50 Megatons facts
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In 2015, a top Russian Military Strategist recommended dropping a Megaton-Class Nuclear Bomb on Yellowstone National Park, catalyzing a Supervolcano Eruption that could kill more than 50% of the U.S. population in the first 24 hours. He recommends such action if "tensions should ever boil over".
The British-American Ariel-1 satellite went offline just 4 days after the US experiment 'Starfish Prime' took place, where a 1.4 megaton nuclear warhead was detonated 250 miles above the Pacific. British government documents detailing the fate of the satellite remained locked away for 50 years
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In 1980 a Titan II ICBM carrying a 9 megaton W-53 Nuclear Warhead exploded 50 miles away from Little Rock, because of a dropped wrench socket.
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A hurricane releases 50 trillion to 200 trillion watts of heat energy. The National Hurricane Center notes this is as much energy as a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes
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A hurricane releases 50 trillion to 200 trillion watts of heat energy. This is as much energy as a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes.
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The size of the eruption of Krakatoa is estimated to have been equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT, " four times the yield of Tsar Bomba (50 Mt), the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated."
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The Tsar Bomba had a nuclear yield equivalent to 50 megatons of TNT, which could be represented by a cube of TNT 1023 feet on a side, roughly the height of the Eiffel Tower.
