10 Interesting Atomic Bomb Facts

Unlike conventional bomb that burns through chemical process, nuclear bomb blasts through the core of the atom itself. It is far more devastating, far more powerful and deadly. Nuclear weapon has brought many conflicts and sorrow. People who live in Nagasaki and Hiroshima in the mid 1945 had witnessed its monstrous fierce. Here, we are going to talk fact about Atomic bombs. View interesting Information that you might never know before.

1. Fact 1:

Atomic Bomb Blast 20 Kiloton

First atomic bomb was tested in July 16, 1945. One detonated the bomb at 5:30 am. It was the first day where human saw the power of nuclear weapon and amazed to it. Once the hit button pressed, within microsecond 60 fission sparks and it produced rapid flashes, continued by fireball that got bigger 600 meters wide in 2 second. View seconds afterward, the fireball grew larger up to 12 km high forming giant mushrooms formation. After 40 seconds, powerful air blasts hit the observation bunker together with intense loud roar that never been heard before.
2. Fact 2:
August 1945 was a month where first atomic bomb dropped on the middle of mass living population. With code name “little Boy” US arm force dropped 13,000 tons atom head bomb or equal to 13 kilotons TNT to Nagasaki. The bomb compose uranium-235 and it killed more than tens of thousand life.
3. Fact 3
On the same month, Nagasaki witnessed another fierce effect of atomic bomb. With code name Fat man, US arm force dropped 22,000 atom bomb or equal to 22 kilotons TNT. On the Nagasaki attack, the atomic bomb composed plutonium.
4. Fact 4:
5 years after America showed the demonic power of atom bombs, other countries were eager to own same weaponry. USSR tested their first atomic bomb in 1949, Britain tested their first atomic bomb in 1952, France in 1960, China in 1964, India in 1974 and Pakistan in 1998.
5. Fact 5:

Nuclear weapon test

Since the coming of Nuclear weapon, human is included in the list of endangered species. On our planet, we have around 26,000 nuclear missile head that are ready to be launched anytime. Those bombs, are enough to devastate human’s civilization triple or more.
6. Fact 6:
More than 95% of nuclear weapons and bombs are possessed by USA and Russia. Other states that own nuclear weapons are UK, France, China, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea.
7. Fact 7:
Since 1951, US have built more than 67,000 nuclear missiles. Since 1945, total nuclear bombers ready to drop is more than 4680 (base on U.S. Nuclear Weapons cost study)
8. Fact 8
Globally, we have more than 2 million kilograms HEU (Highly enriched Uranium). Those huge stockpiles of nuclear compound are more than enough to make million of nuclear warheads. At this time, only 15-25 kg of HEU that are used to make around 80,000 nuclear warheads worldwide.
9. Fact 9:

The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), an agreement to reduce nuclear weapons deployment between Russia and US to 1,700-2,200 by December 31 2012, failed to meet concession on the next day of the treaty. Consequently, both countries come back to the race of redeploying nuclear warheads as many as they could.

10. Fact 10

Nuclear bomb test

We can evaluate the effect of nuclear weapon from compensation lump US government should paid to Marshallese Islanders. Since 1956, US military have paid more than $ 759,000,000 damages cost in the form of monetary and non monetary recompenses. Those money are very expensive atomic bomb factsand cost to pay.