomb, was 0.002 kt. By comparison, a 10-megaton TNT bomb of the same length, weight and explosive power was estimated at 0.011 kts. 

    

Government documents do not show the exact explosive power of the bomb, but Norris said most researchers believe it is more likely to be 10 megatons. The first atomic bomb of the US army in World War II, the bombing of Bikini Atoll, "had a yield [of] 9 megatons," Norris said. It had an explosive force of 1,000 kilotons per kilogram of TNT and a weight of 2,500 pounds, and an explosive radius of about 2.8 kilometers. The first atomic bombs of the USA in the world wars I and II would each have yields of 9 megaton, Norris said. 

With a launch weight of 2,200 tons and a nuclear warhead of 75 tons, the estimated nuclear yield could exceed that of the UR-500 missile delivered by the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon, its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). 

    

The bomb contained a plutonium core necessary for nuclear detonation, and its fissile plutonium components were stored separately from the aircraft. The bomb was never found, but its touchdown - it was in the same area as the NII-1011, with the fissile material of the bomb in a separate compartment. Also at this time, a bomb was developed in N II-1011 that can have a warhead capacity of 2,200 tons and a warhead of 75 tons. It contained two plutonium nuclei, one for each of the two main nuclear weapons, and a further 10,000 pounds of plutonium for a total of 1,500 tons of bombs. 

Fortunately, the bomb had no fissile core and was carried in one of the front bomb shafts, carrying only a small amount of fuel and a few gallons of water. The bomb was ripped open by the weight of the bomb, fell to the ground and the conventional explosives detonated, injuring six people and damaging the building. Nuclear tests were later resumed in the United States, but the United States conducted 67 tests, which Baker called the most successful nuclear test in U.S. history, totaling 1,500 tons of bombs. 

The New York Times reported that this was the first time the US military had shown a nuclear weapon to the public. The government reported the accident in a brief statement, saying only that a "nuclear weapon of some kind" had been dropped, but it did not report it as an accident, only that it had been dropped by an "unmanned aircraft" and not by the US Air Force. 

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