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18,739 lb (8,500 kg) Blast yield. 11 tons TNT (46 GJ) The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast ( MOAB, / ˈmoʊæb /, colloquially explained as " mother of all bombs ") is a large-yield bomb, developed for the United States military by Albert L. Weimorts, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory. [1] It was first tested in 2003.
The most powerful U.S. weapon ever tested, the TX-21 "Shrimp" bomb, unleashed 15 megatons of explosive power during the "Castle Bravo" test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954 ...
The Castle Bravo shot of 1 March 1954, at Bikini Atoll, was the first test of a deployable (solid fuel) thermonuclear weapon, and also (accidentally) [citation needed] the largest weapon ever tested by the United States (15 megatons). It was also the single largest U.S. radiological accident in connection with nuclear testing.
Mar 31, 2014 · B41 nuclear bomb – 25Mt. The B41 or Mk-41 with a yield of 25Mt is the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever fielded by the United States. About 500 bombs were produced between 1960 and 1962, remaining in service, until July 1976. The development of Mk-41 commenced in 1955 to fulfil the US Air Force’s requirements for a Class B (10,000lb ...
Dec 11, 2021 · Durnovtsev flew the aircraft that dropped the most powerful nuclear bomb ever. It had an explosive force of 50 megatons, or more than 3,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima weapon.
Mark 1 – "Little Boy" gun-type uranium weapon (used against Hiroshima). (13–18 kilotons, 1945–1950) Mark 2 – "Thin Man" plutonium gun design—cancelled in 1944. Implosion Mark 2 – Another Manhattan Project plutonium implosion weapon, a hollow pit implosion design, was also sometimes referred to as Mark 2.
Oct 31, 2021 · Still, at 50 megatons, it was more than 3,300 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that killed at least 70,000 people in Hiroshima, and more than 40 times as powerful as the largest nuclear bomb in the US arsenal today. Its single test represents about one tenth of the total yield of all nuclear weapons ever tested by all nations.
