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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/703115df-3239-4130-ab5d-88de4cf86015n%40googlegroups.com.
