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No, no country has ever had a 100 megaton bomb in production.
The USSR tested a device with a 52 to 58 megaton yield called the Tsar Bomba, that they claimed was designed for 100 megatons (it was tested in a reduced yield configuration for various safety reasons). But this test was mostly for Propaganda purposes and the bomb was never stockpiled in either configuration.
The US once stockpiled a missile warhead with a 25 megaton yield.
The highest yield weapons in any country's stockpile now are in the 300 kiloton to 500 kiloton range, as it has been demonstrated that anything higher is not really militarily useful.
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Does the US have a 200 megaton nuclear bomb?
No, the largest ever built were 25 megaton warheads for the Titan II. But these were never installed on missiles, instead 9 megaton warheads were used. All Titan ICBMs are long retired and there were only 50 built total. Currently the largest yield US bombs are roughly 600 kilotons.
What is the largest megaton nuclear bomb built?
Unclear what you mean by largest: physical size or explosive yield? For size it was the US Ivy Mike device a steel cylinder 80 feet tall and 20 feet in diameter, with 2 foot thick walls. Its yield was 10 megatons. For yield it was the USSR Tzar Bomba the cleanest hydrogen bomb ever detonated: 52 to 58 megatons, depending on method of measurement. The dirty version (never tested) was to have a yield of 100 megatons.
What is the most powerful nuclear weapon in the us?
The most powerful currently in the US stockpile is the 1.2 megaton B83 freefall gravity bomb.The most powerful ever designed in the US was a 35 megaton warhead for the Titan ICBM, but never built. The Titan ICBM carried a 9 megaton W-53 warhead, the most powerful on a US missile. The most powerful ever built in the US was the 25 megaton B41 3-stage freefall gravity bomb.
Why don't reactions give us a 100 percent yield?
why don't reactions give us a 100 percent yield?
Which is more powerful an atomic bomb or a nuclear bomb?
They are the same kind of bomb: bombs that derive their energy from the atomic nucleus. It just depends on design and how much of the design yield is from fission or from fusion. Pure fission bombs cannot be built with yields above 1 megaton, but including some fusion the theoretical yield is unlimited.However considering mission, construction costs, size limits, etc. it is usually more practical to build low yield bombs that are part fission part fusion than to try to build high yield bombs of either type.The lowest yield nuclear bomb tested was the US Davy Crocket at 10 tons yield, the highest yield nuclear bomb tested was the USSR Tsar Bomba at 52 to 58 megatons yield (depending on method of measurement). Both were part fission part fusion designs, although the designs were obviously very different: the Davy Crocket was almost entirely fission yield, the Tsar Bomba was over 95% fusion yield and generated the least fallout per kiloton yield of any nuclear bomb detonated in the atmosphere.
What was a result of H-bomb test in the 1950s?
Both the US and USSR had deliverable nuclear weapons in the 10+ megaton range by 1955.
How big is the biggest atomic bomb?
The biggest in physical size was the US Ivy Mike device, a cylinder 80 feet long and twenty feet in diameter weighing over 500 tons. The biggest in yield was the USSR Tsar Bomba device, at a yield of 52 to 58 megatons depending on method of measurement. This bomb was designed with a maximum yield of 100 megatons, but was reduced for test purposes to minimize damage & contamination of the test site.
What is the most dangerous atom bomb?
The CZAR. The mother of all bombs made by the Russians.It weighed around 100 kt. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1961 Tsar Bomba (King of bombs) weighed 60,000 pounds and had a yield of 52 to 58 MTons (depending on measurement technique), the design yield was 100 MTons. The US first hydrogen fusion bomb in 1952, Ivy Mike, was gigantic at 80 feet tall and 20 feet in diameter and had a yield of only 10 MTons.
How many bomb threats are made on US schools a year?
about 100
How did Russia know how to build an H-bomb in 1953 when the US was inventing it in 1952?
It had been in reasearch since the 1930's and the arms race began well before the 1950's. Neither the US or Russia wanted the other to have the weapon first so both were working on it.The Soviet 1953 "hydrogen bomb" was not a staged hydrogen bomb like the US 1952 & 1954 hydrogen bombs. It was just a Lithium Deuteride boosted fission bomb. Its only advantage was it was a deliverable megaton range yield boosted fission bomb one year before the US got deliverable multimegaton range yield teller-ulam staged fusion bombs.The Soviets only declared it a "type of hydrogen bomb" because some of the yield was from fusion, most was still from Plutonium fission. The design was sometimes referred to as the Layer Cake as it used a more or less conventional Plutonium implosion mechanism, but the Plutonium core was alternately layered with concentric shells of Lithium Deuteride instead of being just Plutonium.The US had considered such a design in ~ 1950, but never pursued it as it was considered a dead end. Computing resources were better spent on better designs.
What was the largest bomb ever detonated?
The largest atomic bomb ever built, or detonated, was the Tsar Bomb (????-?????) RDS-220 code named "Ivan" by the Soviet Union. Originally built as a 100 MegaTon (100,000,000 ton) three stage Hydrogen bomb, it was changed to 50 MegaTon to limit fallout. Detonated on October 30th, 1961. Caveat: This information is based upon public information and releases, if there is a larger bomb it was never disclosed to the public in any fasion.
How does Krakatoa's eruption compare to an atomic bomb explosion?
First you have to realize that the yield of the explosion of an atomic bomb is not a fixed value, the US has designed and fielded pure fission atomic bombs with yields as low as about 10 tons of TNT to as high as 500 kilotons of TNT and using fusion in the design yields as high as 25 megatons were designed and fielded. The USSR designed a 100 megaton bomb (but only tested it at 50 megatons and never actually fielded it). Edward Teller proposed designing a gigaton range bomb but the design was rejected as having no military value (most of the blast of such a bomb would just go upward, just blowing all the atmosphere directly above the burst off into space). There is no theoretical limit for an atomic bomb that uses fusion to drive the fission of depleted uranium (U--238 which cannot support a neutron chain reaction but will fission from high energy fusion neutrons, and is plentiful). The energy released from the 1883 explosion of Krakatoa has been estimated to be equal to about 200 megatons of TNT (about 4 times that of the largest atomic test ever done: the USSR's 50 megaton device mentioned above). But unlike an atomic bomb Krakatoa's fallout was not radioactive.
