People do not realize the danger of his invention.
As soon as our ancestors invented gunpowder and realized that can blow up anything, the bombs took a strong position in our lives. Modern bombs have a power of which our ancestors never dreamed of. The atomic bomb is a weighty argument in modern politics.
And you’ve probably heard about the scientific theory, which States that our universe originated in the Big Bang, which in turn led to the emergence of life on Earth.
So, if you explode all the bombs that exist in the world, life on our planet ends in the “Big Bang”. Let’s hope it will never happen.
And now we just want to present to your attention 20 impressive facts about the bombs.
During the first nuclear test in new Mexico flash from the explosion was so bright that a blind woman named Georgia Greene allegedly asked his brother, what is this bright light. And they were 50 miles from the place of trial.
After two world wars millions of bombs and warheads still lie on the ocean floor, because the official authorities still have not found a way to get them to disarm.
Experts in the disposal of explosive devices are usually pieces are not terrible as bomb suits protect them. Much more dangerous than the blast wave.
The barotrauma typically occurs when the shock wave of the bomb causes changes in pressure, leading to ruptures of internal organs.
One of the ways to detect fraud – carrying out authentication of works of art using radiocarbon analysis on the content of different isotopes, which were not in the nature of the first explosions of nuclear bombs in the middle of the 20th century.
In 1769, over the Brescia, in Italy there was a thunderstorm. Unfortunately, lightning struck the gunpowder warehouse. The explosion killed about 3000 people.
In the 70-ies of the engineers did not realize the dangers of nuclear explosions and was used in the construction of industrial facilities.
In 1958, during construction works near the building of the British Royal air force, the workers had to move the dummy of the biggest bombs of the Second world war. Nothing special, you say? Yes, but as it turned out, the dummy was a real bomb.
Doug wood was preparing to photograph one of the first tests of the atomic bomb. He hurried to remove his goggles, and he had to cover his eyes with a hand. He then told me that could see through his hand and saw the blood flowing through the blood vessels of the hand. After Doug took his hand away, he saw something even more incredible … in front of him stood a skeleton (of course, it was the man he saw almost through).
93% of all nuclear weapons in the world controlled by the United States and Russia.
In 1968, an American bomber crashed over the cold ice of Greenland. It 4 a nuclear bomb did not explode and was discovered and taken back to America. At least everybody thought so. But in 2008 it was found that one of the bombs remained in the ice.
In 1961 a nuclear bomber crashed in the sky above North Carolina. The first of two nuclear bombs came down on parachutes 5 of the available 6, only miraculously not exploded. The parachutes of the second bomb, however, did not deploy at all. She fell deep into the earth. Fortunately, she too did not explode. There she lies still.
Tsar bomb – the biggest bomb ever detonated. It was developed in the Soviet Union, the total energy of the explosion was 50 megatons of TNT. This in 1570 times more powerful than the forces of the two nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
US air force once even was developing “gay bombs” that were going to dump powerful pheromones. Being dropped on enemy troops, these bombs were to arouse strong sexual arousal at the enemy soldiers, and ideally, encourage homosexual behavior.
One modern us stealth bomber can carry 16 nuclear weapons (B83). Each of these bombs up to 75 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
On 16 September 1920 a bomb planted in a horse cart exploded near a Bank on wall street. It was the most deadly disaster (killing 38 people) in the history of new York, the still more terrible explosions rocked the city on 11 September 2001.
The so-called “lazy dogs” is a small, uncontrolled and non-explosive bombs that are dropped on the enemy aircraft. In fact, it’s the bullets that rained from above.
In 1998, the IRA (Irish Republican Army) threatened about undermining the court building in Northern Ireland. Police evacuated people from the building, leading them into the yard … where the bomb was planted. Hundreds of people were injured and 29 people died.
According to some estimates, Vietnam, it took almost 300 years to clear its territory from bombs and mines. it would have to spend about $10 billion.
During the Second world war, the US developed a bomb called “the bat”. These bombs were placed live bats, which is attached to the smaller mines in slow motion. When bombs were dropped over the cities, they opened up, releasing the bats. Mines with clockwork mechanism on the body of the mice actually were incendiary, this meant that wherever the bat landed no, there had to be a fire.
