Bunker Buster Bomb
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Slow motion video of a bunker buster bomb going through concrete and exploding after going inside.
Slow motion video of a bunker buster bomb going through concrete and exploding after going inside.
On February 28, 1954, the United States tested the largest thermonuclear device, named “Castle Bravo”. It was a 15 megaton bomb detonated at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
This video is a test detonation of the Mother of All Bombs, or MOAB. MOAB is the biggest convential weapon in the U.S. arsenal. It weighs 21,000 pounds and carries nine tons of explosives. It guided by GPS to its target and has a blast radius of 400 feet.
The Tsar Bomb was the largest nuclear weapon ever constructed or detonated. It was detonated at 4000 m altitude the 30th of October 1961 at Mityushikha Bay test range, Novaya Zemlya Island. It had a yield of 50 Megatons.
Footage of the first hydrogen bomb test named “Ivy Mike“, a 10 megaton bomb detonated on October 31, 1952 by the United States on Enewetak, an an atoll in the Pacific Ocean.