With the missile, which expedited delivery time, nuclear bombs were downsized. These colossal bombs were a 1950s development and the US had a 20 megaton bombs deployed on bombers, and with the missile these were largely abandoned by the end of the 1960s.
LC On Sunday, October 31, 2021 at 7:30:27 AM UTC-5 johnk...@gmail.com wrote: > Exactly 60 years ago today the USSR exploded a 57 megaton thermonuclear > bomb, about 1,500 Times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, it was actually > capable of twice that power but was deliberately toned down at the urging > of the bombs designer Andrei Sakharov; apparently even the communist > thought 100+ megatons was a bit too much. Russia recently released a > documentary about it: > > The largest H bomb ever exploded > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbC7BxXtOlo> > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/703115df-3239-4130-ab5d-88de4cf86015n%40googlegroups.com.
