First time when I've heard about nuclear is when someone mention nuclear bomb. And that phrase "nuclear" poked my interest to look into few largest most destructive explosion ever recorded in human history.
- Simple math and facts (in tons of TNT)
- Little Boy – 13 to 18 kilotons (exploded at Hiroshima during World War II)
- Fat Man – about 21 kilotons (exploded at Nagasaki during World War II)
- Tsar bomb – 50 megatons (most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated). A three-stage H-bomb uses a fission bomb primary to compress a thermonuclear secondary, as in most H-bombs, and then uses energy from the resulting explosion to compress a much larger additional thermonuclear stage. It compromise of 3-stages which resulted most powerful nuclear explosion man ever made.
- Krakatoa - this one is not man made of course! But the explosion is considered to be the loudest sound ever heard in modern history (heard over 4,000 km away). The eruption was equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT. The volcano exploded in 1883, it killed more than 40,000 people.
Apparently mother nature rocks! Don't you think so? Here's a video of Tsar Bomb explosion.
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