5 Most Powerful Weapons In The World

2. CASTLE BRAVO

Castle Bravo was an operation during which the U.S. tested a thermonuclear hydrogen bomb for the first time. The test was performed on March 1, 1954 at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The direct result of the explosion was nuclear rain, which poisoned the islanders who returned to the island after the detonation. Members of the crew of the Japanese fishing boat Lucky Dragon No. were also poisoned, which raised the international question of the safety of conducting nuclear tests. The bomb used lithium-deuterium fuel for the nuclear reaction as well as cryogenic, deuterium-tritium liquid, which was used as the fuel for the nuclear reaction. The Ivy Mike bomb, which was the 16th nuclear bomb, represented the first test of the hydrogen bomb of the U.S. Armed Forces. Castle Bravo had the best result of all U.S. Army nuclear testing, 15MT, although again a significant proportion came from uranium fission. In the Teller-Ulam model, the fission and fusion phases occur physically separately. Castle Bravo was the most powerful American nuclear bomb ever detonated by the United States. With a power of 15 megatons, it greatly exceeded the projected power of 4-6 megatons. Combined with other factors, it was the most signified radiological device in U.S. history. Measured in kilotons, Castle Bravo was 1,200 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.