The arsenal in the Ichni region was blown up by saboteurs. This was announced on Wednesday, October 10, by Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak at a government meeting.

"What happened? In our opinion, the fact that the explosions took place in such a way that first there was a bang, then a glow, after that two pops and explosions of ammunition, indicates that the laying of ammunition to undermine our storage facilities is likely. Why was it not possible to save? Not enough there was perimeter equipment. The second position: we can securely store our stocks only when we build reliable reinforced concrete structures," he said.

Poltorak stressed that the explosions of ammunition began in different places.

“Almost all the interviewed personnel reported that the first explosions were at 3:20. They were simultaneous at three storage facilities at once. After that, at 3:45, six more explosions occurred at different storage facilities, and this happened along the entire perimeter - at different angles and in the center," he said.

The Minister of Defense stressed that the security measures at the arsenal were observed at a sufficient level.

"At this arsenal, a full-time battalion category was allocated, a company was staffed to provide security, a cynological service was introduced, electronic warfare equipment was deployed to suppress drones, and work was carried out to equip weapon storage sites. At the time of the explosion, there were two people at each post: one serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and one representative of the paramilitary guard.In addition, there was the chief of the guard, the assistant chief and a reserve of 10 people. Along the perimeter at a distance of up to 3 km there were 12 people in different types clothes," he said.

Recall, Minister Poltorak also said that at the time of the emergency, although it is designed for 127 thousand tons. But for last years almost half of the reserves were relocated to other arsenals.

"Its area is 680 hectares. The security perimeter is 8 km 200 meters. It has 112 storage facilities, 40% of which are open areas," he said.

The United States tested the "mother of all bombs" in 2003 at a test site in Florida. Until now, it has never been used in combat, although one copy was sent to Iraq. In total, the Pentagon has 14 such bombs in its arsenal.

"Mother of All Bombs"

GBU-43 / B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, MOAB, "the mother of all bombs", is an American high-explosive aerial bomb created in 2002-2003.

MOAB continues to be one of the largest satellite-guided bombs.

By the nature of the damaging effect, MOAB is a high-explosive aerial bomb. MOAB has a length of 9.17 m and a diameter of 102.9 cm, the weight of the bomb is 9.5 tons, of which 8.4 tons are explosive Australian-made H-6 - a mixture of RDX, TNT and aluminum powder - which is 1.35 times more powerful than TNT.

The force of the explosion is 11 tons of TNT, the radius of destruction is about 140 m, partial destruction occurs at a distance of up to 1.5 km from the epicenter.

The cost of one such bomb is $16 million.

1. "Tsar bomb"

AN602, also known as the Tsar Bomba, is a thermonuclear aerial bomb developed in the USSR in 1954-1961. a group of nuclear physicists under the leadership of Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR IV Kurchatov.

The most powerful explosive device in the history of mankind. The total energy of the explosion, according to various sources, was 58.6 megatons of TNT, or about 2.4 x 1017 J (which corresponds to a mass defect of 2.65 kg).

The development team included A. D. Sakharov, V. B. Adamsky, Yu. N. Babaev, Yu. N. Smirnov, Yu. A. Trutnev and others.

The name "Kuzka's mother" appeared under the impression of the well-known statement of N. S. Khrushchev: "We will show America Kuzka's mother!" Officially, the AN602 bomb had no name.

Explosion AN602 by classification nuclear explosions was a low-air ultra-high-yield nuclear explosion.

His results were impressive. The fireball of the explosion reached a radius of approximately 4.6 km.

Theoretically, it could grow to the surface of the earth, but this was prevented by a reflected shock wave that crushed the bottom of the ball and threw the ball off the ground.

The light radiation could potentially cause third-degree burns at distances up to 100 km.

The nuclear mushroom of the explosion rose to a height of 67 km, the diameter of its two-tier "cap" reached (near the upper tier) 95 km.

A perceptible seismic wave resulting from the explosion circled three times Earth.

2. Nuclear bomb B-41

The B-41 is America's most powerful thermonuclear bomb, with an equivalent of about 25 megatons. The only three-stage thermonuclear bomb in the US Air Force's arsenal. The most powerful mass-produced thermonuclear weapon. Was in service from 1960 to 1976.

The bomb adopted by the US Air Force in 1961 was significant part total megatonnage of American strategic bombers and was considered as an important weapon within the framework of both the "massive retaliation" doctrine (as a means of effectively hitting civilian targets) and the "flexible response" doctrine (as a means of destroying fortified installations, large military bases, naval bases and airfields).

The powerful charge of the bomb allowed even a single bomber to cause significant damage to the affected object.

The B41 bomb is considered the most effective thermo nuclear weapons ever created. Based on the ratio of "megatons of TNT per tonne of structural mass," the B41Y1, weighing 4.8 tons, had a charge of 25 megatons, that is, 5.2 megatons per ton.

3. "Castle Bravo"

"Castle Bravo" - American trial thermonuclear explosive device on March 1, 1954 on Bikini Atoll (Republic of the Marshall Islands, associated with the USA).

The first of a series of seven "Operation Castle" challenges.

During this test, a two-stage charge was detonated, in which lithium deuteride was used as a thermonuclear fuel.

The energy release from the explosion reached 15 megatons, making Castle Bravo the most powerful of all US nuclear tests.

The explosion led to severe radiation contamination environment, which caused concern around the world and led to a serious revision of existing views on nuclear weapons.

4. Atomic bomb "Ivy Mike"

"Ivy Mike" - the world's first test of a thermonuclear explosive device.

Due to its weight and dimensions, as well as the use of liquid deuterium as a fuel for thermonuclear fusion, the device had no practical value as a weapon and was intended solely for experimental verification of the "two-stage" design proposed by Ulam and Teller.

The experiment was a success; the estimated yield of the explosion was 10-12 megatons of TNT equivalent.

5. Nuclear bomb MK-36

Two-stage thermonuclear strategic bomb.

All Mk-21s were converted to Mk-36s in 1957. Replaced by Mk-41s.

At the time of decommissioning, the Mk-36 accounted for almost half of the US arsenal in terms of power.

Explosion energy - 9-10 Mt.

6. Nuclear bomb MK-17

Mk.17 - the first thermonuclear bomb on lithium deuteride in the US arsenal, the first mass-produced American thermonuclear bomb.

The largest and most massive thermonuclear weapon in the US arsenal. It was developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory. Its length is 7536 mm, its diameter is 1560 mm, and its mass is 21 tons, the explosion energy is 10-15 megatons.

In May 1957, one Mk.17 bomb was inadvertently dropped from a B-36 bomber approaching Kirtland Air Force Base.

Separated from the mounts, the bomb broke through the doors of the bomb bay and fell from a height of 520 m.

Although the bomb was not armed, on impact the primer's explosive partially detonated, destroying the bomb and scattering radioactive material.

The measures taken to clear the area were successful, but, nevertheless, individual radioactive fragments of the bomb are still being found.

7. Nuclear bomb B-53

The B-53 is an American thermonuclear bomb, the oldest and most powerful nuclear weapon in the arsenal of the US strategic nuclear forces until 1997.

Development of the bomb began in 1955 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and was based on the design of the earlier Mk.21 and Mk.46 products.

The B53 aerial bomber entered service with the B-47 Stratojet, B-52 Stratofortress and B-58 Hustler bombers in the mid-1960s.

On October 13, 2010, the US National Nuclear Security Administration announced the start of a program to decommission the B53, which has been in service with the Air Force for 35 years.

According to calculations, with an air blast at the optimum height, a 9-megaton explosion will lead to the formation of a fireball ranging in size from 4 km to 5 km in diameter.

The power of light radiation will be enough to cause fatal burns to any openly positioned person within a radius of 28.7 km.

The impact of the shock wave will be enough to destroy residential and industrial buildings within a radius of 14.9 km from the epicenter.

8. Nuclear bomb MK-16

Everyone knows about the two Japanese cities that were dropped nuclear bombs, as well as the consequences of these explosions. It is interesting to learn about the creation and testing of the most powerful hydrogen bomb.

Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

In September 1945, Japan capitulated, the Second World War. This was preceded by two nuclear explosions - on August 6, 1945, American bombers dropped bombs first on Hiroshima, and just three days later on Nagasaki.

It is known that in Hiroshima about 140 thousand people died from the explosion and the consequences of the bombing. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was called "Baby". The Fat Man bomb fell on the city of Nagasaki, killing 80,000 people.

According to the United States, it was these explosions that led to the speedy end of the war. Since then, there have been no more cases of the use of nuclear weapons.

The size of the "Kid" bomb is seventy centimeters in diameter, its length is three meters and twenty centimeters. "Kid" weighed four tons, and its capacity reached from 13 to 18 kilotons of TNT. After the explosion, the smoke over Hiroshima rose to a height of twenty thousand feet.

The length of the Fat Man bomb is three meters twenty-five centimeters, and the diameter is one meter fifty-four centimeters. The weight of this bomb exceeded the weight of the "Kid" by six hundred kilograms. The power of the explosion in the city of Nagasaki is the same as in Hiroshima, in TNT equivalent it is 21 kilotons.

As a result of two explosions, a huge territory was struck, which remains empty to this day. The two affected cities are now symbols of the nuclear tragedy and the fight against nuclear danger.

The most powerful non-nuclear bombs

The Cold War is over, but work on new types of weapons does not stop. Now scientists are busy creating non-nuclear types of bombs. GBU-43/B is official name the most powerful American non-nuclear bomb. She has another name - "Mom of all bombs." Its weight is 9.5 tons, length is 10 meters, and diameter is 1 meter. This bomb was first made in 2002. In TNT equivalent, explosive power is 11 tons.

An even more powerful weapon was created in Russia - this is an aviation vacuum bomb. Her second name is "The Pope of All Bombs". In TNT equivalent, explosive power is 44 tons.

Hydrogen bombs are the most powerful weapon

A hydrogen or thermonuclear bomb has the same damaging factors as a nuclear bomb, but significantly exceeds it in terms of power. Work on its creation was carried out in parallel by scientists in several countries at once, including the USSR, the USA and Germany. Research began just before World War II.

For the first time, the tests were carried out by the Americans on November 1, 1952 on the Enewetok Atoll, a year later, on August 12, 1953, a domestically produced hydrogen bomb was detonated in the USSR at the Semipalatinsk test site.

The most powerful hydrogen bomb

The largest bomb today is considered to be the AN602 bomb, which was given the name "Kuzkin's mother" and "Tsar Bomba". The dimensions of the Tsar Bomba are: length - 8 meters, diameter - 2 meters, weight - 24 tons, explosive power - 58 megatons of TNT. Developments were carried out in 1945 to 1961 by a group of nuclear physicists under the leadership of Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences I. V. Kurchatov.

Her tests took place on October 30, 1961 at the archipelago training ground New Earth. The explosion was made in the air at a distance of 4000 meters above Novaya Zemlya. None of the aircraft existing at that time could cope with this task, therefore, the Tu 95-V aircraft was built specifically for the production of the explosion. The diameter of the fireball was more than nine kilometers. The blow could be felt by all the inhabitants of the planet, since the seismic wave formed as a result of the explosion circled the Earth three times.

The consequences of this explosion were more than impressive - not a single hill remained on the surface of the island, the surface became even as a skating rink. In the village, which was located at a distance of four hundred kilometers from the epicenter, all wooden buildings were completely destroyed, and stone houses were left without roofs.

The mushroom that grew at the site of the explosion reached a height of 60-67 km, and the diameter of its cap was approximately 95 km. The radius of destruction of the bomb is impressive - it is equal to 4600 m. It is terrible to imagine what destruction the use of this "giant" by the Soviet Union could lead to if the explosion was carried out against one of the countries.

It is believed that the tests of this bomb prompted many countries to sign an agreement on the cessation of nuclear weapons tests under water, in space and the atmosphere, and there were also restrictions on the power of nuclear weapons being created. The treaty was signed by one hundred and ten countries.

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Atomic weapons are rightfully considered not only the most terrible, but also the most majestic invention of mankind. So much destructive power is hidden in it that not only all kinds of life, but also any, even the strongest structures, are swept away from the face of planet Earth by a blast wave. There are so many nuclear weapons in Russia's military storage facilities alone that their simultaneous detonation can lead to the destruction of our planet.

And this is not surprising because Russian reserves are in second place after the American ones. Representatives such as "Kuzkin's Mother" and "Tsar Bomba" are assigned the title of the most powerful weapon of all time. The TOP 10 lists nuclear bombs around the world that have or had the greatest potential. Some of them were used, causing irreparable harm to the ecology of the planet.

10th place. Little boy (Kid) with a capacity of 18 kilotons

This bomb was the first to be used not at the test site, but in real conditions. Its use had a great influence on the end of the war between America and Japan. From the explosion of Little boy in the city of Hiroshima, one hundred and forty of its inhabitants were killed. This bomb was three meters long and seventy centimeters in diameter. The height of the nuclear pillar formed after the explosion was more than six kilometers. This city remains uninhabited to this day.

9th place. Fat Man (Fat Man) - 21 kilotons

This was the name of the second bomb dropped by an American plane on the city of Nagasaki. The victims of this explosion were eighty thousand citizens who died immediately, despite the fact that another thirty-five thousand people became victims of exposure. This bomb is still the most powerful weapon, throughout the history of mankind, the use of which was carried out to achieve military goals.

8th place. Trinity (Thing) - 21 kilotons

Trinity owns the palm among nuclear bombs, exploded in order to study the reactions and ongoing processes. The shock wave of the explosion lifted a cloud to a height of eleven kilometers. The impression that was received by scientists who observed the first nuclear explosion in the history of man, they called stunning. Clouds of smoke white color in the form of a pillar, whose diameter reached two kilometers, they rapidly rose up, where they formed a hat in the form of a mushroom.

7th place. Baker (Baker) - 23 kilotons

Baker was the name of one of the three bombs that took part in the operation codenamed Crossroads ("Crossroads"), which was carried out in 1946. During the test, the consequences of the explosion of atomic shells were studied. Animals and sea-class vessels were used as test subjects. The explosion was carried out at a depth of twenty-seven kilometers. As a result, about two million tons of water were displaced, which led to the formation of a pillar more than half a kilometer high. Baker triggered the world's first nuclear disaster. The radioactivity of the island of Bikini, which was chosen for testing, has reached such a level that it has become impossible to live on it. Until 2010, it was considered completely uninhabited.

6th place Rhea - 955 kilotons

Rhea is the most powerful atomic bomb ever tested by France in 1971. The explosion of this projectile was carried out on the territory of the Mururoa Atoll, used as a testing ground for nuclear explosions. By 1998, over 200 nuclear projectiles had been tested there.

5th place. Castle Romeo - 11 megatons

Castle Romeo belongs to the category of one of the most powerful nuclear explosions carried out by America. The order to start the operation was signed on March 27, 1954. A barge was brought into the open ocean to carry out the explosion, as there were fears that an island located nearby could be destroyed by a bomb explosion. It was assumed that the explosion power would not exceed four megatons, but in fact it was equal to eleven megatons. During the investigation, it was revealed that the reason for this was the use of cheap material used as thermonuclear fuel.

4th place. Mike device - 12 megatons

Initially, Mike's device (Evie Mike) had no value and was used as an experimental bomb. The nuclear cloud from its explosion rose thirty-seven kilometers, and the cap of the cloud reached 161 kilometers in diameter. The strength of the nuclear wave was estimated at twelve megatons. This power turned out to be quite enough for the complete destruction of all the islands of Elugelab, on which the tests were carried out. Where they were, a funnel formed, reaching a diameter of two kilometers. Its depth was fifty meters. The distance over which the fragments that carried the radioactive contamination scattered was fifty kilometers, if you count from the epicenter.

3rd place. Castle Yankee - 13.5 megatons

The second most powerful explosion carried out by American scientists was the explosion of Castle Yankee. Preliminary calculations made it possible to assume that the power of the device could not exceed ten megatons, in terms of TNT equivalent. But the actual force of the explosion was thirteen and a half megatons. The leg of the nuclear mushroom stretched for forty kilometers, and the hat for sixteen. four days the radiation cloud was enough to reach the city of Mexico City, the distance to which from the explosion site was eleven thousand kilometers.

2nd place. Castle Bravo (TX-21 Shrimp) - 15 megatons

The Americans did not test a more powerful bomb than Castle Bravo. The operation was carried out in 1954 and entailed irreversible consequences for the environment. As a result of a fifteen mega-ton explosion, a very strong radiation contamination occurred. Hundreds of people who lived in the Marshall Islands were exposed to radiation. The length of the nuclear fungus leg reached forty kilometers, and the hat stretched for a hundred kilometers. As a result of the explosion, seabed a huge funnel was formed, the diameter of which reached two kilometers. The consequences provoked by the tests forced the introduction of restrictions on operations in which nuclear projectiles were used.

1 place. Tsar bomb (AN602) - 58 megatons

There was not and is not more powerful than the Soviet Tsar Bomba in the whole world. The length of the projectile reached eight meters, and the diameter - two. In 1961, this projectile exploded on an archipelago called Novaya Zemlya. According to the original plans, the capacity of AN602 was to be one hundred megatons. However, scientists, fearing the global destructive power of such a charge, decided to stop at fifty-eight megatons. The Tsar Bomba was activated at an altitude of four kilometers. The consequences of this shocked everyone. The fiery cloud reached ten kilometers in diameter. The length of the “leg” of the nuclear fungus was about 67 km, and the diameter of the cap covered 97 km. A very real danger threatened even the lives of people living at a distance of less than 400 kilometers. Echoes of a powerful sound wave could be heard at a distance of a thousand kilometers. The surface of the island on which the tests were carried out became absolutely flat without protrusions and any buildings on it. The seismic wave managed to go around the Earth three times, allowing each of its inhabitants to feel the full power carried by nuclear weapons. The result of this test was that representatives of more than a hundred countries signed an agreement prohibiting this type of test. It does not matter what medium is chosen for this - earth, water or atmosphere.