11 Facts You Should Know About Nuclear Explosions
Published by This is a list of interesting and fascinating facts about nuclear explosions, bombs and some extra facts about Chernobyl disaster.
1. There are still some 26,000 nuclear warheads in the world, enough to destroy civilization many times over and destroy most life on earth. Nuclear weapons make humans an endangered species.
2. More than 95% of all nuclear weapons are in the arsenals of the US and Russia.
3. The average nuclear weapon in the US arsenal is approximately eight times more powerful than the nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, immediately killing some 90,000 people.
4. There are currently nine countries with nuclear weapons (US, Russia, UK, France, China, Israel, India,Pakistan and North Korea).
5) In the aftermath of the Cold War, a variety of new nuclear threats have emerged. Among these are the following dangers:
• Increased chances of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists willing to use them;
• Policies of the US government to make nuclear weapons smaller and more usable;
• Use of nuclear weapons by accident, particularly because of decaying Russian infrastructure; and
• Spread of nuclear weapons to other states that may perceive them to be an “equalizer” against a more
powerful state.
6) The cost of US nuclear weapons research,development, testing, deployment and maintenance has exceeded $7.5 trillion.
7) Cost of the Manhattan Project (through August 1945): $20,000,000,000
In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined!
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9) Belarus received 70% of the contamination from Chernobyl. Neighboring regions are often hit hardest in the event of a nuclear disaster, and that’s been especially true in the case of Belarus. Located just 10 miles away from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, scientists estimate that this landlocked country was hit by 70% of the radioactive outburst.
10) Nuclear rain from the Chernobyl disaster fell as far away as Ireland.
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11) Chernobyl disaster remains the only Level 7 incident on the International Nuclear Event Scale. That is, it’s the biggest man-made disaster in human history.
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On January 16, 2011 at 6:26 am
There are terrible things out there.
On January 16, 2011 at 8:50 am
whoa had no idea about these ..
On January 16, 2011 at 9:46 am
Nice share
On January 16, 2011 at 11:47 am
dude, you rock
On January 16, 2011 at 11:57 am
gud job
On January 16, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Haha Once I tried in Russia a mask exactly like that one. Everybody had to be trained for an eventual nuclear attack.
On January 18, 2011 at 3:03 pm
horrible world we live in!!
On January 26, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Nuclear weapons are obsolete and too deadly to continue operating. Good article!
On March 14, 2011 at 8:01 am
Yikes! That’s disturbing. I knew the reach was all over Europe. I did not know about Ireland though. I’m of Irish/Scottish descent so this is REALLY SHOCKING! I hope that they were able to treat and contain this some.
It makes me realize that we were fortunate that the wind didn’t land thid on our front door step. That would’ve killed all kinds of folks. This is very frightening oif you think about it because the. Whole thing is so predicatedf on wind shift. I”m no nuclear scientist but when I heard that affected areas could be visibly seen from space I knew we were in trouble. I also realized just how powerful our satellites were and I began to realize that we had a system that could also be easily abused if the government chose to and now look what we have! TERRIFYING!