Nuclear Weapons Fact

The atomic bomb killed more than 166,000 people in Hiroshima alone. By this nuclear weapon fact you can calculate the amount of destruction 

hydrogen bomb can cause. The number of active nuclear weapons 

present on earth are enough to wipe off the entire human race. So, it can 

be inferred that though nuclear technology has given us tremendous 

weapons for safety, it has also created a lot of risks for our very 

existence.

Nuclear weapons have been the headlines of newspapers since the 

Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings in 1945, but the idea of having a bomb that

 could wipe out an entire city was there in the minds of scientists from a 

long time. Nuclear bombs have been used as a weapon only twice; in 

World War 2 on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The 

bombs were thrown by the United States as an answer to the attack on

 Pearl Harbor of the US soil. The drastic effects left millions dead and 

entire cities were wiped out. The debate on whether nuclear weapons are 

safe or not is going on since the first nuclear attack and always gathered 

mixed reviews. 

Nuclear Weapons History

Facts say that the age of nuclear weapons began on 16th July 1945 when

 the United States tested its first atomic bomb "Trinity" at Alamogordo, 

New Mexico. Looking at this many countries followed this fashion of 

testing nuclear weapons, Soviet Union on the 29th August 1949, Britain on 

3rd October 1952, France on 3rd December 1960, China on 16th October 

1964 and India on 18th May 1974. Many countries after that tested their 

nuclear technology, thus marking the beginning of the nuclear age. The

 thermonuclear age started in 1952 when the US exploded their first 

 thermonuclear bomb called "Mike" in the Pacific. The effect of this 

atomic bomb was 500 times more powerful and disastrous than "Trinity"

 and had an impact of 10.4 mega-trons. As per reports the US has tested 

more than 2000 nuclear bombs, the Soviet Union has tested 715 bombs, 

France has tested 210 bombs and Britain has done 45 tests. If you look at 

the total figures, since 1945 more than 2500 nuclear bombs have been 

tested on our home planet.  

Countries with nuclear weapons have carried out blasts almost 

everywhere in the world, that includes air, water and land. Test bombs

 have been dropped by fighter jets and also been fired by rockets up to

 200 miles into the atmosphere. Due to the results of atomic testing more

 than 3,450 kilograms of plutonium is lying around on the earth's surface

 and some 4,600 kilograms have been discharged across the atmosphere 

as a result of atmospheric nuclear testing. One of the most obvious 

nuclear facts is the destruction caused by the testing of nuclear weapons. 

Damage to environment has occurred, radioactivity has leaked due to the 

underground bombing and vast areas of earth have become uninhabitable 

as a result of nuclear testing in air and on land. Effects of nuclear bombs 

tests lasts through generations affecting health of parents and their 

children and their children.


Interesting Facts about Nuclear Weapons

After gaining some information on the history of nuclear weapons, here 

are some more popular nuclear or atomic bomb facts that are sure to

 enthrall you.

• As per latest reports there are more than 67,500 nuclear bombs present on this planet.

• Since 1945, more than 4,680 nuclear bombers have been built.

• One of the most interesting nuclear weapons facts was the witnessing of the first atomic explosion with the naked eye which was seen by Richard Feynman, a world renowned physicist.

• Alone in the Pacific the US has done more than 106 nuclear tests.

• More than 95% of all the nuclear weapons are in the control of the US and Russia.

• The top 10 nuclear weapon countries in the world are; the US, Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, India, North Korea, Israel and the NATO countries (Germany, Belgium, Canada, Greece, Italy, Netherlands and Turkey)

• An average US nuclear bomb today is 10 times more stronger than the nuclear bombs which were used to destroy the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• At present there are more than 47,000 active bombs in the world which are enough to wipe out the entire human civilization. As long as nuclear weapons are kept active, human beings are an endangered species.

• According to the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) which was signed between Russia and US, both these countries have to lessen their deployed nuclear weapons between 1,700 to 2,200 by December 2012. On 31st December 2012, this treaty was suppose to expire and many security experts believe that both these countries will again redeploy as many nuclear warheads as they want against each other.

The pros and cons of these bombs has been a topic of discussion in many 

international summits and meetings. Elimination of nuclear bombs is 

practically impossible, still various efforts have been laid by various human

 support groups and various states of the top 10 military powers of the 

world to accomplish this dream.

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