When it comes to the "mushroom cloud", the first reaction of many people will think of nuclear **, and the appearance of "little boy" and "fat man".For the first time, human beings intuitively understand what nuclear ** is, and it is definitely an existence that can destroy all mankind.
As we all know, the reason for Japan's unconditional surrender during World War II was closely related to the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which turned the two cities into purgatory on earth, even though there is still nuclear radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The former Soviet Union's "Big Ivan" is 11,333 times higher than the "Little Boy", known as the king of nuclear bombs, if it is detonated, it is believed that its power is enough to make a country disappear from the face of the earth in minutes.
The former Soviet Union has built a total of two nuclear bombs, the only "Tsar Bomba" in the world is now in Russia, and the other was tested on Novaya Zemlya in 1961This test explosion moved the entire Eurasian plate southward by about 9 millimeters, and its invincible and terrifying power still fears the United States.
At the end of October 1961, Soviet nuclear bomb experts handed over nearly 27 tons of hydrogen bombs, codenamed AN-602, to the Soviet military, which secretly escorted them to the Novaya Zemlya test base, which was located on the northernmost coastal island of the Arctic Ocean at that time.
After everything was ready, on the morning of October 30, a bomber sprayed white flew to an altitude of more than 4,000 meters with an AN-602 hydrogen bomb, flew to the designated area, and after confirmation from the superior, the pilot pressed the launch button.
Immediately after that, the An-602 hydrogen bomb dragged a large parachute with an unfolded area of 1,600 square meters and slowly fell to the blasting point.
With a loud bang that resounded through the sky, the sky above Novaya Zemlya was covered in blinding white, and then a 40-kilometer-high cloud pillar slowly rose upward, and a huge mushroom cloud with a height of 64 kilometers burst into the sky.
When the ** is over, all the creatures on Xin-Zemya Island have been reduced to nothing, and the houses on the island have all been turned into powder, and the staff of the observation point 1000 kilometers away can still clearly see the fire when the bomb** is over.
Many of the staff members 200 kilometers away from the ** point were burned by the heat wave in **.
Not only that, but the shock wave also caused glass to shatter in parts of the border between Norway, Finland and the Soviet UnionEven the United States, which is 4,000 kilometers away from the blasting point, paralyzed the entire region's power system for about 22 hours because of this time.
And this time the power of the ** is far more than these, although the AN-602 hydrogen bomb is a test explosion completed in the air, but according to the experts at that time to detect the entire uninhabited area ** index is above level 5.
Moreover, after this test explosion, the entire Eurasian plate has moved southward by about 9 millimeters, and as the world's largest continental plate, the impact of this shift on human beings cannot be ignored.
To know that this is still going to be itThe original ** amount was changed from 100 million tons to 50 million tons after the test explosion, the original AN-602 hydrogen bomb was 8 meters in length and 2 meters in diameter, and the Soviet experts initially designed the ** dose to 100 million tons of TNT explosives.
However, when testing the explosion, there were various factors such as politics and destructive powerThe original ** amount was changed to 50 million tons of TNT explosives, and the ** power is equivalent to 3,333 times that of the "little boy".
This is known as the "Tsar Bomba" of the King of Bombs, Soviet experts spent more than five years, more than 130 tests before and after, and finally developed two "Tsar Bomba", which are also the world's largest and most destructive nuclear ** so far.
The existence of nuclear ** has always been highly controversial, its power is enough to bring extinction to the entire earth, and the radiation produced during nuclear fission is irreversible to the human body.
But in a military-strategic sense,Nuclear weapons are definitely the best line of defense to protect them, allowing countries to restrain each other and coexist peacefully.
In the final stage of World War II, the United States chose to use the newly developed nuclear ** atomic bomb to drop on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
The emergence of "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" not only made other countries in the world realize the power of nuclear **, but also realized that they must protect themselves in order to ***, so many countries began to develop nuclear **.
As the old world pattern was broken, the United States and the Soviet Union, as the only two superpowers after World War II, began the Cold War, which lasted for more than four decades.
After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union invested a lot of money and manpower in the military in order to achieve absolute superiority in the struggle for hegemony, the most important of which was the research and development of nuclear weapons.
So in 1945, four years after the United States first used nuclear ** in the war, the Soviet Union tested its own nuclear ** atomic bomb, and the success of the Soviet Union also means that countries with nuclear ** like the United States.
This was followed by the successful test of the first atomic bomb of their own countries by Britain and France in 1952 and 1960 respectivelyAnd China also successfully tested the first atomic bomb in 1964, becoming the fifth country in the world to possess nuclear weapons.
And just as other countries were conquering nuclear **, the United States and the Soviet Union started a contest of nuclear power and quantity, especiallyAt the height of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, the Soviet Republic possessed more than 40,000 nuclear munitions, while the United States also had more than 30,000 nuclear munitions.
The difference is that the United States' nuclear ** is dominated by atomic bombs, while the Soviet Union is dominated by hydrogen bombs, that is to say, atomic bombs belong to fission nuclear **, while hydrogen bombs belong to fusion nuclear **.
The maximum amount of atomic bombs is equivalent to 500,000 tons of TNT explosives, while the maximum amount of hydrogen bombs can easily reach tons of tons of TNT explosivesThis is why the Soviet Union chose to change the amount of ** from 100 million tons to 50 million tons when it tested the "Tsar Bomba".
You must know that when the "Tsar Bomba" was tested, the height of the mushroom cloud was 7 times that of the world's first peak, Mount Everest, and not only that, the electromagnetic interference generated by the first mountain at that time was enough to circle the earth three times, and the radio waves, radar, and communication equipment within a radius of more than 4,000 kilometers were all paralyzed.
Obviously, the Soviet authorities were not expected by the enormous destructive power of the "Tsar Bomba", according to the recollections of the pilots who flew the bombers to drop the "Tsar Bomba" at that time.
* The bright light and heat produced by the test were as if millions of fiery red suns were scorching him and he couldn't breathe, and almost all the pilots who participated in the test explosion eventually died of leukemia and cancer, and the only one who survived was himself.
Therefore, although in the subsequent hydrogen bomb test explosions, Britain, France and China have successfully completed the hydrogen bomb nuclear testBut there has been and only this one of the large-scale test explosions like the "Big Ivan" so far.
If there is one thing that had the greatest impact on the world pattern in the early nineties of the twentieth century, it was the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
With the disintegration of the alliance, the bipolar pattern dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union was broken, the 44-year Cold War between the two sides ended, and the world gradually began to develop towards a multipolar trend.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the military equipment left behind by it has naturally become the object of competition among the last 15 countries, especially the ownership of nuclear weapons has become the focus of the world.
As the only successor state of the former Soviet Union,Russia received almost 1750,000 nuclear bombs, including the world's only remaining Tsar Bomba, which was called the "Great Ivan" by the former Soviet Union.
In addition, nearly 75 percent of the equipment of the former Soviet Union is also owned by Russia, and Russia has become the second largest military power in the world.
In fact, the closest mankind came to a nuclear war was the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, although the crisis lasted only 13 days.
But in the past 13 days, the military leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States have hovered countless times around the button to launch nuclear **, knowing that no matter which side presses, human beings are very likely to become extinct like dinosaurs.
And this crisis has further made the United States truly aware of the powerful suppression from the Soviet Union's nuclear **, allowing the Soviet Union to have the same equal status as the United States, thus accelerating the formation of a bipolar world.
In the sixth year after the Cuban Missile Crisis, that isIn 1968, 56 countries represented by the United States, the Soviet Union, France and other countries signed treaties on the prevention of nuclear proliferation at the United Nations General Assembly, which was also the first time that international law was used to regulate and limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
It was not until 2020 that Russia released the real image data of the test explosion of the "Tsar Bomba" that year, and those who had seen the ** data were deeply shocked.
From the time the bomber flew to the designated place to the time when the pilot entered the countdown to drop the "Tsar Bomba" with a parachute according to the instructions, a series of chain reactions triggered by the bomb**.
Especially when the mushroom cloud generated by ** in a moment jumps into the sky at the fastest speed, even an ordinary person will fall into deep fear through the screen now**.
It is not known that the "Tsar Bomba", which is now known as the king of bombs, was placed by Russia, but judging from the one-to-one replica displayed in the Russian Nuclear Museum, it is indeed breathtaking.
And Sakharov, the main R&D expert involved in the "Tsar Bomba", after seeing that the nuclear ** he participated in the design had such a powerful destructive power, changed from a manufacturer of nuclear ** to an advocate against the use of nuclear **.
On the issue of the use of nuclear weapons, it has always been the focus of discussion in the international community, some people believe that nuclear weapons can protect the world, and some people believe that once nuclear weapons are used, they will bring irreversible disasters to mankind.
ButLooking back at history, it is undeniable that nuclear deterrence has indeed balanced international relations to a certain extent, so the best way to achieve long-term peace and stability is world peace.