What If All Nuclear Weapons Exploded At Once?

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it could be sad that the invention of the nuclear weapon is probably one of man's greatest achievements but at the same time it is also one of the most terrifying inventions ever created some say the threat of nuclear war is still very real while others say that it will never happen but just how much destructive capability would all the world's nuclear weapons have if they exploded at the same time Robert J Oppenheimer was the father of the atomic bomb he was officially credited by the War Department with achieving the implementation of atomic energy for military purposes but after he saw its devastating power which was like nothing anyone had expected he and others had started to question the work that they accomplished after the successful detonation of the bomb he made a statement in which he remembered some text from some ancient Hindu Scripture and he was quoted as saying now I am become death the destroyer of worlds it was the beginning of a frightening new era and since its invention there has been an ongoing race to see who could build the most powerful nuclear weapon on March the 1st 1954 on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific the United States conducted a hydrogen bomb test that had seemingly gone out of control this is because the bomb designers use 30% lithium-6 and 70% lithium-7 as fuel but what scientists didn't know is that lithium 7 would be stripped of one of its neutrons early in the reaction and become lithium 6 at which point would become bond fuel the weapon was designed to have a yield of five megatons but because of the unknown reaction of lithium 7 it ended up having a 14 point 8 Megaton yield the crater left by the Castle Bravo test is so large that it is visible from space and was about 1,000 times as powerful as that of Hiroshima but Russia was getting ready to show the world something of their own the RDS 220 hydrogen bomb also known as a tsar bomba was the biggest and most powerful thermonuclear bomb ever made it was exploded by the Soviet Union on October 30th 1961 over Novaya Zemlya island in the Russian Arctic sea it was estimated to be a 57 Megaton weapon the bomb was so big that it was said to be more constructing a small house than building a bomb it was 26 feet long and was seven feet in diameter and it weighed 60,000 pounds at the time it wasn't possible to put this powerful of a warhead on a rocket it was simply a true display of raw power the Tsar Bomba was almost four thousand times as powerful as the hiroshima bomb had the bomb been made with a depleted uranium tamper instead of a lead one the yield would have been 100 megatons Novaya Zemlya island was also used for other nuclear weapons tests by the Soviet Union at the time one of those is an underground test which involved four nuclear devices totaling 4.2 megatons total yield during this test pressures underground from the explosion created a seismic magnitude of 6.9 7 on the Richter scale this set off an 80 million tonne avalanche that blocked two glacial streams and created a one and a half mile lake despite the dangers of natural disasters there have been 224 nuclear detonations on the island with a total explosive energy equivalent to 265 megatons despite it being the most powerful nuclear explosion the weapon was unconventional and the plane that dropped it had to be specifically outfitted to carry the enormous and incredibly heavy bomb over the target area during the same time the United States was testing another weapon the b41 also known as the MK 41 was a three-stage nuclear weapon which was a tertiary stage bomb meaning it had an additional fusion stage compressed by a previous fusion stage this meant that a bomb could be made with yields as large as desire the b-41 was 12 feet 4 inches long and was four feet four inches in diameter with a twenty five Megaton yield and weighed ten thousand six hundred and ninety pounds by 1963 the United States claimed it could produce a thirty five Megaton warhead and put it on a Titan - which could carry an eighty two hundred pound payload which would almost double the yield to weight ratio of the be 40 it remains the highest yield to weight ratio of any weapon ever created about 500 of these weapons were made between September 1960 to June 1962 but they have all since been retired despite the terrifying power of these weapons conventional warheads that missiles are able to carry only have a yield of 1.2 to 1.5 megatons however one should not make the mistake thinking that this is not a powerful weapon some super heavy intercontinental missiles can carry any number of warheads from a single independent warhead up to ten warheads according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute only nine countries have nuclear weapons the United States has six thousand four hundred and fifty total warheads and Russia has six thousand eight hundred and fifty which collectively account for 92 percent of the world's stockpile China has the next largest amount with 280 warheads a tiny fraction compared to the US and Russia and none of them are deployed other countries make up the rest of the 885 nuclear warheads which are also not deployed but locked up in some military facilities in 1985 there were 70,000 nuclear warheads on the planet either stockpiled or retired today there are fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty-five nuclear warheads and of these approximately 9335 are in the military stockpiles the rest are awaiting dismantlement 3750 warheads are deployed with operational forces of which about 1800 US Russian British and French warheads are on high alert ready for use on short notice the current largest nuclear weapon in the u.s. stockpile is a 1.2 Megaton yield nuclear weapon the b83 and Russia has the super-heavy thermo nuclear armed RS 28 Sarmad or as NATO designates them the satan - which can be fitted with 10 750 kiloton warheads most warheads could either be combined on a single ICBM or fitted independently on smaller rockets but there other massive weapons being deployed based on leaked Russian documents Canyon is a nuclear-armed autonomous torpedo capable of traveling 6213 miles with a 100-megaton thermonuclear weapon as its payload that's at least twice as powerful as any nuclear weapon ever tested it's not known how many 100 Megaton thermonuclear weapons exist at this point but it is almost certain that it is being built or developed now and Russia could already have one or two if all the nuclear bombs including the ones locked up in bunkers and all the warheads that are deployed in missile silos exploded they would cause incredible damage and loss of lives despite the fact that some warheads would be in missile silos and in storage bunkers some of these warheads would be in nuclear bunkers deep in the ground and the explosions would trigger massive earthquakes it wouldn't be much different than an all-out nuclear war except the missiles would be in the ground nuclear weapons are configured to detonate in one of two ways either by ground impact or airburst where the weapon explodes when it reaches a certain altitude airburst nuclear explosions can create much more damage and increase the explosion pressure and damage that is why most nuclear weapons are configured to air burst detonate but less pressure doesn't mean less devastation now imagine all the nuclear weapons we have exploding at once the initial explosions would light up and burn the areas for hours building up enormous fires most heavy missiles with multiple independent warheads would vaporize inside of the silo with the majority of the blast exiting the blast doors at the top creating man made radioactive volcanoes and leaving molten craters and showering the area with radioactive particles even a small nuclear exchange would create fire storms and wreck the planet's atmosphere simulations show that it would only take 115 kiloton bombs to destroy more than a quarter of the Earth's ozone layer in just two years protective gases in the atmosphere would drop letting through harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun the climate change would be unprecedented and the world would shut down now imagine what 14,000 nukes would do it would be a game over even if a single missile never left a silo in the water nuclear weapons carried by submarines could create massive tsunamis depending on how close to the surface or how close to the seafloor they were it's possible but massive earthquakes and tsunamis could be triggered by such a powerful explosion if it was only one nuclear warhead it might not be as catastrophic the US Navy has 18 ohio-class submarines which are capable of carrying 24 missiles which can be configured with a maximum of eight nuclear warheads if you do the math you understand how powerful a blast could be underwater imagine 18 submarines exploding underwater in different parts of the world at a force of nearly 230 megatons each and this is just the US Navy but what if we took all the nuclear warheads in the world and put them in one place and detonated them not all warheads have the same yield so it might be impossible to say exactly how much explosive power we would end up with but if you consider that the average nuke is between 750 kilotons to 1.2 megatons you would still have a large blast somewhere in the 15,000 Megaton range or more it's hard to even imagine such an explosion which would be massive and the light from it would travel through space the crater left from the explosion would be massive the amount of radioactivity that it would spread would end life as we know it in just days depending on where the explosion was the explosion might cause a massive tectonic plate movement and there would be massive earthquakes and volcanoes as a chain reaction across the planet began after the explosion all of that sounds really scary of course there really isn't any way of knowing exactly what will happen but it's likely that the earth will survive as it goes through a nuclear winter and all life is extinguished from the massive radioactivity luckily there is no way that all the nuclear weapons could be pulled to one location and then detonated unless you are apocalypse from x-men so there is no need to worry the threat of nuclear war is always ever present and the Doomsday Clock sit - two minutes to midnight let's hope that it never strikes midnight we hope you enjoyed this video make sure you subscribe and turn on notifications so you'll be the first to know when a new video comes out we appreciate you and want to thank you for watching

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Length: 11min 12sec (672 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 26 2018

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