The Power Of A Nuclear Weapon

There has been a lot of discussion about North Korea's recent missile launches. With so much talk concerning kilotons and payloads numbers, sometimes the actual destructive power of a nuclear weapon is lost on readers.

It is important to see how powerful these weapons are... and how vital it is for us to have strong leadership to protect America from their horrible powers.


The bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was 15 kilotons. The following are pictures taken after that tragic event:

The Blast Is So Bright That It Burns Shadows Into The Road

A Poor Little Girl with strips of skin

falling off of her body.

But the destruction shown in these pictures is nothing compared to what would happen with a modern nuclear weapon.

The Largest ever explosion of a nuclear weapon was by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s when they tested a 50 megaton bomb (a megaton is a million tons).

However, we do not have to analyze this type of bomb to see huge horrors. Let us examine the average nuclear weapon which is 20 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Here is what would happen if one of these average nuclear weapon was released unto an American city (Look here for an article detailing the destruction of AshiningCity's hometown Washington D.C.) Simply it would be hell on Earth:

• At the epicenter of the explosion of the fireball it would reach 200 million degrees, which is five times hotter than the center of the sun.
• The air would rise because of the heat causing hurricane force winds intensifying the fire.
• At this point nobody 65 miles away from the epicenter of the explosion would be alive.
• At about 1.3 miles away from the explosion the fireball would be 5,000 times brighter than the desert sun at noon
• Trees and grass would instantly catch on fire. Marble would crack and evaporate.
  

Very scary stuff. But it is important to know what we are dealing with when we encounter the North Koreans.