Thursday

Today for social studies i am researching the biggest bomb ever made.  It is called the tsar bomb.  It is was hydrogen bomb that weighed 27 tons. developed by the soviet union, and the original design would have created an explosion equal to 100 megatons of TNT.  Or 100,000,000 tons of TNT.  It was later scaled down to 50 megatons.  This is equivalent to 1400 times the combined power of both the nuclear bombs used in WWII.  It is also equivalent to ten times all the explosives used in WWII.  When they tested it, the explosion could be seen from 620 miles away.  The mushroom cloud was nearly forty miles high, almost seven times the height of mount Everest.  The heat from the explosion could have caused third degree burns 60 miles away.  Window panes were partially broken at a distance of 560 miles from ground zero.  The seismic shock created by the explosion could be measured on its third trip around the earth.

 Since 50 Mt is 2.1×10¹⁷ joules, the average power produced during the entire fission-fusion process, lasting around 39 nanoseconds^{[citation needed]}, was about 5.4×10²⁴ watts or 5.4 yottawatts (5.4 septillion watts). This is equivalent to approximately 1.4% of the power output of the Sun.^[8]


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