Tsar Bomba

18 to 24 months, nuclear power plants must shut down to remove and replace the "spent" uranium fuel. This spent fuel releases most of its energy as a result of the fission process and becomes radioactive waste. Most people today think that we get energy from fossil fuels and other fuels, but in reality we rely on Nuclear Power more than people think. From car battery to home energy, most of what energy we get is from Power plants and Nuclear energy. What we know from “Nuclear energy” is that in October 30, 1961 one of the Nuclear bombs yielded such power that the energy was received from the richter scale after it traveled across earth 3 times. The Tsar bomba was the biggest Nuclear weapon in the History of mankind. It was so powerful you can fit all the weapons used in World wars and times it by ten to compare in power to the Tsar…

When it comes down to thoughts and ideas, everyone in the world thinks different even if the subject and all the other factors that help express the idea or belief are the same. The primary reason why people might think so different from each other must do mainly because everyone manipulates information given towards them differently. Some factors that alter the way that someone manipulates information are those such as culture, religion, age, and many others that a person is unconsciously…

Is a bomb that could wipe out hundreds and thousands of lives powerful? During World War 2 the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from Japan got devastated because of the United States bomb invention which is the nuclear bomb. United States dropped the first bomb on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, according to the articles about 65,000 to 200,000 people kick the bucket. After the destruction of Hiroshima, Japan still did not surrender. United States dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki which…

In 1953 The Soviet Union built there first Atomic bomb and detonated somewhere in the deserts of Kazakhstan. This was not startling to the Americans until only two years later the soviet union produced their first and final Hydrogen Bomb. This bomb was code named Tsar Bomba; translated into King Bomb for it had the biggest pay load of fifty thousand megatons. After the United States and the Soviet Union built and tested their Hydrogen bombs they never made and more, at least for service. The…

In the 1950s, technology was slowly evolving and as it evolved so did the methods used in war and how Americans viewed the government and entertainment. Radar was one of the first advances to contribute to the war, then the development of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer that helped develop the fusion bomb. Next, the first satellite was sent to revolve around the Earth, but it was from the Soviet Union, which resulted in Americans drive to develop Explorer 1. It ultimately…

For hydrogen bomb, it is unquestionable that the “ingredients” are made solely from hydrogen. However, that is not the case for atomic bomb. There is several elements available that can be used to make an atomic bomb. First material available is Uranium-235 which has been used by the United States during the Hiroshima bombing. The power produced by one kilogram of this element is equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT (“How Do Nuclear Weapons Work?”). The other material that is available to use is…

Teller-Ulam design in the US. For another moment to digress props to us Americans for finally naming something differently. The test took place at Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. It wasn’t until the 1960’s when Russia developed the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated on Earth. On October 31, 1961 the Soviets tested their newest creation RDS-220 codenamed Tsar Bomba. The bomb was a three-stage hydrogen bomb that yielded around 50 megatons. This balances out to about ten times the amount…

Technology provides us with a means to do a task faster, better, or more efficient than we could do by ourselves. In many ways, technology is more powerful than us. Computers are able to find solutions to equations that would take humans lifetimes to solve. Nuclear bombs are able to cause orders of magnitude more damage than humans alone could. And with every technology we make, we control it to an extent. We can control what a computer calculates and when to launch a nuclear bomb, but accidents…

Since the article “The Case for Torture” by Michael Levin was published in Newsweek in 1982, it has stirred up many debates regarding the universal use of torture. Levin believes that torture is justifiable in extreme cases such as preventing terrorism to save lives. Levin argues by giving examples of make-believe scenarios in which the only two options given are to either meet the demands of the terrorist or to torture the terrorist so that innocent lives can be spared; however, Levin’s…

Was It Necessary For the United States to Drop the Atomic Bomb? “It’s funny, but things don’t matter anymore. Yesterday, my shoes were my most important possessions. Today, I don 't care.” Against the Use of the Bomb: Legality- One of the first notable things that should have discouraged the decision to use the atomic bomb was that the use of it was illegal. In September of 1938, the League of Nations recognized the principles of international law, which included an unanimous decision to…